Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

Although the words hurt, when the defenders of the Wall cheered for victory, Viserys thought that this battle could not be called a victory at all.

The main reason why the zombies retreated was because they achieved their strategic goals, and Viserys himself was free. The commander of the White Walker army knew that even if they occupied the castles of the Wall, they could not resist Viserys's power.

The coordination of the White Walker army made people suspect that their army had a "brain" that controlled the overall situation and carried out unified command of the battle line of a hundred leagues.

Speaking of the defenders.

Viserys thought that the many problems he saw during the war were enough, but as the castles restored signals and submitted post-war statistics, he found that there were incredible problems in this battle.

The first point is the wrong empiricism, especially for some old Night's Watchmen who were promoted after the expansion of the Great Wall's military strength. These old Night's Watchmen generally have no contact with the White Walkers and the zombies. They are used to their years and decades of experience in defending the city at the Great Wall. They think that two or three hundred people can defend a castle, and that a 700-foot wall and a high position can prevent the siege of tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, after they were promoted and stationed in various castles, although they also built urns and cooperated with wildlings and auxiliary defense forces, they misjudged the situation because of the expansion of the Great Wall's military strength.

The Great Wall now has 15,000 southern war groups, more than 6,000 northern coalition forces, more than 5,000 Braavos mercenaries, and a group of wildlings who are mostly scattered and brave, with nearly 40,000 people.

This is the time when the most troops have been stationed at the Great Wall for decades and hundreds of years.

Many old Night's Watchmen only saw that the troops assigned to assist them in defense could not even put down the city walls, and even the built city walls had enough defense, so they thought it was foolproof.

Due to this mentality, the city walls of some castles were poorly built. They were just a ring wall surrounding the wildling gathering area, without sheep and horse walls, parapets and pits. When the zombies came, the defense capability was only a thin layer of ice wall, which was almost the same as nothing.

And now there are still commanders who have serious discrimination against wildling freemen and do not really regard them as friendly troops. During the war, there were very few castles that had zombies pouring into the city walls. When the situation was serious, the Night's Watch commander did not notify the wildlings to retreat, and did not cover the wildlings to retreat into the city as planned, but directly closed and blocked the gates of the Great Wall, and directly blocked the northern wildlings responsible for defending the city walls outside the city.

It was not until Viserys received the battle report that he knew that such an extremely bad incident had occurred on the battlefield. After the northern city wall of the castle was lost, the free folk defenders and the elderly and weak could only retreat to the sloping semi-enclosed "cellar" built at the base of the wall and wait for death.

Fortunately, the White Walker army withdrew in the end, and the surviving wildlings survived, but they also suffered heavy casualties.

This behavior seriously undermined the trust that the Night's Watch and the free folk had finally established. There was no honor at all, and the degree of badness was outrageous.

Viserys did not interfere with the operation of the Night's Watch's power system and could not deal with it personally. In the end, Stannis went to the castle in person to exempt the command, hanged the commander, and took away all the original Night's Watch defense.

After this incident, the castle became the first Great Wall fortress whose full defense was handed over to the "new Night's Watch" from the free folks to command and control.

Although there were many problems, most of the defensive problems caused by unfamiliarity with the enemy's situation and the enemy's fighting methods were excusable.

In addition to the problems, there was also valuable combat experience in the battle. For example, the urn in some castles is very effective in defending against the tide of corpses. When the defenders built the ring wall, they set up multiple walls in the tightly defended areas. There were gaps inside the walls that were deliberately left after the walls were built. These gaps deliberately left killing holes and arrow holes when pouring ice water.

After the multiple walls that focus on defense were built, these gaps naturally formed pits and protective walls. When the tide of corpses climbed up the walls and could not be stopped, the defenders lit fires in these pits, which could effectively kill the corpses trapped in them and form a fire wall to block the tide of corpses.

Although this was done, because the corpses were flammable, when the tide of corpses increased, the piled corpses would burn and melt the ice on the wall, exposing the logs on the inner wall and causing collapse, but the corpses had already killed the city, and the wall could have been declared lost. This design can also delay time and provide precious time for the urn to retreat.

In addition, the gate of the urn in the Long Night Castle is also worth referring to. The barbican of the Nightfort is the largest and thickest. It was originally a last resort for the convenience of the giant tribe to enter and exit. Although Stannis expanded the city gate, he also took sufficient defensive measures on the city gate. These measures are worth learning from other castles.

