King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 82 Logistic Impact Frontline
“Night’s Watch’s job is to protect the Wall, not the House Stark , to organize a large-scale operation in order to find Benjen Stark, not only putting the cart before the horse, but also disregarding and disrespecting the lives of other brothers.” Tyrion repeated Igor’s words, staring at him like a ghost, and his hand holding the pen did not move for a long time: “Are you sure you want to write that? This is the following crime, and even if Mormont is reasonable, it can’t be… Besides, how do you know that you Lord Commander launched the Ranger Expedition to find Benjen Stark?”

“I I don’t know.” Igor admitted: “Maybe I misunderstood him, he dignified the former Earl of Bear Island, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, and the great character must have a big belly, never because of my subordinate’s ‘misunderstanding’ If you criticize him, just call me back and punish me. Besides, he can count on me to provide supplies.”

“Since you understand in your heart, why do you use such an aggressive tone. “

Igor spread his hands: “What do you think he would think if I presented the facts and reasoned and tried to convince him not to carry out this large-scale investigation?”

“I don’t know, I’m short, but I can’t fit into Mormont’s stomach.”

“I think he’d be thinking: ‘Hmph, a guy who’s hiding in King’s Landing and enjoying himself, and hypocritically admonishing him. Let’s not take risks? Just provide your supplies well, and don’t worry about too many things!'” Igor said: “Then, he probably won’t read the arguments you wrote next about not going on this adventure, and just wrote back and ordered I’ll get the supplies as soon as possible, or I’ll recall.”

“You’re just speculating.”

“But you have to admit it’s possible. On the contrary, if I pretend to have a misunderstanding , and then spit on him from a good standpoint for Night’s Watch…” Igor didn’t argue, but continued to explain why oneself did it: “hehe, you know, people have a weakness – when you hear or see someone When I say that oneself is doing something wrong, my attention will be focused, and then I will instinctively refute the other party. Commander Mormont sees my accusation, even if he is disdainful, with this kind of thinking inertia, he will at least read the next chapter. content. , will write another letter to reassure me and explain to me the real purpose of his organization of this operation… After all, he is counting on me to work hard and provide as much of the list as possible. “

“You just have a lot of ideas. Tyrion hummed a few times, but also felt that Igor’s idea had some truth, nodded looked towards the letter paper again: “Okay, you say it again, I will write exactly what you said, when the time comes something happens, But don’t look for me. “

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And just like that, Igor said, and Tyrion wrote, about an hour later, this 1st Night’s Watch “Chief Logistics Officer” to the 997th Lord Commander ‘s first official letter, thus penned by Tyrion Lannister, meticulously and roughly completed in the posh Westerlands popular typeface.

The letter begins with an accusation of devotion to righteousness that inspires reverence, and aims to Attract the attention of the readers; followed by Igor’s guesses and judgments about the current situation north of Wall, in short, write as dangerous as possible, and it is best to scare people; then, the chief logistics officer throws oneself Opinion – Night’s Watch is too weak to operate alone, the safest way is to stabilize and do a good job of defense first, and then come up with strong evidence to ask the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms for help.

Finally, there are several specific plans designed by Igor – he used his imagination to think of several plans to capture ghouls alive in the safest way possible with only a few elites from Night’s Watch Legion. Not only As such, there is also a promise to provide all the weapons and equipment needed to carry out these plans.

