"Mance Red, this is our Great Wall Leader, Lord Will, Lord of Dragonstone. The Earl of Lord Stark, he was also the Ranger Commander who rose from ordinary Ranger to knight to Earl in one day. The Chosen One, the Child of Great Prophecy. Jon introduces Will to Mance Red.

Mance Rader is taller than Will, with a well-defined face, large eyes, large lips, and a long face. He reached out and shook Will's hand and smiled, "When I was a Ranger in the Shadow Tower, you were still stealing things everywhere." ”

"Yes!" said Will.

"As far as I know, there has always been only one commander of the Great Wall, when did a leader emerge?" he said, glancing at Colin and the other veterans.

"The day I became the Chosen One, I was destined to have a leader on the Great Wall. ”

"Oh?" Mance Rader's eyes were fixed on Will, as if to see him through.

"Mance, I know why you're going south, before you go south. Will said.

Mance looked at the leaders around him and said to Will, "Is our god the same as Will's?"

"I don't reject the old and new gods, there is an island of the gods in Braavos on the other side of the narrow sea, everyone can find their own faith in the island of the gods, and there is no right or wrong faith. ”

"What about the belief in ghosts?"

"Faith is right, it's going in the wrong direction. Will said lightly. Will had a systematic scientific worldview of the world before he crossed over, but it was just crushed in the fantasy world. But when it comes to argumentation, he's still a great talent.

"Well said, I should have killed Custer first. Mance looked at Big Gilly. Custer is Big Gilly's father: a cultist of the Stranger.

Da Jili said lightly: "I also want to kill him." ”

Big Gilly has met Mance Rader twice. The news of the savages is very similar.

"Lord Will, I'm here to hear how you can work with us. ”

Will pointed to the pits and stakes around him, and said lightly: "You chose to let your clan live, so you led people to submit to the Great Wall Legion, and swore allegiance under the Yuliang Tree. ”

"Let me surrender?"

"To form an alliance, there must be a leader, do you want us to give you the Great Wall and its 500 miles of territory, and let our people listen to you? Will pointed to the north, "You are going to our home." Will pointed to the south, "When did the guest come and drive the host away, and then tell himself that it was an ancient rite to follow?or that the outsider had taken over the native's house and made the natives accept the leadership of the native? If you choose war, and the winner makes the rules, and I agree, then we will fight well. ”

Will said aggressively.

Mance Rader stared at Will, who was neither humble nor arrogant, and said this very calmly.

"You claim to have an army of 10,000 men, Colin, is that true?" Mance said to his former brother in life and death.

He didn't believe Will, but he believed in Colin.

"Yes, Mance, once the war begins, our forces will be doubled again, if not more!" Colin said.

The air suddenly smelled of gunpowder. This should not have been the atmosphere that exists when the two sides are greetings.

The kind of strength that Colin was talking about was something that Mance Rader had never expected.

Mance Rader believed Colin, he knew Colin, and Colin knew him. When the two of them were Rangers, they were both the personal guards of the Commander-in-Chief, and after they were assigned to the Shadow Tower, the two of them have always been the Shadow Tower's Ranger Duo.

"I've been at the Great Wall for decades, thirty years, I know everything about the Great Wall, Will, how long have you been at the Great Wall?"

"Five years!"

"Five years, how much do you know about the Great Wall, and the history of the Great Wall. I'm very interested in your surge in strength, Lord Will, I heard that the great changes in the Great Wall are all miracles created by you, people, money, and things, you have all changed them as if by magic. ”

"It's a ghost, and it's all because of a ghost. The passage of autumn, the arrival of the long night and the bitter winter, will also bring the power to destroy the world. You and I are here arguing over whether to surrender or form an alliance, but our concerns are too small and ridiculous compared to the arrival of the strangers. The Cardinal Priestess Melisandre said to Stannis I that your fight for the Iron Throne is like a child's fight for candy toys compared to the attack of the Stranger. When the world and life no longer exist, who sits in a chair, what difference does it make?"

"Since there is no difference......

"So only those who have the ability to sit are the best choice. Our troops, money, armor and weapons, geographical superiority, legion combat power, and the support of the Seven Kingdoms behind us are far superior to yours. Mance, you lead your freedfolk warriors into our Great Wall Legion, and we will give the Night's Watch 500 miles of territory to the freedmen, and collect only a tenth of the property tax. If you don't agree to this only condition, then you can go back. Will said lightly.

"I'm at the entrance of your camp, won't you invite me in and sit down?"

