Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

When the Long Night entered the end of the first year, the army of the White Walkers was rampant in Westeros, and the North, the Riverlands, and the Valley were almost completely occupied.

No one expected that the thing that could really change the situation of the war was being officially mined and transported from the "barren land" that was originally deserted and uninhabited in the borderland at the junction of Dorne and the South.

Since the beginning of winter, the desert edge of the borderland has entered the Red Mountains, and has been exploring in the mountains and basins with local civilian guides. According to King Viserys's "Valyria Coal Deposits Guide", they have searched the mountains and basins near human settlements. These mine explorers who risked their lives in the mountains and forests like the frontline soldiers finally found rich coal deposits.

In a valley in a basin between Tianji City and Wangzhong City in the Red Mountains, there is a place called Black Soil Stone Mountain by the locals. The exploration team found exposed coal stone mines there, and they are also the easiest lignite mines to mine, accompanied by poor coal and lean coal, which are much better than the peat currently used by some areas of Westeros - generally peat enriched near swamps.

For Viserys, the importance of this discovery is even more exciting than winning the front battlefield.

The most serious problem to face since the long night is that the corpse tide of the white walkers is only the most conspicuous problem. The more terrible problem is heating and heating. Firewood has a low specific heat capacity and a fast consumption rate. It is not suitable for long-term persistence when used for heating, but coal is different.

Coal mines are generally enriched mines. For the current Westeros, the mining of a mine can meet the fuel supply of an entire area.

The only problem is transportation.

Viserys specifically ordered all the old miners from the borderlands to work for paid labor in Dorne in the long night and severe cold. He also mobilized tens of thousands of civilians from Dorne and the South to transport coal from the mountains of Dorne to Highgarden, Dorne, and Summerhall day and night.

And there was more than one good news.

As the first batch of coal mines were intentionally divided by Viserys to the stewards of the lords in the jurisdiction for reference, soon, the stewards of foreign affairs of some nobles in the Stormlands and the Westerlands found similar ores from the depths of their memories. So in the long night, the desire for survival fully exerted the subjective initiative of human beings to survive. Intelligence about mines that could be mined in the Stormlands and the Westerlands also came one after another.

Soon, the three Viserys spent huge sums of money to buy mines, set up mines, and recruit miners to put the "state-owned coal mines" into production.

Viserys was certain that during the long night, these coal mines would become the energy heart of the entire country, providing a steady supply of energy for all regions within his jurisdiction.

There were already sufficient food reserves, and now there was sufficient heating fuel. Although the war was still at an overall disadvantage, Viserys had much more confidence in winning the final victory.

Of course, Viserys was not a kind father who did not seek anything in return. Everything had to be recovered. Coal was also stored in the king's granary warehouse as a new fuel commodity. In order to encourage the people to use coal, buy coal, and know about coal, Viserys asked the ministers who managed this matter to set up a coal furnace that would never go out in the city in several large human settlements.

For this reason, Viserys even remotely controlled the Imperial Council to add a minister specifically responsible for coal mines - the Minister of Energy, to deal with the promotion and storage of coal.

Although the front line of the battle against the White Walkers has been advancing southward, some things have happened, indicating that the situation of the White Walkers in Westeros has been slowly reversing.

Countless people in later generations will regard Queen Daenerys's formal participation in the war with two dragons as a sign that the White Walker Army and the Westeros Army on the battlefield of Westeros have entered a strategic stalemate. However, looking at the situation at that time in history, the situation when Daenerys participated in the war was complicated.

Speaking of which, Viserys is definitely not a good husband. He was not with his wife when she gave birth twice. And Daenerys not only gave birth to children for him, but also governed the rear for Viserys.

Speaking of which, Viserys's second son was born in the long night, which is not a good time, but there are still some hopes in naming him.

The second son is still a boy. Viserys named him "Aemon", one is to commemorate the oldest grandfather Aemon of Targaryen today, and the other is to hope that the little prince can have the good qualities of Prince Aemon the Dragon Knight. The family affection of the royal family is always inevitably political. When the little prince was born, Viserys could feel that because of the storm magic inherited by nature, Aemon's talent was naturally higher than his brother, the crown prince Dennis. Viserys knew very well that he could not let Aemon affect Danys's position as the crown prince because of his magical talent, so the education he would implement in the future would be destined to be different from that of the crown prince.

