It is indeed a war.
Noah stood on the top of the Black Leaf Castle and looked into the distance, and saw the attacker's camp - about a few hundred tents, which meant that the enemy had at least two thousand people. Black Leaf Castle is not a big castle, but the city wall is still three feet high. There used to be more than 2,000 people in the city.
The reason why it is "once upon a time" is because at the beginning, only more than a hundred enemy troops came. Wearing tattered clothes and armor, without any weapons, and looking weak, he camped on a nearby hillside. The people in the fort thought that this was meat delivered to their door, so they sent out 150 soldiers, but they were ambushed - the enemy turned out to be nearly 300 people, and 150 soldiers were wiped out.
The clan leader and the fire bearer were very angry, so the fire bearer personally led another 500 warriors there. Unexpectedly, the enemy had an ambush - there were actually nearly 500 of them. These five hundred warriors were not wiped out, but only two hundred escaped.
As a result, there are now only more than 1,500 people left in Black Leaf Castle, and the number of young and middle-aged warriors is only more than 500. The clan leader became even more angry and decided to fight to the death, but the fire bearer persuaded him before he died. She said the group was obviously very good at ambushes and there might have been more than "nearly 500 people".
The patriarch made the right decision - the enemy waited for another two days, and seeing that the people in the fort were still not fooled, they finally pulled out the remaining troops. The hillside was covered with tents, and everyone realized that if they had left the city before, the Black Leaf Family might no longer exist.
The clan leader decided to refuse to defend. There is no heat source for the enemy, and there are no trees outside. If you want to keep warm, you can only burn the materials you carry with you, and then you can only burn tents and people. They won't last long and will soon recede.
But what they didn't expect was that two days later these people pushed the huge siege machine to the hillside. It was a trebuchet made of wood and iron. Under the control of a strong and powerful warrior, it could smash stones as big as millstones onto the city wall. Although the walls of Black Leaf Castle are thick, after seven days of continuous bombardment by the opponent, a section of the wall showed signs of collapse.
"What do they look like?" Noya asked the guard beside her.
"They have helmets with visors," the guard said. "But they are short and small, like teenagers and children. Only a few of them are strong warriors."
Noah nodded and continued to look at the camp in the distance. In the middle of the camp, a large bamboo pole stood in front of the largest tent. It was sewn from black animal skin, with three red vertical stripes on it. She couldn't remember any powerful family with siege weapons that had such a emblem. But she remembered that Li Guoshangchi on the other side of the mountain was called Huode.
Is it that person? When she thought of him, Lu Ruoya felt that the fear in her heart had weakened a little.
In fact, the attackers were not as relaxed as the clan leader imagined. After counting the stored grain, Li Bochen realized that they could only attack for ten more days at most. If you can't capture it in ten days, you have to turn to other places before the food is exhausted to see if you can rob a few more small tribes to maintain supplies.
He proposed his plan to lead a surprise force into the city at night to open the city gate, but Yang Baoping expressed opposition.
"This strategy of yours should be useful in your six kingdoms. As soon as the city gate opens, we rush in, kill them until they are defeated, and surrender. But this is a demon country." She said unceremoniously, "You rush in , they were also killed until they were defeated, but they were in the castle and had nowhere to run. And everyone knew what would happen to the losing side in the family war - they were all killed and made into meat. So once they had nowhere to go But to escape, they still have to fight hard. Don't forget, each of our hundreds of tents only houses one person. And your people - what's wrong, Ge Xuanbai, am I right? Yours Can a person fight a Rakshasa in close combat?"
Ge Xuanbai curled his lips: "My people can't fight in close combat, but they can cast spells. The two times before were because the prince didn't want Rakshasa to know that we were human beings, so my people didn't show their true abilities."
Yang Baoping said: "Haha!"
"Then we will be in a very difficult situation." Li Bochen said, "You also said that if we push too hard, these Rakshasa may even burn down the city if they get desperate, leaving nothing usable for us."
"Yes. We can only find ways to trick them out and eliminate them bit by bit."
"Or use poison." Ge Xuanbai said.
Yang Baoping thought carefully: "Firstly, we don't have poison now. Secondly, can we get it into their water sources? Thirdly, Rakshasa are not very afraid of poison. They can even eat carrion. But this is the right direction." , it seems that you are not completely stupid. You can think about it more."
At this time, Xu Cheng said: "The families we killed along the way, big and small, all worship the Demon Lord Qingxiao."
Li Bochen immediately thought about his words seriously. Xu Cheng has indeed put forward many good suggestions in the past few months. He was originally a very smart young man, and he became the spiritual master of Fengxue Sword God. Therefore, many of what he said now were not only his personal opinions, but also the result of the integration of many experiences of Fengxue Sword God.
However, in the past, Li Boxen could easily tell what the Fengxue Sword God wanted him to say - the tone would be different. But since the show of power by the Qianjiang River, the secret spirit has become very submissive. Now it is difficult for Li Bochen to distinguish what Xu Cheng wants to say and what Feng Xuejian wants to say.
Xu Cheng added: "But closer to Bai Zuyuan, Rakshasa families of all sizes worship another thing at the same time - it looks like a ghost face, often painted white. This image usually appears on the walls. Brother Li, I wonder if you have noticed, but there is also something like this on the city wall of Black Leaf Castle."
Li Bochen has indeed seen it. It was a huge ghost head embossed on the city wall. It was white. He thought it was just some kind of traditional decoration. But is there actually another mystery? He asked, "What is that?"
"That's not a ghost face, but a beast face." Xu Cheng said slowly, "A white beast face. Brother Li, I can't say anything else."
Li Bochen was stunned, and suddenly remembered the dream he had when he was in Dangtu Mountain - a white bear. That was the incarnation of the Fengxue Sword God in his dream. He borrowed Beichen's luck from him and caused a heavy snowstorm in advance. Does the white beast face Xu Cheng hinted at refer to the Snow Sword God? He did attain enlightenment in the Far North, and Noah seemed to have heard of him.
His mind moved: "You mean yours?"
Xu Chengdao: "Yes. In the past few days, there have been Yin spirits outside our camp. I originally thought they were ordinary Yin spirits, but last night I found out that they were not Yin spirits, but Yin soldiers. But they should be afraid of the kind of things they wear with mixed blood. , did not come in. Brother Li, there is a spiritual master in this Black Leaf City."
