Chapter 436

Chapter 436

2021-01-06

Chapter 436 Weakness
In the big snowflakes, two small sparks are a thousand feet away It flashed in the darkness, and as the sound of the explosion returned to the ears of the people on the fence a second later, the tide of corpses that suddenly began to pour into the fire sea also fell in pieces like harvested leeks in an instant. None of them rushed under the wall to attack.

Amid the tsunami of cheers, for a moment, Igor, like the mere soldiers, thought the short, brutal and thrilling unheard-of war was over.

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But Melisandre's deep narration quickly woke him from his sweet dream: "The Night King is dead, but the Others are not. The other is a little weaker. Fen's breath appeared out of thin air in a burst of strong breath fluctuations, and quickly hid oneself, maybe his power was absorbed by another Others! Quickly use Dragonglass bombs, maybe you can take advantage of the emptiness to enter— — Kill it at the very beginning of its birth!”

This suggestion was immediately implemented by the army soldiers, but in the rumbling sound of the explosion, Wonders did not reappear, as the wall has shrunk by more than half The sea of remnants shrank into the darkness like a receding tide, and Igor even had the idea of tearing down the city gates and killing him for a moment... Fortunately, the melee that was still going on inside the walls soon woke him up: things weren't over yet.

Putting aside the absurd heroic thoughts, Igor ordered half of the guards at the wall to stay on guard and put out fires.

The officer system based on the soldiers of the Night's Watch logistics security team, the perfect plan and the decisiveness of the last battle... let the land-grant army born out of wildling and mountain clan play a super level the battle strength. But in the panic, the error still appeared: it is a tactical arrangement to set fire to the house and fight and retreat, but many troops use this as a basis and excuse, often set fire to retreat when they see the ghost shadow, and take advantage of the dense buildings and residential areas in the outer city of Queenscrown. The depth of the space "exchanges space for casualties", although the casualties of soldiers have decreased slightly, but the consequence is that the outer city of Queenscrown has suffered a lot of damage from its own origin, which is of little significance, and even affected women and children who were too late to evacuate.

The land-grant capital of the past is now burning with raging flames everywhere, as if the scene was plowed by the American bombers with incendiary bombs - in such chaos, by the excellent man with Dragonsteel arrows. The Others led by the shooters hunted the squid and marched, and the battle was not smooth... In the end, of the eight Others that entered Queenscrown, only three were successfully killed, and the remaining five broke out through the fire field and climbed over the outer wall. , escaped this horrific "death place" under the watchful eyes of the helpless defenders who were not armed with Dragonsteel arrows.

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A big win and devastated.

The ghouls and the Others died, escaped, and fell clean, leaving only a big mess left for humans.

After preliminary post-war statistics, the Queenscrown defenders suffered more than 700 casualties, including more than a dozen Giants, and more than 1,000 civilians were missing and died. Among them, those who were burned to death by the fire set by oneself were unexpectedly rushed into the town. The other ghouls inside are about as deadly as possible, and this kind of oolong just feels awful. Fortunately, the industrial area, which is separated from the residential area by a certain distance, did not suffer much damage. In the protected Queenscrown inner fort, the important personnel on the list did not have any major accidents. Not much good news.

It took the surviving soldiers and civilians the rest of the night to put out the fire, encircle the sporadic ghouls that remained within the walls, and clean up the burnt-out battlefield, until the Sun on the third day of the Others attacked again. In the cloud-covered sky, the defenders cautiously dismantled the fortifications that blocked the gate, and began to carefully deal with the tens of thousands of ghouls that were burning and covering the mountains and plains outside the fence...well, more precisely, dead ghosts.

Of course, Igor was not alone in the fear of breaking a cold sweat: Miss Stark, who thought it was very difficult to deal with, had learned a little sword technique. After sternly refusing and being locked in the inner fort, he actually had a crooked mind of oneself's actions-last night, taking advantage of the people coming, people going, and all the personnel who were all at the door or on the wall, who were sending letters and dispatching in the inner fort, vigilant. The situation changed and no one cared about her, so she quietly ran to release Yara Grejoy, who was temporarily unattended, and unshackled her feet. The two ladies, one big and one small, disguised themselves and mixed in with the people who were sent to the inner fort to help the battle. In the ranks of soldiers, want to oneself find a way to the fence to join the battle.

They met the ghouls who broke through into the city as they wished. After a near-miss encounter, they didn't find the team until the commander of the team took everyone back to the inner castle. There were two young ladies mixed in.

Fortunately, the swallowing Dragonglass arrangement worked, preventing the Others from making a riot in the outer city and tipping the scale of victory, otherwise, Asha deserved to die for Arya to win the battle at Queenscrown. What happened, Igor really didn't know how to explain to North guard.

The soldier who was scolding the act recklessly with a stern face, the soldier who reported the reconnaissance situation on the battlefield outside the city pushed in.

"Report to the Lord Commander, the Rangers have completed the first round of reconnaissance and estimation. Judging from the march marks in the snow, the number of enemies still remaining is between 10,000 and 20,000, and they are now heading south along Kingsroad. , at least a dozen or more li!”

