The collapse of the Great Wall like a natural disaster gradually stopped, except for the occasional ice fragment of different sizes falling from the cracks of the Great Wall.
Most of Castle Black was completely buried under ice and boulders, with only the two towers on the right far from the center of the collapse surviving.
Thousands of northern soldiers, night watchmen, and free people were buried alive under tens of thousands of tons of ice boulders.
Only those who reacted fastest and escaped from Castle Black at the very beginning and the four to five hundred people on the two towers on the right side of the main building were lucky enough to escape the collapse.
Hooray, hooray!
Daenerys, who had just been carried away by anger and whispers in her ears, was now looking in shock at the Great Wall of Despair that collapsed with a large gap.
After seeing the army of the dead, she realized that she seemed to be in big trouble!
Boom, boom!
Just when Daenerys was at a loss, she felt a faint vibration in her right hand holding Jon's right breast.
After being stunned for a few seconds, Daenerys took off her gloves and put them into Jon's thick clothes. This time she could clearly feel his heartbeat.
Daenerys, who was too emotional just now, did not carefully check his injuries after controlling Drogon to catch the falling Jon.
Because she used common sense to believe that Jon, who was hit by an arrow on the left side of his heart, would definitely die.
Huh? Jon is not dead! He is still breathing, and his heartbeat is on the right side!
However, he is bleeding heavily and must seek treatment from a bachelor as soon as possible!
After careful inspection, Daenerys found that Jon was still breathing and had a heartbeat. Although she didn't understand why Jon's heartbeat was on the right side of his chest, after the surprise, she immediately thought about how to save Jon.
It is definitely too late to rush back to Last Hearth, and Castle Black below is basically buried.
So riding on Drogon's back, Daenerys, with a very far field of vision, looked at a castle farther to the right of the Great Wall.
Hooray, hooray!
Watching the black dragon destroying the Great Wall flying away overhead, Sam, who was hiding in a tower on the right, immediately shouted: "Anyone who can still move, go and save people!"
Hearing his roar, hundreds of people reacted and immediately took all the equipment they could shovel and ran towards the small snow mountain ahead.
"Sam, release all the ravens! Tell everyone in the Seven Kingdoms that the Wall was destroyed by Daenerys Targaryen!"
The tower that Sam hid in in time happened to be the crow's nest and the bachelor's residence. He turned to the still trembling Sam and said.
"Uh, oh! Okay!"
After hearing this, Sam replied blankly, then staggered towards the crow's nest at the top of the tower.
Since Daenerys appears here, it means that the assassination plan with explosive fruit has failed!
Although I feel very sorry for Jon, for the great cause of His Majesty Robb, no matter how big the sacrifice is, it is worth it!
Sam looked at the back of the giant dragon flying to the east, muttered a few words to himself, and immediately participated in the rescue.
However, in the face of the collapse of the Great Wall, which was basically the same as a large avalanche, their rescue operations did not go smoothly.
Without the modern rescue detection equipment of previous generations, these hundreds of people could only rely on listening to sounds and their own judgment to carry out snow shoveling rescue.
Many people buried around and on the surface of the snow-capped mountains were quickly rescued, but for the vast majority of people who gathered in the center of Castle Black and were buried deep in the snow-capped mountains, the rescuers really had good intentions but were unable to do anything.
In the Oakenshield Castle to the east, Mance could only watch with an extremely ugly face. After being treated by the tribe's witch doctor, Jon, who was still in a coma, was carried by Daenerys to the dragon.
When Drogon first arrived at Oakenshield Castle, Mance, who heard a loud noise from the direction of Castle Black, gathered an army of free folk and prepared to rush over to check the situation.
These free people did fulfill their promise. When they saw Daenerys riding a dragon who was obviously Robb's enemy, they launched an attack without hesitation.
But in the face of Drogon's flaming dragon's breath, no matter how brave he is,
Fierce warriors are of no avail!
After trying the power of the dragon's flames, Mance chose to order everyone to surrender in order to prevent the free people from making unnecessary sacrifices.
