Game of Thrones: Attack on the North Wolf

Chapter 226 Hard Tun (6600 chapters)

"Your Majesty, this is Earl Herman Tauhar of Toren Square City in the north."

In the Throne Hall, Clay, who was performing the duties of the Hand of the King, loudly introduced the very familiar northern nobleman who saluted respectfully to Robb, who was not interested in leaning on the Iron Throne.

This is an audience ceremony for nobles that every new king must go through.

Originally, this ceremony should have been carried out after the coronation ceremony was completed, but a few days ago, Robb had just finished his coronation and walked out of the Baylor Cathedral, when he received bad news from the Golden Avenue.

Garland and Loras, who led [-] Tyrell family cavalry in pursuit of Kevan's remnant army, unexpectedly crashed into the enemy's ambush circle.

This group of Tyrell family cavalry, who were proud and complacent because they fought against the wind in King's Landing, suddenly suffered a large-scale attrition, and they couldn't even organize a defensive formation, so they began to flee in a panic.

After receiving this news, Olenna and Duke of Metz suddenly felt dull and fell silent.

They never expected that Garland and Loras would do what was originally a matter of chasing down remnants of soldiers to gain military exploits.

Seeing her grandma and father falling into silence, Margaery stood up and spoke directly.

However, she did not intercede for her two brothers. Instead, after analyzing the reasons for their failure, she asked Robb to punish them severely.

Regarding Margaery's reaction, Robb nodded secretly in his heart, feeling that she who was well educated by Olenna was indeed the best candidate for the queen.

Robb then deprived Garland and Loras of all their previous military achievements in front of the nobles, and disqualified them from commanding troops, and expelled them from King's Landing City to Golden Tree City to assist Vilas in reclaiming the fields.

When the Duke of Mace heard that Robb's punishment was so severe, he almost cut off the future of his two sons.Immediately, his face turned pale and he wanted to ask for mercy.

But he was stopped by Olenna, who had a relaxed expression on her face, and Margaery, whose eyes were full of admiration and gratitude for Robb.

In fact, Robb's punishment seemed very serious in the eyes of other nobles who did not understand the inside story of Jinshu City's reclamation of terraced fields.After all, young nobles could not command troops to fight but could only farm.

But Olenna and Margaery knew that with Robb's emphasis on reclaiming terraced fields.This is equivalent to throwing a big credit to Garland and Loras who were punished.

As long as Jinshu City can successfully reclaim a large number of terraced fields, the River Bend will have a bumper harvest in autumn.Then Robb can reuse them in time.

Seeing the expressions of Olenna and Margaery, Robb also knew that they understood his intentions.

Afterwards, he took off his magnificent king's cloak and restored Bloodwind to his normal figure, and took Weir and other wolf guards towards the golden road in person.

After Robb left, only Clay was left to clean up the mess he left behind.After more than a year of deliberate training by Robb, the young Clay is indeed very capable.

Nearly a hundred vassals and nobles were properly arranged by him, and many problems in King's Landing City were also resolved one by one by him in order of priority.

In just six days, Robb brought the wolf guards and Tyrell cavalry back to King's Landing to escort Kevan and the remnants of Lannister.

On that day, the Lion Gate of King's Landing was besieged, and countless civilians came to watch the majesty of the 'god' Robb.

When they saw Robb standing on top of the majestic Bloodwind, and behind him were the embarrassed lions headed by Kevan.Immediately they shouted the words 'Long Live Robb I' in unison.

Closer to home!
Of course, the group of great nobles who fought with Robb will be the first to conduct the audience ceremony in the throne room. Earl Herman, whom Clay just introduced, is the last northern noble.

From now on, the subsequent nobles will either be the former nobles of King's Landing City, or the nobles who have recently surrendered.

"Your Majesty, this is Earl Riverey Lake of Duskendale City."

"Your Majesty, all the nobles and commoners of the Seven Kingdoms must feel the same as me at this moment, firmly believing that under your long-term rule, the Seven Kingdoms will surely prosper.

