Chapter 2370: Uesugi Kenshin surrenders to Qin
Why did the Qin army suddenly withdraw?
The reason is very simple, that is, he does not want to make wedding clothes for the Ming army.
The elites of the Takeda and Date families were annihilated by Wu Qi and Wang Jian, and they also restrained the remaining 80% of the troops of the two families.
The Ming army raided the rear of the two families at this time. Wasn't it obvious that they were coming to seize the fruits of the Qin army's victory?
Although when dividing the chassis, the Qin army did not look down on the Northeastern region where the Takeda and Date families are located, it is one thing to look down on it. It is another thing for the Ming army to come and snatch it without even saying hello. .
Both Takeda Date and Takeda armies on the front line are on the defensive. Without taking the initiative to attack, even Wu Qi and Wang Jian will be unable to defeat them in a short period of time.
And as long as the Qin army is still on the front line, Takeda and Date will not dare to mobilize troops from the front line to support the rear.
If the Qin army continues to have a stalemate with the two families, the final result can only be a snipe and clam fight, which will benefit the Ming army.
Wu Qi and Wang Jian were neither stupid, so they naturally would not do this, so they both chose to withdraw their troops.
The two of them had only retreated halfway when they received Zhou Yu's order and also asked them to withdraw.
Obviously, Zhou Yu and Guo Jia also saw Zhu Di's sinister intentions, so they ordered Wu Qi and Wang Jian to withdraw to prevent the Ming army from using the Qin army to make a profit.
In addition, Zhou Yu had another intention, which was to mobilize Wu Qi and Wang Jian to participate in the war between China and Vietnam.
To be honest, Zhou Yu was quite embarrassed to bring Wu Qi and Wang Jian back.
Wu Qi and Wang Jian's partial division only had a total strength of 10,000 troops, but they had nearly wiped out 70,000 invading enemies.
However, Zhou Yu held the main force of 20,000 Qin troops and nearly 40,000 Qin auxiliary troops, but they were blocked in Kasugayama City. He lost nearly 15,000 prisoners of war and failed to capture Kasugayama City.
After such a comparison, it seems that Zhou Yu is too mediocre.
Of course, Zhou Yu didn't care about this. He knew that the main reason why the main force was blocked in Kasugayama City and was not allowed to enter was because the city was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Kasugayama Castle is built on the mountain. It is not only the Uesugi family's first fortified castle, but also one of the best fortified castles in the Japanese country. Even in the Central Plains, it is a difficult city to attack.
Of course, with the departure of Susano'o and Kagutsuchi, the morale of the defenders in Kasugayama Castle dropped greatly, and their defense power was naturally greatly reduced.
Zhou Yu saw the opportunity and commanded the army to attack with all his strength. After two days of siege, he finally broke through Uesugi's first fortified city, but at the cost of 5,000 casualties of Qin's allies.
In a mere Kasuga Mountain City, the Qin army actually lost 20,000 Qin soldiers, which was more than the Qin army's previous casualties combined.
This is enough to show that the Uesugi family is different from other forces in the Japanese country. It is really difficult to fight, even more difficult than the princes of the Central Plains.
After Kasugayama Castle was captured, the defender Kakizaki Keie was captured, three members of Kenshin's Seven Hands were killed in the battle, the remaining four generals were captured, and all members of the Uesugi clan were killed.
As for the 40,000 defenders in the city, 15,000 died in battle and 25,000 surrendered.
Zhou Yu defeated Kasugayama Castle and opened up the channel to attack Yue China. Next, he naturally led his army to attack Yue China.
However, there are also solid mountain cities in Vietnam. If they are attacked by force, there will be heavy casualties. This will require a large number of Japanese surrendered troops to serve as cannon fodder.
As for the 25,000 surrendered troops from Kasugayama Castle, and even all the other prisoners of war from the Uesugi family, Zhou Yu promised to treat them well before surrendering, so obviously they cannot be used as cannon fodder for the time being.
It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yu fell into a situation of insufficient cannon fodder. At this moment, the armies of Wu Qi and Wang Jian came into his sight.
When they divided their forces to fight, Wu Qi and Wang Jian each had an army of 5,000. But now after successive battles, the number of troops has not decreased, but has increased in number.
In addition to the 4,300 Qin troops under Wu Qi, there were also 1,500 Wutian surrender troops.
Wang Jian had 3,800 Qin troops and 12,000 Ida surrender troops.
The surrendered troops of the Uesugi family cannot be used as cannon fodder, but the surrendered troops of the Takeda and Date families are obviously not included in this list. Aren't these the best candidates for cannon fodder?
Ready-made cannon fodder is not used in vain.
This is also Zhou Yu's second intention in bringing back Wu Qi and Wang Jian.
When Wu Qi and Wang Jian arrived at Spring Mountain City, Zhou Yu had already captured half of Yue China, but lost another 7,000 Qin allies.
