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Chapter 390 Long Xiao Nine Heavens

"I remember I was a young boy when the Green Fork River froze last time, which must have been more than sixty years ago..."

"After a long summer of seven years, there was a short autumn, and then there was a cold winter that lasted six years. It was at that time that the Green Fork River froze."

"People froze to death at that time."

Old Marquis Frey waved his hand, seeming to be a little sad about the past.

But then the old Marquis Frey stopped his hand stiffly, and then slowly put it back on his crutch.

He looked at the Green Fork River, which had gradually stopped flowing and was covered with a layer of ice under the wind and snow, and his old yellow eyes were a little lost in thought.

He has been looking at this river for almost ninety years. The Frey family has also been revitalized in his hands. The family's power has increased and no one can underestimate it. The population is booming. However, the results of all this prosperity are not as good as one

A natural and man-made disaster.

The roaring Green Fork River finally stopped flowing.

There was no one beside Old Walder Frey. It turned out that he had been talking to himself just now.

The disaster is at hand. The first place the White Walkers will attack after passing through the Neck is the Twins City. The Twins City is to the Riverlands what Moor Carlin is to the North.

Facing the enemies coming from the south, you can stay safe just by guarding the northern border of Cailin Bay.

Facing the place coming from the north, as long as the princes of the Riverlands can defend the Twin River City, the problem can be solved to a large extent.

The Frey family is prosperous, but all the dead and injured have been sent out at this moment. Only old Frey himself is left in the Twin River City, and the descendants who are worried about him have been sent to the Essos continent by ship.

Old Frey has rich experience, he sensed the danger in advance and made plans, hoping to leave some fire for the Frey family.

Even though he himself wanted to leave, his body, which he usually boasted about being strong and healthy, could not support him from crossing the ocean. He was afraid that he would die on the sea, so he gave up the idea.

More than a month has passed since the Battle of Cailin Bay.

The coalition's plan to kill the Night King with wildfire failed. Although a large number of ordinary zombies were killed and injured, the Night King was not harmed at all.

The next strategy prepared by the coalition forces, to unite the Reed family in Graywater Watch to deal with the White Walkers in the Neck, also failed.

The elusive coalition soldiers following behind the Zelanders tried their best to stop the advance of the dead army, although they did achieve a certain degree of success at first.

However, the opponent adopted the method of defeating ten groups with one force. Even if the ghouls behind were trapped in the quagmire, they would step on the bodies of the ghouls in front and bite these guerrilla Zedi and coalition soldiers to death.

But all of this was gone when the Night King took action. The rotten mud froze and turned into a hard ground, and the boats in the complex river channels of the reed marsh were frozen and unable to move.

The army of the dead marched unimpeded through the Neck, and countless Zelander and coalition soldiers were massacred without even the strength to resist. Greywater Hope, the most mysterious and difficult-to-find castle in Westeros, was breached.

Howland Reed, the mysterious leader of the Zelanders, is said to have hanged himself in the hall of his castle.

His daughter Meera Reed and son Jojen Reed fled the Neck with the Allied soldiers.

The Battle of Neck was a series of defeats, and the coalition forces were reduced to pieces. Thousands of battles took place in half a month, but there were few victories.

The morale of the coalition soldiers reached an astonishingly low level during this process. The morale of the troops was slack and the people were panicked.

This time, not just ordinary soldiers, but the entire army, including the king and the nobles, were enveloped in a layer of despair.

The Neck is the most promising line of defense for humans to stop the White Walkers. The coalition forces have devoted all their energy, manpower, financial and material resources to stop the White Walkers in the Neck.

"They originally thought that the Neck would be the second 'Great Wall of Despair' in Westeros, a copper-iron wall and an insurmountable natural line of defense, which gave them unlimited hope."

"However, they did not expect that after they actually encountered the White Walkers, this unbreakable line of defense would be as fragile as a piece of paper."

Tychu Nestos, the manager of the Iron Bank of Braavos, wrote this in his journal.

He is the plenipotentiary sent by Braavos to handle the loan matters between the Iron Throne and the Iron Bank. At the same time, he is also in the coalition camp and is the most important landowner. Therefore, he can experience it personally and hear it.

Many secrets that have not been disclosed to the outside world.

And what he saw and heard will naturally be transmitted back to Braavos City to judge the situation in Westeros, becoming the basis for Lord Neptune's decision.

According to Tychu Nestor's judgment, Westeros has reached a critical moment of life and death.

The White Walkers breaking through the Neck means that the morale of the coalition forces is about to reach collapse. If King's Landing falls, I'm afraid Westeros is not far away from being completely fallen.

The New Year is 293 in Aegon's calendar, but for the Baratheon dynasty it is called 293 in the Conquest Calendar.

The desperate coalition forces fought a last-ditch battle against the Green Fork River and the Twin Rivers on New Year's Day.

They even changed their previous strict defensive tactics and launched a desperate charge towards the Army of the Dead.

Knights from countless families, wearing bright armor and holding strong shields and spears, charged at the front line.

"kill!"

On the bank of the Green Fork River, the shouts of murder shook the heaven and earth.

As the King of the Seven Kingdoms, Robert Baratheon did not listen to anyone's persuasion this time, but personally held the warhammer and charged forward.

The king charged forward, and the other nobles of the seven kingdoms naturally had no shame in retreating behind.

Eddard Stark also accompanied his good brothers. The king's eldest brother Stannis did not abandon his brother and fled back to Dragonstone, Riverlands, Knights of the Vale, Soldiers of the West, River Bend, etc.

The soldiers of the coalition fought for their hometown behind them and showed many times their potential and courage in desperate situations. If they failed, they would be doomed. If they failed in this battle, the hope of the seven countries would be cut off.

However, courage cannot defeat absolute power.

Looking down from the clouds in the sky through the white wind and snow, the number of corpses on the ground and the soldiers of the Seven Kingdoms Allied Forces are not proportional at all.

Moreover, the number of corpses is still increasing, the figures of coalition soldiers are falling one by one, and the extremely exaggerated balance of forces is still being eroded and shrunk at a geometric rate.

Blood dyed the frozen river red, smashed ice blocks rushed into the cold river water, and corpses lay across the river bank.

Old Marquis Frey stood on the bridge of the Twin Rivers. He looked at the battlefield in the distance and finally showed despair in his eyes. Then he let go of his hands and fell freely from the bridge, jumping into the Green Fork River.

Want to take my own life.

Bang

However, old Marquis Frey's body did not smash the hard river ice. The back of his head hit the ice hard, creating a white shallow pit.

The blood gushing from the back of his head soon dyed the ice red, but his body was not dead yet. He struggled slightly, and his old yellow eyes looked at the sky without focus.

But at this moment.

Suddenly, a loud roar of a giant dragon came from the distant horizon, and it quickly spread in all directions.

Riding his horse behind the army of the dead, the Night King suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky, the ice-blue flames burning in his eyes beating rapidly.

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