Chapter 495
2021-01-06
Chapter 495 Close the netGreenseer rushes to Nightfort to take up his new post, red robe monk Moqorro also went to Eastwatch without complaint and boarded the boat across the sea. The three fortresses along the Wall that are about to open the way for the "expedition" are ready to go, and the main force of land granting inside and outside Queenscrown has also been assembled...
The stage has been lit up with highlights, and only the protagonist is due to appear. For Igor, this was supposed to be the eve of a major event career full of passion and energy, but in fact, it was only a day or two of fun after earning the "chosen" label. , he began to be surrounded by the dullness that followed, trapped in it and unable to extricate himself.
Why?
If one day you suddenly find out that the "major event" that oneself has been planning for a long time and considered as the ultimate goal and pursuit of life is actually just a game in the eyes of a higher-level existence, you desperately climb to the top In a high position, but in the end, you just got the qualification to be a pawn in the hands of others. Are you still as enthusiastic and energetic as you used to be?
Igor is like a climber about to reach the top, looking up suddenly, only to find that the mountain that oneself is climbing is actually just a small mound on the waist of another real peak. What's even more sad is that he may never be able to climb the real top of the mountain, and there is no way to get up at all!
(Boring, really TM boring.)
The emptiness in his heart haunts him like a Nether Soul that keeps him from doing anything. The good thing—it’s one thing to feel bored mentally, but the work he’s doing doesn’t stop at all.
Igor has always believed that a strong person must have the following two qualities: one, being able to act rationally against instinctive feelings, and two, being able to recognize, adjust and eliminate useless emotions.
And now what he needs is the second of them.
As R'hllor said, he's boring at the moment, but he's getting a bargain and selling well: It's unpleasant to be "other people's pawn", but if you get stuck on it, you'll lose your motivation to move forward , what if there are so many ordinary persons left in the world who are not even qualified to be chess pieces or chess pieces? Not to mention, the master who manipulated the piece of oneself, but said everything perfectly and clearly, letting him make a choice with free will, and giving him enough help and convenience.
Looking inside, he realized that the reason why oneself felt bad was not at the mercy of R'hllor or at the expense of his interests - actually quite the opposite - but because originally thought oneself was already great , but suddenly found that oneself is actually nothing, and the reality is seriously inconsistent with expectations, which leads to discomfort.
And the emptiness brought about by this psychological gap is a typical useless emotion.
He hasn't even climbed to the top of the mortal "mound" in front of him... If he starts looking at another peak so early, he will sigh and be disappointed that he might never be able to reach it. , that would be silly and putting the cart before the horse.
R'hllor appeared in oneself's dream as Red God, while ruthlessly ripping apart his hope of returning home, he also stole his passion for the next big drama, but that how? No matter how insignificant the next mortal battle with Westeros as the stage is compared to the Cold God fight behind the ice and fire world and the grand attempt to shuttle the world, it is indeed the life Igor faces. Even if you continue to climb, there is a high probability that you will never be able to climb that peak, but stopping in place will never make things better.
People, either die quickly, or live in the moment!
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Queen's farewell letter arrived at Queenscrown two days after the Divine Vestige show at R'hllor as Greenseer said, and was written by Daenerys himself, with obvious but restrained words between the lines. Dissatisfaction, in short, the general idea is: you are too slow, I can't wait to take a step, I hope you can keep your promise, solve the affairs of the north as soon as possible, and then come to the south to fight for me.
Obviously, after meeting with oneself's other two aides, and under their persuasion and persuasion, Queen finally realized the fact that "Igor is flicking and using oneself" - both vaguely feel deceived He was deceived, but in his heart he hoped that it was not true, so after careful consideration, he used a gentler urging.
This is a handwritten letter from the future legal ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. The handwriting of "the most beautiful woman in the world" also has a handsome appearance that completely matches her face value. It is beautiful and round, and the counterpoint is neat and pleasing to the eyes. for too. Whether from a political or calligraphic point of view, this letter has a good value for collection and appreciation. If it is an ordinary person's home, it might be framed and hung on the wall.
But Igor just gave it a cursory glance, without even looking at second time, and tossed it into the pile of "processed" files on the side.
He had no intention of "solving the affairs of the North" at all, which naturally meant that he didn't need to care what Daenerys wrote in the letter.
"Lion!"
The guard who was called out quickly pushed in the door: "What's your order, my lord?"
"oneself is any Pick the four most trusted comrades in arms, five of them will go to the stable to get ten horses, and immediately set off to the last Hearth, without any delay on the way." Igor has a plan, so there is no delay: "I will meet the Queen after that. , tell her, please wait for two days no matter what, and I will go south to explain to her in person the day after tomorrow."
"Understood!"
The Queen is a good Queen, but it's a pity to do it. The reliability of the incident is slightly doubtful. After she was almost cheated by her once, Igor learned to behave well. In order to ensure the secrecy and smooth implementation of the expedition scam, he also concealed the real battle plan from the oneself's nominal allegiance. . Three days later, oneself will go south to the last Hearth in person, but not to explain anything to Daenerys, but to lead the main force of the land-grant army, passing by her temporary residence, and heading towards the hinterland of North!
......
The two days required in the message passed by little by little, withstood the pressure of the Queen's urging, and the combat preparation time that had been slashed again and again finally did not get stabbed again.
