Chapter 0518: The Ghoul Goes South: Ignites the Flame Seed of the Continent
Will wasn't sure that Big Gilly was in Mole Village, but he judged that Big Gilly was fine.
That's enough!
Back at Castle Black, it was dawn.
Will got busy.
The Great Wall of Desperation stretches almost across the continent, stretching from the shores of Seal Bay in the east to the Grand Canyon in the west, and beyond the Grand Canyon is the shores of Frozen Bay in the west.
Nearly a thousand miles long, the Great Wall of Desperation, nineteen castles are garrisoned, and each castle will be garrisoned by legions. The most powerful army in history was 12,000 soldiers and settled in 17 military castles. Now the Great Wall has nearly 50,000 combat troops, and will be stationed in all 19 military castles.
Will, along with Green, Samwell, Maester Emon, Dana, and Var, spread out a map of the Great Wall of Desperation in the chamber, distributing the Legion's presence and supplies.
On the 500-mile territory, roads and towns were being built at the same time, and all the requisitioned workers were forced to do voluntary labor, and the freemen and civilians from outside the Great Wall and the tribesmen from the Wolf Forest Mountains had only food and no wages.
The construction of the town was entrusted to two cartographers, Benson and Bunus.
The construction of the port in Donghaiwang and the trade of animal skins for grain were also carried out one by one.
There was a lot going on, and the Ranger officers were also assigned to the training of the new freefolk warriors.
It was messy, but everything was working according to plan.
Asha Greyjoy also joined the Navy's fleet in Donghaiwang and became the deputy commander of the flagship Warhammer.
Blacksmith Donnell Noi's work on forging Valyrian swords is also in full swing, with Samwell Tully as the blacksmith's chief clerk and Donna Noi as the blacksmith's supervisor.
The blanks of three hundred Valyrian steel swords took shape, and it took three months of forging and polishing to become a sword.
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A few days later, Will headed south with his army of 1,000 men in a ghoul prisoner van.
This legion of 500 cavalry, led by Taryn Ash on a mammoth ride, with Sandor Clegane, the hound, as the legion's deputy. Half of the cavalry were freedmen from outside the Wall, and the other half were from the rangers and the Wolf Forest tribe.
There were also 500 cavalry, the leader of which was the dog-headed Harb, and the deputy leader was the sharpshooter Angai.
Ange's wife was Var, and Var's sister was the wife of the Savage King Mance Red, and this kinship made the Freedfolk more willing to accept him, and his magic arrow made him highly respected among the Freefolk warriors.
Harb's cavalry consisted mainly of her female soldiers, and the other two hundred Great Wall cavalry were mixed.
In Will's entourage, in addition to the Ash Twelve, there are Green, the chief of affairs of the Great Wall of Desperation, Poderick Pine in the West, and two griffons in the sky, Blaze and Cyanite.
Three ghoul prisoner carts were pulled in front of them and slowly moved forward.
When the team reached the Mole Village, the whole village emerged from the ground, standing on both sides of the road to watch the ghouls, the screams of women and children rang out from time to time, and many more people were full of horror.
The first prisoner cart was two ghouls with their hands and feet cut off, their ice-blue eyes and the hissing roar in their throats terrifying. Their limbs and limbs are still alive and strong, and they show strong aggression towards people on both sides of the road.
The second cart is a ghoul with his hands cut off, and its feet are good, so it can be strung around in the cart.
On the outside of the two carts, there were severed hands and legs of free-moving ghouls, and those hands and feet were suspended from the outside of the carts, and when they were struck with wooden sticks, they would fight back and try to grab the sticks, and the broken legs would also move around.
The ghoul in the third prison cart was a complete one, with its hands and feet intact, it was too aggressive, and it kept bumping into the prison cart all the time, never knowing that it was tired.
The freedmen were fine, but the people of Mole Village were frightened, and some villagers decided to follow the Will Legion south and leave Mole Village.
Will's plan was opposed by Green and others, because all kinds of rumors naturally dissipated after letting people see the stranger with their own eyes, but it would also cause a large number of civilians to leave, and they would flee to the south for safety.
Capable nobles also fled, and some fled to the other side of the Narrow Sea, away from this land of right and wrong.
But Will still insisted on doing it!
If you can escape, run away, anyway, when the big war comes, these people can't help. As for the aristocracy, those who are willing to abandon their fiefdoms and wealth and prosperity can flee, which is a big reshuffle. Their fiefdoms will settle into new nobles.
After the war with the strangers, they have no right to come back to return to the fiefdom.
Will is convinced that the majority will remain, and that in the event of a great war, there will be a majority of those who can side with the Legion and support them.
Will is convinced: the Terrans, in the face of life and death, they will be afraid, panic, and retreat at first, but in the end they will all stand together.
Moreover, the true Northerners will rarely escape, they have been rooted here for generations, their ancestors have fought and won against the Strangers, they have heard many stories of wars with the Strangers, but they have always thought that they were real stories before, and now they know that those stories are real history, not legends after dinner.
Will's southbound legion of thousands of people were cavalry, and their march speed was not slow, and half a month later, the legion arrived in Winterfell, causing a sensation throughout the north, and countless people gathered from all parts of the north to watch the strangers.
The whole of Winterfell is overcrowded!
After Will released the ravens as he set out from the Wall, the people of the North learned that the Night's Watch would escort three ghoul prisoner carts to Winterfell.
Three prisoner carts were pushed onto a display platform that had been set up in advance, and the severed hands and legs of the ghouls were suspended in the air at a height of one person, guarded by soldiers, allowing people to watch at close range.
Green was in charge of giving speeches on the stage in the morning and afternoon, telling people that after autumn, the strange spirits will attack, and all people must be ready for a big battle, and the desperate Great Wall needs soldiers and workers, materials and food, money, and those who are able and willing to contribute should donate. At the same time, Stark of Winterfell issued the strictest conscription orders for the entire territory.
The Reserve Corps now has to be conscripted and trained.
The display of the three ghoul prisoner carts in Winterfell ignited the fighting spirit of the entire North, and Will didn't know much about the nobles' thoughts, but he saw the fighting spirit of the commoners.
The enthusiastic response was expected by Will. Will knew that if knighthood and territory were obtained after heroic battles, the civilians would be more enthusiastic about fighting. But this news is not yet suitable for public release, which the nobles do not want to hear.
When the legion left Winterfell and headed south, there were five hundred Stark legions in the ranks, led by Robb Stark and Harris Moran.
In the ranks of the army, two people of great status were also added: Joffrey Lannister and Rosamon Lannister. Rosamon's teacher, Bachelor Miller, was also on the trip.
Before the party could depart, the ravens of Winterfell were released, the nearest being the Frey family in Luanhe City, and the furthest being the Martell family in Dorne.
There are also free-trade city-states where ravens fly directly across the Narrow Sea.
Will is to set the entire continent of Westeros on fire with the ghoul prisoner cart and send the message to the continent of Essos on the other side.
The ghouls in the three prison carts are not just for publicity, and the one that is intact among them is Will's weapon.