At noon on September 22, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), after lunch, the Imagawa army suddenly left the camp and surrounded Kamigouji Temple from all directions. The leader was none other than Okuhira Yoshimasa, the governor of the Okuhira family in Takujo.
—The latter is gearing up and preparing to show off his skills.
"Your Highness, the family governor ordered the attack on the temple at the same time, and at the same time ordered not to use the knife to see blood. It is clear that he wants to leave room for negotiation." The few remaining elders of the Oppei family are trying to persuade Oppei, who has just taken office.
Yichang, "Our Okuhira family rebelled first and did not gain the trust of the family governor's palace. They clearly used us as abandoned sons in this battle, so we were allowed to be the vanguard. If we want to negotiate peace with the Yixiang clan in the future, we will definitely be
Push us out to be punished, punish us to please the temple!"
"Do you know who appointed this pioneer position?" Okudaira Yoshimasa did not answer, but asked another question.
"Master Xue Zhai?"
"Family Governor's Hall?"
"What about Master Furuno?"
"Hizenmori-sama?"
The retainers gave one guess after another, but Okuhira Yoshimasa just shook his head, and finally said loudly: "I invited this vanguard position myself! In front of all the Imagawa family samurai!
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"Your Highness..." The retainers of the Okudaira family were speechless.
"An abandoned son must have the consciousness of abandoning his son. Our Okuhira family rebelled first and has become a thorn in the eyes of the Imagawa family. If we cannot make atonement for our sins, sooner or later we will be accused in a certain turmoil and the whole family will change. You are willing to pass it down from generation to generation.
Is your family name disappearing like this? If you don’t want to let it go, you can only work hard to win back the trust of your master.” Yoshimasa Okuhira took off his family’s samurai sword and handed it to the auxiliary soldiers. He turned around and led Oku with his bare hands.
The remaining thirty or so soldiers of the Taira family rushed towards Kamigiya Temple. Behind them, the army of the Imagawa family, which had been sitting silently for half a month, rushed towards them like a tide.
"What is this for?"
"Is Imagawa Jun crazy?"
"Are you going to attack us?"
"Isn't Imagawa Yoshimoto afraid of being accused of being an enemy of Buddha?"
At this moment, watching the Imagawa army rushing towards Shanggong Temple in large numbers, the monks, soldiers and believers in Shanggong Temple were at a loss. Although they had been gathering for many days in the name of Shangru, most of them did not do well at all.
The battle plan - Mikawa has not known how many years there has been no conflict between the temple community and the samurai family. It seems that everyone has already acquiesced that the samurai family does not dare to commit the injustice of the world and attack the temple community brazenly. However, right in front of them, Imagawa
The attack on the family is being launched, and the common sense that I have always believed in is easily shattered.
"Don't be afraid, don't be chaotic, stand in good position, the Wu family will never dare to attack us, it's just a bluff!" Many officials on the front line of the temple shouted loudly, trying to boost morale and stabilize the morale of the army. Seeing that the Imagawa army was getting stronger.
As they got closer, their voices became louder and louder, trying to drown out the whispers and whispers of the believers, "They just want to scare us away. As long as we don't move, they can't do anything!"
"Don't do anything! Don't see blood! Don't cause trouble!" At the same time, many prudent officials repeatedly reminded the monk soldiers and believers under their command, "Don't give the Imagawa family an excuse to set fire to the temple on this grounds! Stop it!"
Just them!”
However, before he finished speaking, the leader, Okuhira Yoshimasa, had already slammed sideways into the Ichibuki clan's team. The believers were caught off guard and were pushed and pulled, knocking down several of them. Before they could react, Okuhira Bei behind them
The soldiers had already followed up, bumping into the crowd one after another. The strong believers were lucky, but many old, weak, sick and disabled people who had been brought in to make up the numbers were knocked to pieces, and the whole team was in chaos.
Some people wanted to collide, some wanted to escape, and some wanted to fight back with weapons, but there was nothing they could do in the crowd.
The south gate of Shanggong Temple suddenly became chaotic.
By the time Zenru learned that something had happened outside the temple and stumbled to the door with the support of two young novice monks, the soldiers of the Imagawa family had already rushed to the south gate and almost dispersed the Ichikō sect believers.
"Master, do you want the believers to use knives?" Several officials were anxious and ran to Shanru with disheveled hair to ask for instructions.
"What kind of knife are you using? What happened? Don't panic, don't panic!" Although Shanru shouted don't panic, his tone clearly revealed that he himself was panicking, and he pointed hurriedly at Imakawa outside the door.
The two flags were raised and shouted: "Send an envoy to ask, what does Imagawa Jibu want to do? Does he really want to become an enemy of the Ichigo clan? Is he crazy?"
"Master, didn't you say before that if the Imagawa family dared to come, they would never come back?" A district official was so anxious that he didn't even bother to use the honorific, and directly shouted, "Let's do it! Honjoji Temple
He Shengren Temple must have seen what's going on here, so let's take action together to give the Imagawa family some color!"
"Don't be impulsive, it will ruin the overall situation!" Zenru changed his usual gentle and kind persona, and shouted back with a louder voice: "So many connections have been entrusted to mediate, and the Oda family is said to be invading.
Oh, how dare the Imagawa family attack? There must be some misunderstanding here! Go and ask for it!"
