There are five major powers on Honshu Island, namely: Oda, Uesugi, Takeda, Tokugawa, and Mori. (Note: The power of the Oyezaki family is located in Hokkaido.)
Except for the Maori family, the other four families, after receiving the news that all of Kyushu had fallen, the coalition forces rushing to aid Kyushu immediately disbanded on the spot.
This is actually a helpless move. After all, there is no point in continuing to maintain the establishment without being able to land on Kyushu Island. It is just a waste of money and food.
Of course, the most important point is that the next place where the allied forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu will attack must be Honshu.
The various countries in Honshu did not know where the Four Nations Allied Forces would land, and they had no way to counterattack in any situation. They could only defend passively. Therefore, they naturally felt quite insecure, so they all recalled their armies to protect their own forces.
When things have developed to this point, the ten-nation alliance of Japan has basically existed in name only. They may still assist each other, but generally they will focus on their own interests and fight on their own.
"Report...to report to Your Majesty that the Central Plains Allied Forces have landed in the Shikoku countries of Iwami, Inaba, Bizen, and Tango in the west."
Oda Nobunaga looked surprised and said to himself: "It's actually the west?"
After the entire territory of Kyushu fell, Oda Nobunaga and other daimyo gathered their wise men to speculate on the next main attack direction of the Central Plains Allied Forces.
After all, even if it is a passive defense, if you don't even know the enemy's landing position, it would be too passive. Knowing the location can at least deploy targeted defenses.
At the meeting, most people believed that the Allied Forces from the Central Plains would land from the Kanto Plain, the Nobi Plain or the Near Plains. After all, these three plains are the essence of Honshu, and are the most populous and richest places.
The Allied Forces from the Central Plains came mainly for money, so they would never let go of these three plains.
In addition, the plains are vast and flat, making them easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the Central Plains Allied Forces are good at attacking fortresses, so they may not seek stability and proceed step by step, but directly attack the richest plains.
The three major plains of Kanto, Noubi, and Jinjin are all under the control of the Oda family, so the Oda family should focus on these three major plains for defense.
This statement is recognized by most people, including Oda Nobunaga. After all, just looking at the mass killings of the Central Plains Allied Forces in Kyushu, we know that they are not here to rule for a long time, but to seek wealth, so then
It is absolutely impossible to let go of the three major plains of Honshu.
Through three Honshu wars, Oda Nobunaga drove the Maori family that originally occupied the nearby plains to the west, and drove the Takeda family and Tokugawa Island who occupied the Kanto Plain to the northeast. He finally occupied all three major plains of Honshu. Naturally, he could not
The Central Plains Allied Forces may be allowed to seize the three major plains.
Oda Nobunaga also felt that the Central Plains Allied Forces were more likely to attack the three major plains, so he transferred most of his troops to the plains, but he never expected that the Han Allied Forces would land from the west.
Why did the Han coalition choose to attack the west first? Naturally, they thought the inner west was closest to Kyushu Island.
"I thought that the Han people would become more arrogant after successive battles and victories, but I didn't expect that they would be so cautious."
Oda Nobunaga smiled bitterly. Facing such a powerful yet cautious Han coalition, the Japanese countries would obviously not have an easy time in the future.
Because Oda Nobunaga completely misjudged the enemy's main attack direction, which resulted in a relative lack of troops in the western region, the offensive of the Four Nations Allied Forces was overwhelming.
After Xu Huang landed in Ishijian Kingdom, he quickly attacked the coastal cities and at the same time recruited the defenders of major cities to surrender in the name of Maori Motoharu.
Although the Maori family has changed to a new name, the prestige of Maori Yuanqing is obviously not as good as that of his brother.
In addition, the Qin army's offensive was extremely fierce. If they did not surrender before the war started, they would massacre the city once they broke through.
Who is not afraid?
The Maori family was already frightened by the Qin army. Out of fear, many of the defenders chose to surrender in Kaicheng before the battle began.
The Qin army occupied a large number of cities without encountering any resistance. This also caused Xu Huang's troops to not only not decrease, but to fight more and more.
In just five days, Xu Huang occupied the entire Shijian Kingdom, and his military strength increased to 30,000, and then continued to attack other countries in the west.
The entire territory of Ishimi Kingdom fell, and the three countries of Aki, Izumo, and Bingo were in danger. Mouri Yuanqing, a famous Maori family member, was shocked and quickly mobilized his few troops to resist. At the same time, he sent an envoy to his alliance leader Oda Nobu.
Asking for help.
But now Oda Nobunaga has too much time to take care of himself, so how can he have extra troops to support the Maori family?
What's more, the three countries of Inaba, Bizen, and Tango to the east of the Mori family were also attacked by the Central Plains Allied Forces. The connection between the Oda family and the Mori family was cut off, and they were no longer bordering each other.
