Five northern cavalry were galloping on the King's Road. They were sent by Earl Wyman and others to detect whether there were pursuers behind them.
Since the conscripted soldiers stationed in the City of Last Hearth are all infantry, there are only about a hundred horses in the city, half of which are horse horses. And among the thousands of prisoners, there are some soldiers who were injured and had difficulty moving.
Therefore, except for the ten scout cavalry, the other horses either pulled the carriage or carried wounded soldiers.
In this case, the entire northbound team cannot move faster.
Five reconnaissance cavalry quickly caught up with the northbound team and found Count Wyman and others to report the situation.
"Let me report to you adults, half a day after we left, two thousand enemies who returned from Kahor City have arrived at the Last Hearth City.
However, after they saw the tragic situation of the attack in the city, they had no intention of pursuing them, and instead accelerated their speed and headed south with the food and grass."
"You didn't pursue us, but went south instead?
If you put it this way, then we don't need to go all the way north to Castle Black.
Anyway, we have only been gone for less than a day, so we can just go back to the Last Hearth City!"
When Cregen heard this, he immediately showed a happy expression on his face and said.
"Finally, there is no food in Hearth City. If we return now, where will we go next?
Going to your Caho City?
Let me not discuss the distance between these two places. Let’s just say that the enemy has robbed so much food in Kahor City. Now it is estimated that you, the Karstark family, have very little left!
Are you sure you want to take so many people to Kaho City?"
As soon as Cregen finished speaking, Lyanna immediately opened her mouth to refute.
This little loli is quite vindictive. After Cregan scolded her like a child yesterday, she never missed any opportunity to quarrel with him.
Moreover, every time Lyanna's argument was justified, Cregen was left speechless.
Indeed, the distance from their current location back to Last Hearth and then to Cahor City is at least twice as long as that to Castle Black.
So there is absolutely no need for them to sacrifice the good for the bad.
Da da da!
Just when Earl Wyman was about to open his mouth to help Cregen, there was a sound of horse hooves coming from ahead. Everyone turned around and saw the five scout cavalry sent to explore the road ahead galloping towards them.
"Quick, run away! The Great Wall has been destroyed by Daenerys, and the White Walker army is hunting down the living!"
As soon as they approached, the leading scout cavalry looked panicked and shouted at Count Wyman and others without any regard for etiquette.
"Calm down! The Great Wall was destroyed? The White Walker army? Tell us what happened!"
Lyanna frowned when she heard this, and shouted to the scout cavalry in a clear voice.
"Lady Lyanna, we met the fleeing villagers of Mole Village, this is what they told us!
They also say that Lord Bloodface is leading an army composed of free folk, Winterfell soldiers, and Night’s Watch to cut off their rear!”
The scout cavalry immediately calmed down when Lyanna shouted, and answered her questions in detail.
"They told you this, and you just believed it? Didn't you continue to check the situation and see it with your own eyes?"
After listening to the scout cavalry's words, Count Wyman asked in a serious voice.
"My Lord Earl, the way those villagers fled for their lives in embarrassment and the expressions of fear on their faces definitely don't seem to be fake.
Please trust our judgment!”
The leader of the cavalry was asked by Count Wyman and didn't know how to answer. Another scout cavalry stepped forward to answer the question.
"Lord Weiman, I believe what they say.
Because this can explain why Daenerys’s army, which has already occupied the north, rushes southward!”
Lyanna on the side thought for a moment, then turned to Earl Wyman and said.
"In that case, let's turn around and run south quickly!"
Cregan did not refute Lyanna this time, but followed her words. After all, any child who grew up in the North would have heard the legend about the terrifying White Walkers when he was a child.
Now that the horror legends have become a reality, no one wants to see those ghosts in person.
"Lord Wyman, take them south as quickly as possible. We, the Mormont family, go to assist Lord Sam!"
After making her decision, Lyanna first spoke to Earl Wyman, then turned around and shouted loudly to the Mormont family soldiers behind her,
"The warriors of Bear Island follow me, let's go see the legendary White Walkers!"
"Oooh!"
Dozens of Mormont family soldiers raised their shields high and let out a strange cry from their swords. Then they followed Lyanna without hesitation, who took the lead in heading north.
"We, the Glover family, are not cowards, let's go!"
Looking at Lyanna's short back, Robert deliberately shouted in the direction of Cregen and followed with the Glover family soldiers.
Cregan, who had been extremely arrogant before, was silent now, with no intention of following him.
Earl Wyman glanced at him and said loudly in a soliloquy tone: "Your Majesty Robb is a person who values family and friendship very much.
