Chapter 1026: A 100,000-strong army guards Lindong
An ordinary sword that didn't have any peculiarities, but in Little Will's hand, he felt the blood in his body stirring.
There is no burning sensation, only a faint comfortable feel.
The edge of the blade is also not shiny, astringent and dark.
Little Will wondered in his heart, this is the Lightbringer?
He had a sharp saber and knife around his waist.
He drew his knife, held it in his left hand, and slashed at the Lightbringer in his right.
Cha!
There was a soft sound, like a sharp knife cutting through a piece of paper, and the knife breaking in two.
As the people of Winterfell began their journey south, Catelyn stood on the roof of the building and watched as the people slowly departed.
The team had been evacuated since daylight with torches, and by night, the team had not yet left Winterfell. The people of the winter town were also evacuated, and the number of people was already more than 100,000.
On the frozen plains outside the winter town, the freedmen have not moved. It would be two days before they began to evacuate.
Caitlin will evacuate Winterfell after the people have evacuated, and by the end of the day, Winterfell will only be left with an army capable of fighting.
The people of the North, the people of the Free People, and the people of the Wolf Forest tribe, the previous hostile relationship between the three parties has disappeared, and the only benefit of the Alien Legion is to gather the Terrans who kill each other together, so that they can abandon the hostility and face the same enemy together.
Gradually, Caitlyn felt the air getting colder.
She looked up at the sky and looked around, but there was no wind.
A strange cold landed silently in Winterfell.
Sansa and Jenny also felt the cold, as if someone was pricking your hands and feet with a needle.
This was something that had not been felt before.
They were all dressed in thick mink, with thick scarves and warm cloaks.
Sansa, though a native of the North, is spending winter for the first time.
Not to mention Caitlyn and Jenny, both of whom are from the South, one from the Riverlands, which is warm, and the other from the West, which is equally warm.
Caitlin has not been used to the cold of winter, and Jenny is the first time, so she feels even more uncomfortable.
"Let's go down. Caitlin was worried about her two daughters.
"Yes, Mother," said Jenny meekly.
"Let's go, it's cold. Sansa watched as the last of the people left Winterfell and walked onto the King's Road.
Night in the North: It's cold, there is snow everywhere, as if the sky is shining down, and the Night King is bright.
When you enter the room, you will be greeted by the cold. The fire in the fireplace burned vigorously, but the walls were not warm.
Sansa took off her gloves and touched the wall with the hot spring inside, the warmth of the wall was noticeably reduced, and the warmth of the wall was no longer the usual warmth.
"The hot spring water is not hot. Sansa said, uneasy. Is this an ominous?!
It was the first time in her history that she had noticed that the hot spring water was no longer hot.
Caitlin added firewood to the fireplace to make the fire burn stronger, and then pulled out the brazier. The fire in the brazier is for everyone to sit around and chat and relax, and on such a cold day, the fire in the brazier is also not extinguished day and night.
"Mother, the hot spring water seems to be frozen. Sansa shouted.
Caitlyn had already sensed something strange, walked over to the wall, and stretched out her hand, the stone wall did not become cold, but it no longer had the same hot feeling as before. Only a faint lukewarmness.
"How can an underground hot spring not be hot?" Catelyn had been married to the North since she was sixteen years old, and after spending more than twenty years in the North, she noticed for the first time that the hot spring water in the walls was no longer hot. The stone wall had always been hot, but it suddenly cooled down and became only warm.
"Did something happen?" said Jenny, "something must have happened." ”
"The stranger is coming?" Sansa was shocked.
"Go and call Will to ask. Caitlyn said, "Peggy Carey." ”
The guard at the door pushed the door in.
"Go and ask Lord Will to come. ”
"Yes, ma'am!"
The group marched on King's Road in Riverlands.
In front were the cavalry, in the back were the cavalry, and in the middle were the courtiers clustered around a carriage. In front of and behind the carriage were seven white-robed knights, led by the intrepid Barristan Selmy and Brienne of Tarth.
In the carriage sat Shireen Baratheon, King of the Seven Kingdoms.
At the head of the line was Bran Stark, the commander of the Black Armor.
They had been ordered by Her Majesty Shireen to rush to Winterfell to attend Will and Arya's wedding.
Will and Arya did not have a public wedding, and the only witnesses were Lady Caitlin, Maester Lewyn, and the Three Heart Trees. But Her Majesty's real intention is to marry Bran Stark, and she uses the excuse of coming to Will's wedding, but she actually wants to have a wedding with Will and Arya, and then surprise Bran Stark.
