Vol 2 Chapter 2391: Tokyo Tartusa (Part 2)

Chapter 2391 Tokyo Tartusa (Part 2)

Chapter 2387: Tokyo Tartusa (Part 2)

 There were many fierce generals such as Dian Wei Xu Chu, Wuzi Liangjiang, and Liangshan Five Tigers who participated in the siege. The siege on the third day was much more fierce than the first two days.

 After the war, statistics showed that the Qin and Wu coalition forces suffered 5,000 casualties, but they caused damage to the Oda family of 3,000 troops.

Without Le Yi's ruthless tactics, the number of casualties was less, but the battle damage data was the same as that of Wei and Song.

The offensive and defensive battle on the third day was also the most intense battle so far. The Wei and Song coalition forces in Ximen also maintained the same battle loss ratio as yesterday.

In other words, in this day alone, the Four Nations Allied Forces lost 15,000 troops, and the Oda family lost another 6,000 troops.

Including the casualties in the previous two days, the Oda family suffered a total of 15,000 casualties, and lost 15% of their troops in just three days.

Of course, the casualties of the coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song, and Wu were naturally greater, with a total of 29,000 casualties in three days.

 No matter how many casualties there were, they were still Japanese, not Han, and had no impact at all on the Four-Nation Alliance.

Moreover, the Four-Nation Alliance can continue to recruit reserve troops from the rear to serve as cannon fodder.

On the other hand, Oda Nobunaga only had the city of Tokyo left, and his troops could not be replenished, and every point they consumed was reduced.

With one thing going down and the other going up, it will be just around the corner to conquer the city of Tokyo.

Although anyone with a discerning eye can see this, it still requires a large number of human lives to fill the city before it can be truly conquered.

When the four-nation coalition forces just joined forces, the total strength was 220,000. Later, Zhou Yu added another 30,000, which is a total of 250,000 troops.

 But after only three days of siege fighting, nearly 30,000 troops were lost, reducing the number to 220,000.

Such a huge loss, even the four-nation coalition is a bit overwhelmed, but it is impossible to stop the siege before conquering Tokyo.

 So, after some discussions, the top leaders of the Wei, Song and Wu allied armies unanimously decided to transfer the generals guarding the rear to the front and continue to recruit cannon fodder for the offensive and defensive battle in Tokyo.

Among the three coalition forces of Wei, Song and Wu, Song has the largest territory and will mobilize 30,000 Japanese troops to the front line, while Wei and Wu both have 20,000.

With this addition, the number of coalition forces in Tokyo has increased instead of falling. Instead, it has risen to 290,000 troops. Even if it is filled with human lives, it is enough to break open the city gate of Tokyo.

However, in this case, the troops on the territory controlled by the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces will be basically mobilized. If only a few recruits are left to maintain public security, a large number of crimes and unrest will inevitably breed.

In this regard, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces have an indifferent attitude. After all, they are just here to make money. As long as they get the money and food, they don't care at all whether the Japanese country is in chaos or not.

Mobilizing troops from the rear to the front also takes time, and during this period, the four-nation coalition's onslaught on Tokyo will obviously not stop.

 After the end of the offensive and defensive battle on the fourth day, statistics showed that the coalition forces had lost another 12,000 people, while the Oda family suffered 5,500 casualties.

The offensive on the fifth day was much weaker than the previous four days. The reason was that the generals' physical strength was greatly exhausted after two consecutive days of siege, and they had to rest to restore their physical strength.

Therefore, although there were also losses of 11,000 people on this day, the Oda family only lost 4,500 people, which was also the day with the fewest casualties in the five-day offensive and defensive battle.

Tens of thousands of troops were lost every day. Such an exaggerated figure made all the coalition generals tremble with fear].

If their army were to attack the city, they would not be able to capture the city of Tokyo even if they were all exhausted.

Looking back at the strategy before the war, the coalition generals realized that the strategy proposed by Qin Dynasty to control the Japanese with the Japanese was simply too correct.

On the sixth day, the reserve armies of Wei, Song and Wu finally arrived at the Tokyo battlefield, and the total strength of the coalition forces returned to 270,000, and then launched an even more brutal siege.

Countless Japanese people launched an attack on the city of Tokyo, intending to use their flesh and blood to forcibly break open a strong city like Tokyo.

Oda Nobunaga couldn't bear it when he saw that the Four Nations Allied Forces could maintain such a fierce offensive. After all, he only had one hundred thousand troops. If he lost four to five thousand troops every day, he would be dead in twenty days. completely annihilated.

 But if that’s the case, that’s pretty good.

 War is obviously not as simple as it sounds. Factors such as material consumption, soldiers' physical fitness, morale, will, etc. will all be directly fed back to the defense of the city.

