Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

"It's exactly what I thought. The White Walker army's siege in the interior is just a means, not an end."

Viserys looked at the information from the Three-Eyed Raven and couldn't help but sigh.

During the siege of Winterfell, the Great Wall and other castles in the north were also simultaneously attacked by the White Walkers.

But this is not the worst case scenario. If the zombie tide is just concentrating its efforts on attacking the Great Wall and the castles in the north, that will be good news for Viserys.

However.

"The castle is meaningless to the White Walkers and the Cold God. Only living creatures - living people and various wild and domestic animals are their targets. The situation in the interior is rotten. It is now ordered that the Neck War The troops and civilians south of and north of the Red Fork River have to evacuate to Riverrun, Harrenhal or even further, and it may be too late.”

Viserys looked at the Three-Eyed Crow: "I want to know how you got such precise information, why suddenly there was such a precise troop layout, movement and route of the White Walker army in the north, and even a special White Walker commander. position, what did you do? Instigated the rebellion of a White Walker commander?"

But it turned out that the Three-Eyed Raven suddenly gave Viserys the location, layout, and direction of the White Walkers' armies, large and small, in the north.

Even including the special advance team of the White Walkers in the White Walkers army. This advance team relied on the advantages of high-mobility corpses such as ice spiders, dead horses, and dead bears, as well as the mobility advantage of not getting tired without eating or drinking. They scattered flowers in groups of three to five before the White Walkers' zombie army dispersed deep into the north. There are winter refuges for villagers and clansmen in the mountains in the border, fishermen villages along the coast and rivers, and the outskirts of the noble castles in the north.

They will locate living people and living creatures, collect corpses, and gather scattered living creatures - including humans who are independently preparing to survive the winter and cannot venture out after a long night, as well as bears, lizards, snakes, and other animals that have entered hibernation. Animals such as wolves, wild goats, and shadow lynx survive in the ice and snow. When encountering a gathering place that cannot be solved by scattered military forces, they will also summon nearby zombies to gather together and attack together.

Say so. The White Walker army heading south and deep into the interior is different from the human conquerors. We cannot think about their combat intentions in the same way as conquerors, because they are not rushing to conquer cities and conquer territories to become kings and hegemons like humans. The purpose of killing all living things.

Castles and cities have no political significance to the White Walker army, and they do not want legitimacy or claim rights. In their view, castles and cities are just larger and more difficult to handle gatherings of humans and various domesticated living creatures. Just click.

The army of the White Walkers will not fight in one place. If they cannot capture it, they will mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the city.

They won't.

What they need is not to compete with humans for one city or one place, but for the speed of killing living creatures and the efficiency of transformation.

To put it more simply, despite the fact that the ghouls have gathered so many armies to attack the Great Wall and various castles in the north, they have not actually gathered all the armies to engage in meaningless fights with humans. While they are attacking the city, There are also various scattered mobile units of White Walkers attacking small strongholds such as human towns and villages, looking for various animal gatherings to slaughter and transform various animals.

There may be many humans in the castle, but there will only be more humans and living creatures outside the castle.

The White Walkers and the Cold Ones are enemies of all living creatures.

“All living creatures” refers to more than just humans.

In fact, it is easy to understand. What the White Walkers need most now after going south is the most efficient massacre and transformation. It is not yet time to really concentrate on attacking a certain castle.

There is a problem of efficiency conversion ratio.

Viserys could imagine that if he were the commander of the White Walkers and there were only ten thousand corpses, and there was a castle with one or two thousand living units in front of him and a field with five thousand living units, then he would not hesitate to deal with all the zombies first. Five thousand living units in the wild.

For the White Walkers, in this war, efficiency is the meaning of fighting.

"I have my own methods." The Three-Eyed Crow did not explain the source of the intelligence. "In short, now that we know the arrangement of the White Walkers, what should we do next? You are the commander-in-chief."

