King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 357 "North Navy"

Igor actually wanted to make Valyria steel into bullets, bomb fragments , sub-bombs... things like that, but the technology is not yet mature, and the enemy is impossible to give oneself enough time to study and improve.

even more how ——Valyrian Steel can kill Others by the Fire Attribute magic power. After that point is casted into N parts, the magic power contained in each part will naturally become one part of N. . Igor has reason to believe: Others also have strengths and weaknesses, "Dragonsteel with a big needle tip can kill Night King in seconds" doesn't sound reliable. Each "Lightbringer" must be kept at a minimum size to ensure that it can kill even the Night King.

Then the arrow is the safest choice right now.

"Harvey, go and call Nightfort's Crow Cage Keeper to my room, I have a mission to explain."

After typing the name of dive decree, Melisandre finally no longer objected. Igor's decision. After telling her not to bother Bran right away, Igor parted with him, went back to the room, and soon waited for Nightfort's agent Maester - Citadel was only willing to send an additional official Maester to Night's Watch, and was still on the way. And under the rule of oneself, there are now twenty fortresses with built crow's nests, and the communication between them cannot wait.

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Igor sent Bran Stark's decision to apply to join the Night's Watch Legion to Winterfell, and ordered the King's Landing branch of the Night's Watch industry to find and hire the man who lived in the Seven Kingdoms. The capital, a craftsman who reforges Valyria steel.

I don't need to think too much about issuing these two orders, but the next one will take some effort: although there are many people who donate land, there are not many people who can be called the army. Militia born out of wildling do not receive full military pay, and most of them are unwilling to say goodbye to their families and leave their tribes to carry out military missions. Igor carefully reviewed the roster several times, and after planning and calculating it, he selected two of the dozens of clans who were more numerous and more obedient, and asked them to move to Bingxia Port as a whole under the condition of compensation. And Shadow Tower, the number of Gorge's defense line has been increased to 5,000, which is a targeted arrangement after learning about the latest enemy movement from Bran.

"Don't rush, there are additional orders for Denys Mallister." After some hesitation, Igor finally decided to add one last order.

In order to reduce losses, he persuaded Commander Mormont to stop the patrol beyond the wall early on, but now that the enemy is in front of one's eyes, he only considers the life of the patrolman and puts everyone else on his side. It is pedantic to be ignorant of the dangers of the battlefield.

It's time for some necessary adventures.

"Let the West Bridge Watchers keep the Bridge of Skulls open to a manageable extent, send patrols across the bridge in good weather, and conduct as deep a reconnaissance of the Weirwood Forest on the north side of Gorge as possible. That day Return on the day of departure, the specific depth is up to the patrol team's own discretion and judgment, to ensure their own safety as much as possible, the most important point: make sure that when a situation occurs, the bridge can be cut off immediately!"

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The latest order of the nine hundred and ninety-eighth commander was quickly brought to Queenscrown and Shadow Tower by the raven. After receiving and processing, it was quickly taken to a more specific execution place.

The large-scale personnel transfer began to be carried out in a hurry and not in a hurry. After the Wall was closed for a year, the Shadow Tower Rangers led by Qhorin Halfhand were finally about to pass the Bridge of Skulls and began to attack the outside of the wall again. Long-lost patrol.

The change worth mentioning is not only here, while the land grant and the Wall are all busy, the North's external maritime conflict with the Ice Gorge Port as the core is also the first time since the conquest of Aegon. The Bay of Ice was born.

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The icy sea breeze with strong moisture slammed on the North Navy sailors who were reborn after hundreds of years, and the battleship "Ben Wolf" left port again set sail.

After all, shipbuilding is not high-tech. With the full personnel and material support of Baigang and Bear Island, the first battleship of the Bingxiagang Shipyard was in the process of the old masters working in person shortly after the completion of the fortress. It was successfully launched and the crew was quickly filled.

The sailors and captains come from White Harbor and Bear Island—the only two places in the North where people are familiar with ships and the sea, and the combat crews choose North soldiers who are not seasick and combine with Night's Watch: In principle, The ships built in Ice Gorge Port are all owned by the North Navy, and the personnel from the land grant are all hired to provide services, but out of gratitude to Igor for providing the venue, and considering the threat of Others to the Seven Kingdoms... When necessary, the ships will also be You can borrow Night's Watch to use with Wall defense.

This is a sloop with two decks and close to a hundred feet long, a smaller type of warship. Compared with its close relatives elsewhere in Westeros, it has made some minor changes: to reduce the impact of strong winds in the Bay of Ice on ships, the height of the front and rear buildings has been lowered as much as possible; Additional masts and sails, in turn, creatively built a wooden turntable at the top center, and then installed a small torsional trebuchet on each of them, so that they have the ability to attack enemies attacking from any direction: equipped with Fewer full-time paddlers to accommodate more soldiers...increased stability, battle strength and firepower at the expense of some maneuverability.

Iron Islands can't run on long legs, and what the North people want to do is not to compete with the Ironmen in shipbuilding and fight for sea power in the sunset sea. Robb Stark's expectation is: landing on the enemy Old Feng's house, like King Robert relied on the Army's dominance to give the Ironmen a root-cause blow, as did the oneself father's quelling of the Greyjoy Rebellion.

Iron Islands are small and have no strategic depth. It can be said that once they are landed without any resistance, Robb's plan is very maneuverable... The goals are different, in the design and production of ships , which naturally puts speed and maneuverability at a lower priority.

