King of The Wall

2021-10-15

Chapter 658 Confidence (Part 2)

“bang!”

The wall is in Shaking, the doors and windows are shaking, the hearts of the Reach nobles are shaking... They finally know why Loras insists on standing still: if not warned in advance, there would be a lot of people jumping up and shouting "Night's Watch beat. come here" and in a scuffle, scared witless ran outside the house.

Is Rao mentally prepared, this almost identical loud noise still instantly pulls a large number of witnesses back to the Blackwater Rush a month ago, allowing them to relive the face of the unknown firmly Fear of weapon strikes. Surprise and horror brushed across the surface of the crowd like ripples, and finally reluctantly subsided under the suppression of something called reason. In the lingering voice of discussion, the host of the next stage of the meeting, King Aegon Targaryen, according to the prior agreement, one day. His face calmly got up on the stage, and he started his speech with confidence and certainty.

"This sound is enough to prove that we do have gunpowder technology, and I don't need to explain it any more. But in addition to this, there is good news that is not good news - Pentos Diplomatic Ambassador at King's Landing The gate of Linhe was brutally blocked and searched by the Queen's guards, and fought to the death."

The only two insiders in the world have died, and little Aegon will never know the true relationship between oneself and Illyrio . However, it's one thing to not know oneself's life experience, "Illyrio from start to finish is secretly helping oneself's friends" is another thing, but he has already heard from Jon Connington.

The number of old friends and hidden alliances has been reduced by one, which should be sad news, but as a king who has not achieved greatness, sadness is even a luxury, and he can only feel sad at this moment. And can't bear to swallow, gritted his teeth, trying to absorb the positive value that Illyrio's death can bring to oneself.

“No matter what the reason for the killing of foreign diplomats in the street, it will inevitably bring about a huge negative impact on Daenerys and his so-called royal government, and at the same time, it will help our side win more international affairs. Great legitimacy and support." Aegon sighed, "This means that as long as I can survive this round of my aunt's pursuit of victory, no matter the position and attitude of the domestic princes or the international situation, they will no longer be able to support her launch. The next round of war. Once we have mastered gunpowder technology, once we have a breather, Reach's human, technical and organizational advantages can bring infinite possibilities!"

"However, Although I said 'as long as', the situation we are facing now is 'only'. A slow remedy does not address the current emergency, even if the Free Cities on the other side of the strait are willing to support and recognize me, and are willing to put pressure on my aunt for me , and even sending troops to contain her strength on the Eastern Front, we must first withstand the aggressive intrusion of her number one supporter, Igor West, before we can talk about the future.”

Little Aegon straightened his face, trying to impress his youthful face with authority.

"The purpose of this meeting is to discuss ways to resist the enemy, and under this big agenda, there are two remaining topics to discuss next."

"First, the gunpowder raw materials used in the previous experiments were collected by my dear queen who ran around Highgarden and presided over the collection. Now that the development has reached a breakthrough, the burden of collecting raw materials on a larger scale should be taken care of. Everyone should share the responsibility. The details of the implementation here are too late to detail here, if you don't object, please send Maester or other reliable subordinates who can read and count to report to Ser Loras after the meeting..."

"The second point is that although we have Initial Mastery the key to the production of gunpowder, we don't have enough projection ability - whether it's the kind of ball that will blow up when thrown, or the iron that can be thrown in the rumbling sound. We don't have mature production technology and solutions for cannons that hit the ball a few miles away. It's like holding a large arrow made of Valyria steel in our hands, but no bow chords. It's terrible, we need to focus everyone The wisdom of the people to solve this problem: not only to discuss how to use gunpowder, but also to be prepared to fight in the event that there is no suitable solution in the end!"

"That's not right." King Aegon The tone barely fell, and the answering voice came out immediately, "As far as I know, isn't there already a friend from King's Landing who stole the secret blueprint of Night's Watch, can't we do it according to the picture? Come out? We can copy things that can be solved by copying, and we should copy them freely, why do we have to be fiddly, seek distance, and brainstorm new ways!"