"I will not welcome anyone who will not submit wholeheartedly to me in my fight against the ghosts. There can only be one leader of the Great Wall Legion, and that is me. If you don't agree, then please go back, and we'll go to war. Will was unequivocal.

All of a sudden, the situation was at an impasse.

Will said a few words, and then finished speaking.

He didn't give Mance Rader any bargaining.

Mance Rader had a lot to say, but they were all held by Will in the assertion that 'those who do not submit wholeheartedly and fight the strangers together will be rejected'.

Any trick that wants to grasp the minutiae and bargain has no place for it here in Will.

Mance brought his big tent and hundreds of cattle and sheep for the Rangers, but there was no time for these hypocritical etiquettes, and on the banks of the Milk River, Will just said it to death.

Accept it, or go to war, choose one or the other.

Mance was taller, a head taller than many people, and he looked at the hundred attendants around him, and the confidence in their eyes was gone. Many people saw their own brothers in the Rangers' legions riding horses, well-dressed armor, and holding sharp weapons, and they could not afford to wear the armor they wore for the rest of their lives.

The freedmen did not have the technology to smelt iron ore.

Jon was about to speak when Will stared at him, and Jon swallowed it back.

The atmosphere is subtle.

Contrary to his usual affinity, Lord Will suddenly became a cold and impersonal person. He went to great lengths to talk to Mance Raid, and Mance came, and before he could sit down to talk, Will said that the negotiations were over. None of the gifts from Mance and the others were delivered, no one entered the tent, did not sit down, did not take a sip of hot water. All the leaders knew that Lord Will's original plan was not like that at all.

It was this terrible change in the mood of the people that was stirred up by Mance's singing that it would be a very difficult battle for the man who could not be given enough time or brought in the details by him to negotiate.

"Mance, we choose the Alliance, with Lord Bon Will as the leader!" said Mans's wife, Dana, softly. The child in her womb can't be taken by the stranger, she wants to give birth to the child in the south, a warm place. There are schools, there is food, there are houses, there are grazing, and there are many people, not in the primitive caves in the snow and ice. Those places no longer belong to them, but now they belong only to strange ghosts.

Dana avoided the word surrender and instead addressed it as an alliance.

Mance looked at Hammer the Doghead, who bowed his head slightly, at Clankler, whose eyes flickered, and at Ygritte, who was on Jon's side, as if she were one of the Night's Watch. He looked at Tile Er, Tile Er's eyes were full of expectation, and the animal skin male pet beside Tile Er stared at him with one shining eye.

Everyone's hearts hung in the air, and Jon, Colin, and Sauron were nervous, and once Mance gave the order to go back, the dead on both sides would fill the course of the Milky River.

Countless people will lose their parents, brothers and sisters.

Suddenly, there was silence.

Shergerit's hand involuntarily clenched Jon's hand, and Jon took hers in return. If Mance chooses to fight, Ygritte decides to follow Jon and side with the Night's Watch.

Snowflakes fell, and all sounds were still.

*

"Yes, I agree to submit to the Great Wall Legion, but you must swear before the gods that my people will be safe, old, weak, women and children, and they will be respected. ”

Will said lightly: "As long as you submit to me and listen to my command to fight against the strange ghosts, anything you worry about is not a problem, I swear in the name of the old and new gods!"

- Survival against the Aliens is a banner of the brightest—Will and Mance know it—but the lives of nearly 100,000 freemen are not to be desecrated.

A soft word from his wife, Dana, made Mance decide to eat the cup of tea that Will had handed him, whether it was poisoned or hot water with honey. But first of all, tens of thousands of people who could not fight at all had to cross the Great Wall of Desperation before they could survive.

*

Surprisingly, cheers rang out from the ranks of the freedmen. They were supposed to be the ones who were submitted, but they cheered unabashedly......

The haze of life and death that weighed on the heads of the freedmen was too long and too long. Suddenly, the clouds dispersed and the sun shone over the land......

The leaders such as Will and Colin were all relieved in their hearts.

They also tightened their heartstrings, just waiting for Mance's words: war? or peace?

Ygritte's hand involuntarily clenched Jon's hand, and Jon took her hand in return. This reversal made Ygritte have no hesitation in her heart, and if Mance chooses to fight, Ygritte decides to follow Jon.

Mance looked at the people around him with a relieved expression, he knew that he had made the right decision, even if Will strengthened his authority in order to unify the free people, and killed him in the days to come, as long as tens of thousands of people could safely cross the Great Wall and live in the land and food, it would be worth it!