The few cans of wildfire that smashed into the crowd were thrown by the sailors on the Running Wolf.

Obviously, the wildfire incendiary bomb is not suitable for melee combat, especially broadside combat between two ships—wildfires stained with the enemy and flames burning on the side of enemy ships can easily lead to one's own ships and soldiers as the two ships come into contact with each other, causing 1,000 enemy casualties and 800 self-losses.

But now, four ships are flanking one ship, and one of the longboats that has been supporting the gang and the other two longboats that have been hiding outside the range before are also rushing in close proximity, and nine times out of ten they are going to take advantage of the chaos to climb in the other directions of the Running Wolf to participate in the battle. At this life-and-death moment, if you don't decisively attack the enemy and still think about whether the wildfire will burn you, then soon, the people on the Wolf will not even have a chance to extinguish the fire!

With the sound of ping-pong crackling, the wildfire incendiary bombs slammed into the ironmen, and the sap poured out instantly onto their heads, shoulders, and the deck under their feet, and the people who were hit were bleeding and dizzy, not yet understanding what the liquid on their bodies was for...... The cyan flames bloomed in an instant, and the human body temperature and dry and loose warm clothing allowed the wildfire to spread faster than on the wet and cold hull, engulfing more than a dozen warriors in an instant, and the barbecue iron people were cooked on the spot!

The heart-rending screams replaced the roars of battle in an instant, and the beliefs and culture of the Iron People made them extremely afraid of fire, not to mention the hot green flames that burned their bodies and hurt their hearts? Fearing that the fire would spread to their own ship, the Night's Watch soldiers, who had thrown wildfire canisters by manpower, aimed as far away as possible at the middle of the deck of the enemy ship, far from the edge, and the front row of the Iron Men closest to the boat gang was not caught on fire...... It's just that the fire spread rapidly, and with the canister that hit the tail sail before, it has the potential to engulf the whole ship in an instant.

The crowd was forced to fry by the green flames, and the fire-bound wawa jumped into the sea with a scream, while the remaining soldiers who were forced back jumped over the gap between the two ships and jumped onto the Running Wolf after a moment of confusion and panic.

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Maggie wiped off the little spark splashed on the cuirass with her gloves and struck the side of the ship with the mace in her hand: "Good boys of the North, today is the time to prove your courage!"

"Long live the North!"

In the distance, another iron sailing ship responsible for covering the fire stopped fire for fear of accidental injury, and in the near distance, two small and one large three ships surrounded the Running Wolf in the north and launched a boarding operation from three directions at the same time.

"Long live the Iron Isles!"

"Kill—"

Amid the heat of the wooden boat and the wildfire, the shouts of murder sounded again after a moment's interruption, and the first soldier to jump on the Wolf Running Wolf forced back the northern soldier closest to him, only to be met by a short, age-looking woman. I was about to say sarcastically, "Even women from the north have been sent to the battlefield", but I saw this woman waving her arms mercilessly, and the mace flew towards her chest with impeccable speed and strength, and it was too late to stop it, and she fell backwards in a strong force, with no one behind him, and just like that, she flipped into the gap between the two boats and fell into the water.

The difference between broadside combat and field combat is that you step on the deck rather than the ground, but it is different from land combat: because the combat field is small, both sides have no way out, the battle is usually fierce and chaotic, and individual martial arts are not as large as ordinary skirmishes in this case. When attacking, the Iron Folk will board the enemy ship in as close as possible time by lining up and huddled in piles, and fight in a formation of "people pushing people, protecting people, and flanking and back rows of each other", in this case, after boarding the enemy ship, until they establish superiority, they will be in three directions, left, right and back, or at least two directions are their own people.

But this time...... The few cans of wildfire that had just smashed into the middle of the crowd completely destroyed the formation of the jumping gang, and although there were very few who were engulfed by the fire and had to jump into the sea, the lucky ones who did not have a little wildfire on their bodies were also less than one in ten, and most of the Iron Folk raiders were holding weapons in one hand to guard against the opponent's attack, while they were also scrambling to fight the flames that were on the armor, but with little success. In such a state, how can you win the war?

And the soldiers in the north who had been waiting for a long time had already shouted slogans and pressed up like a wall. Flesh and blood flew with the light of swords and swords, and the smell of burnt human flesh and the smell of oil smoke were quickly mixed with the smell of fishy and feces and urine, and the Iron People warriors who had jumped on the boat only a moment earlier were either chopped into meat sauce or driven into the sea.

"Don't mess around! Leave a team to put out the fire, and a team to get the oars - push the boat on the other side away! Follow me if you are not hurt, go to the other side and continue to fight back!"

