In Settsu, after leaving a certain number of troops in charge of guarding Katuryuji Castle, Sakuma Nobumori led his army to set off for Ishiyama Honganji Temple, where Settsu Province was located. Although www.biquge.info had long guessed that Honganji Xianru and Araki Murashige might defend Ishiyama Honganji Castle, one of the strongest castles in the world, when they really arrived at Ishiyama Honganji Castle all the way unimpeded, they were still shocked by the decisiveness of Honganji Xianru and Araki Murashige.

After all, in this case, it is almost up to them to raid Regent, without ordinary guts, how can they make such a decision? However, if you think about it, this decision of Honganji Xianru and Araki Murashige is also normal, and if it were them, they would choose to do so in the face of such a powerful enemy of the Oda family, and their mission is just to stall for time.

The strength of Honganji Temple is the same as that led by Sakuma Nobumori, but the combat effectiveness of the troops after the reform of the Oda family is obviously not comparable to that of the Araki family and the believers of Honganji. In this way, if the forces are dispersed even if the troops are not superior, it will be able to stop the Oda army for a while, but in that case, the number of troops that Ishiyama Honganji Castle can use by then will be much smaller.

"If the Oda family turns to attack other castles in their country, then we will have bought a lot of time invisibly." Araki Murashige explained this to Honganji at the time. He came up with this plan, and for this reason he took the lead in moving his entire family into Ishiyama Honganji Castle.

I have to say that Araki Murashige will not mention how capable he is, but he is really quite courageous. In order to successfully drag down the 40,000 troops of the Oda family, he didn't even want his own skills, Gangshan Castle, and even transported all the materials in the command to Ishiyama Honganji Castle.

However, it is because of his leading role that other small wealthy families in Settsu also learn to move their homes and materials in Araki Village. Well, in fact, most of them are unwilling, after all, strictly speaking, the only people in Settsu who are really enemies of the Oda family are Araki Murashige and Honganji Xianru. The other nobles were just grass on the wall, and the Oda family surrendered to the Oda family when they attacked it, and they surrendered to the shogunate after the Shogunate coalition army rose up in Settsu.

Originally, they planned to surrender again when the Oda family attacked, but unfortunately, Araki Murashige had already guessed their thoughts. In a word, it directly blocked the possibility of them riding the wall. Of course, it's not that there is no stunned Qingqing, but this kind of family was directly destroyed by Honganji Xianru under the pretext of being an enemy of Buddha and a rebel minister of the shogunate.

However, although they gave up their territory, they took all kinds of supplies with them. As for whether the territory will be destroyed? That kind of thing is obviously out of their minds anymore. As long as they can defeat the Oda family, they don't care if the entire Settsu turns into a sea of fire, and if they fail, what if they are intact?

In less than a moment, the Oda army surrounded Ishiyama Honganji Castle, and there was no reaction from Ishiyama Honganji Castle. They were not worried that the Oda army would divide their forces and march to other battlefields after besieging Ishiyama Honganji Castle. Ishiyama Honganji Temple has been built as a military fortress since Honganji Renru, and today, although it is not as large as the world's famous giant cities such as Odawara, Gifu, and Osaka, its scale is one of the best in the world.

If they wanted to besiege Ishiyama Honganji Castle, it was already difficult for the Oda army to do anything else. After all, he couldn't really just surround the castle of Ishiyama Honganji, and if that was the case, Honganji could rush out at any time. However, even so, it is impossible for the army alone to trap Ishiyama Honganji Castle, because the western castle of Ishiyama Honganji is completely connected to the sea, and Honganji can leave by sea at any time if Honganji is willing.

In the past, Oda Nobunaga always hoped that Honganji Temple would withdraw from Ishiyama Honganji Castle, not only because it was a holy city of the Ichijo sect, but also because Ishiyama Honganji Castle itself was a fairly strong fortress, and neither Oda Nobunaga nor other forces could tolerate such a strong fortress in the hands of others.

"Apparently like the Lord of the Law, the Oda army has surrounded the city." Araki Motokiyo walked in and said respectfully, he is Araki Murashige's cousin, after Araki Murashige rebelled out of the Oda family, he has been following Araki Murashige, although he doesn't have much ability, but he is more loyal.

"Well, in this case, you only need to drag this Oda army." Honganji Xianru nodded and said, after speaking, he turned his head to look at Shimoma Ryo on the side, "Is there any movement on the side of Mt. Hiei?" ”

Hearing this, Shimoma Ryan shook his head and said, "According to the latest information, there is no movement on the side of Enryakuji Temple, and it is no different from usual. ”

"That's ......" Honganji frowned slightly, obviously unable to guess what was going on on on Mt. Hiei. Because when he went to Enryakuji Temple in person, he had obviously persuaded people who didn't know Mt. Hiei to help them fight against the Oda family. Because of this, the ignorant people came to Honganji Temple to help train those monks. But now......

