The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 124 The Beginning of the Siege of Volantis

When 150,000 troops gather, everyone who sees this scene will be amazed. Here, you can see people from every region of Westeros, and countless common languages ​​​​with accents gather in the sky. It's like a Westeros dialect fair.

This army is still expanding. After the arrival of the Westeros army, Robert also mobilized his Eastern subjects. The Eastern subjects of Westeros are composed of three parts, namely, freed nobles, free towns and The feudal lords are marching to Myr to join Robert's army.

Robert's choice of mobilizing at this moment was also skillful. After all, the Westeros people have an unstable foothold in the east. Therefore, let the east people see the Westeros army first, so that they will be more willing to lead the army to respond to the call. .

Even Robert had no idea how large an army could be gathered in the end. The Iron Throne's rule in the east had only been established for more than a year, so he had no idea of ​​these data.

However, Robert didn't care. In his opinion, no matter how many troops were gathered in the end, he could defeat the Volantis and take down the damn Volantis.

The morale of Robert's army is high, and every soldier and knight participating in the army feels that they share weal and woe, because they are in a great cause unprecedented in the history of Westeros. As long as they fight hard in this battle, they may become Just like the "Dragon Prince" or the "Mirror Shield", the great knights who have been sung for thousands of years.

The sight of the king drinking and having fun every day and traveling with beauties also greatly encouraged this phenomenon. Didn't you see that His Majesty the King was so relaxed? So they are bound to win.

However, more people are just looking for wealth and land. So many people have created a foundation in the East that can last for thousands of years. Everyone in Westeros with ambitions wants a piece of the pie.

While the army from the south was gathering, Andas in the north was exceptionally quiet, because Andas had received a special permission from His Majesty the King, that is, they did not need to participate in the expedition.

Time passed unknowingly, and a large amount of materials and manpower were coordinated. When the total number of troops under Robert finally reached 200,000, as soon as this number came out, countless people took a breath of cold air and labored. Bo didn't care about this at all. In his opinion, victory was the same for many people.

War is something that requires extremely high organizational capabilities, and naval battles are even more so. The problem of information transmission makes the organizational capabilities of naval battles drop much compared to land battles, and naval night raids are even more testing, because one can do it. If it's not good, it will have to crash and sink the ship.

After the swearing-in meeting, Robert led the army to set off. The momentum of the 200,000 men advancing was overwhelming, and the number of troops accompanying the 200,000 troops was also an exaggerated number. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a building. Moving big city.

However, what no one expected was that the battle first started not on land, but on the sea.

However, it was also at this stage that Stannis did something that no one expected. The Duke of Dragonstone personally stepped onto the battlefield, and then killed the Volantis at night.

After his Majesty Robert visited the north, he had an idea of ​​the war damage in the Andas region. Considering that the Andas was a bulwark against the free trade city-states in the north, Robert exempted Hugo from recruiting... However, This is not free. Although Andas is exempted from conscription, he needs to pay a large sum of gold, silver and food. However, even so, the cost is much lower than directly sending troops.

However, having more people is ultimately a good thing. The larger the army he leads, the greater Robert's sense of accomplishment will be.

However, the most important reason why Robert asked Andas not to send troops was to contain the northern free trade city-states. As long as the main force of Andas did not move easily, the northern free trade city-states would never dare to go south to support Volantis with all their strength. .

The naval battle has been completely turned into a war of attrition, with both sides competing for the quantity and quality of their fleets. This battle has been going on for a whole week without even realizing it, and both sides are exhausted from these battles.

At the same time that Robert's army set off, Stannis also led a combined fleet from all of Westeros to attack. The fleet under the Duke of Dragonstone included elite naval forces from all over Westeros: the royal fleet, the Lannister fleet, The Harbor Fleet, the Qingting Island Fleet... From the ironmen's longships to the most common flat-bottomed boats, there are all kinds of ships in this fleet, and their total number has reached a terrifying thousand - this Among the thousand ships, more than half are serious warships.

In this way, a large sea battle with a total number of ships exceeding two thousand began. Because the battlefield was so huge, all the commanders on both sides could do was to line up the fleets one after another, and then Send them into rounds of fierce battles, and then send out surprise fleets to attack from the side,

Robert's goal this time is to take Volantis directly and conquer the eldest daughter of Valyria. Therefore, in order to siege, the Westeros must also gain maritime hegemony, so the mighty Stannis fleet attacked .

Then, they ran into the large fleet of Volantis - but to be precise, it was the combined fleet of Volantis and the city-state of Slaver's Bay.

Since the naval battles of this era seriously lacked weapons that could cause large-scale casualties, and the main form of naval battles was ship-seizing battles, the two sides began to spend a long time, often fighting for a whole day, and then dozens of ships changed hands, and several The ship sank, and then at night both sides withdrew their troops.

The city-states of Slaver's Bay are now dedicating their full strength to join this war, which is related to the future of the entire Slaver's Bay. Although the rulers of Slaver's Bay are well-dressed and arrogant, they also understand that they must stake everything at this moment. , otherwise the future will be extremely gloomy.

But that's what Stannis did, and it was a success beyond everyone's expectations: Stannis let his Onion Knights lead the outlaws from the Stepstone Islands to first touch the anchorage of Volantis - but in their There is also an uninvited guy in the team, that is Euron Greyjoy, the sea monster volunteered to join this narrow escape battle.

Next, a fire ignited the forage yards of Volantis and the Slaver's Bay fleet, and then flames of various sizes suddenly appeared throughout the anchorage. The huge fire pointed out the direction for Stannis's fleet to move forward. .

