Even Danny could not deny that the Great Wall of the Impasse had already surpassed the original Great Wall of the Celestial Empire. Five hundred kilometers was nothing, but the average height of the Great Wall was close to two hundred meters.
Two hundred meters! Looking from afar, it looked like a continuous mountain range that stretched across the land. Even after ten thousand years, it still showed no signs of decay. If the Night King had not attacked, it would probably have lasted for another hundred thousand years, or even a million years.
The Great Wall of the Impasse was five hundred kilometers long, and there were a total of nineteen castles. At its peak, Dark Castle alone had five thousand Night Watchers, and all nineteen castles together had close to ten thousand people.
Ten thousand people was not a small number. That was a regular army. The King's Landing had a population of more than five hundred thousand, but only three thousand Night Watchers.
A strong military force would breed uncontrollable ambitions. There had been commander-in-chief who had broken his oath in the history of the Night Watchers.
The Night Watchers had had nine hundred and ninety-seven commander-in-chief. Among them, there were lunatics, dictators, and idiots. For example, Lensey Hyder tried to leave his position to his illegitimate son, and Roderick Ferlint tried to make himself the king of beyond the Great Wall.
For example, six hundred years ago, the commanders of the Blizzard Gate and the Night Castle fought. The commander-in-chief tried to stop them, but they joined forces to kill him.
However, the lords and kings of the Seven Kingdoms never thought that the Night Watchers would be a threat to their rule. It was not that they believed in the integrity of the Night Watchers, but that the nineteen castles of the Great Wall were defenseless against attacks from the south.
Well, the purpose of the Night Watchers was to guard against the barbarians from the north (Deviants were a legend). Their castles were built close to the Great Wall, and there were no walls at all on three sides, making them easy to attack.
This was originally designed to prevent the Night Watchers from rebelling, but now it had become the fatal weakness of Jon Snow and the others.
Mance Ryder, the king of the barbarians, had been a Night Watcher for more than ten years and knew the weaknesses of the Great Wall very well.
Now, there were only three castles left on the Great Wall. Shadow Tower and Eastwatch were on the left and right, and Dark Castle was in the middle of the Great Wall, which was also the main camp of the Night Watchers.
Before Jerome Mormont (Jorah's father) led his men north to die, the Great Wall had one thousand guards, Shadow Tower two hundred, Eastwatch two hundred, and Dark Castle six hundred.
In order to investigate the movements of deviant ghosts and barbarians, Elder Xiong led 300 elite night watchers from the Great Wall to the north. 200 of them went to Dark Castle.
However, the night watchers didn't carry any weapons to deal with the deviant ghosts. The three hundred night watchers were almost wiped out. Except for Jon and a few of his companions, only thirty to forty people survived.
After that, Mansred purposely sent the savages to the east and west of the Great Wall, causing the Night Watchers to be exhausted while he secretly arranged for a two-hundred-man assault squad to climb over the Great Wall, intending to take a detour and steal Dark Castle from the rear.
Jon Snow and Jergret were in the assault team.
After all, Jon was the main character. He managed to escape.
However, Dark Castle only had forty to fifty soldiers left, and most of them were old and weak.
As mentioned before, Dark Castle had no walls, not even wooden fences. The enemy could march straight in, and the Night Watchers had no choice but to face them head-on.
Therefore, after receiving Jon's information, the Night Watchers abandoned the kitchen, the hall, the stable, the tower, and emptied the armory. They only defended the gate that connected the Great Wall to the North.
They piled up wooden barrels filled with iron ingots and pickled mutton, wicker boxes, bundles of dyed black wool, wooden stakes, and sacks of grain into a three-meter-high curved rampart.
There were only two things in the defensive circle: the gate and the huge zigzag wooden staircase that climbed up the wall.
The staircase was like a zigzag bolt of lightning, climbing up the wall. The wooden beams were as thick as an adult's thigh, deeply embedded in the ice.
In addition to the Night Watchers, there were also more than a hundred civilians from the nearby villages.
The strategy of the Night Watchers was very simple. They wet the stairs at the bottom with oil and defended the rampart first. If they couldn't defend it, they would retreat to the wooden stairs at the back. They would retreat step by step and use bows and crossbows and other long-range weapons to weaken the strength of the savages. Finally, they would detonate the barrels of oil buried at the bottom of the zigzag wooden stairs, burning down the wooden stairs below and burning or falling the savages to death.
It was still uncertain whether they could kill all the savages, but at least they could help the Night Watchers of Dark Castle survive this night.
The moonlight in the snowy night was hazy, and the silent land was covered by a layer of gray and silver. Only the bone-chilling north wind was blowing.
The enemy used the moonlight to launch a surprise attack on Dark Castle in the middle of the night. The horn sounded, and the war instantly became white-hot.
The savages rushed into Dark Castle like a tide, burning the hall and the stable. They crossed the rampart and chased after the Night Watchers and civilians in the yard. Some savages even climbed up the wooden stairs.
Jon retreated from the rampart to the first level of the wooden stairs, and then from the first level to the second level … At this time, he leaned against the railing of the wooden stairs on the fourth level. The wound on his left leg that was shot by Jegret was tearing apart. He was sweating profusely and gasping for breath. The arrow in his hand was aimed at the barrel of oil at the bottom of the wooden stairs.
Fire, ice, blood, cries, and screams before death …
"Squeak —"
Suddenly, the sound of a beast piercing through the night sky came from above. A heavy, scorching atmosphere spread in Dark Castle. Not only Jon felt the pressure, but the savages and Night Watchers who were fighting below could not help but slow down and look up at the sky.
