Chapter 0576 Civil War or Alliance
Jon Snow was calm, it wasn't the first time he'd seen the legendary giant up close.
Last year, in the year 299 of the Aegon calendar, the former commander-in-chief, Jao Mormont, ordered an expedition in which Jon Snow and the captain of the Shadow Tower severed Colin as scouts and scouts. After being bitten tightly by the wildlings and unable to escape, Colin had Jon Snow kill him and surrender to the wildling king Mansred with his own head.
The head of the Night's Watch Ranger that Mansred wanted most was Severed Hands Colin.
Mansred, the Savage King, accepted Jon Snow's offering of the head, and he buried Colin with the severed palm.
Severed Palm: After the fingers of his right hand were severed during the battle with the Savages, he switched to his left hand with a sword, and practiced more refined swordsmanship, killing countless Savage warriors, making the Savage Warriors famous and feared. The wildlings saw the severed palm Colin as the greatest threat, and after Jon Snow sacrificed the severed palm Colin's head, he was indeed contained by the wildling king Mansred.
Mansred, the Savage King, did not trust Jon Snow, and he and Jon Snow had a murderous conversation, in which Jon Snow remembered what Colin had said to him and took the risk to gain Mansred's temporary trust.
Beforehand, Colin had told Jon the secret of King Snow.
Mansred himself was a Night's Watchman, a wildling outcast picked up by the Night's Watch while patrolling the Ghost Forest, who was brought to the Wall by the Night's Watch to raise him, and became one of the best Night's Watch Rangers.
Mansred is the Night's Watch brother who is stationed in the Shadow Tower with Colin the Severed. The two had trained together, had been the Twelve Warriors of the Night's Watch Commander-in-Chief together, had been sent to the Shadow Tower together as captains and vice-captains, and had gone out together to fight the Wildlings.
Mansred and Severed Palm Colin are out on patrol when he is left alone and encounters the Shadow Lynx. By the time the brothers heard the news and rushed to kill the Shadow Lynx, Mansred was already badly injured and needed timely treatment to save his life. Unable to bring Mansred back to the Wall in a short period of time, the Night's Watch brothers were forced to cut off Colin's decision, leaving Mansred in a savage village, paying the village witch with iron, salt, and furs, and begging her to save Mansred.
After Colin led his brothers away, Mansred was well cared for by the wildlings. The witch who cared for him healed Mansred's wounds, and when she saw Mansred's black cloak being torn by the shadow lynx, she repaired it with her only red silk. The red silk came from the westernmost frozen shore, picked up by wild men on the beach, presumably caused by a shipwreck, when the sea washed a horse of red silk from across the Narrow Sea.
After three months, Mansred recovered, and he had a new appreciation for the savages, who were kind, loving, and peaceful, no different from the good people of the south. Most of the wildlings are not the heinous people of the south, they are cruel and cruel and murderous.
Mansred returned to Castle Black, and the Night's Watch Commander gave him a new Night's Watch cloak, but Mansred refused, insisting on wearing an old cloak with red silk patches, but this violated the Night's Watch rule, the Night's Watchman's cloak was only allowed to be black, and could not be of any other color.
The commander-in-chief forced Mansred to take off his red silk cloak and put on a new one, but Mansred would rather die. As a result, the contradictions are irreconcilable. Before being captured by his Night's Watch brothers, Mansred escaped the Wall, entered the Ghost Forest, and joined the Wildlings, and more than a decade later, Mansred returned to the Wall, but with all the Wildlings and a team of three hundred giants.
Jon Snow learns the story of Mansred, the Savage King, from Colin the Severed Palm, and he cautiously answers, citing the reason why his bastard son was ridiculed, discriminated against, humiliated and trampled on as a reason for rebelling against the Night's Watch, and joins the Wildlings, just like Mansred: for true freedom!
When Mansred and Jon Snow invaded the Wall for the first time, they were suddenly attacked by Her Majesty Shireen from Dragonstone and fled, Jon Snow returned safely to the side of the Night's Watch in the melee, and in accordance with the will of the Night's Watch Commander-in-Chief Jeo Mormon, Jon was elected as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch after a public vote of the Night's Watch.
Jon Snow, who has lived with the wildlings for a long time, already knows a lot about the way the wildlings fight, and when the tunnel gate is knocked open by the giant, in the face of the real giant, all the night watchmen are discolored, and Jon Snow is not afraid.
Jon looked up at the giant at the mouth of the tunnel, his breath short, his body sweating.