In the slightly weaker impact and vibration of the two before the other, the two longships also seized the opportunity to get on the Running Wolf, and the hook claw rope was thrown up in a mess. Due to the lack of a deck, the longship's hull is one man taller than that of the Running Wolf, and experienced ironclad captains tend to wait for their medium and large ships to entangle and contain the enemy's deck personnel before calmly approaching and climbing, so as to minimize the disadvantage of attacking from low to high......

It usually works, and this one was no exception: the wounded, corpses, incendiary bombs, and sporadic flames from the deck of the Running Wolf made the mess, and in the chaos someone had to get the oars to push the burning enemy sailboat away from burial, and in the end only seven or eight men were freed up to deal with two ships of new enemies.

The oarsmen of the longship are warriors themselves, and there are more than 50 people on the two longships, and as long as they can climb to the deck, they can completely turn the tide of battle!

But the battle didn't go according to script – the two longships were greeted by a couple of incendiary, equally relentless and reckless wildfire cocktails.

The small longship was not as large as a sail warship to dodge and escape, and when the two newly approaching Iron Men ships were engulfed in the same green flames, few of the sailors on them were not even completely spared, and the difference in altitude between the two ships cut off the possibility of the longship oarsmen jumping from the fire. In the midst of the group screams like a recreation of the situation, these dozens of iron warriors who could have decided the victory also chose to jump out of the boat to extinguish the fire, even if they died, they would die in the sea, so that their souls could go to the flowing water palace of the drowning gods......

The human threat vanished for a moment, leaving only three flames burning on the water to surround the Wolf.

A few northern soldiers with bows and arrows either watched or named the Iron Island sailors who were still swimming towards the ship and trying to climb, while the more crew dragged oars and sticks from the cabin, sweating profusely to push the three burning enemy ships away from the Wolf as much as possible.

In the distance, the captain of the fourth sailboat, who was waiting for his teammates to win, couldn't believe his eyes, and after making sure that several friendly ships had been destroyed, he ordered to fire again at the Running Wolf. After several rounds of tossing that no one hit anyone, and fearing the terrifying power of the wildfire, it finally chose to withdraw from the battlefield, and quickly disappeared from view with its huge mobility advantage - much to the relief of the Running Wolf, which had almost run out of incendiary bombs.

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The first Battle of Icy Bay began abruptly and ended quickly. The only ship in the north was killed and more than 20 were seriously wounded—more than half of them were burned and scalded in the firefighting after the battle. After the last enemy ships fled, it took them more than an hour to extinguish the areas on their ships that had been set on fire by the wanton use of wildfires with prepared sand and gravel, and it took a lot of effort to make sure the boats were afloat.

The hull was littered with potholes that had been burned or knocked out, and the mainmast had lost its reliability from a stony bullet, and no one dared to raise the sails...... In the end, the Wolf picked up a few prisoners of the Iron Island nobles, left ordinary soldiers to wait for death in the icy waters, and relied on six oars to take turns to row the "flagship" of the bruised and crooked Northern Fleet back to Icefjord Harbor.

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The next day, news of the naval battle reached the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch in Houguan Town, and the Iron Folk ships cruising in the Cold Ice Bay finally discovered the existence of Icefjord...... Egger responded by sending the most combat-ready unit of the land grant, the "Queen's Town Rangers" (in fact, the Northerners led by Jaime Lannister), to Icefjord Harbor to strengthen the westernmost fortifications, while maintaining the original reinforcement arrangement.

The conflict that broke out in the Icy Bay, while related to the Night's Watch, was essentially an extension of the war between the North and the Iron Islands, and the news of the naval battle arrived at about the same time as a patrol report from the Shadow Tower Commander.

Sending Rangers across the canyon from the Skull Bridge to scout the Fishbeam Grove to the north was meant to be Egger's response to the momentous event of Bran's return, in order to be prepared and forewarned.

The long wait for the Wraiths to wake up in the Land of Eternal Winter and have been operating outside the Cypriots for four years without launching a general assault on the human kingdom has inevitably brought an atmosphere of slackness to the Night's Watch: intellectually, everyone knows that the Wraiths will attack at any time, so they are actively preparing for battle, but intuitively, not to mention the ordinary soldiers below, even Egg, the self-proclaimed clear-headed Supreme Commander, can't help but feel like this—it probably won't be today.

But this time, the swiftness with which Colin sent back the news from Xiqiaowang greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

The first group of Rangers who crossed the Skull Bridge to reconnoiter the outside of the Fortress were ready for a big adventure, but they didn't go far enough to easily spot the trail they were trying to find—and it was too obvious to ignore: hundreds, thousands, endless seas of ghouls, rusted axes, rotting bodies...... In short, all possible ways are to destroy the magnificent Yuliang Forest.

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