The king on the Great Wall

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What Iger didn't know was that apart from the soldiers and civilians in Houguan Town where he was staying, there was another invisible but real animal in the high sky, besides the Great Wall tens of miles to the north, who watched Daenerys leave. The "eyes" of existence tightly locked on the existence of the three dragons, until it was confirmed that they all flew south and out of the sensing range of "own", then they suddenly dissipated in a violent energy fluctuation, turning into an invisible magic power The signal scattered in all directions, in all directions between heaven and earth.

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Chapter 413 Frozen Seal Bay

The days in the northernmost part of the Seven Kingdoms are always very short, and it is only about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky has already dimmed.At the easternmost section of the Great Wall, at the edge of the Ghost Forest, which is separated by a wall from the port of the Night Watchman at Eastwatch, the light is weakened by dense tree trunks and branches, and when it reaches the ground, it is extremely dim. The only remaining faint light shines on many trees. On the crooked and twisted side branches, like a ghost with teeth and claws, it swayed back and forth with the cold wind and even screamed, like a hideous living creature, making the situation more terrifying than the completely dark night.

In this forest full of ghosts, a snowdrift on the ground suddenly exploded, and a dry figure broke through the snow shell from the ground and got out of the ground—he, or it was not alone, because he was breathing heavily. In the time that followed, the second... the third... the tenth... also appeared quickly.

Thousands of ghouls have been hiding under the snow for the past few months, not only saving mana consumption, but also avoiding human detection.But now, with the faint signal of magic power passing by, they instantly revived from the standby state, and like grass sprouts and fungi sprouting after the warm rain, they emerged one after another from the snow bunker, shaking off the accumulation. The snow and ice edges began to stagger, stagger, and stagger towards the eastern seashore.

Ghouls, corpse wolves, corpse bears... All the living things that can be seen outside the Great Wall are transformed into controlled puppets. The dead gradually form corpse teams, corpse teams merge into corpse groups, and corpse groups converge into corpse waves... In the end, the mighty mountain and sea of ​​corpses formed a black cloud-like army of death, which slowly rushed towards the sea some distance away from the Great Wall and beyond the edge of the sentinel's field of vision on the ice wall.

And on the coast where they are facing in the direction, the two ghosts led by the army of the dead, the "Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Front" and the "Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Front"...had arrived a moment earlier and stood on a huge reef by the sea, Waiting for the arrival of the last moment.

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The concentration of cold magic power between heaven and earth has not yet reached its peak, the temperature has not yet dropped to its lowest point, and even the Seal Bay has not been completely frozen. There is still at least half a month before the best time to attack.But... since that mysterious being aloof sent an attack signal, there must be a reason for him.

As the most loyal servant in existence, the White Walker does not question, but only executes orders!

Now, the ghouls that broke through the snow shells and came to the ground from hiding places in all directions are gradually gathering at the seaside, waiting for the mysterious existence to perform miracles and build a route for the Eastern Route Army on the ocean surface of Seal Bay that can bypass the sea. Passage of the Great Wall.

The ocean is so vast and deep, containing an incalculable amount of water. Generally speaking, it is impossible to freeze it with unnatural forces—even if the water temperature in Seal Bay is completely lowered by even one degree, the energy required is far more than Even that "mysterious existence"'s ability range.

But... right now, the temperature of the seawater has actually dropped below the freezing point and reached a supercooled state, but due to many reasons such as convection, waves, tides, and the unremitting deicing of the human defenders, it is only the last step before freezing.In this case, it is not beneficial to launch an attack after applying external influence after all, after all, it is not beneficial to launch an attack after a natural freeze, but in order to seize the best time to fight, it is acceptable to pay some price to force this battle ahead of time... It is acceptable .

The wet and cold water vapor continuously condensed on the extremely cold body surface of the two White Walkers. They had to move their bodies occasionally to shake off the "ice skin" to prevent it from turning into lumps, but this kind of foolishness will not continue indefinitely. Turning from dusk to night, the sky gradually turned dark... When the last ghoul wobbled into the sea of ​​waiting corpses, the two leading white ghosts finally stopped staring stupidly at the choppy ocean and turned their heads to look at the sea of ​​corpses. up the northern sky.

