Chapter 264
2021-01-06
Chapter 264 North and South join forcesIgor simply can't get enough Wildfire to destroy Moat Cailin.
A large number of solidified and passivated Wildfires shipped from King's Landing were stored in the ten still intact, repaired climbing steps along the Wall, and fully under the control of Night's Watch, as a strategic reserve against the ghoul invasion , he decided not to use it at will unless there is a major situation. On this trip, the land-grant army went south, and the team accompanied the carriage with fresh Wildfire prepared by several Pyromancers in Queenscrown.
When I got a few "chemists" from King's Landing to land grants both hard and soft, Igor was thinking about making a talent pool in advance for gunpowder in case the need arises in the future - but that moment really came Previously, their mission was simply to "tune Wildfire", producing continuously super kerosene for the Wall defenders. But the plan can't keep up with the changes. The cost of small-scale production of Wildfire is only a fraction of the revenue of the Night's Watch industry. However, the emergence of the land-grant resettlement plan has swallowed up all the resources that Igor can deploy. .
The lack of funds caused by playing big chess, the soaring prices and poor freight caused by the war have made Wildfire's supply of raw materials to be intermittent, the deployment has been intermittent, and the output is naturally high does not raise. Igor started from Queenscrown with a half-cart of Wildfire, which was almost exhausted in the attack on Deepwood Motte and the ensuing tidal flat siege, only the last few cans were left - previously told Asha that Moat Cailin would use it if he didn't surrender Wildfire burns it down, but it's bluffing.
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Igor had planned to wait an hour for the oneself persuaders to enter Moat Cailin to attack with Wildfire, but eventually changed his mind and started the arrangement ahead of time.
The trebuchet came from Manderly's house. It was originally stored in the warehouse in White Harbor as a city defense reserve. This time, it was towed to Moat Cailin North as a siege weapon. It's not that the equipment made in a hurry has excellent performance, and the Wildfire canister is extremely light. After the fuel canister is ignited, the mechanism is quickly activated. With a swing of the arm, the fire canister easily crossed the distance of several hundred meters and fell into the city wall of Moat Cailin.
Although he didn't hit any of the towers, Igor didn't want to kill anyway, but to let the other party know that he had this great killing tool in his hands.
"If there is no response from the castle, just throw another can in half a minute."
"Yes, my lord." The soldier in charge of the trebuchet agreed, but then Q: "However, there are not a few cans left. What should I do when I cast them?"
"I and Manderly Ser will order the two armies to prepare for the siege." Igor looked at the piles of trebuchets. The last few cans of Wildfire beside him, he looked at the Moat Cailin fortress standing in the foggy swamp land in the distance, sighed: "The whole Wildfire side has not moved, and the signal is sent to attack at the same time as the friendly forces in the south. "
"Understood."
"It's hard work, no matter what, the war in North will definitely come to an end after today."
Finished all this. , and after speaking again to encourage the soldiers, Igor turned around and walked towards oneself's tent. Asking Asha to persuade the Moat Cailin defenders to capitulate was a gamble in itself, an attempt to gain greater credit and voice for oneself at a lower cost.
And gambling can be won or lost. If you want to gamble...you have to admit defeat.
In any case, it's a fact that oneself led the troops to retake Deepwood Motte, and rushed to the Moat Cailin battlefield in time to help out. Even if Asha's trip failed, oneself lost little.
The only thing to worry about is "if Asha doesn't come back, can you guarantee that she will still be captured in the battle to retake Moat Cailin"... After all, a certain Glover Lady is also counting on Kraken's daughter to come Change two children.
(Since Crow's Eye has publicly declared to support Stannis, no matter true or false, at least it can't openly continue to oppose North, those two children of Glover's family have no use value for Iron Islands... even if it loses If Asha is a prisoner, maybe Robb Stark can get them back in another way?)
Igor walks and thinks, but before he can get back to the tent, the surprise screams of soldiers from the tower behind him come in He heard in his ears: "Surrender, they surrendered!"
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After the Moat Cailin city wall, the smoke from the Wildfire's burning has not completely dissipated. The Kraken flags on the Moat Cailin city wall were being torn down one by one under the watchful eyes of all those who rushed to the edge of the marsh. After a while, the city gate to the north slowly opened, and the last defenders of the fortress lined up and walked out slowly.
