Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2357 The powerful eight-headed snake

Chapter 2353: The Powerful Yamata no Orochi

In the second year of Shenwu, April [-]st.

Only half a month after sending troops to the Wa Kingdom, the Allied Forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu countries successively achieved four major victories in Tsushima, Bungo, Higo, and Satsuma.

After the four victories, although the three families of Otomo, Mori and Shimadzu still control most of Kyushu, their main force has been completely destroyed.

Although the three families can recruit recruits, they obviously cannot compete with the fierce army of the Central Plains just by relying on recruits.

In addition, the daimyos of the three families, apart from Mao Li Yuanchun being captured, the other two daimyos also died one after another.

As soon as the Battle of Feihou ended, Zhou Yu personally led an army to attack Otomo's capital, Yanagawa Castle, and broke the city within a day, and Otomo Qingying set herself on fire after the city was broken.

Therefore, now the Otomo, Mori, and Shimadzu families have no big names, and they are once again in a situation where there is no leader among the dragons.

Normally, the three families would still be able to choose a daimyo, but now that the Central Plains coalition forces are overwhelming the land, and the city lords of the cities are too busy to take care of themselves, how can they care about choosing a new daimyo.

Without a big name to coordinate the Quartet, the city lords of each city can only fight on their own. With the power scattered, they will naturally be weaker, and they will be even more powerless to resist the Central Plains coalition forces.

For the Allied Forces of the Central Plains, the war has progressed to this point, and the next step must be a direct push, so the spoils can already be divided.

Long before the invasion of Kyushu, Zhou Yu, Xia Houyuan, Sun Ce, and Zhao Guangyi had already discussed how to carve up Kyushu Island.

There are nine lands in Kyushu, namely: Chikuzen, Chikugo, Buzen, Bungo, Hizen, Higo, Hyuga, Satsuma, and Osumi.

After some deliberation, Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo, the three countries with the largest plains and the largest population, were owned by Qin, which had the largest military strength, contributed the most, and contributed the most.

In addition, the two countries of Zhuqian and Fengqian belonged to the state of Wei.

Bungo and Hyuga returned to the Song Dynasty.

Satsuma and Osumi were returned to the State of Wu.

The Great Qin and the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Song and Wu each, are fair and just.

Now that the main forces of the three families are all lost, and there is no more fighting army in Kyushu, so the Allied Forces of the Four Nations will no longer need to gather in one place. They can completely disperse their troops and fight each other. The situation of uneven distribution of spoils.

In the second year of Shenwu, April [-]nd.

The Allied Forces of Qin, Wei, Song, Wu and the Four Kingdoms once again divided their troops into four groups, and began to capture all parts of Kyushu in all directions.

The Qin army had already captured the entire territory of Hizen, but Chikugo and Higo had only captured a few cities. Twenty or thirty cities such as Nuben, Yufune, and Takamori had not yet been captured.

Therefore, the next main task of the Qin army is to take all these cities and completely destroy Dayou's family.

This time Zhou Yu did not lead the army himself, but ordered Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Yu Jin, Zhang Ying, Wang Jian, and Chen Tang to lead nine generals, each with [-] troops. Swept across the two countries of Chikugo and Higo.

This time the Qin army did not go on a killing spree, but allowed the Japanese troops from all over the place to surrender.

The conquest of the Japanese consumes a lot of resources, and if all of them are supplied locally, it will be a big burden for the countries in cultivation.

Therefore, for the Allied Forces of the Four Kingdoms to Conquer the Japanese, it is the best way to support war with war.

Zhou Yu's massacre in the early stage, in addition to deterring the Japanese and making them feel awe, was also a major reason for collecting food, wealth, and resources.

Zhou Yu needed the manpower and material resources of Kyushu to support the [-] troops who conquered the Japanese. Naturally, it was impossible to kill all the people in Kyushu.

Of course, if the Japanese army resists stubbornly, it means that the Qin army's deterrence is still not enough, so they will still massacre the city after breaking the city.

Most of the cities in the Wa Kingdom are short and small. Even the capitals of the major powers 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 the cities of Chikugo and Higo naturally knew this, so after learning that the Qin army had agreed to surrender, most of the defenders did not resist and decisively chose Kaesong to surrender.

Within one day, Wang Jian's troops attacked three cities one after another, two of which surrendered voluntarily.

Wang Jian was not the most. Zhao Yun's troops destroyed four cities in one day, and all four cities surrendered on their own initiative.

However, there are those who are willing to surrender, and naturally there are also those who are stubborn.

The lord of Amagi Castle is Yoshioka Nagasuke, one of the three elders of Bungo. He was unwilling to open the city and surrender. As a result, the city he was guarding was captured by Lu Bu within half an hour.

