Game of Thrones: Royal Game

In the next half month, the imperial fleet from Braavos, led by Ian, arrived at Eastwatch one after another and stationed themselves in 19 castles on the entire Great Wall.

After building the army's winter camp, Ian devoted most of his troops to building the second line of defense.According to the design of Sir Denis Mallister, a veteran of the Night's Watch, Ian will build about 15 simple fortresses behind the Great Wall to ensure that all southbound intersections are within the range of the fortress.

As for Ian's method of building a simple fortress, it is also very simple. The upper arrow tower is made of wooden structure, and the lower wall is made of local soil, sand and gravel, then poured with water and waits for it to freeze.Anyway, the ghouls don't have siege weapons, so even a fortress of this level is enough to make them helpless.

In this way, Ian used his falcon to patrol the forest exit on the southern border of the Land of Everwinter and the sky over Iban Island to monitor the movements of the Night King and the White Walker player, while arranging the construction of simple fortresses and the deployment of troops.

Another half month passed like this. At this time, Ian's simple fortress was almost completely completed. As the Westeros army led by Ed Stark and Belicio Valeros gradually reached a desperate situation The Great Wall, the reinforcement of the first phase of simple fortresses and the construction of 12 relatively less important simple fortresses in the second phase are also on the agenda.

In order to relieve the logistical pressure on the front, Ian evacuated [-] soldiers who had already contributed to the previous construction and were in poor condition due to difficulty in adapting to the extremely cold environment in the north to the south, and had them retreat to the Last Hearth City to carry out operations. Rest.

In the intense preparations, another month passed like this.

At this point, the second line of defense built by Ian in the south of the scene has been completely formed. A large number of ballistae have been set up in suitable locations, and more and more dragon crystal weapons and wildfire have been transported from King's Landing to these fortresses.

At the same time, the black dragon Ion, who had been blessed by the Red God, had grown into a behemoth with a body length of about 40 meters. The green dragon Lei Ge, who was born a year later, was slightly smaller, but his body length also reached about 35 meters.

These circumstances should have made Ian more confident of victory, but because the Night King has not launched an invasion, it actually made Ian murmur.

Will the grandson of the Night King fight or not?

Was it because my defense was too strong that Han Shen retreated and simply gave up the invasion, or were they simply stalling for time?

To be honest, if it was three months ago, or even a month ago, Ian would have dreamed of delaying the fight, because these few months would allow him to fully prepare for the decisive battle.Even in the next three months to half a year, Ian's strength here will be enhanced.

But what if the Night King wants to delay it for ten years?

The last long summer lasted for almost ten years. According to the rules, this long winter will be at least that long. The Night King can wait until late winter or even late winter before attacking.

The Night King can drag it up, but Ian has to support 10,000+ troops on the Great Wall. If you count the troops and civilians left behind in Last Hearth and Winterfell, as well as several fleet sailors who are responsible for transporting food here from all over the world. , the total number will exceed 30. The daily expenses of such a large army are astronomical.

Benefiting from the super grain storage plan that Ian started to implement as a precautionary measure a few years ago, there should be no problems with the logistics of Ian's army within two or three years.But as winter continues, food will no longer be grown in the North, the Vale, the River, and the Crown. Food production in the Reach, Volantis, and Slaver's Bay will also begin to decrease significantly. By then, the land will produce no more food. It is a problem to feed the farmers themselves. It is pure fantasy to want to help Ian support an army stationed thousands of miles away.

Suddenly, Ian missed Khal Drogo.

During the decisive battle at Kaisai Pass, if Drogo could grit his teeth and kill the spare horses to satisfy his hunger, delaying the battle for another half month, or simply not take the initiative to fight, and directly lead his troops to continue south to look for food in Nan Lazar, maybe Yi The Entiges coalition will really collapse.

