Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 288 Meereen Submits
Erez zo Emd, Lord Commander of New Ghis, stood on the high hill where the army's right flank stood, watching Ian's army.

Different from the habit of the chief general of the Great Heavenly Dynasty sitting in the central army, in most cases, the coaches and famous generals in the West like to personally command the most elite, the wing of the army that punches.

"Why did you call me here at this time? Why didn't you start attacking?" Grazdan zo Pal, the commander of the city defense army of Meereen, came to General Eles and dismounted, "Earl Darry's trebuchet has already The attack had already been launched, and it took them less than an hour to destroy all the catapults on the south wall of Meereen, and opened a large gap in the southwest corner.

The old brick walls of Meereen were no defense against the boulders thrown by the enemy, and Lord Darry's army used trebuchets farther than any trebuchet I have ever seen, and farther than any trebuchet I have ever seen. A trebuchet is powerful.Given time, I doubt he'll be able to tear down the city, and if we don't beat them here, he'll have no trouble breaking into Meereen! "

"Earl Darry was not fooled." Unlike Grazdan zo Parr's anxiety, General Eres just pointed into the distance unhurriedly, "He saw through my deployment and sent the most elite Unsullied .The Unsullied, already fully lined with their breastplates, are deployed on his left flank, and the most useless Yunkai'i are deployed in the center and right flank."

"It is impossible for my Iron Legion to defeat the enemy's Unsullied quickly. Can you people of Meereen defeat Yunkai's army quickly?" Aerys asked with a smile.

"This" Grazdan zo Palka was a little embarrassed. Although Eres described the Yunkai people as trash, how could Meereen's army be any better?

"No, can you? You and Yunkai are the same thing."

Now Grazdan zo Palka has changed from embarrassment to shock. Everyone knows the quality of Meereen's army, but such straightforward and merciless ridicule should not be done by an ally. out of things.

"If we can't quickly gain an advantage on either side," Erez raised his hand again, pointing to the Ian Army cavalry ahead, "they will easily destroy us."

"But." Grazdan zo Pal hastily defended seeing Erez's frustrating words, "but their frontal width is less than two-thirds of ours, and we can directly attack their entire left wing." Finish outflanking."

"In this way, we have completely lost our depth. Earl Darry only needs to use his cavalry to smash through any of our phalanxes from the back, and his central army can attack from this gap and cut our army in half. .”

"Are we going back to the city then?" Grazdan zo Parr panicked all of a sudden, and General Eres zo Emud of New Ghis was fighting against the Qarths and their eastern mercenaries. The No.1 general of the Ghisians who has served for decades, Grazdan has no doubts about his judgment, "Maybe we can rely on the pyramids to build a defense line. The city of Meereen is full of pyramids, and each one is a fortress. If If the enemy's siege equipment cannot be transported into the city, maybe"

"When the walls are breached," Eres interrupted Grazdan zo Parr, "half the Great Lord will surrender immediately if Lord Darry promises not to take their lives, and if he promises not to plunder If they have property, the other half will immediately surrender."

"Those unreliable things!" Grazdan zo Pal knew very well that those people would indeed do this. "Then we can't go back to the city! This battle must be fought!"

"Is it necessary to fight?" General Erez asked with a smile.

"Ian Darry is coming for us! Don't you understand? Since we can't go back to the city, we must fight him here." Grazdan Zo Paar roared.

"Aiming at us?" Erez shook his head, "Actually, I discussed this matter with Holy Lord Hizdahr before, and we came up with two solutions."

"You have already figured out a solution?" Grazdan zo Par breathed a sigh of relief, "What are you going to do?"

"The first way is to defeat Earl Darry head-on. If he managed to fall into my trap before the battle, I will try to fight him. But now, I don't think we have a chance of winning, so I decided to take the second method."

"What's the second method?"

"Let me use your brain."

As soon as General Eres finished speaking, a bloodstain appeared on the tent behind Grazdan Zo Pal.

