Game of Thrones: I loaded the witcher system.

Chapter 224 Who Is the King of the North?
Rickard Karstark stared blankly at Clay, pondering for a long time, but he didn't know where Clay got so many people. The speed at which he pulled the team was simply terrifying.

"Master Clay... Did you notify Winterfell in advance to gather the remaining forces of the major families?"

Rickard Karstark's tone was cautious. His Karstark family can be regarded as a huge family with a very strong voice in the northern border. It manages the entire area east of the Mo River, and several small families below are loyal to them.

Even so, they sent out troops at their limit, only 4000 people. This was the result of the whole family being wiped out. Even a cook could be considered a soldier with a kitchen knife, adding one piece to the total.

What responded to him was Clay's sneer:
"No, no, Lord Karstark, these 9000 people are all private soldiers of my Manderly family. They only obey my order, Clay Manderly, and have nothing to do with a bronze star in Winterfell. Have I made it clear?"

"What! This is impossible! How could the Mandalay family have 9000 people?"

Hearing this, Rickard Karstark's eyes widened immediately, and the words came out of his mouth, forgetting that Clay, who was opposite him, was the speaker of the Manderly family.

Lord Karstark felt that Clay was talking nonsense, but based on his knowledge of Clay, he also felt that what Clay said was true, because Clay had no reason to lie to him at all.

Gods, how could the Mandalay family have an army of 9000 people? Counting the more than 1000 people here, this is more than 1 people. In addition, Winterfell made another one for Clay in order to save Rob Stark.

Earl Rickard Karstark found that he didn't dare to count any more. If this counting continues, Clay will soon have more troops than when Rob Stark poured all the strength of the North into the south.

After all, who is the king of the North?

"Master Clay, you... this... where did these troops come from? To be honest, this really surprised me."

"Accident, it doesn't matter, I just ask you, is the 9000-man army enough for you to command? Answer me!"

"Uh... that's enough, enough, Lord Clay."

"If you want to know where they came from, just ask yourself. From now on, two of my personal guards will follow you and escort you to the army. Sir Marlon Manderly will wait for you there. You can just ask him when the time comes."

Rickard Karstark was silent. He knew that his behavior had displeased Clay. Even though he was old and tempered, if any young man dared to speak to him in the past, he would have punched him long ago.

But now, the responsibility for the revival of the entire northern region rests with this young and outrageous Mandalay. Moreover, he has proved his ability with victory after victory. Rickard Karstark really can't get mad in front of him.

Just now Clay's meaning is very clear, I don't trust you, so I sent two personal guards to follow you, you can help me command the army, because I need your experience, and you also need my army to avenge you.

Clay specifically mentioned Sir Marlon, telling Rickard Karstark that there are all my people there, including people from my own family. If you dare to think otherwise, I have someone who can take over your military power at any time.

Rickard Karstark's expression is very exciting, not only the anger brought by Clay's unceremonious words, but also the shock brought by 9000 people are the private soldiers of the Manderly family, and a little bit of fear.

Fortunately, the current Clay Mandalay is still on the side of the northern border. If he just finds a king to kneel down now, with the current size and military strength of the Mandalay family, he is completely qualified to be a duke.

Clay only needs to turn his guns around and use the 1 people in his hand to find a way to defeat the 2 people in the hands of that idiot Edmure Tully in Riverrun. In that case, the entire Three Rivers Valley plus White Harbor will all surrender to the Manderly family.

"Okay, Rickard Karstark, I won't ask you how you defeated Harrenhal in the first battle. I know that Rob has a stubborn side, but he is definitely not the kind of person who accepts death. With so many of you, have you really persuaded him enough?"

"Also, you people, how can you say that you have more experience in the battlefield than us young people? You have already discovered that there is an army mobilization in the direction of the Blood Gate. You don't believe Lysa Tully, why don't you send someone to investigate?"

"I am leading the cavalry myself. I know very well that if you are not prepared at all, and you can even be said to be slack, with 1 of them, there is no way to overwhelm you in a short time."

"So, don't talk to me in the tone of a victim. In my eyes, the defeat of the Northern Territory killed the most elite 2 people at once. Except for Robb Stark himself, you are all responsible!"

Clay looked at Rickard Karstark who was stunned with disgust, and seemed to be in disbelief at what he heard. He stood up from the boulder by the river, shook his stiff shoulders, and said in a low voice:

"So, find out where you are, Karstark of Kahuo City, you are here with me, and you are doing a good job. Otherwise, I will kill you directly for the crime of desertion, and no one will say a word."

"Your own bad temper, it doesn't matter to anyone, but don't let me see it. Remember, I, Clay Mandalay, am not a good tempered person. You people killed my soldiers, and then ran to me crying, asking me to avenge you."

The personal guards behind him came behind Clay and put on a thick brown-black fur cloak for him.

He looked at Rickard Karstark, his voice calm and frightening.

"I am not your father, and I have no obligation to avenge your son. Too many people have died in this war. Be sober, my lord, and stop talking to me in such a stupid tone. Do you...understand?"

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Rickard Karstark left, and under the half-surveillance and half-escort of Clay's two witcher personal guards, he left quickly towards the east.

Clay kept Jon Royce's men in the Three Rivers Basin for so long, and played hide and seek for quite a long time, in order to allow the army from the east to have enough time to go south.

When passing by Raventree City, the inside sent the news to Clay. Sir Marlon led the original [-] elite cavalry of the Manderly family in Clay's hands, and attacked Earl Harroway's town at night in the same way.

When Clay arrived at Raventree City, Sir Marlon's good news had already arrived there. This was what Clay had told him in his heart before, and he had to contact Raventree City directly if he had any news.

This battle wiped out a thousand valley infantry who were in charge of guarding the logistics, completely occupying the valley and the logistics center of Lannister.

Although it is definitely impossible to hide it, the people of the Valley and the Lannisters will definitely know about it in the end, but it doesn't matter, by that time, the seven thousand infantry have already set up a defensive formation there, waiting for them to come.

One thing Rickard Karstark was wrong about was that Clay wasn't going to attack the infantry directly below the walls.

The reason why they are not capable of attacking the city is that they are cavalry at heart and have never worked as infantry.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be impossible to take down a city with only a few hundred people guarding it. If these professional infantrymen in solid armor filled it with human lives, the three eastern cities would have fallen long ago.

What Clay had to do was to make these infantry completely stop thinking about the cavalry.

He knew before that these dismounted cavalry gathered their horses together so that they could get on their horses and be themselves again at any time.

This is not a girl from Junlin City. Whether you are a king or a beggar, the service attitude is guaranteed to be first-class.

These are thousands of horses, all of which are good horses from the valley. With these horses, Clay can spend some time training his most common troops, cavalry with stronger combat effectiveness, which is much better than infantry in any case.

Moreover, without these horses, the people of the Valley would be completely useless. One-on-one, if they were all infantry, they would not even be able to fight the infantry in the river under the command of Edmure Tully.

Once Clay snatched these horses from the Valley people and took them as his own, the Valley people who didn't have enough horses would no longer be a threat. At that time, as long as Daenerys or himself went around the Eagle's Nest City, these guys would have to kneel down obediently and lick their boots.

Now, Clay was waiting for Collison's 500 people to join him.

On the south side, the northern line of defense where the people of the Valley were stationed was like the black silk on a woman's leg.

It's for people to tear it apart!
(End of this chapter)