When Lyon's troops set out again, their momentum was very different from before they came to Eastwatch.

Two hundred riders walked side by side on the road, with the central army carrying one carriage after another filled with equipment and food. Every infantryman at the rear was full of bravery, and the dust covering the sky during the march made the wild men and bandits who had sneaked into the Great Wall dare not attack this army at all. They all hid far away for fear of attracting the attention of the Night Watch scouts.

However, Leon was no longer in the mood to practice with these bandits, and just kept urging the troops to speed up their march. After all, no one would waste time on the road if they heard that 100,000 wild men were lurking in the north, so Leon decisively activated the forced march skill.

The journey that originally took a week along the Wall of Despair was shortened to two days by Lyon.

After Lyon's tenfold training and the battles with the Eastwatch rebels and the Windblown, Spacium was finally no longer the only level 6 soldier in the army.

Instead, there are a full ten Night's Watch Territory Defenders, and the individual strength of each of them is almost the same as that of Spacium.

Lyon appointed these people to various positions, and thus the command efficiency of the troops was improved unprecedentedly.

However, the imbalance of Lyon's troops is also serious. Most of the 200 cavalrymen can only be called mounted infantry. It is possible to let the Night's Watch Oathkeepers charge with two-handed swords to face weak opponents, but the shortcomings of the Night's Watch Oathkeepers' poor riding skills will put them on the passive side when facing real elite cavalry. They are not as flexible as infantry combat.

Lyon once had the crazy idea of ​​letting these Night's Watch Oathkeepers shoot bows and arrows on horseback, but even a Realm Protector like Spatium had a frighteningly low hit rate. Only when they dismounted could they display their true strength.

Therefore, Lyon's next goal is to train an elite group of rangers that are capable of protecting the flanks and actively charging.

In addition to the two hundred Night's Watch Oathtakers and Oathkeepers.

More than one hundred Night's Watch recruits were now all promoted to Night's Watch Guards, and would be promoted to Night's Watch Rangers as soon as they had enough horses in the future.

In fact, Lyon almost plundered all the stables in the donated village to gather 200 war horses, which was still a long way from Lyon's full military mobility.

Otherwise, Lyon's forced march distance could be further increased.

It was already the next evening when Leon saw the shadow of Black Iron Castle again.

However, at this time, the shouts and cries of killing from the Black Iron Castle were so loud that Lyon could hear them even five miles away.

"Lord Lyon, wildlings have appeared behind the Great Wall and are attacking Black Iron Castle!" A scout dismounted and came to Lyon, his face full of panic. No one knew what he had seen.

However, when Leon followed his gaze and saw the Black Iron Castle in the firelight, there seemed to be a few figures that were taller than ordinary people.

"Is that a giant?" Leon asked uncertainly.

"Yes, each one is four or five meters tall." Even though the scout had experienced many bloody battles with Leon during this period, he was still frightened when he saw the living giants for the first time.

The giants have long lived in the land of eternal winter in the far north and rarely appear in front of the world. Today, their status among ordinary Night's Watchers is almost the same as that of the White Walkers, and they are all considered to be legendary creatures.

But now I saw them alive and well, and there were more than one!

Hear the conversation between the scout and Leon.

Trembling and fear instantly spread among Lyon's troops.

Many of the Night Watchmen who were previously farmers and robbers could not help but feel nervous. It was normal to feel fear when facing the unknown.

"My lord? Shall we charge with all our forces?" Except for a few guardians of the realm such as Spiesium who were not affected, hearing the news about the giants seemed to be no different from hearing that the enemy was a giant or a bandit.

The calm reactions of the officers and their courage in the face of powerful enemies calmed many people down for a while. They looked at their companions around them and encouraged each other in their hearts.

Thanks to Lyon's consecutive victories, the team's morale has remained high and there are currently no deserters in the team.

However, Lyon looked at the faces around him, which had become somewhat familiar to him over time, and couldn't help feeling that it was not appropriate to command an army with kindness. However, he waved his hand without hesitation and ordered the entire army to charge.

After Old Xiong took away most of the people, there were only less than two hundred people left in Black Iron Castle to guard the castle and the Great Wall at the same time, so manpower was naturally stretched.

The savages easily broke into the city.

It's not that they are not trying hard, but there are giants in the wildlings' sneak attack team that are comparable to walking siege weapons. In addition, the wildlings are all elite, so it is understandable that ordinary Night's Watch can't stop them.

At this time, almost all the Night's Watchmen in the Dark Iron Keep were injured, and the guards on the Great Wall on the high ground were also killed or wounded. The survivors, led by Jon Snow, defended in front of the Maester Tower and made the last resistance, and were caught in a bitter battle.

The giant archer held a giant bow that matched his body size, and shot arrows as thick as a crossbow. In an instant, he killed four or five night watchmen. More giants were impatient and grabbed the night watchmen with their bare hands and tore them in half. It was an extremely bloody scene.

The berserker painted with azure patterns wielded a long axe and chopped down anyone he saw. He did not dodge or evade the swords of the Night's Watch and ignored the pain. His head was filled with a fanatical desire to fight and he would fight to the death in exchange for the life of a Night's Watchman.

A small number of the Thenns had better weapons and equipment than most free folk. They had bronze helmets, axes, short spears with leaf-shaped tips, cloth armor with bronze discs sewn on them, and black leather shields with bronze rims and embossed carvings. They had excellent defense and fought on the front line with the Night's Watch.

More free folk raiders and wildling warriors wearing snow-white leather armor and holding a variety of bone armor also attacked like crazy. The waves of attack were higher than the last, and it seemed that the Night's Watch was about to be wiped out.

Jon lost his love, Fire-Kissed Ygritte, in the chaos of battle, and was holding her body in grief, oblivious to the fighting around him.

Just as a wildling's battle axe was about to fall on Jon's neck, a rain of arrows shot from the direction of the city gate instantly pierced the sneak attacking wildling.

At this time, Lyon's support finally arrived. Seven former Windblown riders, now Night's Watch Rangers, raised their spears and rushed into the Black Iron Keep shoulder to shoulder. Behind them were countless dismounted Night's Watch Rangers supporting them.

The road in Black Iron Castle was narrow, and the charge of the seven rangers soon came to an abrupt halt. Although they stabbed the wildlings in the back and caused considerable chaos, the entire army was also wiped out.

But Leon didn't have time to worry about the loss of his subordinates.

Because the situation inside the Black Iron Castle was completely different from what was shown in the TV series.

In the original drama, Jon defeated the wildling army under his command in the Battle of Dark Iron Castle.

But now the city is crowded with savages everywhere, and the night watchmen in front of the Bachelor's Tower, dressed in black, are like a reef in the waves and may be submerged at any time.

How can we even have any chance of winning?

The battle became intense as soon as Lyon's troops joined the battle.

The savages reacted immediately and turned their guns towards Lyon and his group of Night's Watch reinforcements who came from unknown sources.

The two hundred Night's Watch rangers fired only two rounds of arrows before the fearless wildling army broke through and reached them.

If one looks down at the Black Iron Castle from a high place, one can see that not only are the Night's Watchmen in the Maester Tower surrounded, but even the Night's Watch reinforcements in Lyon are surrounded by wildlings. The situation is extremely critical.

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