And the current situation in Westeros is indeed a mess.
There are hundreds of tribes of savages, each with different cultures and even races. They do not gather together, but run around everywhere.
Because they knew very well that they could not defeat the regular army of the coalition with the wooden sticks in their hands. The opponent's swords were sharper and they also had armor.
Armor is a great weapon, even more important than high-quality weapons. A soldier wearing armor can easily deal with five or six farmers holding wooden sticks.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall, had no hope that he could really set up a battle array and defeat the coalition forces of the Seven Kingdoms head-on.
Their only chance is to capture Robert alive when the Wall collapses, without even being able to kill him.
Because a dead king is just a dead fat man, the nobles of King's Landing can compromise with each other at any time and introduce a new king to take his place.
A living king is an important hostage who can blackmail them into retreating and extort land and food.
But it's a pity...King Robert drank so much that night that he went to whore before the battle.
Mance Rayder actually didn't expect that this king would be so kind to Cao Dan, and an unexpected mistake led to the failure of the plan.
But since he couldn't catch the living king, Mance Rayder already had an alternative plan, so he immediately changed his direction.
The King Beyond the Wall directly ordered that after crossing the Great Wall, the Savage Kingdom was broken into pieces, with hundreds of tribes fighting each other in tribes.
Don't resist, don't seek war, just head south and flee.
Run as far as you can, the farther south the better.
Because the people behind the Great Wall don't know how terrifying the White Walkers are, and the wildlings have fought against the White Walkers several times in the past few months.
Every time they fight, they suffer extremely heavy losses. They are very aware of the terror and terror of the White Walkers.
Although they still have human faces, they are already two completely different entities from humans.
They don't need to breathe or eat. They are not afraid of the cold. Mance Rayder even saw a group of dead people walking out from under the sea with his own eyes.
It's really about stepping out and stepping on the bottom of the sea without even swimming, because these people don't need to breathe.
But this is only a shallow sea. No one knows whether the water pressure of the deep sea can have an effect on these dead people, but this still makes Mance Rayder feel terrified.
Moreover, these dead people will kill all the creatures they see, and it will be difficult for birds and animals to escape.
Even as the White Walkers gradually move south from the land of eternal winter, the deathly cold gradually invades, and even the cold-resistant trees outside the Great Wall will be frozen to death.
These White Walkers and their minions are like the God of Death, no life can exist wherever they go.
Therefore, these wild people couldn't muster any resistance at all when facing the White Walkers. They just wanted to leave the Great Wall and escape all the way south.
Of course, it would be better if we could attack a port midway, seize the ships and flee to the other side of the Narrow Sea.
This is Mance Rayder's second plan.
The current situation in the north is that hundreds of thousands of savages have crossed the Great Wall and begun to wreak havoc everywhere, attacking villages and plundering food like locusts crossing the border.
They even grabbed a lot of weapons and equipment, and the savages became more and more armed.
The sparse regular army, on the other hand, is holding back its energy and cannot use up all its strength, because the opponent simply does not open up its formation and fight you head-on.
Occasionally, even careless regular troops were ambushed by savages. By the time other friendly troops arrived, these soldiers had already died tragically.
All the armor and clothes on his body were stripped off, leaving only naked bodies lying on the ground in the snow.
The savages obtained another wave of equipment, increased their strength, and then left.
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Before this news reached Viserys, it had already spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms.
The nobles of the seven countries who had not paid attention to it before all understood that the matter was difficult.
However, what was unexpected was that they did not immediately send more troops to support King Robert in suppressing the wildlings.
Instead, they seize the opportunity to send troops to block all major intersections entering the territory.
Prevent these fleeing savages from entering your own territory and causing damage to your property.
But later I felt that this was not a good thing in terms of face and honor. The king was still fighting on the front line, while they were cowering in the rear.
And Jon Arryn, the Prime Minister who stayed in King's Landing, issued many recruitment orders one after another.
The knights and soldiers of the Seven Kingdoms are required to obey the king's call, expedition to the north, clean up the incoming savages, and fight against the possible White Walkers.
So the young Duke Renly Baratheon of the Stormlands took the lead in supporting his brother. However, he did not go out personally, but entrusted another earl to lead the army from Baratheon's hometown to the north.
Then came the second response from the West.
The wily Duke Tywin Lannister was also a well-known commander in the Seven Kingdoms, but he also stayed at Casterly Rock to take charge of the overall situation, and sent other earls in the West to lead troops and recruit the king.
Next came the king's new in-laws.
Although the wildlings and the White Walkers may not be able to threaten the River Bend far to the south.
Moreover, the Tyrell family of Highgarden is not good at war, but at this juncture, other nobles have expressed their stance one after another, and he must also express his attitude.
It's just that I'm a little reluctant.
Of course there is no need for Gudi to say more, and they don’t need to express their stance.
Although Jon Arryn has been absent from the valley for many years, his control over the place is declining, but the prestige of the Arryn family is still there, and the knights of the valley are already on their way to the north.
This time, the major families in the Seven Kingdoms took serious action and sent out a large number of troops. The combined forces totaled 60,000 people. Even Dorne did not continue to paddle this time, but sent out
Thousands of people.
Because even though Dorne and Targaryen have formed an alliance, and the threat of the White Walkers is far away, they are still on the same land, so they are worried about what could happen.
This army of more than 60,000 people, of which 5,500 were knights, officially broke the record of the largest army in the history of Westeros when Aegon conquered Westeros about three hundred years ago.
At that time, King Laurent Lannister of Casterly Rock and King Menn Gardener IX of the Reach gathered nearly 55,000 troops in the Golden Tree City to resist Aegon Targaryen.
Now, while still having reservations, the Seven Kingdoms have combined a total of 60,000 troops to form the Human Alliance Alliance to resist the invasion of the White Walkers, and marched directly towards Winterfell in a mighty manner.
It took a long time for the human coalition forces to form and advance.
Because of the great sea distance, the transmission of information was severely delayed. By the time this information fell into Viserys's hands, it was already the end of September.
There is no golden autumn in Pantos in September, but an increasingly cold wind.
The changing seasons every few years made Viserys feel a little uncomfortable at first, but the residents living here didn't feel any discomfort, as if it was a matter of course.
Viserys didn't know whether such a long rotation of seasons was caused by special astronomical and geographical influences, or whether it was caused by the "fighting" between the legendary and unreachable gods.
He was currently standing on the high tower of the palace wearing a plush snow-white cloak, overlooking the endless sea.
His coming-of-age ceremony is under intense preparation.