Chapter 387
2021-01-06
Chapter 387 False Alarm (Middle)After listening to this news, Igor is Jie Songyi His breath was worrying again.
He is fortunate that: fortunately, the enemy did not know that oneself, the highest commander of the human side, ventured out of the front line a few days ago, leaving the land grant in a short-term, leaderless state of emptiness. If they took the opportunity to launch a general attack instead of the whole bunch of tricks, they would have already broken through the Gorge to destroy the land grant, and embarked on the road south to the Winterfell Road to destroy the Seven Kingdoms.
And the worry is: these movements of the ghouls are tricks, but it is actually the Night King who has well recognized and used the advantage of the oneself army "no food, no sleep, no fear of death" to target the ghouls. It is difficult to find a solution to the tricky tactics developed by sex that are difficult for human defenders to deal with.
The reason why Igor had to forcibly set up a line of defense, knowing that Gorge was difficult to hold, was not only for the purpose of providing early warning time for tens of thousands of land-grant residents, preventing the enemy from sneaking around the Wall and heading south to attack the North, but also There is a key factor - he wants to use the canyon, a natural danger that is not inferior to The Wall, to play a beautiful battle loss ratio as much as possible, exchange less for more as much as possible, and consume the enemy's troops.
Night's Watch has a town and 20 fortresses, which sounds like a lot, but at least one third of them is tattered and has no defensive ability. If Others bypass the Wall and attack, Igor will even "put more than 40,000 people." It is difficult to put all the military and civilians behind the city wall, and the advantages of large numbers of people and adequate preparation cannot be brought into play at all. On the contrary: divide 10,000 of them, and arrange them to Gorge with nearly half of the Dragonglass weapons and Wildfire of the entire land grant. Relying on the geographical advantage that is not inferior to Wall, if the Night King really commands the army of the dead to forcibly use the sea of tactics Crossing, even if you can break through the defense line in a spurt of energy, at least you need to fill in five-figure ghouls under Wildfire's formidable power.
In the first battle, the troops of the opponents 3 and 1/4/2022 will be consumed. Next, Night's Watch will fight against them in the land grant, and the pressure will be reduced a lot.
But now the Night King not only didn't come as hard as Igor expected, but also used this kind of small-scale night harassment to consume the morale and combat readiness of the human side-to cut the flesh with a dull knife, and slowly "grind" "It's a well-prepared line of defense from Igor.
Every night, sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the canyon and across the frozen Milkwater to the feet of the defenders to die. This tactic is basically impossible for normal troops to use: because it affects their own morale more than the defenders. The trouble is far greater. But the ghouls do not have the concept of "morale" at all, and they are not afraid of fatigue and injury. They cross the river at night and come to the front of one's eyes to destroy Weirwood on the south wall of Gorge. If the defenders want to get rid of them in the dark, they must consume A lot of combat preparations, but if you ignore them... Psychological tension is second, I am afraid that "the wolf is coming" repeats day after day, if one day the defenders in a certain place relax their vigilance, and the enemy just pretends to attack If it becomes a total attack, it will ruin the major event.
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"The most important thing right now is to judge the enemy's intentions. In the end, the Others are really afraid of Weirwood to the point of 'no shoveling and never crossing the canyon', Or is it just a cover to destroy the forest, and the main purpose is to use the fatigue war to drain our energy and combat readiness?" Igor regained his composure, knocked on the table, and forced the topic from false positives to serious military discussions, "In addition, we have to Consider the possibility of Third Type: Is the enemy attacking the east and west in an attempt to contain the main force of the land-grant defense in the canyon, and most of them detour the Wall to launch a sneak attack?"
Warner nodded: "We had this suspicion. , so the day before yesterday put aside Stark Young Master's warning, and risked sending Skinchanger to scout the north side of the Wall - it turned out that the eagle controlled by Skinchanger in charge of the Gorge segment did not fly back, and people went crazy, and are currently under house arrest in Shadow Tower. According to other Skinchangers, good luck will recover, but I don't know how long it will take."
Skinchangers have a hard time getting a controllable bird, so I lost one...hope it's okay .
Igor sighed: "Very well, so we at least know that the Night King is still across from the Gorge. Stop sending Skinchangers to the other side of the canyon to send birds, the flight reconnaissance along the Wall can continue...although it is At the risk of losing the Skinchanger, but this is not the time to be fussy about it."
"Understood, I will immediately communicate this to the Wall fortresses."
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Igor's idea is simple: unless the Night King will go alone from the ghoul army, he will be wherever the Skinchanger loses. As long as the flight reconnaissance is still in progress, tens of thousands of dead armies are impossible to move to other places to conduct raids, and once the Skinchangers in charge of the Wall section also lose birds... at least prove this section. The defenders need to be much more vigilant.
"The strength of the troops on the other side of the canyon has reached the upper limit of my expectations. The path by the cliff is narrow and rugged, and no more troops can be deployed. The Wall can block the penetration of Cold God's power to the south and protect its The priority is higher than the gain and loss of one city and one place... No matter how much the commanders of Shadow Tower and Eastwatch exaggerate the urgency of the situation, they will never draw reinforcements from the basic guard forces along the Wall to avoid a gap in the defense at the top of the wall. Except for this The bottom line must be kept outside... In other respects, the land granting departments do their best to meet all the demands of the frontline commanders." Igor breathes deeply, "Okay, is there anything else that needs to be discussed now."
"Yes." Yam said hesitantly after looking at his two colleagues, "The night of the false report, after the beacon in the canyon was lit, the land grant immediately entered the highest alert state you arranged, but during this process However, many accidents happened in the middle of the city, and many problems were exposed. There was a riot, several fights, and at least half a dozen strong women committed crimes in the outer city of Queenscrown that night. Come into the inner castle - we later caught the leader and he admitted that they came to 'rescue' King-Beyond-the-Wall Mance Rayder, who was under our house arrest, so that you could lead this war on the dead in place of you who were on the run. The funniest thing is... someone drowned in that little lake in the middle of Queenscrown, no, froze to death. We can't tell if he was forced into the ice hole or if he was hiding Under the frozen lake, you can escape the slaughter of the Others."
"Similar situations have occurred in many fortresses along the Wall, but Queenscrown is the most serious because of the large number of people." Warner Buckwell looked ugly. He replied, "On the night of the false report, none of us were killed by Others and ghouls, but the internal chaos resulted in double-digit casualties. After the second day dawned, we were held accountable, and more than a dozen Queenscrown were hanged to death. A mess... Many inmates admit that they had no desire to improve because they believed the 'Lord Commander left Wall and ran' rumors that we had no hope of winning this battle."
"Have you caught the rumour spreader?"
"No. Your lord, unlike the usual slander and slander, the rumour is not made up by a particular person, It's the association of the fact that you 'leaved Queenscrown' that evolves, it's impossible to investigate, and it's impossible to catch the culprit - more precisely, if you really want to pursue it, you have to deal with a lot of people."
"There is also a small clan assigned to live south of Queenscrown, which directly violated the requirements of the Night's Watch battle plan... abandoning the garrison directly when the beacon was lit, and heading south along Kingsroad to escape the land grant and go to a 'warm place' 'Refuge. They didn't even think about it, how could a group of hundreds of people, including women and children, pass through North without anyone knowing? If it wasn't for the second day, I personally led the cavalry to chase them back, I'm afraid they would not have seen the Others and would have died under the sword of the Umber family's army... They die without regret, but most of the blame for this 'mismanagement' is North The blame will be on you again. "Warner said coldly," The leader of this tribe has been thrown into the dungeon, and it is up to the adults to decide. ”
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