Those ghosts and spirits, will also play tricks and conspiracies?

Daenerys raised her eyebrows, feeling that Egg was a little suspicious.

However, the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch commanded his own army to fight his own war, and he had only been loyal to the monarch for two days, and he had not yet fulfilled the promise, so it seemed indeed inappropriate to rely on the dragon to take the credit for destroying the demons from the first place.

Thinking of this, she shrugged her shoulders and did not object: "Where did you see that something was wrong?"

"Not to see, but to calculate. We were in the army, we ate and walked with the soldiers, and we knew the situation of the troops, so the speed of pursuit was known. Egger pointed to the line on the map that connected the western section of the Great Wall with Houguan Town, the capital of land grants, "And the average speed of the ghoul army can also be roughly inferred from the fact that they rushed from Shimen Village to Houguan Town in one day the day before." Then take into account the conditions such as the enemy leaving more than ten hours earlier than us, and the whole day without rest, this is ......"

This is a typical follow-up question that a primary school student would do. However, there is no primary school in this world, and there is no mature term for 'catching up on problems', and Egger, who couldn't find the right vocabulary, finally had to change his words: "It's a simple arithmetic problem." ”

Under Daenerys' questioning gaze, he pulled out a blank piece of paper and scribbled the calculations, explaining his conclusions: "Unfortunately, whether I guess by feeling or do mental arithmetic, substitute the highest or lowest value to estimate the speed of the ghouls...... The final result was that we could not catch up with the enemy before we approached Long Lake. ”

"But we're just catching up now. ”

The queen liked to see the men writing and drawing on maps and blank paper, but she was more curious about how Iger was going to interpret the discrepancies and contradictions between reality and his judgment.

"Indeed, either I miscalculated, or something went wrong somewhere, causing reality to mismatch the calculations. Iger sighed and handed the draft to a few of the guards, "Let's take a look at it and see if I'm careless and miscalculated...... However, it can be ruled out. It's not that I'm arrogant, it's that the model is too simple to make mistakes. If it wasn't a miscalculation, it would have been — either the Hearthplace was better prepared than the Night's Watch fortress in the end, and the Wraiths had wasted more than a dozen hours trying to storm it — which was unlikely, or the last reason — the enemy was much slower than I had calculated. ”

"That's good news, why should we stop?"

"Because it's a lot slower, there are two situations: one is really not fast, and the other is deliberately slowing down, or even stopping and waiting for us. Now, based on what we know, we can't tell what the situation is. Iger narrowed his eyes and replied in a deep voice, "It's dark now, and the troops haven't finished eating, so if we force our way over, we may have to fight a fierce battle hungry and dark...... Instead of taking risks, suppress your impatience, camp on the spot, and wait for the night. Exactly what happens, we will find out tomorrow. ”

He took the paper from the guards who shook their heads and said that there was no problem with the calculations on the draft, and made the final conclusion on the analysis: "If the enemy's speed is really slower than my most conservative prediction, we will set out at dawn tomorrow morning, and we will surely catch up before noon...... If, on the other hand, we catch up with the enemy tomorrow as it is approaching dark, then my suspicion is correct, and the enemy is not quick to get up, but is deliberately keeping a close distance from us, in order to lure you, Your Majesty, to ride the dragon away from the army and rush into the trap first!"

"The Egger people are really old and seeking the country, this is a steady temptation and confirmation. Machiro, who had already arrived from the Long Night Fort on horseback to catch up with the large army, looked at Daenerys with a smile, "Your Majesty, if it is indeed the commander-in-chief who is too cautious, then the consequence of enduring tonight will only be to make the war end one day late...... And if he guesses that there is really a problem, His Majesty will attack rashly, but you and the three dragons will be in a big crisis. You are the queen, and you should not risk yourself. ”

Daenerys listened carefully to Egger and Machiro's words, understood what they meant, and nodded in agreement. At this time, the scout, who was still waiting for the order, couldn't help but ask: "What...... My lord, what is going to happen to the Hearthside side in the end?"

"Don't deal with it. Bran Stark, who had been silent in his wheelchair for a long time, opened his eyes and completed his close-up perception through the eyes of the raven, "The corpses left inside and outside Amber's castle are real, and the strangers must have no extra power to transform the ghouls to leave so many corpses behind." Write a letter to Houguan Town, and let the left-behind personnel send logistics to finish up, without additional attention. ”

"They don't have the magic to transform into ghouls?" Egger raised his eyebrows, almost blurting out if this also meant that the enemy did not have the magic to transform the corpse dragon, but hesitated for a moment, and finally did not intend to take the risk, and swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

"It's good to wait one night longer, but there's a problem. Daenerys spoke again, "It would be best if we could catch up and end this tomorrow during the day, but if it turns out that the enemy is indeed deliberately slowing down to lure me to attack, how can we solve the problem in the end?

"The enemy did not flee north to the outside of the city, but to the northern hinterland. As long as you bite tightly, there will always be someone who will be able to hold back the enemy's footsteps and force the wraiths to slow down. "Right now, there are troops going north that can play that role. Egger was originally afraid that the enemy would expand all the way and eventually swell into a spectacular sea of corpses at the beginning of the war, but now that this worry was lifted, the whole person relaxed, "Bran, where is the northern coalition led by your brother at this moment-can you use the crows to try to determine their location and contact them, so that the two armies can cooperate with each other, and it is best to flank the strange spirits from the north and south?"

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Robb Stark immediately launched a general mobilization to the north after receiving the warning of the Great Wall.

