Chapter 402 A powerful counterattack

"I think no one will think that those White Walkers and wights are easy to deal with now." Lind looked at the livid-faced Stannis, Mance Rayder, the commander of the Night's Watch, the leader of the free people and others, and calmly said said.

Everyone was silent.

"Report the damage!" Linde did not continue to mock everyone, but returned to business.

Stannis and others reported the casualties of the Night's Watch, free folk, Hands of the Holy Fire, Chosen Legion, and other volunteer armies from the seven nations.

There is no doubt that the warriors at the top of the Great Wall have suffered the most losses. Yesterday, the White Walkers' attack almost covered the entire Great Wall. From the East China Sea to the Shadow Tower, the defense points of eighteen castles were all attacked, among which the attack was the most violent. The three castles are Ice Mark City, Black Castle and Nightfort.

All the defensive devices at the Great Wall defense points where these three castles were located were destroyed. Except for a few salvation nuns and silent monks who borrowed Lind's power to resist the wildfire explosion and burning, the people stationed here were completely wiped out. , more than 700 people from Linde's Chosen Corps alone died, and seven high priests and red-robed monks from the Red Temple died, which was a heavy loss.

In addition, the ground military camps within the Great Wall also suffered some casualties because the White Walkers projected some zombies over. Among these casualties, there were not many casualties caused by frontal battles. After all, Linde repeatedly asked the military camps inside the Great Wall to be on tight guard. As soon as they were projected over, an effective clearing was immediately organized.

Moreover, when the White Walkers fall from a high altitude, the bodies of most of the ghouls are shattered as they fall, making them unable to move normally. Children can easily deal with them, and the number of those who barely remain intact is very small. , does not constitute any threat.

When the White Walkers were really threatening, they were the main cause of the commotion and casualties. However, because Lind was well prepared, the Sisters of Redemption and the Silent Monks went to deal with the White Walkers as soon as they were discovered. Therefore, the casualties caused were limited, and the final loss was only a few hundred people, half of whom were killed by the zombie group that fell from the sky.

Although the total losses totaled seven to eight thousand people, fortunately Linde had already anticipated this situation and prepared a backup plan. Various defense devices had corresponding parts that could be replaced. Assembling, during the current meeting, the trebuchet and other defense devices should have been repaired.

In addition, the army's replenishment was all in place at the first time, without affecting the overall defense of the Great Wall at all.

After listening to the overall damage report, Lind turned to look at Meera Reed who was waiting aside, and asked: "What did Willas say? Why can the White Walkers move on the Great Wall?"

Meera said slightly nervously: "When the White Walkers launched their general attack, the Horn of Winter was blown. They had to resist the power of the Horn of Winter and could not continue to maintain the power of the Great Wall. Lord Vilas is currently sleeping and recovering. "Bran asked me to convey these words to you."

"Has the horn of winter sounded?" Linde was stunned when he heard this. Obviously this news surprised him, because at that time he did not feel any abnormal power coming from the ghost forest.

If Bran and the others were not lying, the power of the Horn of Winter might be specifically aimed at the Wall, so no one else except Bran and Willas, who were integrated with the Wall, could sense this power.

Lind temporarily put aside the matters concerning the Horn of Winter and Willas, turned to look at Stannis and the others, and asked: "How should we deal with the White Walkers' stone-throwing tactics next?"

Everyone looked at each other, and then they all said their own coping methods. However, these methods were all passive defenses such as increasing manpower and equipment. None of them could truly solve the White Walker's stone-throwing tactics.

After listening to everyone's gushing stories, Lind said nothing and just asked everyone to go back and prepare for the next wave of attacks from the White Walkers.

When Stannis and others left, Meera did not leave.

Lind looked at Meira and asked in a deep voice: "Is there anything else Bran wants you to bring to me?"

Meera nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes, Your Majesty. Lord Bran asked me to tell you that the White Walker Queen is injured."

"Yes." After hearing this, Lind hesitated for a moment, nodded slightly, and then indicated that Meira could leave without showing any abnormal emotions.

