Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

"They were so fast. In only two to three months, the forwards of the White Walker army went deep from the Great Wall to the rivers and even the valleys in the hinterland of Westeros. I even felt that the heart trees of some ancient families in the Three Rivers Basin To their cold breath.”

For any Westeros army, even if it was invincible, it would take twice as long to advance at such a speed.

"After our counterattack, the White Walker army's offensive on the Great Wall has slowed down. Several holes in the Great Wall have been almost repaired. I remember you said that the cold wind blowing from the Great Wall to the south is their supply, and they will definitely not give up their attack. Attack of the Great Wall. In the past few days, I have seen traces of blizzards on the frozen seas of Seal Bay and Ice Bay. I tried to attack them with storms. However, there were only hundreds or dozens of corpses inside the blizzard, and there were almost no White Walkers. Yes. They didn't suffer any damage in that counterattack. They should be preparing for a bigger offensive. Can they think of other ways to obtain the movements of the White Walkers' army? Damn it, this battle was really frustrating."

After the counterattack, the White Walkers stopped their large-scale attack, and Winterfell and White Harbor were saved. Even in the direction of the stream, Wild Tombs was about to be defeated by the White Walker army. However, due to the raids by Viserys in White Harbor, Eastwatch, and the southern foot of the Shadow Tower, the White Walker army retreated across the board and entered a brief silence.

Except for the second battle group that outflanked the White Walkers when they rushed to the aid of Winterfell, and fought an encounter near the source of the White Blade River south of Winterfell, the battle in the north and the castle fell into silence for half a month. It was only in recent days that the Three-Eyed Raven regained control of the White Walkers' movements.

And here are two big pieces of information. First, a group of White Walkers crossed over the Moon Mountains and entered the valley. Second, the White Walker forwards had already passed by several batches near Crowtree City, and there were quite a few of them.

Raventree City is the Three-Eyed Crow's most important information station in the river. It is the home fortress of the Blackwood family. There is a dead weirwood that attracts thousands of crows to perch. Viserys thought that the Three-Eyed Raven relied on those crows for information.

Except for those two big news. There is also some information that has made my ears tingle. As the long night approaches, many rivers in the Riverlands are covered with thick ice due to the combined effects of the cold currents of the White Walkers and the cold winter of the planet itself.

Except for some of the most turbulent waterfall areas, almost all rivers, wetlands, and swamps north of the Red Fork River are covered in ice and snow. Even the thick ice of several large rivers allows people or carriages to pass directly through it.

After all, Viserys was someone who had seen the Yellow River freeze in the Hetao area in winter, and he was mentally prepared for this strange thing for the people of Westeros.

According to historical records, during the long night eight thousand years ago, the rivers in Essos froze and spread to the Sehoru River. The latitude was about the same as that of King's Landing. Viserys had already prepared for the icy zone to spread to King's Landing and even further south over time.

"Actually, you already know how to keep yourself from being blind."

"My faith is related to human beings. I let believers go to the snowfields for reconnaissance under the long night. I can also feel what they see. I am integrating believers to form a corps that goes deep into the snowfields to conduct reconnaissance. Isn't that what I'm already doing? But even if There are knights in Thunderstorm armor from the first battle group leading the centurion, and their reconnaissance range is only ten leagues. But even if I have 10,000 people like Stannis who are not afraid of the cold, the reconnaissance range will only be limited to 10 leagues. The combat radius that humans are used to.

Unless like the summer rangers of the Night's Watch, they go out to carry out death-defying reconnaissance within a time limit of months or years. But in the current situation, the long nights and cold will take away their lives the day after fuel and other supplies are exhausted. The human army is already at an overall disadvantage. The White Walkers' army is too large. Even if they simply spread out and conduct reconnaissance, the scope of intelligence acquisition will be several times or even dozens of times larger than that of human suicide reconnaissance. I have thought carefully about it. Forming a human survey corps to conduct death reconnaissance now is no different from recruiting the enemy. The battlefield set by the great will is too unfair to both combatants. "

The three-eyed crow heard the words and replied: "I don't agree with this sentence. From my point of view, the great will is fair. In midsummer, if R'hllor or a certain god formed a human expeditionary force to enter the north of the Great Wall, relying on sufficient The supplies can even penetrate into the heart of winter. Midsummer is not fair to the cold god, but no god can integrate believers and servants to serve one will in the midsummer."

Viserys glanced at the other party: "Speaking of believers, more and more people in the North are beginning to believe in the 'Targaryen Dragon King' and the 'Three Dragons'. I see that you have no objection to this?"

