Chapter 185 A place further north than the North

Not surprisingly, Clay once again took control of all the cavalry forces in the north without any opposition.

The victory last time was clean and tidy, so taking over the military power this time will be much smoother.

Although some families are already worried that the Mandalay family is too powerful, and with Clay, a battlefield general who has military power, there may be some unexpected situations in the future.

But for most nobles, they first have to ensure that most of the troops they take out can come back alive.

The interests of the family come first, and loyalty to the Stark family must be compromised for the interests of the family most of the time.

The population of the Northern Territory is sparse. If tens of thousands of people were killed or injured in a battle, it would be considered a crippling loss for the entire Northern Territory. You must know that these are strong laborers who play an irreplaceable role in the production process of this era.

If all the troops brought out by a small noble were defeated, it would not only be a pension issue for these people, it would also mean that the strength of this territory in all aspects would be severely reduced.

Taxation, public affairs, security, war potential, etc., all need to be supported by mature men. If there are not enough men, in this era, it is impossible to even think about it.

Therefore, they don’t care about your Mandalay family, as long as Clay Mandalay can lead their soldiers to defeat all opponents and bring back most of their soldiers, it is best to carry a full load of soldiers like last time. Full of loot.

Such a commander is what all soldiers dream of.

Under this general premise, Clay's position as commander of the cavalry is unshakable. Anyone who dares to oppose will be in trouble with everyone.

This war has two blessings. The first is the revenge war of the Stark family. It is more just than the last time. Last time, at least they were still arguing about whether Ed Stark was treason. This time there is no such thing. This problem does not exist.

Also, this is Robb Stark once again wearing the crown of King of the North hundreds of years later. It has a different meaning to the entire North. As the whole of Westeros, it is advancing hand in hand with Dorne. As the birthplace of two major separatisms, the North's pursuit of independence has always existed objectively.

For Robb Stark, if this battle is won, the southerners will have no power to interfere with the independence of the north. The northerners will surrender to the Targaryen family who own the dragon and ignore the natural dangers of the Moat of Cailin. You Who are the Baratheons?

There were still two days left before Baat. Clay, who was inspecting the camp outside the city, was suddenly stopped by Winterfell soldiers riding on horseback. Clay didn't understand what was going on. The Earl of Deepwood Castle who was following him directly frowned and asked:

"What's the matter? Tell me quickly. Your Excellency still has to patrol the camp, and the soldiers' equipment must be carefully checked."

"Lord Clay, Sir Rodrik sent a message that His Majesty wants you to return to the city now, saying that someone from the Great Wall is coming. Do you think so?"

"The Great Wall? Okay, I understand. Now go back and tell Sir Rodrik that I will return to the city as soon as I finish arranging the affairs."

Clay nodded and waved his hand to let the Stark family soldier, who was wearing a direwolf smock, leave.

Earl Glover was a little strange and said doubtfully:

"People are coming from the Great Wall, and the Night's Watch is coming to us? Could it be that Lord Eddard's brother Benjen is back? Moreover, even if Benjen comes back, it is a matter for the Stark family. With Lord Clay, you what is the relationship?"

What Earl Glover said was exactly what Clay wanted to know, but he couldn't talk about it more. He could only say:

"I don't know, let's take a look first. In this way, you can then patrol the camp and make a statistics on the soldiers' equipment. I have to know what the situation of the soldiers under my hands is. The general does not know the soldiers on the battlefield, but he has to send out questionable."

After Clay finished explaining Earl Glover, Earl of Deepwood Motte was still taking orders under Clay this time. After all, he was an old acquaintance from the last war.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong, Clay pulled the reins of his horse and rode towards Winterfell. He suddenly realized that besides the valley, he had also overlooked a more critical place.

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When Clay stepped into the main hall of Winterfell, he saw two people, an old man and a young man. He didn't recognize the old man, but he still remembered the thin face of the young man.

"Jon? Why are you back?"

Clay was very surprised. Why did the wind fanned by his little butterfly also blow to the isolated Great Wall? Shouldn't Jon stay on the Wall until the end of time? what 's wrong?