After everyone left, Linde showed a little fatigue on his face. Although he showed great power yesterday and blocked all the attacks of the White Walkers, relieving the crisis, he also consumed a lot of energy. The power of the runes, even with the support of a large number of Redemption Sisters and Silent Monks who planted the rune marks of the Unknown King, the consumption was still too much for him.

Moreover, the consumption of rune power was only one of the secondary reasons that made him feel tired. The real reason for his fatigue was that he needed to concentrate on controlling the clouds and winds he created, and controlling that side across Westeros from east to west. The huge wall of fire on land was so difficult that even he needed to concentrate and go all out to barely maintain it. His mental consumption had almost reached the limit, and he still hadn't recovered even now.

This is why Linde acted so indifferently when he learned the news that the White Walker Queen was injured just now, because in his current state, even if there was a good opportunity to assassinate the White Walker Queen, he would not be able to execute it. Because it's too risky for him.

It would be fine if the assassination succeeds, but if the assassination fails, he will inevitably fall into the endless siege of white ghosts and corpses. Such sieges will not pose much threat to him in his heyday, but with his In the current state, it is impossible to escape unscathed in that situation.

And what's more important is that he doesn't trust the elf named Penan very much. Even if he can feel that the elf really wants to destroy the White Walker Queen and her men, he still can't believe it. The other party's intentions are so simple. The other party must be planning something that he can't think of for the time being. It is impossible for him to cooperate with the other party before he truly understands the other party's thoughts.

In the room, Linde closed his eyes and rested. After resting for a while, he got up and left the room and went to the Great Wall to check the equipment repair, material supplies and personnel replenishment at each defense point.

Although the commanders and captains of each defense point had just reported the situation, they still did not feel at ease as if they had personally inspected it themselves.

While checking the recovery status of the defense points, he also looked at the ghost forest shrouded in snow and fog outside the Great Wall from time to time.

The snow mist entrenched in the forest is obviously not naturally formed. It should contain some super long-term power. Even Lind's eyesight cannot penetrate the snow mist and see clearly what's going on inside, especially the stones thrown by the White Walkers. machine.

Although he couldn't see the trebuchet, Lind could still guess that the current trebuchet of the White Walkers must be in a damaged state. Otherwise, when he removed the wall of fire, the White Walkers should attack again. After all, the White Walkers and the corpses Unlike humans, ghosts need sleep and rest. They can constantly use trebuchets to throw corpses onto the Great Wall or fight within the Great Wall.

Linde was not surprised by the damage to the trebuchet, because even if the ghouls were all mummified, their bodies had become very light, but with so many ghouls huddled together, the total weight was still very important, and if you wanted to use For a trebuchet to throw such a heavy corpse group over the Great Wall, the trebuchet must be very large, at least ten times larger than the trebuchets at various defense points on the city wall, just to be barely enough.

Moreover, the trebuchet must contain some extraordinary power, otherwise such a large trebuchet would not be able to project something as heavy as the corpse group into the air more than 200 meters high with just mechanical power.

It is huge in size and attached with extraordinary strength. It is impossible for such a device to be used continuously in such a harsh environment outside the Great Wall without being damaged. And judging from the current situation, there are quite a lot of damage, and basically all of them are damaged. .

Just using guesswork to judge the situation of the White Walkers is never as direct and accurate as seeing it with your own eyes, so Linde also tried to create strong winds to blow away the snow and fog shrouding the ghost forest.

But the result was as he expected. No matter how strong the strong wind he created, the snow mist in the ghost forest never moved, and it felt like the snow mist was just an illusion.

Afterwards, Linde asked the shapechanger to possess a raven or other flying animal to see if he could enter the snow and fog to check the situation.

However, without exception, these animals possessed by the shapechangers died immediately after entering the snow mist, and the pain of death was also transmitted to the shapechangers along with their spiritual connections, making them all feel miserable and miserable until they drank. After a bottle of potion to soothe the pain, they gradually adapted.

Since there was no way to detect the situation in the snow and fog through normal means, Lind decided to use another tough method to deal with the White Walkers, which was also a counterattack against the White Walkers.

