By the time Lai Lian came to his senses next time, he had already realized that something was wrong.
"How long have I been stunned here? What if the Red Leaf Army rushes in through this gap?" He raised his head and looked around, and found that the entire southern city was either dead or injured or panicked. There were believers running around, and there was no way to organize resistance.
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Fear welled up in his heart, and Lai Lian was ready to immediately run back to the east city to mobilize troops to block the huge gap in the city wall. It was not until he accidentally heard the conversation of several wailing believers around him that he realized the greater fear.
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"Oh my god...what happened?" A woman cried while holding her head, unable to accept what had just happened.
"Is this struck by lightning?" An elderly believer slumped on the ground. He was already urinating without knowing it. He raised his old hand and pointed at the gap, "Is this struck by lightning... This is struck by lightning.
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"Oh my god... the gods and Buddhas are angry! God's punishment!" A young man ran out of the ruins of Nancheng with his head in his hands. He fled the scene without hesitation. In the chaotic and noisy flow of people, he knocked over the old man.
grandfather.
"But why did they attack us..." The old man covered his mouth in disbelief, "Why did he attack us... Wasn't it Yu Qiuping who insulted the Buddha statue... Why did the gods and Buddhas drop thunder to attack us!"
"Dad, uncle, where are you!" At this time, next to the ruins, a young believer was digging through the rubble, but he only kept digging out stumps and broken arms. In despair, he knelt on the ruins and cried loudly.
, "Why do gods and Buddhas want to hack us? My whole family believes in Buddhism. We worship Buddha every morning and every night. We pay for the harvest every year. Why do they want to hack us! Why!"
"Struck by lightning!"
"The gods and Buddhas have sent down thunder from the sky to strike us!"
"Spare me, Namo Amitabha, spare me, Lord Buddha is merciful!" A large number of believers knelt down after running around. I don't know who was the leader. They all clasped their hands and kept chanting the Dharma.
Begging for mercy from gods and Buddhas, "Calm down your anger! Calm down your anger! We are guilty of death!"
The entire Nancheng was completely out of control. Lai Lian in the lower room stood in a crowd of people, thinking about the topic that had been mentioned countless times——
"Yes, why don't gods and Buddhas chop down Yuqiu Hongye, but chop us up?"
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At this time, inside the Oda family's main formation.
"Oh my God, aren't you going to attack?" Sen Chang could see that Yu Qiuping was unreasonable. He was so anxious that he almost rushed forward and grabbed Yu Qiu Hongye's lapel. Fortunately, he was stopped by Sen Kelong.
"The entire Nancheng is in ruins, and the city wall was really blown open by your earth dragon attack! Go attack now, Nancheng is within easy reach!"
"Only Nancheng has collapsed. There are still a large number of believers and monk soldiers in Shishan Yufang City. Fighting with them in the street will cause losses." Yu Qiuping shook his head, then pointed around, "And look around, the current
Morale fluctuates greatly, can you really control your men?"
Hearing this, Mori Nagako turned around and looked around, only to find that tens of thousands of Oda troops who were unaware of this thought that it was "the gods and Buddhas raining thunder from the sky" and knelt down to pray one by one. Although there were also many people who killed the enemy for the sake of the gods and Buddhas.
The soldiers cheered, but more people were frightened and kept praying, fearing that they would offend the gods and Buddhas and kill them.
"Then you let such a good opportunity pass?" Mori Nagako asked.
"Why are you so anxious? If the blasting succeeds, will it take all the effort to attack this city? When I blow up all the city walls, it won't be too late for you to rush forward." Yu Qiuping smiled and shook his head, "The artillery crew will not wait for a moment.
Stop bombarding our blasting point in Nancheng. Don’t let the Honganji Army have the opportunity to dig out the blasting point and discover the clues below. Engineer team, go to the east gate again and repeat the same earth dragon attack."
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That night, inside Shishan Yufang City.
After Shimo Lai Lian calmed down, he urgently made deployment adjustments. Although the Hongye Army was shelling the gap all the time, the Oda Army was obviously frightened by the thunder and did not take the opportunity to attack. This was simply to the dismay of Ishiyama
Yufang narrowly escaped death. Xia Jian Lai Lian transferred all the monks and believers in Nancheng whose morale had collapsed due to being struck by lightning to other cities, and transferred people from other city walls to guard Nancheng. At the same time, he also urgently sent three troops to Nancheng.
Construction of fortifications between Nomaru and Sinomaru.
During dinner, we were eating at a stove in Beicheng. The seven or eight believers in the room all looked at each other, and no one moved their chopsticks - because right at the door of the room, there were two people who had just been transferred from Nancheng. Even though they had been given
The rice was served, but they didn't even look at the bowls and chopsticks. They just sat there with their knees crossed and didn't say a word - they had been like this since noon.
Finally, a young man with a scar on his face couldn't help but said: "Is Nancheng really struck by lightning?"
As soon as he spoke, the older of the two believers immediately trembled all over. He immediately knelt down, clasped his hands together, and kept chanting the Buddha's name. The other believer was younger, but he was obviously scared.
Somewhat dull, he stuttered and replied: "Yes...yes...the whole city was destroyed, and I don't know how many people died."
"Is it really a lightning strike?" the scarred young man asked in disbelief, "We heard an explosion in the north city, and then your place was filled with smoke..."
"Yes... lightning strike... lightning strike, tens of thousands of people saw it..." The survivors of Nancheng continued to stumble and whispered, "That Yuqiu Hongye said that our teachings are false, and that the true orthodox teachings are... I
You don’t have to do anything, as long as you believe in Buddhism in your heart, you can go to the Pure Land.”
