The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 98 The second expeditionary force goes south

The Jihad Port became lively due to the arrival of the second expeditionary force, because with the second expeditionary force came not only the tens of thousands of soldiers, but also several times this number of people.

Even though Jihad Port has a lot of experience in accepting large numbers of people, the influx of so many people in a short period of time still made the port managers overwhelmed, so outside the Jihad Port, a lot of messy shacks quickly grew up. .

However, the second expeditionary force did not stay at the Jihad Port for long. After the soldiers crossing the sea recovered, the second expeditionary force broke out of camp and embarked on the road south.

The second expeditionary force set off so eagerly that they were unwilling to wait, because judging from the information coming from the East, if you want to get good things, you have to act quickly. Although the East has many interests, it is best to You also have to grab it first.

Now, on the plains, a large army is marching south. The flags of this large army are messy. Flags representing different families are flying above the heads of the soldiers like they are competing for beauty. Behind the soldiers who are marching in line, there is a huge crowd of people. .

According to the experience of the first expedition, the strong men among the people have equipped themselves with simple spear throwers and slings, so that they can play some role on the battlefield. Even if they cannot fight, throwing sticks and stones is always no problem. of.

When a lord announces that he will join the expedition, the people in his territory will naturally join him. These people will always follow their lord, because they don't know who to follow except the lord.

On the way forward of the second expeditionary army, just like the first expeditionary army, there were always nobles and people leaving the team, either settling and cultivating on the suitable land they chose, or settling in those abandoned villages. In the castle.

However, the great nobles who formed the core of the second expeditionary force were determined and were not moved by so many unclaimed lands on the plains. They had higher goals. Compared with the goals, these lands were not worth anything at all. carry.

"What other ideas? What other ideas do they have? Could it be that they want to find the Dragon King's children? But we don't know where they are now."

"I just have this feeling, but then again, who among the parties here doesn't have their own little thoughts? Just think that I have thought more about it. Anyway, no matter what the purpose of the Darry family is, as long as they are not in harmony If we have a conflict, let’s just ignore it.”

What the bastard said with a smile successfully made the Freys, including Inis, laugh. Before heading to the east, they had all heard about the reputation of the Dothraki in the east. They thought they were an army. It was a formidable enemy that was difficult to fight against, but when I came into contact with them, I found that they were a group of idiots without armor. Let alone fighting on horseback, they could be shot to death by just letting the crossbowmen shoot arrows.

"Aenys, do you think we allies can be counted on?" Walder Rivers said thoughtfully after the two Frey brothers left, "Boton and Darry, what do you think?"

These kings and stormland nobles also invested a lot in the east, and also gained the support of some locals, so the force they could bring out was still very large, and the total number of the second expeditionary force soon reached 20,000. above.

And some left, and some increased. The kings and stormland nobles scattered in the plains joined the second expeditionary force and went south with the expeditionary force.

Aenys analyzed the Dothraki. Although the centaurs were a little funny, Aenis still saw the merits of these barbarians. But sadly, those kaos would only make the centaurs charge blindly - but this was not good for them. That's a good thing.

The Targaryen on Darry was so heavy that Walder Rivers immediately thought of Targaryen.

When Valerion launched the attack on Andas, he certainly did not forget to drive the centaurs, and those horse kings who were too simple-minded did indeed lead their armies into the plains again - although they did not bring in the larger Dothraki tribe to join, but These are enough.

"I don't trust either of these two families." When he mentioned this, Inis's face turned cold. "Boton, I can't understand this person. Although his army is very elite, I can't understand him. So I don't trust him, and I don't know what this northerner is thinking, let alone what he wants. As for Darry, his family has invested almost everything in this expedition. The gamble of reviving the family is just like Grafson, but I always feel that they have some other ideas..."

Therefore, Dothraki tribes were running around everywhere on the plains. The second expeditionary force also encountered some and fought several battles with them.

After the laughter stopped, Inis's vigilance still did not drop. He asked Jerry Frey and Danwell Frey to go to the back to check the status of the troops, and then contacted Bolton and Darry.

"If I were the Khal of these Dothraki people, I would never let them die like this. Instead, I would use their riding and archery skills to harass the enemy and attack the enemy's weak points. However, the Seven Gods are above us, we must be lucky. Horse people don't have this kind of brain, otherwise it would never be so easy now."

Walder Rivers, the current leader of the Eastern Freys, echoed that the Frey bastard immediately rushed to the Holy War Port to join his brothers after receiving the news that Aenys was crossing the sea. "We have only been here for two years. As a result, they have to clash with centaurs almost every month. Fortunately, these fools are weak enough. They don't wear armor. They think it is some kind of glory. I wonder if they will think so when the sharp blade falls. "

"This is a very good land. It will never be so desolate in Westeros." Aenys Frey, the leader of the second expeditionary army, said as he looked at the flat land passing by in front of his eyes. "But, here is also It’s so smooth, no wonder those weak horse people are a problem here.”

"Yeah, brother."

Inis recalled Old Frey's instructions and said that this expedition is an important springboard for Frey to expand his career in the East. All forces that can be united must be united.

"Furthermore, the Darry family really has such an idea. It's not us who are bothered by this matter, but the child. He has been biting the Darry family like a mad dog recently, trying to find anything in them that might betray the Iron Throne. Clues.”