Even if Oda Nobunaga wanted to support the Mori family, the Oda family's army would not be able to get through.
Therefore, the Maori family has completely become an outcast.
No matter in terms of prestige, ability, or character, Mouri Motoharu is far from comparable to Motori Motoharu.
After learning that the Oda family could not send reinforcements, and that their territories were surrendering in tracts, and that Aki, Izumo, and Bingo had all fallen, in desperation, they surrendered directly to Xu Huang, causing the Qin army to suffer a bloodless defeat.
The land of two countries.
During Xu Huang's campaign in the Western Kingdom, he did not encounter much resistance, and most of the defenders surrendered directly. Therefore, the killings caused were not too heavy, and he only killed nearly 100,000 people from beginning to end.
Statistics after the war showed that the total population of the Six Kingdoms was still 250,000, which was less than the total population of the Kyushu and Three Kingdoms. However, the total population controlled by Da Qin in the Japanese Kingdom also reached 600,000.
After destroying the Maori family and occupying the six kingdoms, Xu Huang's army reached 60,000.
Among them, the Qin army only had 10,000 troops, while the Qin Xie army (surrendering army) had as many as 50,000 troops.
The number of surrendered troops was five times that of the Qin army.
These surrendering troops were forced to surrender, and they had only surrendered not long ago. Xu Huang could not trust his new appointment.
In addition, because the Maori family's bones were too soft, they surrendered without much resistance. Many surrendered generals still retained military power and had the power to resist the Qin army.
Therefore, after some thought, Xu Huang decided to stop further expansion, start integrating the resources of the six western countries, and conduct training for the 50,000 Qin Alliance Army.
In addition, Xu Huang also recruited nearly 50,000 men to mine Shi Jian Yin Shan on a large scale.
Xu Huang's various actions, especially the whole army and the seizure of power, aroused the dissatisfaction of many surrendered generals and even began to plot rebellion, but Xu Huang noticed it in advance.
The rebellion went on as scheduled, but Xu Huang was well prepared. After killing 3,000 rebel generals and beating 7,000 rebels as slaves and sending them to mines for mining, the military power of the Qin Xiejun was completely overturned by Xu Huang
It's in your hands.
Since then, the six western countries have completely stabilized.
Xu Huang's side was unstoppable, and the war between the Ming, Wei, Song and Wu kingdoms was much slower than that of the Qin army, but it was also extremely smooth.
On the Shikoku Island, although Imagawa and Hojo had assembled an army of 90,000, which was more than twice the strength of the Ming army, the overall quality of the soldiers and the generals' cosmetic surgery were still far behind compared with the Ming army. .
Both the Imagawa and Hojo families, who fled from Honshu to Shikoku, had more than one god-level warrior, but Zhu Di dispatched three gods of war.
The generals on both sides are of completely different levels, and the overall quality of the soldiers is also very different. How could they possibly stop the Ming army?
After the Ming army landed on Shikoku Island, they won three battles and three victories, and soon occupied one-third of the territory of Shikoku Island. The Imagawa and Hojo families suffered heavy casualties, but they had to expand their troops and continue to resist desperately.
If this trend continues, in a month or two at most, the Imagawa and Hojo families will be wiped out and the entire Shikoku Island will be completely occupied.
As for the three kingdoms of Wei, Song, and Wu, the territories they attacked were all owned by the Oda family, but most of the Oda family's troops were in the three major plains of Kanto, Nomi, and Jinjin. Therefore, the troops in the western region were relatively empty, and it was naturally impossible to stop them. It lived in the conquests of the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu.
The goal of the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu was to conquer the four kingdoms, but it took only half a month to complete most of the strategic goals, but the main force of the Oda family was still on the way to support.
As soon as the western region was attacked, Oda Nobunaga immediately mobilized his troops to support the western region. However, due to the road conditions and the long distance, he obviously did not arrive so quickly.
As the Oda family's army arrived, the situation in western Honshu had completely collapsed, and by the time reinforcements arrived, it was completely impossible to recover.
Oda Nobunaga had actually anticipated this, so from the very beginning, he was ready to give up on the twenty western countries.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to restrict the Allied Forces of the Four Nations beyond the nearby plains, and for this purpose, he would not hesitate to defeat the twenty western countries into nothing.
It is obviously not easy to achieve this goal with the power of Oda alone. Therefore, Oda Nobunaga also sent a joint statement to Uesugi, Takeda, Tokugawa, and the Uyizaki family in Hokkaido, hoping that the four countries might send troops to the front. Come west to join the war.
After receiving Nobunaga's summons, both the Tokugawa and Uyizaki families refused on the grounds that the Han Chinese coalition might divide their forces to invade other areas.
Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen both responded to Oda Nobunaga's call and personally led their elite troops to assist in the battle.
