Chapter 415

Chapter 415

2021-01-06

Chapter 415 Coincidence or traitor?

Eastwatch was the first to meet the challenge of the dead, but I don't know if it was a coincidence or an appointment - across the entire Wall plus a Gorge's Westeros, another coastal fortress "Ice Gap Harbor" guarded by Night's Watch ”, and also encountered trouble from the living.

The North navy, which had just begun to form, did not dare to attack Euron Greyjoy, but the latter's fleet was also afraid of the perfect defense facilities of Bingxia Harbor and did not dare to attack. In this way, the Ironmen showed off one's military strength in the Bay of Ice, while the craftsmen sailors and the Night's Watches of the North huddled in the harbor to build ships and explode soldiers. After all, the port shipyard is rushing to the construction site to build warships day and night. With the advantages of heritage and size, North will definitely have the upper hand in the confrontation... Probably he also realized this. After a few days of confrontation, Euron finally took action.

The soldiers patrolling the coastline during the day were the first to report the news: less than ten miles south of Bingxia Port, many long ships docked and sent a large number of plunderers to land.

There are no villages to loot along the coast of the Bay of Ice, and the meaning of sending troops to land is obvious: the Ironmen, thousands of miles away from home, do not want to spend any more, and are ready to attack by water and land, in a spurt of energy. Ice Gap Harbor killed the North Navy in its cradle.

The port fortress is not more than a thousand defenders, and has to take care of Gorge at the same time. The defense is more than enough to attack. Although the information was detected in advance, the commander of Ice Gorge Port chose after some consideration-send Raven to Shadow Tower Report the letter, and then stick to the spot.

The sky was dark as if soaked with ink, the moon flickering hard among the thick clouds, the ice storm that swept the coast in the Bay of Seals didn't make it here, another cold wind whistling A normal night, between Heaven and Earth, except for the wind and the sound of the waves lapping the shore, as if there were no other sounds.

The Sentinels on the night shift have finished their dinner and are standing on top of the fortress wall. Knowing in advance the news that the enemy might attack at night tonight, the number of soldiers on duty doubled, and they all kept their eyes wide open, staring at every direction around the fortress with extreme vigilance, refusing to miss a little bit of trouble, everyone watching When something suspected of being a silhouette is moving, it will be reported to Captain immediately, and the Myr lens will be used for secondary investigation.

However, it was the guards on the sea observation tower who were the first to spot the target.

Euron deliberately let some of the Ironmen land on the North's patrols detect, but the real attack direction is still the sea - the sky is cloudy tonight, the light is extremely dark, a dozen ships are equipped with trebuchets Or other long-range attack weapons sailing boats arrived in the Bay of Ice waters outside the mouth of the Milkwater, first sailed straight to the Ice Gorge Harbor, and sailed until only several hundred meters away from the coast, and then suddenly opened fire. More than a dozen projectiles dragging firelight and smoke trails pierced the dark night sky, some fell in the icy sea water to cause waves, some hit the city wall and splattered a fire star, and some hit the mooring The brand new North battleship on the shore quickly created a fire threat.

There was an instant commotion in the originally deserted Bingxia Harbor, the alarm bells rang loudly, the horn rang, and disheveled guys rushed out of every house—whether they were lying on the bed or not, all those who heard the alarm rang out. Everyone stood up immediately, put on their equipment, grabbed the guy and rushed out of the house, quickly meeting the officers they could find, and led them to the responsible combat position.

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"I will use all the trebuchets to help the west tower! If I can't, I will go to the port to put out the fire on the ship, leaving a group of people to continue to stare outside the wall and find the enemy. Just call the police!" The duty officer on duty loudly ordered, and with half of the soldiers he ran down the fence and rushed towards the direction of the port.

Soon, a shore-based slinger and ballista, under the control of sufficient personnel, began to counterattack the Ironmen sailboat that suddenly appeared on the ocean surface. Shen and the amazing lethality of Wildfire incendiary bombs and many other advantages, quickly gained an advantage in counter-bombing.

However, just when most of the people's attention was attracted by the bombardment of long-range weapons, hundreds of Ironmen Warriors who had disembarked in the woods in the distance of the fortress, took advantage of the chaos. He rushed out of his hiding place, and under the cover of night, he killed until he was less than a hundred meters away from the city wall before he was seen by the soldiers on the top of the wall.

