Masarashi planned to attack the temple shrine forces that were obviously plotting first, but on the third day of April in the third year of Koji (1557) (in history, this day was also the day when the last governor of the Ouchi family, Ouchi Yoshinaga, was forced to commit suicide by Mori Motoshi in Nagato Province and Yamashiro), and it was just when the spring ploughing was busy, and the territory occupied by the Luo family in the Western Province suddenly appeared.

The initiators of the Eternal Rebellion are Shimoma Yoriren, Wishing Temple Certificate, etc., and they support Shimoma Yoriren from Osaka Ishiyama Gobo as a general, with the aim of "At a time when Buddhism is in danger, defeat the enemy of Buddhism, Luo Shi, Masayo!" As a slogan, the rod was unveiled, and Zhengliang was taken aback by this.

According to Zhengliang's original plan, he planned to wait until the end of spring ploughing before taking the lead in making the first move. But I didn't expect that the other party turned his face in advance when he was busy with spring farming, which really surprised Zhengliang. But after thinking about it for a while, Masato immediately calmed down again. After all, he himself is not omnipotent, the reason why he has achieved so many victories in the past is that in many cases it is because Zhengliang has an understanding of the historical process, so he has won a lot of fighters from it, and this time it has always been the same, and it has not happened at all in this period of history, so Zhengliang naturally can't do "things like gods", so it is natural for such a change to occur.

This time, since it is to maintain Buddhism, then the temples and shrines in the entire Western Luo family's territory are bound to respond to each other. Fortunately, due to the previous immigration policy of the Luo family, many regional temples and shrines have lost a large number of followers, and this fixed process has weakened the power of these forces.

However, this time, there were two places that caught the attention of Masarashi, one was the constant influx of displaced people from the border areas of Aki Province, Bigo Province, and Nagato Province. At this critical juncture. There has been an unexpectedly abnormal movement of displaced people in these areas. There were even people who bullied and instigated riots. Thus impacting the borders of the Roche family. Fortunately, the Luo family had been prepared for this for a long time, not only prepared a large amount of food for these displaced people, but also forcibly ordered these displaced people to enter the checkpoint in the border area of the Luo family in batches (no more than ten people in each batch), and shot the uncooperative leaders directly. Therefore, chaos in the border areas was naturally avoided.

Another place that caught Masaliang's attention was that the temple and shrine forces in the area near the Luo family's various teams were stationed did not rise up this time and participated in this riot. On the contrary, it seems very quiet. This is really strange, and in Masaliang's opinion, it seems that these forces have deliberately made such a move to contain the various teams of the Luo family, so as to make the temple and shrine forces in other areas that have already rioted expand the scope of influence of the riot.

After all, at this time, there are still some temples and shrines that are still in a wait-and-see state, and there is even a tendency to take refuge in the Luo family, if the Luo family rashly takes action against these temples and shrines, it will naturally prompt many neutral forces to participate in this riot.

But the idea of these temple and shrine forces is obviously too naïve, after all, Masara originally planned to swallow up all these forces, it was just a matter of time. Now that both sides have turned their faces. Naturally, Masashi would not be restrained by their petty means, so he immediately sent envoys to the temples and shrines near the stations of the various teams in the western country. They were asked to cooperate fully with the pacification of the rioting forces this time. But these temples and shrines not only killed the envoy of the Luo family, but even rudely put the blame on Zhengliang. At this point, Masarashi directly announced that he would go all out to level the riot forces in the territory, and he himself personally led the army into battle, first targeting the temples and shrines near Yamaguchi Castle.

At this time, the number of believers who responded to the call and decided to follow the Buddha increased in a few days. The rioters hung Buddhist scriptures on spears or bamboo spears and shouted, "Defeat the enemy of Buddhism." Those who enter will be reborn in the Pure Land of Bliss, and those who retreat will fall into the Infernal Hell! ”

At the center of the outbreak of the turmoil, Aki Koku-sangshangji Temple, led by Yorien Shimoma and Gamjeongji Temple, the forces of Ongseongji Temple and nearby temples and shrines gathered, and more than 400 rioters were gathered in an instant. Coupled with the people in various places, the total number of mobs exceeded seven or eight thousand (fortunately, thanks to the previous series of policies of the Luo family, otherwise there would have been more mobs). They shouted about Amitabha, Masaliang, the Pure Land of Bliss, and the Infernal Hell, and they flocked to the temple.

