Ruiquan Temple is located in Hengxi Township, Tonba County, surrounded by the territory of the temple, and there are monks and soldiers in the temple to defend it, and the whole temple is actually a city.

However, once the Ruiquan Temple was launched, the troops were all gathered in Hasunuma City. Honganji has initiated several times in Vietnam, and it has always been a one.

In this temple, it is generally the deacon Ueda Tozaemon who manages things, and the presiding officer is already old and does not manage things much.

Mizuno Katsunari rushed to Zuizumenji Temple, and the first thing he saw was Ueda Fujizaemon.

As soon as he saw Ueda Fujizaemon, he said, "Mage, please help the family, Ogasawara Yoshinaga has already led 3,000 men to attack Toyama Castle." ”

Ueda Fujisaemon was puzzled: "You're not joking, Ogasawara Yoshinaga dared to attack Toyama Castle with only 3,000 men?" Your Shenbao family is a territory of tens of thousands of stones, how can you be afraid of these 3,000 people? ”

Mizuno Katsunari hurriedly said: "It's true, there are still 5,000 Ogasawara troops in Gokayama Mountain, and once they march, they will soon arrive at Toyama Castle."

Now is the time when the farming is busy, and it is difficult for the family to recruit soldiers, and they hope that the mage will come forward, or lead the troops to support the family, or delay some time for the family. ”

Ueda Fujizaemon hesitated: "But this Ogasawara Yoshinaga is the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, and the main certificate of this sect is that the Master has a good relationship with him, how can a poor monk send troops?" ”

Mizuno Katsunari said in a hurry: "Master, if the family is destroyed by Ogasawara Yoshinaga, will this Zuizumen Temple be recognized by Ogasawara Yoshinaga at that time?"

Over the years, the relationship between Zuisenji and the Venerable Master has eased, but once Ogasawara Yoshinaga wants to take control of Zuisenji, will the Venerable Master still help? ”

When Ueda Fujizaemon heard these words, he was a little moved, and in the Renru era, Honganji rose rapidly, and even killed Kaga's guardian and turned Kaga into a Buddha country.

However, after Renru moved Honganji Temple to Ishiyama and established Ishiyama Honganji Temple, Kaga Echichu did not listen to the orders of Ishiyama Honganji very much.

By the time of Zhengru, Zhengru had taken gentle measures, but Kaga Echichu was still at war with other daimyos, so Zhengru was very disliked.

Mizuno Katsunari saw that Ueda Fujizaemon was tempting, so he said again: "Master, the family only has half of the territory of Echichu for the time being, but Ogasawara Yoshinaga destroys the family and can master the entire territory of Echichu!"

When the time comes, will he still put up with Zuisenji taking control of Tonami County? Once he sends troops, it will be a catastrophe for Ruiquan Temple. ”

Ueda Fujizaemon was not frightened, but said confidently: "This is impossible, it's not that the poor monk is boasting, no one in this world dares to offend this sect."

But what you said is also very right, this temple can't sit idly by and watch the god protector's family be destroyed, the poor monk will go to ask the host, you wait here. ”

No matter how anxious Katsunari Mizuno was, he could only wait.

Ueda Fujizaemon came to the place where Zhengxin Kiyoshu was, and he knocked lightly on the door, waiting for Zhengxin's response.

After waiting for a while, the voice of the old man came from inside: "Come in." ”

Ueda Fujizaemon hurriedly walked in in small steps and sat cross-legged in front of Zhengxin.

Zhengxin said slowly: "What's the big deal?" ”

Ueda Fujizaemon nodded and said, "The latest rise of Ogasawara Yoshicho has led three thousand troops to appear outside Toyama Castle, and it looks like the action is a surprise attack." At the same time, there were 5,000 people in Wujian Mountain.

The chief of the jimboo sent the son of the old Mizuno Katsushige, Mizuno Katsushige, to ask for help. ”

Zhengxin frowned slightly and said: "This Shinano Mamoru is a powerful daimyo, this time in terms of action, it is so much faster than the chief position of the god protection, if this temple intervenes, it is difficult to budget the benefits and losses in it." ”

Ueda Fujizaemon nodded and said, "The poor monk thinks the same way, but if Ogasawara Shinano Mamoru takes the Jimboo family, then he will be the biggest force in this Echichu."

But about Ogasawara Shinanomoru's attitude towards this temple, the poor monk is not clear, what does the host think? ”

Hearing this, Zhengxin said, "Hida's Terulen Temple came with news a few days ago that Ogasawara Shinano Mamoru had forcefully intervened in their affairs. ”

Ueda Fujizaemon frowned and said: "That really makes Mizuno Katsunari right, Ogasawara Shinanomoru must have a worse attitude towards this temple than the Jimbo family." ”

Zhengxin nodded slightly and said, "That's true, then you will take the monks and soldiers to Toyama Castle to intermediate, and let Ogasawara Shinano Mamoru sit down and talk." ”

Ueda Fujizaemon folded his hands and said, "Amitabha, the poor monk will do it." ”

He returned to the reception room in front of him, where he met Katsunari Mizuno.

