"It's time! Send the order for the watch troops to start blocking the enemy!"
While commanding his infantry regiments to retreat in an orderly manner, Earl Rickard tried his best to observe the situation in the heavy rain. As soon as he saw the wooden wall collapse, he immediately issued the order with the loudest roar.
After receiving the order, hundreds of elite infantrymen wearing heavy armor and holding sledgehammers, nearly seven feet tall (approximately 2.13 meters) and extremely burly, quickly came to stand behind the rear shield soldiers and stood in formation.
Seeing the large number of ghoul soldiers rushing towards them, they quickly took out a wooden tube of medicine from their arms, pulled out the cork and drank it without hesitation.
Winter, winter, winter!
The potion took effect quickly, and dull heartbeats rang out. The bodies of these hundreds of already tall and burly elite infantrymen swelled once again, and they had already somewhat caught up with the inhuman body shape of the Magic Mountain.
Looking at the bloodshot eyes of the elite soldiers, and the exposed pale skin covered with thick blood vessels, anyone familiar with them can understand that they are drinking a weakened version of the violent potion.
Qyburn and his Furious Potion were gifts brought to Robb by Brynden and Edmure when they went to King's Landing for the coronation ceremony.
After receiving the raven letter from Clay from King's Landing, Brynden, who had been on the defensive, immediately ordered Earl Tytos to lead the infantry unit, and Little Jon and Eddard to lead the cavalry unit to stop the Bannerless Uprising who fled north.
military.
Without Berry and Soros, these flagless rebels would be no match for them. As soon as these defeated soldiers saw them, they directly threw Cobain and other logistics troops as bait, and took the opportunity to flee in panic.
Qyburn, who was captured at Harrenhal, took the initiative to tell the interrogating officer about his research results in order to show his importance.
The officer had seen the violent gestures of the Hands of Holy Fire members on the battlefield, so he reported it to Brynden very seriously.
Later, Brynden, who understood the importance of Qyburn, met up with Edmure, who came after hearing the news, and took him and his research materials and other items south to King's Landing.
These hundreds of people were the elite soldiers with the best height and build who were selected by Lord Rickard after Robb met with Qyburn from the nearly 40,000 troops left in King's Landing.
Count Rickard didn't know why His Majesty named them the strange watch force. He only remembered that His Majesty said with a smile after hearing the guy who was deprived of his bachelor's qualifications talk about the effects of the violent potion,
"Interesting, isn't this another version of 'You have been strengthened, go and deliver!'? Then, let's call them the Watch Troops!"
Back to business!
A large number of ghoul soldiers who broke through the wooden wall aimed directly at the overflowing watch troops with very clear targets.
And these little giant-like watch soldiers are like a strong flood control dam, firmly blocking the tide of ghoul soldiers.
Clang, clang!
Bangcha, bangcha!
The rusty weapons in the hands of the ghoul soldiers struck the soldiers of the watch force, making loud impact sounds, but they were unable to break through the defense of the refined heavy armor.
However, the sledgehammers kept swinging in the hands of the watch soldiers could smash several ghoul soldiers to pieces every time.
With the watch troops intoxicated by the Furious Potion behind them, Count Rickard's troops successfully joined Robb's troops to help them defend against the army of ghouls mixed with humans and animals coming from the direction of the cliff.
With their addition, Roberton, who is responsible for most of the post-break tasks, feels that the pressure has been greatly reduced.
So while he commanded the entire army to maintain a defensive formation and retreat to the bay, he also asked the freed wolf guards to go to meet the guarding troops.
Peng, Peng, Peng!
Bah, bah!
Weir quickly rushed to the vicinity of the watch force with his highly mobile Wolf Guards, and threw out all the fruits in his ring-shaped fruit sac.
For a moment, among the army of corpses surrounding the watch force, there were both orange flames exploding from exploding fruits and sharp ice spikes condensed from ice crystal fruits.
It is worth mentioning that I don’t know if it was due to the heavy rain in the sky. This time, the ice spike effect of the ice crystal fruit was obviously better than usual.
Because they can share the field of view, Robb, who was observing the two battlefields at the same time as Bloodwind, also discovered this.
With the fruits thrown by the wolf guards to relieve the siege, most of the soldiers who were left with reason to guard the troops cleared the ghoul soldiers in front with two hammers and prepared to retreat.
The few soldiers in the watch force who were excited to fight were originally unwilling to leave, but after being slapped hard by other soldiers and regaining consciousness, they began to retreat.
Although the soldiers of the watch force were armed with sledgehammers and wearing heavy armor, their retreat speed was not slow at all. The ghoul soldiers who were blocked a step too late could not catch up with them at all.
