Hu Guosheng asked Shimazu Tadashi to reorganize the samurai and ashigaru of the Satsuma Domain and various parts of Kyushu, and all the troops were disorganized and unified into the Satsuma Death Army.

After months of fierce battles, there were less than 20,000 people left in the Kyushu Coalition Army, but they were the last elite of the Satsuma and Kyushu domains.

The unification and reorganization of the Satsuma domain was actually the annexation of the last elite of the Kyushu domains. Although the samurai still retained their allegiance to their respective masters. But the current situation is that the ashigaru, who accounts for the majority of the Kyushu coalition army, will follow whoever gives me rice balls.

Ashigaru's mind is very simple, they have been fighting in a foreign place for several months, and it is easy to crawl out of the pile of dead people, the strength of the Far East has already shocked them to the ground, the Satsuma Domain represents the will of the Far East, of course they know that at this time, only by relying on the power of the Far East, can they finally return to Kyushu Island alive.

The other feudal lords in various parts of Kyushu did not dare to resist in the slightest, so they could only allow Satsuma to annex their ashigaru one after another. Fortunately, this reorganization does not include the samurai of the families of the feudal lords in various parts of Kyushu.

The newly formed Satsuma Death Army was divided into two brigades, and together with the newly trained Satsuma Death Army Brigade, the Kyushu Division of the Death Army was formed, with a total establishment of more than 20,000 people.

The division commander of the Kyushu Division was held by Tadashi Shimazu. However, the commanders of the three deputy divisions were all the backbone of the Far Eastern New Training Death Army. Moreover, the commanders of the division's various squads, squadrons, brigades, and wings were all cadres and non-commissioned officers from the Far Eastern New Training Brigade, and their deputies were samurai from the Satsuma Domain.

After the reorganization of the Kyushu Division, it conducted a 10-day intensive training at the base of the Far Eastern Army Corps on the southern coast of Harima. With large-scale supplies from the Far East, the Kyushu Division quickly regained its combat effectiveness and could fight at any time.

The sudden intervention of the Far East. The Kyushu coalition army, which had been exhausted, was brought back to life, and relied on powerful firepower to defeat the main force of the shogunate coalition army. Although less than 10,000 people were killed, the psychological blow to the Tokugawa shogunate, the Kyushu rebels, and the daimyo in various places was extremely fatal.

Flee from the southern coast of Harima to the shogunate coalition forces, whether samurai or ashigaru. In a short period of time, it has basically lost its combat effectiveness, morale is very low, and there have even been a large number of ashigaru escapes. The Tokugawa shogunate's allied forces also aggressively shrank their defensive lines and retreated to the area where the battle had begun, and the war seemed to have returned to square one.

The Shogunate coalition abandoned most of the defensive lines, but strengthened the defenses of Osaka and Kyoto, and poured out almost all of their elites, building a large number of civil fortifications near Osaka and Kyoto in an attempt to rely on strong fortifications. Blocking the offensive of the Far East.

After several months of attrition, the Shogunate Army and the Kyushu Coalition Army lost a lot of troops. The two sides had no choice but to hire a lot of wandering samurai with money, and they also recruited a large number of civilians who had lost their homes in the war and trained them to become temporary ashigaru.

Especially the Tokugawa Shogunate Army, in the early days of the war, a large number of civilians in the shogunate-controlled areas were driven into the battlefield, and thousands were consumed on the shogunate army's defensive lines. This was the main reason why the shogunate survived the early stages of the war.

This time because of the appearance of the Far East. Once again, the Tokugawa shogunate and some Japanese daimyo forcibly conscripted large numbers of civilians to build civil fortifications on the front lines. They were also organized, and they were given bamboo guns to serve as cannon fodder for the shogunate coalition forces.

The Tokugawa shogunate was also open this time, taking out a large amount of money and food, employing a large number of wandering samurai throughout Japan, and forming many elite samurai teams composed entirely of samurai. Strengthen the combat effectiveness of the shogunate coalition forces. No matter how powerful the Far East was, they could not watch the foundation of the Tokugawa family be destroyed in the hands of their generation.

The sudden intervention of the Far East also caused many Japanese daimyo to change their previous strategies. They began to support the Satsuma clan and later became the grass on the wall. Watching the Satsuma Shimazu family and the Tokugawa shogunate fight wildly each had their own personal goals.

They took advantage of the period of fierce fighting between the two sides to recruit troops to strengthen their armaments, conquer the nearby small feudal daimyo, expand their territory, and then sit back and wait for the exhaustion of the two sides to reap the benefits. No matter who wins or loses, they will lose a lot of strength, and they will have the qualifications to negotiate with the winner.

But now the situation is different, and the Far East sent troops to intervene in the war, and also defeated the shogunate coalition in the first battle. The ninjas sent by the daimyo gave them the original report of the scene at that time, and the powerful fleet and fierce firepower made all the daimyo lords in Japan tremble.

If Satsuma, with the continuous support of the Far East, destroyed the shogunate coalition and finally allowed the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain to win the world, it was not what they wanted. After all, now that Tokugawa Iemitsu and other high-ranking shogunate officials have been wiped out, their strength has long been much worse than before, even if they defeat the Satsuma Domain, they can only appease the lords of the daimyo domains in various places, and there will be no situation in which the Tokugawa Shogunate was dominant before.

Therefore, the daimyo and feudal lords all over Japan hoped that the shogunate coalition would be able to hold off the Satsuma domain and the powerful Far East behind him. For this reason, the daimyo feudal lords in various places did not hesitate to send elites to the front lines in Kyoto and Osaka, forcibly recruited countless civilians, and supported a large number of food and other materials, and sent them to the front line together, sparing no effort to support the shogunate coalition and strengthen the strength of the Tokugawa family.

In less than a month, the Shogunate coalition army actually gathered more than 200,000 troops in the Osaka and Kyoto areas, and built a large number of strong civil fortifications.

During the reorganization and simple training of the Kyushu Division, the Southern Corps of the Far East Japanese Theater Command sent support units to the second detachment. The support force was two veteran death armies of the Far Eastern Army led by Jian'er, which were also merged into the Kyushu Division, strengthening the strength of the second detachment of the Southern Army.

Along with it, there were also a large number of artillery, engineer, baggage, and other combat logistics support units, and the Air Department also sent an airship group and a flight squadron equipped with 12 delta-wing planes to provide all-round air support to the second detachment.

The task of the second detachment of the Southern Army was very critical, and before the Far East Japanese Campaign Command completed the control of Kyushu Island, the second detachment was to contain the main forces of the shogunate coalition forces in the Osaka and Kyoto areas under the banner of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain.

During this period, the Admiralty will also send a large number of ships to completely block the Seto Inland Sea and the Kanmon Strait, and cut off the connection between Kyushu Island and Honshu Island and Shikoku Island, and the Far East Japanese Campaign Command will gather the main forces of the first detachment of the Eastern Army, the Western Army and the Southern Army to land on Kyushu Island and sweep away all the daimyo lords and their samurai class on Kyushu Island in the shortest possible time. (To be continued......)

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