And there is a demon star, which is the evil thought of the demon ancestor in Buddhism, and above the nine heavens, he collected the aura of heaven and earth, absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and gradually opened the spiritual wisdom, and then escaped from the heavens and turned into a heavenly stone and fell on the Dongying Hiei Mountain.

This mountain was originally lush, clouds and mist, there are countless strange and dangerous peaks in the mountain, flowers, birds, fish and insects, mulberry fields and beautiful ponds, and people are prosperous.

But now it has become a barren place, not to mention that even the tenacious weeds cannot fall into the roots. Occasionally, when a merchant passes by here, he will feel the yin qi gusting and the cold wind blowing, and if he goes to the deep mountains, he will be instantly evaporated by the resentment and die on the spot.

To ask why this mountain has become the way it is, it is necessary to slowly talk about the cause and effect.

Thinking at the beginning, Oda Nobunaga, one of the three heroes of Japan, started from Owari, every battle must be taken, every attack on Bik, more than ten years has been Japan's most of the rivers and mountains in the bag, the sword is pointed, invincible, only in the battle with the monks of Mount Hiei suffered setbacks again and again.

It was late at night, when the north wind was strong, and the snowflakes were falling with the cold wind and the sparse stars and moon.

Successive military tents surrounded this mountain layer by layer according to the formation, and the commander of this army, Oda Nobunaga, was in the position of the array.

With the dim light of the fire in the tent, Nobunaga walked back and forth in thought for a long time, ignoring the cold wind that was coming.

He seemed to have thought of something, flicked his sleeves, lifted the tent curtain, turned around and sat down on the tea table, and urgently called the three of his subordinates to come to the tent to discuss the military.

The military tent was extremely simple, except that it was slightly larger than the tent of an ordinary officer, and the furnishings inside were extremely simple and simple, except for a map, a sword, a bed, a tea table, and a few military books.

When the snow boiled, the three of them rushed to the wind and snow, and shook off the snow on their bodies outside the tent and put it into the tent.

Nobunaga waved at the tea table, and the three of them bowed and sat on their knees, waiting to be questioned.

Those three are Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide and Kinoshita Hideyoshi, all of whom are well-known figures in the world.

Katsuya and Nagahide are the humerus ministers around Nobunaga, who were born in a famous family and respected their positions, although Hideyoshi has a lot of credit, but compared with the two, they sat at the bottom of the seat.

There was no charcoal fire in the tent, so Nobunaga poured three cups of hot tea and gave them to the three of them to warm up.

Katsuya and Nagahide took the teacup and drank it all, but Hideyoshi didn't drink it and seemed to be thinking about something.

Nobunaga's gaze slowly swept over the faces of the three of them and fell on Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

"You are all the pillars of the country, and now the military situation is urgent, and the mountain cannot be captured for a long time, and our army is tired from a long journey. At present, it is the middle of winter, when food and grass are in short supply, and our army is not accustomed to water and soil, and the morale is low, and I am hesitant to decide whether to fight or retreat, so please give me an idea. ”

The three of them pondered and were silent......

Nobunaga replied, "If you don't retreat, what is the way to win?" ”

Hideyoshi thought about it and had a plan in his heart, and bowed to Katsuya and Nagahide: "The reason why Mt. Hiei has not been attacked for a long time is because of the monks of Enryakuji Temple, and the monks do not practice martial arts all day long, and their combat effectiveness is no less than that of Echigo, Takeda and other armies. There are three reasons for this: First, it is easier to defend and difficult to attack than the dangerous terrain of Ei Mountain, and it is indeed not easy for the enemy to defend our troops according to the danger. Second, the season is not right, every time our army attacks the mountain, it rains and snows every day to increase the difficulty of attacking the mountain. As a result, our troops were sleepy and weak, unable to attack, and lost their morale after being unable to attack for a long time. Third, the monks on the mountain practice martial arts all the year round, the martial arts are exquisite, and the monks are known to be kind to the people under the mountain, and the people and the monks have the same enemy, and it is not easy for our army to win. The location, the time, the people and the monks all occupy it, which is the reason for the defeat of our army. If the lord wants to win, forgive me for being stupid, and there is no good plan yet. ”

Nobunaga pondered for a while, smiled and praised: "It's really rare to get into this analysis, and you can listen to the suggestions of the two seniors to increase your benefits." ”

With that, he set his eyes on Niwa Nagahide, who took another drink and arched his hand towards Nobunaga.

