Chapter Thirty-Six: The Country Name Is Still "Wu"

So Lu Xun next asked the archers to speak first, and a volley of 10,000 arrows was fired, and the Japanese soldiers fell a large ~ piece. Lu Xun found that among so many people on the other side, he didn't even see a shield, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

By the time the Japanese soldiers rushed to the front, the ranks had already sparsely dispersed, and the pikemen of the Eastern Wu Army lined up in a neat queue and pushed them over, and the momentum of the Japanese soldiers charging was like a wave on the shore, and only a few waves were splashed and disappeared without a trace.

Then, Soochow's sword and shield soldiers detoured from both sides, and a massacre began. The Japanese samurai are also a strange group, and generally the army will be broken up after losing more than a third of the battle, but these Japanese samurai will not, and they will not fight to the death under the urging of the trumpet.

Lu Xun didn't want to exterminate these Japanese warriors, his original plan was to defeat them, and then slowly recover these people for his own use in the future, after all, population is also a resource. Therefore, he adopted the arrangement of encircling three and missing one on the battlefield, and he left a way back for these Japanese warriors, as long as they turned around and fled, they could pick up a small life.

But he didn't expect that these Japanese warriors would not run away at all, and all of them rushed forward desperately without fear of death until they fought to the last man. Lu Xun's brows furrowed tightly throughout the whole process, and he didn't understand why these warriors were so desperate.

At this time, he couldn't order the attack to stop, if the Soochow army unilaterally stopped the attack, then it was the Soochow army that was defeated, so the course of the war continued uncontrollably until the end, and the Japanese samurai were completely killed.

Due to the bravery of the warriors of the Wa Kingdom, the Eastern Wu Army also suffered a lot of losses, and later counted the number of people, the Eastern Wu Army sacrificed more than 1,000 people and injured 3,000 people, this result made Lu Xun's heart ache to death.

Anyway, I finally defeated the Yamatai Kingdom. As soon as the largest country of the Wa Kingdom fell, the occupation of the Wa Kingdom by the Soochow people was no longer unhindered. With Lu Xun's skillful wisdom, it is not difficult to control the scattered Wa State and establish a completely new regime.

In fact, too, the Eastern Wu army quickly swept across the four islands of the Wa Kingdom and re-established a kingdom, which was still called "Wu". Since this "Wu" country is in the east of the mainland, it can still be called "Eastern Wu".

After reading this information, Guan Gong also realized the seriousness of the problem, and only listened to him: "Your Majesty, please allow Lao Chen to rush back to Jianye immediately." The people of Eastern Wu have already become a climate in the Wa Kingdom, and they must immediately use troops against them, and if they are given a period of stable time to develop, I am afraid that it will become a big problem for their henchmen. ”

Liu Hou looked at Guan Gong's eager appearance, and said unhurriedly: "It is definitely necessary to use troops against the Japanese State as soon as possible, but the second uncle should not return to Jianye." ”

Guan Gong was so excited that his face was a little red and his neck was thick, he glared angrily at those Danfeng eyes and looked at Liu Houdao: "Why? Could it be that Your Majesty thinks that the old minister's body is old and rotten and can't lift a knife and get on the horse? ”

Guan Gong's excited appearance frightened others, but he couldn't frighten Liu Hou, who knew him well. Liu Hou still sat upright on the brocade, maintaining the demeanor of an emperor, and said with a neat look: "Non-yes, non-yes." It's not that I don't believe in the second uncle's force. Let the second uncle stay in Chang'an because there are more important things he wants the second uncle to do. ”

"What is more important than destroying the Soochow people?" Guan Gong asked urgently.

"There are a lot of things, second uncle, sit down and listen to me slowly."

Guan Gong refused to sit down, glared at Liu Hou angrily and waited for the following, with a posture of saying something quickly and farting quickly. Seeing him like this, Liu Hou knew that if he didn't give him an explanation today, he would probably stay in the palace and not leave. No one else will do that, and this one has no scruples at all.

