Chapter 448
2021-01-06
Chapter 448 (Part 1)“It is important to settle the wounded and burn the corpse first. After the mission is completed, set up camp on the spot. The unimportant work will be carried out at dawn... Although we have won, we still arrange personnel to be on duty at night as usual, especially send reliable people to look after the Queen, and there must be no accidents... Whether it comes from Your Majesty oneself Or someone else!" Warner Buckwell: "I will personally take charge of this matter, don't worry." Humans can work with a common purpose, but how many people still have the heart and motivation to continue to fight for the Queen after this thrilling Ice and Fire battle? Igor oneself has no idea.
Among those who obey him, only the original members of the Night's Watch industry who are completely loyal to oneself, and the aristocratic radicals within Night's Watch who need a "springboard" to change their fate and have the same interests as oneself, are reluctant. It can be regarded as trustworthy, in addition to that... everyone has motives, and everyone has reasons not to participate in Igor's pursuit of Queen, and may even be persuaded and bought to deal with Queen in turn.
At the moment, Igor not only has to be careful with oneself, but also has to extend this caution to the representatives of the faction that oneself has joined!
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After a serious exhortation to Ser Buckwell, the leader of the noble faction, and a positive answer, Igor took dozens of guards and led the messenger soldiers through the messy land. The battlefield, came to the North's army camp.
“Igor.”
Robb Stark, surrounded by a few nobles holding torches, sat on a pile of debris to meet him. Looking at the weak appearance of the North guard holding his knees and unable to straighten his waist, he was obviously injured, but he couldn't see where the injury was for the time being.
“Lord Stark.” Igor greeted back.
As the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and the prophesied hero, Igor is also rarely fully armed and mentally prepared to fight in person, but his luck is much better than that of North's guardian: shout After saying "the whole army strikes", he followed everyone to charge. As a result, as soon as the people rushed into the battlefield, half of the ghouls didn't chop the winner and the loser was already decided - not only unscathed, but also a good reputation for taking the lead in vain. , so cool to fly.
In the past, Igor would probably open his mouth to thank or compliment Robb's bravery and overall view of leading his army north to participate in this battle. But now, his identity has changed: as a vassal of the Queen, a member of the "anti-deer camp" can even be regarded as an important figure. It is very inappropriate to show affection to the nobles of the opposite faction.
In this state, the dry greetings ended, and each other soon had nothing to say, they all shut up and remained silent for a while, until the scene was embarrassing for a few seconds, and Robb spoke again, knowingly asking. brought up the topic.
"The Queen of House Targaryen is here?"
"Well, right now in the Night's Watch army."
Igor readily confesses that Daenerys is The only Dragonrider known to the inhabitants of the Westeros continent, there is no point in hiding or cheating at this point.
"Why is she here to help us? No... another question, how could she be here at the right time?"
Igor shrugged: "Others threatened before. At the end of the day, I went south to King Stannis to ask for help, but without any support, the ship was intercepted by the Queen's fleet as it passed through Blackwater Bay. After meeting the Queen by accident, I negotiated the terms with her - as long as she can stay there After Wall warns, ride the dragon north to help Night's Watch win this battle, and I will swear allegiance to her and lead Night's Watch to retake Iron Throne for her."
Igor never counted on Stannis' support. However, what is in his heart is what he thinks in his heart, and he can't always say on his face, "I have already started looking for a reliable camp and waited for an opportunity. Finally, I shop around and choose Dragon Queen"! At this moment, throwing the pot to Erlu sitting on the Iron Throne and creating legitimacy for oneself's behavior on the grounds that the orthodox king refused to support Night's Watch is naturally the only choice.
Robb frowned. "You never mentioned it, but you kept it a secret?"
What nonsense is this asking? Igor held back his disdainful expression: "Lord Stark, this is the internal affairs of Night's Watch, I have no obligation or need to inform North." Worse. He wanted to ask Igor if he still remembered the principle of Night's Watch not interfering in the internal affairs of the Seven Kingdoms, but at the moment he was sore and struggling to speak. After thinking about it, oneself felt that these questions were useless and like nonsense: Igor, as a Lord Commander, How could it be unclear about the rules and oaths of Night's Watch? He talked about these conditions with the Queen of House Targaryen, and it must be a decision after careful consideration and weighing the pros and cons. How can oneself be able to dissuade him?
If it really is not my race, its heart will be different. What Karhold count said a year ago quickly became true: this outlander with an extremely bright mind in front of him, as soon as he took power, he quickly started to get out of control!
In his heart, a burst of annoyance and anger floated up, but unfortunately he was just rescued from the ghoul's mouth by Queen's Longyan, Robb really couldn't hold back at this moment and immediately turned his face.
But he doesn't speak, but there are a lot of people in the nobles who are full of Anger Value.
"Good abacus, Lord Commander!" Clay Cerwyn growled loudly, his father was killed in this bloody battle, and he became the new Castle Cerwyn count, outsiders would feel He was a blessing in disguise, but the father and son had a very harmonious relationship, but he was not happy, but full of grief: "You deliberately allowed the dead to cross the Wall and lead them to invade North, not just to weaken North's power by the hand of the enemy, So that we can't stop you from licking the boots of the mad King's Daughter? You did it, but I tell you: even a crippled North would have no problem stopping the Night's Watch from revolting!"
