Chapter 808
What's the point of guarding Winterfell?
It's Stark's clan, with special significance to the people of the Seven Kingdoms, the Dragon Queen, and the Second Stag?
Is it blocking the only way for the Others to go south?
None.
Don't talk about Dany and Second Stag, even Sansa doesn't care that Winterfell is temporarily occupied by Others.
As long as the Stark's living strength is preserved, there is a chance to reclaim his homeland.
There is no doubt that Sansa's thinking is rational and correct.
So, Winterfell itself has no special meaning.
Winterfell is indeed right in the way of Kingsroad, behind the big Earldom like Castle Cerwyn, Torrhen's Square, White Harbor, and the only land road to the south - The Neck.
But Others can also bypass Winterfell.
So, Winterfell doesn't have a strategic position to keep.
So why are Dany and Second Stag willing to come to Winterfell?
It is very likely that Others King will appear under Winterfell.
Winterfell was the largest city the Others encountered on their southward journey, and the first fortress fortified by a large number of humans.
Others are not Aegon the Conqueror 300 years ago, conquering Westeros is meaningless to them, killing all the living is the purpose of Others.
And Dany, Second Stag, Jaime, Hound, Dickon and the others came to Winterfell with a very simple purpose: to kill Others, kill Others King.
That is to say, the purpose of guarding Winterfell is not to "guard", but to eliminate the number of Others and Wights as much as possible.
It would be better if they could kill the Others King.
So, Dany opened the city gates and let Others come to die; therefore, the defenders on the city wall deliberately put down the wooden ladder and let Wights climb up, cutting and stabbing them to death one by one.
Actually, Dany came up with the tactic of placing the wooden ladder.
Winterfell has two inner and outer city walls, the outer city wall is 24 meters (ps), a dry moat in the middle, and the inner wall is 30 meters high.
The reason why such a high city wall is built is because the snow in the North is too thick in winter, and the plains can be seven or eight meters deep.
But now that the Others are coming, the Winterfell defenders are unlikely to go to the snow outside Flatten.
Waiting for the arrival of the Dragon Queen, Sect three dragons will burn all the snow in a radius of 100 meters outside Winterfell into water and flow into the White Knife on the side.
If there is no wooden ladder, there will be two possibilities: First, Wights can't get on the city wall, so they will just stand outside the city and don't go to attack the city.
Humans want to end Long Night as soon as possible, and want to clean up the Others Wights that cross the Wall.
If the Others army has been standing outside the city and confronting the people on the city wall, it is actually unfavorable to human beings. Because human Warriors need rest and stress, Wights never get tired and don't need to eat.
It is more likely that some of the Wights will besiege Winterfell and the other will continue south.
This is the worst case scenario.
Of course, Others are not zombies, they belong to Demihuman and have high intelligence, especially the presence of Others King on the scene.
Seeing that the city wall is too high, they may attack the city.
With the quantity and mobility of Wights, it is not difficult to fill the city wall into a slope.
After all, including the outer city wall, Winterfell is only 300 meters wide and 500 meters long, with a circumference of less than two kilometers.
Digging more than 2,000 meters of river channel with less work hours?
Instead of passively waiting for Others to make moves, it is better to provide the Wights army with a siege channel and a death channel.
The 14-year-old Obella was able to stab 15 Knight-level Wights and more than 40 ordinary Wights with hands and feet when she faced the corpse tide for the first time with her lance, and she even had the confidence to complete it. Hundreds of people beheaded.
Winterfell has 18,000 soldiers. If they all finish the 100-person kill, then the number of Wights will not be enough to consume them several times.
If Others were a little stupid, they would have been around Winterfell all the time, saying that they had to challenge Others King, and they could kill both Others and Wights.
This is the best wish. A tall city wall can only reduce the ratio of the living to the dead. Wights died a lot, and the defenders of the city wall also suffered losses.
For example, the 14-year-old baby-faced little Sand Snake killed 15 Knight Wights in a row by taking advantage of the wooden ladder tactic. ......ghost.
Because the strenuous exercise was too hot, Little Sand Snake took off his face armor to breathe, and put his head out of the wall to look out - the Knight, who was stabbed to death before, in full-body armor, walked from the siege ladder. Roll down, taking the Wights below with you too.
As a result, an Ice Sword flew out from the Wights group below, like a lightning bolt pierced through the baby's left eye, directly through her cranial cavity, and out of the back of her head.
Kills it instantly.
The powerful kinetic energy even took her body and flew back four or five meters like a cannonball, knocking down Sand Snake, the squire.
"No, Obella!" Obara fell to the corner, pressing the younger sister's corpse on her body, wailing in pain.
But since Others has already shot, naturally they won't just throw away an Ice Sword.
"whiz whiz whiz --" I saw three gray red shadows walking on the wooden ladder as if walking on the ground, and quickly jumped up the city wall.
And this is just the beginning, just like the flood that finds the breach of the dam, more Others converge to this lost city wall.
Unfortunately, the wooden ladder tactics have already taken into account the situation at this time.
city wall In addition to the top wall, there is also a lookout hole in the middle position, a hole with a big bowl mouth.
Each wooden ladder is placed on the section of the city wall with the lookout hole.
