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Chapter 237 Aristocratic mentality, savages enter the northern border(1/2)

Robert asked curiously: "Where is Renly?"

"Well, it will take Lord Renly a month to reach Winterfell!"

"Seven Hells, let Renly reach Winterfell within 10 days..."

The second brother will arrive in seven days at most. King's Landing is not in Dorne, so the speed is very slow. You are delaying it like this!

Robert began to roar like an angry lion.

After muttering some more curse words, the king looked at the princes and descendants in the north: "Ed confirmed that there are White Walkers outside the Great Wall, so we need to recruit enough troops to go to the Great Wall to resist the White Walkers."

"Of course, we also need to prevent the savages from taking the opportunity to cause trouble. How many troops are you prepared to send?"

"The Mormont family will send 500 infantry and cavalry to the Great Wall to assist in the defense. We will bring our own food and grass for three months!"

"The Bolton family will also send 500 infantry and cavalry to the Great Wall of Despair, and we will also lead..."

"The Mandalay family will send 600 infantry to the Great Wall of Despair..."

"Karstark will send 500 infantry to..."

"Severn……"

Each noble in the northern border dispatched most of their family's permanent soldiers, and also expressed their intention to lead food, grass and weapons to the Great Wall of Despair.

Then, he looked at the nobles from the royal territory who were following him.

"Your Majesty, the royal territory is too far from the north. It is difficult for southerners to adapt to the bitter cold climate in the north. Therefore, the Lake family is willing to send 50 soldiers... We can provide 50 soldiers with three months of food and grass."

"The same goes for the Rossby family. We are willing to send 80 soldiers..."

Hearing the strength of these people, Robert slammed the table in anger: "What can such a small amount of troops be used for? Each noble family in the north sends hundreds of troops, but you only have a few dozen?"

"Your Majesty, the royal territory is full of southerners. They cannot adapt to the bitter cold in the north!"

"Yes, we can't support so many troops fighting in the north!"

The nobles from the royal territory who were brought over quickly cried out~

Catherine stood up: "Gentlemen, the North is the barrier of Westeros. It has been resisting the invasion of the White Walkers since 8,000 years ago. If the Great Wall of the North is lost, then there will be a disaster in our continent of Westeros.

!”

Many nobles looked unhappy.

But the North is in a good position at the moment. Ed Stark said that if anyone doesn't believe it, they can send people to the North to watch the White Walkers.

It's hard enough for these people to stay here, and it gets even colder if you go further north.

So to deal with their common enemy, the White Walkers, they just wanted to shed some blood.

But King Robert has a very close relationship with Eddard Stark.

It’s not easy to fool!

While many southern nobles were hesitating and thinking, Cersei was also watching everything in the drawing room.

Seeing that the other nobles except the Northern Territory were performing very badly, Robert asked: "Maester Luwin, how many people are there at the peak strength of the Night's Watch?"

Maester Luwin walked out quickly: "Your Majesty, at its peak there were approximately 28,700 people."

Robert carefully estimated the number of people.

In addition to the troops mentioned just now, the northern border has already drawn out 9,000 soldiers.

Including the original more than 1,500 soldiers of the Night Watch, there are already 10,500 people on the Great Wall.

The remaining six countries need to mobilize at least 17,000 troops.

Robert knocked down the table with the pure gold goblet he brought from King's Landing: "The people in the king's territory will send 3,000 soldiers, send ravens back, and quickly gather soldiers to go to the Great Wall. No matter what reason I use, they must be on the thirty-fifth day."

We'll gather the soldiers within a day."

"Send ravens to Renly and ask his Stormlands to send 3,000 soldiers to support the north."

Then, he said to Queen Cersei: "The Lannister family will send 4,000 soldiers!"

Cersei retorted: "Duke Tywin can send 2,000 soldiers and send about 1,000 criminal miners to the north!"

Robert was so angry that he continued to pound the table: "The Seven Hells, those are the White Walkers. Everyone knows that Lannister is the richest place. Why do you send so many people?"