The speaker is Randyll Tarly, since two years ago In the first battle of Stormlands, Robb, who was still loyal to Stannis at the time, led the North Army's surprise attack and failed. After being injured by an arrow in the back, he retired to the second line and no longer went into battle frequently, but he did not bring troops and did not bring troops. No one dared to question the veteran's knowledge and experience, and his speech of directly attacking the key point immediately attracted a lot of echoes.

"There is indeed such a thing, but after the artisan's report, the gunpowder ratio in the blueprint is deliberately misleading, and the production method of the bomb is of little reference value. As for the craftsmanship of the artillery casting... It is very regressively announced. A related news: According to reliable reports, our 'friends' in the Night's Watch industry have been caught and thrown into the dungeon. The whole leak seems to be a self-cleaning initiative of the enemy. There is no doubt that it is a trap. Since this is the case, then We have to lower our expectations for the rest of this 'information'."

While explaining the nod, Aegon gestured approvingly to Randyll Tarly. But at least they are really participating in the discussion on the topic. Once such a good atmosphere is brought up, most of today's meetings can achieve the results of Perfection.

As expected, driven by Randyll's exemplary role, the nobles in the audience began to speak enthusiastically to make suggestions for the topic. In a warm atmosphere, the Captain-General of the Golden Company Strickland raised his hand again and asked to speak alone.

"It's very possible that we won't have a decent gunpowder weapon until we face the Queen's West Expedition Force, which is bad news." He stood up to make sure his voice was subdued. After talking to the nobles who couldn't stop discussing, "But this is the bad news, but it made me, the Old Guy, clear my mind, and I suddenly thought of two things."

"One is, even if We copied the blueprint and made a gunpowder weapon, its quality and performance are also stabilized by the enemy, and the use experience is even more than the horse can't catch up. If you want to use gunpowder to dignified gunpowder, it is because of our shortness The number of light cavalry can be no less than the main force of the enemy's West Expedition Force, but the enemy is at an absolute disadvantage in this point, and the advantage of the number of cavalry is this. Come to play, it is the right solution to break the game!"

King Aegon looked thoughtful and hummed, waved his hand, and the noise in the room decreased a little.

"The second question is: Is it really the destructive power of gunpowder that defeated us?" The Captain-General of the Golden Company asked back, "When the loud noise sounded outside the window, There was a lot of nervousness and panic in the room. But here are either the battle-hardened veterans of the mercenary group, or the top-level hereditary princes of Reach, whose knowledge, vision, and courage are far above ordinary people, and they will be so embarrassed when they encounter a sudden explosion. How can we expect the rest of the ordinary soldiers who are inferior to us in all aspects, the farmers who pick up the long spear sticks to make up the number, and even the beasts who are not even human to remain calm?"

"In the battle of Blackwater Rush—" He paused, remembering that the king ordered not to mention this battle, but what he wanted to say couldn't get around this defeat, so he could only continue with bronze oneself, "My Golden Group Among the damaged soldiers, very few were killed by bombs or gunpowder. Most of them were killed by frightened elephants, trampled by formation collapse, and attacked by Dorne army during unorganized retreat. The ratio between the two was close to 1:100 due to the pursuit and massacre—the number of people killed by gunpowder was only double digits, and the total casualties caused by the rout reached thousands!”

“If Let me predict with my vision, I think the potential of gunpowder weapons is not only that, but my current point of view is: at least at this stage, its greatest formidable power lies not in killing, but in deterrence and intimidation! The shock generated by the explosion The sound is enough to make the soldiers' legs go weak, and the horses and elephants go out of control! It's enough to make the cavalry unit completely a display, and make fifty thousand armies have to retreat in the face of a thousand land-grant troops!"

" As long as our troops are able to adapt to the rumbling sound of the explosion, they will not be unable to launch a charge in the face of battle, even if there is no infantry, only the cavalry will charge hard, command with closed eyes, and no brains will be defeated!" He raised his voice. , said quite impassionedly, and even oneself became a little warm-blooded, "So I think the first thing we face next is not to think about how to throw gunpowder on the enemy's head, but to use it on oneself first. On people!"

"Gather the army to the east of Highgarden, around the gunpowder compounding field and the experimental site...do nothing, be decisive - give half of the gunpowder production to let the whole army hear , adapt, there is no reason to lose again in this battle!"

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(end of this chapter)