In front of the frozen river bend of Hardhome, the soldiers of the watch force successfully reunited with Robb's headquarters.
The ghoul soldiers on both sides also gathered together, and they rushed forward in a fan-shaped formation in front of Robb and others to attack the defensive formation.
Robb, who returned to Bloodwind's head, saw that the time had come. After putting the ice back into the scabbard, he opened his hands to the sky in front of him.
In Robb's original plan, he would use up all his remaining magic power to form a thick wall of ice to block the enemy when he retreated, and they took the opportunity to board the ship.
But just now Robb discovered that the Night King and the wight warriors could easily break the ice crystals he condensed with magic, so the ice wall's role in blocking the enemy would become very small.
After accidentally seeing the explosion effect of the ice crystal fruits thrown by the Wolf Guards, Robb had an idea in his mind and thought of how to take advantage of the heavy rain controlled by the Night King.
I saw two streams of white ice mist as thick as buckets violently spraying out from Robb's hands toward the sky.
Moreover, Robb's left and right hands continued to cross each other, so that these two streams of white ice mist did not spray to one or two places, but filled the sky in front of him.
More and more white ice fog gradually gathered under the gray clouds with heavy rain, just like forming a new white cloud layer.
Congeal!
Feeling that the remaining magic power had been exhausted, Robb immediately thought, and the white clouds in the sky in front of him immediately changed according to his thoughts.
Rest, rest, rest!
After the heavy rain splashed by the gray clouds was absorbed and condensed by the white clouds, half-meter-long ice strands suddenly fell from the sky.
Bah, bah, bah!
Bangcha, bangcha!
I saw a dense rain of ice suddenly falling right in front of the defensive formation that was retreating to the river bend.
These hard ice edges that fell from a high altitude and were strengthened by Robb's magic instantly shattered the ghoul soldiers directly in front of them. Some of the ghoul soldiers who were lucky enough not to be broken into pieces were also pierced through their bodies and unable to move.
The White Walker generals hiding in the army of zombies can certainly use the blue light in their hands to shatter these ice edges, but these ice edges continue to fall down, and they can only stand in place, unable to move.
In this way, an isolation zone was forcibly drawn between humans and ghouls by the icy rain falling from the sky.
"Let's go now!"
When Jon and others saw that Robb was using his might to stop the wight army, they immediately shouted loudly for everyone on their side to flee along the frozen sea towards the distant Redwyne fleet.
The Night King, who had already jumped off the cliff on horseback at some point, looked up at the sky, then casually raised his hand, and the heavy rain splashed by the gray clouds gradually became smaller, and finally snowflakes began to fall again.
The white clouds were unable to absorb the rain from the gray clouds, and continued to forcibly gather a burst of icy rain before dissipating directly into the air.
Kakaka!
After the icy rain stopped, the tidal army of ghouls continued to pursue Robb and others on the ice.
Blah, blah!
Robb, who had already run to the ice not far from Redwyne's fleet, saw the situation behind him and immediately thought about it.
The ice surface more than ten meters away from the shore of Hardship suddenly dissipated, and a large number of ghoul soldiers who stepped on the ice or failed to stop in time fell into the sea like dumplings.
Even though many ghoul soldiers were eliminated by Robb and others, there are still countless ghoul soldiers on the shore of Hardhome at this moment, staring at them quietly with ice blue eyes, which is very penetrating.
Da da da!
The Night King rode a corpse horse and stepped forward from the ghoul soldiers who separated automatically, and his eyes met again with Robb's eyes, who stood above Bloodwind and looked back.
At this moment, there seemed to be an invisible spark rubbing and colliding between them.
As if he noticed something, the Night King suddenly looked back towards the cliff where he was just now, and saw a black figure quickly disappearing into the wind and snow.
After Robb and others dispersed onto nearly a hundred battleships of the Redwyne fleet, they declared that the rescue operation for Jon and the free people was a great success.
Robb had ordered the Redwyne fleet to clear out all soldiers except the necessary crew members in advance for this rescue. With the addition of dozens of temporarily added barges, it was relatively easy to carry the tens of thousands of free people.
On the Queen of the Arbor, Earl Paxter ordered the crew to leave the sea quickly with a livid face.
Although he did not get off the boat to face the army of zombies like Count Rickard, he was frightened just by seeing their terrifying appearance and number from a distance.
"Robb, do you think the Wall can stop them?"
Jon, who was standing behind Robb, pushed back his wet hair and asked.
"Of course we can stop them, if... the Great Wall doesn't collapse!"
Robb didn't look back when he heard Jon's question, he just looked at the coast of Hardhome getting further and further away and replied quietly.
