After accepting Theon's mission, Yara immediately sent recruitment letters to other islands in the Iron Islands through the Crow's Nest in Pyke City.
Then she rode back to King's Harbor and searched several taverns before finally finding her target.
"Cole, wake up! It seems that you want to die from excessive drinking like Edith!"
Yara approached a wine table, reached out and patted a drunk man with a handsome appearance, smooth pink cheeks and no beard, and said.
"Huh? Who...Yara!"
A drunk man named Cole was forcibly awakened by Yara. He shook his confused head, opened his eyes and saw Yara, stumbled up excitedly, and hugged Yara.
After being hugged by Cole, Yara raised her head and kissed Cole passionately.
Cole is the second-in-command of the Yara Black Wind...well, and also his lover, nicknamed 'Girl'. Among the ironmen with messy beards, he is so named because of his smooth and pink face.
Contrary to Cole's delicate nickname, he is fierce and fierce in battle. He is one of the bravest warriors in the Iron Islands, and his reputation spreads throughout the Iron Islands.
"Okay, wake them up and let's go back to the Black Wind."
After kissing passionately for a while, Yara felt the heat all over her body when she remembered that business had not been done. She suppressed the desire that had been suppressed for several months and ordered Cole to wake up the other crew members who were sleeping soundly on the nearby wine table and return to the Black Wind.
"Okay! Hey, let's go back to the Black Wind and taste the 'peaches' together."
Cole answered, then immediately turned around and roughly woke up the other crew members of the Black Wind with punches and kicks.
When other crew members saw Yara, they were also very excited to hug her and greet her. From what we can see, Yara is indeed very popular.
The Black Wind is a standard longship about one hundred feet (about 30 meters) long. Due to its size, it does not carry any equipment such as ballistae and trebuchets. It uses a shallow draft and high maneuverability to approach the target for pick-up.
Mainly side battles.
In the cabin, two naked and white-striped figures were entangled passionately. With a burst of ecstasy, the fierce battle subsided.
"I haven't been on the island for a few months. What's going on in the Iron Islands now?"
Allocate tasks to all the crew members, and have them notify Yara, who is gathered by other iron captains, one by one, and lower their heads to ask Kordao in his arms.
"After returning from plundering the West, King Theon spent all day looking for various beauties for fun. The government affairs were basically taken over by Quinton Greyjoy and Ramsay Bolton, and the strength of the Iron Islands gradually divided into three groups.
Quinton is in charge of thousands of iron types in Pike City, and has taken over the guarding of King's Harbor. He has also won over the iron types from Harlaw Island, Kuroshio Island and Oak Island, making him the strongest force.
In addition to the troops on Great Wyk Island and Salt Cliff Island that His Majesty Robb asked him to take over, Ramsay also roped in the Ironborn on Old Wyk Island.
He is responsible for providing various intelligence to King Xion, and he has obtained a large group of mercenaries from who knows where, and their overall strength is also very strong.
Finally, there are neutral iron longships like our Black Wind, and the Northern Fleet commanded by Ser Willis Manderly of White Harbor.
They gathered on the north side of King's Harbor. They have been training strictly in the past few months and rarely cause trouble.
However, some time ago, due to provocation by Quinton's drunken ironborn, a scuffle broke out between them. In the end, King Theon punished Quinton and suppressed the public opinion, and no one was allowed to discuss the matter anymore."
Although Cole has been drunk and dreaming these past few months, he is very clear about various things in the Iron Islands. When he heard Yara's question, he answered her clearly.
"Now Theon asked me to summon the Iron Fleet and the Northern Fleet. Putting aside the Northern Fleet for now, do you think I can use this opportunity to take over the Iron Fleet?"
After listening to Cole's words, Yara spoke to him thoughtfully.
"I don't think it's possible!"
This topic made Cole immediately sit up from Yara's arms. He shook his head first in response to Yara's question, and then continued,
"The Iron Islands now are completely different from what they were when King Balon was on the throne. Except for Pyke, the irons on the other islands submit to King Theon on the surface, but in fact they recognize His Majesty Robb in their hearts.
