The king on the Great Wall

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Since he is handsome and outstanding, James has seen many women who take the initiative to show affection to him... It is not unusual to be chased, but Val fully showed the reason why she got the nickname "Princess Savage": Although she knew The past where he broke his oath and heard about the scandal that he slept with his own sister. Although he is no longer powerful, rich and powerful, Val is still willing to get close to and understand him, peeling off his protection layer by layer. The hard shell around him touched his soft heart that was not a man.

And after she finally decided that she wanted to be with her, her unrestrained and enthusiastic but sincere offensive, which was completely different from the "coquettish and twitchy" women of the Seven Kingdoms, could make any man with a normal body and mind fall.

James has a reason to fight now, not to mention, the ironborn led by Euron Greyjoy, a lunatic, will not spare himself just because he shouted "Don't hit me, I don't like northerners like you" .In terms of emotion and reason, he must go all out.

The trusted Westlander team has been armed and assembled in front of him. Although this group of people half-voluntarily accompanied him to the Great Wall as night watchmen under the coercion of their father, Duke Tywin, but due to the care of his family and children in Lannisport It's still in place, and Iger promised to allow them to return home to visit relatives in the future. The fighting spirit and loyalty are not bad... After a brief glance at the team to confirm that there is no shortage of people, the Kingslayer looked around and finally decided to support the desperate Nan towards the wall.

After all, no matter how noisy the port was, sailboats a few hundred meters offshore would not teleport into the port to occupy the fortress, but if the walls and gates fell, the enemy would rush in.

Dozens of soldiers from the western border rushed towards the wall in a hurry. Along the way, they gathered a few groups of northern border and land-grant stragglers who were separated from the officers and were at a loss. They were like snowballs. It has already become a team of hundreds of people, and when it merges with the reserve team brought by the commander of the authentic Ice Strait Port, it immediately forms a considerable support team. Half of the soldiers in Ice Strait Port rushed to the wall to help in the battle.

There was no time to greet each other, and the two groups of people quickly climbed up the wall. The battle situation was better than expected. Although there were many raiders, they had no siege weapons because they came from thousands of miles away, so they could only climb the wall with simple wooden ladders. , although the momentum is great, the threat is quite ordinary: apart from relying on people and sea ants, there is only one team carrying a fresh log as a battering ram... When the attackers hit the gate of the fortress, the log knocked the thick wooden door shaking The swaying, although it will not be destroyed immediately, but the overwhelmed noises still make everyone nervous.

Hastily attacked, the inexperienced panicked and threw down a lot of wildfire prepared for the ghouls. Although the power was not powerful, it caused a huge waste.

A sword cut down the oncoming Ironborn soldiers who had just climbed up the wall and before they could make their first cry, James and the Ice Strait Harbor Commander led the men to sweep across the top of the wall in two directions, and quickly took a few The part of the wall that had fallen was recovered, and a few wooden ladders were overturned, and the precarious defense of the wall immediately stabilized.

"Stop throwing wildfire, it's for the dead, use less!"

After yelling to stop the wasteful actions of several young people who participated in the battle for the first time, James sheathed his sword, took a bow from the soldier beside him, and cautiously leaned out from the top of the wall to observe the battle situation: wildfire cannot It burns in the icy snow, but if you are lucky and hits someone, it can burn with clothes and equipment as the base... Under the illumination of the red and green flames burning on several corpses and shields that fell in the snow, James saw the general situation of the enemy: dozens or hundreds of people crowded under the wall, and their clothing and equipment were painted with the coats of arms of each family, the Greyjoy family's sea monster, the Gubler family's gold-rimmed black horn , the entangled green water pipes of the Meilin family, etc...

A gang of mobs dare to attack a fortress guarded by themselves?

