Chapter 782: The Decaying Japanese

The losses were heavy, but for the Japanese, no matter how heavy they were, they did not care, what they cared about was whether they could achieve their war goals, destroy the enemy, occupy Shikokufu, and it should be said that they could recapture Shikokufu.

But at this time, they suddenly received the news of the rebellion of the second prince, and the loyal troops of the Shikoku State of 20,000 Han Chinese raided their large rear, the ten-mile company camp was burned, 10,000 people and 3,000 defender soldiers were killed, and Shimazu was captured.

Dabao Liquor immediately ordered the 30,000 troops that had already attacked the outskirts of Kagawa County to come back, but they encountered the interspersed troops from Ehime Prefecture, 30,000 militia servants, and 10,000 Han regular army troops blocked their way back.

Subsequently, Prime Minister Yan took 15,000 troops from Kagawa County to kill.

In an hour of fierce fighting, Dabao Liquor was killed by indiscriminate shooting, 10,000 of the 30,000 remnants of the Japanese Eastern Front were annihilated, 2,000 were lost in the artillery fire, and 18,000 were captured.

Leaving behind 2,000 regular troops, 2,000 servant troops to guard the prisoners, and 1,000 to clean up the battlefield, Prime Minister Yan led nearly 50,000 troops to attack their first line of defense.

Soon about 5,000 soldiers left by the enemy to clean up the battlefield and take care of the captives, as well as 48,000 seriously wounded, rescued 38,000 captured light and serious wounded, picked out 12,000 people who could still fight, left the lightly wounded and 2,000 militia servants to guard the prisoners, clean the battlefield, and transport the enemy's captured supplies, Prime Minister Yan continued to advance with 66,000 troops, and soon reached the first line of defense, where he defeated the enemy's 10,000 garrison troops and rescued 8,000 of his own personnel who survived, Again 2,000 people were left behind to cooperate with the wounded to guard the prisoners, and Prime Minister Yan's team grew to 70,000.

70,000 troops soon reached the vicinity of the enemy's company camp around the county town of Denios, made contact with the troops of the second prince, directly disarmed and took over the troops of the 5,000 second prince, and the 70,000 men soon occupied the county seat and the dock, the enemy's military camp, and sent a blocking force to the rear of Kyosan and Ye.

Jingshan Kazuya panicked with 30,000 people and regular army soldiers towards this side, and soon hit the blocking troops, the two sides broke out a fierce battle, at this time the troops who were still attacking on the front line learned that the back was copied, and they were immediately disrupted, and the remaining 100,000 soldiers and horses were directly scattered tens of thousands of people, and the remaining tens of thousands of people were oppressed in a small area by the 100,000 army led by Zhao Hui, and surrendered after resisting for a while.

In this battle, a total of 300,000 enemy troops were destroyed, and 230,000 enemy troops were captured, plus the Japanese servant army sent by Minfu and the second prince to support.

When Zhao Hui led the army to press up, Jingshan and also committed suicide, the remaining 19,000 soldiers and horses surrendered, Zhao Hui directly led the troops to the county seat of Denios, and the rest of the days were to search for the enemy's rout, deserters, and capture the Japanese people who rioted, and captured a total of 100,000 people and 50,000 routs in one day.

In addition to the nearly 500,000 troops, the 120,000 Japanese civilians who supported their rebellion, the 60,000 Japanese servants of the second prince, and their 7,000 Han Chinese soldiers were all wiped out and captured.

On the side of the Huaxia Army, 90,000 Southeast Asian indigenous soldiers died, 50,000 Nanyang soldiers died, 110,000 Japanese servant troops died, and 30,000 Japanese civilians died, and 120,000 were arrested.

37,000 Japanese regular troops were killed, 18,000 Han Chinese were killed, and 60,000 Han civilians were injured.

It can be said that the battle is quite large, and nearly a million people have been affected.

When Zhang Qiang took Zhao Hui through the battlefield, it was like walking on the surface of the moon, many places were bombarded with potholes, and those shells and iron balls could be picked up everywhere.

Many of the smashed corpse fragments made many of the soldiers and officers who followed them vomit.

Prime Minister Yan followed behind them but did not have much emotion, he has seen a lot, from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty to the Lu Kingdom to the Ryukyu Kingdom, to the Shikoku Kingdom, and now the war between the Shikoku Prefecture and Japan, it can be said that he has been tested by the flames of war, and as a civil official, he is really lucky.

"We now get statistics, there were originally 400,000 Japanese people on Denios Island, and then the Japanese requisitioned 100,000 people, they requisitioned 30,000 people from Honshu Island, after this war, there are still 110,000 people on Denios Island, and the rest have been killed or captured by our army, the original 108,000 Han people, now there are only 43,000 people, 8,000 Han soldiers were killed in battle, 18,000 people were seriously injured, 3,000 people died, 12,000 people lost their homes, and the rest are some old and weak women and children.

There were still 16,000 Han soldiers left in the second prince's army, of which 4,000 were lightly wounded and 3,500 were seriously wounded.

