Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

When he saw that the number of the White Walkers was insufficient and that they had crossed Harrenhal and entered the heart of the Crown, Jaime made a prompt decision and summoned the entire army to retreat towards King's Landing.

Strategically speaking, this decision was very correct, similar to the decision made by Jaime's father, Duke Tywin, who fled directly after hearing that Jaime had lost the Battle of the Whispering Wood, and fled from the Red Fork River for three days and three nights to Harrenhal.

After discovering that the White Walkers had bypassed Harrenhal, it was easy to judge the two most obvious changes in the battlefield situation: First, Harrenhal had become a salient of the Crown in the Lannister-controlled area. Even if the White Walker army did not attack in a short time, it would soon become an isolated place, and there was no hope of reinforcements coming from anywhere; second, King's Landing had become a more dangerous area than Harrenhal, and the White Walker army might choose to attack King's Landing first after having enough troops.

At this time, choosing to risk the long night and cold to retreat from Harrenhal was a gamble, because the battlefield information Jaime and his men had only obtained from that scout reconnaissance. In addition, they knew nothing about the situation in the river areas further north.

At this time, choosing to leave Harrenhal with its tall walls and towers and enter the snowy plains is a very risky military act.

But after Jaime made his suggestion, soon Sir Adam and Peckton, the two most important commanders in Jaime's army, also smelled the breath of danger. They are all veterans who have been with Tywin, and their ability to read and judge battlefield information is still good. The White Walker troops entering the crown chose to avoid fighting, which means that they do not have or cannot temporarily gather enough troops to deal with the defenders of Harrenhal.

If they move to retreat to King's Landing now, the White Walker troops are very likely to be unable to react. The White Walkers have entered the crown, and the division of troops in Harrenhal has actually lost the strategic significance of being the first checkpoint for King's Landing in addition to dispersing troops.

This unit is at least an old unit that attacked Bailige with Tywin during the War of the Six Kings, and has rich experience in strategic transfer. After confirming the information, the army immediately assembled and began to retreat towards King's Landing.

As for Harrenhal, only Ser Bonifer, who currently represents Petyr Baelish - although he has suspected that he has surrendered to Targaryen and given up the title of Lannister - is left to guard Harrenhal.

After Jaime's troops left, only Bonifer and his 100-man Crusade, as well as hundreds of civilians from the villages and towns around Harrenhal, were left in Harrenhal.

If the troop deployment and tactical intentions of both sides were known, Jaime's judgment would undoubtedly be correct.

But Jaime may never know how terrible the coordinated combat capabilities of the White Walkers are, and his move completely disturbed the White Walker deployment in the river and the king's territory.

A human army of 4,000 people with horses chose to march out of the city.

This is like a fisherman throwing bait into the water, and in an instant it became the most fragrant bait in the eyes of the White Walker army in the river and the king's territory.

All the White Walker mobile forces within dozens of leagues around Harrenhal were attracted by this bait.

In the north, even the White Walker cavalry, which was far away in the Beauty Market and had only found some animals but not a single living person in several villages and towns around, gave up the original plan to go west to join the troops in Waste Stone City and Witch Swamp, and turned directly to the south, driving their dead horses and ice spider mounts at full speed, along with a large group of corpse lizard lions, corpse sheep, and corpse wolves transformed from the Neck Swamp to pursue the south with all their strength.

In the northeast, the White Walker vanguard, who had just slaughtered and transformed the bandits and civilians who did not obey the royal order in the town of Earl Harroway, Salt Pan Town, and the Trident River Port of Silent Island, gave up the plan to continue searching for living things along the coast, and quickly assembled fast-moving troops to cross the Trident River and head south.

In the southeast, the fastest and fastest White Walker advance team had just started slaughtering in the fishermen's town and scattered wild villages outside Maiden Spring City. After the commander received the news, he immediately gave up the plan to gather the existing forces to besiege Maiden Spring City. Immediately turn the mobile troops in his hands around.

