The second year of Eiroku (1558) was a year of great ups and downs in the history of the Warring States period, and no one thought that the career of Ichijo would suffer a huge disaster in this year, first of all, Kaga Ichijo was devastated, and nearly 100,000 Takashima troops were besieging Kanazawa Gobo, and the capture was already a sure thing, and then the head temple of Ichisho Zong, Ishiyama Honganji, was besieged by nearly 60,000 three good troops, **** bombing, and night and night raids. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

No one in the sect had ever imagined that his career would suffer such a tragic price in less than three months, and his dream of dominating the world and building a Buddhist country would be completely shattered.

Takashima Yoritsuna, the head of the Takashima family, first bombarded Kanazawa Gobo with large cylinders and explosive packs in turn, causing the army, which had been starved of troops, to resist the tidal wave of the Takashima army, and retreated to the root of Kanazawa Gobo one after another.

However, when it came to the fundamental part of Kanazawa Gobo, the Takashima army was subjected to stubborn and fierce hand-to-hand combat, which caused the Takashima army to suffer heavy losses, but it still slowly shrank the defense line inward, and to hell with the soldiers who dared to rush out.

On the morning of 16 January, Lai Gang gave the order to attack, and hundreds of large cylinders roared in unison, and explosive packs and rockets with fierce flames suddenly covered the last fundamental stronghold of Kanazawa Imperial Palace. Since the Kanazawa Imperial Workshop was now completely covered by the Takashima Army, the explosives they threw out were very accurate, causing terrible damage.

The soldiers and believers who had always been in the bunker shrank under the bunker and kept shaking, and some of the bold tried to stick their heads out of the bunker, but they were loudly reprimanded back by the generals.

After more than ten days of fierce attacks, the roads leading to the key points have been completely destroyed, the large trees around the castle have fallen in pieces, and a large part of the nearby mountain has been scraped away with a roar.

Wakabayashi Nagato Mamoru pulled the broken Maruki bow and continued to shoot numbly. Around him lay more than two dozen corpses, their eyes half-open and half-closed, their mouths wide open, their tongues curled into a ball.

Apparently, they died in fear after suffering the strong impact of the air wave that followed the explosion.

Smoke filled the sky over Kanazawa Gobo, and every quarter of an hour or so, the Takashima family's army would launch a heavy bombardment of the main temple of Kanazawa Gobo, and the sound of explosions from shells and explosives thrown into the castle resounded in the sky.

In the bunker, Shimoma Yorigu observed the situation on the opposite side through the Nanban telescope, the infantry of the Takashima Army had already finished the formation, and their formation did not have much novelty, but simply arranged the infantry into several horizontal formations, the horizontal formations were about fifty meters apart, and the first two horizontal formations of almost a thousand people had already begun to advance to this side.

As they advanced through the walls, the Takashima Army's barrel also stopped.

The soldiers and believers did not dare to raise their heads, and the iron cannons and bows of the Takashima army were constantly shooting at the walls and gates, and any creature that tried to stick out its head was greeted by several bows and arrows.

Once again, hand-to-hand combat was inevitable.

The sounds of fighting, shouting, the clash of weapons, and the roar of iron cannons resounded through the sky, and Kanazawa Gobo had completely sunk into the sea of Takashima Army.

A soldier who had always been a soldier suddenly shouted loudly: "The ladder, it's the ladder, damn it, stop them!" ”

His shouts did not continue, a bow and arrow beckoned him, piercing his throat, and one of the strong archers took up the bow once more and began to aim at any soldier who dared to rush out.

The first batch of more than 100 three-meter-high ladders were quickly erected under the frantic sprint of the siege soldiers, and the hooks on the ladders were nailed to the city walls, and the Takashima soldiers began to climb the ladders.

The ladder was already a very good siege weapon for the wars of the Warring States period, and some of the sharper siege weapons were too large for a short castle, and they were still useful for crowds.

Kanazawa Gobo was built on a hill that turned the entire mountain into a castle, and the appearance of the ladder is making up for the lack of height.

A part of the archers, under the cover of shield men, quickly approached the city walls and began to shoot at the walls at close range to cover the siege of the army.

Shimoma Yorigu's eyes were fixed on the long arrow flying from the sky, watching it draw a beautiful arc in the air, and then fiercely nailed to the blue bricks in the city wall, the long arrow bounced high, and then fell straight down and covered the ground with a thick layer of arrows.

