Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 306: The Longyou Army was defeated, the Xia Army could not escape, the Holy Tripod
As the two armies distanced themselves from each other, the main underground area fell into silence.

Beehive main area, north side of the complex
At the campfire in the Longyou Army camp, Li Xuanling had a gloomy face. When he saw Meng Ying, who was in charge of counting the casualties, coming back, he immediately asked:
"What are the casualties among the soldiers?"

Meng Ying spoke with a very serious expression: "572 killed in battle, 32 seriously injured, total casualties 604, minor injuries not counted, there are 2365 soldiers left who can fight."

Pah……

Li Xuanling smashed the makeshift table in front of him, stood up and looked around at the group of cold-resistant soldiers, angrily shouting: "How could you lose so many people? I have already observed when we retreated just now, and the casualties of Daxia were only a little over 2000 at most. How did you manage to do this?"

Just now on the battlefield, including when she was leading the army to retreat, she was concentrating on the casualties of Da Xia. Li Xuanling had no idea about her own casualties. The number of 604 casualties was obviously beyond her psychological endurance.

Not only Li Xuanling, but all the Longshan Cold-Proof Class warriors around the campfire had expressions of shock on their faces. Even a few of them looked at Meng Ying with obvious expressions of disbelief.

604 to more than 2000, the casualty ratio is probably more than 1 to 3.

If they were to fight against a normal army of equal strength and similar numbers and encounter such a result, people would naturally not react in this way.

But they were facing a defending force composed of ordinary Digging Realm warriors from Da Xia.

We were already a failure because we failed to capture the main building.

The casualty ratio is not even 1 to 5, how is this possible!

"The Xia army's fighting spirit seems to be much stronger than ours."

"It's not the will to fight, it's the elixir. Daxia's healing elixir is not only better than ours, but it also seems to have a kind of elixir that can block the pain of the body. The man who fought against me was stabbed in the abdomen three times, but he was still able to fight back against me."

"The Xia army in the front row is equipped with hundred-forged armor. Although our soldiers have the advantage of cultivation, they cannot kill the enemy with one blow, so the progress is so slow."

"More than half of the soldiers in the back row were suppressed by the arrow formation of the main building and could not rush forward to help. Only more than a thousand people actually attacked the main building."

"That white smoke is produced by the toxin of Teng Jiao after being stimulated by high temperature. It can directly poison the woodcutters. Although it is not fatal to the diggers at the extreme level, it will cause severe dizziness. We have hunted Teng Jiao in Longshan before, so why didn't we think that this thing can be used on the battlefield?"

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"Shut up, everyone!"

Li Xuanling interrupted everyone directly, his face as gloomy as blood.

She was not blind. She had seen clearly all the factors that everyone mentioned on the battlefield just now. But even with so many objective reasons, she could not accept that the Longyou Army was in its current state.

She stared fiercely at the main building on the south side and asked Meng Ying angrily.

"How are the soldiers doing?"

Just now, when the Tengjiao poisonous fog spread, it covered such a wide area that almost all the soldiers inhaled a little, so everyone was poisoned.

Longshan is no stranger to the Tengjiao poisonous fog. Li Xuanling knows very well that the intensity of this poisonous fog is not too strong. Ordinary people and those at the Lumberjack level will die if they inhale it; those at the Digging level can survive for a while as long as they cover their faces with wet cloth; and those at the Digging level who have begun to reshape their skin membranes will only feel dizzy no matter how much they inhale, but it will not be fatal.

Meng Ying immediately answered, "It's nothing serious. Cheng Guang and his men are in the tunnel taking wet soil and squeezing out water. Some of the soldiers who were less seriously poisoned have recovered. There are more than 600 seriously poisoned soldiers, and they are expected to recover in another hour."

In this area of ​​the beehive station, too many underground tunnels have been dug, so the underground soil is not as dry as in other places. As long as enough wet soil is taken, water can be squeezed out. Clean water is the only weapon to deal with Tengjiao's toxins.

Another hour!
Li Xuanling frowned and looked up at the hole in the iron wall above. When he found that there was no light outside, he immediately clenched his fists.

It was the second half of the night of June 25th when all the Longyou troops successfully went underground with the help of gnats and rats breaking through the walls. After going down, the scattered soldiers gathered on the north side and then marched towards the building area. Finally, there was a bloody battle in the main building area, which all took time.

