The miraculous feats of the two Dragon Steel Bombs made the duration of this Battle of Houguan Town short to be described as short, whether it was wildfire, dragon crystal, or ordinary explosives, the margin could still withstand one or two medium-intensity battles, the only thing to pay attention to was the number of Lightbringers and soldiers who could attack.

It would be foolish to recycle the fragments of dragon steel scattered in the snow and the remains of the ghouls, but the Lightbringers who are still intact can be found because the arrows are gold-clad and have a very different shape from ordinary arrows. Due to practical difficulties such as fire and chaos, the soldiers finally found only nineteen arrows after a cursory search, including the six that were made of ordinary tile steel and a dozen of the remaining unfallen fortresses along the Great Wall. Eventually, the Night's Watch had more than thirty weapons that could be used directly against the Strangers.

Lightly wounded, half-grown teenagers, sturdy young and middle-aged women, and even giants with limited mobility can take part in the battle, but if you want to take the initiative, you must be a perfectly healthy, strong, military-trained adult human who can understand tactical commands. Even if the conditions are slightly relaxed and the threshold is lowered in the actual review, there are only more than 3,000 left in the entire Houguan Town that can meet the requirements, considering the enemy's possible return to the carbine operation and the basic law and order maintenance within the town, there must be a certain number of reliable people, and the final use is only 3,000.

Fortunately, two thousand of the remaining fortresses along the Great Wall can also be gathered, and in total, in this southern pursuit operation, Egger's available troops can probably reach five thousand.

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Logically speaking, when the troops along the Great Wall arrive to converge, the queen also rides a dragon back to the land and sets off again, but the remaining ghouls and ghosts do not wait for anyone, and Daenerys's three dragons cannot carry thousands of soldiers. With each moment's delay, the enemy moved an inch farther away from Houguan Town, and a few closer to the populated northern hinterland—the slimmer the hope of stopping the Wraiths before they could kill the civilians to replenish themselves. The large army of Houguan Town immediately set off with war preparations and grain and grass, let small groups of soldiers around the Great Wall chase lightly, and let the flying queen find them to meet, so that they can use their time to the extreme and raise the chance of victory to the highest.

After mobilizing all the remaining animal power in Guanzhen to transport war preparations and grain and grass, and sending a message to the fortresses along the Great Wall, the crows immediately sent elite troops to gather along the King's Road with the remaining dragon steel arrows lightly, and after Iger asked the soldiers who had chosen to pursue the remnants of the strange spirits to gather in the snow outside the east gate and began to assemble the whole team.

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What are the shortcomings of those who accept "heroes" and "children of prophecy"?

If you don't count the bits and pieces, there is probably only one thing that is undisputed: when a real catastrophe comes, this hero has to stand up and carry it even if he grits his teeth - whether he can bear it or not.

As the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch and the lord of the land grants, Iger could send people to patrol the north, go to Seal Bay to de-ice, go to the Grand Canyon to freeze, and even go to Frozen Bay to help the Northerners build ships...... Relying on his great fame and prestige, any orders he issued, any ideas and plans generated by him, can be conveyed and implemented, put into practice, and transformed into reality with half the effort.

But it's impossible for him to let others play the final finale of guarding Houguan Town and chasing the remnants of the aliens.

These are not trivial chores, but a principled distinction between "give me" and "follow me"!

If he had stayed in the inner fort during the defense of Houguan Town last night and commanded remotely, it would have been impossible for the defenders, who were of uneven quality and uneven morale, to exert a super-level combat effectiveness, and if he had even assigned his generals to take charge of the pursuit of the enemy fleeing south, rather than leading it himself...... Whether the selected soldiers are willing to "die" is a difficult question, and even if they win, it is not his credit. Once people start to ask, "What did you, the son of prophecy and the legendary hero, do?" could he use the government affairs he handled on weekdays, the food, grass and armaments he raised, and other things that were his duty to answer?

When you come out to mix, you always have to pay it back.

