Game of Thrones: Winter Dragon Lord

Chapter 159 Rainy Night
On the wide King's Road, the embers of the war have not yet dissipated.

The silver hair hung down heavily, and the rain ran down his cheeks, dripping on the black gold leather collar.

The rain in the south is gradually taking on the taste of winter. Although the cold rain is soft, the gloomy sky and cold wind make people feel dull.

"My lord, should we take a rest?" Jose asked him, riding his horse beside him.Due to his serious injury, Duran could only go with Don's team.

Braving the cold rain to rush on the road, the cold soaking through the clothes made the brothers feel very uncomfortable.

They even passed through several villages and an inn, but Cole didn't give an order to rest. Instead, they hurried on silently, and they could only follow.

"Persevere, we will soon arrive at the Royal Forest. We will rest there."

They could only watch the homestay go away from them again.

The king's road was full of people, fleeing families with their families, hired horses and wandering knights, and caravans coming and going.

When they saw the people in full armor and galloping in column, they retreated one after another.

The horseshoes kicked up the muddy water on the road, and they only had ten riders on this trip.

When bidding farewell to King's Landing, Tommen led a group of nobles in the capital to send them out of the king's gate, and at the same time gave gifts to his guests.

Dorne would be dying in King's Landing for a few more days, so Cole entrusted the servants and wounded brought from Dragonstone to his Uncle Martell, and then led ten riders to Storm's End.

The reason he didn't want to stop and rest was because he was worried that there might be some extra gift in store for him in Lannister.

The imperial forest is just around the corner, and the rainy night is about to fall.

It is difficult to find people in the imperial forest. Although there are many civilians living here, due to the migration of the tribesmen of the Gaoshan clan and the war, many civilians either hid in the depths of the dense forest with no trace of human beings, or have already disappeared. left here.

But they were relieved to find even an abandoned shelter.

Dividing down from the fork in the King's Road, they entered the road that led straight to Storm's End.

This road is much more difficult to walk, even if the muddy road is prone to slipping in rainy days, the Wende River has many tributary streams here, and they have to ride horses to cross many rivers. They even have to take a detour.

Colle stopped the horse and said to the soldiers, "Stop, let's rest here tonight."

There is an abandoned camp here, presumably it was set up by Renly's army when they were marching.

They used abandoned planks and frames in the camp to barely build a rain shelter, and then lit an arch fire.

"Visto, Aggie." Cole named five names in succession, "The five of you are responsible for guarding the first half of the night, and we will come in the second half of the night."

Cole hugged the cold winter night, closed his eyes and meditated.

Caesar sent him the picture of Dragonstone Island. At this time, the place has been occupied by the Golden Group, and the golden flag hangs above the castle.

At first he also thought it was the ironborn and Dothraki attacks, but Cole remembered that the Greyjoy banner should be the banner of the sea monster.

In King's Landing, he also specifically asked Tyrion and Prince Oberon, and then he learned that the army that attacked Dragonstone Island was the Golden Group.

When Prince Red Viper was young, he worked as a mercenary in the continent of Essos for a period of time and joined a mercenary group called "Second Sons". After quitting this mercenary group, he also founded his own A mercenary group.

He knew the most famous mercenary group on the other side of the narrow sea.

Cole didn't know who had hired the Golden Company, or if their Blackfyre remnants were trying to mess things up too.

He, Cole Julius, owed his life to House Baratheon, whether or not he would continue to live in that capacity in the future.

Caesar had a clear view of Dragonstone from the sky, and Cole began to formulate a rescue plan.

He ordered Camillo who was stationed in Storm's End to quickly lead the army to Dragonstone Island, and at the same time send the news of rescue to the castle through the raven. With the white dragon coordinating in the sky, both sides can quickly grasp their respective movements.

After Camillo led the fleet into the waters of Dragonstone Island, Caesar threw the map marked with the retreat route into the castle, and he chose the route with the weakest defense of the Golden Group for everyone in the castle to break through.

Afterwards, Bailong appeared in person to harass the east coast where the Golden Regiment's forces were most densely distributed.

This was his entire plan, but fortunately, everything was proceeding as he expected.

But the news that Bailong wants to come will spread soon.

Caesar has the ability to fight independently and does not need knights at all.

Cole will naturally not reveal his relationship with him.

As for how others guess, let them guess.

Losing Dragonstone is not a bad thing for them, at least their defensive focus can be shifted to Storm's End and Stormlands.

The only problem at the moment is Stannis and his problem.

On the family standpoint, he and Stannis are enemies, because in the War of the Usurper, he and his elder brother seized the throne of House Targaryen, although he himself was only a soldier in Storm's End and the Reach. Fight siege warfare.

Kor had to choose who he was, either to be his Cole Julius, remain loyal to Stannis, claim the throne for him, and marry his daughter, Shireen Baratheon, As long as Stannis does not bear a male heir, he will still sit on the Iron Throne.

Or he betrays Stannis, seizes the rights to Storm's End, presents himself as Aegon Targaryen, and with the help of dragons and Dorne, tries to seize the Iron Throne.

Enemy, benefactor.

He was lost in thought, the so-called mother and father, he had never even met each other, and a lot of bloody incidents were nothing but disasters caused by his bloody father, Rega himself.

Although troubadours like to praise Prince Rhaegar and praise his romance and bravery, Cole doesn't think that this blood father is a man of honor, at least abandoning his wife and children, Cole thinks He acted too disrespectfully.

Maybe he, an orphan who grew up on the Great Wall, couldn't understand the melancholy Dragon Prince.

He can decisively swing his sword at the enemies of the Targaryen family, just like killing the Devil's Mountain, which can make him feel refreshed.

But facing Baratheon of Dragonstone, he couldn't regard them as his enemies.

Perhaps at the beginning, he integrated into this solemn group from an unfavorable perspective.

But before he knew it, this place became the longest place he stayed in Westeros except for the Great Wall, although he was still running around.

Stannis wasn't fit to be king, but he never owed himself anything.

(End of this chapter)