Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 286
It was an absolutely bewildering day for Meereen.

After the guards on the city wall saw dozens of trebuchets appearing inexplicably outside the city through the early morning light and rang the alarm bell of the sentry tower, the generals of Meereen and New Ghis received the news one after another. , the combined armies of Astapor and Yunkai have reached the walls of Meereen.

Ian transported a total of 32 trebuchets outside the city of Meereen last night. These siege weapons were made by Ian when he was in Yunkai, although the main purpose at that time was to show the player Daznak a The illusion of preparing to attack Yunkai.But the trees had already started to be cut down, so Ian simply ordered the craftsmen to hurry up and build them quickly.

Soon after Ian's army set off for Meereen, the artisans who had completed the construction of the siege weapons loaded these weapons on Yunkai's fleet and some large merchant ships that Ian requisitioned in the port of Yunkai, and caught up with Ian by sea. Well, almost arrived at the city of Meereen with Ian.

Because Ian asked Grazdan to write a letter to Meereen, expressing his willingness to maintain the alliance, Meereen did not send a fleet to stop Yunkai's fleet, which allowed Ian to successfully unload these weapons.

The 32 catapults were deployed by Ian at the southeast and southwest corners of the city wall of Meereen. This position is not only located in the shooting blind spot of the catapults on the city wall, but also convenient for shooting from both sides, and the intensive firepower coverage is completed in an instant. .

To the north of Meereen City is the camp of Meereen's mercenaries and the new Gist Iron Legion. Inside, soldiers are gathering in a hurry. After Ian broke contact with Koru, he transformed a few falcons again. Lin launched a comprehensive surveillance.

Meereen North, Alliance Camp
"Noble Lord Hizdahr zo Lorak, did you come to me in such a hurry, did you find out what happened?" Eres zo Emd, the commander-in-chief of the New Ghis Expeditionary Force, saw the West Zdalar walked into his tent, and hurriedly asked,
"Ian's army is crossing the road east of Meereen, approaching our camp in the north of the city, and I also heard that he has deployed a large number of trebuchets in the south of the city, who can tell me what is going on? Dai The Earl of Rui obviously blamed all the crimes on the sage of Yunkai before, why did he suddenly change his mind and decide to go to war against us?" Eres zo Emud quickly threw out a series of questions question.

"These three letters contain the answers you want." Holy Lord Hizdahr said in a heavy tone, and placed the three letters on the table.

New Ghis Commander Eres quickly picked it up and read it quickly.

The first report sent by the city guards of Meereen was that a group of mercenary killers wearing a harpy bronze mask had recently set off a bloody storm in Meereen.

They attacked the Daznak Arena, killing all the guards and slave warriors of the arena. At the same time, they also attacked the resident of the 'Blood Flower' Chamber of Commerce from Volantis, and also slaughtered everyone inside.Because of the close relationship with these two forces, a large number of members of the Parr family died in this kind of action.

"The bronze mask of the Harpy? Isn't this the decoration of the legendary 'Son of the Harpy'? Who are these people? And what does it have to do with Earl Darry's actions?" Commander New Ghis asked puzzled.

"The activity base of these 'Sons of the Harpy' is located in the Bronze Gate Inn in the northern city, and their identities," the Holy Lord Hizdahr was somewhat helpless, "are in the city guard of Meereen's commander Grazdan Zuo When Parr mobilized an army to suppress this group of mysterious killers, these people disclosed their identities and pointed the finger at the Parr family directly."

"Look at the second letter, the answer you want is there." Hizdahr reminded.

Commander Xinguisi didn't dare to delay, and hastily opened the second letter. However, as soon as he read two lines, he felt that sweat began to break out on his forehead.

It turned out that the entire letter was all evidence that the Pal family, Daznak, and the Volantis conspired against Ian. Now that the evidence has been made public, it means that the faces of both parties have been torn apart.

"How could this be?" Commander Xinguis panicked for a moment.

"Obviously, we guessed wrong last time. Earl Darry chose to continue to maintain our alliance not because he decided to endure it, but because he really didn't know that Meereen was also involved in this matter, and now he knows , " Hizdahr pointed to the third letter on the table, "then he proved to us that he is still a young man in full swing."

