Chapter 2356 The powerful Yamata Orochi
Chapter 2353: The powerful Yamata Orochi
April 1, the second year of Shenwu.
Just half a month after the launch of the Japanese army, the four coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu won four major victories against Ma, Fenghou, Feihou and Satsuma.
After four major victories, although Otomo, Maori and Shimazu still control most of the Kyushu, the main force has been completely damaged.
Although the three families can recruit new recruits, they obviously cannot compete with the fierce Central Plains army with just relying on new recruits.
In addition to this, the other two daimyos of the three daimyos, except for Maori Motokura, were captured.
As soon as the battle of Hideho ended, Zhou Yu personally led a large army to attack Otomo''s capital and Yanagawa Castle, and broke the city within one day. Otomo Harue burned himself after the city was broken.
Therefore, now Otomo, Maori and Shimazu have no Dai Ming, and they are once again in a situation where there is no leader.
If it were normal, the three families could still choose Daming, but now the Central Plains coalition army is approaching, and the city lords of each city are unable to take care of themselves, so how can they choose a new Daming?
Without Daming to coordinate the four directions, the city lords of each city could only fight on their own. When the power was dispersed, they were naturally weaker, and they became even more powerless to resist the Central Plains coalition.
For the Central Plains coalition, when the war has reached its current level, it will definitely be directed and pushed forward directly, so the spoils can be divided.
Long before the attack on Jiuzhou, Zhou Yu, Xiahou Yuan, Sun Ce and Zhao Guangyi had already discussed how to divide Jiuzhou Island.
There are nine places in Kyushu Island, namely: Buying Front, Buying Back, Buying Back, Buying Back, Buying Back, Buying Back, Buying Back, Buying Back, Hinata, Satsuma, and Osumi.
After some discussion, the three countries with the largest area and the largest population in Feiqian, Zhuhou and Feihou are owned by Daqin, which have the largest military force, the most powerful and the greatest contribution.
In addition, the two countries of Zhuqian and Fengqian returned to Wei.
The Fenghou and Rigorous countries returned to the State of Song.
Satsuma and Osumi returned to the Wu Kingdom.
The Three Kingdoms of the Great Qin, the Wei, Song and Wu were both fair and just.
Now that the main forces of the three families are completely destroyed, there is no more army to fight in Jiuzhou, so the four-national coalition forces no longer need to gather in one place. They can completely disperse troops to attack each other, and they will decide their own territory in advance to avoid uneven distribution of spoils.
April 2, the second year of Shenwu.
The four coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu again divided their troops into four groups, and began to capture all parts of Jiuzhou in all directions.
The Qin army had already taken all the territory of Feiqian Kingdom, but the two countries, Zhuhou and Feihou, only occupied a few cities, and the twenty or thirty cities including Jueben, Yuchuan, Gaosen, etc. have not yet captured them.
Therefore, the main task of the Qin army next was to take down all these cities and completely destroy the Otomo family.
This time, Zhou Yu did not lead the army personally, but ordered the nine generals Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Yu Jin, Zhang He, Wang Jian, and Chen Tang to lead 5,000 troops each, and attack in nine directions, sweep across the two countries with the fastest speed.
This time, the Qin army did not start a massacre, but allowed the Japanese troops from all over the country to surrender.
The resources consumed by the Japanese expedition are quite large. If they rely on local supply, it will also be a great burden for the countries under cultivation.
Therefore, for the four countries'' coalition forces to conquer the Japanese, fighting is the best way to support the war.
Zhou Yu''s early massacre not only shocked the Japanese and made them feel awe, but also collected food, grass, wealth and resources.
Zhou Yu needed the manpower and material resources of Jiuzhou to support the 50,000 troops that conquered the Japanese, so it was naturally impossible to kill all the people in Jiuzhou.
Of course, if the Japanese army resisted stubbornly, it means that the Qin army''s deterrence is still insufficient, so they will still massacre the city after the city is broken.
Most of the cities in Japan are short and small. Even the capitals of major forces can only be compared with the counties in the Central Plains, so they cannot stop the Qin army''s offensive at all.
The Japanese army in each city of Zhuhou Feihou naturally knew this, so after learning that the Qin army allowed to surrender, most of the guards did not resist and decisively chose to open the city to surrender.
Wang Jian''s troops captured three cities in a row within one day, and two of them surrendered voluntarily.
Wang Jian was not the most. Zhao Yun''s troops broke four cities in a row in one day, and all of these four cities took the initiative to open the city and surrender.
However, if some are willing to surrender, there are naturally those who are stubborn.
The city lord of Ganmu City was Yoshioka Changzeng, one of the three elders of Fenghou, so he was unwilling to open the city to surrender. As a result, the city he guarded was captured by Lu Bu within half an hour.
