The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 191: The Changing Slave Bay
Slave's Bay, the land where the powerful Angis Empire once rose. The princes and nobles under the shadow of the Harpy enslaved countless slaves to satisfy their extravagant and licentious lives, and also built a prosperity that was so prosperous that even if it was written on paper, it would make people yearn for it.

After the Empire was destroyed by the Dragon King of Valyria, slavery continued on this land. The Dragon Kings turned Slaver's Bay into a training ground for slaves. Countless innocent people were captured and trained here to become the Dragon King's miners, serfs, and bed slaves.

After the collapse of the Valyrian Freehold, slavery continued here. No matter what kind of storms the outside world experienced, slavery remained standing in Slaver's Bay. Therefore, the rulers of Slaver's Bay firmly believed that no matter how time changed, their rule would always stand.

But the past twenty years have been bad for Slave Bay.

The people of Westeros in the western continent conquered many free trade city-states. These western defenders hated slavery and smashed countless chains and liberated countless slaves. For the Slave Bay, this directly reduced the entire slave market by two-thirds.

Slaves are not produced in the Slave Bay, they are slave porters. Slaves captured by the Dothraki from all over the place are sent here in exchange for gold and silver. Then they train the slaves and sell them to the Free Trade Cities for use. Now that the number of users has been greatly reduced, the slaves in the Slave Bay can only be piled up naturally.

Although some slaves could be resold through other means, the efficiency was too slow. There was no other way. Since quantity was not an option, the only option was quality. The Slave Bay city-state began to train better bed slaves, better gladiators, and better Unsullied.

But even if the "consumption" increased, it could not change the fact that the number of slaves was increasing. Even if the city-states in Slave Bay refused to buy, the slave traders would directly sell the slaves to ordinary citizens on the spot - for those people, being able to buy slaves at such a low price was a huge profit.

As the number of slaves increased, the security pressure on the Slave Bay city-state became greater and greater. The news of the Western release of slaves continued to circulate in Slave Bay, giving the slaves countless false fantasies. Western moralists were also active in this. They sneaked into Slave Bay for the liberation of slaves and incited riots all the time.

There is also an organization calling itself the "Break of Shackles" that has infiltrated the Slave Bay. These barbarian knights of Westeros occupy the mountains outside the city walls and attack various manors to liberate the slaves inside. Whenever they have the chance, they will raid the city. When the mopping-up army of the Slave Bay arrives, they will hide, hiding in places where the slave owners cannot find them.

As a result, there have been constant riots in Slave Bay over the years. Although they have all been suppressed by great, kind and wise masters, the soaring cost of suppression is still difficult for the slave owners to accept.

However, the slave owners firmly believed that everything was only temporary. Slave Bay had withstood too many ups and downs over the years. No matter how drastically the outside world changed, the slavery system was firmly entrenched on this land like the roots of a big tree.

The people of Westeros will eventually accept the benefits of slavery. The slave owners have practiced this and have now opened a gap through "contract labor". Although this gap is small, it means that Westeros is not as jealous of evil as they claim. As long as they are willing to spend time and energy, Slaver's Bay will surely continue, and the essence of the Empire of Ghis will surely continue, from generation to generation.

But as the Great Lords, the Good Lords, and the Wise Lords were envisioning a great future, a great army arrived at Slaver's Bay.

It was a Dothraki army never before seen, and witnesses said it was larger than any centaur tribe ever recorded in Slaver's Bay.

Faced with this huge army, the Great Lords, the Good Lords and the Wise Lords were not panicked. The Dothraki came to the Slave's Bay either to sell slaves or to receive gifts. They only needed to give gifts to the centaurs, and these barbarians would leave after receiving the gifts.

So the three cities of Slaver's Bay sent a large team, carrying treasures and carefully selected slaves, to visit the Dothraki army.

However, to the surprise of the Gith, it was not the Great Kha'Ul'Drogo who led this army, but Daenerys the Khaleesi.

The people of Gith were very wary of Khaleesi, who had the blood of Valyria, but fortunately Khaleesi still followed the rules and accepted the gift.

The Great Lords, the Good Lords, and the Wise Lords were relieved, but that same night the Dothraki attacked Meereen. In the darkness, some of the lower nobles rioted and opened the city gates for the centaurs. The Dothraki cavalry then galloped on the colorful brick streets.

All the slaves in the city were freed and allowed three days to avenge their grievances.

When the slaves in Meereen heard the news, they found it hard to believe it was true, and thought it was another cruel trap set by the slave owners. But when they were sure it was true, they knelt down in front of Daenerys with gratitude, and vowed to go through fire and water for her.

