Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 808 boil

What is the point of guarding Winterfell?

It is Stark's family castle, and it has special meaning to the people of the Seven Kingdoms, to the Dragon Queen, and to Erlu?

It blocked the only way for the White Walkers to go south?

neither.

Not to mention Dany and Erlu, even Sansa didn't care that Winterfell was temporarily occupied by the White Walkers.

As long as Stark's vitality is preserved, there is a chance to regain his homeland.

There is no doubt that Sansa's thinking is rational and correct.

Therefore, Winterfell itself has no special significance.

Winterfell is indeed right on the King's Highway, with Great Earldoms like Seven City, Torrhen's Square, and White Harbor behind it, and the only land road leading to the south—the Neck.

But the White Walkers can also bypass Winterfell.

Therefore, Winterfell does not have a strategic position that must be guarded.

So, why are Danni and Erlu willing to guard Winterfell?

It is very likely that the White Ghost King will appear in Winterfell.

Winterfell is the largest city that the White Walkers encountered when they went south, and the first defensive fortress where a large number of humans were stationed.

The White Walkers are not Aegon the Conqueror 300 years ago. Conquering Westeros is meaningless to them. Killing all living people is the purpose of the White Walkers.

And Dany, Erlu, James, the Hound, Dickon and others came to Winterfell with a very simple purpose: to kill the ghosts and ghost kings.

In other words, the purpose of guarding Winterfell is not to "guard", but to eliminate the number of ghosts and ghouls as much as possible.

It would be best if he could kill the Ghost King.

Therefore, Dany opened the city gate and let the White Walkers come to die; therefore, the defenders on the city wall deliberately lowered the wooden ladders, allowing the ghouls to climb up and cut and stab each one to death.

In fact, the tactic of placing wooden ladders was also thought up by Dani.

Winterfell has two layers of walls, the outer wall is 24 meters (ps), a dry moat in the middle, and the inner wall is 30 meters high.

The reason for building such a high city wall is that the snow in the northern region is too thick in winter, and it can be seven or eight meters deep on the plain. At the foot of the windshield city, it can be piled up to 15 meters high.

But since they knew that the White Walkers were coming, it was impossible for the defenders of Winterfell not to shovel the snow outside the city.

When the Dragon Queen arrived, she specially sent three giant dragons to melt all the snow within a radius of [-] meters outside Winterfell into water and flow it into the White Blade River nearby.

If there is no wooden ladder, there will be two possibilities: first, the ghouls cannot climb the city wall, so they will just stand outside the city and not attack the city.

Human beings want to end the long night as soon as possible, and want to clean up the ghosts and ghosts who have crossed the Great Wall.

If the army of aliens has been standing outside the city and confronting the people on the city wall, it will actually be detrimental to humans.Because human fighters need to rest and have mental stress, but ghouls never get tired and don't need to eat.

It is more likely that some of the ghouls will not attack Winterfell while the other continue to move south.

This is the worst case.

Of course, the ghosts are not zombies, they belong to the subhuman race and have high intelligence, especially if there is a ghost king on the scene.

Seeing that the walls are too high, they may build earth and attack the city.

With the number and mobility of ghouls, it is not difficult to fill the city wall into a slope.

After all, counting the outer city wall, Winterfell is only 300 meters wide and 500 meters long, less than two kilometers in circumference.

How long does it take to dig a river of more than 2000 meters?

Instead of passively waiting for the other ghosts to make moves, it is better to actively provide siege passages and death passages for the army of ghouls.

The 14-year-old Obena was able to kill fifteen knight-level ghouls and more than 40 ordinary ghouls with hands and feet when she faced the tide of corpses for the first time, and she even had the confidence to kill a hundred people.

If all the [-] soldiers in Winterfell complete a hundred beheadings, no matter how many ghouls there are, they won't be able to consume them a few times.