In congratulations on your coronation, we of the Lake family offer a modest gift! "

After hearing Clay's introduction, Earl Riverey hurried forward and said with a smile.

Count Riverey was a middle-aged man with a masculine appearance, but at the moment he had a flattering smile that didn't match his appearance.

"Your Majesty, the [-] golden dragons presented to you by Earl Riverey, and a box of gemstones of various colors have been put into the treasury."

As soon as Earl Riverey finished speaking, Clay, who was standing next to Robb, immediately reported in a loud voice.

Hearing this, Robb, who was very bored about the audience ceremony, suddenly showed a very kind and kind smile on his face and said loudly to Earl Riverey: "The Earl Riverey from Duskendale?
Well, I already feel your sincerity!
It seems that you really really think that I can rule the Seven Kingdoms for a long time!Very good, I remember you! "

"Thank you Your Majesty for the compliment!
Our Duskendale territory has been harassed by a large number of refugee deserters before, but thanks to your army, they were driven out of the kingdom. "

Hearing Robb say to remember his own words, Earl Riverey was overjoyed and chatted with Robb who seemed very kind.

At this moment, he feels that he has done the right thing with his big gamble, and now it has achieved unexpected results.

But Earl Riverey didn't know that many other nobles behind him had already cursed the entire Lake family in their hearts.

Duskdale City is a town built next to the port, although this port cannot be compared with the five major port cities in Westeros.But the life of the Lake family is also quite prosperous.

The Earl of Riverey may not have thought too much about it, and the gift was purely to please His Majesty Robb.

But from His Majesty Robb's words, these nobles under the throne steps heard the hidden meaning.

That is, as long as he fails to show his sincerity, he feels that Robb's rule will not last long.

Riverey Lake, son of a bitch, for pissing us off like this!
In the end, these nobles all thought of such a sentence in their hearts.

"Your Majesty, the next gentleman is also from the royal land. He is Earl Gales Rosby of Rosby City."

When Earl Riverey walked down the steps from the side of the throne with a smile on his face, Clay continued to introduce the next nobleman to Robb.

"Your Majesty...cough, cough! I'm sorry, please forgive me. My recent cough is a bit serious!"

Earl Gales was an old man with a sickly appearance, and he started covering his mouth and coughing as soon as he finished speaking.

Robb, who was afraid that he might have some infectious disease, inadvertently raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose,
Then he put on a look of indifference and said, "Earl Gales came to King's Landing in person even when he was sick. How could I blame you for this reason!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, may the Seven Kingdoms be under your rule forever!"

Seeing that Robb didn't intend to blame him, Earl Gales gave him a blessing, and then turned around and walked towards the side steps of the throne.

"Your Majesty, the thousand golden dragons presented to you by Earl Gyles have also been put into the treasury."

Before Earl Gyles' old body moved, Clay on the side spoke out his congratulatory gift loudly.

Hearing Clay's words, the originally kind smile on Robb's face gradually faded, and he just silently stared at Earl Gyles in front of him.

And Blood Wind, who had been lazily lying beside the Iron Throne with his eyes closed and resting, opened his eyes, and the murderous intent in those eyes immediately made Earl Gaels feel a chill down his back.

On the steps of the Iron Throne, the harmonious atmosphere of the monarch and his subjects suddenly turned into a tense atmosphere full of chilling meaning.

Earl Giles, who has been suffering from illness and coughing constantly, was originally not well regarded among the nobles.

Therefore, when he heard the great gift from Earl Riverey just now, he made up his mind to use this old face to get past Robb.

But now, he was enveloped by the killing intent of the blood wind, and he suddenly realized that this majesty has killed thousands of enemies with his own hands, and crowned himself a ruthless man!

There was no telling what he might do to the whole Rosby family if he was provoked in public.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, Earl Giles suddenly smiled and turned to Clay and said, "Master Clay, your report was not accurate enough! Maybe you forgot too many things, I should have explained it to you earlier. Pass.

The reason why we only offer this thousand golden dragons for His Majesty is because our Rosby family does not have the habit of storing large amounts of golden dragons.