"Whoosh —" The sharp sound of something piercing through the air sounded in the sky. When it landed below the top of the wall, everyone could finally see what it was.
A javelin.
A wooden javelin that was three or four meters long.
"Whoosh!" The javelin stabbed into the mud in the center of the yard that was stained with blood. Under the confused gaze of the savages and Night Watchers, the flag wrapped around the tip of the javelin slowly opened up. A gust of wind blew through the wall and made the flag fly high.
"A red dragon with a black background, a three-headed dragon, this …" Jon Snow was stunned for a moment. He pulled back the arrow on his bow and suddenly shouted, "Targaryen?"
"The flag of the True Dragon!" Almost at the same time, the other Night Watchers also recognized the symbol of the royal family that had ruled this continent for three hundred years.
"Dragon, Megalosaurus!" Someone shouted at the sky.
Jon looked up. On the top of the wooden ladder, the old scholar who had always been calm was waving his hands wildly. "It's a dragon! That's right, that's a dragon's roar! Megalosaurus, a Targaryen is coming! "
The old man's eyes were filled with tears.
As if responding to his call, a huge black shadow fell from the sky. "Squeak — boom!"
A white dragon!
A white dragon that was bigger than any creature Jon had ever seen swooped down at high speed. It drew an arc over the savages' heads and breathed out a bright red dragon flame that was fifteen meters long. He could see the savages' faces twisted in fear. He could even feel their fear.
He was also trembling. A strange mixture of excitement and fear filled his heart.
The white dragon did not burn any savages to death. After it flew past the yard, it landed at the outermost edge of Dark Castle. Step by step, it walked towards the courtyard that was surrounded by simple walls. Its heavy footsteps seemed to fall on everyone's hearts.
"Put down your weapons, surrender, and you will not die!" A crisp female voice rang out.
A dragon knight!
Who is she?
Jon Snow looked around, but other than the sparks that splashed out from the dragon's nose, he could not see anything.
When the Megalosaurus approached the walls made of wooden barrels and sacks, one of the savages shouted, "It's a woman, kill!"
Jon recognized it. It was the leader of the Thearn Clan, Sti. He was also the leader of the assault team.
The bald Sti raised his sword and rushed towards the Megalosaurus. The white dragon seemed to be stunned. It did not react at all until Sti was five meters away from it …
"Bang!" A black shadow came from behind like lightning. Like a tomato that had been hit by a baseball, Si Di flew into the air and his body was split in half. In fact, other than his head and legs, everything else had turned into a splattered mush that landed on the faces, hair, and tattered leather armor of the savages who had rushed toward the giant dragon.
Fear gripped the savages' minds.
And this was not the end …
"Squeak!" The white dragon roared into the sky. A dark red fireball gradually expanded from the size of an orange to the size of a dustpan. Then, "Slash —"
The huge fireball instantly transformed into a palm-wide, 40-meter-long bright red arc of light. Like a huge machete, it suddenly slashed forward …
"Boom!" Wood chips, snow, bloody mud, broken limbs, and bright red sparks exploded on both sides of the 40-meter-long straight line.
"Gulp!" Jon swallowed hard, sweating profusely. Suddenly, he was even more terrified of the female dragon knight than he was of the barbarians.
"Those who surrender will be spared. Those who resist will be killed!" The woman's cold voice rang out again.
Hmm, he thought her voice was sweet before, but now it had become inexplicably cruel.
The 40-meter-long machete looked powerful, but in fact, it only burned four or five unlucky savages. It did not "kill" anyone. The dragon flame only changed its form, but its power and nature did not change. The illusory flame could not cut through solid flesh.
To put it simply, other than the beautiful scene and the waves of air, the lethality came from the temperature of the flame itself.
As for the broken limbs … This was originally the center of the battlefield. Severed limbs and heads were everywhere on the ground.
But Jon did not know, and neither did the savages!
"Squeak —" When Blackie appeared and slid over the savages' heads, the savages finally broke down. They were the first to throw down their weapons, followed by the second, third … The savages surrendered.
Danny sat on Little White's back without moving. White Knight helped Perestan down from Blackie's back.
The old professor had flown for close to 20 hours. His face was pale and his legs were trembling. He was about to faint from exhaustion.
Hmm, flying from the Three-forked River to the Great Wall was close to 3500 kilometers. They stopped three times for an hour each time to eat, drink, and relax before continuing to fly.
Danny could feel that after 2000 kilometers, Little White started to feel tired. Blackie, on the other hand, kept flying at a constant speed. It did not feel tired at all. When it was flying, it was also operating the nine-colored vortex to absorb magic particles from the void.
Magic allowed Blackie to last longer.
"Which Targaryen is it?"
While she was thinking, the Night Watchers climbed down from the wooden ladder. They consciously started to tie up and detain the savages who surrendered. Then, a black-haired bearded man walked over with a trembling old man in a gray robe.
White Knight took a step forward and opened her helmet. She said loudly, "Barristan, I am Barristan Selmy. I have come with Her Majesty Danny Rize Targaryen to the Great Wall to assist the Night Watchers."
"Barristan!" The young man exclaimed. He was even more shocked to see the legendary White Knight.
"Danny Rize?!" The old scholar was surprised. A beautiful scene that he had never dreamed of appeared in front of his eyes.
"It's me."
Danny saw the long chain around the old man's neck and guessed his identity. She jumped down from Little White's back and took off her helmet. Her silver braid hung in front of her chest.
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