Chapter 633: The Fall of the Wa Kingdom
The strength of the Ming army is desperate, even if they make up their minds to break the net, there will be no good results, and they will not even be able to inflict many casualties on the Ming army, and under the huge generation difference between hot weapons and cold weapons, resistance is futile.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, resisting at present will only send the people to death in vain, please allow us to surrender to the Ming army!"
Ito was already dead, and Takeda Shio became the leader of each and said to the female emperor.
At this moment, the twenty-eight-year-old female emperor of the Wa Kingdom has already been frightened, the female emperor who has lived in the palace of the Wa Kingdom since she was a child, has never worried about life and stability, but the Edo shelling, Nagano shelling, she has watched the two cities being razed to the ground, her two princes and two princesses and her husband were killed in the middle of this, although she hated, but her heart was even more afraid, after all, just now she watched more than a thousand soldiers and Ito Kamoto and other people of the Ito family being shot and killed by the Ming army without resistance in front of her eyes, In her eyes, Ming Jun had already turned into a god of death and a devil.
"Then surrender!" After saying this, the female emperor's expression was gloomy, she knew what she meant by this sentence, which meant that from today on, the Wa Kingdom would be destroyed, and she would no longer be an emperor.
Immediately, under the auspices of Takeda Shio, the Japanese began to lay down and surrender to the Ming army.
From the moment they decided to surrender, all the Japanese were relieved in their hearts, no one wanted to die if they could, and in the face of the desperate Ming army, surrender was their only choice.
The first to be taken away were the female emperor of the Wa Kingdom and the direct line of the Wa royal family.
The Imperial Family of the Wa Kingdom has been passed down for dozens of generations, and there are many people, but there are not many direct families, only more than 20 people, and more than half of them were killed by the shelling of Edo and Nagano, including the female emperor herself, and only eleven people remain.
It has always been a tradition for the Huaxia Dynasty to give preferential treatment to the surrendered king, and Yan Yingyuan did not go too far, arranging separate residences for the female emperor and the ten Japanese royal families.
Takeda Zhixiong and other 130,000 Japanese soldiers all surrendered and were ordered by Yan Yingyuan to disperse and guard.
"Marshal, now that the Queen of the Kingdom of Japan has been captured, the next thing is much simpler!" Shang Kexi said to Yan Yingyuan.
The Emperor is called the Emperor, but in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor can only be used by the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming army only calls the Empress of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom the Queen of the Japanese Kingdom.
"Yes, although the queen of the Wa Kingdom has no real power in the Wa Kingdom, she is the nominal king after all, and the leaders of the Wa Kingdom have been wiped out by our army, and most of the remaining Wa Kingdom cities will obey their queen's orders to open the city gate and surrender directly." Yan Yingyuan nodded and said.
On November 23, Yan Yingyuan asked the queen of the Wa Kingdom to pass down an order for all the Wa cities on the island of Honshu to open their gates and surrender.
On the same day, Yan Yingyuan ordered the 120,000 garrison troops and 10,000 regular troops in Hiroshima to be divided into 14 routes, of which the garrison army was one for every 10,000 people and the regular army was one for every 5,000 people, and began to sweep Honshu Island on 25 November.
The Ming garrison is not a regular army with thermal weapons, it was originally only used to garrison the city, and it is not possible to take any advantage in the real battle with the Japanese invaders, and it is even possible to be defeated by the Japanese and cause heavy losses, but that was originally, at this moment, after the civil war in the Japanese Kiso Mountain, and the surrender of hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers in Nagano, there are almost no elite men over the age of fifteen in the Japanese country, and the garrison of each Japanese city is no more than 1,000 people, and the garrison of each Ming army is tens of thousands, which is enough to sweep any Japanese city.
Two days was enough time to convey the order of the queen of the Wa Kingdom to the Wa Koku castles on the various islands of Honshu.
On the 25th, while the Ming army of the 14th Route in Hiroshima Prefecture attacked, the 50,000 Ming troops in Nagano left 15,000 men to guard and capture prisoners in Nagano, and the other 35,000 soldiers began to sweep through the various Japanese castles in seven routes.