"The army of the White Walkers is too scattered in the north." Viserys looked at the points marked by the Three-Eyed Raven on the map for him. It was still dark north of the Great Wall, with only an approximate location, but south of the Great Wall . There are two large groups of enemies around Eastwatch and Shadow Tower. One group is mainly concentrated in the snowfields around Seal Bay, with commanders and main troops concentrated in the woodland ten miles away from Eastwatch. The other group is concentrated on the back slope of the mountains at the southern foot of Shadow Tower. , the commanders gathered in a mountain col. As for the interior of the North, there are only three large groups gathering in three directions. One group is surrounding Winterfell, one group is gathering between the White Knife River and Sheep's Head Mountain, and another group is moving southwest from the direction of Widow's Watch.

As for other places, they are scattered all over the northern border like goddesses scattering flowers.

When the Three-Eyed Crow told the layout of the White Walkers in the North and marked it on the map in real time with his magic senses, Viserys had an experience like drawing a map on the battlefield.

"We can focus on attacking a few groups of enemies, especially the two groups south of the Great Wall that pose the greatest threat to the Great Wall. They need to be dealt with first. We need to move quickly, and it is best to be able to synchronize. I think we can have what you call a 'stage' Counterattack', send your first battle group to attack the enemy commander's headquarters at the southern foot of the Shadow Tower, and send Stannis and the Northern Alliance to attack your third battle group at the southern foot of Eastwatch. The Second World War Regiment can attack Winterfell in the north. As for you, you can quietly rush to the direction of White Harbor. We can also coordinate and attack from all directions. "

"So that the other party won't doubt how we have such accurate information, and won't they pull out the 'thing' you managed to ambush?"

Viserys looked at the Three-Eyed Raven suspiciously. Although he couldn't understand the method by which the other party obtained the information, the results were astounding to him. He didn't even know what the other party had done, but he figured out the movements of the White Walkers' large and small armies in the South and the positions of their commanders.

But such methods are now being used eagerly, and they are eager to counterattack and thwart the White Walkers' attacks in the North and the Great Wall, although the results are foreseeable. But it is undeniable that the White Walkers now have a long night, they have enough troops, and they are in the snowballing stage. This so-called "phased counterattack" cannot deliver a fatal blow. It can only delay the opponent's partial offensive and frustrate the opponent's spirit.

Viserys felt as if the Three-Eyed Crow had mastered the ultimate move just by being seduced by the Cold God.

Viserys didn't think the Three-Eyed Raven could be that stupid, unless he was dazed. As a witness and recorder of the history and knowledge of Westeros, will he become dizzy?

"If we don't do this, we will just be passively beaten. You should remember the first time you and Daenerys came into contact with me. This 'little trick' will be discovered by the other party soon." The three-eyed crow said, " The army of White Walkers is sparing no effort on the Great Wall, attacking from the north and south, just to hold you and me back. Winterfell is an important military location, and White Harbor now has a population of more than 200,000, which is half of the entire population of the North. These two places were lost under this wave of impact, and the Great Wall became an isolated island on the northern continent.

There are only over 10,000 soldiers and civilians in Winterfell right now, so letting it fall and then finding an opportunity to recapture it is a small problem. But White Harbor, Viserys, if it falls, you know what that means to the North. This means that the White Walkers will have an army of 200,000 or even 300,000 more zombies. "

"Based on what you said, do you think the White Walker army will not assemble the zombies from all over the North to attack White Harbor after encountering strong resistance in White Harbor?"

"This kind of thing happened eight thousand years ago. Although the White Walker army did not formulate tactics at that time. But in Essos, after landing, the White Walker army fought indiscriminately and drove straight in. All the way to the Saihoru River, and behind them There are also several large cities of the Ancestors and the Rhoynar, such as Tha Doran, Na Ka, and A Yiqi, which are resisting tenaciously. Until the human counterattack, there are still some remaining human forces hiding in the underground fortresses of these cities. , fighting. Under the long night, ordinary humans can hardly move out of the city. For them, some cities cannot be entered, and the humans hiding behind the city walls cannot get out. So it is better to gather troops and waste time on these cities. Point your troops straight ahead, because there are always people and living things in front on the mainland.”

