Chapter 216
2021-01-06
Chapter 216 Wildfire's PrestigeThe Wall is so huge it's so tall that all the ladders and siege towers Nothing can be done, thick enough to make any ram sigh. Ordinary bows and arrows can't hit the wall, and trebuchets can't throw boulders that can damage the wall, and if you try to attack by fire, the melting snow will quickly extinguish the flames. True, wildlings can crawl over, as raiders do, but only if the doer is strong, steady, and agile, and for the battallions with their families, there is nothing else to do but attack the city gate Law.
"Shoot rocks! Shoot arrows! Don't let them get close to Wall!" Smith, who had climbed to the top of the wall with Igor, was more aware of Wall's defenses, and he commanded loudly.
The pitch barrels are quickly stuffed into the trebuchet and then torched. The wind moved the fire, and the arrogance was violent. With a loud roar of "Let's go!", the balance arm fell, the throwing arm "peng" slammed on the crossbar, and the burning asphalt barrel rolled and flew out in the dark night, exuding the swaying rays of light of orange white, in the dark night A bright mark was drawn in the middle and hit the ground, and a burst of fire broke out. The two mammoths near the landing point were frightened, and the Giant rider on it desperately stabilized the elephant, roaring in ancient words, and the sound was like thunder from ancient times, even on the top of the Wall.
The nearly 100 defenders attacked the enemy under the Wall with various equipment. The long spear and the steel sword above the Wall were useless. Igor also took a bow and cautiously put it down. arrow. The cold wind was blowing from the northeast, and when it was blocked by Wall, it turned into an east-west airflow against the wall, and the flow rate was particularly fast. In this darkness and strong wind, aiming became a meaningless operation, and everyone was just picking people. Arrows, oil barrels and stones are poured into many places, and all the means of attack will be engulfed in darkness as soon as they leave the top of the wall. The heavier oil barrels and stones can at least be guaranteed to fall near the intended landing point, and occasionally bursts of fire. As for The arrow... was blown away, shot by some unlucky guy... or was nailed to the ground in the end, it was completely resigned.
The wildlings continued to rush from the woods to the Wall, and soon, the narrow barrier below became a white pie sprinkled with embellishments - wildling is black sesame, and Giant And mammoths are all kinds of nuts.
In the television drama, the director designed and arranged various offensive and defensive means for both sides in order to make this offensive and defensive battle wonderful, but in fact, there was no wildling to climb the wall for Night's. Watch the chance to shoot down oneself, all ordinary wildlings, giants and mammoths, all aimed at the outer sect of the Castle Black section Wall, determined to break the city gate and attack the south of the wall.
And the missions of Night's Watch are monotonous and hopeless killing endless enemies.
"city gate!" Igor noticed the problem of some of his own soldiers, walked along the line of defense and shouted: "Don't worry about those fools standing by the side shooting arrows, they can't shoot so high! Everyone! All aim at those who are close to the city gate!"
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The so-called city gate is actually just a narrow and curved tunnel in the ice wall, and there is not even room for two horses to travel side by side. Compared with the huge wall of The Wall, the scale of the passage can be described as pitifully small. There are also three iron fences in it. Even if the enemy breaks through the outermost solid gate, the internal passage is very easy to defend... But the number of wildlings is the number of your own side. Hundred times, and Giant, once the battlefield is turned into a narrow passage to fight attrition with each other, Night's Watch will be no match at all.
At all costs, Night's Watches must keep the battle as it is - across the Wall!
The screams and screams kept coming from the side of the city gate. From time to time, attackers were smashed and fell down. The casualties of the battle were one-sided. Dozens of wildlings have died in the Night's Watch. subordinates, while Igor's allies within sight have not yet suffered any casualties. But he couldn't be happier: there were still thousands of wildlings, and more importantly: they had approached the city gate and started fiddling with the outer sect to Castle Black in the dark!
"Stop them! Throw anything, don't feel bad!"
The Castle Black on the south side of the wall also blew a horn twice, and glanced at the wall south from the direction of Mole's Town. To another enemy of Castle Black, Igor gritted his teeth and pinned all his hopes of defending Castle Black to Jon and James who were still below, and oneself returned to the north side of the wall: in the night, the person on top of Wall is ugly What wildling under the Qing Dynasty is doing to the city gate, but everyone knows: if the opponent is allowed to toss, Castle Black will definitely be broken.
The ballista was turned to the city gate, and the sturdy and strong strings stretched, shooting lance-like huge ballista arrows down. Night's Watch without bows and arrows also lifted stones and threw them down, and the most lethal oil barrels were thrown at no cost. The city gate was bombed in an instant, with gravel flying and burning oil splashing. Ignite all flammable materials that can be contaminated.
A mammoth was poured on the lit asphalt, dragged the flames and howled and ran back to the forest, scaring countless wildlings along the way, dodging and retreating. They are intelligent beings. When they are on fire, they just have to tumble and roll in the snow, and the flames will be extinguished in an instant.
city gate corpses everywhere across the field, blood flowing into a river, but the wildlings showed a completely different tenacity and will to fight, they pushed away the corpses, picked up the snow cover and extinguished the burning Asphalt, against falling rocks and arrows, continued to destroy the outer sect of the passage, with a stance of never giving up until the goal was achieved. The sound of the city gate's wooden boards being cracked came, and the Giants tied thick ropes to the gate posts, and took a few mammoths at the other end, and started to drive away with whips. The ropes were taut, and the city gate soon creaked loudly.
