The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 111: Ants threaten Myr

The impact of the defeat of the Third Daughter City-State was extremely far-reaching.

For Westeros, the huge amount of loot they obtained from the Third Daughter City-State can be said to have fed everyone on the expedition, and as the wealth and various items in the loot were brought back to the West, the beneficiaries will More.

This wealth overwhelmed all opposition to the war within Westeros. Those lords who opposed sending troops and tried every means to reduce their personnel in the recruitment regretted it very much. As for those who refused to serve by paying money, they regretted it even more.

Facts have proven that the Eastern Expedition is an undertaking in which the rewards far outweigh the effort, and the risks are extremely low. Even an ordinary farmer who digs food in the fields can become a rich man or an Eastern noble by going to the East.

As for the various entities and nobles in Westeros, they have gained even more. Huge wealth, fertile land, as well as oriental rare treasures and legendary technology can satisfy every Westeros person.

Now, for this expedition, the city, which had never interfered in politics, showed great interest. After Robert sent a large number of precision instruments captured from the Myrs to the city, the city became restless. Finally, The reaction was to quickly send scholars to the East.

For Essos - to be precise, the Free Trade City - the defeat of the Third Daughter Kingdom caused a great shock.

No one thinks that the Kingdom of the Three Daughters is weak. When the Three Cities Alliance was rebuilt, the common view in the East was that the Westeros people would fall into the quagmire of war. But now, the Westeros people have defeated the Three Cities Alliance so easily. main force.

As the news of the defeat spread, the entire Free Trade City became uneasy. Due to the successive victories of the slave freers, slaves everywhere were unwilling to continue to suffer exploitation and oppression. Slave uprisings came one after another. Except for Braavos, Every free trade city-state had the problem of slave rebellion to some extent.

As a city famous for its academic skills, the city of Myr is full of a sense of order. The green and earth-toned buildings exude the beauty of reason. The city walls of Myr are even taller and wider. They are composed of the best military personnel of Myr. It was designed by engineers, and it was also filled with various precision instruments of Myr: ballistae and trebuchets that the people of Westeros could not understand at all.

To put it simply, slave owners cannot oppress slaves as before, and have to spend more money on suppression. They also have to improve the treatment of slaves, and cannot squeeze slaves as they wish. The cost increase brought by this can be said to make everyone All very uncomfortable.

Robert Baratheon knew nothing about these things. The Stag King did not have these complicated things in his mind. Even if he knew about them, he would throw them aside as rubbish. For the Stag King , he can solve all these messy things with one hammer.

However, despite such bad things, the slavery economic circle is still stable and far from collapse. It can only be said that the market is generally declining.

Therefore, despite all kinds of turmoil, due to the increase in the number of slaves and the relative reliability of these slaves (because they are all free trade city-states), the increase in costs makes everyone uncomfortable, but it is only uncomfortable.

In fact, to a large extent, slave rebellion is just a trivial matter, and suppression means suppression. However, it is not ordinary difficult to eliminate disbelief. When there is a basis for mutual distrust, then a small matter develops into a movement. Huge resistance and massacres are also common.

Under such circumstances, riots even broke out in Slaver's Bay, where slaves were trained, which dealt a heavy blow to the slavery economic circle. Although the Ghislave slave owners decisively attacked to quell the riots, the entire slave economic circle was affected by this. This creates an extremely strong lack of self-confidence, and once psychological changes occur, it is extremely difficult to change them.

Although these riots were ruthlessly suppressed, they have affected the normal production order of various Free Trade Cities. In any case, the economic foundation of the Free Trade Cities is based on slaves. Now with the continuous increase of slaves, The riots created extremely powerful mutual distrust between slave owners and slaves, and the losses caused by these mutual distrust were truly fatal.

Now, Robert is under the walls of Myr, laying siege to this famous city of learning.

The war brought by the Westeros people has caused turmoil in various parts of Essos, but it has also produced a large number of refugees. These refugees were captured by the Kaos in batches, sent to the city-state of Slaver's Bay for training, and then sold. To each free trade city-state.

In Essos, although the Free Fortress collapsed and the rule of Valyrian slavers disintegrated, the slave empire never disappeared, and it still dominated the former Valyrian Empire economically.

The irony for many people who were annoyed by his thinking was that Robert's hammer could indeed destabilize the "mess".

Therefore, the confrontation between Westeros and Essos will still have to last for a long time.

In this chain, everyone performs their duties and plays their role in a tacit understanding. Even the stupid Centaur Kaa vaguely understands their position, so after the battle of Qohor hit a wall, the Centaur They will only attack the small and medium-sized forces that plunder Essos. For the big cities of the Free Trade City, they will leave after receiving gifts.

Compared with Myr, the Westerosi siege camps are like a pile of garbage surrounding the city. However, although the fortifications surrounding the city are ugly, they are useful enough.

After the chaos and reconstruction of the Bloody Era, the Centaurs-Slaver's Bay City-State-Free Trade City established a new order in Essos: the Centaurs continued to launch various internal and external wars to capture a large number of slaves, who were then sold to The city-state of Slaver's Bay conducts training, the free trade city-state purchases and uses slaves, and the goods and food produced by the slaves are harvested in various places in the east and west. This is the chain running on the Essos continent today.

More than 50,000 Westeros people gathered here. Just like the siege of Pentos, a large number of liberated slaves joined the siege to assist the Westeros people. Since the Myr Plains is richer, the number of slaves gathered is directly related to the siege of Pentos. More than two hundred thousand.

Myr is a city known for its efficiency and calculation, which also means that they are extremely good at squeezing slaves. They can ensure that the slaves are so tired that they can only lie down in bed and sleep after a day's work. Therefore, Myr The hatred of slaves towards Myrs is very high.

