The salty sea breeze blew in their faces, which lifted the spirits of the iron people. Soon after the familiar smell, the sound of waves crashing on the sand and reefs was heard. After walking through the woods in the middle of the night, the sailors, who had abandoned the city, arrived at the seashore.

The pursuers did not show up for a long time, and along the way they broke their determination to break the beginning and rested several times, but each time they only sat for ten minutes before Asha urged them to get up and continue to move forward. When the soles of the shoes finally got rid of the moss and fallen leaves and stepped on the ground, the dense forest above their heads was also left behind, and half of them fell directly to the ground, paralyzed, saying nothing and refusing to stand up again.

The black sea, with its white ripples in the cold wind, was clearly visible in the moonlight, and it was not any of the agreed places to board and evacuate, and the ship that Asha had promised was certainly nowhere to be found. Her instinct told her to continue searching the coastline with her crew overnight until they found the boat...... But reason muttered in his ear again: if no one chased him after him after running away all night, then Robb Stark must have spared himself.

Looking at the loyal subordinates who were already exhausted, she really couldn't bear to force them anymore.

Anyway, they arrived at the seaside. I don't believe much in that thing, but if it is really easier to find the flowing water palace of the drowning god by dying wet feet, then at least ...... They don't have to worry about getting lost after they die.

Approaching the beach, the ground was wet and cold, and she found a random bare rock that rose high above the ground, and Asha sat on it to untie her leather armor, slightly loosened the tightened strap on her vest on her chest, and rested as well.

Drooping Eyes Dale snores as soon as he falls, the more physically fit sit around each other, passing each other a little cider and food from the abandonment of the city, and the riders tend to the rest of the horses, and her cousin, Quinton Greyjoy, sends a few men up the trees to keep watch.

After filling their stomachs slightly, most of the people who did not fall directly also found a place to lie down, while others sharpened their swords and axes. The other of the only two women in the group, Hogan's red-haired daughter, pulls a man too strong to rest into the woods - and the scene gives the man who thinks about Asha also the idea of "the last shot of life". As the leader, the latter did not have this mood and intention at the moment, and after kicking the ass of the man who tried to pull her away, the matter was abandoned.

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They escaped from the Deepwoods intact without losing a single one, but now, Asha knew it was time to think about the next step.

Let's not talk about the long-term future, but now we have to find the ship.

After being defeated by her uncle Euron at the Election Meeting, there are still four ships left to follow Asha and sail with her back to the North to Deeplinburg. She ordered the remaining crew to park them at the fishing village on the seashore directly north of Deep-Limburg - just in case, she told her subordinates in advance: keep half of the boats on patrol in the sea at all times, and if the wolf boys' counterattack army appeared on the beach, immediately raise the sail and sail to Sea Dragon Point.

The Daughter of the Kraken now had a problem: she didn't know if the northern army attacking Deepenburg had swept the coastline beforehand.

No, that's the best-case scenario, four boats will be waiting a few miles northeast by the sea, two on the shore and two in the middle of the sea. After a short walk further east along the coast, she would be able to return to the ship with all her brothers intact, leaving the North that had become dangerous since Robb Stark's return, and slowly contemplating her next steps at sea.

If it has been swept away, it will be more troublesome: Hailongjiao is dozens of miles away from here, and it is a big problem whether it can be reached in one day when you are exhausted from driving all night and dare not take the main road. In case you encounter a patrol responsible for sweeping the coastline and gets entangled...... With less than 200 people under his command, there is no possibility of getting out smoothly.

Robb Stark is said to have brought 20,000 troops to the south, and the losses in the war were not heavy...... But last night's attack on Shenlimburg was less than 10,000, and the remaining 10,000 were most likely sent to the seaside. Think about it again: there were no pursuers chasing after this night, is it possible that because the coast is full of sweeping teams, and he is already surrounded and has no way to escape, so there is no need to chase him?

Asha would love to go straight to Sea Dragon Point, far from the Deepwood Castle...... But she didn't dare to take the risk: to get to the first junction site was a few leagues to the northeast, and to get to Cape Hailong, it was a few dozen leagues to the west. If you go to the first junction and find that the ship has already left, it is only a matter of turning back to the west and walking more than ten miles, but if you go directly to Hailongjiao and find that the ship is not there, then you will be in a dilemma.