They recognize Quinton and Ramsay because they have various interests intertwined with each other. Therefore, King Theon's appointment alone is not enough to make them truly submit to you.
unless……"
"In other words, if I want to quickly establish a foothold in the Iron Islands, I must let Ramsay or Quinton fall, and then take over his power?"
Yara heard the underlying meaning of Cole's words, and she said it very directly.
"Yes. Compared to Quinton, Ramsay, as an outsider from the green land, is undoubtedly the best target.
In fact, Quinton has secretly approached me several times, wanting our Black Wind and other neutral iron longships to join his command.
After the recent melee, he came to me again and said that Ramsay was behind the melee. Judging from his tone, he really wanted to take action against Ramsay."
Upon hearing this, Cole nodded and told Yara the target he thought was most suitable.
"Well, I hate this Ramsay very much too. Especially the fake smile he always wears on his face!
Cole, quietly contact Quinton and ask him to come to the Black Wind to meet me."
"Okay, I'm going to see Quinton now. However, there are many Ramsay spies on Pyke Island. I will discuss it with Quinton and see how you can meet in secret."
Upon hearing this, Cole immediately picked up his clothes from the ground, put them on quickly, and replied to Yara.
"Well, thank you for your hard work, Cole. When I regain my right to speak in the Iron Islands, I will let you have your own longship and become a glorious Iron Captain."
"I look forward very much to seeing my own longship, dear Yara!"
After Cole finished dressing, he turned around and answered with a smile when he heard the promise Yara gave him, and then walked out of the cabin directly.
Time passed quickly, and at ten o'clock in the middle of the night when the moon was shining in the sky, a small scull boat set off from the Black Wind and rowed slowly to a leeward reef far away from King Island.
Behind the reef, Quinton was waiting quietly with several of his men, holding torches. Yara and Cole stepped onto the reef from the boat, exchanged a few words with Quinton, and then began to discuss business.
Yara turned her head and glanced at the subordinates behind Quinton. Quinton immediately understood what she meant and said, "These brothers are all close friends with me. I trust them, just like you trust Cole.
"
"That's good! Quinton, I want to drive Ramsay, an outsider, back to the green land. You have been fighting him for so long, you must have thought of many ways, right?"
After hearing Quinton's words, Yara nodded and pointed out the topic very directly.
"Well, that bastard Ramsay has contacted many smuggling merchant ships to secretly transport goods from the north to the south.
In the past few months, he has made at least tens of thousands of gold dragons. This gold dragon has not been paid taxes, which means that he has embezzled at least 5,000 gold dragons from the Iron Islands.
King Xion valued him before because no one could replace him. Now, you are back. We will go to see King Xion tomorrow and report this matter.
Even if Ramsay is the candidate arranged by His Majesty Robb, this incident alone can make him go back to the Green Land."
Quinton saw that Yara was so direct, so he was also very direct and told the dirty information about Ramsay that he had found out.
"That's enough. After swallowing such a huge amount of gold dragon, His Majesty Robb won't say anything even if Theon punishes him. Besides, His Majesty Robb doesn't seem to like Ramsay very much."
After listening to Quinton's words, Yara knew that this piece of black information was enough for Theon, who had been fond of women with money since childhood, to punish Ramsay.
"Okay, then we will go to see King Xion at dawn tomorrow.
Let me explain first that after Ramsay leaves the Iron Islands, I will take over his smuggling business. In addition, the troops on Oak Island will also be placed under my jurisdiction."
"Hey, wake up! Quinton, you are dreaming! Without my help, you can't do anything to Ramsay. Otherwise, you have had information about him for so long, why didn't you report him earlier?"
Seeing Quinton starting to carve up Ramsay's power, and opening his mouth directly. Yara chuckled and retorted.
"Then how are you going to divide it?"
"First of all, all the troops on the three islands belong to me..."
"What? Impossible..."
The sound of bargaining on the rocks here is like the sound of ocean waves, rising one wave after another.