A moment ago, the young soldier who was the first to discover the situation was watching the firework-like clash of sailboats in the distant harbor and the bay, but the next second he heard footsteps and voices coming from outside the wall, be cautious. I threw out a torch and saw dozens of densely packed heads under the weak light. I was so frightened that I almost sat on the ground. I immediately yelled at my comrades beside me, and rang the attack on the south wall. alarm bell.

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This is what James faced when he was fully dressed and rushed out of the door: the sea in the direction of the port was "fired", and despite the momentum Under the cover of the sound of the vast reality but not many threats, there were enemy attack alarms in the direction of the city wall in the south and east.

What are you doing?
Kingslayer frowned suspiciously.

From the very beginning, he didn't support Igor's decision to lease Bingxia Harbor to North as a naval port, and he didn't think much of "actively providing heavy protection" in exchange for House Stark's loyalty. The "kneeling and licking" means of assistance and cooperation... not to mention that oneself is now fighting against the Ironmen.

oneself at first came to the Wall voluntarily, because oneself's shady things brought a crisis of demise to the family. He wanted to atone for his sins through desperate actions with "human enemies" like Others, and by the way find a place to spend the rest of his life in peace.

What's the point of fighting the living, especially within Seven Kingdoms, if it's just a different place?
Although he really hates the Ironmen, the paranoid and greedy pirates, but he also doesn't like the stinky and tough North people who think they are tough... Now Igor wants oneself to be a group of oneself who doesn't like it very much. Man, it feels awful to go and fight another gang of nasty bastards! This is not his war!

Unhappy, unhappy, James didn't plan to quit. First, the Iron Islands are indeed at war with the Westerlands at the moment, and fighting the Ironmen is not against the interests of the oneself family; secondly, as the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Igor has nothing to feel sorry for oneself, relying on his power to fight oneself. The three children, and even the oneself, are well cared for; the third reason is a bit indescribable - he, for the first time, has experienced the feeling of love from someone other than Cersei, and has someone other than his family who he wants to protect.

Because of his good looks since he was a child, James has seen many women who take the initiative to show affection to oneself... It is not uncommon to be chased, but Val has fully demonstrated that she can get the "wildling princess". The reason for the number: Although he knew about the past of oneself breaking his oath, and heard about the scandal of oneself having sex with his elder sister, although he is no longer powerful, rich and powerful, Val is still willing to approach and understand him , peeled off the hard shell that he protected around the oneself layer by layer, and touched his soft heart that was not a man.

And when she finally decides she wants to be with oneself, her unrestrained and sincere offensive, which is completely different from ordinary Seven Kingdoms women's "sweet and twiddle", can make any body and mind normal. man fell.

Jaime has a reason to fight now - not to mention that the Ironmen, led by the lunatic Euron Greyjoy, don't get killed just because oneself yells "don't hit me like you don't like North people" Spare oneself. reasonable in every circumstance, he must spare no effort.

The cronies of the Westerlands Squad have been armed and assembled in front of him. Although these people are under the coercion of father Duke Tywin, they accompany oneself to the Wall as Night's Watch semi-voluntarily. Lanisport was well taken care of, and Igor promised to allow them to return home to visit relatives in the future. Their fighting spirit and loyalty were not bad... After a brief glance at the team to make sure there was no shortage of people, Kingslayer looked around and finally decided to support the emergency first. south-east direction fence.

After all, no matter how noisy the port is, the sailboats several hundred meters from the shore will not teleport into the port to occupy the fortress, but if the walls and gates fall, the enemy can rush in at once. .

Dozens of Westerlands soldiers hurried towards the wall, and along the way gathered a few more North and land-grant skirmishers who were separated from the officers and didn't know what to do, they snowballed In the same way, when we arrived at the city wall, it had become a team of hundreds of people, and then merged with the reserve team brought by the authentic Bingxia Port commander, and immediately formed a considerable support - half of Bingxia Harbor. The soldiers all rushed to the fence to help in the battle.

