In the northern land, the cold wind continues to howl, and the flags on the top of Winterfell continue to wave in the wind.
What people standing on the city wall can see: The flags planted on the walls of Winterfell include not only the owner of this place, the distinctive gray ice field wolf flag of the Stark family, but also Lannis. The golden roaring lion flag of the Special family (even if the other party seems to have only come with James and a very small number of volunteers...), the golden rose flag of the Riverbend Kingdom, and the sky blue background of the Knights of the Valley Kingdom with a white curve. The crescent moon falcon banner, the silver trout banner jumping out of the water in the River Kingdom, the golden spear banner of the Kingdom of Dorne, the black crowned stag banner on the golden fields of the Storm Kingdom, the octopus banner of the Iron Islands, and the most That... red three-headed fire dragon flag with black background belonging to the forces of Dragon Mother Daenerys Targaryen.
They were inserted into the walls of Winterfell and danced in the wind, expressing the determination and courage of the people of Westeros to unite to fight against the White Walkers.
Today, although there is no longer that bad blizzard, there is something even scarier than that blizzard...
In fact, everyone here knew what they were about to face next, but they did not back down.
It is precisely because of these common enemies that warriors from all over the Westeros continent have gathered on the city walls of Winterfell!
It doesn't matter whether they come voluntarily or involuntarily, whether they have any quarrels with each other, or how many people come, or even if some of them have been destroyed or have been deprived of their territory and title. Pseudo-aristocratic people, maybe their situations are different, maybe their ideas are not consistent...
However, they all chose to come here at this time, to Winterfell in the north, and erected flags representing their families or forces on top of the city, joining the collective effort of all living people in Westeros to fight against each other. In the sequence of enemies, deal with the enemy of those creatures-the White Walkers Army!
It can be said without politeness that almost all the elites from the seven countries in Westeros are gathered here in Winterfell! Moreover, there are more on the way, and it can be guaranteed that in the future, a steady stream of warriors and related materials will be transported here along the King's Road from various city-states in the south.
Because this is the frontline and the last line of defense against the White Walkers.
Once Winterfell is lost, the White Walkers can, under the protection of winter, follow the King's Road south to the Bay of Cailin, level Harrenhal on the Trident River, march to King's Landing, and then sweep across the entire continent of Westeros. !
Then no one can stop them...
Therefore, they must stay here in Winterfell and try to defeat the White Walkers here, completely eliminate them, or drive them back to the land of eternal winter north of the Great Wall!
Of course, there is a prerequisite for defending this city, and that is: the important transportation information south of Winterfell, the King's Road, will not be occupied and cut off by the White Walkers?
but……
This assumption may be a bit difficult!
Because the White Blade River south of the Long Lake in the Northern Lands and east of the Wolf Forest has now been completely frozen by the severe cold. If the White Walkers want to, they can continue to go south. Spread, bypassing Winterfell, and then cutting off all connections between Winterfell and the southern continent.
But the good thing is that the White Walkers don't seem to want to do that now...
They spread all over the sky and fields from the north and east, surrounding the city of Winterfell, which is located on a transportation thoroughfare and a military center in the north. They stubbornly want to conquer Castle Black, Queenstown and Queenstown in the north. Just like Hearth City, just level this place!
Then, continue south and conquer the entire continent of Westeros?
So, now they are here, outside the city of Winterfell, staring eagerly at the place that blocks their way south...
Therefore, correspondingly, Winterfell is located on the rolling hills of this snowy field. Its city walls are naturally filled with soldiers and knights from the "Dragon Lady Alliance" from all over the continent of Westeros. them.
In addition to them, various defensive equipment, such as ballistae, lever trebuchets, heavy counterweight trebuchets, braziers, boiled grease and prepared for fire attack, incompletely refined and ready for burning Heated asphalt, clay pots filled with fuel similar to "wildfire", bundles of arrows with grease-soaked cloth strips tied to their arrowheads, piles of unlit torches for starting fires, etc. Mainly because all kinds of equipment and materials prepared for fire attacks were piled up in every open space at the top of the city!
Moreover, there are countless soldiers and servants who are constantly transporting more materials to the city wall, all of which are the kind that can ignite fire and related to igniting fire, as well as the kind of stones and mallets used in ordinary city defense battles. , poisonous water, etc. are not at all.
Because, almost everyone knows that against White Walkers, ordinary weapon attacks are not very effective. When fighting those White Walkers who are 'resurrected from death', even if they are to smash the opponent's head and chop the opponent into two pieces. Or cut into eight pieces, they can still move... Even if half of their heads fall to the ground, they might find the right opportunity to bite you hard!
Therefore, due to the special situation of the enemies, burning them with fire has become one of the few excellent options to fight against the White Walkers!
Of course, the most important drawback of this method is that it is a bit too expensive...