Later that day, the Pal family's pyramid had been completely emptied, and the pyramid, along with the entire Pal family's accumulated wealth, slaves, and property, was presented to Ian as Meereen's apology.

All the males of the Paar family were executed, and all the female relatives were used as slaves.

In addition, Meereen's Council of Great Lords collected another sum of 10 Jinhui coins to compensate Ian.

In return, Ian forgave Meereen's betrayal, agreed to continue the alliance, and did not let the army enter the city.

This relieved all the great masters of Meerlin like the rest of their lives after a catastrophe.

In view of Ian's previous good reputation with the nobles of Ghis accumulated in Astapor and Yunkai, Meereen and New Ghis finally handed over the supreme command to Ian together.

In return, Ian appointed Erez zo Emud, the chief general of New Ghis, as the chief deputy commander of the coalition forces, and even the NPC Roll was behind him.

After successively issuing two orders for Slaver Bay to buy unlimited food from the world at twice the normal price and to recruit unlimited mercenaries from all over the world at twice the normal price, Ian officially started the work of reorganizing the coalition.

Ian first gave the new Ghis Legion a new command number.Out of respect, he didn't let them use the same set of numbers as his slave Iron Legion, but prepared a separate 'honorary' Iron Legion number starting with four gongs for them.

The longer the combination code is, the more inconvenient it is to command, but it doesn't matter. In Ian's plan, the Iron Legion of New Ghis will be used for regular soldiers instead of surprise soldiers. As we all know, troops that resist the line rarely accept orders. .

Then, Ian integrated all the mercenary infantry of Yunkai and Meereen, forming the first mercenary regiment with about 3000 people.

This act of disrupting the original organization of the mercenaries was naturally strongly resisted by the mercenary captain and the mercenaries, but this resistance quickly collapsed under Ian's simple addition of money.

As for the 500 mercenary cavalry, Ian has already dispatched the head of the Stormcrows, Puranda Na Jisen, to take his [-] men to Hersey in the Raza area. After he arrives, Ian will use the peregrine falcon to convey to him further instructions.

The other [-] cavalry from the other three mercenary regiments, Ian assigned them to the guard cavalry and organized them himself.

In the shock formation of each team of cavalry, the mercenary cavalry was deployed in the middle of the first row, and their edges and rear were guard cavalry composed of Dothraki.

A cavalry charge is a pure contest of courage. A large number of cavalry research reports or tactical training manuals show that the cavalry in the most lateral or last row during the charge is the easiest to be cowarded first, and then break away from the charge formation.

And those cavalry in the front row and in the middle have no chance to coax them. As long as the cavalry behind them is not counseled, as long as they slow down, they will be quickly hit by the rear cavalry. Because there are people on the side and cannot turn, so they The only choice is to bite the bullet and rush towards the enemy.

For these unreliable mercenaries, this method can effectively improve their impact efficiency.

For the armies of Yunkai and Meereen, Ian chose to break them up and reorganize them.

Among them, Ian selected 7000 barely qualified crossbowmen through the assessment competition, gave them the designation of the First Legion, and sent them to the newly built camp for intensive training.

The other slave soldiers and conscripts were all reorganized into ultra-long spearmen, designated as the Reorganized Second Legion. In the next time, they also need to go through a round of training to obtain the most basic combat effectiveness.

For the two reorganized regiments, Ian selected a large number of officers from the reserve officers who originally belonged to the Iron Slave Legion to manage them. That's right, those who failed the listening test, but their military literacy is not bad.

Half of these people are the nobles of Astapor, and the other half are from the slave class. If it weren't for the lack of manpower, Ian hoped that all of them would be slaves, which would set a good example for the reorganized legions of Yunkai and Meereen effect.

The work of reorganization took Ian almost a week. After all the units had entered the new camp, Ian found some time and decided to conduct an inspection of the newly reorganized army in Yunkai and Meereen.

