CHAPTER XXXV
Winter is approaching has been mentioned for nearly a year, but Lynn can't tell when this winter is coming, except for her personal experience that the damn weather is indeed getting colder.
In fact, it was the scholars who first predicted that Long Winter would envelop the Westeros continent in two or three years, but Lynn specially asked someone to inquire about the Old Town School afterwards, but those old scholars didn't seem to be able to give a specific time for the arrival of winter.
However, Lynn woke up early in the morning after enjoying a feast of roast suckling pig yesterday to find that the temperature had plummeted again, and sure enough, as the rumors said, when winter came, the entire continent would be hit with heavy snowfall.
It is the southernmost seafront castle in the north.
Today, White Harbor is cold and looks like a real northern castle, despite the fact that White Harbor has never been frozen.
However, when I woke up early in the morning, I was surprised to find that the open-air wash-basins in various parts of the mansion had been covered with a thin layer of ice.
Lynn, who was huddled in the bedroom and didn't want to go out, sent Han Niu to investigate outside the lord's mansion, and the news that came back also said that a little ice could already be seen in the roadside puddles in the streets and alleys of White Harbor City, although it was only a thin layer, with various sharp edges and corners spread on the water, and it would break if you poked it lightly with your finger.
Han Niu, who had no duty today, wore a thick cotton jacket in casual clothes, looking at the children who had never seen ice in White Harbor City, squatting on the edge of the puddle with runny nose and playing with ice, but the ice was very careless, and the sun had not yet come out, and soon disappeared without a trace in the steaming breath.
Summer is too hot, so winter is extremely cold, this is a simple truth, although in Westeros, it is said that the longer the summer, the longer the winter, but it still does not hinder the reliability of this truth.
Lyanna is not surprised by the ice, Bear Island is in the northernmost part of the North, where even if it is not winter, there are a few heavy snowfalls throughout the year.
Lyanna told Lynn that most of the real northerners in the north think that the gods give people a lot of warmth in the world, and if they accidentally give too much in summer, they will naturally find it back from winter, but she can't tell which god this god is, whether it is the old god that the northerners believe in, or the cold god who is in charge of the cold wind.
But one day, she coincided with Lynn's thoughts, and she was also very disdainful of the gods' more serious and unreasonable approach.
Lynn finally mustered up the courage to get dressed and walked out of the hot bedroom, and saw the little girl standing at the entrance to the balcony at the end of the corridor as usual.
The hardy little bear girl didn't seem to notice the change in temperature, and neither wore more nor less clothes, after all, bearskin to keep out the cold has almost become her standard.
Lynn shook her body, waved off the two personal guards, and walked towards the end of the hallway.
Soon I heard it, and the little bear girl looked up at the gray sky and scolded, "This unfortunate god is busy with his work." ”
Lynn cautiously approached the little bear girl, and looked at the sky along her raised little face, "No, Miss Lyanna, you are not afraid of the cold, what are you shouting at the gods in the sky?"
Lyanna glanced at Lynn, with a hint of disdain on her face, and said angrily: "You want to take care of it, Butler Aldfred received a letter saying that Little Rose of the High Court has boarded the ship of the Gripen fleet and set off from the waters of King's Landing to the north, and the second lady of the Stark family is also among them, you got up so early to wait for today's military report, right? ”
In fact, the little bear girl's shouting to the sky just now was not actually scolding the gods, but just expressing her helplessness to the heavens, so after scolding, she echoed a sentence in her heart, the gods are above, come early if winter comes, it is best to freeze the narrow sea, and the ship cannot sail to call it a real skill.
Looking at the background of Lyanna leaving with her feet crossed, Lynn touched her chin and said in her heart that this little girl had taken gunpowder, and she was so angry in the cold.
But then again, Lynn did get up early and wait for the military report presented today, a big report every three days, and a small newspaper a day, which is already the practice of the various departments of the Gripen Legion who are out on the march.
And in yesterday's tabloid, Lynn had two things that made him particularly concerned about the military situation.
One is that the second main force of the Gripen Legion led by Rodat and Shifu finally launched a siege battle against Luanhe City, and the first day of the battle was particularly stale, although the second main force did not break through the east gate of Twin River City for the first time, nor did it succeed in climbing the city wall once, but with the cover of the ladder and trebuchet, the moat of the east city under the city was filled with stones and clods.
At the same time, the upstream reservoir of Neckze has also begun to open the flood gates to the downstream twin river cities, and the effect of flooding the twin river cities will be submitted today with a specific report, if this plan is implemented perfectly. If the Twin Rivers City did not prepare for prevention in advance, the second main army would have a result in the battle against the Twin Rivers City, I am afraid that there would be a result within three days.
The second thing is not as Lyanna guessed, about the northward movement of the Gripen army, although there are already many Essos warships drifting on the Narrow Sea, but in the face of the Gripen fleet going north, as long as they don't have their brains pumped, they will not provoke them, after all, the goal of the fleet is to return to the north, and the Essos ships on the Narrow Sea want to find a safe gap to land on the continent of Westeros.
The military report that Lynn is looking forward to is not in the south, but in the northwest of White Harbor, if it is not bad, today will be the day when the New Folk Legion will report on the formation of the general report, William, who has just been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the New Folk Legion, has completed the recruitment of all new recruits in Winterfell, and the basic combat training is also on the right track.
He needed to give Lynn a clear answer as to whether his legion, after being fully reorganized, would be able to handle the task of sweeping up the Crusade in the North.
This matter is not something that Lynn can be anxious about, after all, whether he can fight or not is the most spectrum in the hearts of the low-level sergeants, Lynn is looking forward to the arrival of this military intelligence report, and he is only looking forward to the Xinmin Army being able to do what he thinks, and it can really go south from its formation to the south, and it can be put into battle immediately.
Of course, if the news that came back from Winterfell at the end was that the fighting quality of the New Militia Legion did not meet the standard for participating in the war, Lynn could only turn on the riot system and pull another Gripen Legion out to carry out the mission of sweeping the East Coast.
Thinking of the riot system, Lynn subconsciously raised his head.
In the gray sky, I saw a few little blacks, roaming in the sky.
Damn the crow, it doesn't matter how to drive away the golden pig of the eagle lion beast and the half-sized golden dragon and the small gold bar that has mastered the flight, or even culling, but it seems that it will never be driven away.
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