Chapter 475
2021-01-06
Chapter 475 The Whistleblower (Part 2)Every soldier under the Night's Watch, every soldier in the territory Every inhabitant is hard at work preparing for the post-war reconstruction and the upcoming beyond the wall expedition, but if you have to rank the "busyness" of the remaining 30,000 living people in the land grant territory, including Wall, Then remove the small group of special characters in the inner castle of Queenscrown who are secretly planning to conquer the Seven Kingdoms... At least on the surface, Cotter Pyke considers himself second, and no one dares to think first.
For no other reason - Eastwatch is so special.
As one of only three remaining fortresses before the Night's Watch expansion, it retains a tunnel to beyond the wall. Although the Others were ordered by the High Command to fill up the debris and fill it with water before the attack, but after all, it is not long, and it is much easier to dig through it than to re-open a hole in the ice wall...
Therefore, unlike most strongholds that only need to prepare food weapons and arrange drills for the next large-scale military operation, Cotter Pyke also has one more mission to dig tunnels.
If that's the case, then at least Castle Black and Shadow Tower are brothers and sisters, but unfortunately... Those who think so must forget: Eastwatch is the only one along the Wall that was besieged by Others, but after paying a huge cost of casualties A fortress defended.
Castle Black was in the middle of the Wall, luckily he couldn't see the sea of ghouls, naturally not to mention it; Shadow Tower was captured by Others within an hour, not to mention the wounded, even the dead were resurrected by Cold Magic Attack on Queenscrown - inadvertently throwing most of the aftermath to the land-grant capital. The "filler migrants" who are now digging tunnels there, just do the work and don't have to worry about a lot of shit.
Only Eastwatch, the fortress that held the eastern end of the Wall in a thrilling attack from the Two Fronts of the Others, had to burn the bodies of the dead, treat the wounded who survived the war, and pacify the victims. The emotions of the family members... Even with the arrival of a large number of backups, the dilemma of insufficient personnel has not been completely relieved.
In addition, there is a problem that any other fortress wants to encounter is also impossible.
In the frightening night when the Others attacked from the east and west at the same time, the swift ice storm from the Lands of Always Winter froze a large area of the sea water in the Bay of Seals, which had already been cold to the freezing point. Although these ices are frozen under the influence of supernatural means, there is nothing supernatural about them: they are solid substances formed by the exothermic heat of liquid water, with a slightly lower density, but extremely hard. Now that the Others invasion has been thwarted, the frozen sea outside the Eastwatch port for ten li or so will not disintegrate and dissipate before the summer, which leads to a very embarrassing and extremely insecure state: In case the Others who escaped back to beyond the wall gather a group of dead people to return in a swirl of dust, then as long as they go east along the wall to the sea, they can still step on the ice without hindrance and cross the wall again, return in a swirl of dust dust.
This is of course unacceptable to anyone.
So, although the war had moved from defense to counteroffensive, the nearly destroyed "Bay of Seals de-icing team" had to not only be rebuilt, but also expanded to meet its needs.
And in this case, Cotter Pyke had to follow Igor's orders, and despite the soldiers' questioning and intercession, he tried and executed a man who attacked the commander on the night of the war and killed him. De-icing team member who became a deserter.
Although that guy really deserves to die, it's really unpleasant to do such a thing at a time like this.
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Cotter Pyke reviewed the burial of the dead in the morning, then checked the preparations for the beyond the wall expedition, and took part in the tunnel before lunch. Digging, after listening to the de-icing team's slow progress report in the afternoon, I learned more about the soldiers who want to be within the wall about hanging deserter Zet... I was exhausted physically and mentally and planning to rest for a while, and another ship came from The ships in White Harbor docked at the pier—to be precise, the frozen ice outside the harbor, and a crowd descended from above. secret message.
