jdhmnovel Chapter 172: Night's Watch vs. Euron
Chapter 172: Night's Watch vs. Euron
When the first ray of morning light pierces the clouds and shines on the East China Sea Pier.
From afar, countless small boats loaded with Iron Men filled the entire sea like a group of sardines madly chasing a fishing boat.
They rushed forward, as if afraid of falling behind.
Before the boat reached the shore, the Iron Men, who could no longer contain their excitement, jumped off the boat impatiently, stepped into the water without hesitation, and trudged towards the shore with difficulty.
The cold, gray and cruel sea can be seen in their eyes. Their steps are firm and powerful, as if they are telling of their desire and expectation for iron money.
Looking around, the originally wide beach is now crowded with people.
Every place that could be settled was occupied by Iron Men. They wore all kinds of tattered clothes, but their eyes revealed incomparable cruelty and bloodthirstiness.
At this moment, the whole world seemed to be left with only the Iron Men as the only color - that was the unique color of the Iron Men, full of violence and plunder.
Euron Greyjoy is standing on an amphibious sea monster at this moment. It is a huge sea monster that looks like a crocodile but has long limbs.
The sea monster's thick limbs, like elephant feet, slid powerfully in the sea water and rushed onto the beach in the blink of an eye.
"Kill every Greenland Squid we see!"
"We are the Ironborn! We are sea monsters! We spread the worst nightmares!"
"It is better to take by force than to work hard!"
"For our ancient ways! For the Drowned God! Kill!"
The Iron Men swam ashore as quickly as fish. As soon as they got ashore, they immediately shouted all kinds of passionate slogans and waved a variety of weapons of various shapes in their hands. These weapons flashed with cold light, as if they were demonstrating to the enemy.
At this moment, the troops left in Eastwatch were very limited, with only two hundred well-trained Night's Watch regulars and a city defense force of one thousand free folk.
In addition, there were one hundred Night's Watchmen following Sam to the place where the dragon fell, so the total number of soldiers responsible for defending the sea at this time was only one thousand one hundred.
However, surprisingly, the number of Ironmen who flooded onto the beach in such a short period of time far exceeded the number of Eastwatch defenders by several times! Faced with such a huge disparity in power between the enemy and us, both the Night's Watch and those brave and fearless Free Folk showed no fear on their faces.
Hundreds of Night Watchmen were seen firmly occupying a simple earthen wall that was temporarily built on the beach. Using the earthen wall as support, they calmly drew their bows and arrows, and then shot arrows at the swarming enemies in a rhythmic and orderly manner.
Every arrow shot out carried a deadly threat, falling on the beach as densely as raindrops.
Many freemen who were good at archery picked up bows and arrows and joined the long-range shooting team.
I saw them drawing their bows and arrows with smooth and seamless movements, as if they were born with the ability to do this.
At this moment, the Iron Men launched a fierce attack like a storm, aiming directly at Donghaiwang.
But what they didn't expect was that they were greeted by an even more violent storm of arrows! In an instant, countless arrows poured down like dense raindrops, colliding head-on with the Ironmen's charge.
This thrilling duel caused both sides to fall into a stalemate, and the crazy charge of the Ironborn was actually resisted. However, just when the battle was at a stalemate, Euron rode his terrifying crocodile sea monster and charged towards Eastwatch without hesitation.
Although countless arrows fell on the huge body of the sea monster like rain, Euron did not retreat and ignored it.
Finally, the sea monster used up its last bit of strength and fell to the ground with a loud bang. Its huge body directly crushed the earth wall, causing many night watchmen to be buried in the beach.
As the earth wall collapsed, the Ironborn rushed in like a tide, and the originally blocked offensive finally found a breakthrough point and was able to continue to advance. Then, a thrilling melee began, and the remaining Night's Watch fearlessly waved their sharp two-handed swords and engaged in close combat with the enemy.
However, each Night's Watchman was surrounded by at least three or four Ironmen, and the situation was extremely grim. Despite being at an absolute disadvantage, these Night's Watchmen had no intention of retreating, and their eyes were full of determination and resoluteness.
On the contrary, in battle, they displayed extraordinary madness, as if they had turned into gods of war.
Faced with the whistling swords and sabers, many low-ranking Ironborn still had a trace of rationality and tried to dodge or parry; however, those Realm Defenders among the Night's Watch showed no fear and even took the initiative to face the sharp blades.
When swords and knives fell mercilessly on their bodies, they also swung the huge two-handed swords in their hands with thunderous force, and every swing would take the life of an enemy.
As the Night's Watch fought bravely and selflessly, many freemen who had planned to retreat due to their numerical disadvantage were greatly encouraged and their courage doubled. They stepped forward one after another to join the life-and-death contest, also showing their fearless spirit.
When Euron jumped off the huge corpse of the sea monster, what he saw was a scene of a stalemate between the enemy and our side.
Seeing that the warriors of the Green Land, whom the Ironborn usually despised the most, were resisting so tenaciously, Euron could not help but feel a surge of nameless anger in his heart, and cursed inwardly:
"A bunch of guys who don't know how to live or die!"
Then, Euron fearlessly jumped into the chaotic battle group with only a sharp dagger in his hand, relying on the extremely solid and indestructible Valyrian steel armor on his body! With his eyes as sharp as a hawk, he rushed straight towards the Night's Watch who were still resisting stubbornly.
There was a warrior named Douglas in the Night's Watch. His performance was not outstanding on weekdays, but it could be said that he was mediocre. However, who would have thought that such an ordinary-looking man was actually the second top warrior to be successfully promoted to the Defender of the Realm after Spacium?
At this moment, since Sam, the garrison captain, was no longer present, the responsibility of commanding the battle naturally fell on the shoulders of Douglas, the deputy captain.
And he did not disappoint Sam, successfully leading his many Night's Watch men to bravely resist the Iron Men's extremely fierce first wave of attacks.
Not only that, Douglas himself easily killed dozens of Ironborn enemies in a very short time, and he himself was unscathed! Such an amazing record is hard not to attract Euron's attention.
Therefore, when an Ironborn leader wearing dark red armor as smooth and hard as silk and with a hint of malice in his eyes appeared in front of him from behind, waving a dagger, everything became unusual.
"You guys, are you a little too active!"
Euron licked the blood on the dagger with his tongue, and sighed in his heart:
He is worthy of being a Night's Watchman who can withstand the wolf-like and tiger-like charge of the Ironborn. Even Euron himself can't help but be deeply fascinated by the powerful blood power flowing in his body.
Along with Euron's provocative words, what came into view was the shocking huge wound on Douglas' back, extending from the waist to the shoulder! The heavy and solid Night's Watch armor he was wearing actually fell apart and slid off because of this blow!
However, in the face of Euron's slightly provocative words, Douglas had no intention of communicating with him at all.
His equally cold and ruthless eyes, which looked down upon human life, were fixed on Euron. Then, regardless of his injuries, he straightened the huge and heavy two-handed sword in his hand without hesitation and stabbed at Euron with lightning speed!