Because it was too late to greet each other, the two groups of people quickly climbed the wall - the battle situation was better than expected. Although there were many plunderers attacking, they did not prepare siege weapons due to the long distance. Climbing the wall with a simple wooden ladder, although the momentum is loud, the threat is quite ordinary: in addition to relying on people and sea ants, there is only one team carrying a fresh log as a battering ram... The attackers who hit the east gate of the fortress, The log slammed the Atsugi door swaying, although it would not be destroyed immediately, but the overwhelming sound made everyone nervous.

When attacked in a hurry, the inexperienced threw down a lot of Wildfires prepared for the ghouls in a panic. Although the formidable power was not small, it caused a huge waste.

A sword slashed over the oncoming Ironmen Warrior, who had just climbed the wall and had not had time to call out the first sound. James and the commander of Ice Gorge Port led people to sweep from the top of the wall in two directions. However, after quickly recovering a small number of fallen wall sections and overturning a few wooden ladders, the originally precarious wall defense was immediately stabilized.

"Stop throwing Wildfire around, it's for the dead, use a little less!"

After shouting loudly to stop a few youngsters who were returning to the war for wasting their preparations, James received sword sheathe, took a bow from the hand of the soldier beside him, and cautiously poked out from the top of the wall to observe the battle situation: Wildfire cannot burn in the icy snow, but if good luck hits someone, it can use Clothes and equipment burned for the base... Under the light of several corpses lying in the snow and the red and green flames burning on their shields, James could see the general situation of the enemy: dozens or hundreds of people crowded in Under the wall, their clothing and equipment are painted with the coats of arms of each family - the big Kraken of House Greyjoy, the black horn of Phnom Penh of the Gubler family, the intertwined green water pipes of the Mei Lin family, etc...

A group of mobs, dare to attack the fortress guarded by oneself?
James sneered, put the arrow on the bow, pull the tail feather to the ear, aim at any one, let go and shoot, then put the arrow and draw the bow - he is not a dive arrow hand, but the enemy formation is chaotic and the defense is weak The counter-fire was insufficient, and the Ironmen plunderers fell screaming one by one, with few casualties on their own. Under his leadership and the town field, the mood of the other soldiers on the top of the fence gradually stabilized, no longer throwing Wildfire indiscriminately, and instead defended with more affordable stones and bows and arrows.

Ironmen are not good at attacking the tough, and now they are facing the prepared defenders. After a rush to attack, the "Battery Hammer" also turned into a After a pillar of fire, the attackers dropped dozens of corpses and hurriedly retreated into the darkness.

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Is this the end? The sneak attack came across nearly a thousand miles on a boat, and it ended with such a little movement?
There were cheers from the surroundings, no matter what the result was, this was indeed the first defensive battle victory since Ice Gorge Harbor was built... James was puzzled, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was. However, in the darkness where no one could notice, Euron's real killing move was approaching the port fortress without a sound: whether it was the sail fleet that was firing against the fortress on the sea several hundred meters outside the port, or the The attack on the wall from the land was not carried out by the elites of the Iron Islands... and the most fierce Warrior and the most experienced sailor in the Ironmen are all sitting on the long boat at this moment, clenching the things in their mouths, and screaming Silently rowing the boat, led by a small boat that uses tools to measure the water depth and the distribution of the reefs, quietly at the speed of a snail—moving inch by inch from south to north along the coast to Bingxia Harbor.

Under normal circumstances, such infiltrations from the shore would be detected by sentries on watchtowers near the sea.

However, at this time, the torch was lit on the northwest ocean, and the sailboats that were actively firing were attracting the attention of the fortress watchtower and the port sailors. Everyone was staring at the sailboats with various projectile weapons. Shooting, the inexperienced commander completely forgot to keep staff on guard, thus ignoring the long fleet that crept past them in front of one's eyes.

The plunderers who were feigning attack outside the wall would attract the defense forces within the wall to the southeast wall far away from the coast and the port. The main attacking team led by Euron seized this time point. The long boat full of soldiers suddenly emerged from the shadows under the rowing of two rows of long oars, bypassed the natural breakwater and rushed into the harbor, sailed straight past the moored North battleships, and did not stop until it washed up on the beach. A number of the strongest Ironmen Warrior rushed to the shore, and rushed into the empty harbor where only a dozen people were fighting the fire like no one, and began to destroy buildings and battleships.

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(end of this chapter)