"What Hideyoshi said is very true, but what he said is knowing the other in the art of war. Sun Tzu has a cloud in the Art of War, "if you know the other and don't know yourself, you will win and lose half", the old minister thinks that we can't wait to win, there are also three points, one of which is that our department is not prepared for the emergency attack on the mountain, if we plan carefully, and wait until next year's spring when the flowers bloom and then attack, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. Second, the grain road of our department is stagnant, and the soldiers of the mountain are as strong as copper and iron, and they are hungry and cannot take it, so it is better for our department to stick to this grain road first. Thirdly, our army is rarely seen here, and the monks of Enryakuji Temple have been practicing favors for many years, and the people on the mountain are extremely high, and the people and the monks are fighting against foreign enemies, and we are difficult to resist, and we can use the strategy of discord to turn their advantages into disadvantages. ”

Nobunaga was in a good mood after hearing this, "There are two people who have planned for me to have a big part of my heart disease, 'knowing oneself and knowing that the other will not be defeated in a hundred battles', but this good strategy to break the enemy has not been delayed, victor, you say, how do we break the enemy?"

Shibata Katsuya heard the words of the two and said in his heart: "My lord, I have thought of this method to break the enemy, but I need to retreat left and right.

Hideyoshi and Nagahide glanced at him and snorted coldly.

Nobunaga sneered, "Katsuya, is there an outsider here?"

The victor bowed to the ground and bowed, "I beg the Lord to answer." ”

Changxiu was extremely displeased and said: "There are people here who are afraid of robbing the credit, and you and I don't hesitate to listen to his foul language." With that, he pulled Hideyoshi and walked out of the tent.

After the two walked out, Shibata Katsuie got up and whispered in Nobunaga's ear, "If you want to win, you can set fire to the mountain in the middle of summer next year." ”

He knew that Hideyoshi and Nagatsu were people who cared about the people, so he withdrew from them.

Nobunaga was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, there are many people on the mountain, and there are no people or animals under this fire." Our department is a righteous army, how can such an act escape the mouth of the world?!"

"Lord, those who achieve great things are not informal!!"

Nobunaga thought for a while and said, "I've also thought about a fire attack strategy, but this plan is too vicious to do. And Nagahide and Hideyoshi are both kind-hearted people, if you use this tactic, I am afraid that our army will be unstable......"

Nobunaga looked at Katsuya's face and asked, "Could it be that you have any good plan to get rid of it?"

Singer smiled: "If not, how dare I suggest this to the lord." Our department was stationed here in accordance with the suggestions of Nagahide and Hideyoshi, and the grain road was repaired. When it is delayed until the midsummer of next year, I will personally lead hundreds of elite dead soldiers to burn the mountain overnight to ensure that no one on the mountain will survive to survive. After the burning of the mountain is completed, I will let these dead soldiers burn themselves, and promise not to leak any news. In the future, if someone asks, the lord can push the matter away by a fire on the dry mountain. ”

Nobunaga was shocked and said, "How can you guarantee that you dead soldiers will not leak the news?"

Shengjia said: "This is the elite of the minister, and the minister is carefully trained and loyal, and please rest assured." ”

Nobunaga said, "To be on the safe side, you and I still have to put on a show." ”

"Please make it clear. ”

Nobunaga touched Katsuya's back and soothed, "I'm sure you're loyal, but you still have to endure it." Come on, Shibata Katsuya disregarded human life and dragged out the rod to punish twenty military sticks!"

Nagahide and Hideyoshi heard Nobunaga's message and turned around to enter the account, dragging Katsuya and walking out.

The Shengjia was shocked and couldn't stop crying out, "Lord, why?

When the Shengjia went away, Nobunaga sighed faintly: "This is called Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, and it is also the fate of your private dead soldiers." ”

At the time of the execution, only a string of horses' hooves outside the account could be heard galloping from far and near, and with a long neigh, it immediately stopped, and a soldier turned over and dismounted and rolled down to the tent, panting and hurriedly reported: "Lord Qi, the deputy general has a secret letter to submit." ”

When Nobunaga heard this, he pulled the curtain out of the tent, only to see the man covered in blood and wounded. Upon closer inspection, it was found that the wound was not like a sword stabbing but more like a beast's claws.

Seeing this wound, Nobunaga was inexplicably flustered in his heart, and an ominous premonition appeared in his mind, so he picked up the soldier and comforted him softly, "Don't worry, I will save your life." Come, send this man to my account for healing. ”

When the soldier heard this, he cried "wow" and couldn't help himself.

Nobunaga had a bad heart, and his own soldiers were so tenacious, how could they cry so bitterly? Hurriedly opened the letter, swept it with a glance and was shocked, and asked in a roar: "Where is my brother?"

