Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 262 The decision of the golden group
disputed place
"Today's meeting, we have to make a decision." Harry Strickland, the head of the Golden Corps, glanced at Jon Clinton and found that the other party had no intention of speaking, so he made this opening remark, which was regarded as a final decision for the council. Target.

"Lansono Mar," Harry called the intelligence officer's name, "it's up to you to tell everyone what happened in Westeros."

"I have already reported to you all before," Lansono Mar stood up and gave a slight salute to the senior sergeants, "Two months ago, under the order of the usurper, the royalist army was divided into two groups. Start marching.

Among them, Duke Stannis Baratheon, Lord Commander, and Mace Tyrell, Duke of Highgarden, led most of the royal coalition forces from King's Landing, the Stormlands, the Riverlands, and the Reach to the Go in the direction of Harrenhal, which has been occupied by Lannister.

And the elite cavalry of the Reach, led by the vanguard officer Lando Tarly, took the golden road, preparing to go to Deep Cave City and attack the hinterland of the Western Territory. "

"Don't tell me that the war will end so soon," Senior Sergeant Tristan Hewen saw Lansono Mar's unsightly expression, and cooperated with the eagerness of the regiment leader Harry when he called the meeting, he seemed to have something to say. Thoughtfully guessed, "Has Tywin surrendered?"

"Fortunately, it's not that bad for the time being."

"What do you mean. Temporary?"

"It means not yet, but it's not far behind." Lansono Mar laughed.

"What did you say? Say it clearly!" Another senior sergeant, Jon Rothstein, said immediately.

"The latest news is that Lando Tarly, who was supposed to attack Cavern City, suddenly appeared in the Noble Heart north of Acorn Hall with 6000 cavalry. Ten thousand elite soldiers were waiting to prevent this famous southern general from intruding into the hinterland of the western border, but Lando Tarly didn't go there at all.

He had strayed from the Golden Road long ago, marched northward along the Blackwater in a hurry, returned to the direction of Stannis' attack, but circled to the rear of Harrenhal.

In Nobleheart, Randyll Tarly defeated the 3 Lannister reinforcements led by Stevie Lannister who were rushing to Harrenhal.Stafford's army was so unprepared that a single charge from the Knights of the Reach knocked them all out.

The defeat of Steyver's army also caused Kevan Lannister stationed in Harrenhal not only to lose reinforcements, but also to cut off his retreat.The fifteen thousand elite Lannisters now stationed at Harrenhal were alone, surrounded by Stannis. "

"It's Lando Tarly again." Tristan River couldn't help sighing.

"No.1 General in the Southern Territory." Jon Rothstein said the title of this person.

In the War of Usurpers that year, Lando Tarly once led the Vanguard Army of the Reach to fight the main force of the Stormland led by Robert Baratheon in a place called Ash Beach in the Reach, and sent the rear defeated.

Then Robert had to lead the defeated army north to try to join the combined forces of the North and the Riverlands led by Eddard Stark and Lord Hoster Tully.

After that, Randall pursued Robert for a long way north, and the two sides fought twice, and Robert was still wounded in the battle. Ran Dao then gave up the pursuit.

And Robert's army did not merge with other rebels smoothly after that. When they went all the way north to Stone Hall Town, they were protected by Jon Connington, the Hand of the King of the Mad King Aerys II at that time. The king's army intercepted and defeated him, and Robert himself had to hide in a house somewhere in Stonetown.

It's a pity that Jon Clinton didn't set fire to the entire Shitang Town at that time, but chose to "stick to honor" to search one by one, which gave Robert's reinforcements time to arrive.In the end, Jon Connington was defeated by Eddard Stark, losing the chance to end the war.

At this moment, Jon Connington, who was sitting in front of this table, couldn't help turning black when he heard the senior sergeants' compliments on Lando Tarly.

What others don't know is that after he returned to King's Landing in defeat, the mad king Aerys II once humiliated him, saying that he couldn't even pick up Randyll Tarly's mistakes.Dissatisfied with Jon Connington's incompetence, Aerys II stripped him of his Hand of the King and Lord of Griffin's Roost on the spot, and exiled him.

Even thinking about this shame today, Jon Clinton can still feel a twinge of pain in his heart.

"Today's Harrenhal is no longer what it used to be. Harrenhal, which has been baptized by the dragon flames of the 'Black Death' Balerion, is full of loopholes in defense, and Kevan doesn't have much food in his hands. It won't last long." Intelligence officer Lansono continued,
"Stannis doesn't even have to take Harrenhal completely, he only needs to leave a part of his army to besiege the castle, and then he can lead the army to continue westward to meet Randyll Tarly.

Meanwhile, Jaime Lannister's siege of Riverrun was making little progress, but his return to the West was cut off by Randyll.

James has only two choices, either wait for Stannis to take back Acorn Hall and Pink City, then go north to flank and destroy him with the defenders of the Riverrun region; or take his army that has besieged the Riverrun region for three months The weary soldiers of the army went to a field battle with Lando Tarly's knights who had just won a big victory, thus opening a way back to the west.
In short, the defeat of the Lannister family, which has lost so many troops, is only a matter of time. If we can't send troops to Westeros before Renly Baratheon's King Qin's army returns to the Stormlands, and gain a firm foothold in the Stormlands , then our last chance has been lost. "

"I don't doubt that we can take most of the castles in the Stormlands before Casterly Rock falls," Senior Sergeant Marko Mandark was the first to put forward his opinion, "but we can't take Storm's End, the walls of Storm's End Magic, when Stannis led hundreds of people, he blocked the attack of Duke Mace's [-] troops."

"The Reach didn't really accept the call of the Targaryen family at that time. The Long family never took a fancy to the Tyrell family, and the Tyrell family also just did not work hard. They just besieged but did not attack." Joan Ern Rothstein retorted.

"So what? Even if we take Storm's End, can we stop the usurper's army? After Stannis captured Casterly Rock, he can come back and deal with us." Marco Mandrake said again.

"Yes!" Finance officer Golis Edoin expressed support for Ma Ke's point of view, "There were two prerequisites for our agreement to help the Targaryen restore the country. One is that we can guarantee the support of Dorn, and the other is It was Viserys who would join us with fifty thousand Howling Knights, and even Illyrio promised us he would solve the fleet's problems."

"But now, we haven't seen all of this," Tristan Hewen finally nodded in agreement, "It may be just a dream for us to return to our homeland and become nobles."

In the end, everyone turned to Jon Connington, the adoptive father of the 'legitimate king' Aegon Targaryen and the most prestigious person in the Golden Company.

"You are right," the old Griffin did not refute everyone's conclusions, "With our strength, we cannot defend the Stormlands, let alone regain the Iron Throne. But..." He changed the subject, "When we came to secret On the way to Seoul, I repeatedly confirmed a piece of news from Slaver’s Bay to different people.”

(End of this chapter)