Chapter 350: Destroying the Temple
In the third year of Yonglu, the first day of the fourth month. With the fall of Kanazawa Gobo, the center of Kaga's long-standing rule in Kaga Province, Kaga's rule over the entire Kaga country began to collapse. First of all, the Kameda clan and the Wakabayashi clan successively fell to the Uesugi family, and then the former Kaga guardian family Tomigashi clan was also transferred to his side by the Kakizaki Keijia, and only Matsuren Castle, Tokoshi Castle, Fukuoka Castle, Void Kurama Castle, Fuchu Castle, Iwabuchi Castle, Mikawa Castle, Elephantosaki Castle, Oguchi Castle and other parts of the castle soldiers were still under the control of Kaga's people, and the rest of the castles were surrendered without a fight.
However, even after Shimoma Yorikiyo, Shimoma Yoriteru, Kyokotera Kyoyoshi, Seikoji Shinkyo and others had fled Kaga Province, Masano Sue Sueze, Kasama Ieji, Yasuchi Parents, Captain Shinzaemon of the High Rank, Great-grandson Hachi (Kaga Ronin), Kosugi Shinhachiro (Kaga Ronin), Fukuroi Hayato (Harajin Ho Clan Zhang Jiaretai), Kururi Masada (Echichu Ronin), Mibayashi Zenshiro, Suzuki Taro, Shimoyama Tsushima Mamoru, Mitsuhashi Main Taxusuke, Ushida Kotaro, Okushino Mamoru, Takahashi Shinzaemon, Hasegawa Kanshichiro, Kubota Daikaisuke, Kaga Ichisuke, Kishida Mosui, Kawakabe Saemon Jiro and other Kaga generals still held their respective castles and continued to resist the invasion of the Uesugi army. And they also took the initiative to get in touch with the Asakura family, hoping that the Asakura family would intervene in the situation in Kaga Province.
Previously ordered by Shimoma Yorikiyo, Shimoma Yorisho, Koyoyoshi Koyoshi, Seikkoji Shinkyo and others to crusade against Harugasaki Harusada, Sushiro Susaki, Itami Sunzaburo (formerly a retainer of the Hatakeyama family), Hayashi Nansuke, Kuse Tsushimamoru, Hayatani Gozaemon, and Takanose Ishimi Mamoru quickly withdrew their troops from Takao Castle and other places after learning that Kanazawa Gobo had been captured by the Uesugi army, and then they led their troops into Wadayama Castle to hold on, trying to wait for all the reinforcements from Asakura Yoshikei.
At the same time, Matsuoka Temple in Nomi County was also gathering a large number of followers of the Kaga Ichisho sect to actively prepare for the war. In addition, a small number of monks and soldiers were sent to secretly infiltrate Hebei County and Ishikawa County, which had been captured by the Uesugi army, with the intention of inciting the local people to launch a rebellion.
Masaki Yorikiyo, Shimoma Yorisho, Kyokyoshi Katsuji, Seikoji Shinkyo and others who fled to Ichijo Valley Castle were received by Asakura Yoshikage, and Asakura Yoshikage also knew the truth that once Kaga had always been a buffer area, then sooner or later the Asakura family would have to fight the Uesugi family. Rather than being passively beaten at that time, Asakura Yoshikage thought that it was better to actively assist Kaga for now.
However, these small actions of Kaga Ichijozong were all seen by Kakizaki Keijia. In the event of a large-scale outbreak in Hebei Prefecture, the thousands of Uesugi troops who had already entered Kaga Province would be cut off from retreat and would not be able to return to Echichu, and even the generals who had previously fallen to the Uesugi family, such as Tomigashi Harusada, Wakabayashi Ieyoshi, Kameda Nagashiri, Kameda Mutoshi, and Kameda Takatsuna, would most likely fall to Kaga Ichijomune again.
In order to quickly disintegrate the morale and fighting spirit of Kaga's generals, Kakizaki Keike decided to strike first, and took the lead in sending troops to surround the temples of Kwangkyoji, Honsenji Temple, and Ichijoji Temple, which were intended to launch a single attack in Ishikawa County and Hebei County, and ordered his generals not to be soft on them and kill the disciples of the Guangshan Gate.
In the early morning of April 5, the temples of Kwangkyo-ji, Motosen-ji, and Ichijo-ji Temple, which had been surrounded by the Uesugi Army, resounded on all sides with the sound of undulating conches, and tens of thousands of Uesugi troops lined up in countless columns, wearing swords and swords, holding pine trees in their hands, and under the orders of the lords and samurai, they began to shrink rapidly along the pine forests, mountain roads, and streets, like deadly ropes, to the temples of Kwangkyoji, Motosenji, and Ichijoji. The sea to the west of Kaga Province was raging, stirring up bursts of mist, and when it met with the dark clouds that had accumulated there, it was actually sprinkled with a misty drizzle. But the drizzle could not wet the murderous aura and anger that rushed to the sky, and it could not dilute the rich smell of blood that followed, and the cold sea breeze gusted, and the words that made the monks chill: "Kill······ Kill ······ Kill ······ Burn ······ Burn the ······"
The two places closest to Kanazawa Castle, Kwangkyo Temple and Honsenji Temple, first burst into fireworks, and then quickly like many poisonous snakes, hissing towards the various courtyards in Hebei and Ishikawa Counties, and finally even the middle hall and pagoda of Kwangkyoji Temple and Honsen Temple appeared to cover the sky and the sun. The burst of sparks made an earth-shattering crackling sound, tumbling together with the black smoke, destroying the drizzle in the sky, and the whole mountain gate cried, wailed, moaned, cursed, and hoarse. Monks, commoners, and monks are like ants in purgatory, fleeing everywhere. If you look at the shore from the sea, it is a shocking sight!
