Nanjing has already been occupied.

That's right, on August 3, when Xiao Ruxun arrived at Zhennan Pass, Jiang Dahai led the main force of the naval division to Nanjing non-stop after conquering Zhenjiang Mansion, preparing to take Nanjing in one fell swoop.

He did it.

This audacious move succeeded.

In fact, when Jiang Dahai launched an attack, Xu Hongji, a left-behind guard in Nanjing, and Ye Mengxiong, a Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, had already received the news that Zhenjiang Mansion had been attacked, but they didn't react and couldn't believe it.

Ye Mengxiong searched everywhere for reliable information, and at the same time asked Xu Hongji to prepare to gather troops in case of emergency, but the news did not wait, and the army did not gather, but waited for Jiang Dahai's sailors.

Nanjing has no effective defense at all, and the city gate suspension bridge has not had time to be pulled up, and the army of the Zhennan Army seized the city gate, and broke into the city of Nanjing in one fell swoop.

Faced with this situation, the heads of the Nanjing government, who had not even figured out who the enemy who attacked Nanjing, had to urgently evacuate Nanjing, otherwise they would be killed by these unknown enemies.

Xu Hongji was stupid at the time, and he didn't even dare to go back to his home and took the lead in escaping, Ye Mengxiong planned to call people to resist, saying that Nanjing was too important to give up Nanjing, but he was knocked unconscious by his cronies and ran away together.

The two leaders ran away, and the remaining small fish and shrimp didn't care about it, and ran quickly while the Zhennan army had not swept the whole city, and they could run one by one when they were fighting hard, but in the end, twenty or thirty people were caught by the Zhennan army.

That night, the city of Nanjing was blocked, the city was in a mess, and the outside of the city was almost the same, Jiang Dahai did not really realize that the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty was taken by him so easily until he saw the Nanjing Imperial Palace with his own eyes.

Is this really a war? Isn't this really a flat push?

The combat effectiveness of the army in the interior of the Ming Dynasty is so poor?

Just like that, there is no defense?

Don't worry about being attacked? Is their grasp of information so lagging behind?

Jiang Dahai did not raise troops to the south again, he did not have many troops in his hands, and his task was to cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and after mastering Zhenjiang Mansion and Nanjing, he had already overfulfilled the task, and he also needed to undertake certain vigilance tasks, such as blocking the road where Shen had always transported troops south through the canal.

But since then, the soldiers of Jiang Dahai and the Zhennan Army have no last fear of the imperial court, and they boldly cast their eyes to the north, full of hunger and thirst.

The city of Nanjing was under their feet, and it was trampled under their feet, and at this moment, it was only a month before they started the war.

Jiang Dahai's doubts are really the answer, the combat effectiveness of the army in the inland guard is so poor, otherwise how could there be such an incredible thing as fifty-six Japanese robbers running rampant in the southeast and poisoning thousands of miles?

The elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are all in the north, and the south has never had a major war since the Japanese were wiped out, and the north has several battles in a row, and a large number of elite troops have never returned after being transferred to the north, and the south at this moment is the military vacuum area of the Ming Dynasty.

They just don't have the defensive strength and don't worry about being attacked, who would have thought that Nanjing would be attacked?

Who would have thought that Xiao Ruxun would directly flip the table and start a war, and let the sailor directly go north to attack Nanjing?

They don't even know who the enemy they are facing, the news cannot be summarized or analyzed, they don't know where the enemy is coming from and where they are going, it is a mess, and the officials who are fleeing for their lives have no time to gather these news to make a judgment, and they have not yet determined the safety of their lives!

The quiet and prosperous South was stabbed hard by a strong military force.

After the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was abolished, the current Ming government did not have a professional military command structure, nor did it have an emergency mechanism, and its mobilization power was extremely poor, which was particularly evident in Nanjing.

In their eyes, the south is a stable and harmonious back garden, and Nanjing is a retirement home for officials who cannot get along with the Beijing division, and they have been idle and comfortable for a long time since the Japanese were pacified, and they are simply unable to cope with the sudden war.