We in Rosby now have a million bushels of barley, wheat, and oats ready.Corn, carrots, chickpeas and many other vegetables also have at least 100 bushels each.

It should be sent to King's Landing City in a few days! "

Earl Gales's remarks were not just nonsense to deal with Robb. Rosby City is indeed one of the important food and vegetable supply towns in the kingdom.

During this war of kings, half of the food and vegetables consumed by the 10 people in King's Landing came from Rosby and Stokeworth.

"Oh, that's right! Your Majesty, Earl Gales did tell me about this before.

It `s my mistake!Please punish! "

Hearing Earl Gyles' words, Clay's face immediately revealed an expression of enlightenment, and then he turned his head and said to Robb.

After hearing what Clay said, Earl Gyles' eyes were full of gratitude for Clay who didn't expose him.

"So that's the case! Clay, I know you've been working very hard these days, why are you talking about punishment for a trivial matter?
Well, I have definitely received Earl Gales' wishes!

Earl Gales, you should pay more attention to your body. "

Hearing this, Robb said with a smile on his face again.And the blood wind beside him also closed his eyes again.The chilling and tense atmosphere just now dissipated immediately.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern!"

I don't know if it was because he was too nervous, but Earl Gales stopped coughing when he spoke later.

With the lessons learned from Earl Gales, other dignitaries and dignitaries later took out their wealth and offered gifts to Robb.

Therefore, wealth is always concentrated in the hands of a few people!
These dignitaries and dignitaries living in the affluent south presented Robb with gifts worth nearly 200 million golden dragons.

Westeros, which has basically ended the chaos of the kings, is riddled with holes and needs a lot of funds to rebuild the people's hearts.

If Robb only talked about the spoils of the second round of the Southward War, the West Territory, High Court, and King's Landing City together provided him with a total of 700 million gold dragon spoils.

When Robb finalizes the specific reconstruction work plan, these golden dragons are enough to last for a long period of time under the premise of providing relief with work.

Waiting for Westeros, which has basically returned to peace, to plant and harvest in autumn, Robb believes that the lives of the people of the Seven Kingdoms will get better and better in the future.

After the audience ceremony of the new king was over, it was time for the dinner party for this group of Westeros dignitaries to bond with each other or exchange interests.

The theme of such aristocratic dinners has always been about what was said, not what was eaten.

But this dinner surprised most of the rich and powerful in Westeros, because all kinds of very unprecedented dishes, novel but delicious new flavors made them unable to stop.

So it is very rare that at the beginning of the dinner, many nobles, like uninformed commoners, gathered around the long table piled with various dishes and kept picking and tasting.

The cooks in Robb's army in the north presided over the dinner. Under Robb's training, they were basically familiar with the various cuisines of Huaguo in the previous life.

Duh, duh, duh!
On the high platform of the banquet hall, Robb stared blankly at the many nobles who were enjoying the delicacies wantonly.

He held a wine glass full of high-end wine in his left hand, and tapped rhythmically with the index and middle fingers of his right hand on the long solid wood table. He didn't know what he was thinking about.

"Your Majesty, what are you thinking? Can you share it with me?"

Wearing a classic court dress, the pretty Margaery accidentally saw Robb's expression.She put her tender left hand on the back of Robb's right hand and asked softly.

"I was thinking, I really want to be like them, immersed in eating, drinking and having fun without any worries."

Hearing Margaery's question, Robb turned his head and smiled at her, then answered.

"Of course you can, Your Majesty!
You are now the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and you own everything in the Seven Kingdoms! "

Margaery said with a sweet smile upon hearing this.

"No! There are still some potential threats that have not been resolved!"

"Threat? You personally dealt with the remnants of the Lannister army, and Earl Randall almost surrounded and suppressed the deserters in the north. Are those rebels who fled back to the Stormlands?"

"Hehe, they can't even be called trouble, how can they be called a threat!

Forget it, let's not talk about it, I don't want to annoy you too.

By the way, Margaery, I've already started the preparations for our wedding today.I want to hold a grand wedding for you in King's Landing! "

Hearing Margaery's words, Robb shook his head to end the topic directly, and then shifted the topic to their wedding.