The dark night slowly passed, and the bright red sun jumped out from the sea level.
Early the next morning, Quinton and Yara met at the gate of Pike City on time.
"Yara, look at you like this. You didn't sleep all night last night?"
Quinton looked at Yara, who had particularly eye-catching dark circles, and asked directly.
"Well, I can't sleep thinking about what happened today!"
Yara nodded and answered casually without expression.
Hearing her answer, Quinton couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. The woman really couldn't hold back her anger.
The two of them waited for a short while, and then the gate of Pike City was opened. Under the leadership of the servant, the two of them were taken to the long hall.
However, what surprised Quinton was that Ramsay was already in the long hall, talking to Theon who was sitting on the Sea Monster Throne.
"Lord Theon!"
Entering the long hall and arriving in front of the sea monster's throne, Quinton and the others saluted and greeted Xion.
"Well, haha...Yara, Quinton. Do you have something important to do when you come to me so early in the morning?"
Xion nodded in response to their greetings, yawning as he asked.
"King Xion, let's report..."
When Quinton heard this, he took a step forward and recited the words he had thought up in advance yesterday.
Whoosh!
Yara, who was behind him, suddenly pulled out the dagger from her right waist, quickly stepped forward, grabbed the back of Quinton's neck with her left hand, and put the dagger in front of his throat with her right hand.
Clang, Clang, Clang!
Many guards in the long hall saw Yara's movements. They all drew their swords from their waists and surrounded her.
"Back off!"
Ramsay looked at the changes that happened in front of him with a smile. He waved his right hand to the side and gave an order at the same time.
Upon hearing Ramsay's order, the guards in the long hall turned to look at Xion, who was frowning but did not speak, and then sheathed their swords and returned to their positions.
"Yara, what are you doing?"
Feeling the chill in his throat, Quinton, who was completely defenseless, glanced back and asked softly.
"How did my father die?"
A cold question came softly from behind, and the hair on Quinton's body immediately stood up.
"King Balon? He hanged himself. Several iron captains saw it with their own eyes."
As soon as Quinton finished speaking, Yara, who was obviously dissatisfied with the answer, exerted slight force on her right hand, and the tip of the dagger instantly scratched Quinton's skin, and bright red blood dripped down the dagger.
"Yara, do you suspect that his father's death is related to him?"
After hearing the conversation between Yara and Quinton, Theon seemed to understand somewhat and asked.
"Ramus, didn't you say you had evidence last night? Where's your evidence?"
Yara did not answer Theon's question. She looked at Ramsay beside Theon and said loudly.
"King Xion, I just learned last night that King Balon was murdered by Quinton. Now, the evidence is right outside the door."
Seeing Xion turning to stare at him, Ramsay immediately lowered his head and said with a smile.
"Suicide...murder! Hmph, bring in the evidence quickly."
When Xion heard this, his face suddenly turned gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said to Ramsay.
"Let them in!"
Ramsay nodded and immediately shouted towards the long hall door.
"Meet King Theon!"
The door of the long hall was opened, and the two ironmen came behind the two of Yara, saluting and greeting Xion.
"Lord Yara, the witness on the left has a life-long relationship with Quinton. Quinton trusts him, just like you trust Cole.
His words should be used as evidence!"
Ramsay pointed to the ironborn on the left and said to Yara.
When Yara heard this, she turned around and saw that the Ironman on the left was one of Quinton's confidants that he brought to the reef last night.
"You are Quinton's confidant. Please tell me what happened to my father's death."
"A few months ago, Quinton led us to kill the guards outside King Balon's palace. Then I stood guard outside for them, and a few of them went in and strangled King Balon to death."
Upon hearing Yara's inquiry, Quinton's confidant immediately spoke.
"The man on the right is an iron captain who was investigating the cause of King Balon's death. Tell us about the situation at that time!"
"We, four iron captains, went together to identify the cause of King Balon's death. 'Eagle Eye' John noticed something was wrong about the cause of King Balon's death, so he spoke directly, but was suddenly stabbed into a hornet's nest by Quinton with a dagger.
