Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

"Alright, you can stay here tonight!"

Xu An led Xiang Liang to his Golden Sword Squad's wooden house, arranged a room for him, and then turned to leave.

"Sir..."

Xu An, about to walk out the door, turned back to see Xiang Liang hesitating, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Speak your mind."

A look of hesitation appeared on Xiang Liang's face, but he gritted his teeth and said:

"Sir, I know that Daxia is very strong, but Flying Tiger, along with Yang Ping and Yue Ming, plus they may have coerced the He Feng camp, a total of four families, have at least a hundred or so Earth Piercing Realm cultivators, and hundreds of Lumbering Wood Realm cultivators.

The garrison officer just now only brought two squads. Isn't that too few people? I'm worried..."

Xiang Liang didn't finish his words, but the meaning was already clear.

In his opinion, Daxia was indeed very strong, but it was a bit too confident. Judging from the number of people in Xu An's team, the two squads from Daxia had at most forty or fifty people. Trying to deal with four camps with so few people was simply a fool's dream.

"What, are you afraid that we can't beat the Flying Tiger camp and the other three?"

Xu An looked at Xiang Liang, his tone carrying a hint of teasing, and a hint of disdain immediately appeared in the depths of his eyes when he thought of the four camps.

However, knowing that Xiang Liang was reminding him, he didn't say much. He just looked outside the door and said with a smile, "Come with me!"

After speaking, he took the lead and walked out. Xiang Liang didn't know why, but he followed behind him. Soon, he walked with him to the entrance of the cave.

Outside the cave entrance was the wooden house. Xu An took the lead and walked out, and Xiang Liang followed out with a suspicious expression.

Walking out of the cave entrance and looking up to see the scene inside the wooden house, Xiang Liang's expression froze, and he was stunned instantly.

His mouth trembled, and after a long time, he slowly opened his mouth:

"This... Gulp..."

In the very center of the wooden house, three formations were standing, packed tightly.

Each formation had five rows, with ten people in each row.

The three formations together made up one hundred and fifty people.

Just the number of people alone was not enough to make Xiang Liang react like this.

The problem was that nearly one-third of these one hundred and fifty people were all wearing light golden armor, exactly the same as the armor worn by Xu Ning and Lin Kai just now.

The remaining two-thirds were also wearing pure black armor of the same style as the two, which looked like it was made of iron at a glance.

Not only did all one hundred and fifty people have an iron-fetal bow on their backs and various main weapons in their hands, but they also had three or four short blades hanging from their waists.

These weapons, coupled with the iron armor and the helmets that almost completely covered their heads, only revealed half of their faces. They were almost armed to the teeth.

They just stood there in three formations, without saying a word, giving people an extremely strong sense of oppression.

"This set of iron armor weighs at least two to three thousand catties. Adding the bows and arrows on their backs, the main weapons in their hands, and the short blades they carry, this set of equipment weighs at least four thousand catties. That is to say..."

That is to say, just forging the equipment worn by these one hundred and fifty people would consume at least six hundred thousand catties of iron ore.

This doesn't even include the losses, and the manpower and material resources that need to be invested!

What he calculated was just iron ore.

He couldn't even tell what material the light golden armor worn by one-third of the people was made of. Its value was obviously higher than the black armor.

Even if we don't mention the value.

Just the fact that they can move freely while carrying more than four thousand catties of equipment makes it very clear what the cultivation realm of these one hundred and fifty people is.

Earth Piercing Realm, one hundred and fifty people, all of them are Earth Piercing Realm..."

No, no, no, that's not all.

Xiang Liang followed Xu An a little closer, randomly found a person in the back row wearing black iron armor, and after observing carefully, his pupils constricted.

A look of disbelief appeared on his face, and he found another one.

But after watching for a while, his expression froze again.

After randomly picking more than a dozen people to observe, Xiang Liang finally withdrew his gaze, cold sweat streaming down his forehead, and a large area of his back was wet.

"Every one of them, every one of them gives me a stronger feeling than my father. Not only stronger than my father, but the ones in the front row wearing light golden armor are even stronger than my father by a lot. This... This... How is this possible!"