"You are very clever in not claiming to be a god, but humans will naturally treat you as a god because of your great power. But tied to practical benefits and 'miracles', they are not loyal enough to your beliefs. Your institutionalized beliefs are Effective, but the army and rulers are a minority among humans. I don't doubt that given you a few decades, two to three generations, you can create a national belief system without a 'Holy See', but it is a pity that you don't have two. Three generations to prepare.”

From the attitude shown by the Three-Eyed Crow, Viserys made a judgment: "Your words imply to me that after this war, there will be no next battle for faith."

"You already know this, why bother asking again?"

"Getting confirmation from you makes me stronger when I sacrifice others."

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Harrenhal.

"After entering the long night, most of the trade routes on the sea and land were cut off. The prices of wool, charcoal, and food in King's Landing soared, and it was not an exaggeration to say that they doubled every day. A large number of civilians and wealthy merchants began to flee south. The queen mother tried to ban it, and ordered that the Mud Gate and the King's Gate were only for entry and exit. The gate guards secretly sold money for entry and exit. There were also a large number of black ships in the port that secretly picked up people who were difficult to escape. It cost seven silver coins to leave the city from the Mud Gate and the King's Gate. There was no ban on leaving the city from the North City. Many poor fugitives would rather go through the Blackwater River from the North City to leave the city."

Adam Malbrand reported to Jaime the intelligence he had collected about King's Landing.

"Will the Targaryen King accept these people who have fled to the south?"

"I heard that the Targaryen army has set up checkpoints in the south to intercept them. They will be accepted in several places called "refugee camps". Civilians will be provided with three copper coins a day for food and lodging. Nobles and merchants will have separate arrangements. They will stay there for a while, spend a lot of money to apply for some documents, and then be released in batches."

Jaime chuckled: "Ha, it seems that the 'good king' also has a price."

"It is said that civilians can exchange labor for money. I heard that they moved bricks, logs and soil to build fortresses. Many civilians in King's Landing could not stand the hardship and fled back to King's Landing. The Queen Mother ordered people to use these people's oral accounts of the torture and labor of civilians in the Targaryen territory as a warning, but many people still could not escape. It is said that the king will also send troops to wipe out the King's Landing city In addition, due to the banditry caused by these "refugees", more than 300 bandits who rioted, attacked and robbed civilians were hanged at the first checkpoint on the King's Road in just two months."

".Targaryen was well prepared." Jaime listened to these situations, thought carefully, and his expression suddenly became cautious. He couldn't help asking, "Ser Adam, do you think Targaryen plans to abandon King's Landing during the Long Night? Targaryen has set the capital in Oldtown. Although it is a "temporary capital",..."

"I can't judge this, Ser Jaime." Adam gave an answer, "In fact, the trade routes from the Southland, Stormlands, and Dragonstone have not been cut off. It was Queen Mother Cersei who closed the southern gate herself, cutting off the main road for King's Landing to the south for trade."

The main road is cut off, and there are small roads, smuggling roads. Jaime is very clear about the part that Adam didn't say. The current state of King's Landing is completely caused by Cersei. If it is released normally and the communication between the bottom of the two sides is smooth, it may not cause such panic among the people.

Adam continued, "In the past few days, no large ship has entered the port of King's Landing. The wages for recruiting sailors for ships at the port have increased several times, but except for desperate people and those who really can't survive, almost no one is willing to go to sea. I heard that there are merchant ships in Essos except for the southern sea route, and even in the direction of Pentos, there are fewer and fewer. In the direction of Braavos, merchant ships have been cut off for more than three months, whether they are coming or going, there is no news at all. It is said that Dragonstone and Seagulltown are the same, and there is no news from Braavos. Not to mention the Great Wall, even the Targaryen army, except for knowing that the war is still going on, has no information about the details. There is no news about Tyrion. Even Braavos is like this. It is impossible for you to ask me about Tyrion. "

"It is the long night and cold winter. Will Osmund Kettleblack go to Braavos to kill Tyrion?"

"Kettleblack is not so determined and courageous."

Jaime gritted his teeth: "Yes, I have seen that bastard. Although he wears a white robe, he does not have the honor of the Kingsguard at all."

When Jaime thought of that guy, he would think of what his cousin Lancel told him. Cersei had an affair with the Kettleblack brothers, with his cousins, and even with the moon boy.

Jaime clenched his left fist. He wanted to kill Lancel, the Kettleblack brothers, and everyone on the long list mentioned by Lancel, and then put their heads in front of Cersei to ask her if she had betrayed their feelings.