Honganji turned his head to look at Araki Murashige, seeing this, Araki Murashige groaned for a moment, shook his head and said, "Come to think of it, since there is no movement in Enryakuji Temple, it may be that I hope to send troops at a more opportune opportunity." ”

Hearing this, Honganji's brows stretched slightly, "It must be so, it only takes a moment for Enryakuji Temple to reach Kyoto, and as long as Kyoto is taken, although there will be no loss to the Oda family in terms of strength, the impact is decisive!" Honganji Xianru muttered, sounding as if he was explaining something, but just looking at his expression, how could he think he was convincing himself?

However, it is no wonder that Honganji Xianru is so worried, after all, this battle will determine the survival of Honganji and even the entire Ichiganji sect, although he does not believe that Oda Nobunaga really dares to kill all Honganji or Ichijo sects, but between the bloody examples of Mikawa and Nagashima, Honganji Xianru obviously does not want to pin his hopes on peace talks after the defeat.

And while Honganji Xianru was thinking, Araki Murashige was also thinking about Enryakuji Temple, he hadn't seen it, he just heard about it, so he didn't understand why Honganji Xianru cared so much about Enryakuji Temple.

The unfamiliar Honganji did not tell anyone else, and in fact, even when he did not know the time when he came to help train the monks, Honganji Xianru only explained it with a senior monk he had known in the past. Therefore, Araki Murashige didn't understand why Honganji Xianru cared so much about Enryakuji I.

It is true that Enryakuji Temple has a large number of monks and soldiers, and its status in Buddhism is very transcendent. But Araki Murashige didn't think that the addition of Enryakuji would change anything. A surprise attack on Kyoto like Honganji Xian said? Indeed, the distance from Enryakuji Temple to Kyoto is so close that the Oda family may not even have time to react to take Kyoto.

But even so? Although he has not been in the Oda family for a long time, he still knows a lot about Oda Nobunaga Araki Murashige, does he care about the imperial court? Araki Murashige was very unimpressed. "Even the general Oda Nobunaga, the real ruler of the samurai family, doesn't care, if there is no power and power, there is an empty court, how can Oda Nobunaga care?"

And in Araki Murashige's opinion, Enryakuji will attack Kyoto unless he has a hole in his brain. You must know that Kyoto has no defenses at all, and even if it is captured, it will not be able to stop the Oda army that will follow. You must know that Oda Nobunaga has moved to Azuchi, and from there to Kyoto, it is only half a day's journey.

In this way, he couldn't keep Kyoto, but instead provoked Oda Nobunaga, the evil god, Enryakuji Temple is full of food and has nothing to do? You must know that if he does not participate in Enryakuji Temple, even if the Oda family unifies the world, Enryakuji Temple will also be the big brother of Buddhism. Unless Oda Nobunaga had a nerve, it would not have been possible to move it. After all, it has a very fundamental difference from Honganji, that is, Enryakuji has never expressed a desire for the samurai regime.

Shaking his head slightly, Araki Murashige decided not to think about it, anyway, the most important thing for him at the moment was to drag this Oda army to Ishiyama Honganji Castle. As for Enryakuji Temple, it didn't matter to him whether it was to help them fight against the Oda family, or to remain neutral and not participate in this war. After all, it was Uesugi, Takeda, and Mori who could really decide the course of the war.

"It is obvious that the Lord of the Law, then I will prepare to defend the city first." Araki Murashige said respectfully to Honganji, and then got up to leave. Although the deployment of the defense had been prepared in the days he arrived, he still seemed a little uneasy.

With a few words, Honganji Xianru woke up from his thoughts, "Okay, let Lai Lian assist you." Honganji Xianru nodded and said.

In this regard, Araki Murashige did not refuse, one is because Shimoma Yoriren was originally a samurai monk of Honganji Temple, and if he was there, the orders issued would be easier to convey. And Shimoma Yoriren himself is also good, at least Araki Murashige Honganji is in the existence of the samurai.

At the same time, Sakuma Nobumori outside the castle was holding a military meeting with the three people, Masunaga Shu and others. The content of the military discussion was to simply assign the direction of the attack, who would be responsible for the frontal attack, and who would be responsible for the attack from the north and south. Although Ishiyama Honganji only has the main gate on the east side and the harbor on the west side, it does not mean that the north and south sides cannot be attacked.

However, after all, this was only the first attack, so Sakuma Nobumori just sent people up to test it and it was over, and even the number of casualties on both sides did not exceed 20 people combined.