Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

These days, King's Landing is getting colder day by day.

It is unclear whether it is the cold wave brought by the appearance of the White Walkers, or the long night that brought the whole of Westeros into a colder winter.

Since Jaime returned to King's Landing with the Lannister army, King's Landing has lost contact with the noble castles in the north and east of the Royal Territory. Even the nearest Rosby City has only received a message of raven help a few days ago, and then there has been no news since then.

Although Rosby City is located on the road that the Royal Territory in the east of King's Landing must pass through, it is a transportation shortcut for caravans and lords to supply King's Landing, but the village is not as big as a "city" in the general sense. Many people who have been to Rosby City will be impressed by the small houses made of wooden strips and mud everywhere in the town.

All those who know the last letter of help from Rosby City know that Rosby City is probably in danger.

Because of the White Walker's advance, King's Landing became the front line, and thus faced the same problem as the defenders of the Great Wall: sending out scouts was like sending them to their deaths, and if they patrolled too close outside the city, they could not gather any intelligence, and if they patrolled too far, no scouts would return.

King's Landing knew nothing about the situation of Rosby, Staghorn, Maidenpool, Duskendale, and Crow's Roost north of the Kingsroad after the ravens were disconnected, and became blind.

Only in the south, at the southern gates under strict military control, there were occasional caravans from the south - mostly "official Targaryen smugglers" who secretly traded in the Blackwater Port, and continued to bring supplies to King's Landing.

The Targaryen side responded to the current situation of King's Landing: "We hope that King's Landing can stabilize and play the role of a central city in Westeros. As a bridgehead, it will keep one end of the King's Road during the Long Night, curb the possibility of the White Walker army breaking through from King's Landing, and prevent them from further harming the area. Most of the military forces have been transferred to the Stormlands and northeastern Southland on the front line of the Great Wall by King Viserys. At this point, the Targaryen side is also willing to be frank and make it clear that the Targaryen army has only more than 2,000 troops deployed in the front of the Stormlands and northeastern Southland, just to appease the local area and receive refugees. The main force is all in the middle of Stonetown and other key hubs. Now that the hinterland is full of White Walkers, only the defenders of King's Landing on the eastern front can stop the White Walkers. At this time, everyone should put aside all disputes and unite as one."

In short, there are a lot of repetitive words, and the summary is: there is no military assistance, but the trade route for transporting supplies can continue to be maintained. Now that all sides are in trouble, King's Landing can only rely on itself.

In fact, this response is not empty talk.

Some people in King's Landing who are considered "responders to the anti-white walker front" have received intelligence sharing from the Targaryen side.

Nowadays, the Great Wall, the North, and the Riverlands have all become the front lines, and even the valley that is said to never fall is being ravaged by the white walkers.

Anyone with military common sense can quickly judge from this intelligence that the number of white walker troops is a magnitude that has never been reached in any war in Westeros's history. According to the Targaryen side, judging from the number of white walkers attacking the Great Wall and the performance of the divisions that attacked by the circumvention, they estimated that the number of white walker troops reached at least 400,000 at the beginning of the war.

They are truly all-people soldiers, and as long as they are alive, they will become one of them after they die.

The Great Wall and the North have killed 140,000 or 150,000 corpses in the battle-including the battle of Viserys in White Harbor.

But after the white walkers went deep into the territory and scattered flowers, they have already started to snowball.

The most terrible thing is that this snowball is still rolling bigger and bigger, and the corpses are rolling more and more.

Yes, although the Great Wall, the North and the garrisons in various places have caused a large number of annihilation of the zombies that attacked the city, the number of servants of the White Walker army is growing.

This is the strategy and tactics of the White Walkers during this period. Their main military goal is only one: conversion efficiency.

In fact, even King's Landing received a letter for help from the Vale. The lords of the Vale were caught off guard by the White Walkers. It was not until the Bloody Gate was broken and the Arryn family retreated to the Giant's Spear and sent a raven that several major lords in the Vale Basin knew that the White Walker army had poured into the fertile basin of the Vale.

And the Vale lords who have always maintained the tradition of wintering in the Vale, and the population is still scattered in the Vale Basin like in the past, in the farmer's towns and village gathering places, did not follow Targaryen's suggestion to gather civilians to the castle for fortification defense, and only felt the cold punch of the White Walkers in just half a month.

Who would have thought that the Vale, which people thought was "unbreakable", would erode faster and be hit harder than the Riverlands, which people thought was "rotten land".

What is disturbing is that after the situation in the Vale deteriorated, there was no news of the fall of a castle of a great lord or a second-tier lord. This means that the invasion of the White Walkers was a strategic invasion.

