Dominate the Game of Thrones with Mount and Blade

Chapter 91 Arthur in the Riverlands

Arthur had just split a poor Westerland soldier and was about to search for the latest target, but he caught a glimpse of a man rushing towards him.

This man was wearing golden armor, a lion helmet on his head, a white robe on his back, a tall horse on his crotch, and a hard lance in his hand.

It was the eldest son of Duke Tywin, "King Slayer" Jaime Lannister!

This is really a rat crying cat out of its nest, looking for death.

Arthur kicked Red Hare's belly with the heel of his iron boots, and also jogged towards Jaime.

The two began to run in both directions.

The Westerland soldiers along the way retreated one after another, they didn't want to be split in two by the Riverland God of War on the back of the golden armored giant horse.

In the command center of the Westerland Army, Countess Alysanne Redford of Golden Tooth City, Damon, the head of the Malbrand family of Branded City, Earl Gawen Westerling of Crag City and other powerful people of the Westerland nobles gathered together to bet on who would win.

"I'm optimistic about Jaime. After all, he's a long-established knight."

"It's hard to say. It's said that the man on the golden horse is called Arthur, the champion of the tournament a month ago."

"The battlefield is different from the competition field. This Arthur can only chop people. His mount is too slow, so he may not be able to beat Sir Jaime."

"That's right. When he falls off his horse, a bunch of soldiers will rush up and take him down and tie him up in two moves."

"This is a battlefield. You should be more serious. People will die."

Everyone has their own opinions and views, and they started arguing. There was no powerful figure from the Lannister family to restrain them. These nobles only cared about their own mouths.

In their expectant eyes, the two horses crossed, and both of them were on the horse well, but Jaime's lance was broken.

Because the regicide's horse was too fast, Arthur only had time to put the Guandao across the horse's back, thinking that Jaime would rush up and hit the blade himself.

Unexpectedly, Jaime directly pressed down the horse's head, and he also lay on the horse's back and rushed under the knife.

The lance also pierced Arthur's calf armor accurately, but it was ineffective.

There was no way. Although Jaime's horse was tall, Arthur's horse was still one head higher than the shoulder height, which made the two people not at the same height.

Jaime turned the horse's head, pulled out a new lance from the horse's belly, fixed it on the lance rack at the right elbow, and then charged again.

Arthur didn't need to look back to know that the Kingslayer would rush over before Red Hare turned his horse's head.

Then he would be stabbed in the back.

So he got off the horse directly, raised the Guandao, and slid to the belly of Jaime's horse.

He didn't even need to use any strength, the poor horse caught the knife with its belly.

Arthur was drenched with blood, intestines, stomach and other organs from the horse's belly that fell from the head.

Even with a helmet, Arthur could feel the hot horse blood flowing into his mouth.

The horse corpse rushed forward with its head due to inertia, and James on the horse was thrown off.

Arthur got out from under the horse's hind legs, and first quickly wiped his head and face to remove some of the horse blood on his head so that it would not block his vision.

Then he turned and rushed to James, who was a little confused after being thrown.

He didn't care about the organs on his body, as long as it didn't affect his movements.

After reaching the King Slayer, Arthur directly hit James's golden helmet several times with the back of his knife, making the King Slayer even more dizzy, then he carried him on his shoulders, rushed to his giant horse, jumped on the horse and rushed to the camps of Vance and Piper.

When the giant horse turned its head, he placed James horizontally on the horse's back, and then chopped down a Westerner who wanted to save him.

Red Hare carried the two people and rushed towards the camp in small steps.

The command center of the Western Army.

The Countess of Golden Tooth City, Alysanne, was so sick of the scene she saw.

Arthur's silver plate armor and golden Guandao were dyed bright red by horse blood and horse entrails. Even from a distance, Alysanne felt that she saw the horse intestines on Arthur's body still throbbing.

The rest of the nobles were not much better. Although they were on the battlefield, they thought the fight would be exciting, but they didn't expect it to be so bloody.

After a while, someone finally realized that their commander had been kidnapped.

"He took Jaime away, chase him."

"Go, everyone who is resting in the back, go and take back Sir Jaime."

"Take back the Lannisters, and you will be rewarded with 10,000 gold dragons."

The nobles of the Westerlands gave their own orders.

However, due to the command system of this detachment, they could only command their own men.

Fortunately, the bounty of 10,000 gold dragons played a big role, and the messenger promptly conveyed it to the ears of the Westerlands soldiers who were resting in the rear.

The soldiers who were taking turns to fight were suddenly excited. The nobles promised that they just needed to snatch it back, which was much easier than killing the giant horse and golden armored warrior.

