0646 This World Needs ...... ∑(っ°Д°; )っ!!
In the north, the cold wind continues to howl, and the banners above Winterfell continue to swagger in the wind.
As far as the eye could see, there were flags planted on the walls of Winterfell, not only the owner, the characteristic gray Icefield Wolf Banner of House Stark, but also the golden Roaring Lion Banner of House Lannister (even if it seemed that only Jaime and a handful of volunteers had arrived...... ), the Golden Rose Banner of the Riverbend Kingdom, the Sky Blue and White Crescent Falcon Banner of the Knights of the Valley Kingdom, the Silver Trout Banner of the River Kingdom, the Golden Gun of the Dorne Kingdom, the Black Crown Stag Banner of the Golden Fields of the Storm Kingdom, the Octopus Banner of the Iron Islands, and the most ...... A three-headed dragon banner with a black background and a red red dragon belonging to the forces of Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons.
They are planted in the walls of Winterfell and dance in the wind, expressing the determination and courage of the people of Westeros to unite against the Wraiths.
Today, there is no such terrible blizzard, but there is something more terrible than that......
Everyone here knew what they were going to face next, but they didn't back down.
It is precisely because of those common enemies that the walls of Winterfell are now gathered with warriors from all over the continent of Westeros!
Whether they came voluntarily or involuntarily, whether they had a grudge against each other, whether there were many people who came, or even if some of them were 'pseudo-nobles' who had perished or been deprived of their territories and titles, they may have different circumstances, and perhaps their philosophies are not quite the same......
However, they all chose to come here at this time, came to Winterfell in the north, and erected a banner representing their family or power on the top of the city, and joined the sequence of preparing to fight against the common enemy of all living people in Westeros, and deal with the great enemy of those living beings, the Alien Legion!
It can be said unceremoniously that the current place in Winterfell has gathered almost all the elites of the seven countries of the entire Westeros continent! Moreover, there are many more on the way, and it is guaranteed that a steady stream of warriors and related supplies will be transported along the King's Road from the cities and cities to the south along the King's Road.
Because, this is the front line and the last line of defense against the strangers.
And once Winterfell fails, the Wraiths can follow King's Mile south to Carlin Bay and Harrenhal along the Trident River under the protection of Winter, and then sweep across Westeros!
At that time, there will be no one to stop them......
So, they must stay in Winterfell, and try to defeat the Wraiths here, wipe them out completely, or drive them back to the Eternal Winter Lands north of the Wall!
Of course, there is another prerequisite for holding this city, and that is: the important transportation south of Winterfell, and the King's Road will not be occupied and cut off by the Alien Legions?
But......
This assumption can be a bit and difficult!
Because, south of the Long Lake in the northern lands, the white-bladed river east of the wolf forest has now been completely frozen under the effect of the severe cold, and if the strangers want to, they can continue to spread south, bypassing Winterfell, and then cutting off all connections between Winterfell and the southern continent.
But the good news is that the wraiths don't seem to want to do that now......
They spread from both the north and the east, besieging the city of Winterfell, a major transportation route and military stronghold in the north, desperately trying to raze it as they conquered Castle Black, Crown, and Fireplace to the north!
Then, continue south and conquer the entire continent of Westeros?
So, now they're here, out of Winterfell, staring at the place that stands in their way south......
Therefore, correspondingly, the walls of Winterfell, which is located on the rolling hills of this snowy field, are naturally filled with soldiers and knights of the 'Dragon Maiden Alliance' from all over the continent of Westeros.
In addition to them, all kinds of equipment for defending the city, such as ballistas, lever trebuchets, heavy counterweight trebuchets, braziers, grease boiled and ready for fire, heated asphalt that was not fully refined and could be used for incineration, oil-fired clay pots filled with fuel oil, bundles of arrows with grease-soaked strips of cloth tied to them, piles of unlit torches for starting fires, etc., mainly all kinds of equipment and supplies for fire attack were piled up in every open space at the head of the city!
Moreover, there are countless soldiers and servants who continuously transport more material resources to the city walls, and all of them can ignite and ignite fires, and there are no stones, mallets, poisonous water, etc., like ordinary city defense warfare.
Because, as almost everyone knows, ordinary weapon attacks are not very useful against the ghosts, and fighting those who are 'resurrected', even if they are crushed into the opponent's head, cut the opponent in two or dismantled into eight pieces, they can still continue to move...... Even if the remaining half of your head falls to the ground, she may find the opportunity to bite you hard!
So, because of the special situation of the enemy, burning them with fire has become one of the few excellent options to fight against the strangers!
Of course, the most important drawback of this method is that it is a bit too expensive......
The grease and other fuels used for ignition are basically produced by hand in this continent of Westeros, where production capacity is low, and basically all is handmade, and every can of fuel oil, every pass of animal and vegetable fats and fats, represents a lot of money, a lot of money.
