"Master Ikkyu, here is the envoy sent by Sun Linmian, the Lord of the Sun, and the captain of the Changyi team, Captain Sasaki of the Changyi team, and here I represent the Christian Pope Urban of the Sunset Empire. Charlie. His Majesty Sun Mian extended his sincere greetings to Shintoism. In the main hall of Honnoji Temple, the Shoyoshi team named Sasaki came here under the leadership of the monks, and when he saw the old man kneeling on the cotton mat, the captain of the Shoyi team immediately stepped forward and gave a Shinto ritual and said.

Prior to this, nearly 1,000 members of the Shoyi team had entered the Honnoji Temple to drink water and rest to recover their strength, waiting for the monks in the temple to not know that the next battle would take place, although these members of the Shoyi team who also believed in Shinto did not want the holy place in their hearts to be harmed, but for the victory of the empire on which the sun never set, they finally bit this matter into their stomachs, and without the monks noticing, they began to start an action called "adding fuel to the fire" in various parts of the temple. If what the Shoyi team did at this time was compared to adding firewood to the fire, then Captain Sasaki's approach at this time was to pour oil into the fire.

"Christianity............ I heard that it was the state religion of the Sun Never Setting Empire.,But I'm very strange.,The Sun Never Sets Empire not only doesn't reject Shintoism.,On the contrary, it also appoints Shinto followers to do it.,Before that, those family patriarchs on Shikoku Island told me that the Sun Never Set Empire doesn't like us Shinto heretics.。 The old man named Ikyu questioned him with a mouth full of doubts, and even said in a tone of vigilance, and Captain Sasaki is also a good person, and immediately understood what happened: when he and the members of the Shoyi team came in as a group of Shinto believers, they suddenly became the messenger of the Christian Pope on which the sun never sets, and the day before yesterday the empire of the sun never set happened to capture the island of Shikoku, which will inevitably make the Shinto host feel a little uneasy.

"The master is too worried, although the state religion of the empire is Christianity, but it does not exclude foreign religions, and His Majesty believes that all religions have a way, and he himself attaches great importance to the Shinto believers, and when he learned that the Honnoji Temple will have a great disaster, he immediately sent the troops below and three other troops to this place, including the master and the Shinto friends."

"Shinto is in trouble? What does that mean? Shikoku Island is all our Shinto believers, and it is impossible for us to attack our Shintoism, and the only outsiders are you. Although Master Ikkyu's tone was full of doubts, the slightest vigilance in his tone had begun to loosen.

"No, no, no, our empire of the sun never sets respects regional culture very much, and we will not do what you imagine, otherwise the person standing in front of you now is no longer a Shinto believer, but a Xiyi samurai who has been forced to believe in Christianity............... Did the master remember another religion in the Xiyi Islands? ”

“………… Mahayana Buddhism, but ............" Before Master Ikkyu finished speaking, he was interrupted by a monk who ran in in a panic: "Master! The master is not good! Outside, there are many people outside who surround the Honnoji Temple! ”

"What! Who dares to disturb the purity of the Honnoji Temple! The enraged master immediately got up and slapped the table angrily.

"It's ............ The master also asked to calm his anger, that person seemed to be the eldest son of the Hinata family on Shikoku Island, although he looked a little embarrassed at this time, but he had come here to worship last year, and many monks of the temple had seen his appearance. ”

"Master." Captain Sasaki suddenly stood up and said to Master Ikkyu: "There is something I forgot to tell you, the Hyuga family was defeated by the Sunset Army on Shikoku Island before, and fled here with thousands of defeated troops, if you are well-informed, you should know that most of these soldiers are from other places in Xiyi, and they are all soldiers who believe in Mahayana Buddhism, and the battle between Mahayana Buddhism and Shinto Buddhism makes it fierce. ”

"What does this have to do with the eldest son of the Hyuga family?"

"I got the exact news, the eldest son of the Hyuga family in order to stabilize the morale of the army, when he fled, he announced in public that he would convert to join Mahayana Buddhism, this practice is indeed effective, but it is not durable, after a long time, the army's heart will be shaken again, and when the time comes, there will definitely be people who will begin to question that the eldest son of Hyuga converted to Mahayana Buddhism is very true, in this case, in order to keep his position, I think that Hyuga eldest son will definitely find a way to prove that he has changed his image, that Master Ichikyu, do you think, What is the fastest and most effective method at the moment? ”

“…………… Destroy the Honnoji Temple. Although he was shaken, the old man finally slowly said his answer, and at the same time, the monk who broke in again outside the door told the old man that the people who surrounded the Instinct Temple had lined up and put on an offensive appearance, and the old man was even more convinced of his thoughts.

But what the old man didn't know was that the reason for this situation, although half of it did come from what Captain Sasaki said, the eldest son of the Hyuga family changed his faith to become a believer in Mahayana Buddhism, but the other half came from the appearance of Honnoji Temple, because at this time, the surrounding area of Honnoji Temple has been planted with the flags of the Sunset Empire, although the three lion flags in Honnoji Temple are all staggered and leaning against the wall, but it cannot be denied that those flags are indeed only owned by soldiers who never set sun, plus the shadow of Xiyi samurai is everywhere around the temple, And none of the battle flags inserted behind those shadows belong to the family of which family in the Zunmu faction's counterattack army, the pattern is either a cross or three golden lions, as long as they are not fools, they all know the way, at this time, the sun does not set in the Honnoji Temple.

Therefore, in the eyes of the rout of the Hyuga side, they are now facing the dilemma of intercepting and chasing after the front. At this time, it is absolutely impossible to break through the rear, and the chasing soldiers can be composed of a combination of giant shield crossbowmen and heavily armed swordsmen, although they are not as good as the English duo of the Longbow Guards and the heavy swordsmen, but compared to the Xiyi people who are not good at land warfare, these professional armies can definitely beat them and even the east, west, north and south can not distinguish between east and west. And before that, the battle of Gangpu Tianshu had left a shadow on these defeated troops, and they no longer had the courage to confront the Sunset Army, but now they want to live, so there is only one way in front of them - to capture the Honnoji Temple.

On the other side, with the success of Captain Sasaki's persuasion, Master Ikkyu, the Shinto presiding officer of Honnoji Temple, immediately decided to first attach himself to the side on which the sun never sets to protect Honnoji Temple, and the members of the Shoyi team, who had previously rested for a short time, began to arrange the can-throwing bow in the inner layer of the temple, and nearly a thousand monks in the temple, including the Shinto chair of the Shinto sect named Ikyu, also began to organize their equipment - cloth armor and sickles.

Captain Sasaki has no objection to this, because as long as it is a famous Xiyi person, everyone knows the Tao, and the monks of Xiyi Shinto are all ancient martial arts masters.