Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 296: The Lion Fights the Rabbit, Lure the Enemy and Fall into a Trap
The first day of July, the second year of Daxia.

To the west of Wu Shuang, Peng Bo, who was covered in dust, rushed over from the snowfield in the west. After looking around for a moment, he quickly ran towards the high point of a small snow hill.

"Reporting to the Secretary, the three thousand Longyou soldiers have traveled nearly seven kilometers in one hour."

On the snowy hill, Xia Chuan, dressed in white, turned around immediately after hearing this, and said with a look of surprise on his face, "Seven kilometers in one hour, so fast?"

The Yunjiao Army, with a strength of only a thousand people, could only travel five kilometers in an hour on the snowy plains. The Longyou Army had three thousand people, and their marching speed should have been much slower. Unexpectedly, they were 40% faster than the Yunjiao Army.

"After all, their army was established longer than ours. Big brother is right. The overall quality of these 3,000 Longyou troops is probably much higher than that of the Yunjiao Army..."

After Xia Chuan pondered for a moment, his expression became much more serious.

But Peng Bo continued to speak. He picked up a branch from the ground, drew a rough route map on the snow, and said to Xia Chuan:

"Si Cheng, I have roughly deduced their marching route from the cold-resistant outposts set up along the Longshan Mountain. The total distance should be 25 kilometers. Taking into account the time it took me to come back, I estimate that they will be here in more than two hours."

Looking at the circuit map on the ground, Xia Chuan's eyes suddenly lit up.

After all, he is the old leader of Yang Lu. Compared with Lin Kai, who was sent out in the first wave to inquire about the movements of the Longshan army, the information brought back by Peng Bo is obviously more valuable.

"The enemy has deployed many scouts along the way. I roughly estimate that there are at least thirty or forty of them. If you add the soldiers who followed the army, Longshan probably brought 90% of the cold-resistant troops this time. It seems that they want to decide the outcome of the battle with Wu Shuang!"

Hearing this, Xia Chuan said in a deep voice: "A lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit. Moreover, Longyou just lost two armies in our hands. Longshan is the attacking party. How can we easily defeat Wushuang if we don't use all our best weapons?

Li Xuanling is not stupid. Compared with Daxia, Longshan’s biggest advantage is the 3,000 Longyou troops and the huge number of cold-resistant troops. She will definitely make good use of this.”

Peng Bo nodded first, then laughed softly and said, "It's a pity that Longshan is destined to be empty-handed tonight. Li Xuanling probably never thought that with so many cold-resistant-level Wu Shuangs on guard all around, there is not even one person left!"

Hearing this, Xia Chuan also smiled. He turned his head to look at the Wu Shuang boulder base in the east, with a gleam in his eyes.

"Longshan has learned to be smart. He knows to send people to inquire about the situation of the garrison in advance. Unfortunately, Li Xuanling is not willing to spend a lot of money. He sent a few people here, but they can't even get in from the outside. From such a distance, they can only judge that no one has left the garrison. They can't see anything about the situation inside the garrison."

Peng Bo smiled and continued, "Wushuang has two summer straight roads, one in the northeast connects to Hanqiong, and the other in the southeast connects to Fengchao. Both straight roads are buried under the snow. The entrance to the road is about two kilometers away from the station. We chose to be on guard three kilometers away. Longshan probably doesn't know why."

Since daytime, Xia Chuan has been guarding the west with Peng Bo and ten others. Although he only sensed one Cold-Resistant Class approaching, he could conclude that after suffering two heavy losses in Changbaigou and Ningyuanqiu, Longshan would definitely send more than one Cold-Resistant Class.

Although the visibility in the snowfield is good, it is only one mile at most at night.

Even if people were sent to the four directions of Longshan, the observation range was at most a circle of two to three kilometers around Wu Shuang, and even the straight road entrance could not be seen clearly.

There are so many things they can do by taking advantage of this information gap.

"More than ten minutes ago, when Zhao Long arrived with Han Qiong's 1000 men, Chen Yingyuan and his men in the north tightened the cordon. If Longshan had spies in that direction, they would have noticed it. I just don't know..."

