Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 272 Double Trap
"Is the Grand Marshal still here?" Grazdo zo Arke, the 'Ass Shaking General', came to the Grand Marshal's tower with some anxiety.

He didn't know what he would have to do to avoid his private reselling of Yunkai's food reserves if the Generalissimo directly ordered to agree to Ian's request and provide the other party with supplies within a day after hearing Ian's refusal to enter the city.

"Yes, the Generalissimo is talking with General Fazaha and several mercenary captains." The captain of the guard replied.

General Shake-Ass nodded and walked straight into the tower.

Of course, Ian would not follow him swaggeringly and flew in from the main entrance, but flew directly to the top.

Of course, the design of this tower for observation will not be as outrageous as Yazan's pyramid. Ian just flew to the top and saw a few luxuriously dressed figures through several large windows.

The leader of them was sitting on a sedan chair carried by four people. He was hunchbacked, his face was wrinkled, and his teeth were missing. This reminded Ian of Tyrion Lannister's description of the Grand Marshal of Yunkai ——Human-shaped sour plum.

Standing beside the Grand Marshal was a diminutive man in a linen skirt and tunic dyed dark yellow, and a cloak sewn from sheets of copper, his hair gleaming with oil, twisted into a turret.This is the traditional attire of Yunkai's military nobles, as distinguished from the tokar robes of other nobles.

According to the front teeth that were exposed when he opened his mouth, Ian guessed that this was probably the one called 'Rabbit' among Yunkai's three deputy commanders.

Come to think of it, Yunkai's mercenaries were really talented enough to give their three lieutenants such apt nicknames as 'Ass-Wagling General', 'Rabbit' and 'Pudin Face'.

"That's why I said the key point is cavalry." The person who is talking should be a mercenary from the appearance of his clothes. Ian doesn't have much impression of his appearance, but Ian can probably confirm that he should be the Stormcrows or the Bloody One. The head of one of the teams.

After all, the guy standing opposite this person's tall body and the red beard that grows almost to the waist has clearly demonstrated his identity - the second son regiment's "Bastard Son of Titan" Melo.

"Don't be so serious," General Rabbit took over, "This is just a hypothesis."

"And the other assumption is even worse, isn't it?" the mercenary leader asked back.

cavalry?suppose?What are they talking about?Just when Ian was about to continue listening to what the other party was saying.

Footsteps were heard from the winding stairs, and everyone in the room stopped talking and looked towards the stairs.

"Generalissimo." General Shaking His Butt hurriedly saluted the person carrying the sedan chair, and then nodded his head to the others.

After it was over, the butt-shaking general watched unnaturally in private, and his buttocks shook unconsciously.

"What happened? Didn't you go out of the city to pick up Earl Darry and the others? Where are they?" General Rabbit asked when he saw General Shake Butt's hesitant expression.

But Ian could clearly feel that General Rabbit had no doubts on his expression at the moment, his tone contained a hint of contempt, and there was an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth, giving the impression that he was gloating.

"Lord Darry has declined our invitation," he said. He said he hoped to finish his supplies as soon as possible and then head to Meereen. General Shakehip gritted his teeth, but he dared not say the words.

"That's a good thing," General Rabbit interrupted, "We're still worried that he won't leave, but we don't want to lose the etiquette we should do to our allies." If General Rabbit was holding back his laughter just now , at this moment, taking advantage of the fact that General Shaking His Ass buried his head and didn't see him, he directly put gloat on his face, "Why did he refuse to enter the city?"

"He he..." I'm screwed. General Ass Shake was in despair, and suddenly he blurted out from nowhere, "He said that he claimed that the Yunkai'i were not worthy to share his food. He humiliated Yunkai and humiliated him. The Generalissimo himself and the Yazak family!"

Fuck? !Why are you slandering me?If Ian is not a bird now, he can't wait to go up and slap him.

It was hard to say whether General Ass Shake's move was good or bad, and his lie itself was easy to see through, for besides him there was Grazdan Mo Eraz and several Yunkai'i horsemen present.

