Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 299 The Battle of Kaiser Pass (Approaching)
On a high hill on the east side of Kaiser Pass, the former Unsullied trainer Lexix from Astapor was waiting for his old friend Fermor together with several other legion commanders.

On the night Fermor arrived at Kaiser Pass, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Ian Darry, appointed him as the left-wing commander of the coalition forces, and Lexix and the others were his current generals.

"Who is that woman? Such a big show?" Suddenly, the young general Mohaz zo Alk from the Yunkai Alk family asked, pointing at Gao Qiuxia.

This person is the son of 'Ass Shake General' Grazdo zo Ark. As one of the few families in Yunkai who fell to Ian first with good military potential, he is considered Ian's One of the key training objects.

Although Ian didn't give him any real power in this battle, he also gave him a high-ranking vacant position, which was used to see the world and make military achievements.

As Mohaz zo Arke spoke, Lexiks and the others looked in the direction he was pointing.

The level of sophistication of that equipment is comparable to the front row of the Unsullied Legion, and the decorations are far more fancy than the army of the Unsullied.

At the forefront of the team, there were two squadrons of armored knights clearing the way.

The main color of the armor of one team is dark gold, and the coat of arms painted on their breastplates is based on the Harpy of the Gughis Empire, a double-headed eagle emblem with two claws holding lightning.

This coat of arms is the first official appearance among the coalition forces, but Celia has already given the pattern to Ian's most important officials of the Gis people for reference.

Femor and the others knew very well that this was the future emblem of the empire and the new coat of arms of the Darry family.

Although many of them were dissatisfied in their hearts that Ian changed the harpy into a pure eagle and changed the banshee's bat wings into dragon wings, but the coat of arms at least kept the harpies. The eagle body, scorpion tail, and the lightning grasped on the claws can be regarded as retaining the characteristics of the ancient empire.

In addition, the two heads of the double-headed eagle on the coat of arms look towards the east and the west respectively, and the ambition of the world conqueror is self-evident. Quick Ian's new coat of arms style was unanimously supported by the ministers.

The armor of the other team of knights is pitch black. On their breastplates are the three red dragons of the Targaryen family, and their helmets are decorated with dragon wings.

Behind the two teams of knights was a girl riding a silver mare surrounded by a group of guards wearing silver plate armor. She looked petite but extremely beautiful.

"You don't know her?" Lesix asked strangely.

"What? From your tone of voice, I should know her?" Mohaz zo Ark was also weird.

"That's your queen." Lexix had to remind her.

"Queen? When did Lord Darry get married? Why didn't I know?" Mohaz zo Alk asked subconsciously.

"Hey, don't you think Lord Darry is a king?"

"Isn't it? Although he hasn't officially declared it yet, there is no doubt that he is already the king of Slaver's Bay." Mohaz zo Ark said as a matter of course.

Mohearts was well aware of how his father, General Shake-Ass, went from being the butt of Yunkish nobles to being the grand marshal of Yunkish.

According to his own words, he did nothing but kneel down in front of Lord Darry and offer himself to him when the stupid city of Yunkai was about to stand against Lord Darry allegiance.

Then, the great Ark family became one of the two new masters of Yunkai, and those fools who had targeted the Ark family and wanted to put them to death were instantly annihilated.

"Of course, he is," Lesix nodded, "he is not only the king of Slaver's Bay, but also the master of Lazarin. In a few days, Lord Darry will probably become the emperor of the new empire , but from a certain legal point of view, Earl Darry is the girl's vassal." At the end of Lysix's words, he shrugged indifferently.

Several legion commanders looked at each other and smiled, and everyone could see the indifference in each other's eyes.

"It's just a dispensable puppet." A disdainful voice sounded.

Lysix and the others turned their heads and found that the speaker was Ursain zo Marek of Meereen.

Ursain is the eldest son and heir of the Marek family, the great lord of Meereen. Ian was almost asked by his father to marry him when he was in Meereen, although Ian used his own response to prevent the other party from making this request.However, the Marek family, as the first great family in Meereen to move closer to Ian, was still reused by Ian.

The situation of Ursain zo Marek and Mohaz zo Ark is similar, they both come to the front line with empty posts to see the world and make military achievements.