Liu Hou sighed in his heart and said, "Second Uncle is an old man, he should know that it is not a simple matter to dispatch a large army, especially now that he has to fight across the sea, the difficulty is unimaginable. It is not an exaggeration to say that this battle is the strength of the whole country. ”

"So what, even if he exerts all his national strength, he will vow to take the head of Lu Xun, a villain.

Liu Hou sweated, and Guan Gong and Zhang Fei dared to say this, saying that the power of the country is the power of the country, you think you are the emperor, you think you are the master of this country, you have the final say on everything? If someone else says this, they will definitely be regarded as disobedient.

Of course, if there is really a heart of disobedience, the fool ~ son will not say this in front of the emperor. However, Liu Hou didn't care about him, because their relationship was there, knowing that he was unintentional, and they were on the same page on this matter.

"Alas!" Liu Hou sighed and said, "Second Uncle is right, I also think so, even if I pour all the strength of the country, I will vow to destroy these remnants of Eastern Wu." Otherwise, when they become the climate, I am afraid that I will not be able to sleep well.

However, if you want to send a large army to fight across the sea, it involves all kinds of things, and the manpower and material resources that need to be mobilized are very huge, and I am afraid that the ministers of the court may not be willing to support it. ”

"Humph! I want to see who dares to oppose it! Guan Gong's eyes lit up, he waved his left hand, and clenched his fist fiercely in front of his chest, looking like whoever dared to stop him from taking revenge would crush someone's head.

Seeing Guan Gong's murderous appearance, a smile appeared on the corner of Liu Hou's mouth: "Second uncle, this is the purpose of me to keep you in Chang'an." ”

"What do you mean?" Guan Gong asked puzzled.

"The country is so big, how many men and horses does the second uncle estimate will be dispatched for this cross-sea operation?" Liu Hou did not answer the rhetorical question.

Guan Gong pondered for a while and said: "According to the area and population information of the Wa Kingdom, as well as the situation of Lu Xun and others, it can be expected that after the Eastern Wu Army occupies the Wa State, it can use the resources of the Wa State to pull up hundreds of thousands of troops in a short period of time.

Of course, it will take some time for these hundreds of thousands of people to train if they want to form combat effectiveness, so the sooner we land in the Japanese country to fight, the better. The longer it drags on, the greater the price we will pay. ”

Liu Hou nodded and agreed.

"However, even if they have hundreds of thousands of people, with the current combat effectiveness of our army, as long as they train an elite soldier and equip them with a type of fire~medicine weapons, as long as they have tens of thousands of horses, and even Your Majesty only needs to give Lao Chen 10,000 horses, Lao Chen is confident that he will defeat the Eastern Wu army."

Looking at Guan Gong's confident appearance, Liu Hou couldn't help but nodded. Now the firearms of the Han Dynasty are no longer as simple as when they first came out of Chengdu, and now the firearms of the Han Dynasty have a wide variety of functions and complete functions, such as long-range attack, close attack, group attack, single shot, continuous fire and so on.

It can be said that the current level of development of firearms in the Han Dynasty has far exceeded that of the firearms used by the Western powers in the era of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and even reached the level of the First World War.

Thinking that at the beginning, thousands of people in the Eight-Nation Alliance could defeat hundreds of thousands of pigtail troops, and Guan Gong said that it was not impossible for him to defeat the Eastern Wu army with 10,000 people.

"Second uncle, you're talking about the situation of the defeat. But what I want is not to be defeated, but to be annihilated, but to be occupied. What I want is to solve the problem of the Wa Kingdom once and for all.

Although the Wa Kingdom is an island country, the area of this island is large enough, if bandits settle in this place, such a large place, they can obtain enough resources to develop and strengthen themselves.

Once these bandits have grown to a large scale, and then go to sea to plunder the coast of Dahan, can you imagine the consequences? The country of Wa is very close to the Han Dynasty, and it is only a few days away by boat, and there is such a big bandit nest next to the Han Dynasty, threatening the safety of the Han coast at all times, how can I tolerate it.

Therefore, I want to destroy this bandit's den in one fell swoop, set up counties on it, and incorporate it into the territory of the Han Dynasty, which can not only prevent future troubles, but also open up territory for the Han Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone. ”