Vol 2 Chapter 2395: Conspiracy against Zhu Di
Chapter 2395 The conspiracy against Zhu Di
Chapter 2391: Conspiracy against Zhu Di
In terms of the scale of the war, Nobi was much larger than Kanto, but in terms of intensity, the Kanto region was more exciting.
In the Nongwei area, although the Han side did not have much more troops than the Japanese side, in terms of strategy, the Han side had a huge advantage.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that under attack from the east and west, the isolated and helpless Oda family is at an absolute disadvantage. Even with the fortified city of Tokyo, there is still not much possibility of a comeback.
So, no matter how Oda Nobunaga struggled, in the eyes of most people, the outcome of the Nobi War was already doomed, and the difference was only the length of time.
Looking at the Guandong region, Wu Qi was at an absolute disadvantage from beginning to end.
Wu Qi only had 30,000 Qin and Japanese mixed troops, of which the Qin army was only 5,000. However, he had to face 150,000 Japanese troops, an enemy five times his own. This shows how huge the pressure was.
Before the final fire attack, even though Wu Qi defeated the enemy many times and killed tens of thousands of enemy troops, he still could not reverse the strength gap between the enemy and ourselves.
It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yu is so eager to support Wu Qi, because he knows how difficult this task is, so he is afraid that Wu Qi will not be able to withstand the pressure.
What everyone didn't expect was that Wu Qi not only withstood the pressure, but also won the battle, and he was a complete victory, nearly annihilating 150,000 Japanese troops.
When receiving the news, not only Zhou Yu, but also the generals of the Qin army, and everyone in the coalition army were shocked.
They joined forces with hundreds of thousands of troops, but they were not able to capture Tokyo yet. Wu Qi, who had only 30,000 Qin and Japanese soldiers, had already finished the battle in Kanto.
This is too fast and too fierce!
After hearing the specific details of the fire attack, all the four-nation coalition generals were amazed. They could only use two words to describe Wu Qi's achievements, that is: awesome;
Shibata Katsuie was unable to attack Hachioji Castle, and received news that Tokyo was being surrounded. He was worried that Tokyo would be captured, so he decided to take a desperate risk, bypassed Hachioji, attacked Gotemba Castle by surprise, and then invaded the Kinki Plains.
What Shibata Katsuie never expected was that Wu Qi predicted his actions in advance and used Gotemba Castle as bait to lure a hundred thousand troops deep into the abdomen.
On the surface, Wu Qi's plan went very smoothly, and there didn't seem to be many disturbances. However, there were some accidents that made Shibata Katsuie suspicious, but Wu Qi was confused by them.
In the end, Wu Qi used a large fire to burn Puyuan City at the junction of Kanto and Nomi, burying an entire hundred thousand troops at the cost of the entire city. Even Shibata Katsuie was killed in the fire. .
The twists and turns, thrills, and complexity of the Kanto War astonished everyone present.
That is to say, Wu Qi, who has both wisdom and unification, is commanding. If it were Le Yi and Zhao Yong, even if they could win in the end, it would be a tragic victory. They would never be able to win this battle with a total annihilation attitude like Wu Qi.
The Battle of Kanto ended with Wu Qi annihilating the Japanese army with a huge fire.
The 150,000 Japanese troops were almost completely wiped out, which directly reduced the strength of the Kanto region by nearly 80 to 90%.
The huge Guandong Plain has only 20,000 to 30,000 defenders left, which can be said to be extremely empty.
Wu Qi naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, so he saw the opportunity and led his army eastward, but he did not expect that he would hit a wall in the first city.
Odawara Castle is one of the most famous impenetrable castles in Kanto and even Tokyo. Its defensive power is no worse than Tokyo Castle or even Kasugayama Castle.
Wu Qi wanted to invade Kantung, he had to capture Odawara City. He thought that after wiping out Shibata Katsuie, the garrison in Kantung would surrender, but he did not expect that Odawara City's resistance would still be strong.
Wu Qi personally commanded the army to attack, but lost thousands of troops, but still failed to break the city. In addition, some supplies were exhausted, so he reported the good news to Zhou Yu and asked for supplies to continue the battle.
Zhou Yu naturally had no reason not to agree to Wu Qi's request. Not only did he provide Wu Qi with additional supplies, he also sent additional troops.
Wu Qi now has only 15,000 troops under his command. With just such a small number of people, it is naturally impossible to occupy the entire Guandong.
