Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1666: Chapter 526: Beneath Aikou City, Good News from East Valley City (2)

“I have seen all four routes of our army. There are over 100 generals with strength exceeding 60 bristles, which means these people are highly likely to break through to the Xianyang Level in the near future. As for those below 60 bristles, there are even more. Adding to this the things I brought back from Feudal Towns and Yang City, the boom of Xianyang Level powerhouses should come very soon…”

Xia Hong’s gaze swept across the nine people, and he couldn’t help but feel a surge of enthusiasm within.

It is foreseeable that once the current battle ends and the Southern Slope Territory is completely unified, Great Xia will definitely usher in an extremely rapid development. The boom in the number of Xianyang Level individuals is secondary; the key lies in the overall strength leap. At that time, there will surely be an earth-shattering change.

Dong dong dong…

A sudden sound of war drums interrupted Xia Hong’s thoughts. He turned his head to see the drum formation in front of the military tent, a smile appearing on his face as he turned to Yuwen Dao and asked: “According to you, this is the start of tunnel digging?”

Yuwen Dao nodded with a smile, about to speak, but Xia Chuan flew over from the west side first.

“It’s too fast. I can roughly feel that the tunnel is less than nine kilometers away from the exit. At the current pace, it will be dug through within half a month, and by then, we can launch a coordinated attack from the inside and outside to break through Aikou City!”

As Xia Chuan spoke, his emotions were visibly agitated, evidently impacted by the tunnel Yuwen Dao had excavated over the past few days.

Xia Hong smiled wryly, turning to look at Yuwen Dao with a touch of appreciation in his eyes.

Last night, upon arriving with Xia Chuan, Yuwen Dao immediately explained his plan to break through Aikou.

The Aikou City is flanked by Moao Mountain bodies, with its gate being overly narrow, and a narrow passage stretching eleven kilometers behind the gate. This is the most standard defensible terrain, which is inherently challenging to breach the gate, and even more so to penetrate through the passage behind the gate.

Yuwen Dao’s idea was to dig a tunnel.

This tunnel digging idea had been in his mind for quite some time.

According to Yuwen Dao, as early as the year before when he annexed Chui Mountain, he realized that Great Xia would eventually make a move against the Northern Five Towns, so he had people from the Military Department start drawing detailed maps of the Northern Five Towns in large quantities.

In this process, the naturally advantageous Aikou City in Jinshan Town early on caught his attention. In the past two years, he had visited Aikou City multiple times for field observations, eventually concluding that the possibility of breaking through Aikou City head-on was extremely low, irrelevant to the military strength.

The north-south width of Aikou City is only about 100 meters; no matter how large an army is, it cannot be deployed fully and can only charge in formation. The enemy only needs to defend a single opening to firmly keep the army at bay.

One man guards the pass, ten thousand men cannot get through, which roughly describes this terrain.

Direct attack wouldn’t work, so he could only bypass it.

However, both sides of Aikou City are Moao Mountain bodies, with heights ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of meters—circumventing is not feasible.

That left only one method: digging a tunnel.

Realizing that this was the only method, Yuwen Dao made early preparations, working with Mu Dong to dispatch a large number of craftsmen to sneak near Aikou, exploring and locating a tunnel that was easiest to open.

Before, there was concern it might alert Jinshan Town. So after mapping out the tunnel route, Yuwen Dao directly sealed the map without taking any substantial action. Now they are preparing for a frontal battle, he naturally began using this tunnel route to commence excavation.

“The army is equipped with a total of three thousand Chewing Teeth Chisels, all crafted from the teeth of Advanced Rats. According to our pre-explored route, we can dig 500 meters forward every hour. I arrived under Aikou City on the night of the 28th, and every five hours, the drum is beaten once. It has been beaten four times so far, and each time they shout provocatively under Aikou City…”

When the Great Xia Thunder Kui Battle Drum sounds, not to mention the underground commotion, even the surrounding chill of the wind will be overshadowed. Thus beating the drum and provoking is purely to cover the noise of tunnel digging.

From Xia Hong’s perspective, Yuwen Dao’s strategy was not particularly clever, but that’s because he had lived two lives. Keep in mind this is the Ice Abyss, without those renowned books of military strategies from a previous life. Large-scale wars involving tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands are first-time experiences for both Great Xia and Jinshan Town.

Every beginning is difficult, and for Yuwen Dao, a native of Ice Abyss entering the battlefield for the first time, to come up with such innovative ways to breach a city, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to describe him as a war genius.

Upon first arriving and hearing Yuwen Dao’s brilliant ideas, Xia Hong was deeply shocked and couldn’t help but marvel.

If even he was impressed, there is even less to say about Xia Chuan, who upon knowing Yuwen Dao sent people to dig tunnels, completely lost interest in inspecting the battlefield with Xia Hong, wanting to directly inspect the tunnel.

This leads to the current scene, with Xia Chuan returning after checking the tunnel.

Xia Chuan’s words caused both Yuwen Dao and a group of generals to become somewhat excited.

The narrow passage behind Aikou City stretches only 11 kilometers, and the tunnel route Yuwen Dao explored the year before can directly reach the rear of the passage.

So, once the tunnel is dug through, they can dispatch part of the army through it, discreetly reaching the rear of the passage, thereby launching a frontal and rear assault, surely leading to the fall of Aikou City.