If the White Walkers were a little stupider and kept swarming around Winterfell, saying that they had to challenge the White Walkers King, they would be able to kill all the White Walkers and ghouls.

This is the best wish. A tall city wall can only reduce the ratio of the living to the dead in battle. Ghouls die more, and the defenders of the city wall also suffer losses.

For example, the 14-year-old baby-faced Sand Snake took advantage of the wooden ladder tactics to kill 15 knight ghouls in a row, and felt contemptuous of the army of ghouls, so he was immediately taught to be a human ghost.

Because the strenuous exercise was too hot, Little Sand Snake lifted his visor to breathe, and poked his head out of the wall to look out—the knight in full-body armor who was stabbed to death before rolled down the siege ladder, and the corpse below The ghost also took it down.

As a result, an ice sword flew out from the crowd of ghouls below, piercing through the left eye of the baby face like lightning, directly piercing through her cranial cavity, and piercing out from the back of the head.

Kill it instantly.

The powerful kinetic energy even carried her body, flying four or five meters backward like a cannonball, knocking down Miss Sand Snake who was acting as an attendant.

"No, Oberna!" Obara fell to the corner, with her sister's body on her body, howling in pain.

But since the Other Ghost had already made a move, he naturally wouldn't just throw an ice sword.

"Whoosh, whoosh—" Three gray-red shadows quickly jumped up the city wall as if walking on the ground on the wooden ladder.

And this is just the beginning, just like the flood that found the breach of the dam, more ghosts gathered towards this lost city wall.

It's a pity that the wooden ladder tactics have taken into account the situation at this time.

In addition to the wall stacks on the top of the city wall, there are watchholes in the middle, holes with a bowl mouth.

Each wooden ladder is built on the section of the city wall with a lookout hole.

The wooden ladder tactic allows and even encourages a small number of White Walkers to break through to the city wall, but the number cannot be too large, otherwise the city wall is really in danger of falling.

Therefore, when the people on the wall were struggling, the defenders guarding the lookout hole would drop a small bottle of wildfire.

It's really a very small bottle, only about half a catty.

"Boom—" When Yegritte shouted wildfire bombs, there was a violent explosion under the wooden ladder stationed by Babyface, and the green flames rose four or five meters high, and this section of the city wall was reflected green.

"Aw~~~" The wooden ladder was burned in the green flames, and the corpses of more than 60 ghouls accumulated under the wooden ladder were ignited as if gasoline had been poured on them. In the red and green flames, a strange ghost burned in the flames, wailing mournfully.

Ghouls can't scream, but White Walkers are "living people" who can speak and feel pain.

Large swathes of white mist emanated from it, weakening the ordinary flames burning on corpses and wooden ladders, but the green wildfire that stuck to the other ghosts was still burning.

The flames at the base of the city wall, the red disappears and the green flourishes.

The small group of White Walkers who were about to climb the ladder were blocked, and even one of them died directly. The three White Walkers who had already jumped on the city wall did not end well.

They caught Babyface and Sister Sand Snake by surprise, and even a white ghost stepped forward in front of Obena's body, holding the handle of the ice sword, and was about to press down hard, piercing the elder sister Obara below. .

But there were already more than 20 soldiers holding thick oak shields around.

An oak shield thicker than the old cutting boards in rural kitchens, with a few horizontal bars added behind to block chopping.

More than 20 giant shield fighters forced the three aliens to the ground, then stabbed them with knives and spears, causing light blue ice water to flow on the stone road of the city wall

"Don't hurt her, she is my sister!"

Just as the shieldman turned his head and held down Oberna who was crazily biting Obara's throat armor, Arianne walked over to block Ygritte who raised the dragon tooth knife and wanted to chop at her neck.

"She used to be your sister, but now she is a ghoul, this is the long night! This is the plague of the dead!" Yegritte's heavy breathing came out from the gap in the visor.

"Crackling, crackling..." Arianne lowered her head, and saw Obena, who was protected behind her, opened her mouth wide, biting her iron boots.

