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Chapter 160 How to Rescue the Nobles of the River Bend

Hejian Land, Maiden Spring City.

The Mooton family's gold-rimmed sockeye banner on a white background flutters in every corner of the castle and town.

King Hejian's army arrived here by water, and is currently constructing fortifications on the south side of the town.

In the castle hall, more than a dozen high-status nobles are discussing military affairs.

Although the movement of the enemy army is very clear, the situation of the entire continent is beginning to be unclear.

During the time when the Hejian army went north, Landau did not attack Maidenquan City, but stayed where it was, and the movement of the remaining Hewan army became even more confusing. After crossing the Blackwater River and entering the stormy land to "suppress the rebellion", Garland brought one with him, and along the golden road, slowly headed towards Deep Cavern City, Silver Mountain City and other places.

At present, the salient part of the west is in the hands of the river army led by Deacon.It is a full three to four hundred leagues from King's Landing to Deep Cavern City, and at the marching speed of Garland's troops, it should take more than a month.

It seems that this Tyrell also had his own plans, and did not fully obey Cersei's orders.

"The Change of King's Landing didn't cause a mutiny in the Riverbend Army. I think Garland has some skills." Hugo Vance joked.

When most of the lords were captured, Garland actually let the [-] soldiers of the river bend out of King's Landing obediently, and accepted the dispatch of the Lion's family, which made many people call Queen Cersei powerful.

Everyone laughed. After Cersei took the helm, the pressure on them from the Westlands and the Riverbend Alliance suddenly eased a lot.

With such an opponent, it is only a matter of time before they win.

Matus Rowan behaved differently from the others.

"Your Majesty, it is said that the Shield Islands in the Reach have been captured by the Ironmen. According to the current situation, Euron will definitely send people to plunder the coastal areas, and may even go deep into the Mander River and Mead River to rob. According to Cersei's Temperament, it is impossible to consider the situation in the River Bend Territory, can we do some tricks on this?"

Earl Rowan has also learned this method since Arthur used tricks to break his relationship with the Duke of Metz.

"Indeed, but it will take time to implement the details."

This was exactly what Arthur planned, but he didn't want to disclose the specific action plan to so many people present.

"Hugo great writer, what is the specific situation of Earl Randyll Tarly's army?"

The name of this Sir Vance is the same as the surname of a great writer in his previous life, so Arthur sometimes called him a great writer.

"He led his army to occupy the ruins of Duskvale City, and summoned nearby farmers, stonemasons, and blacksmiths. It seems that he is going to rebuild the castle and stay there for a long time."

Among the 2000 troops under Randall's command, there are 2000 from the Tully family, 3000 from the Red Apple Fossoway family, 500 from the Mariweis family from the Long Table Hall, and [-] from the Peck family from Star Shuttle City. One thousand five hundred people.

The remaining [-] soldiers came from various small families in the Reach.

It is worth mentioning that many family governors of the Ministry stayed in King's Landing City, waiting for the royal family to reward the people of Hewan for their meritorious deeds.

This makes Landau's situation better than ever.

He can not only refuse to fight for the Lion and Flower Alliance on the grounds of the change of King's Landing, but also he can hold his own strength and strive for more benefits for himself.

Sir Agilent Oakheart suddenly stood up and suggested: "Landao has a kind of obsession with the territory, and his heir is also on your side, maybe you can separate Duskendale City and the nearby Earldom Give him a reward to win the support of Earl Tully."

Several river bend nobles nodded in agreement with this statement.

To be honest, the territory of Duskendale City is not a good territory.In order to serve the huge aristocratic knight class in Junlin City, a large number of fruits, vegetables and flowers were planted in the farmland of the king's land, which was fine in peacetime, but could not provide assistance to the lord in wartime.

And because the whole kingdom is in the circle of Blackwater Bay, the climate is greatly affected by the monsoon, mostly windy weather, the output of farmland is very low, and the capable activities in King's Landing City can earn more money than farming land .

Therefore, many young farmers went to work in the city, which caused a serious loss of the royal and noble people.

From the perspective of Arthur's keyboard politician, this phenomenon should be called the siphon effect of big cities.

The poverty belt around King's Landing!
And Dickon Tarly has always performed very well. If Randyll brought an army of [-] to vote, when rewards were awarded for meritorious deeds in the future, the reward of the Tully family would definitely not be the ruins of Duskendale City.

"I'll wait until the rewards are stabilized. Which Lord of the River Bend has a good relationship with Earl Randyll, come and run for me?"

