King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 324 West Coast Battle

The weeks-long blizzard stopped, but Robb didn't take it easy ——The Ironmen under the command of Euron were much more difficult than expected.

He went south to Deepwood Motte as soon as Wall got the news. Duke of Winterfell's arrival on the battlefield greatly boosted the morale of the West Coast nobles and commoners. The North army stepped on the snow to the fastest speed The whole team started to rush to the battlefield, and they tried to launch a few counterattacks before they were assembled. They really achieved some achievements, which greatly weakened the arrogance of the attacking enemy.

But the smooth development did not last long. Euron's goal is not to siege the city or snatch wealth at all, but to consume the comprehensive strength of both sides of the battle on the Westeros continent, paving the way for a possible future general attack continent. Good foundation. Soon, the North people who were armed to protect the Wei Family Park found out that the Ironmen really took the move predicted by Roose Bolton - no longer fighting the big army, but turning the frontal attack into a guerrilla harassment!
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It stands to reason that "guerrilla" requires extremely high mobility and familiarity with the terrain. It is often a strategy that can only be adopted by the home team. The attacker does not have the soil and conditions for this move. Unfortunately, North did not have a strong navy to contend with the Iron Islands' longship fleet, and at the beginning of the war, they simply lost control of the sea. The west coast and the connected large sunset sea have become the home ground of the Ironmen without any competition. They came in the wind and paddled away, and North quickly got into a "can't lose, but never win" embarrassment.

Robb doesn't like Roose Bolton as much as he doesn't like their Skinner coat of arms, the spooky name and atmosphere of their home town, the Castle of Horrors. But while he didn't like it, the new North ruler also had to admit: this guy was always gloomy and indifferent, but he always made the right judgment. After eating a few times of shriveling in disbelief, he reluctantly obeyed the latter's suggestion, ordered the withdrawal of the residents scattered around the coastline, and condensed all of them into medium and large winter towns, castles and garrisoned villages. Come on, turn offense to defense, and plan to overwhelm the enemy.

This move is feasible, and the fierce reaction given by the enemy confirms this-the Iron Island army, who guessed that the North people planned, began to increase the frequency of their sorties, trying to intercept and massacre the evacuated soldiers and civilians in the middle. Create a horrific way to put this plan out of business.

In this regard, Robb Stark's response was tit for tat: divide the army into several parts, rush back and forth, and increase the marching speed to protect as much as possible the lives and properties of the military and civilians in the transfer, so that the enemy can calculate fail.

At this moment, he was leading more than a thousand North soldiers along the narrow lanes in Wolfswood, heading for a village that signaled for help.

The snow made the journey a bit difficult, and the trailblazer ahead cautiously searched for the covered path, stepping out of the trail so that the cavalry in the large force would not stumble... The chill in the air burrowed silently into the armor In the gap, the white breath spewing from the mouths of the soldiers who followed the commander flew backwards and upwards, and soon merged into the cold fog in the forest, as if to strengthen the effect of "white expanse".

Robb is the guardian of North and naturally has a mount. For a large army, the rapid march is only a small step for the horse, because the horse is properly trained, and the horse also controls the bump level just right, leaving the rider to have some thought.

The North families have assigned juniors to be squires and guards around Fengjun, and these energetic youngsters are chirp chirp twitter twitter discussing strategies to deal with the enemy.

Ed, the third child of the Karstark count, still insists on his claim: "We must have a navy on the west coast! It's okay to defend against the enemy in winter and exhaust the patience of the enemy, but in case the war is not over by next spring ...the Ironmen are still coming by boat when the Spring Seeds begin, can we still drop the seeds in the ground and retract into the castle?"