Viserys understood. It was still an issue of efficiency. The White Walkers' fighting method was to have a part of the White Walkers who were responsible for advancing forward without looking back, killing all scattered living creatures as much as possible and converting them into servants. The cities and castles behind them would be Surrounded by the zombies gathered further behind, it was left to deal with.

It's a bit like Germany's third attack on the Soviet Union in World War II, except that the mobile troops of the White Walkers do not need supplies, and there will be no phenomenon of tanks running out of fuel and causing delays in the front line.

But even though he understood, Viserys still couldn't help but ask: "I have never heard of the city names you mentioned."

"Of course, because those cities all perished in the end. Eight thousand years ago, many cities where humans gathered under the long night resisted the attack of the White Walkers at first, but they could not withstand the cold and shortage of supplies. Humans and Animals that need to eat to survive and use external objects to maintain body temperature are too fragile. Only a few survived the last long night, but this time, Viserys, although you. A lot of supplies have been prepared, but do you think you can really hold Westeros if the Long Night lasts for thirty years?"

"Eight thousand years ago, there were humans who persisted in the territory occupied by the White Walkers in the Long Night for more than thirty years?"

"Yes, those people had beliefs in the Old Gods, so I know they even have descendants who have passed on to modern times. The islanders of Skagos."

"That's it, they eat people."

"It's not just people, Viserys, animals can do things to stay alive that you can't even imagine until you've seen them."

"They eat ghouls?"

".right."

This outrageous knowledge made Viserys silent for a long time: "So the flesh of the corpse is edible? Can it be cooked?"

The three-eyed crow paused for a while when he asked him this question: "Not only that, the body of the corpse can be used as firewood after being chopped into pieces."

"Outrageous but reasonable. I hope I will never have the chance to see such a thing." Viserys could only give this comment after listening, and then he turned the topic back to the topic, "Let's talk about staged counterattacks. Let's do it." This is easy to say, but how to approach the enemy covertly and how to coordinate attacks on four distant battlefields are big problems. However, "I have an idea that requires you to spend a little magic. Assist the counterattacking troops."

When the discussion between Viserys and the Three-Eyed Crow here entered the topic of counterattack.

In the catacombs of Winterfell, the fear of the flames extinguishing and falling into darkness made Sansa recover from her panic. In shock, she picked up the scalding torch on the ground that was smoked by the strange flame heat. Everything was too weird, and she didn't dare to stay here anymore, so she ran to the collapsed section of the road.

She didn't have time to think of any excuses or reasons, so she decided not to mention the weird things happening here no matter who asked. The old gods were merciful, but she couldn't even explain what was happening here.

Keren just couldn't help but be curious. When Sansa was running in panic on the road, when she felt the strange flames behind her that burned the bodies of her mother and Howland extinguished, and out of the corner of her eye she felt darkness coming again, she couldn't help but Glanced towards that place.

And at this glance, she vaguely saw a ethereal shadow, which looked a bit like a person sitting on a strange chair. That person made Sansa feel inexplicably familiar and sad.

Yes, sad. The moment Sansa, who was panicking inside, saw the shadow, all her emotions were filled with a surge of sadness.

Salty tears flowed from her eyes, and there was a huge void in her heart.

Sansa unconsciously stopped, trying to see who the figure was. But when she looked carefully, there was only a deep, ethereal darkness in that place, like a faint black hole, with nothing in it.

North of the Wall, beneath the weirwood forest.

Meera saw Bran sitting on the weirwood throne in the tree hole, rolling his eyes with crystal tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, and couldn't help but ask: "He is crying, what's wrong?"