The safer the castle with a strong defense and thick walls of the great lord, the more dangerous the villages, knights, and small noble castles in the wilderness of the Vale.

Just like King's Landing now.

The army of the White Walkers has not appeared in large numbers around King's Landing, so what will their troops do in the Crown?

Speaking of which, before the Long Night, Duskendale, Maidenpool, and Crow's Roost had publicly jointly requested to join Targaryen and oppose King's Landing. Then Targaryen gave the lords of the three places an order in the name of the royal family to gather the people to gather in Crow's Roost, Wonder Harbor, and Crab's Claw Peninsula to avoid the winter.

Then the lords of the three places chose to remain silent without any prior agreement.

I don’t know if they regret it now. Before the arrival of the White Walker army, they had more than half a year to gather for winter. Viserys even considered the risks of long-distance migration and arranged for them to stay in nearby areas. However, they did not realize the danger of the long night and thought that it was a deliberate embarrassment from the Targaryen side.

Good words can hardly persuade the damned ghosts. If they are willing to withdraw to one place to gather, Viserys can provide them with supplies and work by sea from Dragonstone and Tidehead Island, and even draw a part of the mountain army of Crab Claw Peninsula to assist in military defense.

But as the lords of the three places remained silent, the plan fell through, and Viserys could only maintain the original plan and abandon the lords of the eastern part of the king's territory.

Of course, if the White Walker army is willing to enter the Crab Claw Peninsula, Viserys will also be happy. According to the strategy of exchanging space for time, if the White Walkers enter the interior of the Crab Claw Peninsula in large numbers, then the time they spend there will be counted in months.

The mountain forest environment there is complex and can be delayed for more than half a year.

The northern part of the Vale is also a complex mountainous environment. If the White Walkers can not only wreak havoc in the Vale Basin, but also set their sights on the northern mountainous area of ​​the Vale, Viserys would be very happy to see it.

But unfortunately, judging from the crows that have been asking for help from various places after being attacked, the White Walkers are not arrogant. They have divided their troops and entered the complex mountainous environment in large numbers with their military advantages.

Obviously, the commanders of the White Walkers will also evaluate the efficiency issue. Although crossing the Moon Mountains is also time-consuming and labor-intensive, the Vale Basin with many living creatures is worth their investment. As for the more remote and dangerous northern mountainous area of ​​the Vale, it is obviously not worth making such an investment.

It is precisely because of this strategic goal that is very different from that of human conquerors that the White Walker army did not choose to fight the politically significant Arryn family castle after pouring into the Vale. For pure efficiency considerations, any intelligent creature with a brain can judge that the more than a thousand humans hiding in the steep fortresses in the deep mountains are not worth paying several times or even ten times the loss to slaughter and transform.

The three gates of the Eyrie of the Arryn family are not the Wall of Despair. Conquering them cannot provide magic supply for the White Walker army, and it is meaningless to waste energy on these people.

It is also out of efficiency considerations.

As the days passed, when the White Walker commander thought that the troops had reached a certain level, they finally began to focus on the big cities for greater slaughter conversion efficiency.

Relying on the snowball-accumulated military advantage, a battle that will sweep half of Westeros and break out at the Wall, the North, the west of the river, the valley basin, and the King's Landing has gradually begun.

And any major war generally has a beginning that seems ordinary at the time, but historians believe that it is the beginning of the war.

On this day, the Great Wall, which had been silent for a while, once again ushered in a large-scale attack.

The White Walker's divided troops once again made a big circle from the frozen Seal Bay and the Ice Bay to attack the back of the Great Wall, and launched an attack in conjunction with the inside and outside of the Great Wall. Slightly different from the previous times, the focus of the White Walker army this time was on several relatively weak areas.

The White Walkers who went around the southern slope went deeper into the New Gift, no longer fighting Eastwatch and Shadow Tower, but instead launched a pincer attack on the relatively inland Grey Guard, Stone Gate Village, Green Guard, and Beacon Tower in the east and west. Especially the Beacon Tower, the collapsed wall was only half repaired, and the defense range of the castle wall was only half of that of other castles, so it was hit hard.

The defense of the Great Wall has been adjusted accordingly after many battles. In addition to strictly defending its own position, each castle also formed a mobile force to assist in the attack on the southern slope of the Great Wall.

However, the White Walkers changed the way of attacking across the board this time. The pressure brought by concentrating superior forces to attack several points still made the defenders a little confused by the sudden offensive. Although the troops were sufficient, the weakness of the city defense still caused the relatively weak Beacon Tower Castle to fall in the north and south urns under the sudden attack, and the defenders could only retreat to the towers and passages inside the Great Wall.