But what neither Oda Nobunaga nor Uesugi Kenshin expected was that the Uesugi family's army had just left the territory, and before they could fight the Wu army, the Echigo Kingdom in the rear was attacked by the Qin army, and it was Zhou Yu himself. Lead.
At this time, Oda Nobunaga and others realized that the Qin army that landed in Ishimi Country was just a partial force, and the main force of the Qin army led by Zhou Yu was eyeing the Uesugi family's chassis.
As for why the Qin army targeted the Uesugi family? Perhaps only the Uesugi family's gold mine could attract the Qin army.
After realizing this, Oda Nobunaga suddenly felt chills running down his spine. The Iwami Ginzan of the Mori family and the Sado Kaneyama of the Uesugi family were secrets even in Japan, but the Han coalition forces knew them very well.
Can Japan really defeat such a powerful, cautious opponent who knows its own side well?
Oda Nobunaga didn't know the outcome, but he obviously had no choice. Regardless of success or failure, he had to fight to the death.
Echigo Kingdom was suddenly attacked, and it was the main force of the Qin army that came, which frightened Uesugi Kenshin.
Echigo is not only the largest country in the Uesugi family, which is equivalent to the area of three countries, but also rich in mineral resources. It has the large gold mine of Sado Kaneyama, and it is also the main grain production area of the Uesugi family.
Because they own the Sado Gold Mountain, the Uesugi family has always been financially wealthy, but there is not much arable land, so grain production has never been high, and the grain production of Echigo Province alone accounts for half of the Uesugi family.
Once the Echigo Kingdom fell, the Uesugi family would not only lose its main source of wealth, but also lose half of its grain production. This would undoubtedly be fatal to a country, and would force Uesugi Kenshin to immediately withdraw troops and return reinforcements.
When Takeda Shingen learned that the Uesugi family had been attacked, he was afraid that the Han coalition would attack him again, so he called back a large support force and tried his best to defend his country.
Therefore, Oda Nobunaga, who was leading his army to the west, could only fight alone against the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu.
Uesugi Kenshin's return of reinforcements was not unsatisfactory, but it was still a step too late. Echigo Kingdom only had 15,000 defenders. Under the fierce attack of 30,000 Qin army main force and 30,000 Qin auxiliary troops (Japan surrendered troops), only
After holding on for ten days, the whole territory fell.
It is worth mentioning that no one in the cities of Echigo surrendered, and the strength of the resistance far exceeded the expectations of the Qin generals.
In the end, although the Qin army easily captured the Echigo Kingdom, it also lost 500 Qin troops and 4,000 Qin allies.
With such strong resistance, in addition to the Uesugi family's propaganda of the brutality of the Han people, the main reason was that Uesugi Kenshin was more popular than the great names such as Moori Otomo.
This also made Zhou Yu realize that if he continued to follow his previous practice of directly slaughtering the city without surrendering, when the Uesugi family was destroyed, this area would also be slaughtered into a piece of white land. By then, there might not even be enough labor to dig up the Sado Gold Mountain.
come out.
With this thought, Zhou Yu decided to relax the conditions for massacre. He would not massacre the city directly, but kill all the resisters, in order to reduce the resistance of the Uesugi family.
Zhou Yu's method is indeed more effective than massacring the city. Not massacring the city reduces the people's resistance to the Qin army, and the probability of the Uesugi generals surrendering is also greatly increased.
With Zhou Yu's combination of kindness and power, it only took eight days to capture the ten cities of Echigo Kingdom, and did not cause too much killing. He only killed 50,000 or 60,000 people. This was the least killing by the Qin army.
once.
Shortly after the fall of Echigo Kingdom, Uesugi Kenshin's army finally came back. However, she was very sensible and did not fight with Zhou Yu to return to Echigo Kingdom. Instead, she chose to defend Echichu, Echizen, Noto and other places.
The Uesugi family is not the Oda family, and their military strength is far less than that of the Oda family.
The Qin army's combat power was stronger than that of the Japanese army, and its military strength was no less than that of the Uesugi family. How could Uesugi Kenshin dare to confront Zhou Yu? It would be better to defend instead of attack, and wait for Zhou Yu to take the initiative to attack.
When Uesugi Kenshin decided to defend, he also sent envoys to lobby Takeda Shingen, hoping that the Takeda family would send troops to support the Uesugi family.
Takeda Shingen originally did not dare to send troops, but he learned that the main force of the Qin army was in Echigo country, and the rest of the Han coalition forces were in the west. The Han coalition forces no longer had the extra troops to attack the Takeda family.
Considering that once the Uesugi family fell, the Takeda family would not be able to survive alone, so Takeda Shingen decisively decided to send troops to attack Zhou Yu together with Uesugi Kenshin from the south and the north.