Warring States Eagle

Zhengliang planned to strike first and attack those temples and shrines who obviously had conspiracies. On the day when the mountain city of Nagato country was forced to commit suicide by Mao Liyuan), it was the time when the spring plowing was busy, and Yiyikui suddenly appeared in the territory occupied by the Luo family in the Xiguo area.

The initiators of Yixiangyikui are Shimoma Lairian, Ganshoji Zhengzheng and others. They supported Shimoma Lairian from Osaka Ishiyama Gobo as a general, and said, "At the time when Buddhism is in crisis, we will overthrow the enemy of Buddhism, Rashi Zhengliang!" Zheng Liang was taken aback by raising the pole for the slogan.

According to Zhengliang's original plan, he planned to wait until the end of the spring plowing before taking the lead in attacking.But I didn't expect that the other party turned his face in advance when the spring plowing was busy, which really surprised Zheng Liang.But after thinking for a while, Zheng Liang calmed down again.After all, he himself is not omnipotent. In many cases, the reason why he has won so many victories in the past is because Zheng Liang has a better understanding of the historical process, and thus gained a lot of opportunities from it. This period did not happen at all, so Zheng Liang naturally could not "predict things like a god", so it is normal for such changes to occur.

Since Yiyiyikui this time is for the protection of Buddhism, believers in temples and shrines in the Luo family territory of the entire Western Kingdom are bound to respond.Fortunately, due to the previous immigration policy of the Luo family, temples and shrines in many areas have lost a large number of believers, which has weakened the strength of these forces to a certain extent.

But this time, there were two places that caught Zheng Liang's attention. One was the influx of refugees from the border areas of Anyi Country, Bingo Country, and Nagato Country.at this critical moment.The refugees in these areas unexpectedly experienced changes.Some even insulted and incited riots.Thus impacting the border of the Luo family.Fortunately, the Luo's family had already prepared for this. Not only did they prepare a large amount of food for these refugees, but they also forcibly ordered these refugees to enter the border checkpoint of the Luo's family in batches (no more than ten people in each batch). Those who do not cooperate will be shot directly.So naturally, chaos in the border area was avoided.

Another thing that attracted Zheng Liang's attention was that the temple and shrine forces in the area near the Luo family's various divisions did not rise up this time and participated in this riot.Instead, it seemed very quiet.This is really weird. From Zhengliang's point of view, these forces seem to have deliberately made such a move to contain the various divisions of the Luo family, thus causing the temple and shrine forces that have already rioted in other areas to expand the scope of the riot.

After all, there are still some temples and shrines that are still on the sidelines at this time, and even tend to join 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. Come.

But the ideas of these temples and shrines are obviously too naive. After all, Zhengliang originally planned to annex all these forces, it was just a matter of time.Now that both sides have turned their faces.Naturally, Zhengliang would not be restrained by their small tricks, so he immediately sent envoys to the temples and shrines near the various divisions of the Western Kingdom.They are required to fully cooperate with the suppression of the rioting forces this time.But these temples and shrines not only killed the envoys of the Luo family, but even rudely shifted the responsibility to Masara.For this reason, Zheng Liang directly announced that he would go all out to level the riot forces in the territory, and he himself led the army out, 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 became more and more within 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 Ultimate Bliss, and those who retreat will fall into the endless hell!"

At the center of the outbreak of the turmoil, Anyi Country Ganshoji Temple, headed by Shimoma Lairian, Ganshoji Temple, Ganshoji Temple and nearby temples and shrines gathered forces, and more than [-] riot teams were assembled in an instant.Including the common people who moved after hearing the news, the total number of mobs exceeded seven or eight thousand (thanks to the previous series of policies of the Luo family, otherwise there would be more mobs).They yelled about Amitabha, Zhengliang, Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and Infernal Hell, and flocked to the Temple of Wishing.

Of course, not everyone flocked to the Temple of Wishes. Some mobs gathered towards the border area between the Luo family in Anyi Country and Bingo Country in an attempt to attack the border area of ​​the Luo Family and unite with the followers of Bingo Country who also responded to the call. stand up.

