The "Night Watch Defense Plan" is divided into three parts: "The Grand Canyon", "The Great Wall" and "Land Grant", although it is not all-inclusive, but it also takes into account all possible military situations in the territory under the rule of the Night Watch, such as the attack of foreign enemies and internal turmoil, and gives a clear and specific response strategy.

The Grand Canyon is more than fifty miles long, and even if the Night's Watch command does everything it can to mobilize troops, it can only be guarded by an average of a few dozen people per mile in the end—obviously, such a density of troops is more than enough for vigilance, but not enough for defense at all.

Much of the Grand Canyon Defense Plan is devoted to solving this problem.

After determining the segmentation and vigilance arrangements along the canyon, the plan focused on how the defenders would mobilize personnel and materials in an ideal situation, that is, "the enemy attacks from a certain place or several places", so as to maximize the defensive strength of the limited manpower, and at the same time keep the parts that have not been attacked for the time being without a gap.

Half of the wildfire and dragon crystal weapons were sent to the front line of the squad defense to prevent the strange spirits from suddenly attacking in the middle of nowhere, far away from the fortress, and instantly breaking through the defense line and making all preparations useless. The other half of the combat readiness stored in the three fortresses along the route can accompany the actions of the reserves, and accurately deliver the attack to the attack place, becoming a powerful support.

Although there is a twenty-fold difference in strength between the two sides, if the battle takes place on one or several narrow planes, the human side can completely wipe out the huge numerical advantage of the ghouls by skillfully coordinating and operating, using targeted weapons and geographical advantages: to fight, build roads first. The defensive mountain pass, which has been repaired several times, has been much wider and smoother, providing a good transportation environment comparable to that of the top of the Great Wall - allowing the enemy to attack from wherever it comes from, it is equivalent to fighting the defenders of the entire canyon front.

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The plan is very well planned, but unfortunately, the enemy commander is a wise magical creature after all, the nascent Night King does not have much experience in commanding large-scale wars, but this does not prevent it from making a judgment: directly launching a full-line attack can maximize its own numerical advantage while maximizing the shortcomings of the human defenders, so as to avoid the embarrassment of not being able to fight for a long time without adding fuel to death.

Attack the shortcomings of the other with your own strengths, the best policy!

Limited by the differences in the individual abilities of commanders, the level of communication, and the unexpected situation on the battlefield, it is rare for human warfare in the era of cold weapons to launch a "true all-front attack" on a long front beyond visual line of sight -- even if the superior formulates such a tactic, it is impossible for the troops to implement it in place.

But the army of the dead has no such concerns: all the ghouls are controlled by the resurrected wraul, and all the wraugls are connected to their leader, the Night King, and the whole army is more like a whole creature of 100,000 cells than an army, and any one ghoul can tactically cooperate with another ghoul that it can't even see from a distance of thousands of meters. This is a perfect army with almost 100% execution and can carry out any tactical plan of the Supreme Commander.

Is there a method for dealing with this situation in the "Grand Canyon Defense Plan"? Yes, but it is only one short page, and the content can be summarized into two points: 1. Each defense section holds its position, kills and wounds the enemy as much as possible, and evacuates to the nearest fortress after using all the wildfire and dragon crystal combat preparations; 2. The three fortresses along the canyon provide orderly support, and ensure that the order of the loss of each defense section is "from far to near" as much as possible, so as to cover the withdrawal of as many defenders as possible into the stronghold and preserve the vital forces.

This was the best way Iger could think of in the face of an insurmountable inferiority in troops.

And now, the second of the two guidelines is also facing the dilemma of not being realized, because ...... Icefjord, the westernmost of the three fortresses along the canyon, has something wrong.

According to the plan, after the Icegap Harbor is attacked on all fronts in the canyon, it should send a reserve force to support the defenders in the westernmost quarter of the canyon, help them stabilize the front, evacuate in an orderly manner from east to west after exhausting their combat preparations, and finally retreat into the walls of the port fortress as much as possible, preserving their vital strength or making a last-ditch fight with the help of fortress fortifications. And now...... The soldiers who were supposed to carry out this mission were busy dealing with attacks from within the human race.

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The defense plan took into account the clause that "Icefjord Harbor was attacked by the Iron People". However, the new commander of the harbor fortress was not as experienced or scheming as Carter Pike and Dennis Mellister, and he did not have enough time to run in with his troops, and the soldiers panicked and forgot the plan when they were in battle, and Jaime Lannister was not good at defending the city, not to mention the fact that there was a group of northern soldiers in the fortress who were not under the control of the Night's Watch, resulting in a slightly chaotic command...... This series of factors is not serious on its own, but when it comes together, it suddenly becomes a big problem against a treacherous and cunning opponent like Euron Greyjoy.

