This piece of information was sent by a Moritaka in the Kyoto area to send someone urgently, and the news in it was about Ichizong. It turned out that the 10th head of Honganji Temple, Osaka Honganji, who had been bedridden all along, finally fought against the disease in late May and went to another world. At the beginning of June, Honganji Xianru, the son of Honganji Zhengru, succeeded to the throne with the assistance of his grandmother, Keisuin, and became the 11th head of Honganji.

Honganji Temple, who had just succeeded to the throne of the Lord, was immediately busy unifying the internal forces of the family and establishing relations with the emperor, the imperial court, and surrounding forces, so the rebellion against the western territory of the Luo family, which had been promoted by him, was bound to be affected. This is precisely the reason why Masahiro is happy.

Judging from the reports transmitted from all over the territory during this period of time, although the Ichijo Sect and the Maori family have created a lot of trouble in the territory of the western country of the Luo family, the Ichijo Sect has also lost a lot because of this, let's not talk about the fact that this time the local temple power of the Ichijo Sect was almost uprooted in the pacification of the various teams of the Luo family, and the core personnel of the Honganji Temple sent from Osaka alone suffered a lot of damage, such as Shimoma Rylian and Shimoma Yorizhao, who were killed by the Luo family. Originally, Masara didn't know that these two men had come to his territory, and this was only learned from some of the captives after the war. These two people are two of the famous "Shimoma Sanbo Officials" in the history of Honganji, and they can be said to be the fierce generals of Honganji who will vigorously expand their power in the future, but now they have died in the territory of the Luo family, and they have a lot of influence on Honganji.

Due to a series of advance preparations by Zhengliang before, this time the Yixiang Sect was at a disadvantage stage in the rebellion in the territory of the Luo family in the Western Kingdom. The biggest impact on the Luo family was to delay the Luo family's digestion of the Ouchi family's territory in the western country, and to delay the Luo family's strategy and penetration into the Maori family and Bigo Province and other regions. But look at it the other way around. As long as the Luo family completely clears out the local temple and shrine forces in this riot, then the Luo family will more thoroughly digest and control the Ouchi family's territory in the western region.

In fact, according to the current situation, whether Zhengliang is willing to admit it or not, the Luo family was indeed restrained by this riot. For the Maori family, who are facing off against the Luo family in the Aki Country area, it should be a good thing, but in fact. This is not the case.

Previously, in the Itsukushima War with the Luo family and the Luo family's strategy against An Yiguo, the Maori family's losses were huge. At present, it has been confirmed that more than 20 retainers have been lost in these two wars, including Kodama Shokata, Iida Yoshitake, Kumagai Nobunao, Misu Boqing, and Nomi Munekatsu, and the families such as Kumagai, Kodama, Iida, Nomi, Jifei, Shinsato, and Ioga have also almost suffered a blow of extermination. Even Amano Juni, Fukuhara Sadatoshi, Kagawa Kokage, Katsura Motosumi and others who escaped and came back, their family territory also fell into the hands of the Luo family. What's even worse is that the Kobayakawa lineage, which is the two rivers system that Maori Yuan has painstakingly built over the years, was also captured with the third son, Kobayakawa Takakei. The Kobayakawa family's territory in the eastern region was captured and crushed.

In terms of military situation. The army of tens of thousands of people that was finally put together was almost wiped out, some of them were taken prisoners of the Luo family and surrendered to the Luo family, and some of them died in the battle of Itsukushima. Even the last part of the diehards who hid on Itsukushima and were unwilling to surrender were eventually stimulated by the Luo family's food rewards, and they would inevitably be "hunted by the warriors" of the local lords of Itsukushima and died under the speargun dung fork. It became a voucher for these lords to receive food rewards from the Luo family.

Since the damage is so heavy, the surrounding forces, including the Luo family and the Nizi family, will naturally not let go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs. On the part of Izumo Province. Although Niko Haruhisa is sick in bed, she still does not forget to deal with the Maori family. Even if he agreed to make peace with the Maori family on the surface, he was secretly still uniting with the Luo family, preparing to go out to drive out the Maori family's local forces.