"Steady!" shouted Jon Snow.
Behind Jon are the elite of the Rangers, more than a hundred long swords, all headed by him.
"Attack his legs!" Jon Snow felt the heat rush to his head.
He found himself rushing forward, sword raised!
The giant was a little sluggish, which Jon expected, and he knew the giant's weaknesses: sluggishness, poor eyesight, and relying mainly on the nose to judge the threat around him. The giants' eyes were barely visible, sunken into large faces, with thick hair on their heads, large noses, and a sense of smell as keen as that of a hound.
The Night's Watch brothers who first saw the giants were all afraid, but Jon had no fear of the giants anymore.
The mammoth's trunk curled towards Jon Snow, and Jon quickly dodged away, and the mammoth let out a threatening hiss: Aang!
The giant's nostrils jerked, as if he were sniffing something in the air, but it was only a blink of an eye. The giant's club was raised, sweeping towards Jon.
Jon rolled on the spot and forward, stabbing the giant through the calf with a sword.
The giant roared in pain, "Roar!" drove the mammoth into the hole, and the big wooden stick swept downward.
Jon rolled over again, avoiding the big stick. The sticks swept against the ground, bringing up a cloud of ice chips.
More than a dozen swords rushed together and stabbed at the giants and mammoths.
The cave suddenly became crowded!
The giant struck several swords, and the experienced rangers realized that the giant's movements were sluggish, and the mammoth's steering was not flexible, and it could not be compared to the well-trained warhorses. Flashing and moving, the giants slowed down a beat.
"His eyes are short-sighted, mainly by the sense of smell in his nostrils. Jon shouted.
The giant roared, he was unable to move on the mammoth, the wooden stick was difficult to sweep widely, the enemy was too small, he was rolling around on the ground, and it was more appropriate to get down to the ground to sweep the ants.
The giant jumped down the mammoth, but his body swayed, his footing was unsteady, and he could fall at any moment. His massive body needed the support of his legs, but his legs had been impaled in two places by Jon. The giant roared, and the big wooden stick was round on the ground, and several rangers couldn't dodge, and they were hit by the big wooden stick, hitting the wall of the cave like a projectile, and their brains burst out, killing them instantly.
Foot combat is more practical than riding on a mammoth.
"Stand back, six swords are enough, keep the rest at arm's length!" yelled Jon.
When there are many people, they are crowded together, but it is not good.
The Night's Watch rangers stepped back.
Jon rolled in close to the ground, and the Valyrian steel sword stabbed into the giant's large fading part from the side, and several swords in succession, quick and incoherent, the wooden stick in the giant's hand swept towards Jon, and Jon gently dodged away.
The giant could no longer stand, and collapsed with a bang, his chest heaving, his breath gasping, and his legs bleeding like a spring. His mount, the Mammoth Protector, turned to attack Jon, and with a bang, the Mammoth slammed into the ice wall, his head was bloody and the ice was full of chips, Jon Snow was grazed against the side of his body, and an unrivaled force knocked Jon away, and he flew out of the tunnel mouth.
When he got up, several axes and spears were aimed at his head, chest, back, lower abdomen, and ribs.
The wildlings attacked, and savages in all sorts of furs poured into the tunnels, and the clinking of swords resounded in the tunnels, interspersed with the roars of giants. Giants are not scary, and in melee combat, as long as he stabs the giant's calf, he cannot stand. It's just that it needs open terrain to facilitate dodging and maneuvering, so as to win the giants flexibly.
An axe slammed into Jon's head, and with a loud bang, a long sword reached out to separate the axe, and the sparks flew and two men roared at the same time.
"Jingle Shirt, stop!" was the majestic voice of the Savage King Mansred.
"Let me kill the betrayer. Jingle Shirt's furious voice.
"Don't touch him!" a female voice said. It's the red-haired Ygritte, and when Jon was living in the Savage Army, the Savage woman Ygritte fell in love with him and was his live-in girlfriend.
Ygritte had red hair, which was regarded as good luck among the savages, and was a child kissed by the gods. She had many suitors, but she fell in love with Jon, and in a cave, one night, she stripped herself naked and burrowed into Jon Snow's bed...... Then, everything that should have happened happened......
"He is a traitor. A jingle shirt adorned with skulls widened his eyes.
"We need him to negotiate with the Night's Watch, with the Stranger in the back and the Wall in front, and we need him to cross the Wall. He was already the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch. Mansred pressed the Clank's shoulders and spoke earnestly.
