"My lord, Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple is a sacred place for Buddhism, how can you use swords and soldiers here? Not to mention raising troops to attack? After Oda Nobunaga gave the order, Akechi Mitsuhide was the first to exclaim. He has always attached importance to etiquette, but at this moment, he sat in his seat and directly retorted, "Does the lord want to commit a great disapproval in the world? ”

"Aren't all Buddhist holy places built brick by brick? What are the holy places? Isn't the rest of the latrine also built brick by brick, why isn't it a holy place? If you want to fight, you have to fight. Those who dare to stand in front of Yu, don't think about a good end. Oda Nobunaga, however, gave the order very resolutely, as if he didn't care.

"Lord!" Akechi Mitsuhide was so shocked by Oda Nobunaga's attitude that he couldn't speak, and he stammered several times before he could say a complete word.

However, this time, whether it is Niwa Nagahide, who is old and serious, or Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori, who has always been decisive, and even Ikeda Tsuneko and Maeda Toshiie, samurai who are neither big nor small on weekdays, and often call monks "bald asses", all stood up against Oda Nobunaga. They knew what Enryakuji Temple meant to the monks of Mt. Hiei and to the Buddhist believers of the whole world, and they knew what it meant for Oda Nobunaga to attack the Enryakuji Temple of Mt. Hiei - not only against Honganji, but with the whole world of Buddhists, and it was the kind of mortal enemy who tore his face.

They have all learned how powerful they have always been, and they naturally understand that the matter is big, and they can't let Oda Nobunaga come around. As a result, dozens of important ministers in the camp tent persuaded Oda Nobunaga word by word, but you didn't find that Oda Nobunaga was calm on the surface, but in fact, the anger in his heart was already churning. Finally, Oda Nobunaga suddenly drew his knife out of its sheath and slashed at the table in front of him, cutting the table in half. A loud bang calmed the samurai in the camp, and everyone was instantly silenced and looked at Oda Nobunaga with some fear.

"What are you yelling about here day by day!" Oda Nobunaga threw his katana to the ground casually, spun it and ejected it for a long distance, and almost scratched Sakuma Nobumori's foot. He stepped on the table with one foot, supported his knees with his hands, and scolded: "There is so much food, so much money, and so much territory, you can't do any!" When I was fighting Long Island, I was beaten by those bald donkeys, and when I arrived at Minami Omi, I asked you to catch those bald donkeys who made trouble, and I just caught dozens of them to deal with the surplus! You can't do anything, do you think Yu is easy to deal with? ”

"Protecting the rebellious bald donkey, protecting the bald donkey of Stone Mountain, and now protecting the bald donkey of Hiei Mountain? Are you all vultures? Are all your whole family bald donkeys? Are you a fine worker sent by a bald donkey? Yes! Why don't you speak! The more Oda Nobunaga scolded, the more angry he became, so he simply kicked the table and flew away, and then walked to his ministers, scolded face to face, and sprayed everyone in the face. Bald donkeys, bald asses, all of them are bald asses! I don't know what you have to fear about bald donkeys? Do they have two heads or four hands? Can their sutras be conjured into iron cannons? Do you conjure up knives and guns? So what are you admonishing? Yes? ”

"My lord! Buddha again, you will be punished by heaven if you say this! Seeing Oda Nobunaga talking such nonsense, Akechi Mitsuhide's cheeks were already red with anger, and he protested loudly, "If you don't sincerely repent, you will fall into the eighteenth layer of hell after death!" ”

"What is a Buddha? What is hell? When Oda Nobunaga heard Akechi Mitsuhide's protest, he laughed angrily and said loudly in a contemptuous tone: "The Buddha's magic power is boundless, can he still be safe and sound after a salvo of two thousand iron cannons?" No matter how many hell imps there are, as long as there are elite soldiers and strong generals, won't they still be able to wipe everything out? As long as Yu is strong enough, the Buddha will bow down to him! ”

"You! How dare you! Akechi Mitsuhide was completely shocked by Oda Nobunaga's shocking words, and he couldn't even use honorifics, stretched out his trembling arm, pointed at Oda Nobunaga for a long time, and couldn't say a complete sentence.

"Holding a useless Buddhist scripture as a whole, chanting there every day, but he doesn't lead by example, big fish and meat, singing and dancing, marrying a wife and having children. In addition to that, it is to incite the ignorant untouchables to make trouble, and bring trouble to Yu out of thin air. The ones who pay attention to them are all antiques from hundreds of years ago, and the ones they believe in are all old-fashioned things. Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly, a sharp sight in his eyes, "Such a group of rotten people don't deserve to exist in this world at all. On the contrary, all the people who stood in the way of the rest of the day were cleared, and no one was left! ”

"Spread the order of the remnants of the army, blockade Mt. Hiei, and burn down Enryakuji Temple. The monks, men and women, young and old, who escaped from the mountain, were to be put to death! ”

"I'm not on orders!"