Just now, when she was fighting with Xia Chuan and Chen Yingyuan near the main building, she noticed that there was light coming in from outside the holes, but now there is none at all.

This proves that a day has passed.

It is now the night of June 26th.

Although she couldn't figure out the exact time, she could roughly estimate that it was about four hours into the night.

In other words, the first half of the night is almost over.

The army still needs to rest for an hour. Once they are done, the battle can officially begin, which will be at the earliest in the second half of the night. Victory will have to wait until June 27th.

Three thousand Longyou troops arrived at the Beehive in the early night of June 23, but were delayed for four days by Xia Chuan's twenty-seven cold-resistant-level soldiers and more than nine thousand ordinary digging-level soldiers.

They haven't taken it down yet!
Li Xuanling stood up, turned his head sharply to look at everyone, and spoke sternly:
"Da Xia sent out twenty-seven cold-resistant warriors. I have just checked with you. Three were killed. Including Xia Chuan and Chen Yingyuan who fought against me, a total of nineteen were seriously injured. It is impossible for them to recover in a short time.

The total strength of their Digging Realm is about 9,000 people. At least 2,000 people were killed in the first round of fighting, and some have lost their combat effectiveness. According to the highest estimate, they only have 6,000 soldiers who can fight.

Only six of our Yuhan-class soldiers were seriously injured, and none of them died. There are still 46 people left, and there are still 2365 soldiers. As long as we fully recover and regroup, we will be able to break through the main building in the second round and wipe out all the Xia army! "

The expressions of the people, who had originally looked a little depressed, finally brightened up a little after hearing these words. Especially when they heard that three cold-resistant-level warriors from Da Xia had been killed, without losing any on their side, everyone was even more excited.

In this kind of large-scale melee, it is actually very difficult for the Cold Resistance Class to die. After all, even the weakest Cold Resistance Class has a basic strength that is more than three times the limit of the Digging Realm, or even more. Due to the situation on the battlefield, they may not be able to exert their full strength, but the strength of their membrane is there. As long as they don't stand still and let the soldiers chop them, they only need to resist attacks from masters of the same level.

Let's take a step back and say that if you can't win, can't you just run away?

As long as you can retreat flexibly into the crowd after being seriously injured, it is easy to survive.

Under these circumstances, three people from Daxia died and nineteen were seriously injured;

On our side, only six were seriously injured and one survived.

Obviously, Longshan has a great advantage in terms of cold resistance.

Of course, this is also due to the number of people.

The total number of cold-resistant-level warriors coming from Longshan this time is as high as 52, while there are only 27 from Daxia. This is just the number;
In terms of strength, the gap is even greater. They have eleven people with a strength of more than nine manes, and Li Xuanling with twenty-one manes; while the strongest on the Da Xia side are Xia Chuan and Chen Yingyuan, but they only have nine manes, and the rest have around three manes, and there are also a few with one or two manes.

Thinking of this, everyone's expressions stiffened slightly, and they all looked a little embarrassed.

Seeing the embarrassment on everyone's faces, Li Xuanling was not surprised at all.

Obviously, they realized as well as he did that with such a huge gap in strength between the two sides, it was really embarrassing for them to fight like this.

"It's enough to know how to blush. Knowing shame will lead to courage. Don't be timid in the next round. If you can be like Xia Jun, from the cold-resistant level to the ordinary digging level, all with the mentality of fighting to the death, how can you stop us with such a small number of people!"

Li Xuanling paused for a moment, then continued in a deep voice: "If I'm not mistaken, Xia Hong should have taken the 1000 Yunjiao troops to Longshan..."

"what?"

"Going to attack Longshan, is Xia Hong crazy?"

"1000 Yunjiao troops, attacking Longshan?"

"How can it be!"

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Li Xuanling's words caused a huge uproar. Among the more than 40 people, a few exclaimed in surprise, and nearly half of them had expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Of course, there were a few people, such as Li Xuanyan, Li Xuantian, Li Xuanping, Meng Ying, Cheng Guang, Song Kang and others, whose expressions were very calm, and it was obvious that they had guessed it long ago.

"Xia Hong must have gone mad to have dared to attack Longshan with only 1000 Yunjiao soldiers. No matter how strong he is, he can't win."

"Longshan has a population of 130,000, and 15,000 of them are in the Digging Realm. No matter how strong he is, what can he do? It's just wishful thinking!"

When everyone heard Li Xuanping's two sentences, they immediately nodded.