While ordering the requisition of the ship from White Harbor and sailors to join the de-icing, Cotter greeted the visitors with a dash of energy. This meeting didn't matter, but what he heard immediately shocked him: Robb Stark, the lord of the North, decided to overthrow the current Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, ending Igor's plan to lead the land-grant forces to serve the Queen and help her compete for the Iron Throne—— And asked oneself, the Eastwatch commander, as the Night's Watch insider, to liaise with people and organize operations within Legion, and prepare to respond to North's strong interference in Wall.
The shocking news stunned Cotter Pyke, who was half exhausted. He put down a lot of business and had a long talk with the North people from White Harbor. When the mountain fell, the conspiracy came to an end.
The messenger of Manderly's house is invited to rest in the guest room within the wall, while the commander of Eastwatch and his henchmen have dinner delivered to the office while reflecting on the heavyweight he just got. The news felt like I was in a dream.
"Sir, what's the point of hesitation? There are nearly a thousand Lord Commanders in Night's Watch, but since ancient times, those who wear black cloth and want to lead troops south to rebel, when did they succeed? In turn, House Stark decides who to choose as Lord Commander, and which fails?" Ern Immet couldn't understand Cotter Pyke's hesitation at all, and he had no intention of eating the dinner in front of him: "Robb Stark chose to contact Your lord, once this is done, you are the proper next Lord Commander!"
"If it wasn't for the death of Denys Mallister, the old fox, Bowen Marsh of Castle Black and Ossel Arwick Two guys can't handle it, Young Wolf oneself's illegitimate child brother Jon Snow is dead on Igor, can House Stark like me, an Ironmen-born rude?" Cotter Pyke was welcome, he pulled the food that belonged to oneself to He came in front of him, gave the speaker a displeased look, and then started first, "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking about, this is done, I will be Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and you will be promoted to Eastwatch. Commander, right?!"
Aen pursed his lips and didn't speak.
With the feat of shooting two Others under the guidance of the red robe monk, he, the Eastwatch chief ranger, has skyrocketed in the status and prestige of being within the wall, from the original "top of the list". ", suddenly became a hero "under one person above a hundred people". Coupled with the fact that he is a confidant of the Commander himself, it can be said that if there is no accident, he will be the next Eastwatch Commander.
However, Cotter Pyke is in his prime, healthy as a cow, and wants to wait for him to die before he succeeds. There is obviously only one way to get rid of the extreme plan of the predecessor: hope that the former can be transferred due to the change of position.
This was indeed his first push to persuade Cotter to agree to the House Stark project, but what's wrong with thinking that way? oneself doesn't intend to harm Cotter Pyke's interests, just hope he can fight to become Lord Commander and promote oneself!
"Do things, use your brains!" Cotter Pyke stuffed a piece of bacon into his mouth, and then tapped oneself's head with the fork he had just finished fork, and spoke in a tone of hate iron for not becoming steel He reprimanded indistinctly, "Chief... That guy Igor, after he went south to chase and destroy the Others, he returned to Queenscrown and ordered the Wall along the line to be within the wall. No one must leave the station without order. Who is he guarding? He has no clue. Caring about other people's evaluation of him, he insists on the rule: Anyone who asks him to see him must not carry a weapon. Who is he guarding? p> "Guard against us! Guard against his 'Night's Watch brethren'! He had long expected that House Stark might come to this move, and now it is. Such a guy who has judged the opponent's tactics in advance has no problem with the previous superior. Years, and just now starting to rush to overthrow him...You really think, I nodded to agree, and then I can wait for House Stark to send me to the throne of Lord Commander of the Night's Watch?"
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(Isn't it just cowardice, why not find a reason!)
Ain almost couldn't help rolling his eyes: oneself was actually killed by Cotter Pyke - this famous limb The developed, simple-minded Warrior commander taught to "do things with brains"? ! It was the strangest thing he'd ever encountered in his life, barring the Others invasion.