"The Great Wall collapsed? No, Mance said he would leave the Horn of Winter to the Night Watch for safekeeping after returning this time."
When Jon heard this, he immediately shook his head and said in a positive tone.
"Horn of Winter? Just in time, I'll go to Castle Black with you this time."
"Okay! By the way, in the final battle just now, I hacked to death a strange white corpse.
Not only does it give me a different feeling from other corpses, but its whole body is also broken into ice slag!"
Hearing that Robb wanted to go back to Castle Black with him, Jon nodded and then suddenly changed the topic to the wights.
"The one you hacked to death was a White Walker, and so were those riding corpse horses. And it wasn't 'it' but 'him'!"
Of course Robb understood what he wanted to express, so he corrected his mistakes in wording.
"Robb, what you mean by this is that those wights riding corpse horses are not because they still have the instinct of life.
But because they are intelligent White Walkers?"
Jon's understanding ability is still very good, and he instantly understood what Robb wanted to express.
"Yes! Those astonishingly numerous but unintelligent corpses are just their weapons.
According to my own understanding of the White Walkers, they should be intelligent humanoid magical creatures. And they also have strict hierarchies.
The one you killed, without armor or any emblem, and covered in snowy white, should be an ordinary White Walker.
The one I just killed was wearing armor and had a circular emblem under his neck. He should be a general from the White Walkers.
And if we shoot each other with ice spears, the guy with the ice crown on his head and the black emblem of a circle and an inverted triangle on his neck should be the king of the White Walkers!"
Through Jon's inquiry, Robb took the opportunity to popularize the knowledge he had summarized about the White Walkers.
"Hiss! Fortunately you came this time, otherwise I would have become one of those many corpses!
Do you know anything else about them? Tell me everything!"
"They are afraid of weapons made of Valyrian steel and weapons made of obsidian... well, what you call dragonglass weapons.
They can resurrect the corpses of people and animals, and they also have a special magic that I haven't figured out yet.
But fortunately they don't have the ability to condense ice crystals over a large area, otherwise we wouldn't be able to leave this time..."
On the deck of the Queen of the Arbor, Robb told Jon the relevant information without reservation. The Redwyne fleet carried tens of thousands of free people and looked south towards the East China Sea.
…
Outside Castle Black, somewhere in a mountain valley.
The wildling team led by Tormund and Jegocentt and the Thenn team led by Stygian have converged and are discussing an attack plan together.
"After our survey, all the abandoned castles on the Great Wall, all the way to the easternmost location of East Sea, are now guarded by at least dozens of soldiers."
Sidi, who was tall and thin, with a bald head and no beard, stroked his axe, and spoke about his investigation.
"The situation is the same here. All the abandoned castles in the west have manpower stationed.
As soon as we launch an attack, they will send out a signal and then surround us with sheer numbers.
We have to wait for the opportunity, and at the same time think carefully about how to attack the city!"
'Giant Bane' Tormund heard Sti's report and replied with some worry.
“It’s been almost a month since the last fire started in Mance!
I listened to your stupid suggestion and went to investigate all the abandoned castles, and now you actually say that I still want to wait?
Now listen to me, tonight we will rush directly into Castle Black and open the tunnel door.
As long as we allow other free people to enter the tunnel, with the number of our free people, these thousands of them are no match at all."
Hearing that Tormund continued to wait by himself, the grumpy Stid immediately stood up and yelled angrily.
"Your voice is too quiet, you need to be louder to be heard by the crows in Castle Black!
Humph, Thenns are a bunch of yelling bitches!"
The flaming red-haired Jegosint was silently sharpening an arrow, but after hearing Steve's roar, he frowned and sarcastically said.
"Bitch? Haha, whoever lets go of his crow lover is a bitch!"
After hearing this, Sidi laughed angrily, stared at Ye Gexinte beside him, and directly opened his mouth to poke at the pain in her heart.
"you!"
When Yegoxinte heard this, she immediately became furious as expected. She directly opened her bow and pointed an arrow at Sidi.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
When a dozen Thenns on the side saw their Magnar (leader) being pointed at by Jegosint with a weapon, they immediately stood up with fierce expressions on their faces, as if they were about to start fighting.
The wildlings on Tormund's side were not to be outdone, and all stood up and took out weapons to confront them.
At this time, a shapeshifter next to him whose eyes were completely occupied by white, Oriel suddenly regained consciousness.
He spoke urgently to the two opposing parties: "A group of countless soldiers came from the direction of Eastwatch, including crows and soldiers who used the direwolf symbol like the soldiers guarding Castle Black.
My eagle was killed by an enemy standing on top of a giant wolf, and he was heading in our direction very fast!"