When the army has suffered more than half its casualties, the soldiers are tired, and the supplies for defending the city are scarce, even if there are still 50,000 defenders in the city, they still cannot defend the city.

After realizing this, Oda Nobunaga could no longer sit still. He didn't want to sit still and wait for death, but his last trump card now was the 80,000 troops in the four acropolis.

Oda Nobunaga originally wanted to save it for a critical moment, but now it seems that he has to use it. If he doesn't use it again, he may not have the chance to use it, so Feige sent a letter to the defenders of the four acropolis, asking them to lead the attack. Create some trouble for the enemy.

 Guo Jia had already been prepared for this. Lu Bu and Zhao Yun's cavalry troops were ready to go, waiting for the Oda troops in the four acropolis to leave the city.

Now that they have taken the initiative, can they still beg for help? Crush them head-on.

While the offensive and defensive battle on the seventh day was going on, the Oda army in the four acropolises of Gifu Castle, Daheng Castle, Naguno Castle and Inuyama Castle, under the leadership of the defenders, went out to fight at the same time, hoping to defeat Shikoku. The coalition forces are causing trouble.

What no one expected was that the two armies of Gifu City and Inuyama City were attacked by thousands of cavalry less than twenty miles out of the city.

The unsuspecting 20,000-strong army was directly overwhelmed by the cavalry, and was completely defeated after repeated crushing.

During the pursuit, the two generals were killed on the spot, and nearly half of the 40,000-strong army suffered casualties. The rest were all captured in the front, and were then forced to attack Tokyo and served as cannon fodder, which instead supplemented the strength of the coalition forces.

　　After defeating the two Japanese armies, Lu Bu and Zhao Yun led their large armies and took advantage of the situation to capture the empty Gifu Castle and Inuyama Castle. They captured a large amount of grain and grass, which also reduced the logistical pressure on the coalition forces.

 The defenders in Daheng City and Naguno Castle were frightened when they saw that the armies of Gifu Castle and Inuyama Castle were so easily annihilated by the enemy, and they hurriedly withdrew their troops and fled back to the city.

This move indeed saved their lives. If they had been slower for half a day, they would have faced the same fate.

Of the four acropolis, two were lost and two were unable to retreat. This also made Oda Nobunaga's final back-up useless. He could only rely on the troops in his hands to continue to sit back and wait for death and resist stubbornly.

After another three days of fierce fighting, when the Tokyo offensive and defensive battle reached the tenth day, the Oda family had lost 50,000 troops, and there were only 50,000 defenders left in Tokyo. Most of them were exhausted, and their combat effectiveness had also dropped significantly. .

This also made Oda Nobunaga realize that his end was coming, and he began to become more and more crazy. He even organized the people in the city into the army, and after only simple training, they were forced to the tower to die.

The strong men in Tokyo have long been recruited by Oda Nobunaga, and those being recruited now are just the old and weak. These old and weak men obviously do not have much combat power, but if they are large in number and can operate equipment, they can still pose a threat to the coalition forces. After all, the siege army is not an elite force, but Japanese surrendered troops and new soldiers.

 That is to say, after the tenth day, the casualty ratio of the Tokyo offensive and defensive battle showed an astonishing reversal.

The coalition forces still suffered casualties of nearly 10,000 soldiers every day, but the Oda family lost more than 20,000 soldiers every day, and the trend was still increasing, more and more.

Of the 20,000 people the Oda family lost, only three to four thousand were actually regular soldiers, and the rest were all civilians.

After another four days of offensive and defensive battles, the civilian population in Tokyo alone suffered 100,000 casualties, and the army further reduced its strength by 15,000, leaving only 35,000 defenders.

In addition, the city defense materials were severely consumed. All the catapults on the city tower had been destroyed, the kerosene had been exhausted, and other city defense materials had also been consumed by 70 to 80%.

 This is the most fatal thing for the Oda family.

The defensive materials prepared by Oda Nobunaga were enough for a hundred thousand troops for three months, but he never expected that the offensive of the Han coalition would be so fierce. Three months of materials were used up in only fourteen days. Eighty percent was consumed.

From this, we can also see how intense the Tokyo offensive and defensive battle was. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was a meat grinder.

The siege on the fifteenth day was different from the previous fourteen days, because on this day the Han army would also participate, and it would be elite troops such as the Huben Army and the Jiefan Army.

In previous sieges, although the coalition forces also participated, they were basically limited to the general level. Soldiers only needed to operate ordnance and would not participate in the siege.

 The purpose of doing this is naturally to reduce casualties and at the same time allow the Japanese to fight among themselves, dog bites dog.