In the direction of the sacred land of eternal winter, there were faint rumbles and loud noises, and an incomparably huge energy completed its final convergence, and began to rush towards the Great Wall at an alarming speed...to be precise, the ocean surface of Seal Bay .

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On the ocean surface of Seal Bay, the five night watchman ships, which were unaware because they could not sense the magic power fluctuations, were still busy operating under the auxiliary illumination of lights.

Although the White Walkers have not yet attacked, the members of the Eastwatch De-icing Team have become the first people from the Night Watch Corps and even the entire human world to "fight" against the Cold God.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the ice near the shallow water is getting faster and faster, often forming a foot thick overnight. As long as one day is left alone, the ice will quickly extend to the ocean, and eventually The seal bay at the end of the Great Wall is completely frozen.

Even though it was getting late, they had to work overtime because—as long as one day they were lazy and thought about "rest early today and continue tomorrow", under the action of a vicious circle, the ice would accumulate more and more, freeze and thicken, and eventually all previous efforts would be wasted .

They sprinkled cinders all over the shoreline, extending several meters into the water.In this way, every day at dawn, the heat absorbed by the dark cinders will melt and break the part of the sea ice bonded to the shore.Next, each ship needs to send people to crack and divide the broken sea ice floating on the water - the large pieces are connected to iron stakes with ropes and nailed to the ship to be dragged away, and the broken pieces are dragged away with nets live, and try to haul it to a natural harbor a few miles to the south to store it in order to avoid floating back, and it will be considered as a round of mission completion...

As long as this reciprocation persists, the ice passage for the enemy to bypass the Great Wall will never be formed.

Although the weather was so cold that people's ears could be frozen off, the soldiers involved in deicing were working hard.Although the work is tiring, fortunately the commander of East Sea Watch, Carter Parker, can understand the hard work of the brothers. The personnel who perform this task have the highest allowance among all departments, and they are able to take one day off and one day off in shifts. Many people rush to join, even at the expense of This is through the back door.

However, Jon Royce, the former Earl of Runestone City and now the captain of the de-icing team, does not enjoy this job at all: although he is appointed as the de-icing commander, he does not have to disembark to work in person, but he cannot enjoy the job. They have to go out to sea with the ship every day because of the rest.Ever since Iger put him together and threatened him with death, Carter Parker seemed to have changed his gender. Not only did he refuse to discuss any plans with him to deal with that kid, he even refused to go to sea when he was really tired. He refused to approve it, and even sent someone to follow the supervision work-making it as if he would do something to kill himself as long as he was not stared at for a day.

Although he knew that Carter wanted to protect himself, no one would like this extreme method.

Although full of annoyance, Jon continued to stand on the bow of the battleship "Mermaid", supervising the work of several ships and soldiers.There is no way, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. If the job entrusted to him is still not good enough, then Iger will not be able to protect himself if he wants to settle the score against him.

Nearly [-]% of today's mission has been completed. Just one more round of hauling to get rid of the last piece of ice that is several acres in size can return to Donghai Watch and hand over the boat to the night shift patrol personnel.

Thinking of this, everyone was full of energy, but when they were shouting and digging through the ice, the shouting suddenly weakened. More and more soldiers stopped their work and began to point to the north sky and talk about something. Enzheng was about to reprimand them for being passive and sabotage, but when he turned his head, he was also stunned.

With the last light of the sky before nightfall, the northern horizon is showing a strange scene: at the end of the field of vision, there is a grayish white fog that should not exist across the east and west. It is not obvious where the sea and the sky meet, but it should be Against the background of the dark forest, it is particularly conspicuous, as if a white curtain with infinite height, width and thickness hangs between heaven and earth...

What is this stuff?

Jon Royce stared suspiciously, but suddenly came back to his senses in the next second: It doesn't matter what it is, what matters is that it is moving, and it is rushing towards the direction of the Great Wall !

Such a huge object moves at such a high speed that the naked eye can tell "fast" from a distance of more than ten miles. So what is the real speed of this thing?

Judging by the color and texture, it should be an unprecedented ice storm!A chill rushed from the back of his waist to his neck—Jon didn't think a gust of wind could blow down the Great Wall, but, God damn it, he was on a boat now, a boat floating on the deck of the icy ocean in Seal Bay!

