King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 618 The Fall of the Bucks (Part 1)
Ups and downs.

This is "Iron Hand" Jacelyn Bywater's summary of oneself's life trajectory.

He was born in the last branch of the collateral line. Due to the poor conditions of his family, he was born in a noble family, but his life was so embarrassed that he could not afford horses, weapons and armor, because he was unable to arm oneself to undertake duties and obligations. , so that in the most suitable youth he could not find a noble who was willing to canonize him as a Knight... Until later he was drafted into the army and participated in Robert Baratheon's quelling of the Greyjoy rebellion as an ordinary soldier in his middle age. During the war, he fought bravely to kill the enemy and lost his right hand, so he was named a Knight by King Robert because of his merits, and was rewarded with an officer position in the capital garrison.

He is not good at cheating, flattering and fawning, and has always been unpopular with officials at all levels. Fortunately, he has the halo body protection of "king canonization", and he can sit upright. You have to never fall into the wrong hands, so that you can successfully boil your qualifications forcibly to become a Mud Gate or a Captain at Linhe Gate, which is considered a little status and prestige.

Originally, for a small role with little background and only a little dumb luck, he will probably work in this position of no high or low until he retires gloriously. Who wants to be a coincidence, a lot of With age, his hair began to turn gray, but he accidentally witnessed and got caught up in an open strife and veiled struggle between the Night's Watch industry and then-Garrison Commander Janos Slynt.

On the night of the civil strife in King's Landing, Igor, who was chased and killed by Slynt, fled into the Linhemen barracks to seek help from him, and with a big wave of the iron hand Ser, who had endured the pig's head for a long time, he put all his chips in. On the side of Night's Watch and Lannister, they changed their normal prudence and obedience, and committed the following crime that he still recalls with a bit of passion today: he blocked the camp, led his cronies and subordinates to an armed confrontation with the aggressive Lord Commander Slynt. The imposing manner at all costs just protected the little Night's Watch that fled into his camp in a hurry, and finally, relying on this real value "name submission", he got the gold masters behind the Night's Watch industry and the officers of the guards. The military and civilians, including them, unanimously supported the election, and successfully succeeded the boss who was overthrown by him, and took over as the commander of the King's Landing garrison.

The king's immediate armed commander, the highest army commander of the Crownlands, the Guardian of the capital of the Seven Kingdoms...

It was the highest moment of his life, and it is said that he revived the family fortune. It's not an exaggeration, it's a pity that this wonderful thing didn't last long.

After King Robert succumbed to his wounds, Bywater turned his allegiance to Prime Minister Eddard Stark and the legitimate successor, Stannis Baratheon. For a person who does not have much aristocratic background, this is obviously the best choice without suspense. However, in the "Battle of the Two Deer" that followed, the king's younger brother Renly Baratheon swept the forces of Storm and Reach. Come, attack King's Landing aggressively to usurp the throne.

Sitting in the city and ranking in the orthodox, it was a defensive battle with a good chance of winning. Bywat also wanted to show his skills in this battle to gain the approval of the new king. Who wants to defend the interior of the team? When the rebels appeared, Stannis, who had been assured of victory, lost the war in a confused way, and gave up Iron Throne inexplicably.

The north gate opened by the rebels is not the old sphere of influence of Bywat. The traitors were also instructed by the Crownlands nobles to make a big mistake. This matter has basically nothing to do with Bywat...

However, this just put him in the predicament of "unloved at both ends":

For Renly, he is a former official of the former dynasty who used to be loyal to his brother. Even if he has no hatred, he is absolutely impossible. Continue to reuse and stay in the City Guard.

For Stannis, the defeat that caused oneself to lose King's Landing briefly was due to his lax control as the Lord Commander and his failure to detect changes within the garrison in time.

So, after a short experience of a month as Lord Commander, Bywater was not only dismissed from his position by Renly...even if the situation reversed again soon, Renly killed Stannis inexplicably. After re-entering the Lord Pro, he was only able to return to Blackwater Rush to guard the familiar Mud Gate because of the lack of staff, and sit on the bench as a single-door guard Captain to this day.

And this time, another big ups and downs fork in front of him.

The little officer of Night's Watch who was rescued by the surge of blood energy a few years ago, now leads the heroic army, and has returned from the extreme northern lands of beyond a thousand li with Mad King's daughter in his arms!
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"Sir, you used to have a life-saving grace for the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, if you manage to get on line with him this time, donate it at the critical moment of the Queen's siege. Linhemen...has both connections and credits, not to mention the commander of the trifling garrison, he is the lord of splitting the earth, and it is not impossible for the Bywat family to become one of the great princes with vast real estate!"

