Chapter 294
2021-01-06
Chapter 294 Backstroke"Yohn, don't mess around!" The chief craftsman has always been cautious in his words and deeds, At this moment, he also shouted the first sentence since his appearance today.
"You figure out who's here!" Yohn Royce roared back: "Kingslayer acted first, disobeyed the orders of the superiors, I was maintaining the discipline of Night's Watch! You condone his impudent behavior like this , is pushing the entire Legion into chaos!"
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Not everyone has an enmity with Igor like the original Runestone count.
More conservatives don't support him either because they are against the risky idea of "accepting wildling", because they don't like his style, or because they think he's been on Night's Watch for too short a time. Too young and seniority is not enough to convince people... There are more, it is simply because various factors support other people, the interests are related, and it is not easy to change the family.
After a period of elections, the former wildlings have proved that they can also be lawful, and Igor's many behaviors have begun to gradually convince a large number of people who did not understand and support him. More and more people are beginning to believe Igor's public rhetoric on the day he returned from the south: at this extraordinary moment, it may be a good choice to choose a Lord Commander who is not very disciplined but can do practical things.
There are still stubborn opponents, but between "getting James impudent once" and "provoking Night's Watch infighting and bloodshed", it's obvious that all normal people will choose to look at the big picture.
And now, what Yohn Royce does is to take the commanding heights of reason and intensify the conflict - forcing Castle Black's Night's Watch officers to put stability first.
The Westerlands gang headed by James has more than 40 people, and the Eastwatch faction is also close to this number. If these two gangs fight, if there is no external intervention, it will inevitably cause more than double-digit casualties... As the third party with the largest number of people, Castle Black had to help one of them in order to minimize the losses caused by the chaos!
Which side will Castle Black's Night's Watch help if you can't avoid it?
The answer is obvious: there's no evidence that anyone was going to do anything against the King-Beyond-the-Wall family, and in today's standoff, it's James who acted first - forced to compromise and let them go Accept, but if you still help them deal with the side of the road, there is no way to explain to the brothers!
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Bowen Marsh, his close ally Osail Arwick, and the never-ending Chief Ranger looked at each other and gritted their teeth: it seems , they seem to have only one difficult decision to make.
The people of the Westerlands standing around James also noticed the abnormal atmosphere. They approached each other, side by side with alertness, facing the Eastwatch group who had already faced each other with swords, and surrounded the Castle Black Big Three. dozens of soldiers.
The three giants of Castle Black whispered and decided to try one last time to persuade James to give up. Tight to the limit.
But just as the rhetoric was about to be discussed, the ultimatum was about to be issued, and even the onlookers began to notice that something was wrong, the guard who unexpectedly came from the gate gave a loud announcement, interrupting the last step in the deterioration of the situation.
"The goods are coming from the south again. It's pork and mutton. If you are idle, come and help me move it!"
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Queenscrown undertakes Seven Kingdoms to Wall The material transfer station function has been in existence for more than ten months, and the relationship with Castle Black is no longer news. The Night's Watch of Castle Black is used to it, and not many people take this announcement seriously. Everyone still focused their attention on the field - but someone with sharp eyes soon discovered that this time, the number of escorts who filed in from outside the gate far exceeded the normal supply in the past.
A total of nearly 100 people stood guarding the three carriages as they slowly passed through the Castle Black gate and entered the fence. Except for less than ten people who looked like drivers, the other seventy or eighty people were more or less armed. The one that was clearly the core of them was even covered in the shiny full-body armor provided by Tywin Lannister, wearing a helmet and shield, carrying a steel sword and dagger on his waist, and looking armed to the teeth.
Yohn Royce groaned.
(What's going on here, could it be that... that guy, the person who should be connected has been arranged?)
An ominous premonition filled my heart, and I was suspicious, The leader of the escort, the black clothed logistics officer in Queenscrown, Humfrey Hisham stepped out of the crowd and took the initiative to explain the situation: "At the order of the chief logistics officer, the land grant has completed the pre-winter livestock treatment in the whole area. Distribute some of the meat along the Wall, and ask Mrs. Marsh to sign for it - plus, on my return, I'll take Mance Rayder and his family along the way and place them safely inside the Queenscrown Wall. It's a lot of work and a lot of trouble, We also ask Castle Black to actively cooperate with us!”
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The so-called “livestock handling before winter” is a more northern custom in the world of ice and fire: because you don’t know winter How long it will last, no one dares to say that the stored hay and grain can feed the livestock until spring. Therefore, except for a very small amount of reserved seeds, the rest must be slaughtered and stored as meat products shortly after the official arrival of winter. This reason is very convincing in line with the current season, but looking at this team composed of Night's Watch Industry Guards and Mountain Clan Warrior, looking at this group of ill-natured and utterly unpleasant people, Bowen Marsh sighed deeply.
After the death of Commander Mormont, as chief affairs officer for the Castle Black warehouse, he had planned to bankrupt the land-grant scheme by cutting off supplies to the wildling... but Igor also had a large stockpile of grain in Queenscrown For materials, they chose tit-for-tat and independent support for the new land-donors. The two major material warehouses affiliated to Night's Watch have been opposed to each other, and each has been operating for 3-4 months without any material exchanges. Since the number of new land givers far exceeds the mountain clan, Queenscrown is completely at a disadvantage in this war of material consumption, and Igor is everywhere. Running around has kept the food supply from collapsing.
