Outside the north gate of Seagull Town, four thousand Dragonstone soldiers were arrayed in a neat military formation. Stannis, Davos, Roland and others were riding on horseback and waiting quietly at the front of the military formation.
Long before dawn, the reconnaissance cavalry brought back the news that Leonor Corbray, the king of the Five Finger Peninsula, led an army of five thousand to return to attack Seagull Town.
In addition to the original Grafson family's inner castle in the city, Seagull Town is surrounded by low walls and does not have the conditions to hold on to the city.
I don’t know if Stannis wanted to protect the civilians and wealthy merchants in Seagull Town, or for some other reason. He completely ignored Davos’s dissuasion and confidently led his troops into formation, hoping to conduct a field battle outside the city.
Woo~~!
As a melodious horn sounded, Leonor led his five thousand troops as they continued to approach Seagull Town. Thousands of them deliberately stepped on their footsteps from far to near, and a breathtaking power moved towards Dragon Stone.
The island soldiers rushed towards him.
However, these remaining Dragonstone soldiers are all Stannis's direct troops who have experienced hundreds of battles. They lined up in the military formation with calm faces, showing no fear or panic at all.
Since the cavalry in the valley is basically concentrated in the Eagle's Nest City, Leonor's 5,000 people only have a cavalry force of about 800 people.
As for Stannis, who was defeated miserably at King's Landing, his direct troops were originally crew members of the royal fleet, so his cavalry troops were even smaller, with less than 500 men.
According to the war tradition of Westeros, the cavalry troops of both sides broke away from the military formation and came to the front, preparing to start a cavalry hedge to increase their own momentum.
"His Majesty!"
Seeing Stannis letting his own cavalry, who was clearly outnumbered, to counterattack, Davos, a former smuggler, opened his mouth to dissuade him.
But as soon as he shouted, Stannis raised his hand to stop his remonstrance, then turned to the military formation behind him and asked loudly: "Are you not done praying to our Lord yet?"
"Your Majesty, the prayer is over. I will send the blessing of the King of Light to our army, and you will surely win this war!"
After hearing this, Melisandre, who was dressed in red robe, strolled out of the military formation with an enchanting posture, and answered at the same time.
"Then what are you waiting for?"
"Please let the cavalry draw their weapons!"
After hearing Melisandre's words, Stannis immediately gave orders to nearly five hundred cavalry.
Whoa, whoa!
Oops!
Seeing that the five hundred Dragonstone cavalry all drew their swords after listening to the order, Melisandre immediately whispered a spell similar to Valyrian.
When she finished her spell, the ruby necklace around her neck flashed with light. The swords in the hands of the five hundred cavalrymen suddenly ignited with blazing fire.
Wow!
The nearly ten thousand people outside Seagull Town were all shocked by the sudden change, and immediately let out an uproar containing sighs, fear, and other emotions.
However, this is not over yet!
After Melisandre took a deep breath, she raised her hands and pointed at the five hundred cavalry in front of her. She began to recite the Valyrian-like incantation quickly again.
As the spell in her mouth ended, a dark shadow flashed in her eyes this time. The eyes of the five hundred cavalry instantly became pitch black, and in the shadows of the cavalry, pairs appeared as if they were drawn out by lines.
s eyes.
"Cavalry charge!"
Seeing Melisandre finally nodding towards him, Stannis drew his sword and swung it forward. Five hundred Dragonstone soldiers with dark eyes immediately charged on horseback with expressionless faces.
Da da da!
Looking at the enemy cavalry charging towards him, Leonor pulled out a sly smile, waved his hand and ordered: "The archers will fire a volley, and the cavalry will start charging again."
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Following Leonor's order, a wave of parabolic arrows fell on the Dragonstone cavalry who charged into the attack range. In an instant, nearly a hundred horses were shot, and the Dragonstone cavalry who were shot in the vitals were also injured.
The horse fell to the ground.
After the rain of arrows, the eight hundred cavalrymen of the Corbray family launched a group charge together. Although their charge distance was short, the charge kinetic energy they carried was not very sufficient.
But their number was twice that of the Dragonstone cavalry who had been baptized by the rain of arrows.
However, as the distance between the two sides continued to close, the Corbray family cavalry immediately realized that something was wrong. Most of the remaining four hundred Dragonstone cavalry had arrows stuck in their bodies and were stained with blood, but they continued indifferently.
