Siheyuan: a game system with you

Chapter 137. 135. Conquering the Japanese Kingdom of Kyushu Island

Many people in Mongolia strongly felt the threat from Li Yongxuan and the Kingdom of Heaven. The problem was that they had encountered natural disasters and the internal chaos was torn apart, so there was no way to start a war.

In the past, the Mongolian iron cavalry would definitely go south to sweep the Central Plains and plunder them.

Looking around at the moment, there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the northern part of the kingdom of heaven, with countless muskets and cannons. If it is a field battle, they are sure; attacking a city is no different from sending them to death.

Once the two countries go to war in an all-out way, Tian Guoduo can also drag Mongolia to death.

Meng Ge, Kublai Khan and others can only find a way to integrate Mongolia as soon as possible, look for opportunities, and fight against the kingdom of heaven.

Li Yongxuan learned of the natural disaster in Mongolia and did not stop the trade.

It's not that he has sympathy for the Mongols, but that he wants to boil the frogs in warm water and consume them slowly.

If Mongols are cornered, it's likely that they will band together and work together, or it's easier to deal with keeping them divided.

While trading with the Mongols, they are constantly accumulating strength, and when the time is right, they will be annihilated in one fell swoop.

A few years ago, Li Yongxuan didn't want to start a full-scale war with Mongolia, so he didn't send a navy to attack the neighboring Wa country.

At this time, the war between the Kingdom of Heaven and Mongolia has been put on the agenda, so naturally there is no need to worry about Mongolia letting Japan go.

Li Yongxuan selected 20 elite soldiers from Southeast Asia, requisitioned thousands of large merchant ships to go north along the South China Sea, and at the same time led [-] sailors on [-] warships to conquer Japan.

Since he strengthened his forging skills, he has built iron-clad warships and transformed the materials used to build ships in the Kingdom of Heaven from wood to steel.

In the Song Dynasty, commerce and trade were extremely developed. There were many merchant ships and their scale was very large. A large merchant ship could accommodate five to six hundred people.

Warships are much larger than merchant ships. A warship is not only equipped with eight cannons and many guns, but can also accommodate thousands of people.

In terms of power, there is little change, and the method of the Song Dynasty is still followed, that is, to install paddles on the sides and stern of the ship, and many sailors on the ship step on the paddle wheels to drive the blades on the wheel to continuously paddle to make the ship move forward; Just step on it in the opposite direction and the boat will go backwards.

Li Yongxuan changed the paddles and pedals to iron, and with the sails, it became the power of the warship.

If you choose the right time, you can drive along the ocean current to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Li Yongxuan has always been uneasy about the soldiers from all over Southeast Asia, and naturally he will not hand over the Heavenly Kingdom Warship to them.

This time, more than half of the navy power of the Kingdom of Heaven was used, just to destroy the Kingdom of Wa.

In fact, in general kingdoms, Li Yongxuan would send envoys to recruit them to surrender, and if they refused to surrender, they would send troops to attack.

Dealing with the Wa country was an exception. There was no warning or prelude, and the troops were forced to push over.

The heavenly navy attacked with great force, scaring the Japanese people out of their wits.

Reluctantly organized troops to defend the coast, and after a face-to-face meeting, the Japanese soldiers disappeared and turned into cannon fodder.

For a while, drums and gongs were beaten, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The war horses of the Japanese state were terrified, jumping and spinning. When the warriors turned their horses and rushed towards the enemy, they were shot by dense muskets.

Before the Japanese army approached, they had suffered heavy casualties.

The musket has been improved by strengthening forging skills, and its range has reached [-] paces. How could the Japanese army get close?

The samurai troops of the Japanese state implemented the system of guarding the head of the land, and most of the samurai who served as the guard of the head of the land were the retainers who had made contributions to the generals of the past dynasties or those who held power.

Guards are the highest officials who hold the power of soldiers and horses in a certain place. Landlords are officials who manage land and collect taxes. They raise private soldiers according to the size of the land they manage.

This kind of private soldiers is called family members, who are guardians and servants of the land. When needed, they will become the backbone of the samurai team.

They are all proud to die in front of the emperor's horse, and they are extremely brave in battle.

This kind of team command is not unified and fights individually, and it also focuses on one-on-one-on-one combat, and there is no strategy.

Unorganized, undisciplined, and very chaotic. On the whole, the strength is weak, not as good as the regular army with strict discipline, let alone a head-on confrontation with the heavenly navy armed to the teeth.

The navy of the Kingdom of Heaven captured all the islands in the southwestern periphery of the country of Japan with a destructive force, and it was approaching Kyushu Island.

The country of Wa consists of four large islands of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and Beihai and thousands of small islands around it. Because of its short stature, it is called the country of Wa.

The average height of Japanese men is about 1.5 meters three, and women are shorter, more than ten centimeters shorter than Song people.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese people had already begun to pay tribute to the Kingdom of Heaven.