However, Viserys was actually secretly glad that the second son was not a daughter, otherwise the "tradition" of the Targaryen family might bring more uncertainty to the future.

It was said that less than half a month after Daenerys gave birth to Prince Aemon, the army of the White Walkers attacked again, approaching Riverrun, Raventree Keep, and Stonehedge in the river, accompanied by the regrouped corpse tide of the Great Wall, and the corpse tide raging in the direction of the valley approached Gulltown.

Relying on the large number of corpse tides suddenly transferred from the North to the river, the White Walkers took less than half a day to capture Stonehedge.

It can be said that things are unpredictable. The Brackens of Stonehedge and the Blackwoods of Raventree Keep not far away fought for a thousand years without any result, but in the end, the Blackwoods had the last laugh.

I wonder what the ancestors of the Bracken family would think if they knew that if the huge ancient fish beam tree of the Blackwood family had not died and the two families had not fallen out, it might have protected the descendants of the Bracken family.

It could be that the momentum of the White Walker army had reached the stage of exhaustion, or it could be that the human army had been in the war until now, even in the face of the cold and biting night of winter, and the human beings had been severely challenged by their natural empiricism, forcing them to make changes.

The human side finally reacted in the space pulled out by Viserys. Only by concentrating the forces could it be possible to fight against the surging corpses of the White Walkers on the battlefield, and the scattered population must also gather in large cities and castles to survive.

So in the direction of the Vale, several Vale nobles completed the integration in the long nights after Viserys pulled them out for two months, assembled into an army of 40,000 to 50,000, and all moved to Seagull Town. After the bloody lessons of the fall of Iron Oak and Red Fort, the major families in the Vale decisively abandoned their family fortresses, and the whole family followed the army, dragging their families to Seagull Town and Runestone City.

Almost all the remaining troops in the Vale Basin went to the Seagull Town area to wait for battle, and fought a back-and-forth offensive and defensive battle between humans and aliens with the invading army of the Others.

In the direction of the central Riverrun, the call for help from the Riverrun was responded to by the Stone Hall Town. The three war groups, which had been stationed in the central part for a long time and mainly composed of well-trained soldiers from the South, officially engaged in battle and fought the largest field battle since the war began with the Others army on the frozen wilderness of the Red Fork River south of Riverrun.

The three regiments had a full 30,000 troops, and Stonetown also had 30,000 ordinary troops, a total of 60,000. This time, the three regiments went to rescue Riverrun with 30,000 troops, while the ordinary troops stayed in Stonetown.

Even Viserys did not expect that these 30,000 people took the initiative to attack around Riverrun, unexpectedly breaking the zombies' arrangement on the battlefield, forcing the White Walker army to split up and intercept.

The Battle of Riverrun was divided into two battlefields: defending the city and supporting.

What is shocking is that the three regiments of 30,000 people actually fought a stalemate with the White Walker army, which was twice their number, in the field battle.

The White Walker army originally planned to use up the fuel, grease and wildfire of the human army according to the old way of fighting, and then rush forward.

But Viserys's regiment stood out in one thing: the military formation was everything. Although the White Walker army was large, several rounds of attacks did not break through the formation, but instead consumed its own troops. The White Walker army had to change its strategy and began to engage in tactical tug-of-war like the first regiment of the other side outside the Great Wall. To buy time for the siege of Riverrun.

In other words, the interception of the White Walkers turned into a blocking war.

In the direction of Riverrun, after the rivers flowing through the city in three directions froze, the city had lost its natural barrier as a river city. Even after Viserys ordered the city to be reinforced, it was still extremely difficult to defend the city under the siege of the zombies.

It was when the battle was getting longer and longer, the soldiers were tired, and the three regiments could not get through the desperate blocking of the zombies two leagues south of Riverrun.

Daenerys rode Nightfyre, who was already seven or eight meters long, and brought Four or Five Meters Long Glittergold to join the battlefield of Riverrun.