Launch a charge.
Boom, boom, boom!
Cavalry confrontations are always accompanied by various bloody scenes. Blood, severed limbs, and corpses continue to increase. Continuous wails and screams begin to sound on the battlefield.
However, these wailing sounds were all made by the Corbray family cavalry!
Even though the bodies of the Dragonstone Cavalry were pierced by steel lances and chopped to the ground by sharp swords. As long as they missed their vital parts, they continued to fight without saying a word and covered in blood. This posture was like a zombie.
Very penetrating.
"They are not human!"
"Devil, it's a devil!"
"Run away!"
About one-third of the 800 Corbray family cavalry were lost, and their morale collapsed. The remaining 500 or so Corbray family cavalry screamed and fled towards their own army's formation.
Behind them, the remaining nearly three hundred Dragonstone Cavalry continued to pursue them, covered in blood.
"The enemy wants to escape, the whole army charges!"
Seeing that his own cavalry were defeating more with less, Stannis immediately raised his arms and shouted, giving the order for the entire army to attack.
"They're all rubbish! All the infantry are lined up to prepare for battle. The archers aim at the enemy cavalry and shoot flatly for me!"
Seeing that his cavalry was defeated, Leonor cursed fiercely and immediately commanded his army to fight.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The archers of the Corbray family began to draw their bows and shoot flatly. Since the distance was very close at this moment, these archers were in a hurry. As a result, the effect of this wave of flat shooting was not particularly obvious.
After this round of shooting, they did not bother to check the results and slowly fled into their own infantry square.
Boom, boom, boom!
After being reduced in number again, the Dragonstone Island cavalry, whose number was reduced to just over 200, showed no fear in the face of nearly 5,000 enemy soldiers. They just started charging into the formation.
Bah, bah!
A large number of war horses and Dragonstone cavalry were pierced by the spears of House Corbray infantry.
But what frightened the soldiers of the Corbray family was that these Dragonstone cavalrymen, who were covered in blood and hung on their spears, continued to wave their weapons to attack as long as their heads, hearts and other vital parts were not injured.
A small number of Dragonstone Cavalry rushed into the formation, causing a panic. Even though these zombie-like Dragonstone Cavalry were chopped to pieces by the enemies in the formation, they were still able to struggle and take away many enemies.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Even though the Dragonstone cavalry are very terrifying, their numbers are rapidly decreasing in the face of the sheer number of enemies. However, the main force led by Stannis has already arrived. They are faced with a blanketing arrow rain attack.
Bah!
Boom, boom!
The Corbray family soldiers whose attention was attracted by the Dragonstone cavalry were completely stunned by this wave of arrows. People were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The formation, which was already scattered due to the impact, was beginning to collapse.
"Steady! Steady...
Farke, charge with me!"
When Leonor saw that his formation was beginning to collapse, he immediately shouted loudly in an attempt to stabilize the situation, but to no avail. Finally, he simply pulled out his sword and wanted to lead the charge.
call!
Oops!
At this moment, an orange-red flame shot from nowhere and hit him, instantly burning Leonor into a human-shaped torch.
ah!!!
Leonor fell under the horse, screaming and struggling in agony, trying to extinguish the flames on his body.
But this was no ordinary flame at all. No matter how he fluttered, his movements slowly weakened within a short period of time until he was completely motionless and burned to ashes by the orange flames.
"Your Majesty is dead!"
"His Majesty Leonor was burned to death!"
"Run away quickly, let's go back to the Five Fingers Peninsula!"
Leonor's death was the straw that broke the camel's back. The military formation of the Corbray family soldiers collapsed. There were at least nearly 4,000 Corbray family troops left and began to flee in all directions.
"Tell them that those who surrender will not die if they kneel down and try to capture as many of them as possible!"
Seeing that the enemy could easily collapse, Stannis immediately began to order his Dragonstone soldiers to capture the enemy deserters alive as much as possible.
Davos, with the sword in his hand unstained with blood, was at the end of the charge formation. He kept watching Leonor being burned to ashes alive.
Finally, he turned back to look at Melisandre, who had emitted the magic flame. The woman in red robe who met his eyes for a moment gave him a very seductive smile.
Gulu!
However, Davos immediately turned his head as if he had seen a ghost and swallowed nervously.
