Chapter 55: The King's Expedition
The campfire in the fireplace was blazing, and the firewood was burning with a loud popping sound from time to time, emitting a heat visible to the naked eye that distorted and blurred the nearby air.
However, the people in the room did not feel a trace of heat, and the chill froze into the bone marrow.
"You're saying that your team was attacked by strange spirits at the Ancestral Fist Peak, and most of the Night's Watch were killed." At the long conference table, Zoro asked calmly after listening to the Night's Watchman's statement.
"Yes, Your Majesty. The commander-in-chief, Lord Mormont, led about fifty men to break through the siege and retreat all the way to the fortress of Custer, where he was killed by traitors. Jon said.
"So, the stranger has really come back to life......" the surrounding nobles commented, and for them, it was the worst news.
"Ordinary weapons can't kill them at all, only by burning them to the ashes can they really destroy them. To make matters worse, our fallen brethren will be transformed into new 'ghouls' by the Aliens for them to drive. Jon seemed to feel that the adults present were not shocked enough, and continued to add.
"Immortal...... Sauron's expression remained unchanged, his gloved index finger tapping rhythmically on the table.
All looked at their king, waiting for him to give the order.
Their king finally made up his mind, "The threat of the Strangers must be eliminated!" I ordered the logistics troops to prepare enough food and armaments for three months for the 100,000 army, and the vanguard sent scouts to recontour the road, leaving 2,000 men here to meet them, and all the rest to the north, where we will have a final battle with the strangers! ”
"Yes! Your Majesty. "The crowd was commanded, and King Sauron had established absolute majesty with his string of victories.
Further north of the Great Wall, Saiwai has been a snow-covered plateau since ancient times, with goose-feather snow falling all year round, and few life can survive here except for a few animals and plants with tenacious vitality.
This is the forbidden area of human beings, the end of life.
Until this day, in the snowflakes in the sky, a huge and boundless team braved the severe cold wind and walked in a twist.
The world was grey, and the smell of pine and moss and a chill wafted in the wind. A pale mist rose from the black earth, and the riders laboriously navigated through the rubble and timber down the valley towards the unknown road ahead.
As the sky was still dark, the soldiers lit torches, and thousands of torches formed a swaying ribbon of light, accompanied by the frozen white milk river, which looked like two rivers.
From time to time, horsemen on horseback scattered in all directions, and they followed the king's instructions to go to unknown areas to find the traces of strange spirits hidden under the ice and snow.
To outsiders, these knights were the descendants of King Sauron, loyal and fearless of death, and although most of them were gone, they still ran in all directions without hesitation.
In fact, the identity of this group of people is the Adventists, they either get lost and can no longer find the trace of the large army, or they slip into the valley and never get up again, or they are attacked by ghouls and die in this cold hell.
However, their deaths were not worthless consumption.
In Fantasy Space, an elaborate map was created from scratch, covering most of the territory outside the Cypriots, with precise demarcation of forests, valleys, rivers, flat lands, and forbidden areas of death.
And this map, eventually, converged into the hands of King Sauron, guiding him to find the traces of ancient enemies.
After half a month of marching, everyone finally arrived at the Ancestral Fist Peak before dark.
The Ancestral Fist Peak is a hill that suddenly rises in the Ghost Shadow Forest, and the summit of the peak exposed to the cold wind can be seen from miles away. The steep, rocky summit is surrounded by a chest-high wall of grey stone, which forms the simplest of fortifications.
At the foot of the mountain, a small stream flows slowly. The king ordered his soldiers to camp and eat here in order to face the decisive battle that might take place tomorrow.
According to the scouts' reports, they found traces of ghouls thirty miles away, terrifying undead creatures that were slaves of the Wraiths, and where they were present, the Wraiths were nearby.
The tents were connected in the shape of a ring, and in a few moments there was laughter and noise at the foot of the mountain, and the light of the bonfires was like stars in the sky, lighting up the land.
"Your Majesty, I always want to thank you in person for everything you have done for my father." As King Sauron stood at the top of the hill and looked down, a night watchman came to his side.
"Lord Ed is a nice man, and I admire him." King Sauron turned and looked at the man, "Are you Jon of the Stark family?" I've heard about you blending in with the savages, and you're doing a good job. ”
"I'm just an illegitimate child, and I don't deserve the Stark name." Jon Snow had a look of pain on his face, then fell to one knee and said, "This is the duty of the Night's Watch, Your Majesty. ”
"But not everyone is doing their part." King Sauron seemed to groan for a moment before he said, "One more ...... Before he died, Mistress Eddard said to me that if I saw his son Snow again, I could tell him that he had acknowledged your bloodline and bestowed the name on Rustark. ”
Jon's body began to tremble violently, even when he was facing life and death, he had never been so nervous, he had no doubt that King Sauron would lie for him, but he couldn't help but ask, "Is this ...... It's true? ”
"Yes, Jon Stark, you have proved that you live up to the Stark name with your exploits, and Lord Eddard will be proud of you." Sauron smiled at him and headed down the mountain. At this point, the most appropriate option was to leave Jon alone.
