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Chapter 165 King's Landing Endgame
The Redwin family's financial resources are ranked among the top five in the entire Western Continent, so the equipment of his soldiers is far superior to that of Hejian's soldiers.

Specifically, when most of the Hejian soldiers were still wearing pot-shaped helmets and hanging mail armor on their faces to shield them from damage, this group of Redwyne elite soldiers had already replaced with bascinet helmets, also known as pig-face helmets .

This is a full-coverage iron helmet, with almost no leakage on the head except for the eyes.

The helmet of the hound mask of the hound Sandor Clegane is a typical bascinet helmet, except that the pointed visor is made into a dog shape.

As for the body, the Redwyne soldiers were more comprehensive. Large areas of armor such as the breastplate, greaves, thigh armor, and arm armor were all plate armor, and only the joints were covered with more flexible chain armor.

This level of defense is already very exaggerated among the small soldiers that Arthur has seen, but compared with the main soldiers of the Lion family, it is still slightly inferior.

The helmets worn by these lion soldiers only exposed their eyes and mouths, but in order to allow soldiers to adapt to more occasions of combat, the face armor of the lion-shaped half-helmet is designed with double doors on the left and right, and there are fixed buckles after it is fully opened.

On such a battlefield with poor light, the lion-shaped half-helmets are very advantageous. They can open their visors to fight, and the visors of Redwyne soldiers can also be opened, but they are easy to slip off during fighting, obstructing the line of sight .

The battle in the entire Red Castle has entered the street fighting mode of fighting against each other. The two sides competed back and forth around the throne hall and the large meeting hall on the side.

This is what King Hejian saw when he rushed into the throne room with his people.

"Cersei is dead, Randall Tarly is about to lead an army in, what are you still insisting on?" Arthur shouted after a lion soldier was hacked to death.

In order to shake the enemy's morale, King Hejian ordered his soldiers to spread the news that the ten thousand Hewan troops were about to attack the Red Fort.

At the same time, Arthur himself took the lead in the fight. Nearly twenty strong fighters guarded the two wings, breaking through the battle line all the way to the garden outside the throne room.

The road from the throne room to the garden was already narrow and narrow, Arthur's breakthrough quickly allowed Redwyne soldiers to reoccupy the entire hall.

It's just that the field in the garden has become wider, and there are more lion soldiers, and the two sides are at a stalemate again.

But under the double blow of the death of the Queen Mother and the imminent entry of the Riverbend Army, the Lannister soldiers finally began to panic.

The full-time fighters trained by Master Tywin who spent many gold dragon coins during his lifetime were naturally not built, and several centurion captains immediately organized formations.

"Hold the line!"

"Don't rush in!" (Don't rush in)

After these Lannister soldiers formed a tight square formation, several people immediately went to investigate the situation of the north and south towers and the main gate of the Red Castle.

Arthur and Redwyne soldiers stood on the steps of the throne room exit, condescendingly confronting the enemy.

Taking advantage of a short break in the fighting between the two sides, the King of the River ordered to recruit Sir Willow Cue.

"Where are the nobles in the River Bend? Have you snatched them back?"

The helmet that Willow wears is similar to the one on Arthur's head. It is an armet helmet often worn by nobles. Its characteristic is that it basically covers the head and neck completely, but you cannot shake your head while wearing the helmet.

So Sir Willow lifted his mask and sighed: "Our great nobles and lower-level lords are with these soldiers stationed in the Red Castle, and none of the nobles have snatched them back."

Arthur thought for a while and asked, "Is your Governor of Kui also in the hands of the enemy?"

He vaguely remembered that several vassals under the name of Hightower had followed the Rose family to the north, including the Cue family in Sunhouse City, the Mullendall family in Highland City, the Bulwe family in Blackcrown City, and the Biss family in Bee Grove. Parry family.

Among the several powerful Viscount families, except for Warren Bispari in his hands, the rest of the House Governors were all taken over by Cersei in King's Landing.

"It should be, but I don't know for sure," replied Sir Willow.

"It's okay, don't worry." Arthur patted him on the shoulder, "We have a large number of noble prisoners from the Western Region, and we can always exchange them."

In his hands are several Lannister members including Kingslayer James, Davon, and Stafford. In addition, there are some minor nobles in the Westland in Golden Tooth City, and there are three or four Earl-level House Governors in the Westland in Riverrun. And the first heir, don't worry about not having prisoners to change.

After a long time, these lion soldiers finally responded.

A centurion stepped forward and shouted: "We want the complete body of Her Majesty Cersei and His Majesty Tommen, and you can appoint two earls to exchange."