"What? There's something wrong with what I said?" Ursain zo Marek found that everyone was looking at him, and continued, "She can't bring anything to Lord Darry! No wealth, no army, her right The claims of the end of the world mean nothing here either. Well, aside from her beauty, but pardon me, she's also not competitive with the well-trained courtesans of Yunkai's Lust Gardens."

The truth is the truth, but can it be said?Didn't you notice that Lord Darry has gone to the gate of the camp to pick her up?

I have been with Earl Darry for such a long time, and there are only two people who can let him meet in person!

One is the femoral hero Femor zo Nakroz, who beat the Dothraki on the banks of the river south of Jisdaka and won a major victory, and the other is the 'worthless' girl you said, you are so special Why don't you understand what this means?Lysix couldn't help but glanced at Ursain zo Marek in disgust, and took a step back.

Standing too close to you can easily affect your IQ.

"Isn't it?" However, Ursain zo Marek didn't notice the disgust of his colleagues at all, and instead became more and more enthusiastic, "I think it is very necessary for us to reach an agreement on one issue, that is, the future queen of the empire will at least Must be Gisian."

"The future queen of the empire will be whoever the emperor decides to marry." A deep voice exploded behind Ursain's back, startling him.

"Commander." Lexix and the others began to salute one after another.

Ursain zo Marek turned around in a hurry, only to see Fermor who had already arrived on the high hill, and seeing the displeasure on his face, Ursain quickly saluted, "Commander, I have no other intentions. "He went on to explain.

With the victory in the Battle of Gisdaka, Fermor gained great prestige among the nobles of Gis.Unlike Grazdan zo Eraz, the wise lord of Yunkai, who is still called an upstart by most nobles behind his back, Fermor's newly acquired high noble status hardly received any rejection.

After all, even in the history of the ancient empire, no Ghis general had ever defeated the Dothraki Kalashar with roughly equal numbers on both sides.

"The future Empress of the Empire will be whoever the Emperor decides to marry," Fermor repeated, before adding, "but preferably she will be a Gisian."

"Is everyone here?" Just when several people were trying to figure out what Fermore wanted to express, Fermore quickly changed the subject.

"Except for those Lazarin people, everyone else has arrived." Mohaz zo Ark said quickly.

Fermor scanned the crowd and counted the number of people. Indeed, there were still a few short, which made him a little dissatisfied.

At this moment, Fermor has been listed as the three deputy commanders of Ian along with the commander-in-chief of New Ghis, Eres zo Emud, and the commander of the right wing, Rohr.

The troops under his command include the crossbowmen regiment he himself brought from Jisdaka, the Astapor Third Unsullied Legion, the Third and Fourth Slave Iron Legion that newly arrived at Kaiser Pass. The 6000-member Lazarin First Army and more than 2000 stragglers from mountain clans reorganized on the spot at Saishankou totaled more than 2 troops.

However, due to time constraints, he now only has the legion he brought, the Lazarin, and half of the Unsullied who rode on horseback after disembarking at the Skahazaban River tributary on the west side of the Kaiser Mountain Pass. The Dirtyr and the two Astapor slave iron legions are still walking through the mountain road (but their legion leaders have arrived on horseback ahead of time). I don't know if they can get here before the decisive battle.

If they can't arrive, then Fermor's main force in the decisive battle can only be these Lazarines, and now, the generals of the Lazarines are half late.

How could Femor not be angry?
Taking a deep breath, Fermor temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart, and prepared to rectify military discipline with the generals after they arrived.

At the same time, Fermor couldn't help but wonder, Lord Ian handed nearly two-thirds of the Lazarin people here into his own hands. Is his purpose just to get rid of these 'sheep people'? ?
For these unorganized and undisciplined savages from different cities and tribes, apart from Mr. Ian himself, it seems that he is the most suitable for this matter.

"What are you looking at?" Fermor noticed that his old friend Lexix was still looking at the mountain road below. Anyway, it would take a while to drive, so he walked to his side.

"Look at that cavalry, Femor," Lysix pointed to the knights riding in front of Daenerys, "how beautiful, they will be the enemy's nightmare on the battlefield."

"Perhaps." Femor also glanced in that direction, "but I've seen terrible ones."

