The situation changed so quickly that it was beyond Egger's expectations.

After blowing a breath in Daenerys' ear, she cut off the possibility of accepting the riverbend land, and then respectfully sent her away on a dragon ride...... It was supposed to be another peaceful and ordinary day of land granting, but before she walked back to the inner fort of Houguan Town from the "Dragon Takeoff and Landing", Melisandre hurried towards her with broken steps, and asked where the queen had gone. After answering honestly, the witch, who had always been calm, changed her face in an instant, and after a few words of hysterical accusations, she didn't even answer him to ask the reason, and ran back to the room in a panic.

I thought that the goddess's brain had been burned by magic, but it turned out that the priests of the Lord of Light would not get nervous for no reason: after dinner, as soon as it was dark, the highest level of alarm came from the direction of Donghai Wang and the Grand Canyon, and this final battle, which had been waiting for more than ten months, broke out suddenly less than five hours after the queen rode away...... Counting the time it took to get on the road and prepare for the action, it was almost certain that the enemy was actually moving on the moment Daenerys set off for the moment.

The "Land Grant Defense Plan" was activated, the industrial zone was shut down and the workshops were vacated, the important personnel on the list were withdrawn into the inner fort, and the ordinary land donors, including the giants, who had moved outside the wall, all dragged their belongings and squeezed into the wall through the gates under the orderly command of the defenders, and settled down in the division.

There was no arrangement for fighting in the field, and when the evacuation was completed, the gate was slammed shut, and all the men and women who could hold weapons were armed by Long Jing...... All one could do was wait long and tormenting, and pray that the defenders on the front line of the Great Wall would keep the enemy out, or that the walls of Houguan Town would be tall and strong.

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Unlike ordinary residents, who can only wait for their fate, the people in the leadership still have to try to understand the situation, the situation of the war, and respond to it. Although the Great War has begun, the Night King can't ...... after all Perhaps because he didn't want to waste his strength to cut off the enemy's means of communication, the massive amount of information on the front line was still sent to the commander-in-chief's desk through the letter crow, and the command room at the core of the inner fort was full of people.

There is nothing worth discussing about the situation in Donghaiwang, and the freezing of Seal Bay is one of the key situations in the plan, except for the violent ice storm that seems to be the sneezing of the gods that caught everyone off guard, and everything that follows unfolds as planned.

But the Grand Canyon side ...... To be precise, the situation in the direction of Cold Ice Bay has been unexpected.

"Bingxia Harbor was attacked by the Iron Fleet, and due to the initial command error, it was once attacked by the landing port and entered the fortress, with more than 200 casualties and heavy losses of internal facilities and materials...... The Northern Fleet lost one warship and seriously damaged one, leaving only the "Running Wolf" undamaged. ”

"What, Iron Fleet, how could they be so desperate as to harass Icefjord Harbor at the same time that the ghosts are attacking?"

"It's said that this Euron is a madman, could it be that he has discussed with the Night King, and the inside and outside should work together to destroy the Night's Watch, destroy the human world, and let him be the ruler of the remnants of the human race?"

"Don't think nonsense, if the Night King really has the idea and ability to negotiate with humans, wouldn't it be easier to come directly to our commander-in-chief to ask for benefits?

The officials in the room were arguing, while Iger carefully read the post-war report from Icegap.

The Iron Folk have been enemies of the North for the past two years, and this time Yu Lun discovered the Northern Military Port hidden in the Cold Ice Bay, and led the Iron Fleet to demonstrate and harass him, which is completely reasonable. But he ended up attacking on the same day or even at the same time as the Night King's general attack - if this is a coincidence, does anyone believe it?

He didn't believe it anyway.

Once, Iger may have reluctantly admitted that he was unlucky after a few struggles...... But now, knowing that there really are gods in this world, he instantly thinks of something that few people believe when he says it.

He had heard from Melisandre that the drowning god was a slave of the god of cold, and he had thought that it was just a habitual argument of the gods to exalt the gods they believed in and belittle other beliefs, but now it seemed to have some truth?

Euron's role in this final battle is likely to be the same as his own: only he is a pawn of the Lord of Light, and he is the god of cold!