And the Urakami family, an ally of the Maori family in Bizen Province, also understood at this time that the last confrontation with the Niko family in Mimasaka Country was actually the way of the Maori family, and inadvertently became a pawn to help the Maori family contain the Niko family, so that the Maori family could focus on the battle of Itsukushima. Now, although the Maori family was still attacked by the Luo family and captured the fruits of victory, the relationship between the Urakami family and the Maori family also seemed to be stormy.

On the side of the Tsuyo Sect, although he had reached an alliance with the Sho Sect to jointly deal with the Luo family, he was still calculated by Shimoma Lai Lian, and the other party did not come to jointly attack the Luo family's army in the border area of the Maori family according to the agreement, which caused a lot of trouble to the Maori family.

In addition, this time the United Sect rebelled against the Luo family, in order to increase the pressure on the Luo family's various borders in the country of Anyi, Mao Liyuan even allowed the sect to incite displaced people and believers to gather on the border of the Luo family in the territories of the country of Anyi, Bigo and China, the purpose of which was naturally to attack the border area of the Luo family. The displaced people who were instigated asked to settle in the territory of the Luo family under the banner of defecting to the Luo family, thus trying to increase the internal political pressure and public security pressure within the Luo family.

The purpose of the Maori family and the Yizong is good, but the result is that the Luo family does not refuse to come (although it does cause a lot of trouble to the Luo family in terms of internal affairs and public security, but the Luo family has a great internal affairs and material background, so these homeless people were quickly given proper arrangements, and the displaced people who got the benefits naturally did not make trouble within the Luo family, as for those believers who intended to sneak into trouble, most of them were separated by the Luo family, which shows the Luo family's intelligence ability in the local areaAfter all, to know the situation of these local leaders in advance, it must be that the Luo family has investigated and monitored these areas very early, which makes Mao Liyuan feel that there is someone behind him with a knife ready to assassinate him at any time. As for those believers who directly made trouble at the border, the Luo family simply attacked them directly.

As a result, the Maori family not only faced the danger of being besieged by the surrounding forces, but also a series of countermeasures against the continuous invasion and infiltration of the Luo family into the Maori family's sphere of influence. It seems that the effect is very mediocre, and even counterproductive.

Now, Maori Yuan has to resist the sleepiness around him with all his might. While waiting hard for the emperor, the shogunate's move.

What Mori Moto was waiting for was naturally the mediation of the war between the Emperor and the Shogunate between the Luo family and the Mori family. As long as there is a temporary peace with the Rashi family, the Mori family will be able to deal with the problems of the Niko family from Izumo Province in the north and other forces in the east, and thus get out of this crisis.

In Morimoto's view, the newly appointed shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru had only recently secretly posted a heroic post, asking the daimyo from all over the world to become King Rakuto, and he was also very keen to use diplomatic means to mediate the conflicts between the daimyo in various places. In this way, he showed the prestige of his shogun. This time, after receiving the request of the Mori family, Ashikaga Yoshiteru had agreed to send someone to mediate. And since the Luo family has always boasted that they are loyal to the shogunate and the imperial family, it is naturally difficult to refuse the mediation of General Ashikaga Yoshiteru this time. Otherwise, in addition to slapping his mouth, he will also have a bad relationship with the shogunate and the imperial court because of this. Therefore, in Morimoto's opinion, as long as the shogunate agreed to the request of the Mori family, then his plan would inevitably succeed.

The idea of Maori Yuan is good. It's a pity that Masahiro is a person from the afterlife. There are different standards for weighing the pros and cons than people of this era, and anyway, this time Masarashi directly rejected the emperor's request for mediation with the shogunate. His purpose is very clear, that is, to ruthlessly pit the Maori family, and if he can unite local forces to destroy the Maori family, it will naturally be better.

As a result, Mori Moto has been waiting hard at home for the news from the imperial court and the shogunate, but the news of the shogunate's mediation has not been waited. Instead, I waited for the news that the abbot of Ishiyama Gobo Honganji Temple in Osaka died of illness and the new presiding priest Honganji Xianru succeeded to the throne.

