Chapter 339: The Fall of the Wa Kingdom

The fall of Miyazaki Castle marked the complete change of hands on the island of Kyushu, and the Chinese army had gained a reliable foothold on the territory of the Japanese state, with which the logistics supply of the Chinese army would be faster and the replenishment of the front line would be more convenient.

After taking full control of the situation on Kyushu Island, Fang Xiaoyu, who had already been prepared, ordered Liu Junxi to send a large number of policemen to the island to maintain order, and at the same time he requisitioned 100,000 Ezo people to maintain local law and order with the cooperation of the national defense forces of the two armies and suppress possible Japanese rebellions.

While maintaining the rule of Kyushu Island, Fang Xiaoyu began to send construction teams to expand Kurumeme Port on a large scale, and it was imperative that it be built into a logistics base to support the attack of the Southern Army Group in a short time. In order to speed up the transportation, Zhang Zhonglin attacked Ube Port again after recovering his troops.

With the cooperation of the Chinese landing force, which had taken a foothold in the vicinity of Gunka Beach, it was very easy to attack Ube Port. The Chinese army attacked from both land and sea, and the port of Ube, which was garrisoned by more than 50,000 people, soon fell, and with the support of the port, a large number of supplies quickly landed, and the main force of the southern army group quickly gathered around the port of Ube.

The Japanese government, which was still dreaming of negotiations, did not expect that in just a few months, the defending Japanese army would be defeated one after another, not only losing a large amount of land, but also being wiped out more than 300,000 people, and the number of casualties was still rising rapidly.

At this time, they realized what a formidable enemy they were facing, and in desperation, the Japanese government announced a national general mobilization order, calling on all Japanese people to mobilize and use all available weapons to attack the Chinese army's troops.

After penetrating 100 kilometers deep into the island, the Chinese army finally began to have a headache, and countless Japanese people continued to sneak attack the troops from all directions, and although all the soldiers were vigilant, the casualties of the troops still rose in a straight line.

In the past, it was only a few sporadic Japanese people who spontaneously organized themselves to attack the army, but now with the call of the state, those Japanese men have become even more crazy, and their crazy attacks regardless of day and night, regardless of the terrain and occasion, have exhausted the troops of the Chinese army, and the speed of advance has been greatly slowed down.

In order to eliminate these crazy Japanese people, Fang Xiaoyu ordered to increase the order to transfer troops from Ezo Island, and at the same time sent a propaganda team to hype up the cruelty and killing of the Japanese people in Ezo, and now the good opportunity for the Chinese army to attack the Japanese country, which made many Ezo young people have the idea of going to the battlefield.

With the deliberate connivance of the military leadership, many of the Ezo soldiers who suppressed the Japanese people in the land of the Japanese wrote enthusiastic and proud letters to their families, in which they talked about the joy of revenge and the abundance of spoils.

For a time, it was rumored in Ezo that fighting on the battlefield of the Japanese country was a profession with high treatment and low risk, and it could also kill the Japanese people to take revenge, and as some of the wounded Ezo soldiers were sent back to the Ezo country, this news was confirmed by them themselves.

Such news was more effective than the propaganda team's vigorous propaganda, and for a time the young people in Ezo who had not joined the army had a desire to go to the battlefield, and the registration office for joining the army in the country was overcrowded every day, and there was an endless stream of soldiers.

The distance between the Wa and Ezo countries was very close, and many Ezo hot-blooded youths who did not line up at the recruiting office crossed the strait by boat alone, and the number of people who went to the western United States to pan for gold was comparable to that of the year. When they arrived on the island, they went directly to the barracks of the Chinese army and asked to join the Ezo army to fight.

With so many volunteers asking to join, the two commanders of the army group, Zhang Zhonglin and Sun Zhonglian, were naturally happy to improve their efficiency, anyway, suppressing those unarmed Japanese people in the rear did not require much military literacy, and the untrained Ezo youth were completely competent.

For the young people who joined the army, the Chinese army naturally did not refuse to come, and the number of the army of the Ezo country soon rose to more than one million, which was definitely a miracle for the Ezo country with a total population of less than 10 million

In order to motivate the enthusiasm of these Ezo people to suppress the Japanese people, the top brass of the Chinese army also privately asked the Ezo people to keep some of the spoils. With such material incentives, the Ezo people, who had long hated the Japanese people, started to kill, and the Japanese civilians in the occupied areas were quickly slaughtered, and the Japanese people's finances were also looted.

Due to the high level of the Chinese army, not all the Japanese were killed, and those young Japanese women were left behind, and these obedient women who did not have any will to resist would be transported back to China by the return transport ship to replenish the population of the Chinese Empire, of course, in order to maintain the purity of Chinese blood, Fang Xiaoyu decreed that the wives of all Chinese men must be Chinese women, and those foreign women can only be concubines.

The Ezo people will grab seventy percent of their wealth and hand it over to the military of the Chinese Empire, and the rest will go into their own pockets, and even then they will make a fortune. With regard to the barbaric acts of the Ezo people, the top brass of the Chinese army chose not to publicize or stop the acquiescence, because anyway, there are Ezo people who carry the black pot and can get a lot of benefits for themselves, and this kind of thing that does not bear international responsibilities and can reduce the pressure on public security is naturally what the Chinese Empire is happy to see.