"Don't even look at it! All - go back to the boat!" He supported the side of the boat and yelled hoarsely at the soldiers of the de-icing team who were still standing on the ice floe, and then turned to his flagship "Mermaid" regardless of their reaction. Sailors of the ”: “Lower all sails! Turn her to the north, there is a strong wind coming soon! Order the Blackbird and other galleys to make them all the same! You who have nothing to do, go back I hid under the bed in my own cabin, put the quilt over my head, and turned off the lights!"

The soldiers on the ice also realized that something was wrong at this moment, dropped their tools in a panic and ran to the nearest ship, and some people slipped and fell to the ground in a hurry, but fortunately they didn't break the ice and fell into the water... the visible road The speed of the powerful ice storm was so fast, and after a while, people could hear its furious howl. It sounded like tens of thousands of magic dragons roaring and rushing towards everyone in the distance.Its speed was so fast that it took just over a minute from when people saw it to when it was blown in front of everyone. When the distance was only a few hundred meters, Jon Royce stopped urging those who hadn't hidden The slow man in the cabin rushed into the cabin without hesitation, closed the wooden door, and got under the table.

After all, at a young age, Jorn has a certain degree of judgment through decades of daily life and accumulated experience in leading troops and fighting.He made the right decision in an instant: if he ordered to sail back to East China Sea Watch, the ship would be overturned if it could not hold out for three seconds in this wind... But even if the ship was aligned, and then Drilled into the cabin and hid, the situation is still not much better.

"boom--"

No one can imagine that the wind blowing on the ship can make such a spectacular sound. Accompanied by the loud contact noise, there are fragmentary bangs and bangs when the wind blows up debris and hits the hull, but soon no one Forget about the sound... Although they hid in the cabin, in front of such mighty power, everyone was like ants in a drum washing machine, being thrown around in the cabin at will, their bodies and everything including the ceiling The two sides and the four walls made intimate contact one by one without touching the ground.

After suffering from boundless pain and panic for about half a minute, Jon woke up from the brief dizziness.The cabin was already in a mess, with furniture, objects, and random people piled up in a pile. Fortunately, the oil lamp was cleverly turned off first, so that everyone did not turn into a barbecue.

He's pretty sure he felt the boat roll over at least once, but for some reason it's back to its normal upward posture, and it's all flat and motionless, not even the normal swaying in the sea, as if it was blown to the shore Stranded.

(This shouldn’t be the case. How could such a medium-sized ship run aground when it was blown by the wind?)

With doubts, Jon struggled to open his eyes, and then unexpectedly found that the burning pain on his body disappeared quickly... He thought it was because the impact was not severe, but after a while, the stiffness and numbness on his face and the sensation of stretching out his hands disappeared. It was only when he felt some ice scum on his beard that Jon came back to his senses: it was freezing.

Standing up barely while leaning on the wall, Jon ignored the other people in the cabin who were still groaning and groaning in pain. After a few efforts, he kicked open the cabin door that seemed deformed and stuck, and came back to the deck.

"Old Gods above!"

With the last glimmer of light in the sky before nightfall, he saw the scene outside the cabin clearly, and finally understood why the ship stopped shaking and the surroundings were as cold as hell.

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Chapter 414 The Survivor and the Battle

As far as the eye can see, everything is covered in silver.

The hull, deck, mast... were all covered with a layer of frost; the sea surface, people who fell into the water, and debris blown by the wind... were all frozen.Even the howling cold wind turned into a gentle breeze, as if it had been drained of all its strength by the strange storm just now.

The hunk of ice that was trying to be dragged away a moment ago was now the only thing in sight that looked normal—at least it was flat.In other places, the ocean surface was all frozen into ripples in this extremely strong but very fast storm—yes, the surface of the sea was first blown out of waves by the wind, and then quickly lost in the extreme cold. Wen froze, and finally caused this wonderful and rare state in front of him.

Jon felt as if he was in the middle of a huge wrinkled white blanket, but it was clear: the white blanket was much softer than ice, and there was no way the boat would be stuck in it.

