Iger actually wanted to make Valyrian steel into bullets, bomb fragments, and submunitions...... Something like that, but the technology is not yet mature, and the enemy can no longer give himself enough time to study and refine it.

What's more, tile steel can kill strange ghosts by relying on the fire attribute magic power in it, and after it is cast into N parts, the magic power contained in each part will naturally become one part of N. Iger has reason to believe that there are also strong and weak ghosts, and "the dragon steel with a big needle tip can also kill the Night King in seconds" sounds unreliable. Each Lightbringer must be kept at least the size to ensure that it is lethal even to the Night King.

Well, arrows are the safest choice at the moment.

"Harvey, go and call the Crow Keeper of the Long Night Castle to my room, I have a task to explain. ”

In the name of the oracle, Melisandre finally stopped opposing Egger's decision. After telling her not to bother Bran immediately, Egg separated from him and returned to his room, where he quickly waited for the acting bachelor of the Long Night Castle - the school city was only willing to send an additional official bachelor to the night watch, and he was still on his way. And there are now twenty fortresses under his rule that have built crow's nests, but communication with each other cannot wait.

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Iger sent Bran Stark's decision to join the Night's Watch to Winterfell, and ordered the Night's Watch Industrial King's Landing branch to find and hire the craftsman who lived in the capital of the Seven Kingdoms and could reforge Valyrian steel.

It doesn't take much thought to give these two orders, but the next one will take some effort: although there are many people in the land grant at the moment, there are not many who can be called army. The militia, which was born from the savages, did not receive full salaries, and most of them were unwilling to leave their families and tribes to carry out military missions. After carefully reviewing the roster several times and planning and calculating, Iger picked out two of the dozens of tribes that were more numerous and more obedient, and made them move to Icefjord Harbor and Shadow Tower respectively with compensation, increasing the number of personnel in the Grand Canyon defense line to 5,000, which was a targeted arrangement made after learning the latest movements of the enemy from Branna.

"Don't rush to go, there's extra instructions for Dennis Mellister. After some hesitation, Iger finally decided to add one last order.

In order to reduce his losses, he had persuaded Commander Mormont to stop patrolling outside the Fortress, but now that the enemy was in sight, it would be pedantic to put all the rest of his team in danger of ignorance of the battlefield situation by considering only the lives of the patrolmen.

It's time to take some of the necessary adventures.

"Let the West Bridge Wang's defenders open the Skull Bridge to a controlled degree, send patrols across the bridge when the weather conditions are good, and conduct as deep reconnaissance as possible of the Yuliang Wood Forest on the north side of the Grand Canyon. It is up to the patrol team to determine how far they will go and how far they will go to ensure their own safety as much as possible, and most importantly, to ensure that the bridge is cut off immediately if something happens!"

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The latest order of the 998th Commander was quickly taken by Raven to Houguan Town and Shadow Tower, and after receiving and processing it, it was taken by the Fast Horse to a more specific place of execution.

Large-scale personnel movements began to proceed in a hurry, and after a year of closing the Great Wall, the Shadow Tower Rangers under the leadership of Severed Palm Colin were finally about to pass the Skull Bridge and begin their long-lost patrol outside the wall again.

It is worth mentioning that not only that, but also the land grant and the Great Wall were busy all over the world, and the northern maritime conflict with the Icefjord Harbor as the core also occurred in the Cold Ice Bay for the first time since Aegon's conquest.

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The icy sea breeze with strong moisture blew on the sailors of the Northern Navy, who had been reborn after hundreds of years, and the battleship "Benwolf" once again left the harbor and set sail.

After all, shipbuilding is not high-tech, and with the full support of personnel and materials from White Harbor and Bear Island, the first battleship of the Icegap Harbor shipyard was successfully launched shortly after the completion of the fortress in the personal rush of the masters, and it was quickly fully staffed.

The sailors and captains came from White Harbor and Bear Island, the only people in the North who were familiar with ships and the sea, and the combatants were made up of a combination of seasick soldiers and night watchmen: in principle, the ships built by Icefjord belonged only to the Northern Navy, and the personnel of the land grant were all hired to provide services, but out of gratitude to Iger for providing the space, and also considering the threat of the Seven Kingdoms...... If necessary, the ships can also be temporarily used by the Night Watch to cooperate with the defense of the Great Wall.

It was a dhow with two decks and nearly a hundred feet long, making it one of the smaller types of warships. Compared to its close relatives elsewhere in Westeros, it made some minor changes: it lowered the height of the front and rear buildings as much as possible to reduce the effects of strong winds in the Frozen Bay, and instead forwent the additional masts and sails on the bow and aft towers, and instead creatively built a wooden turntable in the top center, on which a small torsion stone thrower was installed, to give it the ability to attack enemies from any direction: fewer full-time oarsmen to accommodate more soldiers...... At the expense of part of the maneuverability, stability, combat effectiveness and firepower were increased.

The Iron Islands don't run away on long legs, and what the Northerners want to do is not to engage in a shipbuilding race with the Iron People and fight a naval battle for control of the Sunset Sea, Robb Stark's expectation is to land on the enemy's hometown, and rely on the superiority of the army to deal a fundamental blow to the Iron People, just as King Robert and his father put down the Greyjoy rebellion in the era.

The Iron Islands are small and have no strategic depth, so it can be said that once they are landed, they have no power to resist, and Robb's plan is very operable...... The goals are different, and speed and maneuverability are naturally given lower priority in the design and production of the boat.

