Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 154

Da da da!
Several scout cavalry from Winterfell were galloping from north to south on the relatively flat Kingsroad.

They gathered together from different directions, but without exception, these reconnaissance cavalrymen all had expressions of fear on their faces.

More than half a month had passed since the destruction of the Night's Watch, and the entire North already knew that an ocean-like army of the dead was moving from the north to the south.

When the temporary stronghold at the collapsed site of the Great Wall was completely destroyed, the Shadow Tower and East Bay, which were stationed at the left and right ends of the Wall, fell one after another.

At this time, the civilians of Mole Village and Houguan Town, who were relatively close to the Wall,
The Northern soldiers learned the shocking news from the very few Night Watchmen who escaped from the temporary base in advance, and immediately began to flee to the south.

But even though they were nearly ten days late in heading south, these armies of the dead were able to travel for 24 hours without sleep.

Civilians who had means of transportation such as horses, donkeys, and mules were fine, as they successfully distanced themselves from the army of the dead.

The vast majority of civilians, who brought their families with them and refused to give up their belongings, were eventually chased down by the army of the dead.

The survivors didn't know what happened to these people, and they didn't want to know.

He just kept whipping his mount, trying to make it escape a little further before dying of exhaustion.

These survivors who escaped from the northern towns were lucky enough to escape to the Last Hearth City.

Duke Creggan, who was well prepared, issued a war call to the entire northern nobility after receiving the letter from Commander-in-Chief Marko.

At the same time, he took a thousand cavalrymen from Winterfell and traveled day and night to reach the Last Hearth ahead of time.

Because he had learned indirectly about the horror of the army of the dead from Jacaerys, he immediately chose to order non-combat personnel to continue migrating towards Winterfell.

Now in the Last Hearth, there are only one thousand Winterfell cavalrymen, one thousand Umber family soldiers and two thousand temporarily recruited militiamen.

Logically, Lord Creggan's best option would be to gather all his forces at Winterfell and fight a decisive battle with the army of the dead.

But facing the death attack passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the Stark family, he had a strong desire to test the opponent's strength.

After all, if we get some intelligence now, the subsequent Battle of Winterfell will be much easier.

And Duke Creggan is not really so reckless. He has already prepared a retreat in advance.

When the scout cavalry brought back the news that the army of the dead would arrive in an hour at most, the entire Last Hearth City began to make final preparations.

Commander-in-Chief Marko's letter was written in a sloppy handwriting and the message was very simple. Duke Creggan only knew from it that fire was very effective against the army of the dead.

Therefore, almost all the wood that could burn in the entire Last Hearth City was collected on the north wall, and fuel and other combustion aids were indispensable.

When a gray cloud with snowflakes falling appeared in the sky, everyone knew that it marked the arrival of the army of the dead.

Because there were corpses buried around the towns south of the Great Wall for at least thousands of years.

The army of the dead that received supplies was at least two or three times more in number than when they attacked the temporary stronghold on the Great Wall.

Now it can truly be called an ocean of the dead.

As usual, when the army of the dead approached a certain distance from the Last Hearth City, it suddenly changed and rushed towards the northern city wall at the fastest speed.

shhhhhh!
Finally, at the top of the northern wall of Hearth City, nearly a thousand archers drew their bows and aimed before shooting the rockets that were ignited in advance on the bowstrings.

Why do they need to aim when facing such a large number of zombies?

That's because all the people they shot were zombies with rotten flesh.

This is valuable information obtained from the Night's Watch and Northern soldiers who escaped from the temporary base in advance.

Boom, boom!
The corpses with rotten flesh were ignited by the rockets and turned directly into burning corpses that fell to the ground.

Beside them, the zombies were either tripped by the burning corpses or ignited by the flames on their bodies.

This wave of flaming arrows killed at least four to five thousand zombies.

The effect is really good. Compared with those zombies that are only left with skeletons,
When these zombies with rotten flesh fall down, they can effectively block the zombies charging from the rear, causing chaos within a certain range.

However, these methods can only cause minor troubles to the ocean-like army of zombies.

Large numbers of zombies rushed to the northern city wall and began to pile up the stairs of bones according to the previous routine.

Finally, the northern wall of Hearth City was ten meters high, twice as high as the temporary stronghold of the Great Wall.

Therefore, it would be impossible for the army of zombies to reach the top of the city wall in a short time.

Blah blah blah!