Those greases and other fuels used for igniting fires, in this Westeros continent with low production capacity and basically relying on manual production, every can of fuel and every pass of animal and vegetable oils represents a large amount of money, huge amounts of of money.
Therefore, in addition to fire attacks, we have to use another more affordable and effective way to deal with the White Walkers, and that is - dragon crystal produced on Dragonstone Island!
In order to deal with the White Walkers in the north, Dragon Mother Daenerys Targaryen had already ordered her soldiers to dig a large amount of dragon crystal mines on Dragonstone Island, and transported at least several sailboats of the ore to Winterfell. Here in the city! Therefore, in addition to the iron weapons in their hands, many soldiers on the city walls now also have a lot of dragon crystal daggers, dragon crystal axes, spears with dragon crystal gun heads attached to their waists, and a very small amount of finely processed Dragon crystal long arrow and so on.
However, because dragon crystal is too sharp and hard, lacks toughness, and is resistant to high temperatures, it cannot be melted and reforged like steel, making its fine processing very difficult! In addition, time is too short, so there are still relatively few weapons like dragon crystal arrowheads to kill White Walkers at long distances. Most of them are the rough and rough-cut homemade ones that most soldiers have on their waists or backs. arms.
But even so, there is no guarantee that every soldier will have the kind of 'artifact' specially used to deal with the White Walkers!
After all, time was really running out, and the White Walkers came so fast that some soldiers didn't even have time to process dragon crystal weapons themselves. They could only tie the ores distributed to them on wood or indiscriminately. Use the top of the iron rod as a hammer?
Moreover, there are still a considerable number of soldiers who are not on the front line. They can only still use their original iron weapons and are in the reserve group, ready to support the front line at any time and use weapons that are destined to be ineffective to fight against those who are harmful to the entire army. The evil White Walkers in Westeros.
However……
What puzzled the large number of soldiers and reserves who were lined up in the city to support various parts of the city wall was that it was still quiet outside the city at this time, except for the howling severe cold blowing from the north of the desperate Great Wall. Apart from the noise from the north wind and some of their own people on the city wall, they didn't hear any more sounds?
You know, under normal circumstances, in offensive and defensive operations in the cold weapon era, the party attacking the city always has to wave its banners and shout loudly, because only in this way can one's own morale be improved and the defenders' forces can be attacked. confidence? But now, there is no sound at all outside, which makes them who can only squat in the city without being able to climb to the top of the city to watch the situation feel very uneasy...
Of course, it’s not that there are no other alternative voices at all! At this time, in the sky above the city, huge roars were heard from time to time.
That, is actually the dragon on their side...
And, there is also the enemy on the other side who is said to have destroyed the Great Wall of Impasse...
'Hiss~! ! '
'Moo! ! ''Gala~! ! ! '
From time to time, there were several loud roars in the sky. Anyone who looked up knew that it was Queen Daenerys Targaryen's two dragons confronting the enemy's resurrected alien dragon. And roaring... They circled violently in the sky and roared at each other, but both sides were currently very restrained, and no one took the lead in attacking the enemy, not even making a tentative breath or approaching provocation.
Because the war has not yet begun, and the dragon, which exists as a strategic deterrent, will obviously not fight easily or run to the sky above the enemy's formation to fight the enemy to the death.
"..."
Jon Snow raised his head and looked worriedly at the two dragons that belonged to him hovering in the sky for a while, then frowned and looked outside Winterfell, looking at the statues standing there. The motionless monsters in the snow and cold wind, the motionless White Walkers!
If not everyone knew what they were, if not everyone on the city wall saw them coming here, if not for the fact that although they are motionless now, their eyes are still shining with that little bit of blue. If the color is so radiant, many people may think that they have been frozen to death, right?
Of course, that is definitely impossible!
because……
Those standing outside are White Walkers, their legions!
What those monsters are not afraid of the most is the extremely cold weather in the north, and they will only and can only survive in this harsh cold environment! Once the winter is over, they can only return to the north in despair, returning to the land of eternal winter north of the Great Wall of Despair to continue hibernating until the arrival of the next winter before continuing to move south...
Unfortunately, winter has just arrived and is likely to last for decades. It is obviously impossible to expect winter to end soon and let the White Walkers leave on their own.
This is just like the power of Galen Demacia said: 'The rotation and revolution of this planet are very strange. The stars will not directly illuminate this Westeros continent for a long time or for a long time, so it may It will lead to an extremely long winter...'
Although Jon didn't quite understand it, he also felt that what the weird and powerful guy said, with almost no one being his opponent in a single fight, seemed to make sense. It was very much like what the bachelors from the city said. That kind?
"..."
"Sir Davos, go and command the east section of the city wall. You know the weak points on that side of Winterfell. Please be careful!"