Caitlyn also wants to surprise Her Majesty Shireen, so she sends a raven to Her Majesty Shireen, inviting her to come to Will and Arya's wedding, but it is actually a wedding for Shireen and Bran. Her Majesty Shireen and Commander Bran have returned, and at the same time they have come to the front line to comfort the soldiers and visit the generals of the Seven Kingdoms.
All the troops of the Seven Kingdoms have arrived in Winterfell one after another, and the number of troops has exceeded 100,000.
The only one who hasn't yet come north to join the garrison is Tyrion Lannister on Dragonstone.
Will has abandoned the entire island, and Tyrion decides to dig up the last batch of obsidian and abandon the island. Dragonstone Island is also ruined, the sea erosion, the foundation is loose, under the effect of time, it will eventually become a dangerous island, and then slowly sink underwater, and there will be no longer the scale of Dragonstone Island in the past.
Everything in this world is changing, either fast or slowly.
There's nothing wrong with Catelyn inviting Her Majesty Shireen to Winterborne, but all of a sudden, the Night King attacks, disrupting everyone's plans and rhythm of life. Caitlin had to send another letter to Her Majesty Shireen to explain the situation, and Her Majesty Shireen did not change her itinerary, but put the marriage on hold and made a special trip north to comfort the army.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Littlefinger, was responsible for coordinating the food, weapons, horses, tents, and other materials of the Seven Kingdoms, and then transported them to the north in a steady stream, with the target of Winterfell.
All supplies were carried out by horse-drawn carts and ox-carts, and the speed was very slow, and it was not enough to travel many miles in a day. Her Majesty Shireen and his entourage, under the protection of the King's Landing Black Armor Army, all cavalry, walked in front of the material army.
The Green Fork River is very fast, and there are still traces of the Great War between the Green Fork River and the Western Frontier Army on both sides of the King's Road. On the right-hand side of the Bright Moon Mountains, the ridges are covered with thick snow. In the sky, every day, it is either gloomy or snowy, the weather is cold, the days are getting shorter and shorter, and the nights are getting longer.
When the team came to the territory of the Frey family, the weather became colder and colder, and soon the cavalry of the Frey family came to meet the king, and the people of the Frey family wore khaki cloaks, wore fur hats with ear protection, and rode on low horses, all of them looked like weasels.
The group continued to move forward under the guidance of the cavalry of the Frey family, and two days later, they came to the upper reaches of the Green Fork River, far away, and saw the shadow of the Twin River Cities by the river. Her Majesty Shireen and Commander Bran, Captain of the Barristan Iron Guard, and others also learned the news of the loss of the Great Wall of Desperation.
So Her Majesty Shireen ordered, and everyone quickened up and hurried in the direction of Twin River City.
Winterfell, the main fort.
Catelyn, Jenny, and Sansa looked at the unscabbarded sword in Will's hand: dull and unsharp.
Is this the legendary Lightbringer?
Catelyn and Sansa and the others couldn't know for sure, but it was true that the hot springs in Winterfell were no longer hot. The three-eyed hot springs of the Kamiki Forest, which are thousands of years old, are also bubbling, and the heat disappears, and the surface of the hot springs begins to freeze. The glass garden was no longer warm as spring, the ice appeared on the ground, the hoarfrost condensed on the flowers and vegetables, and Winterfell, because the trees and flowers that benefited from the hot springs, were all threatened by the cold.
Inside Winterfell, the people who have lived there for generations are terrified. There were no more hot springs in Winterfell, which they thought was an ominous hint. It's a sign that Winterfell is about to meet the catastrophe that is coming, but no one dares to express their worries.
"Is this the Lightbringer?" Catelyn looked at her suspiciously.
"Yes. Melisandre said, "With it, we will defeat the Night King." ”
"Is it sharp?" said Sansa.
The other generals of Winterfell and the generals of the other six coalition forces were not here, and it was a secret that Little Will pulled out the Lightbringer. The Night King has also crossed the Great Wall, and he has the ability to foresee things, but in Winterfell, his will will will be hindered, and there are 10,000 years of humanoid life, and the Green Prophet who has grown up with the Heart Tree. The Green Prophet can sense the traces of the Night King and fight back against his quest, protecting the secrets of Winterfell from being revealed.
