King of The Wall

2021-01-20

Chapter 626 The Twilight of the Lion
After the light rain, Sun emerges from behind the clouds, bright The rays of light that are not scorching are sprinkled on the ground, and the oncoming breeze mixed with water vapor brings a touch of warmth. The heat and humidity can make the conditions for All Living Things to Recover ready, and this kind of good weather has become more and more frequent recently, even the blind can feel: spring is already not far.

This winter after the Long Summer is as long and cold as the prophecy, and it will end before people run out of food and start eating seeds, which is definitely good news for people no matter where in the Southern Sea, but Standing on the riverbank bathed in sunlight and warm wind, Tywin Lannister's face is colder and stiffer than the unthawing soil of the Lands of Always Winter in Saibei.

Good weather, but bad major event.

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Two weeks ago, when he received Golden Tooth's report and learned about the peace terms the Queen had proposed to the Westerlands, Tywin's first reaction was: it was a mistake to send Tyrion to negotiate Decide.

House Lannister's "friends" are all over the Seven Kingdoms. After the Queen rides the dragon north to grant land: neither seeks James to avenge the murder of his father, nor does he liquidate and persecute the black clothed Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella, after subduing North, even forgave House Stark's betrayal and sucked them into the camp...

This piece of news allows Tywin to gradually build up Daenerys in his mind An all-round three-dimensional impression: a little Queen who is not crazy, has a clear goal and is clear-headed. As long as oneself is willing to hand over the olive branch, she will most likely take it, and redouble its active efforts to win over oneself, so as to complete the restoration with the power of the Westerlands.

Based on this judgment, after he received the "Declaration of Conquest" and negotiation secret from Igor's Queen in Caster Rock City, he immediately agreed to let Tyrion go to the meeting. The idea is to use the friendship and friendship between the dwarf son of oneself and Igor, and maybe get the best entry conditions for the Westerlands.

Who thought that the conditions they finally negotiated were: oneself abdicated and put on black clothed, and Tyrion took over as the patriarch of House Lannister?
extraordinary shame and humiliation.

For Tywin, who has always put family honor in the first place, this condition is clearly telling him: Queen not only does not want the support of the Westerlands, but even fiercely hits House Lannister in the face!
The worst thing is that Tywin doesn't even know: is this really a high-ranking move by Queen or Igor, thinking of seducing their father and son with status, or whether oneself, the crippled son, offered to betray his inflated ambitions At the expense of family interests, he has won the support of two external forces, Night's Watch and Daenerys. He wants to take the opportunity to squeeze out the oneself upper Castile City Lord and get what he has been talking about... that damn "birthright"?
Anger and suspicion superimposed, Tywin decided to personally mention army out of the Westerlands and go to King's Landing - either negotiate a reasonable price with the Queen, or attack it with forces such as Stannis, Reach and the Golden Group, Destroy Mad King's last evil remnants and forge a future for the family!

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However, just as the army was mobilizing food and forage and preparing to set off, Kevan and Tyrion both rushed back to Lanisport from the Golden Tooth front, not only preventing him from going to the Riverlands, but also Report everything that happened during the Golden Tooth negotiations, and solemnly and solemnly assure him that the Night's Watch has a new weapon far more terrifying than the dragon, and the Westerlands will never be able to take advantage of the war with the Queen.

This time, the situation became complicated in an instant.

From an emotional point of view, the younger brother has been his close partner and loyal follower since he was a child. It is absolutely impossible to cheat oneself with Tyrion;
From an intellectual point of view, Kevan is the second Westerlands second only to oneself. In command , he didn't have to, nor was it possible to help Tyrion, a younger generation who is doubtful whether he could be called "Number Three", to usurp power;
In terms of time, although oneself has the intention to visit Golden Tooth, take a look How on earth did Igor frighten both Kevan and Tyrion with a single stone, but Night's Watch is marching non-stop to King's Landing, and he doesn't have time to make a trip and come back to make a decision...

If they weren't teaming up Lie to oneself, then it is obvious that there is only one conclusion.

Oneself's younger brother and son, two noble Lannisters, were turned into staunch anti-war factions by a sleazy Night's Watch.