As the White Walker commander with blue fire in his eyes issued an order, hundreds of bloody wolves, wild dogs, and long-horned deer with human intestines hanging from their antlers immediately put down their slaughter work and ran wildly towards the southwest. Their intention was obvious, to block this human cavalry unit on the King's Road.

Jaime had not yet realized that his order to retreat made his unit the king's train king that attracted the attention of all White Walker mobile forces.

The long night and cold winter are not as good as summer. Even this cavalry unit with rich experience in transfer could not do what they did in the early stage of the War of the Six Kings, when they followed Lord Tywin from the Red Fork River to occupy Harrenhal.

And Jaime was not as cruel as Tywin after all. You know, when Tywin heard the news of the defeat in the Whispering Wood, he did not delay for a moment. Even if the horses died or the people were lost on the road, he had to rush from the Red Fork River to Harrenhal as fast as possible.

Why? Because Tywin heard about the battle in the Whispering Wood, he immediately guessed the possibility of the Northern Army advancing east and west. If he could not occupy Harrenhal before the Northern Army, not only would the Northern Army have a bridgehead, but it would also form a siege against Tywin's 20,000 troops. Tywin's judgment was undoubtedly correct. He fought hard to enter Harrenhal before Roose Bolton, successfully preventing the Northern Army from attacking on two fronts and trapping him in the middle of the river. Only then did he have the opportunity to calmly use his "Raven Tactics" to rebel against Roose Bolton. It was precisely because of the obstruction in the east that the experienced Roose Bolton judged that even if the Young Wolf Robb won consecutive victories on the Western Front, he had missed the opportunity and could not gain momentum, so he chose to betray.

But Jaime only had so many men now, and he was reluctant to let his army and horses suffer non-combat casualties.

So when the troops rushed all the way without encountering any obstacles, and the men and horses were exhausted, he decided to let the troops stop and rest in an abandoned village. They lit a fire to keep warm, ate dry food, and fed the horses with grass. They let the men and horses rest for a while, took a breath, and then continued to rush back to King's Landing.

And when they set off again after resting, it seemed that there was still no danger when they arrived at the fork of the Deer Horn Castle, approaching the Hogg family in the sow corner and the nearby Ward family territory, an accident happened.

"Report, no fire was seen in the tower of the Ward family in the east ahead."

"Report, no fire was seen in the tower of the Hogg family in the east ahead."

The Hogg family and the Ward family are both wealthy knight families in the king's territory. They do not have castles with towers like the great nobles, but only towers with eight-foot thick walls that are more typical of ordinary knights. The only thing worth mentioning is that the emblems of the two families are three pink piglets for the Hogg family and three white porcupines for the Ward family.

The only thing that can be praised about their family castle is the good geographical location, which is near the King's Road. But the two armies are not many. Even if they are wealthy knights in the royal territory, the family can only gather a single-digit number of soldiers, a single-digit number of crossbowmen, and twenty or thirty farmers with pitchforks as weapons.

Ever since he found that the White Walker army bypassed Harrenhal, Jaime guessed that such a small family with sparse troops would encounter unexpected events.

Jaime felt inexplicably sad. Although this is the lack of attention paid by the lords of the royal territory to the threat of the White Walkers, the reason is also Cersei's blockade of the news. She refused to order the lords under her jurisdiction to gather at the big castle like the Targaryen jurisdiction-because Cersei was worried that the gathered lords would oppose her and stop supplying materials to King's Landing.

Jaime asked: "Where is the castle of the Harvard family?"

Arriving at Sow's Corner means that it is only a day's journey from King's Landing.

The Harvard family that Jaime asked about was the noble family that ruled this area in the king's territory. The city of Harvard was located on a small hill not far from the King's Road. Under normal circumstances, the general view of the castle could be seen from the King's Road.

The scout replied: "My lord, the weather is bad and it is not clear."

Jaime looked at the sky. Although the sky was covered with dark clouds, the lights of the castle could still be seen from afar: "The weather is bad?"

"There is heavy fog on the mountain over the city of Harvard."

Jaime felt very bad: "Fog?"

"Yes."