"Your Majesty, you owe the Lannister three million golden dragons. If we had these golden dragons, we could arm a hundred thousand troops!" Cersei said without hesitation.

Robert was immediately embarrassed by Cersei's retort.

"Your Majesty, the Duke told the Commander of the Night's Watch that the wild men beyond the wall can serve as defense personnel."

Robert shook his head and said: "The wildlings outside the wall are too barbaric. They don't know etiquette and can only be used. We also need a certain number of soldiers to guard against the wildlings."

After thinking for a moment, he looked at Cersei and said, "Let Duke Tywin lead 3,000 soldiers to support the Great Wall!"

Cersei looked slightly relieved: "This is fine!"

Later, he sent letters to King Balon of the Riverlands, Dorne and Arryn Vale, as well as the Ironborn, asking them to send a total of ten thousand soldiers to the Wall.

Having said this, let’s talk about the issue of food and grass supplies.

In the end, the soldiers sent by various nobles to the desperate Great Wall need to be responsible for the food, grass and logistics work of the soldiers in each department.

Some nobles retorted: "Your Majesty, we in the River Bend consume too much food and grass transported to the north!"

Robert gave the order rudely: "Then provide supplies to buy food and grass and transport them to the north from other places. Also, all soldiers heading to the Great Wall must not use the old, weak, sick and disabled to make up for their numbers, otherwise I will take back your fiefdoms.

Cancel your noble titles. The White Walkers are the common enemy of mankind, and this matter is absolutely allowed to be fake."

Many nobles looked at each other and then nodded helplessly.

Then the nobles wrote letters to inform their rear areas of what happened here.

Cersei was even more shocked when she saw Robert was so strong!

Robert is the Warden of Westeros and the King of the Seven Kingdoms.

The famous usurper I.

This fat man won the world with his military exploits. Although the nobles of various tribes had many thoughts, they did not dare to refute.

"It seems that we need to plan carefully in the future."

If this meeting was held by the Eternal Emperor Joffrey, these recruitment orders would never be spread.

But Robert was too strong. As the first king, he did have this capital.

This meeting against the White Walkers finally came to a successful conclusion.

After the meeting, Robert wrote another letter to Eddard, ordering him to come back after finishing his business with the wildlings.

Afterwards, he continued to live a life of drunkenness and dreams.

Robert still hasn't given up on the idea of ​​letting Eddard finish his work and go to King's Landing to become Hand!

Just like that, countless ravens flew to various places again.

The nobles of Westeros began to respond to the king's call and recruited a large number of warriors to go to the Great Wall to face the White Walkers!

Except for the relatively honest elite soldiers sent by the Riverlands, the soldiers in other ministries are either forcibly recruited farmers or criminals.

Although they are all young adults, their fighting ability is really not very good.

After these people arrived at the Great Wall of Despair, they definitely didn't look like they were fighting, but more like they came to increase the logistical burden of the Great Wall of Despair.

And according to the transportation speed of this era, it will take at least a month and a half for more than 10,000 soldiers to reach the Great Wall of Despair.

The distant Great Wall of Despair.

The Night's Watch soldiers stationed there saw a large number of wildlings appearing in the Haunted Forest.

Woo...woo...

Two horns sounded, indicating the enemy's attack...

"Are the savages attacking the city?"

After a while, seven or eight knights came over on horseback.

The sharp-eyed soldier spotted the leading knight: "That's Captain Benyan the Ranger!"

Soon, the huge iron door of Castle Black opened.

Eddard, Mr. Bear and others welcomed the arrival of Benjen and Jon.

After entering Castle Black, Benyan, Snow and others hugged Eddard.

Benyan smiled and said: "Fortunately, more than 10,000 wildlings arrived at Castle Black this time!"

Snow, who was next to him, followed up and said, "We should thank the people of the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for their help, our communication with the savages would have taken a long time."

Ed asked doubtfully: "What happened this time?"

Bunyan briefly told what happened in the past few days.

Eddard and Bear had chills down their spines when they heard that the White Walkers were attacking the wildling troops in a snowstorm.

"The White Walkers are smarter than we thought!"
To be continued...
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