Because Cersei's head has been shown, the people of Westmarch also believe that she is dead.With the Riverbend army out, and the Lannister family having no powerful figures to clean up the mess, there was no need for them to stick to King's Landing.

It's understandable for the lion soldier to want a complete body, but Arthur doesn't understand that he wants to fake Tommen.

After thinking about it carefully, King Hejian understood a little bit.

Maybe the Lions coach who proposed to exchange prisoners also knew that there was something wrong with Tommen, so he only wanted to exchange two earls for Cersei's "mother".

"Go and call Loras and Hope, and bring Levi Lanney, and let Loras decide which two earls to return."

Since he was not very familiar with the nobles of the River Bend, Arthur did not change people randomly.

A Redwyne soldier was ordered to go back to the Tower to call for someone.

A few minutes later, the two people who were called arrived with their children.

"I propose the return of Lord Paxter Redwyne."

Without hesitation, Loras wanted to exchange his uncle back.

"Okay." Arthur agreed. "Who else?"

Hopper and Loras looked at each other, and the former said, "Earl Brian Fossoway."

King Hejian thought for a while before he remembered that this was the lord of the fruit wine hall, also known as the Red Apple family.

"Is this the father-in-law of your family's Garland?" Arthur asked.

Loras replied awkwardly: "Yes."

In order to avoid suspicion, they each said the hostage the other wanted most, but in detail, the two earls were actually core relatives of Tyrell.

Arthur didn't want to change like this, so he declined, "They are all relatives of your family, what do the other Governors of the River Bend think? Um... so, let's replace Earl Klein Fossoway with the head of the House of Merry Weiss." , what's his name?"

The King of the Rivers vaguely remembered that when the Mad King, the Merryweather family came out with a king, who took office before Jon Connington.

So this family is more loyal to Arthur who has a dragon.

"Lord Orton Merryweather," Hopper replied.

Loras had no choice but to obey Arthur's exchange.

Ten minutes later, the exchange of prisoners between the two sides was completed, and the Shijia soldiers gradually withdrew from the garden of the Red Fort.

At about dawn, the Lannister soldiers in King's Landing withdrew, and the Riverbend Army led by Lando Tarly began to take over the capital that had changed hands three times.

……

Red Fort, the Great Chamber.

This is the political affairs hall located on the south side of the throne room. There is a large round table, where the imperial meeting is usually held.

Now, Arthur is discussing the next arrangement with several nobles.

After receiving the support of the people in Hewan, his military strength has expanded unprecedentedly, but there are also more things to do.

Due to the Queen of Thorns' insistence on the title, and Arthur was sure that they didn't care whether the band was clear, Arthur decided to choose a day to formally declare his claim to the Iron Throne, and at the same time change his title to First Men, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar, also known as the King of the Seven Kingdoms.

But this is only one aspect, and military and political events are equally important.

A force of the Reach had been sent to the south bank of the Blackwater into the Stormlands to fight Stannis' men, under the command of Balon Swann, the Kingsguard.

The Shiwen family is the lord of Stonehelm City. The family territory is located near the rainforest north of the Dorne Sea. It can be said that this family is the most powerful in the Stormlands except for Baratheon.

Sir Balon Swann is the second son of Earl Jillian Swann. He can be regarded as a good knight who values ​​honor, is brave and loyal, and his martial arts and archery skills are also good. At the meeting, he once achieved the No.2 good result in the archery competition, second only to the marksman An Gai.

Therefore, Loras suggested sending someone to persuade Balon Swann to surrender, and if he failed, let his soldiers in the River Bend riot.

"Very well said, but who will go?"

Arthur looked around and found that among the river bend nobles, only Randyll Tarly was reliable, and the rest were all parallel imports.

But Earl Tully wants to lead the army, so it is impossible to do low-level work like persuading him to surrender.

"Your Majesty, I suggest Earl Matus Rowan. He is very popular with the people, and he is calm and wise, with outstanding abilities." The half-bald Ran Dao suggested.

He talked about Matus, and Arthur remembered that it was time to settle the Rowan family.

Previously, in order to win the Duke of Mace, he had provoked a confrontation between Rowan and the Tyrell family, which caused the relationship between Jinshu City and Highgarden to plummet.

But now that the people of Reach have supported themselves, the relationship between Rowan and Oakheart, Tyrell and other Rebend families will be very awkward.

It couldn't be that he went around in a circle and got on good terms with his prospective father-in-law, the Duke of Metz, and framed Matus instead.

"The Earl of Golden Tree City is very loyal to me. I will discuss the ownership of his family with Mrs. Olenna when I have time. But in the matter of persuading Baron Swen to surrender, Matus is indeed the most suitable."

This army has been dealt with in this way for the time being, and the other river bend army has to be used.

