Chapter 349: A War with Heavy Casualties
The ice giant in front of him exploded, and Li Nan, who rolled to the side, stood up and shook off the ice chips on his head and shoulders, and looked fixedly at the sacrificial flame that had devoured Aemon's scholar.
Aemon is a centenarian whose full name is Aemon. Targaryen, he was the third son of King Meca I. He served the Night's Watch as a maester at Castle Black for so long that the rest of the Seven Kingdoms had forgotten his Targaryen lineage.
After the death of the old king Mekka I and his brother, Aemon became the rightful heir of the Seven Kingdoms, and in order to avoid a power struggle between his brothers, he voluntarily gave up his throne and all worldly glory and wealth, and came to the desperate Great Wall, joining the Night's Watch.
Now that no one in the Seven Kingdoms is more pure than the royal blood of Aemon, the Lord of Light, who received the sacrifice, was very satisfied, and instantly shattered the nineteen terrifying ice giants.
Although the leader of the Alien Legion, the Night King, summoned the Ice Giants with the Horn of Winter, all of them were destroyed, but it didn't matter, because the Great Wall of Desperation, which held back the undead army, had collapsed, and there was no danger in front of the northern land.
With the clatter of bones and tattered armor, countless ghouls crawled over the ruins of the ice wall and headed straight for the living.
"Don't let the fire go out!"
"Front-row soldiers resist!"
"I need support here!"
In the face of the swarming undead, the human battle array resounded with the commander's roar one after another, the heavily armored soldiers holding large shields stood behind the wall of fire, and the soldiers armed with obsidian spears stood behind them to stab the ghouls who rushed through the wall of fire, and the face-to-face hand-to-hand combat between the living and the dead finally began!
The Terran soldiers are strong and well-equipped, while the ghouls on the opposite side are not afraid of pain or death. With the help of excellent defensive tactics and walls of fire, the humans were able to hold their defenses for the time being.
After handing over the responsibility of commanding the army's defense to the Onion Knights and Tyrion, Li Nan led Docot, Lin Chong, and others to the front line of resistance against the Strangers.
As the commander of the coalition army and the noble king of the north, Li Nan personally rushed to the front line to kill, which brought great encouragement to all the soldiers, and the momentum of the human race was high for a while.
I don't know how long the battle lasted, when Li Nan hacked two ghouls to death with one move, he suddenly felt a chill on his face, and when he looked up, it turned out that snowflakes began to fall in the sky.
Winter has arrived, and it is not surprising that it snows in the north, but at this time, it is a disaster for the Terran soldiers.
Seeing that the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the burning flame defense line was also shaking in the wind and snow, Li Nan hurriedly shouted at Tyrion, "Hasn't the wildfire in Houguan Town been sent yet?" ”
After hearing Li Nan's shout, Tyrion replied, "You guys are holding on for a while, and I've already sent someone to urge you!" ”
More than half an hour later, the wind and snow were getting stronger and stronger, and the flame defense line gradually began to extinguish, Li Nan swept away the ghouls in front of him with a sword, and immediately retreated to Tyrion's side.
Li Nan asked angrily: "Houguan Town is not too far from here, why hasn't the team that transported the wildfire come back yet?" ”
Tyrion also knew the importance of wildfires to the Terran coalition, and he was so anxious that he was sweating in the cold weather.
"I don't know what's going on, and the people I sent haven't come back yet."
When the two of them looked at Houguan Town, they suddenly saw a war horse appear from the wind and snow, and there seemed to be a person lying in wait immediately.
Li Nan hurriedly came to the horse, and after dragging the man on the horse down, he found that there was a long sword mark on his chest, if he hadn't been wearing chain mail in his cotton armor, I am afraid that he would have died long ago.
After sweeping the snowflakes off the man's face, Tyrion said in surprise, "Will! He was the one I sent to Houguan Town. ”
Li Nan, who had a gloomy face, touched Will's pulse and found that there was still a faint beat, so he hurriedly took out a silver needle from his arms and stabbed him seven times in a row like lightning.
Stimulated by the silver needle puncture point, Will, who was in a near-death state, finally woke up, and when he saw the two people in front of him clearly, he hurriedly said: "Yun... Sending wild... The convoy of fire, robbed ... Gone ......."
The convoy transporting the wildfire had not yet arrived, and Li Nan had already guessed that something was wrong, but he couldn't imagine that any thieves would dare to rob these things when such a human life and death were at stake.
Fortunately, there was still an eyewitness there, and Li Nanyu asked in a cold voice with murderous intent: "Do you see who robbed it?" ”
"Things... Happening too... Quick, I just see... A golden... Hair man ......"
This sentence consumed the only strength in Will's body, and he stopped breathing after saying that, although he didn't give too many clues, Li Nan had probably guessed who had snatched the wildfire.
Closing Will's eyes that didn't close, Li Nan stood up and said to Tyrion and the others: "There is no wildfire, and there is a blizzard, we can't defend here, leaving a team of people to break off, and the others will all retreat to the last Hearthplace City!" ”
Although no one wanted to put the Alien Legion into the North, everyone knew that Li Nan had made the right decision.
Three thousand warriors who were willing to die generously remained, their fate already sealed, and each of them carried a small jar of wildfire with him for fear of becoming a walking corpse when he died.
The human armies that stood in front of the ruins of the Great Wall of Desperation retreated to the last Hearthplace and Cahoe City, which were closest to this place.
Li Nan knew that relying on these castles in the north would not be able to defend against the Alien Legion, so when he arrived at the last Hearthh City, he immediately ordered the Master to release the herald ravens and order all the people in the north to migrate to the south immediately.
In addition, Li Nan also summoned the kings of many beasts and asked them to follow the people of the north and go south together.
The Terran coalition used the castles in the north to fend off the strangers, buying some precious time for the people fleeing south, and when all the castles in the north were breached, Li Nan led the coalition army to fight and retreat, and finally came to Winterfell, the capital of the north.
Winterfell was no different from any of the other castles in the North, with a plain plain and nothing to lean on except for a not-so-high stone wall.
After this half a month of fierce fighting, there are still more than 70,000 people left in the human alliance of more than 100,000 people, while the number of up to one million alien legions has increased instead of falling.
At the beginning of the defense of the Great Wall, the human alliance killed hundreds of thousands of ghouls with obsidian bows and spears, and in the following ruins defense battle, more than 100,000 foreign ghosts were killed.
But the scariest thing about the alien legions is not that they have no pain, no fear, and no death, but that all dead creatures will be magically turned into new ghouls by the aliens.
The animals in the mountains and forests, the people in the north who didn't want to leave their homes, and the soldiers who died in battle too late to set themselves on fire all became part of the undead legion.
The humans of the North are engaged in fierce battles against the undead legions, and the people of the South are now encountering demonic figures.
Most of the Seven Kingdoms are now concentrated in the North, and the rest are following Jaime the Kingkiller. The Lannisters and the Dragon Queen Daenerys are engaged in a fierce battle outside King's Landing, which has left many places empty.
Hundreds of Iron Isle warships flying black and golden sea monster battle flags haunt the southern edge of the coastline of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Iron People, who have been pirates for a living for generations and take pride in it, chant the slogan "Strong wins better than hard work", and under the leadership of Euron, the king of the Iron Islands, rape and plunder in the western and Dorne and other places.