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“Forgive me to speak bluntly Igor, your plans are clearly idealistic . I am afraid that results can only be achieved if the conditions are perfect and the plan goes well. “Up to now, Tyrion doesn’t want to question the existence of those ghosts outside the Igor Wall, and assumes that the other party is not talking nonsense, and then talks about the matter: “I have been to The Wall, the conditions and situation there are really bad and complicated, and the personnel The quality is also uneven, and the situation may change at any time. “

“I’m not asking them to do exactly what I say, it’s about what I’ve prepared for these plans.” Igor explained: “As long as they have a little bit of acceptance of the idea of ‘calling for help from the rulers of the Seven Kingdoms’ and waiting for me to send them the ghoul-catcher and the equipment for dealing with the Others, I’ve got it. It would take a month to travel from King’s Landing to Wall, even by sea, day and night. By then, the most dangerous time had already passed. “

“What was the most dangerous moment?” “

“hehe, military secret.” ”

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The part that Igor can’t tell Tyrion any more is: In the original story of the Ranger expedition, the reason why the Night’s Watch troops chose to station the Fist of the First Men is because It is judged that this place is the only way for Mance Rayder’s 100,000 wildlings to attack Wall from Frostfangs south along Milkwater, and the terrain is difficult to defend and difficult to attack – as long as you seize this high ground and hold it, trifling a few hundred Night’s Watch, you can resist Tens of thousands of wildlings attacked and prevented them from heading south.

There was nothing wrong with strategy or tactics in doing so, but what they were waiting for was not wildlings, but ghouls covering the mountains and plains.

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As long as Night’s Watch Legion is willing to delay the pace of departure a little because of waiting for the equipment promised by oneself, the army of wildling will start south from the assembly point, and the grandiose will flow through the Fist of the First Men, so that the expedition force will be completely Lose the “opportunity” to occupy favorable terrain. If you can’t preempt the Fist of the First Men, you won’t give the dead army a chance to surround them on the mountain, and naturally you won’t be nearly wiped out.

This is the best way for a logistics officer to influence the front line without command authority – to control the delivery time of supplies.

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If Night’s Watch Legion can follow oneself’s suggestion to capture the ghoul alive and send it to King’s Landing, it will undoubtedly be the best ending. If not, it is also a good choice to save as many black clothed brothers as possible.

Unable to decide which one is better to save or not to save, Igor finally decided to follow his heart: this time, be a sentimental person – do nothing and watch three hundred brothers come out He couldn’t do it. Although he wanted to get rid of his Night’s Watch status, he was not satisfied with the many missions that the leaders had thrown at oneself, but in the end – the hundreds of Night’s Watch brothers in Castle Black had a relationship with oneself after all. From a personal point of view, he also admires Commander Mormont and Maester Aemon, the high-ranking black shirts and their character and dedication Spirit.

“Cut… shit military secrets, I don’t care.” Tyrion gestured to show disdain, picked up the stationery and looked at it: “Well, that’s it, do you want to add anything? “

“Well, I think about it… first help me get the official appointment certificate of the ‘chief logistics officer’ and write it down – I don’t want salary, and I will recruit my subordinates myself, as long as Night’s Watch It’s enough to officially recognize my name.”

“Well, that’s important, isn’t it?”

Igor thought about it, it’s not easy to send a letter to Wall, Just say everything you want to say ahead of time: “Write down the difficulties I encountered in recruiting, tell them my intention to recruit a ‘temporary Night’s Watch’, and see if Mormont agrees.”

“Are you having trouble recruiting?” Tyrion glanced up at him again: “Why don’t I know, have you started recruiting?”

“No, don’t worry about it, I said, you write That’s fine.”

“Well… let’s do it.”

Igor organized some language, and after a little embellishment of oneself’s plan, Tyrion wrote it into the letter.

“By the way, let’s add another one. If you find the body of a ranger brother who was patrolling north, bring it back to Castle Black, don’t burn it, lock it in a cage, and if it survives, send it directly to King’s. Just Landing.”

What the hell is this tm? Tyrion frowned, but decided to give up thinking for the time being and become a writing machine with peace of mind: “Also?”

“No…well, at the end, I will add a message to Jon Snow, saying that Arya asked me to say hello to her. , she was learning sword techniques from me at King’s Landing, and had a great time letting him take care of himself at the Wall.”

Tyrion rolled his eyes: “How dare you pretend to be Miss Stark?”

“Write it first, I’ll talk to Arya tomorrow and she’ll definitely agree.”

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(end of chapter)