Game of Thrones: Kings in the North

Chapter 160 Frustrating the Enemy
Ed released two ravens on the Fist of the First Men, one flew to the canyon south of the Frostfang giant ladder in the western battlefield, and the other flew to Eastwatch in the eastern battlefield.

In the precipitous Frostfang Mountains on the western front, the king of giants, Mag the Mighty, the Weeper, Afin the Raven Hunter, and Thorn, the skinchanger who controlled the shadow lynx, led a large number of giants, living in caves. People guarded the giant ladder, while the rangers and mountain clan warriors led by Colin "Halfhand" were blocked in the valley.

Eddard's ravens send a message to Halfhand telling them to keep their troops in the valley.The northern army on the Fist of the First Men will send troops to attack Fengsheng Gorge sideways. If the savage army on Giant's Ladder chooses to support Fengsheng Gorge, Colin Halfhand's army can find an opportunity to capture Giant's Ladder and go straight into the hinterland of Frostfang.

The raven flying to Eastwatch was to inform the night watchman commander Carter Pike of Eastwatch to let him take over the Winterfell cavalry and rock-species infantry on the eastern battlefield.

The Eastern Route Army was originally commanded by Winterfell's guard captain Jory Cassel. The main force was rock-species infantry and hundreds of Winterfell cavalry. In Zheboluo District, "White Mask" Morona and "Seal Skinner" Davidin ambushed the Eastern Route Army in the Ghost Forest.

In this encounter, the brutal wild boars in the Polo region ripped apart more than a dozen rock warriors and Winterfell cavalry. Unfortunately, Jory Cassel was captured, and the Eastern Route Army lost its commander. Captain Harris Moran, led by Ranger Devin, withdrew from the Haunted Forest and returned to Eastwatch and Greenguard.

The Eastern Army lacked a commander, and the dragons had no leader. Ed chose Carter Parker, which made Robb very depressed.

"Father, why don't you let Harris Moran take over Jory's position? Harris is a good man. In Winterfell, every time Jory has something to go out, he is the acting captain of the guard. He does his duty."

But his abilities were mediocre. Ed knew the vassals of Winterfell very well, and he knew that Harris Moran was not a qualified commander.

"Cat Pike is the illegitimate son of the Iron Islands. He has worked in East Watch for many years. Because East Watch is across the sea from Skagos Island, Carter Pike is very familiar with rock species. The seal tribe in the ghost forest, the coastal tribe , are old opponents of the Eastwatch Night Watch, and Carter Pike will wipe them out."

"Besides, I have ordered Eastwatch to send a fleet across the sea to plunder the coastal fishing villages on the east coast beyond the Great Wall. Who is more suitable to command the fleet than Carter, who was born as an ironman?"

Theon said with a smirk: "Kat Pike is indeed an ironborn, but unfortunately he is a bastard. Who knows if his bloodline is pure?"

Ed said indifferently: "Regardless of bloodlines, an iron species is an iron species."

Most of Eastwatch's fleet are ships of the Stark family, and many of the longships were longships brought to the Stark family after Iron Bitch Helen Pike surrendered last year.As part of the cooperation between the Night's Watch and Winterfell, these ships are used jointly by the Night's Watch and the Stark soldiers of Greenguard. Most of the sailors and crew are Ed's people.

At the Stark Army Garrison in the south of Eastwatch, the shipyard invested by Ed is manufacturing new longships, fishing boats, and even whaling ships similar to Iban ships every day. The Stark fleet at Eastwatch is growing day by day. grow.

These fleets spend most of their time fishing in the Seal Bay and the Shivering Sea. The fertile fishing grounds can harvest a large amount of salmon, crab, lobster, and cod every day, which enriches the tables of the night watchmen and the Stark Great Wall garrison. The night watchmen jokingly call them It is the generation with the best food since the establishment of the Great Wall.

Now, these longships are going to plunder fishing villages and take away the wildling population along the coast.Carter Pike was exiled to the Great Wall because he was a pirate. He didn't need others to teach him how to plunder.