Mizuno Katsunari said in a hurry: "Master, is the host master willing to support the family?" ”

Ueda Fujizaemon nodded and said, "The host did say that he would help you Jimbo family, but you also know that this temple has taken a big risk to help you."

It is not easy to dispatch monks and soldiers, and the temple will have to get something at that time. ”

Mizuno Katsunari nodded hurriedly and said, "Master, please rest assured, this family will definitely have a heavy gift in the future." ”

Ueda Fujizaemon immediately ordered 1,500 monks and soldiers, and at the same time asked the village officials of each village to prepare a piece of soil.

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Toyama Castle ushered in a new day, and by the time the sun rose, the troops of the Ogasawara Army were already having breakfast.

Soon after, the Kazu team and the Otsu team left the main camp and advanced under Toyama Castle.

After waiting for a day, the priest who didn't get a good night's sleep suddenly became excited.

The Kazu team and the Otsu team stopped a hundred paces away from Toyama Castle, and Miki Otsuki immediately asked his men to start loading the Kuniban.

The chief of the jimbo who was on the arrow turret in the castle looked at the two reserves of the Ogasawara army standing at a hundred paces, and said with some doubts: "Mizuno, look, what is the other party doing?" Why haven't you marched into the siege yet? ”

Mizuno Katsushige stretched out his head to look at it for a while, shook his head and said, "My lord, my subordinates don't know what the other party is doing, maybe it's a long-range weapon, right?" ”

The Divine Protector asked, "What kind of weapon can shoot a hundred paces away?" ”

Just when the chief of the god was still wondering, the big cylinder team was already loaded.

Miki Otsuki immediately said, "Send a signal to this formation." ”

A samurai immediately took up a flag and sent a signal to the camp.

When Yoshicho learned that the country was ready, he took out the golden fan, looked at Shiina Yasuin and said, "Everyone, let's take a look, the bravery of the army!" ”

"Wow!"

Yichang waved down the golden military equipment, and the dragon under the rock in the formation shouted: "Out of the battle!" ”

"Uh......h Woo......"

In the shogunate, a low-ranking samurai blew the conch.

Miki heard the sound of the conch coming from the formation, and hurriedly shouted, "Prepare to ignite!" ”

The four ashigaru immediately took their torches and stretched out near the gun emplacement.

"Launch!"

Ashigaru, who was holding the torch, immediately lit the fuse.

"Boom Boom Boom"

The four national collapses collectively opened fire, and a projectile smashed on the walls of Toyama Castle, causing the walls to shake a little, and Ashigaru, who was frightened by this national collapse, retreated and accidentally fell off the samurai and left.

A projectile hit the arrow oar on the other side, and the chief of the god escaped the disaster, and the upper part of the arrow oar on the other side had collapsed.

The other two gates fell into the city, killing two people in one and igniting the fire in the other.

Jimbo Nagashi was surprised: "Is this the hole card of Ogasawara Yoshinaga's invincible?" ”

Mizuno Katsu, who bowed his head on the side, replied: "Lord, don't be afraid, with this stone wall, Toyama Castle is indestructible." ”

Jimbo Nagashi immediately stood up and shouted to the surrounding samurai, "Stand up, the samurai of the Jimbo family, don't be afraid, follow me to repel the enemy!"

We must not let others look down on our Samurai in Echichu! Command your men and kill any deserters! ”

With the urging of the chief of the gods, the defenders who were a little flustered just now gradually stabilized.

In Ogasawara's main formation, Yoshicho touched his beard a little proudly, looked at Yasuyin Shiina, who was a little pale, and said, "Acting Officer Shiina, what do you think of the collapse of this country?" ”

Yasuyin Shiina was surprised: "The sound is like thunder, and it has the ability to destroy the world and destroy the earth, it is really a god's means." ”

Yoshicho looked at the expression of Yasuyin Shiina who had never seen the world, and said with a Manchu smile: "Hahaha, this is a sharp weapon of this family, continue to look at it, there are many sharp weapons of this family." ”

Shiina Yasuyin was shocked, and hurriedly looked at the battlefield below.

The Otsubo Miki team below was still firing artillery, and after five rounds of fighting, the Otsubo Miki gave the order to stop, and then the army advanced thirty paces.

This is the range of the big iron cannon and the big barrel, and the big barrel Miki commanded another round.

At this time, Kamizu shouted, "Warriors of Shinano, forward!" ”

The 500 men of the Kozu reserve team approached Toyama Castle.

The chief of the shrine looked up slightly, and shouted, "Mizuno, let the bow be light and prepare, and wait for the enemy army to get close before shooting arrows." ”

Mizuno nodded and said, "Your Majesty knows." ”

Soon, Kenra Kamizu led the reserve to a distance of forty paces.