The zombie tide was too fierce and too fast, and the situation at the beacon tower soon fell into crisis. Viserys had no choice but to show up to rescue the beacon tower, knowing that the other side was using the same old trick and splitting troops from the east and west to pull him back.

As expected, as soon as Viserys appeared, the long-lost ice dragon summoner appeared in the direction of Greyguard Castle.

There was only one, and he immediately fell silent after summoning the small ice dragon.

With Viserys there, the ice dragon only caused a little damage to the wall before being shattered.

But soon, Viserys knew that the other side's attack on the Great Wall was a test, not only to test the defense distribution of the Great Wall, but also to test Viserys's position.

Because immediately afterwards, without the need for the three-eyed crow to send intelligence, Viserys himself felt it through the distributed believers. A quarter of an hour after the battle broke out at the Great Wall, Winterfell and White Harbor in the North, the Twins in the Rivers, Seaward, and some human settlements, and even Riverrun showed signs of the White Walker army gathering to attack the city.

The White Walkers deliberately bypassed Raventree Keep, the intelligence center of the Three-Eyed Raven.

Then, the Three-Eyed Raven brought Viserys intelligence about other areas where Viserys' followers were not distributed. In the Vale, the White Walkers gathered troops and finally began to attack the big castle. Iron Oak Castle and Red Fort became the targets of the first large-scale attack by the White Walkers in the Vale. In the King's Landing, Harrenhal had fallen after Jaime's evacuation, and the White Walkers' assembled troops officially went to the gates of King's Landing.

In fact, this attack was not limited to Westeros.

The Three-Eyed Raven brought Viserys intelligence about several city-states in Essos that had been disconnected for a long time since the Long Night.

After Essos entered the Long Night, when the White Walkers on Westeros were pouring into the inland, the city-state of Lorras on the eastern continent fell silently at some point. It is said that the Ibbenese who sold whale oil during the Long Night brought a large number of ghosts in the whaling ship and swaggered into the port of Lorras.

The White Walkers used the Ibbenese to attack the city-state of Lorras with the tactics of the Trojan Horse.

The fleet and mercenaries of the Lorras people were caught off guard by the White Walkers' central blooming tactics before they could react, and were completely wiped out.

Lorras only lasted less than two days, and all the large and small human-gathering islands in the entire Lorras Archipelago fell.

As the poorest, smallest, and most isolated of the nine free trade city-states, none of the hundreds of thousands of humans in the Lorras city-state survived.

This indicates that there is also an invasion of the White Walker army from the direction of Essos, and the White Walker invaders have entered the snowball stage.

The Ibbenese became the first "traitors" to surrender to the White Walkers under the Long Night. The Ibbenese are one of the few peoples who sailed to the eastern waters of the Shivering Sea. They make a living by hunting whales in the Shivering Sea. The people of this nation are often described as hairy, short and fat, and have a harsh voice. The Ibbenese are discriminated against in the world of ice and fire. Because they are hairy, they are despised as long-haired people. They are even suspected of reproductive isolation from other humans, and it is difficult for them to reproduce normal offspring with other races.

It was not until the Ibbenese revealed their true colors as "traitors" that the Three-Eyed Raven and R'hllor realized that there was a gap in the Great Wall. It is very likely that a large number of White Walkers took the Ibbenese ships from the snowy white wastes outside the domain to enter the Ibben Island, the northern colonial island of the Ifveron Kingdoms of the Ibbenese, and used it as an outpost for invading Essos.

At the same time as Lorras was captured, the White Walkers divided their troops from the Old Is, New Is, and Fang Bay of the Ivervalon Kingdoms and went upstream along the rivers in the middle of Essos, directly into a Dothraki inland lake called the "womb of the world" by the Dothraki people, and penetrated deep into the heart of the Dothraki grassland. If nothing unexpected happens, this group of White Walkers will advance all the way south along the Skeleton Mountains, spread into the Dothraki Sea, kill all living things they see, and push the ice and snow to the bloody wasteland in the south of Dothraki.

And with the capture of Lorras, the corpse tide of the White Walkers will also threaten the western city-states of Braavos, Qohor, and Norvos in Essos.

As for the northern part of Essos, which is adjacent to the Sarn River Delta of the Shivering Sea, there were originally two cities called "Sarnoor Kingdom" composed of the remnants of the ancient country, Saias and Selys. They were invaded by the Ibbenese and the Dothraki in history, but they still stood firm, leaving more than 20,000 remnants. Unfortunately, when the gods were not paying attention, they were like fallen leaves, and were destroyed by a small group of white walkers who invaded Essos. As for their Lorath colony at the northern estuary, the port of Morothi, which was plundered by the Lorath colonists for fisheries and mining, there was no sound at all, and it was silent.