In the following time, Dragonstone soldiers captured a total of nearly 3,000 Corbray family deserters. Since all the Dragonstone cavalry died heroically, most of the remaining 1,000 deserters were enemy cavalry and infantry.
They couldn't pursue him at all.
In the end, Stannis won an absolute victory in the valley at the cost of sacrificing 500 of his own cavalry.
When Anda Royce was still three days away from Seagull Town with an army of thirteen thousand men, he received intelligence that Seagull Town had fallen into the hands of Stannis Baratheon.
Moreover, the King of the Five Finger Peninsula who wanted to attack Runestone City failed in the battle to recapture Seagull Town and was killed by the King of Dragonstone himself.
Although he had heard that Stannis had suffered a defeat at King's Landing, and could not confirm the details of the opponent's military strength, Anda, who was an enemy or a friend, did not rush to attack Gull Town. Instead, he sent spies to find out the news and led his troops back to Runestone City.
A few days later, Anda received the information reported by the spies, and knew that even if Stannis included the prisoners of the Corbray family, he would only have about half of his own strength.
At the same time, Runestone City received a raven letter from Seagull Town, and Stannis actually asked Anda to surrender!
The letter states that as long as Anda leads his troops and surrenders to him, when he becomes the king of the Seven Kingdoms, he will appoint Anda as the guardian of the valley.
Originally, he wanted to win over Stannis as an ally to deal with Littlefinger and Tyrion. After tearing up the letter, Anda summoned all the noble counts of the valley who had surrendered to him and held a military meeting in the Runestone City Conference Hall.
When he told the contents of Stannis's letter, it immediately caused a burst of ridicule from the Earls of the Vale. Then everyone reached a consensus that Stannis had gone crazy and was an enemy rather than a friend!
In the end, Anda decided to fight Stannis, take Gulltown, and completely bring the east and north of the valley under his control.
When the military meeting was disbanded, only Anda, who was slender and handsome, wearing a sculpted family crest and strange rune armor, was left in the meeting hall.
And there was a woman standing in a dark corner, wearing a slim-fitting black hooded robe and a pure white mask with only eyes and mouth on her face.
"Ella! Do you think I made the right choice? In fact, my original purpose was just to save my father!"
Anda leaned his head on the chair and asked with a tired expression.
The woman named Ella slowly walked up behind Anda, stretched out her gloved hands to massage his temples, and said softly: "Anda, no matter what choice you make, I will support you unconditionally.
.I said, I can die for you!"
"Ella, I don't want you to say such things again! The gods asked me to save you from a shipwreck and about to die. This is our destined fate!
When I rescue my father, I will marry you as my queen under his witness!"
Hearing this, Anda looked touched and grabbed Ella's right hand with his right hand, and then spoke in a sincere tone.
Hearing Anda's words, Ella's massage movements froze, and a sigh came from under her white mask: "Oh, I don't know if your father will accept me."
"He will definitely accept it! And, even if he doesn't accept it! I will definitely marry you!"
Hearing Ella's words, Anda stood up very excitedly, turned around and hugged Ella behind him.
Because his action was too intense, his right hand accidentally tore off the glove on Ella's right hand, revealing the skin that was as dark as coke under the glove.
The next day, the Raven of Runestone flew towards Seagull Town carrying Anda's letter to Stannis.
He only had two ideas, either the two families would form an alliance to fight against Littlefinger and Tyrion, or the two families would have to fight.
Due to being brainwashed by Melisandre during the period after the defeat, Stannis has been completely immersed in the prophecy that he is the savior chosen by the Lord of Light.
After he read Anda's letter, he tore it up immediately. Then he did not summon Davos and Roland to discuss it, but discussed it privately with Melisandre.
In the end, he wanted to follow Bitterbridge's method again and ask Melisandre to assassinate Anda, and then he would take over the army of more than 10,000 people as the legal heir of the Seven Kingdoms.
After Stannis and Melisandre fought to the death and donated their blood, the rosy-faced and energetic Melisandre took a carriage driven by Stannis's bodyguard from Seagull Town to Runestone City.
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One night later, the carriage stopped in the woods a few kilometers away from Runestone City.
When the bodyguard looked at Melisandre, who had an attractive figure before getting in the car and was already in labor after getting off the car, she suddenly showed a shocked expression as if she had seen a ghost.
