Chapter 2391: Conspiracy against Zhu Di
In terms of the scale of the war, Nobi is much larger than Kanto, but when it comes to the intensity, the Kanto region is more exciting.
In the Nongwei area, although the Han side did not have much more troops than the Japanese side, in terms of strategy, the Han side had a huge advantage.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that under attack from the east and west, the isolated Oda family is at an absolute disadvantage. Even with the fortified city of Tokyo, there is still not much possibility of a comeback.
Therefore, no matter how Oda Nobunaga struggled, in the eyes of most people, the outcome of the Nobi War was already doomed, and the difference was only the length of time.
On the other hand, in the Guandong region, Wu Qi's side was at an absolute disadvantage from beginning to end.
Wu Qi only had 30,000 Qin and Japanese mixed troops, of which the Qin army was only 5,000. However, he had to face 150,000 Japanese troops, an enemy five times his own, which shows how huge the pressure was.
Before the final fire attack, even though Wu Qi had defeated the enemy many times and killed tens of thousands of enemy soldiers, he still could not reverse the strength gap between the enemy and ourselves.
It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yu is so eager to support Wu Qi, because he knows how difficult this task is, so he is afraid that Wu Qi will not be able to withstand the pressure.
But what everyone didn't expect was that Wu Qi not only withstood the pressure, but also won the battle, and he was a complete victory, nearly annihilating 150,000 Japanese troops.
When receiving the news, not only Zhou Yu, but also the generals of the Qin army, and everyone in the coalition were shocked.
They joined forces with hundreds of thousands of troops, but they were not able to capture Tokyo yet. Wu Qi, who had only 30,000 Qin and Japanese soldiers, had already finished the battle in Kanto.
This is too fast and too fierce!
After hearing the specific details of the fire attack, all the generals of the Four Kingdoms Allied Forces were amazed. They could only use two words to describe Wu Qi's achievements, that is: awesome;
Shibata Katsuie was unable to attack Hachioji Castle, but he also received news that Tokyo was being surrounded. He was worried that Tokyo would be captured, so he decided to take a desperate risk, bypassed Hachioji, attacked Gotemba Castle by surprise, and then invaded the Kinki Plains.
What Shibata Katsuie never expected was that Wu Qi predicted his actions in advance and used Gotemba Castle as bait to lure a hundred thousand troops deep into the abdomen.
On the surface, Wu Qi's plan went smoothly, and there didn't seem to be many disturbances. However, there were some accidents, which aroused Shibata Katsuie's suspicions, but they were all confused by Wu Qi.
In the end, at Puyuan City at the junction of Kanto and Nomi, Wu Qi used a large fire to burn Puyuan City. At the cost of the entire city, a hundred thousand troops were destroyed. Even Shibata Katsuie was killed in the fire. .
The twists and turns, thrills, and complexity of the Kanto War astonished everyone present.
That is to say, Wu Qi, who is the master of intelligence and unification, is commanding. If it were Le Yi and Zhao Yong, even if they could win in the end, it would definitely be a tragic victory. They would never be able to win this battle with a total annihilation attitude like Wu Qi.
The Kanto War ended with Wu Qi annihilating the Japanese army with a huge fire.
The 150,000 Japanese troops were almost completely wiped out, which directly reduced the strength of the Kanto region by nearly 89%.
There are only twenty to thirty thousand defenders left in the huge Guandong Plain, which can be said to be extremely empty.
Naturally, Wu Qi would not let go of such a good opportunity, so he saw the opportunity and led his army eastward, but he did not expect that he would hit a wall in the first city.
Odawara Castle is one of the most famous impenetrable castles in Kanto and even Tokyo. Its defensive power is no worse than Tokyo Castle or even Kasugayama Castle.
If Wu Qi wanted to invade Kantō, he had to capture Odawara City. He thought that after wiping out Shibata Katsuie, the garrison in Kantō would surrender, but he did not expect that Odawara City's resistance would still be strong.
Wu Qi personally commanded the army to attack, but lost thousands of troops, but still failed to break the city. In addition, some supplies were exhausted, so he reported the good news to Zhou Yu and asked for supplies to continue the battle.
Zhou Yu naturally had no reason not to agree to Wu Qi's request. Not only did he provide Wu Qi with more supplies, but he also sent more troops.
Wu Qi now has only 15,000 troops under his command. With just such a small number of people, it is naturally impossible to occupy the entire Guandong.
