The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 26 The Traitor Earl
  The Red Keep, this fortress famous throughout Westeros, is the royal palace of the Seven Kingdoms and the political center of the Seven Kingdoms. During the three hundred years of the Targaryen family's rule, this fortress has experienced too many wars and conspiracies, and there are many dark secrets hidden deep in the Red Keep.

And now, the castle was once again swept by war.

The stag of House Baratheon gallops on the tower of the Red Keep. Next to the stag banner is the roaring Lannister lion. They represent the two main forces currently stationed in the Red Keep.

The drawbridge of the Red Keep is spread out like a prostitute's legs. The device connecting the drawbridge has been destroyed by the infiltrated Targaryen supporters. The chain hangs weakly on the wall, looking like a pair of torn pants.

The drawbridge was strewn with corpses, including those belonging to House Ryker in their pickaxe smocks, the defenders of the Red Keep, their red smocks stained with blood, and the King's Landing thugs who had joined in the chaos.

Even though the gate of the Red Fort was opened, the attackers still failed to capture it. The flag belonging to the royal family still fluttered strongly over the Red Fort. Behind the open gate, I don’t know when the defenders set up fortifications. The spear with its red shaft showed its fangs.

On the walls of the Red Fort, the defenders were firing arrows non-stop, while under the walls, the attackers relied on temporary fortifications to fight back non-stop. Both sides went back and forth, but it seemed that the side attacking the Red Fort was relatively amateurish, and the other side had a height advantage, so people kept getting shot down.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean you have no one left?"

In a house not far from the front line that had the wall facing the Red Keep demolished, Lord Riverdale Lake of Duskendale said angrily. In front of him were several guild presidents who participated in the rebellion. There are also several leaders of big gangs.

Facing the Earl's anger, these guild presidents and leaders flinched, but some people still stood up to face the Earl, "Your Majesty Earl, our troops are really not enough. The good boys of the guild have suffered heavy losses, and we can't afford to die. "

"Can't afford to die? Let me tell you what it means to not be able to afford to die!" Count Revrey was angered by these words. He walked up to the speaker and put the dagger directly on his neck. The president was frightened by the count's fierce movements and didn't even dare to move.

"If we fail, we will not just have a dagger on our necks, but all of us will be hanged. If we are lucky enough to go to the Great Wall, the fate of our families will be even more miserable. As a result, tell me now, will you die?" Recruiting people? This is such a critical moment. Get all your people out quickly. Only by taking down the Red Fort can we have a chance of survival."

Under Count Revrey's roar, which was almost equivalent to a roar, the president and the leaders quickly moved to organize their men to prepare for another wave of attacks on the Red Castle. Looking at their figures, the Count felt that this group of People just need to take care of things, and they have to get angry before they take out things.

Count Revrey was not idle either, and quickly organized the family's elite forces again to prepare for another attack on the Red Castle. While keeping the family knights busy, the Earl couldn't help but start thinking, is he doing the right thing?

Unlike those families with long heritage, the rise of the Lake family actually only happened in the past few decades. Their home castle, Duskendale City, did not belong to them decades ago.

The former owner of Duskdale City was the Darklin family. Their rule was originally extremely stable, but after they foolishly kidnapped the Mad King and caused the chaos in Duskdale City, this family's rule over Duskdale City ended.

After Darklin was exterminated, the Lake family took over Darklin's position. Riverey still remembers his father's joy when he received the news. After all, this made their family a leader in the Seven Kingdoms. family, so in the Usurper War, the Lake family naturally supported the Mad King with almost everything they had.

Thanks to the blessings of the Seven Gods, the Lake family's army did not suffer the greatest losses in the war, but the old Earl Lake died in the battle, and he, the young Lake heir, inherited the title of earl.

If he had inherited his father's title in normal times, Rivery would have only been happy after the sadness passed. But what's terrible is that he became an earl in a troubled time.

With the Baratheon family taking over King's Landing, the new dynasty will definitely purge the former Targaryen supporters, and the Lake family, as a family promoted by the Mad King himself, will naturally bear the brunt.

After becoming an earl, Rivere couldn't sleep well at all. He was afraid that one day the new master of King's Landing would send someone to take away everything from their family. However, no matter how uneasy the mood was, it would be smoothed over with the passage of time. Just as Rivere Lei felt a little relieved, thinking that the king would no longer pursue the past, but the arrival of a piece of order changed everything.

The order came from the Iron Throne. When he first received the order, Rivery even thought it was an order from King's Landing to deprive him of his title. However, he later discovered that it was a nobleman who had once sided with the Targaryens and led an army to King's Landing to participate in the Seven Gods' expedition. The command of atonement.

