I want to ruin the country

Yamamoto felt both distressed and resentful. Why? Could the enemy have foreseen this?

Cai Hemin can keep Kurosawa Ming in the city without fighting, but that doesn’t mean keeping Yamamoto will be useful.

Cai Hemin launched a counter-encirclement and surrounded Yamamoto's 10,000 men.

Kurosawa Mei couldn't just stand by and watch them die, so he opened the city gates and wanted to attack from both inside and outside with Yamamoto, or in other words, fight to the death.

Unfortunately, when the real fight started, Yamamoto and Kurosawa discovered that even if they had 50,000 more people, they would not be able to defeat Cai Hemin's 30,000 men, let alone their own 20,000 men.

The result was that more than 6,000 people of Kurosawa were killed, and the remaining 2,000 retreated into the city.

Cai Hemin killed four to five thousand of Yamamoto's ten thousand men, and the rest were captured, including Yamamoto.

This time, they ate everything up, leaving nothing behind.

Of course, Kurosawa Ming had to send someone to ask for help again. He originally thought that the person asking for help might not be able to get out.

Unexpectedly, the new army soldiers acted as if they didn't see these people and let them run away.

These people secretly found a fishing boat to send them out of Hokkaido, and they traveled all the way to Edo!

When Tokugawa Ieharu received the news, he was almost furious. More than 30,000 people were gone again!

He was unwilling to give up, so he sent Ii Arinobu to lead 50,000 people to reinforce Kurosawa Naga.

The army was sent out, and the senior official (a high-ranking official, equivalent to the prime minister in China) Doihara Yoshi suggested to Tokugawa Ieharu to recruit soldiers.

The shogunate originally had 300,000 troops, but Cai Hemin wiped out Konishi Yukinaga's 30,000 troops on Tsushima Island.

Kurosawa had 20,000 troops, Yorikawa had 10,000 troops, Yamamoto had 30,000 troops, Takahashi had more than 5,000 troops, and Onizuka had 5,000 troops.

These troops together number 100,000, and now only Kurosawa Na has more than 2,000 people left.

He sent away another 50,000 ground troops and 5,000 naval forces, and now he only had 150,000 people left in the country.

These are the soldiers of a country, scattered all over the country, and their number can be counted!

No, we must conscript soldiers. How can we defend the country without soldiers?

However, after the conscription order was issued, within five or six days, not even a thousand men were recruited, let alone 100,000.

Tokugawa angrily asked the elder councilor Doihara Ryo,

"What the hell, what's going on!"

Doihara replied,

"General, there are no young people between the ages of eighteen and forty in our country right now. There are only minors and the elderly!"

"Why, young man?"

"General, those young men have been recruited by China!"

"asshole!"

Tokugawa Ieharu sat down on the chair, and only then did he realize that he had been plotted against by the Daqing Emperor.

China has recruited 10 million people, a quarter of its total population.

There are more than 20 million men in total, half of whom are elderly and children. These 10 million people are the total number of young and middle-aged people in the country. Emperor of China, you are too cruel!

Only now did he understand why the Chinese emperor would spend a huge price to recruit people here!

No wonder they don’t go to Hokkaido to recruit people. The Great Qing Emperor is trying to cut off the source of the problem!

He was even complacent about the head taxes he collected, thinking he had earned millions of taels of silver for nothing!

Who would have thought that these millions of silver were like fishing bait with a hook inside!

It was these millions of taels of silver that left him with no soldiers to recruit. He sold his kingdom for millions of taels of silver!

Tokugawa Ieharu was very upset, but there was no way to regret it!

Potato Yuanliang asked,

"General, what should we do?"

Tokugawa Ieharu glanced at Doihara Ryo and cursed in his heart, "Old ghost, the enemy set up such a big maze, and you didn't even give us a warning. How do you manage to be a senior official?"

However, now that he was in need of someone, Tokugawa didn't want to delve into it any further, and just roared,

"No, we must recruit 200,000 soldiers, aged between 15 and 50, and they must enlist unconditionally."

"General, what if it's still not enough?"

Tokugawa was close to being furious. He said,

"Impossible, a mere 200,000 soldiers are nothing. If that's not enough, expand it to 55.

Since they can farm and fish, they can fight!"

Doihara Ryo had no choice but to agree.

"Yes, General!"

But he kept saying in his heart,

"Why recruit old men in their fifties or sixties? Let alone fighting, they'd be lucky if they can walk well!"

Tokugawa said again,

"Go to Daqing and bring our people back!"

Doihara Ryo said helplessly,

"General, that's simply impossible. Not to mention whether those people are willing to come back, even if they are willing to come back, the Chinese court will not let them go!"

Tokugawa said hysterically,

"If we don't have enough men, we can recruit women. Young women can also fight!"

Doihara Ryo said,

"General, they still need to farm. If the land is left barren, what will we eat?

Besides, there's nothing good about having a woman in the army except causing trouble!"

"Oh, is there no other way?"

Doihara Yoshi was speechless!

Finally, Tokugawa Ieharu gritted his teeth and

"Send another 50,000 troops to Hokkaido. We must win this time. Then, conscript men from Hokkaido!"

"General, if we mobilize another 50,000 troops, we'll be very vulnerable. What if China attacks us from Tsushima?"

Tokugawa said,

"If Hokkaido loses again, won't we be helpless?

Instead of using the tactic of adding fuel to the fire, it is better to fight with all your might!

If I win, Daqing might not dare to move!"

Doihara Ryo had nothing to say and had to agree!

This time, the squashes came out in full force!

The Japanese navy no longer had many ships to transport troops, so it had to requisition the Kyushu fleet and many civilian ships as transport ships.

Two groups of 100,000 troops landed in Hokkaido without encountering any resistance.

The Japanese people thought that the Chinese were frightened!

Once they all abandoned their ships and went ashore, these ships would no longer be able to leave.

Deng Yongchang's warships surrounded them from a distance.

They use loudspeakers to shout at you to surrender and hand over your weapons, and they won’t kill you.

Of course these people were not convinced and wanted to leave regardless.

Boom boom boom, the shells exploded on the ship. Any ship that tried to escape would be bombarded, and those that stayed put would be fine.

After dozens of ships were blown up, these people realized that they really couldn't escape. If they wanted to survive, they had to surrender!

After landing in Hokkaido with 50,000 people each, Ii Arinobu and Matsui Gogen headed straight for Hokkaido Castle.

What puzzled them was that they did not encounter any obstruction after landing.

Wasn't it said that Kurosawa Na was surrounded in Hokkaido Castle? Why is there no one outside the city?

Kurosawa Akira in the city was also wondering why the Chinese troops outside the city had withdrawn.

He thought it was a Chinese strategy to lure him out of the city and then surround and annihilate him.

He really wanted to leave the city. He had been under siege for more than a month and there was nothing to eat in the city.

The army has robbed the people of all their food. Now in the city, even tree bark has been ground into powder and eaten.