The soldier whimpered as if he were dead: "The deputy general has been captured by the monks on the mountain in order to cover us, and I am the only one who escaped. ”

When Nobunaga heard this, he stumbled and almost fell, but Hideyoshi was quick and hurriedly helped Nobunaga up.

"Lord, what's the change?"

Nagahide also hurriedly got up and stepped forward to ask, only to see Nobunaga secretly weeping and muttering: "The great cause is difficult to accomplish, and my brother's life is suspended." ”

After hearing this, Hideyoshi hurriedly picked up the secret letter and swept the contents of the letter one by one, only to see that his hands were shaking more and more, and he almost stumbled to the ground.

Changxiu's face was full of doubts, and he hurriedly picked up the letter and looked at it, but he was also shocked and his face was like dust.

It turned out that the letter had been attacking Hiei Mountain for a long time, so he sent his brother with a group of personal soldiers to infiltrate the monks to investigate the enemy's situation, and this letter was the secret of the military information obtained for several months.

The letter reads: "My brother Nobunaga, see the letter like a meeting. The younger brother and a group of relatives have successfully blended into the monks of Enryakuji Temple for more than three months, but in the past month, the younger brother has experienced the most strange and terrifying thing in his life, and he hopes that the elder brother will make a plan to quit the army and return.

On the first day of the first month of last month, a monk dressed in a Taoist robe came to the temple, claiming to be the head of the Heavenly God Sect, the demon claimed to be the god above the gods, and had taken the Buddha and the Tao under his command. If you don't obey, you will have a more terrible retribution than that of the hell.

When the monks saw the demon talking wildly, how could they believe it, and they wanted to blast him out of the temple. The demon did not resist, but when he saw that the monks were near, he used his hand as a knife to cut off the heads of two of them. The monks were shocked when they saw this, and some of them boldly picked up their blades and asked them to fight to the death.

The martial arts of the monks of Enryakuji Temple are extremely high, and we are no match for them, and in the blink of an eye, there are seven or eight people with ring knives in their hands and slashing away, seeing that the demon will ambush the corpse on the spot.

But the demon man was not in a hurry, and made a fixed method to fix the monks on the ground, and then pinched the law to chant a mantra in a low voice, only to see the heads of the two people and the corpse wriggling and intersecting, and the blood vessels and muscles stretched out and connected to each other. Before waiting for a stick of incense, the severed head actually healed on the alien body, and when they gasped, the two of them were alive again.

After the resurrection of the two, they were grateful to the demon, as if they had traveled through hell, saying that the many sufferings of Abi Hell were saved by the gods and men to escape and ascend to heaven.

The monks saw that the two of them were sincere, and when they saw the demon using such a method, they believed most of them.

And those who refused to believe it, the demon tortured them to death in public, and then took out their heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys with their own hands, and refined them into pills and gave them to the believers.

How can anyone dare to eat such a thing that is contrary to human morality. The demon killed a few more people who refused to take the pill one after another, and the monks closed their eyes and swallowed it.

The younger brother is not afraid of death, but in order to save his life and help his brother complete the hegemony, he has to obey.

The pill has a fragrance without the smell of human blood, and it melts in the mouth, and after eating, I suddenly feel a warm current in my abdomen and change my whole body with the blood flow.

After eating again, I felt that I was as strong as an ox and walked like a fly.

The demon is gracious and powerful, and those who obey the words will give the pill as a reward, and if they are not satisfied, they will be tortured and killed to refine it into a pill.

After several rounds of going back and forth, all the monks with a little conscience in the mountains died, and the rest, except for us, were loyal to the demon until death.

It's just that the more this medicine is eaten, the greater the change, at first it is just the hair that grows a trace of white hair, and then it grows more and more, and when the white hair is as much as long hair, it will give birth to sharp claws and fangs and crawl on the ground without being a ghost or a ghost.

While enjoying the power of the elixir, the monks were afraid that they would become inhuman monsters, and one day they couldn't hold back and went to the demon to ask for an explanation.

I saw the demon sitting on the high platform, casting the Jade Emperor and the Dharma body of Rulai into a bronze statue one foot and five inches high, and serving on his side, holding the Buddha lotus in his left hand and the dust in his right hand, and talking leisurely to the monks.

"You don't have to panic, this kind of disappearance is a sign of feathering, the five organs of people correspond to the five elements, each refining one will consume one person, and after ten pieces, the body will enter the earth immortal flow body appears 'auspicious' omen, eat twenty can directly absorb people's blood to increase their strength, until they eat a hundred people can feather and ascend to the immortal, and enjoy the joy of fairyland forever. The efficacy of this elixir depends entirely on your heart, if you firmly believe in my Heavenly God Sect, you will be loyal and will be feathered. If you are half-hearted and have other thoughts, you will become a monster that is neither human nor ghost, and it depends on you whether you succeed or not. ”

Everyone heard that taking this elixir can transform into an immortal, and they are all crazy, regardless of what they look like, lest they eat less.

