The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 413

[Chapter 408: The Kwantung Coalition]

The wheel of time flies fast, and in the blink of an eye, it has been a year since the expedition to the Shinano country again.

A lot of things happened this year, and the ones that attracted the attention of the world were one after another, giving people a sense of trance and illusoryness.

First of all, the domestic division is serious, the tyrants are still fighting incessantly in the face of external pressure, and the more China is seriously depleted.

After resisting the attack of the Dojo army for three months, it was the first to declare its demise, becoming the first central vassal state to be invaded.

Immediately afterwards, Ueno and Shimono, which also did not form a coalition, were also invaded by the dojo army. All domestic tyrants were executed, and all resistance forces were eliminated.

As for the Shinano country, after the Dojo army sent the second wave of conquering troops, it relied on the domestic danger for half a year, and finally declared its demise because all the resistance forces in the country were exhausted.

The remaining Hitachi Kingdom could not resist for long, and finally declared its demise one month after the Sinano Kingdom was destroyed.

So far, the sphere of influence of the dojo has expanded by five countries, and the stone height of the territory has increased by 2.2 million stone, truly becoming the number one vassal state in the world.

However, although the territory expanded extremely rapidly, it almost doubled.

But the real strength enhancement is not much, and even slightly decreased.

The reason is that Zhong Yu’s policy is too harsh.

Wherever the army has passed, all the local tyrants will either give up everything and become ordinary civilians, or they will be wiped out, and there is no other way to go.

This attitude of leaving almost no leeway aroused resistance from all tyrannical forces. Years of continuous struggle and resistance emerged, and the five occupied countries were smashed into ruins.

To what extent are the ruins?

can be described as such.

The small villages and small fortresses that could be seen everywhere were more than ten after the war.

The originally large population has become sparse, and people are often invisible for miles.

You must know that Japan’s original national conditions are that there are fewer people and more people, and the land can’t support people at all.

But now it has turned the other way, and it has become a lot of land, but no one is farming and developing it.

Large tracts of villages and towns were burned, the population was lost due to the war, the original savings and basic measures were destroyed, and the five countries completely returned to the wild era.

At the end of the war, when the statistics of the population resumed production, it was only after some rough statistics that we found out.

Originally, the total population of the five countries was about 2.2 million to 2.5 million. After the war, there were only 700,000 to 800,000 people. Among them, there were very few men who could fight, only about 120,000 to 30,000.

Such a level of destruction and slaughter deeply shocked and frightened other local tyrants around.

They were shocked, scared, and angry.

Originally, when they fought, they just killed some enemy samurai on the battlefield. For the Shigaru brought by the opponent, they were often defeated.

So usually a war with thousands of people ends, and the loss may not even be 50 people.

But the war that is taking place in these five countries is not aimed at capturing territory at all, but at slaughtering people, which is fundamental destruction.

How can this not frighten the local tyrants who do not have much knowledge?

Shortly after the reunification of the Five Kingdoms, an alliance headed by the Hojo family, a powerful name in the Kanto region who unified the land of the Three Kingdoms, was quietly born.

The members of this alliance include the Takeda family of the Jiafei country, plus the four domestic powerful and powerful members of the Musashi country, the Shangso country, the lower country and the Anfang country.

At the core of the Hojo family who owned the three kingdoms, a huge alliance was born that connected the power of the eight countries, collectively known as the Kanto Alliance.

The land occupied by the Eight-Nation Alliance is extremely fertile and has nurtured a large number of people. All the stone heights add up to about 2.4 million stone, and the population under its rule is about 2.5 million. It is an extremely powerful force.

It didn’t take long for the alliance to be established, and the tyrants from all over the country mobilized domestic soldiers and gathered a strong military force. The resistance army, which has always been about 200,000 people, gathered here.

And the dojo, when the alliance army was established and accumulated strength, completed the integration of the newly acquired resources of the five countries.

And the national mobilization started from the rear, actively preparing for the expansion of the next war.

The original 200,000 troops, plus the follow-up support of 50,000 Shinano troops, totaled 250,000.

These armies suffered great losses in the continuous expedition. After all, those tyrannical and powerful lambs were not without resistance.

Each of them has a strong force, an endless population under their command, and the resources of this entire territory to provide them with supplies.

With so many advantages, how could he not fight back when he was forced into a desperate situation.

Therefore, when the five countries thoroughly assessed that after the war ended, only about 100,000 of the 250,000 troops could survive in the end.

But the number has decreased,

But it’s not all bad news, there’s a lot of good news.

During the training of the war, many original cannon fodders or ordinary troops have come to their senses, breaking through the boundaries and becoming warriors with extraordinary power.

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Zhong Yu’s Tier 2 Legion had suffered damages from previous battles, and the survivors had added supplements, and it remained at around 30,000, which was a surprise by 10,000 more than before the war.

As for the remaining 70,000 of the 100,000 army, they have also broken through to the first order, and they are still the strongest among them, becoming the elite of a hundred battles.

In the rear, although a large number of young and strong people suffered heavy casualties on the front line, because all the territories in the rear were cleared of those bandits and tyrannical reasons, there was not a single person of prestige who could take the lead in resisting.

Therefore, although the exploitation of the territory is very serious, unexpectedly, it did not arouse the resistance of all the people in the territory.

Under Zhong Yu’s provocation and bewitchment, he transferred all the reasons to the powerful and powerful people in the central and Kanto regions, so that the support of the people in the country for the war became more and more powerful.

Therefore, out of the original 1.8 million population of the dojo’s sphere of influence, 500,000 were able to take up arms to fight.

Half of the 250,000 people were recruited because of the war, and 150,000 of the remaining people were recruited again because of the subsequent full-scale mobilization.

Only 100,000 men were left to maintain the minimum production in the territory, and all the remaining human resources were concentrated in the war, and everything was for the war.

An army with a number of more than 250,000 assembled again, in addition to leaving 50,000 to maintain law and order and defense in various places.

The remaining 200,000 troops were all pressed into the Kanto theater, ready to defeat the Kanto coalition forces and unify the Kanto region in one fell swoop.

A major war with more than 400,000 people broke out. The scale of this war far exceeded all the wars in Japanese history, and it can be called the largest battle in history.

It hasn’t exploded completely yet, just with such a wind direction, it has attracted the attention of all the people in the world.

(End of this chapter)

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