Iger simply couldn't come up with enough wildfires to destroy Carlin Bay.

Large quantities of solidified passivation wildfires from King's Landing were stored in the ten intact forts along the Wall, with the Stairs restored, and under the control of the Night's Watch, as a strategic reserve against the Ghoul invasion, and he decided not to use them without major circumstances. The army led the land army south, and the wagon accompanying the team was loaded with fresh wildfires deployed by several pyromancers in Houguan Town.

When he first got a few "chemists" from King's Landing to land gifts, Iger considered preparing for the future when gunpowder needed to come out - but before that moment actually came, their task was to simply "tune the wildfire" and create a steady stream of super fire oil for the defenders of the Great Wall. But the plan has not kept up with the changes, and the cost of small-scale wildfire production is a fraction of the revenue of the Night's Watch industry, but the emergence of the land-grant resettlement plan has swallowed up all the resources that Iger can deploy.

The lack of funds caused by the big chess, the soaring prices caused by the war, and the poor freight transportation have made the supply of raw materials for wildfire production intermittent, and the allocation has been intermittent, and the output is naturally not high. Iger set out from Houguan with half a cart of wildfire, which had been almost depleted in the assault on Fort Deep and the ensuing siege of the tidal flats, leaving only the last few cans - he had told Asha that if Kalin Bay did not surrender, it would be burned with wildfire, but it was just a bluff.

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Egger had planned to wait for his persuaders to enter Carlin Bay and use a wildfire attack, but eventually changed his mind and set the schedule in motion.

The trebuchet came from the Mandalay family and was originally placed in the warehouse of White Harbor as a reserve for the city's defenses, but was towed north of Carlin Bay as a siege weapon. It was not a hastily made machine, and the wildfire tank was extremely light, and after lighting the fuel tank, the mechanism was quickly activated, and with a swing of the arm, the fire tank easily crossed a distance of several hundred meters and fell into the walls of Carlin Bay.

Although he didn't hit any of the towers, Egger didn't want to kill anyway, but to let the other party know that he had this kind of big killing weapon in his hands.

"If there is no response from the castle, throw another can in half a quarter. ”

"Yes, sir. The soldier in charge of the trebuchet agreed, but then asked, "But there are not many cans left, what will happen when they are finished?"

"I will order Sir Mandalay and Sir Mandalay to prepare for the siege. Iger looked at the last few cans of wildfire piled up next to the trebuchet, then at the Kalim Bay fortress standing in the fog in the distance, and sighed: "Before the wildfire is moving, the signal will be sent to attack at the same time as the friendly forces to the south." ”

"Understood. ”

"Hardship, no matter what, the war in the north will come to an end after today. ”

After giving all this and encouraging the soldiers, Iger turned and walked towards his tent. Asking Asha to persuade the defenders of Carlin Bay to surrender was a gamble in itself, an attempt to gain more credit and voice for herself at a smaller cost.

And gambling has wins and losses, and I am willing to gamble...... You have to admit defeat.

In any case, it is a fact that he led his troops to recapture Shenlin Fort and rushed to the battlefield of Carlin Bay in time to help, even if Asha did not succeed in this trip, his losses would not be great.

The only thing to worry about is "if Asha doesn't come back, can I guarantee that I will still capture her alive in the battle to retake Kalim Bay...... After all, a certain Mrs. Glover was counting on the daughter of a sea monster in exchange for two children.

(Since Raveneye has publicly professed support for Stannis, whether it's true or not, at least he can't openly continue to oppose the North, and the two Glover children are of no use to the Iron Islands...... Even with the loss of Asha's captivity, maybe Robb Stark could have another way to get them back?)

Iger thought as he walked, but before he could return to the tent, the surprised shouts of the soldiers on the watchtower behind him reached his ears: "Surrender, they surrender!"

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Behind the walls of Carlin Bay, the smoke from the wildfires had not yet completely cleared, and the sea monster flags on the walls of Carlin Bay were torn off one after another as everyone rushed to the edge of the swamp as they watched. After a while, the northern gate slowly opened, and the last defenders of the fortress slowly walked out in line.