But if he didn't do anything, anyway, he would be found out about reselling stored grains. Judging from his previous conversation with the warehouse manager, he thought he would die after the incident was revealed.

So he won't lose money if he fights to the death at this time. If he is exposed, he will die at worst, but if the provocation is successful.
Sure enough, as soon as his words fell, several Yunkai generals, including the Generalissimo and General Rabbit, showed very indignant expressions at the same time.

This reminded Ian of some original details.

Yakhaz zo Yazak, an old man who looks like a human-shaped sour plum, because he didn't have a big role in the original work, and because the box lunch was received quickly, many people didn't have much impression of him.

But in fact, his identity is not just the generalissimo of 'Yunkai', after the establishment of the alliance against Dragon Mother in the original book, this person served as the generalissimo of the entire coalition.

That is to say, New Ghis, which undoubtedly had a much stronger army strength, and other allies of the alliance at that time gave the command to this person.

Considering that this Yakhaz zo Yazak has not shown any military talent, and it is not found that he has any major victories, the only explanation is that according to the tradition of the Gis people, his The status (family) is extremely noble.

Then my humiliation of the Yazak family will undoubtedly detonate the anger of these decadent nobles who live in the legacy of the ancient empire.

"Such people are not qualified to be our allies!" A Yunkai general immediately said.

"We should call off the alliance! Any humiliation of Yunkai'i should be punished!" echoed another general.

"Enough." To Ian's surprise, it was the humiliated Grand Marshal himself who asked to stop them. "That's the end of this topic. It doesn't matter if the earl doesn't come, then quickly supply him and send him away." Let's go." After speaking, the Grand Marshal waved his hand vigorously, motioning for the slaves to lift the sedan chair and leave.

Seeing the generalissimo's attitude, the others were instantly dumbfounded and began to look at each other in blank dismay.

"Let's stop here today," General Rabbit waved his hand to the crowd, gesturing them to leave, and then said to General Shaking Butt, "Do as the Generalissimo wants, you are responsible for the food, and this matter will be handed over to the Generalissimo." Are you okay?"

"No problem." General Butt Shake tried to smile, but failed.

Ian thought for a while, and instead of continuing to follow General Shake-Ass, he started flying back directly.

Camp outside the city
"Did you find something again? That expression?" Celia asked seeing Ian's livid face.

"Yeah, I was almost tricked by that guy."

"So, what happened?"

"General Butt Shake's reselling food is just a cover."

"Is that guy acting?"

"No, he doesn't have that ability, and the player probably can't believe that such a bastard's acting skills, the butt-shaking general himself, has been put in a class. The Volantis merchant's sudden offer to buy grain from him at a high price is itself a trap.

Just now when General Shake-Ass went to see the Generalissimo, the expression of another lieutenant of Yunkai's 'Rabbit' made me confirm this. Obviously, the Rabbit knew the player's complete plan and was one of his collaborators. But the stupid butt-shaking general was regarded as a victim by them. "

"What's the purpose?" Celia was still in a dazed state.

"This is a psychological trap. If Yunkai told us that they hadn't prepared the food and asked me to wait a few days after we came to Yunkai, then I would definitely be wary.

Because our agreement with Yunkai has been signed for some time, it is only about 2 days of rations for an army of less than 20 people, there is no reason why Yunkai cannot prepare in advance.

So Yunkai chose to use a seemingly unreasonable 'gracious invitation' to arouse my vigilance and lure me to investigate this matter, but let me find out by myself that the 'Ass Shaking General resells food, causing Yunkai I can't get food for the time being, so I want to keep the truth about me.

I remember I told you before that the best way to deal with smart people is to deliberately let them "see through" their own ideas, pretend to be grasped by them, and satisfy their sense of superiority in IQ.

This trap is like this, when I have doubts, and I have personally investigated the problem and ruled out the possibility of 'banquet murder', I will breathe a sigh of relief and relax my vigilance.

At the same time, because Yunkai really can't get any food at this time, I have to stay here for a while. They probably think that I set off from Astapor to speed up the march and know that I can get supplies in Yunkai. , so it will only carry food for about 20 days.

