The Winter of Ice and Fire Is Coming

"Mans Reid, this is our Great Wall leader Will, Lord Dragonstone Island. The earl gifted by Lord Stark, he was also promoted from ordinary ranger to knight to earl in one day. Cavalry commander. Chosen by God, son of the Great Prophecy." Jon introduced Will to Mans Reid.

Mans Reid is taller than Will, with a well-defined face, big eyes, big lips and a long face. He stretched out his hand and shook Will's hand, and smiled: "When I was a Ranger in the Shadow Tower, you were still stealing things everywhere."

"Yes!" Will said.

"As far as I know, the Great Wall has always had only one commander. When did a leader pop up?" When he said this, he scanned Colin and other veterans.

"The day I became the Chosen of God, it was destined that the Great Wall must have a leader."

"Oh?" Mans Reid stared at Will, as if trying to see him through. .

"Mans, I know why you went south, before you went south." Will said.

Mans looked at the leaders around him and said to Will: "Is our **** the same as Lord Will's?"

"I don't reject the old and new gods. There is an island of gods in Braavos on the other side of the narrow sea. Everyone can find their own beliefs on the islands. There is no right or wrong belief."

"What about belief in ghosts?"

"The faith is right, the direction is wrong." Will said lightly. Before Will traveled, he had a systematic scientific worldview of the world, but it was crushed in the fantasy world. But when it comes to arguments, he is still a talent.

"Well said, I should kill Custer first." Mans looked at Darjeely. Custer is the father of Darjeely: a believer in ghosts.

Darjeel said lightly: "I want to kill him too."

Grand Gilly has seen Mans Reid twice. The news of the savages is very similar.

"Master Will, I'm here to hear how you work with us."

Will pointed to the pits and piles around him, and said lightly: "You chose to let the people live, and you took them to the Great Wall Legion and swear allegiance under the fish beam tree."

"Let me surrender?"

"To form an alliance, there must be a leader. Do you want us to give you the Great Wall and the five hundred li of the Great Wall, and let our people listen to you? You know, your home is on the other side." Wei Er pointed to the north, "You are going to our home." Will pointed to the south, "When will the guest come and drive the host away, and then tell himself this is an ancient ceremony to follow? Or foreigners occupy the local area. People’s home, let local people accept the leadership of outsiders? This kind of barbaric situation is war. If you choose war and the winner makes the rules, I agree, then we will start the fight."

Will said aggressively.

Mans Reid stared at Will, who was neither humble nor overbearing, and he finished speaking calmly.

"You claim to have an army of ten thousand people, Colin, is this true?" Mans said to his former brother.

He doesn't believe in Will, but he believes in Colin.

"Yes, Mans, once war begins, our strength will double again, or even more!" Colin said.

The air suddenly smelled of gunpowder. This shouldn't be the atmosphere when the two sides exchanged greetings.

The kind of force that Colin said was something Mans Reid had never thought of.

Mans Reid believed Colin's words, he knew Colin, and Colin knew him. When they were the two rangers, they were both personal guards of the commander-in-chief. After being assigned to the Shadow Tower, the two of them have always been the two heroes of the Shadow Tower.

"I have stayed in the Great Wall for decades, thirty years, I know everything about the Great Wall, Will, how long have you been in the Great Wall?"

"Five years!"

"Five years? How much do you know about the Great Wall? And the history of the Great Wall. I am very interested in your surge in military strength, Lord Will, I heard that the great changes in the Great Wall are all miracles you created. People, money, things, You have all changed like magic."

"It's a strange ghost, everything is because of a strange ghost. The fall is past, and the long night and winter will come, which will also bring the power to destroy the world. You and I are standing here arguing over whether to surrender or form an alliance, but compared to the strange ghost The attack, in fact, our focus is too trivial and ridiculous. The red priest Melisandre told King Stannis I that your fight for the Iron Throne is like a child vs. candy compared to an attack by a ghost. The fight for toys. When the world and life no longer exist, who is sitting on a chair, what is the difference?"

"Since there is no difference..."

"So only a capable person is the best choice. Our military strength, money, armor and weapons, geographical advantage, legion combat power, and the support of the seven countries behind are far more than you. Mans, you lead you Freedmen soldiers of the United States are incorporated into our Great Wall Corps. We will give the night watchman five hundred li to live in the freemen’s citizens, and only collect one-tenth of the property tax. If you do not agree to this only condition, then You can go back." Will said lightly.

"I'm at the entrance of your camp, won't you invite me in and sit down?"