James sneered, put the arrows on the bow and pulled the tail feathers to his ears, aimed at one at random, let go and shot, and then put on the arrows. He is not a good archer when he draws the bow, but the enemy formation is chaotic and the defense and counterattack firepower is insufficient. One by one, the Ironborn marauders fell screaming, but there were only a few casualties.Under his leadership and under the control of the field, the mood of the other soldiers on the top of the wall gradually stabilized, and they stopped throwing wildfire indiscriminately, and turned to more affordable stones and bows for defense.

The Ironborn were not good at attacking fortifications, and now they were facing a well-prepared defender. After a quick attack failed, and the "battering ram" turned into a pillar of fire under the attack of asphalt and wildfire, the attack was lost. Dozens of corpses descended and retreated into the darkness hastily.

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This is the end?Came across thousands of miles in a boat to sneak attack, and it's over with such a small commotion?

Cheers came from around. Regardless of the result, this is indeed the first victory in a defensive battle since the completion of Icestrait Harbor... James was puzzled, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was.However, in the dark where no one can notice, Euron's real ultimate move is quietly approaching the port fortress: whether it is the sailing fleet that is fighting against the fortress on the ocean hundreds of meters outside the port, or The attack on the wall from the land was not carried out by the elite of the Iron Islands... and the most fierce fighters and experienced sailors among the Iron People are sitting on the longboat at this moment, clenching their mouths. , paddling the boat silently, and under the leadership of a boat that used tools to measure the water depth and the distribution of hidden reefs, quietly moved at a snail's speed from south to north to the Ice Strait Harbor inch by inch along the coast.

Under normal circumstances, such infiltration from the shore would be discovered by the sentries on the watchtower near the sea.

However, at this time, torches were lit on the northwest ocean, and the sailboats that were actively firing were attracting the attention of the fort watchtower and the sailors in the port. Everyone was staring at the sailboats aiming and shooting with various projectile weapons. The inexperienced commander However, they forgot to arrange manpower to continue vigilance, and just ignored the long fleet passing quietly under their noses.

The looters who feigned an attack outside the wall attracted all the defensive forces inside the fortress to the south wall far away from the coast and port. The main attack team led by Euron seized this moment. Under the paddling of two rows of long oars, he suddenly emerged from the shadows, bypassed the natural breakwater and rushed into the port, sailed straight past the moored northern warships, and did not stop until they rushed to the beach. More than 300 of the most powerful The Ironborn warriors swarmed down to the coast, rushed into the empty harbor with only a dozen people fighting the fire, and began to wreak havoc on buildings and warships.

Chapter 416 Attacks across the board

The cold wind whistled like a child crying, and along the entire Grand Canyon, apart from the sound of icy air flowing, there were only one or two conversations from the soldiers who were also on duty at night on the defensive road not far away, and the tents behind them. The crackling of firewood.

What a long-lost silence.

Weeks of nighttime ghoul harassment had stopped the day before yesterday - not because it was ineffective, but because as the deforestation progressed (the weirwoods were destroyed by the ghouls, while the remaining trees were set on fire by the defenders), the woods themselves The concealment effect of the river has become weaker and weaker: the entire Grand Canyon, the weirwood forests near the bottom of the valley on the north slope and the south slope have been cleared up and cleared, and the banks of the Milk River are now bare, leaving only the sparse mountain roads close to the night watchman. The weirwood survived.

The last batch of weirwoods has been so weak as to prevent the infiltration of the cold god's power, but the location is so close that it is on the defender's chin, and no matter how thick the night is, it can't protect them. , It is necessary to fill in hundreds or thousands of ghouls.

Although manipulating the dead is simple, magic power is needed after all, not to mention—the method of resurrecting corpses is terrifying in the eyes of living creatures, but it has insurmountable shortcomings: no matter how clever necromantic spells are, soldiers cannot be born out of thin air... The ghosts lead the army of the dead, if they don't win big battles, there will be fewer and fewer soldiers, and they can't live like living creatures: relying on reproduction and the vitality of other places to support them, so that they can live endlessly.

