Chapter 241
2021-01-06
Chapter 241 Ghouls AssaultWildlings of Horde after Horde are concentrated in the fence outside the Wall gate , after disarming, queuing to get into the passage... To be honest, this highly visual image is very similar to the scene of queuing into the poison qi room in the concentration camp, it always makes people feel that once you enter, you will never be able to get out. In addition to a series of harsh conditions such as disarming and handing in food, despite Mance Rayder's guarantee, some of the 30,000 wildlings were hesitant, and they were only willing to continue to enter unless they had sent representatives to testify through Wall's freedmen.
A series of procedures and the existence of Giant greatly reduce the efficiency of wildlings passing through the Wall. It takes at least two or three hours for a tribe with more than one person to pass through, and only a few groups of thousands of people can pass through the Wall every day. At the same time, because the mammoths raised by Giant couldn't pass through Castle Black's tunnel, Night's Watch had to take a small part of wildlings and Giants with mammoths to the direction of Bay of Seals, relying on Eastwatch to share Castle Black's pressure.
The process of letting wildlings go through the Wall and helping them complete the transition to the "new land-grant" status is monotonous, but the repeated work, put on a bunch of all kinds of Barbarians, can become Accidental "surprise" constantly. After a few days like this, most of the wildlings were stationed in the resettlement area designated by the Night's Watch high level, and the number of wildlings still outside the Wall was less than ten thousand.
The good days when everything was going well have finally come to an end.
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Thousands of soldiers who were transferred to Castle Black were still stationed in the towers, all dressed up and ready to spend the days as they were in the previous days. In theory, high vigilance is required, but in practice A day when you don't have to do anything. Today's first batch of wildlings entered Castle Black and were being registered by industrial workers when a horn suddenly came from the top of the Wall.
Night's Watch has not sent anyone out of the wall in recent months, unless Benjen Stark, who disappeared a year ago, returned to the Wall, otherwise, there will never be only one horn, and there will be more!
All Night's Watch in Castle Black immediately pricked up their ears, sat and rested and stood up, leaning against the wall and dozing off and opening their eyes, all the combatants grabbed their weapons.
The horn sounded again.
"What's the matter?" Igor was originally sitting in the Conference Hall and several Night's Watch officers to discuss various matters after the introduction of the new land grantors, and his thoughts were interrupted.
More than 20,000 new land grantors have been brought to resettlement sites and are strictly prohibited from leaving their assigned areas without permission, and there are scouts all around Castle Black, not to mention King-Beyond-the-Wall Mance Rayder I'm a hostage in Castle Black, so even if the wildlings are going to attack, I shouldn't choose this time.
Mormont stood up from his chair and made a decisive decision: "Put the wildlings who have already entered Castle Black to watch, close the Castle Black gate, and let's go to the city... to see what's going on."
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A group of Night's Watch officers left the conference table and went to oneself's post to carry out orders. On the central field of Castle Black, hundreds of wildlings and three Giants didn't know what was going on. They looked around at a loss, nervously watching the black clothed soldiers who suddenly raised their weapons and became murderous-looking.
Looking at the wildlings' performance, it doesn't look like they were pre-arranged to launch an attack. Before Igor could breathe a sigh of relief, Horn made a third sound.
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It wasn't the first time that Night's Watch had blown three horns, but it was the first time Igor had actually heard it. When the sound in the dream came into his ears in reality, he had goosebumps all over his body.
Others coming?
But didn't Mance Rayder say before: Others don't want to be close to Wall, and have been moving at a certain distance?
With a slight turn of mind, Igor woke up in horror: Others "unwilling" to approach the Wall doesn't mean they "can't" approach the Wall... Seeing that the target they have been chasing for months is about to completely withdraw into the Wall, human beings The natural enemy finally couldn't sit still and forced the shot!
The wildling has been picked for most of the time, and only the remaining part is outside the wall. When the vigilance and fighting will are at their lowest point, they launch an attack. It is indeed a wise Magic creature, and it really picks the time!
Igor realized the threat, turned his head and looked towards Mormont: "Lord Commander, if there is chaos in the wooden fence outside the passage at this time, and Others take the opportunity to pass through the gate, Castle Black will be in danger!"
" Lead a group, take Dragonglass weapons, and guard the gate!" Mormont, who didn't understand this, immediately pointed to the chief ranger and gave a loud order, then walked quickly to the cage: "Take all the wildlings in Castle Black first. Go outside the castle and tell them, don't move without permission!"
After shouting, Mormont took the lead into the cage, rang the bell, and ascended to the top of the Wall with Igor and the others.
