Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 462 456. Sweeping Kyushu
Feng Xi weighed the strength of each country. Although from the Han slave's words about Qingbao and the actual situation, it was estimated that the combined strength of the three small countries occupying the Buzen area to the east of the Maluo Kingdom was about the same as that of the Maluo Kingdom. If the strength gap was huge, the two sides would probably have decided the winner long ago and there would be no need for such a stalemate.

Similarly, the Gou Nu Kingdom and the Touma Kingdom in the south were also powerful enough to unify the nine provinces long ago. Why would they need daily friction?

However, just in case, and with the Kunu Kingdom blocking the way, Feng Xi's attack strategy was that Fu Rong, Bao Yi, and Ma Su each led an army of 2,000 to attack the three small countries of Idu, Bumi, and Nu, which had always been at odds with the Malus Kingdom. Feng Xi would personally attack the Kunu Kingdom, which occupied Higo and Bungo, to avoid any accidents.

Since they had occupied the city of Maluo, they used it as a base and began to send out spies and detectives to the surrounding areas. These spies did not need to learn Japanese, they just had to pretend to be dumb, and their main responsibility was to find out the local military situation and prevent any unexpected surprise troops from appearing.

Kyushu is a small place, but within three days, the spies scattered around returned one after another, proving that the intelligence from the Han slaves was relatively reliable. The countries on these Japanese islands already had the prototype of the feudal system of daimyo and medieval feudal lords in the future "Warring States Period".

Most of these so-called lords were actually a group of local nobles with great prestige and power. They expanded their power by enfeoffing their subordinates to rule the local areas, and when they needed to fight, they would gather foot soldiers and samurai from all over the place to fight the enemy together.

Therefore, the saying "my vassal's vassal is not my vassal" actually exists now. The samurai recruited by the sent-out kokuzoku basically obey the orders of the kokuzoku. Even the local foot soldiers, to a large extent, obey the orders of the kokuzoku more than the lord of the country. After all, the county magistrate is not as good as the current governor, and the kokuzoku is their superior.

So in fact, the military forces of various countries are relatively dispersed, scattered in various villages and counties in the country, and are only recruited as soldiers in times of war.

There was no other way. The population of Wo Island was sparse at that time. There was simply not enough manpower to form a professional army. They could only be soldiers and farmers, and there were not enough livestock. Based on the previous battle by Bao Yi, it was estimated that 60 to 70 percent of all the well-dressed men in the "nation" of the Maluo Kingdom had been killed.

Feng Xi didn't care much about this. Not to mention the Mulu Kingdom, he didn't care if 60% to 70% or even all the adult Japanese men in Kyushu died. After all, they were not Han Chinese, and their death would leave room for the Han immigrants who would come later, facilitating faster assimilation.

This matter is actually the same as the nature of the Japanese colonization of Ryukyu and America in later generations, that is, the living environment and numbers of the indigenous people were suppressed, so that there would be more space for new immigrants, right?

It just so happens that there are still many bachelors in the Han Dynasty who don't have wives. Although most of the women in Japan are pale and thin due to malnutrition, people in this era are not so picky.

After determining the situation of the surrounding countries, Feng Xi immediately dispatched troops, with Ma Su attacking Yidu, Bao Yi attacking Bumi, Fu Zhu attacking Nu, and Feng Xi personally attacking Gounu. As for the rules, they were standard Han army rules. As long as the enemy surrendered, the Han army would not kill them all.

However, Feng Xi did not deliberately let the Han soldiers learn the Japanese language, so no one who can speak Japanese will be killed if they surrender. The only Han slave who is proficient in both languages ​​will follow Feng Xi this time.

Feng Xi's meaning was self-evident. It was estimated that those small countries would not know how to surrender even if they wanted to. Unless they were intelligent and could think of simply dropping their weapons and kneeling on the ground with their heads in their hands, otherwise, even if they ran away, they would be regarded as targets of attack by the Han army.

After a rest, the Han army split into four groups. The intensity of the previous battles was not that great, even less than the bandits they had cleared out in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, not to mention the regular armies of the Wu or Wei armies. The Han army marched in a mighty force from the vicinity of the city of Mulu and split into four groups, and the four armies rushed towards the four small countries with an unstoppable momentum.

The three countries including Ito only occupied the land of Buzen plus part of Chikuzen and Chikugo, but in terms of area, they were similar to the country of Maluo. Therefore, Hannu once said that these three countries could only fight against the country of Maluo by uniting as one.

And now the three Han armies were attacking at the same time, and the combined strength of the three was only about the same as that of the Malulu Kingdom. Now they were attacked by Han armies whose numbers far exceeded the number of the matching mechanism of the Wadao region. Each of the three armies had only three or four hundred scattered foot soldiers and had no time to stop them before they were overwhelmed by the Han army.

Although Ma Su and Fu Rong seemed to be easy-going people, they were only good at dealing with Han people. When facing the Japanese, they strictly followed Feng Xi's orders and killed anyone who dared to take up arms against the Han army, regardless of gender, age or status.

When some villages encountered the Han army, they organized dozens of young and strong men to pick up farm tools and weapons and tried to resist, thinking that the Han army was just bandits who had newly fled to the surrounding areas.

After all, they had never seen the uniforms of the Han army. However, when these thousands of "bandits" rushed into their village and killed all those who dared to resist with weapons, the frightened old and weak realized that someone powerful seemed to have come.

Just two days after the Han army launched its four-pronged attack, Feng Xi, who was still on his way, received a victory report. It turned out that Ma Su, who had attacked the northernmost Yidu State, had already pacified the Yidu State.

Ma Su's strategy was also straightforward. After figuring out the location of Yidu City, the capital of Yidu State, he immediately attacked the enemy directly and captured the ruler of Yidu State.

The news was slow to spread, and now no one in Kyushu knew that the country of Mulu had changed, let alone the Han army. How could Yidu Kingdom be caught off guard and fight against the elite Han army under Ma Su? The Han army rushed into Yidu City, where the ruler of Yidu Kingdom, which would be called "Xiaocang" in the future, lived, beheaded the ruler of Yidu Kingdom and his family, and then hung their heads to recruit most of the country's soldiers to surrender.

As for the few people who were unwilling to surrender, Ma Su did not tolerate them and directly sent them on the journey with the king of Yidu State.

Feng Xi nodded after hearing the report. Ma Su was still flexible in thinking, but leaving behind so many state-made weapons was still a problem. He asked the messenger who came to report the news to tell Ma Su that he needed to collect the weapons privately stored in various villages, and at the same time it would be best to find a way to clean up some "disloyal people".

The progress of Bao Yi and Fu Rong was not so fast. They followed Feng Xi's request and attacked the two places with great fanfare. In addition, these two places were not as close to the Kingdom of Maluo as the Kingdom of Idu, so the two countries had time to organize foot soldiers from all over the country and prepare to retreat to their respective capital cities and defend the cities.

(End of this chapter)