But he didn't. He chose to escape, escape to Harrenhal, escape from Cersei, hoping to fight to the death with the white walkers promoted by Targaryen, and die.

However, this made him feel weak, angry and suffocated, unable to vent.

He had wanted to go back to King's Landing to find out the wildfire buried by Cersei, so that he could die with her. However, Targaryen had already contacted the Warrior's Son to do that.

This made Jaime feel helpless.

It seemed that he could not do anything else except the incompetent anger.

This was not because of the helplessness brought by the broken arm, but a double blow to the spirit and soul.

Jaime suddenly felt that he could not do anything. Even if he was still the high-spirited Lannister lion, he felt powerless about everything at the moment.

Seeing the veins on Jaime's forehead bulging, Adam said with concern: "Ser Jaime?"

"Uh, it's okay." Jaime raised the golden glove on his broken right arm, "Thank you for your hard work, Ser Adam, for asking you to do all these messy things for me. From today on, you will return to the team, and don't go to King's Landing in the long night. Let him do what King's Landing does. The battlefield is where you and I belong."

"Are they coming?" Adam raised his eyebrows.

"Not sure, the range that scouts can scout out of the city is too small now. Since receiving the warning letter from the Targaryen royal family, people come back every day to report that they have seen shadows, but every time they send more people, they can't see anything. I suspect they are lying to me and personally lead the troops to patrol. Gods, you can't see anything outside the city on this damn night. These damn scouts are clearly only wandering around the castle within a league, and at most they run a horse along the King's Road. But there is not even a ghost on this road, and they run back to change shifts!"

James said angrily. "They are scared, I know. They think that the living people holding torches in the long night are like beacons, and the dead people hiding in the snow are like sea monsters and sharks hiding under the water. They are afraid that when they see strange people, they will die. , so I ran back to the castle when something happened. This castle is rumored to be haunted, so why aren’t they afraid that it is haunted?”

Adam was ashamed: "It's not entirely their fault. What the Targaryen army preaches is that it is better to stick to the castle than go out to fight in the field. Defending the castle as long as there is an early warning range is enough. Several commanders in charge of reconnaissance went to visit with me. Through the Targaryen army's reconnaissance and defense methods, Their reconnaissance is very tight, and the main focus is to respond quickly enough after receiving early warning. King Targaryen knows more about alien armies than we do. Jaime, the first lesson of their training is that it cannot be used. Imagine the White Walkers' fighting habits against human armies."

"It turns out the problem lies with you," James was speechless. "I wanted you and me to take the lead in setting an example and conduct long-range reconnaissance in separate divisions."

"Sir Jaime, when facing unfamiliar enemies, I think the experience of the Targaryen army may not be without problems, but until we actually see them, it is never wrong to be cautious." Adam responded, "Think about it, King Targaryen personally led his army to the Wall, However, the White Walkers still penetrated deep into the interior. I heard that strong fortresses were built around the castles across the river. And we have all heard about the power of the dragon. It is said that the war in the north is still going on. All the signs tell me that they will be ours. The most terrifying enemy you will ever face in this life.”

"So we just scout the surrounding area and wait for them to appear and attack?" James sat down helplessly. "It's like locking a person in a black box only a few feet in size and waiting for others to punch. It's too dull. "They may not be walking on the King's Road, Ser Adam. I'm afraid those things that don't even see a shadow will go around Harrenhal." Jaime is still worried about King's Landing.

"I understand what you mean, Ser James. In that case, you and I are both here, why not I lead a scout to patrol eastward, to a farther place——"

"No, you stay at Harrenhal and I'll go there myself. Now I'm very annoyed by the always-night room in the castle, and even the fine wine makes me bored. I'll go scouting, even if I find nothing, You should also blow some cold air.”

James can't wait to get out of town for reconnaissance. He has been particularly agitated recently. No matter when he fell asleep, it was night every time he opened his eyes, making it almost impossible for him to see anything. As a result, my mind is very active, so I will think about Cersei, King's Landing, Tyrion, my dead father and the confusion of my youth.

It's very annoying.

James quickly ordered two dozen experienced scouts, and with the assistance of his attendant Josmine Pike, they put on armor and warm clothing. Then he led twenty-six riders, including the attendants, out of the castle under the cover of night.

Although the snow in Harrenhal is only as deep as a horse's hooves compared to the north, the air is already cold enough.

As soon as he went out, James couldn't help but look at his attendant Qiao Simin: "What do you have on you that makes a clanging sound?"