The commander of New Ghis nervously opened the third letter on the table.

This letter was written by Ian himself, and the words were fierce, expressing great sorrow and anger at Meereen's betrayal. He demanded that Meereen hand over all the masterminds of the Parr family and pay him a sum of money. An extremely huge amount of compensation, otherwise he will capture Meereen and let everyone know the fate of the traitor.

"Pay attention to the last sentence," Hizdahr looked at the face of the new Ghis Commander, and reminded after confirming that he had almost finished reading, "The time he gave us to think about it is... no, he told us to think about it while we were being beaten. , If you think about it, you will remove all the flags on the city wall and in the army to express your surrender. At the same time, he reminded us that the time to be beaten will not be too long, so we have the same time to think about it.”

"How arrogant!" New Ghis Commander Eres felt humiliated, "Then I really want to see how capable he is!"

"Commander, the people of Astapor have sent you a letter." Suddenly, a new Ghis sergeant came outside the camp.

"I can?" Erez asked, but the whole person had already walked to the door.

"Of course." Hizdahr could only follow the trend.

Erez hurriedly finished the letter, opened it hastily, and began to read it.

"A letter from Earl Darry?" Hizdahr looked at the ever-changing expression on Erez's face and asked quickly.

"Correct."

"What did you write?"

"He is complaining to me," Erez said with an unnatural expression, "he detailed how much he devoted himself to the formation of the Guise Alliance, and then denounced Meereen's betrayal. He now expresses his disappointment , at a loss."

"that's it?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"He didn't say he wanted you to help him punish the traitor?"

"Yes, I have to help him punish the traitor!" Eres suddenly realized,

"No, what are you talking about? That traitor is referring to us!"

"What about us? Earl Darry made it clear that it was Meereen who betrayed him! What does your Meereen's bad deeds have to do with me?" Eles said sternly.

"Are you crazy?"

"Not only am I not crazy, I am sober! Not only am I not a traitor, but neither are you, Hizdahr! Almost everything is done by the Parr family, and it is impossible for Earl Darry to find out anything related to us. There are clues about the relationship. Now the only people who know that we are also involved in that plan are the father and son of the Parr family. And if we help Earl Darry clean up these two traitors in advance. Are you and I okay?"

Meereen East, Guiscari Road
Three consecutive heavy horn sounds spread out from the central army, and all the legions of Ian's army that were marching raised their flags high, which was a sign of their preparation to obey orders.

And the three horns were the signal for the whole army to listen to the order formulated by Ian.

In his officer's manual, Ian applied a system of command that Ian adapted from the Book of Wardens.

Regarding the point team, Ian used a combination code consisting of gongs, trumpets, and drums being tapped/blowed in sequence. In the same set of instructions, the interval between each sound is 5 seconds.

The central army beats the gong once and the drum once. At this time, the First Unsullied Legion should receive the next order. When the First Unsullied Legion receives the signal and knows that it is on standby, it should raise the flags of the four legions. Hold it high to indicate standby.

If the central army uttered the sound of a gong once and the sound of a drum twice, it meant that the second Unsullied Legion should receive the order at this time.

By analogy, starting with the sound of a gong, followed by the sound of a drum, is an order to the Unsullied Legion of different numbers.

When the signal from the Central Army began with the sound of two gongs, it was an order to the Iron Slave Legion.

For example: two gongs and one drum are the first iron army, and two gongs and two drums are the second iron army.

On this basis, Ian plans to assign numbers to all of them according to the Iron Legion after gathering the command of the New Ghis Legion.

When the signal from the central army begins with the sound of three gongs, it is giving orders to the cavalry.

Three gongs and one drum are the first cavalry regiment, and three gongs and one drum are the second cavalry regiment.

Of course, because the combat range of the cavalry is easily out of the distance that the Chinese army can use the golden drum flag to convey information, cavalry generals often have greater command flexibility, and Ian is more strict in the selection of cavalry commanders.

