King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 577 The Southern Expedition begins!
Igor doesn't know who gave Arya the idea of "Chief Girl Night's Watch", but naturally a living person can't be suffocated to death by urine, since there is a risk of errors in the plan to check and balance North by granting land alone, then the original idea Put up the "backup plan" in the game, and pull House Bolton into the game.

Speaking of which, the three-legged stability, it is necessary to go to a higher level.

Old Flayer was devastated by knocking and drawing cakes, and then everything went smoothly: House Bolton, who got the promise, put all his savings and energy into the Queen's conquest, which not only It made Daenerys more loyal and strong supporters, and he also inadvertently intervened in the subsequent conferences - forming a "catfish effect" within the North nobles:
Originally, many princes who came to serve allegiance were in the name of The thought of not doing enough work has made a lot of reservations about supporting Queen... Daenerys is well aware of this and intends to accept it by default. But Roose Bolton, who was trying his best to make a lot of money, came out of the bunch of bastards. With him in front of him for comparison, the situation suddenly became awkward: a group of North nobles soon found out that the troops, horses and forages and armaments from several of their families, plus I couldn't hold back the Bolton family when I got up!
How does this work?
House Bolton can show such strong financial resources and military strength. It is a key factor that he has long been anti-heart and secretly preparing for war for a long time. Other families are definitely not comparable, but in the end, the population and size are there, even if they are poor. It's not too bad... The big northern men who claim to be "decent people" are actually compared by a "northern traitor" in terms of loyalty, which still makes them unable to hang on.

I can't afford to lose face, so everyone has to quietly raise the amount of sponsorship by brace oneself, not trying to overtake the crush, anyway, don't be too outrageous. This one gives a little more, that one also gives half a point... The fire was high when everyone gathered firewood, so Daenerys quickly collected more than needed food and grass supplies, and the Nanzheng finally got everything ready and opened with a rumble. Prologue.

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Daenerys took three dragons when going north, one less dragon when going south, but an extra army of more than ten thousand people. Excluding the Unsullied Guard, the composition was roughly as follows: over 4,000 Land Granters, nearly 6,000 North soldiers - 2,000 for House Bolton and 4,000 for the rest.

It's not much, but in the case that North still needs to guard against the Ironmen, it is already an extremely clear lineup and announcement, and the political significance is far greater than the actual battle strength.

With Bolton's Army as the vanguard, the Southern Expedition started from Winterfell, and marched southward in the form of a dragon. After marching along the Kingsroad for several days, they arrived at the last stop before stepping out of the North - Moat Cailin, the north-south transportation hub.

Meeting with the little aristocrats in the South of the North, such as the Locke family in the old city and the Greywater Watch Reed family, who had already received news and waited here, and went through the process to accept their oath of allegiance. All the nobles were in their pockets. After ordering the army to take a break, she called a combat meeting at Igor's request to discuss the core points that must be determined before officially entering the War Zone.

How to fight this southern expedition?
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"3-4 months ago, when the Battle of Long Lake had just ended, and the Night's Watch was still sweeping the battlefield and chasing the escaped Others, the southern battle was not suspended. The false king Stannis After learning that Queen was in the North and could not return to the south for a short time, he organized the King's Landing garrison to conduct an active attack to investigate the facts. After finding out the deployment of the Unsullied and the Free Militia in the siege army, they began to prepare for a decisive battle. ."

Facing the detailed map of the Riverlands -Crownlands hanging on the wall, Igor pointed his fingers and briefed the battlefield situation at a moderate pace.

Under normal circumstances, the nobles of Westeros hold a battle meeting, and most of them will spread the map on the big table, and everyone will form a circle and discuss each and every word. But what Igor chose today was to let the others sit in a row, with oneself standing at one end of the room - like a teacher teaching students, just talking and not listening.

The reason for this is that in addition to creating oppression to establish authority, the main reason is that he has a complete and clear plan for how to carry out the southern expedition, and has been recognized after communicating with Queen... ...He didn't want or need to have any further discussions with these disorganized nobles.