Those who had taken more than 20 pills actually went down the mountain at night to rob and kill all the people under the mountain, and only pity the innocent old and young people under the mountain who were eaten by the monk-like believers.

Nowadays, the monks are still human during the day, but at night they transform into ghosts, which is very terrifying......

The secret letter was broken at this point, leaving a large pool of blood stains on the paper, and his brother was found to have written the secret letter here, and he fought hard to escort the military to the point of being imprisoned.

Nobunaga secretly wept and looked up to the sky and sighed for a long time, and everyone was afraid that Nobunaga would be too sad and all stepped forward to say some words of comfort, but Hideyoshi thought about pacing back and forth to think about countermeasures.

Suddenly, Hideyoshi knelt down and said, "Lord, I have a plan to solve my urgent need, and I hope the lord will agree." ”

Nobunaga always knew that Hideyoshi was very clever and clever, and he relied on Hideyoshi to deal with several dangers, and when he heard that he had a good plan, his face was a little slow, and he immediately asked, "What is the clever plan, tell me about it?"

Hideyoshi said: "This matter is very strange and difficult to distinguish, and I don't know if it's true or not. In order not to shake the morale of the army, we must not disclose this news. Wait for me to pick a fast horse and go up the mountain at night to find out the enemy's situation, and be the vanguard of the lord......"

Before he finished speaking, everyone's eyes widened and they interrupted in unison: "You don't want to die!"

Nobunaga and Hideyoshi got along with each other for a long time, and he had already guessed that what he said later must be to die with the demon of the Tenjin Sect, so he reached out and helped him up.

"Hideyoshi, this matter needs to be considered in the long run. The changes in Mt. Hiei would rather believe in its existence than in its none. You know that most of the monks on the mountain have become neither human nor ghostly, and if you go there, you will definitely be more than lucky, and you must not be impulsive. ”

Hideyoshi knelt down again and said firmly: "I understand your kindness, dare to ask the lord, the monks of Enryakuji Temple have become demons, if we don't get rid of them, we will have a place to live in the future? ”

Nobunaga was a person, and he had already thought of this in his heart, but he didn't know whether his brother was captured or lived on the mountain, and he was afraid that his life would be endangered if he rashly sent troops.

Hideyoshi saw Nobunaga's hesitation and said, "My lord, the deputy general is in prison, and there is nothing we can do about it." My subordinates are willing to rescue the deputy general with a long stick, and I have a fierce general Sanada Yukimura, who is invincible in the world, and the two of us will definitely be able to rescue him. Taking advantage of this time, the lord will lead the army to attack the mountain again and will definitely be able to break it in one shot. Even if Shehideyoshi lives, he must save the people of the world from fire and water, and ask the Lord to answer. ”

Nobunaga was greatly moved when he knew that he was going to die, "If you can really save my brother from attacking and going up the mountain, not only can you succeed in hegemony, but also eliminate a scourge for the world." It's just that Hideyoshi, what kind of talent are you, you still need to rely on everything in the future, and you can't die easily in this life, so let's slowly plan countermeasures. ”

When he was hesitating, he heard the gongs and drums and shouts at the foot of Mount Hiei, and it sounded like he was celebrating from a distance.

Thinking that the enemy was coming, the generals hurriedly ordered the soldiers to get up and dress, and in less than a quarter of an hour the whole army was ready to wait for the military order.

Nobunaga, fearing that the secret would be revealed, ordered the troops to remain unmoved, and personally led his men out of the camp on horseback to the mountainside.

The two sides are very close to each other, only more than 1,000 meters, only to see a monk in a Taoist robe and holding a horse whip is riding a white horse to gallop back and forth, and after the fast horse drags a person, his head is scattered, his whole body is naked, leaving long blood marks in the snow.

The man saw Nobunaga from afar and shouted, "Oda Nobunaga, I am the head of the Tenjin Sect, do you want your brother's life?" If you want, come alone, otherwise...... I can't guarantee how long he'll be able to get it. ”

After saying that, he jerked the horse's buttocks, and the horse neighed in pain, opened its hooves, and galloped wildly.

The dragger howled in pain, but there was not a word of begging for mercy. When the monks saw him screaming, they all burst into laughter.

After a dozen rounds of back and forth, at first the man was silent, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.