Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Koizumi Jiro's idea was good. He wanted to defend Kyushu Island and then resist on Shikoku Island to enhance Daxia's confidence in him.

Then he asked Daxia for help and let Daxia know that he was a worthy investment target.

However, this time Sakura Country's offensive was extremely fierce.

After capturing Kochi Castle in February 1916, the 2th Division of the Sakura Kingdom made great strides forward, bypassing the defense line built by the Fuso Kingdom on Shikoku Island, and interspersed behind the Fuso defense line.

Cooperating with the attack of the main division of Sakura Kingdom, they defeated the 7th and 9th divisions of Fuso Kingdom.

Then, when the main force of Fuso Kingdom was lost and follow-up reinforcements could not come, they quickly occupied a large number of Fuso Kingdom's territories on Shikoku Island.

The remaining Fuso soldiers began to move to the last Otsuki Castle on Shikoku Island.

Otsuki Castle is located at the southernmost end of the Toyo Strait and is also the southernmost city on Shikoku Island, facing Kyushu Island across the sea.

At this time, there were more than 70,000 soldiers from the Fuso Kingdom in Dayue City.

However, these soldiers' weapons and equipment were seriously lost and they lacked logistical supplies. The soldiers were also at a freezing point and had no fighting spirit.

Because they already knew that they were alone and no reinforcements could come from behind.

Under such circumstances, mood swings are inevitable.

Under such circumstances, a discerning person would know at a glance that Shikoku Island has no defensive significance.

Therefore, the most important thing to do at this time is to bring these people back for a rest and strengthen the defense on Kyushu Island.

But the question is, how can we bring people back? Fuso Kingdom does not have warships.

Therefore, Koizumi Jiro could only shamelessly go to Daxia to find a solution.

When Koizumi Jiro approached Daxia again, Daxia suddenly changed his mind and agreed to send people to bring back the Fuso soldiers trapped in Otsuki City.

This is not because Lin Yi is suddenly kind-hearted, but because Lin Yi feels that this war cannot be over soon.

Lin Yi also plans to use this war to further weaken the strength of both parties.

Even if he had to give up one in the end and let the Sakura Country unify, Lin Yi didn't want the other party to do it so easily. No matter what, you have to drain the opponent's blood again.

Therefore, at the end of February, the Daxia Empire sent a fleet of merchant ships to enter the Fenyu Strait.

Facing the merchant ships flying the dragon flag of Daxia, these Sakura Kingdom warships did not dare to stop them. They could only watch the merchant ships of Daxia enter Dayue Port.

Then he leisurely started loading people into the merchant ship.

Faced with this situation, the Sakura Country Military Ministry, Navy Ministry and Cabinet all requested that warships near Otsuki Port not be allowed to fire.

With tens of thousands of defeated troops, it took Daxia's merchant ships a full day and night to barely finish loading them.

During this day and night, the battleships of Sakura Kingdom were watching in the waters outside Otsuki Port, neither leaving nor daring to stop them.

When the merchant ships loaded up the soldiers and prepared to head to Kyushu Island, a merchant ship sailed out of Otsuki Port and was relatively close to the Sakura Kingdom warship.

Then, the Fuso soldiers on the ship began to cheer.

Faced with such a provocation from the opposite side, the sailors of the Sakura Kingdom almost had their back molars chewed to pieces.

However, they still did not dare to take any action against Daxia's merchant ship. They could only watch Daxia's merchant ship getting further and further away.

It has to be said that Sakura's characteristic of bullying the weak and fearing the strong is fully displayed.

After these tens of thousands of defeated soldiers returned to Kyushu Island, in order to boost their morale, Koizumi Jiro specially held a welcome ceremony to increase the support of the people of Fuso Kingdom for him.

Not to mention, being treated like this by Koizumi Jiro has indeed greatly improved morale. Those defeated troops who returned to Kyushu Island were treated like heroes.

Although the defeated army was brought back, Koizumi Jiro still needs to worry about the next thing.

He didn't think about waiting until the Sakura Congress stopped. After all, the other party has launched such a huge battle, and it is impossible for them to only fight for half of Shikoku Island.

Therefore, after Koizumi Jiro was defeated in Shikoku Island and returned to Kyushu Island, he began to prepare for defense.

But what surprised Jiro Koizumi was that after Sakura Country occupied Shikoku Island, there was no next move.

It seems that the purpose of Sakura Country is limited to Shikoku Island.

But is the real situation really like this?

Of course not, it was just that Daxia suddenly sent merchant ships to help Fuso Kingdom transport soldiers, which made Sakura Country mistakenly think that Daxia wanted to intervene in the war between them.

Therefore, Sakura Country had to stop temporarily and take a look at the situation.

After waiting for half a month, Daxia did not make any next move. Whether it was a statement of condemnation or a direct move to send troops into Fuso Kingdom, there was no such thing.

This made some people in Sakura Country confused about what Daxia meant.

In fact, what bad intentions could Daxia have? He just wants Sakura Country and Fuso Country to return to the way they were in the first war.

Let Sakura Country and Fuso Country practice more beach landing and anti-landing operations, and just kill a few more people by the way.

Looking at the war between Sakura Country and Fuso Country, only the first one resulted in the heaviest casualties on both sides.

In the Kitakyushu Castle landing battle alone, the number of casualties on both sides exceeded 30.

Lin Yi just wanted them to practice more.

Another point is that they don't want Fuso Kingdom to lose too quickly, so that they can consume the working-age population of Sakura Kingdom.

But maybe Lin Yi didn't expect that it was his idea that turned what was originally a surprise battle into a positional battle.

A war that originally only took a few months to end was fought for more than two years, with more than a million casualties.

However, based on Lin Yi's attitude towards Sakura Country, even if he knew about it, he might not care, and even felt that too few people died.

In fact, overall, this third Yingfu War was somewhat of an anticlimax.

In particular, this war was the only war in the world after World War I. So the level of attention is actually very high.

However, those participating countries in World War I became disappointed with this place after learning about the progress of the Yingfu War.

The war here, in terms of the number of participants, the scale of the war, and the brutality, could not compare to the war between the Rakshasa Empire and the Rakshasa Democratic Republic that broke out at the same time.

There is no comparison with World War I.

However, due to the special geographical location of Sakura Country and Fuso Country, some countries still saw the slightest opportunity.

However, due to the power of the Great Xia Empire, these ambitious countries did not dare to express their views blatantly.

I don't dare to support the two countries in private, but just maintain a wait-and-see attitude.

But even this made the hearts of these countries come alive.

Daxia is too powerful, with nearly unlimited human resources and a complete industrial system. Countries that have always regarded Westerners as a superior nation are full of fear of the ancient country of Daxia.

Among them, the most prominent one is Milician, which has suffered continuous losses at the hands of Daxia and lost the Pacific Fleet.