There is no hope of persuasion, and he is scolded as a wicked person in the world, so there is no room for maneuver except for a strong attack. Amid the prayers of the monks of the Ichikoji sect led by Zhengcheng of Honkoji Temple, groups of believers began to take action. Nearly 1,000 old and weak women and children holding wooden sticks and farm tools slowly moved towards Heshan City, all of them chanting aloud "Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha", their faces were extremely pious, for the sake of the Buddha, they can abandon family affection, abandon morality, abandon life and death. When it was less than 100 meters away from Heshan City, the young and strong man who rushed to the front hung the Buddhist scrolls and scriptures on his spear and shouted: "Defeat the enemy of the Buddha Gate." Those who enter will be reborn in the Pure Land of Bliss, and those who retreat will fall into the Infernal Hell! "Take the lead and rush out towards the gate of Heshan City.

In their eyes, if they rushed into Heshan City and killed the high warrior master, they would be able to reincarnate in the Pure Land of Bliss, and they would be able to rush towards the solid Heshan City fearlessly. They were not afraid of death, and rushed forward one after another, rushing up in dense numbers, and shouting the names of gods and Buddhas.

There was silence in Heshan Castle, boiling hot water bubbling in the copper pot, and Matsushima Hengsheng heard a slight chatter of teeth. He turned his head and looked at the young man beside him with soft eyes, the young man was only thirteen or fourteen years old, his face was still childish, he was holding a short gun tightly in his hand, and his hands holding the gun were trembling slightly.

Matsushima Hengsheng patted the young man's shoulder and said indifferently: "Brother, don't be afraid, just follow me later." After saying that, he ignored the boy, scraped the blade with the tip of his thumb, squinted his eyes and carefully felt the sensation coming from his fingers.

The boy's name is Yashiro Matsushima, and he is the cousin of Hengkatsu Matsushima. Matsushima Hengsheng originally thought that he was the only one left in the family, but he didn't expect that there was a cousin. At that time, when Koro Castle burned down, he followed his mother to visit relatives. Later, Matsushima Hengkatsu arrived. And he found it. has been following Matsushima Hengsheng's side.

Matsushima Hengsheng suddenly shouted: "The enemy is coming to the city gate, the enemy is coming to the city gate, let them see how powerful the samurai are in Beichu, ready, big spoon, yes, big spoon, give them a bath!" In the midst of the shouting. Matsushima Hengsheng kept walking in front of the city wall with his naginata, encouraging the soldiers who were trembling in their hands and feet.

Matsushima Hengsheng looked back at the wall, the boiling water in the copper pot was steaming white, as long as a few buckets were poured on the thugs outside the city, it was enough to make those thugs who dared to fight Heshan City blister all over their bodies, rolling all over the ground, and no gods or Buddhas could save them.

Matsushima Hengsheng climbed the watchtower, then stood at the top of the tower and shouted, "Everyone, we are at Date House. Only military merit is supreme, and one can be exchanged for a stone of land. If you cut five, you can become a flag samurai, and if you cut fifteen, you can be given a long sword and become a full-fledged samurai. Regardless of background, only in terms of military merits, some of you are from a ronin background, some are from a peasant, and even some are from a mountain people, as long as you get enough military merits, everyone can become a samurai. ”

The soldiers who were still trembling remembered the military merit system of the Date family, and their eyes were red, and they looked out of the city that the thugs were no longer devout believers, but treasure mountains. Matsushima Hengsheng's voice was loud, and his voice could be heard from far away. There was a "coaxing" around immediately, and such an incentive policy immediately had an effect, and even the eyes of the recruits, who were originally very nervous, flashed with excitement. The samurai class, respected and of high social status, was the ruling class of the time.

Seeing that everyone was looking left and right excitedly, and talking to each other, Matsushima Hengkatsu came down from the watchtower with satisfaction, it was still quite cold on it, and he sat on a wooden bench near the gate, quietly waiting for the battle to begin.

At the forefront were the 150 Emi remnants led by Ezumi, a clansman of the Emi clan of Misasaka Province, who had been severely punished by Date Masako, as well as nearly 1,000 disciples of the Ichitsu sect, among which the most effective were the 150 Emi remnants. Emi Izu looked at the tall Tsuruyama Castle, and he suddenly felt that he had never felt before that this castle was actually built so high, and he needed to tilt his head so high. was about to collide together, and Jiang saw that Izu suddenly had some regrets, regretting that he should not have listened to the bewitchment of Benguang Temple's Zhengcheng and came to take the lead. Say what to say that after laying down the beautiful country, let Jiang Jian's family prosper again, and what will happen again when everyone is dead.

It's too late to regret it now, the crowding of people behind has already blocked the way to retreat, and once they retreat, I'm afraid that this group of red-eyed believers will tear their group to pieces first, Ezumi Izu shouted to the two nephews beside him: "Niu Ruomaru, Heiji, follow me." Niu Ruomaru is his son, Heiji is his nephew, the two children were originally responsible for directing people to hit the door, and now they are obviously looking at Emi Izu with some doubts, but Emi Izu didn't talk nonsense, and shouted: "Prepare for hitting wood, prepare for hitting wood, hit me for me!" ”

Seven or eight members of the Jiang Jian Remnant Party carried the bumper wood and walked silently towards the city gate. There were still hundreds of believers gathered around the crashing wood, waiting to rush in as soon as they hit the city gate, and the other members of the Jiang Jian Party had already been surrounded by the crowd and couldn't move.

