Eagle of the Valley of Ice and Fire

"Loras and my queen, where are they?"

Water. And water, I'm dying of thirst. Who has water?

Alister Florent stared at Renly Baratheon, who was lying on the bed and mumbling, and his heart seemed to be trapped in the swamp of the rainforest, struggling.

He saved Florent's cavalry and took Renly to retreat westward.

When passing through Midsummer Hall, he received the news that Prince Oberyn of Dorne had captured Horn Hill.

He didn't know how many troops Dorne had sent, but this force was rapidly approaching the High Court of the Tyrell family.

More than 10,000 cavalrymen of Renly fled in all directions. They were almost unable to resist due to the influence of the poisonous water. They were rushed by Stannis's cavalry and fled in all directions without discipline.

Nearly 4,000 Stormland cavalry chose to surrender directly. As Baratheon's subjects, they had no psychological burden at all. Most of these cavalrymen were knights or squires, and many of them were heirs of the Stormland nobles. King Stannis was also wise. This move was equivalent to controlling most of the Stormland.

If the people survive but the land is lost, both the people and the land will survive.

In this situation, I am afraid that everyone would think that the Florents would choose to bow to King Stannis. After all, the Florents are the queen family of King Stannis, but Alister did not choose this. He protected Renly and fled all the way to the west, ignoring all the River Reach cavalry who were stranded in the Storm Hills and were unfamiliar with the terrain.

Brightwater is too close to Highgarden, Oldtown, and Horn Hill. Being in the core circle of the nobles of the River Reach, Alister did not dare to abandon the identity and honor of the southern nobles at the most difficult time in the River Reach. Otherwise, unless Stannis really ascended the Iron Throne and gave the Florents great power and benefits, they were destined to have a hard time in the River Reach.

At that time, I am afraid that the nobles of the River Reach will not leave Florent any face.

Alister took a deep breath, looked at the unconscious Renly, and the anxiety of dealing with difficult matters surged in his heart.

If Renly died at this time, most of the nobles in the Reach would probably think that Floren had killed the king and betrayed Highgarden; if he didn't die and returned to Highgarden, they would probably reward the Floren family heavily. By then, the strategy of Brightwater City, which had always been pursuing both sides and acting at the right time, would have lost its truth.

The embarrassing situation of the Floren family made it difficult for Alister to make a decision, and he sighed helplessly.

Alister Floren thought of the Queen of Thorns in Highgarden. The reason why he was timid was not only because of the position of the Reach, but also because he was afraid of the tricky woman's tactics.

The dazzling red and gold fox emblem was printed on Arlecan Floren's arm armor. He wiped the long sword in his hand, and there was blood in the corners of his eyes, like scarlet tears.

After hearing the news that a Lannister detachment was marching toward the Westerlands along the Golden Road, he decisively moved his own camp forward without any disguise or scouts, intending to let Tywin Lannister discover his tracks.

As expected, this detachment marching toward Deepfort along the Golden Road should be a relatively important step in Lannister's deployment.

Thousands of Westerland cavalry attacked his forward-deployed camp at night, and the direct vassals of Highgarden and Horn Hill were nakedly exposed to the lion's mouth of Lannister, with countless casualties (Chapter 134).

He also mixed in some of Florent's knights to avoid appearing to be too rough, and even used himself as bait, personally leading thousands of infantry to support the front camp where the battle had basically ended, and killed a dozen lone Westerland cavalry.

Arleken personally chopped down several of them.

The Florents are foxes, and foxes often take care of everything.

Renly was defeated in the Stormlands, tens of thousands of cavalrymen were scattered, and only Randyll Tarly's 8,000 cavalrymen remained intact. This news was not enough to shock the army of the Reach at Bitterbridge.

Dorne's raid was the main reason for the panic in the military camp. The nobles of the Tarly family, especially Dickon Tarly, the heir of the Tarly family who clamored to be the vanguard all day long, now kept silent about the war with the Lannisters, but worried about his mother and sister at Horn Hill all day long.

After his carefully designed defeat, Garlan Tyrell was able to maintain the order of the army, which showed his outstanding ability.

It's a pity that his brother Willas was not there, otherwise his little tricks would not be hidden from the Tyrell family.

Willas and Garlan are both meticulous Highgarden Roses, but it's a pity that compared with the former, Garlan Tyrell has more of the uprightness that noble officers like, and less tact.

Every day, knights fled south with their squires and conscripts from their respective territories. As the commander of the infantry, Arlecan Florent could only command less than 20,000 troops, all of which were under the command of nobles who were close to Brightwater or far from Horn Hill.

He didn't know what news the second son of the Tyrell family had received, but he actually kept his troops at Bitterbridge and sent himself as a vanguard to harass the Lannister army in the Golden Road area.

Arlecan Florent often heard Thaddeus Rowan secretly cursing their king Renly, complaining that his father was missing, complaining that Renly's endless banquets in Golden Tree City had exhausted Rowan's winter food, and complaining that Rowan's proud cavalry was wasted in the Hills.

It was not until then that Arlecan thought of his father who was also missing in the Hills.

Willas Tyrell stood on the wall of Highgarden with a cane and a lame leg.

This is the outermost wall of Highgarden. Like the last two walls, it is built of white marble.

The elegant and slender round tower finally revealed its original role. The huge catapult slowly turned. The soldiers of Highgarden were stepping up to assemble the fortifications on the city wall, working hard day and night.

Outside the walls of Highgarden, there were endless green fields and neatly planned stone steps. Villages and towns were located on both sides of the winding road.

Even in the tense situation, Highgarden in the long summer could not see the shadow of war. There were only gurgling streams irrigating the fields and artistic sculptures lined up inside. This place was a beautiful and prosperous existence after its own management, but it was destroyed by the Dornishmen who sprang out of the sand like venomous snakes.

The pain in the knees had long gone from the original fall from the horse's back, but now it was aching, as if telling himself that a venomous snake is a venomous snake, and forgiving a venomous snake is burying the water of disaster.

Oberyn Martelvillas murmured in his mouth that he did not want to be an enemy of this friend, but he never showed Dorne the edge of Highgarden's sword. The Dornishmen stabbed him with their spears first.

"My Lord!" the knight exclaimed, pointing to the distance.

The fire became more and more fierce, almost burning half of the sky red.

The farmland managed by the people of the Reach was entangled by the devil's flames and could not break free, and the green fields became a sea of ​​fire.

"Prepare to meet the enemy." Willas said softly.

The soldiers of Highgarden looked solemnly at the flames in the distance until they gradually became charred, the fire became smaller, and extinguished.

Willas frowned tightly, his eyes fixed on the distance, but he did not see the shadow of a Dornishman.

"They... just come to set a fire?" Willas Tyrell said to himself uncertainly, clenching his fists.