Now, a Westeros army is bathing under the firepower of Myr's city walls. They are holding the banner of trout, pushing shield carts, and carrying long ladders. But it is a pity that the shield carts are not as accurate as those of Myr. They were shattered to pieces by extremely high ballistae and trebuchets, and the charging warriors carrying long ladders also suffered heavy losses under the blows of Myr crossbows. "Even if the knight is brave, he can't withstand a powerful crossbow strike. I once thought this was an exaggeration, but what I have seen these days tells me that it is not true."

The serious and rational Duke of Winterfell put his hand on the hilt of his sword and watched the knights of the Tully family die under the blow of Myr's crossbow. The Duke's emotions were difficult to see because Lord Eddard always looked serious.

The city wall decorated with green "ribbons" looks like a city of death, which cannot be touched no matter how much death it takes.

"Ed, don't sigh. These weapons are so evil. Why not ban them? A knight who has been training for eighteen years died in the hands of a lowly civilian who had been holding this crossbow for maybe a few weeks. This It’s so ridiculous.”

Hoster Tully looked unkind, because it was his men who fell under the crossbow now. If it weren't for the fact that several troops present had already attacked the city wall before, he might even have started to curse.

"Your Majesty Robert, is it really necessary to carry out such an attack? Can't you prepare the siege equipment and repair it first?" The old fish didn't want to see their knights and soldiers die, so he turned to Robert who was drinking leisurely there.

His words caused discomfort to most of the people present. Why, why didn’t our family members see you saying this when they came up? Now that your family members are dead on top, you know this, and old fish, you didn’t see Stark Has the Duke been silent all this time? How can you have the nerve to say this?

"We have to keep the pressure on Myr, and then the slaves in the city will help us complete everything. Stannis, do you have any new news from your Onion Knight?" Robert poured a glass of wine into his mouth and gave it to He poured it all over himself, but he didn't care at all, while a servant quickly brought the king a new wine glass.

Stannis, who had been immersed in sorting various documents, immediately raised his head when he heard this. "Yes, Davos said that under our continuous ant-possessed attacks, the slaves of Myr have made up their minds, but when will it happen?" Even though he was beaten violently, he still couldn't guarantee it. These slaves were separated by the Myr people, and they were all afraid of standing out. "

Ant possession, this is Robert's current siege strategy for Myr, which is to let the infantry use simple siege equipment to attack the city walls of Myr from all directions.

Yes, every wall of Myr is now under attack, and those Westerosi infantry who complained about not being able to catch up with the Battle of the Fields now get the battle they wanted, but it's a bloody battle.

And this high-intensity attack has lasted for seven days. The king's people, storm people, valley people, northerners, river people, freed slaves...Robert is like an experienced miller, pouring in wood continuously. Go to the mill and have them ground into powder.

Myr's city defense is already the best among the Free Trade Cities. Countless troops collapsed under the city wall of Myr. These troops were hurriedly sent to besiege, so he even killed eleven of the deserters. The chosen ones were executed before the Myrs.

Such a high-intensity attack and the strong defense on the opposite side naturally aroused the opposition of many soldiers. However, before they even had time to join forces to oppose, Duke Stannis led his knights to capture all the gossipers, and then these people It will be thrown into the next wave of impact as a human shield that consumes Myr ammunition.

Everything Robert did was for one goal, and that was to send a signal to Myr - to be precise, Myr's slaves - that he would capture Myr at all costs.

Although he always spoke of contempt for the Free Trade Cities, Robert never underestimated the defense of their city, which was difficult to defeat even with the pinnacle of Westeros engineering.

Therefore, we had to refer to the experience of Pentos being captured. The fortress had to be breached from the inside, and Robert was interested in the slaves of Myr.

On the days when he went to Myr, Robert did not hang out with the Lys beauties. Instead, he worked day and night to sort out information and talk to the locals. This allowed him to understand the current situation of the place and also knew that there was an extremely large complex in Myr. It is these slave workers who engage in high-density repetitive work that Robert values.

And coincidentally, the Onion Knight under Stannis also said that as a smuggler operating on both sides of the Narrow Sea, he knew a secret entrance into the city from the sea.

This was immediately taken advantage of by Robert. In this way, one night, the Onion Knight rowed a small boat through the naval blockade of the Myr fleet, entered Myr, and then used his local connections to successfully hook up with the slave workers. relationship.

However, things never went so smoothly. Robert burned his life under the city wall of Myr for seven days before the slaves were moved. The Onion Knight was even more desperate in these seven days. In order to convey the message, he traveled through time Several Myrian naval blockades.

Stannis's answer made Robert "tsk" in disdain, and he continued to drink his wine. However, just as the rivermen were defeated and Robert finished the fifth bottle of wine, a thunderous roar rang out in the city of Myr. Shouting to kill.

Robert immediately stood up quickly in a way that was completely inconsistent with his decadent posture, which made the attendants standing beside him look dumbfounded. "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Put on my armor, and then blow the horn, and all the attackers who have been built will The city towers and siege engines are all moving, forget it, even if you haven’t found it yet, Ed, Stannis, Horst, the critical moment has arrived!”

Just as Robert was changing his armor amid the fuss of his attendants, in front of everyone, the Myr city gate they were facing was slowly opening, which directly shocked the Westeros people who saw this scene. All excited.

"Seven Gods, you are so fast. The cheese sellers will regret having so many slaves now! Ed, you immediately take the cavalry from the north to protect the Myr Garden for me. I need the inside Scholars, as for everyone else, join me in besieging the Privy Palace!"

Robert's words stunned Eddard. Robert asked him to protect Myr Garden? What is he going to do? But questions were questions, but Ed still said "yes" obediently and did not ask questions immediately. Duke Stark was such a person. Let's wait until the matter is finished before asking him what happened.

(End of this chapter)