Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1774: Chapter 565: Yuwen Yong, the Right Gamble

Guangning Mountain, as the name suggests, is a mountain.

But this mountain is not ordinary!

Being used by Cai Qiu for military storage, it has its unique features.

Guangning Mountain is only over a hundred meters high, with a flat summit, three kilometers wide and eight kilometers long, forming a rectangle, covering an area of about twenty square kilometers, surrounded by gentle slopes; as long as an army is stationed on the mountain, they can overlook the surroundings, making it a typical terrain that is easy to defend and hard to attack.

Not only is the mountain structure unique, but its location is also extremely coincidental.

The entire Evergreen Valley stretches north to south, flanked east and west by the Moao Mountain range, with an average width of about forty kilometers; at the narrowest point, it’s even less than ten kilometers, and where Guangning Mountain sits, the width is precisely twelve kilometers.

The mountain’s stretch is eight kilometers, sticking out here like a natural fortress. The summit is easy to defend, and if the army secures passageways close to the cliffs on both sides, even facing enemies several or even tenfold in number, as long as they are not too powerful, it can almost always be held.

Guangning Mountain is located deep in the southern part of Evergreen Valley. When there was no warfare before, Cai Qiu naturally wouldn’t pay much attention to it. But things have changed, with the feudal towns defeated twice, the Xia Army advancing vigorously, Cai Qiuhu naturally wants to take advantage of this natural fortress.

Cai Yunzhou is the City Lord of Qinghua City. Yesterday during the day, his uncle Cai Qiuhu instructed him to station troops at Guangning Mountain, and he immediately understood the intent, deploying large forces on the mountain and sending out numerous scouts on both sides to monitor all movements of the Xia Army.

He calculated; given the geographic advantage of Guangning Mountain, even if the Xia Army deploys forces five times or more, they cannot break through. His only concern was the fourteen Beast Emperor Puppets.

Looking at the Four Vassals’ situation, Xia Hong would no longer want to continue this war; this was already a drawn conclusion.

His uncle Cai Qiuhu had said, the Beast Emperor Puppets of Great Xia, would likely only be activated by Xia Hong, so as long as Xia Hong does not come, Guangning Mountain would not face any issues; Cai Yunzhou almost concluded this.

But right now, he’s genuinely panicking.

Under the slope to the north of the camp, another unit of Xia Army has appeared!

No longer should it be called beneath the slope; the nearly twenty thousand Xia Army had already broken through the gates and were now flooding into the camp, attacking Cai Qiu’s soldiers.

Unluckily, Cai Qiu’s soldiers just received his instructions and were all busily rushing east, focusing on Hou Bing’s ten thousand Xia Army and forty thousand rebels.

Due to the rear army being on the west side, he had just commanded them to shoot the enemy troops, so they were all in a bow-drawing posture, and as the Xia Army quickly approached, the last row of soldiers didn’t even have time to switch weapons.

“How is this possible! There are so many scouts on both sides, and not one saw the Xia Army going past; how did you get to the north?”

Cai Yunzhou, now shaken to the core, is emotionally disturbed, unable to believe that the Xia Army had stealthily reached behind them.

Yuwen Yong, the one who just claimed he was gravely mistaken, Cai Yunzhou had identified him, he’s precisely the general of the Xia Army, Yuwen Yong.

Wasn’t Yuwen Yong leading troops to clean up the remnants to the south of Guangning Mountain?

…

“A bit risky, but there’s a good chance it’ll work!”

The look of shock and despair on Cai Yunzhou’s face was now seen clearly by Yuwen Yong, who immediately felt relieved from his prior anxiety before deploying the troops, leaving only excitement within; he knows, betting this time with Hou Bing likely paid off.

Yesterday, namely on the fourth day, Hou Bing sent Lu Yin to him to propose a joint attack on Guangning Mountain with his twenty thousand troops; his first thought was, Hou Bing had gone mad.

He had participated in the two battles at the valley entrance, knew very well the strength of Cai Qiu’s army; he had twenty thousand troops, Hou Bing had twenty thousand, even if all forty thousand Xia troops were deployed, trying to break the Guangning Mountain camp was undoubtedly a fool’s dream.

Nevertheless, Yuwen Yong steadied his emotions, listened to Lu Yin lay out the entire plan.

There was no choice; those wanting military merit were not just Hou Bing.

To say Hou Bing’s urge to achieve and ennoble is merely a microcosm of all Xia people, and even more so for the Xia Army soldiers.

Yuwen Yong is Yuwen Hu’s foster son, having a nominally brotherly, but realistically master-servant relationship with Yuwen Dao; although Yuwen Dao truly treats him like a brother, he never crosses boundaries, consistently perceives himself as a Yuwen Family retainer.

His desire for military merit also stems from Yuwen Dao.

Among the core factions of the Great Xia hierarchy, the Mirror Valley Faction’s status needs no further elaboration. Nowadays in Xia City, a saying goes that the Mirror Valley Faction holds half the sky of the Xia Army, demonstrating its high position.

But many things outsiders see, completely differ from what insiders see; at the very least, from Yuwen Yong’s perspective, the Mirror Valley Faction’s second-in-command, it’s not the case.

Despite the grand appearance of the Mirror Valley Faction, it never truly entered Lord Xia Hong’s innermost circle, being unable to compare with the Rogel faction led by Luo Yuan within the Hongmu Ridge faction, or with the Mud Slope faction with Yuan Cheng, Xu Ning, and others.

Family Head Yuwen Dao’s rivalry with Xia Chuan results in him being unwelcome by Yuan Cheng and others; rumors suggest Yuan Cheng and others deem the position of Director of the Military Department too crucial and have been secretly urging Minister Xia Chuan to replace Yuwen Dao with Xu Ning.

It’s safe to say the reason the Mirror Valley Faction holds such a high position in Great Xia is entirely due to Yuwen Dao as Director of the Military Department; if Yuwen Dao were ousted, relying on Yuwen Yong, Meng Yi, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, and other military leaders, what use would it be?