The war on Japanese soil has been going on for more than half a year, and as the war continues, the confidence of the Japanese is becoming more and more shaken.

Those Lu troops in Xinlu Province, now Japan still thinks that it is the Lu army that is fighting with them, and it is the divided Lu army, because where is there a blatant prime minister, and there are also soldiers and horses of the Lu State to lead the troops.

They were very puzzled by the fact that they were beaten back to the Chinese island, and organized several surprise attacks in succession, and the sea area separated from the island of China and Kitakyushu Island was full of dilapidated Ataku boats, dozens of tons of merchant ships, more than ten tons of fishing boats, and dilapidated canoes, and the corpses of Japanese farmers and soldiers who rushed past on the opposite shore were layered on top of each other, and in the place where they did not want to be the observation post set up by the Lu army, which was hidden in the ground for most of the earth, only a palm-wide observation hole was exposed, and on top was a cover covered with half-meter-thick pine and seaside dwarf shrubs. The top cover is covered with half a meter of sand.

There were more than a dozen sentinels, each with a capacity of 30 meters, and soldiers stood on wooden boxes, sticking their guns out of the bunker for interceptive fire.

There are half-meter-deep tunnels on the left and right sides of the bunker, the tunnels are half covered with roofs and sand, and half are unroofed, but in this gap that is one meter wide and half a meter deep, and there are sandbags stacked in front, there is a nine-pounder cannon aimed at the beach, and the range of the nine-pounder cannon is 1,200 meters, which is enough to cover 500 meters of water in the sea.

There are more than a dozen bunkers, three miles in a row, and the beach is completely blocked off by ferries and canoes.

There are also communication trenches between the ground guns and the ground guns, which allow a canoe to carry ammunition supplies, or two to three people walking side by side.

The traffic trench was two meters deep, and even the soldiers of the Huaxia Kingdom had to step on a wooden box to look outside, and if the Japanese jumped in, stepping on the wooden box would not help, so they could only look for exits on the left and right sides or go out in a low-lying area that extends a section backwards.

Not far from the low-lying area, there is a half-buried soldier's living place more than ten meters away, and one such place can put a total of 50 soldiers.

These forces can be used to reinforce the bunkers and communication trenches in front of them in wartime to fight the enemy.

At a distance of five hundred meters there were a hundred houses hidden in the woods, on the slopes of the hills, or on the hills, where were the rest of the hundred soldiers and the chiefs of the hundred households.

The Lu State was a unit established by learning from the Huaxia Army, so their structure was the same as that of the Huaxia Army.

Farther away, in the large villages of Wulidi, there lived the people who came to support and the young men of the militia who had been temporarily recruited.

There is not one such position, there are more than a dozen on the island of Kitakyushu, and there are more coastal defenses on the island of Kyushu in the rear, which is aimed not only at the Japanese on the island of China, but also against the island of Shikoku, where the second prince is located, and the vast sea to the west, who knows if the enemy will bypass the fortified area from other places and make a sudden landing.

The entire island of Kyushu was turned into a World War II-era fortress for Japanese defense against U.S. landings.

Although these fortresses are a joke if they face the naval guns of the US army in World War II, the shells of more than 400 mm are simply a joke, but in the face of the army of the Bronze Age that is now only solid shells, this is simply incomprehensible, and can only fight trench warfare like the trench warfare during World War I.

Although Japan has a population of nearly 30 or 40 million, but now Shikoku Island is occupied, Kyushu Island is occupied, leaving only Honshu Island and Hokkaido Island two largest islands, the population has been cut down to 8 million people, and now because of the early Lu State to their conquest, all the places south of their Honshu Island have been destroyed, people are displaced, the population is dying of thirst, starvation, and flight, and the current Tokugawa shogunate in Japan has not been able to straighten out the relationship where, only relying on soldiers and horses to occupy, consolidating the territory, and unable to shake a large number of people to resume production, it is impossible to carry out large-scale mobilization, so there are not so many troops to attack Kyushu Island.

Japan lost 1.7 million people in the two battles, counting the Lu attack, and then the Japanese counterattack, as well as being killed by the Lu army in Xinlu Province, the second prince attacked Shikoku Island and killed the population, the last time the Chinese army shelled the coast of Japan, and the Lu Navy shelled the coast of Japan, taking away nearly 1,700,000 people, in general, 1.7 million people died, so that plus the population of the two small islands of Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island, nearly 10 million people were lost.

With the establishment of fortifications, Japan was no longer able to attack Kyushu Island, and Feng Quan was also relieved to carry out the livelihood work of Xinlu Province.

There are 800,000 people in Kagoshima County, 500,000 in Miyazaki County, 300,000 in Saga County, 300,000 in Nagasaki County, and only 30,000 people in Kitakyushu Island, and the remaining 70,000 soldiers and horses.

There are still 30,000 soldiers and horses, 10,000 in the east, 10,000 in the west, 10,000 in Kagoshima, and 30,000 newly recruited young men in the inland part to train in various camps, this time they will train for three months, and then replenish them to serve as garrisons in various prefectures.

Xinlu Mansion can only accept so many troops, and no matter how many people can't bear it.

Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 800,000, Oita Prefecture has a population of 300,000, and Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 100,000.

In view of the quality of the Japanese people, they still lived below the living standard in the early Ming Dynasty or the middle of the Ming Dynasty, mainly because there were many poor people, so the overall level of productivity was not high, and the quality of the soldiers was not high.

If they were allowed to work in the fields, they might be able to do a little bit of handiwork, but if they were any more, they would be blind, and the entire Japanese dynasty belonged to the stage of feudal slavery.

The daimyo generals would not allow the common people to have knowledge and skills, resulting in many low-level Japanese civilians either unable to survive and wandering around, or took refuge in those old men to become their domestic slaves.

So many people can be considered a burden for the tiny island of Kyushu, because there is not so much land for them to plant.

Xinlu began to implement the Confucian education of the Ming Dynasty, and the children before the age of seven were still as they did at the beginning of the Huaxia Army, not changing the previous Ming Dynasty teaching mode, private school education, and at the age of eight began to add some simplified Chinese characters, Mandarin education, instilling the knowledge and ideological education of the Chinese nation, for which the Chinese Kingdom sent nearly 30,000 trained teachers to them.

These teachers also come with their own interests, all the new teachers and old teachers who go to Sishan Prefecture, Yunnan Guizhou Prefecture, Yunnan Prefecture, and teach in the past three years, and have good assessment results, can become clerks in the Huaxia Kingdom, regular temporary workers, and have a record, and after going back, they will be promoted to more senior staff members, become official state teachers, and may be promoted to state officials in the future, of course, in the education system.

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