Although after seeing the power of Viserys's three dragons, Nightfyre and Glittergold, two young dragons, were not so powerful in deterrence, the joining of the dragons still greatly encouraged morale and brought a turning point in the battle.

This was the first time that Daenerys and the Targaryen dragons attacked since the Long Night, and Riverrun undoubtedly became a perfect stage. However, one thing is worth mentioning. The way Daenerys and the dragons attacked the dead tide of the White Walkers was very different from what people in Westeros who were used to hearing the legend of the Targaryen dragons imagined.

Daenerys rode Nightfire and brought Shining Gold. She did not breathe low and open the way with flames. Instead, she used her wings to fan the wind in the sky to blow away the snow curtain of the White Walker army, and then threw a huge barrel of wildfire from the sky, and then spit out flames to ignite it.

The main attack was on the dense and connecting points of the White Walker army's formation, aiming to use the high-altitude advantage to disrupt the formation of the White Walker army and cooperate with the three war groups to open the passage close to Riverrun and assist the defenders of Riverrun to focus on the most dead tide.

And it was on this battlefield that the human army first witnessed the most powerful long-range offensive of the White Walkers since the invasion from the south.

Perhaps it was because Daenerys's dragons never flew at low altitude, but they were constantly threatening the White Walker army and destroying their formations. Seeing that the situation was developing in an unfavorable direction, and there were only two ordinary dragons, the White Walker commander used the anti-aircraft trick that he had hidden for almost a year.

According to the recollections of those who were on the battlefield at the time, they only saw corpse eagles and big birds flying out of the blizzard curtain to launch suicide attacks on the dragons, and the dragons kept spraying flames to fight back. Then they heard sharp screams "whoosh whoosh whoosh" coming from the depths of the corpse tide hidden by the snow curtain, and then they saw more than a dozen dark blue streams of light flying out of the snow curtain and shooting at the dragons in the sky at an unimaginable speed.

Those streams of light were magic ice spears thrown by the White Walkers, which went straight to Nightfire and the wingman Shanjin under Daenerys's seat.

Then, people saw that the two dragons, whose speed was already extremely fast in people's eyes, dodged the more than a dozen dazzling blue streams at a speed that was almost impossible to capture with the naked eye and was unimaginable. The two giant dragons avoided the flowing light and quickly climbed into the air, flying towards the sky where the flowing light shot out. In just a moment, more than a dozen wildfire barrels tied to the two giant dragons were thrown to the ground like scattering beans.

The black dragon Nightfire sprayed flames at an incredibly fast speed.

Ignite a barrel of wildfire that was falling from the sky.

In an instant, green fireworks exploded in the sky, and then sprinkled on the ground like a fire meteor. Then, a staggering green fire curtain ignited above the earth, directly surrounding a large area of ​​corpses.

The dragon flapped its wings from the sky, and the blizzard clouds in the sky were gradually blown away by the strong wind. It was revealed that the headquarters of the White Walkers should be below.

Then the golden lightning that was as jaw-dropping as His Majesty the King directly washed the ground.

What's more surprising is that the battle is not over yet, but Queen Daenerys, who had thrown the barrel of wildfire on her body, has quickly left the battlefield with two dragons.

But just two quarters of an hour later, Queen Daenerys appeared with two dragons above the corpses that were gradually showing signs of defeat and preparing to retreat, and then began to pour wildfire from the sky again.

It was not until the end of the battle that the Riverrun defenders and the Three Warbands realized that this was a tactic called "high-altitude bombing."

Because the two dragons are still very young, even the Nightfire, which looks like a behemoth, is only three years old. Their scales are not thick enough, and their fire bags are not strong enough. The damage caused by fire is very limited.

If it is against the human army, the power of the Nightfire is certainly enough. After all, the human army will surrender in an organized manner under fear. But facing a highly organized army like the White Walkers, the intimidation caused by small-scale killing is completely meaningless. In comparison, destroying the formation and continuous harassment are more reasonable tactics.

