"Hehe, you just ran away in despair? An army of the dead is nothing more than that!
Hum, the defense line of Twin River City will be like the Great Wall of Despair, firmly blocking them out!"
On the defensive wall, Marquis Rosseau looked at the army of corpses disappearing into the heavy snow and said with a disdainful smile.
"Marquis Rosseau, don't let your guard down too much. According to the information provided by His Majesty, there are very likely magical children of the forest and very special White Walkers hidden in the army of the dead.
However, these dragon crystal weapons provided by His Majesty are really powerful, and they can turn into corpses again with just one hit."
Upon hearing this, Edmure immediately spoke out to remind Marquis Rosseau, but his words did not attach too much importance to the army of corpses.
Indeed, with a special defensive wall and a sufficient number of obsidian weapons, in this wave of attacks, they killed at least thousands of ghouls without hurting anyone.
If this were a war within the Seven Kingdoms, with such a battle loss ratio, it would be a great success!
"Hiss, something is still very wrong! I have read the information and the ghoul army only retreated once in Houguan Town.
Moreover, that time it was because the ambush set by the White Walkers and the Children of the Forest against His Majesty failed and they hurriedly retreated to the vicinity of the Great Wall.
This time they obviously blocked the news of a large-scale southward movement. How could they retreat so easily?
Your Majesty the Duke, Marquis Rosseau, we must pay attention to them. If the defense lines of the Twin Rivers built with great pains are lost, it will be a disaster for the entire Seven Kingdoms!"
Brynden was indeed the same as before. After Edmure finished speaking, he once again expressed his caution in a mature and prudent manner.
"Uncle, I understand! Lord Rosseau, how is the raven letter to King's Landing?"
Edmure no longer refused to listen to advice as before. He nodded, turned to Marquis Rosseau and asked.
"After I was sure that the army of the dead was attacking, I asked the attendant to inform the maester to release all the ravens.
If nothing else happens, based on normal time estimates, it will take at most two days to reach King's Landing."
Upon hearing Edmure's question, Marquis Rosseau immediately answered respectfully.
"Very good. I heard that an army of the dead never gets tired, but we can't.
Now there is no need for everyone to stick to their posts. Let’s rest in batches first. Marquis Rosseau will arrange this matter."
"As you command!"
Seeing Edmure's initial air of superiority, Brynden nodded secretly.
Under the arrangement of Marquis Rosseau, who was familiar with the army garrisoned in Twin River City, most of the soldiers returned to the wide south bank camp to rest through the Twin River City Bridge.
However, Edmure and Brynden had no intention of going back to rest and stayed on the first line of defense wall on the north bank.
Marquis Rosseau accompanied the two of them at first, but there were indeed many things in Twins City that he needed to deal with personally, so in the end he had to plead guilty and leave.
The green flames under the defensive wall had stopped in the evening, leaving only ashes outside the original city wall.
But as the heavy snow continued to fall, the entire Twin River City area turned into a world covered in silver.
Edmure and Brynden had dinner on the defensive wall, eating the same food as the defenders. This move won everyone's approval and praise.
However, after late at night, even a blazing bonfire on the city wall could not stop the biting cold wind at night.
Edmure, who really couldn't bear it anymore, and Brynden, whose physical fitness declined significantly after losing his arm, hid in the tent behind the city wall to rest.
I don’t know if it’s because of the heavy snow clouds blocking the way, but today’s night is extremely dark.
Except for the area where the bonfire was shining, the defenders on the defensive wall were completely in darkness.
Check it out!
There were countless black shadows moving in the darkness, constantly approaching the defense wall.
Whoosh!
The defenders on the defense wall seemed to hear the noise in the shadows. Several special rockets suddenly cut through the pitch-black night, illuminating several areas under the defense wall in a small area.
Rows of densely packed corpses and skeletons were seen walking forward slowly. They seemed to have received some kind of order. They suddenly began to run wildly, heading straight for the defensive wall not far away.
Clang, clang, clang!
Urgent alarm bells rang throughout the north and south banks of the Twins City, and the continuous rhythm told the urgency of the situation.
Edmure and Brynden naturally got out of the camp immediately. Surrounding them were thousands of guards who would be on duty for the rest of the night.
"Everyone, go to the city wall to support!"
After hearing the shouts of killing on the defensive wall, Edmure immediately raised his arms and shouted to the surrounding guards.
Blah, blah!
As soon as he finished speaking, the snow-covered ground around the camp began to arch. Then, pale skeletal palms broke out of the ground.
"Edmure, you go to the city wall and command the soldiers to fight. I'm here!"
