King of The Wall

2020-11-02

Chapter 3 Pursuit

The commander who was dedicated to meritorious deeds was determined, and the three soldiers had to suffer. Will was originally a poacher, and stealth's ability to track is quite good. He quickly deduced the number and conditions of the opposite party - about ten people, men, women and children, it is estimated that it is a wildling family.

Wildling has a strong and ferocious image in the minds of Seven Kingdoms residents. In many places in North, it is even used by adults to scare children, but Night's Watch, who often deal with them, can't eat this set, black clothed person We know very well that the so-called wildling is essentially nothing more than a "free" wild peasant who does not pay taxes and does not serve corvée. It's different on your own side—believe it or not, the truth is: Even in decline, Night's Watch is still one of the largest standing armies on the continent, and to use the modern word, "professional soldiers."

In this era of feudal lords, the nobles had to notify the bannermen if they wanted to fight, and the bannermen would then gather soldiers. This takes shape.

Night's Watch is different. Their mission is only to guard the Wall. They are always in a state of war. The supplies and food are all supplied by the land-grant residents and donations from the North families - even in the most peaceful times. , Night's Watch is also not in production. Although the quality of the troops is a bit poor, an army that is trained every day after all, in this backward world, the tallest among the short... can be regarded as an elite soldier.

And the Rangers are the "combat soldiers" in this standing army. Compared with the "auxiliary soldiers" such as craftsmen and service officers, they basically do not even do chores such as laundry and cooking. Only The main activity is training and patrolling - the average battle strength is more than a point or two compared to the wildling with a stick and a stone axe, who spends most of the time "survival". Aside from some wildling "warriors" who are one-of-a-kind, few wildlings dare to fight well-trained and well-equipped Rangers when there is not much difference in numbers and no effective ambush.

At least the handful of Igor they are eyeing now dare not.

The group of wildlings initially traveled slowly westward along a line parallel to Wall, and when they sensed the pursuit of the four Rangers, they turned north and struggled to escape...Waymar Royce led a patrol for the first time, Naturally, the two groups of people, one after the other, started a marathon in World of Ice and Snow.

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Igor and three other Night's Watches bit the wildling during the day, and wrapped up a heavy blanket at night to conserve strength and store up energy. Relying on the advantage of having a horse to ride, he firmly stuck to the enemy. He tracked north for three days, turned to the northwest, and then turned north after two days... Thanks to the absence of storms and heavy snow, Will never lost his target. .

"nine days, my lord."

"nine days long?"

"not long." Gary replied humbly, "but we only We have brought dry food for more than ten days, and even if we plan carefully, we can only last for twenty days. And we have to go back. If we continue to chase, the second half of the return journey..."

"I heard Thorne Ser say." Waymar said with a hint of sarcasm, "Last winter, the Rangers took a month's supply of supplies and stayed out of the Wall for six months. How did they do it?"

No interjection. Will and Igor looked at each other and coughed to hide their embarrassment: Waymar's irony might be powerful, but it's a pity that he chose the wrong one.

"If you want to know how to do it, I can help you." Gary, who had seen this hedonistic son of rich parents upset for a long time, certainly wouldn't let go of the opportunity to slap his face. : "I participated in that operation. After we ran out of food, we first ate horse and dog meat, then weeded grass roots, dug mouse nests, and hunted everything that could move. In the end, there was really nothing to eat. The commander ordered us to bring The corpses of the brothers... fortunately it didn't come in handy in the end, we survived the storm to Craster's fortress, and returned to the Wall alive with the help of this oneself daughter's wildling."

"If sir. If I want to try it, I can only promise to do my best to bring everyone home alive." The speaker happily looked at Waymar's flustered expression, and continued unceremoniously: "It's just that the Lord Commander reminded us that less than ten people Don't go to Craster for help in your team, and grass roots and horse meat are not easy to digest."

The young nobleman's face changed several times, and Igor thought that the youngest Captain Small among the rangers would fly into a rage out of humiliation, but in fact he calmed down quickly, even giving in Wonders-like: "Well, no matter what happens, tomorrow we'll turn around and end the tracking, but this is the last day, we have to take the initiative , try to capture one or two 'tongues' alive, and whether it is successful or not, I will leave for the return tomorrow."

"Active attack?" Will couldn't continue to watch the play, he became nervous: "But... Lord Benjen asked us to investigate the cause and trend of wildling, but he didn't let us..."