In that case, there will not be enough food left in my army to march on to Meereen, and I cannot send my own troops into the villages of Yunkai to plunder because of the need to maintain the alliance.So I can only wait a few days in Yunkai, until Yunkai's provisions are ready."

"What's the purpose? Keep us here for a few days, what is their purpose?"

"Keeping us here for a few days is their purpose in itself."

"Ok?"

"From the very beginning, that player never expected me to go to Yunkai for a banquet. Since he was able to formulate such a trick, it means that he has actually been investigating me for a long time. He knows my cautious character, so his plan must be Not simply tricking me into Yunkai and murdering me.

Since I can't squat on the grass, and I don't go out to fight him, the only way he wants to kill me is to play a team. As Ian spoke, he took out a map and spread it on the table.

"You mean against our whole army? Yunkai head on?"

"How could there be only Yunkai? Yunkai is not the only city that was coerced by us and had to sign an unequal treaty with us and send troops to fight against the horse king. Compared with Yunkai, Meereen's motive for killing me is greater. Dorshin Ghis usually keeps pace with Meereen in matters of foreign affairs."

"This is too exaggerated. These cities have already allied with us."

"Yes, but we have just ruled out the possibility that there are ghosts in our army, so that player wants to defeat or even annihilate my army, unless he can predict the future, as early as the news of our alliance with the three cities of Ghis It became the only possibility to set off from Volantis with a fleet of tens of thousands of people to instigate rebellion against the three cities of Ghis before leaving.

After all, we analyzed it a long time ago. For the three cities of Guise, they have only two choices, either to fight the king of horses or to fight us.They formed an alliance with us to fight against the horse king because they knew that the horse king could not capture Astapor and had to make a decision.

But now I have left Astapor, and my forces are divided in two. Ian pressed his finger on the map, "Look, the land distance between Meereen and Yunkai is 50 leagues, while the sea distance is even closer, only 48 leagues."

(ps: I made a mistake when I calculated Ian’s marching time. In fact, the marching time from Yunkai to Meereen should be ten days, which has been revised)
According to the news we got before, the four legions that New Ghis participated in this battle have all arrived in Meereen by boat. They and the army and mercenaries assembled by Meereen itself totaled 3000 people. There are nearly [-] people on the side, not counting the sailors of the fleet.

Today, the average speed of warships in Slaver's Bay is 9 knots. Of course, they cannot transport the entire army to Yunkai at one time by relying on warships alone. They need to use a large number of civilian ships at the same time.

The average speed of civilian ships in Slave Bay is 6 to 8 knots, and we will use the lowest 6 knots to calculate, and the voyage from Meereen to Yunkai is only more than two days.

We arrived in Meereen much earlier than they expected, so their plans were disrupted.

We may guess that Yunkai found out that we would arrive early when our vanguard scout cavalry arrived at Yunkai, that is, three days ago, and they sent messengers by boat to Meereen to inform them of their arrival in Meereen. Conspirator.

Slaver's Bay doesn't have the habit of using ravens to send messages. Although I have ordered my men to start raising crows, the time is too short. They haven't been able to train ravens that can autonomously go back and forth between Meereen and the military camp.

The envoys must have been on a fast boat, and it only took less than a day and a half. At this time, Meereen realized that their army needed to leave early, so they began to make preparations. Since their army had already assembled, this preparation It doesn't take long to work.

After Meereen starts to prepare, the spies I deployed in Meereen will definitely notice the anomaly and send someone back to report to me, but I haven't heard the news until now.

That means that the player on the other side has already considered this issue. He only needs to prohibit any civilian ships of Meereen from leaving the port when the army starts to move, and send people to ambush on the Ghiscari Coastal Road to stop anyone who tries to rush to the Abyss quickly. Kay's rider will do. "

"So, isn't Meereen's fleet arriving soon?" Celia stood up, "Shouldn't we act now?"

"No," Ian shook his head, "Actually, when I found out that there might be players behind this incident, I already let the Falcon fly to Meereen.

It has now flown 40 leagues north and still hasn't spotted Meereen's fleet, which means we only have close to two days to prepare. "

(End of this chapter)