Of course, it is impossible for the Iron People to consciously weaken the power of the human side at the critical moment of the human-ghost war—they may not know or believe in the existence of the alien and dead armies. However, as long as the cold god implants the idea of "tonight is an auspicious day to launch an attack" in Yulun's subconscious, he can effortlessly convert a large group of living people into his own arms, and at the critical moment when the Night King leads his army across the canyon, he can use the living to deal with the living, providing excellent flanking assistance for the main force!

The ultimate result of this move was that the Icegap Harbor was besieged by the Iron Folk and was unable to send reinforcements and combat readiness to the adjacent front line, and the western section of the Grand Canyon began to collapse less than half an hour after the engagement, resulting in the entire canyon defense line not playing as expected by the original builder, namely Egger.

However, there is no point in thinking about the cause of the coincidence and complaining about the people, and it is more important to decide how the Night's Watch should respond based on the next move of the two enemy forces.

He knocked on the table and interrupted the discussion of everyone in the room: "Don't continue this meaningless topic, continue to check the crow cage and all the letters, sort out the casualty data of the canyon defense line for me, and report the enemy movements observed by the Great Wall!"

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Different from the long-distance letter crows used to communicate with the southern night watchman industry, the short-distance letter crows used for communication between Houguan Town and various strongholds along the Great Wall have been trained to "deliver messages back and forth by themselves day and night", so that they can communicate with each other continuously, every one or two hours, and then divide by the number of strongholds and letter crows, and the personnel who send messages from the crow cage to the command center in Houguan Town have arrived one after another...... Egg, who had planned to take the time to inspect the defense of the outer city walls, could only stay in the war conference room all night, and could not stop at all—people didn't care, but they were just suffering from the clever birds that had been flying around all night.

After the Night King's army successfully crossed the Grand Canyon and took the Gorge Lookout, they were slow to launch an attack on the Great Wall, which made it doubtful that they were heading directly south towards Houguan Town...... They even bypassed the Night's Watch stronghold and headed straight to the north. Fortunately, the worst of the worst did not happen, and when the letter crows who were supposed to go to the Shadow Tower flew back to the crow's nest after circling around and refused to leave, the command judged that the enemy attack on the Shadow Tower had begun.

This is good news, and at least it shows that what the Green Prophet Bran said earlier about magic within the Wall is true: the Wraiths can't bypass the Wall and head straight south without any scruples, leaving Egger's painstakingly managed land-grant defenses in vain......

However, the attack came late, but ended quite quickly, and in just over an hour, the Shadow Tower, the strongest fortress at the western end of the Wall, which Egger had hoped would hold back the enemy for a night, turned into a sea of fire.

This is the first complete military information of "the human defenders and the dead army led by the strangers", and the significance is self-evident, and when Egger and a group of staff members were solemnly analyzing the new abilities and new tactics used by the enemy, the good news of the unexpected victory of the Jedi counterattack in the East Sea was also sent into the house by the soldiers.

"Hey, this is interesting, the defense of the Shadow Tower should only be stronger than that of Donghai Wang, how can there be such a big gap?"

"Wonderful, the front-line army has fought a defeat and a victory in two places, analyze and compare, summarize the reasons, and definitely get some useful information for the next battle!"

With his nod of approval and order, everyone in the room, the entire Night's Watch think tank, put down their work, gathered together, and began to prioritize the gathering of useful information from the two strongholds, which had very different endings.

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First of all, the enemy's strength, since the East Sea has already won, it can be counted a little more accurately: the number of ghoul troops coming across the sea should be between 10,000 and 20,000, led by two strangers, and the number of the enemy's main force coming across the Grand Canyon can only be estimated - the personal judgment given by Severed Palm Colin is: "more than 50,000". Even though the Night's Watch had already taken in more than 30,000 wildlings, the number of enemies was terrifying and frightening to think about.

Then there was the difference between what the Night's Watch had known about them: the ghouls showed clear signs of being commanded, and were no longer just swarming at the enemy, but were able to perform simple tactics such as encircling, feints to attract attention, focusing on attacking weak gates, and interspersing the fortress with direct access to vital targets, and the Wraiths showed the ability to extinguish wildfires and not be afraid of dragon crystal weapons, two things that had never been shown before.

