Chapter 285
Even Dany can't deny that The Wall of the different world has surpassed the genuine Wall of the Great Heavenly Dynasty. Five hundred kilometers long is nothing, the key is that its average height is close to 200 meters, and it is immortal for ten thousand years.
200 meters, from a distance, it looks like a continuous mountain range across the earth. In the past 10,000 years, it still shows no signs of decay. If the Night King doesn't fight, it will probably last for another 100,000 years, or even a million years.
The Wall, which is 500 kilometers long, has a total of 19 castles. During the Peak period, only Castle Black stationed 5,000 Night's Watch, and all the 19 castles added up to nearly 10,000 people.
Don't think that there are less than 10,000 people. That's a standing army. King's Landing has a population of more than 500,000 people, and there are only 3,000 city guards.
A mighty force breeds unruly ambition, and the history of Night's Watch has also seen Lord Commanders who broke their oath.
Night's Watch Legion has had 997 Lord Commanders, including lunatics, dictators, and idiots...such as Lunsai Hightower, trying to leave the position to illegalimate child, Roderick Flint wants oneself to be King-Beyond-the-Wall.
Six hundred years ago, for example, the commander of Snowgate and Nightfort fought in groups, and the Lord Commander tried to stop him, but instead they joined forces to murder him.
But the lords of the Seven Kingdoms and King never thought that the Night's Watch would pose a threat to their rule, nor did they believe in the integrity of the Night's Watch, but that the 19 castles of the Wall had no resistance to attacks from the south.
Well, the purpose of Night's Watch was to guard against Wildlings from the north (Others became a legend), their castle was built close to the Wall, there was no city wall on three sides, and it was very easy to be attacked.
This was originally designed to guard against a Night's Watch rebellion, but now it has become the Achilles' heel of Jon Snow and the others.
Because beyond the wall Wildlings King Mance Rayder has been Night's Watch for over a decade, Wall's weaknesses are clear.
Now there are only three castles left in the Wall, Shadow Tower and Eastwatch on the left and right ends of the sea, and Castle Black in the middle of the Wall, which is also the base camp of Night's Watch.
Before Jeor Mormont (Jorah's own father) led a team north to his death, Wall had 1,000 defenders, Shadow Tower 200, Eastwatch 200, Castle Black 600.
In order to investigate the movements of Others and Wildlings, Old Bear led 300 elite Night's Watch from Wall to the north, of which Castle Black walked 200.
But Night's Watch didn't carry any weapons to deal with Others at all. Three hundred Night's Watch were almost wiped out. Except for Jon and his few friends, only thirty or forty people survived.
Next, Mance Rayder deliberately sent Wildlings to make noise at the east and west ends of the Wall, making Night's Watch exhausted on the 500-kilometer-long Wall, but he quietly arranged a two-hundred-person assault squad to overturn the Wall, Intent to quietly detour and steal Castle Black's city from the rear.
Jon Snow and Ygritte are in the Assault Squad.
Jon is the protagonist after all, and he managed to escape.
But Castle Black had only forty-fifty defenders left at this time, and most of them were old and weak.
As I said before, Castle Black has no city wall, not even a wooden fence, the enemy can drive straight in, and Night's Watch has no other way but hard anus.
Therefore, Night's Watch, which received Jon's tip, gave up the kitchen, hall, stables, and towers, evacuated the arsenal, and only adhered to the city gateway connecting the wall and North.
They used wooden barrels full of iron ingots and cured lamb, wicker boxes, bundles of dyed black wool, wooden stakes, and bags of grain in a row of three-meter-high curved barriers.
There are only two things in the defense circle, the city gate and the huge "zigzag" wooden staircase that goes up to the city wall.
The stairs, like a zigzagging lightning bolt, climbed up the wall, and the wooden beams on which the feet were stepped were as thick as an adult's thigh, deep in the ice, very strong.
In addition to Night's Watch, there are more than 100 people gathered from nearby villages.
The strategy developed by Night's Watch is also very simple. Wet the bottom stairs with oil, defend the barriers first, and retreat into the rear wooden ladders if you can't defend them. Retreat layer by layer, pass arrows and crosses. Long-range weapons such as crossbows weakened Wildlings' strength little by little, and finally detonated the fuel barrel buried at the bottom of the "zigzag" wooden ladder, burning down the wooden ladder below, burning and falling to death for Wildlings who caught up.
Will be able to kill the Wildlings is uncertain, but at least it will help Castle Black's Night's Watch survive the night.
The snowy night was hazy and the moon was hazy, and the silent earth was covered in a gray and silvery white, only the north wind whistling through the frozen bone marrow.
The enemy used the moonlight to launch a surprise attack on Castle Black in the middle of the night, the horn sounded, and the war became intensified in an instant.
Wildlings rushed into Castle Black like a tide, burning halls and stables, over rudimentary barriers, chasing Night's Watch and people running wildly in the courtyard, and some Wildlings even climbed wooden ladders.
Jon retreated from the barrier to the first layer of the wooden ladder, and then from the first layer to the second layer...At this time, he was crooked on the fence of the fourth layer wooden ladder, and was shot in the left leg by Ygritte His wound was sore as to tear, he was brow beaded with sweat, gasping for breath, the arrow tied with burning cotton in his hand aimed at the oil barrel at the bottom of the wooden ladder.
Fire, Ice, blood, crying, howling before death...
"Squeak-"
Suddenly, above the head There was the sound of beasts piercing the night sky, and a heavy, scorching atmosphere filled Castle Black. Not only Jon felt depressed, but Wildlings and Night's Watch, who were fighting below, couldn't help but slow down and looked up at the sky.