When the news reached Viserys, it was already outdated information, and the news was very uncertain. It was unclear how many troops the white walkers had in Essos and where the main attack direction was.

But what made Viserys even more nervous was that when he got the news, the forces formed by the emissary of R'hllor had not only not fought a head-on battle with the white walker army, but instead hit the human side hard. The news brought by the Three-Eyed Raven said that the Red God's "Red Hand Fire Guards" - the Red God's version of the Crusaders, had forced Qohor to station the Fire Guards not long ago. After entering the city-state of Qohor, although they assisted in the city defense according to the agreement, they also took advantage of the situation to carry out a religious purge of the beliefs of the Black Goat Cult and other sects of Qohor, which caused a storm in the city for a while.

Under pressure, Qohor converted everyone from the governor to the civilians to R'hllor.

This move caused Norvos to worry, causing the governor of Norvos to refuse the "assistance" of R'hllor's Fire Guards. R'hllor's envoy, who was possessed by Chiang Kai-shek, was determined to achieve the effect of "pacifying the country before resisting foreign aggression", and formed an army to go to Norvos in the long night to exert military pressure.

Viserys was ashamed of the actions of R'hllor's envoy. With the blessing of "miracles", he could still create such a situation. This envoy can be called "outstanding in talent".

As for how the situation there is developing now.

Westeros is busy with its own affairs, and Viserys has no time to care about the current situation in Essos.

Let's talk about the war situation in Westeros.

The White Walker Army attacked all over Westeros, which was obviously planned for a long time. People can't help but suspect that their combat deployment had been roughly planned before they poured into the inland, and now they are just carrying out the plan to wipe out the rebels in Westeros step by step.

From a global perspective, the current situation is really terrible.

Although there is no astonishing ice dragon power like the first attack on the Great Wall, this attack is undoubtedly the most fierce attack since the White Walkers invaded Westeros in the past four months - yes, from the sense of time, the first defense of the Great Wall has been nearly four months, but in these four months, apart from the constant harassment of the Great Wall, there have only been two major battles. One was the defense of the Great Wall, and the other was the counterattack in the North led by Viserys.

Of course, the two sides did not stand in complete silence in the middle. There were also many small and medium-sized battles around Winterfell, White Harbor, Streamland, Stone Coast, and Flint's Finger in the North, but they usually ended in failure on the human side, losing territory and people.

During this period, some things that were considered very contrary to the heavens appeared. In the past, no one would have dared to believe that people from the Rocky Coast and the Streamlands of the North would rely on Greyjoy's ship to evacuate the North, abandoning the land and houses of their ancestors, abandoning all the winter reserves and fleeing to the Iron Islands.

Northerners fled to the Iron Islands to survive? Even the craziest drunkard would not believe that such a thing would happen.

However, although the human side has done its best to survive, the White Walker army's scattering tactics that caused the situation to deteriorate still allowed the White Walker forces to poison most of Westeros, killing and transforming countless humans and animals who have survived and inherited in Westeros for thousands of years.

Now the White Walker's full-line attack should be the most fierce offensive that Westeros will face since the Long Night.

Viserys judged that the White Walker's front line has approached his preparation area. In addition to the uncertain situation in the valley, there will be variables. The White Walker's tactical maneuvering space for the first four months is not much. Next, the White Walkers will either enter more remote ravines and primeval forests to continue to replenish their troops, or they can only gather their forces to form a corps and remove the human gathering fortresses designed by Viserys in the river.

Even if these fortresses in the river will be destroyed next, the White Walker army will face the South Territory, which is on high alert, and the West Territory with many passes. The scattering flowers tactics will not be so useful in the jurisdiction where humans have planned to gather. In particular, the military stations between the various human gathering places in the South Territory will effectively become an obstacle to the scattering flowers tactics.

The climate in the South Territory is much better than the central and northern regions of Westeros in the coldness of the long night. The castles can support and coordinate with each other when necessary. The military stations, as the hub of the bridge gathering place and the beacon of warning, can effectively avoid the possibility of field battles between the outgoing army, militia organizations and the White Walkers.

Viserys was well prepared in the south. All previous arrangements were made so that the defenders could hold out. Almost all civilians in the South, Stormlands, and Dorne, regardless of gender or age, would receive simple education on defending castles during the winter - especially the promotion of militia organizations to throw stones and fire on the walls, carry goods, and assist in logistics exercises.

Viserys really required the lords of various places to "use military force to the utmost" in several of his jurisdictions, so that every time he gnawed a city, the White Walkers would lose a tooth.