Therefore, Zhou Yu ordered the three generals Xu Huang, Zhang He, and Ju Yi, each with 10,000 troops, for a total of 30,000 troops, to go to Wu Qi and give orders to Wu Qi to continue the attack on Guandong.
Regarding the land of Guandong, Zhou Yu planned to eat alone and leave nothing to the other three kingdoms. However, if he really did this, he would be easily targeted by the three kingdoms.
After much thought, Zhou Yu decided to give up part of Nongwei's territory in exchange for the Three Kingdoms agreeing to Qin's occupation of the entire Guandong Plain.
The Nongwei area is the essence of the Japanese country, but after such a battle, it is obvious that its vitality has been severely damaged, and it will never regain its former glory.
Tokyo, as the political and economic center, is about to be slaughtered into nothing.
As for other places, the trauma is also great.
Using the half-waste thick tail in exchange for the entire Kanto, this deal is a sure profit.
As for whether the three congresses of Wei, Song and Wu would agree?
They would get benefits without spending a single soldier, and they had no reason to refuse.
Moreover, the area of hundreds of miles from Kinki to Kanto has been occupied by the Qin army.
Even if the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu did not want Qin to get Guandong, there was no way to stop it, so they might as well get some benefits to settle the matter.
"Report...to the Grand Governor, the defenders in Daheng City and Naguye City have already surrendered at Kaicheng under Himiko's persuasion.
In addition, Susano'o and Oyama Tsumi have also been persuaded by Himihu and decided to surrender to our Great Qin. "
"It's so surrendering. It's great."
Zhou Yu had a look of surprise on his face. After all, the two of them had been willing to die rather than surrender before. He didn't expect to be convinced by Himihu so quickly.
Inspired by Xiang Yu's ideological mobilization and the massacre in Tokyo, after some ideological struggle, Beimi Husha finally lowered his arrogant head and decided to surrender to the Qin Dynasty.
She had figured it out that even if she continued to resist, her sacrifice would be in vain and it would have no meaning at all. Only by surrendering to Da Qin could the casualties be minimized.
In addition, Taiyi promised her to keep Shintoism and pass it on in Japan.
However, whether it is Shintoism or the Onmyoji lineage, they must recognize their ancestors and return to their clan and merge into the Onmyo family.
There was no way Himihu could refuse this condition.
Between Japan and Shinto, she had to keep at least one.
As far as the current situation is concerned, Japan is definitely going to perish, and she cannot let Shintoism be destroyed along with it.
Now that Taiyi has promised to let her preserve Shintoism, she will not hesitate to let Shintoism merge into the Onmyo family.
After meeting Zhou Yu, the first thing Himihu said was that he wanted Zhou Yu to stop the massacre.
For this reason, she did not hesitate to reveal many secrets, and the underground vault in the Tokyo Imperial Palace was one of them.
Oda Nobunaga was surrounded by Himiko's people. He thought that few people knew the secret of his arrangement, but they didn't know that Himiko had already understood his secret.
In order to save the city of Tokyo, Himiko wanted to exchange this, but was directly rejected by Zhou Yu.
Once the killing starts, it is not easy to stop.
If the order to stop is forcibly issued, it will only reduce Zhou Yu's prestige and make him a stranger inside and outside. Moreover, the armies of Wei, Song and Wu will definitely not listen to Zhou Yu.
Based on these two considerations, Zhou Yu directly rejected Himihu without even thinking about it.
However, in order to appease her, Zhou Yu also made a promise that after Tokyo, he would never massacre the city again.
After hearing Zhou Yu's explanation, Himihu realized that Tokyo was completely hopeless. After some struggle, she decided to give up and save other areas to prevent the tragedy of Tokyo from happening elsewhere.
Himiko's withdrawal made Zhou Yu overjoyed. After all, her influence in the Japanese country was second only to Oda Nobunaga. Her real value was obviously more than that.
Zhou Yu could already imagine that after Himihu appeared in Guandong, all the cities in Guandong would take the initiative to open their cities and surrender to Da Qin.
"Let Bimihu go with the army to the Guandong area to help Wu Qidong go out to conquer Guandong." Zhou Yu ordered.
In this way, Himihu, who had just arrived in Tokyo, was sent to the Kanto region by Zhou Yu, but this was also a good thing for her.
The Tokyo Da Tu Killer hasn't explained yet, and it was too much torment for her to witness this scene with her own eyes.
The Seven-Day Massacre in Tokyo had been going on for six days, and the remaining more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of troops in the city were slaughtered by the four-nation coalition forces, turning it into an extremely gloomy and dead city.
