A small group of soldiers brought the well-fed Asha to the northernmost part of the causeway, one unshackled her, and the other handed her the weapon that belonged to her.

"Go and come back. The leading officer dropped this sentence and led his subordinates back to the camp.

Asha didn't reply, she slipped the dagger into her jacket, pinned the hatchet to her shoulder straps, rubbed her wrists, moved her feet, and even jumped on the spot to regain the feeling of being unrestrained.

Then, she looked back at the combined camp of 2,000 land-giving troops and hundreds of White Harbor soldiers behind her with a complicated gaze, which was not surprisingly large, but it was also a very considerable force for the sparsely populated Iron Islands.

The "army" from the land-grant, led by a night watchman, was strange. Asha was one hundred percent sure that most of the peasants had never received any training, and that they had simply developed good physical strength from the harsh conditions of their lives, and some of them did not even know how to hold their weapons.

Having said that, on the whole, they showed a high level of tactical and command execution: whether it was encircling Shenlinbao and leaving a gap in the south, or rushing to the beach to block their retreat in the early morning of the next day, or even marching quickly and unchaotically for several days after recapturing Shenlinbao, until they arrived at their destination, camping, guarding, and patrolling, they all did a decent job...... If you don't really fight with a knife or a real gun or go into the barracks to take a closer look, outsiders will only think that this is an elite division.

The contrast and unreasonableness between this and Asha's experience made the daughter of the sea monster who lacked military literacy scratch her head.

......

Don't think about things that can't be figured out, at least now that she's got her weapon back and regained her freedom for a short time. If she had a choice, she would have preferred to stab the damned Night's Watch in the heart with a dagger rather than persuade her to surrender, but the man didn't personally send her to the end of the causeway, and she considered convincing the Iron Minsters in Carlin Bay to break north and flee back to the seashore, but given the consequences of her decision to abandon DeepLimburg, and the size and performance of the land-grant army behind her, she had no chance of succeeding.

There was no way, for the sake of the safety of the fifty-three brothers, she could only do what the enemy said in humiliation.

After warming up, she walked on her long legs towards the small fortress to the south. In front of Asha was a short stretch of causeway leading to Carlin Bay, the northernmost point of the wetland, the swamp treacherous to the south, and gradually beginning to dry out to the north, transitioning from waterhole to wet mudflats over a distance of a few hundred meters, and finally completely solid ground after a few hundred meters.

The air was damp and heavy, and while the threat of the swamp to the north of Carlin Bay had decreased, no one had bothered to raise the maintenance of the causeway, and it was impossible to tell the difference between it and the surrounding mud without looking closely. Asha carefully chose her path, stepping on the logs and planks laid by the northern army as they marched south months ago, toward the three towers.

She soon approached the fortress, where the high walls of Gukarin Bay stood thousands of years ago, and now only scattered black basalt stones remained. Each of them was too large for a hundred men to push, some of them protruding into the mud of the moor, while others were crumbling like abandoned bricks of the gods, cracking and crumbling and crawling with moss.

Of the three remaining defensive towers in Carlin Bay, one was leaning as if it might collapse at any moment, one was like a spear piercing into the sky, only without the tip of a spear, and the last was broad, square, with a twisted tree squeezing out of the gap in its northern stone wall. The only thing flying over the ruins of this ancient castle was the golden sea monster flag on a black background, which should have given her some comfort, but for some reason it was actually not at all.

For a warrior, the despair of "defeat is decided" is more uncomfortable than death.

There were corpses on the road, and when the Iron People had just landed on the Redang River and captured Carlin Bay, the Earl of White Harbor had sent troops to try to recapture it, but at that time, Victarion Greyjoy was leading a large number of crew members of the Iron Fleet to sit here, and the Mandalay army's army had no suspense to drop dozens of lives and returned in vain. Among the corpses were men and horses, rotting and green, crawling with maggots, and a little further from the causeway two bodies had sunk into the mud with only their faces and fingers exposed, and it is conceivable that some of them must have been completely swallowed up by the swamp. Thousands of years have passed, and Neck is probably the largest cemetery in the whole of Westeros, and there are no tombstones.

Captured by the Night's Watch without being mistreated or tortured, Asha Greyjoy was quickly recognized by the guards who were guarding the tower.

"Stop!" someone shouted, "did you bring the troops camped over there, and why did you get involved with the Mandalay family?"

Asha crossed her hands impatiently, looked up and asked the questioner on the wall angrily: "Since you recognize me, do you plan to let me in, or just talk through the wall?"

The guard shut up, hesitated for a moment, and then disappeared from the wall, and there was silence within the walls of Carlin Bay for a moment, and then the door suddenly opened, and the voice from before sounded again: "Come in!"

