This absurd world......

In order to keep the Starks, their castle must be captured.

This reason is funny even to Iger himself, but it is real and imminent. If Robb refused to surrender out of stubbornness and pride when the Bolton Army and Daenerys arrived, not only would the entire castle be devastated, but he would also be dragged into an embarrassing situation, but at the same time, he knew that his judgment would only be regarded as a clumsy deception, which would not only be useless, but would expose the truth of Messira's message, which would arouse the vigilance of the people in the city.

After thinking about it, Iger finally made a difficult decision: the truth that no one would believe would simply rot in his stomach, and he would take the safest plan - cut through the mess quickly and take Winterfell in one fell swoop with a lightning night attack, and take the initiative into his own hands, not Stark, Burton, or the Queen!

What he solemnly handed over to Messira during the day was a box of new-style matches that had been donated to real estate and improved by a bachelor's degree, and due to the scarcity of chemical materials, only a small amount of production was made for the time being for the army. What Egger wants the little princess to do is to make up a temporary lie, try to hide what he has done in the house and return to Winterfell with Rodric, and then, at midnight, take this box of matches and a small bottle of wildfire, and set a fire in a random place in Winterfell that is critical and attracts attention, but will not cause casualties - disturb the order in the city, contain the energy of the defenders, and provide response and cooperation for his all-out attack on the castle.

Influenced by the original plot and the impressions generated by the real interactions after the acquaintance, Iger intuitively felt that Messira was a trustworthy and reliable partner, but he also understood that "feeling" was never a reliable basis for judgment.

He thinks that Messira is "smart, brave, and mature and reliable", but perhaps the girl is also like this in the eyes of the Starks, maybe she thinks about it when she returns to the city, and finally confesses to the Starks what she has said about her conversation, and Sir Rodric meets Catelyn Stark when he returns from the negotiations and asks "Madame, did you tell Madam to send me a message out of the city?" It is possible that she is a little girl after all, and although she agrees to do it to her face, she does nothing because of fear and fear......

There were so many possibilities that could abort this seemingly unreliable plan for the Inside and Outside Scheme, so Egg didn't put his chips on her at all—to honestly inform Messira of his suspicions about the true movements of the Bolton House and her decision to attack Winterfell, to explain and explain her indifference to the news, and to reciprocate and reciprocate the courage and kindness she had shown in taking the risk to deliver the letter...... But at the end of the day, he is a rule-breaking "traitor" and careerist, and he will not easily leave his fate in the hands of others.

In secret, he still kept a hand...... No, it should be said that there are several hands.

Egger tells Myrthera that if she goes well, she will command the Land-Grants to launch a full-scale attack after the city fires, and all she has to do is to hurry back to her bedroom and close the door, and not come out with Sansa and Arya, Miss Stark, no matter what happens. But if nothing happens overnight, whatever the reason, he will postpone the attack until tomorrow and wait until dawn to finish the ultimatum.

But his real plan was actually: no matter what happened, even if there were knives in the sky, he would attack at a definite time in the second half of the night tonight and take Winterfell.

If Messira hadn't been able to unleash the fire because of nervousness, fear, or some other reason, it would have been a night attack that had gone from outwitting to assault, and she had nothing to lose, and if she confessed to Robb that she was about to attack, the latter would have been told that she would attack after dawn...... Even if the worst-case scenario happens: Robb plans to do what he wants, deliberately setting a fire in his castle to lure the land-givers to attack, and at the same time he is ready to thwart the land-givers' spirits, Egger is not afraid at all.

Because, he only told Messira that he would attack after the fire started, but he did not mention the details of the main attack direction and the weapons used - his confidence did not come from the protection of the night or the surprise attack, but a powerful weapon that people of this era had never seen, no matter how impregnable the defenders were to arrange the city defenses, in the face of the gunpowder that was thrown into the war between humans for the first time, it would become a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

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The artillery can definitely blast open the gates of Winterfell, but with the power and accuracy of the first generation of service types, God knows that it will take dozens or hundreds of shots to achieve the goal at night, and the dead will be awakened in the grave after a half-day cannon...... As a result, the long-awaited debut of this long-awaited long-range mass killer was vetoed by Egger.

He needed a violent tactic that could instantly turn the offensive and defensive posture on the battlefield and end the battle before the enemy could react!