Xiang Liang's father, Xiang Ping, is the leader of the He Feng camp. He has been in the Earth Piercing Realm for four or five years, and his basic strength is as high as 14,000. Although he is not the strongest in the four camps in Shanbei, he is also a top-ranked expert.

None of these one hundred and fifty people in front of him are weaker than his father.

At this moment, Xiang Liang truly realized that the people he saw when he first entered the wooden house were just the tip of the iceberg of Daxia.

"The strongest of your four camps in Shanbei should be Wang Lie of the Flying Tiger camp, with a basic strength of 17,000; followed by He Feng of Yang Ping, with a basic strength of 15,000; then your father, Xiang Ping, with 14,000; Liu Qing of Yue Ming only has 13,000;

Flying Tiger 38, Yang Ping 32, Yue Ming 30, your He Feng 29, the four camps have a total of 129 Earth Piercing Realm cultivators;

Each family probably has more than two hundred Lumbering Wood Realm cultivators, for a total of 942;

The Flying Tiger camp is located two miles west of the northern foothills of the mountain wall, the Yang Ping camp is located at..."

As Xu An beside him slowly spoke, he listed the strength of the strongest cultivators in the four camps in Shanbei, including He Feng, the number of Earth Piercing Realm and Lumbering Wood Realm cultivators, the overall population, and even the accurate locations of the four camps.

From the initial shock and astonishment to the numbness that Xiang Liang felt later.

"Worried that we can't beat the four camps in Shanbei..."

Xu An didn't wait for Xiang Liang to speak. After speaking, he paused for a moment, a look of arrogance on his face, and continued, "A basic strength of 17,000 catties doesn't even qualify you to create a hunting squad in my Daxia camp. Don't say the four of you are united, even if forty or a hundred families come, to my Daxia, they are just a bunch of chickens and dogs that can be wiped out with a wave of the hand!"

If it had been before, Xiang Liang would definitely not have believed Xu An's words.

But at this moment, looking at the one hundred and fifty people in front of him, wearing iron armor and fully armed, even though Xu An's words were already a bit unbelievable, he still couldn't help but believe them.

At this moment, Xu Ning, leading Lin Kai and Lu Yang, happened to walk in front of the one hundred and fifty people.

Just now in the cave hall, only Xu Ning and Lin Kai were wearing golden armor. Lu Yang was wearing casual clothes. At this moment, he also put on golden armor and held a slender long knife in his hand.

Xu Ning walked in front of the middle formation, turned back and glanced at Lu Yang and Lin Kai. Seeing the two of them shrug slightly to indicate, he nodded, faced the crowd below, and first grinned and smiled a few times.

"Hehe..."

Xu Ning's right eye is blind. When he grins, his expression is actually very ferocious.

But the crowd below obviously knew what they were going to do later. Seeing him grin, they all laughed loudly.

"Hahahaha, sir, your mouth is splitting open."

"There are more than five thousand people. The contribution points alone are enough to make a fortune."

"There are so many Earth Piercing Realm cultivators. They took the initiative to fight, it's not like we're bullying them. More than a hundred Earth Piercing Realm prisoners can help me mine for a long time."

"Don't fight with me. I only need to get one."

"You're thinking too beautifully. There are only one hundred and fifty of us, plus the sir and the two captains. The Earth Piercing Realm cultivators in the four families in Shanbei are not enough for each of us. Whether you can capture them alive depends on your ability."

"My strength isn't worse than yours. I bet 100 contribution points that I will capture at least one alive this time. Do you believe it or not?"

"100? Is that called a bet? It should be at least 500."

"500? No bet, no bet. My wife will scold me to death if she knows I'm betting so much."

"Hahahahaha..."

...

Seeing that the crowd had almost finished joking with each other, Xu Ning smiled and continued:

"Ahem, alright, alright, I know you are excited now, but shut up and listen to my arrangements..."

