At the beginning of July, the news came from Kinai, and the head of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, Honganji Temple, responded positively, and with the strong support of Kira Yoshitoki, he quickly issued a decree ordering Nagashima to move eastward, and secretly ordered Mikawa Sanji to secretly instigate a group of Matsudaira retainers to provoke him, taking the opportunity to create a disaster for the Matsudaira family to find fault with first.

The nature of this outbreak of Mikawa is completely different from the small-scale turmoil in history, not that Matsudaira Ieyasu hit the door with a hot head and provoked public anger, but that when this turtle who is good at disguise provokes Kira Yoshishi, who should not be provoked, Mikawa Ichikawa has always been carefully planned by him and handed over to Honganji Xianru to carry out.

This riot was at the moment when Matsudaira Ieyasu gathered his army near the border of Enoe, and the three temples of Mikawa, Honshoji, Kaminomiya-ji, and Katsukuji were secretly preparing for the decree of Honganji, and sure enough, it didn't take a few days for Kira ninja to secretly instigate a farce, which completely opened the prelude to Mikawa's constant success.

On a dark and windy night, a young samurai who had a conflict with the main family and started to kill people fled into the temple to take refuge, and the leader of the Mikawa Aoyama clan, who rushed to the scene after hearing the news, took the lead of the Aoyama Tadado who served as the chief commissioner of Matsudaira Hirotada, and led a hundred soldiers to surround the temple and forcibly demand the culprit.

This kind of internal strife happens almost every year.,Usually as long as you are accommodating, the temple will also release people to hand over the culprit to the Matsudaira family to deal with.,But this time the attitude of the temple is surprisingly tough and resolutely not to let people go.,And it also said that they have the privilege of guarding and not entering.,The Matsudaira family has no right to inquire about anyone in the temple, and even the temple leader can't step in.。

Aoyama Tadamen didn't expect that he would encounter a hard nail in this temple, and he was a little embarrassed by a strict lesson of righteousness and righteousness, and he threatened on the spot as long as he didn't hand over the culprit. Their Matsudaira army surrounded the temple until you taught people. The seemingly arrogant and domineering rhetoric is actually not too much. The samurai of the Matsudaira family also felt that this was a tacit understanding that you had destroyed first.

However, the believers of the Honshoji Temple do not see it that way, and similar problems have occurred before, and the high-level officials of both sides have quietly detained people in the temple and handed them over to the Matsudaira family from the back door, and they still maintain a relatively independent and decent image on the surface, and the believers of the Honshoji Sect do not know that the so-called guardian envoy is an empty shell.

In the face of the Matsudaira family's tough attitude, there is no need for the Honshoji Temple to swear to find fault and get angry, there are ready-made reasons to use in front of him, and the followers of the Mikawa Ichikozong sect spontaneously gathered around the Honshoji Temple to confront the Matsudaira family's capture of the criminal's army, and put on a posture of resolutely protecting this murderer in order to defend the power of the territory from being violated.

Qingshan Zhongmen was actually very anxious as the envoy of this arrest, and he was originally good at handling criminal cases, but he didn't know how to get stuck in this part of the temple. The samurai who were sent to try to communicate with the empty oath of the temple were all thrown back, and they were angry in their hearts and secretly scolded that the three rivers had always been lawless, and the other party did not retreat from the majesty of the law that represented the Matsudaira family as the arrest envoy, and there was still no compromise in the slightest.

Under the secret instigation of the empty oath of Honshoji Temple, the angry followers of the Ichijo clan clashed fiercely with the samurai of the Matsudaira family, and the samurai of the Matsudaira clan did not dare to directly confront the influence of the local believers, and considering that most of the samurai in the Matsudaira family were followers of the Ichisho clan, the samurai led by several samurai ordered the soldiers to restrain their forces, and only symbolically pushed and shoved all the way back to retreat.

Originally, if it continued like this, it would not have caused too much trouble, but how could this temple miss this weather opportunity. Secretly instigated some young and impulsive followers to besiege the Matsudaira samurai, who picked up stones and sticks and shouted "Nam no Amitabha", and suddenly rushed out and beat the Matsudaira army. The monks who were huddled behind immediately shouted loudly, and immediately the restless believers swarmed up, causing several unsuspecting Matsudaira samurai to be besieged and killed on the spot.

