The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 181 The Dragon Prince Approaches
Even in the Age of Dragon Kings, the Myr Plains was a wealthy place, and this has never changed over thousands of years. Even now that it has been conquered by Westeros, this place is still prosperous.

Prosperity is like a magnet, attracting warlords from all walks of life to this land to fight for wealth and glory. Now, the Mill Plains is once again plunged into war.

"It's so miserable." Looking at the body hanging on the roadside, swaying in the wind, Little Gleicher said, "The warlords in the disputed land are still so cruel."

Little Gleicher thought of the stories about warlords in the disputed land that she had heard since she was a child. In those stories, these warlords were always willing to do anything terrible for the sake of profit.

So many people were hanged just to intimidate the residents. This style of completely disregarding the future is very suitable for those guys who have survived the killing in the disputed land.

However, what little Gleicher found strange was that he also saw some very fresh corpses. These corpses looked like they had been hung there for no more than a few hours. He was very concerned about how these corpses came about.

In sharp contrast to little Gleicher's indifference, many new recruits of the Knights of the Seven turned pale when they saw the corpses, and some even wanted to vomit. Little Gleicher had learned to ignore their embarrassing behavior, and these young people still needed time to sharpen their talents.

Having been in the Order of the Seven for so long, little Gleicher has long understood that this order is just a tool used by Lord Hugo to rally the hearts of the Andas nobles and wealthy people, and that these young people essentially just come here to spend some time together - however, it is still a order of knights after all, and has not become a pure decoration, which means they have to go into battle.

In sharp contrast to the knights is a team of the Seven Star Knights that is always intentionally or unintentionally ignored, namely the knights' half-brothers, the sergeants.

Captain Theodore knew that it was unrealistic to rely solely on the group of elite knights under his command, so he used the power and wealth of the Knights Templar to recruit elite soldiers everywhere and used them to enrich the sergeant's corps. He also recruited many civilians into the sergeant's corps and trained them strictly.

However, it is also because of this that they are always ignored intentionally or unintentionally. After all, the protagonists of the Knights Templar are the knights after all.

During the attack on Lord Hugo, the performance of the Seven Star Knights was extremely poor. First, they lost their composure, and then they charged recklessly. For this, Captain Theodore was scolded a lot, and other knights also laughed at them for it.

This humiliating defeat also made the members of the Seven Star Knights particularly angry. They had always been at the forefront of the many knightly orders in Andas and were regarded as only slightly inferior to the Knights of the Holy War. As a result, now all kinds of people were riding on their heads and laughing at them, which made the entire knight order feel very angry.

Therefore, after the forced march into the Mill Plain, when Lord Hugo ordered the knights to act as the vanguard to wipe out the remaining enemies, the Knights of the Seven responded to Hugo very quickly.

Then they were sent to the so-called enemy-occupied areas.

Although it is an enemy-occupied area, those active there are never just traitors who have sided with the exiled prince. After entering the Mill Plains, the lords and representatives who are still loyal continue to come with their armies, and these people have also brought about the current situation in the Mill Plains.

Only a small number of people rebelled directly, while most people were forced into it. Many people simply had no idea of ​​the current situation and had to remain neutral. Therefore, the reason why the knights were sent here was to use their stronger combat power to wipe out those lords and forces who had openly defected.

Little Gleicher had seen many battles of other knightly orders along the way. They swept away the enemies like an autumn wind, and one rebellious fortress and town after another was captured by various knightly orders. The loyalists found their backbone and came to join them, and the power of the rebels shrank rapidly.

This made little Gleicher's admiration for Hugo even stronger. If Hugo had not already won over these knights, such a scene today would never have been possible. Lord Hugo was truly far-sighted, and he would never be able to compare to Lord Hugo.

The target of the Order of the Seven was a Myr town. This town had always been dissatisfied with the power changes in Myr, so they decisively joined the rebellion and were directly put on the list of people to be purged.

However, as he approached the target town, little Gleicher felt something was wrong, because he saw black smoke rising from the sky above the city. After getting closer to the town, he saw the town gate was broken into pieces and fell to the ground. The flag flying on the top of the city was a ball of burning flames. Under the flag were the knights and soldiers guarding the city gate. They all had burning flame emblems on their chests.

"The Knights of Flame." Little Gleicher's eyelids twitched wildly. The fact in front of her was already very clear: the Knights of Flame were trying to steal the credit.

There are many knightly orders in Essos. These military organizations have different philosophies. Some are for lofty ideals, some are dedicated to the great Seven Gods, and some are just for wealth and glory. The Knights of Flame are the latter type, and they don't care about glory but only about wealth.

Little Gleicher has always had a bad impression of the Flame Knights. Their reputation is really bad, and they do bad things all day long.

This knightly order is a warrior brotherhood through and through. This does not mean that warrior brotherhoods are necessarily bad. In fact, the Order of the Seven Stars is also a warrior brotherhood in nature, but it is organized in the form of a religious sect, so at least the discipline is strict.

The Flame Knights have none of these. It is a knighthood with no barriers to entry and anyone can join.

Initially, several holy war lords pooled their money to establish it. At that time, the purpose of the existence of the Flame Knights was only to defend the land. However, as they made great achievements in wars, new members flocked to the organization like a flood, and the Knights accepted everyone, so they expanded unprecedentedly.

There was only one criterion for joining the Order of the Flame, and that was to have a complete set of knight armor and a corresponding horse. This led to a large number of hired knights and newly-made wealthy people filling the order, and even later on, this made the order extremely mixed.

But this also makes the scale of the Flame Knights extremely large. It can be said that they are the leader of all the knightly orders in the East. When a large number of knights and sergeants rush to the battlefield, nothing can stop them.