The temples of Kokyo-ji Temple, Honsen-ji Temple, Ichijo-ji Temple, Shoko-ji Temple, Matsuoka-ji Temple, Seongan-ji Temple, Kogan-ji Temple, Kwangje-ji Temple, and Gwangtoku-ji Temple have been completely burned down, and all the gods, shrines, monks, pagodas, Buddha statues, and scriptures have been reduced to ashes in an instant. The old and weak women and children who fled blindly in the mountains were certainly sympathetic, but under the orders of Kakizaki Keiya, none of the monks, women and children, and ordinary people survived. After a burst of burning by the Uesugi army, thousands of corpses were scattered all over the ground. The blood that flowed on the ground gradually merged into a small river, flowing slowly on the ground covered with ashes······
In desperation, many people instinctively fled to Tomizu, on the western coast of Kaga Province. However, the Uesugi army, which was in hot pursuit, attacked Tomizu from all directions, turning the previously abandoned Tosui into a hell. Whether it is a high monk, a wise monk, a noble monk, a famous monk, a warrior monk, a monk, a monk, a civilian man, a woman, an old man, a young child, a knife on the head, a head of all kinds of expressions, hairless, long-haired, like marbles in the Hushui Fence jumping around. Soon, there were many beautiful girls who advocated girls, and they were also sent to Kanazawa Castle by the ashigaru under the command of the Kakizaki Jingjia, and the Kakizaki Jingjia said angrily after seeing these sent captives: "These bald donkeys have been doing evil in California for nearly a hundred years, and they are just a group of evil monks who are fake and tigers and do not abide by the precepts, and they are all beheaded by me!" Don't have mercy, and then build a city to pay tribute to my son Yuansan! ”
This kind of burning continued until night, and many monks and believers managed to break through the layers of the Uesugi army and ran to the beach, but they were also hunted and beheaded by the Uesugi army Kozai, who had been waiting here for a long time.
In this way, the unstable factors behind Kakizaki Jingjia were extinguished like lightning. After that, Kakizaki Keika was able to free up his hands to deal with the generals of Kaga, who occupied Matsuren Castle, Tokoshi Castle, Fukuoka Castle, Fuchu Castle, Iwabuchi Castle, Mikawa Castle, and Zonosaki Castle.
They were horrified when the news of Kaga-Isaki's sabotage of the temples of Kaga Itusaki and other Kaga Ichishoji temples, including Honsenji, Kokyoji, Ichijo-ji, Joko-ji, Matsuoka-ji, Seongan-ji, Koganji-ji and Kotoku-ji Temple, reached the ears of the Kaga Ichikazaki generals, such as Masanosue Susake, Kasama Ieji, Yasuchi Parents, Captain Shinzaemon, Azen-Sunpachi, Shinhachiro Kosugi, Hayato Fukuroi, and Masada Kuri. Because a few years ago, Chaoding once led the army to surround Nengden Shidong Mountain, burned all the temples on Shidong Mountain, and killed all the monks, women and children, and people on Shidong Mountain. They never imagined that the Kakizaki Keijia would follow the example of the court and burn down all the large and small temples in Ishikawa and Hebei counties, and kill all the monks, women and children, and ordinary people in the temples.
Subsequently, the defender of Elephantosaki Castle in Nomi Prefecture surrendered to the Uesugi army. The Zonosaki Castle garrisoned by Kurato Masada is located on the border between Nomi Prefecture and Echizen Province and Missile Country, and with the change of banners of Elephantosaki Castle, Kaga has always been completely cut off from the outside world and has become a turtle in an urn.
Although Jiuli Zhengzhen is very knowledgeable about current affairs, there are also people who don't know current affairs. For example, Kaga Massa, Kasama Ieji, Anyoshi Parents, Captain Shinzaemon, Azen-Sun Hachi, Kosugi Shinhachiro, Fukuroi Hayato, and other Kaga generals still want to fight the Uesugi family to the end.
However, as the news spread that the Kaga-Itichō Monastery had been destroyed by the Kakizaki Keiji family, such as Kokyo-ji Temple, Honsen-ji Temple, Ichijo-ji Temple, Shoko-ji Temple, Matsuoka-ji Temple, Shoang-ji Temple, Shoan-ji Temple, Kogan-ji Temple, and Kotoku-ji Temple, he changed his mind again. It was not so much that Asakura Yoshikage took the initiative to change his mind, but that it was the important ministers of the Asakura family who made Asakura Yoshikei change his mind.
Asakura Keisho (the same name, the Asakura family, second only to Asakura Jingjing and Asakura Keiki), Asakura Keitaka (the lord of Anju Castle, the Asakura family, his mother is Asakura Yoshikei's uncle), Kitasan Kagezune (the lord of Kitoka Castle, the Asakura family, the name) and other important ministers of the Asakura family jointly wrote to Asakura Yoshikage, asking him to immediately expel Shimoma Yorikiyo, Shimoma Yorisho, Chaokatsuji Kyoyoshi, Saikoji Shinkyo and others from Echizen and hand them over to the Kakizaki Keike family to dispose of. Otherwise, they will take the initiative to lead troops to capture Shimoma Yorikiyo, Shimoma Yorisho, Chaokatsuji Kyoyoshi, Saikoji Shinkyo and others to the Kakizaki Keijia for the sake of the survival of the Echizen Asakura family.