Fortunately, the pride of the Dothraki people did not allow a Khal to avoid the battle, and Ian easily angered Drogo and made him take the initiative to rush towards death.But now, Ian has no way to anger the Night King and make him take the initiative to attack him.To be more precise, he knew next to nothing about the Night King.Although Ian can judge through the knowledge of Melisandre and Benero and some legends that the opponent will not be too powerful to deal with, the opponent will obviously not be as good as in the TV series.

Can Valyrian steel or dragonglass alone kill the Night King?Ian actually doesn't have much hope for that affirmative answer.But if not, what can kill it?Fire magic?Dragon flame?Or the legendary 'Light Messenger'?
What exactly is the Lightbringer?
Anyway, it won't be the sword in Stannis's hand that only glows but does not heat up. Melisandre has privately admitted that she used magic to make that sword in order to make Stannis Before getting the true Lightbringer, she must first show a miracle that is enough to unite the entire kingdom (is she sure this unity was not destroyed by her crazy preaching?)
There are many possibilities that Ian can think of, and the first one on the list is dragon.

Assuming that Daenerys is the reincarnation of the legendary Azor Ahaer, then the 'Dragon in the Stone' she awakened is indeed perfect as her weapon 'Lightbringer'.

Of course, if Daenerys is understood to be the reincarnation of Nissa Nissa, the wife of Azor Ahai, then it is Ian himself who is responsible for Azor Ahai.In addition, now that Daenerys' dragon itself is controlled by Ian himself, it unexpectedly fits the prophecy perfectly.

The second possibility that has been widely speculated is Jon Snow,

Legend has it that Lightbringer was cast three times.

The first time the sword shattered when it was plunged into the water to cool down - Robert used his warhammer to kill Prince Rhaegar at the Battle of the Trident, knocking him down into the river.

The second time the sword penetrated the lion's heart and broke its heart - Aegon, whom Rhaegar was the prophesied prince, was killed by the knight 'The Mountain' of the Lannister family, and the Lannister happened to be the 'Lion'.

The third time, after the sword penetrated the heart of his wife Nissa Nissa, and Nissa Nissa gave her life, the Lightbringer was finally cast - Lyanna secretly married Rhaegar and died in childbirth in the Tower of Bliss. Jon Snow.

From the perspective of the whole foreshadowing idea, this guess is very consistent with Mr. Martin's style, but for Ian now, this possibility is the least valuable, because according to Ed Stark, Jon... Snow has already sent it.

Although his body was not found and his life and death were unknown, Ian could not expect a missing person to suddenly jump out and save the world at the last moment.

The third possibility, also widely speculated, is that the Lightbringer hides in the catacombs of Winterfell.

After all, from the first volume of the original book, it was said that there is geothermal heat under Winterfell. Until the fifth volume, it emphasized the changes in the underground temperature of Winterfell many times, and even asked Jon to make a statement that he must return to Winterfell. Entering the Crypt's Dream.

Unfortunately, Ian asked Ed to search the catacombs in Winterfell, and he personally took Melisandre there to search, but he could not find such a sword.

Considering that the capital was coming, Ian simply brought Arya Stark from Winterfell to Castle Black. Although the TV series was not very reliable, the multiple preparations were always correct.

As for the last possibility, Ian lowered his head and looked at the table. On it was placed the family sword of the Dane family in Starfall City - 'Dawn'. Ian borrowed this sword from the Dane family after conquering Dorne.Because the current earl of the Dane family was still young and not outstanding in martial arts, the position of 'Dawn Sword' was temporarily vacant. In addition, Ian gave too much, so they finally accepted Ian's request and lent 'Dawn' to Ian.

Ps: In the original outline of this book, the Lightbringer was actually Dawn, and Arthur Dayne, the Sword of Dawn, was not dead, and other things happened at that time.But because the Dorne Scroll was cut off, this setting had to be cancelled.

(The fact that Eddard Stark led six soldiers to defeat three of the "most powerful members of the Kingsguard in history", including the Sword of Dawn, is actually unexplainable. It is definitely Martin's foreshadowing, otherwise he could have written that Ed brought 60 people with him at that time, so there would be no controversy) (End of this chapter)