King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 117 Break and retake?
Bloody Gate has fallen, but in a very different way than anyone had expected.

For reasons that Igor hadn't considered in advance, the elite troops he planned to send into the mountains to hunt down and subdue the mountain clans did not go well: these mountain natives took the grandfather's tactical thinking to the extreme , familiar with the terrain, they guerrilla and did not attack, and did not meet force with force with the army loyal to Robert at all. The members of the Wangfeng clan found the traces of the soldiers from a distance, and immediately ran away shouting with a family and all their belongings. ...Thousands of army soldiers entered the mountains for a few days, but they didn't catch half of the mountain clan members alive... If things go on like this, the fifteen-day period given by Robert is simply not enough.

But just when the plan was in trouble, the troops led by Robb Stark unexpectedly ran into an elder - Brynden Tully, the current Lord of the Riverlands and the only surviving veteran of the Deer Wolf Osprey Alliance, Hoster. Tully's younger brother, nicknamed "Blackfish".

Because of discord with the big brother, "Blackfish" left the Riverlands many years ago and went to Vale to join Lysa, and was appointed Knight of the Gate by her husband Jon Arryn, responsible for guarding the entrance of Vale. As Lysa Tully's pro-Uncle, Blackfish is of course impossible to make oneself's niece's opponent - when Lords Declarant launched a mutiny, Brynden tried to command his soldiers to repel the rebels, but found that nothing could be done, so he decisively turned his head and ran away, from the secret passage inside the Bloody Gate Escaped from the gate and got into the Mountains of the Moon. After hiding from the mountain clans in the vast mountains for more than a month, I was lucky to meet Robb, a junior who came from the mountains.

After guarding Bloody Gate for more than ten years, Blackfish may not have much clue on how to break through this level head-on, but there are few people in the world who can compare to this Old Guy when it comes to "how to detour to the back of Bloody Gate" ? As a result, the genuine "top commander of the original Bloody Gate defenders" took hundreds of strange soldiers and walked around to the back of Bloody Gate as if they were hanging out at oneself's house, and they were not found until they started to climb the gate.

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It was indeed Igor's strategy to win the Bloody Gate for Robert, but the biggest credit was that he had never entered the coalition camp at all, let alone participated in combat. meeting people.

This guy, Brynden Tully, escaped from the Red Wedding in the television drama. In the original book, he also dived from the Riverrun who opened the city and surrendered to James, even though the ice and fire world has been affected by the butterfly effect. Stirring Heaven and Earth turning upside down, his astonishing escape ability is still able to emit rays of light, Igor felt that he should not be called "Blackfish", but "Loach".

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After the Bloody Gate was captured, it took half a day for the army to suppress the rebellion. Hundreds of brawny men took turns to play, digging inside and outside at the same time, and the blocked city gate passage It was cleared up - this time was much shorter than expected, and Igor couldn't help but feel scared when he heard the news: When Robert took down the Bloody Gate, he found that the inside of the blocked city gate had been dug out. . It was learned from the prisoners that they started the city gate dredging work on the day they saw the "disbandment" of the counter-insurgent army. If the surprise soldiers behind the detour did not meet the original "Knight of the Gate", or Blackfish led the team to take a detour. Appearing a few days later, the coalition forces stationed in Taniguchi are likely to be attacked by the rebels at night!

It is conceivable that a coalition camp with tens of thousands of soldiers but different subordinates, and officers, elite veterans, and Knights are all absent. If it is attacked by surprise, the ending will be a rout without suspense. , even "innocent people" like Igor and Yoren could be injured or even killed in the chaos.

Fortunately, history has no assumptions.

After taking Bloody Gate, the coalition forces unified their caliber: King Robert personally led the troops to conquer this eternally unbroken danger.

Although the fact is that "the Blackfish loyal to Lysa Tully led the troops to retake the Bloody Gate", although the battle was almost over when Robert came to the top of the city, although the king Your Majesty didn't have time to kill a happy enemy, it was convenient to announce Surrender... but Robert did arrive on the battlefield before the end of the battle, and the Crowned Stag that flew first was indeed hoisted "by his own hands" - the king, as the supreme commander of the counter-insurgency, had to say he was Breaking through the Bloody Gate is fine.

