Chapter 1776: The End of the Japanese Pirates (Part 2)
Chapter 1776: The end of Japanese pirates (Part 2)
Youzhou, Yuyang County, Lu County.
This place also became a battlefield between the Northern Han Dynasty and Japanese pirates.
With the blessing of "Wu Xiong", Xue Gang, whose commander reached 100, was ordered by Emperor Liu Che of the Northern Han Dynasty to lead 30,000 new soldiers and 5,000 cavalry to encircle and suppress the Japanese pirates.
Today's Northern Han Dynasty has the powerful Qin in the south, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north. The Northern Han Dynasty is caught in the cracks. The pressure on the Northern Han Dynasty is unprecedented, so Xue Gang must wipe out the Japanese pirates in the shortest possible time.
Sanada Yukimura, known as Japan's number one soldier during the Warring States period, was both wise and brave. The number of troops in his hands was only one-seventh of the Han army. Naturally, it was impossible for him to confront the Northern Han army head-on. However, he ultimately underestimated Le Xuegang's methods.
Xue Gang saw that the Japanese pirates had been avoiding fighting, and he did not have much time to fight again, so he had no choice but to lead a thousand elite cavalry and two thousand infantry to challenge the Japanese pirates.
Sanada Yukimura saw that the Han army that came to attack only had 3,000 troops, of which 2,000 were new recruits. However, his own side had a full 5,000 elite troops, which was 2,000 more troops than the Han army. The probability of victory was more than 70%, so he gave birth to
He planned to eat this living Han army.
The two sides squared off in Lu County, Yuyang County, and began the final battle of life and death.
Sanada Yukimura: Commander 96, Force 99, Intelligence 95, Politics 90, Charisma 97; Equipment: Jumonji Gun, White and Raw Hair;
Sanada Yukimura overestimated himself and underestimated Xue Gang. With a commander level of 96, even with the blessing of skills, his commander attributes were still not as good as Xue Gang.
Of course, Xue Gang couldn't be so stupid as to use only 3,000 soldiers and horses to go head-to-head with 5,000 Japanese pirates. The reason why he dared to do this was because the 2,000 infantry were not new troops at all, but dismounted elite cavalry.
The elite Youzhou cavalry, even if they are dismounted, are no less powerful than the infantry, so Xue Gang actually led 3,000 elite soldiers into the battle.
Three thousand Northern Han elites VS five thousand Japanese pirates.
After the war started, Sanada Nobumura was directly fooled. He couldn't believe that the Northern Han army was so powerful. His own army of 5,000 could not defeat the opponent's 3,000.
Soon, Sanada Nobumura discovered something was wrong. What kind of new recruit was this? He was simply a veteran who killed people without blinking an eye.
After realizing that he had been tricked by Xue Gang, Sanada Nobumura decisively issued the order to retreat. This battle resulted in more than half of the Japanese casualties, but the Northern Han army suffered less than a thousand casualties.
Sanada Nobumura, who was defeated in the first battle, never recovered, but Xue Gang relied on his military superiority to continuously squeeze the Japanese pirates' space for activities, bit by bit eroding the Japanese pirates' effective troops.
In the end, Xue Gang defeated the Japanese pirates in less than half a month, and Sanada Yukimura escaped back to Japan with less than 500 people.
When he came to the Central Plains, Sanada Yukimura brought five thousand elites, but when he returned, he only had five hundred left. Even if he robbed so much money and food, he still could not make up for the loss of manpower in the Central Plains. This trip to the Central Plains was a big loss.
Sent.
What Sanada Yukimura didn't know was that he had at least returned to Japan smoothly with men and enough money and food, but the Uesugi Kanenobu family had only 100% of the profit.
He even risked his own life, and Uesugi Kanenobu's whereabouts are unknown.
Compared with these two families, Sanada Yukimura's luck is already good.
The next person to suffer disaster after Sanada Yukimura was Date Masamune.
Date Masamune's luck was really bad. It was not good for him to choose anyone, but he chose Qi State, which had a strong naval force, and Qi State also had Zhu Tianpeng, a top naval warfare general.
After other Japanese princes came to the Central Plains, they basically looted some places, causing considerable losses to the local princes.
But after Date Masamune plundered a small town, he was immediately noticed by the Qi army, and was later hunted down by the Qi army and navy.
Date Masamune only had 6,000 troops, but Zhu Tianpeng personally led 15,000 naval troops to encircle and suppress him, chasing him until he had no way to go to the sky or to the earth.
After half a month of escaping and hiding, the hidden Japanese pirates were finally found by Zhu Tianpeng, and Date Masamune was forced to launch a counterattack, which naturally resulted in a disastrous defeat.
Only one thousand of the six thousand army was left, and only a few warships were left. Finally, under the leadership of Date Masamune, they escaped back to Japan.
In this campaign to suppress Japanese pirates, the Qin army and others were passively defensive and counterattacked, but only Qi State was the only country to take the initiative to counterattack, and it was still pursuing the Japanese pirates.
After annihilating the Japanese pirates in his country, Zhu Tianpeng led the navy southward to help his ally Zhu Ming and annihilate Takeda Shingen who was wandering in the Xuhuai area.
Takeda Shingen was originally fighting with Zhu Di in a battle of wits and courage, and the fight was inseparable. But when he heard that Qi King Zhu Tianpeng was leading more than 10,000 naval troops to encircle and suppress him, he was immediately frightened.
Takeda Shingen knew that if he didn't leave, he might not be able to leave anymore. He couldn't care less about robbery, so he quickly ordered the remaining four thousand troops to return and fled back to Japan by boat overnight.
Of the eight thousand elite Takeda clan, there were still four thousand left when they returned, and the casualties reached half, but compared with other princes, it was already considered good.
Takeda Shingen was followed by Hojo Tsunari who suffered disaster. His luck was not as good as Takeda Shingen. He was ambushed by Chen Qingzhi when he rushed in greedily. Not only was the entire army of 5,000 annihilated, but he also lost his own life.
The three Korean peninsulas.
At this point, all the Japanese princes who came to plunder the Central Plains, except Tokugawa Ieyasu and Akechi Mitsuhide, had been defeated. Among them, Motonari Mouri and Tsunari Hojo were even killed.
The two major princes, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Akechi Mitsuhide, were both in Yangzhou, and the total strength of the Japanese pirates in Yangzhong was as high as 17,000. Yangzhou had the largest number of Japanese pirates in the state, so it was naturally the most difficult to suppress them.
Most of Soochow's troops were in Jiangxia to fight against Liu Xiu, and they did not pay enough attention to the Japanese pirates at the beginning, so the suppression of the Japanese was the slowest among all the princes.
Sun Jian sent his two sons, Sun Ce and Sun Quan, to suppress the bandits. Sun Ce was doing relatively well, severely injuring Mitsuhide Akechi several times, but Sun Quan did suffer a direct defeat at the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu, suddenly taking away the advantage Sun Ce had gained.
It was completely defeated.
The suppression of Japanese pirates in Wu and Kuaiji counties was unsuccessful for a long time, and the number of affected people increased, even reaching nearly thirty people at one time.
Three hundred thousand people affected by the disaster were homeless, and they had to be resettled as soon as possible, and a lot of money and food had to be spent. This undoubtedly greatly increased the pressure on Soochow, and Sun Jian on the front line almost couldn't bear it.
But at this moment, another major event happened, which became the last straw for Soochow and made Soochow completely disqualified from competing for Jiangxia.