How ridiculous, how sad, how hateful!
If Tyrion was the only one who disagreed, Tywin could have ignored it, but now the situation is "neither Kevan nor Tyrion support... In fact, they are firmly opposed to entering the war". This time, the disadvantages of a high degree of centralization are reflected: after the power and discourse power of the middle-level lords are removed, once there is a disagreement in the core circle, the weight of the opponents can be instantly raised to a great extent - at present, although Kevan and Tyrion only The two of them turned the situation forcibly into: In the top decision-making circle of House Lannister, people on 2/3/2022 opposed him to be the enemy of Queen.

Since James was forced to put on black clothed and head to the Wall, Kevan and Tyrion have become Tywin's military, political and economic lieutenants. Opposing actions, even if oneself can forcibly promote the plan with the authority of the supreme ruler, it is difficult for the strength of oneself to smoothly mobilize all the resources of the Westerlands and fully utilize its war potential;

Not to mention, the original The war plan is: oneself leads the way out of the Westerlands from Deep Den in the south, and goes straight to King's Landing along the Goldroad - threatening the back of the Queen's siege circle, Kevan leads the other way out of the Westerlands from Golden Tooth, kills the Riverlands and occupies Harrenhal, strangling this A key North-South transport hub, preventing possible follow-on human and material support for the Crownlands front by North, Riverlands and Vale. Now that the younger brother has chosen, and under house arrest and most of the Westerlands princes in captivity, Tywin can't even find a second character with enough ability and prestige to be independent.

In the end, Tywin reluctantly made a compromise to oneself's closest family members: abandoning the original plan and making preparations with both hands.

The Northern Road Army in the original combat plan was canceled, and oneself personally led the troops to send troops from Goldroad to King's Landing by way of Reach, in order to avoid Igor's "Westerlands people who step into the Riverlands will be regarded as hostile". Threats; after approaching the front line of King's Landing, negotiate with representatives of Queen and Aegon VI in person, and decide on the next steps depending on the results.

When the two Targaryen get married, the oneself will happily admit it, put on black clothed and go to the Wall;

After negotiating with the little Aegon, they will form a corner with the golden group If you can, help the former fight against the wild ambition aunt;

After negotiating with Daenerys, the Westerlands Army will contain the Reach Army from the flank and cover the Queen Your Majesty's attack on King's Landing;
And if these two Targaryen If he doesn't accept the entry of the Westerlands, then he can also hold high the banner of the Bucks and become the most steadfast royalist. Whoever dares to attack King's Landing is the enemy.

While the wall-riding party is despised, it is guaranteed to be the winner... With the infinite wealth of the Westerlands as the backing and the vote, no matter which side wins in the end, they can only grit their teeth and accept the Lannister stand. By your side, share the fruits of victory.

The infallible abacus worked well, but in the end it turned over the car unbelievably.

Because the high-level internal did not quickly reach an agreement, the Westerlands army set off from Lanisport a day late - this is not a serious problem that cannot be rectified, but it happened that in the days when the army set off, it continued to rise. The temperature reached near freezing point, the ice and snow on Goldroad melted into muddy water under the sun and trampling during the day, and re-frozen and locked wet at night, which caused the Westerlands Army to walk in mud and mud almost all the way to the east. Speed was greatly hindered.

Starting a little later, marching half a minute slower, and needing to prevent ambushes after exiting the customs, the speed is even more sluggish... These small errors add up, and the distance that can be covered in a few days is actually Time consuming then soared and went straight to double digits.

After spending a week leaving the Westerlands and entering Reach, Tywin got the latest situation of Crownlands from the detective mouth: The Golden Corps and Reach Army, the No. 1 Seeded Contestant with the leading number and armament, were in Margaery. He was attacked while holding a battlefield wedding with little Aegon, suffered a major defeat under the heavily defended situation, and hurriedly retreated from the battlefield.

The good news is that the two Targaryens are not married; the bad news is that Tywin has no idea how this happened.

How did the Queen attack the Aegon Army on the southern shore of Blackwater Rush while encircling King's Landing? How could an army with more than 50,000 well-equipped and well-equipped troops be defeated in one day to the extent that they did not dare to stay on the periphery of the battlefield, but fled directly back to the Reach?
These details can't be known from the wire report alone, but Tywin at least knows that King's Landing has not fallen... With the guess that "the Queen's army defeated the Aegon army must also hurt the vitality and needs to rest", he led the army to continue to the battlefield , hoping to arrive before the fall of the capital, to replace Reach as a third party to balance the battlefield situation, to prevent Queen from ending the war too quickly and make her lose the bargaining chip.

