The cult of the strong and double standards are pervasive in all aspects of the human world.

When the opponent is similar to oneself, being pressed and reluctant to give in often makes people indignant and unable to swallow...... But if it is completely crushed, the vanquished will be convinced, throw themselves to the ground, and even be proud of it, and will not have the slightest intention of resistance.

When the night watchman was forced to surrender the foreigners, the "free people" wept wolf and howled unconvinced, believing that the "crows" could only gain the upper hand by relying on the geographical advantages of the desperate Great Wall, and were not really better than them...... In order to take care of the mood of these iron men and maintain the stability of the land grant so that they can work honestly and hard, Commander-in-Chief Mormont had to supplement the "kneeling service" at the suggestion of Egger - when "kneeling" was not common in Westeros, and adding a snake: the complete abolition of kneeling in the land grant.

But now, it is the original proposer of this decree who is the first to publicly break this agreement.

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When Egger was half-forced to bow his allegiance to Daenerys, he was ready to endure and deal with the resentment and ridicule of some of the new landgivees who despised the "kneeling people", but the situation was better than he had imagined - everyone seemed to agree that there was no shame in surrendering to a queen who rode a dragon. The new landgoers rejoiced that the dragons would be less dangerous, the radicals within the Night's Watch were secretly clenching their fists to finally break free from their neutrality and join a faction, and the nobles who were theoretically the Queen's enemies were able to come to the Wall because they believed in Rahlo and were willing to contribute to the Great War, and the Night's Commander-in-Chief's actions were more understanding than resistant.

No one jumped out to accuse Iger of being the "man on his knees", and no one openly questioned him for breaking the rules of neutrality of the Night's Watch, but it was the Queen's excessive enthusiasm that became the first problem: presumably pleased and applauded by the unhesitating sincerity he showed when asked to swear allegiance, and was eager to reciprocate and make overtures to his new followers— After Daenerys finished taking the oath to each other, she immediately asked about the whereabouts of the remnant ghouls, and it seemed that she planned to take the three dragons to chase them directly, and use the dragon flame to eliminate the worries of the night watchman in one fell swoop, so as to pull Egger to help her fight the world as soon as possible.

The queen's eagerness and kindness, Iger felt, but he could only accept it.

It took a far greater price than originally anticipated to weaken the enemy to the point where it was possible to destroy it in a frontal battle, and if the queen was excited to send a dragon at this last juncture, the war would have to start all over again. After a few moments of speech, Egg reluctantly convinces Daenerys that "the enemy has the ability to attack and transform her children into corpse dragons", making her give up the urge to fight alone and agree to maintain coordination with the larger forces.

On this expedition, in order to prevent a sneak attack by the enemy, Iger brought most of the shapeshifters who could control animals in Houguan Town, and even loaded the immobile Bran Stark in a carriage.

As for the Green Prophet, who now doesn't know whether to say whether he is a "little guy" or an "old guy", Egger has always believed that he is not one of the Chill Gods, but he has always doubted whether he did his best in the war. In addition to the obvious purpose of using his ability to control the crows to conduct reconnaissance and information transmission, this southern expedition brought him with him - in case the southern expeditionary army fell into a crisis of hard fighting or even defeat, then the Green Prophet should not be spared, if he has any ability, he will have to show it all!

The triple combination of the Shapeshifters, the Green Prophets, and the patrolling Rangers reduced the chances of the army being ambushed and raided to almost zero. And the addition of dragons has completely tilted the balance of hard power between the two sides in favor of the human side - the foolproof situation that Iger dreamed of has finally taken shape, and the army that has not been one of the most restrained aliens in human history has gathered and marched steadily but not slowly towards the south.

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Feeding the three dragons added a lot of logistical pressure to the Southern Expedition, but it was nothing compared to the advantages and odds they brought to this battle. In order to save the physical strength of people and dragons, Daenerys spends most of her time in the military carriage like Bran instead of riding on dragons, with three large flying flamethrowers hovering overhead all day, and the team seems to be marching much faster.

The fortresses along the Great Wall followed Egger's request, and immediately sent elite troops to set off lightly after receiving the message, and caught up with the large forces within dozens of hours of the southward pursuit. The day after the Coalition set out on the pursuit, the day after the Stranger crossed the Grand Canyon, they saw the northernmost trees of the Wolf Grove, and approached the Sue River in the afternoon, standing at the fork in the road leading to the last Hearthh and Winterfell...... Then caught up with the enemy.

