Now that Satsuo Suzuki is gone, fortunately, his son Shigehide Suzuki can still take over his class, at least after that, as long as the Saga people are not too consumed, they can still fight with the Kuroda family.

Opposite Sukita Castle across the Yodo River, the castles that belonged to Honganji were actually located on an island in the middle of the Yodogawa River. The size of this island is not too large or small, at least the fact that it can support two or three thousand people from above speaks for itself.

As we mentioned before, some small wealthy clans and people on the island also put together five or six hundred men for the Honganji side in order to attack Suita Castle this time, so to speak, up to ninety-nine, down to children, and the whole family was old, weak, sick and disabled.

And in the battle of Suita Castle, among the five or six hundred men and horses belonging to the side of Honganji, a large part of them were also lost. At the beginning, when the first storming of Fukita Castle was carried out, nearly two hundred wealthy clans and countrymen were killed and wounded, and it was among these five or six hundred men and horses.

That is to say, in just that attack, their men and horses were reduced by more than one-third, and it was a huge loss of ten or twenty people to be evenly divided among each family, and it was already very good for each of them to be able to produce dozens of people.

In the last big pursuit of the Battle of Suita Castle, they lost at least two hundred people, that is to say, the team of five or six hundred people they managed to put together, at this time there were only about a hundred people left, but you can think about it, there are nearly seven or eight wealthy families on the island, and these hundred people are divided into seven or eight families, and there are only a dozen people left in each family.

Anyway, the Kodera clan only sent a team of 500 people, composed of the wealthy clans and people of the Settsu country, and swept the entire island, and none of the small castles of Oejo, Hirata, Hirae, Gamo, Kawaguchi, Imasato Castle, Tachihara, and Daido stopped this small team.

As for what these wealthy clans and countrymen of the Settsu country did on the island, the Kodera clan did not care about it, after all, it was impossible to let the horses run and not give the horses grass. At least in this regard, he is much more hard-hearted than Kuroda.

Honganji is very depressed about the occupation of the island by the Kotana clan, because on the south side of the island, there is a bridge built by Honganji Temple, which can be directly connected to Shengsai-gun, where Honganji is located. In other words, as long as you pass through this bridge to the south, you can easily besiege the main mountain of the Pure Land True Sect.

It's just that after the Kuroda family occupied the island, they only repelled several small attacks by the Honganji side that tried to destroy the suspension bridge, and then did not take any further action, leaving only a thousand people on the island to defend.

The Kodera clan himself took the rest of the men and began to clean up the entire land of Setzu Province under the occupation, and began various preparations for suppression, pacification, and internal affairs, and then naturally there would be followers of the Kuroda family who came to Setzu Province to carry out follow-up work, and the Kuroda family was already familiar with such actions.

You must know that the Kuroda family is among the long-range thousand people in Settsu Province, and in order to suppress the power of Honganji Temple to the greatest extent, 600 of them are arranged to this island. The 600 men were divided into three teams and monitored the Ishiyama Honganji Temple across the Yodo River 24 hours a day.

The Honganji side did not think of a way, but the defense of this island was too strong, and due to the limitations of the terrain, the Honganji side could not cut the suspension bridge, and at the same time, it was not very easy to cross the Yodo River and attack the island directly. I wanted to launch an attack several times, but I couldn't even cross Yodogawa, and the Kuroda family's long-range team was defeated.

Honganji seems to have found the current situation worse than when the Oda family besieged Honganji, and the Oda family had attacked Ishiyama Gobo from Ikuto County in the east, and Honganji was able to rely on its own castle to defend it.

And to the west and north, Honganji has passages where you can get the necessary supplies, whether it's for purchase or support from other forces, at least you can get supplies anyway.

And in the current situation, the Kuroda family has completely blocked their passage to the north! To the east or south, it will soon become the domain of the Kuroda family. Not to mention the sea to the west, the Kuroda family's navy is already very strong, and the Honganji family simply has no way to open a passage on the sea. To put it bluntly, for Honganji, it is already embattled at the moment.

Since the normal way didn't work, Honganji thought of other methods. He first reported to the court as the official position of his three powerful monks. It is hoped that the Imperial Court will be able to mediate the conflict between the Honganji and the Kuroda family, and that the Imperial Court will intermediate, so that the Honganji family will bow to the Kuroda family, but still exist as an independent force.

For such a condition, it is absolutely impossible for the Kuroda family to agree, and Konoe Qianjiu, who is a closer look, is also very clear, so he contacted some ministers who have an in-law relationship with the Kuroda family and have a good relationship, and went directly to ask to see the emperor.

Together, they analyzed the pros and cons of the emperor, especially when the Kuroda family was about to succeed in Shangluo, and it was impossible to mediate the harmony between the two families.

The emperor had been bumpy all his life, and he was used to seeing all kinds of scenes, so he was still able to distinguish some things clearly, so he immediately sent a letter to Honganji, claiming that the imperial court could not intervene in such a fight.

This made Honganji Xianru even more angry, what does it mean that such a battle cannot be intervened, didn't the imperial court also act as an intermediary before, and mediated the wars of many famous families, why can't it be intermediated when you get to Kuroda's house and Honganji here?

You can clearly see in this place that Honganji Shōru really regarded himself as a daimyō, so when he did things and thought about problems, he already regarded himself as a daimyō.

Since the imperial court can't do it, then it's better to use the power of religion yourself, so soon Honganji Xianru spread the word to the whole world, claiming that the Kuroda family is an enemy of the Buddha.

Honganji Xianru originally thought that he still had a little face in the religious circles of the Wa Kingdom, but in the end, the result was that all the sects basically did not have a bird. This is a young and arrogant Honganji appearance, and it is something that you can't even think of.