There are about 1.5 million people on the entire island, including 500,000 Han people, 100,000 Han soldiers, 60,000 Nanyang aborigines, 40,000 natives, 108,000 Southeast Asian aborigines, 63,000 soldiers, and the rest are Japanese people and Japanese soldiers. In addition, we have captured a total of 550,000 enemy men and soldiers, as well as servants, including the Japanese and the indigenous people of Southeast Asia, soldiers, and Nanyang natives and soldiers who are dissatisfied with our riot. ”

Zhang Qiang turned around and said to Prime Minister Yan Cheng: "So after this battle, there will only be a million Japanese people and soldiers on the entire Shikoku Island?" ”

Prime Minister Yan nodded solemnly, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Hui said: "Your Majesty, it is better to organize these captives, send them to General Kong Youxing in Xinlu Mansion one by one, and let them die for the advance of the army one by one, I estimate that the Japanese will not have too many troops and civilians now, didn't there be fifteen million before?" After the sneak attack of the three princes and their backs, we have two major battles here, and their forces must have been exhausted, even if we give them some cold weapons, and then drive them to attack Japan's Honshu Island, Japan will not be able to resist. ”

There are not many Japanese left, this is good news, it is good news for Zhang Qiang, the Japanese have died until they were captured and emigrated, and they have lost from 20 million to more than 10 million.

And Zhang Qiang now wants to immigrate all their Japanese people and these soldiers on the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku to other places, such as Zheng Chenggong.

After a bumpy displacement, it would be nice to have 10 million people alive in the end.

Then the Japanese in Australia that is more than the situation in Baodao Prefecture and Qiongdao Prefecture in the wilderness, it is estimated that only a few million will survive in the future, with Zheng Chenggong and his descendants continue to immigrate where, with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty Empire, many Han people fled, where there will be more Han people than Japanese, so where the indigenous people, plus the indigenous people of Southeast Asia, the indigenous people of Nanyang, the living environment of the Japanese will be even worse, and eventually become a minority group in the world, this is the goal that Zhang Qiang wants to achieve.

As for the large island of Japan, it will become the living place of most Han Chinese, some immigrant indigenous people, and some naturalized Japanese in the future, and become another overseas province of the Chinese Kingdom.

Zhang Qiang concluded his inspection of the Siguo Mansion and returned to Jinling Mansion on a new warship that had successfully conducted the third sea trial.

A month later, about 500,000 Han people set foot on the land of Xinlu Province, and the number of Han Chinese in Xinlu Province increased to 800,000, about 200,000 Han people set foot on the land of Shikoku Island, and the number of Han Chinese on Shikoku Island increased to 300,000, and about 100,000 captured Japanese soldiers were thrown into the battlefield of China Island after declaring their allegiance to the Kingdom of China.

For the first time, Kong Youxing commanded more than 150,000 soldiers and horses, although 100,000 of these 150,000 soldiers and horses were Japanese prisoners, and only 2,000 of these 100,000 Japanese prisoners had arquebuses, and 2,000 had full-body armor and sharp weapons.

The third prince here, since the start of the battle of Jeju Island, he had to transfer 80,000 soldiers from here back to Jeju Island, leaving 30,000 wounded and 50,000 regular soldiers on the battlefield on the island.

His main naval division went back to deal with the invasion of the Qing Dynasty.

The battle line could only be maintained here, and there were more than 200,000 remnants of the Japanese who had been gathered on the opposite side, and the two battles caused them to lose a total of 800,000 troops on the island of Shikoku, and here they also lost 200,000 troops, as well as 300,000 Japanese people, which was quite a blow to them.

All the heavy artillery was captured by the enemy, and their largest artillery was the Portuguese leftover nine-pounder Franc cannon, although the rate of fire was relatively high, but the range was inferior to the heavy artillery of the Qing Dynasty.

All the food in the country was used on the front line, and the people in the rear could only nibble on one rice ball a day, and even the guards of the daimyo shogun only added one chaff poop, and everyone was hungry with their chests and backs, but there was no way.

Although the Qing Dynasty brought a lot of Goguryeo rice through Goguryeo, it was still only enough to meet the consumption of high-ranking samurai and high-ranking officials, and could not supply the daily needs of tens of millions of civilians and soldiers.

The various daimyo clans have existed in name only, even the fourth generation of Tokugawa generals with real power also feel that they are tired and unable to continue to maintain their rule, at this time although Japan is still moving forward, still opening up, accepting the advanced technology of the outside world and fighting with Jesus, but the continuous arrival of the Taixi people, the continuous blows of the Chinese kingdom make them helpless, and the fourth generation of shoguns passed on the successor Tokugawa Tsunayoshi as the fifth generation of generals, and then retired to the wilderness, leaving a huge Japan to a young man in his twenties.

The Tokugawa Ietsuna era has arrived.

But what's the use of coming, although it is determined to reform, it cannot change the reality of the victory of the Chinese army.

Although the troops of the third prince angered the Qing Dynasty because of the extraneous occupation of Jeju Island as a springboard and were kicked in the ass by the Daqing, after the troops of Kong Youxu were supported, nearly 100,000 cannon fodder still stepped on the drum and rushed towards the enemy's position.

(End of chapter)