"What did you say? Could it be those Dothraki people you met in Jisdaka? Are they really wearing armor? How is it possible?" Although Lesix had heard this statement, he instinctively didn't believe it.

One is because of the traditions of the Dothraki, and the other is because if the enemy is really wearing more than half of the armor as rumored, then how did Fermor win?

"Lord Ian's cavalry regiment can accept armor, and the cavalry regiment composed of nobles of Guis can cut off their traditional noble hairstyles and wear helmets, so why can't our enemies violate their traditions?" Femor asked rhetorically.

"This"

Fermor did not continue to entangle this issue with Lexix, but told the story of the battle of Jisdaka.

"then.
...The most elite group of them wore Qohor's black goat armor, and they only used one charge to break through the Iron Legion phalanx that the New Ghisians are proud of.

"Our long spears pierced them, but they couldn't get in at all. Instead, they were knocked out by their horses, and the javelins and crossbows shot at their bodies. Unless they hit the gaps in those joints, they also couldn't penetrate.

We can only kill them with the ballista on the ship, and after stopping them and dragging them into melee, attack their horse legs or hook them off the horse with the barb of the halberd, and then jump on them and stab them with a dagger armor joints.They are like devils who are demanding their lives, or death itself," Femor said, and stopped.

All the legion commanders on the high hill looked at him like this, including those chiefs of Lazarin who came late, and they also looked at him with shocked and longing eyes.

"And then?" Lesix asked, and he was the only one here who had the qualifications to ask this question.

"Then I slaughtered these gods of death, hahaha!" Femor patted Lexix on the shoulder and laughed, "Compared to the enemies I met in Jisdaka, Khal Drogo The khalasars are nothing but a rabble! They will be slaughtered before your ranks!"

"Okay." Seeing the reactions of the legion commanders, Fermor nodded with satisfaction, "This is the end of the chat, and now we will start talking about the next battle deployment."

The scorching sun above the head is particularly vicious at the end of this long summer. Although the wind blows from time to time, it still has a hot breath.

Ian was already sweating profusely after standing in the sun for just a short while—this was even when he was barely wearing armor.

Unlike Jisdaka or the west side of the Kaiser Pass, where the tributary of the Skahazaban River passes, there are almost no rivers passing by on the east side of the pass, and those few creeks have already dried up in the long summer.

So here is a completely decayed scene. From the east of Kaiser Mountain Pass to the vicinity of Hersey, even the weeds are almost all dead.

This was no small challenge for the Dothraki. Khal Drogo couldn't feed his horses with the weeds all over the ground, so he had to choose a quick fight.

But the same is true for Ian.

After the reinforcements from Astapor and conscripts from Lazarin's troops arrived at Kaiser Pass, the almost doubled force and the Lazarin's withdrawal from Hussey caused a huge problem for Ian in terms of supplies. Difficulties.

To make matters worse, there were reports of signs of disease beginning to appear in the army.

Although the Legion brought by Ian from Astapor and the Iron Legion of New Ghis are strictly implemented in accordance with the grassroots officer manual issued by Ian, when setting up the camp, start with the toilet, and dig the position of the toilet in the downwind, away from Water sources and military stoves, when going to the toilet in the marching state, you must use a shovel to bury the excrement and so on.

However, those Lazarin soldiers and mercenaries did not implement Ian's hygiene plan very well, so that the disease began to spread among them, and there was a tendency that it might break out at any time.

So Ian's desire to seek a decisive battle became more urgent.

If the decisive battle with Drogo two days later could wipe out Khal Drogo's Kalashar, or at least kill Drogo himself and injure his Kalashar, all troubles would naturally be solved.

But if the decisive battle does not break out or Ian can only defeat Drogo and let his main force escape, then Ian will have to abandon the east side of the Kaiser Pass, which is more rugged, and retreat the army to a wider and flatter terrain. The west side of the mountain pass is closer to the river to rest and start to face the troubles caused by the two major problems of food and disease.

So Ian has been searching for the most suitable place for a decisive battle through aerial reconnaissance for the past two days.

The first thing he excluded was the mountain road inside the mountain pass, where the distance between the two mountains ranged from 10 meters to 300 meters in width, which logically was the best terrain to block the enemy several times with a small force.

