(2-in-1 Update)

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"It's finished?" asked Will.

"It's finished!" replied Coben.

The two men shook hands, embraced, and said no more to the horn of winter.

Sauron, Jon, Daisy and other leaders did not have the opportunity to see the true face of Winter Trumpet.

Colin's team was also tight-lipped about Winterhorn.

Blake didn't get to see the Horn of Winter.

The thing was shaped like a spear, and was escorted by two rangers into the camp, wrapped in bags and hides, and carried into Will's tent. Heiya and eight other ash guards guarded the tent.

In the evening, Colin and his twenty horsemen took part in a game duel between the Freefolk warriors and the Ranger recruits for the first time.

The field is five against five, each holding a training sword and shield to attack the opponent's person freely. Whichever side surrenders or is knocked down more times in the allotted time loses.

Colin looked at it with interest.

The Free Folk warriors had learned the basic formations and tactics, and their tactical coordination was still a little more immature than the well-trained Ranger recruits, but they were superior in strength and ferocity, and the two sides were evenly matched.

The old routine began, and the Rangers and Advance Troops began to bet on gambling.

Colin lost a silver deer and crushed the freefolk warriors to victory.

The freedmen are very capable of learning, their tactical coordination and queue awareness are all there, coupled with their fierce play style and agile skills, they have gradually gained the upper hand.

Will came to Cobain's side, and the two of them walked out of the circle and walked out of the woods.

"Commander Cobain. Will spoke.

"Don't dare, call me Coben. "Cobain speaks simply, clearly, and cleanly.

"Alright, Cobain, I'd like to put the Freedmen into our Rangers tomorrow, starting with eating and sleeping. When they had accepted to eat with our warriors and sleep in the same tent, I wanted them to be trained by us as if they were the recruits of the Night's Watch. ”

Colin pondered for a while, and said, "Lord Will, I am disgusted by you doing this, I don't have a good impression of the Free Folk Warriors, but I understand your thoughts, I am afraid that at night, some Free Folk Warriors will cut my throat." ”

Colin raised his palm, two fingers remaining in his right hand.

This is by the free people.

"You killed quite a few of them, too. Will said.

"I know, I'm just scared of that. "I think the other brothers would be afraid of that." ”

The camp of the savage warriors and the camp of the rangers were separate and separate, there were also patrols and night watchmen on duty at night, and the freeman warriors had only tools of labor, no weapons.

"Then give it a try, don't fall asleep for the first few nights, and bring a short knife with you. Will said.

"Lord Will, if you were to divide my tent and sleep with the leaders of the Free People, I wouldn't have brought a dagger with me. But at night it is necessary to secretly strengthen the patrols and inspections of the night watch. I can't rule out that someone who I killed my brother saw and stabbed me. ”

"Eat together, then live together, and train together. This is my plan, and the details can be further elaborated, such as restricting the free folk warriors from getting weapons when they eat and live together, or the soldiers start and the leaders are separated. ”

"The soldiers dwelt together, and the chiefs were separated. Colin said.

"I suggest that the leaders live together, and the soldiers separate first. There is no problem for the leaders to live together, and then the soldiers live with them again. Will said.

"No, you and I both know savages. Though they call themselves freemen, they are savages. Colin said.

"Their king is your brother Mance Red. Will said.

"Mance is different, he's a guy who can write songs, play the piano and know how to read, he's not like these savage warriors. ”

"I'll go first!" Will said.

Colin stopped: "You come first?"

"Jingle Shirt has gone back to see Mance, the Weeper is a villain, and he is now in the hands of Cobain, and he can't live or die, and it can be regarded as retribution. There are a few other chieftains here under Jingle Shirt and Weeping, all of them loyal freedfolk fellows with great prestige among freefolk warriors, and I want to eat and live with them first, and if it's all right, you can come back. ”

"It doesn't have to be. Colin said, "There is another way to subdue the hearts of the savages. ”

"How Mance Rader subdued the hearts of the savages, these unruly wild creatures who were willing to serve him as king, whether it was the king of bones who terrorized people by hanging human and beast bones, or the weepers, who made their enemies weep, they were all heinous and evil, but they were willing to obey Mance's commands. Mance grew up among the Night's Watch, and he was once the best Ranger among the Night's Watch. Will said.