The four-nation coalition forces all made a lot of money from this massacre.
Especially for Da Qin, just one underground treasury generated more revenue than the other three countries combined.
After the massacre, all the countries were busy counting the goods received and the damage, but they did not realize that a large amount of wealth was really transferred out of the palace by the Qin army.
The three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu were also doing this kind of thing of transferring wealth. After all, in order to prevent long nights and dreams, it was better to transport it back to the country as soon as possible.
Therefore, the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu should have thought that what Qin transferred was the property stolen from the massacre, but they did not realize that it was all extra income.
Although the Four-Nation Alliance grabbed huge wealth, the price they paid was also huge.
During the Tokyo offensive and defense, the four-nation coalition initially dispatched 220,000 troops. After two additional troops, the total strength reached 320,000 troops.
On the other hand, the garrison in Tokyo only numbered 100,000. Although the people were later forced to defend the city, their role was given priority.
It took the four-nation coalition forces fifteen days to break through the steel fortress of Tokyo, but they also lost nearly 160,000 troops.
In addition to the previous loss of 100,000 troops, that is to say, the Four Nations Allied Forces lost a total of 260,000 troops on the Nongwei battlefield.
This is obviously an extremely empty and terrifying number, more than the three battles of Kyushu, Kinki, and Noo combined.
Although 90% of them are Japanese, nearly 26,000 are Han Chinese.
However, the results achieved were equally terrifying.
After the war, statistics showed that the combined forces of the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu annihilated a total of 340,000 Japanese troops and captured 40,000 prisoners, while their own casualties reached 260,000 (30,000 Han troops).
The number of soldiers killed by the Allied and Japanese forces alone reached 600,000.
In addition, 300,000 people in Tokyo were massacred, which means that 900,000 corpses were buried in Tokyo alone.
The total number of dead and injured people in the other cities in Nongwei was one to two hundred thousand.
In other words, the total number of people who died in the Battle of Nongwei even exceeded one million.
This was an extremely large, fierce, and even tragic battle. Not only was it the first time in Japanese history, but a war of this scale was rare even in the Central Plains.
This battle alone directly reduced the population of the entire Nongwei area by fifty percent.
Among the remaining population of more than 800,000, the vast majority are women, children, the elderly and the weak, and there are basically not many young and strong people left.
The vitality of the Nongwei area has been severely damaged, which is why Zhou Yu is ready to give up Nongwei. After all, the current Kanto is definitely much better than Nongwei.
Zhou Yu could think of this, and Zhao Guangyi and others could naturally think of it. Although they did not want Da Qin to monopolize Guandong, they really had no way to stop it.
In addition, Zhou Yu voluntarily gave up. Most of the central and eastern areas of Nongwei only retained the land of the two countries in the east, and the rest of the territory was given to the three countries to be equally divided.
Those who take people have short hands and eat people with soft mouths.
After receiving so many benefits for nothing, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces naturally had no choice but to acquiesce in Da Qin's occupation of Guandong.
But when they heard the news that Da Qin was continuously conquering cities and territories in Guandong, the senior officials of the Three Kingdoms couldn't help but feel a little jealous.
Wu Qi lost thousands of troops and failed to capture Odawara City. However, under Himihu's persuasion, he surrendered without spending a single soldier.
The fall of Oda Nobunaga and Himiko's persuasion to surrender made it impossible for the Japanese to resist. Most of the cities surrendered without much resistance. This also made the Qin army invincible in Kanto.
Only a handful of people resisted, but they could not stop the Qin army's offensive.
In just a few days, the Qin army occupied nearly half of the land in Guandong. How could the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu not be jealous?
But they are just jealous. The road ahead has been blocked by the Qin army, they have lost the direction of expansion, and there is no base that can be captured.
Zhou Yu saw that the top leaders of the Three Kingdoms did not want to stop here, and the Ming Kingdom had opened up situations in the Northeast, Shikoku Island, and the North Sea Island Road, so he wanted to lead the Three Kingdoms and the Ming Kingdom to initiate a conflict.
Previously, the power of the Japanese country was strong, and the great enemy of the Oda family was not defeated. Zhou Yu needed Zhu Di to share the pressure, so instead of plotting against Zhu Di, he allowed him to expand wantonly in the Japanese country.
Now that Oda Nobunaga is dead, Japan's local forces are almost completely wiped out, and Great Qin's biggest enemy is no longer there. Looking back, Zhu Di is the second biggest enemy, so it's time to take care of Zhu Di.
(End of chapter)
