King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 621 Life for Life
"A tragic and worthless curtain call."

Sitting on horseback and watching the soldiers deal with the wounded, transport the dead and gather the captives, Igor made the final conclusion of the battle in his heart.

Stannis had the opportunity to let the soldiers leave cover, and oneself retreated to the south bank of Blackwater Rush, but he finally followed Xiang Yu who refused to cross Jiangdong and chose to stay and fight to the death.

Under the leadership of Stannis, the last Stag Family king army he personally led won a heroic and honorable battle. The wave of press forward went straight to the charge from Igor, and even made him regain his relationship with Others for a time. Hand-to-hand sense of crisis.

It's a pity that there are too few of them.

With less than 1/4/2022 troops, on the plains with a team of Masters of Tigers and Wolves, who not only fought head-on with the ghoul army, but also just beat the Golden Corps to half death meet force with force, the ending is: even without the help of artillery and bombs, the small group of red is still like a piece of charcoal thrown into a pond, and it is engulfed by the black shirt army in an instant, and it will die or fall, even in front of Igor. Failed to do so.

One of the captives pointed out that Stannis' body was easy to find. Although there is no concept of the "king", even the minds of the people beyond the wall can understand that they have just killed the "chief of the most hostile tribe" on the entire continent. Arguing over who got the most credit and who gave him the last knife almost caused a fight between the two teams. It wasn't until Igor led the guards that they rode silently close, and the group who felt they couldn't take advantage of them turned their heads angrily and searched for other spoils.

He ordered a ban on insulting and destroying the remains of the enemy, but other than that, he did not overwhelm the soldiers. Watching them gleefully lift a dead man off the battlefield, Sun had just crossed the midline in the sky to begin the west slope - the short-lived Baratheon Dynasty, which, on its last day of existence, didn't even see the sunset.

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According to the reports of the scouts, the two small boats successfully crossed the river and fled to the other side under the cover of battle, carrying people who were suspected to be members of the pseudo Royal Family. It's bad news, but Igor isn't too worried: after the deer wars, the Golden Corps invasion, and the long winter, even if Stannis' wife and daughter managed to escape back to the Stormlands, there's no more power there. The powerful noble who raised the stag flag again.

Compared to being nervous, he is more entangled at the moment.

What to do with Stannis' survivors?
This should have been something Queen needed to consider, so Igor didn't even mention any suggestions in order not to get mad at him.

Who would have thought, now that Stannis failed to lead his troops to break through the siege, it suddenly became his burden.

If oneself wants to show loyalty and share the Queen's worries, the best way is naturally to do the same as Tywin did to Rhaegar's wife and children: create an "accident" tragedy and then present the body to the Queen, killing the dirty While living the monarch's peace of mind, it completely eliminates a threat to the new dynasty.

However, it is Daenerys Targaryen who has the blood debt to pay, he Igor West and the Baratheon family can be lacking hatred and enmity, killing Stannis in head-to-head combat is one thing, but defenseless The orphaned daughter and the widowed mother were poisoned, but they lost their character and prestige.

Of course, even out of his incomparable loyalty to the Queen, he can send reliable personnel to chase after him quietly, creating a disappearance of the dead or disguising the scene as a bandit robber's house. for. It was a good idea, but another problem cropped up: the white gloves he had to do the dirty work were gone.

Roose Bolton and Warner Buckwell, one is the Dreadburgh count, the other is a sinner who betrayed Stannis and supported Renly and was exiled, both vicious and merciless and decisive, but the former is in the north. So outside the defense, the Westerlands and Vale sent troops to steal the Queen's back road, and the latter led the team into the city to attack the Red Keep. It's okay to kill people, but it's hard to get them to do things cleanly and beautifully, and no one can see anything wrong with them, and they have to control their mouths afterwards.

And call the Dorne people for help? Most of them will be very happy to go out, but because they belong to the noble class, if there is no great benefit, this group of people will definitely bring the goal back alive and throw the problem back to oneself.

Igor sighed and was distressed when he heard a distant shout in his ears. Looking up, he found unexpectedly: The two boats that had escaped to the other side an hour ago, an unfathomable mystery. back again.

Leading the guards to go there, Igor saw a familiar silhouette among the golden robes that were disembarking one after another at the shore of the ship that had been surrounded by soldiers.

"Lord Commander, under Jacelyn Bywater, with Queen Selyse, Princess Lin, and the remaining guards at Linhe Gate, surrender to you." A gray-haired old man knelt down halfway, and stabbed his sword together. The sheaths were placed in front of Igor, "Please abide by the spirit of the Knight and the convention of engagement to keep us safe."

*******

Grass!
Looking at the Old Guy who once helped oneself with life-saving grace, and the mother and daughter who hugged behind him and shiver coldly in fear or anger kneeling in front of oneself, Igor cursed inwardly.

Erlu's dead brain suddenly started cunning again at this time! ?

Iron Bywat is not the type to betray the Lord, which shows that his surrender was definitely an order from someone higher.

And this also means that Stannis didn't make a fool of himself to give up the Red Keep and come out to die. His idea from the very beginning was not to break through or kill oneself, but to take his wife and daughter away from the Red Keep... Sooner or later, the dangerous place that would be conquered and occupied by Daenerys would be sent to the oneself who had no blood feud with him. Come in!
(Don't worry about what to do now.)
What would have happened if Princess Elia and the children secretly escaped from Maegor's Holdfast before the Westerlands army invaded the Red Keep and surrendered to Tywin Lannister face to face What?
The answer is obvious: no matter how angry the feather-loving old lion is, he can only bite his teeth and swallow it, hypocritically arguing with the great aristocrats such as Eddard Stark, Hoster Tully and Jon Arryn to do their best. No matter what he might not hesitate to offend Robert, he also wanted to protect their mother, son and daughter.

Stannis used the death of oneself to eliminate Daenerys' greatest threat to legitimacy, and then used this surrender led by oneself's former benefactors and friends, in the eyes of broad daylight, and successfully forced the death of oneself. With oneself, he has no choice but to do his best to protect his widow and daughter from Daenerys' angry vengeful hand!

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Annoyed by being used, Igor quickly dismounted and helped the surrendered old Ser. After accepting the surrender, comforting a little, and ordering proper shelter and care, With a big wave of his hand, he gave another order: "Take the two ladies and young ladies, we will enter the city immediately and go to Red Keep!" But at least there is something to do to stop losses.

Looking at the resolute resistance of the King's Landing defenders in the first wave of city wall offensive and defensive battles, Stannis probably didn't explain oneself's plan to the defenders. And this also means: if the Red Keep defenders don't know where Stannis is going, they may still be holding on to resist waiting for him to withdraw.

If this is the case, then oneself can at least use the existence of this pair of queens and princesses to persuade them to surrender and reduce the unnecessary casualties of the Queen's army.

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(end of this chapter)