Therefore, in addition to fire attack, there is another more affordable and effective way to deal with the ghosts, and that is the dragon crystal from Dragonstone Island!
In order to deal with the strangers in the north, Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons, had already ordered her soldiers to dig up a large amount of dragon crystal ore on Dragonstone Island, and transported the ore of at least several sailing ships to Winterfell! Therefore, in addition to the iron weapons in their hands, many soldiers on the city wall now have a lot of dragon crystal daggers, dragon crystal axes, spears tied to dragon crystal spear heads, and a very small amount of finely processed dragon crystal long arrows on their waists.
However, because Longjing is too sharp and hard and lacks toughness, as well as high temperature resistance, it cannot be melted and forged like steel, which makes its fine processing very difficult! In addition, the time is too rushed, so there are still relatively few long-distance killing weapons like dragon crystal arrows, and more of them are the kind of rough and rough homemade weapons that most soldiers have on their waists or backs.
But even if this is the case, there is no guarantee that every soldier will have that kind of 'artifact' in his hand that is specially used to deal with strange ghosts!
After all, time was too short, and the wraiths came so fast that some soldiers didn't even have time to process the dragon crystal weapons themselves, so they had to tie the ore distributed to them to wood or iron rods and use them as hammers?
Moreover, there are still a considerable number of soldiers who are not on the front line, so they can only use their original iron weapons, and are in the reserve sequence, ready to support the front line at any time, and use weapons that are destined to be ineffective to fight against the evil spirits that have attacked the entire Westeros continent.
However......
What puzzled the large number of soldiers and reservists who were in the middle of the city and were ready to support the various parts of the city wall at any time was that it was still quiet outside the city at this time, and they could not hear anything more than the howling cold north wind blowing from the north of the desperate Great Wall and the slight noise of their own people on the city's head.
You know, under normal circumstances, in the offensive and defensive operations of the cold weapon era, as the besieging side, it is always right to raise the flag and shout, because only in that way can you improve your morale and hit the confidence of the defender to hold the city? But now, there was no sound outside, which made them feel worried that they could only squat in the city and not be able to climb to the top of the city to watch the situation......
Of course, it's not entirely devoid of other alternative voices! At this time, in the sky above the city, a loud roar was coming down from time to time.
That's actually the dragon on their side......
And, there is also the enemy's side that is said to have destroyed the Great Wall of Despair......
'Shhh~!! ’
'Moo!!' ''Gala~!! ’
From time to time, there were several loud hiss in the sky, and anyone who looked up knew that it was Queen Daenerys Targaryen's two-headed dragon confronting and roaring against the enemy's resurrected dragon...... They circled and roared at each other in the sky, but both sides were restrained for now, neither of them taking the lead in attacking the enemy, not even a tentative breath or approaching a provocation.
Because, now the war has not begun, and the dragon that exists as a strategic deterrent force obviously will not easily engage in battle or run to the death above the enemy's formation to fight the enemy to the death.
“……”
Jon Snow looked up at the two dragons that belonged to him for a moment with some concern in the sky, and then he frowned and looked outside Winterfell, at the monsters that stood motionless in the snow and the cold wind like the same statue, the motionless strangers!
If it weren't for the fact that everyone on the city wall had known what they were, if it hadn't been for the fact that everyone on the city wall had seen them here, if it weren't for the fact that their eyes still shimmered with that little bit of dark blue that were still motionless, many people would have thought they had frozen to death, right?
Of course, that's certainly not possible!
Because......
Those standing outside are the Aliens, the legions of the Aliens!
Those monsters, what they are not afraid of the most is the extremely cold weather in the north, and they will always only survive in this harsh cold environment! Once the winter is over, they can only return to the north, returning to the land of eternal winter north of the Great Wall of Desperation to continue their dormant activities, and will not continue to move south until the arrival of the next winter......
Unfortunately, winter has just arrived, and it is likely to last for decades, so it is obviously impossible to expect it to end sooner rather than later and let the strangers leave on their own.
It's like the power of Galen de Macia said: 'The rotation of this planet is very strange, and the stars will not shine directly or for a long time on this continent of Westeros, so it may cause an extremely long winter ......'
Jon didn't understand it a little, but he also thought that the quirky and powerful guy who almost no one would be his opponent on his own seemed to have a bit of truth in what he said, a lot like the kind of scholars from the school city said?
“……”
"Sir Davos, you go and command the section of the wall to the east of the city, you know the weak points on the side of Winterfell, beware!"
Seeing that the strangers were still standing motionless in the distance, Jon, as the commander-in-chief, took a deep look at the stranger knights in the distance for a while, and looked at one of the stranger leaders who had met him many times for a moment, and felt that the other party's eyes were becoming more and more fierce, and he was probably about to attack without helping, and he also began to officially give his battle order.
