Flames lit up everywhere within the walls of the Shadow Tower, except for the hidden contents...... The part of the defense plan that is open to everyone has also reached the final step: street fighting and evacuation.

As the rhythmic alarm bells sounded on behalf of the fall of the city gates, the soldiers on the wall also began to abandon their defenses, retreated into the fortress in an orderly manner, lit the buildings and the barricades that had been piled up in the first half of the night, and fought and retreated relying on the fire and the familiar terrain, gradually shrinking and retreating towards the stairs of the wall in a semicircle.

The situation was decided, the Wraiths did not enter the fortress with the tide of ghouls, and Bane, who held the two Lightbringers, did not wait for the opportunity to become the Leach Slayer in the end, but this also meant that the strange situation of the flames extinguishing would no longer happen within the walls. In this "no anomaly" situation, the advantages of good training and pre-planning became apparent: although everyone knew that the fall of the fortress was a foregone conclusion, and they had to retreat to the top of the Great Wall to other fortresses, the black-clad Night's Watch commanders did not take the lead in panicking, and the mountain clans and new land-giver soldiers under their command did the same, gritting their teeth to buy time for the evacuated women and children and logisticians.

Commanding the soldiers to move all the combustibles they could find—lamp oil, asphalt, and even cloth and firewood—under the stairs, Dennis Mellister sighed and looked in the direction of the fortress, which had turned into a sea of fire—the non-combatants had almost withdrawn, and he was now worried about whether the things he had prepared would destroy the stairs.

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There are nineteen fortresses along the Wall, and only the original night watch, the Long Night Fort, was built when the ice wall was built, and Brandon the Builder left a passage to the top of the wall and an ice staircase for it in the blueprints.

Eighteen fortresses, including the Shadow Tower and the Black Castle, were built by the craftsmen of the Night's Watch Legion, and the stairs on the wall were nailed deep into the ice wall with extremely thick logs, and after wind, frost, rain, snow and repair, they have almost integrated with the Great Wall.

As Dennis Mellister and his guards were racking their brains as to "where else in the fortress were there to be left, there was a good idea: a second reinforcement from Shimen Village had descended to the ground through stairs and cages, carrying wildfire.

"Sir Mellister!" the deputy commander of Shimen Village, who led the team, was selected and promoted from the Shadow Tower, and he recognized his old boss at a glance, "We have brought two boxes of explosive bombs, ten boxes of wildfire, and a hundred men, where do you want us to go to support, please just give us orders!"

"Just in time! pile everything around the base of the staircase, and when you're done, go back to the top of the Great Wall along the stairs, and let the people above be ready to burn the stairs and use wildfire!"

"What?" the reinforcement leader stared wide-eyed at the Shadow Tower, which had been familiar and unfamiliar after being rebuilt, but now it was on fire everywhere, "Are you sure you don't need support?"

"Go back to the top of the Wall! it's an order!" Dennis said loudly with all his might, even turning to his own guards, "You too! The new mission is to guard the top of the Wall and not let any enemy climb up the stairs or walls. This is an order, execute it immediately, this side covers the task of evacuating and igniting the follow-up brothers, I can do it alone!"

"......"

"But your mother? Which of your ears can't understand the words 'this is an order'? Get out of here, don't get in front of the stairs, blocking the way for the brothers behind to escape!"

Dennis Mellister never swears, and his unusual tone reflects the strength of his determination, and the reinforcements who are either nervous or enthusiastic about to rush into the battlefield lie on the ground under the stairs, and several of Dennis's guards look at each other for a few seconds, and roughly understand the Shadow Tower Commander's plan: this venerable old man intends to live and die with the fortress.

We stayed with you to block your throat, but in the end, no one could muster up the courage to say it, and everyone could only straighten their waists with admiration, with tears in their eyes: "Yes, sir!"

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Living with the fortress and dying? shit!