After the nobles looked at each other, Matus recommended Agilent Oakheart.

"Your Majesty, the murals in the ancient Oak City are full of feuds between his family and Dorne, and the hatred of the Itari family for Dorne. Sir Agilon will definitely have a lot of topics to talk to Earl Randyll."

Arthur glanced at the middle-aged knight and nodded in confirmation.

"By the way, I wonder if your family still has a territorial dispute with a certain family in the western region? Now I will judge you as well." Hejian Wang asked.

Before the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings, when he went to High Court, he heard that this family had disputes with the Western Territory.

But because the Rose family could not influence King's Landing at that time, and the Lannister family had a queen, the Duke of Metz made it his own to make the Oakheart family endure this.

"It's the Crake Hall's Crake Hall family. They occupy twelve villages in my family, about the size of a barony. Because Sir James once served as a servant in the Crake Hall, so...in fact, my family is not powerful. We are weak, and we also have a Kingsguard, but the Duke of Mace just doesn't want to fight the West Territory for us."

Ancient Oak City and Crake Hall are both along the Binhai Boulevard, and the border of the two territories is also the border of the river bend and the west.

Crake Hall has always had a close relationship with Casterly Rock, as Jaime Lannister once served as squire to Lord Sumner Crakehall.

Arthur waved his hand, "When the Western Territory is captured, the Kreher family will pay your family the territory of twenty villages. By the way, what is the name of your Kingsguard? Where is it now?"

Agilon replied: "It's Sir Alex Oakheart. I don't know where he went. It is said that he was sent by Cersei to protect his daughter Myrcella Baratheon, but I don't know." Sure."

Although the Kingsguard, like the Night's Watch, apparently broke away from their own family, they were not.

Not to mention those like James who would run to his own house as soon as something happened, most of the Kingsguard still fought for a lot of benefits for their family.

For example, Barristan Selmy, "The Fearless", came from Harvest Hall in the Stormlands.Because Sir Gossip Stan has successively served as the Kingsguard of several kings such as Jaehaerys II, Aerys II, and Robert I, and served as the captain of the Kingsguard for 14 years, which made Selmy of the Harvest Hall became the earl family.

"Then he might be in the valley, what about Harlan Hunter in the valley? Ask him to send a servant or something to send a letter to see if he can bring this knight here. If he can bring Myrcella out The Valley would be even better."

Old Walder's seventeenth son, William Foyle, was a Maester of the Hunt family.

Since the Frey family and the Hunter family had a very good relationship, Harlan, the hostage, quickly integrated into the circle of the Hejian people, so it should be no problem for him to send someone to deliver a letter.

Ai Jilun nodded, agreeing to come down.

Arthur didn't expect to get Myrcella, a great hostage, with just one letter, but if he had nothing to do, it was more or less a move.

What if it comes in handy someday?
King Hejian checked the map, and there should be no major battles within a week or two.

Although he had promised to marry Sansa after the Vale business was settled, he might not be able to do so right now.

"Garland should be coordinating all parties. Maybe Kevan will run from the western region to King's Landing, and then talk to his niece. Taking advantage of this time gap, we need to do more digging. Sir Agilon, wait for me to plan. Finished the letter to Landau, you will set off this afternoon and keep your whereabouts hidden. The rest of you, go out and manage your own soldiers, we still have to prepare for Landau's attack."

Arthur sent away most of the nobles, leaving only William Mooton and Agilen.

After he discussed the wording of the letter with the loyal and honest William, Earl Mooton wrote the letter with a quill, then sealed the letter paper with hot wax, and stamped it with the sockeye salmon seal.

The reason why the logo of the Mooton family was used instead of Arthur's prancing horse coat of arms was to leave some room for Randall to turn around.

The old earl was not a devout follower of the Seven Gods—he even invited two wizards to perform rituals for his eldest son, Samwell—but his subordinates were all believers of the Seven Gods, and it would be dishonorable to communicate with the enemy king thing.

"Tell Earl Tully, after the war, Duskendale City can give him, and I can even move him a piece of land in the river bend, so as not to let him split up. As long as he brings an army to me, everything is negotiable .”

After finally entrusting Aijilun, Arthur sent him away.

William Mooton heard these words quietly, and he questioned: "Your Majesty, isn't your reward for the territory too generous? There are not many precedents for this level of territory change."

For thousands of years, the feudal fiefdom system has made the territory and the castle a radish and a hole. As long as a family gets a new territory, someone must lose it.