Brynden knew that he could not ignore the corpse crawling out of the defense line. He turned to Edmure and immediately shouted to the guards around him,
"Those who are close to the Duke, follow him up the city wall, and those who are close to me, work with me to rebury these bones in the soil!"
"yes!"
The guards around the camp replied and immediately divided into two groups. One group followed Edmure to support the defense wall, while the other group followed Brynden and began to attack the many skeletons that appeared.
These skeletons, with only the upper half of the body crawling out, were like whack-a-mole game machines in previous generations, allowing Brynden's troops to harvest them at will.
In fact, in the defense system written by Robb himself, there is an item of moving corpses and tombs.
The always obedient Marquis Rosseau took the risk to move all the corpses of the Frey family ancestors, as well as the corpses from previous rounds of battles.
But in the thousands of years of history of Westeros, how could the skeletons sleeping in this area be cleaned up so easily!
Therefore, after all the skeletons that had been sleeping for who knows how many years deep in the ground in this area have awakened, countless human and animal skeletons are constantly coming from the underground to the surface.
Not only the area behind the first line of defense, but also the second line of defense and the south bank camp area are all filled with various skeletons.
This directly caused the guards who came to support the first line of defense to be blocked and had to deal with the skeletons in their respective areas first.
If Robb, who had always wanted to carry out a beheading operation, was here, he would surely have thought that such a large-scale awakening of skeletons would only be possible if the Night King came to the Twins in person.
However, if Robb was really sitting here personally and had the precognitive vision of the Three-Eyed Raven, the Night King would not come to the Twins in person.
"There are not enough dragon crystal arrows, please hurry up and bring in more!"
"The obsidian sickle blade we have here is damaged, please replace it!"
"The sickle blade is too heavy for the two of us to move it, please come quickly!"
"Damn it, the corpses on our side are almost crawling up, please come to support!"
Due to the severe shortage of manpower compared to the daytime, requests for supplies and support were heard on the walls of the defense line.
At this time, Edmure led nearly 500 new forces into the battle, which slightly alleviated the manpower shortage problem on the lower defensive wall.
The defense methods on this side of the city wall are the same as during the day, but the steel sickle blade in the gap below the city wall has been replaced with an obsidian sickle blade.
However, due to poor visibility at night and fewer manpower, the guards could not kill the ghouls as quickly as during the day.
Moreover, whether it was the obsidian spears poked out of the killing cave or the obsidian sickle blades, they were all destroyed by the corpses' weapons in a very short period of time.
Boom, boom, boom!
While Edmure was thinking anxiously about how to resolve this stalemate, a dull sound came from the dark night outside the city wall.
Since they could not see anything in the dark night, this unknown sound was like a big stone, weighing heavily on the hearts of the city wall defenders.
"Throw fireflies!"
Those unknown sounds made Edmure's heart equally heavy. In desperation, he had to issue orders and use a smaller number of new methods.
At the trebuchet on the city wall, two guards carefully loaded a special wooden barrel onto the trebuchet. Before the trebuchet was fired, they destroyed the pattern of a fruit inlaid on the surface of the barrel.
Hoo, ho, ho!
Boom, boom!
More than a dozen special wooden barrels flew diagonally into the dark night sky. The explosive fruits embedded on the surface of the barrels exploded in a delayed manner. While exploding the barrels, they ignited the wildfire inside.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Countless green sparks like fireflies suddenly appeared in the dark night in front of the defensive wall. Then, these green fireflies quickly fell into the army of ghouls, igniting thousands of ghouls.
With the illumination of these ghoul torches, the pitch-black night in front of the defensive city wall was forcibly dispersed.
That is……
With the hard-won light, Edmure could see the source of the unknown noise at a glance. It turned out to be three giant ghouls who were only slightly shorter than the defensive wall!
After reaching a certain distance from the defensive wall, the three giant ghouls stopped. Then they grabbed a special ghoul from their sides and threw it forward.
Poof, poof!
Two of the three special ghouls were thrown on the defensive wall, and the other was thrown into the tent behind the city wall.
The two corpses that fell on the city wall fell to pieces when they hit the ground of the city wall. At the same time, round fruits rolled out slowly from their broken bodies.
"It's an exploding fruit, get out of the way!"
A guard who had just loaded a special wooden barrel called a firefly into the trebuchet saw the familiar fruit and immediately shouted in fright.
But it's too late!
From the palm of the shattered corpse ghost, an explosive fruit with a damaged surface pattern fell out.
Bang bang bang!
At two places on the city wall and one at the rear camp, three orange-red flames rose up, followed by a series of explosions.
Continuous explosions on the defensive wall directly opened two huge gaps in the recently built city wall.
Edmure was very lucky to be right in the middle of the two exploding fruits and was not affected by the explosion.
