Chapter 553: Winter Strikes (2)

I don't know how many ghouls came to attack Chongguan at the foot of the Great Wall this time, looking at the dense black shadows and human heads surging below, it is estimated that there are more than 100,000, and this number has almost reached one-seventh or even one-eighth of the population of the entire Westeros continent.

The strange spirits may have driven away the corpses that had accumulated for hundreds of years outside the northern border, and they rushed to the Great Wall from a distance like tireless ants, opening a scene in the dark sky to cover the entire land, and the corpses were stacked on top of each other.

The battle line was dragged by them for a long time, because there were too many ghouls, only a few hundred or thousands of ghouls flocked to the Great Wall at the beginning, and the night watchmen could still rely on the terrain and wisdom to maneuver around, but after tens of thousands of ghouls rushed over, personal prowess was meaningless in the face of this huge number.

At first, only a small pile of corpses gathered under the outer gates of the Great Wall, but now, almost the entire defense line under the Great Wall is crowded with ghouls, who cling to the outer wall of the Great Wall like thin lines, and behind them, there is still an endless army of ghouls.

But this does not mean that the Night's Watch Legion has no hope of victory, although the number of ghouls is large, but as far as they know, the master of the ghouls, the real disaster of the White Plague, the number of strangers, is not that much.

They are mixed in among the ghouls, and there may be a few, maybe dozens, maybe hundreds, but certainly not too many.

Although they control the ghouls, these resurrected corpses can only make simple movements, such as trying to attack the hinterland of Westeros, they can only force their way through the Wall.

The only entrance and exit to the Great Wall. The outer door that could accommodate the giants had been sealed by Jon's order. Previously, the Night's Watch continued to deploy reinforcements and fought to the death. It's to grab the outer door before the ghouls do, and seal it down.

The last line of defense of mankind, the Great Wall was built to defend against the ghosts, so the outer gate left behind could have been blocked, but the process was very cumbersome, and the night watchman had instructions to not invade the ghosts. No one could block the door, so Jon didn't give up when Mance led the barbarians to attack.

But now, it's time to show its usefulness.

When the last piece of fishbeam wood was used as an edge to stabilize the outer door, both the surviving Night's Watch and Jon breathed a sigh of relief, as they had been under tremendous pressure to withstand the onslaught of the ghouls, and the outer door had to be kept blocked, even though the interior of the outer door had a lot of angular compartments and the padding had been prepared according to the specifications. But they were still nervous.

Because once the vanguard of the ghouls breaks through the defenses of the Night's Watch, their armies will continue to arrive. At that time, it will be impossible for the night watchman to retake the outer gate, and if he is not careful, it will collapse completely.

Under such tremendous pressure, no one dared to relax, and a fierce battle broke out at the outer gates, but the Night's Watch finally blocked the only entrance and exit before the overwhelming army of ghouls arrived, and now they wanted to break through the Great Wall unless they turned over or grew wings.

The news that the outer gate was held also gave the night watchmen great confidence, and although they did not know how such a terrible creature as a stranger appeared, they knew that with the power of the ghouls, they could not climb over the barrier of the Great Wall, which could be called a heavenly moat.

Seven hundred feet, two hundred meters high, equivalent to the moat of sixty-five floors, for the backward world of A Song of Ice and Fire, only magic can create such a miracle, and similarly, those ghouls who were human beings in life are completely unable to climb over this barrier between heaven and earth.

You know, the height of a twenty-story building is enough to make a person look like an ant, and sixty-five floors, it is estimated that even a human figure cannot be seen clearly.

There are still about eight or nine hundred people left in the night watch, and it is far from the moment of crisis, so Jon, who was the commander-in-chief of the battle just now, did not go to the battlefield in person, but even so, his palms have been soaked with sweat, Jon is not a person who can't hold his breath, but even he is relieved after completely blocking the outer door.

But before he could relax, he stumbled down the ladder with a night watchman who Jon Snow recognized as the night watchman in charge of the Wall, Dwane.