As Xia Chuan was pondering, a figure suddenly came from the north.

The man who came was Xu Ning. He was carrying a longbow and holding a Mo Dao. He walked to Xia Chuan with an excited look on his face and said, "Reporting to the Chief, as expected by the leader, when Zhao Long's army arrived, we deliberately narrowed the cordon. The Longshan scout immediately couldn't help but get closer. After discovering Zhao Long's army, the man even moved nearby and tried to observe the soldiers' cultivation. After being discovered by us, he didn't bother to fight and ran away. Chen Yingyuan recognized the man as Li Tiancheng's eldest son Li Xuanping."

"it is good!"

When Xia Chuan heard Xu Ning's words, he became excited.

"Hahaha……"

Xu Ning couldn't help laughing and said, "The original plan of the leader was to let Zhao Long make some noise to attract the attention of the Longshan spies. Who would have thought that Li Xuanping would jump out by himself and even go to find out the cultivation level of that group of people? He must have returned to the Longshan army and informed Li Xuanling."

"Not only in the north, there's movement in our east as well!"

As Xu Ning finished speaking, Yuwen Tao's voice was heard from the south side of the snow hill.

Yuwen Tao came up with a broadsword on his back, smiling, bowed to Xia Chuan, and said, "Si Cheng, good news, we have also lured out the spies in the east."

"Oh?"

Xia Chuan's eyes immediately lit up and he turned to look at Yuwen Tao.

"It's a woman. I just organized the last group of people stationed there, and prepared to evacuate Wushuang to the Beehive via the southeastern Xiazhi Road. I remembered what the leader said, that there must be a large number of Longshan spies around Wushuang. I improvised and asked that group of people to pretend to go to Wushuang's station, and then deliberately narrowed the security circle. The female spy from Longshan really fell into the trap and immediately approached to observe the situation."

"What happened next?"

"I took Hong Guang and Hong Tian with me and pretended to fight to the death to keep the man. The woman didn't bother to fight and just ran away. She seemed very proud when she ran away."

"Ha ha ha ha…………"

Hearing the female spy's triumphant escape, Xia Chuan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"That is to say, the spies in the north and east thought that we had transferred a large number of people from other places to Wushuang. When Li Xuanling found out, she must have thought that we were going to have a decisive battle with her in Wushuang. The morale of the 3,000 Longyou troops must be extremely high at this moment."

Yuwen Tao, Peng Bo and Xu Ning couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

………………

About ten kilometers east of Songyuan.

The mighty 3,000-strong Longyou Army is continuing to march eastward.

Li Xuanling led more than ten cold-resistant soldiers and followed on the flank of the army.

There were people constantly running back and forth in front of the army, reporting something to Li Xuanling, and then immediately running back to the front after reporting. They were obviously the cold-resistant grade soldiers acting as temporary scouts for the army.

"Leader, there's no need to be so cautious, right? Daxia only has the Cloud Dragon Army, and they lost at least 20% of their troops in the battle last night, leaving at most 800 men. Even if they make up the troops and ambush us halfway, we'll be dead, right?"

Yang Fengping, the archer of Longshan, looked a little strange when he saw that the cold-resistant soldiers who usually stood high above the others in Longshan had now become scouts running around. He couldn't help but speak to Li Xuanling.

Although the others did not speak, their expressions clearly showed their agreement.

Those who were dispatched from Longshan tonight were not the New Army, nor the Blood Guards, but the three thousand elite Longyou Army.

They really didn't believe that Xia Hong had the guts to ambush them halfway, or rather, they hoped that Da Xia had the courage to do so.

In their opinion, Li Xuanling's behavior was indeed an overreaction.

However, Li Xuanling obviously disagreed with everyone's opinion.

"It's better to be safe than sorry. Daxia is not weak, and that Xia Hong is no ordinary person. Before the Yunjiao Army showed up, did you know that Daxia had an army? We must learn from our failures, otherwise the defeats at Changbaigou and Ningyuanqiu would have been in vain, wouldn't they?"