The Zhennan Army is different from the Japanese Invaders, who have no specific strategic goals, and are generally a plate of scattered sand, just a loose combination, but the Zhennan Army is tightly organized and has clear goals, and they are here for you.

If Nanjing, the information center, the political center, and the economic center, is taken, the entire south will be in chaos for a while, and at this moment, even if the north reacts, Shen has always been unable to give orders to the south, and under the strong attack of the Zhennan army, the local government in the south cannot organize even a main force to fight a decisive battle with the Zhennan army.

Shen has always had to send troops from the north.

Shen has always lost control and control of the southeast, and he can no longer effectively deploy any military forces in the southeast, and with the passage of time, it is inevitable that he will lose control of the entire south of the Yangtze River.

And at this time, does Shen always know the news of Xiao Ruxun's army?

On 3 August, the Zhennan Army had been marching for a month, and when Nanjing was conquered, he did not know any news, he still thought that the world was safe, and he was still planning his own political blueprint.

As a result, on 10 August, when Xiao Ruxun was in Guangxi, Yunnan was pacified, Guangdong was basically pacified, and Liu Wei and Mawei marched into Sichuan, Shen Yiyi received an unclear news.

Report on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Yangzhou Zhenjiang section was cut off by an unknown sailor.

According to the report, Zhenjiang Prefecture seemed to be under the control of this unknown army, and a large number of grain shipments were blocked and could not go north, and the situation was extremely critical, and even Yangzhou Prefecture was in danger.

The prefect of Yangzhou has quickly organized manpower to sink ships to block the channel to prevent this fleet from going north, but it is still very dangerous, and he asks the imperial court to send troops immediately, and the Yangzhou government will provide more information back as soon as possible.

At that time, he was planning to replace the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, and Shen Cheng was directly stunned.

Zhenjiang Mansion was captured?

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was cut off?

Cao Liang was intercepted?

Unidentified water master?

Whose sailor?

Whose sailor is so bold?

Shen has always been extremely surprised, and Shi Xing and Cai Guozhen, who were in the cabinet office together at that time, were also stunned.

"Unknown water division captures Zhenjiang Mansion? Cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal? How is this possible?! ”

Cai Guozhen walked up to Shen Cheng and picked up the emergency report, and after reading it, he was frightened.

Shi Xing didn't dare to go over to look, but it didn't matter if he looked at it or not.

"How is this possible? Where did the sailors come from? How dare you do such a big rebellion...... ......"

Cai Guozhen was halfway through her words, and suddenly, a very terrible conjecture rose in her heart.

He looked back at Shi Xing, and Shi Xing's eyes matched, and Shi Xing's face suddenly changed greatly.

Cai Guozhen knew that Shi Xing wanted to go with him.

Then Cai Guozhen looked back at Shen Yiyi.

"Shousuke, this shouldn't be ......"

"Impossible! When pigs fly! ”

Shen Yi slapped the table and shouted: "I have laid a net of heaven and earth, it is absolutely impossible for him to escape!" Even if the Japanese reappear in the southeast, it will be absolutely impossible for him to escape! Send me a letter to Yangzhou Mansion and ask what is going on in Yangzhou Prefect!! ”

Shen Zheng's face turned red, his eyes were vicious, and the whole person completely lost his previous composure.

Cai Guozhen was taken aback, and hurriedly left the cabinet duty room to do something, Shi Xing hesitated, and also got up to say goodbye, he planned to go to the military department, there was something to confirm.

Then, on August 15, the clear news that Shen had always asked for came.

To be precise, it is not military intelligence, but a document that can answer Shen's current doubts.

A rebellious essay.

The author's signature is enough to make the hearts of the people in Jingshi City tremble.

The Ming Dynasty Qin Guogong, the Governor of Jingying Rongzheng, and the Governor of the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion Xiao Ruxun.