The Night King's choice of the Grand Canyon as the main direction of attack was not only to require enough troops to destroy the remnants of the Yuliang Wood Forest on both sides of the canyon in order to open the gap in the penetration of cold magic, but also to consider that the Long Night Fort, as the midpoint of the east and west coasts, was closer to the western end of the Great Wall.

To launch a surprise attack from the Grand Canyon to the Long Night Fort, you only need to pass through eight fortresses along the way, and only half of them are still garrisoned by defenders, namely the Canyon Lookout, the Shadow Tower, the Sentinel Tower, and the Stone Gate Village. The other four, due to many reasons such as the lack of stairs to connect to the top of the Great Wall and the construction of defensive walls, were only used by the newly donated landowners for normal living, and as soon as the alarm sounded, all personnel immediately moved to the nearest garrison base.

The army of ghouls may not move quickly, but it is better not to rest. Overnight, they broke through the Grand Canyon defenses, canyon lookouts, shadow towers, and sentinel towers...... This fierce offensive simply ignored the "Defense Plan" carefully planned by the Night's Watch Command, and shocked all the living people who controlled the battle situation to the point that their hands and feet were cold and their scalps tingled.

However, the Night King was not satisfied.

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On the surface, the army of dead people he led had the upper hand in the final showdown between ice and fire, but secretly, he felt that he was losing the war.

For humans, it is of course a fiasco to lose defensive lines and strongholds one after another as soon as the battle starts with careful preparation, but for the Night King, none of the previous battles can be considered "victorious".

Judging whether to win or lose is not the gain or loss of strongholds and defensive lines, but whether the tactical and strategic objectives have been achieved.

The Great Wall is thousands of kilometers away from King's Landing, but this is only a matter of more than ten hours for a dragon that can fly, even if it is optimistic, two to three days is already the limit of the dragon's absence from the battlefield...... According to the Night King's original plan, the army would quickly capture the complete or almost complete staircase after the capture of the Shadow Tower, occupy the top of the ice wall, and then attack up and down, advancing to the middle of the Great Wall at the same time, taking the Long Night Fortress before dawn, and destroying the magic woven within the Great Wall.

After relieving the Priests of the Cold God of their inability to restore their mana and spell suppression, they quickly head south, destroying all resistance in the land grant and the north before the three dragons return to the battlefield...... Even the flying lizards with endless dragon flames could no longer stop the army.

And in reality?

The living people prepared for this battle far beyond the Night King's predictions.

It took more than an hour for the army to capture the Grand Canyon, and more than 10,000 ghouls were lost - and this was after the defense line failed to play its full role, and then it took another two or three hours to uproot the canyon and cut down trees and pave the road.

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After the assault on the Great Wall began, the army consumed nearly 10,000 ghouls in the first level of the Shadow Tower, which took more than an hour...... However, having paid such a heavy price far beyond the plan, the plan to seize the ladder did not materialize!

The defeat in the first battle, perhaps by coincidence, the army quickly turned to the next stop that should have been bypassed, the "Sentinel Tower". The fortress had already sealed the gates after receiving a message from the survivors of the Shadow Tower, but the Night King managed to reduce the cost of troops and time by slightly adjusting his tactics and using magic to aid the battle after the battle, and the defenders destroyed the staircase the moment they breached the wall!

After these two consecutive battles, the number of killings of the Night's Watch and the number of puppets turned into golems was far from keeping up with the attrition, and the number of armies fighting was only a small matter of expectation, and what really made the Night King despair was that he realized that destroying the Staircase to make him hopeless was not a personal decision of a Night's Watch commander, but a predetermined plan that the enemy had already planned!

What's worse is that the two leading priests of the Eastern Route Army, which was supposed to serve as a backup and deliberately divided to deal with this desperate situation, suddenly lost contact with each other in just a few seconds and were completely wiped out.

That kind of mysterious weapon that can kill the priest of the cold god in an instant, the human defenders are generally equipped, God knows how many!

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Leaving the third fortress in a scorched earth, the Night King continued his journey with his army in a solemn mood, and when he arrived at the last stronghold of the Great Wall defenders "Shimen Village" that he had to pass through before arriving at the Long Night Fortress, the sky began to shine.

The lightning surprise attack and the collapse of the plan to win overnight are already a foregone conclusion, and now the Night King is faced with a difficult choice: to attack the equally heavily defended human fortress again, and try their luck to hope that the defenders in this fortress will forget to destroy the stairs...... Or do you just bypass it and storm the Long Night Fort with only ground forces?

The former plan was rejected first, and the gamble of chance did not conform to the cautious thinking mode and style of the servants of the Cold God.

As for bypassing and going straight to the Long Night Fort? The army of the east and west roads totaled 110,000 ghouls, and now they folded a little here and wiped out a team there, and all the way over, there were less than 70,000 left. The army of ghouls is not afraid of being flanked at both ends, but it is still the same problem: the closer you get to the middle of the Wall, the more obvious the suppression of the Chill Priests becomes, and the slower the recovery of mana, and when you stand under the Long Night Castle, the suppression is likely to be so strong that no priest can cast a fire spell......

How many of the ghouls have to be burned to death before they can take it down if they only rely on the ghouls to attack with their flesh and blood? If only a few troops are left after a vicious battle, even if they regain their full strength, will the cold god priests be able to deal with the frenzied encirclement and suppression of the human armed forces that have reacted?

With a few meaningless victories in his hands, the Night King feels like he's caught in a dilemma - the Great Wall of Desperation, which can put anyone who wants to destroy it into a desperate situation!

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As he was thinking with all seriousness on his face, another priest on the side said a few words in an ancient language, providing the Night King with a third line of thought.

Since Blitzkrieg's plan to take the Great Wall in one fell swoop has gone bankrupt, it is better to admit defeat. There is still at least a day and a half before the dragon returns to the battlefield, although the magic of the Great Wall is strong, but it does not shroud the land grant, and the army has time to destroy the living people in the land grant who are far away from the protection of the Great Wall.

Thinking about it all his life, the Night King immediately began to sense the dense places of humans. After a moment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that not far to the southeast, there was a large mass of dense life breath, the intensity of which was so high that it could only be produced when at least five figures of living people gathered together.

Human beings thought that it would be safer to huddle together for warmth, but they didn't know that in the eyes of the cold god priests, such a dense group was much easier to deal with than those small but strong strongholds along the Great Wall, garrisoned by one or two thousand people, and even if they were breached, they would be more than worth the loss, and they were simply fat meat delivered to their mouths!

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