After hearing these words, everyone's faces froze slightly and they all shut their mouths.

Li Xuanling frowned slightly, looked around at everyone, and didn't say much.

She said this to make these people more careful, or to cultivate their vigilance, but to be fair, in fact, her thoughts were similar to those of everyone else.

It would be great if Xia Hong really dared to set an ambush halfway!
The two battles fought by the Yunjiao Army last night were indeed very beautiful, but judging from the statements of the new army soldiers and the Blood Guard soldiers who escaped back, the overall strength of the Yunjiao Army is not that strong. Even a small number of soldiers have not even reached the limit of the Digging Realm.

The great victories at Changbaigou and Ningyuanqiu were essentially based on surprise attacks.

Of course, the choice of ambush location and the reasonable use of the three arms of the Yunjiao Army, the Mo Dao, the Heng Dao, and the Scouts, were also two reasons, but they were not the key to victory. The 3,000 Longyou troops she led at the moment were not only all above the limit of the Digging Realm, but most of them were brought up by her father Li Tianhua himself. They were all veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they all obeyed orders and were familiar with battle formations and tactics. They were definitely not comparable to the Yunjiao Army.

If Daxia really dares to set an ambush halfway, they will definitely die!
Unfortunately, Li Xuanling knew very well that Xia Hong was not that stupid.

"Wushuang, Hanqiong, and Fengchao are all in the hands of Daxia. Wushuang is the first to bear the brunt of the attack, and its position is also the most critical. The first step to drive Daxia out of Longyou is to capture Wushuang. I just don't know if Xia Hong will take on this battle in Wushuang!"

Wushuang is located in the center of Longyou. From here, the distance to any camp in Longyou is the shortest, and its strategic significance is extremely important.

Li Xuanling remembered very clearly that when she led the army to station between Baiyuan and Wushuang, Daxia also sent a special envoy named Qiu Peng, expressing its willingness to jointly govern Wushuang with Longshan.

It can be seen from this incident that Daxia knows the importance of Wu Shuang.

"It is said that Da Xia is reluctant to give up Wu Shuang, but if they only rely on the 800 Yunjiao soldiers, they will definitely not be able to hold on, so they can either retreat or continue to transfer people from Xiacheng. The only thing to be wary of now is that Da Xia has other troops that can be mobilized. If so, this war will not be so easy..."

Li Xuanling frowned slightly, thinking, and suddenly realized something, raised his head and looked forward.

A white figure rushed towards the army from the snowy plains in the east. The people in front with good eyesight immediately recognized the person's identity.

"It's Xuanping!"

"There must be news about Wu Shuang."

Seeing Li Xuanping in a hurry, everyone immediately made some guesses, including Li Xuanling, who instantly perked up and waited for him.

Although Li Xuanping was in a hurry, he had a smile on his face. He walked up to Li Xuanling and said without delay, "Captain, Daxia has transferred all of Hanqiong's 1,000 defenders to Wushuang."

"Han Qiong's one thousand defenders?"

Li Xuanling's expression froze, and he immediately asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure they are Han Qiong's defenders? Look carefully, they are just ordinary Digging Realm cultivators?"

In the past two months, Li Xuanling had already sent people to find out the situations in Wushuang, Hanqiong and Fengchao. It was no secret that Daxia had left a thousand garrisons in Hanqiong.

Li Xuanling remembered it very clearly. At that time, the spies reported that Han Qiong's one thousand defenders were all ordinary Digging Realm cultivators.

It is said that transferring one thousand Digging Realm soldiers to Wu Shuang would not play a big role. Xia Hong must be aware of this, so she became suspicious of the news, suspecting that Li Xuanping had read it wrong or was deceived.

"I am absolutely sure. I even ventured to get closer to observe. They are all ordinary Digging Realm. Their armor and weapons are only at the tenth forging level..."

Li Xuanping paused for a moment and sneered, "Xia Hong must have no one else to use, so he had no choice but to transfer Han Qiong's thousand men here in an attempt to defend Wu Shuang to the death and resist our Longshan troops."

What use can a thousand ordinary digging realms be?