After learning about the battle situation, Wang Jian couldn't help but admire: "Uesugi Kenshin is worthy of being called the Japanese military god. He is indeed difficult enough."
Wu Qi also nodded in agreement.
Uesugi Kenshin's way of defending was different from Takeda Shingen Date Masamune's.
She mobilized all the soldiers and civilians across the country, from the elderly to the ten-year-old children, and all participated in it. What she was conducting was a thoroughgoing people's war.
Even in the Central Plains, such situations are rare.
This was how Qin Wen once repelled the invasion of the Xiongnu, and then the Jin army came into being.
But now, even if we search all over Japan, there is no other force that can do this.
Only Uesugi Kenshin, who is sufficiently supported by the people, can unite the whole country to resist aggression.
This is not the first time Uesugi Kenshin has done this.
After Oda Nobunaga won three Honshu wars, he sent troops to the Uesugi family each time, but he failed to succeed. He had no choice but to withdraw his troops due to too much resistance.
This time Uesugi Kenshin used the same method, except that her opponent was no longer Oda Nobunaga, but Zhou Yu of Great Qin.
Faced with this situation where the whole country is fighting to the death, even if Wu Qi and Wang Jian, who are more in command, command the army, the situation will not be much better than that of Zhou Yu.
The general's personal command ability is of little use in this situation, because no matter how you command, you will eventually have to attack to break the city.
I have to say that the biggest piece of cake, Sado Kaneyama, is obviously not easy to swallow. If you want to get it, you must break the hardest bone of the Uesugi family.
But even if they forcefully break into the Qin army and try to break this bone, they still have to break a few teeth.
As soon as Zhou Yu landed in Echigo Kingdom, he realized that the Uesugi family was difficult to deal with. It was precisely because of this that he did not massacre the city as a shock, because this would not only fail to scare the Uesugi soldiers and civilians, but would completely anger them, and thus carry out More intense resistance.
In order to reduce the resistance of the Uesugi family, Zhou Yu decided to adopt Guo Jia's strategy, not to massacre the city, not to harass the civilians, to treat the prisoners of war well, not to use the prisoners of war as cannon fodder, and to accept the surrendered generals. This was also the main reason why the surrendered troops of the Uesugi family were not to be used as cannon fodder.
Guo Jia's strategy is indeed effective.
Seeing that the Qin army really kept its promise, the Uesugi family soldiers and civilians did not massacre the city after capturing it, and treated the prisoners of war well, the resistance to the Qin army was indeed reduced a lot.
It is also true that if Zhou Yu conquered half of China, the casualties he would pay would only be 7,000, otherwise it would be more than double that.
Although the strength of the Uesugi family's resistance is gradually decreasing, it is still a huge loss to the Qin army, even if it surrenders.
Therefore, in order to minimize the losses, Zhou Yu decided not to attack other mountain cities, but to attack the Uesugi family's capital, Toyama Castle.
Toyama Castle, just by the name, you can tell that it is a mountain castle built on the mountain. As the capital of the Uesugi family, and with Uesugi Kenshin personally in charge, it must be another castle that is as easy to defend as Kasuga Mountain Castle, or even more difficult to defend. Attack the city.
Before Wu Qi and Wang Jian crossed China today, Zhou Yu cleared all obstacles to Fushan City.
After Yu Wu Qi and Wang Jian joined forces, Zhou Yu replenished the strength of their headquarters, and then personally led 26,000 Qin troops and 45,000 Qin associate troops to Jiang Fushan City, and directly surrounded them. Zhou Yu, Wu Qi, and Wang Jian each surrounded one side.
Just when Zhou Yu was preparing to attack the city, he received requests for help from the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu.
It turned out that after the Wei, Song, and Wu kingdoms invaded the Kinki Plain, they suffered from the fact that no one could defeat Yamata-no-Orochi and Shutendōji, and the casualties they suffered were increasing. So they wanted to borrow money from the Qin army to defeat Yamata-no-Orochi in the future.
As for Shuten Doji, although he is very strong, he is obviously not as strong as Yamata no Orochi, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance can definitely deal with it on its own.
After receiving requests for help from the three countries, Zhou Yu summoned his generals to discuss whether he should send anyone to support him.
Most of the generals, led by Lu Bu, opposed people going to support him.
In their view, it is more in the interests of Great Qin to let Wei, Song, Wu and the Oda family fight to the detriment of both sides.
The greater the losses the Wei, Song and Wu Three Kingdoms suffered in Japan, the less resistance the Qin army would have in attacking the Central Plains in the future. Therefore, there was absolutely no need to help the Three Kingdoms deal with the Oda family.
However, a small number of people, led by military advisors Guo Jia, Wu Qi, and Wang Jian, instead supported sending people to support the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
The reason is also very simple. The Oda family is the biggest enemy of Qin in Japan, and it is obviously not easy to control both sides if they fight to lose.