"What's going on?" Jon grabbed Devane, and then asked urgently, if it weren't for the accident at the top of the Wall, the Night's Watch wouldn't have left their posts without permission.

"Total ...... Commander-in-Chief, go up and take a look! "There are more and more ghouls down there, I didn't care about it at first, but not long ago, I noticed that they were getting bigger, they, they're climbing the Great Wall on top of each other!" ”

Snow was stunned, he knew that there were many ghouls, but what was the purpose of stacking them on top of each other, but soon Snow was urging a spiriter in Devane, and they really planned to climb the Great Wall!

"Commander-in-Chief! They were halfway through when I came down! Now another ten minutes have passed! Devane urged anxiously beside him.

Jon quickly settled down, and before he had time to explain, he immediately called to the people around him, "Brothers of the Night's Watch! Send a hundred people and follow me to the Great Wall in batches! ”

Snow is now very confident, because of the news of the invasion of the ghosts, almost all the night watchmen on the defense line of the Great Wall have gathered in the night castle, reaching an unprecedented number of nearly 1,000 people, although they have sacrificed a lot, but the manpower is still very abundant, and soon the night watchmen will follow Jon to climb the ladder under the adjustment of the leaders at all levels.

The crane can't bring too many people at a time, and a hundred people are estimated to be divided into three or four times, because the mechanical winch power is backward, and the running speed of the crane is also very slow, and it has been close to half an hour back and forth.

By the time Snow and his party came to the top of the Great Wall, the nearest ghoul had climbed to two-thirds of the Great Wall, Snow's face was very ugly, he had been directing the battle of the outer gate below, and did not pay attention to the situation outside, because they were all blocked by ghouls.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I came to the top of the Great Wall, I found that the situation was already very critical.

Ghouls were able to climb the Great Wall, certainly not with wings. And the smooth and steep Great Wall simply can't be borrowed. Maybe a human can climb up with a tool like an ice axe. But ghouls don't have that intelligence.

They were able to climb the Great Wall entirely by relying on the tactics of the sea of corpses.

From Snow's position, a dense endless stream of ghouls rushed to the place, as if they were rushing towards a holy war, jumping in the dark snow, moths to the foot of the Great Wall, and then they hugged each other one after the other, and the corpses grabbed the corpses. The rapid crowding overlapped each other, stacking higher and higher.

Looking down from above, these ghouls are piled up at the foot of the Great Wall like ants building nests, and the black shadows are constantly expanding and accumulating rapidly, these ghouls are rushing to pile up together, stepping on the bodies of their companions to become new stepping stones, and the speed that has been visible to the naked eye is increasing steadily, constantly climbing to the top of the Great Wall.

This is a very familiar scene, because Yi Huan also pays special attention to zombie movies, and naturally he will not let go of this scene in World War Z. At this time, this group formation was used by the ghosts in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, and this scene was very strange to Jon. It's also very deadly.

"They're coming up......" Snow muttered as he looked at the honeycomb scene below.

"I know they're coming, Jon, and you're going to figure it out!" Sam behind him lowered his voice and said anxiously, in fact, the people around him also had this idea, but they didn't say it.

The overwhelming number of ghouls gradually accumulating along the Great Wall and then climbing upwards is definitely not a small impact scene, they are like revenge ghosts crawling out of hell, writhing their ugly bodies, waving their deformed cheeks, and constantly surging upward.

The night watchman on the city wall saw this scene and involuntarily clenched his sword, and trembled slightly, this scene was far more terrifying than imagined, if ordinary people saw it, they were afraid that they could run away on the spot, and the night watchman was worthy of being the last elite on the Great Wall.

Jon was nervous at this point, but he knew that he needed to be calmer as the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, and he was indeed calmer than the others.

"Don't panic, hold steady!" He let out a low roar, and at the same time quickly thought about the possible ways to deal with the current situation in his mind, and the idea of fighting and setting fire one by one was ruled out by him, because there were too many enemies, and he was completely killing himself.

The most useful advantage on the Great Wall was nothing to mention in the face of the Sea of Corpses tactics, and just as Jon was oozing sweat from his forehead, the Old Gods favored him once again.