Preparations and weapons were sufficient. The only thing missing at present was to let the lords and people of the direct jurisdiction fully understand the cruelty of the situation, plant the belief of victory, and let them believe that under the leadership of Viserys, they would actively participate in the war and win.

Therefore, Viserys still needs to make a move.

And this step is in King's Landing.

"What does it mean to not know how many enemy troops there are?"

In the Red Castle, Cersei, who was increasingly suspicious, looked suspiciously at the Lannister knight sent by Jaime to ask for the command of the gold cloak.

"Queen, their arrival is accompanied by a blizzard, and even the sharpest scouts cannot count their numbers, even with telescopes."

The Queen glanced coldly: "What's the matter with Jaime asking for the command of the gold cloaks? I told Ser Osfryd to listen to Jaime's orders."

"Really? That's a pity, Queen." The knight was a little stunned for a moment, "In fact, when the zombies appeared, Ser Osfryd was guarding the walls of the Dragon Gate, but when the enemy used catapults to throw the zombies into the city, causing panic, Ser Osfryd abandoned the gate and fled after a frontal assault. The supervising team captured Ser Osfryd. Ser Jaime finally led his troops to capture Back to the wall, in anger, he said nothing, and asked Ser Payne to chop off Osfryd's head on behalf of King Tommen. Some commanders of the gold cloaks were emotional and refused to obey orders. They want your orders, Queen Mother. "

"What!" Cersei widened her eyes, unable to believe that the loyal Kettleblack she arranged was dead, "How could Jaime kill my garrison commander without asking me?"

"He is the commander. Your Majesty," the knight answered with a little contempt, neither humble nor arrogant, "but he is also an undeniable deserter. The Dragon Gate was almost broken because of him."

In fact, the situation is more complicated than the knight reported.

Osfryd returned to King's Landing because of Jaime's defeat. He was dissatisfied with Jaime, who had only one hand, as the commander-in-chief, so he did not get along with Jaime on the issue of city defense. And Jaime knew that Cersei and Kettleblack had an affair because of the inside information he got from Lancel, and he hated them.

Now Osfryd almost lost the city gate. There was hatred before and resentment now. How could Jaime let him live?

Speaking of the current defense of King's Landing, the army composition is also unique. Considering the critical situation, Jaime had to hand over part of the city defense to the Warrior Sons and the Capital Garrison of King's Landing.

Less than half a minute after the battle, the Capital Garrison completely exposed its nature of being good at civil wars but not good at foreign wars. They guarded the city gates, oppressed the people, demanded bribes, and were very skilled in closing the gates when necessary. But in the face of the vicious corpse tide, the garrison, which had been immersed in the gentle land of King's Landing for a long time and blindly expanded to suppress civilians, immediately exposed its underwear. These people who were composed of idle idlers in King's Landing purely for money were not warriors at all.

A group of honorable warriors had died in the Battle of the Blackwater River, and a group of knights had mostly left the garrison. After Cersei's blind expansion, the current garrison has become an armed group that looks strong in military strength, but in fact it is an empty shell composed of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

They have made a lot of money through the city gates at Cersei's request for more than half a year, and each of them has made a lot of money. How can they be willing to die here in vain to protect King's Landing.

Many garrison commanders wanted to go to the south of King's Landing to "guard the city gates for the Queen Mother and prevent mobs from causing chaos" and did not want to risk their lives with the ghoul army in the north of the city.

James was more straightforward. He thought that by killing Osfry, he could take advantage of the opportunity to control the garrison. However, the garrison was no longer what he was familiar with. Osfry was just a bunch of people who relied on the defense of King's Landing to make money from the situation. The agent leader, the guard has been nourished by desire and turned into a useless freak with no fighting spirit.

Cersei feels that these people have received her favor and can rely on them as the basis of her rule.

Now that James is asking for command, he just wants to kill another batch of commanders and use the threat of death to temporarily twist this group of wastes into a rope. Let them know that it is possible to survive if they fight the White Walkers, but if they don't fight the White Walkers, they will die. In fact, the knight came to the Red Castle to report only to ask for a nominal endorsement.

Under the city wall, James had already carried out a round of cleaning of the garrison. Sir Payne's sword almost cut off the curled blade before he drove the golden robes of the garrison back to the city wall.

And James and the Supervisory Team stayed directly at the Dragon Gate.

"Then let Jaime take over the City Guard." Cersei didn't hear the knight's implication, but gave the answer. Then, she asked Qyburn, the intelligence chief next to him, "Where is my son?"

Seeing that their goal was achieved, the knights sent by James quickly left the Red Keep.

