Chapter 0385: Common Enemy: Winter's Horn in Hand
On the top of the Ancestors' Fist Peak, the stonemason boy Huo De blew the horn.
The horn was long, and the whining sound resounded through the valley forest.
The horn sounded, and everyone stopped what they were doing and prepared for the contingency.
One trumpet and the brother returns, the second trumpet and the enemy is coming, and three trumpets and the strange spirit is coming.
This is an ancient tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation.
After one trumpet sounded, no second trumpet sounded.
It turned out to be the commander of the Shadow Tower, Severed Palm, Colin had returned with his brothers.
Everyone was relieved and continued to do the work in hand.
*
Some warriors were carrying trees to the top of the Ancestors' Fist Peak, and some were pulling huge logs upwards with ropes. In groups of three or four, it is more labor-saving and convenient.
The brothers could go up a certain distance empty-handed, and they only needed to hold a rope in their hands, which was tied to a giant tree, and when they reached the end of the rope, they began to pull the rope and pull the huge tree up the mountain.
On the top of the Ancestral Fist Peak, several trebuchets and some rolling stones and logs will be placed.
It will be the first camp to fight against the attacks of strangers and ghouls.
The ancestors also fought the ghouls and strangers here, and the walls and stone houses built by the ancestors are still alive.
*
Wise men were also testing the shapes, colors, and explosions of wildfires day and night miles away. The design of the thicker and heavier clay cylinder has been completed, and the first test samples have been fired, with only five small samples of different shapes and thicknesses.
*
At the foot of the Ancestral Fist Peak, the Free Folk Warriors and the Great Wall Legion have become one, digging a huge trap to fight against the Aliens.
The enemy has changed, and the hostility and estrangement between the savage warriors and the Great Wall Legion have magically disappeared with the passage of time.
None of them felt the slightest change, it was the coming strangers and ghouls that naturally twisted the warriors together. From the accounts of the Free Folk warriors, the soldiers of the advance army of the Four Kingdoms in the Great Wall Legion began to believe in the existence of strange ghosts.
The account of nearly four hundred people is much more credible than the account of Will alone. The personal experiences of the freefolk warriors were also more convincing to the soldiers of the Great Wall Legion.
Nothing is more convincing than personal experience, and if there is, it is the testimony of hundreds of people.
From the stories of the Free Folk warriors, each of the warriors of the Great Wall Legion understood why the wildlings in their eyes suddenly poured out: the strangers kept coming out to attack all the tribes in the bitter cold, and every tribesman killed by the strangers eventually turned into ghouls and returned at night to kill their own families.
If Mance Rader doesn't go south with them, they'll all be killed by the Stranger and become ghouls. And the only way to keep the dead from turning into ghouls is to burn them to ashes.
Fire is also the most powerful weapon against strangers and ghouls.
There was no need for Wildo to bother, the mouths of the four hundred freedmen were the best propaganda, and the most powerful propaganda, and it was repeated at any time when eating, working, and leisure.
Curious about the lives of the strangers, ghouls, and freefolk warriors was the three hundred cavalry warriors of the Shikoku Advance Army—a logistics supply cavalry regiment that everyone was dissatisfied with.
For the first time, the cavalry under the lord's knights was reduced to a supporting role for the Night's Watch of the Wall.
The reputation of the Night's Watch is not good in the Seven Kingdoms, and it is the land of nobles and bastards who have lost their honor, thieves, crooks, and robbers. Their bravery and remarkable contributions have never been mentioned.
Ignoring the superiority of the Lord's Knights' advance army, Will made Robert Royce, Jon Amber the Iron Spear, and Daisy Mormont a supporting cast for the Night's Watch.
The leader's resistance was ineffective, and the cavalry of the four countries under their command could only curse the arrogant Will in their hearts, but this did not help their logistics supply team to be inferior.
Let the Free Folk work with the Great Wall Legion and the advance army soldiers, Will has his own deep meaning.
This is also the best way for the freedfolk warriors to understand the ideology and discipline of the people of the Green Land.
For the free folk warriors who never went out to exercise in the morning, never lined up when ordering, and did not have any formation during group battles, it became a surprise in their eyes to watch the routine drills of the Great Wall Army and the cavalry of the advance army every morning.
Comparing a single Free Folk Warrior with a Great Wall Legionnaire, the Free Folk Warrior's physical fitness, mobility and strength are slightly superior, but once combined, as long as they are in a group battle of ten people, they are basically not the opponent of the Great Wall Legion. If it was a duel battle with more than twenty people, the freefolk warriors would definitely lose in the end.
This is the result of so many days of everyone fighting together around the campfire with a training wooden sword.
It was a trick up Will's trick to pit the freefolk warriors and the soldiers of the Great Wall Legion against each other in the evening, and to reward the winner with a handsome prize.
This promotes understanding and rapport between the two parties more quickly, rather than the other way around.
Bonfires are also the only entertainment that the warriors look forward to in the evening, when all the leaders must be present to cheer on both sides of the battle.
This is also one of Will's measures to prevent the two sides from fighting because of the clash of dogfights.
After all these measures had worked, Will devised new orders and measures, and just as he was about to make an announcement, the recruit rangers on the top of the hill blew the horn for the return of his brothers.
*
Colin returned with his twenty warriors, and they walked on the ice of the Milk River, advancing on the part near the bank.
The sound of hooves is audible, and the ice of the Ruhe River is like a mirror.
Many days ago, the ice pit blasted by wildstone bombs was erased by the hand of time and ice.
The shattered ice is gone, and the burning of the wildfire has been extinguished.
New snow and ice obscured everything that once was.
Will and Sauron, Blake, Jon Jr., Daisy Mormont and the others rode out to greet them, and the leaders all wanted to see Colin's exploits: Winter's Horn.
Next to the procession, walked several pack horses, which were pack horses carrying food tents and weapons. On the back of one of the pack horses was a long, bulging sack in the shape of a spear.
"Good work, Commander Colin. Will jumped off his horse on the bank of the river and shouted from afar.
Dismount, this is a sign of respect for the brothers.
Blake, Jon Jon, Sauron, Daisy, and the others all dismounted.
There was still some distance to go, and Colin also jumped off his horse, holding the reins, his face tired from the dust, but it was difficult to hide his joyful look.
Everyone's hanging hearts were completely let go.
Will and the others had smiles on their faces.
The legendary Horn of Winter has arrived.