Jaime ordered: "Notify Adam to lead 500 cavalrymen as a unit, wearing armor to Sow Corner to find out whether the road is unobstructed. If there is no threat, resume the rapid march formation. In addition, let the rest of the units slow down, let the baggage troops go to the center army, and if there is any abnormality, the whole army will immediately put on armor."

In order to save horsepower, the cavalry on the rapid march will only wear the inner lining of mail armor, and will not be fully armed. The armor will be placed in the mule and horse team responsible for the baggage. Mules and horses have strong endurance, and they don't need to spare their horsepower during a forced march. If they die, they can be replaced.

If the cavalry marches in full armor, the mounts will not be able to bear the consumption of the forced march before the people, and they will foam at the mouth and die of exhaustion on the spot.

Under Jaime's order, the forced marching team quickly made adjustments.

As Sir Adam's five hundred cavalrymen explored the way first, Jaime soon learned that they had encountered the worst situation.

Adam led his troops to approach the sow corner, and the scattered scouts soon found that there were several waves of scattered blue-eyed wights watching the cavalry from afar. The number of wights was very small, a few or a dozen in a wave.

They did not attack, but only watched from afar. When Adam sent cavalry to test, they would run away. When the probing cavalry returned to the team, they would be on the conspicuous hillside again.

They just watched the cavalry with their cold blue eyes.

It seems that the scouts of the wight army were observing the enemy.

The towers of the Hogg family and the Ward family did not respond to Adam's torch signal, which means that the two fortresses are likely to have been captured by the White Walker army.

Now, the problem is in front of Jaime. He must make a gamble, betting on whether the road back to King's Landing has been surrounded and ambushed by the White Walker army, betting on whether the White Walker army's current actions are a trick to delay his march to delay time for the pursuers behind, or both possibilities are possible, with pursuers behind and blockades in front.

There is no day or night in the long night. They ran all the way from Harrenhal to here. In terms of time, they only stopped to rest three times in three days and three nights. Jaime knew very well that the troops were exhausted.

Jaime got very little battlefield information, so he couldn't know that if he didn't rest for a moment and marched quickly despite non-combat casualties, he could return to King's Landing before the White Walker army surrounded and blocked him.

But because of the three rests, although no one was left behind and no one died of exhaustion, they still had one day's journey to King's Landing.

The horse under him was breathing white air, and Jaime couldn't help leaning down and touching the mane inside the horse's windproof hood.

At this point, Jaime knew that he could not make sure that all the cavalry troops returned to King's Landing safely.

He withdrew his hand from the horse's mane and gave a cold order: "Quickly notify the entire army, every 500 cavalry will be a unit, and everyone will immediately put on armor and prepare for battle. As for the horses, they will not wear armor." Jaime paused and said sternly, "After the entire army is ready, no matter what is ahead, wait for my order, head towards King's Landing, and advance at full speed."

The messenger couldn't help but confirm: "Sir, the horses are not wearing armor?"

"Yes." Jaime stood up straight on his mount, his eyes sharp. "Also, notify the baggage train to discard all the baggage, including the armor of the horses. Give the extra horses to Sir Peckton, and let him take a group of two horses and leave the road immediately, go around the God's Eye Lake to King's Landing to let the garrison troops go out of the city to meet them."

This order means that Jaime judged that they would definitely be blocked.

The order was issued quickly.

Soon, Jaime's judgment was verified. Adam's 500 cavalrymen approaching the sow's corner encountered a tentative attack by the wights.

The attack on Adam's 500 cavalrymen was launched by hundreds of wolves that turned into wights. These wights were like wolves hunting, running freely outside the arrows of the cavalry archers, outflanking and harassing. They blocked the cavalry's way, did not attack directly, but kept running and chasing to create momentum, and intimidated the cavalry's horses from both wings and the front.

The horses obviously didn't like the smell of corpses, and there were signs of panic. The riders had to distract themselves and pull the reins to maintain the formation.

It was incredible that the dead wolf pack of the White Walkers played the most disgusting tactical pulling for the cavalry.

