The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 207: The Dilemma of Braavos

"Tell the Braavos people that they have no choice but to surrender. This war has become a life-and-death struggle. One of us and Braavos will eventually be destroyed."

After several months of blockade and siege by the Andalus army, Braavos finally surrendered to the besieging army.

Although the Braavos controlled the ocean and could deliver supplies through the open sea that the Andals could not blockade, the damage caused to Braavos by the Andals cutting off the Sweetwater Canal was still extremely great.

From the beginning, the people of Braavos had anticipated that the Andals would cut off the water supply, so they stored a large amount of water. However, as the source was cut off, the water consumption of this big city far exceeded the expectations of the Palace of the Sea King.

The little water stored in the secret city was used up at an extremely fast speed.

Although new water is being delivered from outside continuously, the demand still cannot keep up with the supply, and whatever water appears on the market will be snapped up.

The people of Braavos have relied on the sweet water canal for so long that they have completely forgotten the scene when their ancestors were forced to drink bitter water. Moreover, sea erosion and urban pollution have become more and more serious over the years, and the bitter water that was still drinkable has turned into completely undrinkable sewage. Now people will get sick or even die if they drink it.

Under such circumstances, there were naturally complaints in the Secret City. However, as a fugitive slave city that had stood for hundreds of years, Braavos was at the forefront of the world in terms of city-state organization and citizen community consciousness. They quickly suppressed these dissatisfactions and maintained peace in the Secret City.

The internal situation was stable, but externally, bad news came one after another. The rebellion on the coast of Braavos and along the coast of Lorath intensified. These two places were important locations for Braavos and its vassals to obtain resources. With their loss, the ability of the Braavos fleet to supply blood to the Secret City plummeted.

Under such circumstances, even though the Secret City had a political and economic system, it became increasingly difficult to persist after losing its support base. Therefore, after several months of siege, Braavos finally began to soften to the Andals.

But Hugo's only response to them was a ruthless rejection.

After driving away the envoy from Braavos, Hugo smiled disdainfully. It was too late to think of negotiating with some sincerity at this time!

This time, Hugo was determined to kill the annoying rat of Braavos once and for all, so that it would be unable to cause him any trouble. At the same time, taking over the port of Braavos would be of great help to his future expedition to the north.

Hugo has received a letter for help from the Great Wall. Eddie said that with the departure of the wildlings, the activities of monsters and demons outside the Great Wall immediately became obvious. The Knights of the Crusade also encountered White Walkers when they were active outside the Wall. Although they successfully escaped, they still suffered heavy losses.

Now, they are trying hard to capture the wights and prove the existence of the White Walkers to the whole country. But unfortunately, Eddie said that he didn't know why, every time the captured wights were transported across the Wall, they turned back into corpses soon. He suspected that the White Walkers had some way to observe the state of the wights.

Therefore, Hugo needed to take Braavos. He needed the best port in the north of the East Continent. And given the current situation, Hugo believed that it would not be long before the people of Braavos would surrender.

Of course, Hugo did not put all his hopes on the Braavos people to surrender. In fact, he had been building a fleet these days to attack Braavos. The Secret City soon noticed Hugo's behavior, so they sent a large fleet to attack several of Hugo's shipbuilding sites and burned all the ships under construction inside, but Hugo did not take it seriously at all. This was just one of the several shipbuilding sites he used at the same time.

On the Free Folk River, there were even larger shipyards. Hugo recruited many local Andals to join the fleet. Normally, they formed an important part of the rowers of the Braavos fleet, and now he was able to use them.

Hugo is now watching the fleet growing larger and larger. He plans to use numbers to rush directly to Braavos. As long as his army lands, it will be a great victory.

Hugo felt excited and accomplished when he thought that the people of Braavos would crawl before him sooner or later.

For more than ten years, ever since he embarked on the journey eastward, the conflict with the Secret City has never stopped. His cause has greatly hindered the interests of Braavos, so the Secret City has been looking for trouble with him and organizing an alliance against him.

Now, this annoying gopher is finally going to be finished. When Hugo thought of this, he couldn't help but lean back. That was really great. These few months were not wasted.

After the pleasure of taming Braavos passed, Hugo thought of what was happening across the Narrow Sea. Then he frowned and thought of something the Lannister had done recently.

That is, they sent Myrcella Baratheon to be the wife of their son, and they did not care about his opinion and directly said that the person was on the way.

To be honest, this was something Hugo had not expected. Hugo was of course clear about the princess's background, but now that the Lannisters had won a great victory in the civil war in Westeros, it was difficult for Hugo to refuse Lannister's move.

Now Stark and Tully are half dead, the Vale of Arryn is firmly controlled by Littlefinger, who obeys the Iron Throne - this guy did something that no one expected - and Dorne remains neutral. As for the Iron Islands, Euron has not made any statement, and it is still unknown what he is preparing, but Hugo has never ignored this man's existence.

Under the current circumstances, the alliance between the lion and the rose is enough for the Lannisters to firmly grasp the Iron Throne. No matter how you look at it, the power of the new seven kingdoms comes from the Iron Throne. There are also many forces in the new seven kingdoms that recognize the Iron Throne more, not to mention the Lannisters.

So, faced with this hot potato that was suddenly pushed upon him, Hu Ge really didn't know how to respond.

It seems that although Tywin Lannister was killed by his dwarf son as in the original book, it now seems that the power of Lannister is not in the hands of that stupid woman, otherwise the current Iron Throne would never do such a thing. Hugo thought.

After thinking about it for a while, Hugo simply put the matter aside. Who cares? Since the Lannisters want to give their daughter away, let them do it. He didn't agree anyway. It would be nice to let the child stay in Hugo City first and have Kerron as a playmate.

(End of this chapter)