Jaime was puzzled by the order to retreat instead of pursue, and he didn't hesitate to think that there was some conspiracy, and left the shore after covering the last of the soldiers who could still move, and watched as Euron led the men back to the shore, pushing a few of the longboats resting on the beach into the icy water and leaping up, picking up the oars and rowing into the dark and icy bay.

Actually withdrawn?

If Euron's original plan was to interfere with the normal production of Icegap Harbor and burn down two warships and several warehouses, now that the goal has basically been achieved, it seems to make some sense to choose to accept it as soon as it is good...... But there are still many iron people in the Bingxia Harbor who have not evacuated at the moment, and he has a huge advantage, even if he wants to run, how can he be so hasty?

But Jaime didn't take much time to figure out the reason for the quick retreat: Icefjord Harbor was rescued by deserters, the first defenders to withdraw from the eastern Gorge defenses, to be exact.

Due to the attack on Icefjord Harbor, the entire western quarter of the Grand Canyon defense line closest to it collapsed first. Many hurriedly threw out wildfires, The cowardice of the people who evacuated the position without even using up the dragon crystal arrows, their perfunctory defense and cowardice of evacuating without saying hello undoubtedly killed the robes who held the defensive line, and on the other hand, they provided assistance to the battle-torn Icefjord Harbor: when dozens or hundreds of defenders who had fled back from the front line of the canyon appeared on the mountain road east of the fortress with torches, the iron people who were preparing to take the wall and gate outside the gate returned that it was the night watchman's rescuers who arrived quickly, and the attack was not smooth, so they immediately threw away the guys and fled the battlefield.

After opening the east gate, briefly gathering the defenders of the western section of the canyon who had fled and replacing the dragon crystal weapons in their hands with the iron guys for killing, the commander of Icegap Harbor rushed back to the port with this group of living forces that were not reinforcements. Although the combat effectiveness of the improvised troops was not guaranteed, the momentum succeeded in intimidating Euron Greyjoy, who was ignorant of the existence of the canyon defenses, forcing him to abandon the iron people who were still scattered in the harbor to set fire and sabotage, and hastily withdraw from the battlefield.

The canyon defense plan was reversed by the defenders with a strange ending: the port fortress, which was supposed to send reserves to support the canyon defense, was eventually saved by the soldiers who had withdrawn from the canyon defense.

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The retreat of the King of the Iron Islands completely deprived the remaining ironfolk in the harbor of a chance to escape, and after burning the remaining longships on the beach, they converged together and commanded the smooth defenders of Icefjord Harbor to quickly begin the task of cleaning up the remaining enemies who had burrowed into the fortress.

Due to the inability of civilians, there were no other types of casualties in this round of attacks except for the fighters, but the fortress itself was in shambles: most of the harbor was burning, and the only three warships were completely reimbursed, and the other was also on fire, only barely saved because it had just been launched without too many wildfires, and only the flagship "Running Wolf", which had experienced the battle, survived because the sailors were more sophisticated. Most of the granaries in Bingxia Harbor were burned down, and the dozens of tons of dry shipbuilding wood that you had donated to the entire northern border were almost burned down...... Fortunately, the wildfire depot where the war readiness was hoarded was far away from the harbor, so it was fortunate that it did not cause a greater disaster.

But the core workshop of the shipyard was preserved: the elite troops of the North stationed there faithfully fulfilled the important task assigned to them by Robb Stark, who gathered the craftsmen and assistants recruited from Bear Island and White Harbor in one place for key protection at the beginning of the attack on the harbor, and even left the rest of the harbor to stir up, repelling several waves of ironclads who had infiltrated the fortress and tried to set fire to the shipyard and slaughter the technicians...... Although most of the residential areas and stockpiling areas were burned down, the tools, equipment, and technical backbones that were crucial to the future "resurrection" of the northern navy were not damaged under strict protection, which was the only good news in this attack.

Of course, some people disagree.