Alas, poor old John’s body was pushed into the sea by Quinton.”
This elderly iron captain heard Ramsay's words and immediately told the story of Quinton's murder.
"If their words cannot be used as evidence, we can arrest Quinton's confidants for questioning and find the other two iron captains."
Seeing that Xion and Yara were both silent after listening, Ramsay immediately spoke.
"King Xion! At that time, King Balon refused to surrender and wanted to kill you. I was saving you!
Otherwise, how could you be sitting on the sea stone seat now, and how could the Iron Islands develop so prosperously!
Please, for the sake of my sacrifice for you, don’t kill me, I don’t want to die!”
Knowing that he couldn't hide this matter, Quinton immediately said to Xion with a tearful voice.
"My father... doesn't want to die either!"
After hearing this, Yara, who was behind Quinton, leaned into his ear and whispered softly.
Bah!
As soon as Yara finished speaking, she suddenly pulled the dagger in her right hand from left to right. She was so hard that a large piece of flesh and blood on Quinton's neck was scratched and rolled up, and the large white throat bone could be seen.
"Yara, you are responsible for Quinton's work. Speed up the fleet assembly, I want to go to Haijiang City as soon as possible.
Ramsay, I leave the rest to you!"
Knowing that Quinton's words were correct, his father Balon did have the possibility of executing him at that time. Xion, who suddenly felt a little unmotivated, gave a calm order, stood up and walked out of the long hall.
"You two are very wise, go and get the reward! Hehe, anyone else involved or concealing this matter will die miserably.
Someone come and clean this place up."
Ramsay slowly walked down the steps of the Sea Monster's throne, smiled and spoke to the two witnesses, and then asked someone to come in and dispose of Quinton's body.
"Ramus, you are very good. You can accurately predict the time for me to return to the Black Wind. I also have your informants on my crew, right?"
Although Quinton is dead, don't be too proud. I know what you did."
After Yara wiped the dagger on Quinton's body, she said coldly to Ramsay.
"Lord Yala, I don't have the guts to embezzle the assets of Pyke Island. I give those taxes and fees to that person!"
Of course Ramsay knew what she was talking about, so he immediately explained and turned to gesture to the high sea monster throne.
"Did you deliberately reveal this to Quinton? If he really wanted to pursue it, he would be disgusted by Theon.
Good idea! From today on, I will try to overestimate you.
Hehe, be careful not to let me catch you!"
Yara turned her head quickly, and she immediately figured out that smuggling taxes and fees was Ramsay's plan. With a smile on her face, she turned and left the long hall.
Looking at Yara's slender back, Ramsay still had a smile on his face.
On that day, all the ironmen who were loyal to Quinton were brutally dealt with, and Yara took over all the troops on Pyke Island.
However, only Great Wyk Island, an external island, expressed its willingness to follow Yala, while Old Wyk Island and Salt Cliff Island all turned to Ramsay.
No matter how angry Yala was after suffering a secret loss, five days later, the Iron Fleet of nearly 10,000 people and the Northern Fleet of nearly 5,000 people were assembled and rushed to Haijiang City in a mighty manner.
When Theon arrived at Seaside City with the fleet covering the entire Ironborn Bay, it was about two days later than expected.
Due to various restrictions in this era, although Yara was told to assemble in one week, Robb actually expected it to take two weeks. Therefore, he did not blame Theon harshly for this matter.
In Seaside City, Theon did not talk about the changes in the Iron Islands. Robb carefully explained his subsequent strategic ideas to Theon several times.
Finally, from the eighteen thousand Winterfell recruits, five thousand troops were selected, all composed of northern citizens. Robb assigned them to Theon's army.
The next day, the two of them divided into two groups and set off from Haijiang City with their respective troops.
Robb led 2,000 light cavalry and the remaining 13,000 new recruits, but did not go directly towards Riverrun.
