Those who rushed into the wildling army were obviously real warriors who had been on many battlefields. The wildlings were caught off guard by the cavalry and had little room for resistance.
The siege didn't last long before both armies stopped fighting. Just when Jon didn't know why the battle ended so quickly, he saw several horses slowly moving out of the team, with a person tied to the back of one of the horses.
Several horses came to the foot of the Great Wall and stopped. One of the knights with gray hair shouted to the Great Wall: "Listen, people on the Great Wall. The one before you is Stannis Baratheon, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm."
"We have captured the wildling king Mance. Now open the city gate and let us in!"
Hearing that the other party was Stannis of the Baratheon family, Jon looked at their flag carefully again and vaguely saw the shadow of a stag in the red heart.
He didn't expect that Stannis did not continue to use the family flag, but placed a stag in a flaming red heart to form a new flag.
After Stannis embraced R'hllor, the Lord of Light, he adopted the flaming red heart banner to show his devotion to the Lord of Light. No wonder Jon didn't recognize it at first.
After confirming the other party's identity, Jon really had no reason to block them outside the Wall. Besides, his original plan was to let the wildlings into the Wall. Now there was just one more army of Stannis.
The Night's Watch's duty is to guard the Wall and prevent the wildlings and the White Walkers from entering south of the Wall.
Whether Stannis is the true Lord of the Seven Kingdoms or not, it makes no difference to the almost completely neutral Night's Watch.
Stannis' army slowly passed through the tunnel of the Wall, and with them came Mance and other leaders of the wildling army. The other wildlings were temporarily left outside the Wall.
After Stannis entered the Wall, he ordered his men to guard the important parts of Castle Black and took over the Wall Guard in the Castle Black area.
Sitting in the main chair in the hall, Stannis ordered the wildling leader Mance to be brought in.
Mance, who is nearly sixty years old, is tall and mighty. Even when the soldiers pushed him in with his hands tied, he still showed no sign of surrender.
"Kneel down and acknowledge me as the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and let all the wildlings who can fight join my army, and I will spare your life." Looking at Mance, Stannis said expressionlessly.
"Free folk will not kneel to anyone!" Mance said loudly with his chest puffed out.
"I ask you again, will you kneel?" Stannis repeated.
"Impossible!" Mance said firmly.
"Take him out, tie him to a cross, and I will burn him to death with my own hands!"
Stannis finally felt a little angry at Mance's stubbornness and said to the soldiers.
Jon, who was standing not far from Stannis, saw Mance being dragged out and opened his mouth but said nothing.
He knew that Stannis had led the fleet on a long journey to Eastwatch by the Sea and that his purpose in going behind the wildlings might be to recruit them. If the leader Mance was unwilling to submit to him, he would definitely have no way to survive, and his pleading would be useless.
As the commander of the Night's Watch, he had little weight in front of Stannis's army.
In the courtyard of Castle Black, Melisandre the Red Woman is standing in front of Mance. She wants to use Mance's identity as the wildling leader to get inspiration from the flames.
Looking at Mance, Stannis held up a torch and said to the other wildling leaders with a stern face: "Mance refused to submit to me, and this is his fate!"
"I will pick out a wildling leader every day. If he refuses to surrender, he will end up like Mance. As long as you refuse to surrender, the wildlings will stay outside the Great Wall for one more day."
After speaking to Tormund Redbeard and other wildling leaders, Stannis came to Mance and lit the pyre.
The fire quickly spread to Mans' feet. He could only grit his teeth and endure the burning pain, but the feeling of being burned by fire was not so easy to bear. When the flames reached his chest, he could no longer endure the pain of his skin cracking all over his body, and screamed loudly.
The wildling leaders around him all looked distressed, but Stannis remained unmoved and watched Mance slowly burn.
The red-robed woman stared at Mance in the flames, muttering something. A shadow slowly emerged in the flames and gradually became clearer.
Puff!
Mance's screams suddenly stopped. He raised his burnt head with difficulty and looked at the second-floor cabin. Jon was standing there with his longbow put away.
A trace of relief appeared on Mans' face, his head tilted, and he died completely.
Stannis looked up at Jon and frowned slightly, while the wildling leader Tormund looked at Jon with gratitude.
The sacrifice was interrupted. Although Melisandre felt unwilling, she could do nothing about it. When she saw Jon, the two shadows in her eyes slowly overlapped.
Witnessing their former leader being burned to death in flames, Tormund and the others also witnessed Stannis's cold-bloodedness and Melisandre's disregard for life.
The next day, Tormund surrendered to Stannis on behalf of the wildling leaders and asked him to let the wildlings enter the Wall.
Although the wildlings are not as strong as Stannis's soldiers, they have very good physical fitness, and Stannis is confident that he can train them into formal soldiers.
By the time they defeat the White Walkers, they should be no less powerful than his own soldiers and generals. That would be the time for him to march south to seize the Iron Throne.
Watching the wildlings who had fought the Night's Watch for thousands of years enter the Great Wall one after another.
Alliser and the other Night's Watchmen who failed in the competition for the commander of the Night's Watch looked unwilling and even began to resent Jon, the commander of the Night's Watch who let Stannis enter the Wall.
And I heard how Jon took care of the elderly, the weak, women and children of the wildlings before they entered the Wall.
He may have already planned to let the wildlings into the Wall, which made them even more displeased with Jon, the newly appointed commander of the Night's Watch.
All the young and strong wildlings were left at the Wall, disbanded and incorporated into Stannis's army as guards.
The elderly, the weak, women and children were arranged around the last hearth city to cultivate the land there.
The northern border is vast and sparsely populated, so let alone 100,000 savages, even 200,000 can be easily accommodated.
Although the sacrifice was interrupted, Melisandre did not gain nothing. She saw Jon's shadow in the flames.
But she didn't understand the meaning of the foreshadowing based on just a shadow. In her opinion, Jon simply had an extraordinary physique and she could borrow more powerful strength from him.
She never thought that the Lord of Light would ask her to change the Chosen One, and she had no doubt about Stannis's identity as the Chosen One.
When Melisandre told Stannis about the shadow she saw in the flames, he was very uncomfortable knowing that she was going to do what she had done when she borrowed the power of her brother King Robert's illegitimate son Gendry.