Adam's wedge formation was moving at a speed of 20 yards, and the wolf packs in front, left and right were pulling at the same speed. From time to time, one or more wolves would suddenly approach from the pulling distance, causing the cavalry to fire rockets in counterattack.

However, almost every arrow shot in motion would miss.

This made Sir Adam, who had experienced countless battles, feel sincerely uneasy.

At a certain moment, the wolf pack suddenly accelerated, and the wolf packs on the left and right wings began to gradually move away from Adam's team.

Only dozens of wolves were left in front, still running on the King's Road in front like the leader of Adam's cavalry.

Soon, the rumbling of horse hooves came from behind.

Adam realized that it was Jaime who led the team to catch up.

As expected, James and his team quickly caught up with Adam. James, with a dozen messengers and his attendants, caught up with the front army from behind.

After informing each other of the situation, they saw that they were getting closer and closer to the tower fortress of the Hogg family in the Sow Corner. In the dark night ahead, the wolves were still pulling like a leader. James immediately ordered the front army to lead the team to leave the road and bypass the Sow Corner from the field on the right side of the Hogg family tower fortress. James was impressed by this place and clearly remembered that there was a vast wheat field on the right side of the tower fortress, so there was no need to worry about any unknown pits behind the snow.

Since the wights had appeared, he was worried that there would be unexpected traps and ambushes on the road ahead.

As James's order was issued, the cavalry troops that had been advancing at a constant speed on the King's Road immediately turned around and left the King's Road and stepped onto the snow-covered fields.

This sudden change of direction made the wolves that had been pulling at a certain distance in front suddenly stunned, and then immediately turned back and showed their fangs to the corner where James led the team away from the King's Road.

The battle was about to break out.

As the wolves on the Kings Road turned back to charge, hundreds of thousands of shadows followed from the darkness in the shadow of the Hogg family castle. There were huge elks, long-horned sheep, wild boars, shadow mountain cats and tigers, and finally humans and strange pale creatures riding dead horses.

These all-encompassing animal armies, like animal migration, are undoubtedly the fastest mobile forces of the White Walker vanguard.

The White Walker commander has strong tactical qualities. He did not choose to attack Jaime's vanguard, but led his army directly to the waist of the cavalry formed between the Kings Road and the wilderness where Jaime led his team to turn.

Their intention is very clear, which is to cut off Jaime's cavalry formation.

If it is a battle between humans, concentrating on attacking the waist of the cavalry can easily cause the cavalry to respond and encircle. But they still choose to do so, so their big intention is almost clear.

The purpose of this White Walker army is to block this cavalry, even if the whole army is annihilated, they must pull the cavalry team's legs.

"Damn it."

The enemy army charged towards the waist, and it was a big problem for Jaime's front army, which had already left the attack zone, to choose to go back to rescue or not.

Rationally speaking, the commander had guessed the enemy's intention and should have been ruthless and cut off the tail of the gecko.

But Jaime couldn't do it.

This group of cavalry was the last cavalry under the Lannister family. Jaime didn't want to think about why they were still willing to obey Jaime's orders, but if they had to sell half of the riders here to survive, Jaime would rather die here.

Without a moment's hesitation, Jaime's throat roared through the night sky: "All troops, listen to the order! Follow me! Go around! Go back to help! Cover the rear army!"

Sir Adam responded immediately: "Roar! Roar! Roar!"

The army screamed in a rush: "Woo-woo!"

When Jaime heard the army's response, a smile pulled out of the corner of his mouth. He clamped his horse's belly, took the lead, and led the cavalry to make a huge arc on the snow-covered wheat field.

He only had one hand, but he still used his left hand to clamp the lance under his right armpit on horseback and wrap the lance with his golden palm.

At the waist of the long line of cavalry, the two attacked groups of 500 cavalrymen had already grappled with the corpses rushing towards them. These corpses, mostly four-limbed animals, were extremely fast and came for the purpose of impact and chaos. They were scattered in groups. As a result, the knights did not cause many casualties in the first two rounds of oil tank throwing and wildfire in close combat.