Therefore, Zhou Yu ordered the three generals Xu Huang, Zhang He, and Ju Yi, each with an army of 10,000, for a total of 30,000, to go to Wu Qi and give orders to Wu Qi to continue the attack on Guandong.
As for the land of Guandong, Zhou Yu planned to eat alone and leave nothing to the other three countries. However, if he really did this, he would be easily targeted by the three countries.
After much thought, Zhou Yu decided to give up part of Nongwei's territory in exchange for the Three Kingdoms agreeing to Qin's occupation of the entire Guandong Plain.
The Nongwei area is the essence of the Japanese country, but after such a war, it has obviously been severely weakened and will never regain its former glory.
Tokyo, as the political and economic center, is about to be slaughtered into nothing.
As for other places, the trauma is also great.
Using the half-wasted thick tail in exchange for the entire Kanto region, this deal is a sure profit.
As for whether the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu would agree?
They can get benefits without spending a single soldier, and they have no reason to refuse.
Besides, the area of hundreds of miles from Kinki to Kanto has been occupied by the Qin army.
Even if the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu did not want Qin to get Guandong, there was no way to stop it, so it was better to get some benefits and settle the matter.
“Report to the Grand Governor that the defenders of Daheng City and Naguye City have opened the city and surrendered under the persuasion of Himihu.
In addition, Susano'o and Oyama Tsumi have also been persuaded by Himihu and decided to surrender to our Great Qin. "
“It’s really surrendering, that’s great.”
Zhou Yu had a look of surprise on his face. After all, the two of them had shown that they would rather die than surrender before. He didn't expect to be convinced by Himihu so quickly.
Spurred by Xiang Yu's ideological mobilization and the stimulation of the massacre in Tokyo, after some ideological struggle, Beimihusha finally lowered his arrogant head and decided to surrender to the Qin Dynasty.
She has figured out that even if she continues to resist, her sacrifice will be in vain and has no meaning at all. Only by surrendering to Da Qin can the casualties be minimized.
In addition, Taiyi promised her to keep Shintoism and pass it on in Japan.
It’s just that whether it’s Shintoism or the Onmyoji lineage, they must recognize their ancestors and return to their clan, and be incorporated into the Onmyo family.
Himihu simply couldn’t refuse this condition.
Between Japan and Shintoism, she has to keep at least one.
As far as the current situation is concerned, Japan is definitely going to be destroyed, and it cannot let Shintoism be destroyed along with it.
Now that Taiyi has promised to let her preserve Shintoism, she will not hesitate to let Shintoism be merged into the Onmyo family. After meeting Zhou Yu, the first thing Himihu said was that he wanted Zhou Yu to stop the massacre.
For this reason, she did not hesitate to reveal many secrets, and the underground vault in the Tokyo Imperial Palace was one of them.
Oda Nobunaga was surrounded by Himihu's people. He thought that few people knew the secret of his arrangement, but they didn't know that Himihu had already understood his secret.
In order to save the city of Tokyo, Himihu wanted to exchange this, but was directly rejected by Zhou Yu.
Once the killing starts, it is not easy to stop.
If the order to stop is forcibly issued, it will only reduce Zhou Yu's prestige and make him a human being inside and outside. Moreover, the armies of Wei, Song and Wu will definitely not listen to Zhou Yu.
Based on these two considerations, Zhou Yu directly rejected Himihu without even thinking about it.
However, in order to appease her, Zhou Yu also made a promise that after Tokyo, he would never massacre the city again.
After hearing Zhou Yu’s explanation, Himihu realized that Tokyo was completely hopeless. After some struggle, she decided to give up and save other areas instead, so as not to let the tragedy of Tokyo happen elsewhere.
Hemihu's resignation made Zhou Yu overjoyed. After all, her influence in the Japanese country was second only to Oda Nobunaga, and her real value was obviously more than that.
Zhou Yu could already imagine that after Himihu appeared in Guandong, all the cities in Guandong would take the initiative to open their cities and surrender to Da Qin.
“Let Bimihu go to the Guandong area with the army to help Wu Qidong go out to conquer Guandong.” Zhou Yu ordered.
In this way, Himihu, who had just arrived in Tokyo, was sent to the Kanto region by Zhou Yu, but this was also a good thing for her.
The Tokyo Da Tu Killing Me has not yet been explained, and it was too painful for her to witness this scene with her own eyes.
The Seven-Day Massacre in Tokyo had been going on for six days. The remaining more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of troops in the city were slaughtered by the four-nation coalition forces, turning it into an extremely gloomy and dead city.