Master Sam is his closest subordinate. If he later finds out that we did not go to support him, he will definitely be furious.
But fortunately, His Majesty Robb knows that I am never good at fighting, but I am still somewhat useful in business!"
Listening to Earl Wyman's words, the corners of Cregan's mouth kept twitching, because the words were obviously meant for him.
If something happens to Sam this time, then he, who did not go to the rescue and is not of much value, will definitely be angered by His Majesty Robb, and the end will definitely not be much better!
"Hey, they make us look like cowards. Warriors of House Karstark, here we go too!"
After thinking quickly about the gains and losses, Cregen felt that he could act according to the situation and retreat early. He raised his arms and headed north with the remaining soldiers of the Karstark family.
After walking for about half a day, Lyanna met the fleeing villagers from Mole Village.
The vast majority of these villagers are women, and some of them are dragging their children with them, and they move slower than Earl Wyman and others.
Lyanna pointed out the direction for them and asked them to throw away other items except food, and then continued heading north.
Queen's Crown Town is an abandoned village in the new land. It is said that Queen Alexa Targaryen, who set aside the new land for the Night's Watch, once lived in the tower of Queen's Crown Town, so the villagers regarded this place as
The walls at the top of the tower are painted gold.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
On the north side of this tower, there is a temporary stone fortress. Standing on the fortress are hundreds of Great Wall defenders, drawing their bows and shooting.
Snap, snap!
The arrows with obsidian arrowheads casually hit the ghoul rushing at the front, rendering them incapacitated on the spot and turning back into corpses.
After several battles with the ghouls, the Great Wall defenders gradually gained experience and specifically attacked the ghouls in the front row with rotting flesh.
After they turn into corpses and fall down, they will effectively block the charging corpses from behind, causing chaos within a certain range.
However, these methods can only cause little trouble to the ocean-sized army of zombies.
Standing on the tower, Sam frowned and stopped several times along the way. However, the army of zombies was getting closer and closer to the villagers of Mole Village, and the situation was not optimistic.
After escaping from Castle Black with the remaining 1,800 defenders two days ago, they rushed to Mole Village overnight to make repairs.
In the eyes of outsiders, Sam, nicknamed Bloody Face, has a cold personality and extremely cruel methods. But this is only against his enemies. He has always been gentle and kind to his own people.
Sam, who had experienced the pain of destroying his village, took even greater care of the villagers in the north.
So that night, Sam asked his soldiers to go door to door in Mole Village to inform them of the situation and inform them to evacuate with the army.
If he hadn't taken care of the villagers of Mole Village along the way, Sam might have already reached the Last Hearth with the Great Wall defenders.
While Sam was thinking, the army of corpses had already rushed to the stone fortress with obsidian arrows.
Blah, blah!
Upon seeing this, the archers immediately retreated to make way for their position, and the soldiers behind them holding obsidian spears immediately took over their positions.
After this period of fighting, they have cooperated skillfully and their combat efficiency has improved a lot.
The army of corpses was at a disadvantage against the Great Wall defenders armed with obsidian weapons. Their piles of bones and corpses piled up under the stone fortress in a short time.
But human endurance can never be compared with the tireless ghouls. Especially after repeated battles, the fatigue of the Great Wall defenders is increasing exponentially.
ah!
A Great Wall defender who suddenly felt dizzy due to exhaustion missed stabbing the ghoul. Then he was immediately thrown to the ground by the ghoul who climbed up the stone fortress and hacked to death with random swords.
Several corpses took the opportunity to climb up the stone fortress from this gap and attack the surrounding Great Wall soldiers.
These zombies controlled by the White Walkers were like sharks that smelled blood, and they rushed towards this gap one after another.
When he saw that the defense line on the stone fortress was about to collapse around this gap, a normal-sized round wooden barrel was thrown from behind the stone fortress and fell into the pile of corpses behind the gap.
Bang!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Accompanied by a huge explosion, countless obsidian fragments in the round wooden barrel splashed everywhere like fairy flowers.
As hundreds of ghouls were killed, a large void without ghouls suddenly appeared behind this gap.
The Great Wall defenders took advantage of this time to deal with the corpses that rushed into the defense line, and then refilled the gap in the defense line.
The barrel just now was a weapon of mass destruction that Robb left for Jon to deal with the wights. In fact, it was a simple combination of explosive fruit and obsidian fragments.
Originally, Robb left fifty or sixty round barrels, but only twelve were dug out after Castle Black was buried by ice.
Half of them were used in the Great Wall defense battle two days ago, and then five more were used in the subsequent battles. The one just now was the last one.
"It's almost done, prepare to set fire to stop the enemy!"