In order to encourage the actions of the Ezo people, the two commanders of the army group also sent some logistics troops and privately sent some weapons and equipment to the Ezo army, which made the Ezo army more motivated.

The Ezo country has been within the system of the Chinese Empire for some time, and they have the same food subsistence system as the Chinese Empire, the people do not suffer from freezing and starvation, even if the labor force is small, and the front line has sent back a large amount of booty to the country, which has caused the domestic wealth to increase rapidly. As for the supply problem at the front, the supply of looted materials was unusually sufficient, and it was enough for the consumption of a million Ezo troops.

In the process of the Chinese army's breakthrough, the Ezo army in the rear played a key role, and the logistics supply line began to smoothly and efficiently transport materials to the front line, effectively supplying the needs of the front line, and the advance speed of the Chinese army increased again.

The southern army group was connected to the castles of Kakurashiki, Mihara, and Himeji, and the front of the troops was directed at Kofu in the Akaishi Mountains, while the northern army group also played a triumphant song all the way, relying on the rapid advance of mechanized troops, successively occupying Morioka, Furukawa, and Yamagata, and the vanguard reached Iwaki.

Within three months, the two armies advanced north and south, all the way to conquer the city, and the soldiers had approached the eastern capital of the Japanese state, as long as they could conquer Kofu and Iwaki, they would be able to complete the general encirclement of the eastern capital, and at that time, the Japanese would no longer have the power to return to heaven.

Under the strong offensive of the Chinese army and the frenzied slaughter of the Ezo army in the rear, the Japanese soldiers were defeated and retreated, and those Japanese people who were afraid of being slaughtered also moved to the eastern capital with their families. There was not much depth in the area controlled by the Japanese government, and now there is only a small area near Kyoto, and here is crowded with the last 300,000 troops and 5 million people of the Japanese state.

The Chinese army did not launch an attack immediately, Sun Lianzhong and Zhang Zhonglin both knew that the trapped beasts were still fighting, and if the Japanese army was forced to resist desperately, the losses of the Chinese army would not be small, so they asked the Ezo army to speed up the work of cleaning up the Japanese civilians, and at the same time built a position outside Kyoto, intending to defend instead of attacking.

The Chinese Army's defense was to defend instead of attacking, not to sit and defend, and they only transferred the responsibility of attacking from the army to the navy and air force. In the face of the Japanese army, which had no air defense, the Chinese Empire mobilized six air wings across the country, and more than 400 bombers used heavy aerial bombs to bomb the city of Kyoto in turn, almost blowing the city into ruins.

The navy's Zhonghua-class battleships boldly rushed into Sagami Bay, destroying the nearby coastal batteries one by one, and then the naval fleet blocked the port of Dongdu, and with the cooperation of the air force, all the few remaining old warships of the Japanese navy were sent underwater.

The Air Force and Navy worked together to completely clear the Japanese fortifications along the coastline, allowing the Zhonghua-class battleships to enter Kyoto Bay and begin a round-the-clock artillery bombardment of Kyoto, and later even the Army's large-caliber artillery joined the bombardment.

Under the double pressure of shelling and bombing, the helpless Japanese army launched several futile attacks on the positions of the Chinese army, each time suffering heavy casualties, and finally in a round of bombardment by aircraft, the entire imperial palace was bombed into the sky along with the Japanese royal family.

Without the imperial family, the Japanese government also lost its spiritual leader, and the five giants of the Japanese government, which could no longer suppress the domestic situation, had no choice but to announce their unconditional surrender. When the Chinese army entered Kyoto and was surrendered, they were surprised to find that the population of the entire Kyoto plus the army had no more than 3 million people, and the rest were killed or burned to death.

Foreign Minister Shigekuma Shige, the only remaining supreme governor of the Japanese government other than the Big Five, formally submitted an unconditional surrender to the former enemy headquarters of the Chinese Army in the two clusters.

On August 1, 903, the Chinese Empire announced the destruction of the Wa Kingdom, which would cease to exist, and the territory of the Wa Kingdom was incorporated into the Chinese Empire to become Yamato Prefecture, and the remaining 3 million Wa people in Kyoto, together with the more than 3 million surviving Wa people collected from all over the country, were sent to live on Sakhalin Island in the north of Ezo Province by the transport ships of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

Sakhalin Island was large enough to accommodate six million Japanese people, and the climate there was relatively cold, and the nearest coastline was 400 nautical miles away.

Before these people were sent to Sakhalin, the skilled craftsmen and skilled craftsmen among the Japanese were either killed by the Ezo or picked out by Fang Xiaoyu to be secretly solved, while the young and beautiful women were sent back to China.

The Japanese people returned to the primitive barbaric era, and lived a life of fishing and hunting, cutting wood for firewood, and slash-and-burn farming on Sakhalin Island, but fortunately, the land on Sakhalin Island is not barren, and there is a large fishing ground nearby, which is enough to feed the daily life of so many people.