Chapter 429
2021-01-06
Chapter 429 PlayingThe situation was changing so quickly that it was beyond Igor's expectations.
After blowing the air in Daenerys' ear, she cut off the possibility of her accepting Reach's refuge, and then respectfully sent her away on a dragon... This should have been another peaceful and ordinary day of land grants, but it was only from the On the "Demon Dragon Takeoff and Landing Field", I walked back to the inner castle of Queenscrown. Before entering the door, Melisandre hurriedly walked towards me, and asked the Queen where she went. After answering honestly, the witch, who had always been calm, suddenly complexion greatly changed. After accusing him a few times hysterically, he didn't even answer the reason he asked, and ran back to the room in a panic.
Originally thought it was the Goddess stick brain that was burned out by Magic, but it turns out that the priests of Lord of Light don't get nervous for no reason: after dinner, it was just dark, Eastwatch and Gorge direction The most high-level warning came. This final battle, which had been waiting for more than ten months for the entire land grant, broke out abruptly less than five hours after the Queen left on the dragon... Counting the rush and preparations The timing of the action is almost certain: the enemy actually started the action the moment Daenerys left.
The "Land Grant Defense Plan" was launched, the industrial zone was shut down and the workshop was vacated. The important personnel on the list were evacuated into the inner fort, while the ordinary land grantors who had moved outside the wall, including Giant , then all dragged their belongings, squeezed into the wall through the gates under the orderly command of the defenders, and settled down in the partition.
There was no plan to fight in the wild. When the evacuation was completed, the gates slammed shut, and all men and women who could carry weapons were armed with Dragonglass... The next thing people could do was to take a long and hard time. Waiting agonizingly, and praying that the Wall front line defenders can keep the enemy out, or that the walls of Queenscrown are tall and strong enough.
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Different from ordinary residents who can only wait and resign themselves to their fate, the leaders of the leadership still have to try to understand the situation, the situation of the war, and respond accordingly. Although the war has begun, the Night King can't... Maybe he doesn't want to waste his energy to cut off the enemy's means of communication. The massive information on the front line can still be continuously sent to the Lord Commander's table through Raven. , people going, a slice in a frenzy.
The situation on Eastwatch's side is nothing to discuss, the Bay of Seals icing is one of the important considerations in the plan, except that the violent ice storm like Gods sneezes hit everyone completely. Except for unprepared, everything that follows unfolds as intended.
But on Gorge's side... in the direction of the Bay of Ice to be exact, something unexpected happened.
"Bingxia Port encountered an Iron Fleet sneak attack. Due to an initial command error, the fort was once attacked by the landing port, with more than 200 casualties and heavy losses of internal facilities and materials... The North fleet lost one battleship. One was badly wounded, and the 'Wolf' was the only one left unscathed."
"What, Iron Fleet? How could they be so deadly that they harassed Ice Gap Harbor at the same time the Others came? "
"It is said that this Euron is a lunatic. Could it be that he has negotiated with the Night King to destroy the Night's Watch and destroy the human world, and let him be the ruler of the remaining human beings?"
"Don't think about it, if the Night King really has the idea and ability to negotiate with humans, wouldn't it be easier to come directly to our Lord Commander to promise a benefit? Why bother taking a pirate on a small broken island as an ally! ”
The officers in the room argued everyone talking at once, while Igor carefully re-read the post-war report from Ice Gap Harbor.
Ironmen have been fighting against North for the past two years. This time, Euron discovered the North military port hidden in the Bay of Ice, and led Iron Fleet aggressive to come to demonstrate and harass, which is completely reasonable. But he ended up attacking on the same day or even at the same time as the Night King launched the general attack - if this is a coincidence, does anyone believe it?
He doesn't believe it anyway.
In the past, Igor may have no choice but to admit that oneself is unlucky after several entanglements... But now, knowing that there are gods in this world, he instantly thinks of something that few people believe when he says it. s things.
He had heard from Melisandre that Drowned God was a servant of Cold God, and he thought it was just a habitual rhetoric of the gods to exalt oneself and devalue other beliefs. Come on, it seems that it has several points of truth?
Euron's role in this final battle is likely to be the same as oneself: only oneself is Lord of Light's pawn, and he is Cold God's!