The sudden attack prevented these people from turning around in time. They were intercepted from the flank and caught a brief gap by the zombies, who rushed into the army formation, causing great chaos to the horses and personnel.

For a time, the tactics of the two cavalry units could not be fully utilized, and they could only passively engage in the battle.

And this zombie tide composed of animal corpses brought a certain shock to the Lannister cavalry, who had no real experience in fighting against zombies.

The wolves attacked horses instead of people, and even the horned deer and sheep had a frightening blue light in their eyes, and rushed the sharp horns on their heads into the flesh and blood of the horses, while the wild boars and large animals, shadow mountain cats, and bears caused a more serious impact on the battle formation.

This group of zombies seemed to know the significance of horses to cavalry very well, and they knew the principle of shooting horses first before shooting people.

For a time, the human cavalry rushed and killed under the impact of this zombie tide, and the neighing of horses and the screams of humans were endless. There was a strong momentum to cut the cavalry formation in half.

The riders certainly fought back, throwing oil bottles and wildfire bottles, burning walls and circles of fire, trying to make room for reaction.

However, these corpses seemed to be very experienced in dealing with these means. They would look at the landing point and direction of the thrown objects and avoid them with incredible mobility. Even if they were ignited, only a small part would be lost. What's more, the ignited animals would rush directly to the cavalry. Although they could not cause any casualties, they would seriously disperse the cavalry formation and cause the riders' mounts to collide with each other because of fear of fire.

Many riders did not realize that this way of fighting was completely different from that of human troops until they fell off their horses and were bitten and slaughtered by the zombies.

These corpse killers were extremely powerful. In addition to fire, even if their hands and feet were cut off by swords, cut in half, and their skulls and bones were smashed by hammers, they could still use their hands and feet to attack.

The only thing that could make them lose their fighting power was fire, only fire.

In the chaos, there were still riders who still couldn't tell the difference between the White Walkers and the wights. Finding that swords were useless, they pulled out the obsidian short spears and short blades obtained from the Targaryen army from their waists to attack the wights.

The battlefield was in chaos, and the flames and wildfires thrown by the riders ignited both the wights and their companions.

In just a moment, the cavalry formation, which had no time to speed up, had a tendency to collapse.

Fortunately, Jaime chose to turn back, otherwise the cavalry formation at the waist would have shown signs of fleeing in all directions, and the rear army would have the urge to run at full speed around a larger arc to King's Landing.

It was not until it was confirmed that Jaime had left the enemy's front army and chose to return for support that the commander of the army managed to maintain the situation, and the rear army immediately responded, using the most familiar front-to-back pincer attack tactics of the cavalry to attack from two directions to counter-encircle the wights.

Jaime's 1,000 cavalrymen in the vanguard and more than 2,000 cavalrymen in the rear and center began to counter-encircle the battlefield formed by the two groups of people and horses in the middle, which was 300 steps long and 150 steps wide.

As the charge approached, Jaime's army finally met the real White Walkers for the first time under the cover of night: "Those riding on the dead horses and spiders are White Walkers! They want to escape!"

"Prepare the fire!"

"Prepare the short spears!"

Someone shouted immediately.

However, this group of White Walkers riding on the ice-blue giant spiders and dead horses did not choose to confront Jaime head-on. After they found that Jaime was flanking them from front and back, they began to consciously rush in one direction.

Obviously, in their view, when the cavalry turned back and chose to fight, their tactics had already achieved results.

Soon, Jaime also quickly realized the difference between the White Walker army and the human army.     The White Walker cavalrymen who looked like commanders retreated when they saw that the situation was not good, but the corpse tide did not retreat. The White Walker troops will not be like the human army, which will be defeated on a large scale because of the commander's escape. They are not afraid of death, but will desperately kill all living things in front of them.

The riders of the Jaime's army who tried to chase the White Walkers soon encountered the obstruction of the wights.

The commander of the White Walker troops also reacted quickly. When he found that the human riders were outflanking, not only did they not suffer a large-scale collapse and retreat, but they made a more crazy charge to the waist melee battlefield.

