"Yorn, don't come nonsense!" the chief craftsman, who had always been cautious in his words and deeds, now shouted his first words since his appearance today.

"You can figure out who is doing this!" Jon Royce roared back, "The king-killer acted first and disobeyed the orders of his superiors, and I was maintaining the discipline of the Night's Watch! You are conniving at his presumptuous behavior like this, and you are pushing the entire Legion into the abyss of chaos!"

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Not everyone has the same enmity with Iger as the former Earl of Runestone.

More conservatives did not support him either because they were opposed to the risky idea of "embracing the wildlings", because they didn't like his style, or because they felt that he had been a night watchman for too short a time and was too young and senior enough to convince him...... There are many more, just because various factors support other people, the interests are related, and it is not good to change the court.

After a period of election, the former savages have proven that they can also be in order, and Iger's many actions have begun to gradually impress a large number of people who did not know and supported him. More and more people are beginning to believe Egger's public statement on the day he returns from the South: At this extraordinary moment, it may be a good choice to choose a commander-in-chief who is not very conformist but can do practical things.

There are still stubborn opponents, but between "letting Jaime go wild" and "provoking the Night's Watch to bleed", it is clear that taking care of the bigger picture will be the choice of all normal people.

And now, what Jon Royce is doing is to occupy the high ground of reason and intensify the conflict - forcing the night watch officers of Castle Black to not put stability first.

The Western Frontier Gang led by Jaime had more than forty people, and the Donghai Wang faction was also close to this number, and if the two groups fought without external intervention, it would inevitably cause more than double digit casualties...... Castle Black, as the third party with the largest number of people, had to come to the aid of one side in order to minimize the damage caused by the chaos!

If it can't be avoided, who will the night watchmen of Castle Black help?

The answer is obvious: there is no evidence that anyone wants to disadvantage the family of the King of Cyprus, and in today's confrontation, it is Jaime's side who acted first - it is acceptable to be forced to compromise and let them go, but if you still help them deal with the side that stands in the way, you will not be able to explain it to the brothers!

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Powen Marcy, his close ally Oter Yawick, and the Chief, who had never stood in line, looked at each other and gritted their teeth: it seemed as if they had only one difficult decision to make.

The people of the Westlands standing around Jaime also sensed the anomaly of the atmosphere, and they approached each other, alertly shoulder to shoulder, back to back, towards the East China Sea, which was already facing each other, and the dozens of soldiers surrounding the Big Three of Castle Black.

The Castle Black Triumvirate exchanged words and decided to try one last time to persuade Jaime to stop, and if he didn't succeed, he would use force to take people - the strings of this conflict, under the deliberate actions of those who care, finally tightened to the limit.

But just as the rhetoric was almost over, and the ultimatum was about to be issued, and even the onlookers began to notice that something was wrong, the last step of the deterioration of the situation was interrupted by an unexpected loud announcement from the guards at the gate.

"The south side is here again, it's pork and mutton. Idlers, come and help move it!"

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It has been more than ten months since Houguan Town assumed the function of a material transfer station from the Seven Kingdoms to the Great Wall, and the contact with Castle Black has long been no news, and the night watchmen of Castle Dark are accustomed to it, and not many people take this notice seriously. Everyone was still focused on the field - but soon some sharp-eyed people realized that this time, the escorts who were rushing in from outside the gate far exceeded the number of normal supplies in the past.

Nearly a hundred people guarded three carriages slowly entered the wall through the gate of Castle Black, except for less than ten coachmen-looking people, the rest of the seventy or eighty people, more or less armed, among them, the obvious core of the small team was even covered in the shiny full-body armor provided by Tywin Lannister, wearing helmets and shields, carrying steel swords and daggers at their waists, and looking armed to the teeth.

Jon Royce chuckled in his heart.

(What's going on, isn't it...... That guy, it's all arranged to connect with the people?)

An ominous premonition permeated his heart, and as he was in shock, Humphrey Xishan, the leader of the escort personnel and the black-clad logistics officer stationed in Houguan Town, stepped out of the crowd and took the initiative to explain the situation: "On the orders of the Chief Logistics Officer, the livestock before the winter have been processed in the whole area of the donated land, and now some of the meat is distributed along the Great Wall, and I ask Lord Marcy to sign for it—in addition, I will return from this trip, and I will also take Mance Red and his family along the way, and place them in a safe place within the walls of Houguan Town." The affairs are complicated and tiring, and I also ask the Black Castle side to actively cooperate with it!"

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The so-called "handling of livestock before winter" is a custom in the north of the world of ice and fire: because it is not known how long the winter will last, no one dares to say that the stored hay and grain can feed the livestock until spring, so except for a very small amount of seeds, the rest must be slaughtered and stored as meat products shortly after the winter officially comes. This reason is very convincing and convincing, but Powen Marthy sighed as he looked at this unkind and nearly 100 people from the Night's Watch Industrial Guard and the warriors of the Mountain Clan.

After Commander Mormont's death, as the chief officer in charge of the Castle Black's warehouse, he had intended to bankrupt the land grant by cutting off supplies to the wildlings...... However, Iger also stored a large amount of food and materials in Houguan Town, and chose to fight-for-tat and independently support the newly donated landholders. The two major material warehouses belonging to the Night's Watch have been running against each other for three or four months, and since the number of new landgivers far exceeds that of the Mountain Clans, Houguan Town is completely at a disadvantage in this war of material attrition, and Egger has been running around to keep the food supply from collapsing.