Mansred knew everything about the Night's Watch, and he himself grew up in the ranks of the Night's Watch.
Suddenly screams rang out, and above his head, another round of oil drums and stone bullets fell down......
Mansred pushed Jon Snow into the tunnel, "Jon, please order the Night's Watch to stop attacking, we need to get inside." ”
"No way!"
"Look outside, inside the Ghost Forest, there are strange ghosts everywhere, we are not strange ghosts, we are human beings. Mansred said in a deep voice.
Beside them are the savage warriors who rush by, and they must also break through the three fence gates of the tunnel.
"Jon, open the door, the Night's Watch needs us to fight the Wraiths together. Ygritte said.
Inside the tunnel, the screams of people on both sides were heard.
"Go outside, betrayers, there are ghouls everywhere, and when we die outside, we will also become ghouls, and then come and attack the Wall. Clank-Bell's roar was vicious.
"I have always been a night watchman and have never betrayed. Jon said coldly.
"Either we'll lose and the Wraiths will come in and kill us all, or the Night's Watch will open the door and give us a place to form an alliance with us against the Wraiths. Mansred said in a deep voice, "Commander Jon, we are all humans, and now the real enemy is at the edge of the Ghost Forest, and our fate has been tied together because of the Strangers, do you have a choice, is it a civil war or a united war against the Strangers?"
The red-haired Ygritra opened her bow and aimed her arrow at Jon, her eyes glazed.
Mance knew Jon was the Commander-in-Chief, and Jon knew that Mance had his own eyes on the Night's Watch at the Wall. Mance also has a number of good brothers who are still the best of the Night's Watch Rangers.
Jon looked outside, and at the edge of the Ghost Forest, a strange ghost appeared on horseback, a frosty strange ghost holding an ice spear in his hand, and a pair of blue eyes glowing blue. Soon, as if in the blink of an eye, countless ghouls appeared with slow steps, and it was a black wall of people.
"Mance, order your men to enter the cave as soon as possible, and we'll block the exit to the tunnel!" Jon said.
Mansred said in a deep voice, "Jingle Shirt, you're in charge of telling everyone to hurry into the cave. ”
"Yes, my king!"
The red-haired Ygritte's frosty eyes suddenly warmed, the bow and arrow in his hand were put down, and a look of surprise and joy appeared on his face: "Mance, I said that Jon is a good man and will let us pass!"
Jon was full of guilt for Ygritte, and in the life of the Savage tribe, he was rescued by Ygritte several times, and many Savage warriors tried to kill him, but Ygritte stopped him. For his sake, Ygritte also killed a savage warrior with his own hands.
"Mance, you come with me, we need both fighters to stop. ”
The order was quickly passed down, and the dense clash of swords and screams faded before quickly subsided.
Overhead, the rain of oil drums and stone bullets has also stopped!
Savages poured into the mouth of the tunnel like a gray tide!
At the edge of the Ghost Shadow Forest, lined up, more horse-riding ghosts appeared, countless ghouls behind them, densely packed, unable to see the edge at a glance, I don't know how many thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands!
The hound woke up with a terrible pain in the back of his head, and when he reached out and touched it, it was all blood.
He tried to sit up, but he felt a terrible shaking, and there was a creaking sound in his ears, which was the painful sound of the black iron cage.
The hound descended in a black iron cage, surrounded by the red-robed monk Thoros who had come to the Great Wall of Desperation.
"Who struck me?" cried the hound, "and I'm going to screw off his head." ”
"Don't yell, I'll send you to the Bachelor's Tower. Soros said coldly, with a tired look on his face.
"The war is over?"
"Commander Jon has ordered the wildlings to be released. ”
"Oh, that kid is just as good as Lord Eddard, and the Stark family isn't too good, but what about the stranger?"
"The strange ghost is at the edge of the Ghost Shadow Forest, and the black oppressive ghoul line doesn't know how long, and there is no end in sight along the edge of the Ghost Shadow Forest. ”
"They didn't attack?"
Boom!
A loud noise interrupted the hound's questioning. At the end of the black iron cage, the vibration made the hound's face twist fiercely.
"Get up, can you go to the Bachelor's Tower?" said Soros indifferently.
"Of course Lao Tzu can do it, do I still need you to help!" the hound stood up, his body shaking, "If I don't drink, I won't be attacked." Who smashed my head? He's having a good day this time! Damn, I'm going to cut off the goat's roots and shove them down his throat. ”