The blind obedience of people completely broke out at this moment, many believers did not understand why they wanted to besiege the Matsudaira army, but passively shouted slogans and followed the team to beat and trample on them, and the samurai were put down and beaten by a group of people and never got up, which completely angered the soldiers of the Matsudaira army, and the samurai of the Matsudaira family was furious and pulled out his sword and slashed at the believers who provoked trouble, and such a bloody case suddenly broke out in the push.

More than 30 innocent believers were hacked to death on the spot, and then more than 60 people were seriously injured and more than 100 people were lightly injured.

After several inquiries to figure out the reason for this, and at this time the mortal enmity between the two sides has been quietly concluded, Ishikawa Shumasa could not blame Aoyama Tadamen for carelessness, so he could only hurriedly withdraw to Okazaki Castle with his army for urgent discussion, and on the evening of the same day, the temple swore an empty oath to convene the monks of Kamiguji Temple and Katsukuji Temple to discuss matters related to the uprising, and the three temples agreed to gather believers on July 15 to raise troops.

Matsudaira Ieyasu's father, Matsudaira Hirotada, personally awarded the prerogative of the county secretary of the three temples of Mikawa to stabilize the Matsudaira family's dominance over the central part of Mikawa, at that time the Matsudaira family was still weak and had to be attached to the Imagawa family to be a lackey, and the different historical conditions made the expedient measures at that time become the current cancer.

With the sudden rise of Matsudaira Ieyasu, the Matsudaira family became stronger and more tough on the three temples of Mikawa, and the laws introduced in recent years seem to have the signs of weakening the power of the territory of the temples and shrines, in the eyes of the three temples themselves, this is a manifestation of ingratitude, if it were not for the support of their three major temples, the Matsudaira family had no chance to defeat the Mikawa Kira family who had just ended the invasion of the West Mikawa Invasion War.

Just unification of the country of Mikawa to the former allies, in the eyes of the three temples of the three temples this is a bad act of going up the house to draw a ladder across the river and tear down the bridge, in this case the Mikawa Ichijo sect, who was already resentful of Matsudaira Ieyasu, got the decree of the Honganji Temple, the Dharma Lord personally told them that there was a strong support from Kira Yoshishi behind it, so that they could rest assured and boldly do not have to worry about making things out of control, and it was best to take this opportunity to make Mikawa a "Buddha country on earth".

The small abacus of the Hongan Temple is just in line with the appetite of the three rivers and three temples, and the empty oath of the temple is the grandson of the eighth Lord Lianru, and the Shu clan like him is probably a little fart in the eyes of the clan. If you can take this opportunity to mix into the majesty of Kaga Ichimune. Honganji swore that his life was worth it.

Under the influence of this law. In just a few days, Mikawa Ichijo swarmed, and then Nagashima Ichijo and his men of about 5,000 soldiers crossed the sea to support Mikawa Ichijo in his fight against Matsudaira Ieyasu's non-shogunate's appointment of Mikawa Guardian and launched an attack in the name of abolishing Mikawa Ichishomune's autonomy privileges.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of the people of Bihai County, Eita County, Hato-gun, and Hohan County became noisy, and in all directions, the believers who had always been one and the same were swarming, and Mikawa had always turned to a more intense direction.

Sakai Masakin, the newly appointed lord of Saijo Castle, was surrounded by a crowd of tens of thousands of people. Sakai Masakin, who had not been affected by the constant movement before, was blocked, and was caught off guard by thousands of people who broke through the city gate and entered Honmaru, and had to use the strength of the milk to repel the crazy Ichichi army.

At this time, the samurai of the Matsudaira family found that they had always been more and more incomprehensible, and they seemed to be expanding rapidly at some unimaginable speed, quickly sweeping away all the Matsudaira clan forces in the prefecture and capturing several castles next to Honshoji Temple in one fell swoop.