After the city was broken, all the Yoshioka clans were exterminated, and only [-] of the [-] people in Ganmu City were massacred.

Although the Qin army could massacre the city this time, it was different from before. It did not massacre indiscriminately, but only massacred men who were taller than the wheels, and kept women and children.

In troubled times, women mean population, and population means productivity, so don't kill women if you can.

As for those children who are not as tall as a wheel, their minds are not yet fully developed and they cannot remember hatred. They will naturally be used by Daqin when they grow up, so these two types of people will not be within the scope of massacres in the future.

In addition to Ganmu City, Gaolai City and Xiongchuan City were also unwilling to surrender, and they were slaughtered by Xu Huang and Zhang Yun respectively.

After the news that the three cities were slaughtered for not surrendering came out, the city lords of the various cities no longer dared to resist, opened their cities one after another, and voluntarily surrendered to the Qin army.

Starting from the dispatch of troops in nine routes, it took only five days for the Qin army to completely occupy the two countries of Chikugo and Higo, and nearly [-] Japanese troops were surrendered.

Of course, most of these fifteen thousand Japanese soldiers are recruits, and their combat effectiveness is completely different from that of the Japanese soldiers captured before.

As for the Wei, Song and Wu Three Kingdoms, the situation is similar to that of the Qin army. The army will basically not encounter much resistance after it has set out to a place, but all the resistance will be slaughtered after the city is broken, so there are not many people who dare to resist.

"Captain, the sixteen cities of the Chikuhou Kingdom and the eighteen cities of the Feihou Kingdom have all been captured, and [-] Japanese soldiers have been surrendered.

According to statistics, there are more than 38 households in the three countries, with a total population of [-]. Guo Jia reported with a smile.

"There are so many people?"

Zhou Yu showed surprise. The killings caused by the coalition forces were not small. At least two or three million people were killed including the army, but he didn't expect that there were nearly 30 people.

"In addition, our army seized a total of 76 taels of grain and grass, 6000 million taels of copper coins, 22 taels of silver, 8000 taels of gold, and 4 taels of gold equivalent to jewelry and antiques..."

"So many were seized."

Zhou Yu once again showed surprise. He never expected that such a rich seizure would be made by a mere big friend's family.

Then if he wiped out the Oda family, the overlord of the East, wouldn't the harvest be able to account for [-] to [-]% of Daqin's total annual tax revenue?
Guo Jia explained with a smile: "Although the Dayou family is not the overlord of Kyushu, it is the richest family in Kyushu because it occupies the largest plain.

In addition, the princes of the Wa Kingdom squeezed the people too much. The common people are no different from slaves, and their income will basically be nationalized. Therefore, the people of the Wa Kingdom are generally poor and the country is rich.

In addition, Hizen has a medium-sized gold mine, and Chikugo has a medium-sized silver mine that is about to be discovered.

It is precisely because of this that Dayou's family can accumulate so much money and wealth, but now all these belong to me, Daqin. "

"One Otomo's family owns two gold and silver mines, isn't there more Oda's family in Honshu?"

Zhou Yu looked stunned, and said with a smile: "No wonder Your Majesty will cross the sea to crusade against the Japanese country. Once the Japanese country is completely conquered, our Great Qin may not lack funds for development."

"Yes."

Guo Jia nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "The Wa Nationality has suffered such calamity. First, it offended me, Da Qin, and second, it was the crime of pregnant Bi."

There are indeed many gold mines and silver mines in Dongying. The No. 300 Gold Mine, Echigo Sado Gold Mine, reached the world's largest output during its heyday, and it was the pillar of the shogunate's finances that lasted for [-] years.

As for the first silver mine, the Iwami Silver Mine, from 1562 to the Edo period, during this long period of more than 400 years, was the largest silver mine in Japan and even the world. At that time, one-third of the silver in the world was produced in Japan. Therefore, it was called "Silver Islands" by the people of Ming Dynasty.

The three families of Ouchi, Nizi, and Mori fought for the dominance of Iwami Ginzan, and many wars broke out, which lasted for more than ten years, and finally ended with the victory of the Mori family.

In addition, the gold mineral reserves in the Kai area accounted for about one-third of the national gold output when the output was the highest.

And during the period when the Takeda family had the largest territory, the number of gold mountains, large and small, reached as many as 28.

It can be seen from this that the rich gold and silver mines in Japan are a huge wealth for any country.

After listening to Guo Jia's introduction, Zhou Yu realized that the output of gold and silver mines in Kyushu Island was not even comparable to that of Honshu, and he was more eager to attack Honshu and seize these gold and silver mines.

"If you want to attack Honshu Island, at least you have to wait until the Wei, Song and Wu Kingdoms have conquered their respective territories, but it shouldn't take too long." Zhou Yu chuckled.