Compared with its counterweight counterweight, torsional rubble has the advantage of less weight and space, and the disadvantage is that it is less efficient and durable. However, given that the munitions it fires don't rely on weight and speed to determine lethality, it's more than enough - aside from a few minor changes and innovations, the ship itself doesn't have much of a technological element ahead of its time, and its only obvious advantage is that it is equipped with highly effective incendiary bombs made from improved wildfires.

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As the first and only warship of the North West Coast Fleet, the "Running Wolf" has only really sailed twice. The first was a post-launch sea trial and performance verification, and the second was a symbolic reconnaissance and crew-to-side run-in along the coast to the north. After that, it has been parked in the harbor, waiting for the launch and installation of the follow-up friendly ships.

Today, this is the third time the battleship has sailed, and it is also the first time that it has actually carried out its mission: after successfully evading the reconnaissance of the Iron Folk for several months, the Icefjord Harbor, where the fortress has been built and the shipyard is operational, is finally discovered by the enemy.

The location of the Port of the Generals in the northernmost part of the West Coast's Night's Watch not only conceals itself and prevents the enemy from destroying the harbor before it is built to defend itself, but also effectively reduces the cost of warfare, frees up a large number of elite soldiers in the north to protect the towns and fortresses scattered in the Wolf Forest, the Stream Lands, and the Ancestral Mounds, and even assists the Riverlands allies......

It would be best if this status quo could be maintained quietly until the fleet was completed and the Iron Islands could be counterattacked, but now that the first few objectives have been largely accomplished, even if they are exposed, the built walls, fortresses, and a large number of land-grant troops will give the defenders the confidence to deal with the threat of the Iron Fleet.

Of course, it is one thing to have confidence in responding to a threat, and quite another to allow enemy warships to come and go freely in the field of view outside the harbor to demonstrate and reconnoiter fortresses and shipyards. Logically speaking, Icefjord, as a stronghold of the "neutral" Night's Watch, should not take the initiative to attack before the Iron Folk attack, but in fact, the fact that the Night's Watch and the Northern Frontier wear a pair of pants is a fact recognized by the whole of the Seven Kingdoms, and there is no point in pretending to be innocent and waiting for the enemy to fight.

It was for this reason that the new commander of the Northern Navy, Maggie Mormont, ordered the fleet's only warship to leave port and expel the two Iron Islands warships that had been floating in view.

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Enemy warships are actually the two most common types of iron ships: like large rowboats, they are long, narrow, and light, built to optimize speed and flexibility, and can usually only take on simple tasks such as transporting iron people to land and plunder, swarming up and surrounding enemy warships, and fighting with their numbers......

Although the Wolf was only a sloop warship, it was by no means something that two longships could deal with, which was the most direct reason why the Lady of Mormont dared to take charge of it herself and drove her out of port with a single ship.

The bow of the ship cut through the cold waters of the cold ice bay, and the "Running Wolf" cut through the waves and sailed towards the two iron people longships, not surprisingly: the iron people on the two long ships did not hesitate for a moment, and then let the oarsmen turn around, and the head and tail were switched in an instant, rowing the oars and fleeing to the open sea.

The weight of the incendiary bomb is not large, and even a light stone thrower can easily be dropped at a distance of three or four hundred meters, but after land tests, this kind of attack equipment can only be accurate within two hundred meters, and it has to be further reduced in consideration of the wind and waves. And a swift and fast rowing boat like the Iron Man Longship, if it is lifted at full speed, it can throw the "Running Wolf" out of sight in ten minutes. Wildfire bombs were sufficient, but they were not to be wasted, and the Northern Navy did not intend to catch up with or sink the enemy, but only wanted to drive them out of sight of Icefjord so that the enemy could not reconnoiter or provoke them...... The other side may be able to harass back and forth by relying on the advantage of mobility, but considering that the long ship is small and cannot carry a large amount of supplies, and the ice gap harbor, which is thousands of miles away from the Iron Islands, it is really not afraid of the enemy to fight psychological warfare.

However, the two longships did not flee at full speed, but moved forward at a rapid pace, chasing each other and chasing me, always hoisting the "Running Wolf" on the edge of the range.

After following for a moment, the navigator became vigilant, picked up the only Mill lens on the ship, and one of the few in the entire Icefjord Harbor, and took a closer look at the sea fog ahead.

After a long while, he put down the lens and shouted, "Lady Mormont, there seems to be a ship shadow in the sea fog ahead, it may be a trap, do you want to take a look?"

Maggie Mormont was a small but strong gray-haired woman...... Becoming the head of the Bear Island family after Jorah, the son of Jorah, the son of Jormont, was convicted and fled overseas, gaining prestige and respect by restoring the family's honor and successfully cleaning up the mess left by his nephew. Because most of the members of the Mandalay family who contributed to the military port in the north were obese and had difficulty moving, he was selected to be the commander-in-chief of the northern navy, and also served as the captain of the first launched battleship.

The female commander in armor walked to the bow of the ship with a spiked mace, shook her head and rejected the telescope handed by the first mate: "My eyes are not good, and I am almost chasing, slow down and turn around, and return to Bingxia Harbor." ”

The order was swiftly handed down to the crew, and the sloop, under the dual action of the tail rudder and a small number of oars, slowly slowed down and turned around, shouting slogans, and began to return against the wind towards the harbor.

In response to the cautious choice of the "Running Wolf", the enemy longship that also braked and turned back in an instant, and the shrill horn of the ironman sailors on it.

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