Chapter 908: The Sorrow of Cannon Fodder

Hong Tiancang cleared the rebellion in his own home, but in just two months, he lost 100,000 Southeast Asian servant soldiers, and lost 100,000 Japanese servant soldiers who were willing to obey him, as well as nearly 300,000 Japanese people, and finally bulldozed the rebellious Japanese servant army.

If you use Zhang Qiang's words, then it means that the cleanup is good, Hongtian Cannon eliminated 400,000 Japanese for the Huaxia Kingdom, and reduced the Japanese power of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1.8 million to more than 1.3 million, because the rebellion of the Japanese people on other small islands, as well as a series of hidden Japanese naturalized people on the island were also found out and killed, so it was more than 400,000.

In this way, the Japanese power of the Ryukyu Kingdom fell to an acceptable range, and the Japanese power within the territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom itself had been basically wiped out. After that, the Japanese people became slaves, no longer enjoyed privileges, and were demoted to the third class, on the same level as beggars, hooligans, and gangsters.

Many Japanese people fell into despair, so the Japanese people began to change their minds and sincerely serve the Ryukyu Kingdom.

And on Jeju Island, the Japanese did not react, first completely exterminated the Mongol people there, then attacked the Manchu people, and then exterminated the Manchu people, and the Manchu soldiers and Mongol soldiers retreated into the Han military camp and the Southeast Asian indigenous military camp to save their lives.

With the support of the Han soldiers, they also launched an attack on the Japanese people there, and some of the Japanese servants watched and watched, and some of them were killed with the soldiers and horses of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

As a result, Jeju Island, which Hongcheon Cannon took with great effort, turned into a chaotic battlefield.

However, due to the well-equipped Han army and the escort of the naval division, for a while, the soldiers and horses of the Japanese servant army rebelled could not completely capture and destroy the soldiers and horses of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

On Jeju Island, you have me, I have you, often in a village, the indigenous people of Southeast Asia occupy a part, the families of the Japanese servant army occupy a part, the Han people occupy a part, and then several parties fight each other, the county seat and various important places, the soldiers and horses of the Ryukyu Kingdom are also part of me, you occupy a part, or I occupy a county seat, you occupy a wharf, you occupy a town, I occupy another town, or the town is Han, and the outside of the town is Japanese, in short, the chaos is extreme, each has its own basis.

Before solving Amami Island, the Ryukyu Kingdom was at a disadvantage, but after the Hongtian Cannon solved Amami Island, with the help of the sailors, quickly sent the elite troops of the indigenous people of Southeast Asia to it, first helped the ports to maintain the defense, and then sent the Japanese servant army up to attack the Japanese camp.

Eliminate some rebels, and then increase troops to the Han camps, replenish ammunition, open up the communication between many Han camps, and stabilize the position.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the Ryukyu Kingdom occupied a small part of the territory and were inferior in strength, but with the advantage of reinforcements and weapons, they resisted the attack of the Japanese servant army rebels, and then some of the Japanese servant troops defected, and their forces increased greatly, although they were still not as many as the rebels, but gradually regained some of the disadvantages.

The war greatly weakened the power of the Ryukyu Kingdom on Jeju Island.

But the Japanese were not without damage, 100,000 Japanese servants were killed in battle, evaporated, and 100,000 Japanese civilians either fled or died, and suddenly changed from an advantage to a slight advantage.

However, the Japanese still relied on small boats to send some weapons and ammunition, and during this period, they continued to attack the sailors of the Ryukyu Kingdom, destroying nearly 30 small merchant ships of the Ryukyu Kingdom, capturing and capturing more than 20 ships, and strengthening the strength of their sailors.

With the cooperation of the soldiers and horses of the Goguryeo naval division, their own naval division was formed, and the naval divisions of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which could evade patrols at night, were able to transport troops and supplies to Jeju Island, and even transported some Ming artillery produced by Goguryeo, as well as some captured officers and soldiers of the Daejin Kingdom who were originally captured by the Qing Dynasty to command the servant army to fight.

It can be said that the battle of the Ryukyu Kingdom to clear the Japanese rebels inadvertently became a war between the younger brother of the Qing Dynasty and the Huaxia Kingdom.

After gaining actual combat experience, the Qing Kingdom transferred 50,000 Japanese soldiers and horses from them, and 30,000 Goguryeo soldiers and horses returned to Shengjing, and then continued to form elite troops of the Han Army Banner, mixed with them to become the soldiers and horses of the Great Qing Kingdom, making up for the loss of 1.2 million Qing soldiers and horses in the early stage because of an unexpected counterattack.

And some captured Han prisoners, the soldiers of the Japanese servant army of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the soldiers of the Ryukyu Kingdom of Southeast Asia, as well as the people of Southeast Asia and the Han people, were sent to Yanjing, and when China was still clearing the Qing army around Yanjing, these nearly 300,000 captive soldiers were sent to Yanjing to participate in defense and be used as cannon fodder.

300,000 people from Goguryeo were requisitioned to build fortifications in various parts of Tohoku, and 100,000 Japanese people were also requisitioned, all of whom were Japanese people who fled from the Ryukyu Kingdom to Goguryeo Silla Province and are now Japanese people who did not believe it.

The result of this was that nearly 110,000 Japanese and Goguryeo people died under the custody of the Qing army of the Eight Banners, either exhausted to death, or killed at will.

And these two kingdoms had to pinch their noses and admit it.

Because they all need the support and help of the Great Qing State, although the Great Qing State has been suppressed all these years, but the foundation they laid in the first 20 years is very solid, and there are still nearly 30 million people loyal to them, and many Han people in the third generation have recognized themselves as the flag bearers of the Great Qing Dynasty, not the Han people.

