The Kodera clan itself still marched to Mugo County in the west with 6,000 men, because the Uehara, Komatsu, Otsu, Aoki family and other families in the east of Mugo County had all been subjugated, and the Kodera clan's actions in Muko County were quite smooth, but they only captured the Nakamura family and the Iwazuke family, who were unwilling to surrender in the west, and controlled the entire Mugo County.

After that, the western provinces of Uwara County and Hachibe County were basically controlled by some wealthy clans and countrymen because they did not have particularly strong local daimyo, so relatively speaking, it was basically the rhythm of Kaesong's surrender as soon as the heavenly army arrived, and these families also sent their own troops to follow the Kodera clan, so the number of the army reached 6,600 people.

With the Sumbara and Hachibe guns, only Arima-gun in the northwest and Honganji in the south remained in Settsu Province.

Because the Kuroda family had already publicized in Settsu Province in advance, their own territory would never allow the existence of the Ichijo sect's forces, so these territories that had been controlled by the Kuroda family, basically all the Ichijo sect believers had fled to the Ishiyama Imperial Workshop through various means.

It's not that Honganji Xianru doesn't want to send troops to crusade against the Koji clan, but a series of sharp offensives from the Kuroda family's side after entering the Setzu country, as well as various means, make Honganji Xianru unable to win the idea for a long time.

After learning that the Kodera clan was going to continue the attack on Arima-gun, and that all the arrangements of the Kuroda family to the north of him were a thousand people from Daimono Castle and Suita Castle, and that the rear was basically all captives of the Kuroda family in Settsu Province, Honganji Xianru was finally tempted.

If he was able to defeat the Kuroda family's 1,000-strong defenders at Daimono Castle and Suita Castle this time, then the land of the three or four counties behind these two castles would be within his reach, and he would have most of the Settsu Kingdom. If he was able to gather all the forces he could muster, especially the forces of the samurai class that he could control, to Settsu Province, he would be very sure that he would be able to defeat the army of the Kodera clan, and then hundreds of thousands of sectarians would gather in Settsu Province and make Settsu Province a monolith, and an earthly Buddha country would be established.

In this way, his position in the history of the Ichizong sect has been pulled up in this way, and the guys in Kaga Province have been cleaned up by the Oda family, and when the time comes, an edict will let them come to participate in the grand event, I believe that they will definitely be forced to come, and they will become the real power monks of the Pure Land True Sect, I have to say that this is a great temptation.

So under the order of the son ah Honganji Xianru, the samurai lords of the castles belonging to Honganji, such as Oe Castle, Hirata Castle, Hikie Castle, Gamo Castle, Kawaguchi Castle, Imazato Castle, Tachihara Castle, and Daido Temple, all took action, and then Honganji sent Shimoma Mayori to lead 1,000 monks and 10,000 sectarians from Ishiyama Honganji Temple, and then assembled at Hikie Castle, directly passing the Yodo River to attack Suitita Castle on the opposite side.

At this time, Suita Castle was guarded by a team of 100 people who had been gathered with great difficulty under Toshizo Hijikata, a team of 100 people from the Hirata family and the Yamaguchi family of the wealthy families of Shimashita County, and a team of 200 people led by Shigenari Suzuki himself. These 400 people will face nearly 12,000 people on the side of Honganji. At this time, the army of the Kodera clan had just entered Arima County and was preparing to launch an attack on the Arima family.

Let's talk about the Arima clan first, after the Kodera clan entered Arima County, another national lord of the Settsu country took the initiative to take refuge under the command of the Kodera clan, and this person was named Noshi Yorido. There is a reason why he took refuge in the Kuroda family, because this person and the former beloved daughter Mad Demon Shiogawa Changman are full of wars between the two families because of the Buko River, a tributary of the Yodo River, and the family that can be powerful was almost destroyed by the other party before.

Now his biggest enemy, Shiokawa Nagamitsu, has been destroyed by the Kuroda family, and the Kuroda family has shown incomparable dominance in Settsu Province (not counting Honganji), so he can come to the Kuroda family at the right time so that he can protect his family in the future.

The territory of Noshi Yorido is located at the junction of Arima County and Riverside County, and it was also a powerful family in Arima County before, so he knows Arima County very well, and he is also very familiar with the people under the command of the Arima family, which is the capital of his refuge in the Kuroda family.

The area of Arima County is relatively large, the number of stones has reached 70,000 stones, of which 40,000 stones are owned by the local daimyo Arima Nagahide, from his name you can know the relationship between his family and Arima County, his family is also a branch of the Qinghe Gen clan, but at this time, who will care what your background is, there are more descendants of the Genpei family, and there is a horse family in Settsu, sorry I haven't heard of it.

Arima Nagahide is not a capable lord, otherwise he would not be so famous, and he would not even be qualified to enter the middle of the game of shame and be a ronin. For the attack on Mita Castle, the Arima Home Castle, if it were not for the extremely complex terrain of the castle, it would have been delayed until four days before it could be captured.

At this time, Honganji had been besieging Suita Castle for four days. Fortunately, for four days, Suita Castle had been standing still, and Arima had been suppressed by the army of the Kodera clan, who had left 800 miscellaneous troops to guard against a possible attack by the Bessho family in the west, and came towards Suita Castle with 6,000 men.

Suita Castle is a relatively strong castle, especially after being reinforced by the Nakagawa family, and is actually the ruling core of the surrounding area.

The most elite on the side of Honganji are actually the soldiers of the local wealthy clans and national forces under their hands, followed by 1,000 monks and soldiers of Honganji, and 10,000 followers, to put it bluntly, they are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they have no combat effectiveness at all.

When they launched an attack on Suita Castle, the defenders of the Kuroda family's side were also preparing.

Suzuki shouted loudly from the pole, "All the brothers of the long-range team, the time has come to show your might, everyone be ready to shoot, and wait until the enemy is close to sixty paces before firing the second stage." Ignore those ordinary people, the goal is to shoot those bald donkeys and the warriors of the wealthy and national families, do you understand? ”

"Hey!" All ranged soldiers replied together.

The reason why Suzuki Shigenari arranged this way was because the ammunition and crossbow arrows in Suita Castle were limited, and the enemy was so numerous that it would never be possible to use the limited ammunition and crossbow arrows on the body of the sect, because the cost of a crossbow or a round of ammunition might be worth more than their name, and this is the truth.