"Your Majesty, I can feel your heart!
But...you don't need to waste so many golden dragons for the wedding, why not just make it simple! "

Hearing Robb's words, Margaery was immediately moved.However, as she was already married for the third time, she felt a little sorry, so she proposed to hold a simple wedding.

"No way!... How can a simple wedding make this group of local tyrants give another big gift!"

When Robb heard the words, he directly vetoed it first, and then turned his head and whispered something.

"Your Majesty, what did you say?"

"Oh, I said no, I said before that I would not let you be wronged!"

"Your Majesty, I...I will definitely become a competent queen!"

Seeing that Robb said this sentence very seriously, Margaery also replied seriously with a moved face.Then her eyes flashed, her body slowly approached Robb, and she put her rosy lips next to his ear and continued,
"Your Majesty, didn't you just say to eat, drink and have fun like them before?

If you're almost done eating and drinking, I... can accompany you to have some exciting fun! "

Seeing Margaery's blushing face immediately after she finished speaking, Robb's heart felt hot, and he pulled her and slipped out of the banquet hall quietly.

The night of reckless fun passed so happily, and the next morning, a refreshed Robb appeared in the throne room on time.

At this time, the nobles in the Throne Hall who had followed Robb to fight in all directions were very excited, because he knew that His Majesty Robb would reward them for their merits today.

Originally, Robb held a special reward meeting just like he did in Winterfell.However, due to the complicated military achievements of the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, they are still being counted.

Therefore, he first rewarded the long-awaited noble class first.

First of all, the top guardian families of all lands, the northern border, the riverlands, the riverlands, and Dorne have not changed.

The Layton family in the western border has long been designated by Robb as guardian.He is just making an official announcement to Duke Kevin now.

Robb, the Guardian House of the Stormlands, was still set to be House Baratheon, but the duke was young Gendry.

Robb finds witnesses who can prove that Gendry is the illegitimate son of King Robert, and legalizes Gendry in the name of King of the Seven Kingdoms.

Starting today, he is officially Gendry Baratheon!
The guardian family of the valley was positioned by Robb as the Royce family of Runestone City.

Although the Bronze King had helped Tywin, Sir Rodrik, who was rescued by the Bronze King, had already told Robb the whole story.

Robb, who didn't want to sink his troops into the quagmire of the valley, happened to follow the trend and use a piece of paper to protect the family's appointment.Let the bronze king fight Littlefinger to the death.

After the rewards of the Guardian Families in various realms are completed, the rewards will be awarded to the nobles who have made meritorious deeds.After the rebellion of the kings, a large amount of land was vacated in various territories, so Robb generously awarded rewards based on actual military achievements.

In the end, all the nobles who fought with Robb were satisfied, while the other nobles and dignitaries were envious and jealous.

"Your Grace, Your Majesty, there is a letter from Raven from Castle Black!"

As soon as the rewards in the Throne Hall were over, Grand Maester Pycelle, who Robb hadn't had time to deal with, tremblingly approached the Throne Hall, and respectfully delivered the Raven letter up.

Looking at the pretending Paycell, Robb also pretended not to know his real details, and directly opened the Raven letter.

But this look immediately made him frown, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Even though they had easily defended Castle Black with the help of Jory, Jon actually went to Hardfort himself to rescue the wildlings!

Jon!Jon!Should I praise you for your personality?Or should I scold you?
No, there is no Stannis fleet in this life!If the time can't be staggered, facing the night king's army of ghouls, Jon can only die!
……

When Robb in King's Landing received the Raven's letter, Jon and Mance had already taken a thousand freemen, three hundred Winterfell soldiers, and thirty Night Watchmen to the direction of Hardwood for five days.

When Jon returned to Castle Black with Mance's request, of course he got overwhelming opposition.

Although in this life, thanks to the assistance of [-] soldiers from Winterfell, the Night Watch basically didn't suffer any losses.But the hatred between the night watchman and the free folk has been accumulated for thousands of years, how can it be easily resolved.

Even Jory, who was definitely on Jon's side, raised objections.

