Game of Thrones: Winter Dragon Lord

Chapter 71
"He will pay for his arrogance," Stannis said angrily on the way back to Storm's End.

Cole unbuttoned the armor, took off the antler helmet to his waist, and took a deep breath of fresh air.Hmm, with bursts of grassy fragrance.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to be angry about this. An arrogant opponent is far easier to deal with than a cautious enemy."

"You're Cole!?" Caitlin, who suddenly followed behind, exclaimed.

Cole turned around with a smile, "Long time no see, Mrs. Stark."

"Why are you here if you're not Lanny?" She retracted her words and asked again.

"It's a long story, ma'am. His Majesty the King saved me, so now I serve him."

Following behind Caitlin, Harris Moran also recognized Cole, and his heart was even more shocked than Caitlin's.He vaguely recalled the first time he saw this person, it was still in Winterfell.The second time I saw him was on the battlefield of the Trident River.

Harris looked at his silver armor and thought to himself, "What the hell has this guy been through?"

After returning to Storm's End, Stannis quickly held a meeting and decided that they would use Storm's End as their base to launch a defensive battle.Axel Florent led the fleet to intercept the enemy at Shipbreaker Bay, and ordered Earl Velaryon to lead his own fleet to transport food and supplies, while he himself led the army to defend Storm's End.

The Earl of Velaryon was dissatisfied with Stannis repeatedly sending himself to engage in transportation. He said that he would take his own fleet to participate in the battle, and at the same time implicitly hinted that if Stannis disagreed, he would take people back to the tide. island.Stannis eventually changed hands, letting Lord Celtigar take over his duties.

During the meeting, a group of princes and knights discovered that Sir Cole Julius had not been entrusted with any duties, and the original city defense commander was also taken back by Stannis.

Some people are gloating about it.

I saw the silver knight sitting in the conference hall with a normal expression, without making any suggestions.

Until the meeting dispersed, he came to the study.

The red-robed girl Melisandre, the king's brother-in-law Yasser Florent and several other members of the small meeting slowly entered and sat around a table.

The people sitting here, except for the bachelor Pylos and Cole, are almost all members of the Queen's Party.

"My lords, evil and powerful forces are awakening, and the long night is coming. Only the Lord of Light can bring us dawn and salvation, and only the Son of Prophecy can lead us out of the night. The war is about to ignite, and it is time for the brave Ah, you will be the trumpet before the dawn, sounding the song of victory, everyone, I wonder which of you will take on this important task?" Melisandre stood up.

She looked at Cole, and the eyes of the old party members also looked at him.

Damn, why didn't you call my name.His scalp felt numb, as if his heart had been seen through by the woman in red. .

"Your Majesty." He turned to Stannis. "According to what I know, the enemy's army seems to be marching in a hurry. The food and supplies are in the rear. You can send a cavalry to stop them in the Royal Forest and the Rose Road. .”

"Well, that's exactly what I mean. I'll give you a thousand cavalry, and I'll send Duran Bar Ammon with you." The king didn't ask at all.

"I..." He still didn't say anything, as expected, if he could think of it, others would think of it too.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I will do my best to stop their supplies and troops."

Coming out of the study, Cole couldn't help but let out a long sigh. He actually prefers to mess around in the back, bastard.

Someone has to do this. When he returned to the tower, he quickly asked Camillo to gather people. They had to prepare quickly. It was too conspicuous for a 1000-man team to go out of the city, so they had to leave before Renly's army arrived. Fortunately, the night is very good.

Cole's men only had fifty cavalry, and I don't know the quality of the thousand cavalry that Stannis sent to him. If there are too many hired horsemen, it will not be effective.

These guys who take money to do things, as long as their morale is low, they are likely to defect to the enemy.

Stannis had the fat little Lord Lord under his command, and before he could find Duran Baer Ammon, the lad came rushing into his tower.

Cole could only pour him a glass of wine, and Duran gulped down the wine in one gulp. His short neck under his chins could not even be seen wriggling while drinking.

Is it feasible to take this guy to fight guerrilla warfare?Cole couldn't help thinking.

"Sir Cole, when are we going to go?" he asked with interest, as if what they were going to do was not to fight, but to go hunting and playing.

"My lord, do you know what we are going to do?" Cole tasted the wine slowly, although he couldn't taste anything.

"Of course, I have three hundred cavalry and eleven sworn knights. I will cooperate with you, sir. I know I am young, and it is my first time leading an army. The knights and stewards persuaded me to let Pope Bring someone here, but I remember the motto of my family."

Cole saw that his armor was all put on, obviously impatient.

"We still need to prepare something, Lord Earl."

Cole went to the school grounds to receive the cavalry sent to him by the king. Of the 400 cavalry, 200 were Stannis' own troops, [-] were formed by various knights leading their lord's troops, and there were [-] well-armed freeriders.

The number was more than what the king had promised. This should be Stannis' full strength. If he wanted to fight Renly, he could probably rely on this cavalry.

It seemed that he really wanted to gamble on himself, did he think he could lead these people to defeat Renly's [-] army?
At the head of the King's personal army was a knight named Geoffrey Florent, who came from the queen's family Florent.

