Chapter 183: The Great Fire Burns the Mountain (Fourth Update)

This group of Kaga Honkozong officials are extremely violent, and they only have the idea of inciting the believers to arm themselves to establish a Buddhist kingdom on earth, and Honfukuji swears that he knows that this is wrong and cannot stop their actions, he is just a scholarly monk who has no real power, and he is pressed in front of these monks who have always been troublesome and cannot raise his head.

As a result, under the cover and deliberate connivance of the Kira family, a group of attack plans against Enryakuji Temple were quickly proposed, and the planning of the Ichi-sa army was quickly passed, and it quickly developed in the general direction of the Ichi-sang's instigation and attack plan.

In late September, Kaga quickly reinforced a large number of disciples of the Ichijo sect, and at the same time brought a large number of disciples of the Ichijo sect from the ten temples of the north of the province near Asai County, at this time, the distance between the Ichijo army was more than 1,200 people, and Kira Yoshitoki felt that they were a little overrun, and if they continued to connive at such a gathering, the foundation of the Kira family would also be unstable, so he immediately ordered Hattori Masaaki to cause a break in advance.

On the evening of 27 September, the leader of the First Army, who had been plotting in the countryside on the outskirts of Kintian, was deliberating when suddenly a small leader of the First Army came running over and whispered a few words in the ear of one of the leaders, whose face changed sharply and shouted: "We can't wait! Our identities have been revealed! Enryakuji Temple has been on guard when we find out about our whereabouts! Wait any longer, we will be the turtle in the urn! ”

"What! How so! Hearing the news, several leaders jumped up at once, and no one had the heart to distinguish the truth from the false, and immediately announced in a loud voice that they had always launched it in advance.

"Wait! Should we be cautious? A hasty attack is a taboo for soldiers! Kita-Omi Asai Prefecture Ten Temples Bo Guangawa Kunibe Hidemasa objected.

"Chuanbang Border Palace! You're too cautious! To be too cautious is to be cowardly! You're not scared, are you? Hahaha......" A group of Kagabo officials laughed wantonly, but the faces of the officials of the Ten Temples in Asai County were ugly, and Hidemasa Kawa Kunibe was the leader of the team they led this time. The leader's bedding, what kind of face do they have?

"Chuanbang Border Palace! We're just going to strike first. Taking advantage of the bright moonlight, we dived all the way to Mt. Hiei. Burn down the temple and let them know how powerful I am with Kaga's army! ”

"Yes! Our Kaga Ichigo army has always been the first to strike, and we have never been defeated until now! A Kaga Ichigo army leader said triumphantly.

"Cut! I don't know who was beaten by Asakura Sect to make a turtle with a shrunken head! An Omi samurai muttered quietly.

The grumpy Kaga samurai immediately jumped up and drew his sword and threatened, "What did you say? Tell me again? Believe it or not, I cut off your head? ”

"You dare!" A sentence caused the samurai on both sides to draw their swords and confront each other, and several leaders of the fangguan saw that it was not a matter, and hurriedly scolded: "Stop! They are all brothers and compatriots, what to fight and kill! Put the knife away for me! ”

"Humph!" The two sides glared at each other before retreating, and Hidemasa's proposal did not receive the attention it deserved, but almost caused a firefight. He fell silent with disappointment, and Ming Oath, who was also silent and did not speak, simply did not hear the movement just now.

After hastily deliberating, I saw several Kaga Ichi-sa leaders order: "Ichi-Ichi-kin army has decided to swarm up that night, the target is the east pagoda of Enryakuji Temple, and the ultimate goal is to burn down the root central hall. ”

This 1,200-strong army launched a near-suicidal attack on Enryakuji Temple, but Enryakuji Temple, the opponent of the 1,000-strong army, was ignorant of this, and when he first entered the third watch, the Ichiyi army infiltrated the Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine and found that the 21st Shrine from top to bottom was defenseless. Even the monks and soldiers are very slack and forget their duties, which is simply a godsend.

Immediately, 1,200 people divided into several groups and set fire to kill people. More than 100 patrolling monks were killed one after another, and the town of Monzen at the foot of Enryakuji Mountain was the first to ignite a fire, and the disciples of the Tiantai sect who were still asleep suffered a catastrophe.

From the beginning of the fire in the town of Yamashita Mozene to the killing of the Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine, it took nearly an hour for this group of soldiers to set fire all the way to beg for the unsuspecting Tiantai believers to be trapped in the houses and burned alive, with cries and wails and angry roars endlessly, and occasionally a few monks on fire rushed to the side of the road and rolled around, and some warrior monks picked up their naginata knives and were cut down with one enemy and ten to pieces.

The attack along the way was surprisingly smooth, and even let them ignore that this was seriously inconsistent with the information they had received before, and the smooth offensive was hindered in advancing to the core area of the East Tower, because the movement of the burning was too great, and the monks of Enryakuji Temple who came to hear the wind protected the root hall to the death, so that the army could not advance an inch.

