The Green Prophet rushed to the Long Night Fort to take up his new post in an orderly manner, and the red-robed monk Machiro also went to the East China Sea without complaint to get on the ship that crossed the sea, and the vanguard troops of the three major fortresses along the Great Wall that were about to open the way for the "expedition" were ready to go, and the main army of land grants inside and outside the crown town had also been assembled......

The stage has been lit up, and only the protagonist is left to appear. For Egger, it should have been the eve of his passion and energy to do something big, but in fact, after only a day or two of happiness after receiving the label of "Chosen One", he began to be surrounded by the following sense of boredom and could not extricate himself.

Why?

If you suddenly find out one day: the "big career" that you have been planning for a long time and identifies as the ultimate goal and life pursuit is actually just a play in the eyes of a higher-level existence, and you are desperately trying to climb to a high position, but in the end you are only able to grab the qualification to become a chess piece in the hands of others, will you still be as enthusiastic and energetic as before?

Like a climber about to reach the top, Iger looked up unexpectedly, only to find that the mountain he was climbing was actually just a small mound in the waist of another real peak. And what's even more sad is that he may never be able to climb the real mountain, and he can't climb up at all!

(Boring, really TM boring.) ）

The emptiness in his heart haunted like a ghost that never dispersed, and he couldn't lift his spirits for anything. Fortunately, it's one thing to feel bored psychologically, and the work he was doing didn't stop at all.

Iger has always believed that a strong person must have the following two qualities: first, the ability to act rationally against instinctive feelings, and second, the ability to recognize, adjust and eliminate useless emotions.

And what he needs now is the second of them.

As Rahlo said, his boredom at the moment is just getting cheap and selling well: it is unpleasant to be "someone else's pawn", but if you are entangled in this, you will lose the motivation to move forward, and what about the rest of the ordinary people in the world who are not even qualified to be pawns and pawns? Not to mention, the master who manipulates his own chess piece, but makes everything clear, makes him make a choice with free will, and gives him enough help and convenience.

Digging into his heart, he realized that the reason for his unhappiness was not that he was at the mercy of Lahlo or that his interests were harmed - in fact, it was just because he thought he was already great, but suddenly realized that he was actually nothing, and the reality was seriously inconsistent with his expectations, which caused discomfort.

And the emptiness brought about by this psychological gap is a typical useless emotion.

He hadn't even really climbed to the top of the mortal "mound" in front of him...... It would be foolish and inverted to start looking at another peak early in the morning, groaning and despairing that it might never be able to climb it.

Rahlo appeared in his dreams as a red god, ruthlessly tearing apart his hopes of returning home, while stealing his passion for the next big drama, but so what? no matter how trivial the next battle for mortal supremacy in Westeros was compared to the battle between the Fire and Fire Gods behind the scenes and the grand attempt to travel through the world, it was indeed the life that Iger faced. Even if you continue to climb, you will probably never be able to climb that peak, but stopping where you are will never make things any better.

People, either hurry up and die, or live well in the moment!

The Queen's farewell letter, as the Green Prophet had said, arrived in Houguan two days after Rahlo's miracle, and was written by Daenerys herself, with a palpable but restrained displeasure between the lines, to the effect that you are too slow for me to take the first step, and I hope you will keep your promise to settle the affairs of the North as soon as possible and come to the South to fight for me.

Obviously, after meeting with her other two staff, the queen finally realized the fact that "Iger was fooling and using herself" after their persuasion and guidance—she vaguely felt deceived, but she hoped that it was not true, so she used a more gentle urging after careful consideration.

This is a handwritten letter from the future legitimate ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, and the handwriting of "the most beautiful woman in the world" also has a beautiful handwriting that completely matches her appearance, beautiful and round, neat and neat, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as pleasing to the eye. From a political or calligraphic point of view, this letter has a good collection and appreciation value, and if it were an ordinary person, it might have to be framed and hung on the wall.

But Iger only glanced at it cursorely, and without even looking at it a second time, he casually threw it into the pile of "processed" files to the side.

He had no intention of "settling the affairs of the North" at all, which naturally meant that he didn't care about whatever Daenerys wrote in her letter.

"Leon!"

The guard, who was called out at a loud voice, quickly pushed the door in: "What do you command, sir?"

"I will pick four of my most trusted comrades, and five of them will go to the stable to lead ten horses, and immediately set off for the last Hearth, without any delay on the way. Iger had already made up his mind, so he did not hesitate: "After that, I will meet the queen and tell her that I will wait for two more days anyway, and I will personally go south to explain to her the day after tomorrow." ”

"Understood!"

The queen is a good queen, but unfortunately she is a little suspicious in her work, and after she almost cheated once, Iger learned to be obedient - in order to ensure the secrecy and smooth implementation of the expeditionary deception, he also concealed the true battle plan from his nominal allegiance. Three days later, he will indeed go south to the last Hearth, but instead of explaining anything to Daenerys, he will lead the main force of the land-giving army to pass by her temporary residence and go straight to the heart of the north!

......

The two days required in the message passed little by little, and the pressure of the queen's urging was withstood the pressure of the queen's urging, and the time for preparing for war, which had been cut again and again, was finally not stabbed again.