"Where is Garland? Let him lead the army to block the Lannister army returning to the west, and Earl Tarly will lead the army to pursue it. First, we must completely break up the lion army."

In order to seize King's Landing City, Ran Dao did not send soldiers to chase the Westerners. Now that the situation in the city is temporarily stable, they have time to intercept and kill the Lions' army.

Huo Bo replied: "Cousin is roughly at the intersection of the lake and the Golden Avenue. People from the western region cannot cross the Blackwater River, so this place is just right to be blocked."

The Lake River is a tributary of the Heishui River, named after its source in Shenyan Lake.

If the lake and river were wider, a large ship could pass from King's Landing to Harrenhal.

"Send a letter to Garland, asking him to lead the army to block the Lannister soldiers returning west, and the soldiers from King's Landing will arrive soon."

Hopper took note of this, and then talked about another topic, "The Ironmen have begun to plunder the west coast of the Reach, and many nobles who stayed behind have sent letters asking for help. Should we send an army back?"

Because the left-behind nobles in Hewan didn't know the situation before King's Landing, they used ravens to send a large number of letters for help.

"Soon, after we defeat the Lion Army, most of the soldiers in Hewan will be able to come back to help." Arthur reassured.

The city of King's Landing was full of soldiers from the Riverbend people. He decided to send some of the Riverbend soldiers back south in the name of expelling the Ironborn, and then send his own army over.

Moreover, there was still a dispute over the ownership of Brightwater City and the earldom, which he hadn't discussed with the Queen of Thorns yet.

At the same time, it was time to set up the Imperial Council, and the Royal Guards, the Royal Guards, and the Great King's Land should also be put on the agenda.

In the round table of the meeting hall, this start-up kingdom is quickly solving most of the troubles, but a bigger crisis is coming.

……

The Stormlands, Griffin's Roost.

This is a standard earl-level castle, which originally belonged to Jon Connington. After he was deprived of his family castle and territory property by Mad King Aerys II, Griffin's Nest Castle was granted to Ronald Connington, and then Roland Clinton succession.

In the castle hall, Illyrio, the governor of Pentos, discussed the war with several heads and deputy heads of the Golden Squad, as well as Aegon VI who didn't have a strong sense of presence.

"Junlin City has changed its owner again. It used to be a lion wearing a deerskin, but now it is a rose wearing a dragon's skin." Quinn, a deputy head of the golden regiment, introduced to his companions.

Because the new owner of the Iron Throne basically does not have his own team in King's Landing, most of the leaders in the Seven Realms think that the dragon bearers are at the mercy of the people of the river.

"Our situation is very dangerous. The dragon bearer is likely to be the biggest beneficiary of this war. In his situation, the four realms have already been captured. Why don't we just grab it and slip away."

Quinn thought that a group of Stormland peasants should be captured as slaves and then returned to the Eastern Continent. After all, they were mercenaries, not family soldiers fighting for power for the lords.

"Some contracts are written in ink, and some contracts are written in blood. Supporting Aegon VI to become King of the Seven Realms is our established goal." The big fat Illyrio waved his hands irritably, as if this would relieve his troubles. drive away.

But the senior members of the Golden Group are not very optimistic about the current situation. In order to boost morale, the Cheesemonger decided to throw out some good news.

"You don't have to be so pessimistic. We have friends in King's Landing, and there are a lot of them. They are enough to pry open the gap between the dragon bearers and the river people, just like the dragon bearers pried the gap between the lion and the rose. And several viceroys of Pentos want to take part in the slave trade, and they will send us more mercenaries. The trap for Stannis is set, and the Stormlands will be ours soon."

Daenerys, a storm born, made a big fuss in Slaver's Bay, leaving behind several smoking city-states. Only Meereen is still operating normally, but Meereen controlled by Dany does not allow slaves, which makes the slave trade almost impossible. interruption.

Listening to what the fat man said, Jon Connington felt more and more that something was wrong.

"We are letting His Majesty Aegon VI regain the throne, not making Westeros a breeding ground for slave traders. I will never accept the act of letting mercenaries plunder farmers in large numbers."

In the Battle of the Bells, the young Hand of the King had no choice but to set fire to the town of Stone Hall in order to protect the civilians from harm.

Duke Tywin once commented on this person: It was too disrespectful for him to kill innocent men, women and children, so he decided to kill Robert himself to win the war.

Illyrio looked at Jon Connington coldly, feeling that this man was too stubborn, "I decided to send you to find Daenerys, her Unsullied and mercenaries are useful to us."

The man had made many times his stand against plundering peasants as slaves, so Illyrio was going to send him away for a while.

(End of this chapter)