These changes made the defense plan a little out of date, but they were not too unexpected, but they further confirmed the previously agreed judgment that the Stranger has a high level of intelligence—both wildfire and dragon crystal were weapons used by the Night's Watch in previous skirmishes, and it was normal for the enemy to have prepared a targeted response and solution to the characteristics of these weapons.

Finally, it is a summary of the reasons why Donghai Wang can win: it is past midnight at this moment, and the time is the next day...... But everyone present, including Egger, didn't remember until this time that a fleet loyal to the queen from Dragonstone had arrived yesterday during the daytime with a book-picker. It's just that no one expected that it was these dozens of people who would play a huge role and make a great contribution to the night watchman at the beginning of the war!

After reconstructing as much as possible from the battle report to the hunt for strange ghosts, Iger quickly realized that he had made a small but fatal mistake.

He had been close to and slashed the Stranger, so he subconsciously felt that everyone should know what the Stranger looked like and be able to find it. But the reality is that most people have only seen or heard of the appearance of the strange ghosts from afar, and these magical creatures hide in the sea of ghouls, and do not actively send them to humans to die, with no artifacts and no target!

Mortals who can't do magic will have to be guided by otherworldly beings like Macchiro, Melisandre, or the Green Prophet Bran in order to identify key enemies and give them targeted attacks. But in the entire land grant, only these three people have this ability, and they can't even find the fourth!

A letter was sent to all the forts along the Great Wall informing them of the situation, and all commanders were ordered to block the gates overnight, and to draw up new contingency plans to be used in the event of a recurrence of wildfire failures. Egger spun around and began to call the shots, using the newly acquired information to make targeted tactical and strategic responses," and, in a polite way, thanked Mr. Macchiro for his contribution to the Night's Watch during the Great War, and asked him to immediately go to the Long Night Castle to help defend the most critical fortress along the Great Wall. ”

(There are three transcendent beings in the land grant on the human side at the moment, and there are two in Houguan Town, and the Long Night Castle, as the core of the magic source of the Great Wall, has not one!Houguan Town has gathered nearly half of the civilians in the entire land grant, and it is impossible not to defend it, so what can be done at the moment is to let Machiro work hard, rush to the Long Night Fort as soon as possible to sit in the town and fill the vacancy of the transcendent existence there.) ）

"Yes, sir!"

"Yam, you immediately organize the manpower to demolish the inconsequential buildings in the industrial area, and use the materials you get to block a few gates, and make sure that they are only stronger than the walls!"

(The enemy may attack the weak points of the wall with heavy weapons, and the best way to deal with them is to make those weak points disappear!)

"Understood!"

"Humphrey, go to Master Mott and Miss Melisandre to reopen a separate foundry in the industrial area, and ask the two of them to reforge some of the Dragonsteel arrowheads into fragments for the purpose of loading two explosive bombs for the Night King!"

(Egger originally planned to use the Dragon Crystal Bomb as a gift for the Strangers, but the plan did not catch up with the change, and the enemy was immune to the Dragon Crystal Bomb while mastering the weapon against the Dragon Crystal...... Although it has been proved that the dragon steel arrows can still be effective, but in the case of having already shot two strange spirits, it is difficult to guarantee that the Night King will think of a new way to deal with the dragon steel arrows when he attacks next time, then, the safest way is to temporarily hold on to the Buddha's feet and get a new killing weapon. Perhaps, with the same appearance as the "Dragon Crystal Bomb", the "Dragon Steel Bomb" can more easily build miraculous skills. ）

"Okay, I'll do it. ”

"The rest of the personnel, it should be left to continue to deal with the battle report, and if you have time, draft a new chapter of defense plan for me - with the theme of "When Houguan Town encounters a wildfire and part of the city wall is lost, how to quickly mobilize reserves to recapture the city wall and plug the gap", I will think about it together when I come back. Egg gave one last command, got up and walked to the door, "As for me, I'm going to talk to Bran Stark now and see what else he can offer me...... New useful information. ”

(The Green Prophet is by no means more than just the ability to "be an eye", and now that the enemy is now, it's time to squeeze this guy's ability and value.) ）

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