Sakai Masaqin was also forced to abandon the city and flee on the third day of the siege, and in the blink of an eye, Bihai County and Hatazu County completely fell under the control of the Ichiyi Army, and Matsudaira Ieyasu, who was sitting on the front line, heard the news and hurriedly turned around and came back to quell the rebellion.

And this force is gathering at an unimaginable rate. Outside the temple, they united and announced the formation of Mikawa Kikuichi and agreed to expel the tyrannical Matsudaira Ieyasu and restore stability to Mikawa, declaring that the turmoil had changed from a relatively simple and one-sided rebellion to a conscious rebellion with political demands.

The Matsudaira family of the Sakurai Matsudaira family. Matsudaira Masahisa of the Okusa Matsudaira family, Ishikawa Yasumasa, the lord of Ogawa Castle by Ishikawa Shumasa, a powerful member of the Sakai family, Sakai Sasaku Uemon won again, and the old Sakai Shogun Tadashi, Natsume Jiro Saemon Yoshinobu, Sakakiwara Yasuma's uncle Osuka Goro Saemon Ginda, Sakakihara Yasumasa's brother Sakakihara Kiyomasa, Naito Yasuji Uemon Kiyonaga, Torii Mototadada's brother Torii Tadahiro, Beehouse Hanno Sesarji, Takagi Chikugo Mamoru Tadashi, Sakai Kanmono Tadashi, and Kuyo Sanshiro Hiroshi successively expressed their firm attitude of rebellion.

Defeated by the grandson of Saigo Yoritsugu who was defeated by Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, the governor of the Okusa Matsudaira family served as the banner leader of Kikuichi, Matsudaira Masahisa was originally called the Okazaki Matsudaira family, and was the lord of Okazaki Castle Masashi, and was later forced to migrate to Okakusa Township and changed to the Okusa Matsudaira family by the clan Anxiang Matsudaira family to seize Okazaki Castle.

This clan is the same as the Sakurai Matsudaira family, but it is born with a backbone to hate the name of the family of Matsudaira Ieyasu, so when Matsudaira Masahisa saw Matsudaira Ieyasu in crisis, he stood on the side of Mikawa and Sanji to participate in the founding process of Kikuichi, and devoted himself to the cause of rebellion without hesitation, his purpose was not only to seize Okazaki Castle, but also to further seize the family of the head family and become the overlord of Mikawa.

It is said that these samurai fought for their faith or for their positions, in short, they were firmly separated from the main force of the Matsudaira army, which made the main force of Matsudaira Ieyasu rapidly decline from 5,000 to 4,200 people, and what is even more infuriating is that it did not belong to the sphere of influence of the Mikawa Three Temples, and the people of the East Mikawa Kingdom, who mainly believed in the Soto sect, also broke away from the Matsudaira army one after another at this time.

The Sankata of the Higashi-Mikawa clan, the Suzuki clan, the Tominaga clan, and the Atsumi clan, including many people of the Higashi-Mikawa clan, quickly broke away from Matsudaira Ieyasu's military momentum, and the main force of the Matsudaira army was sharply reduced to less than 3,000 people in the blink of an eye, and the only remaining army was also in danger of demoralization and demoralization, and the samurai gate of the Matsudaira family was shaken.

In the large room of Okazaki Castle, Matsudaira Ieyasu looked at the sparse and sparse group of retainers, and found that there were still many empty seats and no one sat down, lamenting that his fate was like a rugged mountain road that would never be calm.

Glancing at the retainers in the hall who lowered their heads and were silent, Matsudaira Ieyasu smiled bitterly: "I never thought that my Mikawa country could also make a fuss, and my Ieyasu asked himself to be diligent and love the people, and it is also generous to the martial artists in the country." But why did such a catastrophe befall my Matsudaira family? What should I do? ”

"My lord! Let me lead three hundred troops to crusade against these rebellious Kikuichi people! I am willing to guarantee with my life that it will definitely succeed! "Honda Tadakatsu's big voice is very recognizable. At a young age, he has a fiery temper. It is a close acolyte that Matsudaira Ieyasu has cultivated for many years.

