Ice and Fire: Conquering the World Starting from the Wall

Imperial Guards

Once the main strategic direction was determined, the next step was to assign tasks to each person.

Mans and Var will remain at Castle Black to maintain order and allocate castles and land along the Wall to the free people.

In addition, they are also responsible for duties originally belonging to the Night's Watch, including but not limited to:

Conduct routine patrols along the Great Wall to monitor activity to the north:

Regularly cut down trees that grow too close together along the Great Wall;

Regularly inspect and pour water to repair cracks in the ice wall and reinforce the wall structure;

They searched for arable land south of the Great Wall to graze livestock.

Such categories are numerous and countless.

The surviving raiders were also brought under Mans's control and used as a security force.

From now on, there will be no more sayings on the Great Wall such as "One horn sounds, the rangers return; two horns sound, the wildlings are spotted; three horns sound, the White Walkers are coming."

There are only two signals: a short trumpet sound represents a living person, and a long trumpet sound represents a dead person.

Mance will hold the Wall, while Jon will gather his men later and head to the Shadow Tower with a wight.

After picking up the Night's Watch guide at the Shadow Tower, they hurried off to find the mountain clan's stronghold.

If all goes well, he will bring two to three thousand warriors to Lynn in two months.

Kasa, Tormund, and Hamma, needless to say, will lead all their men to follow Lynn to Last Hearth, then to Karho, the Dreadfort, until they unify the entire North, and finally march south.

Next is Colin's schedule.

Colin has always been a legendary figure in the Night's Watch, always appearing calm and silent, cold and polite.

His past is unknown, and his experiences in the frontier are unparalleled.

The Night's Watch depended on him, and working with him greatly increased their chances of survival; the wildlings, on the other hand, feared him and often used his name to frighten disobedient children.

Now he has become the first member of the Night's Watch to be collectively voted out by the Brothers in Black, even though the survival of the Night's Watch depends entirely on Colin's intervention.

Now Colin has returned to Lynn's command as agreed, but he still does not have a clear position or responsibility.

It's obviously unrealistic to expect him to command the savages.

Even though the savages rarely showed disrespect to Colin out of respect for the strong, the hatred between them was real.

The two sides can coexist or even cooperate under Lynn's command, but they can never become subordinate to each other.

Lynn greatly admired Colin's extreme rationality, not to mention his top-notch personal combat skills; he would naturally not let such a talent slip by.

After being questioned, Colin made it clear that he had no intention of marrying and having children, nor did he have any desire for wealth or land. Even if he was removed from the list, he was still willing to keep his oath as a member of the Night's Watch.

In this situation, Lynn offered him a choice that suited his personality and experience, and which Lynn himself was very happy to see:

Captain of the Imperial Guard.

Although Lynn's kingdom was still very rough, it had no defined territory, no sufficient wealth, no magnificent palace, and not even a clear name.

But Rome wasn't built in a day, and Lynn was prepared to start from the ground up, with the establishment of the Imperial Guard being a good beginning.

In the Seven Kingdoms, the Captain of the Royal Guard is the highest-ranking officer of the Royal Guard. He is usually selected and appointed by the King from among the current Royal Guards and is a member of the Royal Council.

The creation of the Kingsguard stemmed from an assassination attempt against Aegon Targaryen the Conqueror.

Because the war with Dorne was bloody and protracted, in 10 AC, Aegon and Visenya encountered Dornish assassins in King's Landing.

Assassination.

If it weren't for Visenia and her sword, the Dark Sisters, history might have been rewritten.

Afterwards, although Aegon still trusted his guards, Visenya persuaded him in her own way to create the Kingsguard.

Visenia established the creed and principles of the King's Guard based on the Night's Watch oath, emphasizing that loyalty was more important than martial prowess.

They must swear an oath to serve for life, until death, and to continue serving even when they are old and frail.

The Kingsguard do not hold land, do not marry, and do not have children; they are loyal only to their lord, which is largely the same principle as that of the Night's Watch.

The only difference is that one side is guarding the king, while the other side is guarding all of humanity and the kingdom.

In fact, the oath required them not to grant land, not to marry, and not to have children, essentially to sever personal ties so that they could wholeheartedly serve the object of their loyalty, and at the same time, to reassure the object of their loyalty.

After receiving the proposal, Colin accepted it without much thought.

In his view, Lynn was indeed the greatest hope in the fight against the White Walkers and the Long Night.

Even setting aside the legends about his origins from the stars and the doomsday prophecies, just the fact that he possesses dragons and knows how to unite all forces that can be united gives Lynn a greater chance than anyone else to unify Westeros and unite all forces.

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As long as Lynn continues to work in this direction, protecting him is another form of protecting the kingdom.

Colin understood this better than anyone else.

Even if Lynn goes astray in the future, Colin believes he can still offer valuable advice.

After figuring this out, he resolutely refused Mans's help, and then, dragging his not-yet-fully-healed broken leg, he knelt down with difficulty before Lynn.

The glory and fame of the White Knights are known to all, and their oath is widely circulated; Colin was naturally aware of it.

Despite being in a remote and primitive place, and with a simple ceremony, he still recited in a steady tone: "I swear in the name of the gods I believe in:

I will protect my king, and shed my last drop of blood for you;

I will never marry, never accept an official title, and never have an heir;

I will guard your secret orders, obey your will, speak when I should speak, and remain silent when I should remain silent;

I will fight alongside you on the battlefield and defend your honor to the death!

When Colin got up again, enthusiastic applause filled the small room.

Jon was thinking of his brother Bran, who had always dreamed of becoming a member of the Kingsguard.

What the savage leaders saw was a true guardian who lived up to his oath through his actions, not the so-called kneeling person they were used to mocking.

They were fully aware of everything Colin did from beginning to end.

Upon becoming the captain of the Royal Guard, Colin immediately began to fulfill his duties, offering his advice to the king.

"Your Majesty, the Great Canyon west of Shadow Tower is currently the only known passage that can bypass the Wall by land."

In the past, groups of free people would often sneak out from there to the mountains to the south; there were even rumors that the ancestors of the mountain clans came from there.

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Later, the Night's Watch built the Skull Bridge—a suspension bridge spanning the canyon, held up by two giant iron chains—to connect the underground tunnels of the Shadow Tower with Westbridge, thus stopping the phenomenon."

"The Skull Bridge could easily block the Grand Canyon from the living, a fact that the Weeping Man and the Dorm Shirt recently proved with their blood."

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