In theory, Daenerys can also try to use the power of the storm to carry out large-scale magic killing, but Daenerys can't play the effect of dozens of lightning like Viserys, and at this stage Viserys is still preparing to convert the believers of the Seven Gods. She thinks she doesn't need to do her best to cause unnecessary doubts. She can also hide her shortcomings in a battle that must be won, so the main direction of using power is to accelerate the two dragons.

Speaking of which, Daenerys still has some fear. The reason why she used the "bombing tactics" to appear was because Viserys had told her that the White Walkers might have powerful anti-aircraft magic - although Viserys had not been attacked by the White Walker army with anti-aircraft magic.

Now Daenerys, Nightfire and Shining Gold were almost ambushed by a sudden magic spear on the battlefield, which clearly verified Viserys's guess.

Afterwards, when checking the situation at the landing points of those ice spears, those ice spears were magic ice blocks condensed by pure black ice magic, with a chilling air on them that made people tremble.

Nightfire and Shining Gold did not dare to get close to observe, but only dared to spit fire at those things from a distance. This is enough to prove its horror.

Daenerys dared not think about how terrible the consequences would be if the dragon was hit by such a spear in the sky. Would it become a corpse dragon controlled by the White Walkers like those dead birds?

This battlefield was mainly in three directions, one was Riverrun, one was Seagull Town and Runestone City in the valley, and one was the Great Wall. This is undoubtedly a landmark event. Even the valley was held without Viserys and Daenerys appearing - although the human side suffered heavy losses.

In any case, the third massive offensive of the White Walkers in Westeros was the first time that they did not gain a big advantage in any local battlefield.

As the war progressed, humans gathered together to survive, and the war inevitably entered the offensive and defensive situation of tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. The strategy of the White Walker army of splitting troops and attacking fiercely would also enter a period of weakness that they were unable to cope with.

Either heavy troops were deployed to defend the big city, or the local battle situation had an advantage in troops that could engage in field battles with the White Walker army to a certain extent, and the offensive of the White Walker army would be alleviated.

Facts have proved that the human side is not afraid of fighting a big battle or a decisive battle with the White Walker army whose numbers cannot form a crushing force. What they are afraid of is the dispersion of troops and personnel, and being defeated one by one by the tactics of the corpse tide scattering flowers in local advantages.

But unfortunately, after the White Walker army found that they could not gain an advantage by fighting in a large frontal army or siege, they would start a dispersed offensive.

Fortunately, under the pressure of the situation, even the valleys that Viserys had not controlled before naturally formed a situation of heavy troops gathering, and there was an example of Riverrun in the river.

Brynden the Blackfish decided to abandon Riverrun, and together with Pink City, he took the remaining tens of thousands of civilians in the river and retreated to Stonetown, a military town arranged by Viserys, in the long night and cold winter. Of course, countless people would die during the migration in the long night and cold winter, but they could still survive during the migration, and staying in Riverrun, which had become an isolated city in the river, would only wait for their destruction.

Next, the civilians in the river will work with the civilians in Stonetown to be cave dwellers in the mountains for a while during the long night, digging holes in the mountains and building bunkers.

The first year of fighting the White Walkers ended with the loss of a large area of ​​the North, the retreat of the Riverlands, only two isolated cities left in the Valley, and the White Walker army regrouped and went deep into the hinterland.

Under the weather advantage of the Long Night, it was inevitable that the White Walkers would disperse from the wilderness into the inland hinterland. The only thing to be thankful for was that Viserys was well prepared in the Dragonstone Crown, the Reach and the Stormlands. It was difficult to replicate the battle situation in which the White Walkers defeated each other in the North, the Riverlands and the Valley.

Unfortunately, the initiative of whether to fight a big war has been in the hands of the White Walkers since the beginning of the Long Night. As the attacked party, the other side gave up fighting a big war and a battle, and chose to disperse its forces to fight local guerrilla warfare in the hinterland. Viserys could only accompany them in this long harassment war and sparrow war.

The White Walker army in Westeros is still not to be underestimated, but the other side still chooses to enter a long-term battle of attrition with Viserys despite having a huge advantage.

The war has just started for a year, and the White Walker army and Viserys' army have entered a stalemate in Westeros.

I don't know whether this is a kind of respect or a kind of mutual torture.