Chapter 748: The Second Battlefield

Tosa Shimizu Town, a small wharf, this day suddenly came a few fishing boats bigger than canoes, dozens of fishermen, quietly disembarked, for these people, the Japanese fishermen on the small wharf did not feel at all, although the battle was in full swing, but after all, everyone still had to eat, right?

The area of the four countries is not large, there is not much farmland cultivated, many people are actually fishermen, far away can not go, afraid of encountering the Lu army of Xinlu Mansion, this is their name for the Feng Quan forces of Xinlu Mansion, they are still in the news a few months ago, they do not know that Xinlu Mansion is actually the power of the Huaxia Army, they only know that Xinlu Mansion has been at war with them in the past half a month.

The soldiers guarding the shore fortifications were all composed of nearby fishermen, and it was okay in the past, everyone still had the heart to interrogate, but since the Xinlu Fu Navy Division shelled all the coastal villages along the coast, after the shore fortifications, the militiamen actually ran to the interior, at least far away from the coast, even the people of Tosa Shimizu Town were mostly scattered, they suffered heavy losses in the shelling, and they were killed by shells in the middle of the night, and there were only a few people in the entire wharf.

As soon as the fishermen got off the boat, they dispersed, and without anyone knowing, they surveyed the surrounding terrain, the strength of the shore fortifications, and the arrangement of soldiers and horses around them.

At night, dozens of people sneaked back to the fishing boat, took out guns and ammunition, long swords, bows and arrows from the mezzanine of the fishing boat, changed into the clothes of the militia here, and went around the surrounding coastal fortifications where soldiers were stationed, and eliminated them one by one, until the soldiers of the coastal fortifications on both sides and more than three miles were eliminated, and then sent people to the shore to light torches, and sent a signal to the sea according to the agreed code.

Soon, scattered fishing boats rushed ashore, more fishermen and people dressed as militia of Shikoku Island ran ashore, quickly separated to accept the shore fortifications, several teams of men and horses rushed to the town not far away, a few miles of distance soon arrived, several teams of people and horses separated, quickly disappeared into the darkness, and soon the town let out a suppressed scream, and then drowned in the sound of the waves.

Soon the town changed hands, and several teams of people sent out scouts to ambush the nearby military camp, and sent personnel back to the shore to continue signaling.

Soon, a large number of ships appeared on the sea, first small merchant ships, constantly dropping soldiers and ammunition supplies, food, soldiers and horses, immediately sailed out, and rushed to the nearby shore fortifications or barracks.

Behind were large merchant ships covered by transport ships, more soldiers landed, and more supplies, ammunition, artillery were laid.

Many cannon fodder soldiers carried flat poles, baskets, shovels and axes, rushed to the outside of the town in the direction of the enemy, and quickly excavated the fortifications.

The landed soldiers came down and gathered one by one, and when each group was assembled, they immediately rushed to the enemy camp in the darkness.

This is the protrusion of the island, itself is only more than five miles wide, ten miles long, and was soon occupied in the battle, more soldiers arrived, more artillery arrived, a simple line of defense was outlined, making full use of the original enemy's shore fortifications, building a defense system against the sea and land, and then the cannon fodder soldiers landed, and the ignorant poor people of Southeast Asia were driven down to participate in the excavation of fortifications, repair the town, and the regular troops quickly advanced.

In one night, he broke through fifteen miles and wiped out 30,000 horses of the four militias defending here, and almost no escaped.

At dawn the regular troops arrived, quickly assembled the cannon fodder troops, and advanced rapidly. They advanced inland along the island, and at this time the gunfire was heard throughout the island, and the enemy on the island of Shikoku finally knew that he had been attacked by the enemy.

Fifteen or sixteen fishing villages have fallen, a town has fallen, 30,000 soldiers and horses have been wiped out, and more soldiers and horses are collapsing.

By the time the four militias had been mobilized to stop the enemy, about 30,000 soldiers of the Ryukyu Kingdom had already advanced twenty miles, occupied all the territory of the island protrusion, and extended five miles outward.

The third prince personally commanded, and immediately released 30,000 cannon fodder soldiers to rush farther away to harass the enemy, while the regular army relied on Maoshi Town and 40,000 towns to start camping and building a new defense line.

In the evening, 15,000 cannon fodder soldiers returned, and according to reports, they had captured 60,000 Japanese civilians, burned 68 villages, two towns, and defeated about 10,000 militiamen.

At this time, 50,000 cannon fodder landed on the island again, and another 10,000 militia and regular army troops landed, and the third prince was already happy.

Ordered 50,000 cannon fodder to attack, and when they came back alive, they would be treated as militiamen, and these cannon fodder would be 100 people alive and 1,000 people as a team, and give them broadswords and spears, wooden escapes, leather armor, bows and arrows, and even captured the golden 1 and golden 2 arquebuses of the great prince, as long as they continue to infiltrate the enemy's hinterland to make trouble and destroy the enemy militia.

Capture the enemy's civilians.

I have to say that the third prince's trick is very poisonous, the cannon fodder is not Japanese, for their own lives or the happiness of their families, these indigenous soldiers exposed their beastly instincts, and frantically marched towards the interior of Shikoku Island, even the generals under the third prince don't know how far they went, anyway, they threw these people on the enemy island, herded sheep, and then looked at it with a smile, and soon many people came back one after another, according to their accounts, some have run to Ehime County, another county of the enemy, Where they burned, looted, and then where they were caught, the people rushed back.

During this period, some people were chased by the enemy's militia forces and then the whole army was wiped out, and some were beaten to death by the enemy's civilians.

However, his regular army landed in a steady stream, and then built a defensive line, staying behind the defensive line, and some soldiers with or returning from Southeast Asian natives drove the captured Japanese people back to the shore, and ship by ship loaded, and began to be transported to Xinlu Province.

Where a larger camp was built, a punishment camp, the Huaxia Army had already sent officers from the punishment camp, and the soldiers were ready to take over these prisoners.

Many third-generation unemployed youths in the core area of the Huaxia Army were organized, and then began simple military training and assessment, and were organized into brigades, which were managed by experienced soldiers dispatched by the militia headquarters, and a group of people were transported to Xinlu Province every week to become the backbone of the militia, the common people, and the backbone of the punishment camp, and to help manage the punishment camp, which was a good opportunity for them to exercise.

Their duty was to study, train, and then transport these captives, and when they were done, they were ready to take root in Xinlu Province and become the Han Chinese people in Xinlu Province.

It was not until the evening that the second prince and his bureaucrats figured out the situation, and the third prince's troops had landed on the island of Shikoku and had established a second battlefield in one of the island protrusions of Shikoku.

Nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses have begun to advance inland, and some soldiers and horses have begun to clean up the coastal fortifications outside the place where Feng Quan is located along the coastline, and the enemy is only less than fifteen miles away from Feng Quan's defense line, and soon the two armies will reconcile, if they are allowed to reconcile, then Kochi County will be unable to hold on, and at least half of the territory will be lost.

(End of chapter)