Chapter 2378: Tokyo Attack and Defense
Hokkaido, Ezo Country, Shigebetsukan Castle.
After seeing the "Message to the People of Japan" issued by Oda Nobunaga, Susano'o, after some reflection, resolutely said to everyone: "I am going to Tokyo to help Nobunaga, who of you will come with me?" .”
As soon as this statement came out, although everyone showed signs of struggle, no one stood up to object.
They came here to rescue the leader, but they had been looking for him for so long, but they couldn't find even a shadow. Instead, Japan was reduced to a state of imminent subjugation.
No one doubted the relationship between Susanoo and Himiko, but continuing to search aimlessly was tantamount to sitting back and watching Japan perish.
Not everyone can be like Yamata no Orochi, who can abandon the country and the nation without any burden. At least Susano'o, Kagutsuchi, Oyama Tsumi and Shina can't do it compared to the four ancient ones.
Seeing that no one objected, Tsukuyomi was secretly anxious and advised: "Even if a few of us go, I'm afraid it won't be of much use to the overall situation."
Taiyi's immortal-like combat power has caused a great psychological shadow on Tsukuyomi. Now she doesn't dare to go against Da Qin at all, because it is no different from sending death.
The reason why she took the four Susanas away from the army was not only to rescue her sister, but also because she was afraid that the four of them would be targeted by Taichi. The danger would naturally be less if they left the army.
Tsukuyomi no longer has any hope in Japan. Now she just wants to save her sister and preserve the last fire for Shintoism. Naturally, she doesn't want her brothers to go to Tokyo to die.
After hearing Tsukuyomi's words, Susano'o said without even thinking, "Are we going to sit back and watch Tokyo be conquered by the Han, and let Nobunaga fight alone until his death?"
Susano'o shook his head and said, "I can't do it for my brother."
"I can't just watch Japan's country perish and live alone." Kagutu said solemnly.
"Me too."
Oyama Tsumi and Shina Tohiko said in unison, but their tone was unprecedentedly firm.
Tsukuyomi panicked when he heard this and said anxiously: "But if you go there, you are going to die."
"My men, why should we be afraid of death? Sitting back and watching the country fall, but living in an ignoble way, is the real life worse than death." Susano'o said solemnly.
After that, he said no more and left without looking back, but was stopped by Tsukuyomi.
With tears in Tsukuyomi's eyes, he saved Susanoo and cried: "Onii-chan, you can't go. Naruko won't let you go. As long as you listen to Naruko this time, Naruko will listen to you in everything from now on." of."
Susano'o's heart trembled when he heard this. If he had said what his sister said in the past, he would have happily agreed to it, but this time it wouldn't work.
Even the most beloved sister can't stop Susano'o from boxing to contribute to the country and nation.
After Susano'o took a deep breath, he suppressed the bitterness in his heart, pushed his sister away, and then ignored Tsukuyomi's cry and strode away without looking back.
Kagutsuchi, Oyama Tsumi, and Shina all followed him without saying a word.
They all knew that it would be a fateful end, with a narrow escape from death, but for the sake of the country and the nation, they decided to go to Tokyo and fight until the last moment without regrets.
Wow...
Heavy rain falls.
There were obviously five people when we came, but now there was only Tsukuyomi, crying in the heavy rain.
While crying, Tsukuyomi also showed a look of determination in his eyes. He stood up and prepared to catch up with his brother and the others, and follow him to Tokyo to die.
But at this moment, an old man in yellow clothes appeared behind her, with white hair and a childish face, and an immortal spirit. He was obviously in heavy rain, but as long as the raindrops landed near him, they would be automatically bounced away.
"Donghuang Taiyi?"
Tsukuyomi's eyes were filled with horror. She didn't expect Taichi to appear here. She hated him for killing her parents, but she was more afraid. She wanted to run away, but she was so scared that she didn't even dare to move.
Seeing this, Taichi couldn't help but shook his head and walked forward slowly. The closer he got, the harder Tsukuyomi shivered.
"Little girl, don't be afraid. If I want to kill you, you won't be able to escape from the Shinto Palace." Taiyi said with an indifferent expression.
"You, you let me go on purpose?"
Tsukuyomi looked shocked, but more importantly, he still didn't understand why Taiyi let him go alone.
Taiyi did not give any explanation for this and said: "Follow me, I will take you to see your sister."
Watching Taiyi's retreating back, Tsukuyomi suppressed the fear in his heart. After some thought, he wiped away the tears and rain on his face and chose to grit his teeth and follow.
Tsukuyomi followed Taichi all the way, but kept a distance until he entered a cave.
This cave looks like a cave on the surface, but there is something else going on inside. It is not only magnificent, but also has a large number of bamboo slips.
"here it is?"
Tsukuyomi frowned, but the next moment, a familiar voice came to his ears.
"This is the inheritance place of the Onmyoji lineage."
"Lord Seimei?"
