King of The Wall

2021-11-02

Chapter 689 History repeats itself
The weather is getting milder, and the oncoming winds when Yulong is flying No matter how cold it was, Daenerys finally didn't need to stick his body against the dragon's back to avoid losing his temperature, but could sit in the saddle and look down at the ground.

She received Igor's call for help more than a week ago, reporting that the West Expedition Force logistics route was being harassed, that the Reach people were more resistant than expected, but the army was still firmly marching towards Highgarden.

At that time, Daenerys as Queen was being overwhelmed by a lot of government affairs in the Seven Kingdoms (to be precise, the five countries except Vale Reach); the loose "Alliance Against the Dragonmother" across the narrow sea suddenly The news of Braavos' solidarity and support made it even worse... and Igor's wording in the letter for help was not very urgent, so she only ordered Grey Worm to organize reinforcements to try to open up the logistics line, while oneself continued to stay in the capital. The City Lord holds the ruling job.

The situation changed the day before yesterday, when King's Landing received a second call for help from the mid-lane West Expedition Force, which this time turned into a clear and serious request for her to ride a dragon herself. Not wanting to lose the war, let alone lose the Prime Minister, she immediately put down other affairs in her hand, and led two dragons to the front line, ready to join this great decisive battle that may be quite difficult to fight.

It was different from going north to fight against the Others: that time, she had a clear destination - Queenscrown, which could be reached by flying along the Kingsroad, and it was difficult to get lost; this time, Igor led the The West Expedition Force is on the vast Reach Plains - nowhere.

She first followed the Roseroad all the way west, and flew to the last castle along the way, New Barrel, which Igor had clearly mentioned in the battle report. Here, Daenerys confirmed Igor's whereabouts from the commander who stayed behind: in order to avoid the battlefield preset by the Reach people, he began to leave the Great Way and turned south, crossing the Mander to the other side.

Next, the idea of finding the whereabouts of the West Expedition Force is very clear: fly south to find Mander, and then follow the river down the river to catch up with the force.

But the reality is not so simple.

The Reach Plain has abundant rainfall and a developed water system, and there are rivers that are not marked on the map but are real, and are crisscrossed with each other. Daenerys now knows that "the Mander is a large, slow-flowing, wide river flowing from east to west"—a message that's true, but it's too vague: East-to-west bodies of water reach all over the place, while slow-moving rivers Wide...how slow? How broad is it?

Although even with digital quantification, Dragonrider may not be able to accurately estimate and make correct judgments in the sky, but no matter how rough the data is, it is better than having no basis for reference at all!
Daenerys has never set foot on the land of Reach in her life. She really has no idea what the main water network of the Reach Plain looks like from a bird's-eye view. You must know that there are not only two extremes of big rivers and small rivers in the world. There are countless medium and large rivers in between, and after flying through one large and small river of various kinds, the little Queen quickly fell into the worry of getting lost and going too far.

She lowered her height to observe the marching trail, but the spring rain and wildly sprouting vegetation quickly erased the West Expedition Force's former footprint. In the end, Daenerys opted for a shaky but infallible method: Every time he flew over a river of any size, he searched for people and fell down to ask Mander how far he was.

The Reach, which has not yet been unified, is an enemy environment. Every landing and communication means unpredictable risks. Fortunately, the deterrence of the two dragons is sufficient and luck is not bad. The Reach soldiers with bows and arrows were not encountered. Daenerys relied on this stupid way of ups and downs, stumbled to find where Mander was, and traveled westward along the south bank, and finally touched the battlefield - only a little late, or maybe it was a hundred million?

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Daenerys raised the flight height to avoid the possible threat of the dragon hunting crossbow, the roar of the artillery sounded intermittently under the distant body, and the cloud of gunpowder rose, covering the battlefield most of the west. The outcome seemed undecided, which made the little Queen slightly sighed in relief, but after circling for two laps to roughly observe the battlefield, she fell into new confusion again.

The battlefield below the dragon's belly presents a distorted and broken incomplete circle. There are troops on both the north and south banks of the river: the battlefield on the south bank is wide and full, supporting a huge and bloated semi-ellipse. The troops of Mander are in a thin layer, distributed parallel to the river bank - Mander is just in the middle of the two battlefields, one big and one small, one thick and one thin. Looking down from the air, the sparkling river surface is like a sharp blade, cutting a tomato with a flat top and a round bottom horizontally at the top position, divided into two unevenly.

The shape of the battlefield was of little value for discussion, and what puzzled her was that she couldn't see the battle lines.

In this vast battlefield that was cut in two by Mander, all directions were signs of fighting, and there were soldiers who were entangled and collided with each other and could not be separated. The situation on the south bank is easy to understand. The Reach people must have lengthened the front line layout by relying on the advantage of their troops and achieved a siege from three sides. Is the relatively small platoon of troops the first of the West Expedition Force's retreat to the north to cross the river, or is it a living force heading south to join the battlefield? If the latter, which side are they on?

It seems silly to not be able to tell the difference between the enemy and me, but the fact is that the coat of arms on the main battle flags of both sides is "Three Headed Red Dragon": to emphasize the legitimacy of oneself's Targaryen bloodline and rule , neither Daenerys nor little Aegon wants to change the coat of arms to make it easier to distinguish between friend and foe - even the slightest color change of the Blackfyre Rebellion.

The little Queen turned his head around the Black Dragon, ready to carefully observe the smaller secondary flags - as long as the troops of Reach, Westerlands, and Dorne nobles can be identified, then the enemy and the enemy will naturally be known.

It didn't matter if she looked at it again, she suddenly discovered the details that oneself had not been able to see when she swept the battlefield just now: there were a lot of shallow water battleships with fallen sails on the Mander waters that cut off the north and south of the battlefield!

The camp of the infantry on the ground battlefield needs to be carefully observed to confirm, but it is a definite fact that the Reach has no naval participation in this westward expedition. Since there are warships on the water, it is obvious to which side the troops on the north bank belong.

The West Expedition Force is under siege from Reach and little Aegon!

The thought made Daenerys have one's hair stand on end immediately, and was unprofessional, but she could be called a wealth of actual combat commanding experience. Completely counterintuitive: the West Expedition Force in this huge encirclement was not only not quickly defeated and annihilated, but showed signs of winning: the fierce battle in the three directions of east, south and north was still going on, but the west-- On the front line with the most dense infantry of both the enemy and allies, the countless offensive armies in Wuyangyang have shown chaos and defeat that are not fake, and the surrounded West Expedition Force is slowly but firmly breaking out!

After a moment of amazement, Daenerys decides to join the fight.

The western frontline battlefield no longer needs her help, and the enemy and me in the east and south are huddled together, and the dragon flame is very likely to cause accidental injuries... Only the warships on the northern front line are on the river. And across the river, absolutely impossible to have oneself people!

After a brief but clear analysis, she patted the dragon's back and swooped down towards Mander with the two black and green dragons in a loud and high roar.

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(end of this chapter)