Seeing the free people surrendering, Daenerys did not let Drogon kill too many people, and directly asked Jon to be treated.
After seeing Jon, Mance immediately summoned all the witch doctors in Oakenshield Castle without saying a word.
After cutting open the flesh and blood of the wound, taking out the arrow, and applying medicine to stop the bleeding, Jon's already rapid and weak breathing gradually returned to a steady state.
And these witch doctors, like Daenerys, were amazed that Jon's heart was on the right side.
Hooray, hooray!
The huge black dragon wings brought up strong air currents, and Drogon, carrying Daenerys and Jon, headed directly towards the City of Last Hearth.
After the dragon left, Mance once again regrouped an army of three thousand free folk and headed towards Castle Black.
Half a day later, Mance led an army of free people outside Castle Black, which was buried in ice.
After this period of rescue, the number of survivors in Castle Black has risen to more than 700.
When he saw the huge gap in the Black Castle area of the Great Wall of Despair, Mance had a look of shock and despair on his face.
After ordering his free folk soldiers to assist in the rescue, Mance immediately returned to Oakenshield Castle.
He went back this time to prepare to immediately send the remaining 60,000 to 70,000 free people south, because Mance knew that without the natural barrier of the Great Wall, the northern border would never be able to stop the army of the dead.
After more than a day of sleepless rescue, there are currently 836 people surviving in Castle Black, which has a population of nearly 5,000.
Most of the more than 300 people who were rescued later were rescued in the first half day. The further time went by, the fewer people were rescued.
Moreover, the generals of the three forces, including Owen, Ser Alliser, and Tormund, who were mainly responsible for the battle against the dragon at that time, have still been discovered to this day.
The subsequent rescue operations were still in progress, but what was dug out were mostly frozen corpses. At this time, Sam had already directed the rescuers to focus most of their attention on rummaging for Castle Black's supplies.
Sandor and Brienne, who had traveled all the way with their two children, arrived at Castle Black at this time.
Looking at Castle Black buried in snow-capped mountains of ice, Sandor and Brienne didn't know what to say for a moment.
They stumbled along the way, and accidents always happened in every town they visited, as if they were bringing bad luck to them.
hound?
Sam, who had been commanding from the remaining tower, of course saw the four Sandor men, but he had no intention of caring about them now.
The four Sandors did not interfere with Castle Black's rescue operation. They quietly found a place to rest, eating the dry food they had brought with them, and discussing where to go.
Their current dry food supplies are almost at their lowest point, and the towns along the way are basically occupied by Daenerys's army. They dare not enter the towns rashly.
The most important thing is that the three passes into and out of the North are also controlled by Daenerys' army, leaving them with nowhere to escape.
After half a day of excavation at Castle Black, in addition to a large number of corpses, a large amount of food, weapons, equipment and other supplies were unearthed in the material storage area of Castle Black.
Sam, who has been performing the duties of a bachelor, is responsible for counting and classifying these materials under Sam's command.
"...Fifty, fifty-one, fifty-one bags of wheat! Next, um, snow?"
Sam, who was doing inventory work with the pen and paper he took out from the bachelor's residence, looked at a snowflake falling on the back of his hand, looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.
I saw that a gray cloud had enveloped the area of Castle Black at some point, and snowflakes the size of fingernails began to fall continuously.
The Night's Watch and the Northern soldiers had no reaction to this scene, but some of the Free Folk soldiers remembered the snowstorm in Hardhome, and their expressions suddenly changed.
Click, click!
Suddenly, a burst of chaotic footsteps on the snow reached the ears of everyone in Castle Black.
, and the sound is getting louder and louder.
A freeman who was cleaning the ice at a high point in the gap of the Great Wall opened his eyes wide and looked at a large black shadow emerging from the woods in the distance. He immediately shouted in horror: "Ghoul, the ghoul is coming!"
"Oh my god! This is too much!"
"It's over, what should we do with such a big gap in the Great Wall?"
Various exclamations from the freedmen kept ringing out from the gap, while those Night Watchmen and Northern soldiers who once saw such an army of corpses stayed in place like wooden men.