"Kill!" Hundreds of believers shouted in unison, hugging the slamming wood and rushing straight to the city gate.

Seeing the bumper wood crashing into the city gate, Matsushima Hengsheng said with a smile: "Brothers, give them a bath!" The words were elegant, the facts were bloody, and the city kept pouring hot water, falling on the ragged thugs' **, and immediately screamed in pain.

The defenders at the head of the city apparently did not give these thugs a chance to attack, "Brothers, beat these thugs to death!" Matsushima Hengsheng shouted loudly, and with his order, the sound of feather arrows swishing through the air sounded like beads on the head of the city, and the words were mixed. The thugs of the Sect of Yixiang, who were charging, fell hundreds of people.

In the storm of hot water and bows and arrows, the mobs of the Zong Sect were constantly injured and fell, some of the thugs were directly killed at the door, some of the thugs were injured and could not move, some were trampled to death by the people who came after, and some of them were covered with blood and struggled to escape from the dead place at the door.

Emi Izu watched in pain as his people struggled in the crowd, struggling and writhing, trying to escape for their lives but never being able to do so. His two sons and nephews followed him closely, trembling and at a loss, if he had just gone up to command, then there must have been himself in the crowd lying on the ground struggling desperately.

The thugs of the Ichizong sect who had been chanting the Buddha's name and cursing the Date clan suddenly screamed and cried, and Izu, who had been in the crowd, dodged and didn't let others see him, wanting to evade the responsibility of the war commander, but the countless people around him looked at him with red-eyed mobs, and his feet shook involuntarily, and he immediately turned around and shouted loudly: "Hit the wood and continue to move forward, the hit wood can't stop for a moment, and if the person can't work, change it, the people of the Emi family, the archers press the formation, ready to fire a salvo!" ”

Saying that, regardless of the crowd, he squeezed through the crowd and gathered the remnants of the Emi party, Emi Izu looked at the remnants of the Emi remnants who had only less than 100 people left just now, and he was distressed, he shouted loudly: "The archers prepare, suppress the attack at the head of the city, and continue to move forward by hitting the wood." ”

Emi Izu raised his spear and pointed forward: "Shoot!" Immediately, more than a dozen party members stepped forward to pull their bows and arrows, raised their left hands and their right arms with force, raised their bows to their eyes, glanced at their fingers, and with the buzzing sound of the bowstring vibrating, more than a dozen feathered arrows rushed towards the city.

More than ten feather arrows immediately attracted a rain of arrows on the city, and several archers of the remnants of Jiang Jian, who stood out among the old and weak women and children, immediately became the live targets of the defenders of the city, and most of them did not have time to shoot the second arrow, so they fell in this rain of arrows, which was still caused by the protection of their companions beside them. But they bought precious time for the people of the Sect, and more than a dozen or twenty people climbed over the barricades, shouted the Buddha name of Nan Mu Amitabha Buddha and rushed to the city gate, carrying the bumping wood and rushing to the city gate.

"Iron cannon aim, fire, fire!" The iron cannon general Ushino Shigegen ordered loudly that there were always twelve iron cannons allocated in Heshan City, and there were not many of them, but the stuffing was all scattered bullets, and they hit the crowd with burning wounds all over their faces. The lethality of the scattered bullets to personnel was limited, and they could only kill a few people sporadically, and they were of no use to the fanatical thugs of the Sect, gritting their teeth and opening their red eyes towards the city gate, crashing.

Seeing that it was difficult to break through the city gate, Zhengcheng of Benguang Temple was anxious in his heart, and shouted loudly to boost morale, if he could not break through Heshan City, he would collapse if he had always been beaten, and his dream of realizing the Buddha country would be in vain. With a wave of his hand, the remaining 2,000 believers were also pushed out, and only less than a hundred sect warriors from Benguang Temple remained by his side.

The thugs of the Zong Sect flooded up Heshan like a tide, carrying the anti-10,000-character banner and rushing up, and the city desperately fired guns and arrows to counterattack, and threw stones down. The slopes of the mountain are steep, and the advantage of having a large number of people can not be waved out, and most of the members are farmers, where do they have the ability to attack the city, they only rely on faith to rush up, and they stormed for nearly an hour, seeing heavy casualties, and still could not break through the city gate. As time passed, the momentum of the attack became weaker and weaker, and all the people who died in the battle at the beginning were fanatical followers of the Yiyi Sect, and they were the backbone of the Yiyi Sect.

Benguang Temple Zhengcheng looked anxious after the battle, and ordered repeatedly, urging everyone to continue to attack, and so on three or five times, each time due to the unfavorable terrain and retreated, with nearly 1,000 casualties. Shinjian Zhenjing was busy persuading him to stop the war, and Benguang Temple Zhengcheng had no choice but to order the troops to be collected, and the believers from all over the world were called to gather and fight again.

Benguang Temple Zhengcheng didn't want to fight again, but Matsushima Hengsheng in the city didn't give him a chance to rest and recuperate, and he immediately issued an order to attack the whole army: "Attacking and defending is the way to defend the city, prepare horses, I want to rush him for a while, so that they don't dare to underestimate us." ”

There were not many cavalry in the Date family, and in order to support 800 Chibei, they almost wiped out all the war horses in the four countries, because Matsushima Hengkatsu was originally born in Date Masahiro's small surname, and finally took 23 war horses from Chibei and formed a team of scouts. (To be continued......)

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