This is tantamount to a bolt from the blue for the Māori dollar. Although the new lord of Honganji Xianru had been committed to forming an alliance with the Maori family, and then the two families jointly launched a rebellion in the territory of the western country of the Luo family, but now that Honganji Xianru has just ascended to the throne, he will inevitably devote more energy to consolidating his position first, which will inevitably affect the rebellion instigated by the Zhì Ichizong in the Luo family, and even affect the attack on the infiltration of the Luo family in Bigo Province.

It can be said that now the Maori family still needs to continue to riot in the Luo family's territory, so as to prevent the Luo family from deploying more military forces to deal with the Maori family. After all, according to the previous agreement, the Zong has always wanted to build temples and increase the recruitment of believers in the territory of the Maori family, and during this period of time, in order to deal with the Luo family, Maoli Yuan also acquiesced in the other party's instigation of believers in his territory, and led the loss of the people in the territory. But now that Honganji is dead, it will definitely not be a good thing for the Maori family, at least a series of strategies against the Luo family will be affected. In this regard, Maori Yuan really wants to cry without tears.

Just when Mori Mototo, who was waiting for the news of the shogunate's mediation, and at the same time had a few more gray hairs due to the change in Honganji, Masayo, who had just been happy about the change in Honganji, was also facing a difficult choice.

The director's choice naturally came due to the news of his sister-in-law, Luo Shihuiliang's defeat in Southern Kyushu. The news arrived half a day after the news of the change in Honganji Temple was delivered to Masara.

In Masarashi's original plan, after quelling the rebellion in the western territory, he would unite many forces to jointly attack the Maori family, because in his opinion, with the previous arrangement of the Luo family in southern Kyushu, and the threat of Kai and others on the border, it would be difficult for the Shimazu family and the Ito family to achieve a large victory in southern Kyushu in a very short time. In this way, as long as the Luo family makes every effort to solve the Maori family, at least after occupying all the territory of Aki Province, it is not too late to wave troops to southern Kyushu.

It's just that this time the defeat of the family in Minami Kyushu has greatly weakened the prestige of the Luo family in South Kyushu, and a series of arrangements made by the Luo family in South Kyushu will inevitably be affected, and the prestige of the Shimazu family and the Ito family has not only been greatly improved, but also contributed to the progress of the two in South Kyushu. According to the current shape, it is estimated that before the Luo family can solve the Maori family, the two families will form an iron bucket array to confront the Luo family in southern Kyushu. This will greatly affect Zhengliang's next big plan.

Although the Luo family seems to have a huge territory now, most of the area has only been occupied by the Luo family for several years, and the shortest time is only one year. These areas are just areas that are self-sufficient or even beyond their means, so with the family wealth accumulated by the Luo family at this time, after experiencing the First Battle of Itsukushima and the Western Country Raiders that had just ended, and also experiencing a riot at this time, it is absolutely impossible to fight on two fronts, so Masayo has to make a choice, whether to concentrate resources and troops to deal with the Maori family after quelling the territorial riots, or solve the problems in the southern Kyushu region first?

Judging from the threat process, it seems that both are a great threat to the Luo family, and both will affect the Luo family's upcoming plans. If you concentrate resources and troops to deal with the Maori family first, will the Luo family really be able to solve the Maori family in a short time? It seems like it's a bit more difficult again. The most important thing is that the Maori family is currently in Anyiguo and the Luo family's confrontation is very fierce, and the determination to resist is also very strong.

Due to the high mountains and dense forests, the roads are complex and difficult to navigate, and many places are easy for the defenders to hold, so the Maori family, as a local starter, naturally made full use of these geographical advantages. Moreover, Mao Liyuan realized that there might be a Luo family in his own territory, so he began to make every effort to investigate, and the Luo family had to withdraw from these areas, which made the Luo family's army lose its eyes to advance. As a result, the scout in charge of the path exploration clearly saw that there were enemy troops on the hill in front of him, but it turned out that he had to walk for half a day to reach the destination, and the enemy troops on the hill had long since disappeared. It is precisely because of this reason that the logistics and transportation speed of the guide zhì is slow, and the city is often attacked by the Maori army, which greatly delays the attack of the Luo family's army.

Therefore, in all the previous battles, the Luo family fought fiercely with the Maori family almost inch by inch, and the battle with the Maori family was indeed painful. As for how much suffering there is, only those who have really walked through these lands and forests will understand the hardships. (To be continued......)