Chapter 2336: Japanese traitor plan, sweeping Kyushu
Chapter 2336: Japanese traitor plan to sweep across Kyushu
"Senior Taiyi, what you said: strong winds and flying clouds are referring to this storm?"
Xiang Yu stood on the cliff by the sea and pointed at the huge waves not far away.
He was standing in the heavy rain, obviously without an umbrella or wearing a hat, but as soon as the raindrops fell around him, they would be automatically bounced away by a stream of air. Except for his shoes, no part of his body was hit by the rain.
wet.
Donghuang Taiyi was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.
Like Xiang Yu, he was obviously in a heavy rain, but his clothes didn't get wet, just like an immortal.
Xiang Yu also fell silent, and then said: "If Zhou Yu doesn't realize it, not only will the entire navy of the Three Kingdoms conquer Japan be wiped out, but even the great master may not survive."
"Don't worry, I made three hexagrams before the war. The hexagrams show that there is no danger. Besides, Zhou Yu is not a short-lived person. He will definitely understand my intention." Donghuang Taiyi said, stroking his beard.
"Senior is really big-hearted."
Xiang Yu snorted unhappily. After seeing this storm, he was frightened anyway. After all, if he couldn't escape, he was sure to survive, but his young daughter
What should Ruoxi do?
"Senior, since you are so confident in your deduction skills, why not make a calculation and figure out how the coalition forces can capture Kyushu Island."
"Don't forget it."
"Oh? You can't figure it out?"
"No."
Donghuang Taiyi shook his head, then stretched out a finger and said with an inscrutable expression: "I have already calculated it in advance."
After saying that, Donghuang Taiyi turned around and left, leaving Xiang Yu standing there confused.
Zhou Yu originally thought that the storm would stop in two days at most, but he did not expect that the scale this time far exceeded his expectations.
The storm passed in just one day, but then it started raining again, and it rained continuously for three days and three nights.
The storm continued, and the army troops still in the Central Plains were unable to sail to Kyushu.
Therefore, the war against Japan could only be suspended, and the navy of the Three Kingdoms could only rest and recuperate in Hizen Province, waiting until the heavy rain stopped.
During the rest period, the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms did not do anything. The first and most important thing was to set a good direction to prevent Japanese troops from raiding in the rain.
Zhou Yu asked himself that if he were a daimyo of the Shimazu family, he would definitely not miss this good opportunity. After all, the infantry would definitely take advantage of the enemy on the road, so he set up an ambush in advance and waited for the Japanese army to invade.
But what Zhou Yu didn't expect was that after waiting for three days in a row, he didn't get news of the Dayou family's invasion. Instead, he got great good news.
The great name of the Dayou family, Dayou Zonglin, was actually among the surrendered prisoners of war.
When Oda Nobunaga issued the order to retreat, Otomo Sorin was trapped by the Qin army and unable to withdraw from the chaotic battle group. Finally, he was forced to have no choice but to conceal his identity and pretend to surrender, and then looked for opportunities to escape.
The Hizen country where the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms landed was the territory of the Otomo family. Otomo Sorin originally had a great chance to escape, but he was so unlucky that he happened to encounter Gao Shun guarding the camp.
Gao Shun was the most dedicated and meticulous person. With him guarding the prisoner of war camp, it was naturally impossible for Dayou Zonglin to escape, but Gao Shun was caught red-handed.
Seeing that Gao Shun was about to execute all the escaped prisoners of war without saying a word, Otomo Zonglin had no choice but to reveal his identity in order to survive.
After Gao Shun learned the identity of Dayou Zonglin, he immediately informed Zhou Yu of the news, and Zhou Yu also came to interrogate Dayou Zonglin overnight.
Although Zhou Yu had Jie Siyun as his guide, it was impossible for Jie Siyun, a Han Chinese, to know more about Japan than Dayou Zonglin, a famous figure in Japan.
Therefore, through Dayou Zonglin, Zhou Yu was able to obtain more important information about the Japanese country, and even forced Dayou Zonglin to surrender so that the Dayou family surrendered without a fight.
Inside the dungeon.
Zhou Yu looked at Dayou Zonglin who was tied up by Wuhua Da, and said indifferently: "Can you speak Chinese?"
Dayou Zonglin turned his head to the side with dignity, without even looking at Zhou Yu, as if he didn't know how to say anything.
Gao Shunze on the other side said: "Grand Governor, this person can speak Chinese."
Seeing this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but sneered: "It seems that if I don't let you experience, what is life worse than death, you won't be honest."
After saying that, Zhou Yu directly blocked Dayou Zonglin's mouth with a rag and said to Gao Shun: "I will give him all the tortures again until he speaks."
"promise."
"Woooo..."
