The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 81 The persistent prince

When he saw the extremely ugly city walls of Ge Dohena and the beautiful ruins, Valerion Tirecidus, who was riding on his horse, felt unreasonably relaxed for a while.

As a top nobleman from the forty families of Pentos, Valerion looked back on his past life and found that he had never hindered himself, and everything went smoothly no matter what he did.

Even the thrill of inciting anti-Braavos sentiment in order to become the only truly powerful Prince of Pentos in hundreds of years was actually a near miss.

When he became a prince, commanded the entire Pentos, and made the governors who should have turned him into a puppet kneel at their feet, Valerian thought that he would only go higher, and all external enemies would be swept away by him. His old rival Bravo The hegemony stolen from them will also be returned to its original owner.

However, what he encountered next was one nail after another. The Andals uprising that was supposed to be easily solved in the plan ended up being completely screwed up. The adventurers from Westeros rebuilt the kingdom of the Andals, and then the Andals uprising was completely screwed up. Coming down, more Andals are about to cross eastward.

These things all hit Valerian, but he quickly adjusted his emotions and devoted himself to the struggle with the Andals. The situation was far from desperate. The arrival of the adventurers from Westeros broke the balance of the Andals. Now Including Pentos, five Free Cities have joined the siege of Westeros.

This kind of thing rarely happens. The last time this happened, Volantis tried to reestablish Valyrian hegemony and was besieged by all parties.

He was very anxious, but the Braavos people were even more anxious. Their fleet was defeated by the Westeros people. Seeing the Braavos people like that, Valerion still felt very satisfied. This was his It was the first time I saw a Braavosi man in such a miserable state, and he was so anxious that he even lowered his face to win over him.

When he first became prince, the Braavos people chose to ignore him due to their unequivocal anti-Braavos attitude. This made the prince very angry. He was not afraid of Braavos retaliating, which was exactly what he wanted. However, the disregard and even contempt of the Braavos people caused him a lot of trouble.

The prince weighed the forces at hand and concluded that the most reliable to him was always the Unsullied, and he needed to buy more Unsullied.

The Braavos people were indeed very efficient. Soon they brought three thousand Unsullied. With the addition of this team, Valerion was not lonely. He immediately mobilized Pentos' army and added The Golden Regiment pulled out 20,000 troops.

Braavos presented such a good opportunity. Naturally, he took this opportunity to disgust Braavos. When he thought of asking the Braavos to use their fast ships to buy the Unsullied in Slaver's Bay, Bu The prince's mood immediately improved due to the expression on Messenger Lavos's face.

Under his policies, many big families have succumbed. After Villerian let the Golden Company confiscate the home of a forty family member and sent all the men of the family into the army, no one was able to control the infractions. The children and elites of the family were sent out one after another.

Valerion is very disdainful of the word games played by the people of Braavos, but since they can fulfill their requests, Valerion has no intention of paying attention to these word games - anyway, the matter itself is... Braavos has been disgusted enough.

Braavos's fleet is the fastest among the nine free trade city-states, and it takes the least time to send this fleet to Slaver's Bay to purchase the Unsullied. What's even better is that, for Braavos, Doing so will undoubtedly make them as sick as eating flies.

Braavos finally agreed to his request - it seemed that the Braavos were indeed in a hurry - they used a trick, that is, they announced that the Braavos fleet that had arrived in Slaver's Bay was "sold" to Pantos.

Now, the people of Braavos have sent an envoy to say that "the conditions are whatever they want." This shows how anxious Braavos is to kill the adventurers of Andas, and it seems that they are imminent.

Considering the experience of the last failure, Villerion believed that a large army was useless, so he eliminated the army. A large number of slave soldiers and ordinary free civilian soldiers were eliminated from this recruitment. The reason for the elimination was also It's simple - if you don't have enough fighting power, don't be a burden with the army.

The 10,000 Pentos people mobilized this time are all the elites of Pentos. Valerion forced the forty families of Pentos to come up with their elites. If anyone is unwilling to do so, he will send the Unsullied. "Greetings" to that family.

At the same time, in order to set an example, Valerian mobilized his entire family. As one of the forty families of Pentos, Tirecidus also had a large number of branches and clansmen, and Valerian mobilized them all. ——He is so crazy about mobilizing the true essence of Pentos, so his own family must set an example, otherwise he will not be able to convince the public at all.

As a city founded by escaped slaves, Braavos has a strong aversion to slaves and slavery. The Valyrian Free Fortress is still there. As a escaped slave of Valyria, Braavos takes off his cloak. Compensation was immediately made to the descendants of the owners of the ships they had taken when they fled from Valyria, but even so, they refused to compensate the slave owners.

He also knew that even though the Braavos people said that "the conditions are up to him," they could not unconditionally agree to his request. He couldn't open his mouth like a lion, so he chose such a person who could disgust the Braavos people. , and can get yourself the help of reliable power.

Let the Braavos fleet go to Slaver's Bay to purchase the Unsullied. Valerion can imagine how terrible Sea King's expression was when he learned the news. Braavos is a free city and an anti-slavery city, and this The people of this city are going to buy the Unsullied One as the embodiment of slavery.

He also requested a large number of weapons from Braavos. Although the land warfare in the Secret City is rubbish, the armory is full of weapons and armor. The mercenaries who serve as cannon fodder for the Secret City can get weapons from them. He had long wanted to kill the Braavos, and now he finally succeeded.

With this streamlined and redressed army, Prince Valerian confidently led his army on the eastward journey. His goal was Ge Doho. The prince planned to quickly conquer this city on the Valyrian Avenue. hub, further marching towards Andas.

The governors were very dissatisfied with his behavior, and some people clearly expressed their objections. However, as Villerion let the Unsullied rush in, the opponents quickly shut up. When faced with the sword, no matter how flexible they were, The mouth also looked so pale and weak.

