The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1288 Entering Honshu Island

In Liu Yin's view, sweeping Iyo Island did not require much effort. There were only a dozen or so tribes and tens of thousands of people on the entire island, and sending three to 4000 people was enough to walk sideways on Iyo Island.

Take the entire Shikoku Island as an example, even in later generations, it is the most backward place in the entire island country, and Liu Yin doesn't need to care about him at all.

But eradicating the remnants of Gou Nu Kingdom is actually a dispensable thing. Liu Yin doesn't believe that even if Inoue escapes, how much trouble will he cause in the future?
However, Yan Xun is obviously not going to let him go. Inoue's blatant counterattack against the Han army is tantamount to angering Yan Xun. If Inoue is not eliminated, it will have a certain impact on the reputation of the Han army. Yan Xun spared no effort to pursue this time Inoue deliberately warned the Japanese that anyone who dared to attack the majesty of the Han army would bear the consequences at their own risk.

Liu Yin's main target now is locked on Honshu Island.

Honshu Island is the largest island among the four islands of the Wa Kingdom, and it is also the center of the Wa Kingdom's rule.Although in the Yayoi period, the political center of the entire Wa country was Yamatai on Chikushi Island, this era was the period when the old and new eras of the Wa country alternated. With the decline of the Yamatai country, the Wa country began to enter a new era, that is, the Kofun era. .

The sign of the Kofun era is the rise of the Yamato Kingdom.

According to the records in Chinese history books, the Yamato Kingdom arose in the [-]th century AD. However, the Chinese history books are usually vague for the foreign tribes. They can only record a rough outline and are for reference only. After the Wa Kingdom, Liu Yin finally had the opportunity to learn about the details of the Wa Kingdom.

At this time, the Yamato Kingdom has not only established a country, but also rises very rapidly, and has become the largest country on the island of Honshu.The king of the Yamato Kingdom is called the Great King, and Katsuragi, Pingqun, Sogachen, Dabanren, and Monoberen, etc., jointly form the governing body. There is greater power in the court.There are countries (with Guozao as the head), counties (with the county head as the head), and villages (with Daozhi and the village head as the head), and there are local nobles with the surnames of Gong, Zhi, and Shou in the country and county.

Obviously, this Yamato country has broken away from the slavery society and is moving towards a feudal society.

The formation of the Wa nation has been a relatively long period of time. In the prehistoric Paleolithic Age, there were primitive humans in the Wa nation, but later immigrants who moved across the oceans constituted the main body of the nation. In the Yayoi period, a large number of The Sanhan people, the Malays in Southeast Asia, and the Han people in the southeast coast continued to move to the Wa country. It was not until the Yamato era that the ethnic structure of the Wa country stabilized. The Japanese of later generations have always called themselves the Yamato nation, that is to say, the Yamato era. In the beginning, the entire island nation had a unified national identity.

Liu Yin's attack on the Japanese at this time came at the right time. Even if the Yamato Kingdom has risen strongly now, it is far from enough when it comes to its foundation. In the new era of transformation, if you want to conquer this island country, you may have to pay a hundred times more effort than it is now.

But now, the Han army can sweep the entire Wa country without any effort. A kingdom as powerful as Yamatai has already collapsed under the attack of the Han army. Next.

Liu Yin did not send any more troops to Yan Xun. The 5 troops sent in the past are enough to ensure that the entire Japanese kingdom will be wiped out. When the Han army sent troops to Iyo Island, Liu Yin ordered Yan Xun to lead the main force to land on Honshu Island. Launch an attack on the Japanese countries including Yamato on Honshu Island.

Chikushi Island and Honshu Island face each other across the sea, and the strait between them is called the Shimonoseki Strait. The infamous "Treaty of Shimonoseki" was signed at Shimonoseki Port in the south of the Shimonoseki Strait.It is said to be a strait, but in fact it is only about a mile away from the narrowest point. The distance between the two sides of the strait is clearly visible. The only disadvantage is that the current is rough and it is difficult for small boats to cross.

However, the Han army has large warships, which are not affected by the currents here. Sun Xiu transferred all the large and medium-sized warships to the Maguan Strait.

When Yan Xun marched into Honshu Island this time, except for the 1 people who stayed on Chikushi Island, the remaining 4 people all went into the attack, including the [-] tiger cavalry led by Luo Shang.

The Strait of Maguan is not wide, so the fleet of the Han army does not have to spend four or five days to go back and forth like crossing the Strait of Tsushima. It can turn back many times in one day, and it only takes less than two days. In a short time, all the [-] troops of the Han army were carried across the Maguan Strait.

When crossing the Shimonoseki Strait, the Han army did not encounter any resistance from the other side, and moaned that Yamato Kingdom is now the most powerful kingdom among the Wa kingdoms, but Honshu Island has a huge area, and the power of Yamato Kingdom has not yet They were able to explore Honshu Island and the southwestern tip, and the neighboring small countries heard that the two powerful countries, Yamatai and Gonu, on Chikushi Island, had already perished. Army landing.

So this time the Han army crossed the Maguan Strait very smoothly. After landing in the southwest of Honshu Island, the Han army quickly completed the assembly and pushed eastward, aiming directly at Yamato.

Honshu Island is like a waning moon. It is narrow and long from north to south, about 600 miles long, and narrow from east to west.

The Yamato Kingdom is located in the Kinki region in the central part of Honshu Island, more than 1000 miles away from the Maguan Strait. Not to mention that Yamato King did not know that the Han army was going to land and attack at such a long distance, even if he knew, he would be beyond his reach.

However, for Yan Xun, attacking Honshu Island and attacking Tsukushi Island are completely two concepts. The area of ​​Chikushi Island is relatively small, and there are many kingdoms. There are large countries with a population of more than 50, such as the Nu Kingdom and the Touma Kingdom, and the rest of the small countries also have populations ranging from thousands to tens of thousands. It can be said that Zhuzi Island is the most prosperous place in the Wa Kingdom in this era.

But Honshu Island is different. Although Honshu Island is the political and economic center of Japan in later generations, Honshu Island at this time is sparsely populated and deserted, except for two small countries with a population of only about [-] households that were wiped out when they first landed on the island. Within a hundred miles, there is almost no human habitation.

Usually in this situation, the pressure on logistical support will be greater if you cannot eat from the enemy.Fortunately, the Han army was well prepared and carried sufficient food and supplies, so their advancing speed was quite fast, and they soon entered Ikeda, which was only a few hundred miles away from Yamato.

(End of this chapter)