Shimoma Rygu jumped up, raised his sword and shouted, "Believers, kill ...... Ah......h

Since Kanazawa Gobo has only the root temple in the hands of the temple again, there are still more than 10,000 people at the moment, and due to the narrow terrain, there are heavy casualties.

The battle of 16 January was not completely defeated, and after paying the price of 300 men, Lai Gang chose to retreat and besiege the army.

The number of dead in Kanazawa Gobo is increasing day by day, and the granary has been captured by the Takashima army, and the grain that is enough for 20,000 people to support a year has also fallen into the hands of the Takashima army, and has become the grain and grass for the Takashima army to support.

One by one, they were carried from their habitat by ladders to the gates of the city, where they became a wall of corpses, and because of the danger of throwing them, they were often attacked by iron cannons and strong bows, so that the uninhabited houses of the castle were piled with corpses one by one.

Fortunately, it is winter, the weather is cold, and the corpse does not decompose and does not emit a foul smell, but it is still unbearable.

The next day, the sun rose lazily, and the Takashima Army launched another offensive, still continuing the same posture as yesterday.

After more than half a month of continuous attack, the Takashima Army lost more than 2,000 people, and it was in a dangerous dilemma.

Shimoma Yorisu sat panting under the castle walls with a bloody sword in his hand, and the Takashima army's attacks were extremely fast, and each time he was able to make Ichijo lose some strongholds.

He took the lead, leading his guards to rob and kill everywhere, and at this moment he was covered in blood, and his armor was torn in many places, and he was exhausted.

He had been in war for a long time, and he was oblivious to the bloody and bloody remains of soldiers everywhere in the city.

Ruolin Nagato leaned in and asked in a low voice: "Owner, have you thought about it, now the situation is in crisis, the granary has been seized by the other party, and the grain and grass of 10,000 people in the city will only be tomorrow at most, and they will starve after tomorrow, and it is likely that they will fall short at that time?!" ”

Shimoma Yorigu didn't understand the meaning of Wakabayashi Nagato's words, the seizure of the granary suddenly broke his last life-saving straw, he thought that with enough grain and grass for 20,000 people to spend a year and the deep well in the city was enough to drag down the Takashima army, but what he never expected was that the seizure of the granary made only less than a day's grain left.

Shimoma Yorigu asked in a low voice, "Look at it now, is there any possibility of breaking through?!" "He has already retreated, it is better to die than to live, who wants to die so knowingly to die.

Wakabayashi Nagato replied: "It is not impossible to break through, we can let ordinary believers charge towards a little to break through, and then the other party will definitely send heavy troops to pursue, and then we can lead the monks to break through from another direction, even if they want to pursue, we can completely defeat them if there are fewer people, and if there are more people, we will fight and retreat, as long as we retreat into the mountains and forests, we don't have to be afraid of them." ”

Apparently he had already thought of everything.

The next Raigu pondered for a while, and Wakabayashi Nagato persuaded him vigorously, and he finally nodded heavily.

On the night of January 18, Kanazawa Gobo began to break through on all fronts, and the Takashima army dispersed the pursuit as Wakabayashi Nagato had thought, and began to brutally kill the cripples that had always been one, and more than 1,000 monks led by Shimoma Yorigu and others fled into Vietnam after losing nearly half of them.

The next day, Kanazawa Gobo, a castle complex known as Kaga's No. 1 Temple, was engulfed in flames.

The Sect has completely collapsed.

Just as Yoritsuna burned down the Kanazawa Imperial Workshop, Miyoshi Chokei launched a general attack on Ishiyama Honganji.

Oda Nobunaga did not give up this good opportunity to expand his territory, and he took advantage of the relationship between the Maeda family and Nagashima Ichikashi, and when Nagashima Ichichi sent most of the monks and soldiers to Kii to fight the war, he sent troops to capture Nagashima and expand his power to Ise.

Takeda Shingen and Nagao Haritora did not miss this good opportunity to completely defeat Ichichi, and they began to encircle and suppress the temples of Ichijo in their respective territories, depriving these temples of their offerings and territorial Ishitaka.

In Shikoku, San'in, Sanyo, and even in the Kyushu region, a large number of temples of the Ichijo sect were attacked by local samurai. The "Hundred-legged Worm", which aimed to establish a Buddhist state, suffered a tragic disaster.

