Truncate Table which is part of Replication

Hi,

We have multiple tables in transnational replication, from SQL to SQL, and version is 2012.

User wanted to truncate one table(16M Rows) and load the data newly which is part of trans replication.

We have minimal time to do so..

Steps we know to do so..

1. Drop/Remove the article from Publication

2. Reinitialize subscription

3. Truncate table

4. Add the article again into replication with snapshot of single article

-- Issue is at step 2, we don't want to reinitialize the replication which will take around 5 hours .

we are not sure on replication works fine from step 4, if we skip the step 2 ..

Please let us know, if there is any easy process to truncate 16M rows from replicated table..

or Remove and Add same replicated table without reinitialize subscription