However, the Knights of Flame did not establish a unified leadership. Instead, the order was divided into many warbands, and the leadership of the Grand Master was only nominal.

While achieving a series of feats, the Flame Knights were also known in the East for their bad discipline. Wherever the Knights passed, both enemy villages and their own villages would be looted - the difference was that the former would often be burned to ashes, while the latter would not. The members of the Flame Knights were also known for provoking trouble in the city. They often relied on their large numbers to provoke other knights or nobles, which made their reputation even worse. However, despite their bad reputation, the Flame Knights' powerful military force made it difficult for them to be targeted.

Many nobles like to hire the Flame Knights to do work, because these knights have no psychological pressure at all when suppressing the people, and they complete the suppression work quickly and well, and have won wide acclaim.

Little Gleicher watched the soldiers of the Flame Knights carrying boxes of treasure out of the city. It was obvious what these people were doing in there. These soldiers did not look like half-brothers of the Knights Templar. They looked more like a group of hateful soldiers.

Little Gleicher showed a disgusted expression on his face. He didn't want to have any contact with the people of the Flame Knights. These people were really disgusting. His opinion of this Knights Order was that they were a group of mercenaries and ambitious people who wanted to be recruited, so they found such a Knights Order with no binding force, and then they did whatever they wanted under the name of the Knights Order.

Lord Hugo once dealt with these knights, but he only made them restrain themselves a little in Andas. They still acted recklessly in other places.

"George, let's go. I don't want to have any contact with the bastards of the Flame Knights." Little Gletscher said, and turned his horse's head. George shrugged helplessly, and then asked everyone to turn around. Some knights sighed for not being able to participate in the battle, while others were glad that they didn't have to participate in the battle.

The Flame Knights naturally noticed the arrival and departure of the Seven Star Knights, and then adopted an attitude of playing dumb. No matter what, they had robbed the Seven Star Knights of their spoils this time. Although they were not afraid of the Seven Gods Knights, a group filled with second-generation people, these young men were directly under Lord Hugo after all. The Commander of the East was someone they could not afford to offend, not to mention that he was a god-favored one.

After watching the Seven Star Knights leave, the Flame Knights continued their burning, killing, looting, and digging deep into the ground in search of wealth in the town of Rif. Every resident was severely tortured by the Knights, and even those who had been drained dry would be tortured again to ensure that they had not missed anything.

The Knights Templar did not engage in time-wasting acts of violence. Although their military discipline was poor, during each robbery, the Knights Templar had already summed up a set of principles for robbery, which was not to waste time on things that could be done at any time in the future - this basically became a principle that all the warbands of the Knights Templar tacitly abided by.

The Flame Knights are already very familiar with this kind of thing, and will not have any psychological burden from it. They are here to make money and get rich, so how could they have psychological problems like this?

However, while the Flame Knights were concentrating on looting, the rebels were coming towards them from where the Knights were not observing, and were about to surround them.

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"Viserys is here so fast. Is he planning to eat me? That's a brave young man."

After listening to a series of reports about the frontline knights encountering the main force of the enemy, Hugo's tone was filled with disdain for the exiled prince.

There was a reason for this disdain. Viserys's army besieged the Flame Knights who were busy looting with superior forces. As a result, the Flame Knights fought their way out of the encirclement.

Hugo's impression of Viserys Targaryen was exactly that of the impotent and furious prince in the original book. Hugo was disdainful of such a person, and now his army's performance made Hugo even more disdainful of him.

Yes, he had an advantage in terms of military strength, but Hu Ge did not think that advantage was of any use at all. The more military strength, the better.

This became the consensus of the military lords of Westeros after the Battle of the Great Road a few years ago. In that battle, the Iron Throne's army was extremely large, far exceeding the Dothraki on the opposite side, but what was the result? Usually, the Westeros people could not be defeated or even win against the centaurs who were several times their number. That time, their numbers were so much greater than the enemy, and the huge size of the army became a drag. If it weren't for the hard work of the Western elite, they might even have lost that battle.

Now, although he only has 10,000 men and the enemy has twice as many as him, Hugo is confident that he can defeat that Targaryen. He has long known the composition of the enemy's army through various information channels, and he has the elite among the elite.

"Lord Hugo, let us also go to meet this Targaryen, then we can take his head and put an end to this blasphemous family."

Hugo's old comrade Old Sparrow thought so too. The old man looked a little excited. The folk monks in Westeros never had a good attitude towards the Targaryens. They had never forgiven the Targaryens' tradition of inbreeding.

All the officers and nobles present had the same attitude. The rubbish army put together by the descendants of Targaryen would inevitably be defeated in front of them. The goddess of victory had already lifted her skirt for them, and they only needed to wait for the great moment to come.

"Calm down, Old Sparrow, and Lord Hugo, I suggest that we stay calm. The prey has not yet entered the hunting grounds. In any case, the enemy has the advantage in manpower, so we must remain cautious."

Grachel was as shrewd and cautious as ever, and his words did calm Hugo down a lot. One must not be careless in military matters, as the slightest mistake could lead to disastrous consequences.

Hu Ge suddenly woke up. When did he become so arrogant? He was sure that victory would belong to him before the battle even started. It seemed that he had lived too smoothly these years, so he had forgotten all the difficult years.

"Yes, Grachel is right." Hugo changed his tone and agreed with Grachel. "Send out the scouts and keep a close eye on Viserys's army. I need to know their movements at all times. As for the rest, prepare your men. This is a battle and the enemy outnumbers us."

"Yes, Lord Hugo." Everyone present responded seriously.

(End of this chapter)