Egger stayed overnight in Houguan Town, during which time he had a cordial conversation with the first group of residents who were "their own people", such as the construction advance team that rushed to the area, and several pyromancers who were forced to move here. The guys were full of complaints, complaining about the cold in the north, the lack of materials and tools, the presence of wild people, and the lack of a woman in the entire colony...... Some even offered to go home. The Night's Watch did not have the intention or ability to meet all their demands, but they needed manpower at this critical time, so it took a lot of effort and promises to get them to agree to stay.

After leaving the remaining dozen or so Northern soldiers and most of the Night's Watch industry members of Sir Rodric in Crown Town, Iger set out on his final journey to the Wall the next morning. With this group of people, the number of residents of Houguan Town has finally reached the hundreds, and by the time Iger left, he had already begun to erect barricades and improvised fences, preparing for a life without the protection of the lake.

There is only a dozen miles left from Houguan Town to Black Castle, there is a ready-made route of King's Road, and the smooth journey of Tiangong Zuomei, before dark, Iger resees the Mole Village and the desperate Great Wall that he had hoped to see again when he left for a year.

It was the first time everyone in the team had seen the Great Wall, except Ai, and everyone held their breath when the world's largest man-made structure suddenly emerged from the gray sky and rose across the horizon. Especially for Jaime and the fifty soldiers from the Western Frontier who came with him, seeing that this might be the "end of the world" that they would be staying in for the rest of their lives, there was a complicated look on their expressions in addition to the silence.

Soon a sentry came to investigate, and in a short time, a horn sounded on behalf of the brothers, and the procession slowly entered the black castle under the curious or gloomy gazes of the countless men in black who had run out of the tower.

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A lot has changed here compared to when I left. The most conspicuous thing is that there is a simple wooden wall three meters high around the entire black castle on the perimeter of the complex, which is so thin that it does not look solid, and it sways in the cold wind, and it looks like it does not fall down by relying on a large number of wooden barrels and bags of grain filled with debris.

[The Night's Watch Legion does not need to defend against attacks from the south, so there is no need for high walls. This view has been fine for the past thousand years, but as the defenders of the Great Wall gradually declined to the point where even the wildlings dared to attack on their own initiative, it finally became no longer applicable. Probably aware of this, the night watch of Castle Black will start building the wall.

"Egg!" With a tone of surprise, a thin, nimble black figure rushed out of the crowd to greet him. As the one who had heard Egg and Tyrion discuss how to escape the Wall, Jon Snow was the most surprised by the entire Night's Watch Legion that Egg had returned on his own initiative.

Soon more people who knew Iger appeared around the group, some welcoming the Chief Logistics Officer, some asking about his life in the South, and some even began to turn over the supplies on the wagon to see what good things Iger had brought with him. Iger recognized many familiar faces from the crowd and quickly fell into the encirclement.

"Don't move the things on the car!" Jon grabbed Egger by the arm, and before he could say a few words to his old friend, he had to start keeping order in a loud voice: "Go and call Sir Bowen Marcy, and arrange for someone to receive the goods and move them into the warehouse!"

"I also brought dozens of recruits and subordinates, let's arrange their accommodation first, who is in charge of this now?"

"Sir Andrew Tuss, the new head of Castle Black. Jon replied, "Ser Elisha's departure has been a pleasure for us all. ”

"Haha. Iger could fully understand this feeling, and smiled knowingly: "Commander Mormont's move is very meaningful, you don't want to live up to his kindness." ”

"Uh......" Jon rubbed his hands a little embarrassed, but didn't pretend to be stupid, "I understand." ”

As they chatted, Jon looked behind Egger and quickly recognized Jaime Lannister. He was silent, and knew on his toes that the silent and depressed monarch slayer did not want to be watched and "warmly welcomed" like Egger. This irascible guy who killed two even the king is so skilled in martial arts that a smart man won't mess with him.

Seeing that the Chief Affairs Officer had received the supplies, the Protestant head of Castle Black had arranged a place for the group to live, and Iger quickly realized that something was wrong: "What about Commander Mormont, and also, the Vale nobles who were sent here by King Robert to quell the Valley rebellion before?"

One is his only superior in the Night's Watch legion, and the other is the League of the Righteous who have been assigned to the Wall because of him, his potential enemies...... It's hard for Iger not to care about these people.

"The Savages smuggled out of Seal Bay on rafts on a large scale, and Commander Mormont took half of the Rangers to sit in the East Sea to watch. Sir Jon Royce et al...... This morning, take the other half of the Rangers west to rescue several villages that have been attacked by the Wildlings over the Wall. I was the only one left behind to manage Castle Black for the time being. ”

"Hey, it's something that can be solved by sending a chief ranger, and I have to go there in person, and I don't take you with ......me," this is obviously hoping that Jon will first get familiar with the feeling of managing Castle Black independently. Iger smiled meaningfully at the young man, but he vaguely felt inappropriate in his heart: "When did the last Ranger leave?"

"This morning. ”

"How many people are left in Castle Black?"

"More than two hundred, plus what you brought today, there are three hundred. ”

"That's not good, there are shapeshifters among the wildlings, who can control birds for aerial reconnaissance. Iger smelled a strong smell of the tiger leaving the mountain, and frowned uneasily: "In other words, the enemy is clear about our movements, and it is very likely that they will take advantage of the emptiness of Castle Black to launch an attack." ”

"Shapeshifter?" Jon's expression became solemn, "I think I've heard of it, where did you know that?"

"On the book. Iger replied, "It's the same book I saw that 'Obsidian Can Restrain Aliens,' and the credibility should be fine." ”

"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Jon tensely tenseed.