According to the schedule set by the Supreme Command, Cotter Pyke, the east commander of the expeditionary force's vanguard, Jon Snow, the middle commander, and the west commander - Zhan who squeezed out the original candidate after a strong request Mr. Lannister, three Night's Watch officers each led two hundred Night's Watch soldiers, a total of six hundred people - nearly half of the number of Night's Watch in the book, on the scheduled date from Eastwatch, Castle Black and Shadow Tower three fortresses set off on time, At the same time through the tunnel through the Wall, Murderous-looking into Saibei.
And with the three tunnel gates closing in a creaking sound, the strategic deception against North and the entire Seven Kingdoms also came to the final tactical closing time.
For a long time, the land grant and North are in a state of nearly 100% mutual openness, whether it is economic, political or military... In a nutshell: as long as you say hello, Wall and The manpower, materials, and news between North and North all come and go as they want, and there is no need to wait for approval.
This kind of intimate cooperation with North as the main land grant, supplemented by a slightly unequal status, makes the land grant feel more like North's possession than independent of Seven Kingdoms most of the time. In an administrative area other than that, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch is also more like the special bannermen guarded by North rather than the lord of the party on an equal footing with the latter - it is not accidental or accidental that this "father and son"-like relationship is formed. Most of Night's Watch Legion's food and forage are donated by the North lords, and half of the soldiers are House Stark and its bannermen before they put on black clothed, so what independence and equality they want is obviously a nonsense.
Igor has the power to change that when he's in, but he's never even said that. Even after the victory of the Battle of Long Lake, after the showdown with Robb Stark in front of him made it clear that oneself was not a vassal, the land grant was only a secret increase in the alert level, and the residents of each other were still allowed to live on the surface. communicate with each other without hindrance.
The reason for doing this is that, in addition to showing weakness and showing loyalty by donating land, we can continue to obtain various resources from the latter from the mutual opening with the North, and there is also an important purpose: to paralyze the North princes Be vigilant and set the stage for a surprise final blow.
It wasn't just Igor who seemed to benefit from this seemingly one-piece opening to each other -- no boundaries, along with supplies, but North's spy and spies. They disguised themselves as North residents and businessmen who came to exchange supplies, wandered with no opportunity to the surrounding villages of Queenscrown and various fortresses along the Wall, contacted the middle and high-level Night's Watch, mountain clan chiefs who might betray Igor, and kept an eye on the land-grant army and civilians. Igor's every move to judge Igor's next actions and the degree of threat to North...
For possible betrayals from within, Igor took pains to formulate a surefire way to "banish" the threat out of Wall. Plan to make sure the enemy has nothing to do. But surveillance from North was part of his plan!
He deliberately gave these eyeliners and spies a bonus: no matter how much they jumped up and down, how much time, energy and money they spent to find out the real fighting intent of the Queenscrown executives, they would only get one result. : The land grant will not pose any threat to North until the beyond the wall expedition is completed.
It's not their incapacity, it's the storage and logistics officers in the land-grant up to the Queenscrown inner fort, down to the kitchen choppers and backyard washwomen, inside and out of Igor's bedroom every week The bodyguard on duty at night, the new land-giver who has never stepped into Queenscrown since entering the land-grant from beyond the wall... Except for the few people whose stake in the hand will never betray, the gift of Every soldier in the land, every inhabitant, really thought Igor was going on an expedition beyond the wall!
Just announcing "there will be an expedition beyond the wall" and convincing the North nobles that it is too difficult, and having them confirm the news through the analysis of the news obtained by oneself, can really make North relax his vigilance.
And now, the last moment has finally come.
After the three pioneering troops left the Wall north and officially opened the prelude to the beyond the wall expedition, the land grant was made overnight at this delicate moment of "the vanguard has set off, and the large force is about to set off". It suddenly entered a state of strict intelligence blockade that the entire Ice and Fire world had never seen before. In what Igor calls "wartime information control," his most trusted Night's Watch Logistics Guard soldiers will take over every raven cage that can fly to the south, forcibly requisition every horse in the land grant. Riding livestock, ships are prohibited from leaving the port, Kingsroad is prohibited from passing southwards...
The state of the land grant to the North will change from a completely relaxed state to an absolute blockade in an instant!
The purpose is to completely cut off the transmission of land-grant information to North.
To completely block the news, this is usually an almost impossible mission for two large areas of land that borders: even without Raven and ships, led by horses, closed On the road, good soldiers and spies can still deliver news on foot from the open fields and the trails - but after years of being run by Igor, and now in the middle of winter's grant of land, this goal has become possible: except in the Under the orders of the High Command, there are special personnel to clean and dredge the smooth Kingsroad every day, and anywhere else where the land grants and North connect are covered with knee-deep snow. Even in the presence of an elite spy with a will and a body of steel trying to find a way to transmit messages on his legs from other routes, he is impossible to move faster than a large force marching on Kingsroad.
And after all these actions were put into effect, the final effect was: the last confirmed news from the land grant to the south was "beyond the wall expedition army has officially set off", and When the entire North was immersed in a sense of security, and found that the land-grant army would have rushed several hundred li before the next news, they appeared outside Winterfell.
It's getting bright, and it's time to close the net.
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(end of this chapter)