Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Late at night on February 1916, 2, Kochi Castle on Shikoku Island, Sakura Country.

The stronger Sakura Kingdom took the initiative to provoke a conflict on the grounds that Fuso Kingdom soldiers crossed the border and injured one of their own soldiers.

Two squads of soldiers armed with sticks attacked Fuso patrol soldiers outside Kochi City, killing and wounding 38 people.

After being provoked by the Sakura Kingdom, Hashimoto Matsuki, the captain of the 43rd Independent Regiment of the Fuso Kingdom stationed in Kochi Castle, ordered Hashimoto Matsuki to assemble and prepare to seek an explanation from the provocative Sakura Kingdom soldiers.

In fact, this kind of cross-border beating, wounding and killing of one or two people has become very common in the past ten years.

Generally speaking, as a co-captain, you will not be involved in this.

After all, as long as there are officers involved, the nature of the whole thing changes.

Generally, when encountering this kind of situation, most of the soldiers below will solve it.

It's just that this time the people of Sakura Country went too far, killing and wounding more than thirty people at once.

In such a situation, Hashimoto Matsuki, the captain of the team, must come forward.

However, Hashimoto Matsuki was also worried that it would cause a larger-scale violent conflict. Therefore, even if he went to find trouble in the opposite Sakura Country, he still only brought less than a hundred people there.

Hashimoto Matsuki came to the area controlled by Sakura Country and wanted the other side's soldiers to call out their captain.

But at this moment, a shot was fired from somewhere, and then the Sakura Country soldiers who were on guard immediately launched an attack.

All of a sudden, various light and heavy machine guns and mortars were directed at Hashimoto Matsuki to greet him immediately.

In less than five minutes, the nearly 100-strong team brought over by Hashimoto Matsuki were all beaten to death on the territory of the Sakura nation.

Subsequently, the Sakura Kingdom's regiment immediately reported back to the directly subordinate Sakura Kingdom 12th Division, claiming that it had been attacked by the Fuso Kingdom and suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of Sakura Country's 12th Division, Yamada Taku, immediately ordered a counterattack and asked the regiment stationed near Kochi Castle to assemble towards Kochi Castle.

At 1916 a.m. on February 2, 11, the two Sakura National League teams that were the first to arrive near Kochi Castle launched an attack on Kochi Castle.

The artillery attack started first, and it lasted until around 4 a.m. After an hour of artillery preparations, soldiers from two regiments rushed into Kochi City as ground troops.

At this time, the Hashimoto Regiment, because the commander of the Hashimoto Regiment, Hashimoto Matsuki, was killed immediately, the entire Hashimoto Regiment had no way to launch an effective counterattack.

Until the early morning of the 12th, after three hours of fierce fighting, the Hashimoto United was expelled from Kochi Castle.

Kochi Castle was officially declared occupied.

With the fall of Kochi Castle, Sakura Kingdom's 12th Division, as the vanguard of the entire army, began to attack Kumankogen Town and Ehime Castle to the north of Kochi Castle, preparing to destroy the Fuso Kingdom's troops stationed in Okawa and Saijo Castle. Seventh and Ninth Divisions were encircled.

As long as these two divisions can be eliminated, Sakura Kingdom will have an absolute advantage on Shikoku Island.

In order to prevent the Fuso Kingdom from sending people from Kyushu Island for support, when the first shot was fired at Kochi Castle, the Sakura Kingdom's warships sailed into the Shimonoseki Strait and Toyoko Strait.

To block the transport ship of Fuso State.

It needs to be explained here that although the Sakura Kingdom's combined fleet was destroyed after the Far East Battle, three or four capital ships still fled the battlefield.

Facing the Daxia Empire's fleet, these battleships can be said to be almost nothing. However, when facing the Fuso Kingdom, which has no battleships, these battleships still showed their power as battleships.

However, many of these warships were purchased from the John Empire in the 80s, twenty or thirty years ago.

These warships have long been eliminated by other naval powers.

But for the Sakura Kingdom, these battleships are still very valuable, and under normal circumstances they are reluctant to let them go on the battlefield.

In the more than ten years since the end of the Far East Campaign, the Sakura Kingdom has not been able to purchase new warships from the John Kingdom. It has only built a number of small gunboats and destroyers of only a few hundred tons domestically.

With the Shimonoseki Strait and Toyo Strait cut off by Sakura Country, the troops that Fuso Country wanted to support could not go up at all and were directly trapped on Kyushu Island.

Therefore, Fuso Prime Minister Koizumi Jiro asked Daxia for help overnight, hoping that Daxia could help him transport troops up.

At this time, Daxia's attitude was very strange.

The Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had been instructed by Lin Yi long ago, stated that the Empire had just experienced the First World War and there were many areas within the Empire that needed to be rebuilt.

He was reluctant to get involved in the civil war between Fuso Country and Sakura Country at this time.

Yes, at this time Daxia suddenly changed his mind that the war between Fuso Kingdom and Sakura Kingdom was a civil war. The reason for defining the civil war is that neither the Fuso Kingdom nor the Sakura Kingdom recognizes the other party and has claims to the other's territory.

As for the civil war, it would be inconvenient for Daxia to directly participate.

However, as a traditional ally, Daxia is still willing to provide weapons support to Fuso State.

In short, what the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs said is that it is impossible for me to directly send troops.

But I can give you weapons, and you can fight however you want.

Although Koizumi Jiro was very angry about Daxia's pushback, he did not dare to fall out with Daxia at this time, so he could only admit it with his nose pinched.

However, Daxia moved very quickly. After agreeing to Jiro Koizumi, Daxia's merchant ships shipped a large number of equipment the next afternoon, enough to arm three divisions.

With these equipment, Koizumi Jiro was temporarily relieved.

After a night of deep thought, he felt that this time he was being attacked, and he had no choice but to admit it.

After all, Fuso Country has no warships and cannot cross the strait.

Even if it is a forced landing, the losses will be very large, and some losses will outweigh the gains.

Therefore, Koizumi Jiro is ready to lose Shikoku Island.

But the losses are limited to this.

Koizumi Jiro does not think that Sakura Country can land on Kyushu Island.

After all, Daxia couldn't just sit back and watch the Fuso Kingdom be destroyed by the Sakura Kingdom. Koizumi Jiro knew very well that Daxia did not want to see a unified Sakura Country.

He understands the people in Sakura Country too well, and he also understands the thoughts of Daxia people too well.

When the Sakura Kingdom becomes stronger again, it will definitely become a serious problem for Daxia, so Daxia needs a chess piece to contain the Sakura Kingdom.

And Fuso Kingdom is the best chess piece. Koizumi Jiro didn't believe that Daxia was willing to give up such a good chess piece of his.

However, this does not mean that Koizumi Jiro wants to lie down. He knew very well that as a chess piece, he also needed to show his value.

Otherwise, he will be abandoned.

Since he wanted to show his worth and knew that Daxia would be worried about Sakura Country becoming stronger, it was clear what he should do.

Therefore, Koizumi Jiro asked the garrison on Shikoku Island to continue to resist and fight for every inch of land. Then he began to think of ways to transport reinforcements himself, causing greater casualties to Sakura Country.