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As soon as Oda Nobunaga's words fell, Akechi Mitsuhide unceremoniously raised his voice. Because of the emotion, the tone has become sharp, and you can vaguely hear a hint of a woman's feeling. Yu Qiuping, who was standing beside Achichi Guangxiu, tightened his heart, for fear that others would hear about the flaws. However, it seems that everyone did not pay attention to the change in tone under the gaffe of Akechi Mitsuhide, but they all sweated for Akechi Mitsuhide - directly confronted Oda Nobunaga when Oda Nobunaga was so angry, but Niwa Nagahide and Hayashi Xiuzhen did not dare to do it.

"Oh?" Oda Nobunaga heard Akechi Mitsuhide's protest, and a cynical smile appeared on his face, and he slowly turned around, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Akechi Mitsuhide's puffed face and heavy makeup on his face. Just when everyone was curious about what Oda Nobunaga would say next, Oda Nobunaga, who was still smiling just now, suddenly pulled out the scabbard from his waist and threw it at Akechi Mitsuhide's face with a fierce blow. Akechi Mitsuhide was caught off guard, and was directly concentrated on his head, and was knocked to the ground at once. After a few moments, blood began to appear on the cheeks and corners of the mouth.

"Who else doesn't obey?" Oda Nobunaga used almost all the strength of his life, pointed his scabbard at Akechi Mitsuhide's body, and yelled at the rest of his retainers. Everyone was shocked at once, staring at each other in a daze, the clothes on their backs were already wet with cold sweat, and they couldn't say a word.

Just when everyone was stunned, Yu Qiuping suddenly stepped out of the ranks, squatted down, helped up Akechi Mitsuhide who fell to the ground, and leaned on his arms.

"Don't help him!" Oda Nobunaga saw that Yu Qiuhei actually came to help him in front of him, and he yelled angrily again. However, as if he hadn't heard, Yu Qiuping took out his handkerchief and began to help Akechi Mitsuhide clean his wounds.

"Oh?" Oda Nobunaga saw Yu Qiuping's performance, a smile appeared on his face again, his right hand slowly raised the scabbard in his hand, and asked with a smile at Yu Qiuping, "Could it be that you also have to disobey?" ”

Akihei raised his head and looked directly into Oda Nobunaga's eyes without fear.

"There are thousands of people on the mountain, and in addition to Xiaoxiao, who is the enemy of the Oda family, there are countless innocent monks and ordinary people."

He said this to Oda Nobunaga.

His Royal Highness Sena exchanged his death for my life because he wanted me to be a good person who rectified the troubled times, not a coward who was in the same boat.

He said this to his heart.

In the next second, as expected, the scabbard slashed down on the head and face. Followed by Oda Nobunaga's roar: "You two get out of here!" ”

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That night, Akihei and Akechi Mitsuhide stood side by side in a pavilion at the bottom of the mountain, looking at Mt. Hiei, which was blazing, and Enryakuji Temple, which was caught in flames. The wails and cries for help were incessant on the mountain, and the smoke was billowing out, even at night.

The root hall of Hiei Mountain, the Three Kings Twenty-One Society, the Spirit Pagoda, the Monk's House, the Spirit Society, and the scripture files, I don't know how many precious cultural relics will be buried in the fire, and I don't know how many innocent people will die in the purgatory on earth tonight.

And the people who are carrying out the killing order are all the Oda troops under the command of Yuakihei and Akechi Mitsuhide. In the end, they still succumbed to Oda Nobunaga's orders and slaughtered innocents - and it was not the first time they had done such a thing.

The distance was too far for Yu Qiuping to see the scene on the mountain. All he knew was that after every flickering fire, countless souls would die under the sword, countless children would lose their parents, countless wives would lose their husbands, and countless monks who had painstakingly studied Buddhism would panic in front of the samurai with bloody katanas.

He was no longer the young man who couldn't see the slaughter of innocents many years ago, and the experience of more than ten years of troubled times had allowed him to endure the pain, but he still couldn't make his heart numb, like those samurai who were carrying out orders on the mountain. He didn't know if it was because of his good nature, or because his education in his previous life had imprinted his humanity, or if it was because of the expectations of those he cherished, such as Yoshimoto Imagawa, Toshitoshi Sena, Kaede Imagawa, and Shigeharu Takenaka.

Akechi Mitsuhide, who was standing next to him, did not wear heavy makeup to hide his face as he usually does in public, but showed himself without makeup. Because Yu Qiuping already knew her woman's identity, there was no point in hiding more. However, the clothes on her body are still the clothes of a samurai. On the delicate and fair face, the blood marks left by the scabbard are particularly pitiful.

"Thank you." Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly whispered for no reason. This voice is as thin as a mosquito, if you don't listen carefully, Yu Qiuping almost didn't hear it.

"Why do you suddenly say thank you?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and asked in a low voice.

"Because you stand by my side and accompany me. It was now, and it was just now. Wise Guangxiu's eyes wandered, glanced at Yu Qiuping, and whispered: "When I was beaten to the ground in the camp just now, I was really scared. What I'm afraid of is not that my lord will continue to punish me and beat me, but that no one but me will dare to stand up against such atrocities. Thankfully, you're here to let me know I'm not alone. Let me know that I am not the only samurai who sympathize with the innocent people of the world. ”

"So..."Akechi Mitsuhide paused, looked at Yu Qiuping again, and his eyes were slightly moist, "Momiji, thank you." ”