Unlike the East China Sea, there is no wall on the seaward side, and the elite of the Iron People who sneaked into the harbor rushed ashore as soon as they stormed the fortress. They quickly split into three groups and rushed to the center of the fortress, the watchtower on the shore, and the three ships moored to wreak havoc......

The Iron Folk are pirates who have never been good at going toe-to-toe with large armies on land, and have not been able to bring enough men with them in order to sneak into the fortress...... Their purpose was not to occupy Icefjord, but to destroy the port, especially the shipyard part of it, and to snuff out the signs of a naval confrontation with the Iron Islands in the north.

The northern sailors, who were preparing for a possible fire on the ship, saw that the situation was not good, and the planks were removed, leaving the only three northern warships to become floating fortresses floating on the shore, and the defenders on the watchtower quickly put down the confrontation with the Tiemin sailing fleet in the distance and took up arms to guard the stairs...... Seeing that the enemy was menacing, a small group of northern soldiers resolutely withdrew to the shipyard, preparing to give priority to protecting their craftsmen and other technicians.

The harbor was full of people running and shouting to kill, as well as sporadic fires, and although the Iron Folk tricked the defenders into rushing into the harbor, they found that the enemy did not panic and surrender - there were no unarmed civilians in the Icegap Harbor, and the new land-givers were already from outside the Cypriots, and their willpower was even more amazing after some militarized training to become a militia...... Even the women dared to pick up the guys and fight hard, the soldiers on the watchtower threw wildfires up the steps of the tower to protect themselves, and the sailors on board pushed the boat away from the dock in the dark to avoid capture...... After a mindless scramble, the invaders began setting fire to buildings throughout the fortress in an attempt to burn down Icefjord Harbor.

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"I'll take someone to the port to help!" Jaime grabbed the commander who was in a hurry and wanted to take the soldiers to the docks, and said sharply, "You shouldn't have brought all the reserves to the wall just now, why did you make a mistake once and come back a second time? Of course, the expulsion of the enemy into the port is important, but we are all gone, and if the enemy outside the wall takes advantage of the situation to attack and break through the gate, then the Icegap Harbor will be finished!"

"No, you take people to stay behind to guard the wall, and I will lead a large army ......"

"Your three-legged cat kung fu, use it in the past!" Jaime didn't care about the other party's half-level higher than himself, and unceremoniously interrupted the commander's words, "Say I'll go, I'll go!"

After that, without waiting for the other party to reply, he loudly gathered more than 100 people from the Westfrontier gang and the scattered soldiers who had just been collected by him, and walked quickly down the steps of the wall, stopping when he passed a box: "This ...... Isn't this the Dragon Crystal Explosion Bomb sent by Houguan Town, this is not for dealing with living people, which fool moved it up and opened the cover?"

"It's me...... Explosive bombs can explode, I thought, I really can't hold it, it's okay to order a few to scare people. The soldier next to him replied hesitantly.

"Forget it, grab a few and bring torches. The soldier's answer reminded Jaime that the beacon fire in the eastern canyon had been connected, and it seemed that the entire canyon had been burned, and that the dragon crystal bomb could not be sent to the front line for support at the moment, and it was better to use it.

With more than a hundred people, the monarch killer rushed murderously in the direction of the already chaotic port, and the team that came to the aid like a glowing dragon with torches quickly attracted the attention of the invaders, and they quickly gathered a large group of nearly two hundred people under the command of the two leaders, lined up a simple horizontal formation, and pushed up to meet them.

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Jaime was not afraid of the other side, and after roughly comparing the equipment and strength of the two sides, he made a judgment: under his own leadership, although the opponent was nearly twice as large as his own, he could still easily penetrate the opposing formation, and he could win without too many casualties.

But now the Icegap Harbor is in chaos, more than a thousand defenders are scattered all over the fortress under the command of the malfunctioning and the enemy's sneak attack, but the enemy has a numerical advantage on the frontal battlefield, and in the case of reinforcements on the opposite side at any time, he must be able to quickly end the battle in a clean and neat way!

"Follow me, throw it together!" Facing more than 200 enemies lined up in a line, Jaime grabbed the explosive bomb in the hand of one of his cronies in his right hand, and took a torch in his left hand, and lit the fuse when the enemy approached thirty meters away, and used all his strength...... Thrown out.

"Despicable!"

"Bag!"

"If you have the ability, don't engage in these false things!"

The ironmen had already heard of the power of the wildfire incendiary bombs, and watched one by one the enemy herds fly out balls slightly smaller than human heads, and although they were surprised that the defenders dared to use this weapon at the risk of fire in the street battles surrounded by buildings, they dodged in the midst of the roar, and all of them smashed to the ground and rolled in the thud of four or five explosive bombs—wondering how they didn't shatter and ignite the green flame, and the fuse burned to the bottom, igniting the gunpowder inside.

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