"Anyone who refuses to submit wholeheartedly to me and fight against ghosts, I will not welcome him. The Great Wall Legion can only have one leader, and that is me. If you disagree, please go back, and we will go to war next. "Will said decisively.

The situation fell into a deadlock all at once.

Will finished speaking in a few words.

He didn't give Mans Reid any bargaining.

Mans Reid had a lot to say, but they were all taken to death by Will in the conviction that ‘anyone who doesn’t submit wholeheartedly and fights the ghost together will be rejected’.

Any tricks that want to catch the minutiae and bargain, there is no place for Will here.

Mans brought his own big tent, hundreds of cattle and sheep to the Ranger Corps, but there was no time for these hypocritical etiquette to show, on the bank of the Milky River, Will just said the words directly.

Accept, or go to war, choose one of the two.

Mans was tall, a head taller than many people. He looked at the hundreds of followers around him, and the confidence in singing in their eyes disappeared. Many people saw their own brothers in the Ranger's legion who were riding war horses, wearing sophisticated armor, and holding sharp weapons. They could not afford to wear the armor on their bodies.

Free people have no technology to smelt iron ore.

Just as Jon was about to speak, Will stared at him, and Jon swallowed the words back.

The atmosphere is subtle.

Lord Will, contrary to his usual affinity, suddenly became a cold and inhuman person. He took great pains to make an appointment with Mans Reid. Mans came and had not yet sat down to talk. Will said in a few words that the negotiation was over. None of the gifts from Mans and others were delivered, no one went into the tent, did not sit down, did not drink a sip of hot water. All the leaders knew that Lord Will's original plan was not like this at all.

It was Mans’s singing that drove everyone’s emotions. This terrible change aroused Wei’s decisiveness. Mans, this man, cannot give him plenty of time, nor can he be introduced to the minutiae to negotiate. It will be very difficult. Of the battle.

"Mans, we choose the alliance, and let Lord Will be the leader!" Mans's wife Dana said softly. The child in her belly can't be caught by the ghost, she wants to give birth to the child in the south, a warm place. There are schools, food, houses, grazing, and places with many people, not in primitive caves in the ice and snow. Those places no longer belong to them, now they belong only to strange ghosts.

Dana avoided the word surrender and replaced it by calling it alliance.

Mans looked at the dog's head Ha Ma, Ha Ma lowered his head slightly; when he looked at the dingdong shirt, his eyes flickered; he looked at Ygritte, the little girl stood by Jon's side, as if he belonged to the night watchman. He looked at Wa Ling, whose eyes were full of expectation, and the animal skin male pet next to Wa Ling stared at him shiningly with one eye.

Everyone's hearts were hanging up, and everyone on Jon, Colin, and Sauron were also nervous. Once Mans ordered to go back, the dead people on both sides would fill up the milky river.

The blood will stain this snowy field red! Countless people will lose their parents, brothers and sisters.

Suddenly, everything was silent.

Snowy Gritte's hand involuntarily squeezed Jon's hand, and Jon also shook her hand. This backhand made Ygritte reluctant to hesitate. If Mans chooses to fight, Ygritte decides to follow Jon and stand on the side of the night watchman.

Snowflakes and flowers fell rustlingly, and all the voices were still.

*

"Well, I agree to submit to the Great Wall Legion, but you have to swear in front of the gods to ensure the safety of my people, old and weak, women and children, must be respected."

Will said indifferently: "As long as you submit and listen to my orders to fight against aliens, anything you worry about is not a problem. I swear in the name of the old and new gods!"

-Fighting against aliens and seeking survival is the most upright banner-Will and Mans know it well-but the lives of nearly 100,000 freedmen cannot be desecrated.

A soft word from his wife Dana made Mans decide to eat the cup of tea that Will handed over, whether it was poisoned or filled with hot water with honey. But first of all, the tens of thousands of people who can't fight at all have to pass the Great Wall of Despair before they can be alive.

*

Unexpectedly, cheers rang out from the freedmen's ranks. They were the one to submit, but they cheered unabashedly...

The haze of life and death on the heads of free people is too long and too long. Suddenly, the clouds dispersed and the sun filled the earth...

The leaders such as Will and Colin all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

They also tensed their hearts and waited for Mans' words: War? Or and?

Ygritte's hand squeezed Jon's hand involuntarily, and Jon also shook her hand. This backhand made Ygritte reluctant to hesitate. If Mans chooses to fight, Ygritte decides to follow Jon.

Mans looked at the people around him with a relieved expression. He knew that he had made the right decision. Even if Will strengthened his authority in order to unify the free people, he would be killed in the days to come, as long as tens of thousands of people can safely pass. The Great Wall, where there is land and food, is worth it!