Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 331 When the Holy Flame Is Lit

Ian's body fell asleep late last night after giving Reznak his final instructions, and has not gotten up until now. He just left an eagle in the sky above Meereen as an eye to observe the development of the situation.

There is no need for Ian to direct the matter at this point, and it is meaningless for him to continue to stay up all night.But the fact that Ian swaggered and went to sleep on the eve of the decisive battle fell into the eyes of Grazdan and other important officials, and it was somewhat shocking.

The falcon was flying at a height that was neither high nor low, overlooking the Holy Lord's Pyramid that was being besieged.This is the eastern part of the city. The Lorak Pyramid of the Holy Lord Hizdahr, the Karale Pyramid of the family of the Green Virgin, and the pyramid of another great Lord of the Holy Lord are located in this area, and the finished products are distributed in glyphs.

Since yesterday afternoon, the Great Lords of Meerlin from the Holy Lord sent their families to take refuge in these three pyramids, and the Holy Lord Hizdahr also shrank all the city guards into this area.

Until this morning when the raiders in the port area started their operations, the Lords of Meereen hiding here were still talking happily.They celebrate their escape from the catastrophe, and will be assigned more power with the disappearance of the royalists.

But in such a blink of an eye, these people have become a mess.

The Marauder Alliance, led by experienced mercenaries, rushed from six avenues in the west, north, and east directions, and easily tore through the defense lines of the city guards.

The guards of Meereen City were originally composed of low-quality soldiers eliminated from the reorganized new army. These people faced an enemy that was several times their own, and they collapsed on the spot before contacting the opponent, and fled back to the pyramid.They had no choice but to turn around and resist when they had nowhere to go.

Under the three pyramids are almost all the private soldiers of the Great Masters of the Holy Lord Sect. After joining these people, the remnants of the city guards blocked the raiders' attack for a short time, but with the rich combat experience of the mercenaries, Under the circumstances, they still suffered double the casualties of each other.

Ian felt a little regretful about this. Although the city guards failed to pass the selection of the new army, they had received training from the new army to some extent. If they could stabilize the gun array on the street, they would occupy the roofs of the buildings on both sides. The slave crossbowmen may not be unable to repel the attack of the marauders.

After all, those sea raiders themselves are a group of mobs without a unified command. Although these vanguard mercenaries have rich combat experience, most of them are a group of life-saving people. As for the sailors and pirates behind the mercenaries, the quality is even more uneven. uneven.

As long as the city guards can block the enemy's first wave of attacks and cause heavy casualties to the mercenaries, the so-called Marauder Alliance will soon have internal strife and become a mess.

It's a pity that there is no such if. From the moment the commander of the city guards took the lead to escape back to the pyramid, the fate of the pyramid was doomed.

The remnant soldiers under the pyramid are still making their last stubborn resistance, but the great masters in the pyramid have already shown their ugly appearance.

The noble Lords of Meereen are good at watching slaves fight each other in the arena. They are keen on the most cruel images, and are willing to adorn themselves with blood to show their courage.

But when the crisis really came, Ian discovered that the great masters and nobles on the three pyramids were not as good as the 'Green Maiden' Grazdan Karalle.

They fled in all directions like headless chickens, they knelt down and cried bitterly, they blamed each other, they hid around, but no one drew a sword to resist, and no one swallowed poison like the Green Maiden and died calmly.

The looters quickly invaded the three pyramids. The main attack on the Lorak Pyramid was the Qarthites, led by the captain of Xaro Xhoan Daxos's guard, who had received orders from Xaro before the attack , after capturing the pyramid, try to find those great masters and their family members and slaughter them.

The captain of the guard didn't know why the master had such an idea. After all, other people were looking for the treasure and food immediately after the pyramid was captured, but Xaro asked him to search for people.

But in any case, an order is an order, and the captain of the guards led Xaro's personal guards and began to search through the pyramids layer by layer, killing every person wearing a tokar robe they found.