But not everyone participated in the riots. The new lords and officials appointed by the Luo family to various places commanded the family and ordinary people to take up arms and confront the mob.Some of the citizens who migrated from the Kyushu area or those who had just transformed from slavery to ordinary citizens of the Luo family even climbed onto the roof of the house provided by the Luo family, or beat the iron pot or blew the bamboo flute, and said loudly: "Stay with the village!" Calls on ordinary people who did not participate in the riots to unite to protect their villages, while denying the mobs access to the villages.

On Zhengliang's side, with the arrival of the army, especially the newly established Datong Fan Squad in Zhengliang's formation, most of the temples and shrines were breached under the attack of the army.Regarding these temples and shrines, Zhengliang will not be soft-hearted, and a massacre came directly, leaving only women and children, and then directly burned the temples and shrines.For those temples and shrines that were built like a walled city, Zhengliang directly blasted open the gates with a large cylinder, and then massacred and burned them down.

Of course, not all temples and shrines adopt the strategy of cage city. If you are bold, you will directly draw a mob to fight with Zhengliang's army.

When the mob army came, Zheng Liang immediately rode out and led the army to slaughter with all his strength. Facing such a ferocious Luo family army, the mob immediately scattered and fled, but soon rushed forward like a tide.They naively believed that Zhengliang was the enemy of Buddha, and they were never tired of attacks, advancing and retreating day and night, as if they were tireless.

The riots started in early April and continued until the end of April. It seemed that the spring plowing was coming to an end.so go on.The people who have finally settled down will fall into hunger again.I am afraid that by the time of spring this crucial planting season is over.The rioters will continue to be addicted to Amitabha and cannot extricate themselves, and the disputes will not stop.

Facing the mob team who had automatically learned to fight guerrilla warfare, Zheng Liang finally made a decision. The so-called monk can't escape the temple, so he simply ignored these guerrilla mobs and went straight to their lair!The first target is the Honjoji Temple, which is the most important in the western region of Zhou Fangguo and one of the centers of the riot.

So, after destroying the temples and shrines along the way, Zhengliang finally came to a village near Honjoji Temple on the last day of April.This village originally belonged to the territory of Tao Qingxian's vassal Yamazaki Xingsheng, but since the Battle of Yandao.After Yamazaki Xingsheng took refuge in Luo's family, Zheng Liang transferred his territory to the Chikuzen Kingdom of Kyushu during this migration of the people, doubling the area of ​​the territory.But this time, due to the sudden riot, the Yamazaki Xingsheng clan who had no time to transfer had to stick here temporarily.During this period of time, he has been leading the army to confront the mob in Honjoji Temple.

It was already evening when the army arrived, so Zheng Liang was going to rest for the night, and then attack Honzheng Temple with all his strength tomorrow.And just in the middle of the night, it seemed that they knew that Zheng Liang's army had arrived, and there was an enemy attack, and it was dawn.The flute sounded again.Zheng Liang has already made preparations, but Zheng Liang has already set up an ambush.As a result, the enemy was defeated in an instant.What he never expected was that after the defeat, the rioters set fire to another nearby village. Fortunately, when the riot started, Yamazaki Xingsheng wiped out all the residents of this village. They were concentrated in the village where the Luo family's army was stationed at this time, so it was only the village that was burned.

The light of the fire reddened the frosty sky of dawn.Seeing the people who had managed to live and work in peace and contentment, their houses were burned in the fire, Zheng Liang felt indescribable anger.People who are instigated by beliefs are stupid enough to actively destroy their own lives.It would be excusable if Masarato'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 energy to get angry. How can they have the courage to launch a riot?However, under Zhengliang's benevolent government, every household is full of grain and rice, but they repay virtue with resentment, and use the strength and courage bestowed by Zhengliang to riot?

"Sure enough, we can't indulge them!" Zhengliang, who had experienced several riots in Kyushu, thought coldly. He couldn't let them set fires everywhere. He had to take the initiative to attack and turn all the temples, shrines, and fortresses occupied by the opponent into scorched earth, otherwise , the rebellion will not be quelled. "Notify the soldiers to attack after dawn."

This riot made Zhengliang's various teams get a good training.After all, not long ago, the various divisions expanded their army and added a lot of soldiers. They just took advantage of this opportunity to carry out post-integration training and become a more rigorous whole.

