"Damn, these Kumamoto soldiers are really fierce!" As soon as he entered the big tent, Yao Chen shouted.

"What's wrong?" Yang Yao, who was reading the newspaper in the big tent, raised her head and asked.

"Today I took a battalion of Kumamoto soldiers and a battalion of Tosa soldiers to attack Yamato Kunitashiro-gun, and these two battalions were actually on the ground, and they had to compete to see whose head was cut more!" Yao Chen picked up the kettle and poured a stomach full of tea, then gasped and said.

"Then it must be Kumamoto who won." Hearing this, Yang Yao was no longer as surprised as she was at the beginning, and asked casually while picking up the newspaper.

"The Kumamoto soldiers have won 362 more heads than the Tosa soldiers, and 91 of the heads captured by the Tosa soldiers are good kills, so this gap is too far." Yao Chen said hatefully, he is now the commander of the Sixth Fleet Battalion in the coastal area, in addition to having a battalion of sailors under him, he is also responsible for commanding the three battalions of Kumamoto and two battalions of Tosa, under the unified command of Han Xiu, he is responsible for launching an attack on the eastern part of the southern line of Kii Province.

Not long after the Sanwu Rebellion in the first year of Ningkang, Zeng Hua realized the control of Jiangzuo's long coastline from Xuzhou to Jiaozhou, and ordered the expansion of the Beifu Navy, not only building the second fleet of the far sea fleet, but also expanding the coastal fleet into the fifth and sixth fleets. As a backbone, Yao Chen was transferred to Weihai Port with a group of veterans to form a new Sixth Fleet.

In December of the first year of Ninyasu, when the general trend of Jiangzuo had been decided, the Sixth Fleet in the coastal waters was formed, and the Fifth Fleet was dispatched to Toei and stationed on Kumamoto Island and Tosa Island respectively, while the First and Second Offshore Fleets carried more than 20,000 veterans who had fought on Toei Island for several years. Plus 10,000 Kumamoto and Tosa veterans, who were ordered to go south. Directly descended to Yizhou Island (present-day Taiwan Island) and Guangzhou, and took over the territory of Jiangzhou, Guangzhou and even Jiaozhou. Along with them was the First Ocean Fleet, which arrived early.

According to the deployment of Han Xiudi, the head of the Tokaido March, the Fifth Fleet was responsible for the crusade against Kibi State, and the Sixth Fleet was responsible for the crusade against Kii and Yamato, and Zeng, Yin Shen, and Yang Yao, who could not get a battle in Sanwu, also saw that Beifu was preparing to use troops against Dongying in a big way, and immediately transferred to the Sixth Fleet, Zeng and Yin Shen were left at the Chikushigang Headquarters on Kumamoto Island, and Yang Yao was sent to the Sixth Fleet as a secretary. I happened to be assigned to Yao Chendi's battalion.

"Kumamoto is fierce and aggressive by nature. And once tamed, it is the most disciplined and deferential soldier who is indeed the most suitable. Tosa's gang. Although he is also fierce and aggressive, he is far inferior to the Kumamoto soldiers in terms of discipline, so he is inferior to the Kumamoto soldiers in terms of individual soldier quality and collective cooperation, and such a result is expected. ”

Yang Yao said lightly, and finally asked, "How was the result?" ”

"Tashiro-gun's Naomonozo died in battle. More than 4,000 of his subordinates were beheaded, and more than 2,000 were beheaded. The rest surrendered, and Tashiro Yamayama Castle was captured. We are one step closer to Yamato Kunichi Light Island Castle. Yao Chen replied as he took off his armor on the ground.

According to Kii, Yamato and other countries, they are divided into countries, counties and villages, and the people of Beifu feel that this island is a big place that is called a country at every turn, and it is also duplicated with Yamato, which is really inconvenient. Therefore, Beifu simply called the "country" "county", which is still very elevating the Dongying people.

