Donghaiwang was the first to meet the challenge of the dead, but I don't know if it was a coincidence or an appointment - on the other side of Westeros, which is separated by the entire Great Wall and a Grand Canyon, another coastal fortress "Icefjord Harbor" with a night watchman, also encountered trouble from the living.

While the newly formed Northern Navy did not dare to attack Euron Greyjoy, the latter's fleet was equally afraid of the well-established defenses of Icefjord. In this way, the iron people flaunted their might in the cold ice bay, and the artisan sailors and night watchmen in the north were relieved to huddle in the harbor to build ships and explode troops - on the surface, it seems that no one on either side can help the other, but after all, the shipyard in the ice gap port is rushing to build warships day and night, and with the advantage of heritage and size, the north will inevitably have the upper hand in the confrontation attrition...... Probably aware of this, after a few days of confrontation, Euron finally made a move.

Soldiers patrolling along the coastline during the day were the first to report back the news: less than ten miles south of Bingxia Harbor, a number of long ships had docked and sent a large number of raiders to land.

There were no villages to loot along the shores of Cold Ice Bay, and the intention of sending troops to land could not be more obvious: the iron people, thousands of miles away from home, did not want to be consumed any longer, and were ready to take out the Icefjord Harbor with a single blow by attacking from both sides of the land and water, and strangle the northern navy in the cradle.

The harbor fortress was only a thousand defenders, and the Grand Canyon had to be taken care of at the same time, and the defense was more than enough to attack, although the news was detected in advance, the commander of the Icegap Harbor still chose to send a letter crow to report to the Shadow Tower, and then hold on to the spot.

The sky was as dark as ink, the moon struggled to disappear among the thick clouds, the ice storm that swept the entire coast of Seal Bay did not blow here at all, and it was a normal night when the wind was howling, and there seemed to be no sound between heaven and earth except the sound of the wind and the rattle of the waves crashing against the shore.

The night sentry had already eaten dinner and stood on top of the fortress walls. Having learned in advance of the enemy's possible night attack tonight, the number of soldiers on duty doubled, and all of them kept their eyes wide open, staring vigilantly in every direction around the fortress, refusing to miss the slightest disturbance, and every time anyone saw something suspicious of a human figure moving, they would immediately report it to the captain and use the Mill lens to reconnoitre.

However, the first to spot the target were the guards from the sea watchtowers who kept an eye on the sea.

Euron deliberately let some of the Iron Men land the scene was detected by the patrols in the north, but the real direction of attack was still the sea - tonight the sky was cloudy and extremely dark, and a dozen sailing ships equipped with trebuchets or other long-range attack weapons arrived in the waters of the Cold Ice Bay outside the mouth of the Ruhe River and sailed straight to the port of Ice Gorge, until they were only a few hundred meters away from the coast, before suddenly opening fire. More than a dozen projectiles trailing firelight and smoke pierced the dark night sky, some falling into the icy waters to stir up waves, some smashing into the walls and splashing sparks, and others hitting the brand-new Northern warships anchored on the shore, quickly causing a fire threat.

There was an instant commotion in the originally deserted Icegap Harbor, the alarm bells were loud, the horns sounded, and out of every house were disheveled guys - whether they were already lying on the bed or not, all the people who heard the alarm turned over at the first time, put on their equipment and picked up the guys and rushed out of the house, quickly gathered the commander who could be found, and rushed to the combat position in charge under the leadership.

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"Will use all the trebuchets to help on the west tower! No, go to the harbor ship to extinguish the fire, leave a group of people to keep an eye on the outside of the wall, and call the police if you find the enemy!" the officer on duty ordered loudly, and ran down the wall with half of the soldiers, and rushed in the direction of the harbor.

Soon, a shore-based stone thrower and ballista began to counterattack the iron sailing ship that suddenly appeared on the ocean under the control of sufficient personnel, and it had many advantages such as a stable base, the impossibility of being sunk on the shore, and the amazing lethality of wildfire incendiary bombs, and soon gained an advantage in the bombardment.

However, just as most people's attention was attracted by the long-range weapons, hundreds of Iron Folk warriors who had already disembarked in the woods ambushed far from the fortress rushed out of their hiding places in a cloud of confusion, and under the cover of night, they were not seen by the soldiers on the top of the wall until they were less than 100 meters away from the city wall.

