The reason why the monks are famous is more because the monks are not afraid of death and the Japanese are afraid of the monks, but in the face of the sergeants of the Guards Division, the monks are not afraid of death and cannot break through the spear formation.

In other words, let the Guards Division lose more than three or four percent of the battle, so that it is possible to make this unit fearful.

At this time, looking down from the sky, you can see several soldiers and horses are rapidly surrounding the monks, these soldiers and horses are all wearing sharp armor, and when they reach the battlefield, the monks will face a massacre.

Toba and Fujiwara Tadashi in the palace are waiting for news, and news keeps coming, but there is no good news.

More than 100 monks were killed in the battle.

More than 200 monks were killed in the battle.

The Song army began to surround the monks.

The Song spearmen began to assault.

The Song army appeared outside the palace.

The rest is just that, what does it mean to appear outside the palace? Do you want to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the royal palace?

The Japanese army gathered in the palace also began to get nervous, under the leadership of the samurai of the Gen family and the samurai of the Fujiwara family entered the garrison position, and the battle commander of the Pingyin army under the castle was Sakabe Heita, and he commanded an army composed of Japanese people, he looked at the palace and said to Takeshita next to him, "Takenaka-kun, you should be careful after you go in, as long as you give a signal, I will immediately go in and save you." ”

Takenaka came to the door and said, "If that's the case, I'm too much of a failure, wait for my good news." ”

Toba learned that Takenaka came to ask for a meeting, and hurriedly let him enter the palace to speak.

Takenaka first saluted Toba and Fujiwara Tadada, and then said, "Your Majesty, there are monks and soldiers who are now rioting and are attacking the courtyard of the Marquis of Pingyin, and the Marquis of Pingyin is worried that these monks and thugs will storm the palace, so he sent a sergeant to guard the palace, please don't worry." ”

Fujiwara faithfully shouted, "This is the palace, isn't the Marquis of Pingyin too presumptuous?" ”

Takenaka came to the door and shouted, "The Marquis of Pingyin still remembers guarding the palace at this time, isn't it the monk soldiers who are attacking the courtyard of the Marquis of Pingyin?" ”

After speaking, Takenaka came to the door and bowed his head to Toba, and said, "Please Your Majesty immediately issue an order to announce that the monks of Yanqing Temple and other monks are all chaotic parties, and the Marquis of Pingyin is willing to remove this fang for Your Majesty." ”

"This...."Toba looked at Fujiwara Faithful in embarrassment.

Fujiwara faithfully said, "The monks are all masters who have the Dharma in their bodies... What's more, as far as I know, all these mages are asking for is for your army to return the confiscated land to them..."

"A real mage will not hold a knife or a gun, not to mention that we Pingyin Marquis have absolutely no illegal land in our hands!" Takenaka came back to the door.

That's right, all the confiscated land was distributed to the people and the Japanese people who were willing to join the Marquis of Pingyin, and Jiang De definitely did not privately annex an inch of land in his hands.

When Toba and Fujiwara were in a dilemma, one of them walked in and said, "Ahhhh ”

Everyone looked and saw that it was a person dressed as an onmyoji, and Takenaka came to the door and said, "It turned out to be Lord Abe, I haven't seen you for many years." ”

It was Yasuto Abe who came in, and Abe saluted Toba and Fujiwara respectively, and then sat down on his knees and said, "I don't know if Takenaka-kun is not going to protect Lord Heiyinhou, what are you doing here?" ”

Takenaka said, "The Marquis of Pingyin is guarded by sergeants, and those rebellious monks are nothing, but these monks still have a large number of comrades on Mount Hiei, and I entered the palace this time in the hope that His Majesty and Lord Guan Bai can issue an edict to declare these people as rebellious parties, and allow the Marquis of Pingyin to go and exterminate them." ”

Abe tilted his head and said, "Takenaka-kun, you should know what kind of place Mt. Hiei is, do you want your Pingyin Marquis to become an enemy of the Buddha?" ”

Takenaka puffed up his chest and said, "Buddha enemy? No, Lord Abe, I dare say that in a hundred years, all the monks of the Wa Kingdom will be grateful to the Marquis of Heiyin and call him the Living Buddha. ”

Abe laughed, tapped himself on the shoulder with a folding fan, and then said, "If Your Majesty and Lord Sekihaku disagree, do you want to suspect that these monks were instructed by Your Majesty and Lord Sekihaku?" ”

"Abe-sama!" "It's not! Definitely not! ”

Fujiwara Faithful and Toba hurriedly said.

Takenaka looked at the two of them for a moment, and then said, "If this is the case, it is not for me to say what Lord Pingyin Hou will think of His Majesty and Lord Guan Bai, but I am sure that the anger of Lord Pingyin must need blood to extinguish." ”

The main hall fell silent suddenly.

"Will the blood of the presiding officer of Mount Hiei be able to calm the anger of the Marquis of Pingyin?" Abe asked.