The reason for this lie is that King Sauron has a crush on one of the main characters, Jon Snow, who is loyal, brave, wise, and sacrificial, and has the ability to lead in his own right, so to speak, Jon is the best heir to Winterfell compared to the overly idealistic Robb.
Of course, with King Sauron's current status, he naturally didn't need to please anyone, and he didn't need to make special overtures to get Jon's allegiance, but this did not hinder the king's love for talent.
"Why did you lie to him like that?" As he descended the mountain, the captain of the personal guard beside King Sauron couldn't help but ask.
The captain of the guard also has another identity, a real-world descendant, and he is well aware of Jon's true origins, Jon is actually the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, not the son of Lord Eddard.
"Because I need a Stark's Jon more than the Targaryen's Jon, who will be my strongest shield and guard the Great Wall for me for generations to come." King Sauron looked at the dark night sky in the distance, was silent for a long time, and then said in a deep voice.
The noisy night passed, and when the sky shone with a faint ray of dawn, the huge army moved again.
This time, instead of searching aimlessly as before, they made a beeline for the Northern Plains massif, thirty miles away, where they would face an army of ghouls.
"Listen, what's that sound?" A few hours later, when King Sauron's army was three miles away from the place of the decisive battle, a strange sound gradually came into the ears, and the sound became clearer and clearer as the distance approached, and finally appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"Click...... Click...... Click...... Click...... Click! Click! Click! Click! "The sound grew louder and denser, more and more urgent, and in the end, there was only one sound in heaven and earth.
"Click!"
Then, everyone saw it, and it was a mountain that spread all over the mountains, as if it were an endless ancient being—ghouls.
Smelling the breath of the living, more army of ghouls slowly stood up from the ground, some of them were pale and still retained their original appearance, and some were only skeletons, and the same thing was that they all had a pair of scarlet eyes, as if they had been awakened from hibernation, and the snow on their bodies was about to show the world its horror and despair.
The ghouls sniffed the breath of the living, raised their heads to the sky and let out a silent howl, and then swarmed towards the army.
The battle was imminent, and when this creature, which only existed in myths and stories, actually appeared in front of the soldiers, it triggered extreme tension among the soldiers of the army.
"Don't panic! Array! The knights ran back and forth through the crowd, calming the nerves of the soldiers.
"Archer, light the rocket!" One by one, the barrels were pushed out, and the lids were opened, revealing a barrel full of black, viscous pungent liquid, into which the archers dipped arrows wrapped around the cloth and set the cloth on fire.
The arrows were blazing, emitting an astonishing light and heat, and the archers bent their bows and arrows, and with the commander's order, thousands of rockets were shot into the air, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
The "Whoosh Whoosh...... rocket flew through the air in a projectile manner, and then slammed into the ghoul's body, and the flames of the arrows "banged" and burned fiercely, covering the entire ghoul.
The ghouls' already rotting cheeks seemed to twist in pain, and their mouths curled in terrifying arcs, emitting howls that were inaudible to human ears, a sound that made the army of ghouls even more insane.
They trampled on the corpses of their companions and surged forward against the dense rain of fire in the sky, and these terrible creatures did not care about the flames rushing to them, and swore to sip the blood of the living.
It's close! It's close! The soldiers in the front row could already clearly see the chill coming out of the ghouls' mouths, their frozen and stiff bodies, and their scarlet eyes.
"Boom!" The two armies finally collided, the first to strike was the first row of spear-wielding soldiers, screaming and stabbing the ghouls with their spears to clear a clearing in the middle, while the hammer men who followed followed struck with lightning strikes, smashing the bones into a mixture of ice slag and bone meal.
However, these painless, immortal creatures quickly made humans appreciate their horrors, often stabbing frozen weapons into the soldier's living flesh at the same time as the soldier's sword pierced them, the soldier howled in terror and died, while the ghoul let out a "ho-ho-ho" laugh and drew his weapon and pounced on the next enemy.
They move quickly, not affected by the cold at all, and the ice covering their bodies is a natural armor, compared to the soldiers of the Seven Kingdoms, who are deeply affected by the weather, and the severe cold and cold wind stiffen the soldiers' bodies, making their movements greatly affected.
In close combat, the casualties of human soldiers skyrocketed, while the losses of ghouls were close to none.
The human faction then changed their battle plan.
"Stand back! Shields! The herald shouted loudly, and the human soldiers fought and retreated at all levels, and the archers in the back row fired rockets at the same time, preventing the ghouls from taking advantage of the victory.
The soldiers holding the large shields covered with iron and solid wood quickly lined up, the soldiers in the front row half crouched on the ground, and the sharp iron stakes at the bottom of the shields were driven deep into the ice, and the soldiers in the back row pressed their shields against the shields below, and the two adjacent shields were tightly fastened with the rings of cooked cowhide.
The upper and lower layers of shields extended out on both sides, eventually combining into a continuous wall of steel.
"Bang bang bang bang...... the ghouls slammed their weapons against their shields, the smell behind them drove them mad, but in front of them was a wall of shields, unable to attack the human soldiers behind them.
Densely packed with ghouls, these creatures are only left with the most basic living instincts, only know how to act according to desires and instincts, and their own intelligence is extremely low.
This is one of the weaknesses of the ghouls summed up by the Adventists during this time.
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