The earth-shattering shouts of killing gradually faded away, flames shot into the sky, and thick smoke floated in this magnificent port city standing at the mouth of the Bairen River.
"The darkness will not last long, the light will surely come!"
"I hope future generations can remember our names!"
Accompanied by a tragic and loud roar.
thump
thump
A coalition soldier wearing various tattered family armors shouted his name loudly to the sea with tears in his eyes, hoping that the sea would remember it, and then jumped into the cold sea water calmly.
die.
As another major stronghold in the coalition's defense line, White Harbor was the first to encounter a fierce attack from the White Walkers.
The coalition forces and Mandalay family soldiers stationed in White Harbor did not surrender, but fought back to resist the attack of the Army of the Dead.
But in the end, he had no choice but to try his best to resist the surging army of the dead.
After the coalition soldiers persisted for several days without waiting for the arrival of reinforcements, White Harbor finally fell.
Due to the insufficient number of warships and limited carrying capacity, a large number of coalition soldiers chose to fight with their last resort, and were eventually forced to jump into the sea one after another.
They would rather drown in the cold water than turn into corpses and continue to harm their compatriots.
This tragic and tragic story is only a small part of mankind's tenacious resistance to the White Walkers, and was later widely sung by bards.
However, the fall of White Harbor is not the end of the world. Humanity still holds hope in the third line of defense.
A few days later.
On the eve of the fall of White Harbor, the old Earl Wyman Manderly, who escaped by boat from White Harbor, finally led his defeated army to the front line of Moat Cailin, and his family had been sent to King's Landing.
He brought incredible news.
'Lord Eel', the old Earl of Manderly, claimed to have met his former lord, the previous generation of Northern Warden of Winterfell, Duke Rickard Stark, and his eldest son Brandon Stark on the battlefield of White Harbor.
Tucker.
"They have transformed into White Walkers, with ice-blue flames burning in their eyes. Lord Rickard seems to still be wearing the armor he wore when he was burned alive by the Mad King, but it has been covered with a layer of ice.
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"Brandon was the first to board the city of White Harbor. No soldier could stop him, and he also killed my eldest son Willis with one sword."
On the battlefield of White Harbor, the soldiers resisted tenaciously and held off the Army of the Dead for three days. Then the White Walkers behind them took action, and the resistance of the coalition soldiers came to nothing.
The fierce street fighting lasted for several days. In the end, without waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the Cailin Bay base camp, all the coalition forces stationed in White Harbor were wiped out except for those who boarded the warships and escaped.
The news brought by 'Lord Eel' is very shocking, but not many people believe it, especially the Duke of Winterfell, Eddard Stark, who has been hit hard until he is middle-aged but has some gray hair.
I got a lot older overnight.
He didn't want to believe that his father and brother had turned into White Walkers.
But the old Earl of Mandalay was a veteran of his father's time, and he was already very old. He was friendly and had many good relationships. No one believed that the old Earl of Mandalay would maliciously mock the Stark family.
Ed only thought that the old man was confused, and maybe he was frightened by the situation and saw some hallucinations. After all, the guard said that the old man was almost killed by the White Walkers at that time, and he witnessed the death of his eldest son Willis, and was affected by it.
Although he suffered a huge blow, he was forcibly brought down by the guards.
However, the guards who witnessed it couldn't tell whether the two White Walkers were Rickard Stark and Brandon Stark, because they had never seen these two adults, so this incident was not clear.
Just let it go.
However, it did not take long for the news of the fall of White Harbor to come back.
The front line of Cailin Bay.
The army of the dead finally arrived belatedly. They swept away all the obstacles in the north, leaving only the Neck to bring death and cold to the entire Westeros and even the world.
Moat Cailin was built by the ancestors as early as 10,000 years ago. At that time, Moat Cailin was still a majestic and huge fortress with twenty towers and basalt walls as high as Winterfell.
It was once the key to defending the northern border, defusing countless attacks by the Andals.
However, now most of the tall city walls have disappeared, and the wooden towers have rotted thousands of years ago. Only three towers are left.
However, after the coalition forces retreated to Carlin Bay, they gathered all their strength and repaired this abandoned ancient castle just like they repaired the Great Wall in despair.
Twenty towers stand as the rungs of the newly built tall city wall in front of the Neck, and on the King's Road in the distance, the endless silhouette of the Army of the Dead gradually emerges.
The crowds of people were so dark that there was no end in sight. The throats of the Seven Nations Allied Forces on the city wall all rolled. Although many of them were survivors of one or two wars, they still felt their scalps numb.
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Among the coalition forces, there are more recruits who have never seen the White Walkers. They are all newly dispatched southern soldiers to support the Gulf of Cailin, and many are even young men who have just been captured.
During the Great Escape from the North, millions of people crossed the Neck and fled to the South. However, these people were also homeless and had no livelihood when they came to the South. They could only rely on the relief of nobles from various places, otherwise they would freeze to death and starve to death.
The able-bodied even began to raid villages and towns in order to bring back some food to feed their families.
The nobles of the Riverlands are having a headache because these refugees are mainly concentrated in their territory, and they can only pay for food to feed them, otherwise it will cause greater chaos.
During the Great Escape, the ruling class of the feudal dynasty only wanted to encourage the people to flee to the south. Their intentions may have been good, and they did not want the people to die at the hands of the White Walkers, let alone give blood transfusions to the White Walkers.
Otherwise, after the complete fall of the North, millions of dead legions would flock to the south, and even the coming of the Seven Gods would not be able to stop them.
However, they only encouraged people to flee, but they did not figure out how to resettle these people. The weaknesses in grassroots governance capabilities were exposed, resulting in the current chaotic situation.
But fortunately, now is the time to employ people, and King Robert has a rough way of running the country.
With a wave of his hand, he first continued to borrow money from the Iron Bank, asking for gold dragons and food. Now that Westeros has completely become a ghost, Braavos may not be able to escape.
Then they spent a lot of money to recruit a large number of people from the northern border into the army. These people did not need to be paid military pay, they only needed to be given a mouthful of food.
The number of the coalition forces expanded rapidly at this time to reach hundreds of thousands. However, the subsequent problem was the shortage of armor and weapons, but there was no other way but to bite the bullet.
The number of coalition forces has reached an unprecedented number, and they are united to fight against the White Walkers.
Chapter 5: Written in the evening after get off work