Chapter 352 The third line of defense of the coalition
Her husband's voice still echoed in Caitlin's ears, and he told her not to look back no matter what happened.
Even if he died here.
Eddard Stark asked his wife and children to flee south.
Escape to the continent of Essos.
Escape to the end of the world.
And he is not ready to leave. As a man, a lord, and a husband, he wants to fight these ghosts to the death to defend his homeland.
"kill!"
"ah"
Now Winterfell has been reduced to a chaotic battlefield, with shouts and screams everywhere, and people's eyes are red with bloodshed.
At this point, Ed Stark suddenly hesitated and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he gritted his teeth.
"Caitlin"
Then Ed leaned over and whispered a few words into his wife's ear.
"What?!"
Then under Caitlin's disbelieving gaze, Ed gently kissed his wife's forehead.
"Come after me!"
Then the man with dark brown hair raised the sword in his hand and fought back to the battlefield without hesitation.
boom
Soon after, there was another loud noise, and Hunter Gate fell.
"Roar"
The army of the dead also poured in from the other side of Winterfell, and the kennels and libraries were gradually occupied by ghouls. The coalition soldiers fought hard and gradually retreated to the main keep in the center of Winterfell, which was easy to defend.
Difficult to attack.
The carriage carrying Lady Catelyn and several young Starks left hastily from the south gate of Winterfell.
The carriage, protected by guards loyal to the Stark family, ran along the King's Road and fled to King's Landing.
…
A night of fierce fighting passed by in an instant.
The sky gradually turned white.
With the fall of the main castle of Winterfell, the coalition forces were once again defeated in the war.
Some soldiers panicked and fled to the crypts of Winterfell, guarding the Stark family mausoleum, hoping that the Stark ancestors would appear and save them.
More defeated troops fled from the south gate of Winterfell and fled along the King's Road to Severn City, which was the rear of the coalition forces and had a large amount of supplies piled up.
The nobles of the seven countries who responded to the king's call and participated in the fight against the White Walkers learned a lesson this time. Seeing that the situation was not right, they turned around and fled. They led their respective troops in a chaotic and chaotic way and fled on the King's Road. Now they were defeated across the board and they all ran away.
Each.
Eddard Stark, the Warden of the North, was already determined to live and die with Winterfell, but at the last moment he was tied to a war horse and forcibly taken away by His Majesty the King's order.
The nobles of the Seven Kingdoms ran ahead, but King Robert became the one who fought to the end.
The army retreated, abandoning the castles along the way. Even Winterfell could not be garrisoned, let alone the castles along the way.
The human coalition has assembled outstanding commanders from the seven countries. In fact, through brainstorming, many commanders learned the lessons of the last defeat, made up for many shortcomings, and made full preparations for the fall of Winterfell.
Many commanders of the coalition decided to place the third line of defense of the human legion on the ridge comparable to the Great Wall of Despair.
Neck.
However, compared to attacking from the south, it is much easier to capture the Gulf of Carlin from the north.
However, even so, the coalition forces still hope to stop the army of the dead through the chaotic waterways of the Neck and the swamps that are impossible to extricate once they sink deep into it.
They can join forces with the Reed family in Graywater Watch. These 'swamp devils' who have lived in the Neck all year round are very familiar with the chaotic waterways and paths in the Neck. They may be able to help the coalition stop the army of the dead.
Now the commander of the coalition forces has also seen that it is difficult to defeat the Night King by relying solely on the strength of the Seven Kingdoms.
They must rely on some of the power of nature.
The neck is the best line of defense.
And before the Battle of Winterfell.
A red-robed witch from Asia appeared in the coalition tent.
She did not hide her identity, and told Robert directly that she was a believer in the God of Fire and Shadow, and she served the true king.
She is here to help the coalition defeat the White Walkers, the common enemy of all mankind.
Melisandre revealed her identity, which immediately caused an uproar in the coalition hall.
This is the first time since the Usurper War, when Robert seized the Iron Throne, that the Targaryen family sent a messenger to stand in front of Robert Baratheon.
Once upon a time, although the Iron Throne knew very well that there was an exiled second prince of the Targaryen family across the narrow sea, he was even crowned king.
Viserys followed his mother and fled from King's Landing to Dragonstone Island. Later, after his mother died, he fled from Dragonstone Island to the Essos continent. He naturally knew who took over their family's world.
However, the Targaryen family and the Baratheon family have never been in contact with each other. Apart from sending assassins to each other to show respect, there is no other connection.
It's like the Iron Throne doesn't know there is an enemy across the Narrow Sea. It pretends not to see it. Even if one of its vassals is secretly colluding with the Targaryen family, it can only be incompetent and furious, with no evidence.
So Melisandre revealed her identity and naturally caused an uproar.
However, Robert is the current King of the Seven Kingdoms after all. On the surface, he does not make things difficult for a woman. Perhaps it is also to show his grace in front of the ministers. It is a rule everywhere that the two armies do not kill the envoys in front of the formation.
He could allow Melisandre to stay in the military camp as Targaryen's envoy, but she would be required to prove her ability to help the coalition win. The military camp would not support a useless woman.
Then Melisandre lit a flame from the air, shocking everyone.
Her strength is far superior to that of an ordinary male soldier, so she is naturally qualified to stay in the military camp.
It's just that Melisandre is in a state of semi-house arrest, so she is naturally not allowed to pass information to the outside world or wander around casually.
Then Melisandre proposed her own plan to fight against the Night King.
"If we want to defeat the Night King, we need to rely on the right time, location, and people. All three conditions are indispensable."
This was a sentence that Viserys said accidentally. Melisandre felt that this sentence seemed to coincide with the truth. She was shocked and secretly wrote down this sentence, and now uses it here.
"There are only two true gods in the world. Allah R'hllor represents light, heat and life, and his mortal enemy is the cold god, which represents darkness, coldness and death."
"For countless years, the winter solstice and summer have actually been an endless battle between the King of Light and the God of Cold."
The wind was biting outside the castle, and although there was a blazing flame burning in the fireplace, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms in the hall were all wrapped in thick furs.
And Melisandre only wore a thin red robe and stood in the center of the hall talking confidently. Coupled with the methods she had just revealed, people naturally couldn't help but take her seriously.
She ignored the ugly faces of the three archbishops who represented the seven religions in the hall. These believers of false gods had no power at all.
He also turned a blind eye to the angry looks of the northerners who believed in the old gods.
Her words directly denied the Seven Gods and the Old Gods. How could this not make them anxious?
However, the red-robed witch raised her delicate chin slightly, her expression neither arrogant nor indifferent, just as if she was stating a fact.
She stood alone in the great hall of Winterfell with the name of the Targaryen family on her head, which actually made the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms present speechless.