"Whatever the misunderstanding is, they have already come to the door. Do we have any reason not to fight back?" Several other district officials were also excited.
"Don't all the soldiers of the Imagawa family have weapons?" Shanru looked towards the door, but his dim eyes could only make a general appearance, "This is clearly a fight, not an attack! There must be a misunderstanding! Calm down, hurry up.
Let the messenger ask!"
"Hey!" When several officials saw this, they had no choice but to accept the order, but they said angrily: "How can you be so arrogant?"
"There are so many acres of land inside and outside the temple, and there are so many gold and silver properties in this hall, are you worthy of having them broken?" Shanru said harshly and glared at the monks, "This is not a sign of weakness.
The Matsudaira family is the Imagawa family that controls Junyuan Ryogoku and Higashi Mikawa! If there is a fight, will our property in Kamigong Temple be good? Send someone to ask and tell everyone to stop fighting! Don't make a fuss.
Human lives!”
The envoys from Kamigongji Temple hurriedly tried to find Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse print, but found that the temple was surrounded by water. There were soldiers of the Imagawa family and Kamigongji believers who were gearing up for a fight everywhere.
It was impossible to squeeze out. They turned left and right and ran around for a long time, but no one could successfully squeeze out of the crowd. Even if they tried to negotiate with the Imagawa family samurai, they would be punched back.
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more chaotic, the Imagawa family's troops were getting closer and closer to the temple gate, and the chance for the envoys to break out was getting smaller and smaller. In the end, everyone had to flee back to the temple in despair.
"Damn it, what the hell is going on?" Seeing the outside of Shanggong Temple turned into a mess, many good fields and crops were trampled beyond recognition under the feet of thousands of troops, Shanru only felt sad
Bleeding.
In the short half hour that the envoy wasted, more and more believers were dispersed by the Imagawa army. The Imagawa family are all strong men, wearing armor, and strong; on the other hand, the believers on the Ichigo Sect side are young and old.
Weak mixed, most of them are wearing civilian clothes, and they can never beat the armored Imagawa Army with their fists. The Imagawa Army can knock the believers into pieces just by hitting people with heavy armor. As for Kamigong Temple,
The believers armed with swords, guns and hoes were ordered not to hurt anyone with their weapons. They had no way to deal with the Imagawa family's army that was advancing so fiercely - as if the enemy was using the human sea tactic.
"Close the door! Close the door quickly!" After Shanru realized that the temple door was about to be breached, he didn't care so much, and shouted and ordered his subordinates to close all the doors. However, the door was also crowded with people, and the retreating Yixiang sect members were almost
It was packed inside and outside the temple gate, making any attempt to close the door futile.
Shanru was so anxious that he took dozens of confidant monks and soldiers to the door of the south gate in person, preparing to command the door to be closed. But at this moment, several ladders were suddenly pushed up the wall of the Shanggong Temple.
Before Shanru could react, he saw a dozen warriors with two flags on their backs climbing up the ladder to the top of the city and jumping into the temple. The leader was wearing white armor and his face was as white as a beard.
, but he has a strong back and a strong back—it is Matsui Munanobu, captain of the Hatamoto Gunmao Preparatory Team.
Even in the chaos of the crowd, Matsui Munonobu still did not lose half of his calmness. With just a glance, he found Zenru in cassock among the crowd. He raised his finger and pointed at Zenru, coldly
He said to his subordinates behind him:
"The leader is here. Follow me!"
After giving the order, Matsui Munonobu rushed out like a leopard and went straight to Shanru's place. A dozen or so sword-fighting bannermen also walked quickly and followed Matsui Munonobu. The monk soldiers around Shanru hurriedly wanted to
Responding to the enemy, he was severely beaten by Matsui Munanobu with several straight punches. A monk soldier behind Shanru saw that the situation was not good and swung his stick to hit Matsui Munanobu in the head, but Matsui Munanobu turned his head slightly and hit him hard with his shoulder.
Shengsheng withstood the blow, then grabbed a stick with both hands and swung it violently, throwing the monk soldier and the stick away, hitting the believers at the door.
The surrounding monks and soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to protect Zenru, but they were beaten down by the Imagawa family's banners with their fists and kicks. Matsui Sonobu even blocked left and right as if he was in an uninhabited land, striding straight to the ground.
He rushed towards Shanru's door. Shanru was so frightened that he turned around and ran away. Matsui Sonobu jumped behind him and grabbed his cassock. In the panic, the cassock was torn in half, and Shanru fell.
After chewing the mud, he fled toward the main hall on the mountain in embarrassment, surrounded by monks and soldiers, without looking back.
On the mountain road, Matsui Munanobu led his men in hot pursuit. There was a lot of commotion along the way, and the temple was in chaos. It was not until the distraught Zenru finally escaped into the main hall, and after closing the door tightly behind him, that he discovered his shoes.
I don’t know when I lost one, I don’t know where the Buddhist beads passed down from generation to generation were thrown, and my cassock was torn like a dog chewing it.
He poked his head out of the courtyard wall and looked out, panting so hard that he could hardly keep his gaze steady - but the situation in front of him was still clear. The Imagawa family broke into the temple from various temple gates and kept fighting to disperse them.
The believers and monk soldiers of Shanggong Temple almost approached the main hall.
