Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 978: Chapter 357: Losses of the Eight Towns, Xiahou Zhang’s Resolve, Four Armies Arrive at Long Mountain (Part 3)

At this point, he paused slightly, looked at Xiahou Zhang with a worried expression, and continued to ask, ”Uncle, our Jiangxia has completely fallen out with Dajue Temple. The strength of the Five Great Masters is so formidable. The future situation of Jiangxia...”

Jiangxia is right at the eastern exit on the north bank of Heng River, only fifty kilometers away from Qinghepu where Dajue Temple is located. This distance is practically negligible. They are currently in Jinbi Village, which is Jiangxia’s territory on the north bank of Heng River, only a little over twenty kilometers away from Dajue Temple, even closer.

With such a strong force appearing around the camp, and almost certain to be associated with the Deceitful Monster, the future situation of Jiangxia Town is evidently not optimistic.

Xiahou Zhang naturally understood his nephew’s meaning. His expression slightly darkened, and after contemplating for a moment, he sneered, ”Now that it’s confirmed Dajue Temple is related to the Deceitful Monster, the Eight Towns can’t just stay out of it.

When I return to the town, I will immediately report to the lord and invite the other Eight Town Lords to come over to discuss how to deal with Dajue Temple. Expecting Jiangxia to stand alone against the Deceitful Monster is sheer fantasy.”

”Will the Eight Towns agree?”

”If they don’t agree, then we’ll give the entire eastern exit to Dajue Temple as a generous gift to quell this misunderstanding. When Dajue Temple exits North Shore, they can fight whoever they want, and we won’t need to intervene.

After all, Dajue Temple is currently only demanding six-year-old children, and hasn’t been indiscriminately massacring like other Deceitful Monsters. If the Eight Towns don’t care, then we won’t either. If this turns into a catastrophe, everyone will suffer together!”

Upon hearing these words from his uncle, Xiahou Qin’s eyes suddenly brightened.

Exactly!

Everyone knows what the Eight Towns are plotting. If it were an opponent of average strength, Jiangxia Town might just swallow the bitter pill and take some losses. But this Dajue Temple is evidently extraordinary.

There’s the Vajra Master who could seriously injure Xiahou Zhang, and the other four Masters who haven’t shown themselves, along with over five thousand Bhikkhus with Hair and an unknown number of official Bhikkhus. This strength clearly surpasses Jiangxia Town.

If the Eight Towns dare to sit back and do nothing as before, Jiangxia Town can indeed act as Xiahou Zhang suggested, and the Eight Towns wouldn’t be able to criticize.

”Previously it was agreed upon that the Nine Towns should support each other. Now there are Deceitful Monsters causing trouble, yet they are contributing nothing, just wanting to sit back and take advantage. How can there be such an easy thing?”

Xiahou Zhang laughed coldly, evidently confident that Jiangxia Town’s call for aid wouldn’t be refused by the other Eight Towns this time.

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Great Xia Year Seven, September 24, late at night.

At the exit on the eastern side of the Xia Straight Road near Long Mountain’s stationing point, soldiers clad in light golden battle armor walked out one by one and then proceeded toward the western Long Mountain stationing point.

It seemed to be their first military march. The soldiers’ expressions were unusually excited, and as soon as they walked out of the Straight Road, many started chatting excitedly.

”Is this the last segment of the Straight Road?”

”In front is the Long Mountain stationing point, no more than two or three kilometers.”

”This is so fast. We set off from the Xia City Military Camp at night, passing through Mirror Valley, Beehive, Wushuang, and finally here, including one and a half hours of rest along the way, totaling only five and a half hours, right?”

”That’s about right.”

”I’ve studied the entire map of the Great Xia territory. This journey should be over 120 kilometers in total, factoring in rest time, our marching speed should be a little over thirty kilometers per hour.”

”Marching on a Straight Road is indeed fast...”

.........

”Speed up, we’re almost there. There are still many people coming out behind on the Straight Road. Don’t dawdle!”

At the Straight Road exit, Zhao Long interrupted the soldiers chatting up front with a loud shout, urging them to speed up with obvious frustration.