Dayou Zonglin finally panicked, but his mouth was blocked and he couldn't speak even if he wanted to.
Bang, bang...
The whip continued to hit Otomo Zonglin's body, and the execution soldiers did not hold back at all. Every time the whip fell, Otomo Zonglin's skin and flesh were torn open, but he could not cry out and could only moan in pain.
Zhou Yu had someone bring a chair and quietly watched the execution until after being whipped a hundred times, Dayou Zonglin no longer had any good flesh left in his body.
Looking at Dayou Zonglin who fainted from the pain, Zhou Yu said: "Wake him up and continue the execution."
"promise."
The soldier directly picked up a basin of salt water and poured it over Otomo Zonglin's head.
Immediately afterwards, Otomo Zonglin's shrill screams sounded again in the dungeon.
After a long time, the wailing gradually stopped, and Otomo Zonglin also lost half his life.
Zhou Yu came over at this time, took the pill out of his mouth, and asked indifferently: "Do you still want to talk about it now?"
Dayou Zonglin said in Chinese angrily: "What are you asking about?"
"Huh, what a bitch..."
The subsequent interrogation went very smoothly. No matter what Zhou Yu asked, Dayou Zonglin answered honestly, which saved Zhou Yu from continuing the execution.
After some inquiries, Zhou Yu had a better understanding of the forces, generals, terrain and other information about the eleven Japanese alliances, and naturally became more confident about this battle.
"Dayou Zonglin, I will give you a chance to survive. Are you willing to surrender to my country, Great Qin?"
Zhou Yu said with a cold face, as if the other party refused, he would immediately drag him out and slap him.
Dayou Zonglin said quickly: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender."
"In that case, write a letter of surrender and ask the Dayou family to surrender together."
Upon hearing this, Dayou Zonglin hesitated: "This..."
Zhou Yu's eyes widened: "Why, do you want to pretend to surrender?"
"No, no, no, it's just that the villain has not returned for several days. Everyone in the family must think that the villain is dead, and perhaps the villain's younger brother has been named as his new name.
Besides, even if the villain writes a letter of surrender, the family may not be willing to surrender to Da Qin." Dayou Zonglin said cautiously.
When Zhou Yu heard this, he narrowed his eyes slightly and said calmly: "So, you are no longer useful."
Dayou Zonglin was horrified and said quickly: "It's useful, a villain is of great use. Even if the family has a new name, there are still many villains in Dayou's family who are willing to surrender to the governor."
"It's still somewhat useful. In that case, I'll spare your life."
Zhou Yu nodded with satisfaction. He thought Dayou Zonglin was a tough guy, but he didn't expect him to be so greedy for life and afraid of death.
But this is fine, if the Japanese are not afraid of death, then his Japanese traitor plan will not be carried out.
Ying Hao never thought about completely conquering the Japanese country with five million people with only a few hundred thousand troops. He had already thought of supporting some weak Japanese spies and letting the Japanese kill each other.
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When Zhou Yu was preparing to attack Kyushu, any city with strong resistance would be massacred directly by the army as a shock. The surrendered Japanese army would act as Japanese traitors, and let these Japanese traitors attack the city, collect food, and massacre on behalf of the coalition forces.
This will reduce coalition casualties.
Zhou Yu also did not expect that the first Japanese traitor would be a daimyo-level figure.
After Dayou Zonglin finished writing the letter of surrender, Zhou Yu was just about to send it out when he received another bad news.
Otomo, Shimazu, and Mori, the three local forces in Kyushu, have already elected new daimyo.
The new daimyo of the Shimazu family is Shimazu Yoshihiro, the younger brother of Yoshihisa Shimazu.
The new daimyo of the Otomo family is Otomo Sorin's younger brother, Otomo Haruhide.
The new daimyo of the Mori family is Motoharu Mori, the younger brother of Takamoto Mori and the second son of Motonari Mori.
Zhou Yu did not know that Shimazu Yoshihisa and Mori Takamoto died in the storm, but this was extremely good news for the Japanese-conquering coalition.
There are only three local forces in Kyushu. Even before the Japanese Allied Forces officially attack Kyushu Island, two of the three major forces' daimyo have already died in battle, and one was captured alive by the Qin Dynasty.
The entire army of the three daimyo was wiped out, which must be a huge blow to the local forces in Kyushu.
In addition, even if the three major forces elect a new daimyo, the transfer of power ceremony will take time.
Zhou Yu immediately realized that this was a great opportunity to send troops, but the heavy rain had not stopped yet. It was impossible for him to fight the Japanese army in the rain.
"Forget it, let's send Dayou Zonglin's letter of surrender first and test the attitude of Dayou's family." Zhou Yu said to himself.
The Dayou family originally thought that Dayou Zonglin was dead, but they never expected that the head of the family was not dead, but was captured alive by Da Qin, and even wrote a letter of surrender and sent him back.