Seeing that several assaults were blocked by monks, the army turned to scatter to carry out a burning operation on the Hiyoshi Taisha and the nearby valleys, most of the 21 shrines of the mountain king under the mountain had been ignited, and they mended the knife again, when the weather was dry in mid-October, the raging fire quickly jumped into the Fudo Temple Valley, and then the other four valleys also appeared one after another, and the Garan in the valley was burned one after another, and the red-eyed army did not even let go of the birthplace of the Ichisho Sect, and the entire East Tower fell into a sea of fire.

At this time, the monks and soldiers of Enryakuji Temple, who woke up from a dream, gathered from all directions, they raised their naginatas in their hands and roared and rushed to the army, and launched a desperate fight under the east tower.

But they relied on the advantage of the home field, and the continuous replenishment of the crowd soon suppressed the momentum of the army, as the flames of the mountain fire jumped higher and higher, the spreading wildfire reflected the entire Hiei Mountain, and all the monks in the west tower of Enryakuji Temple were also alarmed, and countless monks and soldiers of the Tiantai sect poured into the east tower with red eyes and weapons, and such a big fire could even be seen clearly in Kyoto.

The main part of the army has always been the Kaga people, who fought bravely, and the other part is the Katata people who have been brought back to their minds by a vengeful heart, among which the Kawa Bang Hidemasa of Kita Omi represents the highest position of local power and has begun to waver, and the followers of Fukudaji, Fukukatsu-ji, Jungishunji, Shunkei-ji, Jinko-ji, Shinjong-ji, Homei-ji, Sugwang-ji, and Myoraku-ji Temple add up to 200 people, and these people have no hatred for Enryakuji Temple, nor do they want to provoke him, and it is very helpless to be pulled to help him.

At this time, seeing such a miserable scene in Enryakuji Temple, and then looking at a group of monks who killed red-eyed monks, these ten temples at the back of the temple were already afraid, as Omi people, they naturally knew very well the terrible influence of Enryakuji Temple, they knew that they had broken into a catastrophe, which was completely different from the situation originally envisaged, at first it was just said that it was okay to burn and kill some monks in Menmae Town, but now what is this going to do? This is to completely burn down the entire Enryakuji Temple!

No wonder they said before the war that the target was Nemoto Nakado, and all these arrangements kept them in the dark, if the master of Honganji found out, and the people of the Kaga Ichijo sect patted their butts and ran away, what would they do with the people of Omi? Is there still a way to live?

So Chuan Bang Bian Hidemasa did not hesitate to retreat with his men and horses, and their Jiangbei Ten Temples were originally only allies invited by Ben Ming Oath, but they didn't want to be put on the side of the vow, and they participated in this rebellious act of burning Enryaku Temple like a fool from beginning to end, so Chuan Bang Bian Hidemasa just showed the limelight of evacuation, and immediately got the full support of the Ten Temples.

"Don't blame me for being unrighteous if you are unkind! We'll see you indefinitely! Chuan Bangbian Xiuzheng ran away without looking back, and he didn't think to tell his temporary allies at all.

At this time, the army had already killed the red eye, and did not notice where the parishioners who were shrunk behind ran to, even if someone found out about their actions, they thought that the parishioners in Jiangbei were going to burn another valley, and the same missing person was also the Benfukuji Oath, this bitter monk was deceived back to Omi to build a temple, but the temple was not built but was involved in the whirlpool.

He had already realized that this was too strange, and there must be something strange in it, but what could he say? In Kaga, he was an outsider, and he was able to return to Katata completely because of the connections left by his father, who had neither soldiers nor power in his hands, and he didn't dare to say anything in front of that group of crazy people, only shouting the Buddha's name in favor with both hands.

When the army set off, he began to plan to run away, and he was the earliest and fastest to escape, and when the army first began to burn Menmae Town, he slipped away without looking back, and the flames and corpses aroused the excitement of the army, and the rest were either stunned or stunned, and they didn't realize that most of their parishioners had died unconsciously.

When the army woke up from the excitement, the time was close to the end of the fourth watch, and found that the sea of fire was either burning in all directions or the red monks of Shuangyan, touching their heads and not shaving, and then looking at most of the companions around them were not shaved, so where did so many naginata warrior monks come from?

"It's like we're burning Mt. Hiei...... Broken! We have to retreat! This group of stunned young people realized how dangerous they were, it seemed that they were following a large group of people to burn the Menmae Town of Enryakuji Temple, it seems that the Menmae Town of Enryakuji Temple was indeed burned, and it was not lightly burned, but why did their companions burn so much?

The Katata people were the first to react, they shouted and retreated first, and then tried to burn down the stronghold of the thieves, Enryakuji Temple, and began to run, although the Kaga Ichijun army had a bit of a problem with the structure of the brain, but he was also a fool, and when he saw that something was wrong, he immediately turned his face with a knife and gun and ran.

"They're going to run! Plug them up! Can't let them escape! As soon as the army moved, he heard a loud voice shouting and reminding.

Then a group of naginata warrior monks who were staring bigger than a bull's eye immediately woke up, screaming and chasing the past, a retreat turned into a desperate escape, no one cares what allies and comrades can escape alive is the most important thing, this chase and escape on both sides of the people and horses are desperate to escape. (To be continued......)

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