In the grand hall of the Five Armies Command Office in Nanjing City, a set of nobles and officers from the office were engaged in animated discussions before a vast military map.
"We might be able to spare five thousand troops from Guangde."
"That's too few, what about Jinshan Garrison in Songjiang Prefecture?"
"Only three thousand, they only have a total of over five thousand troops."
"Could we not mobilize some of the salt workers from Yangzhou? Yangzhou Weisuo Institute is a travesty but the salt workers are quite the elites. With a capable military minister sent over there, mobilizing five or six thousand men shouldn't be an issue."
"Then there are the upstream troops of the Yangtze River, in Luzhou, Anqing, and the armies of multiple prefectures in Jiujiang. We can arrange for our naval forces to transport the troops, they should reach Nanjing in seven days at most."
"Too slow! In seven days I reckon Hangzhou City would have fallen to Lin Ziyang."