For the last few weirwood, sending ghouls to rush to cut wood under the watchful eyes of the human defenders who are waiting in full battle at night, not only is the cost performance low, but it is also a waste of troops.

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The exhaled breath turned into bursts of white mist in the air, and condensed on the eyebrows and beard to form a thin frost, which fell down with a splash.Slim wrapped the blanket around his body tightly again, and moved all nineteen fingers of his legs, arms and hands and feet along the way.

The allowance of the defenders along the canyon is [-] times that of the fortress defenders, and the food supply is full of wine and meat. When they were selected to be sent to the Grand Canyon at first, many people were very happy, but it took a long time to realize that, It's really hard to stay here.

With the continuous improvement of the logistics supply of the Great Wall garrison, today's soldiers are generally equipped with warm equipment... However, the weather is too cold, and the defenders on the front line of the Grand Canyon have no walls to block the wind. Once the airflow moves, the temperature will drop. It makes people hardly feel the existence of the body, as if the only way to move from time to time is to avoid repeating the mistake of freezing toes off.

Hold on!Slim muttered in his heart—in less than an hour, his shift will end, and he can go back to the wind shelter tent he dug and built in the rocky depression behind him, take off his armor and shrink into the bed to have a good sleep up.

Looking forward to the beauty of a good night's sleep, another soldier a few meters away exclaimed in a low voice. Slim turned his head to observe, only to find that the sky in the west was slightly brighter. For a moment, he almost thought that day and night were reversed, and the sun Rising from the opposite direction, it took two seconds to realize: No, that was the beacon of Ice Strait Harbor, and the port fortress at the westernmost end of the defense line was attacked!

Ice Strait Harbor is located on the coast southwest of the mouth of the Milk River, and the Ice Bay is not frozen. Could it be that the army of the dead swam around the defense line and attacked there?Slim was puzzled, but what was even more troubling was: the beacon fire at Icefjord Harbor was lit, did he see what he needed to do?

The defense plan of the Grand Canyon has long been verbally conveyed to every soldier by the most basic-level officers, and it has been deeply rooted in everyone's hearts after several exercises. Everyone knows: no matter where along the Grand Canyon is attacked, the night guard All must light the flames after confirming that it is not a feint attack... If the commanders of Ice Strait Harbor, Canyon Watch, and Shadow Tower deem it necessary, they will send reserves from the two fortresses to support the attack.

However, the plan did not say how the defenders along the Grand Canyon would react when the beacon fire was lit at Ice Strait Harbor!

Slight disturbances spread across the entire canyon defense line from west to east in an instant like a wave, waking up many soldiers who had been off duty and should have rested. In response to violations, the Commander of Canyon Watch also quickly sent people to run around the entire canyon to issue orders, and reiterated that "everything is based on the plan as the highest criterion" - the headquarters believes that Ice Strait Port has sufficient capabilities to solve the problems it encounters... …Conversely, if the problem cannot be settled even with more than a thousand defenders, no matter how to draw troops from the canyon for support, it is impossible to achieve "while mobilizing troops while still ensuring sufficient strength of the defense line".

The messenger's order reassured Slim. He turned his head and stopped looking at the beacon fire in the west, but stared at the dark canyon bottom again.After a sudden strong cold wind blew by, a wet, icy little thing fell on his nose. He raised his head to look at the sky, and was not surprised to find that it was snowing again.

The good news is that the added brightness of the snow to the environment can reduce the difficulty of detection and sentry. The bad news is: the snow piled up on the defensive mountain road has to be cleared by someone at dawn, and there is no "cleaning" in the Night Watch Corps. "This independent department is in charge of it separately, and it has to be handled by each section of the defenders themselves.

Alas, I will be busy again tomorrow.

