This short battle ended quickly, and the army from Fengguo basically had no survivors, including nearly 20,000 soldiers including the main general, all of whom were killed outside the fortified city, and the news of this battle soon spread throughout the fortified city, and those who had pinned their hopes on this army outside the castle had been discouraged at this time, completely lost hope, and began to accept the reality. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the Sui army was cleaning up the battlefield outside the city, and at the same time began to collect grain, grass and money in the city, because they had already circled those palace ministers in the city before, so they were basically doing something to them at this time.

Although the fleet of the Sui army this time could not transport all the materials at once, because Luo Shixin had already taken a string of islands between Kyushu Island and Jeju Island before, after all the materials from the Zhusi Kingdom were transported to the ship, they could first transport them to the island where Luo Shixin was located, and then turn back to transport other materials after putting down the food and population.

And because the army wants to take away the young and strong labor of Zhusi country, so at this time the army in the city has begun to scatter and catch the strong men, the scale of the city is not large, the residents of the city are only about 50,000 or 60,000, and most of the population is in the villages on all sides.

And Qin Qiong asked Luo Cheng to lead the team and lead 10,000 troops to the north, and the army they had defeated before found out their identities after asking the officials of Zhusi State in the city, and knew that they were the army of Fengguo in the north.

And Fengguo is actually smaller than Zhusi, but because he is between Kyushu Island and the main island of Japan, the military pressure he faces is greater than that of Zhusi, so his army is not small compared to Zhusiguo, there are a total of 20,000 to 30,000 troops in the country, and the previous war annihilated their 20,000 elite army, which makes the number of remaining soldiers in their country should be less than 10,000, and the combat effectiveness of Fengguo's army has been seen before, so this 10,000 army Sui army is not very careful, And in this case, it is of course the most appropriate choice to send an army to loot the country while the opponent's main army is annihilated.

Qin Qiong's original intention was just to send Luo Cheng to accept a small country that had been greatly damaged in the past, but what happened next was somewhat unexpected to him, so that his original plan was completely disrupted.

However, this unexpected episode also changed the history of the whole of Japan, and it can be regarded as a little butterfly that instigated its wings to change history!

Luo Cheng took 10,000 troops to the north, marched north for two days, and finally crossed the border between Zhusi and Fengguo and entered the territory of Fengguo.

The area of Fengguo is much smaller than that of Zhusi, but the geographical location of Fengguo is relatively special, because of the sea on both sides, so the terrain here is relatively flat, there is a lot of arable land in the country, and the population is about the same as that of Zhusiguo, otherwise it will not be able to feed so many troops, and in addition to farming, they also have a large number of fishermen in the country, because of the proximity to the sea, the shipbuilding industry is also relatively developed, although it is not possible to build a sea ship like the Sui Dynasty, but some small and medium-sized ships are still a lot, Moreover, they have more contact with the countries to the north, so they also have a certain amount of trade, and among the four countries on the island of Kyushu, Toyokoku has the most developed commerce.

Among the Japanese merchants who did business with Qin Qiong and them before, there were a group of merchants from Fengguo, who were very interested in paper, ironware and cloth from the Central Plains, and the things they brought were mainly Japanese iron ore, grain and grass and other materials.

And their main trade partners are not actually the Sui Dynasty, but the three countries on the Korean Peninsula, among these three countries, their relationship with Baekje is the best, and the relationship with Silla is relatively poor, mainly because Silla has sent troops to fight a total of more than 100 countries, and more than 100 countries are actually a country on Tsushima Island, and like Zhusi Kingdom, Fengguo is also a vassal state subject to the Wa Kingdom, so they have no good relationship with the suzerain.

Although the three countries on the Korean Peninsula are not as strong and prosperous as the Sui Dynasty, this place has been the territory of China since the Qin and Han dynasties, and the Han Dynasty also set up Lelang County here, so the culture of the Central Plains is very popular here, so their forging and smelting technology is far from being comparable to the hillbillies from the poor countryside like the Wa Kingdom.