Considering that the battlefield was in the land grant and Winterfell was in the center of the North, in order to avoid wasting time on the armies of the princes whose fiefs were further north, he chose the location of the army in the letter to be in the village west of the last Hearth, near the King's Road.

It was winter, so most of the residents gathered in the winter town, and the northern territory was already in a state of long-term war with the Iron Islands and was always vigilant, and the northern families in a tense state at any time gathered their armies quite quickly - among them, the army of Winterfell set off on the second day of the outbreak of the war, that is, at noon on the day when the alarm was received, and the ghouls were still rushing from Shimen Village to Houguan Town, and set off at a uniform speed in a hurry, and on the way they met the same and closer Saiwen, The three armies of Glover and Burton, totaling more than 6,000 men...... After a few days of trekking, we are already close to Long Lake, and we will be able to reach the last Fireplace City in less than two days.

But in the early morning when he stopped for the night on King's Avenue on the west side of the lake and was about to set off to continue to the assembly point, the northern guard who personally led the army encountered a strange thing.

A crow suddenly flew down from the sky and landed on his shoulder as he was enjoying breakfast. He stretched out his hand to grab it without hiding, and when he saw it in front of him, there was a roll of paper tied to the bird's foot, which wrote urgent information such as the last fireplace city had been captured and the strange ghost was leading his army south, and asked the northern army to stop on the spot and set up camp to prepare to block the enemy army.

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It's not unusual that clever letter crows can be trained to remember several places, but no matter how clever they are, they can only go back and forth to a fixed crow's nest, and they can't deliver messages to moving targets, let alone deliver them to the High Commander himself with such precision. Robb, who had read the shocking news, immediately halted the preparations for the march of the army, and announced the contents of the letter to the rest of the nobles who were dining with him.

"How did this crow find you accurately?" The nobles present stared at the big black bird that still flew back to his shoulder after being let go by Robb with suspicion and vigilance, and the patriarch of the Severn family was the first to question, "I've never heard of a crow and a person to find someone, but don't be a spy sent by the enemy to disrupt our army's morale by using witchcraft, trying to delay our trip, so that we will never be able to rush to the Great Wall to help in the war!"

The messenger crow screamed, as if in protest against the accusations against him.

"The night watchman took in the wild men outside the Cypriots, and heard that some of them did have the ability to control animals, especially birds. Earl Glover asked, "Who wrote this letter, and is it signed and sealed?"

"It's my brother Bran, and it's the official coat of arms of the Night's Watch, and it doesn't look like a counterfeit. Robb frowned—honestly, he had forgotten what Bran's handwriting looked like. "Maybe my brother has learned some magical means of using crows to send messages during his time outside the fortress—what do you think, and how should we deal with the news in this letter?"

"Assuming the news is true, what is the Night's Watch doing?" another nobleman said angrily, "Didn't you say that the strange spirits crossed the Grand Canyon into the land gift, and how far was the Hearthplace City from the Grand Canyon in the end, how could it fall in less than four days?

A group of heads of families and accompanying heirs all expressed their opinions, and what was supposed to be a good breakfast meeting suddenly became a pot of porridge.

"Everyone, please be quiet!" said Luce Burton, coughing, "The strangers lead the dead, and it is difficult to judge the speed of their march by the standards of the living. If nothing else, assuming they could march day and night at the speed of our march north, it would not be impossible to reach Winterfell in three or four days. In any case, the Night's Watch sounded the alarm at the first time, and now it was biting the enemy and chasing him to the last Hearth, and it was better than the 'Sleeping Jack' who let the enemy cross the border without realizing it ninety years ago. "The Castle Master of the Dreadies is not loud, but it always has a strange penetrating power, "For now, we should judge: whether this letter really came from the Night's Watch, or is it from the magic of the Stranger, as Count Severn said?"

Luce Burton's words reminded everyone, and so - another round of discussion began.

"Lock up this crow first, don't let it fly away! stab it with a dragon crystal, if it is a strange ghost's spell, it will definitely die in an instant!"

", what kind of crow won't die if he stabs him with dragon crystal?" said the more sober objector, "I think it's true, what? When will the northern army obey the command of the night watchman! We have dragon crystal weapons to deal with strange ghosts, and we also bring fire oil asphalt, what are we afraid of? If we delay here for a day, the enemy will invade the northern territory one point deeper, and it is the greatest incompetence to sit back and watch the enemy invade our own territory!"

"Fart, what a ghoul looks like, we've all seen it. If the letter is true, camp on the spot, build a fence and barricade for defense, wait for the armies of Horwood and Tauha to chase and converge, and then flank the strangers with the Night's Watch on both sides, the only way to avoid the total annihilation of the army is to set up camp on the spot, build a fence and barricade for defense, and then fight the Stranger on both sides with the Night's Watch. It's not 'obeying the Night's Watch,' it's the only way out right now, and you have to do it without writing it on the letter!"

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Although the noisy arguments seem to be of no positive significance, the commander-in-chief can indeed gradually absorb the opinions of all parties in the process of "listening" and fill in the blind spots of his own negligent thinking...... Soon, Robb was contemplating and completing his thoughts.

"Alright!" the young Guardian of the North raised his hand to put an end to the heated discussion that tended to escalate, and finally said, "We will set up camp on the spot, and each family will arrange for human tools to cut down trees in the forests on both sides, and build temporary spike barricades and fences to prepare for battle." In addition, send a few of your best riders, with enough horses to change, and travel north to find out the situation. Whether you find the enemy or make it all the way to the last Hearthh, return immediately and report what you see!"

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