Chapter 213

Chapter 213

2021-01-06

Chapter 213 came sooner rather than later
Igor stayed overnight in Queenscrown, during which The construction advance team here, several Pyromancers who were forced to move here and other first residents who can be regarded as "oneself people" had a cordial conversation. These guys are full of complaints, complaining about the cold in the north, the shortage of materials and tools, the infestation of wildlings, the lack of a woman in the entire stronghold... Some even offered to go home. Night's Watch didn't have the intention or ability to meet all their demands, but it needed manpower at this critical time, so they had to spend a lot of time and make various promises to get them to agree to stay.

After leaving the dozen or so North soldiers and most of the Night's Watch industry members Roderick Ser picked to remain at Queenscrown, Igor set off on his final journey to the Wall early on the second day. With the addition of this group of people, the number of residents of Queenscrown finally reached hundreds. When Igor left, he had begun to build barricades and simple walls in a frenzy, preparing for a life without the protection of lake water.

There is only a dozen or more li left from Queenscrown to Castle Black. With the ready-made route of Kingsroad, and the smooth journey of heaven and beauty, before dark, Igor sees him again after a long absence.

Years, Mole's Town and The Wall, which oneself had hoped to never see again when oneself left.

Everyone in the team except Igor saw Wall for the first time, when the world's largest man-made structure suddenly emerged from the gray sky and rose across the entire horizon. , everyone held their breath. Especially for James and the fifty Westerlands soldiers who came with him, looking at this may be the "end of the world" they will spend the rest of their lives, in addition to silence, there is a more complicated look on their expressions.

Soon sentries came to investigate, and after a while, a horn sounded to represent the brother's return, and the team slowly entered the Castle under the sight of countless black clothed persons or curious or gloomy eyes running out of the tower. Black.

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A lot has changed here since we left. The most conspicuous is the addition of a three-meter-high simple wooden wall surrounding the entire Castle Black outside the building complex. The wall is very thin and does not look firm. Wooden barrels full of debris and bags of grain will not fall over.

【Night's Watch Legion does not need to guard against attacks from the south, so no high walls are required. ] This point of view has been fine in the past thousand years, but as the Wall defenders gradually declined to the point where wildlings dared to take the initiative to attack, it finally became no longer applicable. Probably realizing this, Castle Black's Night's Watch will start building the wall.

"Igor!" With a surprised tone, a thin and flexible shadow rushed out from the crowd to greet him. As someone who heard Igor and Tyrion discuss strategies for escaping Wall, Jon Snow is the person in the entire Night's Watch Legion who was most surprised by Igor's voluntary return.

Soon more people who knew Igor came out and gathered around the northbound team, some welcomed the chief logistics officer, some asked about his life in the south, and some even started to flip the carriage. I wanted to see what goodies Igor brought this time. Igor recognized many familiar faces from the crowd and was quickly surrounded.

"Don't move the stuff in the car!" Jon grabbed Igor's arm, and before he could say a few words with his old friend, he had to start to maintain order loudly: "Go and call Bowen Marsh Ser over and arrange People will receive the goods and move them into the warehouse!"

"I also brought dozens of recruits and subordinates, let's arrange their accommodation first, who will take care of this now?"

"Andrew Tarth Ser, he's the new Castle Black Instructor," Jon replied. "Ser Alliser's departure makes us all happy."

"haha." Feeling this feeling, he smiled knowingly: "Commander Mormont's move is very meaningful. Don't let him down."

"Uh..." Jon rubbed his hands a little sorry, He didn't pretend to be stupid: "I understand."

While chatting, Jon looked towards behind Igor and quickly recognized James Lannister. He didn't say a word, and knew with his toes that the silent, indifferent and depressed Kingslayer didn't want to be watched and "warmly welcomed" like Igor. This irascible guy who even killed two kings has superb martial skills, and smart people won't mess with him.

Watching the Chief Service Officer finish receiving the supplies, and the Castle Black new religion head arranged accommodation for the entire group, Igor quickly realized something was wrong: "What about Commander Mormont, and, before Vale's counter-insurgency was dealt with by King Robert The Vale nobles sent here?"

One is oneself's only superior in Night's Watch Legion, and the others are Lords Declarants who were sent Wall because of oneself, potential enemies of oneself... Igor thought It's hard not to care about these people.

"The wildlings were smuggled out of the Bay of Seals by raft on a massive scale, and Commander Mormont took half of his rangers to sit in Eastwatch. Yohn Royce Ser and the others . , to rescue a few villages that were attacked by wildlings over the wall. I was the only one left to manage Castle Black temporarily."

"Huh, sit in Eastwatch? It's something that can be solved by sending a chief ranger. I'll be there in person, I won't bring you with me..." This was obviously hoping Jon would get used to managing Castle Black on his own first. Igor laughed deeply towards the boy, but he felt vaguely inappropriate: "When did the last Rangers leave?"

"This morning."

"Castle How many people are left in Black now?"

"More than two hundred, plus what you brought today, there are three hundred."

"This is not very good, there are some in the wildling Skinchanger, you can control the birds to conduct aerial reconnaissance." Igor smelled a thick scent of lured the tiger away from the mountain, and frowned uncomfortably: "That is to say, the enemy knows our movements clearly, they It is very likely that Castle Black will take advantage of the emptiness to attack."

"Skinchanger?" Jon's expression became solemn, "I seem to have heard of it, where did you know it?"

"In the book." Igor replied: "It's in the same book where I saw 'Obsidian can restrain Others', and the credibility should be no problem."

