The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 126 The siege with no end in sight
When the people of Westeros were building huge siege engines outside the city and preparing to attack Volantis, the Volantis were not idle at all inside the city.

Outside the city, they were working day and night to build those huge siege engines, and inside the city, they were also fighting day and night for the street battles after the city wall was breached. The Volantis knew that with the military strength of the Westeros people, and their third daughter With the technical support obtained from the kingdom, there would be no problem at all in breaking through the outermost city wall.

Although Volantis still has a black wall that is countless times stronger than the outside of the city, it would be too wasteful to retreat to the black wall after the outermost city wall is lost and give up a large amount of Volantis city area.

After many studies and discussions, Volantis finally came up with a strategy to fortify the vast urban areas of Volantis, that is, turn each residential area into a fortress, and then fortify some neighborhoods. The abandonment and blockage of roads gave the city the defensive effect they wanted: Under this line of thinking, the Westeros people either went to eat fortress-like neighborhoods one by one, or they planned to Moving forward on the road, the future is constantly under fire from both sides of the street.

In order to siege the fighting power of these fortress-like neighborhoods, the Volantis broke up a large number of Tiger Robes into pieces and let them enter the neighborhoods to cooperate with the militia and slaves to defend - but also to suppress the slaves and prevent them from causing rebellion.

Of course the slaves who were still in Volantis wanted to revolt, but as their leaders were killed by Volantis, the slaves who lost their command naturally became fighting forces - yes, Volantis Lantis has always known about the connections among the slaves in the city, but many times they deliberately did not exterminate them.

After all, giving them a false fantasy is better than leaving them in complete despair. If a person is not even afraid of death, what else can scare him? Of course, if these placebos thrown out may backfire, then of course they must be killed without leaving any one behind.

After using the "City Breaker" to break the city wall of Volantis, the Westeros people accidentally entered the dragnet prepared by Volantis. After being beaten hard, the Westeros people Only then did they figure out the current situation in Volantis City.

This made Robert sick enough. He thought victory was just around the corner, but he was attacked by the defenders. However, after being angry, Robert immediately made new arrangements. First, he began to order each department one by one. After solving the Volantis neighborhood and forcibly opening up the roads, he then ordered the walls of Volantis to be demolished to make way enough for the "city breaker" to enter.

Robert's idea is very simple. If you want to play like this, then let him accompany him. He has a giant siege tower in his hand, which is not just there to look good. It can completely suppress the walls of Volantis, so that's okay. Suppress these urban areas.

This put pressure on the people who demolished the city gates. They were also quite troubled by the huge city gates. Volantis was a super giant city anyway, even the outer city walls were too big. Scary - but even so, it couldn't let the "city breaker" pass.

However, the Volantis also had countermeasures. After the Westeros used the "city breaker" to advance violently for a day, the Volantis counterattack followed at night. Through intelligence and field exploration, The Volantis siege troops, who had accurately calculated the positions of each "city breaker", took action. Rounds of boulders and rockets hit these behemoths, as well as large groups of soldiers who suddenly emerged from the ruins, fighting desperately to reach them. Next to the "city breaker", a flame was then lit.

But even so, there are still many people living in such no-man's land neighborhoods. During this war, they were caught in the middle. They could only live hard in these ruins and had to face threats from both sides from time to time. of encirclement and suppression.

But the king ordered that the unlucky ones could only continue. In this way, they could only start to work hard to demolish the city gate, and used all the available equipment and manpower to widen the city gate enough to allow the "city breaker" to pass through. It took three full months.

In this way, the Westeros people who rushed under the Black Wall under Robert's wrath had no idea what to do. This was also part of the Volantis plan. The road Robert took all the way , it was originally the "easy road" they prepared - of course, it was also related to the fact that the road was too wide and went straight to the black wall.

However, even if they come to the black wall, even the "city breaker" can't do anything against the black wall, because the black wall is sixty meters high, which is a height that even the "city breaker" cannot match, and the black wall Still very thick. If each carriage had four horses, then six carriages could race side by side on the city wall, showing its width.

During these three months, the city of Volantis turned into a meat grinder, with constant battles for various blocks. Both the offensive and defensive sides paid a huge price. The reason why the defenders were so determined was because they understood that this If the battle fails, everything will be over, and their golden age will be completely gone. As for those tiger-robed soldiers who are slaves, they have long been transformed into the privileged military class of Volantis, and they have long been the Volantis. The people on the Sri Lankan ship, as members of the ship, naturally they will fight to the end.

It's just that Robert's order was simple, but it was difficult for the people below. First of all, many Westeros people who thought they could get loot by breaking the city wall had to carry weapons and mince meat with the city of Volantis. , which made them complain, but since Robert had given the order, they had to accept their fate.

However, although attacking the city was very difficult, when they knew that His Majesty Robert's "City Breakers" would come in from behind, their morale improved a lot. In front of His Majesty Robert's siege beast, Volanti This person is bound to be crushed.

After the "Citybreakers" entered Volantis, everyone thought that the city was about to be destroyed. The "Citybreakers" indeed showed their powerful fighting power and rampaged through Volantis. Wherever they went, The defenses were broken wherever they went, but getting these behemoths to move was extremely difficult, and the soldiers had to clear out large chunks of the city in order to move them forward.

There are many abandoned fountains in the city of Volantis. Now these fountains have become places where corpses have been hastily placed by both sides. The water sources that once flowed from springs are now filled with dried blood and rotting corpses.

Many neighborhoods in Volantis have also been turned into no-man's land, but even if it becomes a no-man's land, no one dares to enter it at will, because there may be some enemies there, and many people have disappeared after entering.