"He's of savage blood. Colin was silent for a few moments before speaking.

"He has affection and righteousness, a sword and a song, and courage!" said Will, "and that's why he's king, don't you think?"

"Guts and recklessness are perhaps two different things. Colin said.

"I'll come first, and of course, I'll take precautions. There are still many free people who are not afraid of death. Will said.

"I am categorically against it. Colin said, "Lord Will, you're in too much of a hurry. Everything will be gradual, and everything will be talked about after we have met Mance Rader. ”

Will pondered for a long time and said, "Okay, you're back, have you heard about Stannis's Order of the King?"

"I heard!"

"What do you think?"

"It doesn't matter to Stannis I whether we go or not, what he wants is an attitude on our part. Support his attitude. Speaking of legions, the north, east, west, plus the Riverlands and Stormlands, and the Lords, this army is enough to level the Tyrells. Not to mention the attack of the Dorne army, the Tyrells are in danger. Colin said.

"I will take a hundred men to King's Landing Red Keep to represent the Great Wall Legion. Will said.

"A hundred?" Colin gave Will a strange look.

"A hundred is enough, Stannis doesn't need much of us, the key is that the Great Wall Legion follows his orders. The Great Wall Legion has a lot of things going on right now, and it needs a lot of manpower. The Great Wall of Desperation is attacked, and we are the true northern defense of the kingdom. ”

"You're right, Lord Will. In fact, this Stannis Order is also an opportunity for us. ”

"What a chance. ”

"Grab a ghoul and bring it to King's Landing, throw it in the throne hall of the Red Keep, and let the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms see it, and then all the problems will be solved. Colin said.

Will smiled slightly: "Good idea, but there are two difficulties now. ”

"What's the difficulty?"

"Because we destroyed the Wraith's outpost in Caster Fortress, both the Wraiths and the Ghouls have shrunk back into the Land of Eternal Winter, not undead, and inaccessible. ”

"That's the first point, but what else?"

"Those who are willing to believe already believe, such as Eddard Stark, and those who don't want to believe that the attack of the strange ghost is just another opportunity for them to use in their quest for power. It is better to count on the power of the nobility than on ourselves. If we can convince Mance Rader to join us in the fight against the Wraiths, what do you think of our strength?"

"It's going to be the strongest ever!" Colin said.

"Yes, the most powerful army in history is only 12,000 men, and after we conquer Mance, how many troops will we have? ”

Colin took a deep breath and said, "For eight thousand years, since there was the Great Wall of Desperation, our forces will reach their strongest. ”

"Not only that, once the autumn passes, if the kingdom is stable and peaceful, when the strange ghosts attack, the combat power of the northern territory will be invested in the Great Wall. ”

"That's 40,000 combat power?" Colin said.

Will smiled slightly: "With 40,000 combat power, plus wildstone shells, and a death army composed of 300 Valyrian steel swords, I don't think the strange ghosts can cross the Great Wall." ”

There is a more powerful backup Will did not say, that is when the comet cries blood, the newborn dragon. There are also the children of the forest who live underground in the Ghost Forest. When the cold comes, everyone lives underground, and the Mole Village on the south side of the Great Wall of Desperation is an underground village formed to escape the cold.

Beneath the Great Wall, the intricate wormholes are the underground places where the Night's Watch live in the bitter cold. The Children of the Forest, on the other hand, have taken the life of the underground secret passage to the extreme, even if it is not in the cold, they can live freely in the underground world, and tenaciously reproduce this almost extinct race.

As for the underground giants who sleep in the Mountains of Thine and the Fangs of Frost and Snow, Will suddenly had some doubts about the authenticity of this legend, but he did not say the slightest doubt in his heart.

If the legend is true, and the interpretation of the fragments he saw from the Eye of Time is accurate, then it is a contradiction that the Horn of Winter can both awaken the giants under the mountains and destroy the Great Wall. Given the choice between the Giants and the Wall, Will would rather have the Wall. Although the Great Wall would eventually fall in the final prophecy, Will hoped that it would fall in a controlled way, rather than being attacked by a stranger.

Colin looked at Will: "Lord Will, you have created too many miracles in the past year or so, and you are no longer the night watchman I know and know who was punished for stealing deer. ”

Will didn't answer Cole's emotion. He replaced words with a smile and a nod, then turned and walked away.

