Game of Thrones: I loaded the witcher system.

Chapter 237 The Late Earl Royce
"My lord...it has been confirmed, all the war horses we left here are gone..."

The knight of the Royce family reported the results of the investigation to Earl Jon Royce in a low voice, not daring to lift his head.

There's no way, the evil spirit emanating from their Lord Earl's body makes them, the trembling valley knights, feel that the surrounding air is almost frozen.

But everyone can understand the mood of the Lord Earl. This Lord claims to be a general in the entire Seven Kingdoms, and he can be regarded as a general on the battlefield. He always compares himself with Lando Tarly of the Reach.

Originally, after the Lord Earl led the army in the valley to defeat the [-] army of Robb Stark's wolf cub, he didn't even care about the remaining Clay Manderly.

Eoin Royce has always told people around him that if Clay Manderly stays in the Twins honestly, he will let him go. As long as he dares to go south and get involved, he will definitely not let him Good fruit to eat.

When Clay Manderly really arrived at Riverrun, and then he boldly led two thousand cavalry eastward out of Riverrun, this made Eoin Royce unbearable, thinking that Clay Manderly was doing this. challenge yourself.

We have already defeated the 2 people led by your king, and now you dare to hang around under Lao Tzu's nose with 2000 people, isn't it obvious that you look down on yourself?

Since this is the case, then I, Jon Royce, have the obligation to let you know what is the battlefield old world and what is the sinister society!If you don't give me some color, look, are you still going to heaven?
So, full of confidence, Jon Royce took five thousand cavalry and headed north to chase the tail of Clay Manderly's two thousand cavalry.

But what happened after that was a complete nightmare for the great nobleman in the valley.

First, Mummer Beach, he encountered the first problem that Clay Mandalay posed to him, hey, I split up my troops and went all the way to your logistics line, Lord Royce, will you follow?

At that time, Jon Royce had 5000 people and was strong, so he decided to throw out his chips and followed.

Under the leadership of Earl Leonor, 2000 people chased towards the north, and he led the remaining 3000 people to continue chasing Clay Manderly.

But... as he got deeper into the middle bank of the Trident River, the consequences of his inexperience were immediately exposed, and he gradually couldn't keep up with Clay Mandalay's advancing speed.

After that, Clay Manderly slapped the confident and self-righteous Earl of the Valley through a hearty victory between the scouts.

After some fighting, the scout squad released by Jon Royce almost disappeared as an organization. In just two days, the army of 3000 people encountered the dilemma of having no scouts available.

This is a situation that Jon Royce can hardly imagine, but the bloody corpse tells him that this is the truth.

From that moment on, Eoin Royce restrained his arrogance and began to regard Clay Mandalay as an opponent like himself. Ray Mandalay dared not fight himself upright.

This is actually not wrong. Clay has a brain hole, so he will use 500 people to hedge against your 3000 people.

Jon Royce took a deep breath in his heart, thinking that no matter what he had to catch up with Clay Manderly, he had to fight to let you know how powerful the Valley Cavalry was.

However... When he crossed the Blue Fork River from the river-crossing bridge in Beauty Collection, he once saw the traces of the division of troops left by Clay Mandalay.

Looking at the horseshoe prints facing both sides, Jon Royce felt a deep insult.

Isn't that just bullying people?
Fortunately, he was not dizzy by Clay Mandler's anger. After brainstorming, he decided to choose a direction to pursue.

After that, he saw the traces of the march that turned around...

Jon Royce could have sworn to whatever it was the Seven or the Old Gods or some R'hllor the Lord of Light that he literally nearly fell off his horse when he saw that.

This is no longer bullying him, this is blatant contempt, playing with him, the Earl of Runestone City, in the palm of his hand!

From that moment on, Jon Royce's mentality began to collapse, and he was not the only one. The Valley Cavalry who came back also knew that they were tricked by Clay Manderly, like a monkey acting like a monkey .

At first, they were determined to chase Clay Manderly southward, eager to tear the guy who played them for a monkey.

This situation made Jon Royce think that the army's spirit was available, but after chasing after him, Jon Royce gradually felt that the mentality of the army had slowly changed.

The passion brought about by this kind of teased anger lasted for a day, and then began to fade rapidly, and the soldiers began to fall into self-doubt, whether they had fallen into Clay Mandalay's trap again after chasing them all the way.