Sam on the tower glanced at the defense line that was still being maintained on the stone fortress, tilted his head and gave the order to the messenger.
This is the method of cutting off the enemy that they have summarized in previous battles. After using combustible materials to build a wall of fire, these fire-fearing corpses simply do not dare to pass through, and will just wait stupidly for the flames to extinguish.
As the order from the messenger was given, the archers behind the stone fortress threw thick logs outward one after another.
This wood was obtained by the Great Wall defenders when they demolished abandoned houses in Houguan Town. The wood was extremely large and could be burned for a long time.
Oops!
As some added wood ignited and escaped, the scorching temperature quickly ignited the thick wood outside the stone fortress. A blazing wall of flames separated humans and ghouls.
Woo!
As the retreat horn sounded, the exhausted defenders of the Great Wall above the stone fortress took a deep breath, turned around, jumped off the stone fortress, and retreated towards the south of Houguan Town.
Um?
When Sam saw the army of zombies standing still outside the fire wall, he was about to turn around and walk down the tower to retreat to the south.
But out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a tall figure wearing dark armor appearing outside the fire wall of the stone fortress.
call!
The originally blazing flames retreated to the left and right with this figure as the center, and the wall of fire suddenly looked like a curtain being pulled open, revealing a dense army of ghouls behind the wall of fire.
"Quick, everyone run away! They are going to pass through the wall of fire!"
Seeing this unexpected situation, Sam's eyes widened immediately, he leaned out and shouted at the retreating Great Wall defenders below the tower.
The Great Wall defenders who heard Sam's roar subconsciously looked back, and then immediately a large amount of dead souls squeezed their already exhausted bodies, and they tried their best to move their legs to escape.
Hiss!
The White Walker general standing on the stone fortress raised the ice spear in his hand, looked up to the sky and roared. The ghasts who stood there immediately ran towards the retreating Great Wall defenders from the wall of fire he tore open.
Compared with the constant running speed of the ghoul army, the exhausted Great Wall defenders' escape speed became slower and slower.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Seeing that the Great Wall defenders were about to be overtaken before they could escape from Houguan Town, a large wave of arrows came from directly in front of them.
This wave of arrows are all ordinary arrows, so the damage to the ghouls is pitifully low. But fortunately, it can slightly block the pursuit of the ghoul army.
"Come here quickly!"
Lyanna, who was not afraid of the tidal wave of ghouls, stood on top of a simple fortress made of old door panels and wooden blocks and shouted to the Great Wall defenders.
With the help of reinforcements, the Great Wall defenders fled to the back of the simple fortress. They handed over their extra obsidian weapons to the northern soldiers who came to support them.
Because Lyanna and her troops arrived in time, they reunited and relied on the simple fortress to engage in a protracted battle with the ghoul army.
However, the escape method of breaking off the fire wall failed. It seems that it is only a matter of time before all the living people in Houguan Town join the army of zombies.
And Sam and a dozen Great Wall defenders were trapped in the tower. They relied on the narrow terrain of the tower to support themselves, and it looked like they wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
Hooray, hooray!
At this moment, a huge shadow quickly passed over the bodies of the northern soldiers and Great Wall defenders who were resisting tenaciously on the south side of Houguan Town.
Then there was the sound of wings flapping the air.
Bang!
Wow!
The huge body like a hill slammed heavily on the stone fortress, sending a large number of rocks, corpse bones, and stumps flying everywhere.
The White Walker general, who was standing proudly on the wall of fire just now, was now being pressed into the ground by a huge ice claw.
Whoosh!
As a figure fell from the sky, the giant sword in his hand pierced the body of the unable to move White Walker warrior. The White Walker warrior immediately turned into countless ice particles and dissipated in the air.
Blah, blah!
Following the death of this White Walker warrior, the wights surrounding the tower and the wights fighting the people south of Houguan Town all immediately collapsed to the ground like toys without electricity.
And the tens of thousands of zombies outside the stone fortress are still staring at all the living people behind the wall of fire.
call!
Robb pulled out the ice that was deeply embedded in the soil, glanced at Sam who came out of the tower, and breathed out softly.
After he received the news of the collapse of the Great Wall at King's Landing, he rushed to the north overnight and finally arrived in time.
Robb raised his head and scanned the army of White Walkers behind the wall of fire, and finally locked his eyes on a location surrounded by a large number of corpses and White Walkers.
"The army of zombies is just like the bugs in previous movies, crushing the enemy in terrifying numbers. But as long as the mother queen is killed, all the bugs will die!
You too! Night King, I got you!
Bloodwind, let’s go!”
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