Of course, not everyone flocked to the temple, and some mobs gathered towards the border area between the Luo family and Bigo Province, in an attempt to storm the border area of the Luo family, and unite with the believers of Bigo Province who also responded to the call.

But not everyone participated in the rebellion, and the new lords and new officials who were assigned to various places by the Luo family commanded the family and the general public to take up arms and confront the mob. Some of the people who had migrated from the Kyushu region, or who had just changed from slavery status to the general lords of the Luo family, even climbed on the roofs of the houses provided by the Luo family, or beat the iron pot or blew the bamboo flute, and shouted, "Be with the village!" "Call on the general public who did not participate in the riot to unite to protect their villages, and at the same time deny the mob access to their villages.

On Masa's side, with the army coming out, especially the newly established big team in Masara's array, most of the temples and shrines were breached under the attack of the army. For these temples and shrines, Masashi will not be soft, and directly came to a massacre, leaving only women and children, and then directly burned down the temples and shrines. For those temples and shrines that were built like castles, Masaya directly blasted open their gates with a large cylinder, and then carried out massacres and burned them.

Of course, not all temples and shrines adopt the cage city strategy, and if you are bold, you will directly pull a mob to come and fight the army of Masayo.

When the mob army came, Zhengliang immediately rode out and led the army to slaughter with all his might, facing such a fierce Luo family's army, the mob immediately scattered and fled, but soon came forward like a tide. They naively believed that Zhengliang was the enemy of the Buddha, and they were tireless in the attack, advancing and retreating, day and night, as if they were tireless.

The riots began in early April and continued until the end of April, when the spring ploughing was coming to an end. And so on. The people who have managed to settle down will go hungry again. I am afraid that it will be the end of this crucial planting season in the spring. The rebellious people will continue to indulge in Amitabha Buddha and will not be able to extricate themselves, and the strife will not stop.

Faced with the mob team that automatically learned to fight guerrilla warfare, Zhengliang finally made a decision, the so-called monks who ran away can't run away from the temple, so they simply ignore these guerrilla mobs, but go straight to their lair! The first target was the most important temple in the western part of Zhou Fangguo and one of the centers of the uprising.

After destroying the temples and shrines along the way, Masara finally arrived at a village near Honshoji Temple on the last day of April. This village originally belonged to the territory of Tao Qingxian's retainer Yamazaki Xingsheng, but since the Battle of Itsukushima. After Yamazaki Xingsheng defected to the Luo family, Masarashi transferred his territory to Chikuzen Province in Kyushu during this relocation of the people, doubling the size of the territory. But this time, due to the sudden outbreak of the riot, the Yamazaki Xingsheng family, who had no time to move, had to stay here for the time being. During this time, he has been leading a large army to confront the mob of the temple.

When the army arrived, it was already evening, so Masarashi prepared to rest for the night and attack the temple tomorrow with all his might. And in the middle of the night, it seemed that he knew that Masayo's army had arrived, and there was an enemy attacking, and it was dawn. The whistle sounded again. Masahiro had already made preparations, but Masato had already set up an ambush. The result was an instant crush of the enemy. What he never expected was that after the defeat, the mob actually set fire to another nearby village, but fortunately, at the beginning of the riot, Yamazaki Xingsheng gathered all the people of this village into the village where the Luo family's army was stationed at this time, so it was just the village that was burned.

The firelight reflected the frosty sky of dawn. Seeing the houses of the people who had finally lived and worked in peace and contentment burned down in the fire, Masahiro felt indescribable anger. People who are stirred up by faith are so stupid as to take the initiative to destroy their own lives. It would be understandable if Masayo's taxes were harsher than those of other daimyos, but the opposite is true. Under the rule of other daimyos, people only think about how to survive every day, and they don't even have the strength to get angry, so how can they have the courage to start a riot? And under the benevolent government of Zhengliang, every household has a surplus of grain, but they repay virtue with grievances, and they use the strength and courage given by Zhengliang to riot?

"You can't indulge them!" Masara, who had experienced several riots in Kyushu, coldly thought that he could no longer let them set fires, and that he must take the initiative to scorch all the temples, shrines, and castles where the other side was entrenched, otherwise the rebellion would not be quelled. "Inform the soldiers to attack after dawn."