But in the siege battle on the 15th day, the Four Nations Allied Forces not only dispatched Han troops, but also elite battalions such as Huben Jiefan.

The senior leaders of the coalition forces obviously saw the weakness of Tokyo City, so they took the initiative to send Han troops with stronger fighting strength and morale, hoping to attack the city in one go and completely solve this big trouble.

"Send the order and let the soldiers attack the city at one go. They will not seal the sword for seven days." Zhou Yu ordered with a cold face.

To destroy the city without sealing it is equivalent to slaughtering the city, and to massacre the city for seven consecutive days means to annihilate the city of Tokyo. This is the highest level among all city massacre orders.

As the imperial capital of the Japanese Empire, Tokyo not only has a large population, but also has a lot of wealth.

　　Does not sealing the sword for seven days mean that once the city is invaded, all the gold, silver, jewels, and women in the city are at your own disposal?

 At this thought, both the Qin soldiers and the Japanese soldiers had happy faces, and they all shouted at the top of their lungs to vent their excitement.

After Uesugi Kenshin heard Zhou Yu's words, his face suddenly turned pale. He couldn't believe that Zhou Yu would give such a cruel order.

She was about to rush up and argue with Zhou Yu, but she was forcibly stopped by Tachibana Michizuki.

Uesugi Kenshin glared at Tachibana Michiyuki, but Tachibana Michiyuki shook his head at her with a serious face, and then pointed to Mouri Motoki, Otomo Yoshitoshi and others on the side.

Seeing that they all looked happy, Uesugi Kenshin's face suddenly turned paler, and he understood Tachibana Michyuki's intention.

If she stands up now and goes against Zhou Yu, she will offend not only the Qin army, but also most of the Qin Xiejun, and she may even have to join them.

At this thought, Uesugi Kenshin only felt that the world was dark, and the remaining light in his eyes was completely dimmed.

At the same time, Sun Ce, Xia Houyuan, and Zhao Guangyi also issued the same order.

Obviously, the decision to massacre the city after capturing Tokyo was not the decision of Zhou Yu alone, nor was it the order given by Emperor Ying Hao of the Qin Dynasty, but the unanimous decision of the senior leaders of the Four Kingdoms Allied Forces.

 Tokyo is the capital of the Japanese country, and its status in the hearts of the Japanese people is actually the same as that of the Shinto Palace. It is a pillar-like existence.

Now that the Shinto Palace has been destroyed, the Japanese still have the pillar of Tokyo City in their hearts, so they will naturally break it.

Only in this way can the backbone of the Japanese be completely broken and they can kneel down and obey the rule of the Han people.

It was precisely based on this consideration that the senior leaders of the Four-Nation Allied Forces unanimously decided to massacre the city after conquering Tokyo, in order to frighten all Japanese people and prevent them from resisting the Han people.

On the city tower, when Oda Nobunaga saw that the Han army was also in the siege team outside the city, his heart suddenly thumped, and he knew that his end was coming.

"kill…"

Hundreds of thousands of troops roared in unison, and their shouts resounded throughout the sky.

This time it was not an attack on the east and west sides of the city, but a simultaneous attack on all four sides.

Facing the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of troops from all sides, Tokyo City, with only 35,000 defenders left, instantly doubled its pressure and began to falter.

There were actually 50,000 people on the city tower, including men, women, and old people. It was barely possible for these people to resist the Qin Xie army. To resist the Han army was no different than to die.

Soon, Han soldiers climbed onto the tower and charged into the crowd like hungry wolves, killing more than a dozen strong men with ease. There were examples like this everywhere.

 For a time, the whole city of Tokyo was filled with screams.

When the battle reached noon, the Qin army took the lead in capturing the east gate. After wiping out all the defenders at the east gate, it was the first to enter the city.

 Followed closely by the Wei army, the Song army came next, and the Wu army came last.

 Since then, all four gates of Tokyo have been destroyed, and the Tartu Desert has officially begun.

After the coalition soldiers entered the city, they immediately rushed into the streets, cutting down people they saw, robbing property they saw, and committing violence against women when they saw them. This made the entire Tokyo full of grief.

Five soldiers of the Qin Xiejun broke into a mansion and killed all the men in the house. Then they rummaged through the cabinets and found the mother and son hiding in the cabinet.

They simply ignored the mother and child's plea for mercy. After beheading the child with one knife, they all pounced on the collapsed mother and began to take turns to inflict violence.

After venting his anger, he hacked the child's mother to death, then took away all the belongings and prepared to continue looking for the next target, but as soon as he went out, he met two Qin soldiers.

The Qin Xiejun soldiers who looked ferocious and like evil tigers just now turned into docile cats in an instant. They refused to fight back or cursed, and even offered all the money they had stolen.

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