In order to succeed in the sneak attack, the number of iron men who entered the harbor along the coast in longships was not large, and if the defenders could properly dispatch their personnel, they would not suffer in the battle at all. Jaime's troops fought several battles with the invading enemy, recovering most of the port, but suffered nearly half of the casualties in the battle of the collision with Euron: not only did the new soldiers who had lost the land, but even the fifty guards brought from the west were only in their early twenties—they had sacrificed their blood to protect the military port in the north, but the protected northerners could not scream in the shipyard, and the king-killer who had lost his army came to his senses and was immediately furious, and he put all the accounts on the heads of the northerners.

"I've sent someone to ask you for help, why don't you die and don't come out, if the fortress falls, you'll have a good time just guarding the shipyard!" Jaime roared at the commander of the soldiers in the North, his eyes flushed and his face bruised, and if it hadn't been for the hard fighting, he would have rushed up and grabbed the opponent by the collar.

"Sir Jaime, please calm down. There were not many people in the north who had mastered shipbuilding technology, and houses and food were burned to rebuild and plant, but it was very difficult to retrain people when they were gone. ”

"Bullshit!" Jaime thundered, "The lives of the people in the north are fate, but the lives of my people in the west are not?"

"Please control your emotions, we respect the bravery of you and your troops in battle, but we will never accept such vicious accusations!" The commander of the northern territory had never moved such a bad intention, and naturally immediately retorted without any weakness...... After months of peaceful coexistence with each other's grievances, all resentment erupted with the defeat in the battle with Euron, and a fierce quarrel broke out between the two sides, which even the commander of Icefjord could not repress.

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Thankfully, a second round of enemy long-range attacks quickly interrupted the infighting among the defenders of Icefjord.

The Iron Folk sailing fleet, which had previously been tasked with decoys, was afraid of the sheer power of the wildfire incendiary bombs and did not dare to get too close, so they only sailed at the edge of the trebuchet's maximum range and attacked while free, and it was all up to luck to miss. It looks like a storming of the harbor, but in fact it only attracts the attention of the defenders...... Although the momentum was large, the damage to the harbor was minimal. But with the successful sneak attack of the long fleet and the successful sneak attack into the fortress, taking advantage of the gap in the sea defense of the ice-fjord harbor, these sailing ships have quietly approached the harbor a lot.

According to the plan, once the two groups of iron people who landed could join forces to break through the fortress, the sailing ship would also anchor into the harbor and put down the crew to participate in the occupation. If they fail to do so, they will also throw incendiary balls at close range to further damage the harbor when the landing soldiers re-board the longship and leave the dock to cover the retreat of their own personnel.

After the longboat was far from the shore, the sailing fleet, which had ceased fire for a long time, began to carry out the latter task - to refire.

Burning fireballs slammed into the fortress through the sky, and the port's defensive towers were either destroyed by the previous infiltration of the Iron Folk and were blazing with flames, or they ran out of ammunition in the defensive battle and could not be replenished in time, with only a few ballistas and stone-throwing machines able to quickly enter the battle.

It took more than half an hour for the Night's Watch troops who had recaptured the harbor to recover most of their defenses, and finally relied on their superior firepower to drive away the Iron Folk fleet close to the harbor after a few rounds of firepower......

The defensive battle against the Iron Folk was over, but then, despite the tasks of disposing of prisoners, extinguishing fires, rescuing the wounded, and disposing of corpses...... But the defenders had to face a greater threat immediately: the unexpectedly relieved siege of the Iron People by the defenders who withdrew from the front line was certainly the loss of Seon's horse, but everyone did not forget - the special defensive significance and terrain of the Grand Canyon were doomed, as long as one point was broken, it was equivalent to the loss of the entire line.

After simply extinguishing the fire and salvaging the war supplies, the defenders of Icefjord put aside the aftermath and began to prepare for the test of the dead army.

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[The 70,000-word task is still 15,000 short, and if you sprint in the last two days, you will have a wave of various tickets!]