It was a good idea to dig tunnels to blow up the walls, but the frozen ground wasn't that easy to dig into, and Iger didn't know how much time he had left...... That's when the snow combat suits prepared in advance come in handy.

The term "snow combat uniform" seems to be high, large and classy, but its essence is not very magical: it is just to collect, buy and make a large number of fabrics of the whitest color that can be made by the craftsmanship and technical level of this era through various channels, cut and sewn into a burqa, and put it on the outside of the black clothes, so as to use the color of the snow to protect and hide the soldiers' tracks.

Long before the fire in the stables in the city caused a riot and most of the attention of the defenders at the top of the wall was attracted to it, two teams of dozens of "demolition team" soldiers dressed in snow camouflage had quietly set out, quietly slipped through the last mile under the double cover of the black effect of the lights caused by the torches of the defenders at the top of the wall, and the protective color that blended with the snow, pasted under the granite walls of Winterfell, burrowed into the doorway, and installed the explosives pack under the two gates of Winterfell - east and north of the predetermined location.

Although it was a hurried tactical decision made in one day, the calculation and deduction were not lacking...... Of course, the gate was chosen as the breakthrough point because the explosives made of black powder were not powerful enough to destroy the city wall, so they could only choose the weak point to start, but Winterfell had four gates, why did you choose the east and north gates as the attack points and give up the other two? There are many considerations in this, if you want to take a castle, the key is probably the following two points: defeat the city defense force to erase the possibility of a counterattack, and eliminate or control the castle owner to break the opponent's will to fight.

After a Q&A with Messira, Egg learned that Winterfell was crowded with residents at the moment, and in order to prevent the defenders and the evacuees from mixing together and affecting the efficiency of assembly and mobilization, Robb placed his troops in the guard room and guest room not far from the main fortress, next to the weapons storehouse.

This means that the two tactical objectives of the "defenders" and the "castle master" are roughly gathered in the northeast direction of the castle!

If the besieging side sends troops to attack from the west and south gates, they will have to pass through the sacred wood forest and the school yard before reaching the defenders' base camp and Stark's residence, and they will avoid women, children, and civilians in the city along the way...... It's unrealistic, and it's too brutal and unnecessary to kill the past, but if you enter through the east and north gates, no matter which way you succeed in breaking through, you can go straight to the defenders' camp to kill the enemy and surround the main fortress, and control Winterfell as quickly as possible!

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Iger didn't know the quality of Winterfell's gates, so in order to ensure that the plan went smoothly, he provided the demolition team with an increased version of the large explosive bag to ensure the overflow of power, and the carefully ground and mixed powdered gunpowder was wrapped in layers of waterproof cloth and tightened, and then plugged into the gap between the two target gates and the ground, ignited, and evacuated......

In the loud roar of the earth, the glittering firelight shook the earth, and the thick granite walls of Winterfell withstood the test without any suspense, but the seemingly heavy wooden doors in the gate hole were not so strong, in the shock wave caused by the gunpowder explosion, they were torn and blown down like cardboard in the storm, and the smoke and heat rose into the air to envelop the city wall, and when the vision was a little clearer, people were surprised to find through the remaining firelight that not only the city gate was opened, but even the city gate tower was blown down.

Gunpowder is expensive, although the demolition team members have also been trained when they gave away the land, but they have no chance to experience the power of dozens of kilograms of explosives at all, and they are not far enough to hide far enough to be shocked by the explosion they ignited with their own hands - they are still like this with a certain amount of preparation and protection, those Winterfell guards who were suddenly attacked and even "heard of" the bombs will only be even more unbearable, and it seems that the defenders who were stunned by this explosion actually forgot to ring the bell to warn them in a short time. Before the opponent could react from the shock, the members of the demolition team who gritted their teeth and continued the mission, overcoming the physical discomfort of dizziness and tinnitus, rushed into the hole in the city gate opened by the first round of explosions at the risk of being attacked, and rekindled it through the narrow moat and threw the remaining explosives packs together......

In the continuous explosions like rolling spring thunder, the drawbridge and the inner city gate, which should have been stronger, were also destroyed.

Winterfell, a fortified fortress that had never fallen, had breached its proud walls in less than ten minutes, and lay in front of Egger with her legs wide open like a fragile woman stripped naked...... And what the latter needs to do next is to drive straight in and possess her fiercely and completely.

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