"Fortunately, the Queen's assigned commander, Grey Worm, was keenly aware of the opponent's intentions for a decisive battle. The Night's Watch Industrial Park continues to be a double-team situation for the city."

This is actually a bit of a forced blow, in fact, the battle situation outside King's Landing has reached a rather dangerous level a while ago - the encirclement is not Grey Worm pulled away, but was defeated by Stannis. How keen is this battle-hardened leader of the king, he decided to lead his troops to attack after confirming that Daenerys' dragon could not participate in the battle, and went straight to the Liberty Militia with weaker battle strength in the Queen's troops. To create the result of the annihilation, if the Unsullied Legion with fierce and unafraid of death quickly mobilized the top to bear the pressure, the golden regiment stationed on the south bank of Blackwater Rush also responded quickly and immediately made a posture to cross the river to join the battlefield. The two-pronged approach finally forced Stannis to withdraw from the battlefield. It is hard to say whether the Night's Watch Industrial Park still exists today.

If I really lose the huge amount of saltpeter reserves in the industrial park, Igor's follow-up tactics and strategies will have to undergo huge changes. I'm afraid that standing here today will be a little less confident.

Of course, he naturally won't do the stupid thing of growing others' anger and destroying oneself's prestige. Since the worst situation has not happened, all he has to do now is to show a confident appearance, even little Aegon. Not to mention his role in this incident.

"Utilizing this gap, Stannis concentrated his forces to briefly open the route to the Riverlands, obtained a batch of emergency food, and eased the food shortage in King's Landing... The siege of several months was a bit of a waste. It's a pity, but on the other hand, the hundreds of thousands of residents in King's Landing, Your Majesty's house is kind-hearted, and will never expect to starve them to break the city."

After summing up, Igor turned to He turned to look at the people who were sitting.

"Once we had a general understanding of the situation ahead, it became clear what we were going to do next: go south as soon as possible, join forces with the Queen outside King's Landing, and lay siege to the capital of the Seven Kingdoms."

He raised his hand a little harder somewhere in the lower right corner of the map, at least on this point, no one doubted.

"But things are not that simple. We are separated by the entire Riverlands from King's Landing. Tully and the important families along the Kingsroad take a stand." He put down his hands and looked towards Daenerys, who was sitting in the first row, "The Queen has confirmed that she will ride the dragon first to the south tomorrow morning, and Rosby at the front will join the main force of Unsullied to boost morale. , to ensure that the confrontation does not collapse before our army moves south to join it. Next, in the name of the legitimate ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, I will, on behalf of Daenerys Targaryen I, issue specific combat instructions for the 1st Stage of the War of Conquest to all of you present.”

After a pause, Igor raised his voice: "Willis Manderly Ser and Land Granter Logistics Commander Pedi, led the White Harbor soldiers and 200 Land Granters infantry to stay at Moat Cailin, responsible for preventing the south from going north. The enemy, and coordinating the subsequent storage of food and grass here and the transportation to the front line; Black Shell and Bolton count, leading the Queen Guard, Dread Fort infantry and all our cavalry, along Kingsroad at full speed south, crossing Trident to control Harroway count town, Cut off the two Great Ways of the King and the Riverlands from the route leading to King's Landing, prevent the grain transportation from the Riverlands lords to King's Landing, and annihilate the possible false king's grain team to ensure that there is no more grain before the combined troops attack King's Landing From the outside world into the hands of the enemy... If possible, send troops forward to capture Harrenhal, but the previous mission is the primary goal; as for the commanders of the remaining armies who have not been named, they will be led by me and Robb Stark Duke through the twin rivers The city enters the Riverlands hinterland, surrenders the Three Rivers princes along the way, and goes to Riverrun to persuade Duke Edmure Tully to swear allegiance to the Queen...or take the Riverlands capital."

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(end of this chapter)