They not only learn the advanced experience of governing the country, but also imitate cultural etiquette, the most thorough and most enthusiastic is the kneeling ceremony.

Sitting on knees for a long time is particularly harmful to the knees, and the weight of the whole body is pressed on the legs.

Japanese people learn this kind of etiquette, not only requires adults to practice, but also children must develop this habit, which seriously restricts the development and evolution of Japanese people's height.

People in the Celestial Dynasty discovered the problem and had already changed their habit of kneeling and sitting, while some traditional and conservative Japanese have continued it until now.

A few days later, Li Yongxuan led the navy to Kyushu Island.

He was going to teach all Japanese people a lesson, an extremely profound and painful lesson.

The news that the navy of the Kingdom of Heaven invaded the country of Wa quickly spread to Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu.

First it spread to the Kamakura shogunate, and then to Kyoto.

In recent years, the Kamakura shogunate has taken over the actual ruling power of the Wa country, and samurai who were originally of low status in the aristocratic era stepped onto the stage of history.

They despised the sluggish life of the court nobles, advocated the core ideas of "loyalty, justice, integrity, bravery, and perseverance", combined with Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen, and Shinto, to form the spiritual pillar of the warrior "Bushido".

Kyushu Guardian received the news and quickly sent someone to report to the shogunate, while urgently deploying defenses.

He ordered samurai teams from all over Kyushu to assemble to the southwest coast, ready for battle at any time.

The Celestial Navy captured a large number of outlying islands. Li Yongxuan saw that it was getting late, so he ordered everyone to go ashore to rest on the island and take turns to be vigilant.

The next day, at dawn, the 30 Heavenly Kingdom army began to launch a landing battle in three directions.

Li Yongxuan led 20 sailors to cut off the connection between Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, and Honshu Island, and ordered [-] troops to encircle and land on the island.

The [-] cavalry led by the Guardian of Kyushu did not take advantage of the landing of the heavenly navy to intercept halfway. Instead, after landing and reorganizing the formation, according to the practice of the Japanese battle at that time, the main attacking force released "Ming Di" to indicate the start of the attack, and then A samurai rode alone in the battle, and he was in front, and the cavalry of the brigade rushed to kill.

When the cavalry troops of the Japanese warriors approached, only the sound of gunfire from the Heavenly Kingdom Army was heard, and the killing sound shook the sky.

Before the two parties came into contact, the Japanese warriors suffered serious casualties.

Eight hundred cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, only more than 200 cavalry fled, and all the others were killed.

Not long after, warriors from all over Kyushu rushed to the battlefield to defend against the enemy, with a force of more than [-].

It's a pity that facing the vastly disparate and well-equipped heavenly army, they will collapse at the first touch.

Before they approached, they were killed by dense musket fire when they were still more than a mile away from the enemy.

The Japanese warriors couldn't stop the onslaught of the heavenly army, and retreated one after another, trying to rely on the city to deal with them.

The army of the kingdom of heaven drove the Wa people into the city almost effortlessly, and captured more than [-] old and weak women and children who had not had time to escape.

Li Yongxuan was not very interested in the Japanese prisoners, especially those old and weak women and children.

When he received the news from the front line, he immediately issued an order: All the prisoners, young and strong men and women, were temporarily detained, and all the old, weak, women and children were driven into the city.

Kyushu Island has an area of ​​more than 700 square kilometers, of which forests account for two-thirds.

The total population is nearly one million, 90.00% of which live near cities or ports.

Knowing that hundreds of thousands of heavenly troops were approaching menacingly, the Japanese in Kyushu fled to cities or forests to hide.

Li Yongxuan didn't order to hunt down the Japanese deserters, but just encircled and suppressed them leisurely, trying to drive the Japanese into the city as much as possible.

He wanted to treat the Japanese as leeks, cut one crop, after a while, it was almost done, and cut it again...

After the news of the heavenly army's raid on Kyushu Island spread to the Kamakura shogunate and Kyoto, the shogunate court, ministers, and samurai people were all very panicked.

In recent years, the army of the Kingdom of Heaven has captured almost the entire Southeast Asia, and it is said that Australia has not escaped.

As an island country, Japan lacks resources, so if it wants to develop, it cannot do without foreign trade and commerce.

They have trade relations with neighboring Mongolia and heaven, and they have some understanding of the surrounding areas.

The current nominal ruler of Wa is called Emperor Gofukakusa. He is eight years old this year and has been on the throne for four years. His father, Gosaga, is in charge of the administration.

Emperor Fukakusa donated coins to temples and shrines. At Enryakuji Temple, he practiced the Five Altars, Golden Wheels, Buddha Eyes, Four Heavenly Kings, etc., and went to Ishikimizu Hachimangu to pay homage to the wooden statue of Fudo Myo.

While the emperor was praying, monks and famous monks were also sent to various parts of the country to hold prayer ceremonies and mobilize the people of the whole country to pray together.

