is huge and mysterious. It is one of the most representative symbols of Quan You.
"I hope the Great Wall is high enough," Samwell Tully said when he learned that the night ghost will march to the Great Wall soon. The huge high wall has resisted the attacks of night ghosts and wild men for eight thousand years, ensuring the safety of Westeros. But the Great Wall is really a defensive myth?
The following are 5 questions about this high wall. The meaning of
height
The defense function of the Great Wall is mainly reflected in its height. The towering city walls made it impossible for Yegui and Savage to directly conquer, but Savage seemed to have overcome this problem with only fairly simple tools.
According to the original work, the Great Wall is at least 700 feet (approximately 213 meters) high and even higher in some places. Even with modern tools, 700 feet of ice is difficult to climb. However, the tools that the savages possess are just ordinary iron and bone axes. Are savages all professional climbers?
Attack of the Ice Dragon
During the Battle of Black Castle, hundreds of night watchmen resisted the attack of more than one hundred thousand barbarians, and the giant Wang Wang actually broke through the gate of Black Castle, but in the end the night watchman resisted it with the Great Wall. Savage's fierce attack. But when the night king rode the ice dragon Vesselion to the Great Wall, the Great Wall seemed vulnerable. The wall of
was built with hard materials, even infused with magic in advance to defend against such attacks, but it collapsed under the dragon flame. Is the contrast between the front and rear combat power of
too obvious?
Unmanned Castles
During the long days when the night watchmen guarded the Great Wall, they set up 19 castles along the wall. But for many years without incident, the kingdom has ignored the watchman's watch, resulting in only 3 of the 19 castles still being watched.
This means that most of the Great Wall is no longer guarded, and it is extremely vulnerable to savages and night ghosts. Therefore, if the unguarded Great Wall is so long, why didn't Mans Reid choose another place to break through the Great Wall, but instead attacked Black Castle?
Geographical miracle
In the original work, this wall is 300 miles (482. kilometers) long, extending from the bay in the east to the canyon in the west, which is the length of 5000 football fields. At such a long distance, there are definitely many obstacles on the way. Even if Bran the Builder is the best builder in history, he cannot bypass all obstacles.
From the East China Sea to the west canyon, there is nothing on the 300-mile land, no hills, boulders, rivers, or caves.
Maintenance puzzle
In the episode, the builder of the night watchman is responsible for maintaining the city wall, mainly by adding ice to it to improve its defense capabilities. As the number of night watchmen dwindled, maintenance work was obviously abandoned. Therefore, if no one maintains and maintains it for centuries, will the Great Wall still be a reliable defensive measure at the beginning of the episode? In a sense, the city wall may collapse at any time, and the night watchman should protect himself most.
