Chapter 228

Chapter 228

2021-01-06

Chapter 228 A knife in the back
The Flint clan moved to Nightfort with a total of more than 1,110 people. The residence is relatively close to the Wall, and the settlement was completed quickly. Followed by 800 people from the Wall clan, and then more than 400 people from the Norri clan... Hundreds of thousands of clan people rushed to Wall as scheduled. Although the agreement was to come to each one head, these clansmen were fairly kind, basically family-based, with a normal ratio of men, women, young and old, and there was no situation where only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were sent to the elderly.

In order to ensure the Night's Watch industry can afford to support, Igor finally gave up his wish to station all nineteen strongholds. Only seven fortresses along the Wall have been reopened to inhabit the clansmen, including the three originally stationed by Night's Watch, a total of ten fortresses constitute a complete defense.

Igor's land-grant resettlement program has attracted nearly 4,000 clan people in the first stage, each with 3 copper cents of living expenses per day. This price...equivalent to less than six dollars a day for meals in modern society, it is really the extreme of 'only guaranteeing that people will not starve to death', so that Igor only needs to pay dozens of Golden Dragon's per month. living expenses.

But the extremely low cost of living is complemented by the same low commodity prices that do not consider making money at all and a "good" part-time income: Naturally there is no money to repair the fortress where oneself lives, but participating Repairing the lift cages and wooden ladders up and down the Wall of each fortress, building walls, assisting in clearing the snow on the top of the Wall, and clearing the road will all be rewarded with more than ten copper points per work; and participate in patrols and sentries on the top of the Wall for thirty copper points Points, as for those who follow the Rangers to patrol the land grant to clear the wildling over the wall, a Silver Stag, along the Gorge line, is the most dangerous, doubled.

A Golden Dragon pension for all those who died in the war with the wildling.

A Golden Dragon, less than Tyrion's pocket money for a day when he was in King's Landing, but for this Golden Dragon, the clan nation Warrior participated in the defense of Highest Nature's accumulation is amazingly high, and even widely circulated "one" "person is Night's Watch" joke.

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Wildling's attack density is increasing. At the Bay of Seals, the raft used for smuggling is completely unable to match the Night's Watch fleet and Stannis sent by the White Harbor support. The warships competed against each other, but along the Wall, especially in the Gorge area, wildling's climbing and overrunning at all costs still brought a lot of trouble to the defenders.

Wall's physical advantages are fully revealed in this defensive battle: the lowest point is more than 100 meters high, even if it takes about ten minutes to walk up the stairs, even more how to climb with tools? Whether it's ten people or a hundred people climbing, as long as a patrol finds it, they can call two people at random... A few stones, a pot of arrows, can put an end to this climb. The huge height makes it impossible for the wildling to keep cover on the ground.

After the artisans led the clans and land-goverers to clear the top road, and the Ranger division gradually resumed top patrols, life for the wildlings became more and more difficult.

After thwarting wildling's plot to lower a rope ladder and bring a large army up the wall on top of the Wall, and several times without casualties taking out raiders attached to the ice wall and climbing up, the wildling The attempt to circumvent the wall completely stopped. The raiders that have crossed the Wall are still trying to harass and attack various fortresses, but in front of the generally built wall, they have no experience in siege.

As for digging through the Wall...speaking of which is easy, it can be a mission impossible to complete if the patrol resumes on the top of the Wall: once there are Giants and Mammoths gathered at the feet of the Wall somewhere , as long as the patrol team pulls in a few barrels of asphalt and ignites it and throws it down, the "digging team" will be scattered in an instant.

In the face of the defense system built by burning money, Gorge became the last hope of the wildlings, but there are few places where natural dangers can be crossed, and most of them have been touched by the Rangers. Clear... With thousands of people gathered to defend the Bridge of Skulls and patrol along the Gorge, the wildlings have a population of 100,000, but there is nothing to do with Wall. This taste must be unpleasant.

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Whether it is the living expenses paid by the head or the wages paid according to the work, the money given will eventually be returned to the logistics department in the form of consumption. Helping the clan people master the method of "using money", Wall and the land grant soon formed a closed, efficient and stable inner loop. Igor is indeed squeezing the use value of the clan people, but the fact is: in the past, every winter, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the clan people had to take the initiative to go to the mountains to die to save food, so as to give their families hope of life... Now unprecedented people are raising them. , dissatisfaction is almost impossible to rise.

In this small closed society, Igor actually only needs to invest money once, and there is no need to add it later... And to maintain the operation of this small society that cannot produce food by itself, the logistics department will soon Food delivered continuously from the North and even the Riverlands.

If there is a problem with this most critical link, then everything that follows will be impossible to talk about.

As the Night's Watches, with the help of the clansmen stationed in the Wall, were guarding the line, and even starting to gradually clear the wildling that had infiltrated the land grant, bad news came from the North that the Ironmen's longship appeared in The west coast of North, but instead of executing Stannis's order to "go north to assist Night's Watch", they burned and looted along the coast, and even broke through Moat Cailin and Deepwood Motte, and took advantage of the situation. The pirates from the Iron Islands.

"Isn't Theon Greyjoy in House Stark's hands?" This was Igor's first reaction when he heard the news: "Is anyone stupid enough to put him back?"

"As far as I know, no. Apparently, the Balon Greyjoy who put the Driftwood crown on oneself and proclaimed himself King of the Iron Islands is ready to lose his last son," Mormont said solemnly. " Instead of worrying about this, I suggest you think about the logistics first... We are currently holding nearly 7,000 people in Castle Black's winter storage. If you keep the supply open, it will only last for another month. If you get it from North The supply plan is destroyed, so as long as the wildlings hold out until winter comes, they can cross the wall where all the defenders are starved to death and empty."

Igor is nominee, this change is not a problem Accidentally, of course he remembers the episode of Iron Islands rebelling against North, but now that the situation has changed so much, why does this episode still happen as usual-even at this most critical point in time? He couldn't even help but wonder if the people who caused this situation, House Greyjoy and the Ironmen, were also influenced by the unnoticeable influence of Cold God, the master of the Others, just like Jiujian was influenced by Greenseer, so as to ensure that at the most critical moment Disrupting Wall's defenses?
"Understood, I'll go to Queenscrown today to check the sustenance that North can provide for Night's Watch, and come back to discuss."

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( End of this chapter)