While the fleet is sweeping the fishing village, Woodfang Devon, Harris Moran, Earl of Driftwood Hall Billy Stern, Earl of King's Hall Raisen Magna, will continue to sweep the ghost forest with rock infantry , Take the savages and livestock in the ghost forest village captive to the Great Wall, burn the savage villages and the barren farmland.

After releasing the ravens, Ed gathered a hundred cavalrymen. He put on thick plate armor, a helmet in the shape of a direwolf, and held a giant sword, Ice, on his horse.

"Aegis" Dawson, Syrio Forel, Robb, and Domeric all put on their armor and rode beside Ed.

Old Xiong, Odin Wellers appeared in front of Ed, Old Xiong frowned and said, "Master Ed, you want to go out in person?"

"Staying around the Fist of the First Men, doing nothing. Just watching northern soldiers and rangers burn wildling villages. I decided to find the enemy myself."

Looking around from the Fist of the First Men, the Ghost Forest in the east and Frostfang in the west are full of thick smoke, like a black dagger, piercing into the gray blue sky beyond the Great Wall.

There are flames and thick smoke everywhere. If it is not cold beyond the Great Wall, most of the places are covered with snow and ice. The fire cannot spread, and the flames are likely to sweep the entire ghost forest.

Greatjon Umber and Rickard Karstark have all descended with their cavalry to take part in the plunder.

Bunyan took a team of rangers and Winterfell cavalry to the Windsound Gap area, trying to join forces with Black Jack Bulwe, who was patrolling there, to see if he could capture the Windsound Gap.

Jon Snow set off with Bunyan's rangers. Jon has always dreamed of becoming a ranger. When he heard that Uncle Bunyan was going to patrol the area around the Frostfangs, he said he would follow him .Jon's night watchman friends Glenn, Todd and Pip, who he made in the Fist of the First Men, are all on this patrol.

The only noble commanders remaining on the Fist of the First Men are old people like Old Xiong and Odin Willers.

The cowardly Odin Wellers always looked exhausted physically and mentally. He said worriedly: "Lord Ed, you have to be careful! Who knows how many beasts in this ghost forest belong to the skinchangers?" What about it? The shapechangers will definitely send ferocious beasts to attack if they find you. If you have any troubles, this war will really be hopeless."

"I would rather meet a skinchanger." Ed rode on the horse and whistled, and the direwolf and the sun rushed out immediately.

Some of the warhorses fidgeted at the smell of the direwolf, and Ser Odin Wylers and the Old Bear were startled too.

Ed smiled and said, "My direwolf is very hungry. I'm going to the Haunted Forest. Maybe I can hunt some skinchangers back!"

Elder Xiong was a little worried, "Lord Ed, based on the battle situation these days, the number of skinchangers under Mance is frighteningly large, including moas, eagles, snow bears, shadow lynxes, and wild boars. There are so many strange spirits, And you only have two wolves, if you are besieged by the beasts of the skinchangers, I am afraid it will be very bad."

Direwolf Night Walk and Sunshine paced around Ed from left to right, and Ed said: "The wildlings have some skinchangers, but I doubt whether the number can exceed ten. What we can confirm at present is nothing more than Varamyr the Sixshapes, the Eagle of Auriel, the Boar of the Baltic."

"These skinchangers are scattered in the Ghost Forest, Milk River, and Frostfang, and it is unlikely that they will form a group."

Besides, if these skinchangers get together, Ed has prepared a secret weapon for them.He reached into his pocket for something the size of a kiwi, filled with alchemist shit.

Ed's cavalry team descended from the east side of the Fist of the First Men. The slope here is relatively gentle, not as steep as the north and west. The east side of the Fist of the First Men is an endless forest.The direwolf walks at night and the sun leads the way.

It is an ancient land, with eagles flying in the sky, and a squirrel eating a pine cone in a pine tree, watching the people below with wide eyes.A rabbit paddled through the grass, and when it saw the direwolf, it ran away in fright.