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Wearing a full suit of armor, Egger sighed helplessly in his heart, but in the face of the "elite" of the three thousand post-crown towns who had already gathered together, his face quickly made a serious expression of righteousness and awe-inspiring and ready to be generous and righteous at any time.

This time, instead of being passively defensive, they were going to take the initiative, which was an extra that had not been in the plan. He had to do a pre-war mobilization before he set out, which was necessary.

"Valliant land-giving warriors!" Iger said with all his might, making sure his voice was heard by everyone, "Last night, we worked together to win a great battle that had never been seen in human history. Knocked off ten times our inhuman enemies, and inflicted more damage on them than the entire population of the land grant, giving these ghosts a slap in the face!"

"But today, I had to make a very difficult but necessary decision...... After only a few hours of rest, pull you warriors back to fight - take the initiative and chase down the remnants of the enemy we repelled last night!"

Amid the uproar and exclamation of the soldiers, Iger raised his voice again: "But what I want to emphasize is that this extremely dangerous southern expedition is not to save or protect anyone, but for ourselves!"

It is undoubtedly a waste of effort to preach to this group of rough people who are mixed with mountain clans and Cypriot foreigners to "serve the people of Westeros", and if they are not in trouble, the team will disperse every minute. Iger chose to analyze the stakes most directly, explaining why he did so.

"Like all of you, I longed to sleep comfortably within the walls of Houguan Town, and to wake up to hear the good news that the strangers had been completely destroyed. Unfortunately, this can't be!" Iger said in a distressed tone: "Those weak 'southerners' have no idea how powerful the enemy they are about to face! Psychologically, physically, tactically and equipped, they are completely unprepared! Although I don't want this to be true, the truth is that only we can defeat those damn things on this continent and even in the whole world!"

In a sense, this was basically the truth, and the boasting and praise smoothly aroused the pride of the soldiers, and many soldiers patted their chests and shouted, overpowering the muttering of doubt and fear.

"There are many new landgivers here who have been battling these monsters on the north side of the Wall for years, and no one knows our enemies better than you. That group of damn demons and monsters, as long as they are not completely destroyed and destroyed, even if there is one left, there will only be more and more of them...... We covet a moment of peace and comfort today and let them go south, and tomorrow thousands of southerners will be killed by them and transformed into new enemies. No matter how stupid, weak, stubborn, or incompetent a corpse may be in life, it will be just as difficult to deal with when it becomes the living dead! If we don't want to wake up one day months later to find ourselves overwhelmed by tens or millions of ghouls, we must grit our teeth and pursue them today and defeat them once and for all!"

"This battle is not for the glory of me, the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, nor for the sake of any of the great lords and kings of the South, but for the protection of ourselves and our wives and children, and to ensure that our descendants still have the right to breathe and soak in the sun on this land!" Iger drew his sword and pointed to the sky, making a final summary of his brief pre-battle mobilization, "The enemy wants to freeze our land, harm our loved ones, and enslave our bodies...... We're going to wipe them out completely, and we won't leave a single one behind!"

"None of them will be left!"

"None of them will be left!"

Under the leadership of the officers of the logistics department, who had already blended into the crowd, soon, the soldiers present took up their arms and responded to the peace, whether they were reluctant or not, and a shout of not very neat but still imposing sounded outside the wall of Houguan Town.

The commotion lasted for ten or twenty seconds...... Iger began to wave his hand to silence before giving the official order to go. But the scene somehow couldn't be quiet, and there were still people talking about it in the past minute, and the volume became more and more boiling, making Egg both embarrassed and a little confused: it is understandable that the morale is high after the big victory, but the initiative to attack is extremely dangerous after all, why are these rough men still elated, as if their mobilization speech is not similar?

After a few more seconds, Iger figured out the reason under the reminder of the guards next to him: in the southern sky facing behind him, three black dots appeared against the background of gray clouds, and the crowd shouted in unison for a few tens of seconds to be close to the point where they could see the shapes—the soldiers suddenly reacted enthusiastically, not for their "wonderful" speech, which had not even been drafted, but for the queen who appeared in time at this most critical moment, and could be called a queen in the snow...... Or three dragons.

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