However, he did not dare to confront his boss face-to-face: "But, if North is determined to replace him as the commander, how can he resist? House Stark can summon more than the entire group with a single order. An army with more land-grant population!"
"Shit, you forgot just a few days after the war ended? Others took hundreds of thousands of dead people over the Wall, how many are left? Every move It's all counted as hell, no matter how much more people use it!" Cotter stuffed another mushroom into his mouth, indignant: "Will I not want the Lord Commander's position? But House Stark, what is it? Silly idea, what to say - the mad Queen's dragons have their way to deal with it, I just need to get the available power inside the Night's Watch, start an incident during Igor's expedition led by the wall, control the passage in and out of the Wall, and then in Just shut him out when he comes back, force him to step down and exile himself. 'Just do it'? Bah!"
"That sounds like a good plan, what's the problem? Is it?"
"The problem is big!" Cotter fiercely chewed the food in his mouth, as if it were his nemesis, "Let's not mention that I've only been in Eastwatch for all these years, simply not much Other Night's Watch contacts - that's something that old fox of Denys is good at. Not to mention that there are more than 1,000 people in Eastwatch that can move, only 200 of them are 'my people', and people from Baigang are looking for me. The news might be on its way to Queenscrown. Let's just mention the easiest step here: keep Igor behind the wall so he can't come back? I've been ordered to lead the expedition at the start All the Eastwatch Rangers will go out first and serve as the forward of the East Expedition! House Stark wants me to launch an incident and seize power when I TM should be with you - in Haunted Forest, which is farther from the Wall than Igor! Come and come! , you teach me, how can I lock him beyond the wall so that he can't get in?"
"Huh?" Ern Immet was really dumbfounded, "We're going to take charge Pioneer of the Eastern Route Army? Why don't I know."
"You will know the ghost. This is a direct order from the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch to the Eastwatch Commander the day before yesterday, non-public!" Cotter Pyke picked up another piece of potato and put it in his mouth, while using his free left hand, he dug out a piece of paper on the table and threw it to the Chief Ranger: "oneself Look, this guy said it beautifully, but he didn't hide it at all, he just wanted to tell you perfectly and clearly, he's guarding everything you can do, don't try to mess around! "
"Now, do you think he'd be foolish enough to kill the King's Daughter's dragon without guarding the North? Aren't you guarding House Stark? Wiping the oil from his lips, the Eastwatch commander sighed helplessly: "I can't fight him, neither can Bowen Marsh and Ossel Arwick, even Denys Mallister has to obediently and honestly think he's not as good as him... How old are you? You, eat obediently and honestly and pretend you haven't heard anything, what are you doing? The person in this world who can cure him hasn't...maybe been born, but it won't be me, nor will it be the little doll of House Stark with no full hair, and it won't be you! "
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An opportunity to take down the enemy and replace it with oneself is in front of you, and it would be false to say that you don't like it. But Cotter Pyke is from the Iron Islands, and the Ironmen's The culture...is a little different from continent Seven Kingdoms.
There are no oaths, honors, and innate nobility to prove that oneself is better than others in order to be respected and headed.
On a ship, the most powerful person will always be the captain; on an island, the most powerful person will always be the Island Lord; even House Greyjoy is the Iron Islands Sovereign, which seems like a matter of course, not from the very beginning That's it, but it's only accepted because the more powerful man, Aegon Targaryen I, wiped out the original King of the Iron Islands and then asked the Ironmen to choose a leader and obey.
In Iron On Islands, the worship of the strong is rooted in the culture. The weak should worship and submit to those who are stronger than him, and to defeated is to confess to the winner and be obedient... Holding a grudge, holding back, waiting for an opportunity to retaliate? No such saying !
And this kind of mental inertia, which has been branded into the subconscious by cultural customs since childhood, will not be completely wiped out by being a Night's Watch for many years.