"Clay, I'm...nice to see you again. I've heard from Rob about your record when you went south last time. I really admire you."

Jon Snow's tone was quite serious, but he was obviously a young man who wanted to show off his maturity and stability and did it deliberately. In Clay's impression, Jon didn't speak like this.

"Okay, okay, it's really cold at the Great Wall. It's frozen your tongue, Jon. You can't speak well, can you?"

Clay walked towards him with a smile, and then looked at the other two people in the room, the old man, and Robb Stark sitting in front of the fireplace.

Pulling up a chair and sitting down, Clay took off his gloves, looked at Robb Stark who was sitting in the main seat with a not so good looking face, and asked directly:

"Rob, what's the matter with calling me back?"

Robb opened his folded palms, pointed at the gray-haired old man next to Jon, who was wearing dark night watch clothes, and said:

"Clay, let me introduce to you. This is Jeor Mormont, the 997th Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch. He brought Jon here."

Jeor Mormont? Isn't this Mr. Xiong? Oh my god, why did he, the commander, come with him? What happened to the Great Wall?

In Clay's impression, counting the time, it won't be long before this respected commander-in-chief of the Night Watch will be successfully back-stabbed by his subordinates and eventually die outside the Great Wall. But now it seems that things are going wrong. changed.

"Hello Commander-in-Chief, I am not a Stark. I cannot welcome the brothers of the Night's Watch on behalf of this castle again. However, White Harbor welcomes visits from the Night's Watch at any time. If soldiers are needed, I will contact my uncle Willis and ask him Clearing the dungeon in Konggang."

In the north, the treatment of the Night Watchmen is much better than in the South. It can be said that the treatment of the Night Watchmen in black walking on the land south of the Neck is not much different from that of the demon hunters in another world.

Fear, contempt, speaking ill of each other, the eldest brother not laughing at the second brother, they are really the same, but the night watchman is an official after all, and real ordinary people don't dare to do anything like that.

In the North, the Night Watch has always had a good relationship with the major families in the North, because in fact the Night Watch is guarding the gates for the gentlemen. If they fall and the Great Wall is lost, threats from further north will have to be The northern nobles came to resist.

The name "Strong Shield of the Kingdom" is still recognized by everyone here in the North. Therefore, all castles in the North welcome the arrival of the Night Watch, and most of them will not refuse the support of the personnel.

"Then you're welcome. The Great Wall really needs support now. I'm not here to bring any good news."

Commander-in-Chief Jeor Mormont had a look of helplessness on his old face. There was a glass of water on the long table in front of him, but it was obvious that he didn't have time to drink it and it was already cold.

"Well, Clay Mandler, right? I'm sorry, I haven't paid attention to the news in the South for a long time. In fact, if it weren't for your majesty on the battlefield, I wouldn't even know you existed."

Jeor Mormont had a gentle smile on his face, and Clay noticed that sitting next to him was Jon Snow, also dressed in black, with a long sword hanging on his waist. If he guessed correctly, then It should be the Valyrian steel sword "Longclaw" that was once inherited from the Mormont family.

"Commander-in-Chief, let's talk about these things later. I want to hear what you mean by "bad news". After all, I don't think the situation can be much worse when the army is gathered."

Clay had actually vaguely understood the meaning of the bad news. After all, the wandering White Walkers were regarded as ghost stories by northerners, but Clay knew that they did exist.

As the representative of the magical side of the world, the White Walkers are actually the most difficult to grasp. Based on what the Three-Eyed Crow told him at the beginning, the purpose of the old god faction he represents is to maintain stability, and the purpose of supporting Clay is to prevent La Hero's power has grown too much.

"Okay, it seems that the young general thinks that I am a long-winded old man, so okay, I will tell you."

"Clay, have you heard the rumors about the White Walkers?"

The commander-in-chief's tone suddenly became serious. Of course Clay knew it, but he couldn't know it now. He could only start to perform. He was stunned for a moment and asked in an uncertain tone:

"White Walkers, isn't this a legend? I've always heard this kind of thing as a story."