But the problem is that such a narrow contact area will make it difficult for both sides to cause effective damage to the enemy, and Ian's long-range troops cannot be deployed in place.

In this way, it is very likely that a battle will be fought from morning to night, and the two sides will suffer hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Then it becomes a long tug of war.

When Drogo found that he couldn't beat Ian quickly in this terrain, he would probably give up attacking the mountain pass and head towards the Lazarin cities like Lazhaxi instead.

After all, the choice of fighting or not fighting is always in the hands of Khal Drogo, and it is impossible for Ian to drag Drogo into a desperate situation by relying on the supply situation.

Therefore, if Ian wants to achieve the goal of annihilation battle, the decisive battle site he chooses must meet these conditions.

First, the opponent cannot be outflanked, and the long-range forces of one's own side have enough output space.

Second, let Khal Drogo think he can win, take the initiative to attack and be able to invest more troops at one time (or not invest a lot of troops at the beginning but be willing to continue to invest troops after the battle begins).

Third, it is necessary to cause huge damage to the Dothraki in a relatively short period of time (for this purpose, it does not matter even if one's own side also suffers huge casualties), and when the Dothraki find that the situation is not right, it is necessary to prevent them from successfully attacking the Dothraki. Retreat (at least make sure to eat all the troops they have put into battle).

Except for the first point, which is easy to achieve, the remaining two points seem to be very difficult, and there is even a huge conflict between the second point and the first point.After all, when the Dothraki faced the Unsullied and could not outflank them, it might be difficult to think that they could win.

The only good news is that Khal Drogo has lost the support of the skinchangers, which gives Ian a lot of room for maneuver.

In the end, Ian chose the location of the defense at the current camp, and then quietly waited for Drogo and the arrival of the last reinforcements.

"Ian!" A pleasantly surprised voice came to his ears, interrupting Ian's thinking.

Seeing the little queen rushing towards him after hastily dismounting, Ian opened his arms, let her fall into his arms, and kissed her forehead lightly.

"Ian, I miss you so much." Daenerys said, holding Ian's hand tightly

"Me too." These words were a bit against his will. During this period of time, Ian only had this war in his mind, and he didn't have any time to think about the love between his children.

If it weren't for the reason of troop transfer, it would be impossible for him to let Daenerys come to Kaiser Pass.

It took a long time for Daenerys to let go of Ian.

Ian could see that she seemed to have a lot to say, but he didn't have the time now.

"Yada, take your majesty to rest." Ian ordered the water dancer Yada.

"Ian, I."

"After this battle, can you?" Ian pressed a finger on her lips, "If you have anything to say, wait until the war is over."

"No! It has to be now!" Daenerys refused decisively, which surprised Ian.

"Then, what are your orders, Your Majesty?" Ian asked with raised eyebrows.

"I want to go to the battlefield with you." She said, grabbing Ian's hand.

"Nonsense." Ian laughed, and then signaled Yada to take Daenerys away with his eyes.

"Khal Drogo came for me, this war happened because of it, I can't let you take risks alone! I want to face it with you!" Daenerys said quickly, and then she looked at the prepared Yada, the water dancer who stepped forward to pull her away, yelled at him, "Stand back!"

"You are becoming more and more like a queen," Ian laughed again, shook his head at Yada, motioned him to back down, and then turned to Daenerys and said, "Okay, after the battle begins, you will stand Stay by my side every step of the way.”

Daenerys suddenly smiled.

"Then now."

"Okay," Daenerys nodded to Ian, "Then I won't bother you for now."

After speaking, Ian asked Yada to take Daenerys to her camp.

Daenerys' words remind Ian that Khal Drogo is here for her...or rather for the humiliation of losing her.

Well, if she is allowed to appear on the battlefield side by side with him, maybe it can further stimulate Khal Drogo and let Drogo launch a more fierce offensive-it would be even better if he can lead the charge himself, Khal's death will definitely It would cause great confusion to the Kalashar.

As for the question of taking risks on the battlefield, what danger can there be in standing by your side?Ian would never put himself in danger.

After sending Daenerys away, Ian summoned several major generals and the material officers and ordnance officers who rushed to the Kaiser Pass with Daenerys in charge of the goods transported by the Astapor and Meereen fleets, and started Make a new deployment.

(End of this chapter)