different warring states of japan

Chapter 2136 Want a Little Cleansing

Time flies, and summer is already halfway through.

The news of Hideyoshi's expedition to the peninsula brought back exciting good news, which had spread across the island nation.

The island nation's military families conquered many places on the peninsula and took over seven of the eight regions on the peninsula, especially the southern lands close to the island nation, which were mostly plains and fertile fields.

It is said that Hideyoshi Ichijo has sent a magistrate to the peninsula to inspect the land, and in the near future, these newly conquered lands will be divided among the samurai who participated in the war.

The samurai of the West Island Country who participated in the war were encouraged, while the samurai of the East Island Country who did not participate were envious. As a result of this, the morale of the people under Sōma's command began to become restless again.

Date Masamune was reprimanded by the saint, but he accepted all the punishments silently, quickly withdrew from Yonezawa, and accepted the saint's arrangements.

Uesugi Kenshin inexplicably took over a piece of fertile land. Even if she wanted to wait and see, the Uesugi retainers were unwilling to wait and were eager to swallow this piece of fat meat.

Because of the change of the Yonezawa land, some friction had already occurred among the retainers of the Uesugi and Date families. Even though Date Masamune and Uesugi Kenshin tried their best to restrain them, there were always frictions between the retainers of the two families in private.

Nobushige Sanada controlled the four counties of Aizu. She was stuck in the middle and felt it was difficult to behave herself. She could only turn her attention to the Minami-Osu basins and make those small samurai families tremble in fear.

Aizu and Fukushima are the two gateways of the Ou region, leading to Hitachi Province in the Kanto Plain in the south. There are several small basins between the two, which serve as a buffer zone for the two sides.

Back then, Satake Yoshishige united with the local small samurai families in the Minami-Osu basins and continued to interfere northward in the four counties of Aizu, preventing Date Masamune from completely swallowing up the Aizu region.

Now, Satake Yoshishige has moved north to the northern part of Dewa, and Takeda Shingen is guarding Hitachi Province for his daughter, and he rarely even returns to his old nest in the Koshin Mountains.

In recent years, although Kanto has been generally peaceful, minor frictions are not uncommon, especially among the Yiyin women who rely on their status as the mother of the gods, and their behavior is extremely ugly.

Taking advantage of the special status of the descendants of the Sōma gods, bullying the weak within the rules has become the norm.

The four divine families, Uesugi of Ueno, Takeda of Hitachi, Sanada of Aizu, and Date of Fukushima, blocked the Minami-Osu basins, making it impossible for any water to get through.

The reason why these small Wu families have not been swallowed up yet is simply because they have not yet reached an agreement with each other, and these small Wu families are kept as a buffer for each other.

But as peace comes to Kanto, the Mothers of God will certainly take advantage of the last chance before order is established to expand their power as much as possible. It will be difficult to do such a thing in peacetime.

Yoshigin threatened Date Masamune and rebalanced the gateway area of ​​Ou between the three families of Uesugi, Date and Sanada in order to suppress the thoughts of the East Island samurai to participate in the invasion of the peninsula.

After seeing that the military family of the West Island Country made a fortune, the military family of the East Island Country became more active and many strange words popped up.

The island country has been in turmoil for a hundred years, and the elite troops it has trained are enough to sweep across the four hundred states of the Tang Dynasty.

What? Hideyoshi has already set his ambition to build his capital in Ningbo and is about to conquer the Celestial Empire.

Why are the warriors of the East Island Country more brave than those of the West Island Country? Why can't they make achievements abroad?

In short, as the news of victory on the peninsula spread more and more widely, Yiyin was no longer able to suppress the jackals and tigers under his command.

Even if Date Masamune obeyed and accepted the punishment honestly, the power of this tactic of killing the chicken to scare the monkey would be far less effective than expected.

Yigin scoffed at these strange rumors that were privately circulated among the samurai of the East Island Kingdom.

A hundred years of chaos has trained elite soldiers? The island nation's military family really dares to add luster to themselves.

