In fact, the goal of the battle plan formulated by Luo Yue this time was not to capture Tokyo at all, it was just a feint, and the troops invested were only one Marine Division, two regiments, and 10,000 Russian mercenaries, and the purpose was only to put pressure on Tokyo, forcing the Japanese army to send a large number of troops to reinforce Tokyo, so that the troops in other areas were empty, and then Luo Yue would attack other places.

Luo Yue knew very well that war is a continuation of politics, and any war should revolve around a clear political goal. The landing of the People's Army in Japan this time was not to destroy Japan or fully control Japan, but to force Japan to give in and pay war reparations to East China, and this required a ** with complete control over Japan to carry out the war reparations. Then all the battle plans formulated by Luo Yue are considered around this goal, not only to give Japan's current ** enough military strikes to force them to submit, but not to strike too much, so that Japan's current ** collapse, or lose the overall control of Japan, the proportions must be quite accurate.

Tokyo is the capital of Japan, and of course the most important city in Japan, but the capture of Tokyo by the People's Army does not add much to the achievement of the set political goals, and on the contrary, it is likely to have a negative effect. This is because if the People's Army really captures Tokyo, whether the Japanese Wood ** and the Emperor stay in Tokyo and are controlled by the People's Army, or escape from Tokyo in time, there is a great chance that they will lose control of Japan, so that the whole of Japan is completely out of control, or partially out of control. In this case, although East China has achieved major military victories, it can only be dwarfed by political goals.

Of course, in the Franco-Prussian War in Europe 35 years earlier, the Prussian army captured the French Emperor Napoleon III on the battlefield and occupied the French capital Paris, which also forced France to sign a treaty of land cession and reparations.

But these two wars can not be compared, first of all, Prussia was strong at that time, and invested a total of about 500,000 troops in the war against France, and after a series of diplomatic mediation by Bismarck, other powers watched from the wall during the war, so that Prussia could concentrate on dealing with France without scruples about other conditions, which are not available in East China now.

Secondly, after the Prussian army captured the French Emperor Napoleon III on the battlefield, the French people, workers, petty bourgeois masses, and some republican parliamentarians immediately abandoned Napoleon III and established the Provisional Republic**, which has continued to the present French Third Republic, and quickly gained recognition and support from all over France. And since the pot of defeat was all borne by Napoleon III, even after the Prussian army captured Paris, the new ** was still accepted by the French people, and Prussia also ensured that there was a ** that could be negotiated and that the reparations were paid. And these conditions are very different from those in Japan today.

To sum up, East China did not copy the conditions of the Franco-Prussian War, so it could not adopt the same method as Prussia at that time, and could not suppress the current Japan too hard, let alone shake the foundation of the current Japan, and could not attack Tokyo in any case, so it could only choose another place, which could not only exert enough pressure on Japan, but also not affect the current control of the overall situation by Japan.

The target chosen by Ragaku is Kyoto.

Tokyo became the capital of Japan less than 40 years after the Restoration, and for more than 1,000 years before that, the capital of Japan has been Kyoto, so Kyoto is the spiritual homeland of the Japanese people, the source of Japanese culture, and the symbol of Japanese culture. At this time, Tokyo had not been the capital for a long time, and in the minds of most Japanese, Kyoto was the most important city in Japan.

At the same time, due to the relocation of the capital to Tokyo, after the fall of the Restoration, Kyoto completely gave up its political function, so it vigorously developed industry and commerce, and Kobe, Osaka together constitute the largest and most developed commercial concentration area in Japan, so after the People's Army captured Kyoto, it can not only cause huge pressure on the current Japan, but also rob a large number of people and wealth materials in Kyoto, Kobe, and Osaka, and replenish East China The need to meet with the fleet in Osaka at the same time to ensure a retreat can be said to be a plan that kills one stone with one stone.

Of course, this plan was not Luo Yue's temporary idea, but after landing in Japan, Luo Yue considered several follow-up plans, and this plan was only one of them, and Luo Yue also made corresponding preparations, sending people to reconnoiter and survey the road from the Noto Peninsula to Kyoto, as well as the key points along the road. And now is the time to enable this program.

Since starting from the Noto Peninsula and capturing Kyoto and Osaka was equivalent to cutting through the middle of Japan's main island of Honshu, with a total length of about 260 kilometers, Ragaku named this battle plan "Obichi Plan".

In order to successfully capture Kyoto, Luo Yue also devised a plan to feint to attack Tokyo to attract Japanese troops, and as a result, Japan really transferred about 3/4 of the current regular army in the country to the Tokyo area, making the garrisons in other areas very empty.

