Chapter 245
2021-01-06
Chapter 245 TroubleshootingThe gondola is not like a lift cage with a winch and a bunch of other mechanisms , it is completely hand-pulled. The moment James jumped up, several ghouls also climbed up and grabbed the basket. The weight of one person and several ghosts made the rope strained sharply, and almost took Wall on top and dragged the soldiers on the other end along to withdraw … ...at the crucial moment, he swung his sword with one hand, cut off the part where the rope was tied to the hanging basket, then threw away the weapon decisively, grabbed the rope with both hands and climbed up half a meter, dodging the attempts that had already rushed under the Wall. The giant palm that caught his corpse Giant successfully escaped from the ghoul tide and ascended to heaven.
I don't know if it's because of exhaustion, or because I don't know James Lannister at all, the Others hiding on the edge of the Haunted Forest are no longer using long-range means to attack the rangers who are pulling the ropes upward. After swaying back and forth in the biting cold wind for more than ten minutes and having intimate contact with the Wall ice wall for countless times, James climbed the top of the Wall from the north side for the first time.
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"Huh-" panting heavily, James climbed up the top of the Wall with his hands and feet on the ground, sweating and letting the cold wind blow after a fight After a long time, my body was frozen stiff, and I lay on the ground. It took a long time before I came back to his senses and thanked everyone.
"Stop talking, give him a blanket, and go to the room below." Igor managed to convince Mormont to leave the edge of the Wall: "Keep throwing oil cans, don't let Others take the dead brothers Become a living dead!"
"But my lord, the reserves are running out..."
"Execute the order! Throw away the oil drums, and immediately...we will all Change into Wildfire! This is the first time the ghoul sticks to the Wall and let us kill, if we don't take advantage of this opportunity to kill more, we will regret it in the future!" Igor has already made up his mind: he will notify Eastwatch immediately after returning to bring King's Landing With the passivated Wildfire distributed to every fortress along the Wall, the war between the living and the dead seems to have started earlier than expected. "Lord Commander, I suggest that starting today, the number of Sentinels on top of Wall will be doubled again. You are also not allowed to lean on Wall's side when it's okay, and get some help to carry Ser Jaime away!"
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Because there is no need to worry about accidentally injuring the living, the oil barrel detonated recklessly at the entrance of the iron gate with the most dense ghouls, frantically devouring the puppets of Cold God and the corpses that had not been "resurrected" on the ground. The dead army eliminated the last living person on the ground, and quickly retreated away from the Wall under the command of the remote control.
In a tragic and unplanned battle, the Others managed to stop the last of the wildlings safely through the Wall, while causing chaos for Castle Black. The human side also has many things to be thankful for - Wall's only Mage survived the unbelievable ultra-long-range sniping despite being lured by the trick, and the dead army suffered heavy losses under the violent bombing of the Night's Watches, although Win the next set, but the number is not more than before the war.
The remnants of the ghouls retreated into the Haunted Forest, and the battle was over. But the trouble Others created for Night's Watch is far from resolved: Castle Black is crowded with wildlings at the moment, children are crying and calling for their parents, women are desperately looking for husbands, and even men angrily ask the "crow" why they put down early The floodgates, cut off their clansman's way out.
Night's Watches were previously able to ensure that wildlings would obediently disarm, hand over food and important livestock, and then accept arrangements, relying on the sheer numbers and martial power advantages of each batch of "new land givers", half persecution. The number of dissatisfied, angry or confused wildlings in Castle Black greatly exceeds the number of Night's Watch and the mountain clansmen, and this large group of people obviously has no intention of obeying the order at this moment.
"Let them leave the gates of Castle Black first, and the process of converting them into new land-grantors can only continue if we regain full control of the fort. If there are not enough staff, transfer them from Queensgate. A hundred over..."
Jon looked carefully at the crowded wildlings and hesitated: "But these people were in a hurry to escape, they didn't bring all the food, and they just lost many relatives. Even so , do you still want to implement the original plan?"
"The key is not to have them hand over all their belongings to Night's Watch, but to include them in the small land grant by the way Church and the others use coins. A layer of the social structure, so as to manage them in the easiest way, understand? Even if they lost most of their belongings in the escape, even if they just lost many relatives outside the iron gate, they can't disrupt the plan, otherwise, the loss It will only continue to expand!" Igor shook his head: "Okay, you do it right away, don't make a mess, I'm going to have a meeting with Lord Commander and them."
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"How many brothers do we have on duty at the gate below today?"
"Thirty, when Lord Commander opened the gate for the last time, ten came in to show the wildlings. Twenty left. Among them, only Ser Jaime was rescued."
This is a good fortune in misfortune, but apparently there are still people who are not satisfied: "Nineteen brothers! They fled in exchange for more than 2,000 mouths. In such a hurry, I didn't even bring all the food in!"