"Isn't this a rumor that has been around for a long time? Masters have all said it is false." The scarred young man shook his head matter-of-factly.
"Yeah...yes...we didn't believe it at the time, so we scolded Yuqiu Hongye...everyone in the city was scolding...and then Yuqiu Hongye said...that we believed in false teachings, and that the gods and Buddhas were angry and wanted to punish us.
The sky thunder struck us... We still didn't believe it at the time, we all said that if the sky thunder really hit us, it would also chop down the rain and autumn leaves..."
"Then thunder struck Nancheng?" the scarred young man asked.
"Yes." The young believer nodded. The middle-aged believer next to him trembled again when he heard this, and chanted the Buddha's name faster.
"What the hell, there really was a thunderstorm that struck the city... If it hadn't been for...if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it to death. Gods and Buddhas would actually strike the Shishan Imperial Palace..." The middle-aged believer trembled and said, "Crazy
Why...why are you hacking us...Why don't you chop Yuqiu Hongye..."
The words of the middle-aged believer caused the room to fall into silence again, and no one touched the food in front of them. And in the entire Ishiyama Gobo Castle, countless believers fell into silence at this moment, just like the believers in this Yashiki.
After a long time, the scarred young man timidly whispered: "Could it be that...what Yuqiu Hongye said is true...our teachings are false..."
As soon as he spoke, he was immediately criticized by everyone. However, this time the accusation was much weaker than the angry rebuke at the top of Nancheng City in the morning. Everyone said a few words and then stopped talking.
"Master Dharma cannot possibly lie to us..." an old woman whispered, adding an uncertain modal particle at the end of the sentence.
"Yu Qiu Hongye said that the Lord was also deceived by the masters..." The scarred young man once again whispered a possibility that everyone was unwilling to face. After a while, he added, "I have indeed seen it.
Master took the money and went to visit the Whale House..."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" The believers around him immediately accused the young man, but their voices became weaker and weaker, and finally they just whispered, "It's impossible..."
"Then why did we not chop Yuqiu Hongye when lightning struck? If Yuqiu Hongye lied... he should have been struck." The scarred young man added a little aggrievedly.
"Didn't Master say that Yuqiu Hongye used witchcraft to bring down the thunder?" Another believer couldn't help but interjected, "It's a witchcraft, it must be a witchcraft!"
"Then why our gods and Buddhas can't control the magic..." The scarred young man muttered again, leaving everyone at a loss to know what to say.
I don’t know who moved the chopsticks first, but everyone started eating in the end, and no one discussed the heavy topic anymore. The scarred young man slowly put his hand deep into his arms and touched the "crow" token.
He smiled slightly. He knew that in the Honganji Temple, countless of his colleagues were performing the same task.
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At the same time, in the reception room next to the Ishiyama Gobo Buddhist Hall, all the high-level officials of Honganji Temple gathered together.
"We barely suppressed the bullets in the city." Zhongxiao Shimama hurriedly came from outside the house, "We asked all the monks to agree on the same point of view, saying that it was the magic of Yuqiu Hongye, it was the five thunders striking the top, and it was definitely not the attack of gods and Buddhas.
us."
"But there is still an undercurrent, and many believers probably don't believe it." Xia Jian Lailong said with a livid face, "It's not easy to handle."
"There are really people in this world who can summon thunder..." Shimo Zhongxiao still shook his head in disbelief, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have definitely thought it was a lie... Now it seems that there are many yin and yang stories passed down from ancient times.
Maybe all the techniques are real, but future generations won’t be able to use them.”
"Now that Yuqiu Hongye has mastered this evil method, and is pretending to be the envoy of the Pure Land Shinshu Meiguo Honzan, and shaking our morale, what should we do?"
His son spread out his hands and asked loudly, "If we don't think of a way, all the believers in the city will believe in Yuqiu Hongye's false religion! They will all think that we have tampered with the teachings, and they will all think that the Buddha was angry with us and dropped the thunder from the sky.
ah!"
"Yu Qiu Hongye is building an altar outside the east gate." Lai Lian from the lower room said somewhat dullly, reminding everyone of this fact that cannot be ignored, "I guess I want to do it again and strike the east city with lightning."
"Don't you think it was a Earth Dragon Attack? How's the investigation going now?" Honganji Kageru glanced at Shimoma Railen angrily. He had scoffed at this hypothesis put forward by Shimorama Railen from the very beginning.
It's not like he has never seen an earth dragon attack before. The most it can do is burn down the city foundation and make the city collapse. Now the whole city has been blown up. How could it be an earth dragon attack? It must have been struck by five thunders.
"There is no progress. The Hongye Army has been shelling Nancheng, making it difficult for people to get through." Xia Jian Lai Lian shook his head, "I plan to dig canals directly in Dongcheng and fill the tunnels with water..."
"How is that possible? Uncle, are you too old and confused to still think about the earth dragon attack?" Shimoma Lairyu also stood up and said, "How could the earth dragon attack blow up the city wall? The Red Leaf Army used gunpowder that day.
If you can't even blast open a tunnel several feet wide, how can you blast open a stone wall several feet high? Many believers at the top of the city saw thunder falling from the sky, how can it be fake?"
"Is that so..." Lai Lian sighed after hearing this, "I didn't look at Nancheng at the time, and I don't know what happened at the moment of the explosion."
"Don't worry about this for now. If we can't find a way to cure this magic, Ishiyama Gobo will be doomed! The city will be blown up, and people's hearts will be scattered!" Honganjijiaoru patted the tatami vigorously and said loudly, "Wait until
To be continued...