The original population of Longshan was only more than 70,000, but don't forget that in April, Longshan took the initiative and annexed Yucheng, Songyuan and Changning in one fell swoop. Although the number of people at the Cold-Resistant Level has not changed much, the number of people at the Digging Level has greatly increased. Now, excluding the 3,000 Longyou troops, the number has reached 15,000.

This is also the reason why Longshan was able to form a new army in early June.

Although the new army is gone, the digging soldiers in the camp are still there!
What's more, Longshan has Li Tiancheng, the strongest man in Longshan, who is guarding with five cold-resistant level warriors and all kinds of war supplies. What can Xia Hong use to fight?

However, Li Xuanling chose this time to say that Xia Hong was attacking Longshan, obviously not to reassure everyone.

Meng Ying was the first to react. He whispered to everyone:
"Before attacking the hive, you also felt that it was foolproof. What about now?"

Hearing this rhetorical question, everyone's expression froze.

That's right, before attacking the hive, they also felt that nothing would go wrong and that as long as the two armies clashed, Longshan would undoubtedly win. Just like at this moment, when they heard that Xia Hong was leading people to attack Longshan, none of them thought they would succeed.

The disastrous defeat just now had already slapped them in the face;
What about the latter...

Is it possible for Xia Hong to continue to slap them in the face and actually capture Longshan?

Following Meng Ying's line of thought, everyone's expressions changed immediately.

The Beehive is just a station of Daxia.

And Longshan is their home.

Their parents, children, relatives and friends are all in Longshan!
The more people thought about it from this perspective, the more solemn their expressions became. Later, a few of them even looked up at Li Xuanling, obviously wanting to say something.

"I'm not telling you this to scare you. With my second uncle and his men guarding the area, I believe Xia Hong's thousand men will never be able to break through Longshan. But you all need to understand that the more time we waste at the Hive, the longer it will take Xia Hong to attack the base, and the more casualties there will be..."

Li Xuanling paused, then continued in a serious tone, "So, in the second round of attack that will begin soon, we can only win and not lose. Do you understand?"

Hearing this question, everyone raised their heads suddenly, showing an extremely determined look, and answered in unison: "Understood, Leader!"

Seeing the morale of the crowd rising, Li Xuanling showed a satisfied look. He pointed out the six captains of the three armies and ordered, "Go and tell all the soldiers to march in half an hour. The second round of attack must defeat the Xia army in one fell swoop."

"I obey my orders!"

After the six captains bowed in reply, they all walked towards the military camp.

"The Longyou Army is invincible."

"Defeat the Xia army in one fell swoop!"

"Longshan is invincible..."

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But in a moment, waves of roars came from the direction of the military camp, and the soldiers' spirits were quickly mobilized.

The strength of an army is not only determined by its cultivation, but also by its morale. Xia Hong knew that withdrawing all the troops from Wushuang and leaving them empty-handed would reduce the morale of the first wave of the Longyou Army. Li Xuanling certainly had a way to boost his own morale.

The Yu Han class knew that Longshan was under attack. They were concerned about their families in the garrison and were eager to capture the main building. Their morale was immediately boosted, and the soldiers of the Longyou Army were naturally no exception.

Seeing the army's morale gradually boosted, Li Xuanling finally relaxed a little. At this moment, Li Xuandu suddenly spoke to her softly.

"Have you ever thought, Chief, why Daxia is guarding the main building?"

Daxia, why do we have to guard the main building?

Li Xuanling turned his head and stared at the main building for three or four breaths, and quickly realized the real meaning of Li Xuandu's question, and his expression immediately froze.

The main building is indeed the strongest building in the entire building area, but it is just a building after all. It can basically provide no protection against the impact of such a large-scale army.

On the contrary, because the main building is located in the center of the entire building area, it is easy for Daxia to be caught in a situation of being attacked from all sides if it guards it.

The Xia army is inferior to the Longyou army in terms of cultivation and combat effectiveness. Its only advantage is the number of people. If they want to increase their chances of winning, they can only reduce the contact area between the main army and the Longyou soldiers and try their best to prevent the Longyou army from exerting its full combat power.

From the last round of fighting, it can be seen that Xia Chuan is very clear about this, otherwise he would not have placed 3,000 people in the main building to let them shoot arrows to suppress the Longyou army in the back row and prevent them from rushing to the front.

