Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1690: Chapter 535: The Tide Has Turned, The Surrender Begins

The Yangxu Tripod is different from the Ancestral Spirit Stele; it serves only two purposes: heating and suppressing deceitful monsters. Within the Ancestral Spirit Stele’s coverage, Xia Hong can sense any life movement other than the Xia people.

Unfortunately, Aikou City and the entire Five Northern Towns are not yet considered Great Xia’s territory, so the Ancestral Spirit Stele cannot be used here. Otherwise, wherever Xia Hong is on the battlefield, the surrounding hundred miles would be under control, and what enemy could defeat the Xia Army?

For this reason, the only things Xia Hong can rely on now are the Yangxu Tripod and the Cold Beast Stake.

The Cold Beast Stake needs no elaboration; it is foreseeable that for many years, Great Xia will rely on it to contend with the feudal towns of Moao River;

As for the Yangxu Tripod, it is like a divine artifact for the army.

Having it with the army not only prevents deceitful monsters from infiltrating the troops but also provides warmth during marches or camp setups, preventing soldiers from freezing. Most importantly, it ensures the smooth operation of the Cold Beast Stake.

From the moment Cai Qianshan determinedly decided to personally intervene after last night’s failed negotiation, Xia Hong knew that with the current strength of the Xia Army, their chances of victory against the feudal towns were definitely not high.

Even if the Cai Qiu army hasn’t come down, it’s the same!

After all, Cai Qiu has established its feudal stronghold for over three hundred years. The number of Tribulation Body Realm experts doesn’t need mentioning; there must be various deceit techniques hidden within, coupled with Cai Qiuhu’s confident assertion last night about further developments with the Wuchuan Army, so Xia Hong remained extremely vigilant after the negotiation failed.

The maximum heating range of the Yangxu Tripod is twenty kilometers, but Xia Hong can control the extent of its radiation range.

As mentioned earlier, within the radiation range of the Yangxu Tripod, it only has a heating effect, without any surveillance capability. Therefore, when Qin Feng’s fifty thousand troops marched swiftly all the way from East Valley City and approached within a dozen kilometers of Aikou, Xia Hong and the entire Right Route Army were unaware.

But Yuwen Dao’s leadership abilities are not to be underestimated.

The forty thousand Xia troops of the Right Route arrived under Aikou City in the late night of the 28th. Upon arrival, Yuwen Dao dispatched a large number of scouts within a twenty-kilometer area to the west of the military camp, patrolling day and night without cease, so once the ominous wind encompassing the Wuchuan army drew near, the scouts discovered it.

All Great Xia scouts are equipped with Yellow Candles, and the Right Route Army under Yuwen Dao is no exception. The Wuchuan army formation shrouded by that ominous wind was too large to be concealed from those scouts.

To be precise, when the scouts reported back, the Wuchuan army was only seventeen kilometers from the military camp, and according to the scouts’ observations of the Wuchuan army’s marching speed, the time left for Xia Hong to prepare was less than a quarter of an hour.

With less than a quarter of an hour, how could an army of forty thousand make any deployment?

If it were any other camp, no matter how strong the military force or disciplined the troops, they might have been powerless to save the situation.

But instead, Cai Qiu encountered Great Xia!

On the late night of the 30th, when Xia Hong arrived at Aikou City and learned that Yuwen Dao’s plan to breach the city involved digging tunnels, he immediately had an idea.

When it comes to digging tunnels, who can compare to the Long-tailed Rodent?

Although Great Xia does not have a method to tame Cold Beasts, they do have the Cold Beast Stake!

The speed at which low-level rodents dig is extremely terrifying, let alone the Cold Beast Stake transformed into Beast King Level rodents!

Xia Hong wasn’t present earlier, so both the Cold Beast Stake and the Yangxu Tripod had to remain in Xia City to ensure the safety of the rear. Now that he is here, the Yangxu Tripod and Cold Beast Stake should naturally play their roles.

Why have soldiers dig slowly when the Cold Beast Stake can dig instead?

The key is that Xia Hong brought all fifty Cold Beast Stakes this time.

The system’s Cold Beast Stake can automatically transform into the type of Cold Beast once it records its Essence Blood. This type of transformation is unrestricted. With Great Xia’s current hunting ability, the Essence Blood of over a hundred types has been recorded in the fifty Cold Beast Stakes, naturally including the Beast King Level rodents.

With fifty Beast King Level rodents simultaneously digging underground, there was no need for the ten-day half-month timeline mentioned earlier. Following the route Yuwen Dao scouted, it took less than a quarter of an hour to completely penetrate the tunnel.

Once the tunnel was opened, everything else became easy!

Nowadays, Great Xia’s single-soldier strength stands alone in the Southern Slope Territory. Where does Qin Feng’s fifty thousand troops get the courage to fight against the Xia Army on their own?

No need to guess, they must have coordinated in advance with Jin Mountain’s army inside Aikou City. As their fifty thousand elite cavalry attacked from the east, Jin Mountain’s sixty thousand troops would inevitably charge out from within Aikou City. The two armies combining forces to annihilate the four thousand strong Right Route Army of Great Xia.

Such a wishful plan didn’t need to be pointed out by Xia Hong; almost every commander under Yuwen Dao’s Right Route Army understood it immediately.

Having guessed the opponent’s intentions made it simple to respond.

Xia Hong recalled all the scouts scattered on the periphery, pretending not to know of the Wuchuan army’s approach, then sealed off the military camp, secretly allowing Yuwen Dao to lead twenty thousand troops into the tunnel while he remained with another twenty thousand within the camp, creating the illusion that the army hadn’t made any moves.

Thus, the moment Jin Mountain’s sixty thousand troops stepped out of Aikou City, Xia Hong knew that the battle was already decided.

Without these sixty thousand troops, Yuwen Dao’s twenty thousand Xia soldiers emerging from the tunnel behind Aikou City, who could resist inside the city?

Yuwen Dao did not disappoint him; less than fifty breaths of time after the sixty thousand troops charged out of the city, he had already taken command of Aikou City.