The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 103 The Shadow of the East

As one of the main city gates of Pentos, the Sun Gate has witnessed the entire process of the city from its establishment to its development. Now, it has completed a new initiative. It has witnessed the attackers entering the city. Groups of hate-filled soldiers and slaves rushed in, and they would vent their centuries-old hatred against the city.

After the city gate opened and the main force of the Westeros people rushed in, things began to turn out to be uncontrollable, because the slaves who entered the city after the Westeros people had only one goal, and that was to deal with the slave owners and the Those Pentos seek revenge.

There were originally an exaggerated number of slaves in the city of Pentos, and they were very happy to guide the Westeros and slaves who came in. These people living at the bottom of Pentos knew every street and every step of the city. In every house, with the help of these local snakes, the killing efficiency was suddenly increased.

The streets of Pentos were soon covered with corpses. Slaves broke open the doors of Pentos citizens' homes and dragged them out. The men were killed directly on the streets, while the women suffered death-related injuries. And miserable treatment.

The slaves showed no mercy to the Pentos people. Hundreds of years of anger needed to be released, and no one dared to stop their actions. No smart person would stand in front of these slaves who wanted to vent.

Burning, killing and looting naturally involve flames, and soon the fireworks surged up, but they were quickly extinguished, and the person who set the fire was scolded - this was an agreement reached between the people of Westeros and the slaves Bottom line, you can kill as much as you like, but setting fire to it is absolutely not okay.

All parties besieging Pentos, whether they were the lords of Westeros from the west or the temporary leaders elected from among the slaves, all saw the attractive value of Pentos and wanted to get a piece of the pie. , so naturally we can’t let the people below mess around and smash the plate.

"We have now entered Pentos. Ha, it seems that the Easterners are just that. This journey has been so smooth."

In the sunrise market that had been reduced to ruins, Inis Frey said in an extremely excited tone. Frey did not like to show his emotions too obviously, but the huge victory in front of him made him now Be happy and smile.

Roose Bolton also had the same mood change, but the Earl of the Dreadfort just had a smile on his lips. This was very rare. You know, this northerner used to stare silently with his pale eyes. human.

That is to say, the attitude of the Darrys was a bit strange. When Hugo saw Earl Darry and his heir, he felt an indescribable atmosphere about these two people. It was like, happy and disappointed at the same time?
Hugo didn't know what they were disappointed about, but he didn't care. The Westeros nobles from the east had too many things to think about, so he didn't have the energy to care.

Next to the three families who led the second expeditionary force, there was an elegant Free Trade City man wearing a tattered cloak who was explaining the situation in Pentos to them. This man was the Tattered Prince, who had joined the siege not long ago. The leader of the mercenary group Wind Blowing Group, he was once the prince of Pentos, but due to Pentos' tradition of executing princes to appease the anger of the gods, he escaped from the city and became a mercenary. Until now, Then he became the leader of a mercenary group.

Although his identity had changed, the former prince's hatred for Pentos remained unchanged. Therefore, after learning of the siege by the Westeros, he hurriedly gave up the order and rushed over from the south.

He then became an advisor to the people of Westeros in Pentos because of his knowledge of Pentos.

When Hu Ge looked at the city ruled by screams and fighting, he was also quite emotional. Without any intention, the city fell like this. He thought that the siege would last at least half a year, but in the end I didn't expect the Golden Group to make such a decisive choice.

Yes, the Golden Company, they are the key to the Westeros' entry into Pentos. It was they who opened the Sun Gate and allowed the Westeros to rush in.

Although the Golden Company suffered a lot of losses after they were hired by Pantos, it is still a large army with more than 8,000 soldiers. When such a army chooses to betray Pantos, there is basically nothing that can stop them, so The city gate just opened.

When he received Mistoin's letter, Hugo didn't place too many expectations on it. He just had the mentality of giving it a try and asked the cavalry to prepare for it. Unexpectedly, the city gate really opened.

"Lord Mistoin." After Hugo finished recalling, he called out the name of the group leader beside him, "Seven Gods above, you made the right choice. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to do this smoothly now. Standing in Pentos City, you will definitely get rewards corresponding to your efforts.”

"Lord Hugo, the Golden Company has no big demands. They just want a land of their own. After wandering in the east for too long, we have realized that Essos has become our hometown." The swarthy Mistoin responded. , and said some things that everyone knew about the situation.

However, he mentioned the location of the Golden Group, which aroused Hu Ge's curiosity. He has always had a question, "Master, I am very curious. The Golden Group has been active in the East for nearly a hundred years, why did it not fall in the East?" Come on, there are tens of thousands of you."

To be honest, Hugo was full of doubts about the Golden Company, a mercenary group of ten thousand people. However, he was even more confused about the battlefield in Essos that had tens of thousands of professional mercenaries. With so many professional armed personnel, what did they rely on for food? ? Why didn't he just establish a country in the east?
The former can be explained by the low-intensity war between free trade city-states, but the latter Hugo really can't figure out why a large army like the Golden Company doesn't choose to find a place to settle down when Essos is so big and start becoming a local overlord. .

"You're asking this." Hugo saw bitterness flash across Mis Toyin's face, "We have tried before, but every time we failed miserably."

Hugo didn't speak, just looked at Mis Toyin, waiting for his further explanation, and the leader then began to explain, "In fact, in the era of Han Tie, we wanted to occupy the disputed land, but once we occupied the land , the Free Trade City will target us, but under the leadership of Han Tie, we are still invincible. However, no one expected that Han Tie suddenly died in a small conflict. "

Han Tie, Hu Ge knew this name, he was an important figure in the Black Fire War. After he was defeated in the East, he watched the Black Fire family's power fall apart, so he formed the Golden Group and united them.