Although the manpower and material resources of each castle are different, it is impossible for some castles with fewer people to refer to all of them, but no commander is allowed to underestimate the defense of the barbican and the south wall. There should be no more incidents of betraying friendly forces.

These must be agreed upon, and people must be replaced if ideas are not changed.

In fact, during the attack of the White Walker army this time, except for a few castles with sufficient manpower and more thoughtful barbican construction, the barbicans of twelve of the nineteen castles were lost under the White Walkers' frontal assault at all costs. But unlike the castle that betrayed the defenders of the barbican in the north of the city, the other barbicans that were lost had made plans with the defenders to retreat after the barbican was lost. After a certain amount of casualties, they retreated safely to the south of the city and the Great Wall and blocked the city gates.

Although when defending, the Great Wall can be said to be a real barrier for one man to open, but the tide of corpses ten times that of the defenders, even the trebuchets, giant crossbows, archers, oil barrels, and broken weapons on the walls of the Great Wall are still there. Shi's defenders were operating at full capacity, and the number of ghouls they could kill was limited.

The White Walker commander is clearly a veteran of fire defense sieges. When they attacked the relatively low Wengcheng, they used corpse tide tactics and ant attack tactics. They charged intensively. Even if the corpse tide was burned, they did not hesitate to use corpses to pile up and block it, and attacked on all fronts without hesitation of troops. Under siege, in the cold weapon era, the purely manual flame defenses of the human defenders could not stop the continuous life-threatening attacks.

The other party is using ghouls to consume the city wall's oil reserves. One hour, two hours, and thousands of ghouls are being paid, but it still can't be used up until the city wall is low on fuel oil?

The brutality of this battle was something many people had never seen before. The zombies would not retreat, and the desperate tactics of the zombie tide greatly shocked the defenders.

After capturing the Urn City, facing the 700-foot-high Great Wall, the White Walkers no longer used the tactics of dense zombie ants, but instead used the tactics of adding fuel to the wall.

That is to say, the zombie waves took turns to go into battle. According to the positions of the bows, arrows and projectiles of the Great Wall defenders, they approached the Great Wall from different directions.

There is no such thing as Maxim in this era. The tactics of the White Walkers are designed to drag down and break the will of the defenders. In this cold world, humans wear thick and heavy clothes. Archers can shoot several rounds and dozens of rounds. wheel? How many times, dozens of times, can the gravel and oil barrels pushed on the city wall be pushed? Even the trebuchets and giant crossbows had their lethality reduced sharply after the zombie tide occupied the barbican city.

The intention of the White Walkers to use refueling tactics is too obvious, and any commander with some brains will judge the White Walkers' tactics of exhausting the enemy after a period of time. But with the tall city wall of the Great Wall and without the threat of the ice dragon, the defenders still felt that the White Walkers were just wasting their troops. There was nothing they could do about the Great Wall, they could only stare.

After all, after the Wengcheng defense retreated, the city gate was blocked with piles of rubble that had been prepared. Even if the city gate was breached, the White Walker army would have to spend time digging through the rubble before they could enter the city. The city gate is the key point of defense, and there are plenty of oil tanks and wildfires prepared.

But at this time, the White Walkers army took control of the trebuchets and giant crossbows in the Wengcheng.

The way these aliens use trebuchets and giant crossbows is completely different from humans. The "cannonballs" of their trebuchets are balls formed by the corpses hugging each other. The purpose of shooting crossbows is not to cause damage and ignite flames, but to let the corpses burn. The ghost hangs on the crossbow and takes off

This army reminds the defenders of the Great Wall all the time that they are not human beings, and do not think about their attack methods in human terms. They are cold white ghosts that lack human emotions, and their army is a resurrected corpse that has devoid of human nature.

If the White Walkers didn't retreat en masse when the situation reached a stalemate, it's hard to say who the final winner would be.

Perhaps the defenders could hold the Wall.

But the way of "holding" is definitely completely different from what they originally imagined. The kind of defense is that the White Walkers sandwich the defenders between the towers, tunnels and walls of the Great Wall in the north and south directions. What will greet the defenders will be that they will be attacked by waves of zombies in an isolated and helpless situation. Die on the city wall.

And this also reminded the defenders that if there is a next time, they must destroy the trebuchets that cannot be taken away from the barbican city to prevent the White Walkers from using the trebuchets to launch lobs at close range.