A century of war has indeed strengthened the combat capability of individual soldiers at the grassroots level, but fighting a war has never been based on individual bravery. Without mentioning the military system of the Celestial Empire, let’s just say that during the Wanli period, when wars were fought all over the country, tens of thousands of elite troops were sent out to fight thousands of miles away, and food and grass were dispatched, all of which were supported and guaranteed by a mature logistics system.

How much food and fodder to allocate from the rear, how many elite troops to draw from various places, how to provide supplies along the way, the organization of soldiers and generals, the care of military supervisors, the calculation of battle records and losses, and the reporting and issuance of rewards and punishments, all of these require a complete set of systems.

The island nation's warriors are accustomed to short-term, close-range combat. They have almost no concept of long-distance supply and no experience in large-scale troop combat.

Yiyin knew very well that these elite soldiers and generals trained through a hundred years of chaos could never compete with the mature military system of the Celestial Empire.

The so-called legion of the island nation can only bully the rulers and ministers of the peninsula who are protected by the Celestial Empire and are both civil and military. However, the current excellent performance is actually an unexpected achievement after a successful surprise attack.

Ichijo Hideyoshi worked hard to publicize his victory in order to lure the samurai under Yoshigin and drag the eastern island country into the water to meet the ever-consuming manpower and armament needs of Ichijo's army.

Fighting overseas is extremely costly.

In addition to levying heavy taxes, Hideyoshi Ichijo relied on loans from his subordinates in Sasaki-Dokura to maintain the logistics of his army.

Coupled with the extensive plundering of the conquered areas on the peninsula, military supplies were barely guaranteed.

The huge consumption of cross-sea expeditions is not something that the island country warriors can understand. A situation similar to that of the island country warriors is actually the Hakka-Punti fighting in the southeast of the Celestial Empire.

The fighting between the Hakkas and the natives in the southeast was also close in distance and of great intensity. When two villages fought, the logistical pressure was very small. The villagers were bound by clan blood ties and relied on personal bravery, and their morale was high.

Qi Jiguang was once frightened by the armed fight between tens of thousands of miners in Yiwu. If he continued to go south, he would find that the armed fights between the natives and Hakkas in Guandong, Fujian were even bloodier and more brutal than those in Zhejiang, and a fight to the death.

As for the island country, the intensity of the village fighting is not as strong as the Hakka-Punti fighting, and there have been only a few battles involving hundreds of thousands of people in the past hundred years of chaos.

The fighting power of the island nation's samurai is just like the katana produced in the island nation, which is sharp yet fragile. It looks like it can kill with one strike, but in fact it can only bully those without armor.

If they really encounter a large-scale, fully armed army battle, a long-term confrontation will only leave the Wu family helpless.

After all, we are still poor.

The impoverished island nation could not imagine how the wealthy Celestial Empire would fight its wars, such as the might of Emperor Wu of Han who emptied the treasury, or the huge expenses behind Huo Qubing's conquest of the Wolf's Lair. They could not even imagine it.

It was a huge joke in itself that Hideyoshi, who lacked a logistics system and had no experience in large-scale military operations, attempted to conquer the Celestial Empire.

What's even more ridiculous is that most of the samurai were already dazzled by Hideyoshi Ichijo's brilliant military achievements on the peninsula, and they were actually tempted.

The ruler and his ministers of the peninsula asked the Celestial Empire for help, and the Celestial Empire's army marched to the peninsula. It would take some time to defeat a legion.

Before a legion suffers a setback in battle, Yiyin must pull the reins and steady the restless hearts of his subordinates, so as to prevent them from being led astray by them.

To this end, Yiyin did not hesitate to use the murder case of Tobita Shinchi to make a fuss, preparing to launch a small purge to show that his words were law and his authority was based on the law.

The Shinbu are tools independent of the Shiba political system, and Takada Yukino represents killing.

Yamaguchi Hajime's feeling was not wrong, but just because of the death of two high-ranking samurai of moderate importance, Takada Yukino actually invited Mikazuki Munechika out. This matter seemed wrong no matter how you looked at it.

  But even if he felt something was wrong, what could Yamaguchi do?

He was just a clever divine guard, a small chess piece on the chessboard. In the general trend, he could only dance with the wind.