Chapter 441
2021-01-06
Chapter 441 Suppressing Ghosts (Part 2)Those ghost spirit essence monsters will cheat and cheat make conspiracy?
Daenerys raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling that Igor was a little suspicious.
However, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch commanded his oneself army to fight the war belonging to oneself. Oneself has just become the monarch to which he has been loyal for two days, and he has not fulfilled the content of the agreement. It seems that there is something wrong with just relying on the dragon to take the credit for eliminating the Others.
Thinking of this, she shrugged and made no objection: "Where did you see something was wrong?"
"Not seeing, but calculating. We are in In the army, I eat and walk with the soldiers, and I know the situation of the troops, so the speed of the pursuit is known." Igor pointed to the line on the map connecting the western section of the Wall and the land-grant capital Queenscrown, " The average transfer speed of the ghoul army can also be roughly inferred from the fact that they rushed from the stone gate to Queenscrown the day before yesterday. Let the enemy start ten hours earlier than us, and travel all day without rest. When the conditions are taken into account, this is..."
This is a typical follow-up question that a primary school student will do. However, there is no primary school in this world, and there is no mature term for 'catch-up problem'. Igor, who couldn't find a suitable vocabulary, finally had to change his words: "This is a simple arithmetic problem."
Questioning at Daenerys In his eyes, he took out a blank piece of papyrus and scribbled the calculation process, explaining oneself's conclusion: "Unfortunately, whether I guess by feeling or mental arithmetic, substitute the maximum value of estimated ghoul's travel speed or The lowest value...the end result is that we could have caught up with the enemy before we could get close to Long Lake."
"But we're catching up now."
Queen She likes to see how the man writes and draws on the map and white paper, but she is more curious: how does Igor plan to explain the discrepancy and contradiction between reality and his judgment this time.
"Indeed, either I made a mistake in the calculation, or there was a problem somewhere, which caused the reality and the calculation result to not match." Igor sighed, handing the draft to a few guards with a little culture, "Let's pass it on and see if I'm careless and miscalculated...but basically it can be ruled out. It's not arrogance, but the problem model is too simple, and it's hard to make mistakes. If it's not a miscalculation, then - either In the end, Hearth was better prepared than the fortress of Night's Watch, and Others wasted more than ten hours in a desperate attack - this is unlikely; or the last reason - the enemy's speed is much slower than the lower limit I originally calculated ."
"That's good news, why should we stop?"
"Because it is a lot slower, there are two situations: one is really not fast, and the other is One is to deliberately slow down, or even stop and wait for us. Now, based on the known information, we can't tell what kind of situation it is." Igor narrowed his eyes and replied in a deep voice, "It's dark now. The troops haven’t finished their meal, and if we chase after us, we may have to fight a fierce battle with hungry stomachs in the dark... Instead of taking risks, it’s better to suppress our impatience, set up camp on the spot, and wait for the night. What kind of situation will happen tomorrow? You know."
He took the previous piece of paper from the guards who shook their heads and indicated that the calculations on the draft were correct, and made a final conclusion on this analysis: "If the enemy's speed is really faster than mine The most conservative predictions were still slow. Tomorrow morning, we will set off immediately at dawn, and we will surely be able to catch up by noon... On the other hand, if we catch up with the enemy when it is almost dark tomorrow, it means that my suspicions are correct. It's not that the enemy can't get up quickly, but it's deliberately keeping us at arm's length, trying to lure Your Majesty you - ride a dragon out of the army, and rush into the trap first!"
"Lord Igor is really a veteran of the country. , this is a prudent test and confirmation." Moqorro, who had already come from Nightfort on horseback to catch up with the large army, smiled and looked towards Daenerys, "Your Majesty, if it is indeed the Lord Commander who is overly cautious, then the consequences of forbearance tonight will also be It's just to make the war end a day later... and if he guesses there is a problem, Your Majesty's rash attack will put your oneself and the three dragons in a big crisis. You are the Queen, and you shouldn't risk your oneself."
Daenerys listened carefully to Igor and Moqorro, understood what they meant, and nodded agreed. At this moment, the scout standing on the side and still waiting for the order couldn't help but ask: "Then...sir, what will Hearth do in the end?"
"No need to deal with it." In the wheelchair After being silent for a while, Bran Stark opened his eyes and completed his close-up inspection and perception through the eyes of the crow, "The corpses left inside and outside the Umber's castle are all real, the Others should have no excess power. You can transform ghouls, so you can leave so many corpses behind. Write to Queenscrown and ask the left-behind staff to send logistics to finish, no extra attention is needed."
"They don't have any extra magic power to transform. A ghoul?" Igor raised his eyebrows and almost blurted out to ask if this also meant that the enemy didn't have the magic power to transform a corpse dragon, but he hesitated, and in the end, he didn't intend to take the risk, and swallowed the words that came to his lips.
"It's good to wait an extra night, but there is one more problem." Daenerys said again, "It would be best to catch up with the end of this mess tomorrow, but in case it turns out that the enemy really did it on purpose. Slow down and lure me to attack, how do I solve the problem in the end? I can't just let the three dragons follow the soldiers all the way and chase Others to the south!"
"The enemy is not fleeing north to Beyond the wall, go to the hinterland of the North. Just hold on tight, and there will always be someone who will stop the enemy and make the Others slow down." Right now, there is an army heading north that could play that role. Igor was originally afraid that the enemy would expand all the way and eventually swell into a spectacular sea of corpses like at the beginning of the war, but now even this worry has been lifted, and the whole person is relaxed, "Bran, the North coalition led by your brother, where is it now? - Can you use the crow to try to locate them and contact them, so that the two armies cooperate with each other, preferably to attack the Others from the north and south?"