The Great Wall is high enough, and the trebuchets are far away from throwing the "ghoul shells" into the south, but once they get close to the wall, it is very dangerous for them to come into contact with the trebuchets.

After the war, Viserys summarized the experiences and lessons of all parties, and asked the literate affairs officers of the Night's Watch, the Warband, the North, and the Braavos Alliance to work together to compile a "Summary of the Gains and Losses of the First Battle with the White Walkers" ", and finally refined the regulations of "to be close to friendly forces, to help and trust each other, to have superior combat power, to be prepared to fight outside the city, to dare to fight, to not underestimate the defense of Wengcheng, and not to betray friendly forces."

Anyway, in the end, we came up with seven precautions and regulations, taking the "seven" from the seven countries, so that commanders at all levels must abide by them.

It must be said that many commanders feel very uncomfortable with the military summary and propaganda of King Viserys, who is nominally in charge of the entire army. of. But for the defenders on all sides, they are still more accustomed to the old army's reward and punishment system of hitting a stick and giving a sweet date. Although there are some, the extra commanders at all levels learning the so-called precautions and regulations are really unfamiliar and unaccustomed to them.

But the king's majesty and intimidation are there, and you have to adapt no matter how hard you adapt.

Finally, the problem that bothered both Viserys and Brandon was that the message was delivered too slowly.

Compared to them, the coordination of the White Walker army is just like the information-based troops in the cold weapon era, which is outrageous.

In fact, Viserys also has a way to collect information from the army within a certain range, that is, each army sends a devout believer to bring hundreds of pan-believers to form a battlefield intelligence department, but the information can only be collected to Viserys, unlike the current three Eye crows transmit information in the same way, but to transmit information in the reverse direction, other methods are needed.

For a moment, Viserys had the idea to build temples dedicated to the Dragon God in each castle just like the Mechanicus built churches on space battleships in 40K, so that devout believers could lead hundreds of people to receive information.

But it would be too low-end for the gods themselves to be the center responsible for transmitting information. Viserys was very curious about how Cold God or his White Walker commander did it. Could it be that Cold God was really working as an operator for the White Walker army?

Thinking of the operator, Viserys suddenly realized that he seemed to have the ability to create wireless phones for specific groups of people in this world.

"What are you thinking of?" The Three-Eyed Crow's vision was very keen, and he noticed that Viserys' aura seemed to have changed.

"Do you know the principle of sound propagation?" Viserys suddenly asked, "I may need your help with something."

"sound?"

"Air vibration, the essence of sound transmission is air vibration. I want to ask you, with your wisdom, is there any way to use the vibration of an object to restore the vibration pattern of someone speaking?"

The three-eyed crow's eyes all lit up: "Interesting idea, this is equivalent to recording someone's voice, and then using the same vibration to make the sound on the same object elsewhere, which is equivalent to the speaker's voice being transmitted to other places. . I think you should have recommended ingredients for crafting items?”

"Use gold sheets, which are easy to polish and can be made as small and durable as possible, but they are easily deformed and require a protective cover."

The Three-Eyed Crow's voice was sharp: "No, you have seen it. You know what similar things look like. You understand its principles, but you can't make it. Why use gold pieces? You didn't tell the truth. Is it easy to make it small and durable? Maybe.

After observation, I learned why your army uses gold-plated and silver flagpoles and why your army wears copper plates. Those metals conduct the power of lightning very efficiently, more efficiently than steel and any other metal. The reason why two styles of gold and silver flagpoles are used is because they will also have an amplifying effect on magic when using the power of thunder. You chose those metals for a reason. It’s the wisdom of another world, right? "

Viserys looked over: "What are you so excited about? Do you think you can do it?"

The three-eyed crow blinked: "I roughly understand the principle of what you are talking about, but I can't imagine what it looks like. I need to 'see' it."

"I can't show you my memory." Viserys shook his head, "I can draw it to you, but only a rough outline, because as you can guess, I know what it looks like, but I don't I’ve made it before, so yes, I can’t make it. Why use gold flakes? It’s because gold flakes are easy to thin and make small, and they also conduct electricity the best. Can you understand?”

The Three-Eyed Crow stared at Viserys' head, his tone full of regret: "Your memories from another world are full of treasures, but you can only take out the shallowest parts, and you can't even reproduce them. If you inherit mine, Song. Alas—"

"I dare say that the God of Creation also understands this, but he must have a reason for not letting you know." Viserys did not dare to show his memory to the Three-Eyed Crow. He was not sure if the Three-Eyed Crow knew the general principles of the atomic bomb. , will it be possible to create it with the help of thousands of years of wisdom and magic?