Hodor replied: "Hodor."

Meera said angrily: "I didn't ask you."

Hodor responded: "Hodor."

Meera looked at the child of the forest whom she named "Yi Zi": "Do you know Zi Zi?"

"I don't know," the son of the forest blinked his golden eyes as bright as the sun, his voice was sob-like and full of sorrow, "but he is absorbing the wisdom of the old gods, and his wisdom will one day be like the wisdom of the ancient trees. The roots are as deep and developed. He will become a green prophet for us and for the people of the kingdom."

"In the past few days, I have used some means to locate the gathering location of the White Walker army in the south." Yes, some means. Viserys announced, "This is where I found the White Walker army in the south to assemble, and where the chain of command might be.

You have all fought against their armies, and you should know that they should have such a thing as a battlefield commander. They are constantly harassing in the north and south, especially in the Eastwatch and Shadow Tower areas. They are in a particularly difficult situation under the attack. The Wengcheng has changed hands many times, and even the city walls have been threatened many times. These two areas were also the most severely attacked areas, with heavy casualties. The cracks in the city wall had been damaged several times by the magic of the White Walkers.

Although we have me riding a dragon to recover the invaded city wall area in time, we have Jon Snow, the player of the 'Horn of Winter', who has been running back and forth across the Great Wall for more than 20 days, using the magical old god fish The beam magic repaired the seemingly small air leakage crack. But looking at Jon Snow's increasingly weak body, it will kill him sooner or later if this continues. And by then, we may only be able to watch the cracks in the Great Wall being expanded bit by bit by the magic of the White Walkers, causing large-scale collapses like beacon towers again.

I plan to have the First Chapter, the Nightfort garrison of the Great Wall, and the Northern Alliance forces attack in the long night to raid the White Walker army gathered in the south, and try to eliminate and expel their White Walker commanders from their current bases as much as possible to relieve the Great Wall Southern pressure.

This is why I came to you when the military situation was at a fever pitch. Let's all discuss it. "

"It's getting colder and colder outside. Your Majesty, the distance you see is not close to the Great Wall. I'm afraid I won't be able to 'surprise'." Stannis has become increasingly powerful since he obtained the power of R'hllor and the Sword of Light. He is not afraid of field battles, but he is afraid that the human army cannot be "hidden" in the long night. "With all due respect, Your Majesty, since you have discovered this, why don't you do it yourself? Wouldn't it be more convenient for you to ride on the dragon and destroy them?"

"I think you are all more or less aware of the coordinated operations of the White Walkers on all fronts these days. To be honest, we are troubled by this kind of attack. Previously, His Majesty had just forced some of the White Walkers back in Eastwatch, and the White Walkers were all over the line. Retreat." Randyll Tarly defended Viserys, "Lord Stannis, if your Majesty attacks the east, the White Walkers in the west will move. If your Majesty attacks the west, the White Walkers in the east will move. . The result is that just like when we faced the first attack, as soon as His Majesty made a move, the White Walkers' army would retreat across the board, making it impossible for us to fight. "

"More than that," Viserys continued, "Everyone here today is an important member of the Great Wall defenders. I might as well inform you that the White Walkers going south have launched an attack on Winterfell at the same time, and there is another corpse. The tide is already gathering in the direction of White Harbor. There are more than 200,000 civilians in White Harbor. If it falls, I don’t think I need to say much about the consequences. I plan to take the opportunity to rush to the direction of White Harbor during your attack."

Hearing this, someone became anxious: "What? Your Majesty. These days, the White Walker army no longer uses the magic of summoning ice dragons to attack. If you leave, if the White Walker army uses that magic while you and your battle group are away from the Great Wall, This kind of magic, I’m afraid we can’t resist.”

