Chapter 237: Flat Push March
In the following days, Sun Lin deployed the movements of the troops of those families through those family forces, and found out the other common heaven of those Xiyi families from the known information, which is also the reason why there is not a single veteran or elite soldier stationed in those family territories, because most of the new patriarchs of the Xiyi family have led the few thousand remaining elite soldiers to Shangluo Kyoto.
Now that the shogun and his heir have died, and the Xiyi imperial family, whether it is a direct family or a side branch, has also been slaughtered by the abdominal family, although the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands has not yet disintegrated, but it is facing a complete collapse of the highest power class outside and inside, and although the middle-level power class has not collapsed, but the crazy suppression of the loyal emperor faction by the former shogunate faction, and the death of many high-level members of the Xiyi family caused by the annihilation of the two armies, led to the defeat of the middle-level power holder of the Xiyi in the second counterattack fleet. After the news of the total annihilation of the army was returned, it was forced to carry out a major blood change.
In the process of this change of power, most of the heirs of the old families are young people who have just completed the yuan service a few months ago, because they are still young, so some of the old Xiyi families who did not participate in this big blood change began to plan how to swallow up these fat meat before they were gone. And the patriarch of the Tokugawa family, who was good at intrigue and intrigues, at the same time as announcing his opposition to the belly family becoming a daimyo, offered a vicious scheme that was called "Kamiraku Kyoto" by the Xiyi people.
The Tokugawa family claimed that a true shogun must own Kyoto, so the Tokugawa family believed that only a family that had owned Kyoto for one month could hold the position of daimyo. At first, this claim was rejected by almost all the other families present, but after the patriarch of the Tokugawa family, in the name of the Mahayana Buddhist Buddha, swore that he would be loyal to the family that had occupied Kyoto for one month, and the Tokugawa family would not participate in the competition, all parties went crazy, and at least nearly 50 young family patriarchs who were not yet qualified and came out of the great blood exchange were boiling.
In the eyes of these young Xiyi patriarchs, since they have become in this position, they must do something big to make a name for themselves, attracting the samurai in Xiyi to come to their own territory to pay allegiance to them, and the fastest way is to go to Luojing, although this practice is dangerous, but young and crazy, who among those young family patriarchs will care about this? Coupled with the fact that the informants of the old families hid in these families instilled slander around those young patriarchs, these young patriarchs immediately forgot the warnings of the previous families, and the trend was that the fleet was on Luojing. With the good-looking characteristics of these young patriarchs and their temper, it is estimated that their territory will not come back to take care of it if the sun never sets, and in their opinion, the current Kyoto Island is their territory.
"A group of fools led a large group of soldiers who followed the fools to the island of Kyoto to fight in the ring." This is the highest evaluation that Sun Lin gave to these young patriarchs, but if any of these people can really stand out from the rest of the young patriarchs, and even the old families inserted by the horizontal knife in the later stage, and hold on to Kyoto Island for a month, then Sun Lin can consider adding the word "god of war" to the back of that fool, but Sun Lin thinks that this is impossible, don't forget that there will be a rebellion of the Tokugawa family after the end of the day............
However, after understanding what happened, Sun Lin also lost interest in the civil strife in Xiyi, and in Sun Lin's opinion, instead of focusing on how to make the internal fighting of the Xiyi people intensify and participate in this kind of chicken-ribbed thing, it is better to look closer and continue to clear the islands that occupy the Xiyi on the marching route according to the original plan.
After obtaining the enemy's territory without nearly invincible soldiers, the speed of the march and occupation of the sunset side was also increased by as much as two times, and the Naga Second Foreign Legion, which had suffered too much damage due to the first battle of Ueno, and the three sword and shield regiments and a sea reconnaissance group with the fishmen also returned to the northwest sea to replenish their troops, and returned to Sun Lin's control on May 18.
With the perfect cooperation of the Fish-Man and the Naga, it became extremely easy to capture the castle towers and Honmaru that were built on the edge of the sea, and the castle tower, which had taken the army to occupy at least 8 hours at a minimum, took less than a few hours in the hands of the Sea Clan troops. The Fish-Man's ability to climb the castle tower opens the gates for those Naga warriors to rush into. These 4-meter-tall nagas, armed with weapons as large as pillars in their hands, immediately summoned those who were improvised. There were no more than 500 men under the ashigaru guards, and the samurai retainers were generally killed within minutes of the Naga rushing in, and the Naga warriors regrouped and completed a new charge.
As for the follow-up work, these sea clan warriors can't take care of it, and they don't have to care, and when Xiyi, who landed on the island, recruits gunashigaru into the castle tower, they can withdraw to the sea to attack the next target, and those who go ashore will follow the old rules to complete population statistics, distribute food, rebuild damaged houses, etc.
Due to the distance between this place and the New Delhi Peninsula, and the first batch of officials from the Ministry of Military, Civil Affairs and Commerce who were sent to Sunset, which had discovered a huge gold mine and changed its name to Jinling Island, were busy working on Shikoku Island, and the second group of officials from the 3rd Department with certain management skills could not arrive until at least the end of May, resulting in the newly occupied islands of Sunset, which were currently unmanaged.
However, fortunately, the average population of each island in Xiyi is relatively sparse, and it will not exceed 10,000, and these Xiyi people are better fooled than those civilians who have seen the world in the northwest continent, and those conscripted guns can be carefully assigned by Sun Lin to complete the resettlement task, as for cultural conflicts and religious conflicts, it also takes a certain amount of time to accumulate before they can break out, so in the current situation, Sun Lin does not need to let the 30,000 army divide some of the troops to attack and part of the remaining occupancy, and it is no problem to give full authority to those conscripted guns.
In such a situation of no worries in the rear, from May 18th to June 4th, according to Sun Lin's plan, the Sunset Fleet has successively pacified dozens of islands in the former Xiyi Islands, and even destroyed several old families along the way, and killed several fleets that delusionally thought of Shangluo Kyoto, and the so-called Kyoto Island is getting closer and closer to the Royal Victory.
But before the Sunset Fleet launched the battle for Kyoto Island, there were two unexpected situations, one of which was expected before, and Sun Lin was waiting for his decision at the command table.