As the garrison commander of Wuyuan in Daxia, Xu Ning naturally has a certain amount of prestige. As soon as he spoke, everyone immediately stopped joking, stood still, and looked up at him with solemn expressions.

"It's still unclear whether Wang Lie has gathered all the Earth Piercing Realm cultivators from the three camps together. Tomorrow is the end of the year, and time is tight. In order not to delay everyone from going back to celebrate the New Year, I'm too lazy to send someone to scout first. Our three squads will each pick a family..."

Speaking of this, Xu Ning paused for a moment and continued: "I'll take the Black Arrow Squad to the Flying Tiger camp, Lin Kai, you lead the Azure Flood Dragon Squad to Yang Ping, and Lu Yang, you lead the Dongyang Squad to Yue Ming. Resolve the three families as quickly as possible, and then bring the people from the three families to the He Feng camp to gather, and finally move everyone here.

I have already arranged for people to clear the snowdrifts along the way from Beilu back to Zhongyuan Peak. The return journey should be much faster.

There are probably more than four hours left in the second half of the night. Strive to finish it before dawn, and then bring these five thousand people back to the garrison together tomorrow night!"

Hearing that they were going back to the garrison to celebrate the New Year, everyone's expressions shook slightly.

"Yes, sir!"

Lin Kai and Lu Yang took the lead and cupped their hands and nodded. Although they are both captains of intermediate squads, they still need to lower their posture to Xu Ning, who is the garrison commander of Wuyuan, during formal discussions.

"We obey!"

The one hundred and fifty people of the three squads below all nodded and shouted in unison.

The sound shook the sky in an instant, and the entire wooden house trembled non-stop.

"Set off!"

Xu Ning shouted in a deep voice, and the one hundred and fifty people moved upon hearing the order, turning around and walking towards the door of the wooden house in an orderly manner.

At the mountain cave entrance on the north side of the wooden house, Xu Ning, with a few words, arranged everything. He led one hundred and fifty people directly out of the wooden house, heading straight for the northern foothills.

Xiang Liang was stunned for a long time, unable to react.

This is… they just left?

They didn't even scout the enemy beforehand; nor did they think about concentrating superior forces to break through a single point; there was no pre-battle mobilization; and from the moment they received the news until now, there wasn't even any preparation time…

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This is because they didn't take the four camps north of the mountain seriously at all.

"Alright, you go back and wait first. As long as your father hasn't suffered Wang Lie's cruelty, before dawn, the three adults should bring him, and everyone from your River Peak Camp, over here."

Hearing Xu An's words, a worried look immediately appeared on Xiang Liang's face.

Logically speaking, since Wang Lie wanted to coerce the River Peak Camp into joining forces with them to attack the Great Xia Camp, he shouldn't harm his father, Xiang Ping.

But you can't be sure about such things. If his father refused to cooperate and insisted on not joining forces with the three families, it was not impossible for Wang Lie to kill him.

With such a worried mood, Xiang Liang waited for three hours. Realizing that only one hour was left before dawn, he couldn't restrain himself and walked out of the cave, coming to the wooden house outside to wait.

Walking out of the wooden house, he discovered that the people inside the wooden house didn't seem worried about the one hundred-plus people who had just left. Many people were focused on doing their own things, seemingly not caring at all.

"I can finally go back tomorrow night. I've been in Wuyuan for over a month."

"I've gathered a lot of Chen fruit and Fragrant Cold fruit this time. I should be able to exchange them for a lot of contribution points when I get back. I have to buy a new set of clothes for my son, add a set of furniture to the house, and also my wife…"

"I'm not far from the Earth Digging Realm. This time when I go back, the spot in the Martial Arts Hall will just happen to be my turn. Spending a day inside should allow me to break through smoothly."

"Amazing, once you break through and enter the Hunting Department, life will be comfortable from now on."

"I heard the garrison commander chatting with Captain Lin just now. It seems that the leader will be leaving seclusion tomorrow night. It's been several months since we've seen the leader, right?"

"The leader is leaving seclusion? No wonder the garrison commander is so anxious. I guess he wants to move all the people from the four camps north of the mountain back to make the leader happy."