Just like another dwarf who is only 1.3 meters old, Iitomi Masashi, Honda Tadakatsu is less than 1.4 meters tall, and it seems that the big voice always wants to be a dwarf, although he is not yet an adult, it seems to have the momentum to continue to develop, but it is still a huge question whether he can surpass Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who grew up in poverty and hunger as a child, and Kinoshita Hideyoshi is also 1.45 meters tall.

Honda Takashi also stood up for the vanguard, and the stagnant atmosphere in the hall gradually turned active, and Sakai Tadaji took the opportunity to say, "Lord Mingjian." Today, before the Mikawa Survey, my Matsudaira family should strengthen their armaments and recruit more soldiers to replenish the army, and the total military strength in Okazaki Castle is more than 3,500 people, which is really not enough to eliminate the Kikuichi rebellion. ”

Matsudaira Ieyasu deeply sympathized with this proposal, and without troops, it was impossible to talk about fighting against the arrogant Kikuichi, and Ishikawa Ienari said: "Your Majesty has another word, please ask the lord to quickly ask for help from the Oda Dan main hall in Owari Province, there are some Nagashima Ichikoshi believers with ulterior motives in Kikuichi in my Mikawa country, and if you can't expel these evildoers, it will sooner or later affect Owari Province, presumably Oda Dan Masataka will definitely understand the priority of this." ”

The atmosphere in the Ohiro room gradually turned to a normal atmosphere. It's just that there are still some samurai whose relatives and friends are involved in Kikuichi's samurai who are silent, including the Oto Matsudaira clan, Ishikawa Shumasa and other samurai who are still silent. They know very well that the crisis of the Matsudaira family is far from being as easy as imagined, and it is likely that if they are not careful, they will have to donate themselves.

Matsudaira Ieyasu tried to maintain a normal expression, but every time he swept the empty seats in the hall, he could not suppress his rage, as if there was a flame in his heart that constantly scorched his nerves, this flame was both annoyed and angry, and he was also aware that the influence of that person was always there, even if the samurai present did not mention that person.

"That's not right! It's not always there, but it's all that he dominates! Only he can lead the turmoil in the entire Mikawa, and in his eyes, my Matsudaira family is an outsider to Mikawa......" Matsudaira Ieyasu sighed secretly: "Why is it so difficult? Why can't the family take Owari Province as easily as the three mage brothers, and why should they face such a cruel target just by accidentally forcing Kira Yoshiyasu to death? ”

He knew that this Kikuichi was made by the remnants of the Kira family, the younger brother of the former Tojo Kira family, Arakawa Kai Mamoru Yoshihiro, and Haruka respected his nephew Mantakemaru as the new generation of Mikawa Mamoru and said that he would assist this young nephew to regain the lost territory, as well as a leader of the Mikawa Kira family.

Nishio Yoshiji also left the Oda family at this time to return to Mikawa Province, he was the biological son of the former governor of the Tojo Kira family, Kira Mochihiro, and his mother was the sister of the famous and majestic governor Matsudaira Kiyoyasu of the Matsudaira family, only because his uncle Matsudaira Kiyoyasu died in the forest landslide, and the upper and lower Yoshira gradually moved towards harmony in the shadow of the invasion of the Imagawa family.

The Kira Mochihiro of the Shimoyoshi family set up Mantakemaru, the son of Yoshiyao Yoshiyao of the Kamijira family, as the heir of the family governor, and sent his sister-in-law to Owari Oda Nobuhide as a hostage in exchange for the rescue of the Oda family, and Wantakemaru was the late Yoshira Yoshiyasu, the governor of the Mikawa Kira family, and Nishio Yoshiji returned to Mikawa to see if he had a chance to take over the Mikawa Kira family.

It's just that he still came one step too late, Kira Manchimaru followed his mother Imagawa Tsuruhime to Musashi Province, and Nishio Yoshiji knew that the unmasked head of the family, Yoshiro Yoshitoki, was a very powerful samurai, and immediately gave up the competition for the governor of the Mikawa Kira family, and instead suppressed his uncle Arakawa Yoshihiro, who had monopolized power.