"Now that the Kii Kingdom has been destroyed by Wei Xun from the east, its lord Takeuchi Suyou fled into the Yamato Kingdom with the remnants of more than 6,000 people, and merged with Xi Changzu Ji's life, and fought against our army and fought to the death. And now that Wei Xunbu has begun to attack Yamato from the west of the southern front, there will be much less resistance in front of us. Yao Chen tidied up his civilian clothes, sat down and said, "In March this year, we packed up Owari Province, and after joining up with Zhang Kebu, we went straight to Ise, damn it, these Dongying barbarians are like monkeys, so we went around Ise and Shimazu for more than a month before we got on fire with Yamato. It is said that Zhang Ke did not fight very well in Yamashiro and only began to attack the eastern front of Yamato Province last month. ”

Wei Xun is the second son of Wei Xingguo, and Zhang Ke is the third son of Zhang Qu, both of whom are the first batch of graduates of the Weihai Naval Academy, and are now the commanders of the first and second detachments of the Sixth Coastal Fleet, respectively, and their bosses, the commanders of the Sixth Offshore Fleet, are the eldest son of Feng Yuedi, the squire of the Ministry of Justice. Feng Xi sat in Tosa Island's Tanji Port, commanded Wei Xun to attack Kii, and commanded Zhang Ke to attack Maono and Kono from Ibaraki. Since the tens of thousands of troops of the Second Coastal Fleet had already beaten Kii, Maono, Kono, Vietnam, and Antler to the brink of death in the past few years, the Sixth Coastal Fleet was able to attack more smoothly than half, although the number of troops was reduced by half after it took over, and more than 30,000 Kumamoto and Tosa soldiers had already been trained in the war, so the offensive was even smoother.

In addition to greatly improving the quality of individual soldiers and overall tactics in the training of several years of warfare, the Kumamoto and Tosa soldiers also reached a certain level of identification and loyalty to the Beifu region after several years of great waves and sands, so that the Beifu was finally willing to equip them with some relatively sophisticated steel swords and light armor, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of these soldiers.

So in March of the second year of Ningkang, Wei Xun destroyed the Kii country, Zhang Ke destroyed the Keye and Sanye countries, entered Owari, joined the Yao Chen department here, and began to launch the final general attack on the Yamato country.

"By the way, Brother Zhang Qi, I see why you keep burying your head in the Di newspaper, what is the good news?" Yao Chen saw that Yang Yao had been reading the newspaper there and talking to himself at the same time, and couldn't help asking, he knew Yang Yao's temper, so he didn't care about his impolite behavior at all, he just felt curious.

"Look at the Di Bao to know the affairs of the world," Yang Yao raised the Di Bao in his hand and said with a smile, "Now the overall situation of the world has been decided, in April, the Son of Heaven, the Queen Mother and Xie An, Wang Biao and one of the courtiers were moved back to Chang'an by the general in the name of moving the capital, in May, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to the world, with the general supervising the country, the general regent, the general issued an edict to the world, changed the three provinces to three provinces, and controlled the world according to the old system of Beifu. Also in May, Zhou Zhongsun, the assassin of Guangzhou, announced that he would accept the general's supervision of the country, and was ordered to go north to Chang'an to report on his work, and Zuo Qinghou Zuo Daren had been ordered to go south. He was appointed as the history of the Guangzhou Thorn and concurrently signed the Jiaozhou Thorn History. ”

And this newspaper said. Jiangzhou Yuzhang County guards Zhu Yao, Nankang County guards Zhao Chang. Shouzhou of Changsha County in Jingzhou and Yang Liang of Jiaozhou did not obey the edict of the Son of Heaven, and repelled the general's envoys respectively, invited the Son of Heaven, and said that they would observe the festival for the Jin Dynasty. These people are really confused. General Yang An led the army through the southern counties of Jingzhou and went straight to Changsha County. Zhou sent more than 1,000 people to send his mother and wife to Nankang via Yiyang (now Yichun City, Jiangxi), but who knew that they were ambushed by General Yang An in the middle of the road. Won Zhou's mother's wife and daughter. Zhou had to raise the city and ask for surrender. ”

"General Yang An asked Zhou to help pacify the counties of Southern Jingzhou, what do you say this week?"

