Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 274 The Key to the Decisive Battle

"Yes, there are no natural villages on the west bank of this tributary. Yunkai's villages and farmland are all on the higher east bank." Grazdan nodded.

Why not build embankments?Ian really wanted to ask that question.

But if you think about it carefully, the river embankment they built is to prevent the flood season that lasts for seven, eight, or even ten years. It's hard to say whether the level of the Gis people can do this kind of project.Maybe the Gughis can do it, but the current Ghis, they can't even build a city wall
Anyway, there was enough farmland on the east bank to feed Yunkai, so let's not use it on the west bank.

"However." Grazdan finally couldn't help asking, "Why did you mention this suddenly? I'm talking to you about something very important right now."

"Yes, what I'm talking about with you is this very important thing." Ian pressed his hand on the map and rowed up the tributaries until he reached the main channel of the Tanmakaha River, and then headed north rowed to another tributary, and rowed as far as the mouth of the sea, which was about 20 leagues north of Yunkai and less than 30 leagues from Meereen.

"What are you?" Grazdan frowned, and wanted to know what Ian was expressing, but he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, so he had to ask respectfully.

During this process, Ian kept observing Grazdan's expression. The good news is that he didn't notice even the slightest shock.

Are you really ignorant?Ian withdrew his hand from the map and said in a low voice, "If your news is true, my friend, then I may be in big trouble."

"How? You didn't enter the city, so they can't murder you, right?" Grazdan was a little confused.

"However, we are running out of food and grass. I thought we would be replenished with food as soon as we arrived in Yunkai, so we only brought 20 days' supplies in total. It has been 18 days now." Ian gritted his teeth. road.

This is still a part of the trial. Ian's food and grass are sufficient for at least a short period of time. The Unsullied are all elites who have been selected through heavy weight training.In order to keep them marching at the same speed as the Iron Legion, which had only formed an army for three months, Ian asked the Unsullied to carry a lot of food.

"Are you worried that Yunkai will refuse to provide you with provisions?"

"Yes, as long as Yunkai refuses to provide us with food and grass, my army will be in a very bad situation. After all, we cannot capture Yunkai in two days without siege weapons."

"You need me to be your internal response?" Grazdan suddenly realized, "I have a guard of nearly 100 people in Yunkai, if I capture a city gate inside and open the city for you."

"The moment you leave your pyramid with your people, you will be wiped out by the Generalissimo who has been watching you for a long time."

Grazdan was taken aback.

"As the first person in Yunkai who came into contact with me and is still meeting today, do you think they will not guard against you?" Ian continued.

"I didn't expect this at all." Grazdan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately showed a frightened expression.

"This is a trap." Ian has completely ruled out the possibility of cooperation between Grazdan and the other party so far, "They deliberately neither recruited you nor controlled you, just to use you as a bait to catch me This fish."

"They." Grazdan's voice was hoarse.

"My army is going to be short of food is what they expected." Even after believing Grazdan, Ian still did not change his statement of 'shortage of food', "because I have asked Yunkai for supplies to go to Meereen , would not carry more food than what is needed for the march to Yunkai." A normal person would probably think so.

"So their whole plan is to pretend that a Volantene merchant secretly bought a large amount of grain in the Yunkai warehouse from General Grazdo (shaking his ass)"

"When did this happen?" Grazdo was a little confused, and he interrupted Ian.

"Just three days ago," said Ian, who had received the first report from the spies sent to investigate the matter before Grazdor's arrival, "the night my vanguard arrived in Yunkai."

"So this is directed at you?"

"That's right, in this way, Yunkai has an excuse for not being able to deliver food to me temporarily, and puts all the responsibility on General Grazdo, so that I will not have further doubts and wait patiently." Their foraging party returned.
They would tell me that the food requisition team would only need five days to come back, during which time they could provide us with a small amount of food to trick me into waiting.But in fact this food requisition team will not come back, and Yunkai will not really give me a small amount of food. They will try to delay until I run out of food. For them, this is the most perfect result.