Instead, they used 4,000 Winterfell recruits from Crowtree City, Stonehedge City, and Darry City in order to replace the northern veterans who had experienced the previous round of war to garrison the castle.
After the replacement, each of the three castles was guarded by 6,000 northern soldiers, including 2,000 veterans and 4,000 new recruits.
As far as the defenders are concerned, this number of people is completely sufficient. In addition, in the past few months, military supplies and defensive equipment provided by Riverrun have also been transported to these three castles.
As for the three commanders who led the troops to regain the castle, Earl Tytos, Earl Rickard, and Earl Jason were also dispatched by Robb to the troops he led.
More than ten days later, Robb brought this powerful northern army to Riverrun.
When Robb arrived at Riverrun, Edmure was taking Ser Macor outside to continue attacking the stronghold of the Western Army.
Although he had written a letter to report the matter before, as soon as he saw Robb in the council chamber, Brynden immediately reported to him the anomalies in the prisoner exchange and the strange fact that Edmure was always victorious in every battle during this period.
"Your Majesty, this is the situation. With Edmure's successive victories, his reputation in Riverrun and even the Riverlands has become higher and higher.
Especially the recent recruits, most of them admire Edmure very much and are eager to join his command."
"Uncle, my uncle's reputation has been cultivated very high now.
If you forcefully suppress him, not only will your uncle have other thoughts, but others will also think that you are deliberately suppressing him.
Therefore, I will put all the new soldiers in the Riverlands under my uncle's command and let him command them."
After hearing Brynden's report, Robb looked at the location of Harrenhal on the map and expressed his views on the matter.
"Your Majesty, I have known Edmure since I was a child. He has no problem leading a small force in battle, but on such a major battlefield, he is very likely to become our enemy's weakness!
Just like the 5,000 cavalry he lost before, this time there are nearly 10,000 troops. If he loses them..."
When Brynden heard that Robb was about to hand over the new soldiers to Edmure, he immediately spoke anxiously.
"Uncle, don't worry! If Tywin really has an agenda, he won't touch my uncle in the short term. If my uncle really ruins this army of ten thousand people, I will make Tywin pay double the price."
"Oh, okay! Everything will follow your orders."
"Okay, let me tell you the general arrangements for the next step..."
While Robb was explaining the recent tactical arrangements to Brynden, Edmure and Ser Mark returned triumphantly with hundreds of prisoners.
The new recruits stationed outside Riverrun were all extremely excited, shouting Edmure's name loudly. The veterans in the north were silently wiping their weapons, arranging their armor, and other pre-war preparations.
Earl Tytos, who was well aware of Edmure's virtues, did not even raise his head and just talked quietly with Earl Rickard, Earl Jason, and other familiar Earls.
Edmure, who was riding a war horse at the front, also saw this situation. He curled his lips and headed straight towards Riverrun with some displeasure.
After returning to the castle, Edmure saw Robb and Brynden who had been waiting for them. After hearing that Robb was going to hand over all the new recruits in the Riverlands to his command, he hugged Robb excitedly.
Then, he asked Robb to let Earl Piper be free on the grounds that Sir Marco had accumulated enough military exploits in the past two months. Of course, punishments such as deprivation of the title were still there.
Knowing that he could not refuse, Robb readily agreed. Seeing Edmure running towards the prison excitedly, Robb called Clay and told him to keep an eye on Edmure and Earl Piper.
people and things.
While Robb was handling various government affairs in Riverrun, Tywin, who had already stationed troops at Harrenhal, received a raven letter from Casterly Rock in the West.
The Burning King's Tower was once the tallest and largest tower in Harrenhal, but Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons melted Blackheart Harren and the tower in half.
However, the other remaining castle rooms are as large as the living rooms of other small castles. Therefore, this is still the lord's room of Harrenhal.
Tywin, Kevan, Jaime and other Lannisters are gathering in the city lord's room at this moment.
"All the squids from the Iron Islands were dispatched, and two to three hundred warships occupied the seaport of Lannisport. Tell me what you think."
After Tywin received the letter from Casterly Rock, he did not hold a military meeting. Instead, he called Jaime and Kevan to hold a family meeting.
