King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 102 Frustration and "Barracks" routine

In the regular sound of ramming the door , Igor suddenly had an answer to a previous doubt - in terms of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, Bloody Gate is still a little worse than Sword Sect. But no attacker has ever sent such a huge ram to the Sword Sect Pass.

Can this slight gap change the final outcome of the war?

The oil drum fell to the front and rear of the siege vehicle, ignited by a fuse or a rocket, and a large flame jumped up, completely surrounding the head of the ram, and the soldiers who were splashed by the burning fuel screamed. Run away from the protection of the shield and the plank, if you are lucky, you can put a few rolls on the ground to put out the fire and then return to the protection of the siege vehicle. He was shot by thousands of archers who were waiting 100 meters away.

People are injured and die every second.

“Boom”——“Boom”——

The front end of the battering ram of the siege vehicle has been completely plunged into the fire, but a layer of special material is covered on the body. The thick skin that was made and poured water into flame retarded the spread of the fire, which allowed the soldiers in the back half of the siege vehicle to still push the ram together, so that they could try a few more attempts at the last minute. But soon the siege vehicle will be useless as more barrels fall.

Igor doesn't want to continue watching, today's attacking attempt will most likely end with the destruction of the siege vehicle. So far, the casualties and casualties on both sides caused by this war may only reach triple digits. Compared with the total of more than 100,000 troops participating in the war, the casualty rate of 1 in 1,000 is really one hair from nine oxen, Not worth mentioning, but the soldiers who are caught in blood and fire before the pass will not agree with that.

The narrowness of the battlefield determines the scale of the battle, and also determines that the casualties cannot rise rapidly, but the intensity of the battle under the Bloody Gate and on the battlements is no less than that of ancient times. any bloody battle. Everyone is the center of the oneself world. How can these soldiers who are fighting hard on the front line be ignored as a "1" in the number of 100,000?

In the eyes of little children, war is a distant story; in the eyes of young people, war is the glory of Supreme; but Igor is already an adult, walking on the battlefield, listening to the groans and screams of wounded soldiers, For the first time, he felt so truly: war is really not a fun thing.

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This war was not caused by Igor, but it was indeed related to him. He turned his head and left before returning to the camp, but at this moment, Suddenly, deafening cheers and applause sounded like the sky turning the sky. Igor turned back in horror, and immediately found the reason for the screams of the soldiers watching the battle: the head of the hammer wrapped in the raging flames had already smashed Bloody. The outer sect of Gate closed, fell into the doorway!

What, this is broken?

Is this time Robert's "fire suppression" with arrows and stone bullets too advanced, or is it too bad for the rest of the army that has attacked this level in the past thousand years?
Accompanied by sky-shattering applause, a cavalry in the color of Baratheon's home decoration also rushed out of the formation decisively, and charged straight towards the broken Bloody Gate. As long as the victory that has been achieved is stabilized so that the defenders cannot re-block the gate, this unbroken barrier will be broken by the great King Robert!

But faster than the cavalry were the soldiers who crowded around the war chariot, pushing it and the ram, pushing the siege vehicle through the door it had already rammed before the flames engulfed it. Opened, and rushed into the doorway first.

Who doesn't want to grab the power of breaking the city? Once it's done, you can become a noble by being named Knight, and it is possible to shade your descendants!

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Too fake. After preparing for so long, it ended in just one battle? What about one man guards the pass, ten-thousand men are blocked? What about the danger that has not been broken through the ages? Igor felt a little slapped in the face, but more fortunately, no matter what, the war ended early and everyone suffered fewer casualties, which is not a bad thing after all.

But just when everyone was wryly laughing at this farce that had been preparing for the battle for a month and fighting for only half a day, the situation reversed again. He rushed out again, facing the constant falling rocks and arrows of the defenders, while shouting something, he ran back to the coalition position desperately, and suffered a lot of casualties along the way, and took the Crownlands cavalry that charged ahead with him. Also came back.

The offensive was thwarted, and the crossbowmen troops on the cover-of-fire mission were quickly withdrawn under orders. The attack on the catapult positions was also suspended, and the siege facilities were withdrawn out of range of enemy weapons. Except that the siege vehicles under Bloody Gate are still burning, this first wave of attacks is over, and the words shouted from the siege survivors' mouths soon fell to Igor's ears:

Bloody Gate defenders, actually completely sealed the gate with earth and stones!
This move is really a draw from the bottom of the pot. After the first wave of attacks was repelled, the second wave was not organized for a long time. It seems that this news brought a lot of surprise to the military commanders such as Robert. Before new countermeasures, Igor estimates that there will be no new wars.

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After some small twists and turns, things finally became normal. Before Igor turned back and left the formation, he walked towards the small tent of oneself, deep in the coalition barracks.

It's said to be a military camp, but it's actually a city built with tents - just looking at the population density, it's still a big city that ranks first in all Westeros. The only difference from ordinary cities is that most of the residents here are soldiers and nobles.

In order to allow so many people to live a good life, the merchants who followed also set up business in the middle of the six army battalions stationed in the six countries. As for the services that business people can provide, there are only things you can’t think of, and nothing you can’t buy with money: hotels, restaurants, brothels, bathrooms… Although it looks like a pile of tents at first glance, it has all the functions. Incredibly. Almost the commercial street of King's Landing was moved outside Vale's entrance to the valley and moved to a tent, but the service became a little worse and the charges were changed appropriately.

It stands to reason that making the barracks so lively is a situation that the command can never tolerate, but the fact is: the main force of the rebels is blocked in the Vale of Arryn behind the Bloody Gate, and All Fiefdoms and castles outside the Vale of Arryn who participated in the mutiny family have been surrounded by the army loyal to Robert, plus the vigilance and reconnaissance work outside the barracks has never been relaxed - the commander-born King Warrior did not give the enemy at all. Any chance of a comeback: Barring infighting, the barracks is unlikely to be attacked.

Maybe oneself should join in the fun and build a temporary office for Night's Watch?
The chief logistics officer thought about this matter seriously, and then his eyes were quickly attracted by a group of people in front: in front of a tent was crowded with soldiers of different colors from six countries, they were noisily and seemed to be It's vying for some kind of merchandise sold by the owner of that tent.

Igor was curious, but now that he is a person with status and subordinates, he can naturally be lazy about certain things: "Cathy, go and see over there, what are they robbing?"

The teenager ran over obediently, got into the crowd like a loach, got out again after half a minute, and ran back to Igor with both excited and weird expressions: "Sir, it's a book, we printed book!”

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(end of this chapter)