Chapter 2340 The Battle of Kyushu
Chapter 2337: The Battle of Jiuzhou
In the defeat of Feiqian Country, the Otomo family lost not only the land of a country, but also many elite generals in the army, including many top-class generals.
The Central Plains are full of gods and generals, and they are not as good as dogs. Only the powerful generals at the level of the God of War are the high-end combat power of various countries.
Japan has a narrow territory and a small number of people, so the number of talents is naturally not comparable to that of the Central Plains. First-class generals are already the mainstay, and the top-class generals have the top combat power, and the divine generals are even rare.
As for the God of War?
Even Honda Tada, known as the "No. 1 General of the Warring States Period", is still just a god-general rather than a **** of war.
Among the coalition forces of the Qin and Wei countries, there were five or six gods of war alone, and there was also a super **** general, and there were a lot of **** generals.
With such a big gap in the general lineup, how could the Japanese generals be the opponent? So I was stunned as soon as the war started.
The four powerful generals of Li Han Dao Xuehui, known as the "Four Heavenly Kings of Li Hua", were joined by Bu Weixin, Shishi Lianzhen, An Dongjiazhong and Takano Dashen, and were killed by Qin general Xu Chu, and it took less than five rounds.
The deputy general of Akira Kamada, the governor of Kuroda Takagata, the Kuroda family in the former country, was under his command. The eight generals were also called the "Kuroda Eight Tiger".
After the 24 first-class generals including Inoue Nobuya, Kokawa Shinjo, Suga Tadari joined forces, the comprehensive combat power was no less than that of the peak **** generals when they continuously stimulated the two combination skills of the "Twenty-Four Horses" and the "Eight Tigers".
But even so, he was still crushed by Lu Bu with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, and in just seven rounds he killed thirteen generals, almost killing two generals in one round.
Lu Bu''s move to kill thirteen generals in a row directly scared the remaining eleven generals and never dared to fight with Lu Bu again. He fled in a hurry, but Lu Bu shot three generals in a row with his bow and arrow.
At the beginning, the twenty-four generals went to fight, but only eight generals fled back, and one of them died of serious injuries shortly after escaping back.
After the Qin-Wei coalition forces were captured by the Qin-Wei coalition forces, Deputy General Kuroda Takaga led the remaining "Twenty-Four Kuroda Cavalry" and the five thousand troops to cut off the rear. Only then did Rikada Xue escape from the pursuit and led the remaining troops of the Otomo family to retreat to the Jihou Kingdom.
As for Kuroda Takagata''s army of severance was easily defeated by Lu Bu''s leadership of a thousand iron cavalry, and all of them died under Lu Bu''s halberd.
In addition, Zhao Yun, Mi Houwang, Xu Huang, Zhang He, Xue Dingshan, Elai, Xiahou Dun and other generals also killed many generals from Dayou''s family.
It can be said that seven or eight out of ten generals of the Otomo family died in the battle of Fei Qian, and lost 20,000 elite troops.
On the contrary, not only did the Qin army not lose its general, but even suffered minimal casualties.
The Qin army''s comprehensive combat power is already stronger than the Japanese army, with 70,000 to 20,000, and is in a crushing situation. With this absolute military advantage, there will naturally be no major casualties.
After the two days of Feiqian War, the Qin Wei coalition only suffered more than 400 casualties, most of which were the Wei army. Compared with the results achieved, this casualty was insignificant.
The Otomo family has six countries in Kyushu, namely: Ma Guo, Iki Guo, Hime Qian Guo, Hime Qian Guo, Hime Qian Guo, Hime Qian Guo, and Hime Qian Guo;
The Tsuma Kingdom and the Iki Kingdom were already slaughtered into white land by the Qin army long before the Battle of Tsuma Hai, and the westernmost Hibiki Kingdom was also captured by the Qin and Wei coalition forces within two days.
In other words, the Otomo family now has only the Three Kingdoms land left.
After learning about the defeat of Tachibana Suki''s battle, Omega Otomo Harue almost fainted, but after a brief panic, he quickly calmed down.
Internally, he seized the time to conduct emergency recruitment and sent an additional 30,000 troops to the Zhuhou Kingdom to defend the country.
To the outside world, he sent envoys to the Maori family and the Shimazu family for help, hoping that the two families could send reinforcements to help the Oto family defend the Chihou Kingdom to the death, and the three families jointly fought against the Japanese coalition forces.
The first two governors of the Maori family, Maori Yuan and Maori Takamoto, both died in the battle with the Qin Dynasty.
The new daimyo Mori Motoku had a great hatred for the Qin Dynasty and knew the truth that the lips were dead and the teeth were cold, so he would naturally watch the Otomo family be destroyed.
The Maori family has a total of six countries, two countries in Kyushu, and four countries in the present.
The two countries of Jiuzhou are: Fengxian Kingdom and Fengxian Kingdom.
The four countries in this prefecture are: Nagato, Zhou Fangguo, Ishimi and Anyun.