The emperor's act of praying to gods seems ridiculous to outsiders, but he is only an eight-year-old child, what can he do?
What's more, the Japanese army has nothing to do with the emperor, and the issue of preparing for war is completely handled by the Kamakura shogunate.

The real power of the Kamakura shogunate is called Hojo Tokiyori. Four years ago, his brother Hojo Ketoki gave up the position of power to him due to illness.

After Hojo Tokiyori came to power, he smashed the conspiracy of Nagoshi Liu Hojo Kotoki to covet the position of power, forced him to become a monk and exile in Izu, and returned the former general Fujiwara Yorisuke to Kyoto.

Three years ago, Hojo Tokiyai, with the support of his relative Adachi, wiped out the Miura Yasumura clan and consolidated the Hojo clan's monopoly position in the Kamakura shogunate.

He appointed his uncle Hojo Shigetoki as joint signer to assist him in stabilizing power politics.

Hojo Tokiyai urgently mobilized troops from various places, while strengthening the fortifications of Shikoku and Honshu, he mobilized troops to rescue Kyushu.

In order to enrich the defense of Kyushu, the shogunate ordered that all the shogunate royal family who lived in the west of Zhenxi were exempted from the task of defending Kyoto and replaced by Kyoto samurai so that they could concentrate on defending Hakata, Hakozaki, Imazu and other places.

The samurai other than the royal family of the Zhenxi Shogunate should guard the coast of Kyushu together with the royal family.

The annual tributes of Inaba, Izumo, Iwami and other countries belonging to Zhenxi are stored in situ and will not be handed over for the time being, and will be used as military rations during wartime.

Hojo Tokiyai learned from intelligence that the army of the Heavenly Kingdom had sharp guns and it was difficult to confront them head-on, so he decided to build a stone dam along the coast to prevent the soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven from landing and fighting.

The stone dam is about five or six feet high, about one foot thick, and is more than ten kilometers long along the natural terrain.

Dazai Keiko was responsible for the construction of this project, and all samurai who owned land in Shikoku and Honshu shared the task of building the dam according to the size of their territories.

At the same time, prepare the sailors of the ships, and mobilize royal families and samurai from Shikoku, Honshu, and Beikai to join the rescue force.

In just three days, Hojo Tokiyori mobilized more than [-] samurai troops. It has to be said that his influence and appeal in the Wa country are extremely strong.

On the other side, it took less than ten days for Li Yongxuan to lead the 20 heavenly army to capture most of the cities in Kyushu Island.

The Japanese warriors wanted to rely on the city to fight against the enemy, but they couldn't stand the sharp artillery attack at all.

The city they rely on is like paper in front of the terrifying artillery of the heaven.

In an instant, the walls and houses collapsed, people turned their backs, and the city walls became ruins.

Although the Japanese warriors were fearless of death, they could only be slaughtered in front of muskets.

Nearly 60 Japanese warriors and Japanese died in battle, nearly [-] killed themselves, tens of thousands escaped by chance, and [-] to [-] became prisoners.

During this period, the Celestial Navy also defeated the rescue and harassment of the Wa people in Honshu and Shikoku.

As for the casualties of the Heavenly Kingdom Army, less than three hundred, most of them were killed or injured by Japanese sneak attacks.

Li Yongxuan is just a person, not a god. His super perception skills can only guarantee the safety of the surrounding soldiers to a large extent, but cannot ensure that all the soldiers are safe.

The elite soldiers from all over Southeast Asia accounted for more than 90.00% of the casualties in this battle.

As the vanguard of the navy of the army of the kingdom of heaven, they undertake major tasks to protect the safety of the navy.

It can be said that almost all dangerous tasks are completed by elites from all over Southeast Asia.

Li Yongxuan ordered all the captured Wa people to be taken to an open space, and then screened out healthy men and women between the ages of ten and thirty-five.

He separated the men and women and rushed them to two nearby small islands for centralized custody.

According to statistics, more than 16 people were screened out, including more than 6 men and nearly [-] women.

In the war, many men died unexpectedly, and the number was naturally far less than that of women.

Li Yongxuan went to the scene to inspect and found that there were Japanese people with better martial arts, so he took action to abolish the martial arts.

He also accidentally discovered more than a dozen top-quality beauties, and selected them for his own use.

Li Yongxuan led the army of heaven to capture Kyushu, and did not continue to attack or stay, but decisively took more than 16 prisoners to several islands near Kyushu Island, and released all the old and weak women and children.

He tied the hands and feet of the captives with long ropes and stuffed them on the bottom of the boat to step on paddle wheels. The men were sent to Australia to mine minerals, and the women were sent to Lin'an to do business without capital.

In this day and age, human resources are very precious, how can they be reckless?
Before coming, Li Yongxuan made arrangements.

He specially bought thousands of large merchant ships, enough to accommodate 60 million people, and another 20 warships can also carry another [-] million people back.

It was easy to take more than 16 captives.

(End of this chapter)