Under such circumstances, how could it be today that Queenscrown would retaliate with virtue and take the initiative to share such a valuable and popular resource as meat?
Not to mention, it's not even noon yet, but the team from Queenscrown has already arrived... Even with the factor that "Kingsroad in the land-grant has been renovated and has not been what it used to be", they still have to get there before dawn. Just set off and set off, and it is possible to arrive at this time.
With so many factors coming together, who would believe that this is pure coincidence?
Igor West, he really counts everything. If he succeeds in being elected Lord Commander this time, it really won't be by luck at all.
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Realizing that Bowen Marsh was not the only one being plotted against, Yohn Royce's complexion also turned pale in an instant, and the next moment jumped like thunder, throwing fire at the gate guard : "How do you look after the door? Someone came to the door in the name of delivery, and you put it in without any doubt?!"
"Mr. Royce is joking, you may not know each other in Eastwatch for a long time. I, under Humfrey Hisham, joined Night's Watch Legion for half a year, the current logistics officer stationed in Queenscrown, is the oath of authentic brother." The logistics officer leading the team introduced himself: "The logistics department, for more than a year, regularly sent Castle Black When transporting meat supplies, the gatekeepers have already met with the delivery staff - I am a serious Night's Watch, bringing a group of familiar friends to reward the brothers guarding the Wall, don't you think? Why waste time checking and verifying your identity?"
He looked at Yohn Royce with a full of smiles, his eyes stopped for a moment on the steel sword he held in his hand: "Yo, Castle Black is here Is there a Tourney? It's really a coincidence, everyone, go ahead, I know where the warehouse is, after unloading the goods, I will leave with the person who should bring it, no need to bother you." However, the "escort team" maintained a position close to the confrontation, and there was a faint tendency to cooperate with James to sandwich the Eastwatch group in the middle. Looking at the posture of Queenscrown, it is obvious that they have hollowed out their family property and the elites have come to meet them. How can anyone not see that their comers are not good?
Obviously, the head of the logistics department, the biggest favorite to win the Lord Commander - Igor West, seems a little impatient, and has already made arrangements for a showdown and a final battle.
Night's Watch in Castle Black, after being transferred to Eastwatch, the remaining personnel are: nearly 100 Rangers (of which there are more than 40 people from James), more than 200 The clerk and a similar number of craftsmen... about five hundred in total.
Although the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled account for a lot of competition, they are all Night's Watch soldiers who have received military training after all - such a group of people, if they are united, they may be able to deal with more than a hundred training. Well-rounded elite. But what kind of people are they facing now?
The Westerlands Rangers who also swore an oath in black clothed, the Mountain clansmen Warrior who came to the rescue at Wall's most critical moment, and the faithful and diligent provided Wall for more than a year Night's Watch Industrial Guard for Logistics. With such a combination, how many people would be willing to copy the guy and work hard?
Igor won again, and won all the time, leaving no chance of a comeback.
The Castle Black Big Three knew what to do with just eye contact.
Bullying the soft and fearing the hard has always been criticized, but its internal logic is very simple: bullying the soft and fearing the hard will only be morally condemned in a society with a higher degree of civilization; It's every day all kicking steel plates, always seeking death, luckily winning is a hero, once he misses... Today, Igor has already tried his best to openly use all the resources and trump cards in his hand to create momentum and suppress people. If he dares to do this, he will It is to conclude that as long as he plays the "hard" side, the Castle Black officer will never get hot-headed - if it's just forty people led by James, they can still win it at some price, but now with nearly a hundred reinforcements, today's Infighting together, the resulting chaos will be completely out of control, completely destroying Night's Watch, which has been weakened and dying.
A furious Duke Stark doesn't have much patience to understand what's going on, who's right and who's wrong. For the safety of North, he will only play fifty major boards each, take over Wall's defense with drastic means, and make Night's Watch, a glorious and ancient organization, completely turned into history!
At that time, Igor, who has the closest relationship with House Stark, controls the Night's Watch industry, and also has a completely personal power and base in the land grant, even if at first, he also has to meet the anger baptism guarded by North for a while. It's bound to be the one who has the last laugh.
And, the most terrible point: Igor is now accompanying Robb Stark on a tour along the Wall, when something happens, he can immediately distort the truth and influence his judgment in front of the Lord of the North!
When he heard that he was planning to temporarily leave the election and leave Castle Black, Bowen Marsh thought this would be a good opportunity for oneself to fight back. Now that he thinks about it, that guy may have already taken today's events into consideration!
Despite all reluctance, Marsh couldn't admit in his heart: With such shrewdness, scheming and judgment, if Igor was willing to put his mind on the right path, maybe it would be a match. A powerful Lord Commander for anyone.
It seems that today is the time to let James and the Mance Rayder family leave first. Now, all Night's Watch lacks is a step that can be followed. If you can't find it, using martial power to force Eastwatch out of the way, the scene is too ugly.
But James made it clear that he was instructed by Igor to act without authorization. How should I find this step?
The Castle Black three giants are discussing nervously in a low voice. The last person of the Night's Watch Legion who is very important and influential, but always remains neutral, finally arrives slowly and appears at the scene of the conflict.
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(end of this chapter)