The Allied Forces of the four countries all made a lot of money from this massacre.
Especially Daqin, with just one underground treasury, its income is greater than that of the other three countries combined.
After the Tu massacre, all the countries were busy counting the goods received and the damage, but they did not realize that a large amount of wealth was really transferred out of the palace by the Qin army.
The three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu were also doing this kind of thing. After all, in order to prevent long nights and nightmares, it was better to transport wealth back to the country as soon as possible.
Therefore, the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu should have thought that what Qin transferred was the property stolen from the massacre, but they did not realize that it was all extra income.
Although the four-nation coalition robbed huge amounts of wealth, the price they paid was also huge.
During the offensive and defensive battle in Tokyo, the Four Nations Allied Forces initially dispatched 220,000 troops. After two additional reinforcements, the total strength reached 320,000 troops.
On the other hand, the garrison in Tokyo only numbered 100,000. Although people were later forced to defend the city, their role was given priority.
It took the four-nation coalition forces fifteen days to break through the steel fortress of Tokyo, but they also lost nearly 160,000 troops.
Including the previous loss of 100,000 troops, that is to say, the four-nation coalition lost a total of 260,000 troops on the Nongwei battlefield.
This is obviously an extremely terrifying number, more than the three wars of Kyushu, Kinki, and Nooo combined.
Although 90% of them are Japanese, nearly 26,000 are Han.
However, the results achieved were also extremely horrific.
After the war, statistics show that the combined forces of Qin, Wei, Song, and Wu annihilated a total of 340,000 Japanese troops, captured 40,000, and suffered 260,000 casualties (30,000 Han troops).
The number of soldiers killed in the battle by the Allied and Japanese armies alone reached 600,000.
In addition to the fact that 300,000 people in Tokyo were massacred, that means that 900,000 corpses were buried in Tokyo alone.
The total number of dead and injured people in the other cities of Nongwei was between 100,000 and 200,000.
In other words, in the Battle of Nongwei, the total number of sacrifices even exceeded one million.
This was an extremely large, fierce, and even tragic battle. Not only was it the first time in Japanese history, but wars of this scale were rare even in the Central Plains.
This battle alone directly reduced the population of the entire Nongwei area by 50%.
Of the remaining population of more than 800,000, the vast majority are women, children, the elderly and the weak, and there are basically not many young and strong people left.
The vitality of the Nongwei area is severely damaged, which is why Zhou Yu is ready to give up Nongwei. After all, the current Kanto is definitely much better than Nongwei.
Zhou Yu can think of this, and Zhao Guangyi and others can naturally think of it. Although they don't want Da Qin to monopolize Guandong, they really have no way to stop it.
In addition, Zhou Yu voluntarily gave up, and most of the central and eastern areas of Nongwei were only retained by the two countries in the east, and the rest of the territory was given to the three countries to be equally divided.
The grasper has a short hand and the eater has a soft mouth.
Having received so many benefits in vain, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces naturally had no choice but to acquiesce in Qin's occupation of Guandong.
However, after hearing the news that Qin was continuously attacking cities and territories in Guandong, the senior officials of the three countries couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.
Wu Qi lost thousands of troops and failed to capture Odawara City. However, under Himihu's persuasion, he opened the city and surrendered without spending a single soldier.
The fall of Oda Nobunaga and Himihu's persuasion to surrender made it impossible for the Japanese to resist. Most of the cities surrendered without much resistance. This also made the Qin army invincible in Kanto.
There were only a handful of people who resisted stubbornly, but they could not stop the Qin army's offensive at all.
In just a few days, the Qin army occupied nearly half of the land in Guandong. How could the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu not be jealous?
But they are jealous because the road ahead has been blocked by the Qin army, they have lost the direction of expansion, and there is no base that can be captured.
Zhou Yu saw that the top leaders of the Three Kingdoms did not want to stop, and the Ming Kingdom had opened up situations in the Northeast, Shikoku Island, and the Beihai Island Road, so he wanted to lead the Three Kingdoms and the Ming Kingdom to initiate a conflict.
Previously, the power of the Japanese country was strong, and the great enemy of the Oda family was not defeated. Zhou Yu needed Zhu Di to share the pressure, so instead of plotting against Zhu Di, he allowed him to expand wantonly in the Japanese country.
Now that Oda Nobunaga is dead, the local forces of Japan are almost completely wiped out, the greatest enemy of Qin is no longer there, and in the back row, Zhu Di is the second greatest enemy, so it is time to deal with Zhu Di.
(End of this chapter)