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Igor had to admit: the North people did have reason to be so skeptical.
If Queen did not appear, and Oneself did not intend to interfere with the Seven Kingdoms in violation of Night's Watch guidelines, then North people would at most feel that Oneself did not stop Others, and would never consider "whether he deliberately indulges the enemy". One crop... But now, Clay Seven's questioning actually contains the suspicions of Robb Stark and even many other North nobles.
After all, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who became a "rebel", really had great motives and reasons to harm North.
The North army fought bloody ghouls, and then the dragon and Night's Watch emerged at the last minute to cut off the enemy's back and save the former by the way... The time and place of this battle and the fact that Igor led his army to chase The timing looked like it was a well-planned script that anyone would murmur about afterwards. And the fact that this fight looks like it's planned isn't really a coincidence - it's because: it really was a well-planned showdown, only by Others instead of Igor!
The ghoul army deliberately kept at a distance from the chasing troops. When the land-grant army and the three dragons chased down to a distance of just over a mile, they just entered the North army position. front of one's eyes slaughtering humans", which led her to escape from the ground forces and fall into a trap. The land-grant army arrived immediately, not because the time was right, but because it had always acted in sync with the three dragons!
If the new leader of Others succeeds and turns into a corpse dragon to turn defeat into victory, then everyone in the room will have a life and death argument. Even if it is not completely destroyed, it is bound to suffer heavy losses. When the time comes, both sides are sympathetic to each other, and the North nobles' questioning of the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch overbearing will naturally not happen... But now, Igor relies on his own understanding of the enemy's tricks, like a prophet. Made the correct tactical command, successfully defeated the enemy's Final Struggle, and minimized his own losses.
The big victory is gratifying, but suspicion and suspicion are coming one after another: Dealing with Others was supposed to be the duty of Night's Watch, but now it is North's lost soldiers, but the former took advantage of the ready-made bargains, and also hugged them by the way. On the thighs of the former evil remnants?
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But then again, Igor isn't completely innocent - he really had the idea of using his opponent to weaken North to clear the way for oneself to go south. Just thinking rationally and analyzing the pros and cons...and gave up in the end:
It's the same as "Hope the Queen's three dragons and Others perish together"...hope on an uncommunicative and uncontrollable hostile intelligent creature To check and balance potential rivals within human beings, just like the former King of Vale First Men introduced Andals to deal with other rivals who were also First Men but lost the whole kingdom in the end. It is easy to roll over and become a sinner through the ages.
So, after thinking for a while, this idea was decisively thrown into the garbage heap by him.
However, "thought" and "want" are two completely different things after all. Thinking is extremely complex and elusive, and if one were to be held responsible for a thought that just flashed through his head, never seriously considered and intended to be implemented, everyone in the world should be hanged.
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"Fart! If I really thought about it, I just stopped Queen or deliberately dragged it for a few minutes, now you don't have a chance to stand and talk to me, don't Use your filthy brain to speculate on other people's thoughts!" Naturally, there is no such thing as a guilty conscience, and Igor retorted with a righteousness, even acting skills were not needed - at this time, as long as he flinched a little, the other party would conclude that the accusation was true. "I have the ability to control the direction of the Others' attack and control them to invade the North. Why don't I take the Iron Throne oneself to sit, and I have to swear allegiance to the Queen in exchange for her help? The enemy is coming from the east and west, in order to prevent them from entering Take the Wall, the gorges and the defenders along the Wall within the wall, and lose more soldiers than you got today. The Queenscrown defenders killed ten times as many ghouls under the wall as you see today! These Countless mountain clansmen and Winterfell soldiers visiting the Wall or staying in Queenscrown have all seen and participated, and can testify, anyone is welcome to inquire about the situation. But there is a half-truth that I was caught by Others in my sleep! Can't speak Just shut up, no one will think you are dumb!"
Igor's sonorous and powerful counterattack weakened everyone's suspicion, but his tit-for-tat disrespectful attitude became the fuse that ignited everyone's emotions. The North nobles, who had also lost their loved ones, immediately roared and became agitated, even huddling, and there were calls to teach Igor a lesson on the spot. Fortunately, the latter had already anticipated that the showdown would not go well, and brought enough soldiers and guards—the fully armed black clothed soldiers formed a human wall to wrap Igor in the middle, and a few exhausted and decorated nobles couldn’t squeeze in at all. As for the mobilization Soldier? One of Queen's three dragons is suspected to be able to fly. At this time, she and her new vassals will start a large-scale bloody conflict. What can you do against the big guy flying in the sky?
"Quiet!" Robb pushed loudly roared. He wanted to tell Igor that no one can stop you if you're determined to be a traitor, but don't think about seeking death with the entire Night's Watch Legion and land grants. But the dive light flashed in my mind, and I suddenly remembered that oneself's mother and younger sister, and the older younger brother were still in the other's hands, and immediately changed the conversation: "you oneself's decision, you oneself is responsible. Let's not talk about this for now. , my mother and Arya, and Bran, are you all right?"
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(end of this chapter)