"It doesn't matter, Cersei has done a great job for us. She killed many house governors in the entire river bend. They voted for me very late in the order. It is normal to reduce the title."

In fact, it's not just the two regions of the river and the river bend. If Arthur unified the Westeros continent, the Stormlands and the West Region could also squeeze out a large number of territories to reward those with military exploits.

Who made these two realms follow the wrong people all the time, and didn't have much military strength?
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Hejian Wang originally thought that it would take time for all the people in Hewan to fall to him, but the visitor at night made him overthrow his idea.

In the middle of the night, Hobber Redwyne took a boat to the port of Maidenpool City and visited the River King.

"Why have you come? Where is your brother Horace?" Arthur asked.

He was on good terms with the Redwyne twins, since the two kept appearing together, so he wondered where the other had gone.

"He returned to the Reach with more than 70 warships of my family."

Huo Bo was obviously very anxious. In the next period of time, he spoke out his plan and the purpose of coming here.

After the great change in King's Landing, he deeply felt that Lannister was not easy to serve, and he took the remaining Redwyne warships to Dragonstone Island to avoid orders from the Red Castle.

There, he contacted Lord Lando Tarly of Duskendale many times, and the latter suggested that he go to the Duke of Mace in the hands of the King of the Rivers to try it out.

"My uncle is in your hands. Apart from my grandmother, he is the only Tyrell who can determine the attitude of the people in the river, so..."

The Duke of Mace is Hope's uncle.

Arthur was amused that these people from the river bay thought of letting a captive decide the allegiance of an army of [-] to [-].

But it works in his favor, so he orders Podrick to bring the Lord Inflatable Fish.

As soon as they met, Hopper couldn't care less about other things, and asked the Duke of Mace to find a way to get out his old father, Paxter Redwyne.

"Uncle, you also know that we don't have much prestige among the lower-level lords in the Reach. After the King's Landing incident, Garland's weak handling made many noble members who stayed in the Reach dissatisfied..."

The Duke of Mace knew about the changes in King's Landing before, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Facing his nephew, the inflatable fish said bitterly: "You mean to let me go to King's Landing City alone to rescue those house governors and knights. Do you think I can break into King's Landing City by myself, then break into the Red Keep, and kill them all?" Into Maegor's Tower?"

Since the Red Keep is also a giant castle, and Maegor's Tower has its own separate moat, it is really not easy to capture these two checkpoints.

"Who told you to enter?" Huo Bo ignored the etiquette of the elders and juniors, grabbed the old uncle's hand, and pointed him to the locations of several river bay troops.

"Twilight Valley City, the south bank of the Blackwater River, and the Golden Road, these three parts add up to 4 fully armed soldiers. As long as you order, it is enough to bring these [-] people together. When the time comes, Cersei dares to move us A hair from the people of Hewan? When we besiege King's Landing, she must obediently hand over the hostages?"

Now that Lannister has made such a thing as the King's Landing Change, Hopper and others did not think about continuing to be loyal to the so-called "Toman I".

"But we have killed at least 2 people for the Lion's family. These lives are all money, and the price of changing a new king is a bit high." Metz glanced guiltyly at the river where they were talking. King of the room.

"Oh, uncle, most of the dead are handymen and servants, how many real soldiers died?" Because Earl Landau had already settled the account for Hopper, so he opened his mouth.

"What's more, according to Cersei's crazy energy, if you continue to follow her, all the soldiers in the Reach will die. How much does it cost to train a soldier? Moreover, there are more than 600 million people in the Reach, and some of them are handyman servants, but the soldiers who are out of production are the only ones. How much? You can understand the truth of this, right?"

Duke Mace frowned and thought for a long time before he said leisurely: "Since Cersei dares to do this, then we have to be more ruthless. But my mother is still in her hands, I really don't want to... well, Loras and Margot Li is also there, and there are a lot of earls and viscounts, if Cersei is willing to go all out, then we will have a big hatred with the other Riverbend families."

Master Inflatable Fish is afraid that Cersei will kill the hostages, so he can't make up his mind for a long time.

Seeing that the atmosphere had reached this point, Arthur said, "Actually, I have a way."

There is a rather complicated system of secret passages and cellars underground in the Red Castle. The little birds of Varys passed various messages to the intelligence chief from the underground of the Red Castle.

The uncle and nephew hurriedly looked at Arthur, and asked in unison, "What method?"

"I can lead a group of people into the secret passage from the sewer of the Red Castle, and then rush in, kill Cersei first, and then rescue the nobles of the Reach." Arthur said.

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