This was a suggestion that someone who had been with him for many years had quietly suggested to Bywat a week ago, when Ser Ser without the slightest hesitation vetoed it, and scolded the speaker fiercely.

Eat the king's salary and share the worries for the king. Even if King Stannis didn't give him the position of commander of the garrison, it still rewarded him with his job. No matter how difficult the finances were in the past two years, he has never been in arrears with his military salaries and allowances like in the Slynt era. He is "Iron Ser" He has been upright and upright all his life, how can he do such a dirty thing?

But in the dead of night, lying under the duvet and staring at the ceiling, a touch of unwillingness and shaking also troubled him.

Eat the marrow and know the taste.

He was a former Lord Commander of the garrison and knew what it was like to be above ten thousand people in addition to kings and prime ministers. Having tasted the sweetness of power, how could it be possible to willingly return to the dust and quietly do the day after day gatekeeping work until it falls into the ground?
I don't know if he sensed his thoughts or had a memory of betrayal. Not long after the Land Granters arrived outside the city, Stannis dispatched his confidant generals and guards to the garrison garrison of various gates. Overseer status took over the job of opening and closing the city gate, as well as high level 1 command during wartime.

This was originally a sign of distrust, but Bywater secretly relaxed while he was unhappy: That's fine, he could resist the temptation instead of coveting a high position and great wealth. Degenerate into the kind of person that oneself has ever looked down on the most.

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"Sir, let's surrender! As long as you show your identity, with your relationship with Igor West, no matter how bad it is, you won't lose your head. , the worst is to put on black clothed and send Wall, maybe under the care of the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and at Castle Black he is still an officer!"

This is the same person who persuaded him to betray the enemy before, at this moment Speaking to Bywat.

Different from a week ago, this time the exhortation took place in public, in front of countless brothers, and both the speaker and the listener were covered in dirt, and they were extremely embarrassed.

The big difference is that, this time, Bywart almost agreed with the nodded.

They've just had an impossible battle to win.

It was an incredible siege battle: arrows and projectiles flew sideways, with density and formidable power above them; There were no soldiers left for the second and third rounds of attack; the dragon hunted the dragon crossbow above the head and swept across the height, and every once in a while, it could see it drop a string of things that would explode, smashing down to the city wall either far or near. On the battlefield, the soldiers were blown up to cry and cry; but what filled the entire auditory world was neither shouting nor screaming, but that unfamiliar and familiar "Boom".

When the iron bullet hits the city wall, a deep pit is bound to blast out a large amount of gravel, and if it hits the city gate, it is a big hole that penetrates the opposite direction. As for good luck, it hits people directly...

He didn't even want to recall that scene.

If oneself has a chance to live today, when writing or dictating memoirs in the future, I will tell the listeners this way: The Far View Artillery is on the Blackwater Rush or in the bay to show off against the Golden Group and Iron Fleet, and face it. It's a completely different feeling for this legendary weapon to be the target they aim at and strikes!

They mustered up their courage, they fought with blood, they fell one by one...Although they did everything to stop the enemy's advance, they were still hot and cold weapons hiding the sky and covering the earth Under the suppression of firepower, the enemy approached the city wall. This is a common and acceptable situation in urban offense and defense. Bywat judges that he can repel the enemy’s attack at least five or six times. Defeat from the city wall, the first line of defense.

But after a loud bang that almost made his heart stop, all predictions and conjectures came to nothing.

The attack that bombed and sank the Iron Fleet flagship in the bay the day before yesterday could also be used in land warfare, and it worked on the city gate!
It's not like they haven't worried about this possibility, but they don't even know what the enemy's weapons are, so how can they formulate countermeasures?
The "Mud Gate" that Bywat had been guarding for nearly ten years, ordered to open or close it thousands of times, and even knew how many copper nails it had on it, slammed inward after the sound. When it fell, the stone pillars, which were used as reinforcement and support behind the door, did not delay its fate from being bombed.

What is crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood? What is unstoppable? What is in a spurt of energy? What is as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves?
Iron Hand Ser met today.

The other party didn't intend to entangle, pull or test each other with the defenders at all. Instead, they would do their best to make a move, like slapping flies...and slap them to death!

The last fortress of the Baratheon Dynasty, King Stannis, the first defender of the Seven Kingdoms, personally arranged the brewing King's Landing defense line... The Linhemen section in charge of oneself, cleaned up Reach and Iron like the Queen's army chopped melons and vegetables The two groups of spectators from the Islands finally turned around and launched the general attack in the early morning, the siege troops launched the first round charge on the city wall, and within less than an hour after the horn blew, they were ruthlessly smashed and pierced, making the opponent invincible. To add to his legacy, the myth of House Targaryen Return of the King is even more persuasive!

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