Slim sighed, and the hot air exhaled from his mouth turned into a cloud of white mist several times larger than that from his nose, and then the horn sounded abruptly.

woo woo woo woo woo——

The sound of the trumpet reflected back and forth in the canyon, spread across the entire line, and gradually became faint and distant, but it was undoubtedly not an illusion.The night watchman has abandoned the distinction between one, two and three horns, especially along the canyon: the defenders here will never go down to the bottom of the canyon to patrol, which means—as long as the horn is sounded, there is only one possibility.

Enemy attack!

He quickly looked east and west to make sure that it was not the adjacent defense section that lit the beacon: the Shadow Tower, as the highest command of the Western Front, had already divided the canyon defense line into nearly a hundred sections according to the length and terrain. The degree of danger, each section is in charge of a team of 50 to [-] defenders, and the temporary fortress "Canyon Watch" at the midpoint is slightly more.According to the plan - if the adjacent defense section is attacked, the adjacent defense section is obliged to send helpers to support the defense section while ensuring that its own defense area is safe, to help the defenders in the attacked section persist until the reserve team arrives.

Although it was a flustered glance, the target was found at a glance: Very good, the place where the beacon is lit is several miles away, it cannot be the adjacent defense segment!

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The sound of hurried footsteps came from behind, and a few soldiers of the same team who reacted the fastest had already put on the clothes to ensure that they would not freeze to death, rushed out of the tent, and rushed towards the edge of the cliff under the leadership of the captain.

"what's the situation?"

"At least three miles to the east, not our adjacent section!" Slim reported loudly.

"What I asked was 'what's the situation', not 'where was the attack'! What's your answer when you cheerfully tell me that it's not the adjacent section?" One thing is to first confirm that our own defense sector has not been attacked, and then judge whether other areas need support, understand?"

"Yes...sir!" He was honestly on duty at night, and he didn't even doze off, but he was criticized straight to the face. Slim felt aggrieved at once, but he didn't dare to contradict his superiors, so he could only obediently agree. With a sound, according to the usual training - take a burning torch from the brazier stand next to it, and throw it into the canyon vigorously.

The captain scolded the young man on night duty, partly because he was angry for not responding to the sound of the horn as required by training, but more because he was annoyed by the schadenfreude contained in the young man's sentence "It's not our adjacent section", and he wanted to train him.

However, as the torch pierced through the darkness and fell into the deep canyon, the faint light illuminated a radius of more than ten meters under the reflection of the snow, and a scene that even he, the chief officer, did not expect came into their eyes: the scene at the bottom of the canyon On the ice surface of the Milk River, a torrent of black shadows was rushing across the dividing line between the north and the south, and heading towards the southern slope where the line of defense was located... The mournful sound of the horn echoing in the canyon temporarily covered up their utterance to a certain extent. The sound was so loud that none of the several soldiers on duty noticed it immediately.

The torch fell into the Kuroshio and disappeared instantly as if it had sunk into water... Even the small leader, who is a self-proclaimed veteran, was almost scared to pee.

"The Lord of Light is here..." The team commander choked for a moment, and immediately reacted: "Slim, go and light the beacon fire immediately! Nahat, take your brother to unpack the wildfire! Gwen, go get the tent Call all the people who are still dawdling here, and bring all the dragonglass weapons. Boys, this time is not a joke!"

The entire section of soldiers was called up, and the boxes full of combat equipment were unpacked in moisture-proof and explosion-proof packaging and moved to the edge of the cliff. The defensive battle started instantly, and groups of green flames quickly exploded at the forefront of the corpses that began to climb the cliff. One after another dragon crystal arrows also poured down like they don't need money... Although the momentum of the enemy's attack is scary, but think about the good - at least the defenders don't have to worry this time: their combat preparations will be wasted like the false alarm last time.

The beacon fire was also quickly ignited, but they soon discovered that no one could expect the soldiers in the adjacent section to come to help.

Beacon towers were lit up one after another, and more than 90 of the more than 80 defense sections along the canyon encountered the attack of ghouls at the same time.The worst situation in the plan appeared: the enemy did not launch an attack at any point, but attacked across the board!

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Chapter 417

"Night Watchman Defense Plan" is divided into three parts: "Grand Canyon", "Great Wall" and "Land Grant". The situation is basically taken into account, and a clear and specific coping strategy is given.

The Grand Canyon is more than 50 miles long. Even if the Night Watchman Command tries its best to mobilize troops, it can only achieve an average of dozens of guards per mile. Obviously, with such a troop density, the security is more than enough, but the defense is not at all. not enough.

Most of the "Grand Canyon Defense Plan" is trying to solve this problem.

After determining the segmentation and security arrangements along the canyon, the plan focused on planning: in an ideal situation—that is, when "the enemy launches an attack from a certain place or several places", how the defenders should mobilize personnel and materials so as to The limited manpower is used to maximize the defense strength, while keeping the parts that have not been attacked yet from opening up.

Putting half of the wildfire and dragon crystal weapons to the front line of the team's defense section is to prevent the White Walkers from suddenly launching an attack in a remote place far away from the fortress, breaking through the defense line in an instant and making all preparations fall short.The other half of the combat readiness stored in the three fortresses along the line can be targeted and accurately delivered to the attacked place along with the actions of the reserve team, becoming a powerful support.

Although there is a [-]-fold gap in strength between the two sides, if the battle takes place on one or several narrow sides, the human side can completely defeat the huge ghouls through ingenious planning and operations, targeted weapons and geographical advantages. Quantity advantage disappears: To fight a war, build roads first.After several repairs, the defensive mountain road has become much wider and smoother, providing a good traffic environment comparable to that of the top of the Great Wall-so that no matter where the enemy attacks from, it is equivalent to fighting against the frontline defenders of the entire canyon.

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The plan is very complete. Unfortunately, the enemy commander is an intelligent magical creature after all—the newborn Night King does not have much experience in commanding large-scale wars, but this does not prevent it from making a judgment: launch a full-scale attack directly , while maximizing the advantages of one's own numbers, it can also maximize the shortcomings of the lack of human defenders, so as to avoid the embarrassment of being unable to attack for a long time.

Use your own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses, the best policy!

Due to differences in individual commanders' abilities, communication levels, and unexpected conditions on the battlefield, in human warfare in the cold weapon era, it is rare for such a situation to be launched simultaneously on a long front beyond visual range: a "true full-line attack" ——Even if the superior formulates such a tactic, it is impossible for the troops to implement it in place.

But the army of the dead has no such concerns: all the ghouls are controlled by the White Walkers who resurrected them, and all the White Walkers are connected with their leader, the Night King. The whole army is more like an army than an army. It is a whole creature composed of 100 cells, and any ghoul can cooperate with another ghoul that it can't even see thousands of meters away.This is a perfect army with almost [-]% execution ability, capable of completing any tactical plan of the Supreme Commander.

Is there anything in the Grand Canyon Defense Plan about what to do when this happens?Yes, but there is only one short page, and the content can be summed up in two points: 1. Each defensive section sticks to its position, kills the enemy as much as possible, and evacuates to the nearest fort after using up wildfire and dragon crystals; 2. The three fortresses along the canyon are orderly Support, as far as possible to ensure that the order of each defensive segment is "from far to near", so as to cover as many defenders as possible withdraw into the stronghold and preserve the vitality.

This is the most beneficial method that Iger can think of in the face of the insurmountable strength disadvantage.

But now, the second of these two guidelines is also facing the dilemma of not being able to realize it, because... there is something wrong with the Ice Strait Port, the westernmost of the three fortresses along the canyon.

According to the plan, after Ice Strait Harbor was attacked from all sides in the canyon, a reserve team should be dispatched to support the defenders in the westernmost quarter of the canyon, help them stabilize the front line, and evacuate in an orderly manner from east to west after exhausting their combat readiness. , and finally retreat into the wall of the port fortress as much as possible to preserve the vitality or use the fortifications to make a last-ditch effort.And now... the soldiers who were supposed to perform this task are busy dealing with the attack from within the human race.