"Whoosh——" The sharp whistling sound that cut through the air sounded high in the sky and fell below the top of the Wall, and everyone finally saw what was falling.
A javelin.
Three or four meters long wooden javelin.
"puff!" The javelin was inserted into the blood-dyed red mud in the center of the yard. Under the blank stares of Wildlings and Night's Watch, the bunting wrapped around the top of the javelin slowly opened, and a gust of wind with snowflakes passed through. Wall root, let the flag fly high.
"Red Dragon on a black background, Three Headed Dragon, this..." Jon Snow paused for a moment, the rocket on the string was retracted, and suddenly called out absurdly: "Targaryen?"
"True Dragon Banner!" Almost at the same time, other Night's Watches also recognized the symbols of the Royal Family that ruled the continent for three hundred years.
"Dragon, dragon," someone shouted into the sky.
Jon looked up at the top of the wooden ladder, and the always indifferent old Maester waved and shouted like crazy: "It's a dragon, yes, that's a dragon! dragon, there is a Targaryen here!"
Jon looked up and saw the top of the wooden ladder. p>
The old man burst into tears.
As if in response to his call, a huge shadow plummeted from the sky, "Sigh-bang!"
White Dragon!
A White Dragon, bigger than any creature Jon had ever seen, swooped down at high speed, arced over Wildlings' head, and spewed out a bright red Dragonflame fourteen or five meters long, which he could see. The Wildlings' horrified, twisted faces can even feel their fear.
He also trembled, a strange mixture of excitement and fear filling the lake of his heart.
White Dragon didn't burn a single Wildlings to death. After passing through the courtyard, it landed at the outermost periphery of Castle Black and walked step by step towards the courtyard surrounded by rudimentary barriers. in the hearts of the people.
"Put down your weapons, surrender will not die!" The crisp female voice spread all over the field.
Dragonrider!
Who is she?
Jon Snow looked around, but couldn't see anything but the fire star that splashed out from time to time between White Dragon's breath.
As the dragon approached the barrels and sacks, some Wildlings shouted, "It's a woman, kill!"
Jon heard that it was Styr, the leader of the Thenn clan, and he Also the Captain of the assault squad.
The bald Styr charged at the dragon with his sword raised, the White Dragon seemed to be stunned and didn't react at all until Styr approached it five meters...
"bang! "A black shadow was drawn from the back like lightning, and Styr was like a tomato hit by a baseball, flying in the air, and his body was broken in two... In fact, except for his head and legs, everything else was scattered. Gooey, on the faces, hair, and tattered leather armor of the Wildlings rushing towards the dragon...
Fear took over the minds of the Wildlings.
And this is not the end...
"Squeak!" White Dragon roared up to the sky, a dark red Fireball gradually swelled in the mouth, gradually growing from the size of an orange It swelled to the size of a dustpan, and then, "Thorn ---------"
The huge Fireball instantly deformed and stretched into a slap-wide, 40-meter-long bright red light arc, as if A huge machete slashed forward suddenly...
"bang!" The two sides of the line exploded.
"Gudong!" With difficulty swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Jon was sweating profusely, and suddenly felt even more fearful of the female Dragonrider than the Wildlings army.
"surrender and avoid death, resisters kill!" The woman's cold shout came again.
Well, I thought her voice was sweet before, but now it has become inexplicably cruel and cruel.
The 40-meter machete looked at the awesome, in fact, it burned four or five unfortunate people, and not a single person was "slashed" to death. Dragonflame just changed its form, its strength did not change, and its essence did not change. Unreal flames are difficult to cut through solid flesh tissue.
Simply put, in addition to the gorgeous scene and stirring a wave of air, the lethality all comes from the temperature and heat of the flame itself.
As for the stump and the broken arm... This was originally the center of the battlefield, and there were severed arms and heads everywhere on the ground.
But Jon doesn't know, and neither does Wildlings!
"Fuck--" When Big Black appeared and slid over Wildlings' head, Wildlings finally collapsed, the first to drop their weapons, then the second, the third... The Wildlings surrendered.
Dany sat still on Little White's back, while White Cloak helped Perestan climb down from Big Black's back.
The old Archmaester had been flying for nearly 20 hours, his face was pale, and he was almost exhausted.
Well, they flew straight from Three Forks to Wall for nearly 3,500 kilometers. They stopped three times, each for an hour, to eat, drink, shit and piss, stretch their muscles, and continue to fly.
Dany could feel that after 2,000 kilometers, Little White began to struggle a little, but Big Black kept flying at a constant speed, and he felt almost no fatigue—when flying at high altitude, he was also running nine-color vortex, from the void. Absorb magic power factor.
Magic power makes Big Black last longer.
"Which Targaryen is that?"
While thinking about it, Night's Watch climbed down from the wooden ladder and consciously began to bind and hold the surrendered Wildlings. Then, a black-haired bearded man came over with a trembling gray robed old man.
White Cloak took a step forward, opened his face armor, and said loudly: "Barristan, I'm Barristan Selmy, with Daenerys Targaryen Your Majesty, come to Wall to help Night's Watch."
"Barristan !" The youth exclaimed, and he was even more shocked to see the legendary White Cloak.
"Daenerys?!" Old Maester was pleasantly surprised, and a beautiful scene that he could not have dreamed of actually appeared in front of his eyes.
"It's me."
Dany guessed his identity when he saw the long chain around the old man's neck, turned over and jumped off Little White, took off his helmet, Silver braids hang down the front.