"Should not be so coincidental? "Jon got a little nervous.

"Don't panic, this is just my guess." Igor waved his hand to comfort the youngster, "Let's go, take me to the Wall and see what the wildling is like outside the wall."

"Okay, let's go."

The two walked to the noose lift and began to lift towards Wall.

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"The wildling pioneers arrived outside the Wall a month ago, popping up along the edge of the forest from time to time, and since then we've stopped patrolling the wall entirely. Then, one after another, their large troops arrived gradually, and there were more and more people. By now, there are at least 30,000 to 40,000 people outside Castle Black." Blowing wildly against the wall, making the cage keep swaying even in the tracks, Jon had his back to the wind to speak to Igor: "But they just set up camp in the forest outside the Wall, and instead of attacking, they Small troops continue to cross the wall to the south, constantly attacking and harassing the land-grant villages."

Igor doesn't understand the military, but he still has common sense: "You have to take the initiative to attack, and you must not let one wave after another. The wall crossers took a stand at the South of the Wall and even assembled!"

"Commander Mormont thought so too." Jon denouncing: "At first we sent the squids, but found that the wildlings were mostly dozens of people. A wave, regardless of physical fitness or equipment... In terms of wildling, it is quite good. If there are fewer people, you can only die. Later, Commander Mormont simply gathered the horses together and established two large patrols of 30 people. Responsible for patrolling both east and west of Castle Black, which paid off and quickly wiped out a wildling elite who had crossed the wall. But two patrols were responsible for such a long line of defense, and the gap was too large, let alone horses. To rest, it was very difficult to deal with. What’s worse, later wildling changed its strategy and no longer sent a small group of troops to cross the wall, but simply organized large-scale overruns and smuggling in the west of the Gorge and the east of the Bay of Seals…”

Without being on the battlefield, there is no way to truly understand the situation. Igor's brows tightened as he listened, and another illusion of oneself was shattered by reality: when he was in King's Landing, he thought that as long as Mormont's Ranger expedition was not launched, and the three hundred elite Night's Watches were not sent away, Wall's defense would be destroyed. There is no pressure...

But now it seems that the Wall defense of these 300 Night's Watches is just a little easier than the original plot. After all, there are 100,000 wildlings outside Wall, and Mance is not a fool. He is facing a different defensive force from the original plot. Naturally, Impossible also adopts the same offensive method to fight hard... as long as the troops are divided into three groups and infiltrate at the same time. Invasion from the south, Night's Watch is simply unstoppable.

"Gorge's side is good, as long as there are day and night patrols at key locations, wildlings don't have much chance to come over, but Eastwatch side...we have too few ships, even if we patrol around the clock, it's difficult. Complete blockade of the Bay of Seals. The Lord Commander has appealed to White Harbor for help, and Earl Manderly has agreed to send a fleet to help... but only if the sailors have us oneself, you come from Winterfell, and you should know what's going on in the North."

Igor did know that war would inevitably break out in the South, the North's main force was heading south, the Manderlys and Bolton's illegal children were opening strife and veiled struggle for the Wood's land, and the season was just in time. The last autumn harvest before the winter... These many factors finally led to a comical result - although the situation has changed beyond recognition, the Night's Watch Legion seems to be destined to remain only at the most critical moment of the wildling attack. Being able to rely on their own strength...

The two of them chatted about Wall's defense, and the iron cage rose to the top unconsciously. The wind at the top of the Wall was so cold that Igor had to pull up the hood on his coat to keep his ears from freezing.

Jon led him to the edge of the Wall: "Look, every fire below is at least a tent."

After a day's drive from Queenscrown, the sky was dark It has begun to dim, and in the Haunted Forest, shrouded in a thin layer of cold fog, thousands of campfires flicker and flicker among the branches and leaves. There are so many, but compared with the wider and darker forest beyond the wall, it is different. It seemed so small and powerless.

From the Wall, those campfires seem to be under your feet, but this is an illusion caused by the height difference. Even the nearest wildling camp is at least a mile away from the Wall...General weapons are not at all. Can't attack.

A normal weapon, but still a threat if used with a ballista or catapult.

"Why are they so close together?"

"I don't know, most of the wildlings were not like this when they first arrived, but after spending a few days under the wall, they camped out. The land is getting closer and closer to the Wall." Jon shrugs: "Even if the shape is spread out longer and longer, it's like... as if at all costs are also close to the Wall."

Igor squinted and looked into the distance, wondering in his heart: Is it because the magic power contained in the Wall makes it difficult for Others or ghouls to approach, so that the wildlings camped close to the edge of the forest in such a counterintuitive way? Melisandre said that oneself was marked by Cold God, and I don't know if it has disappeared now?

"Strange, it shouldn't be foggy at this time." Jon muttered suspiciously, pitched his tent and looked into the distance, his expression changed quickly: "No, the forest over there seems to be burning. , this white mist is not fog, but smoke!"

Igor was shivered and immediately looked in the direction Jon was looking at. Sure enough, about a mile away, the Haunted Forest flickered and shook vaguely. Firelight of approx. At this distance, the naked eye of an ordinary bonfire is impossible to see, and it is the wildlings who are lighting the forest!
"Lying Cao - Mud Horse!" Isn't it such a coincidence?
Igor uttered a rare foul language and was shocked, and suddenly realized that oneself still misunderstood what Jiujian said before, the boy was reminding oneself: If you don't come over quickly, you won't be able to catch up with wildling's big move to Wall. attacked.

In other words: hurry up, just in time for the wildling attack on Wall!
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(end of this chapter)