Someone added: "Yes, and has your Majesty ever thought that this information is the commander of the White Walkers trying to divert the Tigers away from the mountain? The Great Wall is nearly three hundred leagues from White Harbor. If Your Majesty goes to White Harbor, the White Walkers attack the Great Wall, and the battle group and Lord Stannis is beyond the Wall again."

Arya, the representative of the Northern Territory, had a different opinion: "If White Harbor is lost, there will be an additional two to three hundred thousand corpses south of the Great Wall. In that case, it will only be a matter of time before the entire Northern Territory falls, and the Great Wall will only be harder to defend."

Someone else said: "Your Majesty rides the dragon very fast. With so many defenders on the Great Wall, can't they even guard the Great Wall for a day and a half?"

"Some of you overestimate the White Walkers' army and underestimate yourselves too much." Viserys couldn't help but say, "I think it is necessary to treat your inner illnesses at this moment. Every attack of the White Walkers has not been successful." Do they not need time to prepare for the attack? Although they are very good at cooperating, do they know everything about the battlefield situation? Or are they able to eavesdrop on the tactics and plans we are discussing here? This makes sense. They are now at the peak of their military strength and are fighting at the Great Wall and in the northern border. Isn't this because they are sure that we will not take the initiative? Isn't this because they look down on us?

We now have sufficient information, and if we are calculated mentally and unintentionally, if we still can't get a favor, then I don't think this battle can be fought. No matter how long we stay, we will just wait for death on the Great Wall. "

Viserys was still a little hesitant at first, but now it seems that the information provided by the Three-Eyed Crow is really timely, and this battle is really necessary. Except for a very few troops, the Great Wall defenders generally panicked about the White Walkers' massive attack after the war, and seriously overestimated the enemy's strength and danger. Therefore, many people placed their hopes and chances of victory entirely on Viserys. This is certainly a good thing for the spread of faith, but it is definitely a bad thing for the military itself.

Viserys's powerful personal ability made them gradually regard themselves as a bunch of Viserys' pendants in their hearts. What's the matter? If the situation worsens in the future, won't the mentality of the Great Wall defenders explode as soon as Viserys leaves the Great Wall? Doesn’t this turn the Great Wall into a golden toilet that Viserys can’t live without?

"Your Majesty, on behalf of the First Chapter, I am willing to follow orders and attack the White Walkers." Randyll Tully stood up, "But Your Majesty, your intelligence shows that the White Walker armies in the east and west directions are seventy or eighty leagues apart. , White Harbor is nearly three hundred leagues away. How can our three directions achieve the same coordination as the White Walkers' army? The ability is unprecedented and unimaginable in my life. The movement of the White Walkers' army is difficult to estimate. The location today may not be where it will be tomorrow. The error is probably very human-evaluable in the cold wind of the night and the snowstorm. The slightest difference in cover may put the troops attacking outside into catastrophe. "

"Commander Randyll, I have considered everything you said." Seeing that the topic finally came to war arrangements, Viserys pointed to the map hanging in the conference hall, "Please take a look, there are magic on these two maps. Mark mark. Everyone, look at this point, this is where we are, Castle Black." Viserys moved his finger, and the strange green mark on the map also moved. "When you two set off, the commander-in-chief must take this with you. Two maps. When your army arrives at the designated location, the points representing you will also move to the corresponding location, and these red marks are where the White Walker commander is. "

Randyll Tully looked at the map, and everyone was stunned: "What a magical magic this is!"

Other attendees, including Stannis, Arya, Aegon, Commander Mormont and the second-line commanders of various ministries, were also amazed and their eyes widened.

"It's not just this map," Viserys said, taking out a weird-shaped thing that looked like the front end of a trumpet stuffed with strange fluff from the box on the table, "There are also three magic pagers here. Come, Aegon, you Come up, take this, and go to the back of the conference hall.”

When Aegon heard the roll call, he stood up with joy. He took the thing that seemed to be made of gold and copper from Viserys' hand. They were two things with slightly different appearances.