Well, that's how most people feel—but Iger feels more like the enemy is waiting for him to come.

"The Shapeshifters reported that they had spotted an army of ghouls less than ten miles to the south, and by looking at the footprints, they had only recently left the Last Hearth. ”

Finally, Fireplace City is not located on King's Road, but it is not far from the main road. Now that the army of ghouls has passed through the castle and started to move south again, it is clear that the Amber family is too bad to spend hours trying to retake an empty city that is no longer alive. After confirming from Bran that the nine Strangers were still in the Zombie Tide and not separated, Iger did not waste time mourning the Northerners, but ordered the army to slow down but continue to chase the enemy's main force, Bran and the Shapeshifters kept an eye on the Zombie Tide and the Strangers, and sent a small patrol force to the last Hearthh City to investigate the situation.

It was already dark, and what the Rangers reported later confirmed Egger's judgment, but it was ...... In the end, the strange situation of leaving a large number of fresh corpses inside and outside the fireplace city did not disappear, which surprised him, and suddenly raised the sense of danger he perceived a notch.

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"Are you sure those are corpses, not motionless ghouls in disguise?

Pausing at the side of the marching army, Egg solemnly asked the scout about the details of the last Hearth.

A few years ago, after following Tyrion south to King's Landing, he followed Bunyan out of the Fortress to find the rangers of Weima Royce, and in this timeline, he still disguised himself as a dead man and returned to Castle Black to assassinate Mormont as in the original plot, and Egg did not forget that the enemy would play dead.

"Excluding the ghouls who were apparently killed during the siege, there were about one or two thousand, but all women and children, and almost no adult men and soldiers. We tentatively stabbed some of them with dragon crystal weapons, and they looked exactly like real corpses, and we didn't find anything out of the ordinary. "But to be on the safe side, and to prevent the enemy from using the ghouls to trap our troops, I propose to send a hundred men with me back to the last Hearthplace to dispose of the corpses by cremation." ”

"Don't bother. Daenerys, who got out of the carriage and stood aside, shook her head and said, "I'll call the dragon and fly to the front to stop the tide of corpses." Let's put those ...... before it gets dark. Well, destroy the strangers, and then slowly clean up the last Hearth, and no matter what the enemy had, it would be too late to carry it out. ”

"No, although the ten-mile journey looks like it has caught up on the map, the enemy is not a stationary target after all. In actual combat, it would take half an hour for the army to sprint through...... It's not a long time, but once the other party uses some means to injure and shoot down your dragon, we will definitely not have time to break the siege and rescue you. I insist on doing what was originally agreed - Your Majesty, your dragon must be engaged in battle by the ground forces before it can be put into battle!"

He looks like a loyal servant for the queen, but in reality - Iger doesn't care if the dragon lives or dies.

No, it's not that he doesn't care, he actually wishes that the three dragons would all die together with the aliens in the war, as long as Daenerys is alive: he swore allegiance to her, not because he fancied that the queen had dragons, but because he wanted to use her "last Targaryen" sign as a ladder and stepping stone to the stage. Without the dragon, Daenerys Targaryen is still the queen, still the monarch she has sworn allegiance to, but she has lost a lot of support, and only by relying on her gunpowder can she conquer the Seven Kingdoms - and once her dependence on the Night's Watch increases, as the commander-in-chief, her status and power in the new True Dragon Dynasty will also rise after the victory in the future, and even "blackmailing the queen to order the princes" is not a dream.

However, at best, dragons and wraiths were all gone, and there was no way Iger would have done anything stupid to kill them before the victory was decided. The real reason he insisted on keeping Daenerys' dragon from his own army was that only by acting in tandem could he ensure that even if the Wraiths shot down the dragon, the Night's Watch would have time to shoot the corpse with the dragon's steel arrows and prevent it from being resurrected as a corpse dragon!

Of course, Iger would never say that.

He ordered the guards to stop and camp and set up a cordon, then crouched down on the side of the road—opened the map on the low table that had been lifted out of the wagon, drew a few strokes, and began to explain why he had done so: "It's a bit unusual, I suspect that the wraiths are plotting to show up in our sight at sunset today. ”

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