" Kusakawa Akio!"
Upon hearing this name, Sun Jian smiled slightly and said coldly, "According to intelligence, Kusakawa Akio, the son of Kusakawa Saemon, is an incompetent and oppressive person, so he was exiled to Eight Gods Island."
After arriving at Eight Gods Island, you frequently plundered fishing boats at sea, causing widespread suffering among the people for hundreds of miles around. That's you, isn't it?
I initially thought he was just a small spies, but it turns out he's a big fish, and a rotten, salted fish at that.
"Forehead!"
Upon hearing Sun Jian's words, Kusakawa Saemon's face stiffened. He hadn't expected his reputation to be so bad that he had embarrassed himself even in Great Liang.
He said sheepishly, "Sir, my father has treated me quite well. You'll definitely find me useful if you keep me. Besides, I can show you the way; you definitely won't get lost."
He cast aside any notions of national righteousness; saving his life was the priority.
Once I return to the Yamata Nation, I might have a chance to regain my freedom. Who knows who will emerge victorious then?
"You're a coward!" Ran Min glanced at him and said with a look of disdain.
Kusakawa Akio is said to be a formidable figure, Saemon's behavior is truly a disgrace to his father; a true case of a tiger father and a dog son.
Ran Min is a ruthless man. He has just experienced the carnage in the Western Regions and his murderous aura is at its peak.
Grunt!
That one glance from him nearly scared Kusakawa Saemon to death.
Saemon subconsciously clenched his legs, but dared not say a word. This person was clearly not someone to be trifled with; if he were targeted by him, he would probably be doomed.
"Waste!"
Ran Min glanced at him disdainfully, looking down on people who knelt and begged for mercy. He frowned and said, "I'm curious, what makes you think you can provoke us? Are you tired of living?"
This guy looks like a coward, how dare he come?
"Yeah, I'm curious too, what makes you think you're so special?"
The others were also curious; this guy didn't look like the type to die a heroic death, so how could he be so brave?
To send a few thousand people to attack hundreds of thousands is incredibly audacious.
Let alone Saemon, even Lü Bu wouldn't be able to do it.
"Well, actually, I didn't know how many of you there were at first. I thought you were from the Great Flow Nation. They only had a few hundred people at most, so I could easily drive them away and even extort some money from them."
"Who would have thought it would turn out like this? What a coincidence!" Kusakawa Saemon said with an embarrassed expression.
If he could do it all over again, he would never have rushed in so blindly; it was practically suicide.
"Idiot!"
Ran Min was speechless. This guy really was a reckless fool. He didn't even know himself or his enemy, yet he dared to charge forward.
It's an absolute miracle that he's lived this long.
Waaaaah!
Just then, a horn sounded, a warning from the lead warship, indicating that they had encountered a problem.
"We've arrived at Eight Gods Island!"
Sun Jian picked up a simple telescope and took a look, his eyes lighting up.
After nearly two and a half days, we finally saw land. This must be Eight Gods Island to Great Liang.
Legend has it that an eight-headed serpent appeared here, devouring many people. In the end, the emperor revered it as a god and subdued it for the use of the royal family, making it the symbol of the Yamata Nation.
This place is the birthplace of mythology, so it naturally became one of the most important cities in the Yamata Nation.
Through his telescope, Sun Jian saw that a large number of soldiers were already stationed on the shore, and various interception facilities had been set up, clearly ready to fight him.
He couldn't help but say with a strange expression, "That's odd. It seems they already knew we were coming and made preparations in advance."
Did they know the news in advance?
Gan Ning was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Saemon with a gloating expression and laughed, "Kid, you're supposed to be a swindler, did someone trick you?"
Knowing that a large army was coming, why did they still send that hothead Saemon to charge in? There's clearly something wrong with that.
This kid's in a bad situation!
"Ah?"
Kusakawa Saemon's face stiffened, and he felt increasingly displeased, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.
yes!
He was, after all, the son of a great general. Knowing full well that there were hundreds of thousands of troops ahead, why didn't he warn him? Instead, he made arrangements after he left?
A flash of anger crossed his eyes, then he gritted his teeth and said, "This man is my father's confidant, named Takayama Ichizawa. It must be his doing!"
This guy was sent by his father to help him guard Eight Gods Island. Because of his presence, Saemon can eat, drink, and have fun, and doesn't even care about important matters.
Now that this has happened, does it mean that Takayama Ichizawa dislikes him?
You bastard, you're not even human.
"It's alright, I will avenge you!" Gan Ning glanced at him and said meaningfully.
Upon hearing this, Saemon's face stiffened, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "He currently has less than ten thousand men under his command, which is no match for you. You can use him as a base to further seize Great Wind Island."
" Great Wind Island?"
A hint of disdain flashed in Sun Jian's eyes as he directly rejected his suggestion, saying dismissively, "According to intelligence, the Yamata Nation has about four thousand islands. Apart from a few important islands with more than ten thousand soldiers, the rest have very few people."
"Can a small Eight Gods Island and Great Wind Island really hold my 400,000-strong army of Great Liang?"
This was clearly impossible, so he didn't plan to launch a joint offensive from the start; while that would be impressive, it would be too slow.
It's just an island with fewer than tens of thousands of people; we could easily take it down by splitting up into several groups, without wasting any time.
Although he had issued a challenge, the other side knew very little about his strength, which gave him an opportunity to exploit the information gap.
By using superior forces to launch a strong attack on some important islands, and then using this to control the surrounding islands, the enemy can be killed to the maximum extent in a short period of time, and the enemy can be severely damaged.
ah?
Saemon's expression changed, and he immediately felt uneasy, thinking to himself, "This is bad. This guy wants to divide his forces to attack several islands, and then launch a multi-pronged attack. This is going to be a big problem."
He had originally planned to leave the main force on Eight Gods Island, since even if 400,000 troops were to take Eight Gods Island, they would still need to stay on the island for a while. During that time, reinforcements from home would arrive.
But now that the enemy's 400,000 troops have been divided up, it has become even more threatening. It's equivalent to the Great Liang being able to attack 40 islands at the same time, which is terrifying.
Even if it's about providing support, we need to determine where to provide it first. With 400,000 troops divided into multiple forces to attack, support will be needed everywhere. The Yamata Nation is likely to be riddled with holes.
With those scattered troops, they simply couldn't stop the enemy.