After the city was destroyed, the Yoshioka clan was destroyed, and only 8,000 people in Kamgi Castle were massacred.
Although the Qin army will massacre the city this time, it is different from before. It is not that it will kill all the people indiscriminately, but that it will only massacre men who are higher than the wheels, retaining women and children.
In troubled times, women mean population, and population also means productivity, so if you can not kill women, you will not kill women.
As for those children who are not as tall as the wheel, their minds have not yet been fully developed and they cannot remember hatred. They will naturally be used by the Qin Dynasty when they grow up, so these two types of people will not be within the scope of massacre in the future.
In addition to Ganmu City, Gao Lai City and Xiong Chuan City were also unwilling to surrender, but were slaughtered by Xu Huang and Zhang He respectively.
After the news that the three cities were not surrendered and were slaughtered, the city lords of each city no longer dared to resist, and opened the city one after another and took the initiative to surrender to the Qin army.
From the nine-way dispatch, it took only five days for the Qin army to completely occupy the two countries of Zhuhou Feihou and surrender nearly 15,000 Japanese troops.
Of course, most of the five thousand Japanese soldiers were new soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was completely incomparable to the Japanese soldiers captured before.
As for the situation in the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu, the situation was similar to that of the Qin army. After the army set sail, they would basically not encounter much resistance. They would massacre all the cities after resisting and breaking the city, so few people dared to resist.
"The governor, built the sixteen cities of the Hou Kingdom and the eighteen cities of the Hou Kingdom. At present, all of them have been captured and 15,800 Japanese soldiers have been surrendered.
According to statistics, the three countries have a total of more than 89,600 households and a total population of 380,000. "Guo Jia reported with a smile.
"So many more people?"
Zhou Yu showed surprise. The killing caused by the coalition forces was quite large. At least 200,000 to 300,000 people, including the army, were killed, but unexpectedly, there was a population of nearly 400,000.
"In addition, our army seized a total of 760,000 stones of food and grass, 60 million coins of copper, 220,000 taels of silver, 68,000 taels of gold, and 40,000 taels of jewelry and antiques, etc., which are equivalent to about 40,000 taels of gold..."
“So many have been seized.”
Zhou Yu showed surprise again, and he never expected that a mere friend''s family would have such a rich seizure.
If he destroyed the Oda family, the overlord of Japan, wouldn’t the income be seized to account for 20 to 30% of the total annual tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty?
Guo Jiaze explained with a smile: "Although the Otomo family is not the overlord of Kyushu, it occupies the largest plain and is the richest in Kyushu. In addition, the princes of the Japanese have excessively exploited the people, and the common people are no different from slaves, and their income will basically be nationalized, so the Japanese are generally poor and rich.
In addition, Feiqian State has a medium-sized gold mine, and after construction, it has a medium-sized silver mine that is about to be excavated.
It is precisely because of this that the Otomo family has accumulated so much money, grain and wealth, but now all of these belong to my Daqin. ”
"One Otomo family owns two gold and silver mines, so why don''t the Oda family in Honshu have more?"
Zhou Yu showed a sudden look and said with a smile: "No wonder Your Majesty will cross the sea to attack Japan. Once you completely conquer Japan, our Qin Dynasty may not be short of development funds."
“That’s right.”
Guo Jia nodded slightly and said with a smile: "There will be such a disaster in Japan. One is to offend me, the other is to bear a treasure."
There are indeed many gold and silver mines in Japan, the first gold mountain, Echigo Sado Jinshan. At its peak, the output reached the world''s largest, and it was the pillar of the shogunate finance that lasted for 300 years.
As for the first silver mountain, Ishimi Silver Mine was the largest silver mine in Japan and even the world for more than 400 years from 1562 to the Edo period. At that time, one-third of the world''s silver was produced in Japan, and was therefore called the "Silver Islands" by the Ming Dynasty.
The three families of Ouchi, Niko and Maori broke out in order to compete for the dominance of Ishimi Yinshan, and lasted for more than ten years, and finally ended with the victory of the Maori family.
In addition, when the gold mineral reserves in Jiafei area were at its highest output, they accounted for about one-third of the national gold production.
During the period when Takeda''s largest territory, the number of gold mountains in its territory reached 28.
This shows that the richness of gold and silver minerals in Japan is a huge wealth for any country.
After listening to Guo Jia''s introduction, Zhou Yu realized that the small amount of gold and silver mineral output on Jiuzhou Island was not even as small as that of this state, and he was even more eager to capture this state and seize these gold and silver mountains.