The flagship of the de-icing fleet - the Mermaid he was on, probably because of the early adjustment of the orientation and the large enough weight, it was able to avoid the fate of capsizing in this epic storm. It is stuck on the ice at an angle, like a snow-sculpted ship model embedded in a white marble table.But the remaining few ships were not so lucky: the "Blackbird" stood upright on the ice like a candle inserted obliquely in the snow, and the lower part of the ship was already frozen in the ice. the "Eel" turned over and was buckled in the ice, and the upper third of the hull was frozen in the ice; as for the two small open-air galleys, the Talon and the Stormcrow, Shuangshuang and the boat capsized and were frozen in the ice. It is estimated that there is not half of the survivors left, including the soldiers who did not have time to escape to the boat and get into the cabin...

At least dozens of figures were scattered in a narrow strip of hundreds of meters from north to south... Some were frozen in the ice, and some were blown far away by the wind and smashed on the ice. None of them could move anymore. The first victims of this sudden disaster, the first victims of this grand song of ice and fire.

With just a gust of wind, half of the hundreds of members of the de-icing team were lost in an instant.Only those who hid in the cabin and closed the door when the wind blows survived the storm and the cold wave that can freeze the sea in an instant!

Shocked, there was a sound behind him, and the rest of the living people on the same boat got out of the cabin one by one, covering their heads, staring stupidly at the suddenly changed whole world in front of them like a ghost.

"Don't stand there stupidly!" Jon also came back to his senses at this time, and yelled to capture the thoughts of the soldiers: "This storm came strangely, and it was probably a trick created by the White Walkers. The enemy may have already stepped on the ground. The ice is coming, and we don't have much time left! Clear all the cabins immediately, and pull out everyone, whether they are alive or not!"

After a lot of fuss, nine corpses were found on the Mermaid because they were unlucky enough to be hit by furniture in the storm, and the door was not closed tightly, so they were frozen to death by the cold wave...and other strange reasons, and six heavy ones who could no longer move were found. The wounded, several missing persons, and 23 lucky ones who were largely unharmed.

After some trial and error, he determined that the ice was thick enough to move freely without worrying about falling into the water, and Jon began to give orders and distribute the work: the living people who could still move freely were divided into three groups—two people were responsible for dragging the dead who were not frozen in the ice together Burn as much as possible, and each of the six lightly wounded will be responsible for dragging the seriously wounded back to East Watch with a simple sled. The man's sailboat went to rescue Pao Ze.

The assistance to the Blackbird standing in the ice was quite smooth: most of the survivors were able to climb out by themselves, and even in the stern cabin frozen in the ice, there were still living people—they were lucky: the icy sea water was in the middle of the cold wave. It froze so quickly under the action that it didn't even have time to pour into the cabin through the crack of the door and drown people.Rescuers outside only need to chip away at the ice and break open the jammed door panels to rescue people.

Every time a group of seriously wounded came out, Jon sent the same number of lightly wounded back to Eastwatch first. After a few 10 minutes of busy work, all the living people on the Blackbird were rescued.

But the Eel, which was upside down in the ice, stumped everyone: the opening of the cabin was completely sealed under the ice, and the only way to save people was to cut open the hull.However, this brand-new warship donated by White Harbor to the Great Wall, the hull is made of thick and solid high-quality wood, and it is covered with a thin layer of ice. It is cold and hard. How can it be so easy to damage?

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Using the small amount of wildfire carried on the ship, the incineration of the body was barely carried out, but the progress of the rescue of the broken ship was stuck on the upside-down wooden coffin.The sky gradually turned dark, and the tension and fear continued to permeate—every time they thought that the ghouls might be walking on the ice, the nerves of the exhausted people after taking turns to dig the boat slowly tightened, and this tension eventually It was stretched to the limit when there was a clearer vibration from the ice on the soles of the feet, and it broke completely.

"My lord, after a while, we will be submerged by the tide of corpses. The brothers in the boat are safe for the time being. Let's go!"

"Yeah, if we are chased and killed by the ghosts, the brothers of Donghaiwatch will have dozens more enemies. Even if we consider the safety of the people of the Seven Kingdoms, we should not continue to be heroes!"

"Give the tool to the brothers in the boat and let them ask for their own blessings. We can't suffer any more losses. My lord, there is still time to return to East Sea Watch!"

"Damn it..." Seeing that the ship's hull had already been half-cut, and seeing that it would take more than ten minutes to break through the hole, Jon gritted his teeth and thought for a while, and finally made up his mind: "No, hold on a little longer, There are more than a dozen brothers in the boat! The two who have nothing to do—take the horn and go to the north to watch for everyone. When we see the dead, we will blow it immediately, and then we will retreat!"