After another two days of difficult and muddy marching, the Westerlands army crossed the thawed Gods Eye tributary and entered the Crownlands boundary, where they obtained the eyeliner that had already been placed at the junction of the three places. Incredible battlefield dynamics: The Queen's navy engages with the Euron fleet from the Iron Islands and the Royal Fleet of Stannis at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush in a fierce naval battle, defeating both - among them, the Battle of the King of the Iron Islands Die, the fleet flees from the battlefield, and the Royal Fleet is wiped out!

More question marks popped out of Tywin's half-bald head.

How did Euron get to Blackwater Bay on time across half the Westeros to die? How can Queen's patchwork fleet of miscellaneous brands be able to defeat or even annihilate an elite opponent that is several times larger than itself?

For the first time since he succeeded Casterly Rock City Lord - he had a feeling of "fear" towards the enemy. After all, Night's Watch defeated the dead and Others. He can completely accept the setting of "the enemy is very good at fighting", but the record that Queen and her army are writing now is obviously completely beyond the description of "very good fighting". .

The mysterious new weapon that Tyrion and Kevan both talked about really has the Heavenly Might power of gods block then kill gods, which is enough to completely reverse the shape and balance of war? !
As a generation of formidable person, Tywin has already stepped into the Crownlands, so there is no reason to flee. With the last bit of luck and the idea of "even if the situation is wrong, you can lie to help", Tywin led the army to continue to advance to King's Landing, and finally came to this place just a stone's throw away from King's Landing yesterday, and met the loyal Queen. The Freedmen Patrol, and the Dorne Army, who soon came to stop it.

The Dorne people who sent the letter stopped in front of the marching route of the Westerlands army and ordered them to stop their continued march to the capital of the Seven Kingdoms immediately, explain their purpose and wait for the Queen's reply... In addition to normal operations, they brought Here comes the amazing latest news: The Queen has taken King's Landing and the Red Keep, and the Baratheon Dynasty, one of Tywin's options, has collapsed and vanished with Stannis's failure to break through and die!
How is this possible?

But it just happened!
After dispatching scouts to penetrate the defense line to investigate and confirm that what the other party said was true, Tywin suddenly thought of the story of "Subduing the King" while he was cold.

Three hundred years ago, when Aegon gained a foothold on the Blackwater Bay and began to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, with only one or two victories, several kings, including King in the North, began to assemble rapidly army, ready to unite to strangle this threat... but when Torrhen Stark led 30,000 North elites gallantly across The Neck, ready to fight the Dragonlord from the other side of the narrow sea in this vast land of the south, he Surprisingly found: in less than a month of oneself's journey, Aegon Targaryen has conquered the four kingdoms in the Seven Kingdoms at a rapid speed, locking the victory in advance, and making the war no longer suspenseful!

At that time, facing Aegon the Conqueror's Torrhen Stark, the mood was probably the same as the oneself facing Daenerys today, with a mix of shock and fear, right?

"Lord Tywin! Reinforcements are arriving from the opposite side!"

He felt it without the soldiers reporting. There was a subtle tremor on the ground, and Tywin's eyes were withdrawn from the surging Blackwater Rush and turned to the east. Through the condescending terrain, under the bright morning light, he could clearly see: thousands of people dressed in dark clothing , The soldiers holding black and red flags in neat and imposing manners rushed like a rainbow from afar like a wave, merging with the Dorne army who had stopped in front of them, and the number of enemy troops facing the Westerlands army instantly changed from two to three thousand. soared to nearly 10,000.

From the point of view of quantity and brightness of armor, the Westerlands Army still has a large advantage, but both intuition and reason tell Tywin: he can't win this battle at all.

Probably, the era of Old Guy is really over.

"Call the messengers!" Tywin sighed and walked down the river bank while taking off his gloves, "I want to negotiate with the Queen."

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[It's true that the motherboard is burnt, and there is no value for repairs. It's really disgusting to break the computer at this juncture - the original plan was to wait for the year-end bonus to be issued, and the notebook with the 30-series graphics card was released one step after the release... But after complaining to mother about this, she miraculously took out the I got the broken notebook I used when I was in college, and when I turned it on, hey, it worked! ]

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