In other words, most of the power of the Maori family is actually on Honshu Island.
Long before the Battle of Tsuma Sea, Takamoto Mori had made preparations early and sent troops from Honshu Island to support Kyushu.
After Maori Takamoto was buried in the sea, his brother Maori Takamoto inherited his brother''s career, continued to carry the banner of resisting Qin, and immediately dispatched troops to Kyushu.
But just before the Maori family''s army was about to arrive at the Tsushima Strait, the port in Kyushu was burned down by Zhou Yu''s army.
The new port has not been rebuilt yet. Even if it is really built, the Qin naval army will attack again.
In other words, when Kyushu was completely closed, the reinforcements of the Maori family could no longer pass, and they could only rely on the local army of Kyushu to confront the Qin Dynasty.
If the troops were divided to support the Otomo family at this time, the territory of the Maori family would be in a situation of insufficient troops.
But if the Otomo family is not supported, once the Otomo family is destroyed, the next target of the Qin army is the Maori family.
Mori Motoharu couldn''t help but fall into a dilemma, but after some thought, he finally decided to support the Otomo family, after all, this was his only ally in Kitakyushu.
Maori Motoharu ordered his third brother, who was adopted by Kobayakawa family and inherited the position of governor of the family, to lead the eighteen Maori generals and 20,000 troops to support the construction of the future country.
The country had 10,000 defenders, Otomo Haruhei sent 30,000 reinforcements, and Li Hanamichi urgently recruited 10,000 troops, so the total force at this time had reached 50,000.
If Kobayakawa Takake''s 20,000 army was added, the total strength of the two coalition forces of the Mori and the two coalition forces of the Chihou Kingdom would reach 70,000, and they were barely qualified to fight the Qin and Wei coalition forces.
If the reinforcements from the Shimazu family were added, the total strength of the three coalition forces would be even greater than that of the Qin and Wei coalition forces.
On the other hand, the new Daimai Shimazu Yoshihiro from the Shimazu family also decided to send troops to support the Chigoku Kingdom, and was preparing to personally lead the four Shimazu brothers and 30,000 troops to support.
But shortly after the army set out, Shimazu Yoshihiro received the news that the 50,000 coalition forces of the Song and Wu countries suddenly landed in Southern Kyushu and attacked Satsuma. Shimazu Yoshihiro was so scared that he hurriedly withdrew his troops and made every effort to deal with the coalition forces of the Song and Wu countries.
The news that the 50,000-strong coalition forces of Song and Wu attacked the Satsuma Kingdom not only scared Shimazu Yoshihiro, but also scared Mori Motoharu and Otomo Haruhi.
They thought that the three coalition forces of Qin, Song and Wu were all in Feiqian Kingdom, but they did not expect that the coalition forces of Song and Wu went to Nanjiuzhou and divided their troops to attack Satsuma Kingdom. What are the enemy troops of Feiqian Kingdom?
After some inquiries, Ototo Harue finally figured out that the only opponent that made him lose face was the 70,000 coalition forces of the Qin and Wei countries.
It turned out that the Central Plains Alliance of Princes to conquer the Japanese was not only the three countries relying on sea, Qin, Song and Wu, but also the Wei State, which was an inland country, participated.
After learning the news, Ototo Harue''s heart suddenly sank to the bottom. After all, even Wei State had not experienced the disaster of Japanese pirates. Will other Central Plains countries also participate?
No one knows it.
The Japanese coalition did not concentrate its troops, but chose to divide its troops to fight. This should be good news for the local forces in Jiuzhou, but the three names in Jiuzhou were not happy at all.
Because this just shows that the Three Kingdoms coalition has absolute confidence, it dares to divide its troops while fighting in a foreign country.
In short, Japan is really dangerous this time.
The Shimazu family needed to deal with the Song and Wu coalition forces, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, so they naturally couldn''t help supporting the Otomo family. They could only rely on the Otomo Maori family to resist the Qin and Wei coalition forces.
Fortunately, the number of coalition forces between Qin and Wei countries was not large, and there were only 70,000 troops in total.
Although the Otomo family suffered a lot of losses, they could barely gather a large army of 100,000 when they joined forces with the Maori family.
With these 100,000 troops, they may still be no match for the Qin and Wei coalition forces, but if they were determined to defend the city, Ototo Harue felt that they could still defend it, so they decided to go to the country of the future to boost morale.
I have to say that Ototo Haruhei was still too simple to think. The gap between the Japanese coalition and the Japanese army is comprehensive, but it can not be made up just by the number of people.
Although the two coalition forces of Maori Otomo could barely gather more than 100,000 troops, it would definitely take time. During this period, the most feared thing was the Qin army attacking.
But what Ototo Haruhee didn''t expect was that the Qin army did not take advantage of the victory to continue to attack Jihouguo, but chose to rest on the spot, which also made Ototo Haruhee and Mori Motoharu a little confused.