Tsukuyomi was overjoyed when he saw that the visitor was actually Seimei, and he quickly stepped forward to ask about his sister's whereabouts.
But as soon as the words were spoken, Tsukuyomi immediately realized that her sister and Seimei were both Taichi's captives, so she also...
Not far away, Ye Qingmei was chewing an apple and looking at Tsukuyomi with interest.
"It's really kawaii. It's the type that Brother Hao likes." Ye Qingmei chuckled and said to herself.
Ye Qingmei knew very well that after the war against Japan was over, whether to maintain the rule of the Japanese country or to assimilate the Japanese country, there would definitely be a large-scale marriage between Han and Japanese.
In addition, during the war between Han and Japan, the total population lost by the Japanese country was probably more than one to two million, and the vast majority of them were young and strong men.
So in the post-war Japanese country, there will inevitably be a large number of widows and a situation where there are more women than men.
There are millions of Japanese women who want to be married but no one can marry them. This is undoubtedly a huge waste.
Da Qin is most in need of bachelors who cannot afford wives, so they can sacrifice themselves to take care of those helpless Japanese girls.
This can be said to be harmless. It can not only gain the support of the army, balance the ratio of men and women, but also increase population growth. It is simply killing two birds with one stone.
As the emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Ying Hao must set an example when the time comes and invite several Japanese women into the palace to set an example for the generals in the army.
Of course, not everyone is qualified to marry into the Great Qin royal family. They must have a high enough status.
Currently, the only women in Japan with this qualification are Himiko, her sister Tsukuyomi, and Oda Nobunaga's sister Oda Ichi.
Talking back to Taichi, after he destroyed the Shinto Palace, he took Abe Seimei and Himiko to find the inheritance place of the Onmyoji lineage. After all, this was the main goal of his trip, and he finally found it in Hokkaido. place of inheritance.
Who would have thought that the true inheritance of the Onmyoji lineage is not found in Honshu Island, nor Kyushu and Shikoku, but in Hokkaido, which is rarely seen among people?
Deep in the cave, Himihu, who is extremely beautiful and charming, is practicing cross-legged exercises to restore his power bit by bit.
Although both her and Abe Seimei's skills were crippled by Taichi, their realms were still there and their Dantian was not damaged. They could recover as long as they took time, and she has now returned to the second-rate level.
After adjusting his breath, Himihu finished his exercise, but his eyes were extremely confused.
So what if she recovers completely? He is still no match for Taiyi, and it is impossible to escape from his clutches.
At this moment, Xiang Yu walked in.
When Beimihu saw Xiang Yu, his whole body tensed up, and his eyes were full of hatred and murderous intent.
Xiang Yu didn't care about Beimihu's attitude at all. After leaving behind a "Letter to the People of Japan", he said: "Let's take a look."
Himiko's face changed drastically after seeing it. She knew that Oda Nobunaga was also forced into a desperate situation, otherwise she would never have sent this message, so she asked with a cold face: "What do you want to do?"
"You should understand that Japan has no hope, and continuing to resist will not change the outcome. It will just make more people die in vain.
I heard that before you became the pope, you were the queen of the Yamatai Kingdom, so the Japanese in the Nobi area are naturally your citizens.
Now your people, under the bewitchment of Oda Nobunaga, have lost their minds and are using their flesh and blood to resist the cavalry of Great Qin like moths to the flame. Their death is meaningless.
If you are willing to stand up and ask them to give up resistance, at least the casualties of the people will be greatly reduced. "
After saying that, Xiang Yu turned around and left, leaving Beimihu alone standing there with a gloomy face.
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While the Battle of Nobi was going on, the war situation in the northeastern region of Honshu also noticed a certain degree of change.
Taking advantage of the main forces of Takeda and Date being restrained by the Qin army, the 50,000 Ming-Japanese mixed army, led by Chang Yuchun, seized the opportunity to raid the rear areas of the two countries and won a complete victory, occupying nearly half of the two houses in one fell swoop. territory.
However, as Wu Qi and Wang Jian withdrew their troops, the main forces of Takeda and Date were liberated and returned to support the rear, and the Ming army's offensive in northeastern Honshu also slowed down.
Due to seizing the opportunity, the Ming army not only did not lose much strength in the early battles, but instead fought more and more, and its strength skyrocketed to 80,000.
On the other hand, the Takeda and Date coalition forces suffered great losses in the early stage, and their total strength dropped to 90,000. Moreover, due to their disastrous defeat at the hands of the Qin army, the morale of the army was low, so that in the subsequent battle, it was still obvious that The army retreated steadily.
Seeing that the two families were still defeated by the Ming army despite joining forces, Takeda Shingen sent envoys to Hokkaido to ask for help from the Oyizaki family in order to reverse the situation.
Hokkaido is vast and sparsely populated. Even if there is only one power, the Uyizaki family, it is still the last among the ten Japanese countries.