Leaving a sense of mystery to a brilliant talent like Colin was one of Will's strategies.

Let the shock that they could not understand accompanied their reverence, and in the face of Colin's complex and reverent gaze, Will enjoyed that feeling, which was good.

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The next day, Colin's persistence prevailed, and no leader was willing to share a tent with the leader of the freedmen, and Will could not lead by example, but they thought the soldiers could try first.

As a result, Will ordered the freedfolk soldiers and the soldiers of the Great Wall Legion to be reorganized, and the Rangers were recruited with a hundred freedfolk soldiers. There was no problem, none of the recruits had yet formed a blood feud with the Free Folk fighters.

The Ranger veteran had a hundred freefolk soldiers, and that was the problem, because among the veterans and freefolk warriors, each had their best brother die at the hands of the other.

Then there's Tyron Ash's Roaring Stonefolk Ash Legion, which is one hundred Freefolk warriors, the most stintinking of the Freedfolk before they joined the Great Wall Legion, and they are the closest to the Freedfolk outside the Cypriots.

In the end, the reserve supply team of the advance army was incorporated into the remaining nearly 100 freedom fighters.

The remaining Free Folk warriors who insisted on not being part of the Rangers and Advance Troops chose to serve as Legion Officers or were recruited into the ranks of the Wise.

In the blink of an eye, Mance Red's Free Folk Vanguard vanished.

Will's guards also added two freefolk warriors, who could wear their favorite colors of clothing, and that was no problem, but everything was under the command of Blackgirl and Abel.

As a result, the vanished vanguard cavalry of Mance Rader became part of the Great Wall Legion, they were given weapons and armor that they had never thought of before, and the horses were redistributed to them.

A cavalry force of 2,000 men was born!

The leaders at the time did not know the great power of this cavalry in the years to come, and its prestige that swept the battlefield terrified the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms. They all just felt that Lord Will was too bold and too big.

Destroying his cavalry without negotiating with Mance Rader was not good for future negotiations. He knew Mance Red, a very sensitive and wise man, a man with great swordsmanship, and very brave, a true man who put life and death out of bounds.

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The next day, the cavalry began their routine morning exercises. Among them, the free cavalry who were incorporated into the ranks took the first cavalry platoon attack and defense class in their lives.

In the Ghost Forest, there is enough space for a cavalry team of 2,000 people. It's a vast space, and if there is no threat from strangers and ghouls, it's also a very beautiful forest in the snow.

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Half a month later, on the top of Xianminquan Peak, the whining horn sounded again.

A group of people appeared at the top of the Ruhe River.

The horn was long and long, and after the first sound, it never sounded again.

Jon Snow is back.

He walked at the front, above the ice of the Ruru River.

There were only six people in the team, but when they returned, there was a whole team, Mance Red.

In the left front of the team, a giant rides a mammoth.

Probably because the mammoth and the giant were too heavy, he walked by the river and did not walk on the ice.

A mammoth and the weight of a giant can easily cross the upper reaches of the Ruhe River, but at this low and mid-range distance, the thickness of the ice may not be bearable.

However, on the south bank is the steep Frost Fang Mountains, and there is no road, so giants and mammoths can only walk on the bank on the right.

That giant was none other than Taryn Ash.

Will, Sauron, Severed Collin, the Deputy Leaders of the Free Ones, Jon Jr., Daisy Mormont, Bachelor Corben, Adonius the Wise, Cressy the Faceless, and others are all waiting on the south bank of the Rushing River.

On the other side of the Ruhe River, at the back of the group, a real giant rode slowly on a mammoth, and he instantly transformed the entire group into ant people in Lilliputia.

The rangers on the Ancestral Fist Peak let out an exclamation, and the shouting recruits flocked to the wall to watch.

There were about 100 people in this team, and about 100 cattle and sheep were driving.

There is also a team of hounds in the team.

Dogs are also part of the family of the freedmen.

Mance Rader walked in the middle of the line, dressed in the same way as the Freedfolk warriors around him, or even more ragged than them, and he didn't look anything special except for his tall stature and a well-defined face.

His skin was a little whiter than that of all the freemen.

Beside him, on the cart pulled by oxen, there were two women, one of whom was pregnant, none other than Mans's wife, Dana.