Chapter 738: Doom of Shikoku Island 1
There were quite a few captured enemies, about 30,000 people, why 30,000?
For in the naval battle nearly twenty wounded ships of the enemy were also captured, and on each ship there were nearly a hundred sailors and artillerymen, and some enemy warriors who jumped into the gang to fight, and these people numbered fifteen hundred.
and the cannon fodder farmers who attacked the county town during the war, who survived and were captured, and who had to take responsibility for their stupidity or bad luck.
There were also some thugs who took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble when the city was captured by the enemy, and the enemy captured nearly 3,000 people.
Nearly 8,000 prisoners were captured on the docks, mostly cannon fodder, peasants and wandering samurai, as well as the enemy's recruits who had been trained for months, all Japanese.
There were also more than 10,000 prisoners who had previously captured the enemy.
So many prisoners under the threat of whips and bayonets, first cleaned the wharf, repaired the trestle, the wharf resumed operation in two days, although some of the lost trestle bridges could not be repaired, and needed to be rebuilt, but the existing ten trestle bridges were put into use, and the wrecks in and out of the bay were salvaged by the constant coming and going ships, piled up on the nearby beach, and the channel was emptied.
The town was cleaned out and rebuilt, and the captives worked day and night to clean up the county town and the docks, the ruined villages, and then put them into reconstruction, and every day people were killed, and every day the bodies were recovered from the sea and then gathered and burned.
By a week later, the prefecture of Kagoshima had largely returned to its original appearance.
However, Zhang Qiang did not use the First Fleet to find the eldest prince to theoretically support the enemy's attack on Xinlu Mansion, and the trade between the Huaxia Kingdom and the main island of Lu was still ongoing, and the garrison was still stationed on the main island of Lu State.
The eldest prince did not dare to blatantly attack the garrison and the fleet.
He still fought to the death with the third prince on the sea, as well as on some islands between the two sides, and the soldiers and horses of both sides were changed to the natives of Southeast Asia and the natives of the South Seas, and the natives of India, using them as artillery to attack the opponent, and sometimes sending small teams of men and horses to attack each other, and the fleets of both sides were still fighting at sea.
The battle between the eldest prince and the third prince will not affect Feng Quan here for the time being, the two sides are basically evenly matched, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Dutch, they all value Japan's population advantage, only this advantage can allow them to contain the Huaxia army, sometimes it is said that the Taixi people are not stupid, they have been dealing with the Huaxia army for more than ten years, and they must have figured out some routines of the Huaxia army.
What's more, there is Du Ge, a traitor, who constantly gives them advice.
Your own people know your own people best.
Feng Quan's side, with the defeat of the second prince, the Japanese stopped the attack after losing more than 10,000 cannon fodder soldiers, from this point of view, their attack was simply to cooperate with the second prince's sneak attack, to a certain extent, their goal was achieved, because they made Xinlu Mansion basically lose more than 60% of the assistance given by the Huaxia army, and at the same time caused the displacement of 200,000 people of Xinlu Mansion, the death of 30,000 people, and the wharf was also reduced by 30 percent. It slowed down the Huaxia Army's support for Xinlu Province, and the blow to Xinlu Province was almost devastating.
With such a loss, how could Feng Quan swallow this breath.
In less than a week, Feng Quan obtained 30,000 regular army soldiers who had undergone actual combat training from Kong Youxing, of which 3,000 were backbone veterans and 500 were elite soldiers from the original Lu State.
After borrowing 500 elite soldiers from Zhang Qiang, Feng Quan integrated the remaining troops in Kagoshima County and obtained 8,000 militia soldiers with a certain combat effectiveness who had experienced the war.
After promising the benefits of 3,000 captured Japanese samurai, these Japanese samurai became their leading party, the puppet army.
After that, 10,000 poor people from the entire Xinlu Province were recruited to serve as civilian husbands and cannon fodder troops.
Feng Quan gathered 60,000 soldiers and horses in Kagoshima County.
Sai selected some sailor warships that were good at fighting, leaving a small half to patrol and protect the sea surface of Kagoshima County and Xinlu Prefecture, and collected 500 merchant ships of more than 300 tons from other ports, Feng Quan took 60,000 soldiers and horses, 300 warships, and 500 merchant ships, and sent troops in the middle of the night to kill the island where the second prince was located from the sea.
The county seat of Kochi, the capital of the second prince's power, is also a port city, the second prince stared at the Kyushu Island on the left, the other eye on the shortcut area on the right, and stared at the opposite China Island with both eyes.
With a population of more than 4 million at once, they are also afraid, the resistance in their territory is not nothing, and the Japanese are not good at stubble, and the resistance one after another makes it impossible for them to concentrate on development before, Hong Chengchou's sons are not stupid, of course they know the importance of development.
