King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 606 Dilemma
"Your Majesty's fleet at Dragonstone has: Victarion Greyjoy brought from the Iron Islands There are more than 30 remaining ships in Meereen, 105 warships were captured after the defeat of the Volantis fleet, and the rest were recruited from Meereen... There are basically dozens of modified cargo ships with no battle strength. Among them, because the Volantis battleship basically They're all great ships, so we're better than Iron Fleet in gross tonnage, but at a disadvantage in numbers, and the quality of personnel is uneven." The Fleet Commander's representative, a middle-aged man who didn't look like a soldier, answered Igor's question "Most of our crew members are newly trained sailors, and there are also some surrendered prisoners. We can barely manage the boat, but the battle is a bit reluctant. If it is a long-distance naval battle, we can do it. Iron Fleet alone is hard work, not to mention Stannis' King's Landing fleet—they're small, but they're a regular navy, and none of them are small boats."

As Igor guessed, Daenerys The so-called "fleet" is actually nothing more than an armed transport fleet. There is no problem in carrying her Unsullied and Free Militia from Meereen back to Westeros, but in terms of battle strength, it can only be regarded as better than nothing, and the most capable of fighting may be Originally following Victarion's "Iron Fleet No. 2", it was no problem to block Stannis in Blackwater Bay, but if he really wanted to fight with the fleet led by "King of the Iron Islands" Euron, he might turn his back.

Having made this clear, he coughed, interrupting everyone else in the room talking at once.

“Your Majesty, even your oneself Navy members admit that our water power is hardly a match for Iron Fleet.” Igor said to the dignified Daenerys, “but what I’m thinking about now But it is - since Iron Fleet has arrived at Blackwater Bay, why not directly attack Dragonstone and wipe out your fleet in the naval port, but only attack one of your patrol ships, and even let two people back alive? "

"It's clearly a threat." Prince Oberyn leaned back in his chair and tapped his fingers on the table casually, uttering his romantic speculation: "I heard that Crow's Eye once told Your Majesty proposed to marry him, but was rejected... Could it be because he loves and hates and wants to destroy what he can't get?"

"Want to force me to marry him? It's beautiful! "Queen couldn't hold back his anger, she and Euron were originally lacking hatred and enmity, and even had a good impression of Ironmen because Iron Fleet came all the way to Meereen to help in the battle. Even though they were ambitious and refused to marry, they formed a mutual benefit. The allies of China are also willing, and whoever thinks that the other party will start to take hostile actions if they disagree with each other.

This touches her reverse scale.

"Want me? Well, I'll ride the dragon tomorrow to find him outside Blackwater Bay, and let him experience the enthusiasm of the women from House Targaryen! I can't believe that the Ironmen also have dragon crossbows on board!"

That's not what I meant, Igor smiled wryly and hurriedly advised: "It's hard to say whether there is a dragon hunting crossbow, but even if there is no, ordinary ballista catapults can pose a certain threat, more important. The thing is—hundreds of boats, relying on Your Majesty, you slowly burn or drop bombs over, when will this battle be fought? There is a possibility of forcing marriage, but this move seems more like a manifestation of existence Sense, tell us: Iron Fleet is not only here, but not well. Does this look like what a pirate would do?"

"No, the style of a pirate is sneak attack and do it quickly , to ride the wind and ride the waves... let people know in advance and grab a fart?" Speaking of which, the fleet representative also frowned, "Uh... I don't know what they want to do.

"Analyzing the Ironmen's whereabouts in the past two years, it is not difficult to guess what they intend to do - Reach, Riverlands, Westerlands and North, although Iron Fleet seems to have hit the Seven Kingdoms up and down. They have never fought a decisive battle against any party that met force with force. Iron Islands are sparsely populated, and although all the people are soldiers, there are only one dead. Easy to fight with people. Now deliberately attacking patrol ships but not attacking the naval port of Dragonstone, I guess this is a deterrent, Euron wants to scare us away from using the navy without one blade and one sword, and is forced to only attack King's from land Landing attacked, so as to achieve the purpose of 'weaken us by Stannis' hand, so that even if we win King's Landing, we will have a strong injury. For a long time, we will not be able to settle the small Aegon and Reach to unite the Seven Kingdoms, let alone the Seven Kingdoms. Settling the Ironmen sacked the coast."

"Doesn't that mean Euron won't go to war as long as we don't attack King's Landing with the Dragonstone fleet?" Robb asked suspiciously.

"This is my personal judgment, but I can't guarantee that oneself can figure out what the madman thinks, and the alert level of the fleet must still be raised."

"Since naval battles are difficult to fight, If we win, then we'll just attack King's Landing from land, so what's the matter?" Princess Arianne didn't understand why everyone was so serious.