Is it also the eyes and ears of the skinchanger?Eddard thought gloomily that if skinchangers could control seemingly harmless critters to spy, Mance Rayder's intelligence network would be comparable to Varys, the octospider in King's Landing.

Now it seems that Mance Rayder's strategy is to use the skinchangers among the wildlings to capture as many northern nobles or ranger commanders as possible. The camp appears in the wilderness, and there is a high probability that skinchangers will be sent to hunt Ed.

Just let them come!Ed was eager to fight as the direwolf was eager to hunt.Instead, Ed was worried about Benyan and Jon. They did not have the protection of direwolves. Ed prayed that both Benyan and Jon could return safely. Recently, Ed had lost too many warriors. Casey, Phelan.
In the setting sun, Benjen and Jon rode at the head of the procession, with an eagle circling in the sky.

Jon has always been very close to Bunyan, because Bunyan swore to join the Night's Watch, it is impossible for him to marry a wife and have children in this life, and Bunyan has always regarded Jon, the illegitimate son of his brother Ed, as someone who he would never be able to marry again in this life. Some sons.

Jon followed Benyan to patrol the Frostfangs. He was full of pride, and he was a man who had been a ranger for a day.

For a long time, because of Caitlin's existence, Jon's life in Winterfell has been unhappy. It seems that Jon has to endure Caitlin's harsh eyes every time he eats.

Even if Jon has a good relationship with his younger sisters Arya, Robb, and Bran, Caitlin can't tolerate Jon.After the age of ten, Jon began to contemplate joining the Night's Watch.

In the past, Jon always thought that the brothers of the Night Watch were all people like Bunyan, gentlemanly, clean and tidy. However, this time at the Fist of the First Men, Jon found out that most of them are Convict, dirty black wool breeches reeking and flea-ridden.Jon was very disappointed.

However, these days on the Fist of the First Men, Jon got along with many brothers of the night watchman day and night, and he found that no matter what these people did before, many of these brothers in black were not bad. Glenn, the son of Glenn, and Eddie from the Vale became friends.

Piper and Grenn were rookies among the rangers. They had just arrived at the Great Wall not long ago. In contrast, some of the rangers around Bunyan were veterans, such as the ugly bald Oser who liked to hum vulgar songs, and Geoff Flowers from the Reach.

It was getting dark, and the rangers and Winterfell cavalry marched along the snowfields towards the towering Frostfangs in the west, surrounded by hills and low hills everywhere.The stars in the sky seemed to be burning coldly, and under the pale moonlight, the eagle was still hovering in the sky.

"Uncle, isn't this the skinchanger's eagle?" Jon asked Benyan.

Bunyan glanced at the eagle in the sky, "Whoever it is, if the enemy comes, we will be ready."

Every cavalryman is equipped with torches, but due to the bright moonlight, these torches are only spare and have not been lit.Fierce beasts are afraid of flames, that's what Ed said, but this hasn't been tested in actual combat.

Bunyan said coldly: "I used to hate Raiders like Weeper, Afyn the Raven Hunter, and Tormund, but these raiders are much cuter than the skinchangers. Cruel, at least human, as for the skinchangers, I don't know whether they are human or beasts."

Dark clouds began to engulf the moon in the sky, and the moonlight dimmed. From the surrounding hills, there were horns and screams of ghosts and wolves.

Savages emerged from behind the hills like ghosts, some rode bony horses, and more walked, and enemies appeared slowly in all directions.

As well as the moa as strong as a rhinoceros, and the saber-toothed tiger with teeth as sharp as a blade, Jon saw the woman on the back of the moa and the man on the back of the saber-toothed tiger.

Skinchangers, fear spread among the cavalry.Pyp murmured, "Gods be merciful!"

Sister boy Lak peed his pants in fright, "I want my mother!"

Bunyan drew out his sword, "Ready the torch!"

The first torch was lit and passed on continuously. In an instant, the torches in the hands of a hundred cavalrymen burned one after another.

