Wang Gang and Paprov did not embarrass the Tokugawa family too much, and the withdrawal of the shogunate army undoubtedly made the next strategy of the Han Empire more unscrupulous!

After mastering Kyoto and raising a new generation of Japanese empresses, the Han Empire did not attach too much importance to the role of the shogunate, and the Japanese servant army also had a new name, the Japanese standing army loyal to the emperor!

Although the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest did not achieve the goal of begging for a truce, it was impossible to accept the harsh surrender conditions of the Han Empire, especially Wang Gang's proposal to position the entire Maori family as a family of sinners, which made the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest collectively silence!

A new round of military battles is gradually unfolding between the Japanese Standing Army and the Southwest Coalition Army!

The four powerful feudal clans in the southwest, who have realized their determination to destroy the Han Empire, have gritted their teeth and fought hard this time to start forcibly recruiting troops!

The 2nd and 3rd Japanese Divisions were also thrown into the reconquest of Honshu Island!

Mondora's Tiger Wolf Marines took on the role of overseers and firefighters, while Paprov's men became the security forces and logistical defenders of the rear occupation zone!

The Han Empire, which initially smoothed out Kyoto and the occupied areas, first launched an offensive against the areas controlled by the Southwest Coalition Army!

With the superior artillery support of the Han Empire, the Japanese standing army with a large number of firearms, even if the recruits occupy the main body, with the support of the Tiger Wolf Marines, it is simply a nightmare to attack those local daimyo forces that are still in the realm of katana and archers!

As soon as the Han Empire moved, it showed an overwhelming offensive rhythm, and the control area of the Southwest Coalition Army continued to shrink, and a large number of Daimyo's feudal lords who were defeated and saw clearly the form surrendered to the Japanese standing army on behalf of the emperor!

And the officers of the Han Empire, who tightened their belts and formed 3 divisions of Japanese servant armies, simply implemented the military regulations of local supply in order to supplement the military!

In addition to the necessary gunpowder and projectile logistical support, the Han Empire had almost no excess material pressure!

While the expeditionary force, which was not rich, breathed a sigh of relief, the offensive was progressing more and more smoothly!

In the shadow of the successful offensive of the Japanese standing army, it was a heinous large-scale robbery, except for the local wealthy daimyo who surrendered before the war, and was spared after handing over a large amount of 'protection money', almost all the land that was attacked by the Japanese standing army was like being looted by wolves, and there were corpses and burned houses everywhere!

It's not that the Japanese standing army is thirsty for killing, but that they rob the few rations of Japanese civilians, and if they lose them, they will starve to death, and of course they are not willing to obediently hand over mathematics, physics and chemistry

This led to the killing of the Japanese standing army!

Fortunately, at this time, due to the serious division of the local daimyo feudal lords, the lack of subordination to each other, and the weak concept of the national state of the people, these soldiers of the Japanese standing army recruited and trained in the area east of Kyoto did not feel much sympathy for the 'outsiders' west of Kyoto!

The most important thing is that the food, grain and grass that these soldiers of the Japanese Standing Army grabbed were all for their own use, and they naturally had no scruples about doing it under the drive of interests......

As a result, in just a few months, the population of the entire area west of Kyoto, which was recovered by the Japanese standing army, dropped by more than half!

The number of Japanese civilians who starved to death directly or indirectly at the hands of the Japanese standing army is equal to the total number of Japanese civilians who died in the war in the past three years!

Organized and disciplined military looting and slaughter is the most effective way to reduce the population......

The Japanese emperor, who had just ascended the throne, had been completely tamed by Mondora's ferocity, and the Tokugawa shogunate was busy dismissing Ashigaru to restore productivity and make up for the family's financial losses, and had no energy to take care of the former rebel territory......

As for the four strong clans in the southwest, they are fighting with the 'European friends' who suddenly appeared at this time!

When the Japanese standing army under the control of the Han Empire was eating the island of Honshu like vultures, the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest were belatedly aided by the Spaniards and a large number of flintlock muskets!

The flintlock pistol is a precious thing in Japan, but in Europe it is a rotten street goods, and the European countries that have been at war for many years have obsolete flintlock pistols, and the Kingdom of Spain began to operate the transportation of weapons after learning the news of the all-out war of the Han Empire against Japan, but the hesitation of the long distance and the difficult financial inefficiency of the Spanish Kingdom did not reach the hands of the powerful feudal lords of the southwest of Japan until the Japanese Civil War was fought for more than a year......

After the powerful feudal lords of the southwest bought a large number of flintlock pistols from merchants of the Kingdom of Spain at the price of cabbage, the island of Honshu had been pushed by the Japanese standing army......

The first unlucky one was undoubtedly the Cheung Chau Domain in the southwest corner of Honshu Island!

Most of the last essence of the four families of the Southwest Coalition Army is also arranged here, intending to help the Maori family to defend their family business!

As long as you can hold back the Han Empire here, and when the other three feudal lords and their servant daimyo on Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island have trained their new armies, you can start a counterattack!

In the midst of an existential crisis, the southwestern feudal domains could no longer care about whether they could turn the Japanese National Congress into ruins......

And the main force of the Japanese standing army of the three divisions that were advancing vigorously also encountered the first real tough battle in the Changzhou Domain!

At this time, although the Changzhou Domain did not train a large horizontal phalanx like the Han Empire and the European powers, the proportion of flintlock muskets was already very high, and most of the flintlock muskets that the Spaniards half-sold and half-gave away were transported to the hands of the Changzhou Domain, who was on the front line!

As the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Japanese Standing Army, after realizing that the powerful southwestern domain was supported by the Spanish firearms, he once again carried forward his fierce and brutal nature, and launched a fierce attack on the Changzhou domain regardless of casualties!

The three Japanese standing divisions, which had only experienced light wars, were sent by Mondora to the front line in turn to launch bayonet charges, and under Mondora's command, most of the battles ended in hand-to-hand combat, which made the casualties of the officers and men of the Japanese standing division, who lacked courage, extremely high!

However, Mondora's Tiger Wolf Marines acted as the overseers, and the number of soldiers killed by the Japanese Standing Army was also quite large!

Even Mondola formulated detailed combat missions, the offensive intensity of each brigade was made public, and the brigades that could not be completed were executed with an eleven smash order, and the establishment was revoked to be disrupted and reorganized!

And the brigade that completes the offensive mission can be rewarded and promoted collectively, and the soldiers of the brigade who are disrupted by defeat can be filled in to make up for the losses!

It is this simple and brutal brutal approach that squeezes the combat potential of the Japanese standing army and makes the Maori family stormy! (To be continued.) Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ)