The king on the Great Wall

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The last time I saw the Night King for the first time, Iger pushed him to save his life. This time, the witch will not make the same mistake again. She grabbed the man next to her and dragged him who understood the seriousness of the matter and was very cooperative. He lowered his body and hid behind the battlements and a row of shield-raising soldiers, and then... With a loud bang, the enemy's attack hit the battlements, knocking a whole stone pile tens of centimeters thick from the city wall. The top cracked, knocking down the nearest shield-raising soldier, and the splashed gravel also hit other nearby shields, making a crackling sound.

The scene seemed to be bombarded by small-caliber artillery. If there were no battlements to block this attack, Iger had no doubt that this attack would be able to penetrate the shield-raised soldiers even with their shields and still have the strength to kill himself.But he didn't have time to feel the power of the enemy's attack, and he didn't have time to investigate whether the enemy's attack was aimed at Melisandre or himself, so he immediately asked loudly, "Where is it!?"

"A little bit north of your second arrow, but... damn it, a thousand feet away!" Melisandre replied in a loud voice of despair.

A thousand feet away, more than 300 meters, indeed far beyond the range of any wooden bow of this era.However, Iger invested a lot of material resources to purchase and imitate high-performance trebuchets, and ordered the operators to use accuracy as the main range in training, and even specially held a skill competition to test their training level. Insufficient, need to snipe the enemy from a longer distance" and prepare for this moment?

The ineffectiveness of Dragon Crystal's ability to kill the enemy almost made this series of arrangements a waste of water, but now, the two "Dragon Steel Explosive Bombs" will be the last time that the elite "artillerymen" of Houguan Town will use their light and heat to create The opportunity of history.After Iger asked Bran about the location of the Night King, the people who brought him to this section of the fence included the two sharpshooters Angay and Theon, and the best two groups of trebuchet pitchers in the whole land!

"The trebuchet, prepare the Longsteel explosive bomb, the distance is [-] feet, cut the lead wire short!"

"In place, ready!"

Before he had time to explain to Melisandre, Iger pulled out the third Lightbringer and approached her again: "Enchanting!"

The unquestionable tone made the red-robed woman obey the order subconsciously, and another glaring light shone on the top of the wall, and Iger aimed at the direction Melisandre had reported before, and shot it without delay.

The magic flare once again illuminated the enemy army outside the wall in the northwest direction of Houguan Town. It can be clearly seen that the wave of ghouls that had been standing still outside the flames, at the same time that the Night King launched an attack on the wall, was like an ant colony. Ban rushed towards Hou Guanzhen desperately.

"Is it this direction?!"

Melisandre was also so nervous that she almost stammered at this moment: "Basically...almost!"

"Aim at the direction where this arrow lands, and fire it!"

Thousands of times of training have made the operators of the trebuchet machine proficient. Two fuzes that were cut short so that they were expected to explode in the air were lit by torches. The shape and size are the same as the dragon crystal bomb, only the limited edition spherical weapon with different contents flew out, chasing the Lightbringer who had landed in front.

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Chapter 435 An Incomplete Victory

Thanks to the Lightbringer nailed to a ghoul's shoulder blade that was still shining, the Night King, who already had strong night vision, had a panoramic view of the two bombs that flew in from the sky.Being prepared for this, he glanced at it contemptuously, took some magic power to strengthen the ice armor that had already been condensed on the surface, and then ignored it—while continuing to control the army of ghouls to cross the sea of ​​flames, he contacted those already trapped in the city. The eight of them...Damn it, they have become seven subordinates in a short time, let them try to break out of the encirclement while they are attracting the attention of humans.

At the same time, he even grabbed the second stone—even if he couldn't kill it accurately, he could still scare the two key figures on the living side and attract their attention.

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Due to the limitations of the times and technical level, it is destined to be just a good wish to let the bomb explode above the Night King's head by using the two operations of aiming at the catapult and controlling the length of the lead wire to affect the timing of the explosion.Two bombs, one projected with less power, fell into the ghouls, bounced on the frozen ground before exploding a hundred feet away from the Night King, and the other missed a little bit and flew high above the Night King However, it exploded a few tenths of a second later.

An imperfect bombing, but hundreds of fragments of different shapes recast with twenty dragon steel arrowheads from "Brightbringer · 31" ~ "Brightbringer · Fifty", under the influence of gunpowder combustion and detonation Under the impetus, they gave full play to their own advantages in numbers, and the goddess scattered flowers to cover the two spherical spaces with a radius of more than 30 meters. Even with such poor accuracy, a small part of them still flew in the direction of the Night King. .

Amidst the rain of dragon steel fragments falling profusely and a crisp creaking sound, the Night King suddenly lost contact with another priest under him.

I thought it was one of the seven priests who were still in the city and was shot and killed by the restraint artifact, but the next moment I remembered that the priest who suddenly "broke off the Internet" was standing behind me... and the ice armor was condensed. It is right to resist the dragon crystal fragments.

It was too late to feel that something was wrong, a small and sharp object had already penetrated the hard shell of the body surface and entered the body from the middle left of the back, and exploded suddenly.

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Of course, the dragon steel fragments do not have the magical function of secondary explosion. The "explosion" in the body felt by the Night King is actually the high-density, high-purity fire attribute magic power contained in the dragon steel. The strong effect of annihilation... Under the intense magic power conflict and neutralization reaction, the massive magic power in the body that was originally running in an orderly manner instantly spread out a shock wave centered on the injured point.

The Night King, who was still strategizing and manipulating tens of thousands of ghouls to cross the firewall to launch a cover attack on Houguan Town one second, came to the end of his life the next moment.

Just like when talking about the toxicity of a certain substance in the human world, you usually have to bring a dose, so weapons with magical powers such as dragon crystal and dragon steel can't let go of the "dose" talk about killing ghosts and ghosts.

Since the body is a complete entity, all kinds of attack methods can be effective against ghouls, but only by dispelling or neutralizing all or at least most of the cold magic power in their bodies can the effect of instantly turning them back into corpses be achieved... Fortunately, since the cold magic power in the ghoul's body is only a small wisp as thin as a gossamer, the whole of a small wisp is still a small wisp.Human beings often find in actual combat that no matter what size dragon crystal or dragon steel weapons are, they can easily kill them. The magic power also exceeds the cold magic power contained in ordinary ghouls.

This is not the case with the White Walkers: since their bodies are almost entirely condensed by magic power, the physical part has only a shell. While they are highly immune to magic, they have extremely poor resistance to magic penetration damage.As long as the body is invaded by fire-attribute magic power equivalent to a few percent of its own total magic power, the functions of the entire body of ice will be completely disrupted, and it will lead to irreversible death without external help...

And even in death, as the dose of fire-attribute magic power continues to increase after crossing the lethal line, their wounded manifestations will gradually intensify: when the attack intensity breaks through a threshold of about one-tenth of the total magic power in their bodies, the White Walkers It may be killed in seconds, and if it is added to a higher level, it will even evolve into a spectacular scene such as bursting and instant gasification.

Back then, if the obsidian dagger in Iger's hand had been smaller or poorer in color, he might not have been able to kill the White Walker... On the contrary, the White Walker shot by the dragon steel arrow was the most tragic death without any suspense .

Dragon steel is already extremely light, and the fragments in each bomb are cast from ten arrowheads. A hundred grams of dragon steel has to be divided into two to three hundred fragments. On average, each fragment is less than the top of a thumbtack. The size and thickness of the cap - precisely because the lethality has been reduced to the extreme with the reduction in size, the Night King who was hit did not dissipate into the air with a puff like being shot by the "Lightbringer".

But even so, the situation is still not optimistic: Targaryen, as one of the exclusive weapons of the Dragon King family, uses a high-spec version of dragon steel with such a huge energy that even if it is divided into pieces, it is only a small piece of fingernail. The magic power contained in the block also exceeded the kill line!

Roaring with a sharp sound like a glacier breaking, the "host" of the Night King instantly disconnected from all the ghouls it directly controlled.He tried his best to maintain the connection with the other priests, and threw down the second stone he was about to throw. With his right hand palmed together, he stabbed hard into his left chest. With great perseverance and intuition, he threw the stone The dragon steel fragment that had penetrated into his back was pulled out abruptly, and he threw it on the ground with his hands!

Through this self-mutilation operation, he successfully resolved the crisis that would melt and dissipate in the next second, but the large hole dug out from the shoulder blade to the middle of the chest hissed out the gasified pure cold magic power, covering the The ice armor on the body also instantly showed countless spider web cracks, and the existence of the whole body became unstable.

As a magical body, there is nothing to be afraid of breaking a hole: as long as the magic power is enough, it can be plugged and grow back in minutes... But the problem the Night King is facing now is: that small piece of dragon steel fragment is not only forcing it A hole was opened in his body, and the huge energy he had released the moment he stayed in his body for a short time also disrupted and destroyed the magic operation of his entire upper body, making his supposedly powerful self-healing ability completely abolished !

Among the five priests who accompanied the Night King to watch the battle, one was ruthlessly torn apart by dragon steel fragments and killed, and the remaining four immediately surrounded him to support the Night King who was about to fall, and desperately instilled Magic, trying to rescue their leader.

The Night King is the center of the radiating magic network of the priests of the cold god. If he dies suddenly, the other priests will not be spared either!

Theoretically speaking, as long as the magic life is not killed in seconds, it can be forcibly continued with a large amount of magic power infusion until the physical condition is stable and it can start to heal itself.It's a pity that now is not a good time to bask in the power of the cold god outside the Great Wall. The priests who still have enough magic power were all sent to Houguan Town to carry out combat missions. Priests in a weak state who have exhausted their mana during the attack on the Shadow Tower or Sentinel Tower, how can they have enough mana to sustain the Night King until he recovers?

But the victim who had gasified and dissipated as the source of magic power provided them with inspiration: Although there was not much surplus magic power at their disposal, the magic power that made up their bodies was still considerable.

As long as one or two priests voluntarily give up their lives and take the initiative to decompose and dissipate their bodies to provide magic power, they still have the hope of making a comeback!

At the moment when the four priests began to discuss in what order to change their lives, the Night King grabbed the arm of one of the priests and shook his head to deny the plan.

He knows the severity of his injuries, and the efficiency of decomposing the body to transfer magic power cannot reach 100%. It is difficult for the lives of one or two priests to replace him who is intact. If this is the case, it is better to seize the last moment. Hand over the leadership and control of the entire Hanshen Internet to another priest, and create a new high priest, lest everyone be buried with him!

The surging and turbulent flow of magic power and information flowed into the body of the most powerful cold god priest present through his bone-like pale hands, and the body of the Night King also shrank and melted with smoke, and finally with a soft sound like a leak, Nearly half of the strength and all the knowledge, memory and authority of the previous High Priest of the Cold God were passed on to the next one.

And the first order of the next Night King after completing his identity transformation was to completely abandon the attack on Houguan Town, and quickly retreat into the darkness of the land-grant wilderness with the remaining army of ghouls.

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Chapter 436 Weakness

In the heavy snow of goose feathers, two small sparks flashed in the darkness a thousand feet away, and as the sound of the explosion came back to the ears of the crowd on the wall a second later, the tide of corpses that suddenly began to pour into the sea of ​​flames was also there. In an instant, they fell down in pieces like harvested leeks, and none of them rushed to the wall to attack in the end.

In the tsunami-like cheers, for a moment, Iger was just like the simple soldiers-thinking that this short-lived, tragic and thrilling war was over.

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But Melisandre's deep voice quickly woke him up from his dream: "The Night King is dead, but the other White Walkers have not disappeared. Another aura that is a little weaker appears out of thin air in a burst of strong aura fluctuations." , and quickly hid himself, maybe his power was absorbed by another White Walker! Hurry up and use the dragon crystal to explode the bomb, maybe you can take advantage of it - kill it at the beginning of its birth!"

This suggestion was immediately implemented by the defenders, but amid the rumbling explosions, the miracle did not happen again. As the sea of ​​corpses that had shrunk by half outside the wall receded into the darkness, Iger even moved for a moment. The idea of ​​breaking open the city gate and going out... Fortunately, the scuffle that was still going on inside the wall soon made him wake up: the matter is not over yet.

Putting away his absurd heroic thoughts, Iger ordered half of the defenders of the wall to stay and continue to guard and put out the fire, while the other half formed a team and rushed into the wall—to strangle the enemies who had already entered the city.

The officer system based on the soldiers of the Night Watchman's logistics and security team, the perfect plan, and the decisiveness that there is no way out in the last stand... let the land-grant army born out of wildlings and mountain clans display super-level combat effectiveness.But in the panic, mistakes still appeared: it is a tactical arrangement to set fire to houses and fight and retreat, but many troops used this as a basis and excuse, and often set fire to retreat when they saw ghosts, taking advantage of the dense residential area in the outer city of Houguan Town The depth of architecture and space "exchanged space for casualties". Although the casualties of soldiers were slightly reduced, the consequence was that the outer city of Houguan Town suffered a lot of self-inflicted and insignificant damage, and even affected women and children who had no time to evacuate. .

The former land-grant capital is now full of raging flames, and the scene is as messy as if it was plowed by incendiary bombs by the bombers of the rice army. The hunting team marched, and the battle was not smooth... In the end, only three of the eight alien ghosts that entered Houguan Town were successfully killed. Under the watchful eyes of the defenders who were not equipped with dragon steel arrows and were helpless with them, they escaped from this terrifying "dead place".

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A big victory, devastated.

Ghouls and White Walkers died, escaped and fell clean, leaving only a big mess for humans.

According to preliminary post-war statistics, the Houguan guards suffered more than 700 casualties, including more than a dozen giants, and more than a thousand civilians were missing and dead. Countless, this kind of oolong just makes people feel terrible.Fortunately—the industrial area separated from the residential area did not suffer too much damage, and the important personnel on the list did not have any major accidents in the heavily protected inner castle of Houguan Town. This is considered a bloody battle The few good news.

It took the surviving soldiers and civilians the rest of the night to extinguish the fire, surround and annihilate the sporadic ghouls remaining in the wall, and clean up the burned ruins of the battlefield. Until the sun lit up the cloud-covered sky again on the third day of the White Walker's attack, guarding Under the order, Juncai carefully dismantled the fortifications blocking the gate, and began to carefully deal with the tens of thousands of ghouls that were burned all over the mountains and plains outside the wall... well, to be more precise, dead ghosts.

Of course, there was something that made Iger feel terrified in cold sweat: Miss Stark, who had learned a little swordsmanship and thought she was very powerful, had been arguing before the battle that she would help kill the aliens, but he relentlessly refused and locked her up. After staying in the inner fort, she actually started to think about her own actions - last night, taking advantage of the messengers and dispatched people in the inner fort, all the personnel were at the door or on the wall to watch out for the changes in the battle situation, and no one cared about her At that moment, he quietly ran to release Asha Greyjoy, who had been left unattended for the time being, and released the shackles. Two ladies, one big and one young, disguised themselves and mixed in with the soldiers sent out to help in the inner castle, trying to Find your way to the wall to join the battle.

They got their wish and met the ghouls who had broken through into the city. After a frightening encounter, it wasn't until the leader of the team led everyone back to the inner castle that they discovered that the two girls had mixed into the team. .

Fortunately, the arrangement of swallowing the dragon crystal worked, curbing the cost of the white ghosts rioting in the outer city and overwhelming the balance of victory. Otherwise, Asha deserved her death, and Arya would have won the battle in Houguan Town. What happened, Iger really didn't know how to explain to the guardian of the northern border.

Sternly scolding the brat who didn't know what to do, the soldiers who reported the situation on the battlefield outside the city pushed open the door and entered.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the rangers have completed the first round of reconnaissance and estimation. Judging from the traces of the march in the snow, the number of enemies still remaining is between [-] and [-]. They are heading south along the King's Road at the moment, at least ten thousand miles away!"

"What!" Iger suppressed his shocked expression, "Go south along the King's Road?"

"Ha!" Arya, who stood obediently and was trained for a while, regained her spirits, "You won't let me take the night watchman's job, then now that the White Walkers are going to the north, you can't stop me ——Protect your own homeland!"

"Shut up!" Iger glared at the girl, and shouted at the guard at the door, "Take Miss Stark down, and tell those friends in Winterfell—their efforts to defend Houcrown Town last night are unpleasant I will pretend that the incident never happened, and if they want to look down on my young lady again, I will report to their lord!"

Arya screamed and was pulled out of the door. Iger withdrew his mind and asked the soldier who reported the message again seriously: "Are you sure that the dead are heading south along the King's Road?"

"The rangers followed the footprints to the south for a few miles, but didn't see any signs of turning around or turning, so they sent their subordinates to report back first."

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Damn, it really sucks.

After such a fiasco where even the leader was killed, how could the ghosts still have the courage to continue going south?

According to common sense deduction: the strong side took the initiative to invade the enemy's territory but was hit head-on, causing the balance of strength to be reversed. It is reasonable and reasonable to withdraw to their home court to take a breather. Xu Tu's plan is... For the ghosts, The so-called home field is nothing more than the north of the Great Wall.If they have a plan to retreat beyond the Great Wall—whether they pass through the Grand Canyon or still detour through the frozen Seal Bay, the night watchmen will definitely get out of the way, watch them go away, and will never entangle them in the slightest.

It's not that Iger wants to go back to the mountain, but the fact is: the night watchman has also exhausted his courage and combat readiness after going through this battle. He barely won with the city wall and luck, and there is no field battle to stop the enemy from returning home. strength.Using the mental victory method to think about the benefits, once the enemy who has lost his troops and lost his vitality returns to the outside of the Great Wall, no matter how he recovers, he will not be able to make a comeback in a short time. Now that Houguan Town can raise the "Kou" for self-respect, Iger can use the excuse of "there are still other ghosts that have not been eliminated" to continue to demand supplies and food, expand armaments, and practice day and night, so as to become the most advanced card in the upper reaches of power in the future. Table cumulative chips.

However, the remaining strange ghosts do not know if they also have the overlord complex of "no face to see the elders in Saibei". Under such hopeless circumstances, they still go forward bravely, continuing to penetrate into the human territory like a stunned young man...

What's terrible is that the army of ghouls has no logistical supply line to be cut off, and is not afraid of being attacked from the front or back, so it is not affected by various unfavorable factors that the solitary army goes deep into.

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The Night's Watch did provide some dragonglass weapons to the northern lords before, and taught them how to use them, to show their gratitude to the former for their long-term assistance.But those gifts of symbolic magnitude are not so much combat preparations as samples and amulets for peace of mind-it is barely enough for the guards of each castle to equip one, but after casting it, even the residents share one Swallowing is not enough, not to mention, the plan formulated by the Night Watchman Command cannot control the northern nobles who are loyal to the Stark family.

The people in the northern border were not prepared to deal with the ghosts at all. If they rushed to the battle, they would only go to the tiger's mouth and become a good source for the ghosts to obtain ghouls.How much preparedness and soldiers will the Night's Watch have to fight Armageddon again and again if the enemy is allowed to recover from it?

"Send a letter to each family in the northern border, informing every nobleman of our battle process and the key to victory, and ask them to prepare asphalt for fire, and emphasize that they need to rely on the castle to stand firm and wait for help!" The crow's nest administrator happened to be at In the room, Iger immediately gave him an order, "The Great Wall is not broken. The enemy has used magic over and over again. The magic power must have been exhausted. As long as you don't leave the city to die, let the dead army recover too much. When the queen comes back riding a dragon to help out, we will go south again." If you clear the siege and save the field, you will be sure!"

"My lord, the Ravens came to Winterfell yesterday afternoon. You were busy arranging the city defense and you probably didn't notice it - the Stark family has already issued a general mobilization order to the entire northern territory. Most of the armies have already been assembled by now. On the way to the Great Wall."

What?Iger opened his mouth, remembering this - he had seen the letter, but he didn't open it to read it.Yesterday, an army of ghouls appeared outside Houguan Town in a mighty manner. They formed an encirclement circle, and the atmosphere was so depressing that it was suffocating. How could he care about the actions of the northern border when he could not protect himself?

The northern section of King's Road, which has been renovated with great effort, has provided great transportation convenience for both the enemy and us. Now, a human army with no wildfires, no explosive bombs, no dragon steel, and only a small amount of dragon crystal weapons is on its way north. The remnants of the army of ghouls that were routed to the south meet head-on... Should the land sit and watch the enemy annihilate the coalition forces and turn the princes of the northern border into ghouls, or grit their teeth and take a risky attack while their own strength is damaged, trying to complete their achievements in one battle?

Soon, Iger realized that he had no choice at all: take advantage of the victory to pursue, even though it is dangerous, there is still a chance of winning... But if the enemy is allowed to ravage the northern border, kill tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of ghouls and turn around, everyone will undoubtedly die !

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Chapter 437

The miraculous meritorious service of the two Longsteel bombs allowed the duration of the battle of Houguan Town to be described as short. Whether it was Wildfire, Dragon Crystal or ordinary bombs, they could still support one or two moderate-intensity battles. In battle, the only thing to pay attention to is the number of Lightbringers and soldiers that can be dispatched.

It is idiotic to reclaim the dragonsteel fragments scattered in the snow and among the corpses of the ghouls, but those still intact Lightbringers can be found because the shafts of the arrows are gold-coated and their shapes are completely different from ordinary arrows.Due to practical difficulties such as fire and chaos, the soldiers only got together nineteen arrows after a rough search, including the six made of ordinary tile steel that were still kept in unoccupied fortresses along the Great Wall. several.In the end, the Night's Watch had more than 30 weapons that could be used directly against the White Walkers.

In the battle of city defense, lightly wounded, half-grown teenagers, stronger middle-aged and young women, and even giants with limited mobility can participate in the battle, but if they want to take the initiative to attack, they must be completely healthy, strong, and have undergone military training. Only adult humans who can clearly understand tactical commands are competent.Even if the conditions are slightly relaxed and the threshold is lowered in the actual review, there are only a little over [-] people left in the entire Houguan Town who can meet the requirements. Considering the enemy's possible killing of the carbine and the basic security and stability of the town, a certain number must be left. Reliable people can only use three thousand in the end.

Fortunately, [-] troops can be collected from the remaining fortresses along the Great Wall. In total, Iger's available troops for this Southern Expedition pursuit battle can reach about [-].

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Logically speaking, it is the safest plan for the queen to ride her dragon back to the gifted land after the troops along the Great Wall come to meet up, but the remaining ghouls and ghosts are waiting for no one, and Daenerys' three dragons cannot carry them. Thousands of soldiers.Every moment that dragged on, the enemy moved an inch further from Houcrown, and closer to the densely populated heartland of the North—the less hope of stopping the White Walkers before they could kill civilians to replenish themselves.The large army of Houguan Town set off immediately with their combat preparations and supplies, and asked the small groups of soldiers from all over the Great Wall to chase after them, and let the flying queen find them to meet them.

Mobilize all the remaining animal power in Houguan Town to transport combat preparations and food, and send a message to the fortresses along the Great Wall to immediately send elite troops to gather the remaining dragon steel arrows and go south along the King's Road. The soldiers of the remaining White Walkers gathered in the snow outside the east gate and began to gather the whole team.

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What are the disadvantages of those who accept "heroes" and "children of prophecy"?

If the odds and ends are not counted, there is probably only one undisputed one: When the real disaster comes, the hero must stand up and bear it with gritted teeth—whether he can bear it or not.

As the commander-in-chief of the Night Watch Corps and the land-grant master, Iger can send people to patrol the north of the Great Wall, go to Seal Bay to de-ice, go to the Grand Canyon to survive the freezing, and even go to Ice Bay to help the North build ships... Relying on his huge fame and Prestige, any orders he issued, any ideas and plans produced, can be conveyed, implemented, put into practice, and transformed into reality with twice the result with half the effort.

