It was already deep into the night—2 a.m.—and thanks to prior intelligence, the high-ranking members of the family had focused their attention on the battle expected tonight. As a result, security at the Mitsui family’s compound had loosened slightly. Without anyone seriously supervising, many of the guards were just going through the motions.
This made things much easier for the attacking forces of the two gangs, allowing them to quickly penetrate deep into the target area. At this point, a hidden sentry at the Mitsui family’s final defensive line finally noticed the attack. He aimed his rifle at the approaching group and opened fire, hitting a few people. However, before he could relocate, he was shot back and turned into a sieve. Nevertheless, he fulfilled his duty as a sentry, successfully raising the alarm about the enemy invasion.
Tonight was just the Mitsui family’s bad luck. Most of their more capable fighters had been dispatched to carry out missions tonight, significantly weakening the combat strength at each camp. Although the enemy attack was detected, by the time the alarm was raised, the two gangs had already reached the core area, making any organized counterattack nearly meaningless. At this point, the Mitsui family could only hope to defend the camp as best they could. Unfortunately, the enemy’s assault was too powerful, and they had more heavy weaponry. Watching helplessly as one position after another fell into enemy hands, the temporary leader of the camp realized that there was no time left to wait for reinforcements—the place was no longer defensible.
Before launching the attack, the enemy had already jammed all communications here, leaving the leader with no choice but to make a final decision. Because Japan had once suffered from atomic bombs, these ancient yakuza families were acutely aware of their destructive power.
Therefore, each major family had dug out underground facilities at their main camps capable of withstanding nuclear explosions, and these facilities were connected to other family facilities. However, since these facilities were primarily defensive, the evacuation process was relatively slow; otherwise, they wouldn’t have to fear attacks from rival families.
After safely transferring some of the important figures remaining at the camp, the leader activated the demolition button as planned. Instantly, a massive mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and the explosion echoed throughout the entire city of Xijing.
The Mitsui family members left at the camp were completely wiped out, but they took the two attacking gangs with them as their final sacrifice. The two gangs were celebrating the smooth progress of their attack, already dreaming of the great fortune they would gain once they captured the compound, and thus their assault grew even fiercer. However, no one could have imagined that the Mitsui family would have such a well-prepared plan, daring to sacrifice themselves to destroy the enemy completely. As a result, nearly all the attacking forces of the two gangs were wiped out in this operation.
When the gunfire of the attack first broke out, the Hejin family was startled, thinking the enemy had changed targets and was now attacking another camp. But once the situation was confirmed, the head of the Hejin family was overjoyed.
He had been worried about the losses suffered by the family’s ancestral home guards, which had weakened the family’s strength. He had never expected the enemy to choose his family as the next target. Although he had already mobilized some of the family’s secret agents to obtain intelligence about the enemy’s plans and made thorough preparations, the cost of defeating the enemy with heavy losses to his own forces still concerned him.
But he hadn’t expected the enemy to feint first and attack the Mitsui family instead. Regardless of who emerged victorious in this battle, both sides would suffer heavy losses. With the enemy weakened and his own strength relatively preserved, the opportunity for the Hejin family’s revival grew greater.
Meanwhile, the Mitsui family faced a completely different situation. Upon learning that their camp had become the target, the Mitsui family rushed to the attacked location, hoping to rescue their people. But when the deafening explosion sounded, the leader of this operation collapsed to the ground—he knew those inside were gone.
This massive explosion sent shockwaves through the entire city of Xijing. To stabilize the situation, the Self-Defense Forces were deployed onto the streets before dawn the next day, and the government imposed a citywide curfew to prevent the situation from worsening further.
The explosion shattered the illusions of both the Hejin and Mitsui families. They had made meticulous plans and prepared for the worst, but the situation had developed into the very worst-case scenario, making them acutely aware of the severity of the crisis.
This incident also made them realize clearly that the forces remaining in Xijing were still insufficient to rival the four smaller gangs. If they wanted to ensure the survival of their families, they had no choice but to recall their forces from other regions. The military curfew provided them with exactly this opportunity to bring back their people from afar.
When the four gangs learned that all their attacking forces had been completely wiped out, they couldn’t help but gasp in shock. Although the two attacking gangs had preserved most of their strength, the forces they dispatched were still formidable. After all, their target had only been a branch of one family, yet they still suffered total annihilation. This made them realize the immense power of the two families.
Originally, due to the urgency of time and fear that their main headquarters in Xijing might be completely destroyed, they had formed this alliance. They had originally believed that the alliance’s strength would be enough to rival the two major families, but now it seemed they had been overly optimistic.
Now that the war had already begun and both sides had suffered heavy casualties, it had become a life-or-death struggle. To preserve themselves and eliminate the enemy, the four gangs also began recalling all their forces from other regions. “Without the skin, where can the hair attach?” was the prevailing thought among them.
The territory in Xijing was limited. For the development of each family, they had all dispatched their members to expand their influence in other regions. Even the Sannokai had significant forces in other cities. If their headquarters hadn’t been destroyed, those regional branches of the Sannokai, without any constraints, would have declared independence, and the Sannokai wouldn’t have been completely wiped out.
Now, none of the families in Xijing wanted to become the next Sannokai, so they issued strict orders to their regional branches, demanding that they return to the family headquarters with all their forces.
Out of fear of the headquarters’ authority, despite some doubts about these orders, the leaders of the regional branches still obeyed and returned to Xijing with all their forces.
These regional branches had originally relied on the strength of the main family, making them the most powerful factions among local gangs in their respective areas. Now, once they withdrew all their forces, they effectively abandoned these territories, leaving the biggest piece of the pie for the local small gangs. In their struggle to seize this prize, everyone would spare no effort, leading to an escalation of conflicts in those regions and the outbreak of large-scale gang wars.
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