The two people who were pointed out stood where they were, looked at each other and didn't take a step, neither of them would take such a big risk to save the dozen or so brothers who were still in the boat.

"Go! Just blow the horn, don't stop me!"

Glaring at the two disobedient soldiers, Jon yelled loudly, and gradually used the majesty he had cultivated as the "Earl of Runestone City" for a long time to make them start to waver, but no one could have expected what happened in the next second—— With a muffled sound of "bang", the commander of the de-icing team fell headlong and fell from the hull of the ship to the ice surface. The blood that flowed from the back of his head instantly merged into a pool on the ice and froze into red crystals.

Chitt, who killed Jon with a single hit, threw away the bloody hammer, his boils all over his face seemed to be red with anger, he slid down the curve of the bottom of the boat to the ice surface, and yelled at Jon who was lying on the ground. En Royce spit: "The old man who didn't know how to live and die was exiled here because he offended the commander-in-chief. How dare he domineering over the brothers? Remember, he did it because I accidentally slipped and fell to my death! If you have an opinion, let’s fight it out, if you don’t have an opinion, just throw away your things and run away!"

The soldiers still trapped in the ship noticed the movement outside, shouted desperately and knocked on the hull... But the remaining dozen Night Watchmen soldiers outside looked at me and you with terrified eyes, Fear of the unknown and death finally prevailed over courage and sense of justice—no one said a word, all the survivors obediently dropped their tools, stepped on the undulating and rippled ice, and headed southwest several miles away. East China Sea Watch ran.

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The harbor fortress was also in chaos at the moment.With the barrier of the Great Wall extending nearly a mile into the sea, the terrifying storm naturally did not directly hit the fortress, but a sentry who was carelessly blown off from the top of the Great Wall and smashed his brains on the middle ground of the fortress, instantly Frozen to the endless ocean... It is enough to make anyone aware that something is wrong. After the cataclysm on the top of the Great Wall tried to throw a boulder weighing a hundred catties, it did not crack the ice. , everyone realized that the decisive battle that they had "thought day and night" for several months broke out suddenly and most inadvertently.

Three horns sounded, and the new land-grants living around the fort swarmed into the fortress. Carter Pike roared and directed with a thunderous voice, and everyone was busy performing their duties according to the plan. : Anyone who has the strength to pick up a spear or swing an ax has to participate in the defense. The wildfire and asphalt buckets were pulled out of the warehouse and transported to the city wall, and the dragonglass weapons were also dragged out and piled up to a conspicuous position in the center of the school grounds and distributed In the hands of each soldier who has already formed a group, rows of obstacles are piled up in the fortress under the command - sawed firewood, hardened pickets, and bags of grain...

With these arrangements, even if the enemy breaks through the wall, the night watchman still has the opportunity to light the wall of fire for several rounds of desperate street fighting, to guard the huge zig-zag wooden stairs used to climb the Great Wall, and to evacuate and break the people behind the Great Wall. The ruined ladder wins time.

With the full cooperation of all levels of command staff, East China Sea Watch quickly switched to the final battle state, but in this chaos, a group of people felt at a loss - they came under the order of Daenerys and arrived at the Great Wall on the same day. Take the book team.

They originally planned to rest overnight at East Sea Watch, and rushed to Houguan Town to meet their queen early the next morning. No one expected that they would "just happen" to encounter the attack of the White Walkers, the Unsullied and the soldiers of the Freedom Militia. They were naturally not in the arrangement of the defense plan, and no one came to tell them what to do in this messy preparation situation, so they had to gather together as a whole team under the command of the chief, and stood in the courtyard and waited.

And among them, the red-robed monk Ma Qiluo was the most at a loss.

From the flame communication with Melisandre when he was on the ship, he had already learned the good news that the plan worked, that the queen was successfully tricked into giving the land and was retained, and the ship he was on also arrived at the Great Wall today—on his own Both Daenerys and Daenerys came to the front line. When the prophecy came true, the old enemy of the Lord of Light suddenly launched an attack in advance, forcing the final battle before his own strength reached its peak. What is this for?

Either there was something wrong with the brain of that being, and he gave up on himself because he knew it was impossible to win; or somewhere in this world, a sudden change happened that he didn't know, which made the enemy not hesitate to waste magic power. Start the attack early.