Although the Ichijo sect still has hundreds of thousands of believers, most of the strongholds and temples of the Ichijo sect in various places have been attacked and destroyed by local samurai, especially their holy place Buddha country Kaga has been devastated, and their confidence has been completely lost.

Most of the monks and soldiers of the temples in some other places had to fight alone, and due to the lack of reinforcements, the forces of the Zong sect could not withstand the fierce attacks of the local warriors at all, and they were defeated one after another.

Honganji Shunru finally tasted the bitter fruits of the war, which not only failed to defeat his rivals Miyoshi Chokei and Takashima Yoritsuna, but instead led Isōmune into an even more terrible abyss.

In addition to the defeat of the Zong Sect on the battlefield, the influence of the sect also deteriorated further, especially the counterattack of the local warriors that he could not imagine so severe.

Facing the reality, he painfully realized that if the war continued, the longer it went, the stronger the power of the local samurai would be, and the smaller the influence of the Ichizong would be, and in the end he would lose for nothing.

Honganji Temple appeared to have collapsed, and on the Dharma Hall of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, he suddenly collapsed on the altar due to collapse due to his fierce speech.

Honganji Xianru is now most concerned about how to end the war in a peaceful way, and still have a transcendent status after the war, he thought of launching a final holy war, and organize all the believers to defend Ishiyama Honganji Temple together, yes, there is also this trick that is not used, as long as it is used, needless to say Miyoshi Nagakei, even Takashima Yoritsuna, who has just won in Kaga, can hardly afford it, and he can use this capital to negotiate with Miyoshi Chokei on an equal footing.

On January 24, 1599, Honganji held an emergency meeting in wartime.

Honganji's eyes were red and swollen, and he said bitterly: "At the beginning, we underestimated our opponents, we thought that the Takashima family was nothing more than that, they should be busy fighting with the Miyoshi family's Kinai hegemony, but what we didn't expect was that they would join forces to deal with the Ichijo sect together; We thought they would need to be prepared for a long time, but they had made us suffer enough in less than a month. Due to our error of judgment, we almost completely destroyed the great cause of the Ichōzong. ”

The Deputy Dharma Master, Shimoma Yoridan, suddenly stood up and retorted angrily: "If the war is lost, it is because of a lack of tenacious will!" We still have a final holy war, enough to gather a million people, and when the time comes, we are still afraid that Miyoshi Changkei, or Takashima Yoritsuna, will fall into the flood that has always been like a tide. ”

The room was as quiet as death, and Honganji looked like a young man with a deep look on his face, and said, "Everyone knows that we may launch a final holy war, and they are also afraid that we will use this move, and their recent series of powerful attacks are aimed at defeating us before we launch the final holy war. We have to consider the overall cause of the Sect, once the Holy War is launched, we will abandon all the strongholds in the whole world, we will lose the hearts and minds of a large number of middle- and upper-class samurai, and there will be more attacks by local samurai. I will contact Miyoshi Chokei through the Ashikaga shogunate and the imperial court and negotiate with Miyoshi Chokei on an equal footing! ”

He raised his voice when he said "equality."

Shimoma Yoributa suddenly understood the meaning of Honganji Xianru, and he also understood that once the final holy war was launched, he would give up the territory occupied by various places for more than a hundred years, and once he gave up, he would only get the hegemony of the leaders of the samurai groups such as Kinai and Miyoshi Chokei, Takashima Yoritsuna, etc., and the loss was more, so he nodded and clapped his hands first, followed by everyone applauding enthusiastically.

The delegation led by Yoritan Shimoma immediately broke through the gap in the encirclement of Miyoshi Nagakei and secretly interviewed the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who had been thinking about how to make the shogunate rise again since he returned to Kyoto with Miyoshi Nagakei in harmony, and he obtained some conditions from Ichijo Sect, such as the secret agreement that Ichijo Sect would fight for the shogunate in the future, and then tried his best to make peace for the three warring parties.

After meeting with the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Yoshiki Shimoma immediately came to the imperial court with a large amount of money, met with Emperor Imakami, described the inappropriateness of the war, and asked the imperial court to come forward and reach an opportunity for a meeting with Miyoshi Nagakei.

Why didn't the emperor do anything about it, just to give them a chance to have a face-to-face interview, and not to let them stop the war, so he secretly summoned Miyoshi Nagaitsu and gave him the opportunity to meet with Miyoshi Nagaitsu for the first time. (To be continued.) )