This is also the fact that they have not been looking for trouble with Xinlu Mansion before, so that Xinlu Mansion has developed steadily for a few months, during which they only carried out some infiltration and rebellion against Xinlu Mansion in the early stage, creating some minor troubles, and did not carry out major military attacks, until they also developed for a few months and stabilized the situation in the territory a little.
And the Qing Dynasty also sent people to contact and broker them to restore relations with the Japanese, and they rejoined the team against Feng Quan, just like Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Kingdom and Japan's hostile relations, although hostile, but sometimes also carried out some low-key commercial trade, the warships of both sides saw each other and hit each other to the death, but the merchant ships saw it, but they could deal with the friendly deal, greeting.
Before that, they had been focusing on developing and dealing with the Japanese, and they were not stupid, the Japanese were large, and the bloody fight they fought with Feng Quan would only cheapen the Japanese, so their main energy was actually focused on dealing with the Japanese.
After relations improved, they received support from the Dutch, who sent troops to train their sailors, soldiers, and horses, and helped them to establish factories for the production of weapons and armor, swords, guns, and halberds, and the Japanese withdrew their claims and hostilities towards their territory, bowed their heads and cooperated with them, giving them supplies and food, and doing business with them.
In this way, the development of Shikoku Island has improved, and the establishment of soldiers and horses on Shikoku Island has entered the right track.
In the four large counties and districts on Shikoku Island ruled by the second prince, a total of 500,000 militia troops were established, 100,000 in Kochi County, 100,000 in Kochi County, where Kochi County is located, and the other three counties and districts are 100,000 militias.
100,000 militia is actually equal to 100,000 high-grade cannon fodder, equipped with cold weapons, and the weapons are all weapons they brought from the Lu country, if they want to fight with the Huaxia army, these 100,000 people are a rabble, but if they want to deal with the Japanese, these 100,000 people are also a headache for Japan, because the current combat mode of the Japanese is still the use of Zhang Qiang when he started to drive the cannon fodder to flood the enemy, and then use elite troops and firearms troops to smash the enemy's formation and attack the enemy, making the enemy demoralized and the troops collapsed. Then let the cavalry go after the enemy's combat mode,
These 100,000 soldiers and horses were just right to cope with the Japanese attack.
For this reason, the Japanese are also very troubled, if they want to fight a war of attrition, no million Japanese will not be able to fight the power of the second prince.
In fact, not all of these 100,000 militiamen are rabble, there are about 10,000 soldiers and horses, all of which are elite militias composed of elite and capable samurai selected from these 100,000 people, and then they select people and horses from these elite militias and send them to the barracks where the elite soldiers of the Lu State brought by the original second prince are selected, trained, and finally replenish the second prince's own elite regular soldiers.
After two major battles with the Japanese and the landing on Shikoku Island to fight, in fact, there were not many elite soldiers of the Lu Kingdom brought by the second prince and the loyal soldiers he had, and the second prince supplemented his regular army soldiers in this way.
In the past year, his regular army had grown to 50,000 soldiers and horses, with 10,000 artillery men to help control by the Dutch, equipped with cannons originally brought from the Lu State, as well as cannons produced by the Qing army itself, as well as old cannons dismantled from the ships sold to them by the British and Dutch.
That is, the population of 4 million Shikoku Island, he has made nearly 600,000 troops, and there is a bit of a taste of reckless militarism.
But the second prince also has no choice, he implemented the system of all the people on the island being soldiers, and the militarized management system.
The implementation of the Qing Dynasty's strict ethnic and hierarchical system, otherwise the tens of thousands of people he brought with him, and the officials and common people who were originally loyal to him from the Lu State, were not as strong as the Han people Feng Quan had originally landed in the county seat of Kagoshima.
How can you manage millions of Japanese people?
I don't know why, the second prince and his son just hate the Huaxia Kingdom, not only the Huaxia Kingdom and their father have been fighting for many years, but also the Huaxia Kingdom successfully broke up the Lu Kingdom and drove the Lu Kingdom to this small island, and the island did not give peace of mind, as soon as the three brothers separated, they fought for power and profit with each other, and the Huaxia Kingdom pounced again, which made the second prince very disgusted, and even hated the Huaxia Kingdom.
At the same time, I also feel that the Lu Kingdom is under the pressure of the Huaxia Kingdom to fight with Japan, and at the same time sympathize with Japan, if it were not for the Huaxia Kingdom, the Japanese can still live in peace and stability, if it were not for the Huaxia Kingdom to unify the Ming Dynasty in the early morning, how could so many things happen, he Laozi is above the court, they can also be high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty in the future, get ahead, and worship the prime minister, but all this has become impossible because of the rise of the Huaxia Kingdom, and now they are still oppressed by the Huaxia Kingdom, and the Japanese are eyeing the enemy.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Highness, it's not good, the Huaxia Army, the Huaxia Army has been killed."
(End of chapter)