There is no doubt that sooner or later the opponent will attack, and it certainly doesn't hurt to arrange it early.
"Yes!"
“……”
"Tyrion, you go to the city now and arrange ......."
However, before Jon Snow could continue to issue orders and complete the mission, and before Ser Davos Seaworth and the little demon Tyrion and others were ordered to leave, a change suddenly occurred:
Sou~!
On the top of Winterfell, a clay pot on fire, for some reason, was thrown out first, and then, the fireball swirled high into the sky, towards the position of the leader of the strangers outside the city......
Rumble~!!
After a period of flight and freefall, it rightfully smashed down to a distance of about a hundred feet or so in front of the Legion of the Wraiths, which was far away from the walls of Winterfell, and exploded, and the splattered high-quality fuel soon ignited a large expanse of snow, allowing the red flames to illuminate the white, crystalline snow around them.
Of course, the light of the fire also illuminated the white and hideous faces of the strange ghost leaders not far away.
"Bastard! Who did it? Steady! Hold it for me! ”
"Don't panic, they're far away from us, don't panic! Wait until they get close before launching!! ”
"What are you guys doing, hurry up and keep loading!!"
Seeing that someone had not obeyed the order, and that there was no reason why the small trebuchet placed on the city wall had been activated without authorization, resulting in a wasting of a valuable pot of fuel, one of the generals hurried over and shouted loudly at the place where the clay pot was fired.
Now there are so many strange ghosts outside, and the fuel canisters they can effectively deal with those enemies are not very sufficient, and for every one wasted, they will burn dozens or even hundreds of strange ghosts less, which is absolutely not allowed!
However, before he could continue to reprimand the soldiers, there was movement from the strange spirits outside......
'Wow~! ’
'Roar!! ''Click.....'' Quack ......'
'Wow wow!! ’
'Quack!! ’
After watching a large fireball from a pot of fire explode a hundred meters or so in front of him and ignite a large area of snow, one of the entire row of stranger knights finally moved......
I saw that he slowly instigated the skeleton war horse under his crotch to take a few steps forward, and after examining the walls of Winterfell in the distance, he raised the ice spear in his hand and slowly pointed in the direction of the thick and towering walls of Winterfell!
The next second,
Countless strange ghosts, after emitting all kinds of screaming, low, heavy, or hoarse roars of unknown meaning, began to run wildly on the snow!
They didn't use any siege equipment, no ladders, no wells, and no rams to hit the gates of the city walls, they just used their indomitable momentum and the determination to never give up without directly submerging the city, and rushed wildly towards the two northeastern walls of Winterfell.
“!!”
"The Stranger is attacking the city!"
"Quick! Ready to fight!! ”
"Attention everyone! Prepare for the !! ”
"Trebuchet ready! Drain the tank!! ”
"Quick! The oil continues to heat up and push them to the battlement!! ”
“……”
"Archer, get on the rocket, draw the bow, ignite! Preparation...... Put!!! ”
With the orderly shouting of orders from the generals, finally, when the dense army of strangers who were using the crowd tactics to storm Winterfell roared and rushed to a distance of about 100 meters from the city wall, the fastest rockets and longbowmen, under the command of their generals, were located behind the city wall, and they threw ordinary long arrows with arrows set on fire diagonally into the sky diagonally above.
“……”
"People are in the tower!!"
Looking up at the sparkling firelight flying up from behind him, and flying higher and higher, about to fall on the enemy outside the city, Galen, who had been standing at the head of the city wall on the north side of Winterfell, raised the sledgehammer in his hand without saying hello to the others, and let the hammer head part be infused with his own 'Demacian power of justice', so that the golden light instantly illuminated the entire area of the city head more than 100 meters.
Blessings from the King!
Temporarily activates one's potential with the supreme holy light, giving +10% to the base attribute of all non-negative energy creatures illuminated by the light for one hour.
Sincere! Sincere! Sincere!
In the next moment, while the golden light lit up, before the others around Galen could come from the magical light that made them feel warm and awaken their infinite power, countless sharp arrows with fire points gathered into the bodies of the charging alien legions, and successfully ignited many of them!
However......
The wraiths on fire, before they were burned out and fell, were overwhelmed by more wraiths rushing forward from behind them, and the seemingly magnificent 'fire men' quickly dissipated into the endless army of black wraiths, as if nothing had happened.
"Oh ......"
"It seems, it's a little too much, isn't it?!"
Galen, who had just put a king's blessing and was about to say something to boost morale, saw that the enemy reacted like this, and rushed up with a momentum that was not at all weaker than the sea of insects he had seen, and he suddenly felt: This world really seems to have little hope?