"What did you find out during these nine days?" Waymar interrupted the poacher, "More Chasing nine days is not as convenient as catching a live wildling for interrogation, Gary, what do you think?"

Gary can argue with each other and taunt each other based on his seniority and veteran status, but Facing Waymar, who was both a nobleman and an officer, he couldn't disobey the order after all, twitched his lips, and reluctantly replied: "Listen to your orders."

Waymar laughed contemptuously, and he liked watching it Others feel unhappy with oneself but have to obey orders, coldly snorted in their hearts, turned their heads and looked towards Will: "You, go to the front to investigate, report the specific situation when you come back, and we will study and decide how to do it."

The poacher gave Igor and Gary a sullen look and walked away. The remaining three got off their horses and found a place to sit and rest among several big trees.

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Igor stood on a rock half-buried in snow and began to observe all around, the weather was getting colder every day, and here is a hundred miles north of The Wall, Geographically the temperature really should have been lower...but it wasn't the cold that bothered him the most, it was the people.

Ser Waymar Royce, to be precise.

It's not that I'm afraid of him. Although this young nobleman is somewhat pampered, he can't do anything to give him a dude's hat in his conscience. Except for being arrogant and arrogant, he hasn't done anything to make people. The bad things of anger... Igor is afraid of the plot related to this youngster.

If he had known earlier that oneself would travel to this world one day, he would have read the television drama and the original book several times. But there are no assumptions in life. In the original world, whether watching the drama or watching the original book, he just browsed it at a glance, only roughly knew the plot of the story, and didn't remember any details at all.

But there was one plot he couldn't forget, and that was Waymar Royce, the unlucky guy who was hacked to death by Others at the beginning of the Ice and Fire story. As the first named character to appear in a novel and television drama, his death revealed the true existence of the world's biggest villain, laid the tone of the plot, and was regarded as the most important "introduction".

But Heaven and Earth's conscience, Igor, as a transmigrator, asks himself that even if he can't be promoted all the way, raise his salary and become the king of life, he shouldn't be a foil for a story to die at first! So, when he heard ten days ago that this patrol would be led by Ser Waymar Royce, his heart was in denial.

It's a pity -- as a person who brought sin to the Wall, he has neither the right to choose a superior, nor the right to refuse regular attendance, so he can only brace oneself on the road and go deep into the Haunted Forest again.

Haunted Forest Haunted Forest, without ghost shadow, how can it be called Haunted Forest? The cold winds to the north of the Wall never stop, blowing the shadows of the trees like ferocious living creatures, hence the name of the wilderness. Igor still remembers the scene when oneself left the Wall for the first time. At that time, the memory of legends and plots suddenly rose in the mind. At first glance, every tree shadow around seemed to be Others standing still waiting for the living to take the bait. Even Weirwood with a carved human face can startle him. At the end of the first day of patrol, his legs were almost too weak to stand when he got off the horse. Thinking about it now, it was really embarrassing.

Now, he has been out of the wall more than ten times, and he has met with wildling two or three times. He has no fear of this tundra forest known as ghost shadow in front of him.

But walking with Waymar once again activated the unease hidden in his heart. There seemed to be some indescribable danger hidden in the dense shadow of trees on all sides, making him as uneasy as an animal facing natural enemies.

I walked around the resting point and found nothing unusual. Perhaps the chill and sense of crisis stabbing on my back was just an illusion caused by the presence of Waymar? Thinking about it carefully, this guy won't have bad luck until he goes out to patrol for the first time and bumps into Others with oneself... When he returns to the Wall this time, he has to find a way to avoid the arrangement of patrolling with the evil star of Royce's house. .

Igor shook his head and went back to the other two, looking for a place to sit under their strange gaze, and quietly waiting for Will's investigation to return.

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The cold wind blows, the horses keep walking in place and snorting, while Igor pays attention to the sound of the surrounding environment without letting down his guard, he thinks about avoiding The way to walk with Waymar and get out of Night's Watch, about an hour later, Will returns.

“en?” Waymar looked up, looked at the poacher with questioning eyes, and said in his characteristic arrogant, nonchalant tone: “It will be dark soon, and the wildling should have stopped. Come down and start making a fire and camping."

Will rolled over and dismounted, walked to the three of them in a daze, swallowed his saliva, and said with a soulless expression: "I know you won't believe it...but the front I don't know what happened...wildling, all dead."

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(end of chapter)