The young soldier who was the first to discover the situation was watching the fierce firework of sailing ships in the harbor and bay in the distance a moment ago, but the next second he heard the footsteps and talking from outside the wall, and cautiously threw out a torch, and saw dozens of dense human heads at a glance under the faint light, so frightened that he almost sat on the ground, and immediately shouted at his comrades around him, and sounded the alarm bell of the attack on the south wall.

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This was what Jaime faced as he rushed out of the house in full dress: "artillery fire" on the ocean in the direction of the harbor, and under the cover of this loud but not threatening sound, enemy sirens were heard in the direction of the walls to the south and east.

What the?

The monarch slayer frowned suspiciously.

From the beginning, he did not support Egger's decision to lease Icegap Harbor to the North as a military port, nor did he think much of the "kneeling and licking" method of "proactively providing heavy protection", which relied on loyalty in exchange for assistance from other aspects of the Starks...... Not to mention now that you're going to have to fight the Iron Folk yourself.

At the beginning, he voluntarily came to the Great Wall because his unsightly things brought a danger of extinction to the family. He wanted to atone for his sins by desperately acting with "human enemies" like strangers, and by the way, find a place to spend the rest of his life in peace.

What's the point of just changing places and ending up fighting against living people, especially those within the Seven Kingdoms?

While he did hate the paranoid and greedy pirates of the Iron People, he didn't like the stinky, hard, and self-righteous Northlanders either...... Now Iger has to fight another gang of nasty people for a bunch of people he doesn't really like, and it feels terrible! It's not his war!

Unhappy is not happy, Jaime has no intention of picking and not doing anything. First, the Iron Islands are indeed at war with the West, and fighting the Iron People is not against his family's interests; second, as the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, Iger really has nothing to be sorry for himself, relying on his authority to take care of his three children and even himself; and the third reason is a little inexplicable—he has experienced the feeling of love from someone other than Cersei for the first time, and has someone other than his family to protect.

Because of his handsome appearance since he was a child, Jaime has seen many women who have taken the initiative to show favor to him...... It's not unusual to be chased, but Var fully shows the reason why she got the nickname "Savage Princess": despite knowing her past of breaking her vows, and hearing about the scandal of sleeping with her own sister, although he is no longer powerful, rich and powerful, Tile is still willing to approach and understand him, peeling back the layers of the hard shell he protects around him, and touching his soft heart that is not a man.

And after finally deciding that she wanted to be with herself, her extremely unrestrained and enthusiastic but sincere offensive, which was completely different from the ordinary women of the Seven Kingdoms, could make any man with normal body and mind fall.

Jaime now had a reason to fight—not to mention that the Iron People, led by the madman Euron Greyjoy, wouldn't spare himself just because he yelled, "Don't fight, I don't like the Northerners as much as you do." As it makes sense, he has to do his best.

Although the team of his cronies had been armed and assembled in front of him, although they had semi-voluntarily accompanied him to the Great Wall as night watchmen under the pressure of his father, Duke Tywin, their fighting spirit and loyalty were not bad because their family and children were well cared for in Lannishaven, and Egger promised to allow them to return home to visit their relatives in the future...... After a brief glance at the team to make sure there was no shortage of people, the monarch killer looked around and finally decided to support the emergency southeastern wall first.

After all, no matter how fierce the trouble is on the harbor side, sailing ships a few hundred meters offshore will not teleport into the harbor to occupy the fortress, but if the wall and gate are lost, the enemy will rush in at once.

Dozens of soldiers from the west hurried towards the wall, and along the way, they gathered a few groups of stragglers from the north and the land-givers who were separated from the officers and at a loss, and they snowballed, and when they arrived under the city wall, they had already formed a team of hundreds of people, and then joined the reserve team brought by the commander of the Icefjord, and suddenly formed a considerable support—half of the soldiers of the Icefjord's harbor rushed to the wall to help in the battle.

