A quarter of an hour later, he could already vaguely see the outline of the army - neither long nor short, like a black dragon. Judging from this scale, there will probably be nearly two thousand people in good military appearance, including many vehicles pulled by large monster beasts.
Li Bochen stopped and planned to explore this place with his Yin spirit, and then decide whether to return to Black Leaf Castle first or lurk somewhere, and wait for them to attack the city with a knife in the back.
The Yin spirit left his body and moved forward, faster than he could run, but after flying two miles, Li Boxen suddenly stopped.
Something's not right in the northeast. To the north of Black Leaf Fort is the hill where Xie is located, to the west is where they garrisoned when they attacked the fortress, and is also where the army of unknown origin is passing through, while the remaining five families are all further north. Now Li Boxen realized that there seemed to be something darker moving in the dark night in the northeast, and he even felt that he could vaguely hear some human voices in the howling north wind.
He hesitated for a moment, then immediately turned and ran over there. Two quarters of an hour later, he finally found a longer black dragon squirming on the distant horizon. When he got closer, he could see clearly that it was an army of Rakshasa.
He could roughly estimate their number from the length of the torch-bearing army outside the fort, but he could not estimate the number of this Rakshasa army. Because the tail of the long dragon extends into the depths of the night, the end cannot be seen from the perspective of a Yin spirit. But from what he has seen so far, the scale is already greater than five thousand.
This is definitely not Bai Zuyuan's army. The troops in Bai Zuyuan were not fully armored, and most of them only had a breastplate. But these Rakshasa soldiers in front of them were fully armed and wrapped tightly in thick iron armor, like moving iron cans. They have military flags, standard weapons, large baggage, and even more than 300 armored beasts. According to the nature of Rakshasa, even when marching at night, he will never be obedient and silent. Although the Rakshasa soldiers in this army can also make sounds, their discipline is much better than the six Rakshasa soldiers Li Boxen saw before.
He realized that this was an elite force, a regular army similar to the ten-thousand-person Rakshasa army he had seen on the Qianjiang River!
Of course he himself was not afraid. He could even use spiritual means to escape after killing more than a thousand people. But this meant either abandoning Black Leaf Fort or suffering a lot of losses - his and Yang Baoping's combined troops in the fort were less than 600, and he was absolutely intolerable to such a result.
Regardless of where this army came from... they marched at night, but what about the ones with torches? Is it a partial division to lure the enemy?
Li Bochen immediately rushed over there, and on the way he saw four Rakshasa scout teams of fifty each. These scouts were silent and looked well-trained compared to Bai Zuyuan's Rakshasa, which made Li Bochen's heart sink even more.
As they approached another army, they also saw three scout teams along the road. So he immediately understood their identities - they wore heavy armor similar to Rakshasa's, and they spoke in Li Guohua with a slightly strange accent when talking in low voices. They were undoubtedly people from Li Ducheng.
But this did not make Li Bochen feel relaxed. Why are Li Ducheng's troops here? He had a bad idea, but he felt that according to Yang Baoping's personality, he wouldn't do such a thing secretly.
As he approached the castle, he noticed that the gates were open. There was a thump in my heart first, and after seeing a group of about ten people coming out of the door, the door was closed again. He rushed closer and found that the leaders were Yang Baoping and Ge Xuanbai, and the remaining soldiers were all mixed blood.
Yang Baoping's face looked very ugly, and Ge Xuanbai's face looked even worse. Normally, Yang Baoping was domineering when the two of them talked, but tonight they were different.
Li Bochen heard Yang Baoping whisper: "...You shouldn't have come with me. What if both of us are detained? Who makes the decision in the city?"
Ge Xuanbai said coldly: "If I don't come, how will I know whether your words are true or false? If you tell lies, it doesn't matter if I come or not. If you tell the truth, it doesn't matter. Junhou is not here tonight... ...Hmph, maybe Li Ducheng’s troops have been discovered a long time ago and are watching somewhere.”
Yang Baoping said: "You don't need to be weird. If they really want to keep you, just save my life first. How about that?"
Ge Xuanbai's tone softened slightly, but he still said: "What's the use of keeping you alive? They really want to attack the city, can you make them change their minds?"
Yang Baoping glared at him, but seemed to know that he was in the wrong and stopped talking.
After listening to these few words, Li Bochen was able to make a rough guess, and at the same time he felt a little more at ease. Although he was in seclusion these days, his Yin spirit often came out of his body to patrol, but he didn't notice anything strange about Yang Baoping. What's more, it had only been six or seven days since the Black Leaf Castle was captured. Even if she spread the news, it would be impossible for Li Ducheng's troops to arrive by then.
Li Ducheng's troops came to a halt after going downhill. Then the flags waved and the formation spread out, as if they wanted to set up camp. Li Bochen felt a little more at ease when he saw this - if he wanted to attack the city at night, he should immediately encircle it, and not stop at this time.
Later, another group of people was seen galloping out of the army and heading towards Black Leaf Castle. Less than half a quarter of an hour later, the two groups met. The two sides stopped about ten steps apart. Li Bochen saw that the leader was a burly male general, wearing a distinctive cyan armor. The helmet was inlaid with tiger stripes with gold wire. He was sitting on a bloated-headed beast. on the body.
This is the military system of the Li State. The inlay of tiger stripes means that this person is a commander who can lead three thousand troops. Looking at the big flag held by his own soldiers behind him, it is indeed the black flag of the commander.
Yang Baoping's face turned cold when he saw this man, and the man did not get down. He just laughed condescendingly on the beast's back: "Baoping'er, it is you who are here as expected."
Then he raised his eyes and looked at Black Leaf Castle: "You conquered such a big castle, and a few old guys were laughing from ear to ear - how about it? Brother Jindao, I know you brought out few people, so I came to help immediately. Wait until I hold this place Cheng, have you thought about how to repay me?"
Yang Baoping immediately sighed and said, "Lu Jindao, how do you know I'm here?"
Lu Jin crossed his arms with his knife: "You led the people all the way to Bai Zuyuan to fight with great momentum. How could I not know? I also heard that your team has nearly a thousand people. Where else can I feed you? Of course. Bai Zuyuan - Don't talk nonsense, there won't be a shortage of inventory in the city, right? Get some out and work for the army. We have to eat before we can defend the city. When you follow me back to Li Capital City, I guarantee that you will have to start from the hundred generals. If you are promoted to commander, hey, you should be under my control. At that time, you have to listen to my orders and you can no longer run around."
Yang Baoping frowned and said, "Go back to Li Ducheng? Why should I go back?"
