Chapter 322
Beyond the wall Bitter cold, low temperature, short days, sounds like the Arctic Circle, bare, the whole land of ice and snow.
In fact, this is not the case. Canada, beyond the wall, is almost equivalent to Ice and Fire World. It has a similar area and a similar landform environment as Canada.
North of the Wall is similar to the Canadian Forest in the northern part of the Rocky mountain range.
Well, people in this world call it "Haunted Forest", which starts 800 meters north of Wall and spreads more than a thousand kilometers to the north. Of course, due to the short days of sunshine, the forest gets thinner further north, far less dense than the trees near the Wall.
Too dense.
Under the full moon, beyond the wall seems to be covered with a layer of silver-gray tulle, and you can see people and things around you without holding a torch. But as soon as he stepped into the woods, endless darkness struck.
Then, a cold air mixed with the rotten smell of damp fallen leaves, like the ocean waves drowning people. Looking down, even the moonlight was rarely seen on the ground.
The forest is mostly evergreen, the tall and straight soldier's pine, the straight and towering sentinel tree, the iron tree with dark green leaves and almost black, and the branches are connected to the branches, densely packed.
Not to mention that the moonlight can't see through, the Suicide Squad members walking in it even felt that the air was frozen, heavy and suffocating.
"Hey, another Giant corpse was found." Ygritte, like a dexterous Little Monkey, turned over slippery stones, over a dark tree trunk that fell in a babbling stream, and came to a long corpse. Hairy Giant on the side.
"A female Giant, Su Su, I know her," Ygritte's voice was solemn and nasal, almost crying, "My horse slipped in the canyon two years ago and I fell I broke my leg, and it was Su Su who carried me back."
Dany "floated" to the red-haired woman's side like a ghost, carefully watched the gray-haired Giant's wound, and said, "I was hit in the left waist. With a sword, the wound is not fatal, but the bleeding was not stopped in time, and the bleeding died."
Jon led the horse across the creek and whispered: "Ygritte, don't be so reckless, in case It has become Wights, and it would be too wrong to rush over and be slapped to death by it."
"I don't have a dragon, but I can't lose to her if I compare courage." red-haired woman Pointing to Dany Road.
Barristan's mouth twitches, you're looking for the wrong person to compare, and Queen Your Majesty never came.
Well, Dany is riding a dragon to patrol at a high altitude, and the Queen on the ground, who "takes the lead and fights for the first", is a shadow, mental protection.
"This should be the last Giant's corpse, and it's the smallest one that can be used as a bait," Dany said.
They had gone ten kilometers deep into the forest and found seven Giant bodies on the way. Most of them lost too much blood, and they didn't have time for treatment, and they died a little wrongly.
Big Black's Soul wounds are healed, and he has been following Suicide Squad with Little White, wandering 300 meters above the forest. Whenever Giant's body is found, or Dany calls, or another squad member bangs the gong, Big Black falls and grabs it and flies away.
In addition to Giant, I did come across quite a few Wildlings camps. A very small camp, with only one tribe, dozens or hundreds of people.
Mance was captured in a war in the morning, and the more than 100,000 Wildlings who had united were once again turned into a mess.
When encountering such a camp, Suicide Squad sent Wildlings team members up to communicate, and told Wildlings about Suicide Squad's plan to capture Others, so that they could understand that Night's Watch was not here to chase and kill Wildlings, nor would they harass them. camp.
Most of the time there is no conflict, as the two dragons will roar over the camp one step ahead, roaring along the way.
Well, 20 Suicide Squads, forming a diamond-shaped queue in stealth in the forest, covering an area of less than two square kilometers, two dragons patrolling two square kilometers, it's too easy.
Also because there is a dragon passing overhead almost every 3 minutes, Suicide Squad also maintains high morale in such a dark and dangerous deep forest.
"Squeak—squeak—" Big Black let out two quick roars as soon as Dany decided where to place the bait.
"Twice, it means that the arrow team has stopped, and we should also look for the place to set up the trap."
The team that heard the call immediately stopped and began to set up the trap. trap.
Actually, they encountered a lot of Wildlings corpses along the way, mostly within five kilometers of the edge of the forest. Suicide Squad alone encountered nearly a thousand people.
As you can guess, there are more corpses in the woods that have not been found.
However, the chains that Suicide Squad carried were limited, and it was impossible to tie every corpse, so they could only try their best to move forward and keep Others five kilometers away from the edge.
Well, the reason why Dany was ten kilometers deep into the Haunted Forest, he had the idea of keeping Others eight to ten kilometers away from the edge of the forest.
Simply put, if Dany encounters Others at ten kilometers, beats him to death, catches him, or drives him away, then the body in the forest behind her is safe.
Suicide Squad's diamond-shaped array acts like a shield, "protecting" thousands of Wildlings corpses behind it until dawn.
Of course, this is the perfect ending, and the story doesn't necessarily follow Dany's script.
"Cut off its hands and left foot," Dany said to Barristan.
"Why? Su Su still needs to be a bait when she's dead. It's pathetic enough, and you're still insulting her corpse." cried Ygritte in the tree.
