Game of Thrones: Winter Dragon Lord

Chapter 171
"My lord, their ships are coming!"

Ismond Island is small and mountainous, and it is not as beautiful and rich as Tath Island at the northern end.

The Ismond family has lived here for generations, developing a small fleet, and occasionally collecting tolls from passing ships. The area that can be cultivated on this island is very small, so the population is not very large.

But this does not mean that the Eastmond family is poor. This island is in the middle of the waterway between Dorne, the king's land and the stormland, so the tolls between them are enough for the Eastmond family.

There are not many standing troops on Ismond Island. There are less than a hundred defenders stationed in Greenstone City all year round. There are eleven oath knights in their family, five of whom are members of their own family.

Due to the limited population, Ismond Island was unable to quickly recruit a large number of troops during the war, which was their limitation.

When Cole was flipping through the catalog about the Eastmond family, although he found that they had appeared in various occasions, they were all mentioned in passing. Obviously, there were no well-known figures.

The knight leading the Ismond's navy was Sir Lomas Ismond, whose older brother was the Earl of Elton Ismond.

They anchored the fleet in the strait of Ismond Island.

Lomas watched the battleships gradually grow larger in the distant sea, nine ships, ten ships, and a merchant ship with circular sails. It seems that the information is correct, and there are no ships in Storm's End.

But thinking of their enemies, Lomas couldn't help feeling a little flustered, and such emotions filled the entire island in the past few days.

The man who was sung by the troubadours as the "White Bird Knight" broke the confidence of the rainforest people with a few victories. He thought that the families and castles in the rainforest could slow down Cole's march, but those castles The defenders either surrendered in Kaesong, or were defeated in one fell swoop.

They anxiously waited for the reinforcements, hoping that Cole could stay in the rainforest for a while, but he finally came. Although there were only a dozen ships, the white bird flag was fluttering in the wind, as if it had been done for him. They bring a lot of stress and fear.

Where is Lannister?Brother, why do you trust those lions.

They were only thirteen ships, and Eastmond Island was twice as large as them, with a total of 27 ships, eighteen warships, and a 150-boat main ship named "Green Turtle".

He ordered people to blow the horn and prepare to lead the fleet to meet the enemy, and they could not be allowed to go ashore. At the foot of the Crimson Mountains, the rain forest people were also beaten up by them on land when they were twice as many as the enemy. The soldiers of the White Bird Knight Well-trained and disciplined, Ismond did not have the confidence to defeat them on land, at least not in terms of current morale.

Let's see, then, if the White Bird Rider is as miraculous at sea.

Lomas is nearly fifty years old, and he has heard too many legends in his life. Prince Rhaegar and Robert the Usurper lived in the same era as him. He has personally experienced the disputes of that generation, and he also understands the magic of these legends. A fighter with his skills is nothing more than an individual.

Their ship was getting closer and closer, and when the battleship was approaching [-] paces, arrows flew in the air. Lomas was thinking to himself that their arrows were fired too early.

Not many of these arrows hit anyone, and they poured out wave after wave of arrows, either on the deck or on the deck.

The Fleet City of Storm's End lined up, forming a neat array, and Lomas wondered in his heart how this was done.

In sea battles, it is very difficult to maintain a certain formation. Often the combat skills come from the commander's distribution of the ship's directions.

It wasn't until they were within a distance of less than two hundred steps that Lomas saw that those thirteen warships were connected by iron chains.

On the deck of the ship, he saw soldiers with spears and shields in solid formation, and he even saw horses among them.

On the battleship in the center, he saw a knight in silver armor under a white banner. He waved the banner, and then the archers on the deck began to release arrows.

Lomas yelled loudly to dodge.

At a distance of about two hundred steps, he had just ordered the ships to advance at full speed, and when he was about to retract the order, the distance between the two fleets was already less than fifty.

Coming, the thirteen ships seemed to form an island, rushing towards them head-on.

The warships on Ismond Island presented a sword-shaped formation, and each ship spread out, preparing to attack the ships of Storm's End one by one, but now, they formed a block, obviously this way of fighting Has expired.

Bang!
He heard the sound of the keel bow colliding with the hull, and before they could get their feet back from the shaking, the enemy's boarding bridge was erected.

Three or four wide wooden slopes formed a wooden bridge connecting the two ships. When Lomas saw soldiers with swords rushing over, he quickly shouted: "Get on! Get on!"

People on Banqiao fell into the sea from time to time, and there was chaos on the deck.

Holding a one-handed axe, Lomas chopped down several Storm's End soldiers. Taking advantage of the gap where there were no enemies around, he glanced at the situation on the entire battlefield. He saw that several ships connected by iron chains had been hit and sunk.

And the iron chains also stopped all their ships, and the ships on the entire sea gathered together.

He saw the enemy stabbing Esmond's soldiers across the ship with the overgrown spears. Esmond's soldiers could not break through the formation of spearmen on the deck.

The bridges were built for them. After sending out the first wave of jumping soldiers, they didn't send any more people over. Instead, they used spears to guard those bridges.

Now the two armies are facing each other across the bridge, but because the weapons are too short, the losers are all Ismond's people.

Lomas heard the sound of a horn from the enemy, and the spearmen changed their formation instantly. They opened a path, and a group of heavily armored soldiers quickly boarded the bridge and began to charge towards them.

He saw the silver-armored knight rushing to the forefront. He held two swords and ran fast in his plate armor, and he boarded the Green Turtle in an instant.

Behind him are five or six full-armored longaxemen, and four or five mail swordsmen,

They jumped into the boat and started killing. The soldiers who were at the forefront were killed and fled in an instant. Many people panicked and jumped into the sea.

These soldiers fought out a space, and several of them were killed by random blows, but they had bought enough time for the spearmen behind them, and those soldiers with spears also jumped over the boat, leaning on each other to form a A stable and fixed hedgehog array.

They lost, these enemies turned the naval battle into a land one.

Looking at the silver knight who was getting closer and closer to him, Lomas clenched the sharp ax in his hand.

(End of this chapter)