Now that we know this, we should choose a small enough area to garrison. This way, we will only come into contact with the Longyou Army from one or two directions, and the probability of holding the position will definitely be greater.

The construction area of ​​the beehive is two kilometers in radius, and there are many such areas.

Why didn't Xia Chuan choose that, but chose the main building which was surrounded by enemies?
"There is an exit in the main building and a passage connecting to the ground. They want to escape!"

Li Xuanling suddenly spoke in surprise, causing the expressions of Li Xuandu and the others nearby to freeze instantly.

They turned to look at the main building on the south side at the same time, their faces full of anxiety.

Although Xia Jun was still outside the main building, they had no idea what was going on inside the main building.

What if Xia Chuan is really leading people to escape?
"Don't worry, they can't get away!"

Li Xuanling was so anxious that he turned around to look at the military camp. It was obvious that he wanted to forcibly organize the Longyou soldiers who had not yet fully recovered and let them attack in advance.

But just as she was about to speak, a voice suddenly sounded beside her.

The one who spoke was Li Xuantian.

As soon as Li Xuantian opened his mouth, everyone immediately looked relieved and fell silent.

Li Xuanling was no exception, but in addition to relief, there was also some struggle and hesitation in her eyes. She didn't even turn her head to look at Li Xuantian, but just nodded and said softly: "That's good, wait another half an hour, and when the soldiers are recovered, we will attack again."

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"What, the ground is covered with white fog and cold beasts?"

In the main hall of the Beehive main building, Xia Chuan, with a cloth wrapped around his body, turned his head palely and looked at Yue Feng with an expression of disbelief.

In the main hall, the other twenty-six cold-resistant level warriors were all there.

Of course, the three bodies covered with black cloth on the ground were also included.

Eighteen of them were also wrapped in cloth strips like Xia Chuan. Compared with them, Xia Chuan, who was able to stand up and turn his head, was in a relatively good condition. Eight of them were lying on the ground unconscious.

The five people at the front were also injured, but they were less wrapped in cloth and their mobility was still normal.

At this moment, Yue Feng, who was being questioned by Xia Chuan, was one of the five people.

Yue Feng's clothes were covered with mud, and he looked very embarrassed. He replied with an unpleasant expression, "Indeed, I only showed my head to observe for a moment. The ground above the main area was all white fog. I don't know how large the range is, but there are many cold beasts, mostly intermediate cold beasts, and there are also high-level cold beasts, at least hundreds of them.

When we were fighting just now, the noise was so loud that the entire underground area was shaking, so we had no idea that so many cold beasts had come out of the ground."

Hundreds of them, even if they were all intermediate-level cold beasts, would be terrifying.

What's more, there are high-level cold beasts mixed in!

Most of the cold-resistant-level people present had expressions that looked somewhat desperate.

The battle had just ended, and after returning to count the casualties, everyone, including Xia Chuan, immediately realized that as long as the Longyou Army launched a second round of attack, they would have almost no chance of stopping it.

In the Cold-Proof Class, 3 people were killed and 19 were seriously injured. Among them, 8 have completely lost the ability to fight again. The other 11 could not exert their full strength even if they could fight. The remaining five who were slightly injured do not include Xia Chuan and Chen Yingyuan.

In the Digging Realm, 2782 people were killed and 924 were seriously injured. The vitality of the Digging Realm was not as strong as that of the Cold-Resistant Realm. If they were seriously injured, they would basically have no ability to fight again, so there were only less than 5700 soldiers left who could fight.

Xia Chuan saw it clearly. With so many people sacrificed, the number of Longyou soldiers they killed was probably less than 600, or only one-fifth.

This is the result achieved despite the advantages of Tengjiao poison, snow bamboo, and the number of iron arrows.

The second wave, there’s no way to fight it.

Or if you really have to fight, then be prepared and leave your life here.

Xia Chuan realized this earlier than anyone else, so as soon as he retreated, he immediately asked Yue Feng to open up the tunnel on the top floor of the main building to survey the situation outside in advance and prepare to lead people out of the underground, in other words, to escape.

This was actually a retreat route he had reserved in advance. Their mission was only to delay the Longyou Army, and defending the Beehive was just a means. Since they couldn't defend it, he naturally wouldn't stay here to fight to the death.

Unfortunately, this only way out seems to be blocked now.

"The cold beast must have been attracted by the white fog. Bai Lugui has taken action. There is an 80% chance that Li Xuantian has been controlled. The rodents before were also attracted by the white fog to break through the iron wall!"