Although the strategy progress of Wei, Song, Wu and Three Kingdoms is slower than that of Qin, it can't be too slow. After all, there is no opponent at all, so how difficult can it be?

"Report...to the governor, there is an urgent message from the Song and Wu allied forces."

"Ok?"

Zhou Yu frowned slightly. Now that the overall situation in Kyushu has been settled, the Song and Wu armies are invincible in Southern Kyushu. Why did you send an urgent summons?

"Submit it quickly."

"promise."

Zhou Yu unwrapped Sun Ce's letterhead and browsed through the ten lines at a glance, but his face changed drastically when he saw the back, because Sun Ce was actually defeated.

What happened was like this. After Sun Ce occupied the Satsuma Kingdom, he went to conquer the Dayu Kingdom, but when he broke through the city of Chuishui and massacred the city, he found that there was a hidden master in the city.

With his own strength, this person defeated the combination of Han Qinhu, Zhou Tai and Ling Tong.

Seeing this man's kung fu is so good, Sun Ce was overjoyed to see Liexin, and fought against him with all his strength, thinking of defeating him and taking him under his command, but he didn't expect to be overconfident, and was defeated by the opponent instead.

If Li Hu and the others hadn't joined forces to rescue him, Sun Ce would have even died at the hands of that man.

Sun Ce failed to subdue his subordinates but was severely injured, and even lost several generals. Naturally, it was impossible to let the mysterious man go, so he chased him all the way and entered the Hyuga Kingdom, and joined forces with the Song Army to continue the hunt. besiege it.

Zhao Guangyi saw that he was so brave that he was able to injure Sun Ce, the little overlord, and he also wanted to subdue him, so he ordered not to shoot cold shots, but he didn't want to be beheaded by that man. Injured, and forcibly broke out.

Both the Song and Wu armies suffered a great loss from this man, and lost many generals, so they would not let him go, so they gathered strong generals to form a hunting team, followed them all the way, and vowed to kill him , to avenge the dead general.

Now this person has fled to Feihou country, and Feihou country is the base of the Qin army, so Sun Ce and Zhao Guangyi want Zhou Yu to cooperate in hunting down and killing this person.

"I really didn't expect that Bofu would lose to a Japanese. It seems that there are strong people in the Japanese country."

As he said that, Zhou Yu took out the portrait inside the envelope. The one painted on it was that mysterious man, a middle-aged man with an extremely vicious appearance.

"Send down the order to immediately block the main roads of Feihou Kingdom, and fully cooperate with Song Wu Youjun to arrest this person.

In addition, show this portrait to Tachibana Doxue, Otomo Zonglin, and Mao Li Yuanchun, and ask them if they deny this person. "

"promise."

Zhou Yu's Japanese traitor plan was implemented very smoothly.

Under Guo Jia's lobbying, Lihua Daoxue and Mao Li Yuanchun, in order to prevent the family from being exterminated, after some contemplation, both chose to join Daqin.

After seeing the portrait, Otomo Zonglin and Mao Li Yuanchun both said that they did not know the person in the portrait, and only Tachibana Daoxue recognized him.

"Hatamata Torotomo, nicknamed: Yamata no Orochi, once beheaded 86 generals of the Oda family in the first Honshu war, and no one in the entire Oda family was his opponent. .

Oda Nobunaga mobilized an army of [-] to siege Yamata no Orochi, but he broke out alone, and even almost fought Oda Nobunaga, he is also the strongest enemy of the rise of the Oda family," said Tachibana Michiyuki .

"If this person is really that strong, how did Oda Nobunaga defeat him?" Zhou Yu asked.

Lihua Daoxue shook his head and said: "Oda Nobunaga did not defeat Yamata no Orochi, he was defeated by Susanoo. Everyone thought he died in the hands of Susanoo, but they did not expect to hide in the hands of Susanoo. She took refuge in Southern Kyushu."

"Who is Susanoo?"

Zhou Yu frowned and asked, with a vague premonition in his heart that these two people might cause a lot of trouble to the coalition forces.

"Susano is..."

Lihua Daoxue hadn't finished speaking when suddenly a soldier broke in.

"Governor, something is wrong, two generals, Xue Dingshan and Yue Yun, were injured by that wanted criminal.

Five generals Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, and Hu Yanzhuo joined forces, but still failed to kill him, and he fled after eighty rounds of fighting. "

"What? Yue Yun was injured? Lu Junyi and the other five can't take him down together?"

Zhou Yu was completely shocked now.

Yue Yun's strength is not weak, if even he loses to Yamata no Orochi, Mi Houwang, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Huang Zhong are probably not opponents, and if they fight alone, only Lu Bu and Zhao Yun can win.

(End of this chapter)