"." The Three-Eyed Crow was speechless at Viserys's words.

Viserys took out a pen and paper, and based on his impressions, roughly drew a strange thing composed of vibrating diaphragms, magnets, and coils. For the magical Viserys, there is no need to distinguish between a microphone and an earpiece, because magic and sorcery can record and transmit electricity. The only problem is that the current signal transmitted must be able to basically restore the sound.

The Three-Eyed Crow looked at it for a while, and Viserys only explained briefly. He seemed to have understood the principle: "The power of thunder can be used in this way, and it can be done with such a small amount of thunder power. So useful.”

"Can you make it?"

“Why are magnets used, and why do magnets’ magnetic forces change under the influence of lightning?”

"I can't explain that clearly," Viserys said, "You only need to make one. It doesn't matter if it's bigger. I will arrange for the city to imitate it."

Viserys's idea was to create this thing and distribute it to commanders wearing Thunderstorm Armor, so that Viserys could act as a hub, allowing those commanders to use military formation rituals to use their mental power to pray through , seeking wiring objects in a similar way to issuing prayer power, and Viserys, as a hidden operator, only needs to pass the signal to the corresponding person, and only needs a very slight force to create "ring", "wiring", " "Conversation" function.

It's a magic version of a cordless phone.

This is also good for Viserys in promoting the general belief system in the army, because if you want to use this thing, you have to pray to Viserys.

The only downside is that Viserys needs to come up with an idea to be responsible for "call forwarding", and the further away from Viserys, the greater the call delay.

Fortunately, this thing must be matched with the Thunderstorm Armor, and it is destined to be unable to be used by civilians. Otherwise, Viserys would become the first god to be annoyed to death sooner or later if he were distracted by it.

"I found that you do not object to mortals using your power. I thought this was your personal problem," the Three-Eyed Crow couldn't help but ask after arguing with Viserys to confirm the principle, "But judging from your attitude and These things shown show that this is not due to your personal character, but the result of the systematic rules and discipline of the group. I am very curious about why the extraordinary beings in your world are so tolerant and friendly to mortals. Look at your previous behavior. It seems that your otherworldly power does not need the support of faith? "

Viserys was surprised that the Three-Eyed Crow could infer so many things from the claws he showed. He paused and just said: "Let me tell you this, I am not born extraordinary. The education I received since childhood told me, When I do anything, I need to first understand where my strength comes from, who are my enemies, and who are my friends. After understanding these, what I have to do is to make as many friends as possible. The enemy can only be invincible if he fights with fewer enemies."

".I believe your words. This can explain the paradox in you. Your original 'source of power' is not an ordinary person. It is something that restrains you. You said that you are not born extraordinary, so it seems The other world you live in is a world where mortals are powerful enough to fight against the extraordinary. Otherwise, these rules that have been restricting you and affecting you until now - the 'education' you talk about will not be valid. "

Viserys didn't want to talk too deeply with this thousand-year-old fox, so he asked instead: "As an old god in people's mouth, don't you believe that there is a god who loves others selflessly?"

"Maybe there is, but the other world you come from probably doesn't have it."

Viserys also seriously thought about whether the goddess Hyrule was a god who loved others selflessly, but he was afraid of being tricked, so he chose to continue asking: "You are thirsty for knowledge in other worlds, because knowledge is power to you?"

"That's right, I'm not afraid of you knowing that knowledge and history are to me the 'source of power' you call them. If you are willing to let me read your memory, maybe I can directly change the world beyond the Great Will." Three Eye Crow let out a long sigh, "What a pity, what a pity."

Viserys did not give a direct answer, only said: "It seems that we understand each other a little better."

Seeing Viserys starting to talk nonsense, the Three-Eyed Raven remained silent for a long time before starting a new topic: "The White Walker army will attack Winterfell. Cutting off the last section of the Great Wall can be used by you for transportation in the long night." Supply lines of supplies.”

Viserys asked directly: "What castles with heart trees have been lost?"