Dany looked up, and Ygritte's small size was easily overlooked by the branches.
But Others don't use their eyes to find their prey at all, they can sense the breath of the living.
She said with a sneer: "In case it comes alive, in one piece, with the power of Giant, the poor man is you."
"Uh... ..." Startled for a while, the red-haired woman said: "The branches blocked my line of sight, and I couldn't see the Others below. Anyway, I couldn't hide my figure. It's better to cut off the nearby branches and let the moonlight fall."
Ten meters away, Jon, who was squatting on a tree stump and tied a rope, turned his head and persuaded: "Maybe you climbed high enough, Others can't smell the living breath on you, the branches will always make you Be safe. And there's a bell to alert you to the arrival of Others."
Well, Jon in the vicinity pulled a loop of rope with a small bell hanging on it, Others can't fly no matter how awesome they are?
To revive a dead body in the past, you have to bring a bell.
But no one knows the casting distance of Others. If they can revive the corpse after several hundred meters, then they will be busy tonight.
To prevent this from happening, three "corpse guards" are arranged for each group of Squad Dany.
That's what Ygritte and Ser Alliser were doing at this time, finding a tall and straight sentinel tree, climbing up the top of the tree, first wrapping the top trunk with oiled cloth, and if the situation was critical, immediately. Ignite - because Others are terrified of fire.
The canopy should not normally be lit to avoid scaring them away, after all, the purpose of this operation is to capture the Others.
Then, they would find a stable branch under the tarpaulin, and tie the belt with twine to secure their figure so that they would not fall off when dozing off.
Well, you have to prepare a fur coat, wrap it up to protect you from the cold, and warm yourself up with a pot of spirits.
The corpse guard will keep staring at the grass and trees nearby. If Others are found, they will immediately ring the gong, summon dragon and hunting team.
The three corpse guards are spaced 30 meters to 50 meters apart, forming a triangle to surround the corpse piles tied to their ankles.
As for whether the gong will scare the Others away...
Does the Others who can be scared away by the sound of the gong still need human beings to be afraid?
Of course, if Others is smart enough to judge by the sound of the gong that the enemy is in an ambush, it is possible to retreat.
But Dany and the others don't know anything about Others, and even if the gong scares them away, they can at least guess how intelligent the Others are.
In addition to the three corpse guards, there is one... uh, what Dany calls a "death seeker."
I can't judge Others' wisdom, and I can't be sure if Others will be scared away by the sound of the gong. Dany also has arrangements for this.
If Others' intelligence level is not high enough to run away when they hear the sound of the gong, it is naturally an ideal situation; if Others' intelligence is high, guessing that there is a trap and intending to escape, it is time for death seeker to appear.
A wise person must have a temper. If a human slipped down from a tree and stood on the ground, holding an iron sword, he shouted to invite battle: "Bastard, dare to fight with Lao Tzu? Look at grandfather not cutting Drop your cold willy."
Well, Dany was very curious, how would the Others, who were planning to retreat, react?
And Jon is a death seeker.
It wasn't that Dany took the opportunity to kill oneself's nephew, who told him to have a Valyrian Steel Sword!
The five-man squad, in addition to the corpse guard and death seeker, also has a mobile knight group.
Aren't there one more horse per squid?
After removing items such as chains, oil pipes, beast traps, hunting nets, ropes, spirits, sausages, etc., the pack horses become war horses, and the horses become Knights.
There are many stones, roots and puddles under the bushes, and the sight is not good at night, which will accidentally cause the horse to fall, and the ordinary person is simply unable to run on horseback in the Haunted Forest.
The complex forest terrain makes it rare to not get lost during the day.
But Night's Watch Rangers are not ordinary people at all.
A squad of Rangers, three on three horses, can patrol the boundless Haunted Forest for months.
During the period, you can only rely on the wilderness survival ability stronger than Master Bear to find food, drink, and deal with wild beasts and Wildlings in the woods.
Running in the woods on horseback at night, without getting lost, without falling, and avoiding Wildlings cold arrows by the way, it is only a basic skill.
Without this skill, the first patrol mission will not survive.
Therefore, Rangers are the strongest and most honorable profession in Night's Watch.
When I first arrived at the Wall, Jon was frustrated, annoyed, and complained for a long time because he was not assigned to the Ranger team - until Sam told him the meaning of the Lord Commander affairs officer, the next Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
Well, digressed.
The Rangers would gather in the center of the diamond on horseback, 20 cavalry, again forming four cavalry squads of five cavalry each, four squads defending the four corners of the diamond formation.
Dany is also impossible to make the "death seeker" die unprepared.
If there is a hunting spot that encounters Others, there will be a corresponding cavalry squad rushing to support it immediately.
Well, Dany won't send the dragon down in the woods to breathe fire until the Ranger Squad arrives on the battlefield. If Others were hiding and throwing a javelin at her dragon, wouldn't she cry miserably?
Of course, Dany has also prepared a killing move. If the situation is urgent, she can only... throw White Cloak to the rescue.
White Cloak martial skill brilliant, with Valyria steel armor and iron sword, sure enough to resist a single Others.