Game of Thrones: I loaded the witcher system.

Chapter 240 The Army Gathered in Earl's Town

Different from Harrenhal's anxiety, the current town of Earl Holloway has become a completely large construction site.

More than 6000 people are constantly engaged in civil engineering nearby. It has been half a month since they arrived here.

The savage army and the recruits of the Mandalay family, the Danzi army, have little experience and low efficiency at the beginning, and now they have all become good hands in planing and building cities. They dig holes and build walls at the same time, which is extremely efficient.

It's not how enthusiastic they are that they can do selfless work.

But because their commander, Sir Marlon Manderly, told them directly:

"When we came here, we just inserted the dagger into the backyard of the old lion and the eagle cubs. Now they are screaming in pain, and they want to take it back at all costs."

"I will explain clearly to you that Lord Clay Manderly gave me the order to stay here, so even if I fight to the last man, I will not allow him to escape."

"From beyond the Great Wall to here, you people have already knelt down to Mr. Clay Mandalay once. I don't need to recall what kind of person he is for you. If you want to live a good life in the warm south in the future, just Give me a future with my own life."

"And you, Mr. Clay Mandalay, for you lazy people who have never been able to find a woman for a lifetime, each of you sent a woman, saving you from watching your neighbor's ass drooling every day, and wanting to go back alive to be with your own. When the mother-in-law is reunited, just do as I say!"

The old jazz's voice was deafening, not noble, but powerful enough.

For the captive wildlings outside the Great Wall, their only need is to live, or to live quietly afterwards.

For more than 3000 former bachelors in Baigang, they finally tasted the taste of their own women. In this battle, it is the best way to go home with the military achievements.

There is no need to tell them what about Rob Stark and Ed Stark. To put it bluntly, does this matter have anything to do with them?

No, not even a Bronze Star relationship!
As long as you make them feel that fighting with you will get them what they want, saying those things is nonsense, and the soldiers will naturally work hard for your goals.

And if the soldiers can't get what they want, even if you talk about breaking the sky, you will only get the soldiers' eyes, and at some point, you will cut off your head and give it to those who can fulfill their demands people.

Sir Marlon has lived a long life. He has experienced the collapse of the Targaryen Dynasty and the establishment of the Baratheon Dynasty. It has been ups and downs for decades. What hasn't he seen?To deal with these things, it is natural to hold them in hand.

He successfully mobilized the enthusiasm of the soldiers, coupled with proper guidance, half a month later, a low circular earth city defense line miraculously appeared on the outskirts of Earl Harloway's town.

Sir Malone also ordered the soldiers to dig a lot of pits just enough to break a horse's leg outside the Tucheng, specially to deal with the possible valley cavalry.

Then, following Clay's example, he sent out a large number of scouts to control every move in the nearby area, and he must prevent the attack on the camp from happening again.

After being cautious for a long time, Sir Marlon found that he had cut off the retreat of the Lannisters and the Valemen, but the reaction speed of these two families was ridiculously slow.

He didn't know that the Gudi army had been successfully restrained by his young master with less than 2000 people, and now he was too busy to take care of himself, and he didn't even know that his old den had been copied.

The same is true for Lannister. Tywin Lannister knew that Earl Harroway's town had fallen, but he only knew that two thousand cavalry from the Manderly family had captured it.

But even the two thousand cavalry, Tywin Lannister couldn't handle it, because he was also short of manpower.

Harrenhal was too big, and 2 people seemed like a lot, but in order to maintain pressure on Robb Stark in the city, he had to ensure that he had enough troops in his hands.

The two thousand cavalry of the Manderly family are behind him, how many people do you ask Tywin Lannister to drive them away and take back this logistics center?
Those are cavalry, not two-legged infantry. If infantry are sent over, won't they run away?
And Tywin's men now have more than 3000 cavalry, if they are all sent to deal with Marlon Mandalay, they must not all be sent.

But as soon as the cavalry left, Tywin Lannister lost all his mobility. If Rob Stark in the city chose to break through at this time, what would Tywin Lannister do to chase after him.

But the old duke, who had fought all his life, was very worried.

Originally, this matter was all about the people of the Valley, Tywin Lannister thought at the time, the people of the Valley defeated Robb Stark's army in the first battle, and forced Edmure Tully back to Riverrun City .

Thinking about it, the entire eastern part of the Riverlands was very safe, so Tywin Lannister dared to besiege Harrenhal with peace of mind.

But I didn't expect that the lingering Clay Manderly actually led people into Riverrun himself, and somehow managed to gain control of the cavalry of the princes in the river.

Then with the 2000 men in his hand, he actually fought with the 5000 men of Jon Royce. What's even more outrageous is that he was able to command his own cavalry from a distance. When Harrenhal is attracted, surprise the logistics center of the army.