The outbreak of Kikuichi caused a huge impact on the people of Mikawa Province, especially when many people of Mikawa found out that there was an influence of Kira Yoshishi, which made Kikuichi's expansion rate increase at a geometric rate, which further strengthened Mikawa's belief that Mikawa had always been a sect of trouble, and the head of Ise Nagashima Shoji Temple, Shoji Zenoe, was the general of Ise Nagashima Ichisa, and led 3,000 soldiers with good combat strength to cross the sea into Nishimikawa to participate in the battle on Hattori Tomosada's boat.

Honganji Xianru even issued an explicit decree calling on the followers of the Tokaido to go to the Mikawa Province to participate in the victory, which made the total strength of Kikuichi swell to 40,000 in an instant. Matsudaira Masahisa immediately ordered Sakai Shigetsu and Khesaya Sadaji to be the vanguard generals to lead a 5,000-1 army to attack Fukaya Castle. Subsequently, Matsudaira Ieji ordered Takagi Hiromasa and Sakai Tadashi to lead a 5,000-1 army to launch an attack on Tsukisu. Several members of the Matsudaira family have been hit hard one after another, and the situation is very critical.

Around Okazaki Castle, there were gradually traces of Kikuichi's military strength, which frightened the townspeople of Okazaki Castle Town, and many rumors unfavorable to the Matsudaira family spread, such as the Matsudaira Tibetans killed Kira Mikawamori to anger the gods and Buddhas, and deliberately sent a disaster to punish the Matsudaira family for their evil deeds, and some people said that this was the unjust spirit of Kira Mikawamori.

All kinds of strange rumors make the atmosphere in Okazaki Castle very strange, and every time the samurai of the Matsudaira family walk out of Okazaki Castle, they have to meet the strange gaze of the townspeople. As if they had done such heinous and bad deeds, some of the more fragile samurai were stared at and did not dare to leave the city.

Although the genealogy of the Matsudaira family did not talk much, many retainers couldn't help but complain in private that they shouldn't have attacked Saijo Castle in the first place, and even if they did, they shouldn't have attacked Saijo Castle, leaving a bare Saijo Castle for Kira Mikawa Mori, why bother to ruin someone's family, it's good to offend Kira Yoshitoki to death now, and the Matsudaira family doesn't even have a chance to turn over now.

Honda Tadakatsu and Honda Takashi each led 300 troops to fight a skirmish with Kikuichi near the abandoned castle of Ansho, and these 600 troops were all owned by Matsudaira Ieyasu's banner and took away a large number of Mikawa samurai during the Kira Yoshi. Among them, there are more than 200 samurai on horseback, which can definitely be called luxurious.

Most of the troops on the opposite side were native peasants with only bamboo spears and even hoes, and some of the young peasants wore shabby armor and looked like the descendants of veterans who had been in battle. This level of chaos quickly collapsed under the assault of the two brothers of the Honka family, but the Kikuichi army that came later was obviously much more elite, with some samurai on horseback and many ashigaru with three guns, led by Sakakiwara Kiyomasa.

The two Honda brothers obviously knew Sakakihara Kiyomasa, and scolded him for being a thief who betrayed his master, which simply tarnished the reputation of the Sakakiwara family's loyalty and bravery, and Sakakiwara Kiyomasa completely ignored their angry rebuke, and ordered more than 300 troops to set up a position to resist the attack of the Matsudaira army.

Honda Tadashikatsu's spear skills are good, killing three peasant soldiers in a row will cut a gap in the front of Sakakiwara Kiyomasa, followed by the Matsudaira army followed this gap and swarmed up to make Sakakiwara Kiyomasa's army fall into chaos, at this time, Takagi Hiromasa, Sakai Tadashi and more reinforcements appeared, Honda Takashi saw that it was not good, and hurriedly rushed over and pulled the murderous Honda Tadashi to escape.

Sakakihara Kiyomasa converged with the army of Takagi Hiromasa, Sakai Tadashi and others to gather more than 1,300 people to bite the two Honda brothers tightly and did not let go, along the way the tail chase was to kill sixty fallen Matsudaira army elite Ashigaru, until the pursuit to the vicinity of Okazaki Castle did not stop the pursuit, Honda Tadakatsu looked at his brother Honda Hirotaka with an ugly face, knowing that this joint battle of winning first and then losing was a loss after all.