In the end, Jon said, "No matter what, wildlings are better than those dead people!" ' Ends this democratic discussion.

For the first time, he used his authority as the commander-in-chief of the Night Watch to make the decision to let the free folk go to the land-grant through the Great Wall and assist them in transferring the elderly and children who stayed in Hardwood.

Because the young and middle-aged freemen of this life are basically gathered under the Great Wall, and there is no Stannis ship to borrow.After discussing with Mance, Jon selected a more suitable number of soldiers to go to Hardwood.

This number of soldiers can maintain the loose order of the free people without carrying too much food and luggage, which will affect the speed of going to Difficult Town.

Jon originally only planned to take thirty Night Watch men to follow Mance to Hardwood, but Jory, worried about him, insisted on picking three hundred Winterfell soldiers to go with him.

However, it was also because of these three hundred Winterfell soldiers who had never been outside the Great Wall.In five days, the group of them hadn't passed through the ghost forest covered with ice and snow.

From the current point of view, the journey that originally took more than a week will take at least half a month.

But along the way, Mance didn't complain at all. Instead, he kept letting the free folk under his command help the three hundred Winterfell soldiers.

The two sides also gradually changed from not confronting each other at all at the beginning, and later began to chat and brag in the familiar world.

Half a month after setting off from the Great Wall, Jon and Mance and his party successfully arrived at Difficult Tun, which is located at the tip of Stord's Horn peninsula to the Shivering Sea.

Hardwood has been a gathering place for free folk since ancient times.It is the only place outside the Great Wall that comes close to forming a real town.

However, more than 600 years ago, a mysterious disaster occurred in Hardtown.

According to the report of the investigation team sent by the night watchman, Hardwood was burned down by the fire all over the sky, the whole bay was full of wildling corpses, and a large number of charred bones and branches remained in the ruins of Hardwood.

From then on, the wildlings thought that Hardwood was a cursed place, and they never went back to Hardwood again.

In the 20 years since Mance became King Beyond the Wall, Harden with a good location was rebuilt again.

"Everyone, welcome to Difficult Village, which was rebuilt by us!"

Pointing to the wooden town below the cliff, Mance said proudly.

Jon, Jory and others looked down in the direction of Mance's finger.

Hardtown is built in a river bend surrounded by semicircular cliffs, which are very steep and full of caves, large and small.

There is only a relatively wide mountain road on the left side of the entire cliff to go down, but there is a thick and solid wooden wall below the mountain road to block this road.

In Jon's opinion, the position of Hard Tun is indeed very good, easy to defend but difficult to attack.If you want to attack, apart from taking down the wooden wall, you can only jump from a high cliff.

"Mance is back! Open the door!"

With Mance walking at the forefront of the team, even the guards at Hardwood Wall opened the door without hesitation when they saw Jon and other crows and the soldiers of Winterfell.

It can be seen from this that they trust the king beyond the wall, because they understand that Mance will never betray them for any reason.

After entering Hardwood, thousands of free folk watched Jon, Jory and others very curiously.But with Mance walking in front of them, no one dared to insult and attack impulsively.

In fact, they were not the only ones who were curious, Jory and the Winterfell soldiers also looked at them curiously.Especially... the giant who was far away from the crowd.

Without any delay, Mance called the elders of the tribes of the Freemen directly, and told them the agreement he had reached with Jon.

When they heard that they could go to the south of the fertile Great Wall, the elders of the various tribes looked at each other with joy, and immediately said that they would make the tribesmen prepare to evacuate the difficult village today and leave early tomorrow morning.

Jon frowned when he heard this, he originally meant to return to Castle Black immediately without stopping.

Mance obviously saw his expression, and then he explained that it would be uncontrollable and more dangerous to travel at night with such a large number of elderly and children.

In desperation, Jon can only trust Mance, who has lived outside the Great Wall for a long time, and promises to leave Hardtown at dawn tomorrow.

But what they didn't know was that they were going to the direction of Hardwood in the northeast corner of the Ghost Forest.The soles of the feet, either full of bones or with pieces of carrion, are stepping out of the ghost forest.

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