Soon, six Great Lords, including Holy Lord Hizdahr himself, were found and killed by Xaro's personal guards in this pyramid.

At the same time, they also heard the cheers of their companions from the bottom of the pyramid.

The food stored in the Pyramid of Lorak was found, and the food was enough to support all of them for more than half a month. That is to say, they could use this place as a base to gradually sack the entire city, and then still have enough food to support them. Sail to Astapor, and the food obtained after the capture of Astapor is enough to support them to return to their respective cities.

Xaro himself has gone to Mataus Megea of ​​Volantis to discuss the distribution of the spoils, for the operation has gone so well, the spoils are very rich, and there are nearly twenty pyramids in the city waiting for them to go Due to the looting, the internal atmosphere of the Marauder Alliance was temporarily harmonious, and no major conflicts occurred.

Under Xaro's instigation, a captain of Jade Sea put forward a proposal to execute these great masters to exterminate them, which also won the support of most captains.

The mercenaries and sailors were collecting and arranging the loot, vying for the rooms in the pyramid, and the leaders were discussing the next day's attack plan and assignment of tasks, and the time soon came to dusk.

When the Meereen fleet suddenly appeared off the coast of Meereen and blocked the port, the news that the Vanghese hoplites entered Meereen from the port of Meereen and the southeast gate respectively was brought back by the sentries deployed by the marauders in all directions. At that time, most of the looters were still preparing for tonight's celebration banquet.

They had been frugal for three days since Meereen ran out of food, and this time they found so much bread, wine and meat from the pyramid of the Lorak family that they all wanted to have a good meal.

After receiving such news suddenly, the entire Marauder Alliance disintegrated almost instantly, not only the big alliance, but even those small alliances that were united because of their better private relations became scattered sand.

The looters evacuated from the Lorak Pyramid area took their plundered food and property and began to rush through the streets of Meereen, fleeing separately.

Most of the sailors chose to flee northward to the port. Although they heard that the Meereen fleet had blocked the sea, what if they could break through?

The mercenary group was more inclined to flee to the west gate. After all, the enemies entered the city from the northeast and the north, and there were no enemies outside the west city of Meereen.If they could get to Yunkai before the Ghis army took Meereen, they could capture Yunkai's ship and escape.

But all their luck was quickly extinguished. When the sailors entered the port area, their fleet had already been captured by the Ghis, and what awaited them were the Unsullied and elite crossbowmen who were already waiting on the pier.

The situation of this battle was completely reversed from their battle with the city guards. It was just that the gith crossbowmen shot one round and the Unsullied threw their spears one round, and the marauder sailors collapsed on the spot.

Most of them quickly surrendered or were killed. Only a few managed to escape from the port and fled back to the streets of Midtown, but here they were attacked by the civilians of Meereen who rushed from their homes.

The armed mob lashed out at the bereaved invaders with all the weapons they could find, venting their pent-up hatred.

Compared with the sailors who were blocked in the city, 5000 mercenaries mainly from Volantis and the Three Sisters rushed out of the west gate of Meereen without any resistance and set foot on Gugis Kali. coastal avenue.

Before they could rejoice, however, they came face to face with a cavalry force a kilometer southwest of Meereen.

The cavalry was wearing black full body armor, a goat-shaped helmet, and horse gear. The sharp-eyed mercenaries quickly recognized that it was the equipment of the Kohor black goat cavalry.

Because the veterans who won the Battle of Jisdakar have not yet returned to Meereen, these mercenaries waiting in Meereen only know that Fermor zo Nakroz defeated a Dothraki in Jisdaka Karasa didn't know what kind of enemy they were facing, and he didn't even know that they captured a large number of black goat heavy armor there.

At this moment, a well-known heavy cavalry of Qhorhor appeared outside the city of Meereen, making the mercenaries feel a little magical.

Even so, these mercenaries who have experienced many years of war in the disputed area are still much better psychologically than those sailors in the port area. Under the command of several mercenary captains, they pushed out the grain carts in the team, A circle was formed outside the team, and then a dense formation was formed behind the grain truck.

