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Chapter 42 Harrenhal

"This is Harrenhal, the largest castle in the Seven Kingdoms." Patrick introduced to Arthur showing off.

Of course Arthur knew this.

According to the direction of the original book of Quan You, Harrenhal belongs to the He'an family and was occupied by Tai Wen for a long time during the War of the Five Kings.

Sterling, the chief officer of the King's Landing Gold Robe, got the castle because of his meritorious service in arresting Ed, but was then ruthlessly deprived of it by the little devil.

Because the Harrenhal fiefdom is vast and rich, its owners are often the most powerful princes of the Riverlands.

However, due to the legendary curse of Harrenhal, the families that ruled Harrenhal will also gradually decline after becoming strong.

The same goes for its sixth owner, the He'an family.

In the spring of the 281st year of the Conquest, Count Walter Hean held a grand tournament, and Prince Rhaegar defeated everyone and won the championship.

Of course, it was only when the Fearless Barristan—Captain of the Kingsguard when the Mad King was King, and now Robert was King—had given in a little, and the young prince had such glory.

Then, a mistake happened, and Prince Rhaegar hooked up with Eddie's sister and Robert's fiancée, Lyanna Stark, and then took her to his wife's natal home in Dorne, where they were happy and happy.

Ed's father and brother ran to King's Landing to ask the Mad King for an explanation, but one was burned to death and the other was strangled to death.

The Mad King then ordered the Lord of the Valley, Jon Arryn, to kill his adopted son Robert to prevent future troubles.

But the Arryn family whose clan language is "as high as glory" are not cowards. In order to keep their oath to protect their adopted son, Jon Arryn rebelled.

And with the cooperation of Horst Tully, the four alliances of wolves, ospreys and deer were formally established. In 282, the usurper war broke out.

Two years later, Robert became king and the Baratheon Dynasty was established.

Fifteen years later, Arthur, Patrick, Desmond and their entourage came here.

"Although the He'an family has declined, after all, it is under the earldom, and it is not a problem to entertain us." Desmond said.

With their identities, the He'an family was naturally happy to welcome them, but Arthur's status was really not in the eyes of the nobles, and he was able to stay here only because of their favor.

"I want to take a good bath, change into clean clothes, and shave my beard. I will meet many nobles on the road in the future, and I must have a good image." Patrick muttered to himself.

Although he is the heir to the Earldom and Sea Frontier City, he is not a big shot in King's Landing.

Now it is the Lu family dynasty, and the queen is from the Lion family, so people from the Stormlands and the Westlands are in King's Landing.

Arthur didn't care much about this kind of thing, "They don't stare at you like women, why do they care?"

Patrick curled his lips, and said with a bit of sourness: "A look like yours, if you are more refined, you will be graceful and dignified; if you are less sloppy, you will be unrestrained, free and easy. How do you understand my distress?"

Arthur ignored him and rode his horse to observe.

If you remember correctly, Harrenhal is the three main defenses of the Riverlands.

The other two were the Twins on the Green Fork, and Riverrun on the Red Fork.

The three formed a stable triangle, together with the Trident River and its tributaries, formed the defense system between the rivers.

As long as these three are in hand, the Hejian people are powerful enough to resist the enemy.

In the early days of the War of the Five Kings, Edmure's failure to deal with the Lannister army was that he gave up Harrenhal.

Abandoning this, Tywin was able to gallop freely on the vast plains from the Red Fork City to the Maiden Spring City on the south bank of the Red Fork River and north of the Blackwater River.

If you want to cross the river, you can cross the river, if you want to plunder the villages of civilians to replenish military supplies, you can plunder, and they don't care at all.

If Harrenhal had been guarded by a certain amount of troops, the Riverlands would not have been so passive in the early days.

You must know that the princes of Hejian are not weak in strength. The total number of out-of-production soldiers from each family is more than 3. In addition to the peasant soldiers recruited, they still have a great advantage in terms of military strength.

But Edmure froze for a moment. First, he sent 4000 people from Vance and Piper to attack Golden Tooth City, which is an important place in the western region, and sent these 4000 people away for nothing.

Afterwards, they directly gave up around God's Eye Lake, Maiden Spring City and other places, and concentrated their forces on Riverrun City and the western division led by James.

In the end, he ended up being captured.

If Earl Tytos of Blackwood hadn't put all his strength into rescuing Edmure, I'm afraid Robb and the northern cavalry arrived, and the battle of the Whispering Forest would be even more difficult.

Now that Arthur has decided to form an alliance between the Fish and Wolves, such mistakes will naturally not happen again.

The triangular defense system with Harrenhal, Riverrun, and the Twins as the fulcrum must not fail.

Next to him is Desmond Greer, the coach of Riverrun, and his thoughts are enough to influence Edmure.

Arthur felt that he should instill some ideas in him.

"Your Excellency Desmond, what do you think is the most important fortress in Riverland that cannot be lost in case of war?"

Desmond was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why Hammer God asked himself this question, but he still answered quickly:
"Don't even think about it, it must be Riverrun! As long as you stop the Westerners at the confluence of the Tengshi River and the Red Fork River, what enemies can come into the river? The North and the Valley are staunch allies."

Arthur had black lines on his face, he was indeed from Riverrun, and all he was thinking about was Riverrun.

"If this imaginary enemy, the Lannister army, starts from the Golden Road and goes up the Blackwater River, can Riverrun stop it?"

Like the River Road and the King's Road, the Golden Road is also one of the five roads built by Jaehaerys I. It starts from Casterly Rock City in the west, ends at King's Landing City in Winter Solstice, and runs across the southern edge of the River Land.

Desmond was startled, "Then King Robert must order the army of the whole country to be assembled to defeat the Lannister army."

He also knew that once he reached the north bank of the Blackwater River and the south bank of the Trident River, on the great plains, only an absolutely superior force could win.

"That's not what I meant. If only the riverlands and the Western Territory were fighting, how would we deal with the [-] to [-] troops coming from the Golden Road?"

Desmond shook his head, "That's not something I can think about, the Duke and Edmure will think of a suitable solution."

"In this case, the only way to break the situation is to stick to Harrenhal." Arthur gave the answer directly.

Patrick urged his horse to catch up and join their conversation, "I think Arthur is right, the only solution is for the Tullys to send troops to defend Harrenhal."

Desmond was puzzled: "Why? Can't the He'an family defend the city by themselves?"

"It's not about the river's home." Arthur raised his whip, "As long as Harrenhal is in hand, the Lannister army can't just move around on the vast land near God's Eye Lake, because Harrenhal can move at any time." Send troops to cut off their food lines."

Desmond's eyes were still confused, but he let out an oh, pretending that he understood.

Arthur ignored him and started talking to Patrick about it.

The Mallister family in Haijiang City can also influence Edmure's command, so it's not bad for Patrick to have this awareness.

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(End of this chapter)