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"What's going on down there?" Mormont asked as he approached the wall's edge as he climbed up the wall.
"Suddenly the remaining wildlings rushed out of the forest and ran towards our wooden fence." A sentry replied: "North...there is something in the woods that is chasing them."
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"Go downstairs, get two hundred people up, get the oil barrels and rockets ready!"
Igor looked down at Wall, and there were thousands of black spots on the white snow of the isolation belt below. They are rushing to the wooden fence built by Night's Watch at the entrance of the passage. Some are carrying their children, some are carrying their belongings, and some are driving sheep or even driving a dog cart... Among them, the faster ones have already arrived outside the wooden door. .
And in the woods, the natural enemies of the living people also emerged, and the ghouls overflowed from the Haunted Forest like melted animal grease, over the roots and rocks, and grandiose to the Wall.
Standing on top of the two-hundred-meter-high Wall, it's hard to tell the difference between ghouls and humans... Fortunately, it's daytime. Although there is no Sun, Igor can still pass the movements of the black spots below. Distinguish them: the wildlings at the end hold weapons and torches, and look back while running; while the ghouls chasing them are not entirely humanoid, there are also bears, wolves and Shadowcats mixed together, the ghoul Giant is probably The action is too difficult to appear yet - but most importantly, they all pursue the living person ahead with determination and unshakable attitude, and when they get close, they immediately pounce and bring the target down, killing each other's life, in stark contrast to the fleeing wildling.
The wildling knows how to deal with ghouls. Although the ghoul animals or people who fight with the dead wildling warriors continue to cause casualties, many of them soon fall with fire, but hundreds of thousands of them. The ghouls kept pouring out of the forest, in an unstoppable imposing manner that left the frightened wildlings unwilling to fight. The dozens of Night's Watch soldiers inside the wooden fence below had no high vision, could not see the situation in the distance, and did not receive orders. They only closed the gate and blocked countless wildlings from the fence.
Thousands of wildlings were chased by thousands of ghouls, and the ratio of the number of enemies and friends did not reach the level of crushing, but in the case that most of the same kind had already escaped to a safe place through the Wall, they were still left behind. The last batch of wildlings beyond the wall saw hope... but they no longer had the courage to fight to the death. They only hoped to quickly pass the incredible high wall in front of them and hide behind Wall.
"Order...open the fence gate and let the wildlings in." Mormont ordered in the complexion ashen in the cold wind on top of the Wall: "At the same time lower the suspension gates into the Wall passage, we can't risk letting Castle The risk of Black losing. The following ghosts must be solved by these people themselves, and we provide support on top of the Wall - when it is safe to continue to let them pass the wall!"
Drop gate? This is the life of thousands of lives, among which is included dozens of Night's Watch brother! Igor opened his mouth, not daring to be a Mother indiscriminately, and did not raise any objections in the end.
The command was quickly conveyed, the wooden fence door opened, and wildlings, such as the amnesty, crowded at the door, swarmed in. The original intention of the fence design is to prevent them from sneaking attack Castle Black when the wildling weapons are collected. When the gate is opened, the function of allowing a large number of people to enter and exit quickly was not considered during construction. It was crowded, and someone was even pushed off the bridge that spanned the trench.
Seeing that the fence gate opened, the broken wildling Warriors also gave up the fight and retreated to the passage. The unchecked ghouls were able to continue approaching Wall in ease, and soon formed a siege to the wooden fence protecting the entrance to the passage.
Seeing that the ghouls were about to chase the last of the wildlings into the wooden fence, Mormont gritted his teeth and waved, and ordered an attack.
The Night's Watch on the top of the wall shot out the rockets that had been prepared in their hands. Several wildfire-enhanced oil drums were ignited and thrown with the boom, drawing one after another arc in the air, smashing them into the air. Falling within a few dozen meters of the wooden fence at Wall's feet, fireballs exploded, and the impact and the flames on the ground effectively stopped the ghouls from charging. Although it also caused accidental injuries to some of the living people who ran at the end, but taking advantage of this wave of decisive cover, the gate of the wooden fence was able to be closed.
The tide of ghouls gushed out of the forest completely, rushing towards the wooden fence from the northwest, northeast and due north, and quickly crossed the shallow ditch with spikes and anti-personnel, and began to climb But two or three meters high wooden fence.
The wildlings who ran into the fence lost one's head out of fear and rushed to the passage through the Wall, but they were surprised to find that the passage through the Wall was blocked by the hanging gate, although they had reached the Wall, But in a place close to safety, was stopped!
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(end of this chapter)