However, they also know very well that it is impossible for me to sit still when the food is about to run out. At this time, I will definitely ask Yunkai for food. Even if the people in Yunkai City starve to death, I will not sit idly by soldiers were starving.

And if Yunkai refuses at this time, then I can only make two decisions.

First, the idea of ​​siege came into being, so I asked you to be the internal response.

At this time, they only need to annihilate your guards in the city, and then pretend that you have succeeded, and they can trick me into attacking the city.And when I get to the city, I will only be greeted with a rain of arrows and ruin. Without siege equipment and internal support, it is impossible for me to capture Yunkai.

Of course, it's also possible that they couldn't extract the code we agreed upon from you," or that he knew I was a skinchanger," which caused me to discover your failure in advance and not choose to attack Yunkai.

But it doesn't matter, in both cases I have only one choice left - my food is not enough to return to Astapor or continue to march to Meereen, I must collect food on the spot.This brings me back to the question of the river. "Ian pointed to the map just now again.

"This tributary of the Tanmakaha River. Because its west bank is almost a wetland in this season, you have to cross the river to the east bank if you want to collect food. Only there are Yunkai's villages and farmland." Grazdan said It is understood that Ian mentioned the river's intention before.

"And the second decision I may make after being rejected by Yunkai is," Ian continued, "Go straight east and go to the east bank of this tributary to collect grain, which is the same as the result of the first decision. It’s different routes leading to the same goal, but the former will damage my honor even more.”

"With the shortage of food and the inability to take Yunkai, you really have no other choice." Grazdan nodded.

"What they want is to force me here." Ian knocked on the river on the map.

This is what the hosts of Meereen waited for when they did not set out. They waited for my provisions to run out, and anxiously urged Yunkai for food.As soon as I start gathering food, the Yunkai'i players will be the first to get word to Meereen - in the form of skinchangers.

That's right, Ian has almost concluded that the other party is also a skinchanger. If such a plan does not examine the terrain around Yunkai from the perspective of God from a high altitude, it is absolutely impossible to come up with those finished maps.

Whether it is finding a river path that allows warships to pass easily, or discovering the situation on both sides of the tributary of the Tanmakaha River, it must be done from the air.

Of course, even if the opponent is a skinchanger, Ian doesn't have to worry about being eavesdropped, because his black dragon is dangling around him at any time. All the animals were shot and killed by their guards in the first place.

As for the bugs that the guards couldn't find - Ian had tried shape-changing bugs, but the bug's body would not provide any senses for the skin-changer at all, and the bug's body was not strong enough to withstand the mental power of intelligent creatures. Not long after success, the worm dies.

The player sent the message in the form of a skinchanger, and it only took a few hours to get the message to Meereen, and at that time Meereen could arrange the army to go immediately.

"What is their purpose?" Grazdan asked.

"The Grand Marshal has reached an agreement with the generals of Meereen and New Ghis. As long as my side conveys the news of the food shortage to Yunkai, they will let the army stationed in Meereen at the moment sail towards Yunkai.

Since there are a large number of galleons staying in the port of Meereen at this moment, they don't need to requisition those slow ships at all. They can carry their army completely by relying on ships with more than 8 knots, and then pass the army through this place in one day. "Ian once again rowed the path on the Tanmakaha River that he first rowed, "sent the fleet to the place where I crossed the river, and at this time, even if I discovered their fleet in advance, it was already too late up. "

Grazdan didn't speak, but just listened silently, as quietly as a primary school student.

"If I don't cross the river, then they only need to block the river, and we will be trapped in the same place without food and grass. And if I choose to cross the river by force, they will wash away the food I found while I am halfway across the river. The small boats crossing the river cut my army in half and annihilated them separately.