… … … …

Contribution points, Martial Arts Hall, Hunting Department… The content of everyone's conversations was filled with a lot of terms that Xiang Liang didn't understand, but there were also some that he could understand.

The Great Xia Camp, like them, also called their leader a "leader."

The garrison commander should be the one-eyed Xu Ning just now.

Combining this with Xu Ning's attitude when he lectured everyone just now, the Wuyuan garrison commander should mean that the Great Xia Camp is the highest person in charge of Five Ape Mountain.

… … … …

While listening to other people's conversations to deduce the various aspects of the Great Xia situation, Xiang Liang also constantly observed the movements of the wooden door.

With only half an hour left before dawn, finally…

"The rain in all directions is not as good as the rain in our Redwood Ridge."

A voice came from outside the wooden door, and someone immediately walked over.

"There's rain in Dragon Gate Mountain, and the Snowfield Tiger comes down the mountain."

After matching the code, that person directly opened the door.

"Everyone come over here, take all the prisoners in first, and the rest go to the back to help. There are more than five thousand people in total, first settle them all outside the wooden house, quickly, quickly, quickly…"

Xu An's urgent voice rang out outside the wooden door, and everyone inside the wooden house immediately began to act. Moreover, as someone went inside to notify, people from the cave on the north side also kept coming over to help.

"Get inside, all of you, quickly!"

"Don't dawdle, get in quickly."

… … … …

Xiang Liang was just about to go up to help when several stern shouts came from outside the wooden door.

After the stern shouts subsided, a disheveled person with his hands tied and covered in wounds was the first to walk in.

"Wang… Wang Lie… … …"

Seeing that person's face, Xiang Liang's expression suddenly froze.

Subsequently, two more people walked in.

"He Feng, Liu Qing."

The four camps north of the mountain would also trade with each other, which was why Wang Lie had the idea of instigating the three families to attack Great Xia with him.

Xiang Liang had seen the leaders of these three camps before, so he could recognize them.

Seeing these three usually arrogant leaders being escorted in one by one by the people of Great Xia, covered in wounds and dejected, Xiang Liang felt an unspeakable joy in his heart.

Of course, he didn't forget to quickly search for his family in the crowd.

"Father!"

Finally, among the prisoners at the very front, he saw his father, Xiang Ping.

He shouted loudly, and Xiang Ping's expression immediately froze. After stopping, he turned his head and saw Xiang Liang inside the wooden house, his face immediately filled with surprise.

"Don't stop, keep moving forward, it's almost dawn!"

Xiang Ping was about to speak, but hearing the urging from behind, he closed his mouth and continued to walk inside, following the crowd's guidance.

His father was also captured!

Not only his father, Xiang Ping, but seeing that among the prisoners in front, there were many Earth Digging Realm cultivators from the River Peak Camp, Xiang Liang's expression immediately became unsightly.

His father also led people and fought with the people who came from Great Xia.

He was coerced by Wang Lie and forced to agree.

He had just told Xu Ning about these situations. He should know everything, so why did he still tie up his father and the others? This…

Seeing that Xu Ning outside the wooden house was still directing the crowd, Xiang Liang knew that now was not the time to go and find him, so he first walked to his father's side.

"Father, didn't you explain to Lord Xu Ning that our River Peak Camp was coerced by Wang Lie and the others? Why did they still tie you up?"

Hearing his son's words, Xiang Ping revealed a trace of helplessness, and said as he walked:

"On the way here just now, I asked to see that adult several times, but I couldn't say a word at all. They kept urging us to leave quickly."

Xiang Liang looked at the sky outside and immediately understood.

"Don't worry, Father, I have already told Lord Xu Ning, he already knows the details, and he will definitely release you all later."

Xiang Ping nodded and continued to chat with his son.

Xiang Ping learned a lot about the Great Xia situation from his son's mouth;

Xiang Liang also heard from his father's mouth the process of the battle between the three Great Xia squads and them just now.

As soon as the two of them talked about this, their eyes suddenly shone with different colors.