Chapter 10: Two Battalions

To the east of Daxikou Town, on a fertile field covering an area of tens of thousands of acres, countless people are working in the fields. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

At this time, it was February of the second year of the Great Struggle, and the early spring was approaching, and these people were leveling the land in the fields and preparing for spring ploughing.

Not far from this fertile field, simple tents had been set up on a large flat dirt slope near the edge of a small stream, and on the road leading to the dirt slope, groups of soldiers in armor were escorting groups of strangely dressed Wako ronin to the dirt slope.

In this temporary camp set up on the dirt slope, tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners have already been imprisoned here, and 1,000 soldiers of the guard battalion under the command of Huang Jingtian's A Huilan are responsible for guarding it.

On the outskirts of the camp, some marching men were cooking for the watching Japanese captives.

"Where do you say these pirates came from? Why are there robbers attacking every day? ā€

In the fertile field, looking at the procession walking by the field road, a 40-year-old man opened his mouth and said suspiciously, then looked at the soldiers who were in charge of escorting, and said proudly:

"Fortunately, our Yangwu army is strong, we can defeat them every time, and we have captured so many prisoners"

"Yes, but why is General Yangwu so good to these Japanese prisoners, and he still eats and drinks for them every day?"

A farmer in a black linen coat next to the 40-year-old farmer echoed the words, saying that the age difference between the two was not much.

"Hmph, what do you know, General Yangwu is very useful in raising them, you don't know, General Yangwu has already ordered, in the future, these Japanese are also the people under the rule of General Yangwu's mansion, just like us, it is said that General Yangwu also intends to select some people from these Japanese to join the army, and will also set up a special water division"

The two farmers who had just spoken were in the same field at this time, and next to this field, in another field across a ridge, a much younger farmer could not help but boast triumphantly when he heard this.

Among these villagers, there is often a trivial matter that is worth talking about and showing off for a long time.

"Hehe, if you want me to say, it's none of our business, whatever, anyway, General Yangwu is here, make sure we are safe here, let's just plant our land well, it's enough!"

While the three of them were discussing lively, an old farmer who was squatting on the ridge of the field and smoking a dry tobacco couldn't help knocking the ashes in his pipe, and said with a smile without raising his head.

For these ordinary people, the constant appearance of the Japanese army during this period of time was just a little talk after dinner, and as soon as they appeared, they were quickly wiped out by the various armies under Sima Yu's command, and did not pose any threat to them at all.

"Hmph, it's boring!"

The old farmer was obviously more prestigious among the crowd, and as soon as he said that, the two farmers of about 40 stopped talking and began to bury their heads in their work, but the young farmer saw that they ignored him, and said with some amusement.

At this time, more than a month had passed since the battle with the Japanese outside Gezhou Village, and after tasting the sweetness of sweeping away the Japanese army, Sima Yu immediately ordered the six battalions of the Shaoshan Battalion, the Guards Battalion, the Changfeng Battalion, the Guoyi Army, the Huben Battalion, and the White Pole Army to be mobilized to Daxikou Town.

Sima Yu kept mobilizing the Japanese army to land in Gezhou Village, drawing two battalions from the six battalions and taking turns to set up an ambush outside Gezhou Village to annihilate the attacking Japanese army.

In the actual battle with the Japanese invaders, he not only achieved the purpose of military training, but also recruited many Japanese generals for Sima Yu and captured many Japanese soldiers.

In just one month, Sima Yu would mobilize an army of Japanese pirates every day to land on the riverbank of Gezhou Village, and in a continuous period of more than a month, a full 35 Japanese pirates had been mobilized.

In the battle with these Japanese army, Sima Yu captured a total of more than 10 Japanese generals, in addition to Honda Tadashi in the middle stage of refining gods, there are still nine ghosts Jialong, a pirate name who is more famous, and the others are some unknown Japanese generals who are not known to him for refining the body and practicing the qi mirror.

Nine Ghost Yoshitaka, the retainer of Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo of the Japanese Warring States Azuchi Momoyama period, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, is the eighth generation of the Nine Ghost Family's naval army. In 1574, Oda Nobunaga made great contributions to the Oda army by shooting at sea to support the Oda army during the suppression of Ise Nagashima Island. Later, in the Second Battle of Kizu Kawaguchi, he built an ironclad ship to crush the naval army of Murakami Buyoshi, a subordinate of the Mori clan, and because of this work, he was given a 35,000-stone territory and was called a pirate daimyo. Later, he belonged to the Western Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, was defeated, committed suicide, and died at the age of 59.

In addition to the more than 10 Japanese generals who were captured, there were nearly 50,000 Japanese prisoners, more than two-thirds of whom were made up of Japanese ronin and samurai, and the remaining less than one-third were women, children, and children.

After 35 days of continuous suppression, the six battalions under Sima Yu also lost three or four hundred people each, totaling about 2,000 people.

However, the strength of each battalion has also been rapidly improved in actual combat during this time, especially under the 150% bonus effect of the secret record of the soldier's book, the effect is even more amazing.

Not only has the originally powerful Shaking Mountain Battalion basically recovered its combat effectiveness, but even the five battalions of the Guards Battalion, the Changfeng Battalion, the Guoyi Army, the Tiger Battalion, and the White Pole Army are now not weak in combat effectiveness, and they are completely comparable to the 2,000 elite white pole soldiers under the command of Qin Liangyu at the beginning.

With a huge gain, the loss of 2,000 people is worth it.

Among these captured Japanese soldiers, many ronin samurai were familiar with the water station, and there was also the Nine Demons Yoshitaka, a famous naval commander during the Warring States period of Japan.

Therefore, after Sima Yu captured the Nine Ghosts Jialong, he appointed him as the captain of the Sailor Division as soon as possible, and was responsible for selecting 5,000 elites from these captured Japanese soldiers to form the South Battalion of the Sailor Division, and the warships were mainly composed of more than 30 Fuchuan warships and a walker produced in Yujia Town.

The sailor battalion under the command of Yu Dayou was renamed the sailor north camp.

The two battalions of the naval division were stationed in the north and south under the rule of the Yangwu Army, and the northern battalion of Yu Dayou's naval division was based in Zhongba County in the north, and the main force was stationed on Zhongba Island to maintain the river route in the northwest of Qilin County.

The Southern Battalion of the Nine Ghosts Jialong's sailors was mainly stationed at the port outside Daxikou Town, maintaining the river route southeast of Qilin County.

It is believed that Jiugui Jialong, who has a large number of suitable naval forces, will be able to quickly establish the southern camp of the water division, and once these two major naval divisions are owned, the strength of the entire navy under the rule of the Yangwu Army will far exceed the surrounding major forces, and the major water caravans under the rule of the Yangwu Army will also be protected, which is conducive to maintaining and expanding the commercial development under the rule of Sima Yu.

At the same time, Sima Yu also appointed Honda Tadashi as the captain of the Zhongwu Battalion, and was also responsible for selecting 5,000 elite samurai to form the Zhongwu Battalion, while the remaining 10 Japanese generals also served in the Zhongwu Battalion.

Although these two battalions were composed of Japanese robbers, Sima Yu naturally would not be stingy with these two armies that he could trust, and immediately mobilized a large amount of equipment from Qilin City to equip the South Battalion of the Water Division and the Zhongwu Battalion.

In just one month, two more battalions of soldiers were added to Sima Yu's command.

As for the remaining 40,000 or so widows, Sima Yu is ready to distribute them to various villages and towns in Zhongba and Jumei counties, because after all, most of these people are young and strong people with labor, and Zhongba County and Jumei County are in a state of vast land and sparse population and lack of labor, which is conducive to the development of the two counties.