Chapter 217: Captive
Wildfires mixed with a large amount of lamp oil and asphalt lost the ability to explode, and in an ordinary castle attack and defense, a ball of flame naturally could not stop the attacker from climbing and destroying the rest of the city wall, but in front of the special defensive structure of the Desperate Wall...... With the only possible point of breakthrough being the city gates, an eerie green flame that enveloped the gates became the best means of defense.
The wildlings were not going to risk an overhead attack to extinguish the fire, and the blazing green flame would obviously not end for a while. Now, it's time to do the night watchmen on the ground a favor.
"Leave twenty people here, and if there is a situation, blow the trumpet!" Iger said loudly, and casually selected a row of old and sick remnants to continue to monitor: "Others, take the guys downstairs and help the brothers below!"
Because he didn't know the situation under the Great Wall, Iger waited for the first group of people to go downstairs before taking the soldiers directly under the logistics department back to the ground by elevator. What relieved him was that the battle below was nearing its end, and he didn't need to go into battle to fight the enemy himself.
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A tower was on fire, corpses were everywhere, living people were running around, and to the delight of most of those still alive were dressed in black. The low wooden walls and barricades could not stop the attackers, but the wildlings were in trouble when they lost the battle and fled, and as far as Iger could see, two of the wildlings were stabbed through the back by the Night's Watch as they tried to escape over the wall. Night's watchmen in groups of three or two are going from tower to tower and building to search for wildlings who have broken into hiding...... Castle Black has not yet been cleared, but the battle is actually over.
After extinguishing the fire, treating the wounded, and counting the damage of friend and foe, the craftsmen and clerks put away their weapons and began to devote themselves to the post-war clean-up work.
Jaime approached with a blood-stained sword, and after a great battle, he finally forgot about his mistake for a while, and his face was finally no longer expressionless: "This is a place of ...... Is it so exciting every day?"
"How could it be. Iger understands that this exciting experience of being drawn into a bloody battle as soon as he arrives can easily frighten the newcomer, and Jaime and his bodyguards have not yet had a choice, if the young men in the logistics department who have not sold themselves want to quit because they are afraid, then they will have to scramble for a while: "The reason why this battle happened is completely a decision-making mistake of the night watch command, and now that I am back, I will never give the wildlings such a chance to fight on both sides!"
"Being caught between two sides is not the worst thing...... As the headquarters of the Night's Watch, can't Castle Black build a solid wall?" The Monarch Slayer looked a little puzzled and annoyed: "There are so many idle towers here, just tear down a few and dig up some mud, it's enough to build a high wall." ”
Jaimeken spoke, which was a good start, and Egger naturally did not object to his proposal, and shrugged: "I will pass on your suggestion to Commander Mormont, take your people to find a place to rest, and the rest of the work will be done by the night watchmen." ”
There was a quarrel more than ten meters away, and Egg heard Jon's voice and immediately rushed over to check on the situation.
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"This cousin killed at least two of our brothers!"
"She surrendered and is now my captive. Jon confronted the speaker.
"I didn't see her surrender. ”
Jon grabbed the savage, "Will you surrender?"
"I surrender. The woman's words were foggy in the cold air.
"You've taken a fancy to this savage girl! The Great Wall is so lonely, and your bastard's evil bloodline is about to move, isn't it?"
"This is my captive. Jon insisted on this: "Has anyone stipulated that the battle against the wildlings should not be taken prisoners, and we can learn about the wildlings' strategy and deployment by interrogating her!"
"Most savages would rather bite their tongues and kill themselves than answer questions, which is a wasted effort. ”
Egg approached the scene and saw the wild woman who was being held by Jon - she had red hair.
It's Ygritte, and she can't see it in the night...... She was still involved in the raid on Castle Black, but was captured by Jon in the melee, was it a teenage spirit who was caught by a female wildling, or was it fate that they had to meet?
Iger didn't want to think much about this pointless question, and he interrupted the argument between the two groups of night watchmen: "If there's any one alive, arrest it!
"The captives still have to eat our food!"