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The defense plan took into account the item "Ice Strait Harbor was attacked by ironmen".However, the new commander of the harbor fortress is not as experienced or as sophisticated as Carter Pike and Dennis Mallister, and he has not had enough time to adjust to the troops under his command. Nister is not good at defending the city, not to mention that there are a group of northern soldiers in the fortress who are not under the control of the night watchman, which leads to a little confusion in the command... These series of factors are not serious when raised individually, but when they are brought together, they are very important. With such a treacherous and cunning opponent as Euron Greyjoy, it suddenly became a big problem.

Ice Strait Harbor is different from Eastwatch. There is no wall on the side facing the sea, and the elite ironmen who sneaked into the harbor are like breaking into the fortress as soon as they come ashore.They quickly divided into three groups, rushed to the center of the fortress, the watchtower on the coast, and the three anchored ships, wreaking havoc...

The ironborn are pirates, and they have never been good at confronting an organized army head-on on land. In order to sneak into the fortress quietly, they failed to bring enough men... Their purpose this time is not to occupy Icestrait Port, but to destroy Destroy this port, especially the shipyard part, and kill the signs of establishing a navy in the north to confront the Iron Islands.

The northern sailors who were preparing to put out the fire on the ship saw that the situation was not good and removed the boards on the ship, making the only three northern warships a floating fortress on the shore, while watching The defenders on the tower also quickly put down their confrontation with the ironmen sailing fleet in the distance and took up weapons to guard the steps... Seeing the enemy's menacing approach, a small group of northern soldiers decisively withdrew to the shipyard, preparing to give priority to protecting their own Artisans and other technicians.

There are people running and shouting to kill everywhere in the port, and there are dots of flames. Although the Ironborn tricked the defenders into the harbor by tricks, they found that the enemy did not panic and surrender because of this—in Icestrait Harbor But there are no unarmed civilians. The newly gifted people are originally from outside the Great Wall and have a tough personality. After some militarized training and becoming a militia, they have amazing willpower... Even women dare to pick up guys and fight for their lives. The soldiers on the watchtower often Throwing wildfire on the steps of the tower to protect themselves, the sailors on the ship pushed the ship away from the dock in the dark to avoid being captured... After a random scurry, the invading ironmen began to set fire to various buildings in the fortress, trying to Burn down Icefjord Harbor.

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"I'll take people to the port to help!" James grabbed the commander who was in a hurry and wanted to take the soldiers to the dock, and said sharply, "Just now you shouldn't have brought all the reserves to the wall Come on, why do you come here a second time after making a fool of yourself? Of course it is important to expel the enemies entering the port, but we are all gone, and if the enemies outside the wall take advantage of the situation to attack and break through the gate, then Ice Strait Port will be over!"

"No, you lead people to stay on the wall, and I will lead a large army..."

"Your little three-legged cat kung fu is useless in the past!" James interrupted the commander unceremoniously, not caring that the other party was half a level higher than himself, "I'll do it, I'll do it!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party to reply, he loudly gathered more than 100 people from the western border gang and the scattered soldiers he had gathered just now, and walked quickly to the steps of the wall, and stopped when he passed a box: "This ...Isn't this the dragon crystal bomb sent by Houguan Town, it's not for dealing with living people, which idiot brought it up and opened it?"

"It's me... the explosive bombs can explode, I thought, I really can't hold it, it's okay to order a few to scare people." The soldier next to him replied hesitantly.

"Forget it, take a few and bring the torches." The soldier's answer reminded James that the beacon fires in the Grand Canyon to the east had already connected together, and it was so red that it seemed that the entire canyon was on fire. It can't be sent to the front line for support, so it's better to use waste.

With more than 100 people, the Kingslayer charged murderously towards the direction of the already chaotic port, holding torches like a glowing dragon, and the team quickly attracted the attention of the invaders. Under the command of the two leaders, they quickly A large group of nearly 200 people quickly gathered, laid out a simple horizontal formation, and pushed forward to meet them.

