(For Rulong 1911 Protector Update, I wish business fire)

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Going down is harder to walk than going up, and it takes more time.

At dawn, the group finally came to the Moon Gate Fort.

The Moongate Fort is the largest castle, and when winter comes, the lord on the top of the hill will lead his family and servants down the mountain to spend the winter at the Moongate Fort.

Viscount Nest Royce of Moongate Fort is a side of the Royce family, and he has received news from Raven that he has prepared horses, water, and dry food for Blackfish and his party.

After breakfast, the blackfish Will and his party immediately got on their horses, and they walked along the rich valley plains with fragrant melons and fruits, abundant crops, warm climate like spring, rivers and lakes, passing through one village after another, and they had to walk another day to reach the foot of the valley of the Blood Gate.

And the ravens had already brought the news to the light cavalry of the Blood Gate, and the scouts and the ravens accompanying the army had already been assembled, just waiting for the arrival of the captain Blackfish.

Everyone had no sleep all night, but the war horse was the best horse, and he also knew the road in the valley plain. Angel's horse was the unbridled horse he had brought from the Dorne Frontier, and he had sailed from King's Landing to the Vale, all with his master. As soon as Angela whistled, the horse moved forward on its own, and Angela closed his eyes and went to sleep.

It was dark, and everyone came to the Blood Gate. After changing horses and having eaten dinner, except for Green, who was left behind, everyone and the newly added fifty light cavalry, one bachelor and two bachelor soldier assistants, with pack horses and tents, water and food, one man and two horses, held torches high, and marched out of the blood gate through the night.

With such a rapid march, Tyrion was already miserable, and he didn't have the ability to rest on horseback. But he also had a way, and when he reached the Blood Gate, he found two high triangular wooden frames to tie in front of and behind the saddle, and then put his small body in the middle, marched at night, tied himself with a rope, and just closed his eyes and slept.

Scouts are the eyes of the army, and they must do everything they can to get to the battlefield as quickly as possible, and pass on what they see to Lord Eddard Stark through the raven.

After a night's march, most of the rugged mountain roads in the Bloody Gate Valley had been walked, and by dawn, the most difficult road had passed. Although the Mingyue Mountains are still on both sides of the road, the road is smooth and easy to walk.

"Sir Bryndon, I suggest that the Arryn banners and yours be put away, shouldn't the scouts be quiet, if we march hastily during the day, we will be able to see the Lannisters in the evening. Along the way, there is no guarantee that there will be no Lannister scouts. Will said.

Brynden was munching on black bread and grabbing two black sausages in his other hand. The old man was sturdy and ate as soon as he was hungry, eating more than any young soldier.

"There won't be any Lannister scouts yet, Lord Will. That's why I'm putting up the Valley Flag and my Blackfish Flag, on either side of this mountain road, in the trees or in the cracks in the stones, I bet there are a few pairs of hill tribe eyes staring at us right now, but with these two flags, they won't move. We need marching speed now, and we don't need to make any more troubles. Blackfish said.

One of the Valley knights laughed, "My lord, the Lannister scouts can't touch here, this is the territory of the hill tribes. Even if we're Valley Knights, if we're alone, or if we're less than ten, they'll probably jump out and do it. ”

"I see, sir. ”

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In the darkness of night, a man's head popped up from behind a small mound: Blackfish, then a second man's head, Will, and a third man's head slowly poked out: Big Gilly.

Below the hill, the only way out of the valley had been cut out, and a large trench was not known how deep it was, and it was estimated that the trench was also sprinkled with iron nails and pointed piles. Behind the trench were rows of upside-down wooden stakes, the spikes of which were slanted upwards, so dense that not even dogs could pass through them.

Behind a dozen rows of spiked stakes, a high wall was erected, completely blocking the way out of the valleymen, and on the high wall, the torches were bright, and about twenty crossbow soldiers stood guard on it.

Although Will had been a Night's Watch Ranger for four years, it was the first time he had seen such a formal and real ancient battlefield.

Before the crossing, he was a doctor. For ancient wars, it is only limited to a superficial understanding of books and film and television dramas. This immersive scene, I suddenly felt that what I had learned was like a bubble in the water, popping and bursting, and there was no shadow.

In his eyes, this huge trench alone, and then the dense spiked wooden stakes behind it, was impassable.

How can flesh and blood rush through? Before you get close to the trench, it must be the sharp arrows of the defending soldiers.

As a ranger on the Great Wall of Desperation, he has only fought against dozens of wild men at most, and more often than a few small units of people, as for the experience and experience of large-scale combat in the army, Will Safety does not have it. Before he became the Night Watchman, he was a thief, not a soldier.

The experience of the two worlds is summed up, and Will is at a loss and shocked for being in the real ancient battlefield.

Behind the high wall, there was a campfire that could not be seen as far as the eye could see, and the tents were one after another, and the light of the fire shot out from the mouth of the tent, and there were stars everywhere, as if the stars in the sky were falling upside down.

"Hey, Lord Will, do you know how to calculate?"

"No, it won't. Will's arithmetic was good, but he understood what Blackfish was talking about, which was to calculate the number of Lannister's troops from these campfires.

The Lannisters' army, camped on the east side of the Trident River, had set up a barrier in the way of the Vale's army, dug the road, planted stakes, built a high wall, and stationed an army on the road.

"Lord Blackfish, Big Gilly and I went up and grabbed a captive. Will said.

He didn't know anything about calculating campfires and counting the number of people, but sneaking around in the night, scouting, assassinating, and capturing prisoners, he and Da Jili were all at hand. These hidden skills, over the mountains and mountains, the shadows of the trees are ambushed, and they are already perfect outside the Great Wall of Desperation.

To capture the prisoners, they will not go through the trenches, but will climb over the mountains on both sides, into the forest, bypassing the obstacles on the road and the garrison soldiers.

"Okay, be careful, you go take the prisoners, and I'll go to the other side. Meet here in an hour. There was a hint of uneasiness and confusion in Blackfish's voice.

"What's wrong?" Will didn't want to pretend to be confused. This is a real battlefield, and the slightest mistake will kill you. He is a rookie, and when he has doubts in his heart, he has to ask them and learn to lead troops into battle.

There is no comparison between large-scale army battles, individual battles and dozens of people in the narrow streets and alleys.

"There's no way the Lannisters have so many troops. Blackfish finally whispered, his voice tinged with suppressed worry.

"Why can't it be?"

"They have an army to stay in the west, an army to besiege Riverrun, and a ranger to patrol around the Red Fork River, ready to support the army of the Trident River and the army that should besiege Riverstreamer, so that the Trident River army we see in front of us is simply not so many?"

"How many more people are in their army?"

"Ten thousand at least. Blackfish's voice was full of heaviness.