For these rabble, Ian's basic idea of ​​using them is not conventional. He does not intend to deploy them in the dangerous periphery as cannon fodder. On the contrary, he plans to deploy them all in the safest position.

If the centaurs did not go to the Skahazaban Valley in the end, but went directly to the city of Meereen from the north, the field formation chosen by Ian can basically be determined to be eight formations.

As for these simple-trained ultra-long spearmen, Ian chose to deploy them in the position of the former central army.

This position will not be attacked on the flanks and rear. They only need to raise the super long guns in their hands. With their depth of more than 10 rows, the cavalry of the centaurs will hardly have the possibility of choosing to break through from the front.

And in the absence of a devastating direct blow, even the most demoralized troops could not collapse before the elite on both sides collapsed.

Behind these people, Ian's central army deployed all the crossbowmen, and they were responsible for striking the centaur from any direction from a distance.

The front left, front right, rear left, and rear right four formations that are most likely to be outflanked and attacked obliquely. Ian's plan is to put the elite Unsullied and the new Gistron Legion, and the other positions will be deployed with medium combat power. Slave Iron Legion.

This is a choice that can easily cause the elite troops to suffer huge casualties, but its 'gamble' is very low, because the Iron Legion of the Unsullied and New Ghis can withstand huge casualties, as long as their formation does not collapse, victory is only a matter of time question.

And if the lower-quality legions are placed in these positions and let them act as cannon fodder and consume each other with the centaurs, if they win, it will indeed reduce the loss of the elite.But once a certain burst collapses, it is easy to bring down the whole thing.

"We are here, Commander-in-Chief." Grazdan zo Erlands of Yunkai has been by Ian's side since he swore allegiance to Ian and was successfully promoted to a high-ranking nobleman. The toka robe with gold tassels is so eye-catching, people passing by may think it is Ian's attendant.

Ian stopped thinking after hearing the words, got off the carriage, stepped into the temporary school grounds that had just been built, and boarded the wooden high platform in the center of the school grounds under the escort of a group of guards.

Below the high platform, [-] reorganized new troops were assembled early, waiting for the inspection of the leader Ian.

And their state is the state that a slave army that has never fought a war should have—half dead.

Ian could see fear in their eyes. They were afraid of themselves. This was good news, but the bad news was that they were also afraid of the centaurs. To be precise, they feared the centaurs far more than they feared themselves.

Less than a third of the slaves in Slaver's Bay were the work of their own mercenaries and slave catchers, while the rest were the work of the Dothraki.

It can be said that more than half of the soldiers standing in front of Ian were slaughtered by the Dothraki and sold here as slaves. The fear of the Dothraki has long been engraved in their bones.

Correspondingly, if they can be convinced that they can defeat the centaurs, this fear will turn into hatred and motivation.

But it's a pity that the possibility of convincing these cowardly slaves that they can win such a thing with just a word of mouth is zero in Ian's opinion.In contrast, Ian prefers to use more tangible things to boost their morale.

"Soldiers of the Reorganized First Army Corps and the Reorganized Second Army Corps, in the past few days, I think the officers I sent to you should also tell you a lot of stories about their life experiences." Ian observed the stage The slaves under him found that their slack eyes began to gather together.

In order to ensure that the slaves of each company (centurion) heard the story, Ian deliberately chose the way that the centurion and the lieutenant were mixed for a nobleman and a slave.

"That's right, what I'm talking about is the fifth-class slavery practiced in Astapor today." Ian continued.

All of a sudden, the ears of the slaves perked up.

"I believe that in the past few days, your officers have told you in detail about the contents of fifth-class slavery, their tragic experience and the changes brought about by their promotion," Ian said. Dun, "I will not repeat these contents today. Today, what I want to tell you is that from now on, Meereen will also adopt fifth-class slavery!"

After Ian finished speaking, he looked around at the few powerful Lords of Meereen whom he specially invited to review the army.

Several people were shocked, but after a long time, no one raised any objection.

Ian knew that at this moment, Meereen really surrendered.

(End of this chapter)