After all, they were either marching every day, or on the way of marching. After Riverrun ordered to fortify the walls and clear the fields, they couldn't even see a ghost along the way. How could the soldiers not doubt it?
Jon Royce mobilized several times, but with little success and few responders.

Later, he also gave up, because he himself fell into doubt, and he chased south so angrily, was Clay Mandalay considered good?
He suddenly began to understand Kingslayer Jaime Lannister. Was he in the same situation as he is now?
Jon Royce doesn't know, but now he has no choice but to bite the bullet and chase south along this only possibility, if he makes another mistake this time, then he will never gain the trust of the soldiers again up.

Fortunately, the gods still favored him. He finally found traces of Clay Manderly's army at the Shaman's Beach Ferry on the Red Fork River, but immediately after, he realized that something was wrong.

Because his own walk took out almost all the mobile forces north of Shili City, and Jon Royce knew exactly what the state of defense of the three eastern cities was like.

If Clay Manderly chose them as the target of his attack, it would really be the end of everything.

After figuring this out, a ray of despair appeared on Jon Royce's bloodless face. He understood that in this air-to-air confrontation with Clay Manderly, he completely Failed.

That is to say, Clay Mandalay only has 5000 Riverland cavalry with poor combat effectiveness. If he is like himself, with [-] troops, and he is replaced by the northern elite cavalry he once led, then he might not be able to leave. Out of the banks of the Trident River.

James Lannister didn't complain about the loss, and he didn't complain about the loss. When he met such a celestial general on the battlefield, there was really no way for anyone but to shrink back and protect himself.

Although his heart was full of depression after failure, he was the first commander of the army of the three eastern cities after all. If the army was threatened, he had to go to rescue it.

So, Jon Royce led his 3000 horse-strapped army and marched towards Shili City in the southwest direction. However, after walking for a long time, he encountered two broken soldiers who escaped from the army horse farm.

At this moment, Jon Royce knew that he had finally guessed correctly this time, but it was too late.

Clay Manderly had already attacked his own horse farm, and there were [-] war horses stored there. Jon Royce felt that his heart was bleeding, and without a word, he rushed forward with his troops. towards there.

And when he arrived at the horse farm, all he was left with was ruins and corpses all over the ground.

Clay Mandalay, also care about killing but not buried.

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Taking a deep breath, Jon Royce tried to calm down his restless heart, he knew that he must not be chaotic at this time.

He grabbed the muddy and blood-stained broken soldier, without the slightest warmth in his voice:

"Tell me, where did Clay Manderly's troops go?"

"My lord... I, I don't know, I should... I should have gone in the direction of Shili City."

"What about our military horse? Could it be that it was also taken by Clay Mandalay?"

The rout soldier who had narrowly escaped death was about to cry at this time. He really didn't know that the reason why he was the lucky one who survived was because he was afraid of death enough. Ran.

Otherwise, he would have been buried with his comrades in the meadow of the army horse farm under the thick snow.

His voice was trembling, and he wanted to reach out to grab the palm that Jon Royce was pinching himself, but he didn't dare. He was at a loss, and timidly replied:
"My lord, my brothers and I broke out desperately. I really don't know what the final situation will be. I really don't know where the military horse is. I dare not lie to you, my lord."

There was a ray of rage in his eyes, but it was restrained by Jon Royce.

As an old fritter, of course he knew that breaking through the siege was a lie, and this was simply running away, as soon as he saw the enemy, he would run away to see himself alive.

But it doesn't make any sense for him to kill this deserter now, on the contrary, it will give another blow to the precarious morale of the army.

For some reason, Jon Royce thought of the Frey family that was led by Clay Manderly and wiped out.

The Marquess of Walder Frey was late back then, and he has been nicknamed the late Lord Frey all his life.

But now, the grass on the grave of the Frey family is already one meter high, and this notoriety of being late, probably from now on, will fall on the head of the Earl of Runestone City.

Earl Royce, who was late, really left Jon Royce with no room to refute.

He was indeed late, and it wasn't even a little bit late. No matter how tired or hard he was, he had to go to Shili City as soon as possible, even if his 3000 people had already fallen behind a lot.

If it is late this time, and the camp under Shili City is taken over in one go, then the eastern battlefield of the entire Riverland will be reversed.

And this is a responsibility that he, Jon Royce, cannot bear.

(End of this chapter)