After watching the Lannister knights go away, Qyburn replied: "His Majesty Tommen is in the Great Sept of Baelor, receiving the blessings of the Archbishop with the believers who are hiding there to pray. His Majesty will then personally climb the city wall under escort to appease the defenders. and the son of a warrior, to inspire morale.”

Although the value and significance of "King Baratheon" continues to decline nowadays, in any case, the king's personal presence can always increase morale.

After all, now the Warrior's Sons, the Lannister army, the Lords of King's Landing, and the Golden Robes all support King Tommen in name only.

Cersei raised her eyebrows: "Tell me, there is no danger for Tommen to do these things, and Jaime assured me of his safety."

"Your Majesty the Queen Mother, all the soldiers and the dead soldiers I created will swear to protect the safety of Your Majesty Tommen to the death."

Cersei glanced at the dead soldiers Qyburn created for her, and suddenly asked: "These things will not be affected by the magic of the White Walkers, right?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Qyburn said confidently, "These wonderful creatures will only listen to your orders. They have no heads, only the marks left by their souls on their armor. They are both alive and dead. This is Mal Dr. Wen - the necromantic magic brought from Asshai by Dr. Citadel, whose talent was recognized even by King Targaryen."

"I don't want to know how you did it," Cersei glared at him dissatisfied, "And don't mention Targaryen in front of me!"

Coburn stopped talking: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty the Queen Mother."

Cersei asked again: "Have the nobles who fought for me on the walls, the wives, daughters and mothers of the commanders in King's Landing been admitted to the Red Keep?"

"certainly."

"Very well, the hens themselves are worthless, but I have to worry about their roosters. Those ghosts are here to kill people. If the city wall falls, I don't have to worry about the guards betraying me, or thinking about boarding the city to surrender. Just stay at Maegor's Tower for a while before they arrive." Cersei said coldly, "No one can get the Red Keep from me."

Coburn looked at her deeply: "Of course, Her Majesty the Queen Mother."

Not long after.

The commander of the garrison at the South City Gate came to ask for an audience.

Every time she opened the door to the throne room, Cersei could smell the smoke pouring in from outside.

The commander smiled with a smile on his face and looked at Cersei flatteringly: "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, the northern city wall seems to be safe for the time being, but there is some unrest near the southern city. Some drunkards from Flea Bottom want to take the opportunity to rob homes, and there are also people in several southern cities. Peeping outside the door, maybe he wants to storm the city gate."

Cersei asked first: "Did you hear what my son was doing when you came to the Red Keep?"

The commander was even more flattering: "I heard that His Majesty was rushing to the Gate of the Gods, guarded by the Warrior's Sons, the Kingsguard and the guards. He was chatting and laughing with the leader of the Warrior's Sons and passed through the road. He was very brave, everyone said so. ”

"He wants to live." Cersei looked at the commander angrily. She thought of the words of the Toad Witch for no reason, saying that her three children would be wrapped in golden shrouds. She shook her head to dispel the thought. Although Sister Margaery in the Great Sept could not be killed, she was driven back to the south by Cersei. She has put an end to the prophecy of banishing the beautiful woman who will take everything from her. "Tell me about the south gate that you are responsible for. No traitors are allowed to leave the city. Use crossbows and swords to deal with anyone who wants to attack the south gate. Put your head on a gun and hang it under the city gate as a warning. What do you want to do? This is another lesson when it comes to doing things around me. You must not be merciful at this time. Traitors and cowards will appear like mushrooms after the rain. The only way to keep them loyal and quiet is to ensure that they fear you more than the enemy."

"Of course, Your Majesty." The commander put on an extremely flattering smile, "When I came here, I saw many people gathering in the square outside the gate of the Red Castle, asking for refuge in the castle. They are not mobs, but wealthy businessmen of King's Landing."

"Tell them to leave. If they don't obey, shoot a few of them. No unnecessary people are allowed in the Red Fort under any circumstances."

"Your Majesty." The commander's flattering smile was halted by Cersei's words, "They are all willing to contribute to the royal family——"

"That's enough!" Cersei looked down at the commander with disdain, "You heard my order."

"Yes." The commander bowed uneasily and left.

Cersei cursed angrily: "Guys like this are not worthy of guarding the door for me. I really want to go to the battlefield with a sword, cut down one by one, and use their blood to highlight my bravery and honor! Damn it, I should have been born as a man, Take up swords, spears and maces and charge into battle, rather than rule here with your wits and brains."

Coburn below heard the words and opened his mouth: "." In the end, he didn't say anything.

"Hiss!" Suddenly, Cersei hissed on the throne. She was so excited that she accidentally cut her hand on the Iron Throne.

This is not the first time.

This makes Cersei even more annoyed!

