Chapter 326: Mutual Injuries and Sacrifices
Before the savages could reach the gates, they felt the ground shake suddenly, and a large number of cavalry troops in steel armor formed a front formation, and Stannis shouted the words of the Baratheon family, 'Burning Fury', and rushed out of the dark passage of the city gate with his five thousand cavalry.
Stannis. Baratheon was proud, just, and self-serving, and although he looked down on his brother, the late King Robert, in fact, his personality was even more unfit to be a king.
Guarding the city gate is actually very simple, most people will choose to block the passage of the city gate with debris, or blow up the passage, but Stannis, who advocates attacking, led his cavalry troops to attack it.
Attacking instead of defending is indeed very imposing and looks brave, but at the same time, the casualties of the troops will be extremely heavy.
Seeing the continuous cavalry pouring out of the passage and fiercely rushing towards the huge number of savage troops, Li Nan, who was watching the battle on the Great Wall, couldn't help but sigh, in his opinion, Stannis was irresponsible to the soldiers under his command by doing so.
When the cavalry troops accelerated through the long passage and appeared outside the Great Wall, they had reached extremely high speeds, and soon collided with the vanguard of the savages.
Very few infantry in the plains could withstand the onslaught of cavalry, especially wild men without heavy armor.
Looking from the heights, I saw more and more cavalry galloping forward at a high speed, breaking into the ranks of the savage army, blood splattering, and screaming again and again. The swords and spears in the hands of the cavalry were extremely lethal with the help of horsepower, and the savages encountered along the way were like wheat, and the lives of these cavalry were harvested. Some savages of incredible strength attacked desperately, and although they killed some cavalry, they did not help the overall situation.
Although the Savage army was twenty times outnumbered Stannis's cavalry troops, they were quickly routed by the ferocious 5,000 cavalry.
The leader of the savages, the king of Saiwai, was commanding in the rear at this time, and when he saw that the other party had sent a powerful cavalry force to attack, he hurriedly ordered all the savages to retreat to the ghost forest, wanting to rely on trees to hinder the strength of the cavalry attack.
Stannis took the lead, and kept charging at the front of the arrows of the cavalry, and when he saw the savages fleeing into the woods, he pointed his sword at him without thinking about it, and continued to chase after him.
There is an old saying in China that every forest is not entered, because no one knows what is in the forest.
The war stirred up Stannis's blood, and since the defeat at the Blackwater, he had been suppressed and roared, leading his cavalry into the woods......
The King of the Outer Fortress is not a pure wildling, he defected from the Night's Watch unit at Castle Black to find one of his own, so he knows the tactics and usual tricks of Team Seven.
As soon as he had retreated into the forest, he ordered the giants to cut down the trees with their great axes, and the thick fallen trees became a repelling horse for the cavalry without any decoration.
Stannis and his cavalry quickly rushed into the woods, it was night after all, and it was still in the dense forest, so when they saw the fallen trees in front of them, it was impossible for them to stop their horses in the gallop.
The horses slammed into the trunks of the trees, the knights on the horses were thrown out, and before Stannis could get up from the ground, he saw a large black shadow rushing towards him.
In the plains, the number of savages and the superiority of individual combat were not reflected at all, but when they arrived in the forest to fight these cavalry without the help of war horses, they began to counterattack.
This offensive and defensive battle began at nightfall and lasted until dawn, and finally ended temporarily.
More than 3,000 savages died on the Great Wall, and Stannis killed as many as 6,000 in the moment of the cavalry charge, and after storming into the woods, Stannis's cavalry suffered heavy losses.
Even Stannis himself was seriously wounded, and if it weren't for the onion knight and his guards fighting to save him, I'm afraid the king of the narrow sea would have died in the woods.
After arranging the city's defenses, Li Nan and Sir Thorne rode back to Castle Black on a wooden ladder, and they hurried to a wooden house to visit Stannis, who lived there.
Li Nan came to the bed, looked at the pale Stannis, and asked the others, "Is the adult seriously injured?" ”
The Onion Knight, with a bandage on his arm, said with some pain: "It's heavy, His Majesty's chest has been trampled by a mammoth." ”
"Shhh Hearing this, both Li Nan and Sir Thorne gasped.
The mammoth in the army of savages is actually the true mammoth of the earth, this long-haired, tall animal existed during the Ice Age, and is the most famous of the extinct elephants.
Mammoths are more than three meters tall, weigh six tons, and have two tusks that are upturned up to two meters long, making them a formidable large animal.
The weight of a sedan is only about one and a half tons, and a mammoth is equivalent to four cars, Li Nan estimates that he is wearing armor to step on a six-ton mammoth, which is also a dead end, Stannis still has a breath now, which is already a miracle.
All the medical knowledge in this world is in the hands of the school city in the old town, and every bachelor has a part-time doctor, and when everyone looks at the Abbey of Castle Black, and the Schymour of Stannis, both of them slowly shake their heads.
Scholar Aemon said calmly: "Lord Stannis's chest bone is broken, and his internal organs are estimated to have been severely damaged, and such an injury may only be able to be saved by the gods." ”
When it comes to the topic of gods, the person with the most say in the room must be Melisandre, the red-robed priestess of the Church of Light.
Melisandre looked fixedly at Stannis, who was about to die of a serious injury on the bed, and there was a hint of confusion in her eyes, which were usually full of firm and fanatical conviction, and she couldn't believe that the king whom God had guided her to find was about to die.
Seeing that Melisandre was silent, the onion knight grabbed her shoulder and said excitedly, "Red robe, can your Lord of Light save His Majesty?" ”
Awakened by the violent shaking, Melisandre hesitated and said, "The Lord of Light is an all-powerful god, of course I can save him, but I need a sacrifice. ”
"Sacrifices?" The onion knight, who had seen Melisandre sacrifice the living, was shocked when she heard the words that came out of her mouth.
Li Nan had been in contact with Thoros, a missionary of the Church of Light, and had also learned how to use the power of the bloodline, and he had always felt that this Lord of Light was like an evil god.
According to the sacrifice process of the Lord of Light, the prayer person needs to sacrifice a person with a strong bloodline to the King of Light, and according to the strength of the bloodline in the sacrifice, they will receive corresponding help from the King of Light.
The Onion Knight looked at the people in the room, and asked in a trembling voice, "The sacrifice you need... Who is it? ”
The red-robed priestess glanced at Li Nan and said, "The King of the High Court and the King of the Iron Islands are dead, and there are currently three kings left in the Seven Kingdoms, namely the King of the Iron Throne, the King of the Narrow Sea, and the King of the North. ”
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