When leaving, Villerion did not forget to leave behind many Unsullied people to ensure that the city was under his control. Otherwise, he suspected that if he stepped forward, he would be overthrown - his rule had already been overthrown due to an incident. The series of radical measures are unstable, but if they win, these problems will not be a problem.

However, after doing these things, Villerion sometimes suddenly realizes that he is like a gambler, almost putting everything on the line, but soon he shakes his head and throws these thoughts away. In the back of his mind, how could he, the forty families of Pentos, be the same as the gamblers on the street. However, what the prince did not expect was that after the army set off, Ge Duohe, who in his eyes should be easily captured, actually blocked his army - no, it was not Ge Duohe, he even now Du just saw Ge Duohe, because what blocked him was the fortress group before Ge Duohe.

The prince thought that these wooden castles could be easily captured. He knew that the so-called rebel army guarding the wooden castles, and Villerian looked down upon the fighting power of these people at all.

It's not like he has never seen slave rebels before. These people are weak, timid, and have low combat effectiveness. They only need to be attacked by fully armed soldiers to collapse. With such a huge army this time, he will surely be able to easily capture these fortresses.

As a result, he kept running into obstacles. The Golden Company repeatedly reported heavy losses, and these mercenaries also began to work hard. After secretly scolding the Golden Company for not working hard, he also sympathized with the corps. After all, the Golden Company had tried their best in previous wars. Then he sent the Pentos army and the Unsullied, but the result was heavy losses, and they still ran into trouble with the slaves guarding these fortresses.

Prince Villerion recalled the days when he kept receiving all kinds of bad news. He really wondered if something had changed in the world, and slaves actually had such fighting power.

However, although the losses were heavy, they eventually slowed down, and Villerion was able to lead the army and truly come to the front of Ge Dohe.

And when he was leveraging the fortress group for a few months, Andas's army had arrived, and he had to face Hugo again. Thinking of that Hugo, although Prince Villerion's outward emotions remained unchanged, he still felt a shadow in his heart. That Hugo caused him to suffer an unprecedented failure.

But Villerion quickly dispersed these emotions. It was before, and now is now. Now five free trade city-states are besieging Andas at the same time. The failure of the Andal Kingdom is just a matter of time.

That Hugo was forced to distribute a large number of troops on various battlefields, and was forced to use fewer troops to face his elite. The prince was confident that victory would definitely belong to him.

It would be better if that Hugo chose to avoid the battle in the ruins. This guy was running towards death. He was not the only one who attacked Andas this time.

Looking at the city wall of Ge Duohe, the shadows in Prince Villerion's heart towards Hugo are quickly disappearing. He firmly believes that the next victory must belong to him, and all the shame of failure will be washed away.

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Under the city wall of Ge Duohe, the troops under the seven-pointed star were in emergency formation, and their leader, Hu Ge, now the ruler of Andas, was riding his horse on a high slope outside the ruined city, looking at Watching the Pentos army unfold in front of them.

Hugo was still a little emotional about Prince Villerion's decisive challenge. The prince looked so confident that he actually accepted the challenge directly.

When Villerian's army appeared in Ge Dohe, Hugo did not hesitate and sent a letter to the prince directly inviting him to fight. At that time, most people, including Hugo, thought that he would not accept the challenge. , the troops should be given a period of rest no matter what.

The result was that Prince Villerian accepted the challenge without hesitation.

You know, it took the Pentos army a long time to break through Ge Duohe's fortress group. These continuous small fortresses consumed a large amount of the enemy's troops under the protection of the determined defenders, and even more so. Exhausted.

After Hu Ge's army came to Ge Duohe, they have been recuperating in the ruined city, waiting for work. Hu Ge lived a leisurely life during that period. He only occasionally arranged some assault missions, and other times he waited for Pan. The Toss people slowly came over and received intelligence from other fronts at the same time, taking the battle situation into their hands.

Hugo also visited the city of Ge Dohor. Although it had been reduced to ruins, with rubble from different periods piled up in many places, the city of Rhoynar was still beautiful. Hugo had to admit that the Rhoynar people's The level of craftsmanship is very high.

Speaking of which, although the Andals claimed that their forging technology came from the Seven Gods, according to researchers in the Free Trade City, they learned the forging technology from the Rhoynar. Hugo once supported the former, but with the He saw the ruins of the Rhoynar city and had to admit that even the Rhoynar thousands of years ago seemed to be of a higher level than the Andals of the East today.

Therefore, Hu Ge's army has a huge advantage over the enemy forces that broke through the fortress group and reached Ge Duohe. If the war started at this time, Hu Ge's army would definitely be in an advantage.

But even so, Prince Villerion still accepted the challenge. I don't know whether he was confident or eager to wash away the humiliation on his body.

Hugo has figured out that the number of enemies is about 20,000, and the number of troops he has is 18,000. After all, he has to disperse a lot of troops to various mountain passes in the Andas Mountains, and many Andas lords' troops are also responsible for their responsibility. The battlefield is different and cannot come.

However, Hugo was confident of defeating the enemies in front of him. He defeated the Pantos people for the first time, and he could also do it for the second or third time. Not to mention that the Pantos people in front of him were so eager for quick success and quick success that they would not let him go. The troops rested and then rushed forward to fight.

Hugo looked at his army. He could clearly see that compared with the Pantos people on the opposite side, his army had more morale and good spirits. And the most important thing was that the army exuded a strong This is the self-confidence that belongs to the victors. The Pentos army once suffered a terrible defeat in front of them.

Hugo turned his horses and returned to his own camp. He saw that the Pantos people had sent many cavalry, so it was time for him to retreat to the military formation. He did not want to be beheaded outside the formation.

(End of this chapter)