Her delicate baby face lost its rosiness and luster, and became pale and dull. There was a big hole in the left eye, and the beautiful brown pupil of the right eye shone with blue light.

Even with the hands, feet and back held down by the shield hand, she turned her neck awkwardly and gritted her teeth at the living.

——She really became a living dead, just like the endless ghouls outside the city.

Thinking of this, Princess Dorne felt pain in her heart, and she shed tears unconsciously.

The elder sister Obara got up from the ground and knelt in front of the younger sister, choked up and said, "I'm sorry, Oberna, the elder sister didn't protect you well."

The other two sand snakes also wept silently.

Yegritte pursed her lips, and calmly advised: "Don't cry, she believes in the Seven Gods, and she still has the Atonement Scroll. She has already gone to the Heaven of the Seven Gods, you should be happy."

"Gah—" the three Sand Snakes and Arianne stopped crying.

"Obena really went to heaven?" Arianne murmured looking up at the sky, as if she wanted to see the heaven that would lead her sister's soul.

"Kill the aliens and go to heaven!" Ygritte shouted holding the dragon tooth knife.

Arianne felt better, turned around and squatted down, raised the knife in her hand and dropped it, the dragon crystal dagger pierced the hole in the right eye, and the fiercely struggling corpse instantly stiffened and softened.

"Obena has gone to heaven, and we will be reunited with her sooner or later," she said to her sisters.

The shield hands spread out, and Ygritte glanced outside the city, seeing that the green light was getting weaker, and asked, "The fire is about to go out, do you want to put another wooden ladder? Or, you go back to the castle to rest?"

"No, we want to kill the White Walkers!" The three Sand Snakes and Arianne said in unison.

The battle continued, and the ghouls continued to climb up the wooden ladder, and occasionally there were strange ghosts mixed in, making surprise attacks and plotting, intending to snatch the city wall.

Soon, three hours passed.

During this time, corpses of ghouls piled up like a mountain, and many defenders of the city wall died.

Most of them, like Oberna, fought the dead with awe in the beginning. Gradually, the more ghouls they killed, the awe in their hearts gradually faded. Inadvertently, they were forcibly killed by the white ghosts who rushed up.

The part of the city wall like Oberna's is okay, because they know the identities of Sand Snake and Arianne, and the shieldmen guarding them are all real knights with sufficient strength and good skills.

There are walls in other directions, and the shield bearers are savage warriors. They are more than brave, but lack skills and experience. As a result, the protection of the shield wall is not strict, allowing the aliens to rush out of the encirclement, causing heavy casualties.

Six hours after the battle began, when dawn broke, the eastern sky was still dark.

The officers and men guarding the wooden ladder on the city wall took turns to rest one after another, and the Dragon Queen still did not get off work at the gate of the city.

However, the shield wall in front of her was [-]% smaller, and only four Unsullied men crouched on the ground holding their shields, protecting the queen.

The remaining 36 Unsullied didn't leave too far, they slept next to Xiao Bai in the urn behind the city gate.

Uh, yes, they slept right next to the battlefield.

Xiaobai lay on the ground, stuck his head into the city gate, and immediately supported a wave of dragon flames when the fireball above the Dragon Queen's head shrank to almost extinguish.

Although Winterfell is freezing cold, Xiaobai is a giant dragon, and his body exudes scorching heat. Sleeping next to his body is more comfortable than turning on the heater.

　(ps: It seems that the previous article said that the city wall of Winterfell is 15 meters high? Sorry, I remembered wrongly, and I checked it again, only to find that in winter, the snow outside the city is 15 meters thick, while the outer city wall is 24 meters high, and the inner city wall is 30 meters high. 200 meters. It may sound scary, but the world of A Song of Ice and Fire is already fantastic, and the Great Wall is still [-] meters high.)

　　

　

(End of this chapter)