But it is impossible for him to let others perform the finale of guarding Houguan Town and chasing the remaining White Walkers.

These are not trivial chores, but the principled difference between "follow me" and "follow me"!

If he had also stayed in the inner fort to command remotely during the defense of Houguan Town last night, it would be impossible for the defenders with varying qualities and discord to display super-level combat effectiveness; The general is responsible instead of personally leading... Whether the selected soldiers are willing to "send to death" obediently is a difficult problem, even if they win-it is not his credit.Once people start to ask: "What did you, the son of prophecy and the legendary hero, do?", can he use the government affairs he handles, the food, grass and armaments he usually handles to answer the question?

Come out and mix, always have to pay back.

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Wearing full armor, Iger sighed helplessly in his heart, but facing the "elites" of the three thousand Houguan Town who had already crowded together, he quickly put on an awe-inspiring expression on his face, as if he was ready to die generously at any time Serious expression.

What they have to do this time is not passive defense but active attack. This is an additional content that has not been included in the plan.He had to carry out a pre-war mobilization before departure, which was necessary.

"Heroic land-grant warriors!" Iger shouted with all his strength, making sure that his voice was heard by everyone. "Last night, we worked together and won a great battle that has never been seen in human history. Repelled ten The inhuman enemies that are twice as big as ours, and killed them even more than the entire population of the land grant, gave these ghosts a hard slap in the face!"

"But today, I have to make a very difficult but necessary decision... After only a few hours of rest, I will pull you warriors to continue fighting - take the initiative to chase after the ones we repelled last night. Those ruthless enemies!"

Amid the uproar and discussion of the soldiers, Iger increased his volume again: "But what I want to emphasize is: this extremely dangerous southern expedition is not for saving or protecting anyone, but for ourselves!"

It's a waste of effort to preach the righteousness of "serving the people of Westeros" to this group of rough people who are mixed with mountain clans and people outside the Great Wall. scattered.Iger chose the most direct analysis of the interests and explained the reasons for doing so.

"Like everyone else, I am eager to hide in the walls of Houguan Town and sleep peacefully, and look forward to waking up to hear the good news that the White Walkers have been completely wiped out. Unfortunately, this is impossible Iger said in a heartbroken tone: "Those weak 'southerners' have no idea of ​​the strength of the enemy they are about to face! They are completely unprepared in terms of psychology, physiology, tactics and equipment! Although I really don't want this to be true, the fact is that - this continent and even the whole world, only we can defeat those damned ghosts!"

In a sense, this flattery, which was basically the truth, successfully aroused the pride of the soldiers, and many soldiers clapped their chests and shouted, suppressing doubts and fears.

"There are a lot of newly gifted people here. They have been fighting these monsters on the north side of the Great Wall for several years. No one knows our enemies better than you. As long as those damned demons and ghosts are not completely destroyed, even one of them will be left behind. , will only increase and increase... Today, we are greedy for a moment of security and comfort and let them go south. Tomorrow, tens of thousands of southerners will be killed by them and transformed into new enemies. Regardless of whether the corpse was alive How stupid, weak, stubborn, or incompetent, but they are all the same after being turned into the living dead! If we don’t want to wake up a few months later to find that we are overwhelmed by tens of millions of ghouls, we must bite our teeth and pursue them today , and completely defeat them!"

"This battle is neither for the glory of me, the commander-in-chief of the night watchman, nor for the great lord and the king's people in the south, but to protect ourselves and everyone's wives and children, and to ensure that our descendants still have The power to breathe and bask in the sun on this land!" Iger drew his sword and pointed to the sky, concluding his short pre-war mobilization, "The enemy wants to freeze our land, hurt our relatives, and enslave our bodies ...We will wipe them out completely, leaving no one behind!"

"Not a single one!"

"Not a single one!"

Under the leadership of the officers of the logistics department who had already blended into the crowd, soon, the soldiers on the scene took up weapons regardless of their reluctance to respond, and there was an untidy but still imposing voice outside the wall of Houguan Town. Shout out.