Chapter 177: Crazy Attack

Hearing the Night King's roar, the army of wights with their bodies badly damaged seemed to tremble and approached the Great Wall again.

As soon as the hands or bodies touched the Great Wall, a faint smoke rose again, and the corpse ghosts could not help but let out bursts of miserable howls, and even their originally expressionless faces showed a trace of pain.

Just as he was about to retract his hand, he heard the Night King's urging roar again, and he could only climb up while screaming.

The body of the corpse that touched the city wall slowly turned into debris and ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye and disappeared bit by bit.

Some zombies fell down after crawling just a dozen meters, unable to endure the pain of having half of their bodies burned, and the zombies following behind them quickly took their places.

After the first group of ghouls climbed up the city wall, the second group of ghouls did not wait for the first group to climb up, but began to climb up by clinging to their fellow ghouls, at a speed more than twice that of the first group.

The second group quickly overtook the first group and only slowed down after touching the wall. The corpses, whose bodies were burned to the point of being remnants, continued to climb up using one hand or their teeth and feet.

In this way, one group after another followed and soon climbed to a height of more than 50 meters.

Seeing that the Night King was attacking the city in this way that was not afraid of consumption, Jon and others on the city wall all changed their expressions. Meera pushed Bran towards the lift without waiting for Jon's orders.

Jon and Stannis no longer dared to watch the wights attacking the city, and they commanded the Night's Watch and soldiers to be ready to attack the wights that climbed up at any time.

When the zombies climbed to a height of 150 meters, the defenders on the Great Wall launched the first wave of attacks, shooting them with dragon crystal arrows or throwing down large stones and logs. The zombies were smashed to pieces and fell like dumplings.

However, as soon as a group of zombies were knocked down, the following zombies quickly reached the position of the previous group of zombies and continued to climb up.

Although some zombies were burned to ashes and fell from time to time, large numbers of zombies continued to climb higher and higher, and some were already approaching the top of the city.

Jon quickly ordered his men to pour kerosene and use torches to ignite the corpses covered in kerosene.

However, the lethality of flames was much weaker than that of the magic on the city wall. Many zombies continued to climb up with flames on their bodies until they were burned and unable to climb anymore and fell down.

The night watchmen and soldiers on the city wall were horrified at the zombies' terrifying ability to withstand damage.

When the soldiers first heard the rumors about ghouls, they didn't quite believe what the person who told them the information said. Now that they have truly seen how powerful ghouls are, they feel that they are even harder to kill than what was rumored.

Even with the rolling logs and kerosene, a few zombies still managed to climb up the city wall, but they were quickly killed by the defenders.

As the siege continued, more and more zombies climbed up the city walls and fought with the defenders.

Sometimes, when a soldier had just chopped a zombie in half and turned around to attack other zombies, he would be bitten on the leg by the half of the zombie that was not yet dead.

Only then did he remember that the dragon crystal weapon was damaged and ordinary weapons were unable to completely kill the corpse ghost.

But no matter how he chopped the corpse, he still held on tightly and refused to let go until his companion next to him saw it and stabbed the corpse with a dragon crystal dagger, crushing him to pieces.

Jon also joined the battle with Longclaw, the Valyrian steel sword passed down from Jorah's family.

He was a martial arts expert and had the Valyrian steel sword, which was the killer of the wights. Killing wights was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. When he saw a place with a lot of wights, he would rush forward and chop them to rescue the soldiers.

Influenced by Jon, the morale of the soldiers around him, who were originally frightened, suddenly increased.

Although Stannis did not kill as many people as Jon, he did not come down from the city wall. He waved the dragonglass dagger specially made for him and commanded while killing the wights rushing in front of him.

The wight siege lasted for nearly an hour. More wights climbed over the city walls and the casualties of the defenders gradually increased. Just when Jon was killing with great enthusiasm, he suddenly felt that the number of wights around him had decreased significantly.

After killing the last zombie, he looked around and found that the number of zombies not only here, but also on the city walls in other places had dropped sharply.

Walking to the city wall and looking down, I saw only a few scattered zombies still climbing up the wall. The zombies at the foot of the wall seemed to have received some orders and began to retreat outside the Great Wall.

Looking at the army of wights that no longer attacked the city, Jon frowned slightly, not understanding why the Night King ordered the wights to stop attacking the city at this time.

After stopping the attack, Stannis looked in confusion in the direction of the retreating army of the wights, not understanding why the tireless and pain-free wights would suddenly retreat.

After the wights were two hundred meters away from the Wall and had no intention of attacking again, Stannis ordered his men to clean up the battlefield and replenish the city defense stones, rolling logs and kerosene.

After the Night King led his army to retreat, the guards on the Great Wall did not relax. They only sent the wounded down for treatment, while the others remained on standby on the Great Wall.

But after several hours, the tens of thousands of wights standing quietly outside the Great Wall still did not make any movement, and no trace of the Night King was seen from the Great Wall.

Stannis had to let the soldiers take turns to go down the Wall to rest, otherwise they would probably freeze to death if they stayed on the Wall for a long time.

After sending people to strengthen the guard at night, Stannis and Jon had to go into the Black Castle and sleep in their clothes.

The defenders of the Great Wall spent a night of fear and anxiety in peace, and the Night King's army of the dead also stood quietly outside the Great Wall all night.

In the early morning, Jon and Stannis stood side by side on the Wall, looking at the wights in the distance, guessing the Night King's intentions.

A day later, the Army of the Dead still did not launch an siege. Instead of relaxing their vigilance, Stannis and Jon increased their precautions.

On the third day after the Death Army arrived at the Wall, Jon came to a battlement more than 200 meters away from Castle Black. The wildling Ygritte was hiding under the battlement to avoid the wind and snow.

Squatting under the battlement, Jon took out a piece of steaming bread from his arms and handed it to Ygritte.

Without being polite to Jon, Ygritte took the bread and started eating.

"Be careful when the wights attack the city. I always feel like something is wrong!" Jon warned as he looked at Ygritte who was eating bread with relish.

"I know..."

Woo!

Ygritte was halfway through her words when she heard a loud horn sound.

Jon suddenly stood up from the ground, said "Be careful", and walked towards the Black Castle.

"I'll go with you!" Ygritte swallowed the bread she had just put into her mouth and said after chasing after Jon.

"You... go!" Jon originally wanted to refuse. After all, he was the commander of the Night's Watch, although everyone knew his relationship with the wildling Ygritte.

But with the Night's Watch oath there, he couldn't bring Ygritte with him openly.

But when he thought of the upcoming zombie siege, Jon felt a little worried about leaving Ygritte here.

On the city wall, the zombies' attack method was similar to the previous two days. Most of the zombies were consumed on the enchanted city walls, and only a small number of them attacked the Great Wall.

However, the density of the wights attacking the city was obviously greater than last time, especially in the center of Castle Black. The number of wights attacking the Wall was almost twice as much as last time, and Jon and his companions suddenly felt a lot of pressure.