Any commander with battlefield experience can instantly understand the intention of the zombie tide: "They want to break through the encirclement from the front!"

When the human army faces the cavalry outflanking tactics, they often collapse and the army collapses because of the threat of being surrounded and destroyed. However, in the face of this cavalry outflanking tactics, there has always been a most straightforward response measure that almost no one can do.

That is, to break through the formation directly from the central battlefield of the stalemate.

In this way, the cavalry outflanking on both wings will be blocked by their own troops and the corpses on the battlefield, and will not be able to pursue and encircle and annihilate the enemy troops that have broken through from the front.

If humans were to execute this tactic, they would need great courage, and they would have to be prepared for the possibility that more than half of the troops would be killed or wounded, and the wounded would be abandoned.

But the army of the White Walkers had no concerns of humans. They were just wights, so if they died, they died, and if they were abandoned, they were abandoned.

No matter how many times others told Jaime, only when he fought against the army of the White Walkers himself did he realize that the enemy's army was not only different in type from the human army, but also in the tactics and organization they used.

A very cruel point on the battlefield is that understanding the enemy's intentions cannot bring about a change in the situation.

The small group of White Walkers left the battlefield, and the tide of corpses surged towards the center.

Jaime's front and rear armies could only catch the tail of the zombies that were left behind to block the attack.

The opponent also understood the tactic of the gecko's tail-cutting.

In order to eliminate these tails, the encircling troops could only use fire, and the fire blocked the speed of squeezing the encirclement inward.

So many zombies completed the operation of breaking through the formation and breaking through the battlefield from the front to pull away the pursuers during this period.

What surprised and disturbed Jaime even more was that these zombies that broke through the front and pulled away the pursuers saw that there was no cavalry choosing to pursue in the chaotic front battlefield, so they slowly slowed down one by one.

Looking back at the battlefield with a watchful look, it seemed that they would launch a second wave of attack on the cavalry formation here at any time.

The zombies had obviously lost more than half of their soldiers, with only a few hundred remnants left, but they just didn't care and stared at the human army.

This short encounter made Jaime and the Lannister cavalry really understand why the Targaryen army repeatedly warned them not to go out of the city to fight in the field unless necessary.

Their enemy is an army that is fearless, not afraid, not defeated, and resurrected by corpses.

Although James solved the risk of the cavalry formation being cut off, the encirclement tactics were in vain. He was about to assign a part of the troops to guard and integrate the cavalry to evacuate in an orderly manner.

Unexpectedly, the situation has inevitably shifted to a more dangerous situation.

Suddenly, some cavalrymen who had just gathered together looked back at their way and shouted in surprise: "What is that?"

James' heartbeat stagnated, and he looked up, but saw that a blizzard was coming towards them in the direction of their way.

They had already encountered the blocking corpse tide, and those were, if nothing unexpected, the chasing corpse tide.

There was no time to react more: "Retreat quickly, the whole army will retreat to King's Landing at full speed."

Someone couldn't help asking: "What about the wounded?"

On the battlefield, there were many soldiers who fell off their horses and were injured, and there were also many soldiers who had injured their hands and feet but did not lose their combat effectiveness but had lost their mounts.

Adam Marbrand gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Sir Jaime, I will stay with the brothers who have lost their mounts to cover your retreat."

[I should be the one who stays. 】

A wave of heart-wrenching grief surged in Jaime's heart.

But without waiting for Jaime to answer, Sir Adam began to gather people: "Those who are willing to cover my retreat, please raise your swords."

Silence.

"Those who are willing to cover your comrades, please raise your swords."

Some people raised their swords sporadically.

"There are so many brave warriors in the stories and legends of the Westerlands. Are they extinct now?"

Someone else raised his sword.

"Okay, that's enough. Brothers, comrades, Adam of the Marbrand family would like to thank you for your trust in me." Adam looked at Jaime, "Sir Jaime, please be sure to return to King's Landing and ask the best bard to compose a ballad for us that will be passed down to future generations."

The facial muscles in Jaime's visor were twitching and trembling.

He wanted to say something, but could only pretend: "Jossamine, sword."