Since everyone has reached a tacit understanding, the direction of public opinion has been determined: Robert got his wish and became the first king in a thousand years to break the Bloody Gate.

Igor doesn't feel anything about it, just an empty name, so what about him? Wouldn't everyone be happy to coax this dunjun into happiness and let him miss out a little more reward?

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After the Bloody Gate, the whole Vale looked towards the coalition and opened its arms, more than a thousand rebels stationed within the valley and at the foot of "Giant's Lance" found the Bloody Gate lost , he surrendered without hesitation. Two days after Bloody Gate was broken, the Vale of Arryn fell into Robert's hands.

Only Eyrie is left. To get to it, you have to go through a dangerous level, Gates of the Moon. The owner of the castle is also named Royce. Fortunately, House Royce of Gates of the Moon and House Royce of Runestone Not the same, until Robert led the army to the Gates of the Moon, the lords here did not publicly declare their support for the Lords Declarant, and the castle was not captured.

You can go to Eyrie after passing the Moon Door, but you can only go up the mountain along a very narrow goat road, which takes half a day under normal circumstances. Under the long-range attack of the three purely military fortresses of Mountain Fort and Changtian Fort, the good news is that the controllers of these fortresses did not join the Lords Declarant. The Six Nations Allied Forces under the Stag flag arrived at the foot of the mountain and turned into Duke Arryn's loyal bannermen.

Lysa Tully refuses to believe that the "rebellion" has been quelled, and still hides in Eyrie and dares not go down the mountain, but with the food in the castle running out, anyway, this affects the Seven Kingdoms and lasts for nearly two months. The counter-insurgency war will soon come to an end not as Perfection.

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The celebration banquet was held in the Vale of Arryn in a field overlooking the Giant's Lance. During the day, you can enjoy the high altitude of the mountain range. "Alyssa's Tears" Nether Soul-like torrents run down from the towering western mountains, like a gleaming silver ribbon hanging from the cliff, contrasting with the dark rock, shining rays of light in the sun.

At night, it became the site of the largest bonfire carnival in the history of Seven Kingdoms. Once the Bloody Gate was broken, the wealth and provisions of the Lords Declarant who moved out of the castle and hid in the Vale of Arryn became peaceful. The treasure of the betrayal army - the several families involved in the mutiny are all Vale's most powerful families, and the total value of the spoils is as high as more than 100,000 Golden Dragon... So much money, I'm afraid even the Vale of Arryn Duke can't get it out at once . Although it is incomparable with the real big guys like Lannister and Tyrell, it is more than enough to pay the army's salary for less than ten days, and there is still a lot left to settle the account - and these wealth were waved by the lavish Robert. Rewards from army soldiers and nobles.

A king who is not bad for money! Not only did Robert's reputation not drop due to the poor early battles, but it rose even higher!
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After the reward and praise for the number one hero Brynden Blackfish Ser, the number two hero Igor also stood in the center of the tent. This time, not only Robert smiled at him, but even the surrounding The princes of the Six Nations who were seated also stared at him with interest.

The more sensitive politicians can already see that the peace between the Seven Kingdoms is in jeopardy - in the event of a major war, if there is such a person in the army who is good at planning ideas in the rear, the odds of winning are bound to increase. even more how is this guy the protagonist of a well-known adventure Legendary who can fight the famous Dorne "Red Viper" for dozens of rounds?
A celebrity with both civil and military skills, even if he does nothing in this rotten era, just being in one camp is a huge boost to morale and a powerful deterrent to the enemy!

It's a pity that he is a Night's Watch, and no one can recruit him.

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"Others Killer," Robert likes to call Igor by the nickname, perhaps thinking it's cool: "Although it was the Blackfish Ser who led the way to Bloody Gate at the end. , but the idea you have come up with is very important, whatever you want, just say it, as long as it is not too outrageous, I will satisfy you as a king!"

As long as it is not too outrageous, I will satisfy you!
This sentence sounds so arrogant, but it came from Robert Baratheon's mouth. There is no doubt about its real value. The big tent that had been noisy suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on the middle. On the youngster of black clothed.

A Night's Watch, what would you want?
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[Debt repayment in chronological order, add more updates for "I'm drunk", still owe 4 chapters]

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