Inside the cold and heavy granite walls, Winterfell entered a state of intense preparation that had not been seen in many years.

The castle, which served as the capital of the North for many years, is said to have been built by Brandon the "City Builder" with the help of giants, and has been surrounded and attacked by most of the old families of the North in recorded history, and has never fallen...... However, this impressive record did not reassure the defenders at the moment, because they were about to face an enemy that had never been seen in recorded history.

The night watchman rebelled, and the wild man crossed the Great Wall...... Similar things are rare in terms of frequency, but they have happened more than once or twice as long as you are willing to extend the time span macro statistics. However, for the first time in thousands of years, the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch led the wildlings who had lived outside the Fortress to cross the border between the land grant and the North, and passed through the original northern barrier of Winterfell, the last Fireplace Territory that was no longer in the hands of the Northerners, and drove straight into the heart of the North!

On one side is a fortified city that has not fallen for thousands of years, and on the other side is the first commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch to repel the strangers in history, and the most powerful man in the eyes of the people of the North, second only to Azor Yahai. The sharpest spear pierces the strongest shield, who will have the last laugh? No one dared to predict wildly, but it was certain that the defenders were about to face a bitter battle.

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Under the fire, the temperature in the main castle hall was much warmer than outside, and Robb Stark was standing with Sir Rodric and Clay Severn, facing the battle sand table that restored the terrain of the north, and discussing with a solemn expression how to deal with the engulfing Night's Watch rebellion.

There would have been fewer people attending the meeting, but fortunately, the city of Severn was less than half a day away from Winterfell, and the new lord of the city arrived with people as soon as he received the call-up from Winterfell, so he arrived here before dark yesterday and joined the castle defenders, becoming the only reinforcement to arrive before the enemy.

Not long ago, the hall had been filled with princes from all over the world who had come from all over the world to fight the Wraiths but had missed the Battle of Long Lake too late, and their thousands of troops stationed outside the city made Winterfell feel like it was in a sea of tents. However, in order to save food, and to paralyze Iger and trick him into going on the "expedition outside the fortress", Robb Stark announced that he had agreed to remain neutral, ordered the state of war to be lifted, and after several meetings with the princes to determine the plan to subvert the land grant, he sent a large number of troops home.

At the time, Robb prided himself on "fixing things with as little bloodshed as possible", but now it seems that this decision is simply in line with the saying that "being smart is being mistaken by being smart" - he who wanted Iger to let his guard down was actually a fool who was really let his guard down. The so-called expedition outside the Seychelles is likely to have been a complete hoax from the beginning, and it ...... itself Until the day before yesterday, I was innocently waiting for it to really start!

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"It's too late, it's too fast. Clay Severn didn't know Robb's annoyance at the moment, he carefully studied the map, measured it for a moment, and then said his conclusion, "The scouts need to return to the nearest outpost with a crow cage to use the crows after discovering the rebels' whereabouts, and it will take half a day for the crows to fly to Winterfell...... In other words, when you received the information from the front, in reality, the land-giving army had actually rushed for nearly a day. ”

"According to some clues, it can be judged that the rebels must have set out from Houguan Town in the early morning four days ago, and were able to march to our warning range in just two days, indicating that the speed of the march of the troops led by Iger is quite fast. And if this speed can be maintained the whole time...... "The young Earl of Severn City picked up the chess piece symbolizing the land-giving army and moved it somewhere between Crown Town and Winterfell: "The enemy is probably halfway there, and there are only three days left before we are - or even shorter!"

Robb's hand on the edge of the table clenched into a fist and released it again: "How far has the production of the Dragon Hunting Crossbow progressed?"

"I started to do it. Rodric shrugged helplessly, "King Stannis can send out the drawings under the blockade of King's Landing, it is already the limit, without the expert guidance of designing or manufacturing real objects, those craftsmen with heads like wood, it took a long time just to understand the drawings, and it will take a week or two to optimistically." ”

This is just an optimistic estimate, in fact, it is difficult to ...... for a month Of course, the old knight would never have imagined that the person in the world who knew the dragon crossbow best was in the midst of the "Night's Watch Rebels", rushing towards Winterfell at a speed of dozens of miles a day.

"Doesn't it mean that the remaining two dragons haven't recovered yet, so they should be in time. Count Severn asked uneasily, hesitated for a few seconds before he spoke: if the Mad King's daughter's two dragons appeared above her head before Winterfell's dragon hunting crossbow was assembled, it would be better to surrender honestly.