Despite his gray hair and beard and wrinkled face, Dennis looks like a complete old diehard and conservative...... But the conscience of heaven and earth, he was never a pedantic or stubborn person. Only a fool would have such a stupid idea to take a step back and say that such a thing that can be solved by igniting such a rocket, where does it need to be done by him, the commander of the shadow tower, to do it himself? Surviving and preserving the living force is the real beneficial method for the situation of the war.

However, speaking of the living force, the Shadow Tower still has at least 900 soldiers who have not been evacuated at the moment, and they are following the tactics that have been planned for a long time, step by step, or panicked or methodical retreat in their own direction. Compared to this old man, they are the real living force!

But they were destined to not be able to withdraw, and Dennis understood this the moment the ghoul vanguard broke through the door: the defenders who had been glued to the ghouls by the buttocks, if they crowded around him and went up the stairs to evacuate, they would inevitably form chaos under the stairs, and it would be difficult to say how many could escape, if the ghouls were given the opportunity to blend in the crowd and climb the stairs to the top of the wall, they would become sinners for the ages.

Although they are not dead, they are still fighting, and they have not even suffered more than half of the casualties, but they are already the first round of this life-and-death battle, and the human side is destined to lose the "sunk cost" - there is no way to save it, and trying to force it out will only trap more soldiers, and even put the entire Great Wall in crisis.

However, leaving hundreds of brothers to flee for their lives alone, I have already lived for more than 70 years, and I have a good reputation for a lifetime, if I bear such a big stigma when my neck is buried in the soil, then I can really regret and come back to life!

Dennis does not want to live and die with the Shadow Tower, but with the remaining brothers who obey and trust him, but in the end they will be cut off by his own hands. If the destruction of the ladder is compared to the broken wrist of a strong man, then his "knife" to perform the task should also be buried with the broken half of his arm!

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He drew his long sword, used his trembling hands together, and used his blade to pry open one tightly nailed wooden box after another, placing the explosive bombs protected in the shock absorbing straw pile next to the original pile of incendiary materials, and opening the lids of the wildfire canisters one by one, and pouring them onto the wooden planks at the bottom of the staircase...... During this period, there were still sporadic logistics personnel who did not keep up with the large army because of various delays in various affairs, and the logistics personnel ran through the middle of the fortress to ask if they needed help, and they were all rushed to the top of the wall after a few yells from Dennis.

After spending more than ten minutes to get ready, he panted and held on to the wooden railing, took down the torch that was stuck in the side, and finally looked in the direction of the main road leading to the staircase of the fortress.

He also wanted to save a few more, even if it was a deserter, as long as the person who came was not chased by the ghouls...... But the last living creature to run past him was the dog in the kitchen of the Shadow Tower—the poor little creature sensed the presence of cold magic, and whimpered past Dennis's feet, and without even stopping to look at him, the commander, he skilfully fled on all fours and down the stairs to the top of the Wall.

Then, there are the corpse wolves and corpse bears that emerge from the darkness - these ghoul vanguard troops who came from the direction of the gate to kill the defense line first, and under the orders of the Night King, they achieved a "true and non-love war" that humans would never be able to do. Ignoring the soldiers who were close at hand, they didn't care about slaughtering a routed enemy in their way or blocking the Night's Watch troops from other directions who were withdrawn from the wall, like hot knives slicing through butter, and swooped straight in the direction of the stairs up the wall with a clear purpose, and were the first to appear in Dennis's field of vision when most of the fortress had not yet fallen, and even the troops blocking the gate were still fighting.

It's fast!

Dennis secretly praised, not only to affirm the enemy's efficiency, but also to admire the "Defense Plan" that expected everything...... Although he didn't write this plan, at this moment he couldn't help but feel a wave of pride in his chest: No matter how you use all your means, you will still be defeated by us humans in the end.

He pulled out a toothy smile, let go of the torch, and burst out a foul language that he had never said in his life: "Come on, you sons of!"

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