Takatsuka Castle, Akaike Nagaren strode up to the enemy tower next to the gate, and when he came to the highest point of the enemy tower, he raised his eyes and looked out of the city.

Being attacked for several days in a row has made him completely unhappy. If this continues, not only will the morale of the guards in the city be affected, but also his family. Especially in this critical period when the two families of the main family and the heir are fighting openly and secretly, he doesn't want to be found any excuse to take advantage of the opportunity to suppress his family.

Although the Akaike family has a long history, it is just a small wealthy family that no one notices, and in the years after the Kikuchi family took control of Nanfei, they were not even the head of the land, but only the managers of dozens of tenant farmers. In such a chaotic era, the Akaike family struggled, and although there were no outstanding figures to make the family stand out, the family business expanded steadily through the hard and unremitting efforts of several generations, and finally obtained 300 koku of Zhixing as a Sagara general. With the passage of time, many families have prospered and declined, and even disappeared in the long river of history, as if they had never appeared, compared to them, the Akaike family seems to be lucky!

Akaike Nagaren is a conscientious but contented man, and he has no grievances about his territory and property! For this purpose, he was cautious and down-to-earth, and it was based on this understanding that Sagara Yoshiji appointed him as the commander of Takatsuka Castle in the first place. On this front, the first thing the Sagara family had to do was to stabilize the situation on the Yatsushiro Plain.

It's just that even if he doesn't look for trouble himself, things may not come to you on his own initiative. Not to mention in such chaotic times! The attacks of the past few days have indeed made him angry.

What worries Akaichi Nagaren the most is. His family's 300-stone territory was near Takatsuka Castle. As the head of the family, he couldn't help but worry about these things. There are already many fears that there will be a big war. And if there is a big war here, then his territory will be affected. Even if his territory becomes the main battlefield, or if the war lasts too long, then this year's harvest in his territory will be ruined!

Just when Akaike Nagaren was worried, a samurai walked quickly up to the enemy tower and came to Aike Nagahito's side.

"My lord, I found it!" Samurai reports.

"Found it? Say, who the hell is it? Akaike asked immediately. Ever since people have always been attacked. He had already arranged for the scout to secretly track the enemy's tracks outside the city. It seems that today has finally paid off.

"The villain followed them with two men and found them entering the nearby Daode Temple."

"And so it is, damn bald asses! It seems that there is indeed collusion with outsiders! No, it must have colluded with some wealthy families in Xia Yicheng County. Akaike said resentfully as he paced back and forth.

After the last, he suddenly stood in the original position, as if he had decided something, turned to the samurai behind him and said, "When will the reinforcements of the main family arrive in the city?" ”

"Report to your Excellency, you will arrive tomorrow. The leader is none other than Yorumi Maruki-sama. ”

"Well, since Lai Mei-sama, then there won't be any problems." Akaike also nodded after hearing this.

"In addition. At the behest of the lord's order, the Sagara of the nearby Gulu Castle will also send troops to support the city at any time. The samurai continued to report. In fact, the samurai was a little puzzled at the moment. It seems that the city lord in front of these news has long known the truth? Why did you suddenly ask again?

"Alright, herald, assemble immediately!" After Akaike Choren fully confirmed the information in his heart, he finally gave the order.

Akaike Nagaren plans to take the initiative and first clear all the suspicious temples nearby. At this time, the Ichijo sect in Higo was far less powerful than the Ichijo sect in Kyoto, Kaga, Ise and other regions, so Akaike Nagaren was not worried at all about falling into the quagmire of trembling with the Ichijo sect.

Under the orders of Akaike Nagato, Takatsuka Castle soon gathered a force of 200 troops.

"Target, Daode Temple!"

After finishing speaking, Akaike Nagaren jumped directly on horseback and led the army to gallop towards Daode Temple.

In the Daode Temple, the monks and soldiers who are responsible for staying here are basically the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. Otherwise, the responsibility of guarding the monastery would not have fallen to them in any case. Rather than being monks, it would be more appropriate to call them monks.

Now the various wealthy clans of Xiayicheng County are fighting for a few castles and a newly discovered silver mine, and they belong to the territory of Yashiro County, and they really have no enemies. In that case, then what is there to be afraid of, so the monks in the Daode Temple are unaware of the impending danger. At this moment they were converging in the main hall, having the last dinner. There was no one in the entire monastery to guard it.

But just as they were eating fragrantly, suddenly a person came running from outside the door of the main hall and shouted: "It's not good, there is a large army coming to this side!" ”

"What? Why did they run here? Someone immediately asked. Although they have done a lot of bad things in the past, they have been very quiet recently, and they have almost always hid in the temple and have not come out.

"Could it be that those mysterious people who have temporarily settled in this temple have caused it?" At this time, someone suddenly said.

"Go get them out!" So a few people immediately ran to the backyard. But soon they all ran back again.

"Oh no. Someone had just seen those mysterious people coming out of the gate. ”

"What?" There was a sudden exclamation in the temple.

Just when everyone in the temple was panicking, the army led by Akaike Nagaren had already arrived.

"Set fire to the temple!"

After seeing that the gate of Daode Temple was closed, Akaike Choren immediately ordered. He didn't bother to lead his troops to rush in. He hated these monks very much. Three years ago, it was the monks of the nearby temple who instigated a popular revolt in his territory, which led to heavy losses for him. If it weren't for the alliance between the lord and the monks, he would have led people to burn down these temples.

Now, as the head of the country who supports the Ichijo sect, Sagara Yoshizi has lost power, and the two fathers and sons, Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoriko, who have just come to power, have not made it clear that they will continue to be friendly with the Ichijo sect. Moreover, recently, the main forces of the Sect have gone to Xiayicheng County to grab land, and this time he has obtained conclusive evidence of the invasion of his own family, and Akaike Changren will naturally not let go of the opportunity to deal with these monks.

So under the order of Akaike Nagato, the ancient Daodoji Temple has been passed down for more than 150 years, but in the end it has not escaped the fate of being burned.

With the raging fire and the cries for help from the monks who were crying for their fathers and mothers inside, Akaike Nagahito had already led 200 troops away from the fire and went straight to another temple. (To be continued......)