Today was also the first time Sam saw the army of zombies. Before, he had only learned about them through written information.
But having been in a high position for a long time, he has developed a strong psychological quality. After a brief absence, Sam suppressed his distracting thoughts and immediately issued an order loudly: "The people in the gap immediately established a defensive offensive, and the others quickly went to get the dragon."
Crystal weapons. Be sure to guard the gap!"
"Why are you standing still when the order is given? Act quickly!"
"oh oh!"
After hearing Sam's order, a large number of free people began to urge the stunned Night's Watch and Northern soldiers around them to act according to the order.
The soldiers at the gap in the Great Wall carried large ice boulders to form defense companies, while other soldiers took out a large number of obsidian weapons from the supply area and transported them to the gap.
The ocean-like army of zombies outside the Great Wall formed a funnel-shaped formation centered on the gap in the Great Wall.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Hundreds of arrows made of obsidian arrows are shot into the sea of ghouls. They can hit a ghoul at random and turn it into a corpse or bone pile that cannot be resurrected.
Since there was no need to aim at all, the archers at the gap in the Great Wall fired three or four rounds at extremely fast speeds before the ghoul army arrived at the gap.
However, compared to the ghoul army that counts in the tens of thousands, the loss of hundreds of ghouls has no impact at all.
Click, click!
After the army of ghouls arrived at the gap where the Great Wall collapsed, the ghouls in the front became the base, and the ghouls in the rear were stacked on top of them. After the collapse, the boulders piled up by the ice layer were still climbing up to the gap of the Great Wall that was six or seven meters high.
climb.
Gulu!
Bah!
All the soldiers in the front row at the gap in the Great Wall, holding obsidian spears, swallowed nervously. Then when the first batch of corpses climbed up, they raised their spears high and stabbed them.
Wow!
A ghoul stabbed by obsidian will either turn into a pile of scattered bones, or turn into a powerless corpse and fall down.
The freedmen who had often dealt with ghouls before relied on obsidian weapons to kill the ghouls without any pressure. However, after the contact with other night watchmen and northern soldiers, they gradually became less nervous and continued to kill the ghouls with their weapons.
They seem to have discovered that the zombies just look scary, and their actual combat effectiveness is not strong. Moreover, as long as they are hit by the obsidian weapon in their hands, they will lose their combat effectiveness instantly, which is much easier than killing a living person.
In this way, tens of thousands of ghoul army were temporarily blocked in the gap of the Great Wall, unable to move forward.
Sandor rushed towards Castle Black at the very beginning of the battle.
However, his goal was not to help the defenders fight the ghouls. Instead, he wanted to take the opportunity to get some food from the supply area so that the four of them would have enough dry food to continue their escape.
"What are you going to do? This, this is the supplies of the Night Watch Legion!"
Sam looked at the battle at the gap of the Great Wall with a pale face. When he saw the tall Sandor approaching, he asked nervously.
"Hey, Fatty! If you don't want your face to get swollen, just pretend you can't see me!"
Although Sandor's personality has changed a lot because of his children, his violent temper and blunt communication methods have not changed much.
"The ghoul army is coming, you should help us fight instead of taking the opportunity to steal things!
If you dare to take a step forward again, I will scream immediately. Even if you knock me down, you can't run away!"
Compared with when he first entered Castle Black, Sam experienced many things outside the Great Wall.
He was already much braver. After saying this to Sandor, he took a deep breath and prepared to shout.
Sandor turned his head and glanced at the soldiers not far away who were concentrating on the gap in the Great Wall. He stopped and raised his hands to show that he meant no harm.
Then he pointed in the direction of Brienne and the two children, and continued: "See? I still have a woman and two children, do you want me to take them to fight those ghosts?
Do you have children? If so, would you do this?"
Sandor's words seemed to touch Sam. His eyes flickered, he glanced at the battle where he could not help at all, and then lowered his voice and said, "Where are you going to take them to escape?"
"Of course the south, King's Landing, Highgarden, or even Sunspear! The farther away from these ghosts the better!
Do you want to come with us?"