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James is not afraid of the opponent. After roughly comparing the equipment and strength of the two sides, he made a judgment: under his leadership, although the opponent's number is nearly twice that of his own, he can still easily kill the opponent's formation without too many casualties will be able to win.

But right now, Ice Strait Harbor is in chaos. Thousands of defenders are scattered around the fortress under the failed command and the enemy's sneak attack. They don't know how to deal with it. On the contrary, the enemy has a numerical advantage on the frontal battlefield, and there will be reinforcements on the opposite side to intervene at any time. Under such circumstances, he must be able to quickly end the battle in a clean and neat manner!

"Follow me, throw it together!" Facing more than 200 enemies pressing in a line, James grabbed the explosive bomb in the hands of a confidant with his right hand, and the torch in his left hand, and lit the fuse when the enemy approached 30 meters away , I tried my best...to throw it out.

"mean!"

"Coward!"

"Don't engage in such nonsense if you have the ability!"

The Ironborn had already heard about the power of wildfire bombs. They saw balls smaller than a human head flying out of the enemy group one after another. Although they were surprised that the defenders dared to use them at the risk of fire in street battles surrounded by buildings. This kind of weapon, but they still dodged one after another amidst the shouts and curses, and all four or five bombs smashed to the ground and rolled around—wondering why they didn’t shatter and ignite green flames, the fuse burned to the end, The gunpowder inside was ignited.

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Chapter 418 The So-called Hero

The dotted, ups and downs of blue light are like countless sapphires sinking in the bottom of the abyss. They are gorgeous and dazzing. They sway slightly with the passing of water ripples, poignant and dreamy; they are also like stars listed in the sky, covered with black satin Like the night sky, the radiance shines, flickering and floating with the turbulence of the atmosphere...

If you can ignore the fact that "these are the eyes of a group of ghouls swarming towards you", then the scenery is strange and beautiful.If you are optimistic enough to think about everything for the better, the ghoul's "blue eyes" feature actually marks its own position - even without torches and the moonlight that looms in the clouds from time to time, the defenders can know where they are at a glance The ghouls approached the line of defense, where the ghouls were far from the mountain path, and thus targeted defenses were carried out according to the pressure on the battlefield.

However, the fact is that this situation and this scene can really scare anyone out of shit—the defenders on the mountain road along the canyon have no interest in admiring it. A magnificent blue ocean approached the line of defense.

The cross section of the Grand Canyon is a slightly split U-shape. It is easy for the ghouls to descend from the north slope and cross the frozen milk river through the bottom of the valley. Big cliffs, which is why the night watchmen seldom worry that savages will bypass the Great Wall from here. Although the terrain along the canyon is as close to vertical as the ice wall of the Great Wall, there are few, but the drop is tens of meters, and the angle with the ground is [-] to [-] degrees. The steep slopes can be seen everywhere-and these soils are mixed with rocks, and to some extent, they are not as strong and reliable as the ice wall of the Great Wall of Impossible, which is the biggest reliance of the defenders.

The black-clothed brothers stood in a row with weapons in their hands. The narrow battle line made it impossible for them to stand shoulder to shoulder, and they could only stand at a distance of ten meters... It was as if they were fighting alone.The suddenly bigger snowstorm caused white to fall on their armors, but they were shaken away by violent movements. Everyone was shooting arrows desperately, and archery became meaningless at this moment—anyway, the ground under their feet Pairs of blue eyes are densely packed on the steep slope, and it is right to shoot towards the places with these strange bright spots!

The soldiers kept drawing their bows to aim at the bottom of the valley. The time they stayed with the bows was so short that it was not aimed at all. They just said silently in their hearts, "Go to hell, monster!" Then they let go and shot the dragon crystal arrows on the string into the group of corpses —Speak silently, shoot an arrow, read silently, shoot an arrow...