Encountering a cavalry on such a flat terrain is very bad, yes, but the enemy can only see a maximum of 300 people, and there are more than 5000 people on my side, and there are also car formations. Give reasons for fear.

However, as the black goat cavalry approached, the mercenaries gradually noticed that there were a large number of cavalry in half-body plate armor and a larger number of naked horse archers behind them.

Eagle and dragon banners fluttered in their hands.

"It's the army of the Ghis, Ian Darry is back, and he conquered the Dothraki." A senior sergeant whispered.

"Fuck! Which grandson spread the rumor that Ian Darry was defeated?" Another senior sergeant immediately cursed.

"What should we do? There are at least 3000 cavalry in front? Half of them are armored. We have no chance of winning." The deputy head of the Volantis mercenary asked in a low voice.

"We have a car formation." The mercenary captain said hoarsely, forcibly comforting him.

"The enemy doesn't need to attack, they just need to make sure we can't continue marching. Meereen is only a kilometer away. Ian's infantry will catch up with us soon after the city is retaken! We will be completely smashed !"

"Surrender, commander." At this moment, a senior sergeant who was about to be frightened out of his wits begged.

"We just ransacked his city, can we survive if we surrender?" Please let more people hear it.

Then no one answered him alone, only boos
This time the mercenary captain was completely panicked, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, he actually walked towards a hooded mercenary beside him.

"What should I do? Master Mataus, I can no longer control the situation."

The mercenary captain's words instantly attracted the attention of all the mercenaries, which made Mataus Megya, who had been disguised as an ordinary mercenary, turn pale.

"This is the man! He is the one who lied to us that he had the exact news of Ian Darry's defeat! He led the attack on Meereen, and he killed us!" A senior sergeant immediately accused.

"I was also deceived by that bastard Hizdahr! He swears by it." Mataus just wanted to explain, but was interrupted by another senior sergeant in an instant.

"Let him pay the price!"

"Catch him! Use his life to plead guilty to Lord Darry!" This time even ordinary mercenaries participated.

"Yes! Catch him!" The crowd was full of supporters.

"If it wasn't for his deceitful words, how could we oppose the great Emperor Gis?! Bind him and plead guilty to His Majesty the Emperor!" The appearance of Mataus seemed to let the mercenaries find an outlet for their emotions. They all joined the condemnation of Mataus.

That's not what you guys said when you just split the money!Mataus was furious for a while, but he didn't dare to scold the furious mercenaries loudly.

I don't know who rushed to Mataus first, and suddenly many people drew their swords and came to Mataus. The mercenary leader who had just identified Mataus realized it later. Realizing how much trouble he had caused, he could only take his guards to stand in front of Mataus.

This mercenary captain is a veteran of Mataus' grandfather, Maracho Megia, the consul. After retiring from the Volantis Civilian Army, he formed a mercenary group by himself. Ge Ya family service.If Mataus was really killed here, his relatives who still lived in Volantis would probably be liquidated.

"Protect Lord Mataus!" The mercenary captain ordered to the guards, and at the same time hoped that more mercenaries in the regiment would come to his side.

However, just as he was facing a mercenary from the outside group who wanted to catch Mataus and wanted to kill him, one of his cronies suddenly cut his neck without a throat guard from his side.

The next moment, his other cronies rushed forward and pushed Mataus to the ground.

A few minutes later, the mercenaries sent envoys to the Guards Cavalry, expressing their willingness to surrender, and dedicated the tied-up Mataus to Quigo, the commander of the Guards Cavalry.

Quigo had already received Ian's instructions, so he agreed to the surrender of the mercenaries, unloaded their weapons, and drove them to the military camp in the city.

On the way back to Meereen, the mercenaries looked at the burning city under the bloody setting sun, and couldn't help but think of the prophecy that was widely circulated in Meereen not long ago that they used as an after-dinner talk—the Danghis When the holy fire is relit, their emperor will return like lightning.

(End of this chapter)