It can be said that the Qing Dynasty is already about to build Yanjing into the Maginot Line in the East, and the scope of the war alone is more than 100 kilometers away, and the number of points reaches thousands, which is no longer the war mode that people can imagine in this era, which is a bit like the desperate rhythm of Germany and France and Britain in World War I.

The soldiers and horses of the Huaxia army Zhao Hu were almost exhausted, although the battle was captured and the servant army was fighting, but they had to drive these people, and it took nearly half a year to compress the enemy's defense line in the direction of Yanjing by nearly 30 kilometers, and it was still more than 50 kilometers away from Yanjing.

The rear continued to send Japanese prisoners and servant troops, and Wei Wuji almost transferred the Japanese naturalized people in Southeast Asia, the naturalized indigenous people in Southeast Asia, and the servant armies of the two recently.

And Zhang Qiang's chief of staff, Xiao Fei, drew all the alien races in the country to the front line.

The sacrifice was not small, but the loss was not big for the Huaxia Kingdom, because nearly a million foreign people were sacrificed, and nearly 500,000 servant troops were sacrificed, which was much faster than Zhang Qiang's use of hard labor camps for decades to kill the families of two million Han traitors, as well as the prisoners of the Taixi coalition army, pirates, and the Japanese, and the diehards of various forces that resisted him.

However, the Huaxia Army sacrificed a lot of soldiers from the newly transferred garrison brigade, all of whom were new recruits, and the veterans of the garrison brigade died too little, they all became fine, and the casualties of the first corps of the Huaxia Army were negligible, but only 1,000 people, which was similar to the sacrifice of the US army in Iraq.

With the passage of time, by the spring of 1671, the foreign races in the country were basically cleaned up, and the Japanese naturalized people immigrated to the vicinity of Yanjing, with a population of nearly 500 people.

More than two million people were killed and wounded, and they had to pay even more, risking every day to provide food, build roads, dig trenches, and transport supplies to the various branches that would not be able to do so today.

Zhang Qiang asked for another million Japanese people from the Ryukyu Kingdom who had sold to Hongtian Cannon, of course, there were only a few hundred thousand people before, some of whom were captured by the Ryukyu Kingdom, or the original Japanese people in the occupied territory.

The people on the Japanese island were basically moved here, and when they arrived in June, the Japanese people were tired to death, attacked by the Qing cavalry, and killed a million people, and the Japanese servant army advanced more than 10 kilometers under huge casualties, and changed it to rest, and the Southeast Asian servant army was on top.

By August, there were only 1 million Southeast Asian natives, 2 million Japanese, and 500,000 servants, but they had already advanced within 10 kilometers of Yanjing.

According to the intelligence, Goguryeo suffered huge casualties this time, because the people and soldiers and horses they supported to Yanjing in the Qing Dynasty were consumed in it, nearly two million people.

At the same time, there were nearly three million people and officers and soldiers of Han blood who resolutely supported the Qing Dynasty, and there were no more Han people of Han blood within 120 kilometers around Yanjing, but the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty were not damaged, as long as they were the Eight Banners Army and the Han Army Banner, because they did not use their own soldiers and horses.

The millions of dollars on both sides consumed each other, but in fact, the main consumption was materials and ammunition, guns, and other races from Japan, Southeast Asia, and Goguryeo, which they considered unsuitable for equality with their own people.

By September, the Ryukyu Kingdom finally achieved the victory of the internal rebel army, recovering Jeju Island, this battle, Japan consumed 500,000 people, 100,000 soldiers and horses they formed, Goguryeo consumed a lot of materials and guns, money, lost 110,000 soldiers and horses, but obtained nearly 70 armed merchant ships of the Ryukyu Kingdom, destroyed and sank nearly 100 ships, and captured a 1,000-ton warship.

Goguryeo had a navy division, and Japan also had a small number of sailors, nearly 3,000 men and 20 boats.

The number of Japanese civilians has increased to 3.5 million, and the number of soldiers and horses has increased to 600,000.

The Ryukyu Kingdom, on the other hand, suffered heavy losses, and the prime minister's original domestic army of more than 2 million Japanese people and nearly 500,000 servant troops were left with only 30,000 servant troops, 100,000 Japanese people.

Secondly, there were nearly 1 million people in Southeast Asia, but now there are only 300,000 left, and there are still 100,000 servant troops left.

Although the Great Qing Dynasty captured 2.3 million captives and people of Han blood in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sishan, Shanxi and other places in the Huaxia Kingdom, plus the original remaining population of more than 400,000 people, the Ryukyu Kingdom came to a population exchange, and the Han soldiers and horses increased to 500,000 soldiers and horses, but the real elite soldiers and horses were consumed in the battle, and the combat effectiveness changed from the previous gradual increase to a gradual weakening.

The Ryukyu Kingdom had grown from a population of more than 4 million to a population of 5.6 million supported by the Kata Kingdom, but now it has a population of less than 3.5 million.

The naval division has also been weakened, originally there were 300 warships, more than 100 search warships, nearly 600 merchant ships, at this moment, because of the battle with Japan, Goguryeo, and the naval division of the Great Qing Dynasty, sneak attack, only more than 200 warships, more than 90 warships, more than 400 merchant ships, the strength has been greatly weakened.

In this regard, Hong Tianpao hated his second brother on the one hand, and hated the Japanese and Goguryeo on the other, and sent warships and warships to bombard various Japanese ports in Silla Province.

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