King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 620 The demise of the stag (Part 2)
and successive occurrences on land and sea in the past two weeks Compared with the two world-shattering battles in 2008, King's Landing's offensive and defensive process is quite unremarkable.

As the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, the city's topography is no longer a secret; after a long siege, the city's defense layout and weak points have been clearly identified; the morale of the attackers is at its peak, but the defenders are at the bottom ...Under the circumstance that the vague threat and oppression of Reach and Westerlands have not completely dissipated, a protracted war is obviously not the first choice.

"No foreplay, take away in one wave" - that is the program and principles formulated by the Queen for this battle.

Unsullied, who was filled into the fleet a few days ago, had no time to return to the original position, so he simply landed at the original Royal Fleet naval port, which was destroyed on the shore, and attacked the Iron Gate after a simple rest at sea for a day. In this way, more than 30,000 siege troops have realized the simultaneous use of the battlefield to maximize the strength of their strength. They launched a general attack from both land and sea to all directions at the same time, using a long front to pull the stretched defenders and pin them on the city walls. Afterwards, he suddenly clenched his fingers and punched fiercely—a raid-style blasting at the weak point of the city gate, breaking the city in one fell swoop.

Simple but effective tactics.

Among the seven city gates, the three gates of Linhe, Gods and dragon collapsed in the first round of blasting. The Iron Gate was the most sturdy because it was recently repaired and the Wonders survived the damage of gunpowder. The remaining three gates were destroyed by gunpowder. Relying on the defenders to fight successfully to prevent the demolition team from approaching, but also due to the absence of reinforcements, the king's follow-up orders were delayed and other reasons, the morale collapsed, and after learning the news of the city's destruction, they either fled or surrendered.

The military function of the city is limited. Once the gate is broken, it can be declared lost. Daenerys wants to be the ruler of Westeros. Naturally, it is strictly forbidden to kill prisoners, rob or force women to do such evil deeds as to lose their character and prestige. , "Maintaining military discipline" is a difficult task for any wolf who has entered the flock. Fortunately, she has Unsullied: this group of soldiers who have no natural desire for men and have undergone rigorous slave training. The battle strength is amazing and disciplined. 100% in place to carry out all the instructions of the master... It is simply a natural military police and order maintenance force candidate.

Under this gang of eunuch soldiers, the Seventh Route Force drove in with fire, smoke, shouts and rumblings, heading straight for the city's three highlands and the key Red Keep core.

The expected stubborn resistance did not appear, and there were only scattered roadblocks lit by fire blocking the way. The fighting intensity reached its peak briefly at the beginning of the siege phase, and then quickly dropped back to almost zero, entering the city. The troops pushed forward in an orderly manner while putting out the fire, and gathered conscripts and prisoners along the way. The tragic scene of the fierce bloody battle corpses everywhere across the field could not be found anywhere. The workload of the soldiers to rescue property was far above the battle.

While the capital of the Seven Kingdoms was quietly changing hands, in the south of the city, a small contrarian undercurrent was rapidly surging.

An elite force of nearly 1,000 broke out from the Linhe Gate, along the north bank of Blackwater Rush against the direction of the current, crossing the once bustling fish market and now a desolate fish market, in an unstoppable imposing manner. Pounced towards the Night's Watch Industrial Park two miles away. The siege force has poured into the city from the broken city gate, and whether it is the flying eagle controlled by the Skinchanger or the Daenerys riding a dragon, they are all focused on the imaginary battle site around the Red Keep... Although along the way A small group of troops sensed the movement of this opposing force, but without instant communication, it was impossible to report directly to the headquarters.

Under the action of a series of practical reasons and some luck, this last fire led by Stannis has been killed until it is far away from the industrial park, only to be discovered by the patrolling scouts. And notified the commander of the Western Front who was sitting here.

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Igor was surprised, really.

He didn't expect: Even though oneself was obediently and honestly staying in the camp, Stannis would have to run halfway across the city to give oneself a head start.

Is this Tie Hanhan learning that the Industrial Park will become the Arsenal's biggest firearm in the future Seven Kingdoms, so he has to destroy it when he is dying? Keep also coming to fight with oneself?
He doesn't know and doesn't care.

"Strive to plan and prepare for all probability", this is Igor's code of conduct, and under the guidance of this code, the seemingly coincidental but inevitable outcome was born: although he did not It was expected that Stannis would leave the city without the Red Keep, and he did startled for his desperate counter-attack, but he was not completely unprepared at all.

The majority of the land-grant army is now fully armed and resting in the Night's Watch Industrial Park, waiting for the high probability that they will not appear-the time when they need to be used.

As the western base camp of the siege force, the industrial park will definitely not go out and leave empty camps if it is not necessary, but between Queen's "Meereen Army" and oneself's direct descendants, Igor In the end, I chose to send the former to attack the city and leave the latter as a reserve team in the camp... In addition to the idea of preserving strength, there is actually a very helpless reason: even his master, he is also very supportive of oneself. There is no confidence in helping wildling.

When in front of one's eyes, he can easily calm down the scene with prestige and personality cult, but once the reins are released and these guys are released, he does not intend to personally participate in siege and street fighting. Under the circumstances, there is no guarantee that these bastards will not be able to loot in chaos.

Rather than risk making things ugly, it's better not to let them appear. Anyway, as the supreme commander of the Western Front, he commanded his soldiers to attack the city, and the credit in the end was all on his head. It's about the same.

And it was this originally random decision that turned into a brilliant move that made the opponent desperate.

"Call, prepare to fight!"

Amid the rallying trumpet, the three thousand black clothed Legion straightened their helmets and raised their flags in a panic, ready to meet the enemy's Stranded Beast's Struggle.

"Report to the Lord Commander! The enemy did not attack the industrial park, but went straight to the shore and has now occupied the wharf!"

"Captured the wharf?"

The pier is outside the fence, and it is almost unguarded because it has no military value. It is normal for it to fall in an instant, but... Igor murmured in confusion, and then suddenly realized: Stannis' goal is not the Night's Watch Industrial Park, but to escape across the river!

After the Royal Navy destroyed Iron Fleet and also fled, the entire King's Landing area, except for the Queen fleet that was attacking the eastern line of King's Landing, was only left on the commercial wharf where the Night's Watch industry used to load and unload goods. The boat can only carry people across the river!
Although he didn't want to take the risk himself when the victory was already decided, but at the moment the enemy chief was in front of him, he couldn't find any reason to passively avoid the battle and let the opponent escape under oneself's nose.

Patting the Valyrian Steel armor that he had just put on, Igor took the helmet and put it on his head: "He can't run away, the whole army gathers and strikes with me!"

Half a mile away, Stannis, who had just fought off the pier guards and was now covering his wife and daughter to board the boat across the river, turned his head and sighed after seeing the land-grant army pressing down like a dark cloud in the distance, realizing that after all Can't escape this disaster.

"Jaslin, I'll give you another mission." Before getting on the warhorse, he called the Captain at Linhe Gate, and lowered his voice to ensure that as few people as possible could hear," Take your people aboard, if I win this battle, then come back with an empty boat to pick them up, and evacuate to Stormlands with me. If you can't win, don't run away, take the queen and the princess, here you are... Surrender to the Night's Watch."

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(end of chapter)