With the new army he trained in King's Landing as a comparison, the discipline and quality of the night watchman who originally seemed so strict seemed to have become so ordinary at this moment, any small soldier would dare to come and confront the chief logistics officer? Egg frowned, realizing that what he said was still not very effective: "The problem of food will naturally be solved by the logistics department, stop talking nonsense, clean up the battlefield, and the people in the kitchen will prepare dinner!"
The Chief Craftsman and the Clerk were honest men who didn't like to give orders, and Commander Mormont and the Chief Ranger were absent, and when they returned to Castle Black after a year's absence, Iger was a bit of a boss and became the temporary head of the place. The steaming onion broth was quickly carried out of the kitchen, and everyone had a share, but at the same time, they did not forget to bring it to the sentries who stayed at the top of the Great Wall, and served it with bread, quickly replenishing the physical exertion of everyone in a big battle.
In the dark, it becomes especially difficult to count until midnight...... The preliminary figures were calculated: the defenders of Castle Black lost twenty-six men and wounded a few, and about two hundred wildlings attacked Castle Black, of whom seventy-six were killed and five captured, and the rest fled into the night.
The elite soldiers Jaime brought with him from the West, armed with spears, were as unstoppable as the gods of slaughter, and they alone killed nearly half of the enemy, but only four of them were killed. The raiding wildlings never dreamed of it—they had gone to great lengths to disengage the most elite rangers of the Night's Watch, but on the day of the raid, they were confronted by the more combat-ready Elite of the West.
Against the best of the wildlings, this casualty ratio was a big victory, but considering that the total population of the opposing side was a hundred times that of the Night's Watch, it was not worth mentioning.
After drinking the hot soup, gnawing the bread, and burning the bodies of the savages and the sacrificed brethren, there was still no trumpet sound from the top of the Great Wall. No one could tell if the wildlings would attack tonight, but three hundred men could not wait like this, and after consulting with the chief craftsman and the officer, the three commanders drew up a new night watch - to ensure that twenty men were on guard at all times at the top of the Wall and thirty men from the towers around Castle Black.
In the name of not being a member of the Night's Watch, Egger helped the logistics staff he brought with him evade their shifts. After a thousand-mile journey and the ensuing horror battle, they were lucky enough to be unwound and moved into Harding's Tower at Egger's behalf, choosing this one because Jon and his friends lived there. The night watchman is a unit, but where there are people, there are small groups, and with the tacit consent of the commander, the soldiers can generally choose their own accommodation, ensuring that they are with those who are familiar and close to them...... Anyway, the Black Castle was built with a capacity of 5,000 people, and there were many empty buildings.
After a chaotic and exhausting day, Egger had no strength to catch up with Jon, and after briefly cleaning the room with his followers, lighting the fireplace and making the bed, he quickly fell asleep.
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The wildlings did not attack again that night, and after a good night's sleep, they arrived at the Great Wall the next day.
The situation was terrible, the oil barrels were depleted by a third in last night's battle, and there was only one tank left in the wildfire. The most troublesome thing is that the outer gate has been completely deformed and twisted after the destruction of the giants and the scorching fire in the middle of the night, and has detached from the melting ice wall...... It can't be opened or closed, and it obviously can't resist the next round of destruction.
After dawn the next day, the wildlings launched another feint, dragging the corpses farther away from the Great Wall back into the forest and burning them, and then launched a second large-scale attack that night in chariots covered with animal skins...... However, in the case of the black castle south of the wall, without the cooperation of the wild people who crossed the wall, it was quickly repelled by the green flames that could not be extinguished by water.
The wildfires had run out and there weren't many oil drums left, but Egger had the idea to fill the tower with water and fill all the empty barrels he could find, and sent people to carry them to the top of the wall, where they were lined up in the corners.
Maybe it's these "oil drums" that scared the wildlings who controlled the birds to scout, maybe it was the two wildfire barbecues that scared them, or maybe it was the Ranger who was back on the back...... By the third day, the Wildlings had halted their assault on the Wall, and Commander Mormont and Sir Jeremy Lake had returned to Castle Black with some of the Rangers.
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