Seeing Sam's somewhat moved expression, Sandor gave up his original plan of taking the opportunity to approach Sam and subdue him, and answered.
"You can't go south now. The road south is blocked by Daenerys's army. I heard that its dragon captures civilians to eat every day!
Let's go east! We take a boat from Eastwatch to King's Landing. This is the only way to survive!
I have a way for us to board the ship at Eastwatch, but you have to put me, my woman, and my child on your back!"
After hearing Sandor's words, the images of Gilly and little Sam flashed through Sam's mind, and he gritted his teeth and said to Sandor.
"Okay, let's get some food and some horses!"
"You try to get some dry food like dried meat and baked dough. It's easy to carry and very hungry. I'll go get the horses!"
Sam reminded Sandor and walked quietly towards the horses tied to the tower.
Due to the fierce fighting at the gap in the Great Wall, the actions of Sam and Sam did not attract anyone else's attention except Sam.
Out of the belief that it would not affect the morale of the troops and that it would be useless to have a few more people, Sam did not stop him and just pretended that he had not noticed anything.
After Sam and his wife prepared everything, they picked up Brienne and the two children with a few horses and a few large bags of dry food, and headed towards Oakenshield Castle in the east.
The battle at the gap in the Great Wall continued like this. As the fighting time passed, the soldiers who had previously felt that the zombie army was not very good now realized how terrifying they were.
The seemingly endless number and complete lack of fatigue made the soldiers who were in a state of fatigue began to feel a little overwhelmed.
Sam, who had expected it, immediately asked the reserve soldiers in the back row to replace the soldiers in the front row, letting them rest before replacing them.
Although this strategy worked for the time being, in a protracted battle with the ghoul army, the living will always be the loser!
Time passed slowly, and although the sun was obscured by gray clouds in the sky, the exact time could not be determined.
But the gradually darkening sky told everyone at the gap in the Great Wall that the sun was setting and it was going to be dark soon!
After such a long battle, the piles of bones and corpses piled up in the gaps in the Great Wall have already formed a slope. The ghoul soldiers who came behind are now rushing directly up.
As time went by, Sam found that more and more of his own soldiers were making mistakes and were killed by the ghouls. This gap was already crumbling.
Puff, pff, pff!
The army of corpse ghosts attacking the gap in the Great Wall suddenly separated from the gap, and three huge corpse bears trampled heavily on the slope of corpses and rushed into the formation of the Great Wall defenders.
After knocking away the front row of soldiers, the corpse bear rushed into the formation of the Great Wall defenders and continued to claw and bite.
Although they were quickly eliminated by the dozens of soldiers who gathered around them with obsidian weapons, the already shaky formation collapsed.
As a large number of ghoul soldiers rushed to the gap in the Great Wall, the defenders of the Great Wall changed from defending the enemy outside to fighting with the ghoul soldiers inside the Great Wall.
Hooray, hooray!
At this critical moment, there was a loud sound of flapping wings in the sky. A huge black shadow appeared in the sky and quickly dived towards the gap in the Great Wall.
Come.
Oops!
A streak of yellow and white dragon flames illuminated the already dark sky and struck the corpse slope outside the gap in the Great Wall.
Bang!
The corpse slope was immediately exploded and ignited by the yellow and white dragon flames. A large number of bone piles, corpses and the still moving ghoul soldiers were shrouded in the dragon flames and burned to coke.
Boom, boom, boom!
This large stream of yellow and white dragon flames started from the corpse slope and continued to spray towards the forest outside the Great Wall.
The powerful impact of the yellow and white dragon flames instantly shattered the countless corpses covering the spot.
Then, accompanied by the scorching dragon flames, in a very short period of time, a fire trench was plowed through the dense army of zombies, turning the soil and burning with blazing dragon flames.
After the dive, Daenerys immediately controlled Drogon to fly towards the left wing. She was preparing to launch another dive attack from the side.
After returning to the Last Hearth and settling Jon in a stable condition, Daenerys, who regained her senses, thought carefully and immediately thought of the army of the dead not far from the Great Wall that she and Jon had discovered during their investigation.