Backing away, he cast spells on the brazier alone in the house. After getting in touch with Melisandre, he quickly learned the bad news from the other party - in the afternoon, he learned that he had arrived at East Sea Watch by boat. The queen suddenly decided to go back to the south on the spur of the moment, and left directly after a brief conversation with the commander-in-chief of the night watchman. Didn't even have time to stop!

R'hllor up!Why is this little queen not worrying at all!

Ma Qiluo immediately left the brazier, put away his nervousness and regained his composure, and then left the house to find the raven breeder who accompanied the team: "Tie all the ravens with the message that the aliens are coming, and the support of the dragon is needed." , Let them all out! Immediately, immediately!"

Since various letters had already been written, the ravens flying south quickly flapped their wings and flew out of the fortress—these selected and well-trained little things are extremely strong in physical strength and vision, and can travel day and night, and it only takes one day Flying back to the crow's nest in the kingland and Dragonstone Island, and accompanied by the sound of their wings flapping, there was another short horn on the wall of the fortress in the east: the last surviving soldiers of the de-icing fleet also came from the ice. On the surface, he fled back to Donghai Watch on foot and asked to open the door to enter.

Carter Pike led people to block up the new group of people who entered the city, and soon found that Royce was not there, but now that everyone was facing threats, there was really no time to ask the whereabouts of only one noble subordinate: "There will be more people in the future." Does anyone see what's going on?"

"It's us, dead man! Dead man is... less than a mile behind us! Quick... close the door!"

The commander of East Sea Watch waved away the surviving sailors who were almost out of strength, and turned to look at the chief affairs officer of the fortress: "Where's the dragon crystal bomb? It's the round thing that was shipped from Houguan Town two days ago. Pull it here for me! And... and those Valyrian steel arrows in my room, what kind of shit Lightbringer, bring me too! Emmett? Iron Emmett! Pick from your hands The three men with the best archery skills come out and follow me all the way, and if they find any traces of the other ghosts, they will shoot his mother!"

"I'm coming!"

"Oh my god... the seven gods bless you!"

While making the final arrangements, the soldiers on the east wall let out low voices, their nervous roars and trembling prayers merged together—although the sky was completely dark, the tide of corpses came from the sea. Against the backdrop of the white ice surface, how conspicuous is the black sea of ​​ghouls, not to mention the rumbling noises made by thousands of them as they walk!

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Chapter 415 Coincidence or Man's Rape?

Seawatch was the first to meet the challenge of the dead, but I don't know if it was a coincidence or an agreement. Across the entire Great Wall and a grand canyon at the other end of Westeros, there is another coastal fortress "Icestrait Harbor" guarded by night watchmen. ", also encountered trouble from living people.

Although the northern navy that had just started to form did not dare to attack Euron Greyjoy, the latter's fleet was also afraid of the complete defense facilities of Icestrait Harbor and did not dare to attack.In this way, the ironborn were showing off their power in the Ice Bay, while the craftsmen, sailors and night watchmen in the north were peacefully huddled in the port. Building warships at the construction site day and night, with the advantages of foundation and size, the northern border will definitely have the upper hand in the confrontation and consumption... probably also aware of this, after several days of confrontation, Euron finally made a move.

Soldiers patrolling the coastline during the day were the first to report the news: less than ten miles south of Ice Strait Harbor, many long ships had docked and sent a large number of looters to land.

There are no villages along the coast of Ice Bay to plunder, and the meaning of sending troops to land could not be more obvious: the Ironmen, who are thousands of miles away from home, do not want to spend any more time. In the cradle.

The port fortress only had more than a thousand defenders, and it had to take care of the Grand Canyon at the same time. The defense was more than sufficient and the attack was insufficient. Although the news was found out in advance, the commander of Ice Strait Harbor chose to send the raven to report to the Shadow Tower after some consideration, and then stood still.

The sky was so dark that it was soaked in ink, the moon was struggling to appear and disappear among the thick clouds, the ice storm that swept the entire coast in Seal Bay did not blow here, and it was another normal night with howling cold winds, the sky and the earth Apart from the sound of wind and waves beating against the shore, there seemed to be no other sound.