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Robb Stark Immediately after receiving the Wall alert, North was mobilized.
Considering that the battlefield is in the land grant and Winterfell is in the center of the North, in order to avoid wasting time for the armies of the princes further north in Fiefdom, he chose the army gathering place in the letter to be the last village in the west of Hearth near Kingsroad. inside.
Too is winter, so most of the residents are gathered in winter towns, plus North is in a state of long-term war with the Iron Islands and is always vigilant, and it is always tense. The North's state of the state called the army quite fast - among them, Winterfell's army set off on the second day of the war, that is, at noon on the day when the alarm was received, when the ghouls were still rushing from the stone gate to Queenscrown, He headed north at a constant speed without rushing. On the way, he joined the three armies of Saiwen, Glover and Bolton who were on the same road and were close to each other, with a total of more than 6,000 troops... After a few days of trekking, it was close to Long Lake, and there were less than two days to go. You can get to the last Hearth.
But just after stopping on the Kingsroad on the west side of the lake for the night, ready to go to continue to rush to the assembly point this morning, the North guard who led the army encountered a strange thing.
A crow suddenly flew down from the sky and landed on his shoulder who was enjoying breakfast. He stretched out his hand to catch it without dodging, and took a look in front of him. There was a roll of paper tied to the bird's feet, and it was written that Hearth had been captured at last, Others were leading the army southward and other emergency information, and asked the North army to stop on the spot and build a The camp is ready to stop the enemy.
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It's not unusual for a smart Raven to be trained to remember several places, but no matter how smart he is, he can only go back and forth to a fixed crow's nest, not a moving one. The target of the letter, not to mention the precise delivery of the letter to the Supreme Commander himself. After reading this amazing news, Robb immediately stopped the army's preparations and announced the contents of the letter to the rest of the nobles who ate together.
"How did the crow accurately find you, Lord?" The nobles present stared suspiciously and vigilantly at the big black bird that flew back to Robb's shoulders after being let go by Robb. The patriarch of the Seven family was the first to question, "I've never heard of crow and the ability to find someone, but don't be a spy sent by the enemy to confuse our army, trying to delay our trip so that we can never catch up. Help at the Wall!"
The crow who delivered the letter exclaimed, as if to protest the accusation against oneself.
"Night's Watch has received the wildling of beyond the wall, and I heard that some of them really have the ability to control animals, especially birds." Glover count asked: "Who wrote this letter, with a signature and Seal?"
"Signed by my younger brother Bran, the official Night's Watch coat of arms, doesn't look like a knockoff." Robb frowned—he honestly forgot What is Bran's handwriting like? "Perhaps it was during the time my brother was in beyond the wall that he learned some magical means of using the crow to send a message - what do you think, gentlemen, and how should we respond to the news in this letter?"
"Assuming the news is true, what is the Night's Watch doing?" Another noble said angrily, "Didn't it say that Others was a land grant that crossed Gorge and finally, how far is Hearth from Gorge, how could it only take four days to work hard? Falling down? Then Igor West blows up the ability of oneself to make hype, why is it really fighting now, but he can't stop the enemy for a while?!"
A group of House Head and the accompanying heirs everyone Talking at once, everyone expresses oneself's opinions, and a good breakfast will suddenly turn into a pot of porridge.
"Everyone, please be quiet!" Roose Bolton coughed. "Others are leading the dead. It's hard to judge their advance by the standard of living. We marched north at the speed of day and night, and it was not impossible to reach Winterfell in those three or four days. Anyway, Night's Watch immediately sounded the alarm, and now it is biting the enemy and chasing the last Hearth, not completely ineffective, always It's better than that 'sleeping Jyck' 90 years ago who let the enemy cross the border without realizing it." Castle Lord's volume is not loud, but it always has a strange penetrating power, "What we should judge now is: Does this letter really come from Night's Watch, or is it from Others' sorcery, as Seventh Count said?"
Roose Bolton's words reminded everyone, and so - a new round of discussion began. .
"Lock up this crow first, don't let it run away! Stab it with a Dragonglass, and if it's Others' spell, it will die instantly!"
"Bullshit, what? Crow a Dragonglass and you won't die?" said the more sober opponent, "I think, so what? When will the North army be under the command of the Night's Watch! We have Dragonglass weapons for the Others, and we also bring What are you afraid of? If you spend a day here, the enemy will invade North a little bit deeper, and sit and watch the enemy invade the territory of oneself. We've all seen it before. It's incompetent to sit back and watch the enemy invade, take the current trifling and send thousands of people head-on to die, leaving hundreds of thousands of North people to be slaughtered by Others, is it honor and bravery? If the content of the letter is true, then Camping on the ground, building fences and barricades for defense, waiting for Hornwood and Tallhart's armies to chase and converge, and then flank the Others with Night's Watch on both sides, is the only way to not destroy the whole army. This is not 'obeying the command of Night's Watch' ', but the only way out at the moment, even if you don't write it in the letter!"
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Although a rowdy argument seems to have no Highest Meaning, But the commander can indeed absorb the opinions of all parties in the process of "auditing" and fill in the blind spots of oneself's negligence... Soon, Robb will brew and complete the idea of oneself.
"Okay!" The young North guard raised his hand to end the heated discussion that had the tendency to escalate, and made a final decision: "We will set up camp on the spot, each family will arrange manpower and tools, and we will go to the forests on both sides to log and build Temporary spiked barricades and fences, ready for battle. In addition, send a few of the best riders, bring enough horses to transfer, and head north lightly to check the situation. Whether it is to find the enemy's trail, or to reach the final Hearth smoothly, Go back immediately and report what you saw!"
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(end of this chapter)