Coincidentally, neither the rugged hills on the east bank nor the wetlands on the west bank that have been soaked by river water for several years are not suitable for cavalry combat. They use this method to offset my most elite and the biggest reliance in field battles, the 2000 Dothraki heavy cavalry. "

This is also the reason why the player must choose Yunkai for the final battle. If it is a frontal battle outside Meereen, even if he has twice as many troops as mine, he is not confident that he can beat me. After all, Meereen and Yunkai The quality of the army is really bad.

"How is this possible?" Grazdan fell into a dazed state after hearing this, and he felt that such a plan was out of the realm of human beings, "In my impression, whether it is Yunkai, Meereen or Xin Jisi, I'm afraid no one can make such a plan, right?"

"And" Grazdan continued, "According to your analysis, now that you are in a desperate situation, why do you still look calm?"

Of course, Ian is not in a hurry. One is because he is not really in a food shortage situation. Although the food he is carrying now is not enough to support him to return to Astapor, as long as he withdraws his troops to Astapor while passing Peregrine Falcon then sent a letter to Astapor, asking Astapor to send a food delivery team to pick him up along the Ghiscari coastal road, so that he could complete the supplies on the way and return to Astapor safely.

Of course, in that case, Ian's life in the future should not be so easy.

Although Meereen and Yunkai will also have a hard time because of the invasion of the horse king, but this time the player who designed this trap is from Volantis, which will not shake that player's basic plate at all, even if it is just to force Ian back. Astapor was already a victory for that player.

And the second reason why Ian is not in a hurry is that after realizing that the other party's plan is to signal that he is urging Yunkai for food, the key to the final confrontation is already in his hands.

"What? Do you regret taking my side?" Ian smiled.

"Never, my lord, I am very glad to be on your side. I believe this will be the most correct decision I have made in my life." Will you accept my allegiance?"

The expected choice, Ian smiled.

The Generalissimo excluded Grazdan from the plan from the very beginning, and even used him as a bait. No matter whether Grazdan regretted joining Ian or not, he actually had no choice.

And Ian's performance at the moment made Grazdan believe that his bet this time would give him a hundredfold return.

"The next time you kneel before me like this, you will be the master of Yunkai." Ian stepped forward and helped Grazdan up, "Grazdan zo Eraz."

Grazdan stood up: "I don't know what I can do for you now? Will they do anything to me?"

"Since you're the bait they cast, it's impossible for them to remove the bait themselves before the fish takes the bait or runs away, unless your actions reveal that I have discovered their plan."

"what should I do?"

"First of all, and most importantly, keep normal." Ian put his hands on Grazdan's shoulders and pressed down, signaling him to calm down, "Let's assume that you didn't find anything, you came to me today because In order to discuss how to get you into the army for military merits, what will you do after you go back?"

"Ah?" Grazdan couldn't keep up with Ian's jumping thoughts. His mind is full of coalition forces, food and grass, and the Tanmakaha River. "I'm sorry, I can hardly think now. What you just said Those things have gotten me."

"You don't need to think about those things anymore, I will solve all the problems, you just need to do the things I entrusted to you." Ian patted Grazdan's face, "Also, although I I believe you are very aware of these things, but I still want to remind you once. The great sage Yazan is seriously ill and has passed away soon. You are not his son, and you cannot inherit his power.

At the same time, because he has no successor, you will even lose your backer.And now, an opportunity is presented to you, an opportunity once lost, never to be gained again, to be Master of Yunkai. "

Ian is not worried that Grazdan will be bought by hostile players, because Grazdan himself knows very well that no matter who the final mastermind of this matter is, they have already cooperated with the Grand Marshal first, and it is impossible for Yunkai to fall in the end. to your own hands.

But Yazan is different. Ian has never been in contact with the richest man. Although according to the current clues, he has not participated in all this, but what if?So Ian must warn Grazdan that even his old master Yazan cannot be trusted at this time.

"I understand, my lord." Grazdan nodded.

(End of this chapter)