Cotter Pyke previously went to Castle Black and other Players compete because he doesn't think other candidates are better than oneself. But later, Igor proved that he was better than oneself with facts, and proved that he could manage the land grant and deal with the threat of Others... no matter how much he hated him , but oneself is to obediently and honestly continue to be the garrison commander at Eastwatch, no two minds... as it should be by rights!
He explained this to Ian Immet today Too many, I just have to convince oneself's confidant that "oneself is right not to cooperate with House Stark", in addition to thinking that rebellion is not feasible after thinking about it, there is a deeper reason that even Cotter Pyke oneself may not be aware of: he In the subconscious, it has been determined that oneself is impossible to defeat Igor.
fearing nothing in Heaven or Earth's Cotter Pyke, was terrified.
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After quickly reading the Lord Commander's appointment to the Eastwatch commander, Ian Immet slowly put down the letter in his hand, and finally started. Admit it: this oneself has never been masked... The Lord Commander who can force the Cotter Pyke familiar to oneself to be able to say something like "using his brain" does seem to have something.
Do you really just forget everything that fatty said just now, and then pretend that nothing happened, what should you do, and wait for this guy in front of you to grow old slowly, before I don't know? After ten or twenty years, we can go further?
"Don't think about it, eat it while it's hot, everything is cold!" At this moment when the Chief Ranger was in a daze, Cotter had thoroughly wiped out the oneself's dinner, and at this moment, he picked up a knife, Started picking very slow teeth.
No, there must be something oneself missed! Staring at the commander's knife in front of him, he gritted his teeth and thought, and when Cotter was about to be stared at by his eyes, Ain finally caught the fleeting and fleeting thought in his mind.
Oneself wants to go further in the position, Cotter Pyke must be promoted or down. And if Cotter Pyke is to be promoted again, Lord Commander must give up his position. Oneself previously thought that the only way to bring down Igor was because it subconsciously felt that the "Lord Commander" had come to an end - which is true in most cases, but for a person who has already pledged allegiance to the Queen, and Not applicable!
"Your Majesty, you are right, you have to use your brain to do things!" The young Chief Ranger was excited: "Since you judged that House Stark can't beat Lord Commander - I now believe it a little bit. I decided not to take part in the conspiracy against him, so how can I not quickly show my loyalty and decide to pretend that nothing happened?"
"Lord Commander has decided to support the Queen's decision against Iron Throne. Claiming that if he succeeds in bringing the Queen to the throne in the future, will he and his confidants continue to be Night's Watch in the land grant? Of course not, they will go to King's Landing to be important ministers of the Imperial court! when the time comes, even if Lord Igor doesn't step down as Lord Commander, he still has to find someone to represent him, right? Guess, will he pick one at random in Night's Watch Legion, or just pick the one who, when faced with a crucial decision, chose to stand by his side and expose North's conspiracy? "
Huh? Cotter Pyke got a little interested, put down his teeth-picking knife and his raised legs, and approached: "What do you mean?" "
"Take that Manderly man, tie it up and send it to Lord Commander!" "Ain put one hand into a palm, made a fierce downward slash, and then felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a few seconds, he shook his head and changed his mind: "no no no, it's not right." If I were the Lord Commander, I would definitely hope that you, sir... While pretending to agree to North's conditions, I secretly reported the situation to him, so that he could fight the opponent more completely unprepared! "
Cotter Pyke's eyes lit up, yes, this is the way to win without losing and maximize profits!
Zhengqiang suppressed his excitement and sent whoever he was ready to go. After discussing the details of the whistleblower, there was a sudden knock on the door, and an Eastwatch veteran outside the door shouted in an unpleasant but familiar voice.
"Lord Pyke! Next to the ice outside the port, several great ships came up with the Red Dragon flag, and a large group of eunuch soldiers descended... A fatty with a bald head and a skinny guy who looked very wretched, saying that oneself is the Queen's hand and Master of Whisperers, how to deal with this? ”
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(end of this chapter)