The farther away you are, the weaker the Night King's ability to predict becomes. And in Winterfell, the Prophet of the Heart Tree is the strongest.
"There is no sword sharper than the Lightbringer, and the only thing the Night King fears is the Lightbringer. Melisandre said.
"Give it a try. Sansa said.
Bunyan Stark said, "You don't need to try a normal sword, but the Valyrian steel sword can be tried." “
"Don't try, it's not worth it to destroy a Valyrian sword. Melisandre said, "Little Will, lend me the sword." ”
"Yes, Mama Merry. Will Jr. said.
Catelyn, Sansa, and Jenny all looked at Will with strange expressions, and then at the beautiful and charming Melisandre.
Melisandre took Little Will's Lightbringer, sword style, her eyes fixed on the sword, and she heard a thud, and the sword burned. Melisandre stabbed her sword into the wall, which was made of boulder and was unusually hard, but the Lightbringer's sword pierced into the wall effortlessly.
After only a few moments, everyone felt the temperature of the room rise, and the cooler walls began to warm.
Caitlin and the others were all surprised.
"By tomorrow, the whole of Winterfell will be warm, and the Three-Eyed Hot Springs of the Divine Tree Forest will regain its heat, which is the power of the Lightbringer. Melisandre said.
Caitlin was silent.
As a great nobleman, she is not very willing to accept that the bloodline of the wildlings is above the orthodox 'Stark bloodline'.
Why isn't the Ice Man Bunyan, Robb, Stark, Rickon, or any other Stark, but the Savage 'Stark'.
It was her inner thoughts, and she was ashamed of her thoughts, as if she wanted to be nice to Jon, but she hadn't actually done it in the sixteen years since Jon had been in the house, and she couldn't let go until Jon became the night watchman of the Wall of Desperation.
Will said, "Mother, Sansa, Janine, the Lightbringer is a secret, and we are not to tell anyone about it, nor to the servants and guards around us. “
"We remember, Will!" said Caitlyn solemnly.
If the Lightbringer belonged to fire, why must it be obtained by the Unicable One?and not Daenerys Targaryen, the Unburner? This was the doubt in Catelyn's mind, but the doubt was a shadow that quickly flashed through her mind, and Catelyn stopped thinking about it.
Two days later, on the tundra outside the winter town, the freedmen were ordered to continue their march south. Winterfell and Winter Town will become the battlefield of the Great War, and all the people must be evacuated in advance.
The farther south they went, the more the freedmen felt the adaptation to the climate, and for hundreds of years, they had lived for generations in a winter that was icy and snowy at all times, and there was no difference between long summer and short autumn, and every year was winter. Heading south, no matter how much snow or wind, the temperature in the south is always warmer than in the Thern Mountains.
It took five full days for all the freedmen's tents in the winter town to be removed, and the white snow was full of black messes.
After all the freedmen left, all that remained was Caitlin and the others heading south.
Jaime's injuries were no longer in jeopardy, and he began to resume training in swordsmanship in his right hand, and with Melisandre's help, Will and Jaime were able to remove all the cold poison from their bodies.
Outside the town of Winter and Winterfell, hundreds of thousands of armies began to deploy antlers, trebuchets, oil ditches, obsidian bows and arrows, and swords and guns.
After several military meetings, the strategy was divided into: stone throwing and fire oil bombs as the first wave of attacks, heavy cavalry attacks and light cavalry covering as the second wave, indiscriminate bow and arrow covering fire as the third wave, infantry defending the city, heavy infantry at the city gates, and light infantry at the city walls as the final fighting battle. The entire legion of 120,000 men was divided into three groups. Each group of 40,000 people fought in turns. In the event that the signs are not right, the army will retreat in an orderly manner to Carlin Bay.
Melisandre and Drogo Kao's Flame Hand Legion was broken off with pyroism to stop the pursuit of the Wraiths.
Once the military tactics were arranged, Will was in command of the 1st Legion: 40,000, Randolph Tully was in command of the 2nd Legion: 40,000, and Bunyan Stark and Melisandre were in command of the 3rd Legion: 40,000.
Once everything is planned, it's time to train every day, and get in touch with Robb, Jon, Arya, Mance Red, and others in Fireheart. This time, the army of strangers did not come quickly, and they had not yet reached Hearth.
Before the stranger arrives in Hearth, Daenerys and her four dragons arrive in Winterfell, along with Will's little golden dragon.