"It's not that simple." The deputy commander of Unsullied snapped to explain to Princess Dorne, "King's Landing has low and weak city walls on both sides of the water, but the city walls are high and thick in the direction of the plain, if we give up With the cooperation of the navy, then Stannis' fleet will either park their ships on the shore outside the Iron Gate or into the Blackwater Rush to help defend the Mud Gate. In this way, we will be forced to bite in the direction it is hard to bite. We soldiers This advantage can only be exerted by extending the front line. If the siege is only carried out from the west and north sides, it is not only difficult for 30,000 soldiers to fight at the same time, but also the large number of siege equipment captured from the Reach people is difficult to dispose of all the defenders. It is also possible to concentrate superior forces for defense. In addition, a large number of defensive equipment originally placed on the east and south walls and in the Royal Fleet naval port can also be removed and moved to the city wall in the battle section... It can be said that although the front line is shortened, However, the intensity of the offensive and defensive battles will be greatly increased, and our casualties will increase exponentially.”

“If the difficulty of breaking the city is only doubled, then forbearance and forbearance will pass, but only from the west and north. Directional siege will also bring another problem: the attack is likely to be dragged into the street fighting stage. The core of King's Landing, the Red Keep, is in the far southeast corner of the city. It was originally attacked from all directions at the same time. After the city is broken, our troops will also be From the seven city gates swarming in, the defenders could not build an effective defense in the face of the enemy from all directions. But only by breaking the city from two directions, the defenders could build barricades facing west and north to resist. Backed by the Red Keep, fortified layer by layer, and retreated step by step... In a bad battle where the advantages of equipment and numbers are difficult to exert, there is a high probability of a four-digit increase in casualties of our army!"

"Also, Once the opponent has bought enough time to withdraw into the Red Keep, we will also face a strong fortress above Aegon's High Hill, defended by thousands..."

"There are many battles to come. To fight, I can't lose too many soldiers in King's Landing." Daenerys interrupted Unsullied, "I need a solution now!"

There was no discussion. Eyebrows, the voice of the words fell, and they all turned their attention to Igor.

(It all depends on what I do, I don't know anything about naval combat!)

Igor's head suddenly became big.

Prestige starts with ability, ends with success, and becomes superstition after fermentation... Everyone seems to think that he should have a way to break this game. However, the land-grant army was trained by him, and the gunpowder weapons were developed by him. He fought all the way through half-heartedness and half-cheating. Faced with such an incomprehensible conspiracy by Euron, he could think about it for a while. What can I do?

Of course, the trust and persuasion of others is beneficial to him. Naturally, Igor will not pretend that oneself can't be arrogant. his insights.

"There are two ideas, one is to compromise, give up the original plan of advancing by sea and land, order the Dragonstone fleet to shrink the front line to protect itself near the port, and at the same time, we also figured out that it will still be mitigated in the case of only conducting a land attack. The second method is to try to strengthen the battle strength of the Dragonstone fleet in a short period of time. Anyway, sooner or later, we will be the enemy. Fleet is also cleaned up, and the world is peaceful!"

The first item is not a solution at all, it is just pushed out to make up for it; as for the second item, it is easy to say, but if there is no concrete feasible He didn't say the method, so after a slight pause, he added: "At present, it seems that there are roughly the following methods to enhance the battle strength of the fleet - from the soldiers of the North Riverlands, those who are familiar with water are recruited into the fleet to fill up the manpower, and the artillery Board the ship to enhance the naval long-range attack capability, rush to produce explosive bombs to make up for the weakness of boarding, and have Your Majesty drive the dragon to provide air support during the battle."

"There are many methods, but all of them do not require preparation. time, Your Majesty If you are determined to make a move, then the time for the general attack on King's Landing will be delayed for a while. Although the Reach Army has temporarily retreated, its strength is still there. The pros and cons and the importance of it are up to Your Majesty to judge and make your own decision.”

It’s not that Igor was kicking the ball on purpose, but he really couldn’t come to a conclusion quickly in a short time.

It is easy to fill the fleet with water soldiers, but there are only so many artillery and artillery in total, and it is useless to give to the navy and army; as for bombs, although the production is simple and you can get started, but the production It also takes time... The most important thing is that the Dragonstone fleet is so poor that even if you give a bunch of people and good things, you may not be able to make a generation of pirates like Iron Fleet.

On the contrary, abandoning the land and sea and advancing directly to attack King's Landing seems to be surrendering and admitting counsel, which will lead to increased casualties, but after all, the power to attack the City Lord is directly under the Queen and Dorne people, and the land-grant army of oneself has already taken risks The first to fight against the Golden Corps, reasonable in every circumstance would not be able to rush to the front during the siege - in this way, Igor's position on this matter suddenly has no reason to be so clear and extreme.

The eyes of everyone in the room turned back to Daenerys, a clear hesitation appeared on her bright and beautiful face, and emotionally speaking, of course, she hoped to immediately make the offender pay the price with color, but She is Queen after all, and every decision affects her whole body, especially she is taboo to act with loyalty, how to choose, she also made a difficult time for a while.

Just when everyone thought the Queen was about to announce an important decision, Missandei, who had been standing behind her, suddenly whispered: "Your Majesty, it's a big deal, but it's unhurried for a while, you don't need to make a decision right away. Make a decision. Today our army has won a big victory, so why not call the meeting first, let all the adults go back to relax and celebrate, you can also take a break, think about it carefully, and talk about it tomorrow?"

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(end of this chapter)