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"Tender Mother, the source of mercy, bless your son through the fierce battle, stop the arrow, resist the sword, let them see the good..." In this battle At the most critical moment, Castle Black's Septon Seleda was still in the mood to sing the hymn, but he didn't know whether it was blown by the wind or frightened by the sight of being attacked by the north and the south, and his voice was rough and trembling.
"Don't get mad there, come here, open the lid of the tank and let the Wildfire in!" Igor kicked him and yelled, "Get away from here, torch away, This thing will explode!"
Many people stopped to look here, and Noye had to yell at them again with a louder volume: "What are you looking at, keep shooting arrows! The arrows are gone? Go over there and try again. Get a bundle! Igor, what are you doing?"
"There must be something they can't handle to interrupt their destruction of the city gate!"
"They There are too many, the outer sect can't hold!" Noye shook his head: "If you keep shooting arrows, even if you can't shoot, at least you can harass the other party." Smith looked at Wall's face illuminated by the fire, "I need two The archer and the two spearmen came to guard the tunnel together to prevent them from breaking the city gate and breaking in!"
A dozen people stepped forward, Noye picked four and walked to the elevator: "Igor , before I come back, Wall is yours."
This scene seemed familiar, and Igor suddenly realized that if oneself didn't hurry up and stop the wildling's attack on the gate, Smith and the five people he brought with him would be in danger. Will perish together with a Giant in the tunnel. He pried off the cover of a wooden barrel, and nodded without looking back: "Understood, they can't get into the tunnel, I promise!"
The asphalt and oil were dissolved together, and it appeared in the barrel. The dark color came out, Igor scooped out a large bowl and poured it into the empty bucket, and then carefully picked up one of the two cans of Wildfire that Wall had brought, lightly poured the viscous liquid of deep green into the asphalt bucket and filled it with After scooping up the space before, let the Night's Watch next to it re-seal the lid.
Repeating this, Igor mixed one of the two cans of Wildfire into a dozen barrels of pitch to create a row of low-end liquid incendiary bombs.
Amid the exclamations and air-breathing sounds of the surrounding soldiers, the city gate was pulled out of the door frame by the corner of several mammoths, and the whole began to deform, making a sharp, piercing, piercing sound. Late, Igor waved his hand: "Ignite it, throw it down!"
A few Night's Watches who were idle without bows ran forward and pushed a dozen re-sealed wooden barrels to the front of the city gate. A few meters to the east above, take the torch and set them on fire.
There was no explosion, Igor relaxed standing a few meters away: "Throw it down!"
"But the asphalt isn't hot yet—"
"Incomplete It's asphalt, we'll be done with it when it's hot, just throw it away!"
The craftsmen and clerks obeyed, and as the wildfire-filled oil barrels were pushed down, Igor approached the wall, Would like to see the effect of new attempts made by oneself.
After infiltrating Wildfire, the flames from the openings of the oil barrels also turned green, and a dozen barrels tumbled to the ground with green tail flames, one of which was on the raised corner of the ice wall It shattered with a knock, and the liquid sprayed out... If it hadn't penetrated into the Wildfire, the unheated mixture of asphalt and lamp oil would have been quenched by the icy cold wind, but this time, the green fire was in the biting cold air. Spreading, the juice sprayed from the oil barrels all burned in the air, like a green devil with open wings, falling from the sky, pounced on the wildlings and giants who were pulling the door.
Boom boom boom - the barrels fell outside the city gate, bursting with dark green flames, the attackers have long been accustomed to this, and those who were splashed by the flames rushed to the snow Rolling backwards, while the rest of the people backed away a few meters, intending to wait for the fire oneself to be put out by the cold ground and snow to continue working...
But this time, they seem to be wrong.
The person who was rolling on the ground quickly stood up. The liquid that had been suppressed had just touched the air, and the green flame was rekindled. Good luck can quickly pick up the snow It was completely crushed, and those who had been splashed more on their bodies were in trouble: no matter how much they rolled, the green flames stubbornly burned on the clothes, melted the snowflakes that had been touched, and continued to spread on the wet clothes... Soon A few unlucky bastards turned into screaming demons with green flames.
A few dead people can't stop the attack, but the worse situation will soon appear: these liquid juices with green flames flow and burn on the ground of the city gate, not only did not gradually extinguish due to the low temperature, but continued Flowing, rising - the Wildfire mixed in the asphalt heats the liquid and the ground on its own, baking the thawed ground, quickly heating the ground above the ignition point of the asphalt and kerosene mixture, and two larger volumes of liquid also It was ignited, the emerald flame devil deepened in color, and grew to five or six meters high, completely blocking the city gate, and even began to touch the long-haired elephants holding the rope...
(This green fire is in the It won't go out until it burns out!) Before the wildlings realized this and tried to extinguish it with snow, the emerald flame had grown to a scale of more than ten meters high, the isolation zone of several hundred meters was illuminated by a faint green light, and the air A scorching smell, like burnt bacon, began to permeate. The embers of the flames were like flocks of green fireflies, flying in the night sky.
Several mammoths that were about to be licked by the green flames wailed and struggled desperately. Kuai was untied by Giant Knight and led back.
The green flame devil burns and dances at the city gate, like a loyal doorman of The Wall, before its oneself goes out, the attacking gate has become impossible...though the casualties and physical exhaustion have not yet reached an unbearable retreat Line, but the wildlings covering the mountains and plains reluctantly retreated into the forest, waiting for the next wave of attacks.
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(end of this chapter)