Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Dying Plan
"You did your best against Mance, but you betrayed Lord Lynn, who saved tens of thousands of freedmen. Jon Snow stared at Tinkerbell's hollow eyes with disdain, but the sword in his hand was slammed into its scabbard with a frustration.
"I didn't betray, I just want more free people outside the Cypriots to cross the Great Wall, they are worse than dead outside the Cypriots, like sheep raised by strange ghosts, can only be a flock of lambs to the slaughter." As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, the blue-eyed monsters get stronger. They kill first and then drive the dead. The remaining giants outside the Cypriots were unable to resist it, as could the remaining Thorns, the Glacier Tribes, and the Hardfooters. ”
"They deserve ......it," Jon exhaled, looking at the charcoal in the crackling brazier in the corner, "The fact that those people chose not to surrender, and even attacked the reconnaissance team I sent out recently, is enough to show their stubbornness." The Diehards are still hostile to the Night's Watch and the North, and if you let them in, they won't be willing to submit to the Guardians, and you...... If you are in the company of the enemy, you call it betrayal. However, I'm curious how you got in touch with Saiwai. ”
Jingle Shirt smiled, with a hint of desolation in his laughter, and patted the huge horn in his arms, "Because of this, the shapeshifter can transform into an eagle and deliver messages to the outside." ”
Jon Snow had a sudden realization.
He stared at the Trumpet of Winter, and finally got up and said, "Now that you have confessed your sins, what are we talking about here? Hand over the trumpet, and I may order the magistrate to cut off your head, so that your soul may confess to the Old Gods in heaven." ”
Jingle Shirt held his head high, "I want to make one condition. ”
Jon Snow said in a cold voice, "Do you think you have a choice?"
Jingle Shirt looked up at Jon Snow and then at William, who had been speaking with a cold face, he pointed at William and said, "Big Crow, I think the matter of judgment should be decided by this chief, right?"
William said in a deep voice, "Your tribesmen have attacked the East Sea Lookout, which is the territory of the Night's Watch Legion, and to be precise, Commander Jon is qualified to order your execution." ”
Clank Shirt turned to Jon again, "A careful condition doesn't work?"
"You should have confessed all this the last time I came, and the matter was reversed, and now, the betrayer is not in a position to make conditions. Jon's voice was cold, and the charcoal fire couldn't melt.
He admitted that there was anger in his tone, a deep bitterness that could not be expressed in words, but now was not the time to sympathize with his old friend.
"There are also 'Redbeard' Raymond, 'Bard' Bell, Jandel and Goni, the Longhorn King, who joined the Mance army to conquer the south, in order to sweep the Seven Kingdoms, I just want to take my wife and children, hide in the Great Wall with my tail between my legs to survive. Jingle Shirt stroked the horn again. "When I surrendered, my wife and children were left behind, and I had no choice, Jon...... You'd better agree to my terms, if I blow the trumpet of winter, the Wall will fall, at least that's what the ballad says...... Do you want to gamble?"
Jon Snow drew his sword again, and William stared at Clankler, regardless of whether the rumors were true or not, as long as Clank Shirt dared to put his mouth close to the horn's mouth, he would not hesitate to pounce and wipe the opponent's throat directly with a short blade tied to the outside of the armor's arm.
Jon squinted at Jingle Bell, who looked depressed but began to get excited, "Once the Great Wall falls, what else will stop the Strangers? Your wife and children will not survive, and the new people of the new lands will die because of your mistakes, and you will become a sinner in Westeros, and the old gods will not receive your sinful soul." ”
"Yes, I've had enough sin in me. Jingle Shirt suddenly smiled softly. "You're worried that opening the city gate will let dangerous people or monsters in, right, I've arranged it all. ”
"What does that mean?"
"Through the attack on Donghaiwang last night, I have attracted all the Cypriot Savages to the east of the Great Wall. The Shapeshifter has brought the news outside the Great Wall that I am going to attack Donghaiwang, but now my wife is rushing to the Shadow Tower on the west side of the Great Wall with her daughter, and no one must be paying attention there. Go back and tell the guards of the Shadow Tower, let them open the city gates, and let our wife Haizi. If I do, I will hand over the trumpet, and the Great Wall will stand forever until the end of the world. ”
Open the gates and let them pass.
Easy to say, what's next?
Disobedient giants encamped in the ruins of Winterfell City?
Bloodthirsty cannibal tribes inhabit wolf forests, chariots sweep through the barren mounds of their ancestors, freedmen steal the daughters of shipbuilders and silversmiths in White Harbor, and fishermen's wives from the rocky shores?
It's stupid to take such a big risk to test whether the words of Jingle Bell are true or false.
"If what I'm saying is true, you can kill the enemies who enter through the gates," Clankle said, looking at Jon's sword, "with your current army, it won't be a problem to kill all the remaining invaders." ”
"Anyone who dies on the Great Wall will be resurrected by strange spirits, and I don't want to do anything to strengthen the enemy. ”
"Then I can only choose to blow the trumpet of winter, I have a daughter full of wisdom, she will be a queen, she cannot die. Jon Snow's resoluteness also made Jingle Bell's tone resolute.
"You think you can do it?" said Jon, the clawed sword reaching for Tinkerbell's Adam's apple that wasn't covered in bone armor. "I only need a second, I can stab you to death, and then I will destroy the horn and smash it on the spot......"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the low, faint whimper of another horn through the leather tent.
William heard it too. He frowned and looked at the guards, one of whom quickly walked to the door.
The thick curtain of the door was lifted, and a cold wind poured into the tent, and the trumpets heard by several people even louder.
The savage camp was in an uproar.
Two Night's Watch soldiers and a few Gripen Legionnaires hurried over with their weapons in hand.
"The horn outside the camp. William's guards quickly caught a passing soldier and, after a brief inquiry, quickly returned to the camp to complain.
Jon's sword was still against Jingle Bell's throat, unmoving, but his ears were sensitive to hearing clearly.
Jon looked at the seemingly unmoved Jingle shirt, leaned down, grabbed him by the neckline, shook the skeletal armor above and below him, and asked, "What did you do?"
Jingle Shirt raised his head and looked out through the open curtain with sharp eyes, grinning: "Crow, do you think that in the huge new land savage camp, only our free tribe people are dissatisfied with the trapped new land?"
However, instead of being surprised, Jon Snow seemed to be relieved when he heard Jingle Shirt's words, and when he heard that he breathed a long sigh of relief, he said to Jingle Shirt: "Your back hand is just ambushing some people in the camp and preparing to arrest me?"
Jingle Shirt was completely puzzled at this moment, "What, Crow, are you so arrogant that you think that the brave free people of 2,000 people can't help you?"
William on the side sneered, and cocked his mouth to Jon Snow and mocked: "I'll just say that you overestimated the plans of these savages in their dying struggles, so much so that I sent people all the way back to the last Hearthh City, so that the commander-in-chief of the independent battalion allocated an additional 500 heavy cavalry to reinforce it, just 2,000 people, not enough for my subordinates to drink soup." I'm going to command the enemy first, you take care of him here, and I'll take care of his skin when I come back. ”
"Okay. ”
Jon agreed, and as he spoke, he saw William snort coldly and strode away.
It didn't take long for the sound of a horn outside, even more melodious and long.