Barrels of fuel poured down from the top of the city wall, pouring onto the zombies building a staircase of bones below.

As a rocket ignited the fuel, a flame moat suddenly formed under the northern city wall.

Duke Creggan poked his head out to take a look at the situation below the city wall, then nodded with satisfaction.

I saw one corpse ghost after another rushing into the flaming city belt like a moth to a flame, continuously adding fuel to it.

But he did not relax his vigilance. If the army of the dead could really be dealt with so easily.

Then the ancestors of the Stark family would not have passed down those legends for thousands of years.

really!

A few minutes later, the zombies that were charging towards the flame moat suddenly stopped.

Then, he turned around and ran to the back.

yeah! ! !
Seeing the army of zombies retreating like this, thousands of Northern soldiers on the north wall immediately shouted loudly to celebrate.

Only Duke Creggan frowned, not thinking that the army of the dead was only capable of this much.

"Ah! Look, the water level in the Sujiang River is rising!"

Suddenly, waves of exclamations came into the ears of Duke Creggan.

He immediately turned and looked towards the west side of Last Hearth City.

At the source of the river called Mojiang, a huge white wave was breaking away from the river channel and rushing towards them.

Rumble!
A huge wave seven or eight meters high was rushing towards the Last Hearth City with a terrifying momentum to destroy everything. All the stones, trees, animals and zombies along the way were swept up in it.

Needless to say, the flaming moat under the northern city wall was immediately extinguished by the huge wave.

But that was not all. A huge wave with enormous power slammed heavily into the outer wall of the northern city wall.

Blah, blah!
A section of the city wall with a hole in the foundation suddenly sank a little, and the original ten-meter-high city wall was only six or seven meters high.

If Jacaerys were here, he would definitely know that the huge waves that broke away from the river channel were the Sea Hammer magic used by the Children of the Forest.

But the problem is that he is not here. When most of the Northern soldiers saw this scene that seemed like divine punishment, they immediately felt that they had angered the gods.

Wow!
When the magical effect of the Sea Hammer faded, the army of zombies began to attack the city again. It was obvious that the defense this time was far weaker than before.

This time, the army of zombies focused their attack on the part of the city wall that had sunk by half. The defenders on this part of the wall suddenly felt the pressure increased dramatically.

The fuel had been almost consumed in the construction of the flame moat.

Moreover, the area below the northern city wall was wet and full of water, so even with fuel it was impossible to create the raging fire that had been there before.

However, due to the sinking of the city wall's foundation, the stairs of bones built by the zombie army soon approached the top of the city wall.

Seeing that the army of zombies was about to climb the city wall, the archers who had been shooting before immediately retreated and made room.

Behind them, soldiers holding flaming spears immediately filled their positions and formed a spear formation.

The corpses of the army of zombies soon piled up in the sunken area of ​​the city wall.

But human endurance is no match for the tireless wights. Especially after a series of battles, the fatigue of the northern soldiers is accumulating exponentially.

Ah!
A Northern soldier suddenly felt dizzy due to fatigue and failed to stab the wight with his flaming spear.

Then he was immediately knocked to the ground by the corpse ghost who climbed to the top of the city wall and stabbed to death with a sword.

Dozens of zombies took the opportunity to climb to the top of the city wall through this gap in the defense line and attacked the Great Wall soldiers around them.

All the zombies under the city wall rushed towards the sunken wall like sharks smelling blood.

Just as the defense line of the northern city wall was about to collapse with this gap as the center, the sound of dragon wings breaking through the air was heard from the sky.

Hooray, hooray!
A light green shadow swooped down from the southern sky towards the gap in the defense line at an extremely fast speed.

Hey!
The slender light green dragon flame illuminated this section of the city wall, and the powerful light green dragon flame exploded directly on the corpse stairs.

Bang!
The bones staircase was immediately exploded and ignited by the light green dragon flame. A large number of bones and rotten corpses were covered by the light green dragon flame and burned into charcoal.

Bang bang bang!
This light green dragon flame started from the Bone Stairs and continued to spray towards the sea of ​​corpses in the north.

The powerful impact of the light green dragon flame immediately blew to pieces the countless zombies at the points covered by the dragon flame.

Then, accompanied by the scorching dragon flame, in a very short time, a flaming crack of earth was plowed out in the dense army of zombies, turning over and burning with blazing dragon flame.

After the dive, Benilla immediately controlled Moon Dancer to fly to the left wing. She was preparing to make another dive attack from the side.