Compared with the counterweight type, the advantage of the torsional riprap is that it takes up less space and weight, but the disadvantage is that it is slightly less efficient and durable. However, given that the ammunition to be fired does not depend on weight and speed to determine its lethality, it is sufficient-except for some small changes and innovations, this battleship itself does not have much technological content beyond the times, its only Another obvious advantage is that it is equipped with a highly efficient incendiary bomb made of modified Wildfire.

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The technology is mature and the labor force is quite sufficient. At present, the speed of shipbuilding is determined by finding, collecting, processing qualified ship materials from the North and the land grant, and building the ship. Factory shipping speed. As the first and only battleship of the North West Coast Fleet, the "Ben Wolf" has only really set sail twice. The first was a sea trial and performance verification after launching, and the second was a symbolic reconnaissance northward along the coast and a run-in between crew members. After that, it has been parked in the port, waiting for the launch and installation of subsequent friendly ships.

Today is the third voyage of this battleship and its first real mission: after successfully evading Ironmen's reconnaissance for several months, the fortress was successfully built and the shipyard was operating. The ice gorge port that got up was finally discovered by the enemy.

The General Harbor is set up in the Night's Watch site in the northernmost part of the west coast. In addition to hiding itself and preventing the enemy from sabotaging the port before it is capable of self-defense, it also effectively reduces the cost of war, Freeing up a large number of North's elite soldiers to protect the towns, forts in Wolfswood, Rills and First Men's wastelands, and even assist the Riverlands allies...

If this status quo can be maintained silently until It is naturally the best to counterattack the Iron Islands after the fleet is built, but the first few goals have been roughly completed. Even if exposed, the built walls, forts and a large number of land-grant troops stationed will allow the defenders to deal with Iron Fleet with confidence. threat.

Of course, it is one thing to have the confidence to deal with threats, it is quite another to allow enemy battleships to come and go freely to demonstrate and reconnaissance of fortresses and shipyards within sight of the outside of the port. . Logically speaking, Ice Gorge Harbor, as a "neutral" Night's Watch base, should not take the initiative to attack before the Ironmen launch an attack, but in fact, Night's Watch and North wearing a pair of pants is a fact recognized by the Seven Kingdoms, pretending Innocent waiting for the enemy to fight is meaningless.

For this reason, Maege Mormont, the newly appointed North naval commander, ordered the fleet's only current battleship to leave the port, expelling the two Iron Islands battleships that had been floating in sight.

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Said to be enemy battleships, they are actually two of the most common Ironmen longboats: they are long, narrow and light like large rowboats. It is built to optimize speed and flexibility. Usually, it can only undertake simple and mindless missions such as transporting Ironmen to land and loot, swarming to surround enemy battleships, and boarding by number of people...

Although the wolf runs The ship is only a single-masted battleship, but it is by no means something that two long ships can deal with. This is the most direct reason why the Lady Mormont dared to sit in the town herself, and the single ship left the port to drive it away.

The bow of the ship pierced the icy waters of the Bay of Ice, and the "Wolf Run" swept the Wavecutter towards the two Ironmen longboats, no accident: the Ironmen on the two longboats did not hesitate for a moment, Then the oarsmen turned their faces, switched heads and tails in an instant, and rowed the oars to escape to the sea.

The weight of the incendiary bomb is not large, and even a light slinger can be easily delivered to three-four hundred meter away, but after land tests, this kind of attack device is only accurate within two hundred meters , considering that the wind and waves have to shrink further. And a nimble and swift paddling boat like the Ironmen can throw the Wolf Run out of sight within a dozen minutes at full speed. Although the Wildfire ammunition is sufficient, it cannot be wasted. The North Navy has no intention of catching up or sinking the enemy, and only wants to drive them out of the sight of Bingxia Harbor so that the enemy cannot scout or provoke arbitrarily. ... The other party may be able to harass back and forth by relying on the advantage of maneuverability, but considering that the long ship is small and cannot carry a lot of supplies, the Ice Gorge Port, which is thousands of miles away from the Iron Islands, is really not afraid of the enemy to fight psychological warfare.

However, the two longships did not flee at full speed, but moved fast and slow, chasing and chasing, always hanging the "Running Wolf" at the edge of the range.

After following for a while, the navigator was very vigilant, picked up the only Myr lens on the ship, and one of the few in the entire Ice Gorge Harbor, and carefully observed the sea fog ahead.

After a while, he put down the lens and shouted loudly: "Lady Mormont, there seems to be a shadow of a ship in the sea fog ahead. It may be a trap. Would you like to take a look?"

Maege Mormont is a small but strong grey-haired woman...became the head of Bear Island after Jeor Mormont's son Jorah was convicted and fled overseas, gaining prestige and Respect. And because most of North's Manderly family members who contributed to the naval port were obese and had limited mobility, they were selected to be the commander-in-chief of the North Navy, and also served as the captain of the first launching battleship.

The female commander in armor walked to the bow with a spiked Spiked Mace, shook her head and rejected the telescope handed by the first mate: "I can't see enough, I'm almost caught up, slow down and turn around and go back. Ice Gorge Port."

The command was quickly delivered to the crew, and the sloop slowly slowed down and turned its course under the dual action of the stern rudder and a few oars, shouting slogans, and began to head against the wind Return to port.

In response to the prudent choice of the Wolf Run, it was the screeching horn of the Ironmen sailors aboard which also braked and turned back to the enemy longship in an instant.

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(end of this chapter)