One after another, the wild men of one tribe after another gathered in the fence outside the gate of the Great Wall, disarmed and lined up to burrow into the passage...... To be honest, this very visual image resembles the scene of queuing into the gas chambers in a concentration camp, and it always feels like once you get in, you will never get out. In addition to a series of harsh conditions, such as disarming and handing over food, some of the 30,000 savages hesitated to enter despite Mance Rader's assurances, and would not continue to enter until the freedmen who had already passed through the Great Wall sent representatives to testify.

A series of procedures and the presence of giants made the efficiency of the wild people passing through the Great Wall greatly reduced, and it took at least two or three hours for a tribe with more than one person to pass, and only a few groups of thousands of people could pass through the Great Wall every day. At the same time, because the mammoths raised by the giants could not pass through the tunnels of Castle Black, the night watchman had to take a small number of wild people and giants with mammoths to the direction of Seal Bay, relying on the East Sea to share the pressure of Castle Black.

Although the process of letting the wildlings pass through the Great Wall and help them complete the transformation of their status to the "new land-donors" is monotonous, the repetitive work can become unexpected and "surprise" when placed on a group of barbarians of all kinds. After a few days, most of the wildlings were successfully stationed in the resettlement area designated by the upper echelons of the Night's Watch, and there were less than 10,000 wildlings remaining outside the Wall.

The good days when everything went well have finally come to an end.

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Thousands of soldiers who had been transferred to Castle Black were still neatly dressed and stationed in the towers, ready to spend the day of high vigilance in theory, but not in practice, as they had done in the previous days. Today's first wild men entered the Black Castle and were being registered by the industrial workers, when the sound of trumpets suddenly came from the top of the Great Wall.

The Night's Watch hasn't sent anyone out of the Wall in the last few months, unless Bunyan Stark and his party, who disappeared a year ago, return to the Wall, otherwise there will be more than one trumpet, and there will be follow!

All the night watchmen in the black castle immediately pricked up their ears, sat up resting, leaned against the wall and opened their eyes, and all the combatants grabbed their weapons in their hands.

Sure enough, the trumpet sounded again.

"What's going on?" Egger's thoughts were interrupted as he sat in the conference room discussing with several Night's Watch officers about the introduction of the new landowners.

More than 20,000 new land-grantees have been brought to the resettlement site and are strictly forbidden to leave the allotted territory without permission, and there are scouts everywhere around Castle Black, not to mention that the king of the outside world, Mance Red, himself is a hostage at Castle Black, even if the savages want to make trouble, they should not pick this time.

Mormont stood up from his chair and made a decisive decision: "Gather the wild people who have entered the Black Castle and watch them, close the gates of the Black Castle, and we will enter the city...... Go see what's going on. ”

The Night Watch officers left the conference table and went to their posts to carry out orders. In the center of the Black Castle, hundreds of wild men and three giants also looked around in a daze, looking nervously at the black-clothed soldiers who suddenly raised their weapons and became murderous.

Looking at the behavior of the savages, it doesn't look like they have planned to launch an attack in advance. Before Iger could breathe a sigh of relief, the horn sounded a third time.

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It wasn't the first time the Night's Watch had sounded three trumpets, but it was the first time Iger had heard it. When the sound of this dream came to his ears in reality, he got goosebumps all over his body.

Strange ghosts attacking?

But didn't Mance Rader say before: Strange ghosts don't want to get close to the Great Wall, and have been moving a certain distance?

With a slight turn in his mind, Iger woke up in horror: just because the strange spirits were "unwilling" to approach the Great Wall did not mean that they were "unable" to approach the Great Wall...... Seeing that the target that had been chasing for several months was about to completely withdraw into the Great Wall, the human natural enemies finally couldn't sit still and forcibly attacked!

Pick this wild man has already entered most of it, only part of it is outside the wall, and the vigilance and will to fight are at the lowest point to launch an attack, it is worthy of being a wise magical creature, and it will really pick the time!

Aware of the threat, Egg turned his head to look at Mormont: "Lord Commander-in-Chief, if chaos breaks out in the wooden fence outside the passage at this time, and the strange ghosts take the opportunity to pass through the gate, the black castle will be in danger!"

"Bring a team of people, take the dragon crystal weapon, and guard the exit of the death gate!" Mormont didn't understand this reason, and immediately pointed to the chief ranger and gave a loud order, and then walked quickly to the lifting cage: "Take all the wildlings in the black castle outside the castle first, and tell them that they are not allowed to move without permission!"

After roaring loudly, Mormont took the lead into the cage, rang the bell, and ascended to the top of the Great Wall with Egger and the others.