Later, Rivere learned that this order was directed at the Targaryen nobles throughout Westeros. However, the big nobles, such as Tyrell, also brought out some supplies to show their appreciation, but Martell simply ignored him. King's Landing, but small nobles like them have no choice but to respond to the king's orders. After receiving the order, Count Revrey hesitated for a long time. He was thinking about what the king meant by this? He didn't believe that the king just let them lead the army to King's Landing to atone for his sins. There must be some political intention behind this. But the sad thing is that no matter how much he thinks, he can't figure out the Iron Throne's intention to do this.

In the end, Lord Revrey decided to go to King's Landing with as many troops as possible. No matter what the Iron Throne planned to do, there was always room for maneuver with more soldiers around him.

After going to King's Landing, Count Revrey found that the situation in the capital was too complicated. Various news about King's Landing was flying all over the sky. People believed that the so-called Seven Gods Expeditionary Force was used to replace the civilians of King's Landing. In the circle of nobles, There are rumors that this so-called expeditionary force intends to massacre them.

At first, Count Riverley dismissed such remarks. They were nobles anyway, and the king would not massacre them with a group of mud-legged people. But as the rumors became more and more intense, he began to beat his heart.

The rumors reached their peak when the expeditionary force arrived, because along with the expeditionary force, there were also two bastards, the Mountain and Amochi. King's Landing still remembers these two people, because it was they who took the lead. The Sack of King's Landing caused a lot of killings in King's Landing. Many of King's Landing's wealthy families and true dragon supporters died at their hands, and they also murdered Targaryen princes and princesses.

Their arrival made the common people and nobles gathered in King's Landing believe that massacre was inevitable. As the golden robes found weapons and equipment on the dock, the entire King's Landing exploded, and then the Magic Mountain and Amochi The two bastards also quickly drove into the city, followed by Lake's action.

For him, the arrival of these two people was even more frightening. He once made a joke to Lord Tywin that "there is gold in every poop". He still remembered that Tywin stared at him with his eyes fixed on him. He was furious that Tywin didn't look at him like that until he apologized.

Recalling the look in Tywin's eyes, Rivere still felt scared, so the arrival of Tywin's beast made him unable to sit still.

Most of the nobles gathered in King's Landing were unwilling to take risks. Many of them only brought some symbolic troops and had no possibility of doing anything. But the Lake family was different. He directly brought thousands of people.

Moreover, after Rivere arrived in King's Landing, the city has been in contact with him, explaining to him the interests of all parties and the benefits of restoring Targaryen. Rivere was moved. If he could capture the Red Keep, then The nobles who control King's Landing and support the Targaryens will surely rise again. When he welcomes back the descendants of the exiled Targaryens, he will gain great power.

But at that time, he could only feel excited. It was not until the arrival of the Magic Mountain that he made up his mind. The arrival of the Magic Mountain meant that the Iron Throne would raise its butcher's knife, and he had been in contact with the Targaryen forces in King's Landing for so long. Once he was discovered, , that was also the target of execution, not to mention that Tywin probably still remembered what he had done.

Compared with him, although other nobles also have contact with Targaryen supporters in the city, they are not as big of a problem as the Lake family. The Targaryen color in them is too strong.

Moreover, if the Iron Throne wants to replace their family, they can find someone at any time. The "fearless" Barristan still serves as the king's Kingsguard, and his squire Dontos Hollard has grown up. As long as the Iron Throne is willing, King Robert could restore the title of "the child persecuted by the dragon" at any time.

As for why this child can inherit the title, it is because the Darklin family has been married to the Hollard family for a long time. The relationship between the two families is very close, so it was also affected after the rebellion in Duskendale City. Only one young The child survived under the persuasion of the "fearless" Barristan, the knight who rescued the Mad King. This child is now the direct heir of Duskendale City.

After the Lannister beasts entered the city, Rivere led his army to follow them. He seized the opportunity for the beasts to attack and massacre the King's Landing guild, and raided the Lannister people from behind. These scum did not expect that there would be people behind them. Attack, the attacked guild also seized the opportunity to exert force, and they were defeated in an instant.

Yamoqi was killed directly. Although the magic mountain still found a bloody way to escape, it was enough. Just running away from the magic mountain would not hinder anything.

Then he launched a siege on the Red Fort. Capturing the Red Fort was the most important, and all subsequent plans relied on it. But it was a pity that even if there were insiders who destroyed the defense of the Red Fort in advance, the strength of the fortress would still be Beyond their expectations, the gates of the Red Keep were guarded by hundreds of Lannister elites, who were also supported by hundreds of capital guards who were completely loyal to the new dynasty.

Riverey's team once broke in, but was quickly driven out, which made the count furious. He then organized several attacks in succession, but due to the fact that the people in the guild and gang were too useless, he failed in the end. .

At this time, the Earl also became anxious, and huge pressure was on his shoulders. If he could not capture the fortress in front of him as soon as possible, he would probably be hanged by the Iron Throne! Hanged like a pariah!

(End of this chapter)