Baekje is located in the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula, and their technology is not as powerful as Goguryeo in the north, but it is still much more advanced than that of the Wa Kingdom, and it is precisely because of this that in the trade with Baekje, the Wa Kingdom and its vassal countries absorbed a lot of advanced technology from Baekje, such as forging and smelting technology, as well as grain cultivation technology, and even Japanese horses were passed down from Baekje.

Among them, the Japanese state has abundant financial resources and resources, so it first began to transition to a civilized society, while the strength of the other vassal states is much weaker, far from this point, but it is also moving forward.

For example, in the Suofeng Kingdom, their previous army had no armor, and the weapons were not metal, they were all wooden recommended weapons, such as spears and other things, which also appeared in the previous battles with the Sui army.

However, after dealing with Baekje, they gradually learned to smelt and forge, although the weapons they made were still crude and not comparable to the standard weapons of the Sui army, but compared to their previous weapons, they were much more advanced.

The main enemy of Fengguo's army was actually a small country in the north, and this country was the Kingdom of Qin.

The population of the Qin Kingdom is not large, there are more than 20,000 people, and the population has not been small and cannot develop, not because of the aging of the population and family planning in later generations, but because they are in a state of war all year round.

The fertility rate of ancient people was very terrifying, and the nomads of the steppe were undoubtedly more terrifying than the agricultural peoples of the south in this regard.

In ancient times, there was no entertainment, when it was dark, there was no electricity, and there were no lights, whether it was kerosene lamps or candles, don't look at a lot of them lit in TV series, such as when Jing Ke played by Jet Li in "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou went to assassinate Qin Shi Huang played by Chen Daoming, Qin Shi Huang lit a lot of candles in front of him in order to prevent assassins, and he couldn't have any murderous aura that could affect the flame of the candle (excuseme? Speaking of the candles that appear here, although there was wax honey in the pre-Qin period, there are no drops like this kind of shaped candles!

In ancient times, there were no lights, when the sky was dark, the eyes were black, and you couldn't see anything, what if you couldn't see it? Then you can only go to bed, and those who have a wife can take the opportunity to be greasy and crooked (the nutrition in ancient times was very poor, and it is estimated that it will not snap a few times), and those who do not have a wife can only look up to the sky and sigh.

In the era when there is no contraception, the probability of a woman's pregnancy is too high, and the farming people in the Central Plains are better, after all, nutrition can't keep up, and although there is a saying of three wives and four concubines, it is not easy for the people at the bottom to ask for a wife, let alone marry a concubine, so the fertility rate is still within the normal range.

But the peoples of the steppe are different, they are nomadic people, they eat meat, drink mare's milk and goat's milk, nutrition is no problem, and they ride horses and fight every day, and their bodies and bones are strong, which has a congenital foundation, and what is even more perverted is that they really have three wives and four concubines, or even seven wives and eight concubines, and ten wives and nine concubines.

Why?

The reason lies in the war!

The probability of war between the nomads and foreigners in the steppe is too great, and there is a war almost every day, whether the war is lost or won, it is always going to die, and the war is a man's business, as soon as the man dies, there are more women, so it is not surprising that polygamy is not surprising, but if it is simply like this, it is not a perversion, what is the most perverted thing in the grassland?

That is, after fighting other tribes, the men will be killed or captured as slaves, and the women will all act as *** In this way, the more war exploits the nomadic man has, the more his women will be, and not only that, in order to dig as deep as possible without wasting a single grass and tree, the popular son on the grassland inherits his father's business, after Lao Tzu dies, his wife and son can inherit, there is nothing ** no *** grassland people do not talk about this, They inherited all the father's women except their biological mother (even the princess sent by the Sui Dynasty to kiss is no exception), in this way, a large group of women with a stallion, a winter non-stop popping, the next year can give birth to a litter, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty beat the Huns like that, but the birth speed of the Huns is too terrifying, and when he has not abdicated in his old age, the strength of the Huns has recovered a lot, and it is terrifying to think about.

