Game of Thrones: Winter Dragon Lord

Chapter 174
Stars and stars hung in the sky like shadows, under the stars a huge and towering city wall towered into the sky in the mist, the wooden towers built close to the ice wall, and the stone towers formed a black fortress.

The castle is aptly named "Castle Black."

Castle Black is a stronghold with a long history, and it is also the stronghold of the Night Watchman. It is as dark as the night.

From outside the castle, there are several towering towers. If Cole is here, he can name them one by one.

The command tower, where the commanders of the Night's Watch live.

King's Tower, this tower is the place where the brothers of the night watchman entertain guests, named after the king, but the king has not been to the Great Wall for at least 100 years.

The Spear Tower, the tallest tower on the Great Wall, although it is only one-third the height of the Impassable Wall.

There are some complex passages underground in Castle Black, which are called "wormways" by the night watchmen, and the wormways connect the towers.In heavy snow days, the snow on the ground is so deep that it is completely impassable on the road, so they can only walk in the worm path.

The castle seemed to be withered before Cole left. Castle Black had the largest number of night watchmen on the Great Wall, but only 500.

At this time, the figures in Castle Black were even sparser.

Because of the disappearance of Chief Ranger Benjen Stark and a series of reasons, the 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont, launched an investigation known as the "Ranger Expedition". A hundred brothers of the night watchman.

In this expedition, only fifty Oathkeeper brothers returned to Castle Black. On the Fist of the First Men outside the Great Wall, the expeditionary army of the Night Watchman was attacked by wights and suffered heavy losses.

Elder Xiong broke out with fifty brothers and retreated to Custer's fortress.

Here, another battle between the Oathkeeper and the Betrayer took place among the Night's Watch, and Lord Commander Mormont died at the hands of the Betrayer.

Although this battle is nothing compared to the battle losses in the south.But for the night watchmen with few personnel, this patrol action of the rangers almost caused them to lose all their well-trained and effective combat power.

And it was during this crisis that the long-lost Jon Snow brought news that made matters worse for the Night Watchmen. The King Beyond the Wall "Mance Rayder" led an army of savages with tens of thousands of people to prepare to cross the Great Wall.

And there is an elite savage who has bypassed and climbed over the Great Wall, and is on the south side of the wall.

The army attacking from the front was just a guise of the wildlings outside the Great Wall. The wildlings attacked all parts of the castle, so that the night watchmen could not disperse their forces on the Great Wall. What they wanted was to weaken the defensive strength of Castle Black, the base camp.

Mance Rayder, King Beyond the Wall, was once a man of the Night's Watch, but later broke his oath and betrayed the Night's Watch.Like Cole, he is a child raised by a night watchman, but Cole's identity is of Valyrian blood, while he is of wildling blood.

Mance was a loyal member of the Night's Watch until he was wounded on a patrol and rescued by a wildling woman.While he was recovering, the Wildwoman patched Mance's torn cloak with red cloth.Back at the Wall, the commander of the Night's Watch ordered Mance to change into a uniform black cloak.This insignificant violation of personal freedom caused Mance to abandon the Night's Watch and live with the wildlings as he pleased.

He gained great influence among the savages, and at critical moments, he also used his influence to unite the savages who advocated individualism.

Castle Black fell into freezing point because of the news brought back by Jon Snow.

Virgil was helping the weapons master, Master Donal Noye was a fine craftsman, and although he had only one arm, it was enough for him to lift the hammer.

"Master Noi, do you think the king will bring someone to the Great Wall to help us?" Vigil wielded the hammer, and Master Noi helped him hold the iron ingot with tongs.

"When forging iron, you must use your heart." The weapon master told him.

Although Virgil is a little clumsy, he has the patience to swing the hammer thousands of times.

Vigil shut his mouth obediently, with the voice of Master Noy teaching next to his ears.

When the last hammer fell, the weapon master was quite satisfied and put the hammered long sword into the water to cool it down.

Virgil let out a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his brow.

"The bachelor has already sent ravens to the castles in the Seven Kingdoms. You don't need to worry about these things. We have given our lives to this Great Wall since the day we took the oath to join the Night Watch."

Virgil nodded silently.

He remained at the armory until the end of the job.

After leaving the armory, he made his way to the crow's nest, where the ravens roosted and where Maester Aemon rested.

An injured Jon Snow recuperates here.

"Jon." He pushed the door open and saw Jon staring at the top of the tower. ,

Jon Snow turned his head, "Vicky?"

The little blacksmith apprentice showed a simple and honest smile, "How do you feel?" Vigil glanced at Jon's leg injury.

His face was pale, and he showed a bloodless smile, "Except for not being able to move, everything else is fine."

"It's great to be back, I thought" Wei Ji stood beside him and saw that the corners of his lips were chapped, so he asked, "Do you need me to bring you a glass of water?"

Xue Nuo nodded slightly, "Thank you."

Virgil put the water to his mouth.

"How's it going outside?" He asked worriedly.

"The guards have been told to keep an eye on the south, and the maester has sent a dozen ravens south."

"Have you sent it to Winterfell?" He accidentally pulled the wound, and a trace of sweat dripped from his forehead.

"There are." Vigil took the water glass away, "There are still some sent to King's Landing and Storm's End."

"Master Noye told me that the south is not what we think, Jon." Vigil continued, Master Noye likes to drink after refining weapons, and then tell Vigil some news he knows.

"I know, the maester told me." He also knew that Theon Greyjoy was Eastwatch.

He is not fit to be the Night's Watch, Jon's heart cried out.But he soon realized that the Night's Watch was exactly the kind of person he was taking.

They must have known that Jon would not forgive the traitor, and that was why they had sent him to Greywater Watch.

But when Theon came, the night watchman actually thought that Jon was dead.

"Is anyone coming?" asked Jon, thinking to himself: Have the lords and kings of the Seven Kingdoms long forgotten ours?Had father forgotten this too?

Virgil shook his head. "No. The king didn't come, and no crow flew from the south."

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[The border of the country is in danger.Please do your best to help the Night's Watch defend Castle Black. 】

At this time Ed Stark was sitting in front of the chair in the hall, watching the news from the big raven.

(End of this chapter)