Under normal circumstances, with her conscience intact, she felt that she should bear some responsibility for the collapse of the Great Wall. So, Daenerys mounted Drogon again and returned to the Great Wall to check the situation.
As a result, the army of the dead came faster than she expected!
Daenerys, who arrived just in time when the Great Wall defenders' formation collapsed, drove Drogon without hesitation to launch a dragon flame attack on the wight army.
It is said that after Drogon changed direction in the air, he launched a horizontal attack on the ghoul army from the left side outside the Great Wall.
Boom, boom, boom!
For ghouls who like the icy and snowy environment, fire is indeed one of the most powerful weapons against them.
And Drogon's dragon flames, which were far more powerful than ordinary flames, had only made less than two attacks, and the losses they had caused to the ghoul army had already exceeded the losses of the Great Wall defenders in a long battle.
If Drogon, who continues to breathe dragon flames, completes this dive attack, a huge flaming "cross" will appear in the sea of ghouls.
However, when Drogon's diving attack reached the middle intersection of the "cross" shape, a sudden change occurred!
Bah, bah, bah!
Dozens of ice crystal javelins were thrown from all over the army of zombies, shooting towards Drogon in the air.
Faced with the familiar attack mode of the ice spear, Drogon, who had experience fighting Robb, easily planned a flight path in his head that he could avoid.
call out!
Suddenly, while Drogon was dodging, an ice spear with a sharp sound cracking through the air came from the left at an extremely fast speed, shooting towards its huge dragon body.
Oops!
Drogon found that he could not avoid the ice spear and turned around the dragon's neck, spitting out a mouthful of white dragon flames that had been re-brewing during this period. The extremely high temperature white dragon flames instantly filled the sky on the left side of Drogon's body.
Bah!
A partially melted ice crystal spear penetrated the blockade of white dragon flames and plunged directly into the left side of Drogon's abdomen.
Woo ang!!!
Drogon, who was hit by the ice spear, shuddered and then let out a huge dragon roar full of pain.
Whether it was due to the intense pain or because the ice spear hit an important part, Drogon's flying posture suddenly became messy, as if he was drunk.
"Drogon, hold still!"
Daenerys, who was jolted on the dragon's neck, shouted loudly to Drogon, but her eyes accidentally saw the Night King hiding in the army of wights, throwing the ice spear that wounded Drogon.
Because the distance was too far, Daenerys didn't actually take a good look at the Night King. But a sense of crisis that made her hair stand on end lingered in her heart.
The last time Daenerys felt such a sense of crisis was when her husband Khal Drogo fell into weakness and his khalasar fell apart.
Without any hesitation, Daenerys immediately tried her best to control Drogon and stabilize his body.
Drogon in this life was extremely large. Although the melted ice gun injured him, it did not completely make it lose its ability to fly.
ability.
After Drogon tried to stabilize his body, he followed Daenerys's instructions and began to flutter his wings and escape in the direction of the Last Hearth.
Daenerys, who faced the Night King, just wanted to leave the Great Wall, leave the North, and leave Westeros!
In her opinion, after losing the Great Wall, no one in Westeros can stop the army of corpses controlled by the terrifying White Walker.
Moreover, she has no other relatives in Westeros except Jon, and they are all enemies who regard her as her enemy.
When Drogon screamed, Sam ordered all the defenders who entered the Great Wall to be wiped out and began to flee towards the south.
Since there were a large number of corpses in the gap in the Great Wall, Drogon's dragon flames had been burning blazingly, which had the effect of blocking the enemy's rear for the defenders of the Great Wall.
In the end, the remaining Great Wall defenders, with less than 2,000 men, took some dry food and obsidian weapons and fled southward in embarrassment.
Not long after, the dragon flames that were originally burning in the gap of the Great Wall suddenly weakened rapidly and were eventually extinguished completely.
The Night King appeared at the gap in the Great Wall with more than a dozen White Walker generals. As he raised his hands, the bodies of the dead Great Wall defenders and those buried deep in the ice began to move.
Then, the army of the dead led by the Night King broke through the Great Wall and began to spread toward the north like a tide!