"Use that!" Jon jerked at the distant defenses and led the way.

As soon as Jon's gaze swept over the place, he immediately remembered the hanging cone on the Great Wall to defend against the climbers, and he was really distracted by the wave of ghouls just now, and he didn't even think of this thing.

At this time, the people around also reacted, and began to perform their duties, they knew the power of the cone, after putting down the cone, the huge sickle-like awl would quickly slash along the outer wall of the Great Wall, swinging a perfect arc, and then the night watchmen pulled it up and continued to put it down.

Anything attached to the wall will be wiped out by the impact of the hundreds of pounds of awls, as if harvesting dead grass, and the large number of ghouls piled up under the Great Wall is just a futile attempt to increase the sense of blood, the number is not worth mentioning in front of the awl, it is made to prevent climbing the city wall.

Using inertia and gravity, the cone would sweep away every qiē of the outer wall, and Jon even wondered if he had thought about the day when he built the Great Wall and made the cone, which was specially prepared for the accumulation of ghouls.

The skilled night watchmen quickly prepared the cones, and they quietly lit their torches, waiting for Jon Snow to give the final order, and the faces of the approaching ghouls were unusually clear and hideous in the light of countless burning torches.

These people who have been dead for a long time have pale faces, strange wounds on their bodies, and torsos are also twisted in a thousand ways, combined with strange and terrifying faces, which makes people feel uneasy and sick to their stomachs.

Their faces are expressionless, with a hint of numbness as stepping stones to their companions, as if they are constantly driven by mechanical forces, which is particularly eerie and terrifying.

The Night's Watch unconsciously turned their gaze to Jon, but he remained very calm and motionless, "Wait, wait, wait." Jon said.

The height of the ghouls was still rising, and their ugly faces were rapidly expanding, but Jon was not in a hurry, he needed a suitable opportunity to inflict huge casualties on them, if not all of them, at least not for a second attack in a while.

So Jon held the order down, waiting for the ghouls to get closer and closer.

These ugly faces were gradually reflected in the pupils of the night watch, the ghouls were only a few dozen meters away from the top of the Great Wall, they could even smell the stench coming from the corpse pile, and the night watchmen couldn't hold on, and then their eyes fell on Jon's body, and shouted, "Commander-in-chief! ”

The pressure on Jon's heart was greater than anyone else's, and the approaching ghouls brought him a mountain of depression, and finally, he couldn't hold it anymore, and shouted, "Put the cone!" ”

"Put the cone!"

“…… Put the hanging cone! ”

Immediately after receiving his order, the night watchmen on the Great Wall began to shout to each other one after another, and they could not hold back the fear in their hearts, but at this moment, a louder dragon chant interrupted their calling.

Whew!

A dragon groan that seemed to come from the sky seemed to cross the sky, accurately transmitted to the sky above the Great Wall, and the air seemed to be fluctuating with dragon groans, only Jon's face changed drastically, "Quick! Put it down! Fast! He roared loudly as he ran desperately towards the cone.

The Night's Watch in charge of the cone, though unaware of what was happening, apparently understood Jon's command, and they began to shake the rope so fast that they were one step away from lowering the cone.

Jon was only a dozen meters away from the cone, and when he saw that the cone was about to fall, his hanging heart also fell, but just before his heart sank to the bottom, the next moment, it hung again.

A black dot appeared in the distant sky, then more and more, and finally to three, and they were so fast that they seemed to be only in the blink of an eye from the size of a grain of rice to the appearance of them, and at this time, the nearby Night's Watch also saw this kind of creature.

"Dragon! It's a dragon! They let out a frightened scream that had changed their voices.

Jon's eyes widened suddenly, as if even his pupils were dilated, and his face became hideous, as if he had been possessed by the devil for a moment, and he ran desperately towards the cone, and even time slowed down at this moment.

But something was faster than him, faster than time, and the three wyverns roared from the distant sky, effortlessly overtaking Jon, who was desperately running and jumping, and they didn't pay any attention to the night watchman on the wall, but swooped down on the gigantic giant cone! (To be continued......)