Therefore, two or three thousand Western soldiers rushed over from the vicinity of Golden Tooth City. The target was very conspicuous. They only needed to rush towards Arthur.

The Western soldiers who besieged the camp did not know the bounty of 10,000 gold dragons, so after killing more than a dozen people, the River soldiers appeared in front of Arthur.

The advantage of the tall body of Red Hare was revealed. It jumped directly over the pile of corpses, leaving thousands of River soldiers and Western soldiers to continue to chop each other.

The scattered tents, overturned ox carts, burning wooden fences, and injured soldiers were the main eye-catching things in the back.

The vest was not stained with much horse blood, so someone recognized Arthur and directed him to Clement, the head of the Paper family.

"Hey, I got the King Slayer, take people to retreat quickly." Arthur shouted.

Marco Piper, Raymond Darry, Lord Berry and others have already entered and are resting.

They looked up and saw Arthur, who was covered in blood with a piece of intestine and several pieces of meat hanging on his body, and James who was still struggling on the horse. They were all shocked and speechless.

This scene is enough for them to remember for a lifetime.

"God of Light! How many people have you killed?" Thoros muttered to himself.

The Earl of Pink City, Clermont, who was here before, was also frightened by the visitor.

"Is there really such a strong general in Hejian?"

he asked himself in disbelief.

"What are you doing standing still? Retreat. The Western soldiers behind have gone crazy. They want to take James back." Arthur shouted again.

Only then did this group of river nobles and storm land nobles who had never seen the world react.

The Earl of Clermont ordered a retreat.

Count Vance of Travel's Rest has been seriously injured, and he is now commanding the armies of the two families.

After the messengers galloped to give orders, the soldiers from the two families finally responded to the order to retreat.

Under the cover of a group of good players such as Arthur, Raymond Darry, Thoros, and Lord Berry, the Riverside Army began to retreat toward Riverrun.

Not far from the camp is the River Road, which makes the retreat much easier and faster.

Since there were too many soldiers in the West, they could only bring the slightly wounded and soldiers from Vance and Piper who could run on their own.

The Kingslayer will be handed over to Lord Clermont, and his personal soldiers will lead the Lannister all the way until they reach Riverrun.

After all, this is the biggest result since the war between Hejian and the Western Region.

After another fierce battle, the corpses of the River Soldiers and the Western Soldiers piled up into a hill, and then the soldiers of Vance and Piper completely withdrew from the camp.

"Okay, brother Raymond and others will leave first, I will take the lead alone, don't worry about me." Arthur shouted.

Thoros, who was also covered in blood, muttered: "Who has ever worried about you? I have always been worried about the soldiers from the Western Region on the opposite side."

Raymond and others were not polite and retreated on horseback.

Soldiers from the Western Region all over the mountains and plains are still rushing over in a steady stream.

The words of a bounty of 10,000 dragons have reached the ears of more than 10,000 people. The civilian soldiers who may never earn so much money in ten lifetimes have gone crazy.

Even though Arthur slashed one person at a time, he still couldn't stop the oncoming enemies.

No matter whether these enemies came voluntarily or were squeezed over.

He also had to drive Red Rabbit to run backwards slowly, otherwise when there were too many corpses piled up, Red Rabbit and Horse would be squeezed.

I don't know how much time passed, but when Arthur felt that the Guandao in his hand could not be held due to the accumulation of blood, the Western soldiers were still rushing towards him.

At this time, another pile of corpses had been piled up in front of him.

Guessing that the Hejian Army had gone far, Arthur thought it was time for him to slip away.

"Hejian Arthur is here, who dares to fight to the death with me?"

He reined in his horse and shouted.

Maybe the Western Soldiers were finally tired of fighting, or maybe his invincible momentum suppressed the Western Soldiers.

The entire battlefield suddenly became silent.

The cries of the crows in the Golden Teeth Mountains were clearly audible, echoing with the echoes of Arthur's shouts in the Golden Teeth Mountains.

The infantrymen of the Western Region finally realized that they were facing the unrivaled Hejian War God. Although ten thousand golden dragons were tempting, their own lives were also important.

So they all stopped moving forward. Although the people coming from behind slowly pushed them forward, they still stopped the attack.

Behind them, the great nobles of the Western Region saw that their soldiers' attacks had stopped, and said angrily:

"Fuck me, fuck me."

Arthur laughed when he saw the Western soldiers who did not dare to step forward and the Western nobles who shouted to me.

Laughter and echoes spread among the Golden Teeth Mountains, falling into the ears of the Western Soldiers and into the hearts of the Western Nobles.

This made the Western nobles who had a bad start even more frustrated.