In this way, the Volantis were defeated, and the defeat was very miserable. However, due to the high training level of the Volantis fleet, many Volantis ships were able to escape quickly, and those who lived a decadent and luxurious life The people of Slaver's Bay all fell into the anchorage. After the war, Euron Greyjoy, who was covered in blood, asked his outlaws to do a very crazy thing, that is, build a tower with human heads, which caused a conflict between him and Stannis. A serious conflict arose, and the final result was that Euron Greyjoy led his outlaws to leave the Grand Fleet and go to hunt down the fleeing Volantis.

However, this was just an interlude, an interlude that did not affect the overall situation. As the news spread that the Volantis fleet had been wiped out, the armies on land were even more excited. Now the Westeros army has entered Volantis. The Orange Coast under the rule of Si, this coast got its name due to the red color of the rocks along the coast. From here on, it is considered to have entered the sphere of influence of Volantis.

Here, Robert also met the Volantis army. They had been waiting for a long time. Next, the two armies lined up, and then the Volantis used a strategy that the Westeros people did not expect.

That is, Volantis suddenly released a large number of war elephants, rushing towards the Westerosi army. The war elephants gathered by Volantis were not one hundred and two hundred, but a full eight hundred!
In the last fierce battle with the Westeros, Volantis's war elephants were delayed due to problems on the road and therefore failed to reach the battlefield in time. Now, the war elephants are rushing towards the Westerners.

Because in the series of battles coming to the east, the people of Westeros did not face an organized war elephant force, so faced with a huge number of war elephants, the Westeros army was in chaos for a while, until Robert He personally rode his horse and shouted wildly throughout the army to stabilize the situation.

Next, Robert had people push the anti-war elephant chariots up. Although he had never faced a war elephant, Robert had been preparing for it. When these battlefields pushed by cattle were delivered to the front line, Every Westerosi who had been panicked felt relieved.

But the development of the battle situation after that was not at all as expected. Although war elephants would be afraid of flames and steel knives, the problem was that war elephants were among the groups of war elephants and could not be deflected. Can't turn around either.

Moreover, the Volantis used a precious poison on the war elephants, driving the animals into bloodlust and frantic fighting.

Next, the war elephants collided with the anti-war elephant chariots. Some war elephants were indeed killed and injured, but they were only a few. The elephants overturned the chariots, then ran over them and hit them. On the shield wall behind.

Facing such a war beast, the Westeros shield wall seemed so vulnerable. When the war elephants waved their armored trunks, a group of people were immediately beaten. When Gao Da attacked with force, someone would be trampled under his feet.

Most of the Westeros people here are facing war elephants for the first time. These people who have the mentality of easily gaining military exploits and glory from the East are now being slaughtered by the war elephant beasts from the East. Countless people have died because of this. tremble with fear.

Moreover, the situation is still thinking of developing in a worse direction, because as the war elephant herd opens up the situation, Volantis's tiger-robed army also starts to oppress the Westerners' front with the war elephant as the center.

In this terrible environment, the high-ranking nobles of Westeros have stood on the front line. The appearance of those noble figures has greatly stabilized people's hearts. The original turmoil has temporarily disappeared, but it is only temporary. If there is no way to solve it, These damn war elephants, they will fail sooner or later.

On the chaotic battlefield, countless projectiles were constantly being thrown at the war elephants. From time to time, war elephants collapsed and turned into huge corpses on the battlefield, but new war elephants soon took their place.

Countless messages were sent to King Robert. Everyone hoped that the invincible king could come up with a solution to the problem, and the king did come up with a solution, which was Myr's ballistae.

Robert thought of these things when he saw the war elephant. He captured it from the Myrs. It was very troublesome to deploy, but its attack power was very high. It was originally prepared to attack Volantis. I thought of using it here.

As the products of Myr's technology began to roar on the battlefield, tall war elephants were pierced to death. As more and more elephants were killed, the eyes of the war elephants that were originally shrouded in madness appeared. After Qingming, fear followed.

Elephants are very smart animals, and their intelligence makes them very afraid of pain and death, so the Volantis used drugs to help the elephants fight, but now, with the blood of one war elephant after another , the reason of these intelligent animals has defeated the bloodthirst.

The elephants began to retreat, and the general of Volantis noticed this immediately. Seeing this, the general only sighed secretly, and then ordered the soldiers to retreat - the elephants were the key to Volantis' comeback in this battle. But now there is no way to make a comeback, so what we should do now is to preserve our strength and prepare for the inevitable siege that will follow.

In this way, while the people of Westeros were still troubled by the war elephants, the tiger-robed army began to shrink their strength little by little. When the war elephants finally collapsed collectively, the tiger-robed army also ran away without looking back. .

The collapse of those war beasts made the people of Westeros rejoice. Faced with such a large number of war beasts, it almost crushed the hearts of many Westeros people. Now that they have finally been defeated, can we not cheer?

But Robert was very unhappy, very unhappy. Although he won the battle, the main force of the Volantis people ran away. Why, Gods of the Seven, could that Volantis general be so decisive?
However, victory was victory after all, and this battle was won, and the city of Volantis spread out in front of him.

Next, Robert did not let the army rest for too long and continued to advance directly into the core area of ​​Volantis. There, they were welcomed by many slaves. This was expected, but the problem was, There were only slaves here, no food, and even the immature crops were burned by the Volantis.

Although Robert was still so optimistic on the surface, he still felt inevitably heavy in his heart. He only hoped that this would not happen again in the future, but the more he moved forward, the more he saw such a scene, Valanti All that was left was a pile of ruins and slaves waiting for food. Those who could be taken away were taken away, and those who could not be taken away were burned.

After greeting the Volantis with all the words he could think of in his mind, Robert came under the great city of Volantis and in front of his goal.

(End of this chapter)