"Will the Tauha army's army still have time to arrive?" Robb sighed and asked another question with a solemn face.

This is the second closest to him, and the only remaining vassals who are likely to arrive before the rebels descend on the city.

"The theoretical time from Toruń Square to Winterfell is also three days. "As a native of the North, Clay Severn is naturally well aware of these data," but this is assumed that Earl Tauha will leave immediately after receiving your message. In reality, however...... Something could have happened to the Crow, it would take time to assemble an army, and the most obvious difference: the road between Torum Square and Winterfell had not been repaired or cleared by a special person. ”

The hall was quiet, and the three people in front of the map table were all generals who could take charge of themselves. They have experienced countless wars, and they have seen many examples of "attacking the unprepared", but ...... It is really shameless to be caught off guard even when the land is full of eyeliner and the patrols are scattered hundreds of miles out as a guard, and there is still no time to respond effectively after discovering the enemy's traces in advance!

This kind of thousand-mile leap forward in the advanced era, the lone army is coming in depth, and a different person takes it, and a few people here must be drinking wine and eating meat, and while organizing the tactical arrangement of closing the door and beating the dog, they laughed and said that this is to send them to death. But, however, it was Egger West, the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, an old friend and guardian of the Northlanders, and for no apparent reason - they all felt a strange and indescribable vague sense of fear and powerlessness haunting them.

"This bastard. "When he repaired the main road between the land grant and the northern realm, and shortened the travel time between Houguan Town and Winterfell from two weeks to one week, I'm afraid he had already started preparing for this day......!

"Okay, don't talk about that. Robb interrupted the old knight. It's too far-fetched, you know—he wasn't the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch when Egger offered to repair the northern part of King's Road for free. As for the second half of the sentence, he probably knew what the old man was trying to say: perhaps, even the final capture of the Hearthplace by the dead was in Egger's plan, and even the stranger was just a pawn in the hands of this traitor.

This is a bit too demonizing of the opponent, and he doesn't believe it anyway.

Of course, believe it or not, now that the Night's Watch has rebelled, as the target of betrayal and the first to bear the brunt, Robb naturally will not be bored enough to defend the enemy, and he knocked his fingers on the table irritably, and he asked, "How many soldiers do we have in total now?"

When the master asked, Rodric had no choice but to give up his attack on the enemy, and hurriedly replied: "I personally led people and urgently recruited young men from the surrounding winter towns, plus more than 300 people brought by Lord Severn, and now there are nearly 1,000 well-equipped warriors in the castle, and there are hundreds of people who can help with farm tools and sticks. ”

"Severn City could have sent more people, but when I received the message yesterday, I didn't know that the rebels were still three days away from Winterfell, so I thought the situation was urgent, so after appointing the acting city lord to let him continue to recruit soldiers, I brought the already armed elites directly to support!" Thinking that Robb was suspicious, Clay Severn hurriedly explained: "If this is not enough, Severn City still has time to gather another four or five hundred people!"

"No, the city of Severn also needs to be guarded! Besides, guarding the castle is always good for enough people, not more is better. Probably finding that the atmosphere was a little heavy, Rodric was determined to boost the fighting spirit of the feudal monarch, "With all due respect, Lord Robb, there are two stories of Winterfell's walls, not to mention that Egger only brought a few thousand people, even if it is multiplied by ten times, before the food in the castle is eaten - he doesn't want to step in half a step!"

"That's right. Count Severn also realized this, and also raised his voice, "A thousand elites versus five thousand savages, this kind of quantitative comparison, even Severn City can sit back and relax, let alone Lindong with double walls!

Numerically, the odds of victory in this war were great, but Robb had a slight understanding of Egger's temperament and had seen the magic that the Night's Watch had used against the army of ghouls. It was hard for him to imagine that such an adversary, who never did anything uncertain, would foolishly lead thousands of people to Winterfell and smash his family's two granite walls. A thousand defenders were indeed enough for Winterfell to hold out until next year under a regular attack, but, deep down, he couldn't help but worry: was that guy who used to be his friend already ready to deal with Winterfell?

"The man who told the crossbow maker to work all night and put into the work all those who could be found nearby who could help, and give whatever he wanted, as soon as possible! and, send another letter to Count Tauha telling him not to lead his army straight to Winterfell, but to discuss the time and place of rendezvous with the other adults......

The guard outside the door suddenly knocked on the door and reported in a loud voice: "Lord Robb, Master Lewyn has asked to see you, saying that there is important news from the Castle of Terror!"

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