"Why are you laughing? Little nobleman of the Riverlands." Someone asked loudly.

Arthur stopped laughing wildly and replied: "Wait until you understand the difference between coming with me and coming with me before you can command the army."

Looking at the Western soldiers who stopped for him alone, he felt very happy.

This is what a man should do!

"Who dares to fight to the death with me?" Arthur asked again.

Still no response.

There were more than 10,000 people in the entire Western Region, but it was as quiet as if there was no one there.

Arthur raised his knife and pointed it horizontally, "No one is a man?"

Finally, a noble from the Western Region reacted, "Archers, prepare."

Then the Western Archers in the rear began to gather, and the Western Soldiers in the front row slowly got out of the way.

Seeing that these people were really going to kill him with arrows, Arthur hurriedly turned his horse's head and officially fled.

This is not a horse-and-blade game where one can borrow a whole bunch of arrows and still be alive.

Even if his plate armor could withstand the damage, the giant horse under his crotch could not withstand the rain of arrows from the sky.

Of course, you have to say something harsh before running away.

The loser does not lose the formation.

As he rode his horse towards the north, he turned around and shouted:

"You are just playing dirty tricks, aren't you? Wait for me to form an army before fighting."

After saying that, he slipped away without looking back.

Count Gavin Westerling, Count Damon Maranbre and Lady Alexa of the West looked at Arthur riding away in silence for a long time.

After a long while, Lady Alexa said: "It's better to stay in the Golden Teeth City. This person is really unstoppable. Send a messenger crow and ask Duke Tywin to send it to the Magic Mountain. Maybe we can defeat this person."

"Madam can still see clearly."

"Just do it."

A group of people did not want to send their own soldiers to the Lannisters to die in vain, so they commanded their soldiers to station near the Golden Tooth City and wait for the order of Lord Tywin.

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After two hours of riding, Arthur caught up with the retreating River Army.

“There are only more than 2,200 people left. My family lost 800 people, and the Vance family in the City of Journeys lost 1,000 people. His family head was seriously injured.” Ma Ke said to him.

Arthur thought, isn’t there more than 2,000 people left?

If it were according to the original book, these 4,000 people would have all died outside the Golden Tooth City.

With heavy losses and no results, everyone was silent and quietly hurried along the river road.

Three days later, Riverrun.

This second-tier city in the river stands at the intersection of the Tengshi River and the Red Fork River, right at the node of a horizontal Y.

And the two rivers are already very wide near the river, so the army cannot easily cross the river.

Therefore, after thousands of years of experience, if the army of the West wants to invade the riverland along the river road, it must capture this important town surrounded by water on three sides.

If the Westerly Army invades along the Red Fork River, it must either cross the river in the territory of the upstream Pink City, or attack along the river valley between the Golden Tooth Mountains and the Red Fork River.

This is exactly the meaning of the existence of the Pink City and the City of Travel.

They are to block the attack of the Westerly Army in the upper reaches of the Red Fork River, so that the enemy can only attack Riverrun.

But Edmure is really a little stupid, and he actually let these two families block 4,000 people in the Golden Tooth City, and almost gave away these 4,000 people.

At present, the eldest son of the Tully family head who is not very smart is leading the prominent lords of the riverland out of Riverrun to welcome the two family heads and members of the King's Landing Law Enforcement Team who have "returned victoriously".

Yes, his term is to return victoriously.

The scouts had received the news that the Westerland detachment of the Golden Tooth had stopped moving forward, which made Edmure feel that his previous decision to send people to block the Westerland soldiers was correct.

After a round of greetings, many nobles boarded the boat, crossed the moat, and entered the hall of Riverrun.

Everyone sat down in the hall of Riverrun according to their status. Arthur sat in a very front position due to his outstanding military exploits.

Edmure first praised Arthur's feat of killing the Mountain with great enthusiasm, and then praised his great feat of capturing Jaime.

"Arthur contributed the most to my victory in the first battle in the Riverlands." He concluded.

He also praised the Vance and Piper families.

But the people of these two families were not happy.

The head of the Vance family had been seriously injured and died, and Carle inherited the title and territory.

The Pink City of the Piper family had been burned by Tywin's army, and the entire earldom had been destroyed beyond belief.

"The king has passed away, King's Landing is in chaos, and now we have to resist the Westerlands on our own." Edmure said.

He briefly introduced the current situation.

In the five or six days when Arthur killed the Mountain and went to the Golden Tooth.

In King's Landing, Robert died after being wounded by a wild boar, Lord Eddard was imprisoned, and Renly and the Knight of Flowers escaped with only a few followers.