Once the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu were defeated by the Oda family, Da Qin would have to fight against the Oda family alone, and the price paid would be even greater.
But if the Oda family is defeated by the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu, even if the three kingdoms can occupy a large number of territories in Japan, when the Qin army completes its training in the future, sends troops and conquers the Central Plains, these territories will definitely still belong to the Qin Dynasty.
Moreover, Great Qin originally planned to voluntarily give up some of its interests in the Japanese country, in order to stabilize the three allies of Wei, Song, and Wu and make them lower their wariness against Great Qin.
Zhou Yu was persuaded by Guo Jia and decided to send fierce generals to support. However, the Qin army also had a tough battle to fight. It was definitely not possible to send the strongest Lu Bu and Zhao Yun there, so he ordered Dian Wei Xuchu to go to support the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
After Dian Wei and Xu Chu left, Zhou Yu immediately ordered an attack on Fushan City.
On the first day of the siege, the Qin army lost two thousand Qin soldiers, but they did not even climb the tower, but only filled in the moat of Fushan Castle.
The next day, Zhou Yu received two pieces of good news.
Xu Huang, who was guarding the six western countries, had completed the training of the 50,000 surrendered troops and was now able to mobilize the 50,000 surrendered troops to fight with him.
Yu Jin, who stayed on Kyushu Island, also completed the preliminary training of this Japanese army after recruiting 30,000 Qin troops on the spot.
In other words, Zhou Yu had 80,000 more Qin troops, which could be used as cannon fodder for siege.
The most important thing is that the two territories occupied by the Qin Army, totaling nine countries, have basically stabilized and can continue to recruit troops and continuously provide cannon fodder for the Qin Army.
In other words, Zhou Yu will never be short of cannon fodder in the future.
After Zhou Yu learned this, he decisively transferred 30,000 Qin Xiejun from Xu Huang's command and 10,000 Qin Xiejun from Yu Jin's command.
In addition, Zhou Yu also ordered Xu Huang and Yu Jin to recruit an additional 20,000 troops each to serve as a reserve army and maintain local rule.
Forty thousand Qin Xiejun were transported to China by the navy and participated in the attack and defense of Toyama City. The total strength of the Qin Army reached 110,000, of which more than 80,000 were Qin Xiejun alone.
Regarding the news of the arrival of reinforcements, Zhou Yu not only did not hide it, but also publicized it. At the same time, he spread that Shintoism had been exterminated, and that Susanoo and Kagutsuchi had fled, hoping to use rumors to undermine the morale of the defenders.
However, Uesugi Kenshin had long been on guard against Zhou Yu's move and took precautions in advance. He directly stated that the Qin army would spread rumors to undermine the defenders' resistance, so don't believe whatever the Qin army said.
Since Uesugi Kenshin had been vaccinated in advance and his control over Toyama Castle was strong enough, Zhou Yu's rumor strategy had no effect.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu could only continue to attack regardless of the cost. Anyway, this was also a fratricide among Japanese people. Even if more Japanese people died, he would not feel bad.
After five days of strong attack, the Qin army lost 20,000 Qin soldiers, and an average of 4,000 people were killed every day. Such casualties were not small.
Even Uesugi Kenshin thought that Zhou Yu would slow down the offensive and let the defenders take a breather, but he received news that 40,000 Qin allies were coming for reinforcements.
Only then did Uesugi Kenshin know that the rumors spread by Zhou Yu turned out to be true, which made Uesugi Kenshin both angry and desperate.
He was indignant that the gangsters were so greedy for life and fearful of death that they surrendered to the Qin army so easily. Moreover, they also helped the Qin army to attack their own compatriots, and even treated their compatriots more harshly than foreigners.
It is despairing that Zhou Yu will no longer lack troops to attack the city in the future. Under the continuous consumption of Qin Xiejun, the number of defenders will become smaller and smaller, and sooner or later they will follow in the footsteps of Dayou and Maori.
The Qin Army's Qin Xiejun can be replenished continuously, but the defenders in Fushan City cannot be replenished.
There are only 70,000 civilians in Toyama City, and all the young people have been incorporated into the army, leaving only the old, weak, women and children.
Although the old and the weak can also defend the city, Uesugi Kenshin really couldn't bear to let the old, weak, women and children go to the battlefield to die.
At this moment, Uesugi Kenshin realized that there was no point in continuing to resist, because the Japanese were just killing each other.
As for the Qin army, apart from consuming some grain, grass and armaments, its own losses were actually minimal. Even the grain, grass and ordnance were stolen from the Japanese country.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Uesugi Kenshin decided to negotiate with Zhou Yu. After all, she still had some capital in her hands. If she had no capital at all, she would really not be qualified to negotiate with Zhou Yu. .
After three days of negotiations, Uesugi Kenshin finally opened the city gate and surrendered to the Qin army.
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