Chen Yingyuan was also seriously injured at the moment. He stood next to Xia Chuan and spoke out his speculation with a slight breath.

Previously, when Xia Hong surveyed the Yanglu Jedi, he brought him and Peng Bo with him. He saw the white fog in the Yanglu Jedi with his own eyes, so when he saw the white fog invading the hole broken by the rodents, he immediately knew what was going on.

After listening to this, Xia Chuan did not respond at all, but lowered his head and fell into thought.

"I can't run away..."

Seeing Xia Chuan's reaction, Zhao Long's expression darkened a little and he couldn't help but sigh.

Snapped!
Yuan Cheng was also one of the seriously injured, but his condition was slightly better. He was sitting on a chair. When he heard what Zhao Long said, he slammed the chair, stood up with a bang, and said angrily: "If you can't run away, then don't run. You will die anyway. Si Cheng, fight with the Longyou Army. Even if you risk your life, I will kill a few more Longshan dogs."

As soon as Yuan Cheng opened his mouth, Qiu Peng, Luo Yuan, Lin Kai, Meng Yi, Zhu Yuan, including Zhao Long, who had a gloomy look on his face, all followed suit and spoke angrily.

"That's right. The worst that can happen is my death. More than 2,000 brothers are gone. Even if I die, I'll take a few more people from Longshan with me!"

"Huang Yong, Zhu Ling, Ying Xuan, they have all lost three cold-resistant-level soldiers, so they don't care about us anymore. Si Cheng, fight Long Shan, I'm not afraid!"

"The leader may have already captured Longshan. We, more than 9,000 people, cannot hold him back. We must fight Li Xuanling and the others!"

"There is no one in Daxia who is afraid of death. It's better to risk your life!"

"After these good years, it's time to give back to the camp."

"I never dreamed that I could break through the cold-resistant level. I have the luck to follow the leader and live a long life. Si Cheng, let's fight them!"

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"Don't worry, you don't have to die!"

Seeing everyone determined to die, Xia Chuan's eyes showed a touch of emotion. He stood up and interrupted them directly.

Just as Xia Chuan was about to speak, someone suddenly rushed in from outside the door.

The man looked panicked and spoke breathlessly:
"Si Cheng, my lords, the corpses... the corpses on the ground are beginning to produce a lot of white dewdrops. It's exactly the same as the dewdrop plague a while ago. The speed of transmission is very fast. Many injured brothers are also beginning to have white dewdrops on their bodies."

After hearing this, Yuan Cheng had the biggest reaction among the crowd.

He obviously remembered something, his pupils suddenly froze, and he quickly turned to look at Xia Chuan, but found that there was no surprise on Xia Chuan's face.

By the way, I had already told Si Cheng about Yang Yuanfeng’s matter.

The rest of the people basically knew about the Dew Plague, and at this moment they all subconsciously took out the fire-condensing oil from their bodies, including the soldier who had just reported the news, who also had fire-condensing oil applied on his body.

Obviously, the people of Daxia already have experience in dealing with the Dew Plague.

However, the Dew Plague spread extremely quickly, especially in areas with a large number of corpses and wounded people, and it was simply too late to use fire-condensing oil.

"Yue Feng, light the fire!"

At this moment, Xia Chuan suddenly gave an order for no apparent reason.

Light a fire, what fire?

Everyone was stunned, and then they saw Yue Feng walking towards Xia Chuan's back, which was the side room behind the main hall.

sizzling…………

A flame suddenly rose from the side room, and a strong warmth immediately emanated from it. Everyone in the main hall reacted almost instantly.

"Holy Tripod?"

"The leader left the Holy Tripod to us?"

"The Dew Plague is gone, and there's no need for fire-condensing oil."

"That's not right. The Holy Cauldron is indiscriminate in exterminating evil spirits, right? Once it's lit, the dew on the Longyou Army will disappear. They will still attack us!"

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The appearance of the Holy Tripod is certainly a delight.

But the problem of the Longyou Army has not been solved yet!
"Don't be anxious. Yue Feng, go to the ground first and then..."

After Xia Chuan signaled everyone to stay calm, he called Yue Feng to his side and arranged the tasks one by one. After he finished speaking, he turned around and looked at Chen Yingyuan:
"Take care of your body first, and then we'll go talk to Li Xuanling!"

(End of this chapter)