Noya wanted to speak, but Li Bochen suddenly raised a finger in front of his lips and lowered his head.
Normally, Noya would ask him why he didn't say anything. But her mind first became clear due to fear, and then became clearer because of the peace of mind after seeing Li Boxen, so she didn't say anything and slowly walked past him.
After only walking three or four steps, I heard the person behind me say, "Okay. You can talk now."
Noya turned around and frowned, but still didn't speak, waiting for him to explain.
Li Bochen slowly rubbed the sand and stones on the blade and whispered: "Do you know the Spirit Master? The leader of the Black Leaf Family is a Spirit Master. Just now, his Yin soldiers were here to watch you, but now they have gone away. You Guess, why does he want to look at you?"
Noya did not go out, but turned half sideways and wrapped her hands in the thick robe. In this way, you can see Li Bochen and also look at the scenery outside the stone corridor - Black Leaf Castle is built on a cliff. Although the cliff is not high, the buildings built with stones inside the castle are stacked on top of each other, which makes it look like Another hill was built on top of the cliff, so the view was broad.
While looking at the white snow-capped peaks shining in the sun in the distance, she said: "Of course I know. Huh, the old man asked his son to be my bodyguard, and then lied to me that he wanted to kill his father - So you can test my tone and see if I am loyal. Am I right?"
"Half right." Li Bochen said, "Lixi didn't lie to you, it was the clan leader's secret soldiers who were listening. It's still the same question just now - do you want to be a visible fire bearer?"
Noah said after a while: "I have repaid my kindness, and now I don't owe you anything. But I didn't expect you people to come to such a north. Why don't you go back to your country? This is Luo You have already asked me to help you mess up an army in the place where Rakshasa is located, do you still want me to help you capture this Rakshasa's castle?"
Li Bochen frowned, stared at Lu Ruiya for a while, and said, "You're wrong. You've changed. What happened to you?"
Noah hesitated for a moment and said, "The Demon Lord has abandoned me."
Li Bochen was stunned for a moment, but he was not very surprised. He was Beichen, and Noya had previously concluded a contract of mutual assistance with him, which meant that the other party to the contract was an "Emperor" - such a relationship should be many times more reliable and powerful than simply belief in a spiritual god. . Maybe it's not that Demon Lord Qingxia abandoned her, but he "took" her away.
Li Bochen said: "It's not necessarily a bad thing. I know that in the era of the ancestors, various ethnic groups still lived together, but now there is a huge difference between people and Rakshasa. This should be due to different beliefs in spiritual gods. In fact, I also found out that you said It was only when he started to speak more coherently and logically that I became suspicious - you would actually consider whether to help me capture this fortress because of your status as a Rakshasa. If we had just met you, you would never have asked."
Noah snorted: "Are you saying that our Rakshasas are stupid? Do you want to say that the Demon Lord told us that Rakshasas have become stupid?"
Li Bochen smiled: "Then why did you ask me this question?"
Noah thought for a while and said, "Okay, do you plan to stay here?"
"One to two years. After we leave, this place can be left to you."
Nuoya added: "If I help you, will you treat me like you said when you were in Dangtu Mountain? At that time, you said that there were some children there——"
Li Boxen said: "I will help you out of morality rather than profit, just like a good person treats a good person."
Noah nodded: "Then what do you want me to do?"
"We will capture this fortress soon, but I'm worried that Rakshasa will destroy this place. If there is going to be such a thing, I hope you can use your identity as a fire bearer to stop them." Li Bochen said, " If this situation does not arise, I still need you to collect information. The Black Leaf family's pastures, mines, fire sites, relationships with other families, and various details on Bai Zuyuan - they have lived here for so long, and these information are all It’s valuable. Knowing this information makes you more valuable.”
Noya frowned: "Me? More valuable?"
Li Bochen said: "You are a Rakshasa. The more valuable you become, the easier it will be for my people to accept you - this is what I just said, I will only consider helping you based on moral reasons. Human and Rakshasa We lived together in the past, and I hope that if possible, we will become the same in the future, rather than one party driving the other party out. I hope you can make my people think that some Rakshasa can actually be human."
Noah thought for a moment: "I'll just pretend that I understand. But actually I don't understand why you made things so troublesome. You can obviously capture this fortress by yourself."
Li Bochen smiled: "Because I'm learning to do more things."
Five days later, the first Rakshasa reinforcements arrived. There are about five hundred reinforcements, belonging to the Ice Blood Stone family living in the northwest of Bai Zuyuan, and are led by a general who is under the clan leader and the fire bearer. But the reinforcements did not enter the city, but were stationed far away at a place that was almost the same distance away from Blackleaf Castle and the raiding army. After observing, Yang Baoping said that whether these Rakshasa people were reinforcements for Black Leaf Castle seemed to depend on the war in a few days. If Blackleaf Castle had the upper hand, they would charge into the raiders. If the raiders have the advantage, they may pick up some corpses on the battlefield after the defeat of Blackleaf Castle, or try to sneak attack the victor to see if they can take advantage.
In the following days, reinforcements from the other four families arrived one after another. There were not many people, ranging from three to four hundred to seven or eight hundred. But by the eighth day, these "reinforcements" totaled nearly 3,000 people. They kept a distance from Black Leaf Castle and the Plundering Army, and also kept a distance from each other, thus loosely surrounding the warring parties.
Li Bochen observed that as the number of people increased, these Rakshasa began to move. If he were in the Six Nations, he wouldn't have to worry about one of them launching a surprise attack. Because since both sides are extremely distrustful of each other, the party that strikes first is likely to gain little benefit, and will instead be regarded as the one who stands out. However, these people were Rakshasas, stupid and dull by nature, and Li Bochen could not guarantee what they would or would not do.
So at this time, he and the people in Black Leaf Castle almost unanimously realized that they needed to fight a small battle first.
He hoped that through this battle, the onlookers and reinforcements would realize that his troops were extremely difficult to deal with and stop thinking about anything else. Otherwise, as long as a supporting army rushes in and asks him not to use the power of the spiritual god, the number of our troops will be exposed. Blackleaf Castle thought exactly the opposite - they needed Rakshasa reinforcements to turn into hyenas, not scavenging vultures.
So on the ninth day, the battle started.
