Chapter 457: Healing
After some discussion, Daenerys accepted Egger's full advice and drafted a succinct order to remotely mobilize and redeploy troops far south, and summoned her closest squire to join her at the Wall by sea.
Leaving a copy for Egger to copy, the Queen, who was relieved not to be a "child", stopped the meeting and went out to check on the progress of the Dragons in dragging Zogon into the castle.
Thanks to a large number of film and television works and the impression indoctrination and brainwashing of institutions such as a certain Shini Paradise, most modern people feel that the "castle" is like Winterfell or the Red Fort - a comprehensive mansion + strong fortress with stone bricks, thick walls and high forts, and many towers. But in fact, the castles of the nobles of Westeros in this era were rarely so magnificent, especially in the north:
Except for the Stark family, who was once the king of the North and now the guardian of the North, who had to maintain a large castle to support the façade, many of the middle and low-level earldom nobles who were large but cold and barren and had few inhabitants were surrounded by a wall around a compound or pocket village inhabited by squires and servants, and only a slightly taller and sturdy fortress would be built in the center or top for the lord to live in...... The last Fireplace City in the far north is a typical example of this: the remoteness of the northernmost part of the Seven Kingdoms, combined with the lack of oil and water, and the poor and hard, made it almost invulnerable to attacks from other princes, and the small group of savages tired and hungry after passing through the Night's Watch territory had no strength to touch the Amber family—a rare attack, so that its owner would not have built the castle to be too large and majestic to maintain: it was definitely economical— Anyway, it's not made of pure wood, but the walls made of some stone make it look at least a little more like a castle than the deep forest castle, less than half the size of Winterfell, the so-called "sacred forest" like a large flower bed, and there are traces of vegetables planted under the fish beams......
It was not a steel-cast fortified city, and it was attacked and destroyed by an army of ghouls, and it appeared to be quite "malleable" under the battle of hundreds of land donors. The donors, who spared no expense in tools, physical strength, and damage, quickly removed the obstructive door frame and upper beam, and made a huge opening in the wall.
There was an opening to enter the castle, but there were still difficulties in actually towing the dragon sleigh in: the combined vehicle carrying the dragon was simply connected by multiple sleds, not a regular and solid whole, and it was impossible to cross the drawbridge across the frozen moat...... A group of night watchmen and land-givers deliberated for a moment to no avail, and finally the impatient queen could not wait to get out of the field herself: Daenerys walked to the sleigh, comforted Drogon, and encouraged it to get up from the sleigh and let it stagger through the last two hundred meters, climb into the hollow west gate, and lie down on the dragon's nest that the soldiers had laid out after they had raised the ground.
When the dragon is in place, the last step of the project has the basis for the beginning: due to the limited conditions and time, people can't design and build a real "dragon's lair" for Zhuo Geng to move in, so after several considerations, the simplest plan was finally chosen: wait for the dragon to be in place before starting work, and build a semi-enclosed tent above its body to shelter it from the wind and snow, so as to reduce the amount of work and resource consumption as much as possible, and hold on for a while...... When the black dragon's injuries heal, all it needs to do is dismantle the tent or let it "break out of its shell" on its own, and the mission of the temporary dragon's nest will be completed.
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As the sun fades into the clouds of the western sky, the temperature begins to plummet, and the castle is lit with torches and oil lamps. There were stakes here, ropes tied to the other, and people clumsily sewing canvases......
Iger tried to persuade Daenerys to go back to the house to rest and let the soldiers below go to work, but the queen was quite concerned about building the dragon's nest after learning that Drogon would have to huddle in the big tent for at least a dozen days. She walked around with graceful and domineering steps, unaware that her presence was the most likely distraction for men, and at one moment she ordered the top of the tent to be raised so as not to prevent the black dragon from raising its head and stretching its body, and at another instructing the workers to build the frame more firmly to prevent the wind and snow from blowing it down and crushing the dragon...... In every word and deed, he seems to be the most picky and strict owner of Party A in the world.
Seeing that she could dispel her grief and depression from her participation, Iger no longer persuaded her, but silently followed and protected her with her guards from far away, allowing her to exercise the power of a monarch...... At the same time, I am also carrying out my own reflection and calculation in my mind.
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The crisis caused by Rego's flight over the castle during the day is an accident caused by the queen's willfulness on the surface, but in the final analysis, Egger himself is more responsible.
Not long after the Battle of Long Lake ended, it was obvious that he had not come out of the excitement and excitement of going through twists and turns but finally winning the battle without danger...... But rather than being carried away by the victory, Iger felt that his bigger problem was that it seemed to change a lot.
To deal with the enemy, he can exhaust his wisdom to calculate to the death without any psychological burden, and even directly kill the poison in the bud, but in the face of the ambiguous position of both friend and foe, how to deal with this new field, he seems a little young and powerless.
The brain must be more and more bright, and the ghost didn't hurt his head in the battle and damage his intelligence, so what is the reason why he seems to have become stupid?
The ancients said that "three times a day to save my body", the tension caused by the attack of strange ghosts made Egger have not been able to take time for self-reflection for several days, and now realizing this point and calming down to think about it, he quickly woke up in horror and found the crux of the problem at once.
Although, in the macro plan, he had included "enemies with the North" as a possible item as usual, but he went one step further - how to deal with the North in the event of an inevitable conflict, he did not consider the actual details!
Before the decisive battle at Long Lake, he didn't consider these because there was a more important job to be done. However, this is still the case for several days after the victory in the war...... At best, it is emotional, and subconsciously I don't want to turn against the north, but if I think in the other direction, there is no doubt that I am careless and underestimate the enemy.
Just like when he finished the Chinese exam and was supposed to take the math test, he was still thinking about "how to write that essay better", and he failed to complete the role transformation from "commander-in-chief of the night watch" to "queen supporter" and from a soldier to a chess player in time, which is the fundamental reason. The friendship with the Stark family, the instinctive closeness and subconscious affection for the "allies" in the north for a long time, quietly control and influence his thinking and judgment, and if he continues to act in such a state, even if he doesn't get out of the Stark family today, he will be planted in another pit sooner or later.
Thankfully, it's not too late to make amends. Finding the problem, the solution is simple: immediately create a new set of plans - in this plan, you and the North have become mortal enemies, and water and fire are incompatible. On this premise, fill in the content and plan all the details of the next action.
His expression gradually became serious, his gaze began to lose focus, and the slender figure of Queen Miao Man in front of him faded out of his mind...... After substituting and deducing from this idea, Iger soon discovered that the situation was far more complicated than the war between humans and ghosts by an order of magnitude.
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