Chapter 430
2021-01-06
Chapter 430 Choices in DilemmaNight King chooses Gorge as the main attack direction, in addition to needing enough troops to In addition to destroying the remaining Weirwood forests on both sides of the canyon to open the gap for the penetration of cold magic power, there is also a side consideration: Nightfort, as the midpoint of the east and west coasts, is closer to the west end of the Wall.
A raid from Gorge to Nightfort only requires passing through eight fortresses along the way, only half of which are garrisoned - Gorge Lookout, Shadow Tower, Sentinel Tower, and Stone Gate Fortress. The remaining four are only for new land-grant residents to live in at ordinary times due to the lack of stairs to connect to the top of the Wall, the construction of defensive walls, and many other reasons.
The ghoul army doesn't move fast, but it doesn't need rest. Overnight, they broke through the Gorge line of defense, Canyon Watch, Shadow Tower and Sentinel Tower... This fierce offensive like a hot knife through butter almost ignored the "defense plan" carefully planned by the Night's Watch command, All the living people who mastered the situation of the battle were shocked with cold hands and feet, and their scalps were numb.
However, the Night King wasn't satisfied.
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On the surface, the dead army he led had completely gained the upper hand in the final showdown of Ice and Fire, but in secret, he It feels like oneself is losing the war.
For human beings, losing their defenses and strongholds as soon as the battle begins is a fiasco, but for the Night King, none of the previous series of battles can be considered a disaster. "victory".
To judge victory or defeat, it is not the gain or loss of strongholds and defense lines, but whether the tactical and strategic goals are achieved.
Cold God doesn't want these hard, cold, useless fortresses, but to secure victory before the Demon Dragon returns! Wall is thousands of kilometers away from King's Landing, but this is only a dozen hours for a dragon that can fly. Even if it is optimistic, two to three days is the limit for dragons to be absent from the battlefield... According to Night King The original idea was that after capturing the Shadow Tower, the army would quickly seize the complete or basically complete ladder to the wall, occupy the top of the ice wall, then pinch up and down, advance to the middle of the Wall synchronously, and take Nightfort before dawn, destroying and closing the inner weave of the Wall. Magic.
Rapidly headed south after the Cold God priests were relieved of their inability to restore magic power and spell suppression, destroying the Land Grant and North's entire resistance before the three dragons returned to the battlefield...let those flying The giant lizards can no longer stop the army's pace with endless sprays of dragon flames.
And actually?
The living were far more prepared for this battle than Night King predicted.
It took more than an hour for the army to capture Gorge and lost more than 10,000 ghouls - this is still when the defense line failed to play a full role, and then the canyon was removed and trees were cut to pave the road. The follow-up preparations took another two or three hours, and things were quite normal so far, but everything that followed was deviated from the script.
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After attacking Wall, army consumed nearly 10,000 ghouls in the first test Shadow Tower, which took more than an hour... However, paying At such a heavy price that far exceeded the plan, the plan to seize the ladder failed to materialize!
Losing the first battle, perhaps by coincidence, army turned to the next stop that should have been bypassed - "Sentinel Building". This fortress has blocked the city gate after receiving the report from the Shadow Tower survivors, but the Night King adjusted his tactics slightly, and decided to use Magic to help the battle after the battle, successfully reducing the force and time consumption. The ghost is that the defenders And in the moment of breaking through the wall, the stairs were destroyed!
After these two consecutive battles, the number of killed Night's Watch turned into puppets is far from keeping up with the consumption, and the army is playing less and less is only an expected small problem, what really makes the Night King feel desperate is - he Realize: Destroying the ladder made him hopeless, not a personal decision of a Night's Watch commander who had a brainstorm, but a predetermined plan already planned by the enemy!
To make matters worse, the East Route Army, which was supposed to serve as a backup and was deliberately separated to deal with this desperate situation, suddenly lost the two leading priests in just a few seconds. contact was completely eliminated.
The kind of mysterious weapons that can kill Cold God priests in seconds are generally equipped by human defenders. God knows how many!
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The third fortress was also turned into a piece of scorched earth and left behind, Night King continued on the road with army in a dignified mood, grandiose rushed to the last must before arriving at Nightfort. By the time the Wall defender's stronghold "stone gate village", the sky began to light up.
The lightning strike, the plan to win the game overnight is a certainty, and now the Night King faces a difficult choice: to attack this equally heavily defended human fortress, and try one's luck Hopefully the defenders in this fortress will forget to destroy the stairs...or just bypass it and storm Nightfort with only ground troops?
The former plan was rejected first, and the gamble of try one's luck is not in line with the cautious thinking mode and style of Cold God servants.
As for bypassing and heading straight for Nightfort? The armies on the east and west roads totaled 110,000 ghouls, but now they fold a little here and destroy a team there. All the way, there are only less than 70,000 left in confusion. The ghoul army is not afraid of being attacked by both ends, but there is still the problem: the closer to the middle of the Wall, the more obvious the suppression of the Cold God priests, and the slower the recovery speed of magic power. When standing under Nightfort, the suppression position is very likely It will be so strong that no priest can unleash Fire Magic...
Only rely on the ghouls to attack with their flesh and blood, how many must be burned to death to win? After a fierce battle, if there are only a few troops left, even if they regain their full strength, can the Cold God priests cope with the crazy encirclement and suppression of the human armed forces that have reacted?
The first opportunity was lost, and a few meaningless victories were held in the air, but Night King felt that oneself had fallen into a dilemma - The Wall, which can really put anyone who wants to destroy it into a desperate situation!
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As he was thinking seriously, another priest beside him said something in an ancient language, providing the Night King with a third line of thought.
Now that the lighting war in a spurt of energy's plan to take Wall has gone bankrupt, it's better to admit defeat. There is at least a day and a half before the dragon returns to the battlefield. Although Wall's Magic is strong, it does not cover the land grant. The army has no time to destroy the living people who are far from Wall's protection in the land grant. The power that may be used to counterattack is eliminated. After the ghoul army is re-strengthened, go north calmly and concentrate on dealing with the tough Nightfort.
With a lifetime of thinking, the Night King immediately began to sense where humans were densely packed. After a while, he was pleasantly surprised to find that not far in the south-east direction, there was a large dense mass of Life Aura, whose intensity was so high that at least five-figure living people gathered together to produce it.
Humans thought it would be safer to keep warm in this way, but they didn’t know that: in the eyes of Cold God priests, they were smaller and stronger than those along the Wall, guarded by one or two thousand people, and broken through. The stronghold that is not worth the loss is much easier to deal with, it is simply fat to the mouth!
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(end of this chapter)