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"What's next?" Mormont asked, as he approached the edge of the Wall.

"The remaining wild men suddenly burst out of the forest and ran towards our wooden fence. One of the sentries replied, "North...... There was something in the woods, chasing them. ”

"Go down there, call two hundred men up, and get the oil drums and rockets ready!"

Egger looked down at the Wall, and on the white snow of the barrier below, thousands of black dots were running hastily towards the wooden fence built by the night watchmen at the entrance to the passageway, some carrying children, some carrying household belongings, some driving sheep and even dog carts...... The faster of them had already reached the wooden door.

In the woods, the natural predators of the living also emerged, and the ghouls overflowed from the Ghost Forest like melted animal fat, over the roots and rocks, and surged mightily towards the Great Wall.

Standing on the top of the 200-meter-high Great Wall, it is actually difficult to distinguish between the ghouls and humans below...... Thankfully, it was daytime, and even though there was no sun, Egg could still distinguish them by the movement of the black dots below: the wildlings who were at the end of the trail were holding weapons and torches, and looking backwards as they ran, while the ghouls chasing them were not entirely humanoid, and there were bears, wolves, and shadow lynxes mixed in, and the corpse giants were probably too difficult to move and had not yet appeared— But most importantly, they are determined and unwavering in their pursuit of the living in front of them, and as soon as they get close, they pounce and take down their targets, ending their opponent's life, in stark contrast to the fleeing wildlings.

The wildlings knew how to deal with the ghouls, and although the ghoul animals or people who fought with the severed wildling warriors continued to cause casualties, many of them quickly fell on fire, but hundreds of ghouls continued to pour out of the forest, and this unstoppable momentum made the already frightened wildlings have no fighting spirit. The dozens of Night's Watch soldiers in the wooden fence underneath had no view from above, could not see the situation in the distance, and were not given orders, but only closed the gates, blocking countless wild people from the fence.

Thousands of wildlings were chased by thousands of ghouls, and the ratio of friend to enemy was not to the extent of crushing, but the last group of wildlings who were still left outside the fortress saw hope when most of their kind had already taken refuge in safety through the Great Wall...... On the contrary, he no longer has the courage to fight to the death, but only hopes to quickly pass through the incredible high wall in front of him and hide behind the Great Wall.

"Herald...... Open the fence gate and let the wildlings in. Mormont ordered in the cold wind on the top of the Great Wall, "At the same time, lower the sluice gates to enter the passage of the Great Wall, we cannot risk the loss of the Black Castle." These things must be dealt with by the people below, and we'll provide support on top of the Great Wall - and when it's safe to do so, we'll let them go over the wall!"

Drop the floodgates? This is the life of thousands of lives, including dozens of brothers of the Night's Watch! Egger opened his mouth, not daring to be a virgin, and finally did not raise any objection.

The order was swiftly conveyed, the wooden gate of the fence was opened, and the savages crowded at the gate swarmed in as if they had been pardoned. The fence was designed to prevent the Wildlings from attacking Castle Black when the passage gates were open, and it was built without considering the ability to allow a large number of people to enter and exit quickly, and too many panicked Wildlings desperately squeezed inside, and some were even squeezed down from the slab bridge across the trench.

Seeing that the gate of the fence was opened, the broken savage warriors also gave up the battle and retreated to the passage. Unchecked, the ghouls were able to continue their approach to the Wall with ease, and soon formed a siege around the wooden fence that protected the entrance to the passage.

Seeing that the ghouls were about to chase the last of the wildlings into the wooden fence, Mormont gritted his teeth and waved his hand, giving the order to attack.

The night watchmen at the top of the wall shot out the rockets they had already prepared, and several oil drums reinforced by wildfire were ignited and thrown with their booms, drawing arcs in the air, smashing into a range of dozens of meters outside the wooden fence at the foot of the Great Wall, exploding a ball of fire, impacting and remaining on the ground The flames effectively stopped the ghouls from charging. Although there were also accidental injuries to the last part of the living people, the gate of the wooden fence was closed by taking advantage of this wave of decisive cover.

The tide of ghouls poured out of the forest completely, rushing to the wooden fence from the northwest, northeast, and due north, and quickly crossed the shallow ditch with spikes and guarded against people, and began to climb the wooden fence, which was no more than two or three meters high.

The wild people who ran into the fence rushed to the passage through the Great Wall in panic, but they were immediately surprised to find that the passage through the Great Wall was cut off by a sluice, and although they had reached the Great Wall, they were stopped at a short distance from safety!

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