Japan is not without smart people. Shaoyun Takahashi, who is as famous as Lehanaki Snow, saw through Zhou Yu''s intentions and said, "Lord, Zhou Yu may have done it on purpose. He deliberately gave our army time to gather, and then wiped them all out in one breath, so that he could not attack one by one."
Otomo Harue sneered: "This Zhou Gongjin is really arrogant. Since that''s the case, I''ll fight him to the death with the Tuohou Kingdom."
Takahashi Shaoyun guessed well. Zhou Yu did deliberately give Otomo Haruhei time to gather the army and then take it in one go.
But what Takahashi Shaoyun and Otomo Haruehei didn''t know was that Zhou Yu did this not because he was arrogant, but because he planned a complete set of tactics.
Otomo Haruhiro knew Zhou Yu’s purpose, but he still dared to do this, which was considered to have taken the initiative to fall into Zhou Yu’s entire set.
Feiqian Kingdom, the Qin and Wei coalition camp.
Zhou Yu was standing in front of the map and said confidently: "Everyone, the Otomo family and the Maori family are both increasing their troops to the Tuohou Kingdom, hoping to consume our army''s strength by relying on the Tuohou Kingdom''s terrain, but this is exactly the same as the intention of this governor, and gives our army the opportunity to annihilate it in one fell swoop.
If the two countries can be wiped out in one fell swoop in the battle, the four countries of Feihou, Zhuqian, Fengqian and Fengqian would have no power to resist. ”
Xiahou Yuan stood up at this time and said, "If Otomo Maori''s two families were allowed to mobilize troops, the total strength of the country''s army would probably reach 100,000. Even if our coalition forces can win, the chamber pot would probably pay a considerable price, which would not be conducive to continuing to attack the island of Honshu."
“That’s right, that’s right…”
Lu Bu, Elai, Xiahou Dun, Mi Houwang and other generals all agreed. Even if they looked down on the Japanese army, the 100,000 army is not a small number after all, and it is indeed difficult to win without paying a little price.
"It will naturally cost a lot to win, but this governor must be smart."
Zhou Yu said with a smile, as if Zhizhu was holding it, and the generals didn''t say anything more.
After the battle against Ma Hai, Zhou Yu established a considerable prestige and had convinced these arrogant soldiers. As long as he did not make obvious big mistakes, no one would generally oppose his decision.
"Where are Zhao Yun and Xiahou Yuan in harmony?" Zhou Yu ordered.
"The last one will be there."
"Zhao Yun led 20,000 Qin troops, Xiahou Yuan led 20,000 Wei troops, pretending to be a 70,000 coalition, and marched towards the Zhuhou Kingdom from the front to confront the Japanese army, but remember to focus on confrontation and not force attacks. Your mission is only to attract the attention of the Japanese army."
After hearing this, Zhao Yun and Xiahou Yuan looked at each other and said in unison: "Oh."
Seeing this, Zhou Yu said again: "Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Yu Jin, Mi Haohong... Where is it?"
Zhou Yu shouted more than a dozen names on his face, and every time he called one, one would stand up.
"This general led 5,000 cavalry and 25,000 troops to raid the northern country of Chuqian. He attacked Fenghou Kingdom and went around the rear of Chuqian Kingdom, and then attacked the front and back, destroying the 100,000 troops of Otomo Maori. You and others will go out with the army to fight together."
"No."
Lu Bu and others responded in unison.
In this way, the 70,000 Qin and Wei coalition forces were officially divided into two groups.
Zhao Yun and Xiahou Yuan led a 40,000 army to march towards the Chihou Kingdom, attracting the attention of Otomo Maori''s coalition forces
As the main general, Zhou Yu personally visited the 30,000 army to raid the Zhuqian Kingdom, and detoured to the rear of the Zhuqian Kingdom, and implemented a strategy of attacking the front and back.
In order to prevent the traces from leaking, Zhou Yu walked along the way without leaving any people and animals. By the time he was really exposed, his army was about to pass through the Zhuqian Kingdom.
When his whereabouts were completely exposed, Zhou Yu did not have so many estimates. He was no longer hiding his whereabouts, but instead marched towards Fenghou Kingdom in a swagger.
Otomo Harue was shocked when he learned the news and quickly sent a message to Mori Motokura, hoping that when the Qin army passed through Fenghou Kingdom, the Maori family could send troops to stop Zhou Yu''s army.
After receiving the news, Maori Motochun quickly led the two countries, including Fengfeng, Fengfeng and the back, to intercept them.
To be honest, Mori Motokura did not want to fight head-on with the Qin army, but this battle would not work.
If Zhou Yu''s army really kills Fenghou Kingdom, he can directly attack Zhuhou Kingdom from the rear. At that time, the 100,000 troops of Zhuhou Kingdom will be trapped in a situation of being attacked from both sides. Therefore, even if Maori Motokura was unwilling to do so, he could only bite the bullet.
(This chapter ends)