Qyburn was about to step forward to treat the Queen Mother's wound.

Suddenly, someone else came outside the throne room. Osney Kettleblack, the youngest of the three brothers, hurried over: "Oh no, His Majesty is injured. The corpse fell from the sky to the Shoemaker's Square and attacked the Gate of the Gods from behind." He murmured, "Everyone is injured." The Divine Gate is under attack, Your Majesty, he"

"Damn it! Seven Hells! What are the Warrior Sons and the Kingsguard doing!" When Cersei heard that Tommen was injured, she jumped up from the throne. "You, and you, you are the King's Guard. One of the bodyguards is not supposed to be protecting His Majesty the King!"

"Your Majesty, Ser Meryn Trant has ordered me to come back to request reinforcements."

"Who came up with the idea to let the king come to the city gate? He deserves to die! He's crazy! Pass my order and immediately dispatch a commando team from the Red Fort guard to attack. You also go together, go to the Gate of the Gods, and remove the king from those damned ones. Take it back from there and escort it back to the city!"

"Queen Mother, this -"

Cersei narrowed her eyes: "You can't understand me?"

Osney did not dare to disobey the order and took the order to leave.

Cersei looked at Qyburn: "Go and prepare, Qyburn, those ghosts are coming, no one can capture the Red Keep from me! Never!"

The situation of the Gods Gate was unknown, but Cersei, who thought she was in control of the situation, heard the word "pincer attack" and immediately assumed that the Gods Gate could no longer defend itself.

Less than half a moment after Cobain took the order and left. Onis ran back to the Red Castle with mud marks on his face: "Sorry, Your Majesty the Queen Mother, the defenders of the Gate of the Gods disobeyed the king's orders and said that the commando you sent falsely conveyed the king's order and confused the king's mind. Give the commander to Kill."

Cersei panicked: "What? Where is my son?"

"His Majesty Tommen is still at the city gate, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead."

Cersei looked at him fiercely: "You didn't go to the city wall!"

Onis burst into tears: "Your Majesty, I am in the rear army, and I just helped the city gate to rescue the siege, but I didn't expect to see them chop off the head of the commando leader, so I ran away and came back to report."

"Have the gates of gods been guarded?"

"Yes."

"Don't you know whether my son is alive or dead?"

"Yes."

"Damn! Damn!" Cersei came to her senses and ordered the two living dead guards around her, "You guys, go to the Gate of the Gods with Onis to confirm the condition of my son. If he is injured, take him back to the castle. If Onis dares Retreat and run away without mercy!"

The two silent guards stepped down from the throne.

Onis shouted: "Your Majesty, my words are true——"

"Get out!" Cersei screamed, "Onis, if you say another word in front of me, I will let them kill you now!"

The throne room quickly became deserted.

Cersei was sitting on the throne in a hurry and unknowingly cut her calf again, but she didn't realize it.

Suddenly, chaotic screams came from the Red Castle.

Soon a guard from the Red Castle came to report: "Oh no, Your Majesty the Queen Mother, a ghost entered the Red Castle from the stables of the Prime Minister Tower."

"What!!!" Cersei grabbed a sword on the throne and gritted her teeth, "What do you do for food!"

"Your Majesty, please move to a safe place immediately."

"A safe place?" Cersei asked bitterly, "Where?"

"this"

"A bunch of rubbish! Trash!" Cersei shouted frantically, "Go find Jaime! Let him come back! Come back and protect me!"

The appearance of ghosts in the Red Keep completely ignited Cersei's uneasy fear. At this time, she no longer cared about her duties of guarding the city wall and royal style, and just wanted Jaime to come back to protect her safety.

At this time, the chaotic sounds in the Red Fort were getting louder and louder.

Waves of frightened screams could be heard from the women in Maegor's Tower. Cersei was so uneasy that she ran out of the throne room like a madman and came to the wall of the Red Keep to observe the situation from a high position.

But in the direction of the Prime Minister's Tower, green wildfire was burning, and it had already enveloped the entire tower.

The light was so bright at night, like a torch lit in the red keep on Aegon's Hill, illuminating half of King's Landing with its eerie green flames.

"Damn it! Someone must have lit the wildfire buried under the Hand's Tower during the defense!" Cersei panicked and couldn't help but worry about whether the wildfire would spread to Maegor's Tower.

She knew exactly what she ordered Qyburn to do, and now the entire underground cellars and rooms of the Red Keep were filled with wildfire jars.

Cersei saw the fire in the direction of the Prime Minister's Tower, and her face turned as white as gold paper for a moment, without any blood.