"Yes, most people are like this. I was like this before, but now, I don't think so. I am here this time to tell everyone in Winterfell that the White Walkers really exist, and that they ,came back."

Clay's heart moved. Sure enough, due to his influence, the news of the White Walkers' attack spread to Winterfell, the capital of the North. However, if Clay remembered correctly, didn't the Great Wall have a magic barrier?

If there were no unexpected circumstances, such as Daenerys's brainless behavior of sending the dragon away in anger, the Great Wall should not collapse. As for him, the commander-in-chief, would he go there personally?

"Commander-in-Chief, I completely believe you. Although this thing sounds like a child's prank, if you tell me, then this matter must be an established fact. I believe in the existence of White Walkers. You continue to say .”

Clay's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations. When Robb Stark heard the news just now, he repeatedly confirmed with Commander-in-Chief Mormont whether he was wrong, but Clay accepted it directly. .

"Well...Thank you Master Clay for your understanding, then I will continue."

"This incident started with three of our ranger brothers who left the Great Wall north of the Great Wall, led by a boy named Weimar Royce. They were chasing the savages, and then the news was lost."

"When we found them, they had turned into stiff corpses. Another one should have been a deserter. King Robb told me that he died at the hands of Lord Eddard Stark."

"Yes, I also participated in that execution."

"Later, their frozen bodies were brought back to Castle Black, and then, one night, they opened their ice-blue eyes, and the bodies came alive."

Clay frowned. To any uninformed person, these words would sound like pure nonsense, but Clay knew very well that this must be true, and the threat of the White Walkers did indeed exist.

"We had to raise our swords against our former brothers, but our steel swords could not kill them. We cut off their arms and did not affect their movements at all. They are no longer human beings."

"In the end, it was the Valyrian steel sword that killed the thing."

Jon Snow added that he knew this very well, after all, he saw it with his own eyes.

Clay frowned and said nothing. He had a vague impression of these things, but the Night's Watch had a total force of a thousand people. They should be solved no matter what, and they should not be enough to call for help from Winterfell.

Commander-in-Chief Mormont's memories continued. He finally realized that he was thirsty, and regardless of the ice-cold temperature of the water, he drank it directly, exhaled, and continued:

"We killed them. After that, the wildlings in the north, led by their king, a guy named Mance Rayder, kept approaching the Great Wall. After we realized the danger, we ordered Chief Ranger Bunyan ·Stark led three hundred men out of the fortress."

"They finally came back, but there were only a dozen of them. These brothers who escaped death brought us the news that the White Walkers did exist. They said that our brothers were killed by those things that were as cold as ice. When you die, you become a living corpse."

"Also, a brother who followed Benjen Stark and rushed to the front told us an unexpected message while trembling. He told us that there were more than two enemies in the north, including White Walkers, Wildlings, and There are...some guys wearing ferocious armor."

Clay was lost in thought as he listened to the completely unrecognizable news. In his mind, shouldn't this expedition be for Lord Commander Mormont to lead his men to find the missing Benjen Stark?

This turned out to be Lord Commander Mormont sending Benjen Stark north to drive out the wildlings. As a result, he encountered the White Walkers and almost all of them died. What on earth is going on?

Moreover, Clay noticed the last words of the Commander-in-Chief, something wearing ferocious armor. This was definitely an unexpected situation.

The White Walkers themselves are not mindless shadow creatures. They are not so much ghosts as they are intelligent creatures constructed from cold magic that live in an ice and snow environment.

Opposing them are giant dragons constructed of fire magic. Clay understands this, but the problem is that in his impression, the White Walkers do not have any ferocious armor or other settings.

Shouldn't their pale bodies be covered with ice armor formed by cold magic? Steel can't be made in that place, so how can you make any armor? Besides, the White Walkers don't need armor. Isn't this unnecessary?

Suddenly, a picture of the White Walkers north of the Great Wall, swinging a sledgehammer, making fire and forging iron under the eyes of the cold god, was automatically printed in my mind. How should I put it, it felt inexplicably joyful.

