Chapter 128: Battle of Castle Black
When Hosser Amber arrived, the scene was littered with broken limbs and charred bones.
"Damn it! Send a letter to the flayed men in Winterfell immediately, saying that the dragon of the Targaryen family appeared in Hearth City, and then ask it to send people to help us harvest the wheat, otherwise Hearth City will reconsider its loyalty to him."
Hother looked grim. The Greatjon was imprisoned in the Twins, and he and Mors Umber became acting lords.
But Hother prefers to ally with Roose Bolton. In his view, the Stark family has become a thing of the past, and the Bolton family will become the new guardian family of the North.
But the other acting city lord, Mors Umber, has been very close to Stannis recently.
Morse Umber is an old man whose two sons died in the Usurper's War and whose daughter was abducted by wildlings.
So Stannis promises to cut off Mance Rayder's head for him in exchange for his loyalty.
Stannis still holds the title of king. Although he suffered a disastrous defeat at the Blackwater, he has regained his confidence under the encouragement of Melisandre.
So he turned his battle to the North. He believed that the families in the North were full of hatred for the Iron Throne, so he sent letters to every lord in the North, asking them to be loyal to him.
Among them, Morse Amber was one of the few who responded, and now the Amber family can still raise an army of about a thousand people.
Morse was old and had high prestige, so he commanded the loyalty of 70% of the knights.
Hother Umber chose to join Roose Bolton, and as a condition, the Bolton family needed to provide them with enough farmers to harvest wheat.
If the matter is delayed any further, a large amount of wheat will rot in the fields, but Roose Bolton, who promised to help, has not taken any action.
This made Hother's reputation shaky, and Roose Bolton was helpless because the wheat in his territory had not been harvested yet because he followed Robb to fight.
At this time, the black castle on the other side was on fire, and there were roars and screams everywhere.
This was the seventh attack on the Great Wall by the wildlings in thousands of years, and it was also the largest and most united one, because if they failed this time, everyone would become servants of the devil.
Just ten minutes ago, a troop of about a hundred wildlings launched a surprise attack on the Black Castle.
In order to escape the White Walkers, Mance Rayder had no choice but to lead 100,000 wildlings south.
After the Night's Watch was defeated by the White Walkers at the Fist of the First Men, he seized the opportunity and led the large army quickly south.
After arriving at the Haunted Forest, they stationed in White Tree Village, and then sent vanguard troops to continuously harass the Shadow Tower in the west and Eastwatch in the east.
This made it impossible for the Night's Watch, which consisted of just over a hundred men, to take care of the first priority. They had no choice but to shrink their defense line and prepare to gather at the Black Castle.
Because if the large army of wildlings wants to cross the Wall, they can only rely on the tunnels guarded by Castle Black.
It was for this reason that Mance Rayder sent two hundred elite troops to cross the Great Wall and attack Castle Black by various means.
As a result, half of their men were lost when crossing the Great Wall, and only a hundred men reached the Black Castle.
At this time, because of the defeat of the Night's Watch at the Fist of the First Men and the previous strategy of dividing the troops, there were only forty defenders in Castle Black.
"Quick, hurry to the King's Tower. Coach Elisa has brought people to support us. We only need to defend the King's Tower for half a night."
Donald shouted loudly, trying to rally the Night's Watch's defense line, but there were only 20 people left in the Night's Watch at this time. However, it was still possible to hold on with the help of the King's Tower.
The King's Tower is where the Night's Watch entertains the King. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the King has not been to the Black Castle for a long time.
The 13 men led by Jon on top of the Great Wall were also unable to spare any effort. A large number of wildlings tried to climb the Wall, and there were giants and mammoths below the Wall trying to pull out the iron door of the tunnel.
At this time, the southern wall of the Black Castle had already been breached by the wildlings, and the only 20 archers were all killed by Fire-Kissed Ygritte.
Tormund and Ygritte split their forces into two groups.
Tormund led eighty men to surround the remaining Night's Watch, while Ygritte led people to clean up various places in the castle.
Suddenly, the sound of a baby crying fell into Ygritte's ears. Although the sound was very faint, she still caught it with her keen senses.
Ygritte frowned, took out the dagger from her waist and slowly walked towards the direction of the sound.
It is a small concave layer, and the crying sound came from inside.
Ygritte did not let her guard down because of the baby's crying, but pulled open the curtain.
Gilly held her son in her arms with a look of panic on her face and could only stare at Ygritte blankly.
All I can say is that Gilly was very lucky to meet Ygritte, a rare, kind and love-believing savage.
"Shh!" Ygritte made a gesture to keep quiet and then closed the curtain.
Seeing that the Night's Watch led by Donald was about to collapse, Coach Alliser arrived in time with the Night's Watch brothers, and both sides were in chaos for a while.
Seeing this, Donald on the King's Tower roared to boost morale, and led the remaining men to charge out again.
"Coach Elisa is here, kill all these barbarians!" Donald was very surprised by Elisa's support.
Although Alliser doesn't get along with Jon Snow and is sarcastic and has no sense of humor, he is a qualified Night's Watcher.
After receiving Donald's letter, he led his men back overnight to support the Black Castle.
But Alliser and his companions were exhausted after traveling all night, and Ygritte also met Tormund with the wildling archers.
Therefore, the balance of victory began to tilt towards the barbarians.
Tormund is known as the "Giant Killer" and "Thunder Fist", so he must be quite capable.
In the chaos, Ser Alliser was hit in the chest by an axe from Tormund, but he blocked the axe blade with his sword. However, he was still blown away and fell from a height of several meters.
Fat Sam was unable to participate in the battle. Seeing that the Night's Watch was gradually losing the upper hand, he could only take the elevator to the Wall to seek Jon's support.
Sam staggered to the top of the Wall and told Jon that the Black Castle would soon be lost.
Upon hearing this, Jon immediately handed over the command to Eddie, and he took a few people down to provide support.
Because once the Black Castle is lost, there will be no point for them to stay here.
Jon came down from the elevator and looked at the fierce fighting below. He drew out his Valyrian steel sword: "Longclaw", and then rushed into the battlefield.
Sam also secretly bypassed the battlefield and released Jon's direwolf "White Ghost".
With the addition of Bai Ling, the situation of the battle began to slowly reverse. Bai Ling was now close to adulthood and was as big as a miniature horse.
The direwolf is one of the native species of Westeros. It is huge and can tear a man apart like a hound tearing apart a rat.
(End of this chapter)