The first is that Bessho Miki Castle, which had been besieged for more than three years, was finally captured, and Bessho Nagaji led more than ten of his relatives to apologize under the watchful eye of the Kuroda generals, so as to ensure the safety of the remaining 1,000 soldiers and civilians in the city.

The battle of Miki Castle is actually very hard for the Kuroda family, because of the peripheral branches, so the Kuroda family needs to keep smashing the opponent's branch cities, and in this process, the Besuo family is still in their own domain, in order to deal with the Kuroda family, in each place suitable for building a city, new castles have been built, this turtle shell tactic makes Koji Takahisa also very headache.

The reason why the battle on Miki's side has never been introduced is because after besieging Miki Castle, it fell into a siege for nearly three years, and the non-stop siege and non-stop defense of the city consumed the living forces on both sides.

For the Kuroda family, the battle situation was indeed very tragic, and the generals under the Kuroda family, Miyoshi Masayasu, Mu Guoxin, and An Yun Guohu, were killed one after another. At the same time, several samurai among the sixteen generals under the command of Gongguang of Saionji were also killed.

For the matter of the dead samurai, the Kuroda family will naturally compensate for it, Mu Guoxin's son Mu Shangchun became the head of the Mu family, and also became a rare Wanshi-level retainer who is quite good, which is also related to the contribution of the Mu family over the years.

And the death of Miyoshi Masayasu, who was one of the original three good people, is actually a relatively big event, and his position will be inherited by his younger brother Miyoshi Masakatsu. As a result, Miyoshi Masakatsu became a figure at the level of the Kuroda family's general, and at the same time obtained tens of thousands of stone of land. And Iwaki Yutong also received a reward of 30,000 stone for his merits.

An Yun Guohu was subjugated to the Kuroda family as a daimyo before, so his affairs were still very important to the Kuroda family, and the An Yun family was also inherited by his eldest son, An Yun Gaohu, who also received a lot of rewards on the land.

In addition to the losses of these samurai, the Kuroda family's biggest loss may be the thousands of elite casualties, the Kuroda family killed and wounded nearly 4,500 people in order to attack the Bessho family, while the soldiers defending the city of the Bessho family only killed and wounded more than 3,000 people, which is also the first time that the Kuroda family has more casualties than the other party.

Immediately after the news of the capture of Miki Castle, the news of the capture of Ishiyama Honganji came again.

Previously, the 3,000 Ming naval army led by Kuroda Xu Shouguang, with Matsui Shigetaka to attack Ise Province and Shima Country, with their help, Matsui Shigetaka marched all the way very smoothly, except for some troubles in Okochi Castle later.

After that, under the orders of Kuroda Vocational High School, the naval army went to help attack Ishiyama Honganji, first of all, they blocked the entire Seto Inland Sea to Ishiyama Honganji waterway, and completely cut off all communication routes between Honganji and the periphery.

Ishiyama Honganji Temple originally had a large number of believers in addition to its own monks, and these people also needed food. Previously, it was only the Kotera clan that cut off the northern part of Honganji.

Later, under the orders of Kuroda Vocational High School, Kuroda Toshinori led 3,000 people from the Kuroda family to cut off the entire passage to the east of Ishiyama Honganji.

After that, the waterway was cut off, which meant that Ishiyama Honganji had completely cut off contact with the outside world, and in this case, Honganji began to strictly control food, and even then they hoarded a large amount of food, which was not enough for these horses to consume.

Later, in order to reduce the loss of food, one or two monks and soldiers led hundreds of believers to continuously attack the position of the Kuroda family and consume the siege materials of the Kuroda family, and the final result was a large number of deaths of Honganji believers.

Honganji Xianru didn't feel the death of these people at all, he didn't care about the life and death of these people at all, he only cared about his own rights and whether he could keep the Ishiyama Honganji Temple and the power of the Ichijo sect.

From the beginning, what he wanted was to become a Warring States Daimyo who conquered the world, to be able to enjoy boundless rights, to be able to play with the beauties of the world, to be able to enjoy the world's food, he never wanted to be a monk who abided by the rules and precepts, because his ancestors did not do this.

In the case of the Kuroda family's brutal killing of ordinary believers, the believers in the castle of the Ishiyama Imperial Palace are actually being consumed quickly, of course, what is consumed is just ordinary cannon fodder, and the real elite monks basically do not do much harm.

At this time, the entire battle had actually lasted more than a year, and the Kuroda family's naval fleet had come to the sea west of the Ishiyama Imperial Palace at this time. All the artillery of the Kuroda family's naval forces began to shell Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

Ishiyama Gengen also had an artillery cannon, and when the Kuroda family bombarded the castle, the monks of Honganji took out this sharp weapon and began to fire back at the Tian family's ships.

It's just that the artillery on Kuroda Iefuku's ship has an attack range of more than two miles, and the Xibei cargo obtained by Ishiyama Honganji Temple actually has an attack distance of less than one mile, and in this case, the artillery they fired can't reach the side of Kuroda Iefuku's ship at all.

Moreover, the attack of this artillery also successfully revealed its position, so in the next round of shelling, this artillery was undoubtedly destroyed under the shelling of the Kuroda family.

The monks and soldiers of Ishiyama Honganji Temple have also seen the world, and they are not as timid as ordinary peasant soldiers. Therefore, the bombardment of the Kuroda family did not immediately destroy their self-confidence, after all, in their understanding, even if it is a sharp weapon like an iron cannon, it will be scrapped after many uses, not to mention that the Kuroda family is using an even more powerful weapon! There will definitely be a limit to the shelling of artillery weapons, at least after a certain period of use, and there will be a long time when they cannot be used.

And they were not wrong at all, the bombardment of the Kuroda family only lasted less than half an hour before stopping, and after that, Ishiyama Honganji cleaned up the various ruins in the city, as well as the smashed buildings.

For Ishiyama Honganji, the biggest damage from this attack was the damage to the castle itself. Not only Sannomaru was greatly damaged, but also Ninomaru and Honmaru had buildings that were extremely damaged in this shelling. Relatively speaking, the most serious damage was that a section of Ninomaru's wall collapsed directly from the cannonballs.