"Master Julius." Jeffrey saluted.

Cole inspected a circle of cavalry regiments, and then began to distribute tasks. It is impossible for a cavalry regiment of 1000 people to just ride away, and there is still a lot of logistics behind them.

The free rider handed over to his deputy, Camillo, to command, and at the same time assigned 20 people from his personal guards to Camillo's subordinates, and asked them to each lead a ten-man squad, and set off as scouts.

Cole spread out the map, and the scouts will start from two directions, one is to enter the Royal Forest, and the other is to enter the Dorn Mountains. Their goal is to explore the road. In the end, the two scouts will be at the confluence of the Wende River and the Lamboon River get together.

Cole personally led the 700 people of Bar Ammon and the king's army as the central army, and the logistics were handled by the chubby Earl Duran. He will lead his sworn knights and [-] nobles and logistics troops to settle in Dorne first. mountains.

Bailong has already found several locations for the logistics point.

There are about 700 logistics personnel, and the total number of cavalry is [-].

Cole begged to see Stannis before leading the attack.It is suggested that he can form an alliance with the northern border and Dorne. Now the interior of Gaoting in the southern border is empty. If Dorne is willing to contribute, it will have the effect of besieging Wei and saving Zhao.

Ed Stark has been in a very bad state recently, and he didn't fall down during the days when he was drifting.Instead, he fell on the bachelor's hospital bed, and now he wakes up from time to time, which makes people feel worried.

Cole, the heartbreaker of Dorne and Baratheon's family, knew that Dorne also blamed Robert and Baratheon for killing their princess.

But don't you see, the real murderer Lannister sent a princess there, and the relationship with Dorne eased in an instant.Of course, this kind of easing does not mean that the past is really letting go of the past. Prince Dorn's political means and vision are extremely high, and his means of revenge must be smooth and silent.Cole could feel that Dawn was hiding his strength and biding his time, and they were waiting for the opportunity.

Cole led the cavalry out of the city, with Jose by his side. This kid made a small contribution in the Battle of Storm's End and was promoted by Cole.

Not long after the march, Cole killed three waves of scouts. Their traces were captured by the white dragon in the sky, but the white dragon couldn't do all-round monitoring, so he couldn't be sure if any scouts slipped away from him.

The speed of the whole cavalry was extremely fast, and before the scouts brought the news to Renly, the traces of the cavalry disappeared.

In one day, they traveled from Storm's End through the Royal Forest to Green Valley City. This castle is ruled by the Meidou family. Now the owner, Baron Meidou, has surrendered to Stannis. Before that, he was the acting castellan of Storm's End When his second-in-command, Ser Cortnay Penrose, was slain, he quickly fell to his knees.

Lord Ewood Meadow, currently serving under Cole.

Cole led troops into the castle, which was connected to a bridge across the Ramboon River. Before the Bitter Bridge garrison did not move, Cole planned to garrison here and use the white dragon to observe the enemy's movements.

In the past two months, the white dragon's wings and scales have become stronger, allowing it to fly higher.

The castle will temporarily provide them with food and grass. After entering the castle, Cole immediately took over the city defense and sent all the defenders of Green Valley City to collect food and grass.

Although this made Baron Meidou very dissatisfied, Cole was really worried that the baron would directly become a traitor after seeing Renly's army.

After Renly confirmed that his brother Stannis would not fight him, he quickly ordered the garrison at Bitterbridge to move to Storm's End. He himself only brought [-] vanguard troops in Bronzegate City, most of which were cavalry.

There are still 2 troops stationed at Bitter Bridge, almost all of which are infantry and logistics. Although the rear army has a larger number of people, the combat power is almost concentrated on the [-] people that Renly took away.

The charge of the armored cavalry against the infantry is absolutely crushing. You must know that the so-called infantry here is not the kind of infantry that is tightly wrapped in armor, has a sharp sword hanging from its waist, holds a steel spear, and carries a javelin on its back.It's the pitchfork farmer who doesn't even have an armor.

Even cavalry is difficult to achieve full armor, let alone infantry.The well-armored charge in the game is deceiving. It is extremely difficult to arm a hundred people, let alone tens of thousands.

The armored cavalry in Renly's hands should be around a thousand, while Stannis's armored cavalry is less than three hundred, and most of them are given to Cole now.

Cole then stayed firmly in Green Valley City, seemingly ignoring the earth-shattering battles outside, and occasionally sending cavalry to intercept and kill the scouts coming here.

He didn't know that he had been scolded in Storm's End long ago.Renly's siege of the city was so peaceful that no one disturbed him when he felled trees and built equipment.

While the heat is burning beneath the walls of Storm's End.On the Rose Avenue, a huge convoy started northward, with a scale of nearly ten thousand. When the leading carriage had reached the middle reaches of the Lambun River, the carriage at the end started to leave the Bitterbridge Camp. Previously, there were successive convoys passing by. , under the escort of the army, they all arrived at Tongmen City safely.

A pair of eyes in the sky closely followed the convoy.And far away in Green Valley City on the other side of the river, a silver-haired figure drew several crosses on the line on the map.

(End of this chapter)