To the east, or to the west?

That's a problem.

Confused and tangled, Asha fell asleep tired.

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In the dream, Robb Stark's 10,000 soldiers in charge of coastal sweeps had already burned all four of her boats in the sea, and without knowing it, she and her brothers walked east to the shore north of Shenlimburg without seeing the boats, and then rushed to Sea Dragon Point, still without any rescue. After scurrying around like flies on the most inhospitable peninsula even in the north, they were finally overtaken by the unhurried army of the north...... 20,000 people rushed like a muddy tide, drowning more than 100 iron people in an instant, and they themselves were captured alive, and after some torture and humiliation, they were burned alive at the stake.

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Asha woke up and looked around, there was no fire burning her, just a little light in the sky overhead—the stars were fading, and the night was coming to an end.

"Lazy worms, get up!" she jumped off the rock she was leaning on, kicked Cole, who was lying not far away, and tried to pull her behind the rock to run errands before falling asleep: "If you don't want to go home, just keep sleeping! Otherwise, wake up, eat something, wash your face with seawater, and it's time to hit the road!"

The silent open-air rest camp gradually recovered, and although it only lasted for more than an hour, the crushing depression and exhaustion had subsided for the most part. Complaining loudly, the ironmen sat up, stretched, and sorted out their simple belongings, ready to continue their escape journey.

"Speed!" Asha flicked her whip, making a crisp sound in the air, and urged loudly, "When I get to the horse and I'm not ready, I'll catch up with the horse's hoof prints later!"

A crew member sorted out the salt-stained chain mail on his body, picked up the weapon and hung it on his waist, but the next moment his hand movements stopped, and he looked up into the distance: "What is that?!"

Asha looked in the direction the speaker was looking, and it was still dark under the canopy that was gradually beginning to whiten - because she was on the west coast, the sun did not rise from the sea at dawn, and the light from the east sky was blocked by the wolf forest, and there was not much left when it fell to the ground...... The daughter of the sea monster looked carefully, and saw nothing in the dark, and was about to turn around and curse her startled subordinates, but a small stone in her field of vision moved.

She suddenly sobered up completely, and then looked at it, where was the black, it was a whole row of people who were pressed by the black, looking around, there were all directions, they were surrounding, and they had no way out!

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(Damn, it didn't work.) Iger frowned in annoyance.

When the land-givers he led rested for an hour in the Deep-Woods, and then calmly followed the main road southwest to catch up with the ironmen who had fled to the sea for a long time, the shapeshifter told him that the enemy had laid down on the shore to rest, and that there were not enough sentinels.

So, Iger plans to take the ironmen by surprise and minimize casualties.

With great difficulty, he mobilized the command of 2,000 people into an encirclement and quietly approached the sleeping enemy, but when there were still two or three hundred meters left, the other party woke up. Looking at the noisy and chaotic enemies, Egg was annoyed to find that it was not his own side that had alarmed them, but that he had just woken up on the other side.

What bad luck...... But no matter what, there will always be some casualties in the war.

"Blow the trumpet, kill it, remember, the men don't care, the women try to capture them alive...... Whoever captures Baron Greyjoy's daughter will be rewarded with a hundred silver deer!"

"Yes, sir!"

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If Asha Greyjoy knew that she was only worth a hundred silver deer in the eyes of the enemies in front of her, she was afraid that she would faint with anger, but when she saw at least a few thousand enemies roaring and rushing up, she was already angry enough: "Which son of a bitch raised a sentry! The enemy is so close that he didn't even notice it?"

"I ...... I...... I couldn't hold it anymore and fell asleep. ”

"Can't hold on? Won't you call for a change of shift! Forget it, it doesn't matter, assemble! Iron people, the ground under our feet is soaked in seawater, and here we are dying, and the flowing water palace of the drowning god is close at hand!"

"Flowing Water Palace!"

