Chapter 520

Chapter 520

2021-01-06

Chapter 520 The Wolf in the Urn
Beyond the great distances of billions of feet, the Fusion rays of light still stubbornly penetrate the clouds, bringing a new day of Dawn to the land of the North.

In the gloomy morning light, the walls of the castle, which has stood for thousands of years, are draped with a black cloth symbolizing land grants and the Targaryen Red Dragon flag indicating its alignment.

After spending most of the night clearing the remnants of the enemy and taking full control of the castle, even after sending someone to search the tomb of House Stark, Igor was surrounded by reserve soldiers who were useless in the end and walked out of the winter town. Headquarters set off and walked to the castle he had visited countless times, but this was the first time he had entered in a non-peaceful way.

The ruins of the stables that have been burned to the ground have not even seen a few wisps of blue smoke. The frightened horses have been dragged and gathered together. The wide but messy open space inside the door is full of people. Under the force of swords, the prisoners and defenders gathered together and lined up to wait for the release. Most of them still don't understand how they lost the battle, but a few recognized the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch walking in from the city gate and squinted with anger and contempt. Two of them were particularly brave The cursed "Chameleon" also spit in the direction of Igor... It's a pity that their courage and daring did not win applause and cheers, only a heavy blow from the guard who knocked them to the ground with a spear in his knee one strike.

Igor didn't have the energy or the energy to deal with these chess pieces who didn't know anything, and there were more important things waiting for him to deal with.

The dead must be cremated, the wounded need treatment, the prisoners must find a place large enough to be held, and the civilians have to go back to the winter towns outside, not to mention the blasted east and north city gates. It needs to be repaired asap...and more importantly than all of these combined: Although the Land Granters have taken the castle, they still haven't completely taken Winterfell.

A little north of the center of the castle, the main castle, the core building, is still under the control of its original owner.

It wasn't that the Land Granters who had invaded the city were unwilling or unable to take the building in a spurt of energy, but that Igor had already given a clear order against attacking the fort. Rather than attacking, Igor prefers to take it in a gentler way, making sure not to hurt its occupants.

This is an era when nobility is the man, and the inevitable casualties of soldiers in the process of siege will be forgotten by those "grown-ups" in a blink of an eye, but if Igor accidentally kills one of the House Stark members One or two, not only will the overall arrangement he made for North be forced to be transferred to Plan B, but the reputation of requite kindness with enmity will be circulated in the upper circle of Westeros for a lifetime, and he will never be able to get rid of it.

And now, the tall circular building in front of him is more like a giant urn than a fortress, firmly holding all the surnames Stark alive except Greenseer people.

Oh no, not all, all minus one.

The ruler of the North, Robb Stark, the owner of the just-taken castle, was wounded in last night's battle and captured alive!

"Last night, Lord Robb took a group of soldiers to the side when we attacked the arsenal and nearly hit us with a completely unprepared, but we threw all the bombs out in time, which was unfortunate The leader of the team rushed to the front, and was immediately knocked out." The commander of Robb's team who captured Robb explained to Igor, "After that, the people who followed him desperately tried to snatch him out, we rely on this Judging that he caught a great character, catch up and catch it: hey, there's Direwolf's coat of arms on the armor!"

Robb can survive being knocked out, except for himself In addition to the hard life, part of the reason is actually due to the new rules of rewards and punishments for the land-grant army.

As a result of many considerations, Igor hoped to minimize casualties on the defenders of the city in this battle—both House Stark members and ordinary soldiers loyal to them. But emotional softness is one thing, but reason clearly tells him that oneself is the supreme leader of the land-grant army, and he is first responsible for the lives of his own soldiers, not the enemy. Igor impossible simply and rudely issued orders such as "take it lightly" and "don't allow Stark to hurt" and so on, so that the soldiers were tied up.

He specially stipulated that the reward for victory in this battle is not determined by killing the enemy but by the number of prisoners. Each living civilian and defender prisoner corresponds to a certain reward, which will be divided equally by the entire army after the total, while House Stark The member's single live capture reward is 100 Golden Dragon, which is only shared within the team that catches it!
100 Golden Dragons, this is not much worth and life-saving money for the nobles of Westeros, but at this time, the result of long-term control of land prices and living standards has emerged - in the land-grant soldiers In his eyes, this number is as attractive as the tens of millions of prizes in the modern world. Even if it is divided with dozens of people, it is already rich enough that most of them want to make up for the knife or kill to the last one. Think about it more at that moment, and then affect the final result.

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"Very good." Igor didn't skimp on praise, nodded was sure. "The reward goes to everyone on your team...it saves me a lot of effort."

"More than that, we learned from the same group of captives that Robb was when we broke the city. Commanding the fire on the school grounds, I didn't have time to escape into the main fort and stand guard. Moreover, also because of the fire, I dare to say that the number of guards in the main fort is definitely not more than double digits at the moment, and it may even be possible There are only a dozen or so, and it's easy to take it down. You should be considered a great deed, and the adults should give him a bounty."

It's her, not him... Igor thought. Of course, he wouldn't be so confused as to reveal that Myrcella is oneself's "inner response": she already has a terrible life experience, and if it is known that she actually "betrayed" the adoptive family, the saying that "the evil is born vicious" will probably be repeated again. Flying all over the sky, it would be difficult for her to get out of the predicament by changing her identity again.

It's funny, he asked Little Princess to set this fire earlier, and his consideration for "stabilizing her" was far greater than what he expected from this fire, and he even asked to regret it. Gotta want to take it back a bit. Who would have thought that this random move would bring oneself far beyond expectations in the end: not only did it lured the tiger away from the mountain to dismantle the defenders in the city, allowing the siege troops to break down the great enemy one by one. Reduced the intensity of street fighting, and also caught the big fish Robb Stark out of the main castle.

Igor judged in the initial battle plan that Robb would inevitably retreat into the main fort after the city was broken and continued to resist, and formulated follow-up countermeasures for this. .

The bounty Myrcella is probably not needed, so please give her one of her other wishes as a reward when you have time.

Retracting his thoughts, Igor frowned again: "Wait, since the main fort is empty and Robb is in our hands, the persuasion to surrender should be going smoothly, why is there no news? "

"Uh... Although Robb survived, injury obtain is not light, the healer said that he was lucky if he could be saved, and I'm afraid he won't wake up within a day or two. No matter how we shout, Lord There is only one answer in the castle: Let's hand Robb over to them. Look, my lord, are we carrying Robb in a coma, or are we?"

They want to make sure Robb is safe and sound , is there any fart in carrying the half-dead him?

After struggling for a while, Igor realized that oneself was too happy earlier.

The fact that Robb is captured by his men does mean that Igor can choose not to take further hostile actions and instead delay until the latter wakes up to persuade his family to surrender, but from the report he got before entering the city, he has already Learned: Maester Luwin released all of Winterfell's Ravens last night, and you can imagine where they went. The North army that has gathered at Castle Cerwyn can march here in less than a day. Although oneself can easily defeat them by relying on the advantages of firearms, they can use Winterfell to achieve their strategic goals. already meaningless. The gunpowder used was wasted, the soldiers died in vain, not to mention the arrival of Roose Bolton and Daenerys Targaryen.

Time seems to be on oneself's side, but it's not!
After pondering for a moment, he finally clenched the teeth: "Take Robb Stark to the arsenal and arrange for someone to take good care of it. Tell the artillery squad to bring the guy in, and we will proceed as planned!"

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(end of this chapter)