Fortunately, not long after, Coburn came back and reported: "It did not spread. A small bird discovered it in time and diverted part of the wildfire in the direction of the Prime Minister's Tower. All the ghouls that poured in from that direction were burned to death."

Although the hidden danger of the Red Keep being blown up is not a concern for the time being, the bright wildfire in the Red Keep, which can illuminate half of King's Landing, has been seen by everyone in King's Landing.

What would the defenders on the city wall think?

The thick smoke and fire of the Prime Minister's Tower finally attracted Jaime from the city wall. Originally, Jaime would never obey Cersei's orders, but the fire of the Prime Minister's Tower caused great panic to the soldiers guarding the city. As the commander representing the "royal family", Jaime had to come back to confirm the situation.

When Jaime returned to the Red Keep and quickly confirmed the situation, he did not even meet Cersei, and planned to leave a part of his troops and then return to the city wall immediately.

Who would have thought that he would not look for Cersei, but Cersei would come to him.

"Jaime!" Cersei looked at Jaime excitedly from the tower above Maegor's Tower, "I knew you would come to protect me. Tell me, tell the truth, is King's Landing going to fall?"

Jaime didn't expect Cersei to ask such a depressing question as soon as she opened her mouth. Even the guards around Jaime looked at him sideways. Jaime gritted his teeth and said, "We can defend it, we will defend it!" Then he turned back and signaled the guards to deploy defenses, leaving a space for the two to talk.

"No, you're lying to me." Cersei shook his head, "They have the ability to enter the Red Keep, so they have the ability to enter King's Landing from other places." It happened that at this time, Cersei's mind was very flexible, "It is said that the wights will have their memories of their lives, smugglers, spies, little birds, they know the secret passages of King's Landing, and they will come out from corners we don't know! After Varys dies, I should find his little birds one by one and kill them one by one!"

As if to verify Cersei's words, flames rose from the direction of the flea pit, and there was obviously some unexpected unrest there.

Seeing Jaime didn't speak.

Cersei stepped forward and held Jaime's hand.

"Jaime, do you remember what you promised me?"

Jaime was puzzled: "What?"

"When the news of the fall of the Westerlands reached King's Landing, you said we could escape to Essos, just like Queen Rhaella of Aerys, and you would be Tommen's Willem Darry."

Jaime looked at Cersei in disbelief: "What are you talking about?"

Cersei glanced around and whispered to Jaime: "There is a secret passage from the Red Keep that leads directly to the port of King's Landing. I have prepared the ship, Jaime, you, Tommen, we can--"

"No!" Jaime Cersei looked at Jaime, "You clearly said that you would rather die than leave King's Landing and the Red Keep."

"Yes, but that's a threat to the Targaryens, not to these ghosts." Cersei described the future to Jaime, "If King's Landing falls, they will pour into the Stormlands along the Kingsroad. Let them fight with the Targaryens, and we will go to Essos, Pentos, and Tyrosh. When everything is over and they are both defeated, we will come back, okay?"

Jaime felt like he was in a dream for a while, suspecting that what he heard was all dream talk, and he didn't know what to say.

But he heard a commotion under the Red Keep. It was Meryn Trant and Boros Blount, two white robe iron guards, who carried the unconscious King Tommen back to the Red Keep.

"Did you recall Tommen?" Jaime remembered that someone told him that Cersei had recalled Joffrey before the Battle of the Blackwater, causing the army to collapse, forcing Tyrion to lead the team in person. He discussed this with the High Sparrow to prevent such a thing from happening.

But why?

Soon, the answer was revealed: "His Majesty Tommen is injured!"

They soon saw the king, who was as pale as paper.

Jaime looked over Cersei: "What happened?"

"Everything happened too fast. A wight ball thrown by a catapult fell on our heads. A wight was broken, but its hand still scratched your majesty's leg. The ghost scratched the blood vessels. The bleeding on the wall can't be stopped. We can only bring your majesty back to find the maester."

"Oh." Jaime murmured, and his heart was suddenly at a loss.

But Cersei shouted: "No! What are you all doing! If Tommen gets into trouble, I want you all to die!"

Jaime looked at Tommen who was carried back by the Kingsguard, and then looked at the increasingly fierce fire in the Prime Minister's Tower, and then looked at the direction of the already chaotic Flea Market, and then looked at the sparks gradually appearing in other areas of the city, and finally looked at the direction of the city wall where the fierce battle was in full swing.

The flames from inside and outside the city wall reflected the sky of King's Landing red and green.

At a certain moment, the flames from the direction of the old city gate wall burst out on the top of the city wall, like dazzling fireworks exploding in the night sky, so bright that it was terrifying.

Jaime finally realized helplessly: all strategies have been exhausted, King's Landing is about to fall.