So Luo Yue immediately seized this opportunity, concentrated two divisions and 20,000 Russian mercenaries, led by himself, and marched south from the Noto Peninsula, first along the coast under the cover of the fleet, to Tsuruga City, then across the island of Honshu, and then along the west shore of Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan, to Kyoto.

Since most of the regular Japanese troops were concentrated in the Tokyo area at this time, the KPA had already surveyed the road, and the result was that the march was very smooth, and there were almost no obstacles along the way, and the whole march lasted 9 days and covered 220 kilometers.

Kyoto is considered an inland city in Japan, so Japan did not arrange a regular army garrison in Kyoto, only a small number of local garrisons, as well as police, the garrison is very empty, as soon as the vanguard of the People's Army arrived, it was very easy to defeat the local garrison in Kyoto, almost bloodless, stationed in Kyoto City, and when Luo Yue led a large group of men and horses to Kyoto, the People's Army had basically controlled the city and some suburbs of Kyoto.

After entering Kyoto, Luo Yue couldn't help but feel a lot of feelings, although it has been nearly 4 months since he landed in Japan, but this is indeed the first time that the People's Army has captured a large city in Japan, and Kyoto as the thousand-year-old capital of Japan, the whole city basically still maintains the pattern of an ancient city, not only there are many historic sites, but even ordinary houses are all ancient Japanese architectural styles.

In the old time and space, although Luo Yue had been to Japan, but not to Kyoto, and although in this time and space, Luo Yue had seen a lot of ancient Chinese cities, but the ancient cities of Japan were seen for the first time, compared with the ancient cities of China, Kyoto has its own ancient book charm. In fact, in 1864, when the Japanese shogunate army and the fallen forces had a fierce battle in Kyoto City, this is the famous forbidden gate change in the history of Japan's Shogunate, and a large area of Kyoto City was burned down in the war, and after the war, a total of about 30,000 houses. Most of the buildings in Kyoto that Radake sees today were built after the end of the Edo period, but the architectural style is still ancient Japanese architecture, and most of the historic buildings have been preserved, so there is still something to see in the cityscape of Kyoto.

However, Luo Yue is not in the mood to travel to Kyoto now, after all, Kyoto is only the first goal of the Belt Plan, only by taking the two cities of Osaka and Kobe, the whole plan can be regarded as a complete success, and Osaka and Kobe are both coastal cities and one of the important ports in Japan, so Japan has arranged a newly built 55th Division in this area, and even when the situation in Tokyo is critical, the 55th Division has not been transferred.

Of course, the 55th Division's garrison area was not only Osaka and Kobe, but the entire coastal area of Osaka Bay, of which Osaka and Kobe were the key cities to be garrisoned, and the Japanese army stationed one wing in each of these two cities, and the other two wings were stationed in other areas. However, it was not as easy for the People's Army to capture Osaka and Kobe as it was to capture Kyoto.

After capturing Kyoto, someone suggested to Luo Yue to march immediately, taking advantage of the fact that the garrisons of Osaka and Kobe had not yet assembled and the positions were not arranged, to capture these two cities, but Luo Yue refused, and instead ordered to rest in Kyoto for three days, and then attack Osaka and Kobe.

Originally, Luo Yue was thinking that most of the Japanese troops had already been concentrated in the Tokyo area, and even if he knew at this time, it would be at least 10 days before he could send troops over to reinforce them, so the KPA still had enough time; while there was only one division in the Osaka area, and there were not many troops in the surrounding areas, so even if they were assembled, how many troops would there be, and considering the current combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, it would actually not be possible to cause much trouble to the KPA, and let Japan concentrate all the troops, and the KPA would be annihilated at once, otherwise the Japanese army would be reduced to pieces and fight a guerrilla war with the KPA, which would be even more difficult to deal with; in the end, the KPA rushed from the Noto Peninsula to Kyoto and marched for nine consecutive days, Although it is not said that people are sleepy and lacking, but most of the physical strength is indeed consumed, it is better to let the army rest for a few days, recover their strength, recuperate their spirits, and then attack and take Osaka and Kobe in one fell swoop.

Sure enough, 3 days later, the People's Army recovered from fatigue, so Luo Yue ordered that two regiments from each of the two divisions, plus 10,000 Russian mercenaries, launched an attack on Kobe and Osaka at the same time, and the two regiments left behind were looted in Kyoto, and Luo Yue also specially ordered that as much as possible not to destroy the monuments and buildings in Kyoto, and the cultural relics that could be taken away should be taken away as much as possible, but they must be managed well, and the documents that are thick and clumsy and difficult to carry are still left and not damaged.

As Japan's thousand-year-old capital, Kyoto is home to a valuable heritage not only in Japan but also around the world, and Radake is not a person who likes to destroy, and he has a lot of respect for all historical relics, so he can not destroy them, and of course try not to destroy them.