The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

The wheel of time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, one year has passed since the second expedition to Shinano country.

Many things happened this year, among which the ones that attracted the attention of the world continued one after another, making people feel a sense of trance and illusion.

First of all, the domestic division is serious, the tyrannical powers are still fighting endlessly in the face of external oppression, and Yue China is suffering from serious loss of strength.

After resisting the attack of the dojo army for three months, he took the lead in announcing its demise and became the first central vassal state to be invaded.

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

As for the Shinano Kingdom, after the dojo army sent out the second wave of conquest troops, it tried its best to rely on domestic dangers to hold on for half a year, and finally declared its demise because all the domestic resistance forces were exhausted.

The remaining Hitachi country couldn't resist for long, and finally declared its demise one month after the Shinano country was destroyed.

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

However, although the territorial area expanded extremely rapidly, it almost doubled. But the real strength increase is not much, and even slightly decreased.

The reason is that Zhong Yu's implementation of the policy is too harsh.

Wherever the army passed by, all the local tyrants either gave up everything and became ordinary civilians, or their entire clan was wiped out. There was no other way to go.

This attitude of leaving almost no room for it aroused the resistance of all the tyrants. Years of continuous resistance and the emergence of resistance have turned the five occupied countries into ruins.

How bad are the ruins? It can be described like this.

The small villages and small fortresses that could be seen everywhere in the past are no more than one in ten after the war.

The originally large population has become sparse, and often no human habitation can be seen for miles.

We must know that the original national conditions of Japan are that there is little land and many people, and the land cannot support people at all.

But now it's the other way around, with a lot of land, but no one to cultivate and develop it.

A large area 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 barbaric era.

When the war ended and the population was counted to resume production, it was only discovered after a rough count.

Originally, the combined 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 left. Among them, there were very few men who could fight, only about 120,000 to 30,000.

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

They were shocked, scared, and angry.

Originally, when they fought, they were just samurai who killed some enemies on the battlefield. For the ashigaru brought by the opponent, they often focused on defeating them.

So usually after a war with thousands of people is over, the loss may not even be 50 people.

But the wars that are happening in these five countries today are not aimed at seizing territory at all, but at killing people, which is fundamental damage.

How can this not frighten those ignorant local tyrants?

Not long after the reunification of the Five Kingdoms, an alliance headed by the Hojo family, a powerful daimyo 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 Kai country, plus the participation of four powerful domestic tycoons from the Musashi country, the upper country, the lower country, and the Anfang country.

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

The land occupied by the Eight-Nation Alliance is extremely fertile and has raised a large population. The total stone height is about 2.4 million stones, and the population under its rule is about 2.5 million. It is an extremely powerful force.

Not long after, the alliance had just been confirmed to be established, and the tyrants from all over the country mobilized domestic soldiers one after another, gathered a strong military force, and the resistance army, which had always been around 200,000 people, assembled.

And the dojo, when the alliance army was established and accumulating strength, completed the integration of the resources of the newly acquired 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 the 50,000 Shinano troops, totaled 250,000.

These armies have suffered great losses in the continuous conquests, after all, those tyrants are not lambs who are powerless to resist.

Each of them has high-strength armed forces, an endless population under their command, and the resources of the entire territory to provide them with supplies.

With so many advantages, how could he not stand up and resist when he was forced to a desperate situation.

So when the Five Nations thoroughly judged that after the war, only about 100,000 of the 250,000 troops could survive.

However, the number has decreased, but it is not all bad news, there is a lot of good news.

During the tempering of the war, many original cannon fodder or ordinary troops have realized something, broke through the boundaries, and became warriors with extraordinary strength.

Zhong Yu's second-tier army was damaged by previous battles, and the number of survivors and supplements remained at around 30,000, an increase of 10,000 from before the war, which is also a surprise.

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

And 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 powerful people, there was no prestige in the area who could take the lead in rebelling.

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

Even under Zhong Yu's instigation and bewitchment, all the reasons for this were transferred to the powerful names in the central and Kanto regions, which made the domestic people's support for the war more powerful.

Therefore, among the 1.8 million people in the dojo's sphere of influence, there are 500,000 people who can take up arms and fight.

Half of the 250,000 people were recruited because of the war, and among the rest, 150,000 people were recruited again because of the subsequent general mobilization.

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

An army with a number of more than 250,000 was assembled again, except for 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 Kwantung Allied Forces in one fell swoop and unify the Kanto region.

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

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