"This is how this thing works," Viserys demonstrated to him, putting the receiver to his ear with one hand and holding the microphone to his mouth with the other hand. "Go behind and use the mental power I teach you to sense and receive."

"yes."

That's it, until Aegon is far away.

Viserys' hand glowed with a faint flash of electricity, and the receiver over there rang with a tinkling sound.

Aegon was startled, thinking of Viserys's teachings, and quickly held his breath and sensed with his mental power. The next moment, Aegon felt faint bursts of small currents coming from the strange thing he was holding in his hands.

Then Viserys spoke over there: "How is it, do you hear me?"

At this time, at Aegon's place, the earpiece filled with tiny currents emitted a voice that was slightly distorted, but very similar to Viserys' tone: "How are you, do you hear me?"

The sound emitted by the receiver was not quiet, even louder than the king's voice on the stage, and the commanders in the conference hall heard it clearly.

Aegon responded blankly: "Huh?"

The same somewhat distorted voice came from Viserys's receiver on the stage: "Huh?"

Viserys then said to the microphone: "Next on the battlefield, I plan to let Commander Randyll and Aegon carry this instrument on both sides, and I will carry another one, so that the three parties can use this magic item to communicate remotely. However, there may be a delay due to the long distance."

On Aegon's side, the voice from the receiver echoed with Viserys: "Next"

The commanders in the conference hall were stunned.

Randal Tarly murmured: "Your Majesty, this magic instrument can allow us to communicate hundreds of leagues apart?"

"Yes." Viserys confirmed.

A voice came from Aegon's side: "Yes."

"Okay, come back." Viserys put down the thing made by the Three-Eyed Raven, which even Viserys himself found novel. "You two can take it down later and do some tests. Before Aegon and Lord Stannis return to the Nightfort, you two who are responsible for communication between the two sides had better be familiar with how to page each other."

Commander Randyll and Aegon were very excited and responded loudly: "Yes!"

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, are there any requirements for using this magic instrument?" Desmond, who was under Stannis, could not help asking.

"Yes, the user must know how to use lightning magic and can accurately control the flow of lightning on the instrument."

This is Viserys talking nonsense with his eyes open. The operating principle of this thing is that Viserys himself receives and transmits electric current through two believers. Its essence has nothing to do with the user. The user only acts as a physical receiver and receives the electrical signal from Viserys.

However, because this magic principle really made Viserys feel that his role in it was particularly low-end, Viserys removed himself from it. Anyway, Viserys had already made up his mind to use this thing during the White Walker War, and when the war was over, he would find an excuse to stop using this thing.

The same is true for the magic map. The principle is that the illusions that humans cannot see are manifested on the map by the power of the Three-Eyed Raven. However, the Three-Eyed Raven was very interested in this thing. After hearing Viserys' idea, he pulled Viserys to ask about the prototype, principle and usage of this thing in the other world for a long time. Viserys's eagerness to learn made him admire sincerely.

Desmond murmured: "Is lightning a flowing thing? Like water?"

Aegon smiled and nodded at him.

This scene was seen by Stannis, who glanced over there, and Desmond shut up.

Since Viserys had taken out two magical weapons, the commanders only needed to take a look at them and knew that they could play a great role in the battlefield. Therefore, they stopped worrying about the long-range coordination and the changes that occurred when Viserys was far away from the Great Wall, and began to seriously discuss the actual tactics of this attack.

The first problem was how to attack secretly. Starting from Castle Black and Nightfort, how to reach a position where the White Walkers could be attacked without being seen by the White Walkers.

There was also how to take cold and warm measures away from the Great Wall in the cold wind of the long night, whether to light a fire when resting in particularly cold times, and to ensure that the army would not fall behind in the snowy fields that were rarely visited since the beginning of winter.

Thus, a counterattack plan that the Great Wall defenders had just launched just a few months after fighting the White Walkers was determined in this discussion where the commanders of Castle Black expressed their opinions.