Matsudaira Ieyasu was very helpless when he learned that the two proud generals had suffered a big loss, especially when he learned that the general on the other side was a powerful retainer in the past, and he was chasing his colleagues to kill him, because Okazaki Castle was located in the southwest of Nuta-gun, on the plain on the north bank of the Yasaki River, and the castles from all sides could attack this castle.

Because there was no shelter for the Yasaku River to pass nearby, every move of Okazaki Castle could be easily monitored, which forced the main force of the Matsudaira army to not dare to go out of the castle to fight easily, because once Matsudaira Ieyasu ran out of the castle in any direction, it was very likely that he would face an army attack from another direction, and he might have to lose his own castle.

Matsudaira Ieyasu also considered coming over to lure the snake out of the hole, pretending to send troops and then turning back to catch him off guard, but this time his enemy was Ju Yihua, who had a large number of Matsudaira family genealogy generation samurai, including many genealogy generation elders who had followed Matsudaira Ieyasu for many years, these samurai knew very well Matsudaira Ieyasu's way of using troops, and once the city capture plan was launched, it was very likely that they would join forces with him not to give him the slightest way out.

Not daring to fight meant that he could not recover the disadvantage, Matsudaira Ieyasu pinned all his hopes on Oda Nobunaga, praying that his brother could send troops to support him as soon as possible, but fortunately, Ishikawa Shumasa, who served as a diplomatic envoy, was not affected by his father's rebellion, and still dutifully came to Kiyoshu Castle for help.

Dozens of samurai in the large wide room of Cheongju Castle sat honestly, and it was Ishikawa Shumasa, the envoy of the Matsudaira family, who knelt in the center, and saw him bow respectfully and said: "Danshoden Mingjian, my lord and Danshoden were close friends when they were young, so my Matsudaira family and the Oda family have formed an alliance......

It's just that the Sanhe Sect has been in turmoil recently, and the remnants of the Mikawa Yoshira family have been gathered by the Mikawa Yoshira family to form a chrysanthemum, and the Nagashima Tsuyoshi sect has also been involved in the period, and many genealogical retainers in the family have turned away from my Matsudaira family because of their faith, causing my lord to be unable to quell the chaos in Okazaki Castle, and he was sent to Cheongju Castle to ask for help. ”

Oda Nobunaga was twenty-eight years old at this time, and as the ruler of Owari Province, there were many extraordinary things about his migrating qi in recent years, first of all, his appearance was slightly different from a few years ago, and there were many changes in his posture, the most obvious is that he has two whiskers on his mouth, a pinch of neatly trimmed beard on his chin, and his hair is like a broom, and his otherworldly temperament is quite a bit overwhelming.

Patiently listening to Ishikawa Shumasa's nagging opening remarks like an old lady's footcloth, he paused for a moment as if he was seriously thinking about the meaning of his words, and then slowly said, "I see! My family also heard about the matter of Mikawa, why is it so unbearable! It really surprised my family, and I was tired of answering it on my behalf. ”

"Yes! I must know everything in the next ...... I said," Ishikawa Shumasa was overjoyed, as a diplomatic envoy, he knew very well that as long as the other party was willing to listen to you, this was a good beginning to talk about things, so in front of many ministers of the Oda family, he told the various difficulties encountered by the Matsudaira family.

Oda Nobunaga nodded from time to time as he listened, in fact, his eyes were watching the movements of the retainers, many of the retainers of the genealogy had emotional ups and downs with Ishikawa Shumasa's explanation, some of the samurai seemed to be in the drama sometimes angry and sometimes nervous, most of these samurai were young samurai, lacking in experience and cultivation at all, while the other part of the samurai didn't seem to care about it, this kind of people were usually some soy sauce samurai with no sense of existence.

The last one is what he cares about the most, that is the samurai who listen carefully and show a contemplative expression from time to time, Niwa Nagahide and Hashiba Hideyoshi are the best, and the slightly worse Shibata Katsuie, Sasa Narumasa, and Maeda Toshiya are also trying to think about it, but they can't guess the mystery for the time being. (To be continued......)