The chief of the divine protection drew his sword and shouted, "Shoot arrows!" ”

Katsushige Mizuno also shouted, "Archery! ”

Hundreds of Bowshigaru immediately stood up, drew their bows and arrows, and shot towards the Kazu Reserve.

The Kamizu reserve advanced in the rain of arrows, and more than a dozen ashigaru fell along the way.

Kamizu Kenra was also hit by an arrow, but it was stuck in the armor and did not enter the flesh. He shouted: "Keep the formation, don't panic!" The Iron Artillery Team prepares, and after entering thirty steps, it will begin to counterattack! ”

After two rounds of arrows, the Shenjin team advanced to a place of thirty steps, and the rattan soldiers in the front row immediately put down the rattan cards and squatted.

The iron cannon in the back lit the arquebus, opened the medicine room, and fired at Toyama Castle under the command of their respective leaders.

Many of the Kushiri defenders were pulling arrows with their bows, but they couldn't dodge it, and they were hit by the iron cannons, and fell directly from the samurai's walk or arrows.

Of course, there are also bow-footed arrows, and iron cannons are shot down before they dodge.

Without waiting for the iron cannon Ashigaru to fire again, Kamizu Kenra shouted, "Advance, don't shoot at the enemy, I will directly attack the opponent's castle!" ”

Hearing the order, the rattan soldiers immediately stood up, and they picked up the rattan cards and continued to move forward.

The road to Toyama Castle was not smooth, and although the slope was not steep, there were two cutting banks and earthen ramparts, one high and one low.

So there was a furri, a trench, between them.

Both the cutting bank and the trench are placed with sharp bamboo thorns.

It's only ten steps from the city gate.

As soon as the ashigaru of the Kazu team went uphill, it became a loose formation, some people ran fast, some people were very slow, and Kamizu Kenryo had to let a team of rattan soldiers protect the iron cannon Ashigaru under the hillside, so that the iron cannon Ashigaru could suppress the bow ashigaru on Toyama Castle.

He then sent Gunazu out from both sides of the team and climbed the hill to attack Toyama Castle.

The samurai of Toyama Castle walked, and the bow on the arrow turret was suppressed, and only the bow and foot light of Yasama were able to strike at the Ogasawara army besieging the castle because of the protection of Ishigaki.

However, Ogasawara is always ashigaru, so in terms of discipline, it is much more powerful than the temporary conscription of ashigaru and peasant soldiers.

The samurai urged their subordinates to climb up to the Kirishi, but they were a little slow to move because they had to open more bamboo thorns.

The bow foot light hiding behind Yasasa aimed at Ogasawara Ashigaru who was climbing the cutting shore and was an arrow.

An Ogasawara Ashigaru who was climbing the Kiriki was shot with an arrow in the throat, and Ashigaru screamed, clutching his neck and falling into the trench, just stuck in a bamboo thorn, and died on the spot.

There is also a foot accidentally when climbing ashigaru, slippery, and the leg was accidentally scraped by a bamboo thorn, and the painful ashigaru accidentally let go of his hand and slipped down all of a sudden, and then his butt hit a bamboo thorn, and he was pierced through the cold.

The samurai ignored this, and one of the samurai shouted, "Come, come here, bring a big wooden hammer, and knock down the wooden fence on this cutting bank!" ”

The chief of the gods, who had already moved from the arrow oar to the small building above the door, saw several ashigaru holding big wooden hammers, and immediately picked up a heavy rattan bow and said, "Come a few people, shoot those with big wooden hammers with me!" ”

The attack organized by the Shinano samurai was repelled by several bowshigaru under the personal command of Jimbo Nagai, and the samurai was also shot with an arrow and carried back.

Soon another samurai shouted: "These wooden fences are not fireproof, and they are on fire." ”

Several ashigaru immediately brought torches and set the wooden fence on fire.

At this moment, the chief of the divine protection could only watch, but he did not sit still, he said to the retainers around him: "Quickly lead someone to kill through the exit of the horse and extinguish the fire!" ”

One of the retainers got up and ordered a group of people to rush out of the horse's exit, and was directly knocked down by the iron artillery team that had been prepared for a long time, the retainer was killed on the spot, and the rest of the retainer fled back to the city in fright.

Annoyed, he sent a bunch of people out again, and this time with better luck, more than twenty people rushed to the wooden fence to throw water to extinguish the fire.

They extinguished a section of the wooden fence before being repelled by Ogasawara's iron cannon Ashigaru.

Although the fire was extinguished, the wooden fence was not as strong as it used to be.

Ogasawara's ashigaru men smashed a gap in the wooden fence with a few blows of a large wooden hammer.

Kamizu Kenryo was overjoyed to see it a little behind, and immediately shouted: "Attack it!" ”

"Kill!"

The ashigaras howled and crawled in through the gap.

Jimbo Nagashi was so anxious that he slapped himself on the thigh, and he immediately asked Mizuno Katsushige to lead most of the defenders in the castle to the gate to fight the Ogasawara army to the death.