Once the town of Earl Harroway was lost, all the troops on the front line immediately lost their food and supplies, and all the yellow stripes fell off... If you cross it out, the combat effectiveness will inevitably plummet.

One of the most correct things that Edmure Tully did in this war was to carry out a thorough clearing of the fighting area, turning a large area into scorched earth.

This also put an end to the idea of ​​the Valley people and Lannisters plundering the countryside for supplies, and they could only rely on the rear to transport food for a living.

The reason for all this is actually very simple to sum up.

The Valemen think they can, but they can't, the Lannisters think the Valemen can, so they don't care.

It can only be said that choosing a good teammate is very important.

Let the valley people, who come and go like the wind and are famous for their cavalry, engage in this little bit of advancing tactics.

……

With the horse herd, Chrison rushed eastward along the entire river road, and finally arrived at the town of Earl Harroway, where nine thousand troops gathered.

His arrival once again refreshed Sir Marlon's perception of Clay's ability to fight.

What a guy, he molested 2000 people with 5000 people, and turned the other party around. He could only follow his own ass to eat ashes, and at the same time, he took away the other party's horse farm and brought back four thousand excellent war horses from the valley.

Sir Marlon could only be amazed at this, but he would definitely not be able to do it himself.

Of course he knew Krissen, after all, he was with Clay's personal bodyguard.

Krissen, who was carrying the mission, did not ambiguously communicated to him, and directly relayed Clay's order to the actual commander-in-chief of Earl Harroway's small town army, and brought Earl Karstark to over him.

"Okay, no problem, you can take two thousand cavalry with you."

Sir Marlon didn't make a single stumbling block, it wasn't that he trusted Krissen in front of him too easily.

If he was a spy from the Valley or Lannister, and wanted to defraud the two thousand Mandalay elite cavalry, how could he come with so many horses? The cost of gaining trust would be too high.

Hearing Sir Marlon's words, Collison nodded slightly. Both he and Sir Marlon's surname were Manderly, and they were both members of the family, but they were not the main line of the family like Clay and the old man.

"Can Clay survive at Stone Ledge City? He has less than 2000 people."

Sir Marlon expressed his concerns. Obviously, the number of people on his side, counting the 2 people in Riverrun, theoretically it is not impossible to keep all the less than [-] Valley people here.

But the fact is that they now have to rely on Clay's more than 1000 people to contain them, which really makes him, the commander in chief of the army, quite annoyed.

Krissen shook his head. He was also worried. He brought people to escort the horses to the east, and Lord Clay's side had even less power.

"Sir, I'm also worried, so I won't stay with you any longer, and now I'm taking two thousand cavalry to find Lord Clay. With 2000 of us joining, I believe Lord Clay will have the confidence to fight with Jon... Royce fights."

Without delay, after explaining Clay's arrangements for the Eastern Front, he immediately led the cavalry of the Mandalay family and walked west along the River Avenue again.

He had thought about it himself, if Lord Clay's attack went well, the people in the Valley under Shili City should have been wiped out by now.

Jon Royce, who found out that his base had been lost, would definitely not be so stupid as to smash his head into Shili City defended by Lord Clay. He would either go south to join the valley-bottom troops in the other two cities, or he would simply retreat eastward. .

No matter what he does, the most urgent task for his 2000 people right now is to block the retreat route of Jon Royce.

Clay said that Jon Royce's army was about to be smashed, and as his personal guard, Krissen naturally wanted to share his master's worries.

……

"Lord Earl, since Lord Clay intends to let you command the army, I will naturally not be stingy. I will be your deputy to assist you in commanding the army."

Sir Marlon's tone was very calm, but Earl Karstark, who was sitting opposite him, couldn't hide his excitement now.

Along the way, he kept thinking about how the Mandalay family would have 7000 people in the east for him to command.

If you count the loss in the previous war and the [-] cavalry who just left, wouldn't there be tens of thousands of troops directly under the Mandalay family?

This is a number that cannot be accepted by any family in the northern border.

But now, when Earl Karstark saw the brand new earthen city standing above the wilderness with his own eyes, as well as the dense figures busy building the city, Earl Karstark understood that Clay really didn't lie to him.

This is 7000 people. Regardless of the strength of the battle, the number of people here is a force that no one can underestimate and can influence the current battle situation.

With these 7000 people here, and this newly built earth city, Earl Harroway's small town has become a fortress that is almost impossible to fall at the moment.

If Clay wants to come here by himself, he wants to use his military ability, which he can still see, to let the enemies who dare to attack this earth city shed the last drop of blood.

At this point, if the people of the Valley want to go home, and the Lannisters want to have food, they must find a way to get it back.

And this is exactly what Clay wanted.

from this moment.

Offensive and defensive transformation!
(End of this chapter)