The wooden ladder tactics allow and even encourage a small amount of Others to break through to the city wall, but not too many, otherwise the city wall is in danger of falling.
So, when the people on the city wall are feeling overwhelmed, the defenders on the side of the lookout will drop a vial of Wildfire.
It's really a very small bottle, about half a catty.
"Boom——" When Ygritte shouted Wildfire bombs, a violent explosion sounded under the wooden ladder where the baby face was stationed, and the green flames rose four or five meters high, and the city wall was all reflected green. of.
"ao " The wooden ladder burned in the green flames, and more than 60 Wights corpses accumulated under the wooden ladder were ignited as if they had been splashed with gasoline. body, howling mournfully.
Wights can't bark, but Others are "living people" who can talk and feel pain.
A large piece of white mist emanated from it, making the ordinary flames burning from the corpse and wooden ladder gradually weakened, but the green Wildfire that stuck to Others was still burning brightly.
city wall root fire, red and green flourish.
The small group of Others who were about to climb the ladder was blocked, and even killed one directly, and the three Others who had already jumped on the city wall did not end well.
They beat Babyface and Sand Snake completely unprepared, and even a White Walkers stepped out, came to Obella's body, held the Ice Sword hilt, pressed down hard, and put the bottom big sister Obara holed.
But more than 20 soldiers with thick oak shields were surrounded.
An oak shield thicker than an old chopping board in a rural kitchen, with a few bars behind it to stop the slashing.
More than 20 giant shield fighters just turned three Others to the ground, and then slashed and stabbed with spears, and light blue ice water flowed on the city wall stone road...
"Don't hurt her, she's my younger sister!"
Just as shieldsman turned around and held down Obella, who was biting at Obara's throat plate, Arianne walked over to block the raised Dragonfang and wanted to Ygritte slashing at its neck.
"She used to be your younger sister, now it's Wights, this is Long Night! This is the scourge of death!" Ygritte's heavy breath came out of the gap in her face armor.
"ka beng ka beng..." Arianne lowered her head and saw Obella, who was guarded by oneself, had a big mouth and bit her iron boots.
Her delicate baby face lost its ruddy and luster, turning pale and bleak, her left eye was bloody with a large hole, and her beautiful brown eyes flashed blue light in her right eye.
Even when the shieldsman held her hands, feet and back down, she twisted her neck awkwardly, gnashing teeth on the living.
—she really became the living dead, like the endless Wights outside the city.
Thinking of this, Princess Dorne felt a pain in her heart and burst into tears unconsciously.
The eldest sister Obara, who got up from the ground, knelt in front of the little sister and choked: "I'm sorry, Obella, the eldest sister didn't protect you well."
The other two Sand Snakes were also silent. weeping.
Ygritte twitched his lips, serenely advised: "Don't cry, she believes in The Seven and carries indulgence, she has gone to The Seven Heaven now, you should be happy."
"Gah——" The three Sand Snake and Arianne were all breathless and stopped crying.
"Obella really went to Heaven?" Arianne murmured, looking up at the sky, as if she wanted to see the heaven where the younger sister Soul was brought in.
"Kill Others, get on Heaven!" Ygritte shouted while holding Dragonfang.
Arianne felt a lot better, turned around and crouched down, the knife in her hand dropped, the Dragonglass dagger pierced the hole in her right eye, and the body that was struggling fiercely froze instantly.
"Obella went to Heaven and we'll be reunited with her sooner or later," she told several sisters.
The shieldsman dispersed, Ygritte glanced outside the city, saw the green light fading, and asked, "The fire is about to go out, do you want to put another wooden ladder? Or, are you going back to the castle to rest? "
"No, we're going to kill the Others!" the three Sand Snakes and Arianne said in unison.
The battle continued, and Wights continued to climb up the wooden ladder, sometimes with Others mixed in, raiding and plotting, intending to snatch the city wall.
Soon, three hours passed.
During this time, Wights corpses piled up like mountains, and the city wall defenders also died a lot.
Most of them, like Obella, just started to fight the dead with awe. Gradually, the more Wights they killed, the awe in their hearts faded away, and the Others who were rushed up were strong. kill.
The city wall like Obella is fine, because they know the identities of Sand Snake and Arianne, and the shieldsman guarding them are all genuine Knights, with sufficient strength and good skills.
There is a city wall in other directions, the shieldsman is Wildlings Warrior, more than brave, lack of skills and experience, resulting in poor shield wall protection, allowing Others to break out of the encirclement, heavy casualties.
Six hours after the battle, at Dawn Morn, the eastern sky was still dark.
The soldiers guarding the wooden ladder on the city wall have been taking breaks one after another, and the city gate and Dragon Queen are still not off work.
However, the shield wall in front of her was 90% smaller, and there were only four Unsullied half-squatting on the ground with their shields raised to protect the Queen.
The remaining thirty-six Unsullied didn't leave too far, just behind the city gate in the urn city, leaning against Little White to sleep.
Well, yes, they slept on the edge of the battlefield.
Little White is lying on the ground, his head is inserted into the city gateway, and when the Fireball above the Dragon Queen's head shrinks to the point of being extinguished, he immediately supports a wave of Dragonflame.
Winterfell is cold and freezing, but Little White is a dragon, and his body exudes scorching heat. Sleeping against his body is more comfortable than turning on the heater.