Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 238 Punishment Square

"Damn it." After hearing Grazdan's words, Reg suddenly realized, "The first to enter the arena is their newly recruited slave soldiers?" He looked at the phalanx that was entering the arena at the moment.

The equipment of these people is obviously better than the 'Unsullied' just now. The first three rows of their phalanx are all wearing silver half-length breastplates, and the three-headed dragon with red dragons on a black background is drawn on the breastplates. coat of arms.Even the soldiers standing in the back row who were not equipped with half plate armor were put on armor of the Slaves Bay style in different weights.

"This is Astapor's army of eunuchs!" Reg said in disbelief, and then looked again at the slave soldiers who had already stood on the punishment square below. Just look.

"How did they do it?" Reg felt incomprehensible. "I have inquired before that the longest training time for these troops is only more than two months."

"This time is not enough to tame those damn slaves," Meereen messenger Mazdahan agreed. "Although whipping can make slaves dare not resist, how can those idiots do it?" The slave with his head held high, couldn't find words to describe it for a while.

"They looked like proud citizens of New Ghis, without the decadent atmosphere of slave soldiers at all, so that I took them as Unsullied the first time I saw them."

This is what fifth-class slavery does!The Yunkai messenger Grazdan shouted in his heart that these slaves were recruited voluntarily. As long as they can pass all the training subjects in the first period, they can be directly promoted to third-class slaves. After that, there will be a series of slaves in this army. The means of military advancement!Their enthusiasm is higher than any army you have seen!
But this time, Grazdan did not speak out.

What is there to say to these high nobles who live in the glory of old?

Summer insects can't talk about ice.

Then came the Dothraki cavalry, they only had 500 people, but the shock that this team brought to the three messengers was greater than all the troops just now combined.

They didn't huddle together or spread out wantonly like normal centaur cavalry, but lined up neatly in a row.Although the pace of their horses was far less consistent than that of infantry, they were basically even.

Aside from the fact that these centaur cavalry wore the armor that cowards would wear for the first time, it was something they had never seen before that allowed the Dothraki to march in such a disciplined manner.

Grazdan Mo Eraz has been to many places as Yunkai's emissary, and he has seen many elite cavalry, but even the one he saw in Volantis, who is known as the 'unsullied horse' The 'White Tiger Robe Army' has never shown such discipline.

The 'White Tiger Robe Army' belonging to the leader of the Volantis Tiger Party is also a slave cavalry composed of centaurs, but unlike the cavalry in front of us, that cavalry was selected from among the centaur slaves under the age of 5 After more than ten years of rigorous training, its elimination rate is much higher than that of the Unsullied.

According to the Volantenes, every slave warrior with the stripes of a white tiger on his face was worth a fortune.

"How many soldiers are standing in this square now?" Reg didn't ask until the cavalry had completely passed under the high platform and stood still on the square.

"Twenty-two thousand infantry, if they have the same number in each phalanx...and five hundred cavalry," Mazdahan said after counting for a while, and then he added without losing the opportunity, "A new Gist iron army has 2 Man, if you lend him two armies, plus some mercenary regiments, we will be outnumbered"

"Don't be kidding, how can the infantry directly compare with the cavalry in a field battle? Although I don't understand military affairs, I know that after the fall of the Ghis Empire, we Ghis are fighting even the smallest Dothraki Kalasa. I have never won a field battle." Reg sneered.

"From your point of view, it seems that New Gith doesn't even consider joining the war? So why did you come this time?" Grazdan asked, "Now that the Westeros are not here, maybe we can explain to each other first, On this issue, I think we Ghis should unite."

That's right, talk more while I'm away!Ian Crow agreed while pecking at the corn on the stands.

"Grazdan, have you started telling jokes too? We all know that the interests of the three cities are not the same on this issue." Reg sneered unabashedly.

"It's not you or me who should be in a hurry now," Reg continued, and then looked at Mazdahan, the envoy of Meereen. "Why don't you show Meereen's attitude first?"

"Meereen's attitude has nothing to hide." Mazdahan is not as slick as the other two colleagues. His strong family background and idle status determine his straightforward character. Slaver's Bay, this is the bottom line of Meereen."

"That's what Earl Darry intends to show us by force." Grazdan laughed.

"What do you mean?" Mazdahan was a little confused. Although he looked down on the inferior nobleman Grazdan, he still asked.

"He's not telling us that he can defeat the Dothraki horse king, but that if he chooses to stick to Astapor, no one can take the city anytime soon," Grazdan explained.

"Oh!" Reg suddenly realized.

"No, what is it?" Mazdahan was even more confused.

"Earl Darry guessed the bottom line of Meereen from the very beginning," Reg couldn't stand Grazdan's riddle, and simply explained, "The Skahazaban River Basin in the north of Slaver's Bay is full of Land of Meereen, you cannot accept a 10 kalsa into Slaver's Bay.

And the humiliated horse king will definitely come, so Meereen has only two choices, either help the Dothraki to capture Astapor, and pray that Drogo will leave after retaking his wife.Or they can only stand by his side, Ian Darry, and regard him as the only savior. "

"And..." Reg pointed to the army on the square, "Ian is telling us now that even if our three cities and Drogo's army are added, it is impossible to take Astapor within a year or two. Just ask, What kind of impact will a 10-person Kalisa have on Slaver's Bay if it stays for one year? What if it's two years?" He patted Mazdahan on the shoulder, "You Meereen has already been eaten by him."

Mazdahan's complexion suddenly became ugly. Although the order he received before departure was to facilitate Ian's expedition to Lazarin, Meereen's embarrassing situation was directly exposed, which still made him feel humiliated .

"What about you?" Reg said and looked at Grazdan again, "Ian has forced Meereen to have no choice before the negotiation, what about you Yunkai? What methods did he use to coerce you? "

Grazdan's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, and the picture of himself drinking with Ian a few days ago appeared in his mind.

He suddenly had a weird guess, could the things that Ian told himself after being drunk that day be a game?

Just when Grazdan wanted to find further evidence for this guess, two Westeros knights suddenly came to the stands.

"Three adults." Cavalier Duncan saluted first.

"Why are you guys? Where is Earl Ian Darry? Why hasn't he come yet?" Reg asked strangely.

"Earl Darry will not be coming. Queen Daenerys asked me to inform you that the meeting has been cancelled. If you want to stay in Astapor as guests, we will fulfill our obligation to entertain you. If you don't want to stay, then You can return now." Duncan announced to the three envoys.

Cnmd kidding us, huh?The three envoys burst out words of praise in unison.

(End of this chapter)