The servant rode forward and presented Jaime's sword.

"Adam, this is the Valyrian steel sword of the previous king." For the sake of morale, Jaime could not say Joffrey's name, "Take it, I'll wait for you to return it in King's Landing."

"Yes."

The separation on the battlefield is always short.

Jaime hardened his heart and ordered a full-speed retreat towards King's Landing. He gritted his teeth and did not look back.

And Adam only recruited more than a hundred people, and formed the rear guard team with more than a hundred wounded who knew they were beyond rescue and riders who had lost their horses.

Adam used these two hundred people to set up a defensive array of infantry and cavalry on the road that must be passed, and waited for it.

The tail of Jaime's cavalry team had not left half a league, and the snow curtain of the blizzard had already approached.

The previous corpse tide blocked the battlefield, causing hundreds of comrades to die and hundreds of horses to be killed or injured. Because of the urgent retreat, only a part of the corpses could be burned with wildfires, and there was no time to deal with more corpses on the battlefield.

The dead horses and dead people who were not affected by the flames slowly got up as if they had woken up from a sleep in a pool of blood.

Although they were mentally prepared, seeing such a horrifying scene still made people feel terrified.

The cold wind was biting, and facing the blizzard sky, Adam pulled out Joffrey's "Widow's Wail".

The last section of the road was particularly difficult to walk.

Jaime led the remaining 3,000 cavalry to run wildly. People kept falling behind, and horses kept foaming at the mouth and falling to death on the side of the road. The knights on the horse were either knocked off the road by the riders behind, or they could only throw away their helmets and armor and run desperately towards King's Landing.

It was obviously not a rout, but it was fleeing in the way of a rout.

Jaime began to doubt whether his decision was right or wrong. If he had stayed in Harrenhal, would the army have been in such a situation?

He did not have a God's perspective, and had no way of knowing that even if he stayed in Harrenhal, he would sooner or later be overwhelmed by the zombies that were transformed into sufficient soldiers because of isolation and helplessness. He also did not know which step he had made wrong to lead to the current situation.

He could only run.

Jaime had never felt that the road to King's Landing would be so long.

His mount was panting heavily, and the white breath was an inch long.

Jaime knew that it was almost at its limit.

But he was still urging, pulling the reins and kicking the spurs.

Finally, a heartbreaking cry came from the horse's mouth, and the horse staggered and threw him heavily off its back.

He rolled on the ground for several rounds.

The sound of horse hooves approached. He raised his head and looked back. There were thousands of cavalry troops, but now there were only a dozen or so cavalry following the first echelon. And look at his own mount. Seeing him foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes, it was obvious that he was dying.

His attendant Qiao Simin whizzed past, and Qiao Simin pulled the horse to stop. And as soon as he stopped, the horse, which originally seemed to be alive and well, bent its front hoof, and the whole horse fell to the ground, vomiting blood.

Qiao Simin ignored the horse and approached James: "Sir, are you okay?"

James had no intention of answering. He raised his head and looked back. Further behind, a blizzard curtain was swallowing up the stragglers in the rear bit by bit, swallowing the flames of the torchbearers into the long dark night.

He asked into the air: "Am I wrong?"

Qiao Simin was speechless: "Sir?"

Suddenly, a distant horn sound came from the direction of King's Landing.

James stood up in despair and looked in that direction. In the long dark night, he saw countless lights from the direction of King's Landing rushing here.

It's the troops coming from King's Landing.

Cersei sent someone.

Someone shouted: "Reinforcements are arriving!"

Seeing a chance to survive, they began to run even more desperately.

soon.

The men who responded to the unit found James.

Sadly, not Cersei's men, but the Warrior's Sons.

The leader who came out was a tall monk. When he saw James, he sneered with regret: "Sir James, there are so many good horses, and you just waste them on escaping?"

Also accompanying the team is Jaime's cousin Lancel. When Jaime saw him, he ignored the tall monk and asked Lancel directly: "Did Cersei send you here?"

Lancel was silent.