The young man from the Pike family was a little shy: "Sir James, these are oil cans and new wildfire bottles for two people. Last time you went to inspect the scouts, you said that the knights carrying these on their bodies only add weight and hinder the swing of their swords, but now the entire army They are all equipped according to the requirements of the Targaryen army. I will bring a copy for you, so that if there is an emergency, it will not hinder you from wielding your sword and you will have enough fire starters."

"Then how do you swing the sword, kid?" James shook his head, "You don't need to bring my share, just bring your own." He only has one hand, and carrying these will of course hinder his swing of the sword.

James had just left the castle and looked at the dark night. People's field of vision was compressed to a very narrow range and the visibility was extremely low. The White Walkers army would not light bonfires in the night. It was really uncomfortable to do a good job in reconnaissance. He Find a direction: "Everyone, let's run farther today and spread out. Have you seen the black and winter hillside in the east? Climb that slope and come back."

"Yes!" The scouts accepted the order, and three of them formed a team, holding torches and spreading out in all directions.

Under the dark clouds and starless night, even if the human eye is illuminated by the snow, it can only rely on this method to see what is slightly farther away.

Speaking of which, the cavalry in James's hands now can be said to be the last troops of the once arrogant Lannister family. After the fall of the West, deserters appeared. When the news of the fall of the West Territory spread, many riders familiar to James and trained by the Lannister family from childhood kidnapped their horses to become deserters and fled back to the West Territory to surrender or wander. At that time, even James didn't know how to recover or deal with them. In the end, the Malbrand family and the Piketon family brought back most of the people.

Jaime never wanted to know what promises Ser Adam and the others made to bring the team back to Jaime's side, but he knew that if he was like Cersei, he still wanted to let them restore the Lannister family. In the battle, the troops may be reduced by two-thirds the next day, and the remaining ones will ask for a large sum of money before they are willing to fight, and James does not need to die in the battle. As long as he falls off his horse or is shot, the rest will People will raise the white flag without hesitation.

In the end, Adam Malbrand, Ilyn Payne, and a few squires may be the only ones who insist on fighting and dying with Jaime.

After running for a while in the cold wind, James felt that his depressed mood was much relieved. At night, the wilderness east of Harrenhal is as quiet as death. The lights of Harrenhal behind him gradually fade away in the night, turning into a distant solitary light.

Several small villages of tenant farmers had already been moved into the castle. In the snowy wilderness, under this night, it seemed as if there was no other cargo except for these few humans holding torches. An unprecedented loneliness flooded into James's heart, making him feel particularly lonely. Missing Cersei no longer brings him any warmth, and Tyrion is thousands of miles away, not knowing whether he is alive or dead. He suddenly thought of Brienne. How was she doing? Have you gotten word that the Stark sisters have reappeared in the world?

Her mission was accomplished, but what about James himself? He has nothing.

"Uu——"

While James was thinking wildly, a whistle was heard nearby calling for the scouts to assemble.

The sound of a whistle instead of a warning horn meant that the scouts had just discovered some uncertain traces and needed to call in nearby people to investigate.

Now that he heard the whistle, James certainly would not ignore it, and immediately rode with his attendants to the location where the whistle came from.

When James arrived, there were already seven or eight torches gathered there.

"What did you find?" James came closer.

"There are a lot of hoof prints. They don't look like horse hoofs, but like deer hoofs." Someone immediately answered, "Look, there are also footprints of wolves here." Someone illuminated the snow with a torch.

A seasoned scout said: "This is so strange."

James glanced at it and agreed: "Indeed."

The attendant Qiao Simin next to her straightened her body on the horse, raised her head and looked closely, with a look of confusion in her eyes.

James explained to him: "The footprints are not normal. Anyone who hunts often knows that deer are always confused when encountering wolves, but judging from the footprints here, they are not chaotic, and the deer's hoofprints and the wolf's footprints are Intertwined.”

Qiao Simin understood: ".This means that wolves and deer go together."

The young attendant's words silenced the surrounding scouts briefly, and the air seemed to become a bit colder.

"The footprints are very new." James turned his horse's head and looked at Harrenhal to the west. From here, the lights at Harrenhal were just a big light spot, while the scouts' hands spread out in the north and south directions. The torch is like a distant star.

This means that small-scale patrol scouts and castle guards will have a hard time detecting animals passing by in groups. Animals? Let's assume for now that they are animals.

One veteran said: "I think we should follow the footprints and see where they go."