In this case, how can it be that today, Houguan Town will repay grievances with virtue and take the initiative to share meat, a valuable and popular resource?

Not to mention, it was not yet noon at this moment, but the team that had arrived from Houguan Town had already arrived...... Even if you take into account the fact that the renovated King's Road in the land grant is no longer what it used to be, they still have to leave before dawn to be able to arrive at this time.

With so many factors coming together, who would believe that this is a pure coincidence?

Egger West really counts everything. If he succeeds in being elected commander-in-chief this time, it will be a real win that does not depend on luck at all.

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Realizing that it was far more than Powen Marthy who was being calculated, Jon Royce's face turned pale in an instant, and the next moment he burst into flames and threw fire at the gate guards: "How do you watch the door?

"Lord Royce said with a smile, you may not know me for a long time in the East China Sea, in Lower Humphrey Hill, I have been a member of the Night's Watch for half a year, and I am currently stationed in Houguan Town, and I am a brother of the oath that has been replaced. The logistics officer who led the team introduced himself: "And the logistics department, which has been regularly transporting meat supplies to Castle Black for more than a year, has already met with the delivery staff - I, a serious night watchman, brought a group of familiar friends to treat the brothers guarding the Great Wall, can I still waste time checking and verifying my identity?"

He looked at Jon Royce with a smile, and his eyes lingered on the steel sword he held in his hand: "Yo, is Castle Black holding a jousting tournament? That's really unfortunate, you guys go on, I know where the warehouse is, unload the goods, take the people with the belt and leave, don't bother you." ”

The words were polite, but the "escort team" maintained a position to approach the two sides of the confrontation, faintly cooperating with Jaime to sandwich Donghaiwang and his gang in the middle. Looking at Hou Guanzhen's posture of obviously hollowing out his family foundation and doing his best to come to respond, how can anyone not see that they are not good?

Obviously, the head of the logistics department, the biggest favorite to win the election of commander-in-chief, Egger West, seems to be a little impatient, and has already made arrangements for a showdown and a battle.

The night watchmen in Castle Black, after being partially removed to the East China Sea, were composed of nearly 100 rangers (including more than 40 of them Jaime's men), more than 200 clerks and a similar number of craftsmen...... The total is about five hundred.

Although the old, weak, sick and disabled accounted for a large proportion, they were all military-trained Night's Watch soldiers—such a group of people, if they were united as one, might be able to deal with more than a hundred well-trained elites. But what kind of people are they facing now?

The Westfrontier Rangers, who also wore black clothes and swore an oath, the mountain clan warriors who came to the rescue of the Great Wall at its most critical moment, and the Night's Watch Industrial Guard, who dutifully and diligently provided logistical supplies to the Great Wall for more than a year. Towards such a combination, how many people would be willing to copy the guy and go up to work hard?

Iger won again, winning completely, leaving no chance of a comeback.

The Castle Black Triumvirate knew what to do with just a few eye contacts.

Bullying the soft and fearing the hard has always been criticized, but its internal logic is very simple: bullying the soft and fearing the hard, only in a society with a high degree of civilization, will it be morally condemned; and on the contrary, bullying the hard and afraid of the soft is kicking the steel plate every day, and it is dying all the time...... Today, Iger has tried to see the dagger, openly using all the resources and hole cards in his hands to build momentum and oppress people, he dares to do this, is to conclude that as long as he plays the "hard" side, the officers of Castle Black will never have a hot brain - if it is only forty people led by Jaime, they can still take it at some cost, but now with the addition of nearly 100 reinforcements, today's infighting will cause chaos that will be completely out of control, completely destroying the night watchmen who have been weakened to the extreme and dying.

An enraged Duke Stark doesn't have much patience to understand what is going on, who is right and who is wrong. For the sake of the safety of the north, he will only fight fifty boards each, take over the defense of the Great Wall with vigorous means, and let the glorious and ancient organization of the Night's Watch completely turn into history!

At that time, Egg, who has the closest relationship with the Stark family, controls the Night's Watch industry, and has a completely personal power and base in the land grant, will inevitably be the last to laugh, even if he has to face the baptism of anger of the Northern Guardian at the beginning.

And, most importantly, Egger is now accompanying Robb Stark to inspect the Great Wall, and if something happens, he can distort the truth in front of the Lord of the North and influence his judgment in the first place!

When he first heard that he was planning to put aside the election and leave Castle Black, Powen Marcy thought that this would be a good opportunity for him to fight back, but now that he thinks about it, he may have already taken today's events into consideration!

His mind was in a hurry, and in spite of his reluctance, Marcy could not admit in his heart that with such a city, his scheming, and his judgment, if Egger was willing to put his mind on the right path, he might really be a stronger commander-in-chief than anyone else.

Looks like James and the Mance Rader family are going to have to leave Jaime and the Mance Red family first. Now, all the Night's Watch lacked was a step down the line. If they can't find it, they will use force to force Donghai Wang and others to get out of the way, and the scene will be too ugly.

But Jaime clearly acted on the instructions of Egger, how to find this step?

As the Castle Black Triumvirate whispered nervously, the last of the Night's Watch Legion's most important and influential, yet always neutral men, finally belatedly appeared at the scene of the conflict.

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