Bowen Marsh said this with his eyes fixed on Igor, clearly aimed at him, the chief affairs officer is typical of Night's Watch executives The conservatives of the sect have long been dissatisfied with Igor's radical plan, but Commander Mormont has always supported the latter, so there is nothing he can do... With such a major event this time, I can finally use this as a basis to criticize and attack the opponent.
But the latter is clearly not going to compromise.
"Lord Marsh thinks that the nineteen brothers are more important than the thousands of new land-grant people, and I dare not object to the touching comrade-in-arms. But as the Chief Logistics Officer, I am more Get used to judging what happened by numbers - we lost nineteen brethren, but are about to gain nearly three thousand new land-grantors, which will make up for even if only one percent of them are capable of fighting Loss." Igor said: "even more how, I believe you must have heard of the concept of Spearwife."
"Yes, female wildlings can also fight, out of three thousand, there may be one thousand One who can fight, I admit, when the Others get down to Wall, they'll probably be on our side...but if they go against the tide and make trouble in Castle Black today, or run away with the big army in Haunted Forest someday The rest of the wildling should join forces to attack the Wall, so what?"
"We seem to have discussed this issue, how to prevent this from happening, the responsibility is on me." Igor shrugged: "Controlling Good Mance Rayder and his family, disperse all the tribes that might unite... and manage them with a complete social system, and within half a year, they will be as secure and hard-working as peasants anywhere in the Seven Kingdoms."
"Stop arguing about this, I chose Igor's adventure plan, and it's too late to go back." Mormont knocked on the table and interrupted the conversation: "The wildling in the castle, get out. ?"
"Jon is in charge of this."
"What to do with such a large group of people?"
"Temporarily placed outside Castle Black , in the ruins of the original Mole's Town. When the reinforcements from Queensgate and Sable Hall arrive, they will surround their temporary residence and force them to follow the same procedure as the previous waves to become new land grantors.”
“ You should have noticed that the people who pass through the Wall today carry far less food than the previous batches of wildling, which makes our material situation worse again, how to solve it?"
"Start our planned Second Step in advance — -Ten to 20 days to get the new land grantors used to 'taking money to do business'." Igor replied: "Then, I will organize a large-scale 'grain shipment' - organize two to three thousand people and go south North, go to the area harassed by the Ironmen, and bring back the food."
"I'm afraid wildling won't be so obedient to work for you."
"I'll pretend to be there to' find out by accident. 'Ir The onmen occupied half of North, and told them - if we don't get rid of these pirates to get North's food, we will starve to death in the winter. By then, they will be left alone. "
"If we want to take advantage of this Ironmen invasion, take credit and get food from the North princes, we'll probably have to hurry up." Maester Aemon coughed and said tremblingly, "The latest news from the south, King Stannis did not retake Storm's End, but returned to defeat the Reach army... This time is a real defeat, it is said that even Earl Tarly They were all shot by stray arrows while trying to gather the defeated soldiers and died on the spot. "
Mormont frowned: "Does Sam know?" "
"No, but it is only said that the body has not been received, so it cannot be confirmed." The old Maester shook his head and continued: "Furthermore, news came from Nightfort that they ran into a few people who were trying to sneak into the fortress - three children, a tall fool, judging from the description, it should be Bran Stark and Sister Reed is correct, what should I do with this? "
Bran Stark was actually stopped before he got out of the wall?
Igor This is a bit surprising, it seems that Greenseer is not omnipotent. However, strictly speaking , Bran's failure to get out of the wall is largely because oneself's land-grant resettlement plan has filled the Wall with people... Does this break Greenseer's business again, will he be hated again?
He is disturbed Get up, Bran, Greenseer is absolutely impossible to give up on this matter... No matter what he does, at least oneself, will never take the initiative to intervene.
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Mormont doesn't know this What was the trick behind the incident of the little bear child running away from home, he touched his chin, and without much thought came to a conclusion: "Send someone to send it back to Winterfell. "
The Chief Ranger reminded: "But it has to be done by Night's Watch who knows the way. Inside and outside of Nightfort are all new land grantors, and they have no ability to bring people to Winterfell safely. . "
"And Kingsroad is still being harassed by the Ironmen. In my opinion, just like the last time Miss Stark came, send someone to watch over the three children, send the news back to Winterfell, and let them know." They oneself send someone to pick it up. "
"That's fine, Maester Aemon, I'll leave this to you." "
Blind Maester nods. As the weather gets colder day by day, his health seems to be getting worse and worse. He just reported two new news, and now he seems to have no strength to speak.
Mormont looked around the house, with a serious expression nodded: "Okay, let's end the meeting today, and the relevant personnel will go outside to watch to ensure that the wildlings that passed today are evacuated to the outside of the fortress wall as soon as possible... and send patrols. Monitor to make sure they don't run around. ”
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(end of this chapter)