One night, half of the four "Citybreakers" in Robert's hands were gone, and two of them turned into burning torches, which could be clearly seen both inside and outside the city. This made Robert's face extremely ugly. It was like slapping him in the face.

In order to boost morale, Robert immediately launched a large-scale offensive with the "city breaker" he still had on hand. The offensive went very smoothly. Under the pressure of the "city breaker", the Westeros army eradicated He passed through layers of obstacles and came under the black wall.

Next, the Westeros people who assaulted under the Black Wall began to be harassed all the time, and casualties and damage soared in an instant. In the end, Robert had to admit defeat and led the soldiers to retreat.

Next, the battle in Volantis entered an extremely long stage. The two sides began to confront and consume in the city of Volantis. After this consumption began, the time it took exceeded everyone's imagination... …

Dontos Hollard looked at the flag hanging on the pole. The dirty flag was hanging there listlessly, and he couldn't tell which family's flag it belonged to. Dontos looked at this scene and felt even more frustrated. . He was walking in the city of Volantis with the soldiers of the Horad family. The soldiers' weapons were drooped and they looked lifeless. However, they were not attacking the city, but completing a "routine" " left after the attack.

What they had just attacked was the Long Bridge of Volantis. This huge bridge across the river, one of the Nine Wonders of the World, has been the focus of competition between the two sides in the past year. The Volantis have turned the Long Bridge into a fortress. , the navy and army that simultaneously blocked the attackers had gone through so many battles, more than 10,000 people had died on the bridge, and the sunken ships under the long bridge were full of pits and valleys.

However, by now, the battle is no longer so fierce.

Dontos' team came to a square, which was full of abandoned and dilapidated statues. The beautiful houses were in ruins, the statue of the consul was broken on the ground, bones could be seen everywhere, and the fountain was filled with corpses... Yes It is said to be an extremely tragic scene.

But it was such a tragic scene. After the Hollard family's army appeared, a bunch of businessmen and prostitutes appeared out of nowhere. The soldiers finally became more excited at this moment. They immediately went to the businessmen. They buy all kinds of luxuries, but most of them go to the ruins with prostitutes in their arms to do business against the wall.

This scene made Dontos sigh. You must know that in the early days of the siege, such a scene would never have happened, but now it is everywhere. Even citizens on both sides will trade with each other in the black market in the sewers of Volantis. Trading, as far as he knew, there were even many nobles walking there.

The siege of Volantis has been going on for three years now. After three years of fighting, everyone's morale has dissipated - in fact, when Robert failed to attack the Black Wall, it was already developing in this direction - now When the two sides fight, they will reach a "tacit understanding" inadvertently, just make gestures to each other, fight no matter what, and your life will be lost if you die.

The essence of this siege has become a competition for the amount of food stored by both sides. Dontos thought that although Westeros also has a huge amount of food, Volantis is also constantly sending food in - after all, this The essence of this war is the confrontation between East and West.

In Dontos' view, the siege of Volantis had been a complete failure, but he did not dare to say it, but he believed that many people in the siege camp had the same idea as him.

The army assembled by Robert was based on the spoils obtained from Volantis. No one wanted to see it reach this level. However, the king's huge prestige and that although it became increasingly slim. , but the opportunity to obtain huge trophies still existed, so the nobles and soldiers did not dare to mention withdrawing troops - because the king would directly scold that person.

However, the soldiers below will not care about this, so desertions continue to be a problem. However, as Robert launches slave release to capture deserters, it will be difficult for the people of Westeros to escape.

Since you can't run away, just spend your time under the city - this is the view of most people in the army now - and it's similar on the other side.

Robert was not unaware of this problem. His response was to partially disband the soldiers, send them back to Westeros, and then recruit them again from Westeros. By this method, Robert also eased the soldiers' anger again and again. Bottom line, riots were avoided.

At this time, Robert would use the vigor of his new soldiers to launch a large-scale offensive, but the defenders of Volantis were not good at it and successfully blocked the attack.

As for the nobles, Robert relied on promised benefits. After all, in the east, the largest land owner is still the Iron Throne.

As for the reason why His Majesty the King took so long, it was an open secret in the camp - His Majesty planned to conquer the entire Free Trade City, but Volantis's persistence has completely shattered Robert's plan.

The king believes that if he cannot conquer Volantis in one go this time, then he will never be able to conquer the entire Free Trade City, so he must capture Volantis here, but Volantis's will and strength are far beyond the king's It was beyond expectations, so it took longer and longer. In the end, the sunk cost was too high, and it was difficult to get off.

Seven Gods, when will all this end? Dontos looked at the sky and thought that what he had seen and heard in the past three years had made him completely tired and tired.

In the past three years, he has watched how a prosperous city turned into ruins of war, how people struggled to survive in no man's land, how soldiers from far away died on battlefields that should have nothing to do with him, and how they originally had nothing to do with him. How the rich knights and nobles were reduced to penury by the war... One after another, Dontos was completely tired.

He no longer has any lofty ideals. He just wants to sit in the hall of his ancestors and drink in Mugu City, let the alcohol numb his mind, and then find three or four women every day. Now he just wants to live in decadence. The next time.

But when the war will end is still an unsolvable question. Dontos gathered the scattered soldiers and returned to the camp through the huge wreckage of the "City Breaker" and the demolished city gate.

However, after entering, he found that there was an atmosphere brewing in the camp that he had never seen before. It was not the usual fatigue and decadence, but panic and tension.

The count quickly found the soldiers closest to him to ask about the situation, and from their mouths, the count knew one thing.

"Balon Greyjoy has proclaimed himself king, and now the Iron Islands' army has marched out to invade the mainland."

(End of this chapter)