The sky gradually brightened, while the flames gradually dimmed. White morning mist rose from the surrounding woods. The air was filled with the breath of battle, and war horses neighed everywhere.At this moment, a person came to serve Zhengliang with a bowl of soup and rice. It was Mrs. Komatsu, the wife of Masaki Xingsheng, a retainer of Zhengliang.

In fact, the retainers of the Luo family seemed to have consciously formed a rule, that is, whenever Zheng Liang arrived in their respective territories, they would send their own family members to serve Zheng Liang's daily life and food.After all, they all know that their lord Zhengliang is not a lustful person, so their family members will be safe, and this behavior is just to express their loyalty to Zhengliang.

At first, Zheng Liang naturally thought that such a move was unnecessary. After all, this would make Zheng Liang feel very strange, as if he wanted to occupy the wife and daughter of his retainers.Although the family members of these retainers are only responsible for Zheng Liang's daily life and food during rest, and do not need to accompany him to sleep at all, Zheng Liang is not used to it.Moreover, out of the idea of ​​preventing problems before they happen, it is best for people who can rest assured to take care of the food. Who knows if these family members will kill themselves for poisoning, even their own lives.

But even though Zhengliang often refused such a move, sometimes it was difficult to refute the wishes of his retainers, especially in the newly occupied Xiguo area, he had to be more careful with the old ministers of the Ouchi family, so Zhengliang had no choice but to agree to Yamazaki Xingsheng to let himself His wife came to attend to his living requests.Now Mrs. Yamazaki Xingsheng's wife, Mrs. Komatsu, came with a bowl of soup and rice.

Zheng Liang took the wooden bowl and ate the rice with soup.To be honest, this bowl of rice with soup tastes really good, and the main ingredient in it is rice, and rice is a precious thing even for a family like Yamazaki Xingsheng who just joined the Luo family. Mrs. Komatsu was very attentive to serving Zhengliang. After thinking of this, Zhengliang immediately praised: "Madam, the miso soup tastes very good."

"Probably because of your fasting. It's already dawn." Mrs. Xiaosong said with a smile.

"No, no, you are a good housewife who can make such a delicious miso soup."

"Thank you, my lord, for your appreciation. Please use another bowl."

"I'm not hungry anymore... so I don't need it. If I eat the rice that you have saved so hard, you will have no rice to eat during this time." Although Zhengliang can order the Cabinet to send some rice to the entire women People, but now is the time of war, because of such troubles, the family of Yamazaki Xingsheng does not know when they will start to move to the new territory of Chikuzen Kingdom in Kyushu, and unnecessary troubles may not be avoided. Naturally, Masaragi will not issue With such an order, the precious rice in the retainer's home will not be eaten up.

"No. This is all saved up for a rainy day. I'm afraid even the rice will be happy for the Lord. Please use another bowl."

"Hahaha..." Zheng Liang said with a smile: "You can always hear happy lies in a poor family. You can tell from your face that you have worked hard. Just eat a bowl for me. You still have to feed your children!" Mrs. Komatsu recently gave birth to a son for Yamazaki Xingsheng, and it is not yet a full moon.

"No, I have plenty of milk, so..." Mrs. Xiaosong's eyes were full of tears, and she refused to give in a single step: "My lord, this is not a lie. My lord, I have seen such riots before. At that time, the fields were abandoned and the people became There is no other way for beggars, refugees or thieves. The old and weak, women and children will also die on the roadside. But the Lord can bring peace to the people. Please eat the Lord, drive those mobs away, and bring us a peaceful world. era."

"An era of peace?" Zheng Liang didn't expect the woman in front of him to have such a request, and obviously this lady saw the hope of peace from the previous series of laws of the Luo family, so this bowl of soup and rice was actually hers. Thanksgiving meal.Thinking of this, Zheng Liang took the second bowl of soup and rice from Mrs. Komatsu's hand, and started to eat slowly.

"Okay. Don't get tired. You are not alone. You have a child and a husband." After finishing the second bowl of soup and rice, Zheng Liang handed the wooden bowl back to Mrs. Komatsu, and told the attendants at the same time. Under the protection, he turned to the main formation of the army.

"Peace? Please wait, I will bring..."

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