Chapter Twenty-Six: Winter

With Snow Jon leading the way, the soldiers drove straight down the low tents or wooden huts that spread around the camp's dirt roads to the Free Tribe camp where Clanklers were.

When the Gripen soldiers arrived at the camp, they let go of their hands and feet and searched around without any scruples, and the camp suddenly jumped with chickens and dogs.

The camp was in a commotion.

Three hard-footed men hurried past with spears in hand. Some of the horses neighed, some breathed. Even in the giant camp next door to the Free Tribe, there seemed to be a low roar, and several mammoths howled uneasily.

"What's going on?" Jon asked Tormond.

Tormund sighed, "I don't know, I'll go to the Giant's camp and ask the Wanton Patriarch." ”

"Go ahead. ”

Tormund rode out of the Free Tribe camp and ran towards the rioting giant camp, and beside the ashes of the campfire made of a huge pile of stones in the center of the camp, William, the new commander of the New People's Legion, suddenly pointed loudly to a tent camp behind Snow, and shouted: "Who is that man, why is the horn in his hand so big." ”

Jon rolled over and walked on the half-frozen ground, his wolf nervously circling around. Hearing William's shout, he subconsciously turned his head, but before he saw the camp behind him, he saw a shadow passing overhead, Jon looked up, and a pair of blue-gray wings glided up into the sky.

Snow frowned, "How could there be an eagle? ”

"Look, Commander. A black-clad Night's Watch guard suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong?" asked Jon.

"Who do you see that?"

A grim-faced savage, composed of loosely clasped bones in armor, was straddled on the dirt floor in front of the camp behind him, holding a large horn in his hand.

"Jingle Shirt," Jon Snow said, turning his face and viciously, "this guy has the audacity to stay here." ”

Snow Jon reached over his shoulder, pulled out his long claws, and walked over with his men, glaring angrily, "Clank......bell"

At this time, William also led the Gripen cavalry from a distance, he drew the knight's sword, and his personal guard also unsheathed his sword, and asked, "Who are you?"

"He is the patriarch of the betrayed tribe. Snow Jon stared at the giant horn in Jingle Bell's hand and said with a look of uncertainty on his face.

William's eyes lit up, "Oh, guard, take it for me!"

"Yes, my lord!"

The two sword-wielding soldiers stepped forward, but Jon Snow suddenly stopped him, "Wait a minute, Lord William." ”

William turned his head to look confused.

Snow Jon approached William's side and whispered in his ear, "The horn in his arms is like a ...... of winter."

"What?" William's expression froze, as one of the remaining commanders of the last of the Hearthvale who was left behind by Lynn, he had heard a lot about the Horn of Winter, also known as Joman's Horn, in the myth and legend of a thousand years ago, Joman, the king of the Outer Fortress, had 'sounded the Trumpet of Winter and awakened the giants of the earth'. It is said to be pitch black and large, with curved lines up to eight feet long, and wide openings that can be placed even below the elbow. The horn is inlaid with the runes of the ancestors in gold, which gradually fade to brown due to age.

William recalled for a moment, staring at the huge horn in Jingle Shirt's hand, and the more he looked at it, the heavier his face became.

Jingle Bell, who was sitting on the threshold, laughed and looked up, smiled at Jon, and stood up and opened the door. "Let's talk?"

Snow and William glanced at each other, the matter of the horn was too important, and after the two looked at each other cautiously, William led the two closest guards to lift the windproof curtain together, and rushed in.

It's warm inside.

There was a fire under the smoke vent, and a brazier crackled.

Jingle sat down on the couch with a pale face, clutching the horn and looking at Jon and William with pale gray eyes. "You know this?"

Jon tried to make his expression as calm as ice. cautiously looked at the dingdong shirt on the other side, which was already inhuman.

William's hand in the grip of the sword opened and closed, and the jingle shirt had no sword at his waist, but he looked at the tent and there were other weapons, a dagger, a short sword, a bow, a bag of arrows, and a bronze spear with a white bone skeleton lying next to it.

In the end, the two of them still looked at the huge horn in front of them, which was really a big battle horn.

Stared at by two eyes, Ding Dong's face did not change in the slightest, and he sighed deeply, "I know why you came, yes, I planned the Donghai Wang raid, and ...... As you might have guessed, this is indeed the Trumpet of Winter, which Joman blew to awaken the giants from the ground, and Mance was the first to dig it out in the depths of the Mountains of the Frost Fang when he gathered an army of savages. ”

Jingle Shirt's generous admission made Snow suspicious, "But Yergritte said that you haven't found the horn. ”

"Hey, Jon Snow, do you think you're the only black crow who can lie? Honestly, I like you bastard...... But I never trusted you, Ygritte was too close to you in the first place, so many things she knew might not be true. ”

Jon frowned, and said coldly, "Jingle Shirt, I believe what you say, if you find a horn that really belongs to Joman, why not use it? Why bother to attack the Great Wall? If this horn works as the ballad says, why not blow it and solve all problems?"

"Every freedfolk knows that sometimes shortcuts are not the way to safety, Jon Snow, and witchcraft is a sword without a handle. Jingle Shirt reached out and stroked the horn, his palm rubbing along the curve of the giant. "Moreover, the savage king Mance was about to send 100,000 warriors outside the Cypriots, and he hoped that our Clankle Shirt team could successfully attack the Black Castle and help the Cypriot army open the gate, but he still overestimated you, you are really a cunning crow and deceived everyone.

Of course...... Mance also made a fatal mistake, he underestimated the power of the desperate Great Wall, without the internal response of the Black Castle, the savage army attacked, and could only divide 10,000 people to cross the Seal Bay on a raft and attack the East China Sea from behind, and divided 10,000 people to attack the Shadow Tower, and finally only 50,000 or 60,000 people were left to attack the Black Castle head-on, but unfortunately, countless people and mammoths could not break through the desperate Great Wall. ”

"Then why did you get the horn, and why did you incite Xinmin to attack Donghaiwang, your family members have entered the south of the Great Wall and have been protected by the Great Wall, aren't you afraid of opening the gap in Donghaiwang and letting strange ghosts in?"

Jon pulled out his long claws, intending to make a break.

"Wait until I'm done, Jon Snow. Clankler took a closer look at Snow Jon's face, as the two had worked together, and he knew better than the other Wildlings of the New Lands who was the now powerful Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch. "You don't have to rush to kill me, I've lived enough, all I do is do my last bit for what I promised to the Savage King Mance. ”