In the big tent 500 meters away from the temple, after Hidemasa Hori moved a horse and sat in the back of the motoi, I saw Honda Masanobu also walking in from the outside after the distribution of Ashigaru's rations that day.

As soon as Honda Masanshin sat down, he heard Maeda Toshiya speak: "Lord, now the main hall Yijing is a little impatient, and his subordinates think that this matter should not be delayed, and his subordinates are not talented, and they are willing to lead the scimitar ride and take down the Wishing Temple." And ask the Lord for your permission. ”

As soon as Maeda Toshiya finished speaking, he heard Sugitani Zenjubo hurriedly speak: "Maeda-sama, the attack a few days ago was basically completed by Zaixia, and the adults did not go, Yijing took a big advantage, and now it is finally going to launch a general attack on the Wishing Temple, and it should be carried out by the iron cannon Ashigaru, so the two adults should not fight." ”

I only heard Watanabe Shougang then said: "The iron cannon is light, although it also has melee combat ability now, but compared with the elite cavalry, it is still too weak, and the seven-day attack that the adult is responsible for, the time has passed, and now the seven days are in charge of the subordinates, so it should be up to the elite cavalry to go." ”

Seeing that the retainers were arguing, Honda Masanbu couldn't help but hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade him: "Three adults, it's not a way to go on like this, I think that everything is still subject to the lord's arrangement." ”

Hearing this, the three of them felt reasonable, and they didn't say more, they all looked at the lord, waiting for the lord's decision.

In the eyes of the clan, even if they take the temple, they have no credit, and the retainers who went to take the temple also have no credit, since this is the case, they can still be so scrambling, I am afraid that they have been suffocated in the past few days, and they want to take the temple out of anger, in this case, why not let the three of them and Hori Hidemasa go together?

Anyway, now that the four counties controlled by the temple have been taken by the Oda army, and there is Ishikawa Goemon by his side to protect him in secret, even if there is no military force around to protect him, there should be no accidents.

Xiangdao here, only to hear the clan said: "I have decided to attack the Yuanzheng Temple by the four of you and lead the army to go together." Maeda Toshiie, Hori Hidemasa led the scimitar cavalry to attack the north and west of the temple. Watanabe Moritsuna led his elite cavalry to the east, and Sugitani Zenjubo led the iron cannon Ashigaru to attack the south and go out into battle! ”

I saw that the four of them hurriedly got up and saluted: "It's the lord, and the subordinates (subordinates) will live up to the lord's trust." With that, the four of them walked quickly to the outside of the tent.

After the four of them left, they only heard the clan sect say: "Zhengxin, how about you and me play against each other here." ”

I saw Honda Masanobu packing up the chessboard and said easily: "That subordinate is rude." ”

"I bet that before this game is over, good news will come, I don't know what I think?" As he spoke, he gave birth to a son.

I only heard Honda Masanobu say: "If this matter is a bet between the subordinates and the lord, it will be a miserable loss." ”

"Ha, ha, ha, ha." The two of them laughed in unison.

In the temple, except for more than a dozen monks and soldiers who were bored in the temple looking ahead, the other monks were sincerely chanting in the main hall at this time.

In the past few days, although the attack of the Gaoshan army outside the temple has not stopped, but it has been reduced from two or three times a day to once a day, which makes the monks in the temple feel very excited, if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will not take a few more days, and the Gaoshan army outside the temple will retreat.

Whenever the monks in the temple are here, even the chanting is more pious, and now they all firmly believe that as long as they are sincere to the Buddha, then they will be blessed by the Buddha.

At this moment, suddenly the horse kicking outside the temple was loud, and the monks were not the first to attack the enemy, but xiangdao, and their sincerity finally moved the heavens and the earth, and the Buddha enemy Gaoshan clan began to retreat.

Xiangdao here, all the monks in the main hall breathed a sigh of relief, this time not only the temple was saved, but also their own lives were saved, and the most important thing is that after they go to Long Island City, they will definitely be rewarded by the first big reward, and their reputation will also spread as they scare away the Takayama clan. …,

However, before they could take a breath, they saw a young monk who had just returned to the First Buddha Sect running closer, and he didn't care about the number of courtesies, only to hear him shout loudly in a panic: "Buddha... The army under the command of the Buddha enemy Gao Shan clan attacked... Attacked. I saw an old Yijing in the main hall reprimanding the monk who was obsessed with Buddhism: "How to panic into what system, the mountain army is simply here to say goodbye to us, why make a fuss." ”

The young monk soldier who came in to report the news, in peacetime, still respects these monks in the temple very much, and in these days, it is even more for them to use chanting to keep the temple is the worship of the five-body throw, but now, the mountain army Zhende attacked, so now for him, there is nothing more important than being able to save his life, I saw that he was also lazy to talk to these monks who knew the ancients, directly threw away the childish knife in his hand, and ran towards the outside of the hall, while saying loudly: "The mountain army is rushing over, and if you don't run, you will die." ”

The other more than ten monks and soldiers on the temple wall were not long after joining, and when they saw that the mountain army outside the temple was heading here, they were still hesitant to escape, but when they saw that someone in Yijing had run away, so they still hesitated for half a minute, and threw away the weapons in their hands and scattered in all directions.

Moreover, not only them, but even the monks in the center of the main hall who were not strong in wisdom stopped chanting, stood up and ran towards the outside of the main hall, and in the blink of an eye, there were only seventy or eighty people left in the main hall of the temple.

Honganji badge did not xiangdao himself sincerely chanted for many days, and in the end it was still a disaster, and he couldn't help but be disheartened, and seeing that the general trend was irreparable, he couldn't help but say: "Since you don't want to leave, then follow me to kill yourself and pursue the road of Buddhism." Come and set fire to the temple. ”

However, in addition to these monks in the main hall, the temple has long been empty, how can anyone be ordered to take the fire thing, and because the monks in the temple have seen that the attack of the mountain army is getting less and less in the past few days, the situation is very good, so the oil fingers placed in various places in the temple have been moved back into the warehouse to avoid fire in the temple, so even if the badge of the Honganji Temple and the monks in the main hall want to die in the temple, there is no hurry.

Outside Honganji Temple, although there were nearly a hundred monks running non-stop, they did not know what to do, this Takayama clan had launched a general attack, and it was not from one side, but from all sides at the same time, so that even if they fled in different directions, they would not escape the fate of death.

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