However, the situation faced by the Qin Kingdom is relatively bad, they are not unable to live, but they do not have the time and opportunity to live, their surroundings are all vassal states of the Wa State, and they have to conflict with these countries almost every day, and the war is dead, the men have gone to the battlefield, and the ratio of men and women is seriously imbalanced, and the farming people are not like nomads, they need to farm, they need to cultivate, which requires a lot of labor, and in order to protect the security of the country, the army also needs a large number of soldiers, which contradicts each other, Therefore, the Qin Kingdom actually implemented the military cantonment system in the Qin and Han dynasties.

The army will go to cultivation in the leisure event, in addition to the professional army, other armies need to be like this, this army is called the reserve army, the number accounts for more than sixty percent of the army of the Qin Kingdom, they will gather together for drills in the leisure event of farming, in order to maintain a good military level, so as not to go to the battlefield to fight.

In addition to this army, the remaining forty percent of the army is completely professional, this army is not large, about 1,000 people, but their training is very rigorous, the soldiers are carefully selected, and all their drills are prepared for war.

And this army is not only very strictly trained, but also their equipment is also very advanced, the entire Qin Kingdom almost all the resources are concentrated on this army, forging the best blades, the best armor, the best bows and crossbows for them, and there are really chariots, and their folding chariots are a kind of sharp weapon that makes the Japanese army chill.

The presence of this army saved the kingdom from exhaustion, and also allowed the reserve army to have time to work in the fields when they were busy without worrying about the generals of the war.

But after all, the number of the Qin Kingdom is too small, and their wars with the surrounding countries are too frequent, whether it is a standing army or a reserve army, there will be casualties in the battle, although they often defeat the superior number of enemies with inferior numbers, and many times win more with less, but they also have to pay a lot of price, so after centuries of development, their population is still increasing slowly, and there is a trend of decreasing in recent years, the main reason is that the army of the Wa Kingdom gradually learned to improve their strength in the process of fighting with them, Having learned to forge advanced weapons and armor for their soldiers, and arming themselves with the technology that had been passed down from the Sui Dynasty and even the Korean Peninsula, the technological gap between the two sides had been slowly narrowing.

It was precisely because the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to their side that they accepted the mediation of the king of the Japanese kingdom and sent a tribe of the kingdom to settle in Kyoto, teaching the Japanese people to learn the etiquette of the Qin people, and then slowly teaching them forging and other advanced technologies, so at this time the Japanese army no longer attacked them.

Although there is less of the biggest opponent of the Wa Kingdom, there are still a large number of enemies around the Qin Kingdom, so they are very concerned about the changes in the surrounding situation, and have been building intelligence systems in various places over the years, so this time the Sui army entered the country in a big way, and the situation of entering Kyushu Island has been transmitted to them after more than ten days.

The people of their own clan came to Kyushu Island, and this news did not make the people of the Qin Kingdom happy, but made them feel very worried, and even a little afraid.

From the intelligence, they already knew that the two battles that took place in the fortified city, the Sui army deserved to be the army of the advanced culture of the Central Plains, and their weapons and equipment, tactical literacy and combat ability were far from being comparable to those vassals of the Japanese State on Kyushu Island, so they would first break the fortified city, destroy the Zhusi country, and then defeat the Fengguo reinforcements, and then attack the Fengguo country, and break the capital of the Fengguo country, at this time, the four countries on Kyushu Island have been destroyed by them in more than ten days.

If this army is to attack Xiong Zeng to the east or to the south to attack the Biri country after taking the city and destroying the Zhusi country, then their worries may not be so strong, but they chose to go north and attack Fengguo, which makes the people of the Qin Kingdom very worried, they are worried that this Sui army is coming for them, after all, they are the descendants of the Qin Dynasty, and they are the remnants of the Qin State who fled here, and the orthodox kingdoms of the Central Plains will basically regard them as traitors and will kill them. In the early years, when the envoys of the Sui Dynasty passed by the Qin Kingdom, they also entertained them well, in order to avoid this situation, but now, it seems that the effect of this is not very great, and the Sui Dynasty still sent troops over! (To be continued.) )