Since the Ironmen had been hiding in the towers, Igor couldn't get the Skinchanger to determine their number by aerial reconnaissance, but now the answer is revealed: there are more of them than Igor told Asha earlier Less, but about the same as what I actually judged in my heart - in my early fifties.
Victarion Greyjoy brought the main Iron Fleet back to the Iron Islands for Kingsmoot, leaving more than a hundred crew members and now more than half of them lost. Of those who died, half were killed in the various attacks of the North army, the other half were killed by the Poisonous Arrow harassed by the "marsh devils", unsanitary food, disease and starvation... Ironmen were born pirates, But I don't know how to stick to the city for a long time. In Moat Cailin, there were neither sufficient freshwater and fodder, nor doctors who could heal the wounds, and even Maester was killed. In the ensuing siege, the Ironmen could only watch helplessly as their fellow villagers fell, one by one, and then died.
Those who have survived this test are still alive, and their physical fitness and willpower are evident. Although the number of remaining Ironmen is only half a hundred, their battle strength is quite good compared to the average level. If you want to take down Moat Cailin, you still have to pay at least hundreds of North soldiers... And if Igor's gang of untrained mountain clans and wildlings who have never seen a real castle attack, the number is only will be bigger.
The barracks got busy, and the land-grant army came forward to receive the soldiers who "voluntarily put on black clothed", while the soldiers of the Manderly family hurried to Moat Cailin to receive the castle-they were earlier than the land-grant army Arrived here, and actively cooperated with oneself's plan, Igor really had no position to grab the credit for the first climb to the city. A moment later, the Direwolf flag for House Stark flew again from the top of the Moat Cailin wall.
After instructing how to deal with the surrendered soldiers, and then giving an order to upgrade the prisoner treatment for Asha who had made a contribution, Igor did not personally contact the daughter of Kraken who returned from the mission. He led oneself's bodyguards on horseback and entered Moat Cailin, which had changed hands.
There are busy North and White Harbor soldiers everywhere, just like the most unqualified tenants - not their own house, not distressed, and the Ironmen occupier as an outsider pays no attention to hygiene and tidy After the sense of despair began to spread, they didn't even clean up the remains of their comrades-in-arms. Moat Cailin is now full of rubbish, excrement and even corpses, exuding a stench of corruption. If you want to re-enter, it may be difficult to do without a big cleaning.
After inquiring, he found Robb Stark, who had led his cronies into the city and hid by the wall because he couldn't stand the smell.
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"It's just right." Robb nods to Igor's neat and tidy gesture, obviously still a child at his age, but after putting on a short beard and posing, there is still a lot of North guarding Igor's sedate appearance: "I'm about to send someone to find you."
The other party put on a serious expression, and Igor did not dare to rely on his familiarity: "The defenders of Moat Cailin have asked me to put on Black clothed request, they and the Ironmen captured in the recapture of Deepwood Motte, including the daughter of Balon Greyjoy, are waiting for the adults to be released."
With what Igor knows about Robb, it is unlikely that he will not give oneself face , have to execute the Ironmen, but people change after all. What Igor once knew was Eddard Stark's eldest son, and now standing in front of oneself is the new North Guardian, the supreme ruler north of The Neck... Moat Cailin's defenders are facing Night's Watch in the north, not Robb in the south Stark's surrender was already suspected of being contemptuous.
Robb Stark is now the leader. Even if he doesn't care about things that happen on the opponent's site, oneself has to report to him and ask for instructions. This is the experience Igor summed up in the workplace before crossing. .
"Forget it, the people who have surrendered to you, it's up to you, isn't Night's Watch screaming about the lack of manpower all day long. Except for Balon's daughter, Glover will use her in exchange for his own child. Robb waved his hand as Igor expected: "Let's talk about the 'Land Grant Army' going south this time. I am grateful that Night's Watch can think of North at this critical moment, but Night's Watch must not interfere in the internal affairs of Seven Kingdoms, which It's been a rule for thousands of years, but now someone has broken it, how do you plan to let me explain it to the other six countries?"
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(end of this chapter)
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