King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 337 Step-by-step
Igor needed a proving ground for practical testing and refinement of bombs: His original plan was for Nina to find a suitable location outside of the land grant: Although the Iron Vault had only eight observers in Wall and Queenscrown, they were eligible to watch at Night's Watch according to the terms of the loan contract. Any activity within the jurisdiction.

For some selfish reasons that I can't say for the time being, Igor hopes to have the killing move of the hot weapon exclusively for as long as possible - and this requires excellent confidentiality measures.

Ironmen's harassment of North inspired him: the nineteen strongholds along the Wall and Queenscrown, he has no right to prevent outsiders from approaching, but this "Ice Gorge Harbor" is a secret built for North The military port, he has every reason to have strict barriers, and generously prevent outsiders from approaching.

Externally, he will use the pretext of protecting North's military secrets to prevent unrelated people from approaching the Bay of Ice; internally, he will use the guise of developing a Wildfire-containing "Others nemesis" to cover up the constant rumors of the proving ground. Finally, a certain limit of personal control of the technical personnel can ensure that even if the existence of gunpowder is leaked, the absolute advantage of technical details can be maintained in a short period of time.

The test site will be built in the mountains a dozen or more li east of the port, ensuring that no matter how Ironmen circumnavigate or raid the port from land, they will not accidentally discover this important research base.

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In addition to the test site, there is another important reason that prompted Igor to make this trip in person - some dark plans that can't be put on the table, he needs to be on the scene, personally Make it clear to the commander of Ice Gorge Port selected by oneself: the funds raised from the North lords, even including the unexpected 10,000 Golden Dragon of Roose Bolton, are far lower than expected, and as a compensation, what he gets is Robb Stark's commitment to "reimburse port construction costs".

Climbing is a bottomless pit, and no amount of money is too much. Igor is determined to throw down his face and take advantage of Robb's promise to make a fortune.

Since it is "reimbursement", it is naturally impossible to give as much as you want. Even if there is no invoice, you must have a title. In the case of craftsmen and technicians from other than land grants, Igor finally decided to make a fuss about "weapon consumption" and "defender's pay".

[Weapon Consumption]: The North Navy will use the hardened and aged Wildfire shipped by Igor from King's Landing as naval warfare weapons against Iron Fleet, these terrible substances are still much stronger than ordinary kerosene even if they are passivated , but it is not as strong as the new liquid Wildfire to deal with Others after all. Igor simply used the waste and took out some of it to equip the North Navy with a plan for the use of incendiary bombs.

Igor didn't pay a penny except for the labor fee when he took out these unwanted dangerous substances from the underground of the Alchemist guild in King's Landing, but now he sells it to North, but it's not a free gift.

Set a similar price, sell as much as you can and make as much money as possible.

[Defenders' Pay]: Igor plans to build the Icefjords into the largest base of Night's Watch except Queenscrown, with hundreds of staff from various departments and thousands of defenders - the number will not be Moisture, but the personnel are actually not well-trained elite soldiers, but temporarily recruited mountain clan people and new land-grant people. Igor decided to make Bingxia Port a rotation training base for land-grant residents. Each group of recruits will be led by a small number of officers, while training and taking on the duties of port guards.

Here comes the point: On the reimbursement form, these rotational recruits are "soldiers". Soldiers, on the other hand, have to pay military salaries. Since they are port guards, they are naturally included in the category that can be reimbursed. Set a price that is cheaper than the North's oneself recruiting soldiers, and then increase the number of soldiers, and you can report dozens or hundreds of Golden Dragons every month.

In this way, the cost of the military training period for the land-grant residents is equivalent to being borne by North. In this way, he hopes to squeeze as much funding as possible for the upgrade of military technology.

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Under the threat of Others, the whole nation is just getting started. Certain training and arming of the entire land-grant population was already in the planning schedule, and the reason why this work was started several months after the wildlings entered the country was nothing more than a "transition period".

If the rotation training is started as soon as the new land-givers come in, forcing the remaining young men of each tribe to leave their families and go to a place designated by the Night's Watch for training...mostly half of the tribes will be trained. Forced to rise up, rebel against Night's Watch or flee south to attack North, making fire beacon everywhere north of The Neck.

And now it is different: the socialization of subsistence by pay for work has continued for a long enough time, and the work of weakening the prestige and influence of tribal leaders has also been carried out step by step. moon. The deterrence of the bloody expulsion of the Tuer tribe was at the front, and the various preferential treatment and promises of the logistics department were at the back... The two-pronged approach, although the leaders of the various tribes were quite dissent, but in the end, no one blatantly obstructed.

If the process of transforming beyond the wall people into land-grant people was to boil frogs in warm water, then Igor reckoned that he was already seven or eight mature - the threat of Others made him not dare to wait any longer. Now, it's time to start training them instead of fearing backlash.

Igor's goal is to get more than half of all land-grant adults to achieve the following goals as soon as possible.

1. Receive basic commanded training, be able to understand and understand simple common language commands and execute them correctly;
2. Carry out basic physical training to ensure good physique and endurance;

3. Be familiar with the performance of standard weapons and understand the usage of various Dragonglass and incendiary weapons.

The above are collectively referred to as the three basics.

The purpose of the rotation training is of course not to train all land-grant people to become elite soldiers in a hundred battles - not to mention whether it can be done or not, even if it can, each tribe will have elite troops, but it will threaten the Queenscrown. dominance.

Needless to say about the training of weapons and physical fitness, I spent two years wrestling with Others under Mance Rayder, and attacked the Wall again. , ordinary member of cowering. The logistics department mobilized resources to pile up, hoping to fatten them up as soon as possible; and along this rugged patrol route of Gorge, it is also a ready-made cross-country running training place-feeding and a certain amount of exercise, even if the ghosts starve to death , and quickly recovered to a level that looked decent.

And discipline...it doesn't by itself make a person brave and good at fighting, but it can significantly improve a unit's ability to withstand attrition rates and carry out orders. In an undisciplined army, one in a hundred people may die, or even Others will collapse when they appear in sight, or although there are no casualties, the battlefield is in a mess, and it is completely impossible to make any moves. And this kind of situation often makes the people who should be the help become a burden because of lost one's head out of fear when the war is really temporary.

Igor's requirements are not high, as long as the new and old land-grant residents can implement the plan and follow the command without any trouble at the moment of the decisive battle, it is enough. As for how to defeat the Others and win the final victory of the war, that is the responsibility of the leader of oneself.

Everything is laid out step by step, just waiting for the ultimate challenge.

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(end of this chapter)