"If you want to capture the island of Benzhou, you have to wait at least until the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu conquered their respective territories, but you shouldn''t have to wait too long." Zhou Yu chuckled.
Although the strategy progress of the Wei, Song and Wu three kingdoms was slower than that of Qin, it was not much slower. After all, there was no opponent at all, so how difficult could it be?
"Report to the Grand Governor, urgent news came from the Song and Wu coalition."
"Um?"
Zhou Yu frowned slightly. Now the overall situation in Jiuzhou has been determined. The Song and Wu army are invincible in Southern Jiuzhou. Why did they send an emergency message?
“Come on.”
"No."
Zhou Yu opened Sun Ce''s letter and browsed it in ten lines at a glance, but his face changed drastically when he saw that Sun Ce was defeated.
The story is like this. After Sun Ce occupied the Satsuma Kingdom, he then went to conquer the Osumi Kingdom. However, when he was breaking through the Chuishui City and massacre, he found that there was a hidden master in the city.
This man actually defeated the joint efforts of Han Qinhu, Zhou Tai and Ling Tong.
Seeing that this person was so skillful, Sun Ce was happy to see that the hunter was full of strength and wanted to defeat him and then take him under his command. However, he did not expect that he was too confident and was defeated by the other party.
If Li Hu and others had not joined forces to save him, Sun Ce would have even died at that person.
Sun Ce failed to conquer his subordinates and was seriously injured, and even lost several generals. Naturally, it was impossible to let the mysterious man go, so he chased him all the way into Hinaga Country, and joined forces with the Song army to continue chasing him, and finally besieged him in Satohara Castle.
Seeing that he was so brave that he could injure the little bully Sun Ce, Zhao Guangyi also became convinced, so he ordered not to fire a cold arrow, but he did not want to be killed by the man in a row several Song generals. Even Gao Huaide and many other powerful generals were injured and forced to break out.
The Song and Wu armies suffered a great loss in this hand and lost many generals, so they would not let him go. So they gathered the powerful generals to form a chase team, following them all the way, vowing to kill them and avenge the dead generals.
Now this person has fled to Feihou Kingdom, which is the chassis of the Qin army, so Sun Ce and Zhao Guangyi want Zhou Yu to cooperate in the pursuit and killing this person.
"I really didn''t expect that Bo Fu would be defeated by a Japanese. It seems that Japan also has strong people."
As he said that, Zhou Yu took out the portrait inside the envelope, and the picture on it was the mysterious man, a middle-aged man who looked extremely vicious.
"Send the order to block the major roads of Feihou Kingdom immediately and cooperate with the Song and Wu Youjun to arrest this person.
In addition, I took this portrait to see Tachibana Yuki, Otomo Sorin, and Mori Mori, and asked if they recognized this person. ”
"No."
Zhou Yu''s Japanese traitor plan was implemented very smoothly.
Under Guo Jia''s lobbying, Tachibana Yuki and Maori Motokura chose to join the Qin Dynasty after some contemplation in order to prevent their family from being exterminated.
After seeing the portrait, Otomo Sorin and Mori Mori said that they did not know the person in the portrait, only Tachibana Yuki recognized this person.
"Hamata Toru Yoo, nicknamed Yamata Orochi, killed 86 generals of the Oda family in a row in the first Honshu war, and none of the entire Oda family was his opponent.
Oda Nobunaga mobilized a hundred thousand troops to surround and kill Yamata Orochi, but he broke out alone and almost fought Oda Nobunaga. He is also the strongest enemy of the Oda family''s rise," said Tachibana Yuki.
"If this person is really that strong, how did Oda Nobunaga defeat him?" Zhou Yu asked.
Snow Tachibana shook her head and said, “Oda Nobunaga did not defeat Yamatsu Orochi. He was defeated by Susano. Everyone thought he died at Susanoko’s hands, but they didn’t expect to hide in Minami Kyushu for refuge.”
"Who is Susanoka?"
Zhou Yu asked with a frown, and he also had a vague premonition in his heart. These two people might cause considerable trouble to the coalition forces.
"Susano no: is..."
Before Lekai Daoxue could finish her words, a soldier suddenly broke in.
"Governor, the big thing is wrong. The two generals Xue Dingshan and Yue Yun were both injured by the wanted criminal.
The five generals Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Qin Ming and Hu Yanzhuo joined forces, but they still failed to kill him. They were fled after eighty battles. ”
"What? Yue Yun was injured? Lu Junyi and the other five people joined forces to take him down?"
Zhou Yu was completely shocked now.
Yue Yun is not weak. If he even loses to Yamata Orochi, then Mi Houying, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Huang Zhong are probably not opponents. If he fights alone, only Lu Bu and Zhao Yun will win.
(This chapter ends)