"Father, together with the recently recruited cannon fodder, we have a total of fifty-five thousand strong troops. I don't understand, what have we been waiting for at Harrenhal? Now, let the other side launch the attack first."
James, who knew that Party B had a huge military advantage, had been asking Ying to fight for more than ten days, but he was suppressed by Tywin.
"James, that wolf cub is good at avoiding attacks and attacking elsewhere. In the war a few months ago, we suffered this loss and were pushed around by him.
Therefore, we are specifically waiting for them to take action this time before planning a tactical plan to deal with it!"
Seeing that Tywin didn't speak, Kevan immediately explained to James.
"Oh, for you to treat him with such caution, it seems that Ed's eldest son is indeed very capable.
Okay, back to the topic, we expected the squids to attack Lannisport.
In the past few months, Da Feng has been leading people to add obstacles and set up blockades near the port. Many trebuchets, ballistas and other defensive equipment have also been erected in the port area.
The squids really want to land in Lannisport, so they may have to swim over! So, I think we don’t need to worry about them at all, and we can directly send troops to attack Riverrun.”
After hearing this, James praised him and then spoke out his thoughts.
"No, the long boats of the Squids have a very shallow draft. Of course, their big ships cannot enter the port area, but if they take advantage of their numbers and use many small boats to force a landing, Davon's two or three thousand people will not be able to stop them at all."
Kevan heard what James said and directly pointed out his mistakes.
"In this case, let's mobilize Adam's troops and go to Golden Teeth City for support. With the assistance of his troops, Lannisport will definitely not have any problems."
As soon as Kevan finished speaking, James immediately spoke up.
"But after Adam's troops leave, what should we do if the northern troops of Riverrun attack the Golden Tooth City?"
"The walls of Golden Tooth City are so high and strong, how could they possibly capture them."
"That's not certain. Casterly Rock City will be even harder to capture. As a result..."
"Okay, everyone stop!"
Seeing that Jaime and Kevan were quarreling directly, Tywin immediately shouted to stop their quarrel.
When James and James both looked at him, Tywin directly issued an order: "Send a message asking Adam to take five thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry to Lannisport. The five thousand Stormlanders infantry plus the original one thousand garrison
A total of 6,000 troops were left to guard Golden Teeth City.
Even if the northern army attacks together, they will not be able to capture the Golden Tooth City in a short period of time. Moreover, the Golden Tooth City is not far from Lannisport, and Adam's five thousand cavalry can provide support at any time."
"Kevan led 30,000 Western troops to guard the crossroads to prevent the Northern troops from taking the opportunity to march directly to the king's territory. Jaime, since you like to attack, then lead 20,000 Western troops to capture other riverside castles except Riverrun.
This time, we don't need to divide our forces to occupy it. After taking the castle, we will directly absorb the prisoners who are willing to surrender, and kill all those who are unwilling.
Finally, these castles will be demolished or burned down."
"As you command!"
After hearing the order, James and Davon looked at each other, nodded and saluted, and accepted their respective tasks.
As Tywin's order was issued, the army of the West, which had almost become rusty after staying at Harrenhal in the past few months, immediately prepared to enter a state of war.
The next day, Kevan and Jaime led their respective troops and left Harrenhal in a mighty manner. Tywin stood on the Burning King Tower, quietly watching the two retreating Western troops.
At the same time, the northern army stationed in Riverrun City was also divided into two teams.
Edmure led nearly 10,000 new recruits from the Riverlands, heading east along the River Road. His goal was to tear apart the western defense line near Acorn Hall, and then turn to the king's territory.
Robb led a northern army of thirteen thousand men and headed west along the River Road. His goal was the Golden Tooth City.
After receiving Tywin's order, Adam, who was stationed in the Golden Tooth City, immediately took action and gathered troops to support Lannisport.
As the official starting point for the first round of the war between the Western Territory and the Northern Territory, Lannisport once again became the clarion call for the second round of war between the two sides.
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