Jon Umber Jr. doesn't disagree with the former: "We're on the West Coast. It turned out that there was also a navy, but after Aegon landed, Westeros was unified, and Iron Island was strictly prohibited from looting the continent, and gradually disappeared... It was similar to Night's Watch. Now the North has warships, only Bear Island and White are left. Port, but House Mormont is not enough to see in front of Iron Fleet, and the Manderly's ship... God, they want to help, they have to go around half the Westeros, through the turf, Dorne, Reach and Iron Islands to get there West Coast. If nothing else, the Arbor fleet will be impossible to release to Fat Lamprey!"

"Then build a naval port on the west coast, Wolfswood is full of good shipbuilding wood, give us time, we can build Get a couple of Iron Fleet ships!"

"What's the use of ships, does North have enough sailors? I still like great ships." Little Ed snort disdainfully to this, "but Speaking of which simple, Crow's Eye will let you build a fleet in his front of one's eyes? The coast south of Deepwood Motte is all their range, and Bear Island...Euron as long as he's not stupid Will send ships to watch every port on Bear Island. We have to ask Mormont and Manderly to borrow skilled craftsmen, and then find a hidden place as far north as possible to quietly build ships, and we have to collect enough The civilians and the army work and defend it-"

These words are by no means just idle chatter, and to a large extent are said to oneself. Robb understood in his heart and was happy to hear the thoughts and ideas of these young nobles, but when he heard the key details, Little Ed's voice stopped abruptly.

After a moment of silence, the speaker reopened with a tense tone: "I think I heard something?"

Robb stopped the horse and the group stopped. When they got down, they quickly realized that little Ed was not delusional:
A dull vibration suddenly came from the ground under his feet. The horses snorted violently, the riders took hold of the reins, and the infantry stopped, all intently searching for the source of the sound.

The sound did not come from one direction, but from the woods on both sides of the road at the same time.

"Enemy attack!" Little Jon Umber was the first to react, and immediately shouted loudly: "Line up! Prepare to fight!"

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Lin The fallen leaves on the ground absorbed the shock of running away, and the thick snow left by the previous blizzard further weakened the sound of the ambush approaching - by the time they noticed the anomaly, the enemy was already close at hand. Before the North army had finished lining up to engage in battle, hundreds of soldiers in various costumes emerged from behind the snowdrifts on both sides of the road, spread out like a tidal wave, and rushed towards North shouting loudly. military.

Suddenly attacked, but the ambush party was not in disarray.

Iron Islands are merely a trifling of more than a hundred thousand people, and they will have 10,000 troops in the sky, and Euron attacked the three countries of Westerlands, Riverlands and North at the same time, it is impossible to concentrate their forces on one point. Not to mention that as half-baked pirates, Ironmen are mostly out-of-equipment and have to keep people watching the boat. The ambush in front of him looked dark, but in fact it wasn't necessarily much more than his own.

Not to mention -- North's military build-up this time completely complied with Robb's "as long as the elite" requirement. The comers are basically veterans who returned from the Westerlands battlefield half a year ago. Support is the elite of the elite, with strong morale and well-trained, so that they won't lose one's head out of fear because of an encounter.

With confidence in their own battle strength and contempt for the enemy, the North Army not only did not become timid and fearful because of the sudden ambush, but instead gave birth to opponents from top to bottom "send the door to courting death" of pride. Under the jerky command of the young aristocratic heirs surrounding Robb, the soldiers shouted "Long live Winterfell" and fiercely collided with the incoming enemies.

Swords, guns, swords and sticks collided, body armor collided, accompanied by a desperate roar, sweat dripped, blood sprayed, and red flowers soon bloomed on the white snow, and quickly stepped on the ground. Withered, mixed with earth, ground to a deep reddish brown by the soles of boots.

Ironmen are slightly more numerous than the North's army in the middle of the road, but not endless. The active attacking party quickly rushed out from both sides of the road, and the attacked party was in a melee in the middle of the road.

In the field, the battle situation between the two sides is deadlocked. Hundreds of meters away, a small group of people who finally arrived found a mound more than ten meters above the ground. Under the leadership of the leader, they began to look down on the battlefield.

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(end of this chapter)