"What do you say?" Yao Chen asked curiously.

Zhou said to General Yang An, he was greatly gracious. But the old mother saw it, lost the festival here, the mother and son were whole, and the general's favor was also, but the righteousness was done. Don't dare to help the enemy. ”

"It's been a really sour week. Now the words of our great general are the words of the Son of Heaven and the earth, and the words of our great general are against the Son of Heaven. I can't see the general trend clearly, it's really stupid! Yao Chen said with a sneer.

"Our Beifu is in charge of the world, and it is inevitable that the officials and celebrities in Jiangzuo will not have ideas, and they should be sour in their hearts." Yang Yao said hesitantly.

"What did they do when we were beating the horseshoe? Why did they go when we pacified Jiangyou? We in Beifu have been shot down with a knife and a shot today. Yao Chen replied coldly, "No matter what these sour things are, Zhang Qi, you continue." ”

Deng Qiang and Mao Dang were ordered to pass through Jiangzhou, defeated Zhu Yao in Jianchang, and captured more than 3,000 of his followers. Then he continued southward, broke through Nankang (now Ganzhou City, Jiangxi), pacified the entire Jiangzhou, and the army continued to move south, directly taking Guangzhou. ”

Zhang Yu and Yang Guang, who were from Cangwu County, Guangzhou, colluded with Zhang Chong, Yin Wan, the chieftains of Baiyue, and captured Guangxin City (now Wuzhou City, Guangxi), Zhang Yu proclaimed himself the king of Yue, and named Yang Guang as the Tai Lieutenant, Zhang Chong was the general of Zhennan, the history of the Guangzhou Thorn, and Yin Wan was the general of the expedition to the south, and the history of the Yuezhou Thorn. And Yang Liang, the assassin of Jiaozhou, colluded with Zhao Bao, a wealthy family in Jiuzhen County, claiming to be the king of the South China Sea and raising troops for himself. ”

"These are all trivial matters, as soon as our Beifu army arrives, we will naturally be able to exterminate these Baiyue Jiuzhen traitors in one fell swoop." Yao Chen said indifferently, indeed, the Beifu Army fought in the south and the north, and fought in the east and west, and had not suffered any defeats, so there was a sense of self-confidence and arrogance in his bones.

"The South China Sea region is very different from Jiangzuo, let alone the Central Plains region. At that time, both the Qin Emperor and the Han Wu spent a lot of effort to pacify the South China Sea, and the mobilized army was as many as five or six hundred thousand. It can be said that it is very expensive. It's humid and stuffy, and the ground is full of miasma, and even if we can fight again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to use it there. Yang Yao put down the newspaper and said solemnly.

Yao Chen nodded thoughtfully, although he had the arrogance and self-confidence that all the soldiers in Beifu had, but he was not arrogant enough to despise everything, what was the South China Sea region like, of course he knew it very well from the Di newspaper and various intelligence, so he also agreed with what Yang Yao said.

"The First Far Sea Fleet has already carried 5,000 Kumamoto soldiers to the south, and there are 5,000 Tosa soldiers to go south this month, and there will be 10,000 Kumamoto soldiers and horses as the vanguard of the rebellion in Cangwu and Jiaozhou." Yao Chen thought for a moment and said, "This is fine, it can minimize the losses of our army." In his words, for the time being, the losses of Kumamoto and Tosa soldiers have not been counted in the official losses of the Hokufu Army, after all, compared to the generous pensions and treatment of the Hokufu Army, it is too cheap to hire Kumamoto and Tosa soldiers, and after death, giving goods worth more than ten silver yuan or zoning more than ten acres of land will make those Kumamoto and Tosa people flock to it and fight hard.

"The key is that we must speed up the pace here, as long as the Yamato Province and Kibi Province are all settled, nearly 100,000 Kumamoto and Tosa soldiers can all go south and open up the South China Sea region for our northern province. According to the information sent back by the First Fleet in the far seas, there are thousands of miles of sea to the south, and there are countless lands and islands, and it is said that there are rice, all kinds of spices, and all kinds of wood and precious stones, all waiting for us to explore. Yang Yao said with a trembling newspaper.