Robb Stark of Winterfell has summoned the army of his vassals and is preparing to go south to rescue his father and sisters.

They will be a great help for the Riverlands.

The nobles of the other major kingdoms, the Reach and the Stormlands, have begun to gather their forces, and only the Vale and Dorne have temporarily remained on hold.

As for the Westerlands, Lord Tywin led his army north, captured the Pink City, and is now attacking the City of Travelers' Rest.

It is said that Stafford Lannister of Casterly Rock was sent to take over the detachment of the Golden Tooth, and there are 3,000 people coming with him.

This brought the Golden Tooth's troops to 16,000.

"Tywin's cavalry had already passed Stonehedge last night. Their target should be the defenseless Harrenhal." Lord Janos Bracken added.

The raven from his own territory reported the news to him.

Arthur was shocked. Tywin's speed was too fast.

"How many people?" he asked his distant uncle.

"The spies said at least a thousand. He didn't dare to get close and could only watch from afar." Janos replied.

Arthur remembered that he had set out from Harrenhal to chase the Mountain. He ran day and night and it took him three and a half days to reach the middle of the Red Fork.

Tywin's army had more people and was much less mobile than the small force he led, so it took them more than five days to reach Harrenhal.

Although Riverrun was farther away, the speed of water transportation was also faster.

Although the ships on the Red Fork were not large, there were many of them, so it was no problem to carry some soldiers eastward.

Five days is enough to take over Harrenhal before Tywin's cavalry.

"Edmure, I have to rescue Harrenhal, give me enough troops." Arthur said.

Perhaps because of the initial victory, Edmure looked a little happy, "Don't worry, while everyone is here, let's discuss the next situation and tactics."

Then the heir of Riverrun expressed his thoughts.

"We now have 18,000 people, plus more than 2,000 people from the Vance and Piper families, a total of 20,000 people, which is enough to compare with the Westerland detachment of the Golden Tooth City, so we can fight the Golden Tooth City first, and then go back to fight Tywin."

Edmure had previously gathered most of the family soldiers in the Riverlands, and the number reached nearly 30,000 at that time.

Afterwards, the Mountain and Amory Lorch's small forces successively burned, killed and looted the riverlands, so Edmure asked some nobles to return to their territory with their own soldiers for defense.

After that, he received the news of Tywin's march and summoned his vassal soldiers again.

But the number of people who came the second time was much smaller.

Many noble heads of houses had selfish motives and left some soldiers in their own territories and did not bring them to Riverrun.

But Edmure still had 20,000 people in his hands.

"You can say that you will turn around and fight Tywin?" Arthur was amused. "If Tywin really took Harrenhal, your nephew Robb would have to go south from the Twins, otherwise the soldiers of the North would have to fight with the soldiers of the West in the narrow area between the Green Fork and the Mountains of the Moon."

The military status of Harrenhal is far more than just controlling the south bank of the Red Fork.

In fact, controlling Harrenhal basically controls all traffic north of the Blackwater River.

If the North joined the war, they could either go south along the Kingsroad or go around the Twins; if the Vale sent troops, they had to go out from the Bloody Gate and then cross the Ruby Shoals before they could go south; even the Rivermen themselves, without Harrenhal, could only live north of the Red Fork.

Some people supported Arthur's point of view and wanted to lead troops to rescue Harrenhal.

Others supported Edmure's point of view, first fighting a decisive battle with the 16,000 people of the Westerland Army, and then turning back to fight Tywin.

More noble heads of families were silent.

They were convinced by the seriously ill Hoster, and the words of Edmure, the young man, and Arthur, the young boy, could not convince them.

The Pink City had been burned, and Marco decided to support Arthur's point of view to defend Harrenhal. He convinced his father Clement, which allowed Arthur to get the first army of thousands of people.

Carel of the City of Travelers was immersed in the sorrow of his father's death in the battle, and he had to worry about whether the family castle he had just inherited would be taken down by Tywin's army.

So he did not speak out.

Raymond of Darry City agreed with Arthur, but he had too few troops and was not influential, so he did not have a big impact on the positions of the nobles present.

Others, such as Earl Beric, were not good at interfering with the military strategy of the Riverlands because he was a noble of the Stormlands. The red monk Thoros was only regarded as a warrior by everyone present.

After a period of stalemate, finally a noble with enough influence publicly expressed his support for Arthur.

"I agree to send troops to defend Harrenhal, and I will give him my 2,500 people."

The statement from Janos made the scene lively.

The Frey family of the Twins did not come, so Raventree and Stonehedge were the two strongest families present except the Tully family.

The head of the main family of Bracken was enough to make some people who were waiting and watching make up their minds.

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