The child Aenys was talking about was Dontos Hollard, the only member of the Hollard family to survive the Mad King and the first heir to Duskendale. He was involved in King's Landing because of his foolish involvement in the Lake family. After being sent to the Great Wall during the rebellion, he naturally became the 15-year-old Earl of New Mud Valley City. Among the expeditionary forces, this young earl has the clearest purpose, because he has made it very clear that he came to the east to avenge the descendants of Targaryen. After all, his family was uprooted by the Mad King. , the earl is naturally full of hatred for Targaryen.

As loyal subjects of Targaryen, the Darry family still respected Targaryen even after being severely punished by the new dynasty for taking the wrong side. Naturally, the little earl bit them like a mad dog. He seemed to It was determined that Darry might betray him at any time.

Speaking of the little earl, this Frey and half Frey looked at the team of the Hollard family. The coat of arms of the Hollard family is red and pink horizontal stripes on the lower part, and three gold crowns on a blue background on the upper part. Their arriving army was second only to Frey, Bolton, and Darry, because all parties in Duskendale were eager to use the expedition to clear their status as traitorous subjects to Robert.

When Dontos was mentioned, the atmosphere between the two became much more relaxed. It was much easier to talk about this kid who had everything written on his face than to talk about those old foxes who knew what they were thinking.

"By the way, Ward, is it appropriate for you to leave everything to Merry? You know, his brain..." Inis did not speak clearly, because it was difficult to speak after all.

"Merry has accepted the test. The strong Merry back then is back. Although he has some disease problems, he is much better than before." When he mentioned Merry, Wade's tone immediately became better. As a Buddha in the East together, The brotherhood between the Lei family's pioneering partners has been greatly strengthened.

"That's good." Aenys's words were simple, but Walder could hear that he was happy for his brother's situation. Old Frey's older sons - including the illegitimate children - had always been very united, and the old man was very happy. It took many years to implant the concept of family unity into their hearts.

However, when thinking about this matter, Ward felt a haze in his heart. As his father got older and older, he had more and more children and grandchildren, and he was unable to educate these younger generations. He should not educate these younger generations, so the younger generation The antagonism and estrangement between them is becoming more and more serious.

And not every child is as good at educating as their father. Many of Frey's descendants have failed in education. For example, Inis is a typical failure...

Thinking of this, Walder River wanted to ask Aenys about his two useless sons, but he swallowed the words as soon as they came to his mouth. Even if they were brothers who had a good relationship, if he mentioned his sons , Inis is afraid that he will also fall out...

"Where's Lu Chen? Do you have any news about him?"

Inis's words brought Wade's thoughts back to reality, "Lu Chen, he is in Twin Star City. I used to be worried about him, but I am not worried anymore. Lord Hugo has solved the siege of Twin Star City. Speaking of which, I didn’t expect that he was the fastest among the Eastern Freys to climb to such a high position.”

Speaking of Lu Chen, Walder lamented that this brother had directly become a very important figure among the people of Eastern Westeros. Although he had grown from an illegitimate child to a lord with a land as large as an ordinary earldom, he had nothing to do with Lu Chen. Chen is still not good enough in comparison.

As one of the three men under Hugo, Lu Chen is now a well-known presence in Westeros. He is promoted by poets as a typical representative of Westeros people who make fortunes in the East and change their lives.

However, Walder was not jealous, just envious. Frey was a united whole. After Lu Chen became a big shot in Andas, he tried his best to insert Frey's juniors into the government of Andas, and sent people to Andas to go to Andas. Stifrey and the others basically arranged it.

Aenys had a similar attitude, but compared to his successful brothers, Aenys cared more about that name. The name he had heard countless times when he was still in Westeros - Hugo.

"Ward, tell me about Hugo."

Inis has been curious about Hugo for a long time. This is a being who shakes the entire Westeros by himself. It is he who set off this craze for expeditions. Inis really wanted to see this man. If he was not eager to go to the south to fight for interests, and the pearl of the narrow sea - Pantos, he would definitely go to see Hugo first.

Yes, the goal of the second expeditionary force is Pantos. It would be too ugly to rob those unclaimed lands with the forces that have already developed there. In this case, then go to Pantos and guard those Pantos. The people have proven their weakness.

"Lord Hu Ge is a very strange man. The Seven Gods take care of him, but he always emphasizes that 'He who helps himself will be helped by God'. Then he creates one miracle after another with these words."

When talking about Hugo, Ward's tone was complicated. He wanted to say a lot about Hugo, but in the end he didn't say it because it was too much, but he didn't know how to summarize it.

Inis nodded and listened to all this. He was looking forward to seeing Hugo even more, but at the next moment, Inis found that there was a cavalry in front of them carrying their Frey flag. They were moving very fast. It raised a lot of smoke and dust.

Aenys immediately became alert. He stared at the cavalry, trying to see what they looked like, and he did see a familiar face. That was Hosteen Frey, his brother.

But he didn't relax because he saw a familiar face. Instead, he became more nervous. Hosteen was commanding the scouts. His eagerness must mean that the scouts had discovered something, and here, that only meant one thing.

"There was an army in front of me. It was very large. I also saw ships made of stars and a bear with an axe."

Starship and Ax Bear accepted these two confidences. Inis immediately understood who they were facing. "I didn't expect to meet so soon. In this case, let's have a good fight and tell us the news." Allies, tell them that if they want to get what they want, they have to fight hard."

Inis did not show any fear due to the appearance of the enemy. On the contrary, what appeared was excitement, excitement in his bones. After coming to the East, he has been eager to establish his own legend, and now this opportunity is in front of him. before!
(End of this chapter)