"But this Dongying Island is not so easy to fight, we have only three or four years to absorb the two counties of North Korea and Hanyang, but the three islands of Dongying have been using troops since the third year of Xingning, and we have been fighting for nearly ten years, and it is easy to fight until today's end of the situation. The cost of the land was nearly 20,000 casualties among the government soldiers, no less than 50,000 casualties among the Kumamoto and Tosa soldiers, and as high as 100,000 casualties among the soldiers of Hanyang and Joseon counties. What about this Toei Mishima? Kumamoto was estimated to have a population of nearly 600,000 and Tosa had a population of nearly 400,000, but now there are less than 400,000 left and only 200,000. Yao Chen began to think about the battle in Dongying.

"There are 21 large and small countries on the main island of Dongying, and now only the Kibi country and the Yamato country are left to survive, and there are no less than one million soldiers and civilians on the island who died in the war, and the various places on this island are now hundreds of miles uninhabited, which is even more dilapidated than Goguryeo in those years."

Speaking of which, Yang Yao and Yao Chen both knew in their hearts that most of the people in Korea and Hanyang County were the original Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Renna, although after several years of locust tactics, more than half of the population was lost, but the officials of Beifu were still not at ease with them, in addition to large-scale immigration, they were also trying to reduce the proportion of local residents, after all, the Central Plains itself was lacking in population, and there was no way to draw more people to immigrate. Therefore, under the pretext of the Dongying War, Beifu recruited troops in Korea and Hanyang counties, and the impoverished original inhabitants of the two counties joined the Dongying expeditionary force one after another in order to make a living. Due to the intentional or unintentional arrangement of the Beifu, the soldiers of the two counties suffered heavy casualties, and the Beifu migrated all the nobles who survived and surrendered in the two counties to Liang, Qin and other prefectures, and the strength of the original inhabitants of the two counties finally reached the expected goal of the center of the Beifu.

Although everyone knows these in their hearts, these are conspiracies that cannot be put on the table, but they are more "civilized" than when Beifu was in Hezhou, and Heishui directly waved a butcher's knife to reduce the population. The "alien race" who dared to resist has turned into dirt, and all those who survive are the people who are willing to accept assimilation, and they will be assimilated at the fastest speed in all aspects such as religion, economy, and culture. Kumamoto, Tosa, and the future Toei main island were all used to carry out ethnic integration in this way.

"If it weren't for the general's insistence, I really can't imagine that the three provincial hubs that can't see any benefits will agree to us to fight for ten years, and our navy in Beifu will almost slowly grow and grow in the Dongying War. Dongying Sandao has been fighting for almost ten years, and most of the logistics grain and grass are shipped from Qinghai, Hebei and Youzhou. I really didn't expect the general to hate Dongying so much, and he gritted his teeth and didn't let go after ten years. Yang Yao put down the newspaper in her hand and sighed. However, he didn't know that any "aspiring person" who traveled from the modern era to the past, eleven out of ten would get rid of Dongying first.

"No matter what, now that it's finally over, we just need to work harder to destroy the Yamato Kingdom, don't let Tang Jian and them take advantage of us." Yao Chen continued. Tang Jian was originally a son of the Beihai family in Qingzhou, and later the Qingzhou chaos, after the family was ruined, he had to go across the sea as a thief, and later surrendered to Beifu, and now he is the commander of the Fifth Fleet in the coastal sea, responsible for the strategy of the Jibei country.

"It's good that you have this thought, I heard that the place where the lord of Yamato lives is called Toyomeigu (located in the current Daigaru Town, Hara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan), as long as you lead the army to attack there first, a meritorious service will not be able to escape, remember, we are the closest to there." Yang Yao shook her head and said.

"Then you're in for a treat." Yao Chen replied excitedly, then turned his head to the outside of the tent and said, "Call the scout captain and the other battalion officers, I'm going to have a meeting." ”