After receiving the letter of surrender, Otomo Haruhide, who had just succeeded to the throne, tore it into pieces directly in front of the Qin envoys, claiming that his eldest brother was only forced to write the letter of surrender because he was coerced by the Qin army.
He will never surrender to Da Qin.
Otomo Qingying's decisiveness made everyone in the Otomo family breathe a sigh of relief. Many people proposed to kill the Qin envoy to strengthen the Otomo family's determination to resist Qin.
Otomo Haruhide hesitated again and again, but in the end he did not dare to kill the envoys. After all, the Battle of Tsushima was a disastrous defeat. Now that the Qin Dynasty was at its peak, it was obviously extremely irrational to kill the envoys at this time, which would offend the Great Qin to death.
Although Otomo Qingying did not dare to kill the Qin envoy, facing the persecution of his subordinates, he could not do anything, so he cut off the Qin envoy's ear and let him go.
After the envoy returned, he immediately told the truth, and Zhou Yu also understood Otomo Haruhide's intention.
He was unwilling to surrender to Qin, but because he was in awe of Qin due to his defeat, he was not firm in resisting Qin.
"If the Shindaimyo of the other three families are as good as Otomo Haruhide, the battle in Kyushu may be very easy." Zhou Yu said to himself with a smile.
The next day, the sky cleared after the rain.
The heavy rain continued for five days and finally stopped.
The plan to conquer Kyushu is finally on schedule.
As soon as the weather cleared, Zhou Yu immediately sent a message to the Central Plains and asked the navy to escort the army to Kyushu, but it would take at least three days to arrive.
Zhou Yu was naturally not prepared to remain idle until the armies from the four countries arrived.
According to the information given by Otomo Zonglin, the major forces on Honshu Island are already gathering. Once it is confirmed that the Qin army has landed in Kyushu, the armies of all major forces will rush to Kyushu.
Therefore, Zhou Yu prepared to lead the navy to attack everywhere, destroy the major ports in eastern Kyushu, and cut off the connections between Kyushu and the four countries of Honshu, so as to prevent the armies from these two places from rushing to aid Kyushu Island, leaving Kyushu Island completely isolated and helpless.
This battle mainly involved the navy of Qin and Wu. The navy of Song suffered more than half of its casualties. When adding the division of spoils, Zhou Yu objected to compensating Song and directly pointed out that Song did not contribute much. This made Zhao Guangyi extremely dissatisfied.
Therefore, the navy of Song Dynasty did not participate in this operation.
Next, with the joint efforts of Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, the Qin-Wu coalition swept through the six major ports in eastern Kyushu in just two days, killing more than 8,000 soldiers from the three families of Maori, Otomo, and Shimazu, while suffering only a few casualties.
Less than a thousand.
The three families of Mori, Otomo, and Shimazu had been on guard against the Qin army's invasion. They thought the Qin army would come from land, but they didn't expect that the Qin army would come from the land. However, they did not expect that the navy army would come. They were caught off guard again and were immediately dispatched.
Soldiers went to support them, but when they arrived, only the ruins of the burned port were left behind.
After destroying the ports on the west coast of Lejiuzhou, Sun Ce suggested that before the army landed, they could destroy the ports on the east coast as well, so the two of them destroyed three ports on the east coast in one day.
Three days later, Da Qin's fifty large troop transport ships and one hundred large cargo ships, fully loaded with 70,000 Qin and Wei coalition troops, successfully landed on the west coast of Hizen Kingdom.
Since the number of troop transport ships was not enough to transport 70,000 troops, Zhou Yu also pulled out hundreds of large cargo ships that had sailed to the West, and used the cargo ships to serve as troop transports, so that he could transport 70,000 troops to Kyushu at one time.
As for Song and Wu's 50,000-strong army, it would take another two days to arrive due to the greater distance.
Zhou Yu had long been unable to hold back any longer, and naturally he would not wait for the Song and Wu coalition forces. After publicly announcing the news of the "Japanese Massacre Order", he immediately led the Qin and Wei armies to take the initiative to attack.
Under the fierce offensive of 70,000 Qin and Wei allied troops, the Otomo family was unable to resist at all, and they lost cities and territory one after another, losing half of the Hizen Kingdom in less than a day.
The first general of the Otomo family, Tachibana Doyuki, saw that he was no match for the Qin army in the field, so he prepared to hold on for dear life. However, with the short and thin walls of the Japanese country, he could not stop the bombardment of the Qin army's catapults.
In this way, Zhou Yu took only two days to capture the entire Hizen Kingdom, slaughtered three cities, killed 50,000 Japanese people, and surrendered nearly 40,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians.
Otomo Haruhide was frightened to kill him in one battle.