In this way, the slaves who were trampled under the feet of Meereen Fur took revenge on their masters.

The Great Lords wanted to seek Khaleesi's protection, but Khaleesi did not even meet their messengers. She watched as one great pyramid after another was breached by angry slaves, and all the Great Lords within, young and old, were killed.

Khaleesi did not stay in Meereen for long, and she immediately led her army to Yunkai. The city initially could not believe the news that Meereen had been conquered, but when Khaleesi's army arrived at the city, they had to believe it.

On the one hand, Yunkai sent envoys with a lot of gifts, asking Khaleesi's army to retreat. On the other hand, it sent requests for help to other city-states of Ghis, asking them to provide support quickly. However, no matter what they did, they could not stop the Dothraki army from reaching the walls of Yunkai.

The Yunkai people still have confidence in their own city walls. They all know that the Dothraki have no siege capabilities. Although the Yunkai walls are old and poorly maintained, they have no problem stopping the centaurs.

Then, the centaurs took out catapults, siege towers and battering rams in front of the Yunkai people's disbelief.

Yunkai's old yellow brick walls naturally could not withstand the enemy's fierce attack. In the first round, Yunkai's walls were completely destroyed and the battle entered the street fighting stage.

Yunkai's slave soldiers collapsed at the first touch, and the wise lords quickly retreated to the pyramids to defend them. However, when Khaleesi's army entered the city amid the cheers of the slaves, these large pyramids were immediately subjected to the baptism of various siege weapons, and were conquered one after another, and all the wise lords were killed.

Now, Astapor is the only one left of the three city-states in Slaver's Bay, and after initially confirming the security of Yunkai, Khaleesi's army marched towards the City of Red Brick.

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"Fire arrows!"

Following the centurion's shout, the Dothraki immediately fired sharp arrows at the Unsullied in front of them, while using their legs to control their horses and circled back in front of the Unsullied's shield wall.

The Unsullied's solid and complete shield wall blocked most of the arrows, but someone unfortunately fell down eventually. However, there was always another eunuch to take the place of the dead.

On the land outside Astapor, a total of 20,000 Unsullied were lined up. The Unsullied formed small squares, and the small squares were combined into a large square, which looked quite spectacular.

But they were facing a Dothraki army that was far superior in number. This was not a problem for the Unsullied, as they had fought against the Centaurs with a much greater disparity in numbers before, but this time the Dothraki behaved differently.

They did not foolishly crash into the Unsullied's shield wall, but circled around them and kept shooting arrows. When the quiver was empty, they returned to the formation and let the next team of centaurs continue shooting. They also made rapid charges from time to time, that is, they took a charging posture to attack the Unsullied's phalanx, but turned their horses' heads and shot arrows at the moment they were about to collide.

The commander of the Unsullied was no fool. After several failed attempts to chase the centaurs, he immediately sent out the noble cavalry of Astapor. This did work in the short term and the centaur archers were expelled for a time, but soon these noble cavalry ignored the commander's orders and chased the Dothraki cavalry and never returned.

The centaurs surrounded them again, this time forming circles, but when the centaurs in the circles came closest to the Unsullied, they released arrows.

The small number of Ghis archers and slingers were trying to fight back, but they were even more fragile than the Unsullied. Many Unsullied at least had sturdy armor, while these people were all cloth light infantry. When the Dothraki organized a round of volleys, these archers collapsed. Some of them hid in the Unsullied's shield wall, and some turned around and ran away.

Although the Unsullied were well-disciplined and powerful, they could not bring into play their advantages in this predicament where they were constantly being beaten. The centaurs continuously shot arrows at the Unsullied camp, and some of the Unsullied's shields were directly shattered due to being pierced by too many arrows!
The number of 20,000 Unsullied was decreasing rapidly. No matter whether they had shields or armor, it was meaningless in the face of so many arrows.

The commander ordered the eunuchs to throw their spears, which indeed caused a great deal of losses to the centaurs, but that was all. The Unsullied only had one spear, and without it, they could only draw their swords.

The eunuchs' performance was completely worthy of the training they had received. Even if their bodies were full of arrows, as long as they could still hold on, they would stand there firmly until the end of their lives.

"The Immaculate is truly worthy of its reputation."

"Said Khaleesi, riding on a small silver horse and guarded by many Dothraki warriors," her tone was filled with admiration for the tenacious army in front of her.

"Aren't they slaves too? Can anyone tell me why they don't stand up against their masters?"