In full accordance with the timetable laid down by the High Command, Carter Pike, the eastern commander of the expeditionary force's vanguard force, Jon Snow, the central commander, and the western commander—Jaime Lannister, who had been squeezed out of the original choice after a strong request, were each led by three Night's Watch officers, for a total of six hundred—nearly half of the number of registered Night's Watchmen, and set off on time from the three fortresses of Donghaiwang, Castle Black, and Shadow Tower, and at the same time drove into the north of Cyprus through the tunnels through the Great Wall.

And with the three tunnel gates creaking shut, the strategic deception against the northern border and the entire Seven Kingdoms also came to the final moment of tactical closure.

For a long time, the land grant and the northern frontier have been almost 100% open to each other, whether economically, politically, or militarily...... To sum it up: as long as you say hello, the manpower, materials, and news between the Great Wall and the northern border are all coming and going if you want, and you don't have to wait for permission at all.

This intimate cooperation, supplemented by the North's main land grant and slightly unequal status, makes the land grant more like a dependency of the North than an administrative district independent of the Seven Kingdoms most of the time, and the Night's Watch Commander-in-Chief is more like a special vassal of the Guardian of the North than a lord on an equal footing with the latter - it is not by chance or accident that this "father-son" relationship has been formed, and most of the food and grass of the Night's Watch Legion have to be donated by the princes of the North. Half of the soldiers were Stark and their vassals before they were dressed in black, and what independence and equal status they wanted was obviously a fool's dream.

Iger has the power to change the situation when he comes to power, but he never even shows the slightest hint of it. Even after the victory in the Battle of Long Lake, after a showdown with Robb Stark in front of him to make it clear that he was not a vassal, the land grant only secretly raised the alert level, and still allowed each other's residents to interact with each other without hindrance.

In addition to the fact that by showing weakness and showing loyalty to the land, he was able to continuously obtain various resources from the latter through mutual openness with the North, and also had an important purpose: to paralyze the vigilance of the princes of the North and create the conditions for a surprise final blow.

It wasn't just Egger who seemed to benefit from this seemingly one-and-no borders, and along with supplies came the Eyeliner and the spies of the North. Disguised as the inhabitants and merchants of the North who had come to exchange supplies, they roamed the villages around Houguan Town and the fortresses along the Great Wall, contacting the mid-level and high-ranking Night's Watch and the chiefs of the mountain clans who might betray Egger......

In the face of possible betrayal from within, Egger devised a consummating plan to "banish" the threat beyond the Great Wall to ensure that the enemy had nothing to do. But surveillance from the north is part of his plan!

He deliberately put these eyes and spies into the land grant: no matter how they jumped up and down, and how much time, energy, and money they spent to inquire about the true combat intentions of the higher-ups of Houguan Town, they would only get one result: the land grant would not pose any threat to the northern frontier until the expedition was completed.

It's not that they are incompetent, but from the warehousing and logistics officials in the inner fort of Houguan Town, down to the vegetable cutters in the kitchen and the washerwomen in the backyard, to the personal guards who will be on duty outside Egger's bedroom every week, and to the new landdonors who have never set foot in Houguan Town since entering the land from outside the gate...... Except for the few people who could be counted on the hand that would never betray the stakes, every soldier and every resident in the land grant really thought that Egger was going to go on an expedition outside the fortress!

It was only by announcing that "there will be an expedition outside the Fortress" and trying to convince the northern nobles that it was too difficult, and letting them confirm the news through the analysis of the information they obtained, that they could really make the northern realm relax their vigilance.

And now, the last moment has finally arrived.

After the three open road troops left the Great Wall in the north and officially kicked off the prelude to the expedition outside the Saiwai, the land grant will suddenly enter a state of strict intelligence blockade that has never been seen in the entire ice and fire world overnight at this delicate moment when "the vanguard has set off and the large army is about to be deployed". In what Egme calls "wartime information control," his closest henchmen, the Night's Watch Logistics Guard, will take over every crow cage that can fly south, forcibly requisition every horse animal in the grant, prohibit ships from leaving port, and prohibit southbound passage on King's Road......

The state of the land grant to the northern realm will change from a state of complete relaxation to an absolute blockade in an instant!

The aim is to completely cut off the transmission of information from the land grant to the north.

Completely blocking the news, which is an almost impossible task under normal circumstances for two large areas bordering each other: even if there are no crows and ships, horses are taken, and roads are closed, good soldiers and spies can still send the news out of the wilderness and paths on foot— But in the land grant, which had been run by Iger for several years and was now in the middle of winter, this goal was made possible: except for the smooth smooth King's Road, which was cleaned every day by order of the High Command, everywhere else the land was connected to the north, covered with knee-deep snow. Even if there were elite spies with a will and body of steel trying to get the message on their legs from other routes, he would never be able to move faster than the large army marching on the King's Road.

And after all these actions have been put into practice, the final effect is that the last definite news from the land grant to the south is that "the expeditionary army outside the Seychelles has officially set out", and when the entire northern territory is immersed in a sense of security, and finds that it is impossible to wait for the next news, the army of the land grant will have already traveled hundreds of miles and appeared outside Winterfell.

The sky is bright, and the time has come to close the net.

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