A total of more than 20 Ming armies swept on a large scale, from west to east, from south to north.
Due to the order of the queen of the Japanese kingdom, and the various leaders of the shogunate and the main army were all lost, the various castles on the island of Honshu were completely unable to organize forces to resist the Ming army, and ninety percent of the castles surrendered according to the orders of the queen of the Japanese kingdom.
There are also die-hard Japanese who refuse to surrender without opening the city gates, but there are very few, only one in twenty or thirty cities, and their fate is tragic, most of them are forcibly broken through the city by the Ming army, and then there is a killing.
In just one day, more than 20 Ming troops took six counties and more than 70 cities in the Wa Kingdom, and nearly a quarter of the area on the island of Honshu.
The next day, the Ming army took seven more counties and eighty cities.
There are 27 prefectures on the island of Honshu, and there are about 300 large and small castles. By the fifth day, almost all of the Japanese castles on the entire island of Honshu had been taken over or captured by the Ming army, and only Sukagawa Castle in Fukushima Prefecture was still resisting.
However, although the Suga River was a medium-sized city with tens of thousands of people, it was like a flat boat in the waves in the face of the attack of the Ming army, and it could capsize at any time.
The Ming garrison of about 7,000 people surrounded the Suga River, and there were more than 700 elite Japanese soldiers in the city, and the generals who defended the city also organized more than 2,000 fourteen or fifteen-year-old Japanese soldiers and more than 40-year-old Japanese soldiers to participate in the defense of the city, a total of 3,000 people.
Sukagawa had been resisting for three hours, and the leader of this garrison was a Ming division commander named Song Shi.
In the face of failing to take the city for three hours, Song Shi's face was extremely gloomy, but at present, he had nothing to do, the garrison was not originally used to attack the city, there were almost no siege equipment, except for holding the wooden stake to hit the city gate, even the ladder was prepared, and the Japanese in the city also blocked the city gate with bricks and stones, and they couldn't open it if they wanted to hit it with a wooden stake.
"Why, the Japanese in the city don't know if their brains were kicked by a donkey, and the other cities in the Japanese country have fallen, and they dare to resist even this one city!" Song Shi scolded with an extremely unkind face.
"It's a pity that I didn't bring a few packs of ** when I came, otherwise why would it be so troublesome!" Song Shi said helplessly.
"Newspaper"
"Division commander, there is a regular army coming, and the leader is Feng Houdun, the division commander of the Fourth Army!" A soldier suddenly came to report to Song Shi.
Song Shi was taken aback, there was a regular army coming, and it must have been because he heard that Suga River had not been captured for a long time, and it was a big shame for him!
No, Song Shi could only put down his attack first and go to meet him.
Although he is also the commander of the Ming army, the commander of the garrison army is much inferior to the commander of the regular army, the commander of the regular army not only has greater real power, but also has a higher grade than the commander of the garrison, it can be said that the commander of the regular army is more majestic than the commander of the garrison, how dare Song Shi slack.
"What's going on? Why hasn't it been so long since this last city been captured? Feng Houdun asked with a frowning brow on his horse.
Looking at Feng Houdun sitting down on the majestic war horse, Song Shi first looked envious, grandma's, the regular army is good, and it is also worthy of the war horse, he, the same division commander, is really a wretch, if he wants to choose, he would rather be a regiment commander of the regular army, no, the battalion commander can also.
No matter how envious he was, Song Shi still had to tell Feng Houdun about the current situation first.
After listening to Song Shi's account, Feng Houdun didn't care, and immediately ordered a team of soldiers under his command to go to ** and rush towards the gate of Suga River.
With a loud bang, the main gate of Sukagawa was forcibly blown open, and the Ming soldiers who had been waiting on the side rushed in without waiting for the dust and smoke to clear, and a bloody killing was staged.
There is no suspense in the future, although the Wako of Sukagawa are unwilling, but with their small strength, it is impossible to affect the overall situation, and the destruction of the Wa Kingdom is unstoppable.
On the afternoon of November 30, the last of the Wa kingdom castles on the island of Honshu was forcibly broken by the Ming army, and the Wa kingdom was officially declared extinct!