The captain of the guard beside him looked around and admonished him: "Your Majesty, the two gaps in this city wall are too big and cannot be blocked.
It shouldn't take long for the army of the dead to attack.
Let’s retreat to the second city wall quickly!”
"Well, I know we can no longer defend this place. However, there is one more thing to do before leaving.
Otherwise, even if you retreat to the second city wall, it will just be a repeat of what happened now!"
Looking at the three giant ghouls in front of him, Edmure's eyes flashed with burning fighting spirit. After he finished speaking to the guard captain, he turned around and headed towards the remaining bed crossbow on the city wall.
"Everyone, please pay attention, we have only one goal now, and that is to get rid of those three giant corpses.
Otherwise, the defense line of Twin River City will completely collapse. The relatives and friends we are guarding behind will face the threat of the army of the dead!"
As soon as he walked to the place where the bed crossbow was placed on the city wall, Edmure waved his left hand that was missing three fingers and pointed at the three giant corpses illuminated by the fire and said loudly.
"yes!"
Edmure's words seemed to ignite the fighting spirit of the defenders in charge of the bed crossbows. They quickly adjusted the angle of the bed crossbows and loaded the spear crossbow arrows with obsidian arrowheads.
Boom, boom, boom!
After a round of crossbow shooting, the three giant ghouls stood in the distance intact and continued to throw self-exploding ghouls towards the defensive wall.
Bang bang bang!
Continuous explosions resounded on the defensive wall, blasting the wall beyond recognition. There were gaps everywhere, and it didn't look like it had been recently built.
"Hey, what are you looking at! Cheer up! Keep shooting!
I'm here with you!"
Edmure got up from the ground, patted the body parts that fell on his body, and shouted loudly to the guards who were looking at a bed crossbow next to him that was unfortunately blown to pieces by the explosive fruit.
Boom, boom, boom!
Seeing Duke Edmure personally sitting here, the guards who had regained consciousness adjusted their crossbows based on the last shooting position, and then took aim and fired.
Bang, bang, bang!
The accuracy of the bed crossbow shooting this time was very high. The obsidian spear crossbow bolt penetrated the two giant ghouls. Their huge corpses fell heavily to the ground.
Edmure's position immediately attracted the attention of the White Walkers hiding in the army of ghouls. Finally, the giant ghoul took a stance and prepared to throw a self-exploding ghoul in their direction.
"Run away!"
Seeing the posture of the giant ghoul and knowing that it was too late to reload the obsidian crossbow, Edmure roared and ran towards the steps of the city wall.
Bang bang bang!
The air waves generated by a series of explosions behind him directly overturned Edmure, who had just escaped to the steps of the city wall, and rolled down the steps.
Edmure, who had fallen so hard that his eyes were covered with stars, stood up with the help of his guards, and then quickly walked through the camp area where the fierce battle was taking place, heading towards the second line of defense wall.
"Find my uncle and take him to retreat together!"
Even though Edmure was dizzy, he still remembered Brynden who was fighting in the camp area. He opened his mouth and gave orders to the personal guards who were supporting him.
These personal guards had followed Edmure closely before, so they knew the approximate location of Brynden. They walked around the camp area for a while, and then came to the area that was previously separated from Brynden.
After some searching, Edmure and others found Brynden, whose legs had disappeared and who was lying on the ground with scars all over his body, in a deep pit area after the explosion.
Brynden was not as lucky as Edmure. During the first wave of self-exploding ghouls thrown by giant ghouls, his legs were blown off by the explosive fruit falling beside him, and his hand was seriously injured.
"Uncle, uncle! Wake up!
I am Edmure, and I will take you back to the Twins to find the maester!"
Seemingly hearing Edmure's urgent call, Brynden, who was still breathing, opened his eyes and said to him as if he was reflecting on the light:
"Ai, Edmure. Return to the Twins.
No, don’t be brave! Wait, wait until His Majesty comes. You are the last and last man of the Tully family!”
"Well, I understand! Uncle...uncle!"
After Brynden said these words, before Edmure nodded in reply, he breathed his last breath and closed his eyes forever.
Since the situation was critical at this moment, no matter how sad Edmure was, he could not waste any more time.
He stabbed an obsidian dagger into Brynden's body, and then asked a strong bodyguard to carry him on his back and retreat towards the second line of defense wall on the north bank.
After the skeletons in the area were eliminated, a large number of guards stationed at the second line of defense wall took the initiative to greet the people retreating from the first line of defense wall.
In the end, Edmure and others successfully withdrew into the second line of defense wall. However, the ghoul army also successfully captured the first line of defense wall and continued to move towards the second line of defense wall!
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