"Khaleesi, this is the power of the Unsullied training technique passed down from the Empire of Ghis. As long as the master gives the order, they will go through fire and water to carry it out." said the round-headed lord Skaratz mo Kantak, who shaved his head to welcome the new.

Daenerys felt that there was some pride in this person's tone, but she didn't care. She was not such a petty person. However, this so-called training technique... Although she didn't understand it in detail, looking at these Unsullied in front of her, Daenerys understood that it was not a good thing.

Putting all this aside, Daenerys liked Lord Roundhead very much because he brought some of the middle and lower class nobles from the Slave Bay - these people also shaved their heads like Lord Roundhead and called themselves the Roundhead Party - with these people, the new rule she established in Meereen and Yunkai was very stable. At the same time, it was these people who eliminated the unstable factors for the future rule of her and Drogo's descendants - those big slave owners.

In Drogo's plan, all the big slave owners in Slave Bay were on his kill list. Drogo had told her more than once that these big slave owners were the most important cornerstone for them to gain a foothold in Slave Bay - as long as they killed all these bastards who accounted for less than 1% of the population, they could turn those slaves who accounted for 70% or even 80% of the population into complete diehards.

Initially, Daenerys was very resistant. Although she had ordered the burning of many people, it was still too much of a test for her to directly remove a class. But as she learned about the situation in the Slave Bay from Drogo's ministers on the way south to the Slave Bay, Daenerys realized that as Drogo said, as long as they killed all these sinful people, they could get a thousand times more support.

So, Daenerys wielded the butcher knife without any hesitation. Her initial idea was to let the slaves do it, but she didn't expect that Lord Roundhead and his party, who had surrendered to her when she led her army to the Slave Bay, were even more determined and active.

In the words of Lord Roundhead, Slave Bay should have ended the damn slave trade long ago, instead of sticking to the old ways of the past, which would only lead to the complete demise of Slave Bay. He and the Roundhead Party are willing to change for the future.

However, Daenerys was not fooled by Lord Roundhead's words of loyalty. Pnir brought her more reliable information about Slave Bay: Lord Roundhead and his party had no advantage in the slave trade. After they had finally found a new route, they were still plundered by the Great Pyramid from time to time. They were very eager for a change of order.

This made Daenerys more confident in Lord Roundhead. Lord Roundhead was not as selfless as he claimed, but it was precisely because of this that Daenerys dared to use this man.

Drogo once told her that those whose intentions are written on their faces are the most useful, while those who you have no idea what they are thinking are those you need to be wary of.

"Khaleesi, the enemy wants to retreat. Should we send out the heavy cavalry now?"

Jag, a Jorgesnai with a long head, said that this man was an important general under Drogo and one of Drogo's earliest followers. He made countless achievements in the process.

Daenerys' attention immediately returned to the battlefield, and she saw that the flag of the Unsullied was slowly moving towards the walls of the Red Brick City. It seemed that they had realized that they were being consumed.

"One of the troops defeated the phalanx closest to the city wall, telling the good lords that at this point in the battle, it was no longer up to them to decide."

Following Daenerys's order, a long-awaited Dothraki heavy cavalry set out. The horsemen were wearing armor made by the Ilfovellons. The "Walkers in the Forest" had their own way of making armor, and those armors sparkled in the sun and looked so dazzling.

The Dothraki heavy cavalry charged towards the nearest Unsullied phalanx. The eunuchs insisted on stopping the march immediately, but even the Unsullied could not build a perfect shield wall in such a short time, so the Dothraki crushed the Unsullied.

The eunuch who had lost his spear tried his best to stab and chop, but it was useless to chop on the armor. The horsemen implemented the principle of cavalry charging infantry, which was that they must never stop. Once they stopped, the cavalry would die.

Following the centaur heavy cavalry, a team of horse archers wearing chain mail rushed in from the opened "blood road". These horse archers pulled out three arrows at a time and then shot them in a continuous manner. At one time, many Unsullied were shot through the face and died on the ground.

After suffering a series of attacks, most of the Unsullied in this phalanx were dead, and even the head of the commander, the Good Master, was hung on the centaur's spear. The Unsullied who had lost their commander mechanically stayed where they were.

This scene caused all the Unsullied phalanxes to stop retreating, because the good lords had seen that the centaurs were capable of breaking their seemingly indestructible phalanxes, and the good lords did not want to follow in the footsteps of the unlucky guy just now.

As a result, the Unsullied formations that were originally preparing to retreat back into the city stopped.

"Just keep on trying." This reassured Daenerys, "Even the Unsullied can't hold on any longer."

(End of this chapter)