If you're unlucky, you won't get any effect with one arrow; if you're lucky, you'll lose a pair of blue eyes in the mountains and plains with one arrow.My muscles began to ache, my breathing gradually became rapid, and my heartbeat became more intense.Soldiers not only have to do their best to control the rhythm of the counterattack, but also try to control the sphincter so as not to make a fool of themselves.

At your feet are piles of obsidian arrows and boxes full of wildfire canisters. There are lit torches on the railings, and feathered arrows are flying in the canyon... Is the number of wildfires limited in combat preparations, but obsidian weapons are especially dragonglass weapons? Arrows are the most abundant, but the problem facing the defenders now is that there are not enough people and bows to shoot these arrows, and they cannot form a rain of dragon crystal arrows, and they cannot really stop the tide of corpses from rushing upwards!

Someone was the first to fail after firing more than a dozen arrows, so he picked up a wild fire pot and threw it up the slope... A blue fireball rose from the ghoul wave at the front, and the flames and air waves swept down a group of corpses. Ghost, seeing that wildfire can be effective against the enemy, people's confidence is immediately boosted.However, after the initial deflagration subsided, the confidence boosted within a few seconds was immediately discounted.

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In terms of quantity, the combat readiness of the entire canyon—even if you don’t count the reserve part kept in the fortress, just discussing the half of the front line defense section is enough to destroy the entire army of ghouls without the White Walkers. of.However, this refers to the situation where "the enemy lined up and piled up and did not resist at all".But now the reality is that the White Walkers have mastered the means of defense against humans. At this moment, under the command of their "head", the ghouls are arranged in a rather ingenious way, like a signal base station, in a honeycomb layout, and Keeping a distance not too far or too close to each other, they are rushing toward humans in a flat manner...

Seen from above, the ghouls seem to be swarming up and trying to forcefully break through the defense line with the tactics of crowds and ants, but when the defenders are full of expectations and want to kill, they will find that no matter whether it is a dragon crystal Arrows are still rockets, and they can only hit two or three out of ten shots. Although the wild fire pot can ignite a flame after it bursts, the cold weather and snow on the ground greatly weaken the power of the fire attack... The wild fire can only be ignited and splashed. The few unlucky ghouls who arrived, many ghouls who were knocked down by the air wave rolled on the snow slope and stood up again, even the few ghouls who turned into pillars of fire and could not be saved would consciously shrink back Avoid obstructing the movement of surrounding ghouls where you fell.

Not to mention, the rest of the ghouls who were lucky enough not to be burned would retreat in a large circle as if they were conscious, and even the ghouls attacking from behind would cleverly avoid the large group of flames.There is no way to easily form the spectacular scene of "burning a large area and forming a sea of ​​​​fire to intercept the enemy" as imagined!

Where the wildfire landed, the ghouls' attack was temporarily contained, while in other places, they still poured in like a flood that broke a bank, rolling up against gravity, like slow-moving waves, slowly and steadily climbing towards the mountain road, Stepping over the seniors who were shot down by the dragon crystal arrows, bypassing the ignited fireball, and pushing to the defensive mountain road on the south slope of the mountain without hesitation.

The defenders are indeed killing and wounding ghouls in large numbers, but unfortunately - not enough, and not fast enough!

Facing the approaching ghouls, the soldiers instinctively wanted to continue throwing a large number of wildfires, but the commander in this section resolutely prohibited such behaviors of drinking poison to quench thirst. Although this weapon has a good killing effect, it only has a few fires per person on average. Cans, if you don’t use them sparingly, you can throw them all out in a minute.

Unable to maintain full firepower, the ghouls continued to climb up unceremoniously. Although there were no casualties on the living side, the fear had already begun to spread. In the lungs, it seems to be coded into the command of the officer and transmitted by sound in the breathing of the surrounding robes... quietly sneaked into the skull, and whispered in the back of the head with the tiniest volume