There was no time to greet each other, and the two groups of people quickly climbed the wall - the battle situation was better than expected, although there were many raiders, but because they came all the way and did not prepare siege weapons, they could only rely on the rudimentary wooden ladder to climb the wall, although the momentum was large, but the threat was quite average: except for the human sea ants, there was only one team carrying a fresh log as a battering ram...... The attackers who were slamming into the east gate of the fortress shook the thick wooden gate with logs, and although it was not immediately destroyed, the overwhelming sound still made everyone nervous.

In a hurry, the inexperienced panicked threw down a lot of wildfires prepared for the ghouls, which was not small, but caused a huge waste.

A sword slashed through the oncoming Iron Warrior who had just climbed the wall before he could make the first call, and Jaime and the Icegap Harbor Commander led a detachment of people to sweep past the top of the wall in two directions, quickly recovering a small number of fallen sections of the wall, overturning a few wooden ladders, and the originally precarious wall defense was immediately stabilized.

"Don't litter wildfires, it's for the dead, use a little less!"

After shouting at the waste of their preparedness by a few young men who had joined the battle for the first time, Jaime sheathed his sword, took a bow from the soldier beside him, and cautiously leaned out from the top of the wall to observe the battle: wildfire can't burn in the cold snow, but if you're lucky enough to hit someone, it can burn on a base of clothing and equipment...... Illuminated by the glow of several corpses lying in the snow and the red and green flames burning on the shields, Jaime saw the general condition of the enemy: dozens or hundreds of men huddled under the walls, their costumes and equipment painted with the coats of arms of each family—the sea monster of the Greyjoy family, the gold-edged black horn of the Gubler family, the intertwined green water pipes of the Merlin family, and so on......

A rabble of rabble, also dare to attack a fortress guarded by itself?

Jaime sneered, put the arrow on his bow and pulled the tail feathers to his ears, aimed at one at random, let go of the shot, then set up the arrow and drew the bow - he was not a sharpshooter, but the enemy was in disarray and the defensive and counter-attacking firepower was insufficient, and the Iron Folk raiders fell screaming and fell, while his own side suffered few casualties. Under his leadership and the town, the mood of the other soldiers on top of the wall gradually stabilized, and instead of throwing wildfires indiscriminately, they defended themselves with more affordable stones and bows and arrows.

After failing to succeed in a scramble, the "battering ram" also turned into a pillar of fire under the attack of asphalt and wildfire, and the attackers left dozens of corpses and retreated into darkness in a hurry.

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Is this the end? Rushing to a sneak attack by boat across nearly 1,000 miles, it will be over with such a little noise?

There were cheers all around, and regardless of the outcome of the battle, this was indeed the first defensive victory since the construction of Icefjord Harbor...... Jaime was puzzled, but couldn't figure out what the problem was. However, in the darkness that no one noticed, Euron's real killer move was silently approaching the port fortress: whether it was the sailing fleet that was fighting the fortress fire hundreds of meters outside the harbor, or the attack on the wall from land, the executor was not the elite of the Iron Islands...... And the fiercest warriors and most seasoned sailors of the Iron People, all sitting on the longboat, clenching what they were holding in their mouths, rowing silently, under the guidance of a small boat measuring the depth of the water and the distribution of the reef with tools, silently moving at the speed of a snail, an inch by inch from south to north against the shore, to the port of Icefjord.

Under normal circumstances, such infiltration from the shore would be detected by sentinels on the watchtowers near the sea.

However, at this time the torches were lit on the surface of the Northwest Ocean, and the sailing ships that had taken the initiative to fire were attracting the attention of the sailors of the fortress watchtower and the harbor, and everyone was staring at the sailing ships aiming and firing with various projectile weapons, and the inexperienced commanders had completely forgotten to arrange for their men to keep on guard, so they ignored the long fleet of ships that crept under their noses.

The marauders who feinted outside the wall attracted the defensive forces inside the fortress to the southeast wall far from the coast and the port, and the main attack team led by Euron personally seized this point in time, ten long ships full of soldiers suddenly emerged from the shadows under the rowing of two rows of long oars, bypassed the natural breakwater and rushed into the harbor, and sailed straight past the anchored northern warships, until they rushed to the beach, and more than 300 of the strongest Iron Folk warriors rushed down to the shore, almost into a no-man's land, rushed into the empty harbor with only a dozen people fighting the fire, and began to wreak havoc on buildings and warships。

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