The Iron Mins were originally ready to continue to flee, but they hoped to turn into a killing machine in an instant, and there was no possibility of escape, so they could only risk their lives!

"The dead don't die!"

"It will rise again!"

"It's even stronger!"

"Kill!"

More than a hundred iron people with red eyes and weapons rushed towards the west side of the encirclement. Looking at this posture, there is a possibility that they will be able to chisel through the enemy formation with a single charge, but the first to greet them is not the opponent's swords, but a rain of arrows shot from dozens of meters away.

Screams and grunts followed, but after the first round of ranged attacks, Asha noticed that far fewer people had fallen around her than expected. Only one or two unlucky people were killed, and some of them had arrows stuck in their bodies, but they didn't lose their combat effectiveness...... Before she could react, the second round of stones fell by stones of different sizes.

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"It's not the army led by the wolf boy on the other side, they don't even have enough bows and arrows!" Asha quickly discovered the truth from the attack strength of the arrow rain and the shabby and strange appearance of the stones, and her spirits perked: "Brothers, hold on, we can win!"

The discovery that the enemy might have been just a makeshift group of peasants lifted the spirits of the Iron Mink, who shouted the name and prayer of the drowning god and rushed to the land-givers like hungry wolves.

On the one hand, there are elite raiders who are fairly well-armed and experienced in many battles, and on the other hand, there are land-givers who can't even handle an iron weapon and only a hundred bows for 2,000 people, and even the well-trained Night's Watch industry recruits have only experienced a few actual battles...... Although it has a huge numerical advantage, it is really difficult to say whether it will win or lose.

Standing on the mound behind him, surrounded by dozens of clan warriors observing the battlefield, Egger reluctantly admitted the fact that his own combat strength was weaker than that of the other party, but he did not intend to let himself and the enemy fight hand-to-hand like this. It was only half an hour before he arrived here with the land-giving army, and there was no time to set any traps or ambushes, but fortunately...... He had something else.

The Iron Min's charge quickly approached the side of the encirclement, but as the mountain clansmen in the front row threw out the ball-shaped unidentified object in their hands, a wall of fire glowing with a faint green light suddenly appeared between the two armies with the crisp sound of the clay pot cracking.

The flames were no more than one person wide and less than two people high...... But its color and heat terrified the Iron People in the Desperate Charge, and in the eyes of the inhabitants of the Iron Islands, who worship the sea and believe in the drowning gods, "burning to death" is the most terrifying death in the world: the body is reduced to ashes in the flames, and after death, it will be lost forever in the search for the flowing water palace of the drowning god.

This green flame that can burn on the wet seaside tidal flats will definitely make people lose their combat effectiveness in an instant!

The heat squeezed the ironmen's charge, and Asha and her crew turned around and prepared to bypass the fire.

"Ping-Pong-"

With another crisp sound, the second and third walls of fire formed again. Asha quickly understood the enemy's strategy - there was no suspense, no matter which direction the Iron Folk chose to break through, it was this ghost that awaited them.

Under the huge disadvantage, as soon as the momentum of the charge stops, the victory or defeat has been revealed.

"Coward!" she threw an axe at the enemy through the wall of fire, shouting in despair, "This is no honor!

No one paid attention to her, and in response to her was a third round of lethal arrows and stones, and the encirclement was closed to a diameter of less than 100 meters - 2,000 land-givers said that it was a lot less, but in fact, it could form an encirclement, and if the iron people killed through a row in one go, they could break through and escape. But now, amid the roars coming from all directions, Asha and her crew were completely overwhelmed by enemies more than a dozen times their size, as people pushed and shoved...... When weapons are stabbed from all directions, the quality of individual soldiers and the superiority of weapons are completely lost.

It was indeed a battle without honor, no singer could arrange and sing, no scholar would write in a book, no flag fluttering, no battle horn whimpering, no great lord gathering his men to make a deafening pre-battle speech. They fought in the faint light of dawn, unable to see each other's faces clearly, with only murderous intent in their eyes.

They stopped shouting "Long live Winterfell", that was Asha's last thought before being pushed down by an unknown few people...... What they are shouting now is: "Surrender or kill." ”

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