However, out of loyalty to Stannis, he did not ask any more questions out of curiosity. After handing the oil lamp in his hand to Melisandre, he loyally stood near the carriage and waited patiently.
After Melisandre walked out of the depths of the woods alone, she found a clearing and began to pray again to give birth to the Shadow Killer.
But this time was different from the last time he assassinated Renly. As the prayer ended, Melisandre's eyes became dark like the previous Dragonstone Cavalry.
The shadow killer opened his eyes like a real person, and his eyes moved like a living person. The shadow killer glanced at Melisandre, and then turned into a black mist and floated towards Runestone City.
In the inner castle of Runestone City, Anda, who had finished his military and political duties for the day, was holding Ella's hand and walking from the tower of the conference hall towards his palace. Two fully armed guards followed behind them.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
clang!
When the four of them walked to the inner castle garden, two personal guards suddenly sounded warnings behind them. Just as Anda was about to turn around, the runes on his bronze armor glowed, and a black dagger stabbed from behind.
Block.
However, after blocking this fatal attack, the rune light on Anda's bronze armor suddenly went out, as if the energy was exhausted.
call!
The two guards drew their swords and slashed at the black shadow, but the black shadow instantly turned into black mist and floated behind the two guards.
Bah, bah!
When the black mist floated behind the two guards, it solidified into black shadows again. At the same time, he condensed two black daggers on the left and right and stabbed them into the backs of the necks of the two guards.
Boom, boom!
The two guards who were fatally attacked fell heavily to the ground, clutching their necks that were spilling a lot of blood. The black shadow that was not in their way stabbed Anda again with a dagger.
&*%#!
A familiar Valyrian-like spell from the black shadow sounded.
boom!
The air in front of the black shadow suddenly experienced an inexplicable fluctuation, and then suddenly exploded. The black shadow, which had been invisible and untouched by anything, was directly blown away.
"Evil and dirty Shadowbinder, why did you attack my lover!"
Ella, who was wearing a white mask, stood in front of Anda and asked the black shadow that was shot away.
Scream!
The black shadow seemed to want to communicate with Ella, but he just made a meaningless roar.
"Oh, you can't speak? It seems that you are not proficient in shadow magic!"
Listening to the roar of the black shadow, Ella made a mocking sound that seemed to be a bit disdainful.
The black shadow seemed to be angered by her, and immediately turned into black mist and floated towards Ella.
Seeing that her strategy of irritating the enemy was working, Ella immediately clasped her gloved hands together and cast her magic towards the black shadow directly in front of her.
boom!
The air between Ella and the black shadow once again experienced inexplicable fluctuations, and the air without anything exploded again, making a loud sound.
However, this time only half of the black mist was blown away. The other half of the black mist bypassed Ella at some point, condensed into a black shadow with only the right side of her body, and rushed towards Anda behind her.
"No!"
Ella turned around and let out a roar. She immediately took off her white mask and threw it to the ground. As the white mask cracked, a translucent mist quickly dissolved into Ella's body.
After losing the mask, Ella's eyes suddenly brightened, revealing a delicate face but dark skin. She stretched out her left hand and pulled towards the void on the left.
The air on the left side of Anda, who was in a defensive posture, immediately produced a large amount of fluctuations, as if a giant hand that had been invisible was dragging him far away. The attack of half of the black shadows directly failed.
The black shadow seemed to understand that it could not kill Anda without dealing with Ella first. So, two pieces of black mist surged towards Ella in the middle.
Ella stretched out her hands calmly, and kept muttering spells in strange tones.
When these two pieces of black mist came to Ella, they suddenly seemed to hit an invisible obstacle and were unable to move forward. They immediately twisted and tried to retreat, but they were also unable to do so.
Oops!
Ella took out two pieces of flint with sparks from her arms and threw them at the two fixed pieces of black mist. The bright flames burned blazingly, burning the invisible black mist.
Zhi,zhi!
The two pieces of black mist that kept making burning sounds continued to twist and expand, and two square air grids filled with flames appeared. The two pieces of black mist were finally burned out in these two air grids.
puff!
Deep in the woods outside Runestone City, the darkness in Melisandre's eyes receded, and her mouth spurted a large mouthful of blood toward the open space in front of her.
"How could there be a Yunkong Master playing with air magic here?
No, I’m being attacked by magic power now, I have to get out of here as soon as possible!”
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