"Since then, the Golden Legion has been stumbling forward in the conflicts of the Free Trade Cities. However, whenever we start to make plans to occupy land, we will immediately encounter targets, and key figures in the Legion often have accidents soon. , and as we have accumulated enough history in Essos, we have discovered that every mercenary group that intends to separate itself will encounter such incidents, and even if it succeeds in establishing a country, it will often fail quickly. "

When Hugo heard this, he had a feeling that he was familiar with this kind of unexpected death. He knew that there were a group of people who were good at this method - those damn Braavos people, those faceless people lurking in the shadows. By. He couldn't help but think of the time when the Seven Gods used him as an intermediary to eliminate the faceless men. The faceless men's faces "shed off" one by one in front of him. Even though he was under the light of the Seven Gods at the time, he still felt strange.

"Gradually, we discovered that as long as we did not have the idea of ​​separatist rule and founding a country, there would be no trouble for us, so we no longer had such thoughts and focused our energy on returning to our motherland. This situation continued until Ma Reese became the leader.”

Maris, the last of the Blackfyre, was known to Hugo.

"Including him, Maris united nine ambitious Essos warlords. Some of them were pirates in the Narrow Sea, some were ambitious wealthy businessmen, and some were mercenaries from Westeros. There were nine of them in total. , the Targaryen princes contemptuously called them "copper kings", but we proved that we are not so cheap, and soon conquered the entire disputed land. Maris crowned himself under the crown tree, and then we conquered Tyrol In the west, the Stepped Islands are also under control, and everything seems to be developing in a better direction. Even if we don't cross the sea, we can still establish a kingdom in Essos, but you also know what will happen next. "

After saying this, Mistoin sighed and stopped talking, and Hugo also knew what happened next. Westeros took the initiative, and the Seven Kingdoms did their best to destroy the Kingdom of Black Fire. Shattered on the Stepstone Islands.

After listening to this, Hu Ge had a feeling that someone had been controlling the mercenaries of Essos and exerting their influence invisibly. However, every trader would eventually make mistakes when combining the information he already knew. , Hu Ge believed that the Nine Copper Plate King was an outburst after those people couldn't suppress it.

As for who that person is, there is obviously only one family, Braavos. However, this is not something that can be achieved by just one Braavos. Other Free Trade Cities must be assisting Braavos intentionally or unintentionally. suppress.

After all, it is in everyone's interest to prevent adventurers from establishing a country. No one wants to deal with adventurers who jump up and down like fleas. It is enough to annoy people to death, and under the constant harassment of adventurers, sooner or later they will have to Spit out a chunk of meat.

After thinking about this, Hu Ge became more certain that he had a fundamental conflict with the Free Trade City. Now the Free Trade City was in such a predicament, and the situation was much worse than being harassed by ordinary adventurers, because they There are a bunch of bombs in the country that have not yet been detonated - slaves.

The moment he entered Pentos, Hugo understood that the confrontation between the East and the West would inevitably escalate, and the Free Trade Cities would definitely use all their strength to encircle and suppress the Westeros people, but so what, the Westeros people faced another defeat in Essos. The huge success was enough to cause more nobles to rush in like crucian carp crossing the river, and there will definitely be big nobles participating this time. This offset is equivalent to having no impact.

Hugo now only hopes that the third wave of expeditionary forces will come faster, or that the slaves of various Free Trade City-states will also revolt as soon as possible, causing the Free Trade City-states to fall into trouble-thinking of that scene makes him a little excited.

Hugo's thoughts were interrupted by a voice that suddenly sounded next to him, "Sir Hugo, the troops besieging the Prince's Palace require support. The Pentos and Novos people there are very stubborn."

"What is Snow doing?" Hu Ge said subconsciously, his tone a little annoyed, and then immediately lowered his voice, glanced in the direction of the three men, and then sent reinforcements, "Let the old sparrow go over and let them move. Hurry up, as long as we capture the Prince's Palace, Pentos will be ours."

Hugo was very eager to capture the Prince's Palace. Capturing the hub of Pantos first was of great political significance. Although Hugo had no intention of profiting from Pantos at all, it was beneficial. He still had to seize the bargaining chip as much as possible - and he took charge of this matter from the second expeditionary force. If he couldn't defeat it, it would be a big shame.

As for why Hugo has no idea about Pantos, the reason is very simple. He is just exhausted from facing the Free Trade Cities in the north, and he has to face those in the south, so it is better to let him die.

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While the big guys are busy with strategic matters and competing for various major interests, the little guys also have their own affairs and interests to fight for.

As for what everyone in Pantos is busiest about right now, they are still massacring the people of Pantos and taking away everything they have.

On the streets of Pentos, in addition to all kinds of corpses, the most numerous ones were carts. Slaves and people from all walks of life loaded their trophies onto the carts one after another, and then planned to push them.

Dontos Hollard was one of them. He led the warriors of Duskendale City to rob Pentos. In other words, you can pick up gold while walking on the road. This is the first time for the people of Mugu City to see such a wealthy city.

Even those who have been to King's Landing feel that King's Landing is a cesspool compared to it - after all, King's Landing is shit in every sense of the word.

When looting the city of Pentos, these Westeros people felt a sense of satisfaction. They felt a strong sense of pleasure watching the clean, high-end (in their opinion) buildings being dirty and collapsed.

Dontos was still a little embarrassed about the robbery, and he still felt a little ashamed in his heart, but he didn't stop anyone. At most, he just told the people below not to kill anyone, because there were too many things that could be snatched, and just with his hands now He felt that the spoils of war were enough to rebuild Dusken Valley City.

If nothing else happened, Dontos would keep fighting like many lords did. When order was announced, they caught a person and got a piece of news from that person.

"What? You said the descendants of the Mad King are here?"

(End of this chapter)