Seeing that the White Walkers were still standing motionless in the distance, Jon, as the commander-in-chief, took a deep look at the line of White Walker knights in the distance for a while, and talked with one of them. The leader of the White Walkers, who had met him many times, looked at each other for a moment. After feeling that the other party's eyes were getting sharper and more likely to be about to launch an attack, he also began to formally issue his combat orders.
There is no doubt that the opponent will attack sooner or later, and there is definitely no harm in arranging it early.
"yes!"
"..."
"Tyrion, you go to the city now and arrange..."
However, before Jon Snow could continue to issue orders and complete the task, nor before Sir Davos Seaworth and the little devil Tyrion and others could take orders to leave, a sudden change occurred:
Whoosh~!
On the top of Winterfell, a burning clay pot was thrown out first for some reason. Then, the fireball swirled high into the sky and towards the strange outside of the city. The positions of the ghost leaders were thrown away...
Boom~! !
After a period of flight and free fall, it naturally hit the ground about a hundred feet away from the walls of Winterfell and in front of the White Walkers. It exploded and sputtered. The high-quality fuel quickly ignited a large area of snowy ground, letting the red fire light illuminate the surrounding white and crystal clear snow.
Of course, the fire also illuminated the pale and ferocious faces of the White Walker leaders not far away.
"Asshole! Who did this? Hold on! Hold on!"
"Don't panic, they are still far away from us, don't panic! Wait until they get close before launching!!"
"What are you still doing? Hurry up and continue loading!!"
Seeing that someone was disobeying the order and activating the small trebuchet on the city wall without knowing why, thus wasting a can of precious fuel, a general quickly squeezed over and faced The place where the clay pot was launched shouted loudly.
There are so many White Walkers outside now, and they don't have enough fuel tanks to effectively deal with those enemies. Every time one is wasted, dozens or even hundreds of White Walkers will be burned to death. That is absolutely not allowed!
However, before he could continue to rebuke the soldiers, there was movement from the White Walkers outside...
'Wow~! '
'Roar! ! ''Kakakaka...''Quack...'
'Oh wow wow! ! '
'Gah ho ho! ! ! '
After watching a large fireball from a cupping jar explode about a hundred meters in front of him and igniting a large area of snow, one of the entire rows of White Walker knights finally moved...
I saw him slowly driving the skeleton horse under his crotch to take a few steps forward. After inspecting the wall of Winterfell City in the distance, he raised the ice gun in his hand high and slowly moved towards the thick and towering Winterfell City wall. Point in the direction of the city wall!
The next second,
Countless White Walkers let out various incomprehensible roars, either sharp, deep, heavy, or hoarse, and then suddenly began to run wildly on the snow!
They don't use any siege equipment, no ladders, no wells, and no battering rams to hit the city walls and gates. They just use indomitable momentum and will never give up until they directly submerge the city. Determined, they rushed toward the northeastern walls of Winterfell.
"!!"
"The White Walkers are attacking the city!"
"Quick! Get ready to fight!!"
"Attention everyone! Prepare to fight!!!"
"Prepare the trebuchet! Put the oil tank in!!"
"Quick! Keep heating the oil and push them to the crenel!!"
"..."
"Archers, load up the rockets, draw the bow, and light the fire! Prepare...fire!!!"
As the generals shouted orders in an orderly manner, finally, when the densely packed White Walkers who were using human sea tactics to attack Winterfell roared and rushed to a distance of about a hundred meters from the city wall, the firing speed The fastest rockets and longbowmen, under the command of their generals, behind the city wall, threw ordinary long arrows with ignited arrows into the sky diagonally above.
"..."
"In the tower in!!"
He looked up and saw the dots of fire flying up from behind him, flying higher and higher, and before they were about to be thrown down and hit the enemies outside the city, Galen, who had been standing at the top of the north wall of Winterfell, couldn't care less. The others said hello and raised the big hammer in their hands high, allowing the hammer head to be filled with their own 'Demacia's Power of Justice', allowing the golden light to shine instantly. Covering an area of more than 100 meters around the entire city.
Blessings from the King!
Use the supreme holy light to temporarily stimulate people's potential, causing the basic attributes of all non-negative energy creatures illuminated by the light to +10% for one hour.
Benedict! Benedict! Benedict!
The next moment, when the golden light lit up, before the other people around Galen came over from the magical light that made them feel warm all over and awakened their infinite power, countless The sharp arrows with burning points were shot at the charging White Walkers, and successfully ignited many White Walkers!
However……
Before the burning White Walkers fell down, they were overwhelmed by more White Walkers rushing forward from behind them, and the "Burning Man" who originally looked very spectacular quickly became Disappeared in the endless army of black White Walkers, as if nothing had happened.
"Oh..."
"This seems to be a bit too much, right?!"
Galen had just released a King's Blessing and was about to say something to boost his morale. When he saw that the enemy reacted like this, and the momentum of their attack was no weaker than that of the sea of insects he had seen, he suddenly felt: There really doesn’t seem to be much hope in this world?