"Don't panic, that's just my guess. Egger waved his hand and comforted the young man, "Let's go, take me up to the Great Wall, and see what the wild people outside the wall are in now." ”

"Okay, let's go. ”

The two walked to the noose elevator and began to ascend towards the Great Wall.

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"The Savage Vanguard arrived outside the Great Wall a month ago, popping up every now and then along the edge of the forest, and since then we've stopped patrolling the wall entirely. Then, one after another, their large army gradually arrived, and there were more and more people, and by now, there were at least thirty or forty thousand people outside the Black Castle alone. The higher it rose, the stronger the wind became, and the icy cold blew wildly from the east against the wall, making the iron cage sway constantly even in the tracks, and Jon had his back to the wind to speak to Egg: "But they only camped in the forest outside the Wall, and instead of attacking, small forces kept crossing the wall to the south and constantly attacking and harassing the land-giving villages. ”

Iger doesn't understand military affairs, but he still has common sense: "You have to take the initiative to attack, and you must not let wave after wave of wall crossers stand in the south of the Great Wall, or even assemble!"

Commander Mormont thought so, too. Jon nodded: "At first, we sent a team to attack, but we found that most of the wildlings who crossed the wall were in groups of dozens of people, regardless of physical fitness or equipment...... As far as the savages are concerned, they are quite good, and if there are fewer people who go, they can only be sent to death. Later, Commander Mormont simply gathered his horses together and set up two large patrols of thirty men, one for the east and one for the west of Castle Black, which paid off, and quickly wiped out an elite of savages who had crossed the wall. But the two patrols were in charge of such a long defensive line, and the gap was too big, not to mention that the horses had to rest, and it was difficult to cope. What's worse is that later the wild people changed their tactics and no longer sent small forces over the wall, but simply organized large-scale crossings and smuggling in the Grand Canyon to the west and Seal Bay to the east......"

If you don't go to the battlefield in person, you can't really understand the situation of the battle. The more Iger listened, the tighter his brow became, and another delusion of his own was shattered by reality: he had thought that as long as Mormont's Ranger expedition was not launched, and the three hundred elite Night's Watch were not sent away, the defense of the Great Wall would be under no pressure......

But now it seems that the defense of the Great Wall with these three hundred night watchmen is only slightly easier than the original plot. After all, there are 100,000 savages beyond the Great Wall, and Mance is not a fool, he is facing a different defensive force than the original plot, so it is naturally impossible to take the same offensive method...... As long as the troops are divided into three ways and infiltrate the south at the same time, the night watchmen will be unable to parry.

"It's easy to say that on the side of the Grand Canyon, as long as the day and night patrols are carried out at key locations, the wild people don't have a chance to come too much, but the East Sea looks over there...... We have so few boats that it is difficult to completely seal off Seal Bay, even if we patrol around the clock. The Commander-in-Chief had already launched a plea for help from White Harbor, and the Count of Mandalay agreed to send a fleet to help...... But on the condition that the sailors come out on our own, you come from Winterfell, and you should know what's going on in the north. ”

Iger knew that a major war was inevitable in the South, and that the main army in the North was heading south, while the illegitimate sons of the Mandalay family and Bolton were fighting for the Weywood family's land, just in time for the last autumn harvest before winter...... These many factors eventually led to a comical result - although the situation had changed beyond recognition, the Night's Watch Legion was still destined to rely on its own strength at the most critical moment of the wildlings' attack......

The two chatted about the defense of the Great Wall, and the iron cage unconsciously rose to the top. The cold wind at the top of the Wall was so bitter that Iger had to pull up the hood of his coat to prevent his ears from being frozen.

Jon led him to the edge of the Wall, "Look, every fire down there is at least a tent. ”

After a day's drive from Houguan Town, the sky had begun to darken, and in the ghost forest shrouded in a thin layer of cold mist, thousands of campfires flickered among the branches and leaves, so many in number, but they seemed so small and weak compared to the wider and darker whole outer forest.

From the Great Wall, the campfires seem to be under your feet, but this is an illusion caused by the height difference, and even the nearest wild man camp is at least a mile away from the Great Wall...... Ordinary weapons can't attack at all.

Ordinary weapons, but if you use a ballista or trebuchet, you can still pose a threat.

"Why are they so close?"

"I don't know, most of the wilds weren't like this when they first arrived, but after a few days under the wall, the camp was getting closer and closer to the Wall. Jon shrugged, "Even if the shape is spread out longer and longer, it seems to ...... It's like getting close to the Great Wall at all costs. ”

Iger squinted into the distance, wondering if it was the magic of the Great Wall that made it difficult for the ghosts or ghouls to approach that would make the wildlings camp on the edge of the forest in such a perverse way?

"It's strange, at this time, there shouldn't be fog. Jon muttered suspiciously, setting up his tent and looking into the distance, and soon his expression changed: "No, the forest seems to be burning over there, and this white is not fog, but smoke!"

Egger was agitated and immediately looked in the direction Jon was looking, and sure enough, about a mile away, a faint fire flickered and shook in the ghost forest. At this distance, it is impossible for an ordinary bonfire to be seen with the naked eye, this is the wildlings setting the forest on fire!

"Lying on the grass—mud horses!" isn't that a coincidence?

Egger let out a rare foul mouth, shaking his whole body, and suddenly realized that he still misunderstood what Jiujian had said before, and the boy was reminding himself that if he didn't come quickly, he wouldn't be able to catch up with the wildlings' massive attack on the Great Wall.

In other words: if you hurry up, you can just in time for the wild man's attack on the Great Wall!

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