Since the Iron Folk had been hiding in the tower, Iger had not been able to get the Shapeshifters to rely on aerial scouting to determine their numbers, but now the answer was revealed: they were fewer than Egger had said in his previous conversation with Asha, but about the same as he had actually judged in his early fifties.

When Victor Greyjoy returned to the Iron Islands with the main force of the Iron Fleet to participate in the Election of the King, he left behind more than a hundred sailors, and now more than half of them have been lost. Half of those who died were killed in several attacks by the Northern Army, and the other half were killed by poisoned arrows, unhygienic food, disease, and starvation harassed by the "swamp devils...... The Iron Folk are born pirates, but they don't know how to hold on to the city for long. There was no fresh water, no food and grass in the Bay of Carlin, no healers who could heal the wounds and the sick, and even the bachelors were killed. In the ensuing trap, the Iron Folk could only watch as their fellow villagers fell one by one and died.

Those who are still alive after this test can be seen in their physical fitness and willpower, and although the number of the remaining iron people is only half a hundred, their combat effectiveness is quite good compared to the average level. If you want to take Carlin Bay, you still have to pay the price of at least a hundred northern soldiers...... And if the untrained mountain clansmen and wild men who had never even seen a real castle with Iger were allowed to attack, the numbers would only be even greater.

The barracks were busy, and the land-giving army came forward to receive the surrendered troops who "volunteered to wear black", while the soldiers of the Mandalay family hurried to the castle in Carlin Bay to receive the castle - they arrived here before the land-granting army, and actively cooperated with their plan, and Iger really had no position to take the credit for getting to the city first. Moments later, the Icewolf flag, symbolizing the Stark family, fluttered again over the walls of Carlin Bay.

After instructing the disposition of the surrendered troops, and giving the order to upgrade the treatment of the prisoners to the meritorious Asha, Egger did not personally contact the daughter of the sea monster who returned from completing the mission. He led his personal guards on horseback and entered Carlin Bay, where the change of ownership had been completed.

Everywhere there were busy soldiers from the North and White Harbor, like the most unqualified tenants—not that their houses were not distressed, and that the Iron Folk occupiers, who were outsiders, did not pay the slightest attention to hygiene and cleanliness, and when despair began to spread, they did not even collect the bodies of their comrades. Carlin Bay is now littered with garbage, excrement, and even corpses, emitting a stench of decay, and it would be difficult to resettle without a major cleaning.

After some questioning, he found Robb Stark, who had led his cronies into the city and hid against the wall because he couldn't stand the stench.

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"It came at the right time. Robb nodded at Egger, he was still a child next year, but after growing up his neat short beard and putting on a posture, he still had the steady appearance of a northern guard: "I was about to send someone to find you." ”

The other party put on a serious expression, and Egg didn't dare to rely on the familiar hippie smile: "The defenders of Carlin Bay have asked me to put on black, and they, along with the Iron Folk captured in the battle to recapture Deepwood, including the daughter of Baron Greyjoy, are waiting for the Lord to fall. ”

With what Egger knew about Robb, it was unlikely that he would have to kill those iron people without giving himself face, but people can change after all. Iger once knew Eddard Stark's eldest son, and now standing in front of him was the new guardian of the North, the supreme ruler north of the neck...... The surrender of the defenders of Carlin Bay to the Night's Watch to the north, rather than Robb Stark to the south, was already suspected of contempt.

Robb Stark is now the leader, and even if he doesn't really care about this kind of thing that happens on the other party's territory, he has to report and ask for instructions from him, which is the experience that Iger summed up from the workplace before crossing over.

"Forget it, those who have surrendered to you, you can just look at it, don't the night watchmen shout all day long that they are understaffed. In addition to Baron's daughter, Glover wants to trade her for his own children. Robb waved his hand as Iger expected: "Let's talk about the 'land grant' going south this time, I am grateful that the Night's Watch can think of the North at this critical moment, but the Night's Watch is not allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of the Seven Kingdoms, this has been the rule for thousands of years, but now someone has broken it, how are you going for me to explain it to the other six countries?"

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