Bunyan waved the torch, "Brothers, these damned savages think that clubs, stone axes and rags can fight against steel swords and armor, and we will deal with them like melons and vegetables. As for saber-toothed tigers and strange birds, we Kill the skinchangers, and the birds and tigers are our breakfast tomorrow."

The King of Skeletons appeared in the distance riding a thin horse. Under the moonlight, the bone armor radiated a strange cold light.

"Bunyan, maybe you will be swallowed by the moa, and tomorrow you will become a poop, so please don't say a few words! Maybe I will let you die quickly."

The dog-headed Harma appeared on the other side riding a war horse that once belonged to Ferran.Ygritte held the bow and arrow, and rode on a half-blind plow horse to draw the bow and arrow.

"Bunyan, your time of death has come." The dog-headed Harma shook the dog's head on the flag, "Today the dog's head has been replaced by a wolf's head!"

The battle started instantly, and Ygritte released an arrow, which pierced the ranger Rogge's throat, and the snow was stained red with blood.

It was the first drop of blood tonight, but it was far from the last.

Tiggers rampages across the battlefield on a saber-toothed tiger, and Samantha rides a moa and can smash the head of a cavalryman with one blow.The wildlings had the upper hand.

Bunyan cut down a wildling cavalryman and stabbed a wildling spearman to death. He saw fierce beasts killing wildly on the battlefield, but his own cavalrymen did not dare to fight. People seemed to have forgotten the torches in their hands.

"Attack with torches! Animals are afraid of fire!"

Bunyan shouted, and the ranger Oser mustered up his courage, brandished a torch and rushed towards the moa, but was kicked by the moa and fell heavily to the ground.But this also created an opportunity for Bunyan. Taking advantage of the MOA's attention on Oser, Bunyan rode his horse and brandished a torch, igniting the MOA's feathers.

The moa screamed and rolled on the ground, and Samantha jumped away like a bird, or her knee might be crushed.Samantha helped the moa to extinguish the flames of its feathers. She didn't dare to fight, so she rode the moa and knocked over several cavalry and escaped.

This leaves only one skinchanger, Targus, on the battlefield.Targus controlled the saber-toothed tiger and killed several cavalry, but the flames made the saber-toothed tiger fearful.

Jon restrained the fear in his heart, walked around behind the saber-toothed tiger, and pressed the torch on the saber-toothed tiger's ass. The saber-toothed tiger screamed, and Targus almost fell off the saber-toothed tiger's back. He hurriedly drove the saber-toothed tiger under his crotch, escaped into the night.

After losing the skinchanger, the next battle was completely one-sided slaughter. The wildling cavalry was completely unable to compete with the well-trained rangers and Winterfell cavalry, and the wildlings on foot were no match for the cavalry.

The King of Skeletons saw that the momentum was wrong, and fled with his wildling cavalry. The dog-headed Harma got an arrow in his left arm, so he could only order to retreat.

Ygritte originally wanted to escape on the horse, but when she saw her friend Rick the Spear fell to the ground injured, she dismounted and tried to help Rick the Spear onto the horse.

"You go! I can't do it." Rick's arm was cut by a sword, bleeding profusely.

"Let's leave the village together and go to Mance, I can't abandon you!" Ygritte insisted.

Ygritte managed to help Rick onto the horse's back. She tried to get on the horse herself, but after a few steps, she found that the half-blind old horse couldn't support the weight of two people at all.

"Mance wants us to fight, but we don't even have decent horses!" Cursing, Ygritte dismounted and led the horse forward.

A black shadow came galloping on the horse and knocked Ygritte to the ground. Ygritte flew out and fell heavily on the ground. When Ygritte struggled to get up, Jon Snow He appeared before him with a sword in hand.

"Will you surrender?"

"I surrender." Ygritte pretended to untie the sword belt, but touched the quiver. She drew the arrow and stabbed at Jon, but the arrow was chopped off by Jon's sharp sword, and the long sword was against the throat.

"I surrender!" Ygritte resignedly surrendered her weapon.

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