But this sentence immediately triggered a rebuttal: "I don't think so. We are not here to hunt. I suggest continuing to go up the hillside in front. It is only three hundred steps away. My suggestion is that we go up the hillside and keep our eyes open. Take a good look around to see if there is anything strange, and then go back. What do you think, sir?"

The scouts looked at James. For some reason, Jaime was reminded of the Whispering Woods at this moment, where his scouts were ambushed and eliminated by the Young Wolf Lord's men and direwolves, and then he was defeated by a night attack in the Whispering Woods. That failure indirectly caused him to lose a hand.

"Blow the assembly whistle and gather people over. Today's inspection has made discoveries. You, you, you, the three of you rush back to Harrenhal, inform Ser Adam of the situation here, and ask him to send three hundred fully armed Come here. Qiao Simin, please go back and bring me my rifle."

These scouts still viewed the discovery from the perspective of a patrol, while James viewed the discovery from the perspective of a commander.

In any case, James had to figure out what the beast's tracks were all about.

As the assembly whistle blew, the scattered scouts from one place to another began to gather.

However.

When the scouts gathered at James' location.

With just a quick glance, you can easily spot the anomaly: "What's going on? Two groups are missing?"

Someone immediately responded: "It's the south, sir. Our group is the third to last group exploring south. The two smaller groups are all in the south. I saw them going south. The last time I saw them was the second to last group entering." I've blown the rallying whistle at an abandoned tenant's cottage."

The other two people in the group immediately added details, confirming that they all saw people in that direction.

When James heard this, he immediately ordered: "Everyone, be alert!"

James guessed that the two groups of scouts were probably in danger. This was the situation he hated the most. The scouts could not even warn and were killed quietly, but he had no idea what happened.

Following James's order, the remaining scouts quickly dispersed from the gathering. With James as the corner, the scout team spread out to form a small triangle of three people separated from each other by a large wedge about a foot wide.

In a group of three scouts, only one was left holding a torch high for lighting, while the other two extinguished the torches and took out their crossbows and oil cans, and used their crossbows to pay close attention to the movements in all directions.

Their location was in a wide field near the King's Road. Although it was dark at night, they could still claim to have a wide view.

Jaime carefully paid attention to the movement in the snow around him in the darkness, and at the same time looked in the direction of Harrenhal from time to time.

The firelight of the three riders had entered Harrenhal, which looked a bit ferocious in the night.

And soon, in less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of torches gathered like sparks from the direction of Harrenhal, rushing towards the direction of James and his party.

Jaime had a bad feeling that he had not been attacked during the waiting period. If there were any enemies, they might have moved during this time, and it was very likely that they would not be able to find any traces.

The owner of those footprints obviously deliberately took a road away from the eyes and ears of the castle. James had to find out why. The other party either had insufficient troops to attack the castle, or had other intentions.

Not long after, more than 300 riders from the castle joined James, and the attendants also brought lances to James.

A cavalry team of more than 300 people was not a force that could be easily ignored even on a large battlefield.

With so many people, James felt more confident. After taking over the command, he immediately ordered the scouts to open the way in the direction where the footprints were found. The scouts spread their tentacles around, and the main force spread out the array and moved slowly, heading to the abandoned tenant village in the south where two scout teams had an accident in a guard posture.

With more people, the breadth and confidence of the scouts' exploration also increased.

Soon, they found that behind the slope that Jaime had pointed out earlier, there were also traces of various animals, including people.

But there were no traces of large numbers of horses' hooves.

However, it cannot be concluded that the other side has no cavalry.

According to various legends and the propaganda of the Targaryen army, the army of the White Walkers will fight on the corpses of various animals.

The cavalry formation, which was ready for battle, quickly approached the village where the scouts had disappeared.

"Seven layers of hell!"

Jaime's mount was very cramped, his head swaying left and right in the windproof hood, rolling his eyes and pulling the reins. Jaime urged the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and tried to straighten the direction of the horse's head, and it was willing to move forward.

It can be seen that the horse did not like the feeling of this place very much.

Jaime did not like it either.

He suddenly thought that since it was a pack of wolves and deer, he should have ordered a few hounds to come over.

"Be alert!"

The horse's uneasiness made everyone else uneasy, and Jaime had to shout the order loudly so that everyone could hear it as much as possible.

The cavalry array was ready to go fifty steps outside the cottage.

Several scouts urged their horses to slowly approach the tenant cottage of only thatch and wood. There was only one house, a covered corral next to the house, and a fence around the house.