The beginning of Sangong is the whole of the current code. As for the auxiliary legion and mercenary cavalry he trained in Astapor, Ian temporarily assigned them to each Unsullied Legion and Iron Legion, and asked them to directly accept a legion leader. The command of the army has become the support and supplementary combat power of the legion.

When encountering a situation where two or more legions need to be commanded at the same time, Ian's solution is to reintroduce the sound of the horn.

For example: one gong and one drum, one trumpet, and two drums are for the First Unsullied Legion and the Second Unsullied Legion to obey orders at the same time.

One gong, one drum, one trumpet, two drums, one trumpet, and three drums are the first, second, and third Unsullied Legion to obey orders at the same time.

One gong and two numbers are the orders for the entire Unsullied Legion.

The same goes for the Iron Legion and the Cavalry.

When it is necessary to command two different armies at the same time, the sound of the gong after the sound of the trumpet cannot be omitted.

For example, one gong and one drum, one trumpet, two gongs and one drum, that is, the order of the First Unsullied Legion and the First Iron Legion.

When a legion received the signal to obey orders and raised the flag of the legion dedicated to feedback information, the Chinese army paused for 20 seconds, and then began to pass the second set of codes to issue specific instructions.

In Ian's officer's manual, this set of codes uses the order of drum, gong, and trumpet to distinguish it from the order of the squadron.

The specific action commands include forward, stop, turn, charge, disperse, gather, salvo, etc. The combination of drum and gong expresses the action itself, while the sound of the trumpet expresses the direction of action.

Number one is north, number two is northeast, and so on clockwise.

However, considering the actual situation of insufficient training time, in order to simplify the complexity of the password, Ian temporarily did not use the password that uses the sound of the trumpet to indicate the direction for training, because Ian has an advantage that no general in history has ever had - the dragon.

Of course, a half-year-old dragon cannot be used to breathe fire to break through formations, but when it is placed in the sky, it can form a very clear 'dragon mark'.

When Ian let his dragon fly in the sky, the general who received the order only needed to observe the relative direction of himself and the dragon, and he could know the direction of his next move most intuitively. You can directly know how far you are moving, without having to receive a 'stop' command again.The operation is as convenient as clicking on the map with the mouse when playing a game.

However, this can only be a temporary solution. After all, it is impossible for Ian to personally visit the battlefield and command every battle in the future.But in the future, after our own army has more training time, it will definitely make up for the missing subjects.

Even, cymbals and cymbals can be introduced in the future to further refine the instructions.The bowl of the cymbal is smaller, the pronunciation is louder, and the reverberation is longer, and the bowl of the cymbal is larger, the pronunciation is thicker, and the reverberation is shorter. These two instruments are also frequent visitors in ancient military command.

As for the way of sending orders through the sound of drums or the percussion rhythm of metal instruments, Ian has no plans to try it for the time being.

After all, it is just my current set of very simple combination codes, and the officers who can memorize them and receive them proficiently in the exercise in just three months account for less than one-third of Ian's officer training camp.

Of course, those who failed the training, Ian was useless for the time being.

Half of them are relatively good, and Ian agreed to let them train for another period. After all, this small slave bay is really not that many people can use it, and for the remaining half, Ian directly turned them back into Chief soldier.

In addition, Ian regulated the military formation when receiving different action orders.

Of course, this army formation is not one of the complicated formations in the various formations, and even the five formations of square, round, curved, straight, and sharp that Li Jing believes that an army needs to master All troops other than the Unsullied have finished training.

What he now allows the slaves to master is only the most basic things, and what he regulates are only the four forms of the phalanx, and his main reference is the Spanish phalanx.

例如：1.行军阵，该队形用于步兵常规行军和战场上未触敌（已脱战）时的行军，列队行动时每人占据3*7尺（96*224厘米）。

2.抗线阵，当步兵需要接敌时应该调收缩成该队形，此时人均占据3*3尺（96*96厘米）。

3. Assault formation. When the infantry charges, the formation is further tightened. At this time, the average distance between each person is one foot.

4. Defensive formation. When the infantry faces the cavalry charge, the formation is tightened again, elbow to elbow, shoulder to shoulder.

(End of this chapter)