Asha confirmed the location of the dagger and walked through the door.

......

The door slammed shut behind him, and there were no imagined large numbers of iron people waiting behind the door, only the one who opened the door was alone. It was an ugly man, and Asha had some impressions of him, but didn't remember the name. He put the beam away, nervously turned his head to stare at the girl, squinted at it, his lips twisted suspiciously, "Now you can say it, why are you here, did Victarion ask you to bring someone over to support us?

"Those are the Yankees, I let them defeat and be captured in the deep forest fort. ”

"Captured?" The man's eyes widened, he looked at the broken axe pinned to Asha's shoulder strap, and reached for the hilt of his sword, "Then what are you doing here?" ”

"Commissioned by the wolf cubs, come and negotiate," there was a strange rancid smell in the air, and a mouth was drilled into the lungs, and the other party's chattering questions made Asha feel a little impatient: "Are you the commander here?"

"Me?" Asha's calm demeanor made Tiemin hesitate a little, perhaps thinking of the legend about the woman in front of him, or perhaps remembering the other party's surname Greyjoy, he took his hand away from the hilt of the sword and took it in a respectful manner. "I'm not, miss. Commander Victor Leone's assigned commander is Rafkenin, and I'm just a gatekeeper. ”

Asha glanced at a corpse lying by the door that was beginning to decompose but no one was cleaning it up, resisting the urge to ask about its identity, the state of the gatekeeper and the general situation in Carlin Bay, the condition of the defenders at a glance. The situation is not optimistic, but I am afraid that even if the northerners don't fight, they themselves will collapse: "Take me to the commander." ”

"Ravkenin died two days ago......"

Asha frowned: "How did you die?"

"He ate an arrow from the devil of the swamp on the battlements, only bruises, and yet ...... The devils smeared poison on the arrows and smeared their and worse stuff on them. We cleaned his wounds with boiling wine, but we didn't bother with it. ”

So the swamp devil is certainly not a real demon, just the name of the iron people to the Zedi, Asha shrugged: "Then forget about him, what about the deputy commander?"

"Usually in the city or in the halls, if you don't sleep, you drink. If the young lady is willing, I will take you to find it. Asha's master-like attitude made the other party lower his body, and the man thought about it, threw down the gate that he was guarding alone, and led Asha towards the city gate tower.

The hall is made of black stone and has a high ceiling, and although it is spacious and airy, it is still smoky. The stone walls were dotted with huge patches of white moss, and in the fireplace, blackened by years of fire, only a piece of peat burned low. A large carved stone table with centuries of history occupies the main space of the hall.

Twenty or thirty iron people drank at the table, and only a few of them watched the leader enter the door with indifferent and dull eyes, and no one even questioned him why he left the gate that should have been guarded and deserted...... It wasn't until Asha stepped inside the door that their eyes lit up.

......

"Asha Greyjoy!" the leader stood up, "What about your uncle, and what about the Iron Fleet, are you here to take us home?"

"If you hadn't killed the Maester and his letter crow, you would have gotten the news that my long-missing uncle, Euren Greyjoy, had suddenly returned to the Iron Islands and won the Electorary. Now, Victor Talion has been ordered by the King of the New Iron Islands to go south to the coast of the bay to fight the Rose family, and 'support' Stannis. ”

"What?" It seemed that the group of left-behind ironmen had not received the news, and Asha's words caused an uproar in the hall, and everyone began to talk and quarrel.

"This bastard, you just threw us away!?"

"I said I shouldn't have killed the bachelor!"

"Where is the food to feed us with an extra mouth? You didn't drink less than the others when we stewed raven soup!"

"Shut up!" roared a man cloaked in a silver cod-shaped buckle and stood up, "Victarion swore before he left that he would return with a pair of driftwood crowns and a thousand warrior kings." He broke his promise, we will settle this account in the future, now we should care about ourselves, Asha, how many people did you bring with you? Where did the boat stop, how did you bypass the eyeliner of the Mandalay fat pigs to the north to Carlin Bay?"

"I didn't bypass anyone's eyes, I'm now a captive of the Yankees and sent to negotiate with you. ”

......

This answer caused an even greater shock, and the ironmen exploded in one fell swoop.

"Surrender? the Yankees won't let us go!"

"The men of the Greyjoy family have led us into a desperate situation, and let the women of the Greyjoy family pay off the debt today!" a man who had been coveting Asha for a long time in the Iron Islands slapped the table and stood up, taking the opportunity to take a few steps towards the daughter of the sea monster, pushing her back a few steps and pressing her against the wall. 2k reading web