In the dark night, the city of Kyoto is still full of hustle and bustle.

After a long day of fighting, the Mongol army finally put down the civilian riot, or more accurately, it was a massacre.

Any untrained and unorganized civilian against the army is an absolute one-sided massacre.

For this, Guan Bai Konoe Shinhiro is also well aware.

But in order to gain more time, he did it anyway.

In his opinion, as long as he could buy himself and the emperor some time, it would be worth sacrificing some civilians.

In fact, he succeeded!

Many times, the blood of civilians is what conspirators like to exploit the most.

After killing the civilians who resisted, the city of Kyoto was already full of blood.

Kyoto, once a bustling city, has almost become a ghost area, and in some places it has even caused fires.

Moreover, Kyoto Castle hides an astonishing treasure that Tolei hopes to preserve the integrity of Kyoto until it is ransacked.

At this time, the Imperial Palace of the Wa Kingdom had been heavily surrounded, and because the army had been fighting for several days, Tuo Lei did not order the army to attack the city overnight, but waited for the army to rest and fight again tomorrow.

In his sleep, Tuo Lei was suddenly awakened by a faint shout of killing, so he hurriedly put on his armor and walked out of the room.

"What happened?"

Tuo Lei hurriedly asked.

After walking out of the door, the shouts of killing became clearer and clearer.

He could be sure that the place where the battle took place was not far from here.

But there was no one to answer his question, and the Mongol soldiers here were slightly panicked. They didn't know what was going on in the dark night.

This annoyed Towray a little. He hurriedly ordered someone to call up the sleeping soldiers. Prepare them for battle, and at the same time send a force to the place where the fighting will take place.

It didn't take long for the generals such as Jebe and Subutai to gather.

In a luxuriously decorated room, their faces were solemn.

The enemy is already surrounded in the palace, how can there be a fight outside.

What the hell is going on?

"Your Royal Highness Prince Qiqi, just now several of our patrols encountered the enemy's cavalry and fought with the enemy. However, due to being outnumbered, they could only retreat in the end. The enemy had no intention of chasing. So the vast majority of them got out unharmed. ”

It wasn't long before a commander he sent out came to report to him what had happened.

Hearing this, everyone's faces couldn't help but change greatly.

"Cavalry? Could it be that the enemy's reinforcements are coming? ”

Su Butai said with a single eye that glowed with a cold light.

Tuo Lei's face looked even more ugly, and he was about to break through the enemy's palace, but this happened, which simply made him extremely angry.

"How many cavalry does the enemy have?"

Tuo Lei hurriedly asked.

"Because it was too dark, they didn't know. However, according to their estimates, at least more than five thousand. ”

The commander said.

Hearing this, everyone was solemn.

5,000 cavalry, according to the proportion of the Japanese infantry. There must be tens of thousands of infantry troops.

Tuo Lei didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Order everyone to be ready for battle." In addition, send scouts to find the location of the enemy's army. ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

After receiving the order to tow mines, the Mongol army immediately reconnoitred and rode out, even if it was at night, and the whole camp was filled with a tense atmosphere.

Soon a steady stream of news came back, and the news of the enemy's infantry was not heard, but the place where the enemy cavalry had landed had been found.

The next day, Tuo Lei led more than 10,000 troops to surround the place where the enemy had landed.

Judging by the traces left by the enemy's cavalry, they judged that the enemy had come with about six thousand to seven thousand cavalry.

In this regard, the Mongols are definitely real experts.

Look at a dilapidated temple surrounded by thorns and bamboo forests.

"What kind of place is this?" ”

A Japanese samurai looked a little weird, and then said respectfully, "This is ...... Honnoji. ”

"Honnoji?"

Tuo Lei and the others didn't understand that this Japanese warrior's face was so weird, just like many people didn't understand the significance of the change in Honnoji to the Japanese country.

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At this time, the mood of Abe Shigeji and others was also very complicated.

Last night they had wanted to go to Nijo Castle and use the defenses there to resist the enemy.

Nijo Castle was the seat of the shogun's stay in Kyoto, and it was surrounded by a high wall about 500 meters from east to west and 400 meters from north to south, and a ditch was dug.

However, he did not expect to encounter more and more Mongolian cavalry, so Abe Shigeji decisively ordered to change the target and put the target on Honnoji Temple.

In the past, Honnoji Temple was a small fort with an earthen rampart around it and a ditch outside the earthen rampart, which had a certain defensive ability.

And the area here is vast enough to accommodate tens of thousands of troops stationed.

Many temples during the Warring States period were like this, which protected the safety of the monks on the one hand, and the refugees who took refuge here during the war.

Although the earthen ramparts were damaged after the Honnoji Rebellion, and the ditches were overgrown with thorns, they still had some pretty good protection.

When he came to Kyoto with Tokugawa Ieyasu in the past, Abe Shigeji came to visit Honnoji Temple, so he knew the situation very well.

"Is this Honnoji?".

Yui Masayuki muttered as he touched the ruins of the Honnoji Temple.

Not only him, but many people who have never been to Honnoji have this expression.

The change of Honnoji Temple was of great significance to the Wa Kingdom, and it changed the historical direction of the entire Wa Kingdom.

If it hadn't been for the Honnoji Change, perhaps Oda Nobunaga would have personally ended Japan's Sengoku period in his hands, as Qin Shi Huang of China did.

For many of the samurai here, many grew up listening to the legends of Oda Nobunaga.

He burned Mt. Hiei and beheaded 3,000 monks and countless devotees.

He called himself the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, called himself the enemy of Buddhism, and was cursed by countless believers.

He made the Great Seal of the World and threatened to end Japan's Warring States Period by force.

He slaughtered Iga's ninjas, and countless Japanese ninjas hated him to the core.

He fought in the south and in the north, and one after another heroes of the Japanese kingdom finally bowed down to him.

The famous Toyotomi Hideyoshi was his subordinate, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ability to unify Japan was completely inherited from him.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who established the Edo shogunate, was his younger brother, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was always afraid of Oda Nobunaga, even if Oda Nobunaga asked him to kill his son.

Oda Nobunaga's brutal behavior made countless later generations of Japanese obsessed with him.

But when he was about to unify Japan and reach the peak of his life's glory, he died in a way that was close to legend.

It was only because Akechi Mitsuhide was dissatisfied with the food that Tokugawa Ieyasu received that he ordered someone to beat Akechi Mitsuhide.

As a result, Akechi Mitsuhide was extremely angry, and led a large army to attack Honnoji Temple at night, killing Oda Nobunaga, who was only guarded by more than 100 people around him.

The last generation of heroes was forced to commit suicide and died in a near-legendary way, which made countless Japanese people sigh. (To be continued......)

ps: Thank you very much for the reward of Shenma's cups, Cavenka has been very good recently, and he will have a day off tomorrow.