“What!” Igor suppressed his shocked expression, “Going down Kingsroad?”

“Ha!” Arya, who had been trained for a while, came to his senses, "You won't let me take the job of Night's Watch, so now the Others are going to North, you can't stop me - protect oneself's home!"

"Shut up!" Igor glared at the girl and said loudly to the guard at the door, "Take Miss Stark along to withdraw and tell the friends of Winterfell - they did their best to defend Queenscrown last night. , I will pretend that unpleasant things have never happened, and if they don't look down on my lady again, I will go to their fief lord to complain!"

Arya was pulled out of the door shouting, Igor retracted Mindfully, he asked the soldier who sent the letter again seriously: "Are you sure that the dead people are heading south along Kingsroad?"

"The rangers followed the footprints and chased south for a few miles, but did not see any U-turn or anything. Signs of turning, so I sent the next one to come back and report."

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Damn it, it really sucks.

After such a fiasco where even the leader was killed, how could the Others still have the courage to go south?
According to common sense inference: the strong side takes the initiative to invade the enemy's territory but is attacked head-on, causing the power balance to be reversed. Reasonable in every circumstance should withdraw oneself to take a breather at home. Xu Tu's back plan is... In other words, the so-called home is just north of the Wall. If they have plans to pull back beyond the wall—whether through the Gorge, or through the still-frozen Bay of Seals—Night's Watch will definitely get out of the way, keep their eyes peeled, and never get in the way.

It's not that Igor wants to return the tiger to the mountain, but the fact is: Night's Watch has also consumed bits and pieces of courage and combat readiness through this battle, and it was reluctant to win with the city wall and luck. There is no field battle to stop the enemy from going home. Use the mental victory method to think for the best. Once the enemy with the strength great injury is returned to the wall, no matter how you recover, you will not be able to return in a swirl of dust in a short period of time. He is the number one enemy, but instead he has become a "bandit" that Queenscrown can raise to take care of himself. Igor can use the excuse of "there are still Others that have not been eliminated" to continue to ask for supplies and food, expand armaments, and practice day and night for the future Game of Thrones' highest level table stacks.

But, the remaining Others don't know if they also have the overlord complex of "seeing the elders of Saibei without face". In such a hopeless situation, they still press forward and continue to penetrate into the human territory like a stunned youth... …

The worst thing is that the ghoul army has no logistical supply lines to cut off, and is not afraid of being attacked by the enemy, so it is not affected by various unfavorable factors that go deep alone. They hit right and hit Igor, too. The weakness of the entire human side!

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Night's Watch did previously provide some Dragonglass weapons to the North princes, and Church explained how to use them as a token of gratitude for the former's assistance for a long time. But those symbolic gifts are not so much combat readiness as they are samples and body protection talismans for reassurance-let the guards of each castle be equipped with a barely enough manpower, and even if they are cast, they are even divided among the residents. One swallow is not enough, not to mention, the plan formulated by the Night's Watch Command, but it can't control the North nobles who are loyal to House Stark.

The North people are simply not ready to deal with the Others. If they panic, they will only be a lamb in a tiger's den, becoming a good source for the Others to get ghouls. If the enemy can recover from it, how many combat readiness and soldiers can the Night's Watch have to fight the great decisive battle again and again?
"Send letters to the North families, inform every noble of our battle process and the key to victory, ask them to prepare kerosene and pitch, and emphasize - let them rely on the castle to stand for help!" Crow's Nest Manager Just in the room, Igor immediately ordered him, "Wall is not broken, the enemy has used Magic over and over again, the magic power must have been exhausted, as long as you leave the city to die and let the dead army recover too much, wait for the Queen to ride the dragon to come back to help, If we go further south to save the siege, we will be sure of it!”

“Sir, Winterfell came to Raven yesterday afternoon. You were busy arranging the city defense and probably didn’t see it - House Stark has already sent a general mobilization to the entire North. Command, the various armies, most of them have been assembled at this moment, and are on their way to the Wall."

What? Igor opened his mouth and remembered this - he saw the letter, but he didn't open it to read it. Yesterday, the ghoul army hiding the sky and covering the earth, appeared grandiose outside Queenscrown, lined up to set up an encirclement, the atmosphere was suffocating, with powerless to defend himself, how could he care about North Action?

The northern section of Kingsroad, which has been renovated with great effort, has provided great transportation convenience for both the enemy and the enemy. Now, a human army with no Wildfire, no bombs, and no Dragonsteel, and only a small number of Dragonglass weapons is heading north On the way, he is about to meet the remnant ghoul army that has been defeated southward... Is it better to sit back and watch the enemy annihilate the coalition and turn the North princes into ghouls, or grit their teeth and take the risk of attacking while their own strength is also damaged, and try to get the job done. In a battle?
Soon, Igor realized that oneself had no choice at all: to pursue the victory, despite the danger, there is still a chance of victory... But if the enemy is allowed to ravage North, kill tens of thousands of ghouls and then turn back, then everyone will be Must die!
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(end of this chapter)