In the Battle of Tsushima, the navy was completely annihilated. Nobuhiro Uyizaki was already frightened, and he did not participate in the subsequent wars.
But this time is different. Hokkaido is only separated by a river from the northeastern region of Honshu.
If the Tohoku region is completely occupied, will the Uyizaki family in Hokkaido be spared? Nobuhiro Uyizaki didn't dare to gamble.
Under the lobbying of the Takeda family envoy, Nobuhiro Uyizaki decided to send 40,000 troops to support the Takeda and Date families.
Zhu Di, who stayed behind in Shikoku Island, naturally knew about the existence of the Uyizaki family, and had been guarding against the Uyizaki family suddenly joining the war. Therefore, he placed many spies in Hokkaido in advance and spent a lot of money to bribe the senior officials of the Uyizaki family, which was quite effective.
Nobuhiro Oyizaki was about to send troops, but the traitor inside passed the news to Zhu Di.
After receiving the news that the Oyizaki family decided to join the war, Zhu Di decisively led 20,000 naval troops north to Hokkaido, raided the Oyizaki family's naval forces and sank all the Oyizaki warships.
In this battle alone, the 5,000 sailors and 10,000 infantrymen that the Uyizaki family had finally recovered were all lost in the sea.
After the Uyizaki family navy was completely annihilated, there were no warships to transport soldiers. Even if there were still, they would not be able to pass the Ming Dynasty navy. Obviously, they would not be able to support Takeda and Date.
Without the assistance of the Oyizaki family, the Takeda and Date families were unable to defeat the Ming army on their own. As casualties continued to accumulate, their strength became smaller and smaller, and they were gradually driven out of the Northeast by the Ming army bit by bit.
There is a reason why the Takeda-Date coalition, including senior commanders like Takeda Shingen and gods of war like Otakemaru, still lost to the Ming army.
The commander-in-chief of the Ming army, Chang Yuchun, was not much stronger than Takeda Shingen in his commanding ability, but he had three war-god-level generals, while the Japanese army only had Otakemaru.
Even though Xia Luqi stayed on Shikoku Island and did not participate in the Northeastern Battle, the Ming army still dispatched the two gods of war, Chang Mao and Wang Yanzhang.
Takeda Shingen, with Otakemaru alone, was obviously unable to deal with Chang Mao and Wang Yanzhang. They fought many times and were defeated repeatedly. His injuries continued to worsen, and he was finally captured alive by Wang Yanzhang.
After Otake Maru was captured, no one among the Takeda-Date coalition could resist Chang Mao and Wang Yanzhang.
Therefore, even if Takeda Shingen's command did not make any mistakes, he still lost to Chang Yuchun, was beaten back and forth, and lost troops and generals.
According to this posture, it is only a matter of time before the Takeda and Date families are completely expelled from the Northeast region by the Ming army.
Takeda Shingen is also aware of this, so he has reserved a way out for himself. If he cannot hold on in the end, he will lead the remnants of the Takeda and Date families to retreat into the Kanto region and attach themselves to the Oda family to continue to resist.
In short, surrender is impossible.
In the northeastern part of Honshu, the Ming army relied on its own strength to fight against the Takeda, Date, and Tsunei clans alone, and it was about to end with the Ming army's victory.
Thousands of miles away, in the Noubi area in central Honshu, the four-nation coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song, and Wu VS the two armies of Oda and Tokugawa. The four-nation coalition forces are about to complete their rendezvous in Tokyo City.
To the west of Nobi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu joined forces, but they still could not stop the Wei, Song and Wu allied forces.
The allied forces of the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu not only had five gods of war, but also elites such as the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the Jiefan Army, and the Tianwu Army.
On the other hand, the most powerful general among the Oda Tokugawa Allied Forces was Honda Tadakatsu, and most of the elite troops were consumed in the Kinki War. How could they possibly stop the wolf-like tiger-like Three Kingdoms Allied Forces?
On the western battlefield of Noyo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu were defeated by the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu, losing troops and generals. The situation on the eastern battlefield was even worse.
Facing Zhou Yu's 120,000 troops, Sanada Yukimura and Akechi Mitsuhide clearly had an army of 100,000, but they couldn't hold on for even a month. After losing Suruga and Enji Kingdoms one after another, now even Mikawa Kingdom has lost most of them. , there are only 30,000 troops left in hand.
Once the Mikawa Kingdom is completely lost, the Qin army can invade the Owari Kingdom. At that time, Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese Empire, will be exposed to the iron hoof of the Qin army.
After receiving the news that Mikawa Kingdom's first fortified city, Okazaki Castle, was captured by the Qin army, Oda Nobunaga knew that Mikawa Kingdom could not hold it, so he ordered the frontline troops to shrink their defense lines and concentrate their forces to defend Owari Kingdom. Defend the capital Tokyo with all your strength.
The offensive and defensive battle in Tokyo is about to begin.