After receiving the letter with the seal of the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, King's Landing immediately handed it over to Queen Benilla, who had the highest status.

She immediately summoned Stone, Rudy and others who were specially left in King's Landing by Jacaerys to discuss the matter.

Stone knew that for Jacaerys, Queen Benilla's safety was above all else.

So he dissuaded Queen Benilla from riding her dragon alone to the north, and suggested that the letter be handed over to His Majesty the King intact.

Although Benilla was dissatisfied at the time, she still agreed.

But in the following days, raven letters from the northern nobles kept floating in from the north like snowflakes.

Looking at the various requests in her heart, the soft-hearted Benilla hid it from Stone and others, and drove Moondancer first to Winterfell, and then to Last Hearth.

It's better to come early than to come late!

Benilla arrived just when the northern soldiers' defense was about to collapse. Without hesitation, she controlled Moon Dance to launch a dragon flame attack on the army of zombies.

It is said that after Yuewu changed direction in the air, she spewed dragon flames from the left side of the city wall and launched a horizontal attack on the army of zombies.

Bang bang bang!
For the army of zombies that can only adapt to low temperature environments, fire is indeed one of the most effective weapons to deal with them.

The damage caused to the army of zombies by Yuewu's dragon flame, which was only slightly more powerful than ordinary fire, was greater than the losses suffered by the Northern soldiers in a long battle after less than two attacks.

If Moon Dancer, who continues to spit out dragon flames, completes this dive attack, a huge flame cross will appear in the sea of ​​​​zombies.

However, when Yuewu's dive attack just reached the middle intersection of the "cross", something strange happened!
呲呲呲!
A dozen ice crystal javelins that looked like works of art were thrown out from all over the zombie army and shot towards Yuewu in the air.

Seeing this, Benilla, who was extremely alert, immediately controlled her smaller body and turned to the agile Moon Dance to dodge.

call out!
But when Yuewu was dodging, an ice spear with a sharp sound of breaking through the air came from the left at an extremely fast speed and shot towards its light green dragon body.

Hey!
As if sensing the danger, Yuewu suddenly turned its dragon neck and spewed out light green dragon flames towards the ice spear that was shooting towards it.

Light green dragon flames instantly covered the sky to the left of Yuewu's body, and the scorching heat seemed to distort the air.

Whoosh! Boom!
An ice crystal spear with the front half melted penetrated the blockade of the light green dragon flame and hit Yuewu's left abdomen hard.

Woo ang! ! !

Yuewu, who was hit by the ice spear, trembled all over, and then let out a huge dragon roar filled with pain.

The intense pain caused by the collision directly made Yuewu's flying posture become messy, and she was flying left and right in the sky as if she was drunk.

"Yuewu, hold on!"

Benilla, who was being bounced up and down on the dragon saddle, shouted loudly to Yuewu and tried her best to control Yuewu to keep her body steady.

Fortunately, the ice spear did not penetrate Yuewu's light green dragon scales and cause too much damage.

After trying hard to steady her body, Moon Dancer immediately followed Benilla's instructions and flapped her wings hurriedly to fly towards Winterfell.

Duke Creggan on the north wall witnessed the entire battle between the dragon and the White Walkers.

At the same time, through the telescope, he could also see clearly the Black Crow and the Green Prophet who had transformed into the Night King.

Without any hesitation, he immediately gave the order: "Prepare to set fire to stop the enemy, abandon the city and head for Winterfell!"

Even the dragon was injured and fled, so it would be impossible for them to hold on to their defense line which was about to collapse.

Hey!
As the messenger's order was issued, the Northern soldiers fled hurriedly towards the south gate of the Last Hearth City.

Before leaving, they set fire to the piles of thick wood piled under the north wall.

Hoo ho ho!
As these woods with combustible materials were ignited, the entire northern wall turned into a blazing wall of flames.

The Amber family members felt distressed when they saw this, after all, this was the family castle where their family had lived for thousands of years.

But as long as no one is hurt, we can rebuild the burned northern city wall later.

With this wall of fire separating humans and White Walkers, more than 3,000 Northern soldiers in Hearth City finally escaped successfully.

Duke Creggan, riding on his horse, looked back at the Last Hearth City that seemed to have burned the sky red.

He immediately understood that facing the army of zombies, a giant dragon alone could not do much.

It must be His Majesty Jacaerys who leads all the dragons to attack at the same time!
(End of this chapter)