Chapter 319: Wild Men Appear in the North
After uprooting the Bolton family, Li Nan's points suddenly jumped up and returned to the first place in the team standings.
In addition to gaining a large number of points, with the support and witness of all the nobles of the North, Li Nan and Arya held a wedding, and both nominally and in fact, he became the king of the North.
After a period of rectification, Li Nan dispatched 4,000 soldiers from the northern nobles and stationed them in Carlin Bay in the neck to wait for them, as long as they could hold this important road connecting the north and south, the armies of the Lannister family and the Frey family in the south would not be able to attack the northern border.
In order to prevent pirates like the Iron Islands from attacking from the sea, Li Nan also sent a large number of soldiers on both the Rocky Coast and White Harbor, and after all this, he did not have many troops left.
The vast and sparsely populated land is a disadvantage for both the north and Dorne, with the north being cold and snowy and the wild people outside the Great Wall, and the southern part of Dorne with a large number of uninhabitable deserts.
During the War of the Five Kings, the northern frontier gathered most of its troops, with less than 20,000 soldiers, while the Lannisters gathered nearly 50,000 soldiers, the most fierce being the Tyrells, who were said to be able to raise 100,000 soldiers.
Faced with the current situation and the problem of overstretched soldiers, Li Nan could only try his best to defend both the sea and land, and had no spare strength to attack other kingdoms in the south.
While reorganizing his troops and strengthening his defense in Winterfell, Li Nan also lived a life of sexual bliss, with both Raven, the witch of variety who came from Braavos, and the three sisters surnamed Dorne, although Arya is still young, but these beautiful women with their own styles are enough for him to deal with, and he lives a life of guiding dragons into the sea and returning to the source every night.
At the same time, King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, is also holding a grand and luxurious wedding, the psychopathic King Joffrey and Margaery, known as the Rose of the High Court, are about to get married, which also represents the two most powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms, entering the honeymoon period of cooperation.
Not long after the days of peace, Li Nan suddenly received several letters for help from the last fireplace city.
The letter states that several villages in the north of Hearthcity were slaughtered by the wildlings, and that the lord, Count Horser, hopes that the king of the north will send soldiers to kill the wildlings who have come from the Wall.
Such a request is justified, and since Li Nan has become the king of the northern realm, he has a corresponding responsibility.
After enjoying a peaceful life for several months, Li Nanjing was extremely thoughtful, leaving Arya and Lin Chong to stay in Winterfell, and personally took the three Dorne sisters and five hundred elite cavalry who liked excitement to the last hearth city closest to the Great Wall of Desperation.
Galloping on the vast wilderness of the north makes people feel refreshed, if the Great Song Dynasty does not have those own people, Li Nan, who has become the king of the north, really wants to stay in this world to live.
A few days later, Li Nan and the others joined Count Horser's party in the final Hearthplace, and under his leadership, they went to the villages in the north to track down the whereabouts of the wildlings.
Finally, the territory of Hearthcity is very close to the Desperate Wall, so there are often wild people climbing from the Great Wall to plunder and kill.
On the way to the pursuit, Count Hoser, who often dealt with the savages, introduced all the information about the savages to Li Nan and the others in detail.
It is said that raiding across the Great Wall was an important part of the savage culture.
Wildlings never mined or smelted metal, and north of the Wall there were almost no blacksmiths, and even fewer workshops for smelting iron. The metal armor they used was bits and pieces scavenged from the corpses of the Rangers. Most of the freedmen wore armor sewn from cooked leather or sheepskin, and held round shields made of wicker, covered with human skin, and painted with various motifs, such as skulls and bones, poisonous snakes, bear claws, demonic twisted faces, and severed heads.
Wildlings can join the raiders as young as twelve, climbing over the walls or crossing the Seal Bay in small boats across the Desperate Wall. It takes at least a day to climb the 700-foot-high (about 200-meter) ice-forged Wall, which is an extremely dangerous job, so Night's Watch Rangers can often find mangled bodies that have fallen to their deaths.
To climb the Great Wall, the savages would use giant ladders with hemp rope as rungs, and peculiar soft deerskin boots with protruding spikes at the tops, some of them of copper or iron, most of them of bone; small stone hammers; iron nails, bone nails, and horn nails; An ice axe made of sharpened antlers tied to a wooden handle from animal skin.
These wild men formed a raiding party that did not risk their lives to cross the Great Wall for food. They came mainly to plunder swords and axes, spices, silks, and furs, to seize every coin, ring, and jewel cup they could find, to rob wine in summer, meat in winter, women in all seasons, and to carry them captive across the Wall.
When the cavalry team came to a village with black smoke, Li Nan frowned as they looked at a campfire and bones scattered nearby.
Count Horser came to the campfire and dismounted, took off his gloves and probed the ashes, raised his head and said to Li Nan: "There is still temperature, it is estimated that this group of wild people has not gone far." ”
Li Nan pointed to the gnawed bones and asked, "Savages still eat people?" ”
"Most savages don't like cannibalism, and this kind of thing is probably done by the Thane tribe of the savages, who think that cannibalism proves their courage."
Hearing Count Horser's explanation, everyone present showed disgust, no matter when and where, this kind of cannibalistic villain of the Thorn tribe will cause the anger and killing intent of normal people.
"Did you hear it all?" Li Nan shouted at the cavalry around him: "A group of Saun savages who like to eat people have come to our northern border, what do you say we should do?" ”
"Kill them all!"
"Kill them all!"
The morale was enough, Li Nan pointed to the front and shouted, "Let's go!" ”
The speed at which the cavalry galloped was in this world, and that was the fastest way to hurry, and when Li Nan and the others chased to Houguan Town in the north, they finally found the figure of the savage.
Because of its proximity to the Great Wall, Houguan Town is often attacked by wildlings, so the people of the town have long since left here, and it is currently the breeding ground of the Night's Watch Legion.
More than thirty savages, dressed in animal skin robes and armor, were now capturing the horses that had been roasted on the fire by the bald Thorns.
Seeing this scene in front of him, there was no need for Li Nan to order, and five hundred cavalrymen swarmed up with long swords.
The Savages were tall and sturdy, armed with heavy axes and sledgehammers, and they inflicted a lot of damage on the cavalry, especially a bald man who had killed five or six horsemen with a double-edged wheel battle axe.
Li Nan, who was armed with a deadly throat gun, followed the charging method of an orthodox knight, using the speed of the horse gallop and his own strength, and fiercely rushed towards the most powerful Sean savage.