So, assuming the lucky guy who's alive got it right, this is interesting because it's something new about the ship that's beyond Clay's memory.

"Later, Mance Rayder, the king of the wildlings beyond the wall, quickly approached the Great Wall in a very short period of time. Mance Rayder sent a messenger, asking us to let them enter the Great Wall."

"The reason they gave was that there were two things chasing them in the north. The white White Walkers killed their people and turned them into zombie-like corpses, and the White Walkers who wore ferocious iron armor and rode similarly armored horses The knights are arresting their people wantonly."

"Mance Rayder said that they had already suffered 20,000 losses along the way and could no longer hold on. Otherwise, they would never surrender to us Black Crows."

Commander-in-Chief Mormont said this with a hint of disdain, ridicule, and a little bit of worry.

He knew very well that these savages who called themselves free people flaunted their so-called free spirit, but in fact they were not ready to reconcile with the southerners. To put it bluntly, they wanted to save face and suffer.

The stubbornness of the wildlings is equivalent to the character of Stannis. However, how much fear is chasing them to force the king of the wildlings to surrender to the Night's Watch legion, which they call the Black Crow, and beg for mercy.

The White Walkers and the wights they transformed into are actually slightly strengthened zombies with some magical abilities superimposed, but it is actually not difficult to restrain them. The large amount of dragon crystal contained on Dragonstone contains thin fire magic.

Just like why the Three-Eyed Crow is so afraid of Clay, once magic from different sources breaks into the opponent's body, it will cause the body composed of magic to collapse from the inside.

Therefore, here in Clay, the White Walkers and the so-called Army of the Dead are actually not a problem. Even if all the creatures outside the Great Wall are dead, it doesn't matter if they all become corpses. As long as the number does not increase, it doesn't matter. .

"What the commander-in-chief means is to let these savages in. After all, if these people are allowed to live outside the Great Wall, if they are transformed into that kind of thing, it will be a huge pressure for us."

Robb Stark added.

Clay nodded, looked at Commander Mormont who didn't speak anymore, and asked:

"Commander-in-Chief, please explain to me here. If we really don't let a wild man in, they will definitely go crazy. With the current Night Watch Army, can we stop them?"

Yes, if the Night's Watch rejects the wildlings, knowing full well that the White Walkers and the mysterious enemy are constantly eating away at them, what do you think Mance Rayder will do?

If you want to survive, there is only one solution, and that is to take a risk on the Great Wall where the Night Watch Legion is stationed. If you can defeat it, it is better to go to the south of the Great Wall, even if you are alone, than to die north of the Great Wall.

Hearing Clay ask this, Commander-in-Chief Mormont knew that the young battlefield general had already figured out the key to this problem.

There are only a thousand members of the Night Watch Corps, and they have to guard such a long defense line of the Great Wall. In fact, there are only three castles along the Great Wall that are still active.

Mance Rayder claims to have an army of 100,000. Even if there are only 10,000 of them who can fight, it certainly cannot be defended by these 1,000 people. Besides, Clay knows very well that in theory, people can circumvent the Grand Canyon on the west side of the Great Wall. Came here.

Even if a few hundred people are bypassed and a sudden attack is launched on the Night Watch Legion, the price is unbearable by the Legion. Moreover, after experiencing so many battles, the only 700 people left under the Night Watch Legion are the gods. Blessed.

Here, I believe some readers already know what I have changed and added. Yes, during this period of time, the protagonist’s system has not been activated. It seems that the demon hunter has become useless, but don’t worry, they will play their role later. When it works, after all, witchers, witchers, must do something that suits their status.

Don’t worry, it’s not yet the time when the heavens and the earth meet. The main theme is still the unification war of the seven countries, but there are some things that I have to pave the way for in advance.

The basic logic of a Game of Thrones fan story is to start a civil war, win the civil war, crush the White Walkers with great strength, and then it ends or cannot be written anymore.

As one of the bosses written by Martin, I have always felt that the White Walkers cannot be so weak. In the show, they are made to look like zombies, but that is not the case at all.