Ironmen of course impossible is consciously wanting to be a "traitor" to help oneself's natural enemies at a critical moment in the battle between humans and ghosts - they may not even know or believe in the existence of Others and dead army. But as long as Cold God implants the idea of "Tonight is an auspicious day to launch an attack" in Euron's subconscious, he can turn a large group of living people into oneself's help as easy as blowing off dust. At the critical moment of the canyon, use the living to deal with the living, and provide the main force with excellent flanking assists!
And the final result of this brilliant move is: Ice Gorge Harbor was besieged by Ironmen, which made it impossible to send reinforcements and combat preparations to the adjacent front line. The entire canyon line did not function as intended by its original builder, Igor.
However, it is pointless to think about the reasons for the coincidence and blame others. What is more important now is to decide how Night's Watch should respond according to the next moves of the two enemy forces.
He knocked on the table, interrupting the discussion of everyone in the room: "Don't continue this meaningless topic, continue to check the crow cage and all the letters, and sort out the casualty data of the canyon defense line for me, And report the enemy movements observed by the Wall!"
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Unlike the long-distance Raven that communicates with the Night's Watch industry in the south, the short-distance communication between Queenscrown and the various bases along the Wall is used. Raven has been trained to be able to "return messages day and night, oneself to and from", so they can communicate with each other continuously, every one or two hours, and then divide by the number of strongholds and Ravens, Queenscrown goes from the crow cage to the command center The messenger is coming one after another... Igor, who originally planned to take time to check the defense of the city wall outside the circle, could only stay in the Operation Conference Hall all night, and couldn't stop at all - it doesn't matter who is, it's just that those who work hard are suffering. Smart birds flying around at night.
After the army led by Night King successfully crossed Gorge and took the canyon watch, they did not launch an attack on Wall, which made people wonder if they came directly south towards Queenscrown...even bypassing Night's Watch The stronghold went straight to North. Fortunately, the worst situation did not appear in the end. When Raven, who was supposed to go to Shadow Tower, flew back to the Crow's Nest after circling, and refused to leave, the command judged that the enemy's attack on Shadow Tower had begun.
This is good news, at least it shows that what Greenseer Bran said earlier about Magic in the Wall is true: the Others can't bypass the Wall and head south without hesitation to let Igor's painstakingly crafted gifts. The ground defense became futile...
However, the attack came late, but ended quite quickly. In just over an hour, the strongest fortress at the western end of the Wall, the Shadow Tower that Igor had hoped to hold the enemy overnight. It turned into a sea of fire, and Qhorin Halfhand, who was assigned to destroy the stairs, used Raven there to report the entire process of the Battle of Shadow Tower and the reason for the fall so quickly to the Lord Commander after withdrawing to the Sentinel Building.
This is the first complete military intelligence "human defenders face off against the dead army led by Others", the significance is self-evident, Igor and a group of staff are analyzing the enemy with facial expression grave When the new abilities displayed and the new tactics used were how to deal with it, the good news that the Eastwatch danger land counterattack unexpectedly achieved great success was also sent to the house by the soldiers.
"Hey, that's interesting, Shadow Tower's defense should only be stronger than Eastwatch's, how could the difference be so big?"
"Fantastic, Frontline The army fought a defeat and a victory in two places, analyze the comparison, summarize the reasons, and surely get some useful information for the next battle!"
These words came to Igor's heart, in his With the approval and order of the nominees, everyone in the house and the entire Night's Watch think tank put down their work, gathered together, and began to give priority to summarizing useful information from the two stronghold battle reports with very different endings.
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The first is the enemy’s strength. Since Eastwatch has already won, the statistics can be a little more accurate: the number of ghouls coming across the sea should be between ten thousand and ten thousand. Between 20,000, led by two Others; and the number of the enemy's main force over the Gorge can only be estimated - the personal judgment given by Qhorin Halfhand is: "more than 50,000". Even when Night's Watch has accepted more than 30,000 wildlings, there are still such a large number of enemies, just thinking about it is terrifying and frightening.
And then there's what the enemy shows this time differently than what Night's Watch had known about it: the ghouls show clear signs of being in command, no longer just swarming towards the enemy, but Can perform simple tactics such as encircling, feinting to attract attention, focusing on attacking weak city gates, and going straight to vital targets when you want to be inside the wall; in addition, Others have also demonstrated the ability to extinguish the Wildfire and not be afraid of Dragonglass weapons. an ability that has never been demonstrated before.