Takenaka shook his head and said, "It is unkind to punish you for not guilty." ”

Abe said, "Storming the mansion of the Marquis of Pingyin is a great crime of disrespect, how about it?" ”

Takenaka refused again, "This is not a one-man sin. ”

"Why should Takenaka-kun deceive people too much."

"Just for the axioms of heaven."

Abe sighed, looked at Toba and Fujiwara Faithful, and said that he could not persuade him, and Fujiwara Faithful also thought about it at this time, he was really a little afraid that the red-eyed Pingyin Marquis would point the knife at himself.

"A month is coming, I wonder if Pingyin Hou is ready to return to China? I'll be ready to see you off early. Fujiwara said faithfully.

Takenaka bowed his head and said, "Thank you, Lord Guan Bai, Lord Pingyin said that a month, naturally it is a month, but if something happens that makes him unable to rest assured, for example, there are a large number of monks and soldiers in the Wa Kingdom who are hostile to the Song people, I am afraid that Lord Pingyin will not be able to return to China with peace of mind." ”

Fujiwara Tadashi turned to Toba and said, "Your Majesty, please decree that the monks and soldiers of Mt. Hiei be declared lawless." ”

Toba was stunned for a moment, then understood what Fujiwara was faithful, nodded and said, "Okay, then please ask Lord Sekihaku to draft a decree." ”

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The rebellion of the monks did not last long.

In the face of the attack of the heavy infantry, the monks of the light infantry had almost no power to resist, nearly two thousand monks were killed on the spot more than a thousand, the corpses were lying on the ground, the blood made the whole ground sticky, hundreds of surrendered monks were cleaning the battlefield under the supervision of the sergeants, and the Buddha statues that had been cracked on the ground were not cleaned up, and the blood was sprinkled on it, which looked a little sad.

At this time, Jiang De looked at Fa Jue who was caught in front of him, shook his head and said, "You came to attack my mansion, didn't you think that there would be this time?" ”

Fa Jue's face was still bloodstained, he was pressed to the ground by the sergeant, looked at Jiang De with resentment and said, "You actually dare to kill the monks, aren't you afraid of the Buddha's blame?" ”

Jiang De squatted down, patted his face with his hand and smiled, "I don't know if you're really stupid or fake, Buddha?" Do you mean Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Gautama? Since you know the principles of Buddhism, you should understand that all Buddhas are born in the world, not from heaven, the Buddha is not in the Western Heaven, and the demons are not in hell, the so-called gods, Buddhas and demons, to put it bluntly, are just your hearts and mine, you think I am a demon, an enemy of the Buddha, and I also think that those of you who do not abide by the rules and precepts are the real demons, the enemies of the Buddha! ”

At this time, Takenaka walked in and handed Xu Guanzhong a scroll, Xu Guanzhong opened it and looked at it, handed it to Jiang De, Jiang De glanced at it, threw it in front of Fajue and said, "Hehe, I am not the only one who thinks you are demons, even your Lord Guan Bai and His Majesty the King of Wa think so." ”

Fa Jue looked at the scroll that fell to the ground, and saw that it not only denounced them for being a rebel party in Mt. Hiei, but also declared their Tiantai Sect in Mt. Hiei illegal, and his eyes immediately turned white and he fainted.

Jiang De looked at Fa Jue, who had fainted, and said to Xu Guanzhong, "It seems that Toba, they are willing to do anything in order for us to leave quickly." ”

Xu Guanzhong smiled: "Then let's leave." ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "Order!" Raid Mt. Hiei and withdraw your troops! ”

Niu Gao asked puzzledly, "Xiao Langjun, aren't we going to take the Wa Kingdom?" ”

"The time has not yet come, the current Shirakawa has hoarded 100,000 troops in the pass, if we directly attack Toba, Shirakawa can integrate all the forces to defend the Kanto countries, and it will be difficult for us to end this battle." Xu Guanzhong explained, "Everything we do now is to let Baihe come out. ”

"Okay, everyone has worked hard, tomorrow we will go to Hiei Mountain to have a look, I heard that these Japanese monks, but all the fat flowing oil."

- The next day, Mt. Hiei

Jiang De ordered the soldiers to surround the mountain last night, and there were not only monks on the mountain, but also people and bureaumen who believed in Buddhism.

Once again, the facts proved that the monk soldiers were only a kind of soldier who bullied the weak and feared the hard, at least in the Heian period, the monks were almost slaughtered without armor and strong bows.

Jiang De's army already has the shadow of a modern army, the most particular military discipline, in the face of ordinary people dare not attack the monks, Jiang De's army is no different from chopping melons and vegetables.

The battle ended in just two hours, and the next step was to raid the house.

I have to say that the Wa State is too preferential to the monks, hundreds of years of accumulation, so that these monk temples have unimaginable wealth in others, this may be because there has been no religious uprising in the Wa State, but the Central Plains has been taught the terrible scene of religious loss of control since the end of the Han Dynasty, so the monks of the Song State need to be recognized by the official degree, which also leads to the Song State's degree almost became hard currency, and even in the disaster relief time, the degree will be issued to offset the disaster relief silver.