His method is very simple, that is, use trebuchets at various defense points to continuously throw wild fire cans towards the Ghost Forest, burning all flammable objects close to the Great Wall, even if the opponent's trebuchet is made of steel. , even in the face of a fire covering the entire forest, it can melt it.

Following this, Linde's orders were issued to various defense points, and wildfire cans were thrown out by the repaired trebuchet, submerged into the snow and fog, and then exploded with streams of green flames rising into the sky. Soon, The Ghost Forest near the line of the Great Wall was completely ignited, and the sky-high flames and thick smoke dispersed all the snow and fog shrouding the Ghost Forest. Linde was also able to see clearly what was going on inside the Ghost Forest.

I saw that there was a huge trebuchet placed at intervals in the ghost forest. As Linde guessed, the size of the trebuchet was more than ten times the size of a normal trebuchet. Let’s roughly estimate the height of the trebuchet. It's about forty or fifty meters long. The entire trebuchet is not made of wood, but of ice. From a distance, it looks like an ice castle.

However, most of these castle-sized trebuchets are now damaged. Except for a small part of the base, the rest have broken throwing levers.

However, these huge trebuchets were not the focus of Linde and others on the city wall. After the snow and fog dissipated, their eyes were all focused on the operators of the huge trebuchets. These operators were not human corpses or aliens. Instead of ghosts, they were giant White Walkers.

The stature of these giant aliens is extremely huge. In the eyes of ordinary people, the stone giant's height of several meters is already shocking. However, the shortest of these giant aliens are more than ten meters, and the tallest is even two meters tall. Ten meters, like a moving hill, such a huge size brings as much shock to the humans on the Great Wall as it does to the giant dragon.

"Your Majesty, what are we going to do?" Stannis was also frightened by the giant and came to Lind's side and asked.

Linde quickly gave his instructions and said: "Don't be stingy with the wildfire. Keep throwing it forward until it reaches the extreme distance. I want everything you can see to turn into a sea of ​​fire."

Upon hearing Lind's order, Stannis was stunned, and immediately turned around to give the order. Then he saw that the scale of the trebuchet continued to increase, and the throwing distance became farther and farther.

Soon, a large number of wildfire jars were thrown on the giant trebuchets the size of the castle, and also on the huge giant white ghosts.

Soon they discovered that the White Walkers that shocked them were so fragile. They moved very slowly and could not avoid the wildfires that fell on them. Moreover, the forests around them were all ignited by wildfires, and all the White Walkers and the surrounding corpses were destroyed. All the ghosts fell into the sea of ​​fire.

Perhaps the power of the White Walkers allows them to suppress fire to a certain extent and not be harmed by the fire, but in the face of so many wild fire jars falling on them, exploding and burning, the power of the White Walkers in these giant White Walkers No matter how powerful it was, it couldn't withstand such consumption. Soon a giant white ghost was shattered like the humans or elves under their feet.

When the first giant white ghost could not withstand the burning of the fire and completely shattered, the other giant white ghosts also shattered into ice crystals in the fire one after another. Only a few giant white ghosts withdrew from the attack range of the Great Wall trebuchet in advance. , survived.

At the same time, those giant trebuchets made of countless solid ice also melted rapidly in the flames. Just as Linde asked, the entire area he looked at turned into a sea of ​​fire, and the thick smoke was pushed by the fire. A dark dust cloud formed in the sky, and some of the dust drifted to the vicinity of the Great Wall in the north wind, falling like snow.

Watching the giant trebuchets collapse, watching countless corpses and ghosts fall into the sea of ​​fire, watching the army of ghosts retreating to the depths of the ghost forest to avoid the flames, everyone was excited. The previous battle was so exciting. The fallen morale was restored at this moment, and everyone raised their weapons and shouted long live.

At this moment, Linde had a rare smile on his face, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that the current fire should be able to burn for a few days. The White Walkers might not attack the Great Wall these days. He could take a good rest and think about it. Thinking about what to do next.