The soldiers of the Kuroda family are now fighting with the men and horses of Honganji Temple on the front line, and the men and horses on both sides are fighting like meat grinders around the defense line. There are people who give away their lives, and there are people who harvest each other's heads. Almost all of them have lost their humanity and only know how to fight their enemies and harvest their heads.

The attacks of the Kuroda family soldiers one after another caused great danger to the monks and soldiers of Ishiyama Honganji, but the soldiers of the Ichizan clan did not want to show weakness to the Kuroda family, because they knew that as long as the Kuroda family could capture Ishiyama Honganji, they would not have a good result, and the Kuroda family had always hated the Ichizan clan.

And the fact is also that the soldiers of the Kuroda family did not have any hands left in the face of all the people and horses on the side of the Ichida clan who resisted, and they would all be killed as long as they saw it, and as long as the soldiers of the Kuroda family could cause damage to the soldiers of the Kuroda family, they would never leave their hands behind.

It was just an hour's battle, and the losses on both sides were more than 1,000 people, and the elite of the Kuroda family was reflected at this time, their morale was still very high, and they successfully defeated all the front-line men and horses of the Ichisho Sect.

The soldiers of the Kuroda family attacked the city, and immediately gained a certain advantage, and those soldiers did not rush to attack deeper in the city for the sake of merit, but slowly stabilized the Kuroda family's attack, and constantly waited for their companions to enter. When it reaches a certain level, it will continue to move forward, and after it has been promoted, it will continue to consolidate, and so on.

The first to storm the castle was the army of the Tanba people led by the Kodera clan, after all, the place where Sannomaru opened was on the northern part of the castle wall.

Fortunately, Ishiyama Honganji Temple is big enough, so the Kuroda family's soldiers can have a lot of people enter the city, and after most of the people under the command of the Kodera clan enter the city, the Kuroda family can still deploy people and horses to the city, so Kuroda Toshinori's men also began to slowly enter the city.

After the Kuroda family had a large group of men enter the city, the first thing they did was to take the water village to the west of Ishiyama Honganji, which was very large, even larger than the entire Sakai Town, including the nearby warehouses and trading halls combined, and directly west of the Ishiyama Honganji castle, near the Seto Inland Sea, there was a huge water village.

The reason why a water village was set up here was for the convenience of water transportation, and it was also for various transactions to be carried out more conveniently. Relatively speaking, transactions carried out by water transport are generally bulk cargo transactions. And the material demand for Ishiyama Honganji Temple is very large, and all this makes sense.

And because this water village is close to the side of the Kuroda family where no one is attacking, there were not many people defending it before, and now when the Kuroda family attacks this place, it is actually beyond the expectations of the Honganji side. It was precisely because of this situation that there were not many defenders in the water village, so it was very easily taken by the Kuroda family.

After the water village in the west was completely occupied by the Kuroda family, the first thing to do was to open the gate of the water village, and the Kuroda family's water army began to transport the Ming water army into the city through small rafts.

This was done because the Kuroda clan was actually at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the Kodera clan himself led 6,000 men and horses, which had been somewhat damaged in the previous battle, although it was supplemented by the people of Settsu, and then because of the need to defend various places, the final number of people used for the attack was still 6,000.

And Kuroda Toshinori brought over only 5,000 elite soldiers, these 5,000 people are still mobile people left by Kuroda Vocational High School before, and they can only be transferred after a lot of determination, otherwise it would not have been possible to come here before.

In short, the Kuroda family's attack on Ishiyama Honganji actually has only 11,000 men in the infantry area. As we mentioned earlier, at the beginning, there were more than 100,000 people in Ishiyama Honganji Temple, including 10,000 monks and soldiers and nearly 100,000 believers.

After two years of fighting, there are still nearly 70,000 or 80,000 people in Ishiyama Honganji Temple, and 8,000 of them are monks, while the rest are ordinary believers.

In this case, the 3,000 soldiers of the Ming State Navy of the Kuroda family Harima Country are more precious. First of all, these sailors are all soldiers of the Ming Kingdom, and the soldiers of the Ming Kingdom are physically strong, and if you talk about using weapons in close combat, there is absolutely no problem.

And because they are at sea all year round, and they have been pirates before, each of them is a master of using long-range weapons, whether it is iron cannons, crossbows, bows and arrows, handguns, at least one for everyone. So whether they are in melee combat or ranged, they are all skilled soldiers.

After such a team joined, the Kuroda family's attack began to slowly stabilize, at least to the extent of harvesting the opponent's numbers, it was much faster, because there were these long-range soldiers standing on the city wall, and directly attacking the opponent's recalcitrant soldiers was the most cost-effective way to attack.

For those Honganji fanatics who dare to rush forward when they shout Amitabha Buddha in their fanatical mouths, regardless of their own lives, this kind of long-range attack is obviously much better than a close-range attack.

Because you must know that even martial arts masters are afraid of kitchen knives, and they beat the master to death with random punches, and such things often happen on the battlefield.

Every soldier of the Kuroda family is an elite soldier who has been trained for a long time, and it is really impossible to leave their lives here and fight against these ordinary people who do not want to die.

The Kuroda family is not in a hurry to attack, because they are now in an absolute advantage, because the previous shelling opened the passage into the city, so many soldiers have already entered the city, and in the face of the Honganji side, they have been attacking for more than two years, and they are not in a hurry at this time, so after the two main generals of the Kuroda family discussed, it was decided that it would be better to attack steadily and slowly.

After all, there are so many people on the other side, and slowly consuming the other party's vital force is the most practical way.