This riot allowed the various teams of Masarashi to be well trained. After all, not long ago, the various teams were expanded, and a lot of soldiers were added, so they just took advantage of this opportunity to carry out integrated training and become a more rigorous whole.

The sky gradually brightened, and the firelight gradually dimmed, and the surrounding woods rose in a white morning mist, and the air was filled with the smell of battle, and the neighing of war horses everywhere. At this moment, a man came to serve Masato with a bowl of soup and rice, and it was Mrs. Komatsu, the wife of Masahiro's retainer Yamazaki Yumori.

In fact, the retainers of the Luo family seem to have consciously formed a rule, that is, whenever Zhengliang arrives in their respective territories, they will send their own family members to serve Zhengliang's daily life and food. After all, they all know that their lord Zhengliang is not a lustful person, so their families will be safe, and such a move is a sign of loyalty to Zhengliang.

At first, Masato naturally thought that such a move was unnecessary, after all, it would make Masaliang feel very strange, as if he was going to occupy the wives and daughters of his retainers. Although the family members of these retainers are only responsible for Masahiro's diet and daily life when he rests, and he doesn't need to sleep with him at all, Masahiro is a little unaccustomed to it. Besides, out of the idea of prevention, it is best to take care of the diet by the person who is at ease with yourself, who knows if these family members will not even want their own lives in order to poison themselves.

But even if Masarashi often refuses such a move, it is sometimes difficult to push back the wishes of his retainers, especially in the western region that he has just occupied, and he must be more careful with the former ministers of the Ouchi family, so Masara has no choice but to agree to Yamazaki Prosperity's request to let his wife serve his daily life. Now Yamazaki Yushi's wife, Mrs. Komatsu, is coming with a bowl of soup and rice.

Masara took the wooden bowl and ate the soup and rice neatly. To be honest, this bowl of soup and rice tastes really good, and the main ingredient in it is mainly rice, and rice is a precious thing for even a family like Yamazaki Xingsheng who has just joined the Luo family, obviously Mrs. Komatsu is very attentive to serving Masahiro, after thinking of this, Masahiro immediately praised: "Madam." The miso soup tastes good. ”

"Probably because of your empty stomach. It was already dawn. Mrs. Komatsu said with a smile.

"No, no, you're a good housewife to be able to make such a delicious miso soup."

"Thank you for your appreciation, please use another bowl."

"I'm not hungry anymore...... So don't use it. If I eat the rice that you have saved up with great difficulty, you will not have any rice to eat during this time. "Although Masarashi could have ordered the Cabinet to send some rice to the entire woman, it was a time of war, and because of such troubles, the Yamazaki family did not know when they would begin to move to the new territory of Chikuzen Province in Kyushu, and they might not avoid unnecessary troubles, so Masarashi naturally would not give such an order, let alone eat up the precious rice in the retainers' homes.

"Nope. It's all about being saved up for a rainy day. I'm afraid even rice will be happy for the lord. Please use another bowl. ”

"Hahaha......" Masahiro said with a smile: "In poor families, you can always hear happy lies." Look at your face, you know that you are very hard. Just eat a bowl for me. You still have to nurse your children! "Mrs. Komatsu has just recently given birth to a son-in-law for Yamazaki Yusheng, and it is not yet a full moon.

"No, I have plenty of milk, so ......" Mrs. Komatsu was teary-eyed, and refused to give in a single step: "Lord, this is not a lie. My lord, I have seen such riots, when the fields were deserted and the people became beggars, outcasts, or thieves. The elderly, the weak, women and children will also fall to the side of the road. But the lord can bring stability to the people, please eat your heart's content, drive away the mob, and bring us an era of peace. ”

"Age of peace?" Zhengliang didn't expect that the woman in front of him would have such a request, and obviously this lady saw the hope of peace from some of the previous Luo family's laws, so this bowl of soup and rice was actually her thanksgiving rice. Thinking of this, Masara took the second bowl of soup and rice in Mrs. Komatsu's hand and ate it slowly.

"Alright. Don't get tired. You're not alone, you have children, you have a husband. After eating the second bowl of soup and rice, Masato handed the wooden bowl back to Mrs. Komatsu, and while admonishing, he turned around and walked towards the main army under the protection of his attendants.

"Peace? Please wait, I'll bring ......"

(Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!) Thank you all for your continued support! (To be continued......)