The sentries of the night watch had already had their supper and stood on top of the fort's wall.Knowing in advance the news that the enemy might attack at night tonight, the number of soldiers on duty doubled, and all of them kept their eyes wide open, staring at every direction around the fortress vigilantly, refusing to miss the slightest sign of trouble. Anything that seems to be moving, will be reported to the captain immediately, and a second investigation will be carried out with a Myr lens.

However, the first to discover the target was the guard on the watchtower by the sea, who was keeping an eye on the sea.

The scene where Euron deliberately let some ironmen land was detected by the northern patrols, but the real attack direction is still the sea. The sky is covered with clouds tonight, and the light is extremely dark. More than a dozen ships are equipped with trebuchets or other long-range attack weapons. After the sailboat team arrived at the waters of the Ice Bay outside the mouth of the Milk River, it first sailed straight to the Ice Strait Harbor, sailing until it was only a few hundred meters away from the coast, and then suddenly opened fire.More than a dozen projectiles with trails of fire and smoke pierced the dark night sky, some fell into the icy sea and stirred up waves, some hit the city wall and splashed a ball of sparks, and some hit the moored on the shore. The brand-new northern warships on the sidelines quickly aroused the threat of fire.

The formerly deserted Ice Strait Harbor became commotion in an instant, the alarm bells rang out, horns blared, and disheveled guys ran out of every house, no matter whether they were already lying on the bed or not, everyone who heard the alarm immediately turned over and stood up , put on the equipment, picked up the guy, rushed out of the house, quickly gathered the officers who could be found, and rushed to the responsible combat position under the leadership.

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"Those who know how to use trebuchets go to the west tower to help! Those who don't know how to go to the port to put out the fire, leave a team of people to keep watching outside the wall, and call the police if they find the enemy!" The duty officer on duty ordered loudly, and took Half of the soldiers ran down the wall and rushed towards the port.

Soon, a shore-based catapult and ballista, under the control of sufficient personnel, began to launch a counterattack against the Ironborn sailboat that suddenly appeared on the ocean, with a stable base, impossible to be sunk while on the shore, and wildfire incendiary bombs With its amazing lethality and many other advantages, it quickly gained an advantage in the confrontation.

However, when most people's attention was attracted by the long-range weapon's bombardment, hundreds of Ironborn soldiers who had disembarked in an ambush in the woods far from the fortress rushed out of their hiding places while taking advantage of the chaos. Under the cover of night, they fought until they were less than a hundred meters away from the city wall before being seen by the soldiers on top of the wall.

The young soldier who was the first to discover the situation was watching the fierce battle of sailboats in the distant port and the bay like fireworks, but the next second he heard footsteps and voices from outside the wall, and cautiously threw out a torch. Under the faint light, he saw dozens of densely packed human heads at a glance, and was so frightened that he almost sat down on the ground. He immediately yelled at the comrades around him and rang the alarm bell for the attack on the south wall.

This is the scene that James faced when he was fully dressed and rushed out of the door: "cannon fire" on the ocean facing the port, and under the cover of this loud but not threatening noise, the city walls on the south and facing sides An enemy attack alert came to Xiang.

What are you doing?

The Kingslayer frowned suspiciously.

From the very beginning, he didn't support Iger's decision to lease Ice Strait Harbor to the northern border as a military port, and he didn't think much of the "proactively providing heavy military protection" that relied on loyalty in exchange for assistance and cooperation from other aspects of the Stark family. Kneeling and licking" means...not to mention fighting the ironborn themselves now.

In the beginning, I voluntarily came to the Great Wall because my pile of shady things brought a crisis of extinction to the family.He wanted to atone for his sins by fighting "natural enemies of mankind" like the White Ghost, and find a place to spend the rest of his life quietly by the way.

What's the point of fighting the living, especially the living within the Seven Kingdoms, if it's just a change of land?

Although he really hates the ironborn gang of paranoid and greedy pirates, he also doesn't like the smelly, tough and tough northerners... Now Iger wants to be a group of people he doesn't like very much. , going to fight another bunch of bastards, it feels awful!This is not his war!

Unhappy or unhappy, James has no intention of quitting.First, the Iron Islands are indeed in a state of war with the Western Territory right now, and fighting the Ironborn does not violate the interests of their own family. The third reason is that I can’t say enough about the children and even myself. For the first time, I experienced the feeling of love from someone other than Cersei, and I have someone I want to protect besides my family.