Li Xuanling frowned, still looking somewhat puzzled.

"There are two thousand Diggers stationed here, plus Han Qiong's one thousand men. Wu Shuang now has at most three thousand Diggers, plus the one thousand Cloud Dragon Army. Xia Hong doesn't think that these four thousand men can stop the three thousand Longyou Army, right?"

As soon as Li Xuandu opened his mouth, everyone sneered and made fun of him.

"Four thousand against three thousand, do you think the Longyou Army soldiers are just ordinary digging soldiers?"

"Idiot's dream."

"Unless the Yunjiao Army is all cold-resistant level."

………………

The ultimate Digging Realm soldier who began to use animal blood to reshape his skin membrane was completely different from the ordinary Digging Realm soldier who was only qualified to hunt.

To put it more directly, it is the difference between a basic strength of more than 30,000 pounds and more than 10,000 pounds. If the strength of the membrane, as well as factors such as weapons and armor are taken into account, the gap will only be greater.

There is a common understanding in Longyou, that is, if a large army composed of ordinary Digging Realm soldiers wants to fight against the regular army on the battlefield, they can forget about it unless their numbers are ten times as many.

3000 Digging Ground Army, plus 1000 Yunjiao Army, people guarding Longyou Army.

If Xia Hong really has this idea, then Da Xia will definitely be defeated tonight.

The other cold-resistant level players knew it, and Li Xuanling naturally knew it better, but she thought about it a little more than others. She always felt that Xia Hong would not be so stupid.

Just as she was deep in thought, someone suddenly pointed to the east and shouted:

"Xuan Qiu is back too."

Another spy is back.

Li Xuanling perked up again and looked at his cousin Li Xuanqiu who was rushing towards him from a distance.

Li Xuanqiu was the same, no nonsense, he spoke directly when he arrived:
"Captain, nearly a thousand Diggers have arrived at Wushuang. Judging from their direction, they should be coming from the Beehive. Xuandong and I found a secret passage under the snow in the southeast of Wushuang. It should be connected to the Beehive. We estimate that there will be more than one group of people coming. There should be a large number of people coming from that secret passage later."

There are also a large number of Digging Realm masters coming to Wu Shuang from the Hive!
Upon hearing the news, smiles immediately appeared on everyone's faces.

Even Li Xuanling completely put aside his suspicions.

"Xia Hong, you really want to gather all the digging territory of Da Xia in Longyou to defend Wu Shuang to the death. Good, good, good, that's all."

"Leader, the secret passage in Daxia is very long. It's a bit difficult to destroy it completely. But as long as we have a few more people and spend some time, we can still destroy it. Why don't I take a few people to destroy the secret passage and prevent Daxia's reinforcements from continuing to gather in Wushuang?"

Li Xuanqiu made a suggestion, and everyone seemed interested.

On the contrary, Li Xuanling thought for a moment and shook his head:

"No need. The secret passage can be destroyed at any time, but not now."

When everyone heard this, they all looked a little puzzled.

"That's right!"

Li Xuandu was the first to react. His eyes lit up slightly. Seeing that everyone was still confused, he immediately explained, "Daxia dares to stay in Wushuang only when reinforcements arrive. If the passage is destroyed and reinforcements cannot arrive in a short time, Daxia will not defend Wushuang. Then we will be in trouble. Do you understand?"

After hearing these words, everyone suddenly understood and nodded.

"Li Xuanping, Li Xuanqiu, you just want to keep an eye on Wu Shuang's surroundings and report back if there is any situation. No matter how many people from Daxia come, just watch them go in."

"Understood, Chief!"

Li Xuanping and Li Xuanqiu bowed and immediately turned around and flew towards the east.

Li Xuanling turned his head and looked to the east, his voice full of solemnity.

"Notify the army to speed up. There are only 9 kilometers left. We should reach the destination in just over an hour. Tonight, we must let Daxia know who has the final say in Longyou."

"Yes!"

All the Cold-Resistant Class soldiers agreed in unison, with murderous looks on their faces, and then dispersed to various parts of the army and began to urge them in harsh voices.

(End of this chapter)