"Most of the people from Bear Island and Deepwood Castle in the west, as well as Mormont, Glover and Greyjoy, complied with your request and moved to Winterfell after the long night fell. However, there are still islanders and some people who choose to stay. In the houses that they thought were well prepared, they prayed to me by the heart tree before they died. I actually told them to migrate in their dreams, but there were always people who didn't believe it, even in the eastern cities of Cahor and the Dreadfort. The Hearth of House Umber. They travel very fast, and the dead need no rest, and can cover forty or fifty leagues a day."

"There are only half a million people in the North, and there are not many people in King's Landing. It's a pity that you and I should stop covering up and displaying oracles when winter comes, and let everyone gather in a few places. As long as the people gather together , it is convenient to support and fight large-scale battles."

"At that time, neither you nor I knew the strength of the White Walker army. No one knew that this kind of war group you created could suppress the White Walker zombies on the battlefield. At that time, in my opinion, gathering people together was Speed ​​up the process of annihilating humans for the White Walkers. When frontal combat cannot guarantee victory, you should know how stupid things the gathered humans will do."

"It's a pity that it's too late to do it now. After the long night arrives, the residents of Deepwood Castle and Sea Dragon Point, which have been damaged by the war and are destined to be unable to survive the long winter night, are willing to risk freezing to death and rush to the winter. City. If Jorah and Aegon weren't on Bear Island, I don't think the Mormont family would be willing to move out of the castle and go to Winterfell in the ice and snow."

Viserys could foresee that the White Walkers would wreak havoc in the North and expand their power.

After seeing the White Walkers, the northern princes, knights, and commanders generally became worried about their hometown in the southern interior.

Despite promoting the importance of the Wall, Viserys was willing to keep the morale of his troops with promises of honors, knights, and money.

But Viserys knew very well that no matter how many castles fell in the North, as long as Winterfell could hold it, not only the Northern Army on the Great Wall, but all the troops, no matter what, could maintain their morale.

But if Winterfell falls, even if the importance of the Great Wall and sufficient supplies are promoted, I am afraid that the defenders of the Great Wall will still have other ideas.

To put it bluntly, in fact, since most soldiers are already stationed at the Great Wall, they should be mentally prepared to think about things like their afterlife and their names after death. They should be mentally prepared to treat themselves as dead people.

Creatures like Keren must have something to think about when they live. In fact, even if the entire northern territory is lost, it will not make any difference to the defenders of the Great Wall.

But when they look south, thinking that there is Winterfell on land, they feel better psychologically.

Just like Viserys would occasionally let the supply transport team brave the long winter nights and travel through the ice and snow to transport supplies, but now, the supplies were of no use. The manpower, material resources and even the lives of the transport team consumed on the road to transport that little thing are immeasurable.

But why do you need luck? It’s just a psychological hint. Every time the transport team comes, they tell everyone at the Great Wall that the road is never cut off, and no matter how difficult the situation is, there will be a way.

Viserys knew that a man must have thoughts.

So his idea is that since the Great Wall has to be defended and must be defended, then Winterfell must also be defended.

This stuff has a psychological effect.

As for other places, they are either not important towns or they are far away. Even if they fall, the defenders of the Great Wall will not be panicked so easily.

For this reason, Viserys planned to take time to go to the Bay of Cailin to issue an order, asking the Second Warband to rush to Winterfell and defend Winterfell at all costs.

If the White Walker army continues to move south during the long night, then he can only let him live in ruins.

After all, the key defense points preset by Viserys in the south are centered on Stone Town.

In Viserys' mind, the overall defense of Westeros is a dumbbell, with the center of gravity north of Winterfell and south of Stone Town.

As for other places, if the White Walkers are rampant, they can only let it go.

In the case that human forces cannot form an overall advantage, the prolongation of the battle line is not good for Viserys, but it may not be a good thing for the White Walkers. The longer the White Walker battle line is, the longer it will take, and during this period, the human side will naturally gather and gather in a relatively safe place under the drive of the White Walkers.

Viserys was afraid that he would set up a long line of troops along the important towns of the Kingsroad and guard the so-called strategic locations, hoping to guard the throat and block the White Walkers from a certain area. As a result, the White Walkers attacked the rear road just like this time, causing the army to be mobilized by the White Walkers, and the army was divided and surrounded by the zombies into a pile of lambs to be slaughtered.

Viserys did not dare to make a strategic prediction that the White Walkers would definitely confront him somewhere in Westeros and fight with magic.

What Viserys had to do was to wait until both sides were ready for a strategic decisive battle, and the decisive battle would take place on his preset battlefield.