It was ridiculous to surround a house with such a big fanfare, but Jaime did not dare to take it lightly.

The scouts rode into the fenced yard.

They quickly inspected the small house.

Someone shouted: "Corpses!"

The scouts moved closer, and soon someone added: "They are our people."

A scout returned to Jaime and reported what he had found. There were three bodies left in the corral, and their horses were gone. The footprints in the yard were messy, but you could see something continuing to go south.

The footprints were neat.

They were deep.

Three horses, black blood clots fell all over the ground, pointing to the south.

Provocation.

Jaime quickly judged the meaning of these traces. He asked, "Wounds?"

The scout replied tremblingly, "Killed with one blow, the wounds were all in the throat, and their blood solidified into black ice."

Undoubtedly provocative.

The adjutant beside him asked, "Ser Jaime, are they really White Walkers?"

Jaime looked very bad: "I'm afraid so, seven layers of hell! They went south past Harrenhal."

Sigh!

"Ah!"

"Damn it!"

"Fire!"

Suddenly, from the direction of the village, the screams of frightened horses came.

It turned out that the scouts were going to burn the bodies directly on the spot according to the propaganda of the Targaryen army, and the three bodies suddenly opened their eyes and attacked the scouts.

Fortunately, they were prepared.

Jaime looked up, and although they were panicked for a while, several scouts still burned the three corpses with oil cans and torches. And their side was only slightly frightened.

In an instant, a grand bonfire seemed to suddenly burn in the direction of the village.

The corpses of the wights burned fiercely like firewood covered with grease.

There were screams from the cavalry, which lasted for a while before they stopped.

Jaime's horse was also frightened by the sudden screams, and he had to bend down to comfort the horse.

All the signs clearly showed that the White Walkers didn't know how many troops had crossed Harrenhal and went south.

After a long silence, the adjutant couldn't help asking: "Sir Jaime, what should we do next?"

Hearing is false, seeing is true.

Jaime was stunned for a long time before he recovered. He looked up to the south and made up his mind: "Chase." He said this word, his expression was serious, and then added, "One team of scouts will go back to inform Sir Adam what happened here. The rest of you will continue to search south with me."

The adjutant was worried: "Will there be a trap?"

Jaime paused and shook his head: "Assuming that the enemy is intelligent, then their provocation is too deliberate. How could they know in advance how many people we will send out, and where would they have time to set up an ambush for uncertain troops? Today's reconnaissance was a sudden idea. The other party deliberately avoided Harrenhal, which means that they are very likely to be short of troops. So we should chase them and confirm their direction."

Jaime's words reassured many people.

So Jaime led the team, and more than 300 riders began to chase south. But after chasing for two miles, no living creatures were seen, and the footprints of animals and humans were scattered here, some of which went east to three paths, and some continued to go south.

"Sir Jaime, they scattered. It seems that the facts are as you said, they are short of troops."

Jaime guessed correctly, but he was not happy at all: "Damn it! They deviated from the King's Road. The part going east is probably heading towards Maidenpool, and the part going south is probably heading towards Staghorn. There are not enough troops in those places, and most of them are unarmed civilians."

At this moment, Jaime knew how the White Walker army leaked in from King Targaryen, the North, and the Riverlands.

Under the long night, the humans hiding in the castle could not stop the infiltration of the White Walkers at all, and even in the wild, the humans holding torches to protect themselves from the wind and the White Walker army that did not need lighting and heating to march could not compare in mobility.

And looking at the footprints that deviated from the road. Looking at the deep darkness under the night, Jaime was not sure whether the other party would set traps and pockets for them to get in if he continued to chase them deeper.

The riders have chased for two leagues, and the horses are starting to pant with exhaustion. How many more leagues can they chase? Even if they catch up, can they guarantee their combat effectiveness?

Jaime looked further south on the Kingsroad, trying to see King's Landing, which is a hundred leagues away, through the night.

At this moment, Jaime suddenly realized that it was a mistake for him to lead his troops to station in Harrenhal. As the Targaryen army had advertised, the White Walker army was different from the human army. They were not rushing to attack cities and plunder land.

They were here to get more corpse servants.

In an instant, Jaime realized that the White Walker army was now short of vanguard troops, so they were splitting up to attack small human gatherings and slaughter them.

And when they have enough numbers, where will they go?

Will they attack Harrenhal?

How many people are there in Harrenhal? The army and civilians combined only have a little over 5,000.

Now, apart from King's Landing, where else are there so many humans that the White Walkers can envy?

Thinking about this clearly, Jaime's scalp tingled for a while.