At this time, it was already ten in the morning, but Yang Su and Cao Wenzhao had not yet slept in the big tent outside the city, undoubtedly waiting for Liu Guoneng to come back.

"Yang Gong, Liu Guoneng should have come back a long time ago! Could it be that they don't want to surrender and want to take the opportunity to force Liu Guoneng to stay? Cao Wenzhao asked casually.

Yang Su shook his head, "Impossible, if they had the courage, Nanjing City would not be what it is now, then Xu Hongji had 100,000 troops in hand at that time, but he didn't even dare to go up the city wall, and even handed over the entire army to the command of the general, with his guts, it is impossible to attack Liu Guineng, I guess there should be something delayed!" Let's wait, if Liu Guoneng doesn't come back before dawn, let's go into the city! ”

"General Xiao is still ninety miles away from us with his army, and he will be able to arrive tomorrow night. How many days is Yang Gong going to repair in Nanjing? ”

"Three days at most, after three days, we must continue to go south and attack Yangzhou. After that, I will go to Suzhou again, this time I want to destroy them in one fell swoop, this time it is completely a coincidence, and it will be difficult to find such an opportunity next time! ”

"Yang Gong, do those salt merchants in Yangzhou really have that strength as Jin Yiwei said?" Cao Wenzhao asked curiously.

"Indeed, Yangzhou has gathered heavy troops at this time, with no less than 8,000 elite cavalry and more than 20,000 families! And there is plenty of food and grass, and there are even bed crossbows and Franc machine cannons. Yang Su nodded in confirmation.

"I can't imagine that a mere businessman would dare to raise an army in private, he should be killed!"

"You have been in the north for a long time, and you don't know that the strength of those maritime merchants in Zhejiang and Fujian is not worse than that of the salt merchants in Yangzhou, but they are scattered in various states, and they are generally at sea, so the momentum is not as good as Yangzhou!"

The importance of salt and iron in ancient times is self-evident, and it can be said to be the lifeline of the imperial court, comparable to munitions. The salt and iron of the Ming Dynasty were not accepted as state-owned, and private individuals who wanted to sell salt only needed to obtain a salt introduction, and the Huangchao of the Tang Dynasty was born as a private salt dealer, and it is conceivable that those salt merchants in Yangzhou had the salt introduction of the imperial court, and all of them surpassed Huangchao in strength, and there was no group of wolf-like and tiger-like family members who could not keep such a big family business, which was like a maritime business.

Zheng Zhilong, the most powerful maritime merchant, could single-handedly defeat the East India Company, take the entire South China Sea into his pocket, and do whatever he wanted. relied on the tens of thousands of elites under him.

Yang Su and Cao Wenzhao chatted about their future strategies, and after a while, they heard footsteps outside the big tent, and the two looked at each other, it should be Liu Guoneng who is back!

Sure enough, Liu Guoneng, who had a heavy face, opened the curtain and walked into the tent, first saluted Yang Su and Cao Wenzhao, and then sat down under Yang Su's greeting.

Cao Wenzhao took the initiative to pour Liu Guoneng a glass of water, and Liu Guoneng quickly stood up and thanked him.

Yang Su was originally going to send Cao Wenzhao to go tonight, because Cao Wenzhao's reputation is great, and it is not natural to send his subordinates to this kind of thing, which is not enough to win trust. Moreover, Cao Wenzhao's martial arts cultivation is high enough, and with the marrow exchange realm that he killed from the sea of corpses and blood, he can break through the Nanjing City in the past, and he can easily get out if he is careful, not to mention now.

It's just that although Cao Wenzhao directly agreed, he felt something strange in the face of the Ming Dynasty officials. Unexpectedly, Liu Guoneng actually took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that he had not made an inch of merit since he joined Yang Gong, and he must ask Yang Su to hand over this important task to him, so there was a scene where Cao Wenzhao personally poured water for Liu Guineng.

Yang Su looked at Liu Guoneng and asked with concern, "Why did you come back so late?" Are they hard for you? ”

"No, we have destroyed 100,000 officers and soldiers today, how dare they embarrass the general! Yang Gong, the last general went here not only to see Xu Hongji, but also to meet the prefect of Yingtianfu, and the Nanjing garrison eunuch and the secretary of the Nanjing military department, they should have discussed countermeasures in Xu Hongji's mansion at that time! After hearing that I was coming, I came to meet with the last general, and this man was so talkative that he was delayed for a while! Liu Guoneng puffed out his chest and explained proudly.

"Did they agree to our terms?" Yang Su asked again.

"Looks like I agreed! Yang Gong, you don't know that this group of people want to live and can't give up the silver, and the last general will listen to Yang Gong's intentions, and don't allow them to talk about the conditions, and tell them directly, if you don't give it to us, you will take the knife yourself! In the end, they could only agree, just hoping that we could give them time to prepare the silver supplies! Liu Guoneng said truthfully.

"No, these things are just incidental, the emperor doesn't mean to ask for this mere property!"

"Of course, the last general knew that it would not work, and immediately told them that if we couldn't transport what we wanted out of the city within three days, we would attack Nanjing immediately!"

"Very good, General Xiao will lead the army to Nanjing tomorrow night, just enough to rest for two days, wait for this matter, let's go south to Yangzhou immediately!" Yang Su nodded and told Liu Guoneng about their next plan.

"Yang Gong said that where to fight, let's fight! I have no opinion! Liu Guoneng is close to Yang Subiao and loyal.

He is different from Cao Wenzhao, not only is he a general or a rogue, this kind of mark can never be washed away, if there is no one in the court, it will be sad in the future, and it is a good ending to be able to be sealed in the end, and it is normal to be liquidated, he is Yang Su, so he naturally has to hug his thighs desperately, otherwise he took the risk and took the initiative to invite Ying into the city for! Isn't it just for meritorious service!

Yang Su smiled and patted Liu Guoneng on the shoulder, since Liu Guoneng repeatedly stated that things were done well tonight, Yang Su naturally would not make him suspicious because of these little things.

Yang Su immediately ordered Liu Guoneng: "Liu Guoneng, you can't rest tonight, I still have a heavy task to hand over to you, the whole army is divided into three shifts to rest, and you will pay attention to the situation of the four city gates, once someone goes out of the city, it will not matter!" ”

"Yang Gong rest assured, although the last general is not as good as General Cao, he is also in the Yi Bone Realm, and he will be fine if he doesn't sleep for two or three days!" Liu Guoneng stood up and swore an oath.

Yang Su looked at Cao Wenzhao again: "General Cao, you go and kill all the people who were sent to our camp in the city before, and throw their heads from the south gate!" Since they are hesitant, let's help them decide! ”

"The last general obeys!" Cao Wenzhao clenched his fists and took his life.

"And you will wake up the Guanning Iron Cavalry, with the means of Xu Hongji and others, it will be difficult to completely subdue those people in Nanjing City, and then maybe Nanjing City will cause chaos, if you see that the situation is not right, you can take Guanning Iron Cavalry into the city to suppress the riots, so as not to cause more damage to the people!"

Cao Wenzhao was concerned about the safety of the camp and reminded, "Yang Gong, now there are nearly 100,000 prisoners in my camp, all of whom were defeated and surrendered yesterday, if there is chaos in Nanjing, we will take all the elites away......"

"It's okay, the camp will be guarded by me personally, and there will be no chaos! Alright, you all go down and get ready! Yang Su waved his hand to make the two stand back.