Winter has arrived.

It was dark and cold, and the chill in the air crept silently into the cracks of clothing and armor, making people's teeth chatter. Although there is never a summer day outside the city, the temperature is still significantly colder than it was a few months ago.

The snow did not stop, and these white light solids were sprinkled all over the ground, covering the originally clear footprints on the ground, and the whole field of vision was vast white.

"This damn weather, why don't we stay in Castle Black to keep warm?" Zitt angrily kicked the female hound squeezed at his feet, the female dog screamed, but still squeezed back next to his pants, so as to rely on the warmth emanating from the human clothes to retain a little heat: "the ghouls, can you make soup and drink it when you catch that thing!"

"The Commander has said that you are going to send the ghouls to King Robert to see them so that I can ask for help!" Lark said, "This is the idea that this guy Egg gave to the Commander, didn't you listen to it at the mobilization meeting, or do you want which bitch to go?"

"It's Egger again, and with a mouth and licking the butt of the Rannister dwarf, he managed to run south to enjoy his happiness, but he wrote back and asked Mormont to send us out to die! I dug up his ancestral grave?" Zitter's mouth twisted, and his face was red with anger: "Next time he goes back to the Great Wall, I promise to press him to the ground and stuff the frozen hard shit stick into his **." ”

"Hold him to the ground, this guy is tall even among the Rangers, with your size that can't even hold a down...... It's a little hard, I'm afraid. The melancholy Eddie interjected: "Moreover, wearing leather clothes and cotton pants sent by others and thinking about how to beat others, this doesn't seem to be very good, I suggest you take it off first and then think about it, at least it looks like you still have some ambition." ”

"Seven Layers of Hell! It's just a few clothes and a few pairs of pants, do you want me to kneel down and pray to the gods to bless him?"

"You also ate a few meals of his meat, and you forgot it? You don't need to kneel down and pray, it's easy to get your pants wet, and it's even colder." Eddie shrunk his shoulders and said, "And, personal advice, you'd better not go to people's troubles." When he, Will and Gary threw Weimar Royce and fed the strangers and fled back to the Wall, who in Castle Black didn't think he was dead? This is a really ruthless character...... The whole night watchman is up and down, and I don't accept anyone but him now. If he returns to the Great Wall when, I will honestly call him 'Lord Chief Logistics Officer', and I will do whatever he tells me to do." In case he was happy, he would get me a new set of clothes, so that I could eat meat every day, and even put me in the logistics department and take me to the south...... That's cool. ”

"Dog-sissy CFO, dog-smother's Jon Snow, dog-smother's Sam Tully!" Zitter growled and kicked away the next to him.

Then the trumpet sounded.

One, two, three, and finally ...... Three long and one short, the fourth horn sounded before the night watchman, and the action began.

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The Night's Watch had been sending Rangers to hunt the ghouls alive since more than two months ago, and had succeeded at least twice in the process, but in the end, they were unable to bring the loot back to the Wall due to the Strangers: the first time, the Night's Watch had successfully killed the pursuing Wraiths with arrows equipped with obsidian arrows, but the ghouls were then turned into corpses, and the second time, the Night's Watch was surprised to find that the Wraiths were not only covered in a layer of ice armor that was impenetrable to dragon crystal arrows, but also began to cautiously keep their distance from the Night's Watch, using only ghoul cannon fodder to participate in the battle as much as possible...... The Rangers suffered considerable losses in that battle, and were finally forced to abandon the captured ghouls and flee on horseback before the dead army could complete the siege.

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One hundred thousand wildlings have already set out from the Frost Fang, dragging their families and mouths, along the Ruhe River, slowly and without stopping, and through the Shadow Forest to the south—in another ten days or half a month, their vanguard will reach the Great Wall, and then it will be difficult to capture the ghouls.

The first two attempts failed, and the Night's Watch's attempt to catch the ghouls alive was fortunately undetected by the Wraiths, but only three ...... Not only will blind attempts result in more casualties, but if these sapient magical creatures discover their intentions, their plans to take the ghouls to King's Landing to prove their existence will be ruined.

There was not much time left for the night watchmen, and the Blackshirts had to take immediate and effective action.

Through scouting and the confessions of the wildling captives, the Night's Watch command learned an important piece of information: Winter was awakening the evil magic north of the Wall, and the transformation of corpses into ghouls was becoming more and more common—both human and livestock, whatever the cause of death, no matter how deep they were buried...... As long as it is north of the Great Wall and there is no completely decaying corpse, it is faster or slower...... Eventually, they will all transform into ghouls on their own - and in the face of the endless army of dead people everywhere, the small number of strangers will not have time to appear and gather under their command anytime and anywhere.

The time lag between the formation of the ghouls and their joining the wraiths provided an opportunity for the Night's Watch to take action. As a result, Jeo Mormont finally gave a new order: to find the scattered ghouls in the Ghost Forest who were not accompanied by the Strange Spirits, and to attack these easy targets.

If the horn sounded three times, it meant that the scouts had spotted the stranger, and everyone needed to evacuate south quickly to avoid casualties...... And one more sentence means that the ghoul has been found, and there are no strange ghosts around!

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Everyone was nervous. Due to the heavy casualties of the rangers, part of the craftsmen and clerks ...... Those who had never been out of the wall were also brought in to hunt down the ghouls, and although the Rangers had heard about the strange enemies north of the Wall, most of them had never seen either the wraugls or the ghouls...... When the horn sounded, they felt chills in their backs and a sudden urge to urinate.

The hounds, too, seemed to understand the chill of the horn, and stirred uneasily, and Zit, who had just kicked away one of the dogs, had to struggle to hold the reins of several dogs.

A melancholy Eddie gripped the hilt of his sword and shouted at the tree, "Will, do you see anything?"

"Here they are. The poacher's voice came from overhead: "What's going on, it seems to be a little more!"

"Let's see if any of the strangers are mixed up, these cunning things might confuse the scouts' judgment without riding horses!" urged the melancholy Add, "Don't miss any of them, look closely, you have the most contact with them among us!"

"There are about 20 in the north and a dozen in the northeast...... Oops, there seems to be a lot more to come? I don't see any ghosts, I've got to come down! It's too late. ”

A manned horse rushed through the snow to the waiting Night's Watch at the place of Sir Jeremy Lake, who succeeded the missing Bunyan Stark as Chief Ranger: "Attention, the Ranger brothers are a bit too much, plan according to the second plan, everyone get on the horse!"

"Look there, in the woods!"

The ghouls emerged from among the shadowy trees of the Ghost Forest, rushed through the snow and stepped on the slippery forest floor, because they had no body temperature, most of their bodies were disguised as snow and ice slag, and they were almost integrated with the surrounding environment.

"Get on the horse!"

"Wait, don't leave me!"

"Will, stay in the tree and don't come down, you have survived twice with this trick, not bad this time!" the chief ranger ordered loudly: "Don't hesitate, it's over when you are surrounded, save the dragon crystal arrow, and use it again when it is critical!"

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