Compared with the Song Kingdom, the Western world was simply weak at this time, and the secular regime was not only unable to exert influence on religion, but even the throne needed to be recognized by the church.

But in the West, where the First Crusade was launched because of religious fanaticism and commercial interests, it was normal for the clergy to be more powerful than the king.

Jiang De, whose thoughts were flying in a mess, sat in front of the Buddha hall and listened to Xu Guanzhong reciting the gold and silver paid this time.

"A total of more than 14,000 taels of gold, 270,000 taels of silver, and 70,000 taels of copper coins..."

"This is still a Hiei Mountain, there are countless temples in this Wa country, how much gold and silver must be there." Jiang De said with a sigh.

"It is said that it is because Yanqing Temple and Xiyuan Temple both control a large number of fields, minerals, and shops, and they are building golden Buddhas every year, and these gold and silver do not include those Buddha statues that have been formed, if you count these, I am afraid that more than 50,000 taels of gold." Xu Guanzhong was also amazed, he knew that the monks of the Wa Kingdom were rich, but he didn't expect to be so rich.

"Send a regiment of troops to escort these gold and silver back to the concession, and the next thing is to wait for the movement on the other side of the White River."

"Don't worry, my lord, those monks will definitely force Shirakawa to send troops, and if we retreat to Settsu, Shirakawa's determination to send troops will be stronger."

"In that case, let's prepare to go back to Settsu first, but before we go back, we have one more thing to do." Jiang De said while playing with a golden Buddha.

- Do not fall behind

"What... What the... Yanqing Temple was raided? Shirakawa's mouth trembled with shock at the news, which for Shirakawa and other Japanese people, was equivalent to telling future generations of Christians that their Vatican had sold the entire country to North Korea because of debts.

It's just ruining the three views!

"Yes, all the temples on Mt. Hiei have been confiscated, and it is said that more than hundreds of thousands of taels of silver have been confiscated, and the transportation team alone is several miles long." Said a ninja dressed in ordinary sackcloth.

Ninjas, in fact, should be called ninja in this period, and the royal family of the Japanese Dynasty has a record of using ninjas from the time of Prince Shotoku of the Tang Dynasty, but these ninjas don't use any shadow clones or fireballs, just some elite scouts.

"This.... This is simply the general practice of the demon king, and it seems that the Song people are indeed not ready to wait here for a long time. Bai He felt strange in his heart, he had always said three things that were not satisfactory, one of which was the mountain mage, but it was solved by the Song people directly with a sword, which made him feel full of loss.

"Didn't Toba and Fujiwara Faithful have no reaction?" Shirakawa asked.

"The puppet emperor and the puppet Guanbai ordered that those monks and soldiers were all His Majesty's henchmen, so the Song people were not guilty of killing them." The ninja replied.

"Henchmen? Hum! ”

"Your Majesty, Master of the Illusory Sun asks to see you."

"Oh? Declare! ”

Several monks walked in, and after greeting Shirakawa, they said, "Your Majesty, I heard that there are people in Heianjing who have destroyed Buddhas, but is it true? ”

"It's Jiang De, the Marquis of Pingyin of the Song Kingdom, who was ordered by Toba to send troops to exterminate Mount Hiei." Shirakawa regrouped the order and said.

"These demons! Aren't you afraid of the Buddha's retribution? Your Majesty, please send troops at once, we are ready to support you with all our might. ”

"Oh? Full? ”

"We have contacted all the temples in Kansai, and they are all willing to serve Your Majesty as authentic, as long as Your Majesty gives orders, tens of thousands of monks and soldiers will be used by Your Majesty to destroy demons."

Bai He was overjoyed at first, and then said hesitantly, "The Song people are brave, let's consider this matter in the long run." ”

At this time, a burst of crying came, it was still a woman's cry, Bai He looked and saw that it was Zhang Zi who ran over with a cloak, Bai He hurriedly stepped forward to support him and said, "You are pregnant, why are you crying, aren't you afraid of hurting your body?" ”

Zhangzi cried and said, "Father-in-law, that Toba sent someone to send a letter of resignation, and announced that he would marry Fujiwara Taiko, the daughter of Sekihaku, as the queen. ”

"Huh?" Bai He said angrily: "This son dares to be so rude! ”

Zhangzi lay on Baihe and cried, "Toba deceives people too much, please ask your father-in-law to be the master of Zhangzi." ”

After all, Shirakawa was old, and his anger was quickly suppressed, he persuaded Zhangzi a few words, and then sent someone to inquire about the situation, and soon learned that it was the Marquis of Pingyin who strongly asked to become a witness to Toba's newlywed marriage before leaving, and then evacuated Heiankyo with the army, and now Heiankyo has become Toba and Fujiwara's loyal Heiankyo again.

To be precise, the strength of the troops in the Heian Capital has dropped to less than 5,000 people, and the monks and soldiers who could have been used as support have also been exhausted, which is an excellent fighter in Bai He's eyes.

Shirakawa was able to control the government of the Wa Kingdom for decades, so he was naturally very courageous, and he immediately ordered to raise all three armies and rush to Heianjing.