The tall monk continued to taunt: "Queen Cersei strictly prohibits anyone from going out of the city to meet you. If the captain hadn't thought that you might be in danger, we wouldn't have come. What drove you to such a miserable state? Is it that snowstorm?"

James finally looked at him: "Yes, it's the blizzard."

"Haha, that's ridiculous. Just run away to King's Landing. Let you Lannister see the courage and fighting power of our warrior sons." The tall monk only led a group of infantry and was about to go to the rear to engage in the battle.

James looked at him: "If you have any grease, quickly set up traps and defensive positions here. After catching up with our scattered troops, you can retreat back immediately. Don't take risks-"

The tall monk was very unhappy with James's appearance and interrupted James unreasonably: "It's not your turn to dictate what the son of a warrior wants to do!"

James looked at Lancel helplessly.

The tall monk ignored James and led his troops to the rear.

Jaime noticed that these warrior sons were swaggeringly collecting the armor discarded by the defeated Lannister troops, and hurriedly shouted: "You have no idea what you are facing? Go and stop him from being stupid and dying, Lancel!"

"Sorry, James, I am just responsible for taking care of you. That monk is very hostile to the nobles, and I am as powerless as you."

James looked at the fanatical religious sect's armed forces retrogradely passing by them angrily, and couldn't help but curse: "Seven levels of hell! Lancel, they are going to die!"

Some soldier's son who was passing by on the wrong route spat in the direction of James: "Bah! Coward!"

James gritted his teeth angrily, but felt sad and helpless. He looked at Lancel: "Stop them!"

Lancel shook his head: "I will help you return to King's Landing, James."

Jaime yelled: "Oh, fuck King's Landing, these people are doing stupid things!"

When James saw them, he remembered himself at Harrenhal a few days ago, knowing nothing about the enemy but full of confidence. He really wanted to slap these ignorant guys awake.

At this time, a Lannister knight passed by and waved to Jaime: "Sir Jaime, don't worry about these idiots, run away! The zombie pursuers are coming soon! The Targaryen army is right, only by defending the city will you have a chance. Only by defending the city can we have a chance.”

As he said that, the knight glanced past James with blank eyes.

Only at this moment did James clearly realize that the combat effectiveness and terror displayed by the corpses in the previous encounter had knocked his trust in the army's morale to an unprecedented low.

And soon, this self-righteous son of a warrior will meet the same fate.

Just an hour later.

The Lannister troops and the Warrior Sons troops rushed to the gates of King's Landing together.

An army of nearly 10,000 alien ghosts, who had no plan to attack the city, followed and descended on the city.

In fact, James may never know that the number of this complex White Walker army is only close to ten thousand, not less than ten thousand.

However, it was such a zombie wave that was considered to be thin among the White Walkers. Due to the withdrawal of troops from Fort Jamhelren, the supply line and external channels to the north of King's Landing were accidentally cut off.

For a time, the whole city of Junlin was shaken, and people were panicked.

The legend has become a reality, and no one can disbelieve it. After the long night, the White Walkers really came.

The people of King's Landing never disappoint. The pressure brought by the White Walkers did not unite the citizens of King's Landing. Instead, the pressure was quickly transferred internally. Some people began to encourage the people to attack King's Landing's unsieged southern passage and Cersei's plan. The checkpoint launched an attack.

They were to flee south of King's Landing to Targaryen territory.

This move soon triggered a riot within King's Landing.

For a time, the White Walkers did not attack the city, but humans themselves had already made King's Landing a war.

Cersei was also stubborn enough to refuse to open the city gates, so as expected, bloodshed occurred in King's Landing. The guards from the gold cloaks and the royal court quickly implemented military control on the city gates and issued an order of "kill without mercy" to those who approached the gates.

While King's Landing was in chaos and the internal chaos before the battle, the corpse tide outside the city that was unable to capture King's Landing only stayed in the north of King's Landing for half a day, and disappeared without a trace after a sudden snowstorm ended.

Everything seemed to have returned to calm.

However, after this scare, people can't help but ask, who else in King's Landing can sleep peacefully in the long night?