Although these changes make the defense plan a little out of date, it is not too surprising, but further confirms the judgment that Others has a higher intelligence that has been agreed before - Wildfire Both Night's Watch and Dragonglass were weapons that Night's Watch had used in previous skirmishes, and it was normal for the enemy to prepare targeted responses and solutions for the characteristics of these weapons.
Finally, the summary of the reasons for Eastwatch's victory: it's past midnight, and it's second day in time... But everyone present, including Igor, didn't recall until then Get up - Eastwatch did have a fleet from Dragonstone yesterday, loyal to the Queen, and arrived with a book picker. But no one expected that it was this trifling of dozens of people who played a huge role, and made a great contribution to Night's Watch at the beginning of the war!
After retrieving as much of Eastwatch's hunt for the Others as possible from the debrief, Igor quickly realized that oneself had made a small but fatal mistake earlier.
He's been up close and personal with the Others, so subconsciously feels that everyone should know what the Others look like and find them. But the reality is that most people have only seen or heard of Others from a distance-in the case that these Magic creatures are hidden in the sea of ghouls and do not take the initiative to send them to humans to die, there is nothing left. divine tool , but can't find the target!
Mortals who don't know Magic must be guided by transcendent beings like Moqorro, Melisandre or Greenseer Bran to find key enemies and give targeted key attacks. But in the whole land grant, only these three people have this ability, and even the fourth one cannot be found!
"Send a letter to the fortresses along the Wall, informing them all about the situation, and order all commanders to block the city gate overnight, and make their own new contingency plans, which will be put into use when the Wildfire failure occurs again. "Igor's mind turned several times, and he began to issue orders, using the newly acquired information to carry out targeted tactical and strategic responses," and, in polite words, thanked Mr. Moqorro for his contribution to the Night's Watch during the war, and asked him to - Go to Nightfort immediately and assist in defending the most critical fortress along the Wall."
(The human side currently has three transcendents in the land grant, Queenscrown has two, and Nightfort is the Magic source for the Wall The core, there is not one! Queenscrown has gathered nearly half of the civilians in the entire land grant, and it is impossible to defend. What can be done now is to make Moqorro work hard, rush to Nightfort as soon as possible, and fill the vacancy of transcendent there. )
"Yes, my lord!"
"Yam, you go to organize the manpower immediately, demolish the less important buildings in the industrial area, and use the materials you get to block a few gates, be sure to block them. It's only stronger than a wall!"
(The enemy may use a heavy weapon to attack the weak points of the wall, and the best way to deal with it is to make these weak points disappear!)
"Understood!"
"Humfrey, go to Master Mott and Ms. Melisandre, restart a foundry in the industrial area, and ask them to recast some of the Dragonsteel arrows again. Broken into pieces and used to load two bombs - to assassinate the Night King!"
(Igor originally envisioned the Dragonglass bombs as a gift for the Others, but the plan failed to keep up with the changes, and the enemy While mastering the anti-Dragonglass weapon, it also comes with immunity to the Dragonglass bomb... Although it turns out that the Dragonsteel arrow can still be effective, but in the case of killing two Others, it is difficult to guarantee that the Night King will think of it next time he attacks What is the new way to deal with the Dragonsteel arrow, then——the safest way is to crawl and get a new killer. Maybe, in the same shape as the "Dragonglass bomb", "Dragonsteel" Bombs" instead make it easier to build miracles.)
" OK, I'll do it right now. "
"The remaining personnel should be left to continue processing the battle report. If you have time, you can draft a new chapter of defense plan for me - just take "When Queenscrown Encounters Wildfire Failure Part City" When the wall is lost, how to quickly mobilize the reserve team to regain the city wall and plug the gap” is the theme, I will think about it when I come back. Igor gave a final command, got up and walked towards the door, "As for me, I'm going to talk to Master Bran Stark Young now to see what else he can give me... new useful information. "
(Greenseer is more than just the ability to "be the eye". Now the enemy is now, it's time to squeeze this guy's ability and value.)
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(End of this chapter)