In King's Landing, the coronation ceremony of Tommen I that day went off smoothly without any unexpected incidents.
Maybe it’s because of his brother King Joffrey’s reverse foil!
After the coronation ceremony was completed, Tommen I greeted everyone near the Great Sept of Baelor with a gentle smile on his face.
Therefore, both the nobles of King's Landing and the onlookers were very satisfied with this gentle and courteous young king, and most people praised him.
After the coronation, there was a luxurious banquet for the nobles to celebrate the new king. Various harps, bagpipes and other musical instruments were played in the hands of musicians, playing wonderful Westeros-style music.
At the noble banquet, you can choose exquisite food and fine wine. The upper-class nobles in King's Landing will either gather together to chat and drink, or dance in groups to bond with each other.
They seemed to have completely forgotten the wars in the outside world, and seemed to be enjoying themselves leisurely and contentedly.
"Lady Olenna, how did it feel to be in contact with His Majesty Tommen today?"
Tywin politely rejected several nobles who wanted to have a relationship with her. He came to Olenna who was enjoying the food with a red wine glass and asked.
"Well, as you said. He is a good king with a gentle personality!"
"Of course, what I said is all true. So, Madam Olenna, when are you going to send troops to the Western Region?"
Seeing that Olenna seemed very satisfied with Tommen, Tywin directly stated his purpose.
"By the time I return to Highgarden, the preparations for the war will be almost complete.
However, as your own territory, of course you must first attack Deep Cave City to attract the attention of the northern army. Then we will take the opportunity to attack Crake Hall from the coastal road and attack Lannisport from the sea."
When Olenna heard this, she stopped enjoying the food, looked up at Tywin, and expressed her meaning very directly.
Compared to the main force of the Northern Army, which she didn't understand at all and had defeated Tywin in consecutive battles, Olenna naturally chose the Iron Islands troops whose hatred was proportional to their familiarity.
Moreover, she understood that Tywin was a smart man, so instead of using subtle excuses to delay the estrangement, it would be better to simply express that he didn't want her.
"You are right. When I am ready, I will personally lead an army to attack the cave city and attract Robb Stark's main force. Then, when your family defeats Greyjoy, we can encircle it."
When Tywin heard her words, he nodded and answered with a matter-of-fact expression.
"Well, you understand what I mean. In the end, the entire Dorne Frontier will belong to the Riverbend Kingdom."
After negotiating the preconditions of the alliance, Olenna revealed the price Tywin would have to pay after she formed an alliance and sent troops.
"Of course, your son Mace Tyrell already has the title of 'Warden of the Border'."
"Lord Tywin, you should understand what I mean!"
Hearing Tywin's answer, Olenna was not satisfied. She frowned slightly, called Tywin politely, and spoke calmly.
The Dorne Frontier is not a formal administrative division. It consists of grasslands, plains, wilderness and swamps that stretch for hundreds of miles. It is the buffer zone between the Reach Kingdom, the Stormlands and Dorne, and its strategic location is extremely important.
For more than a thousand years before, these three kingdoms had been at war and competing for this area.
Later, after Dorne was incorporated into the Seven Kingdoms, the war gradually subsided. In name, this area was protected by the commander-in-chief of the Tyrell family of Highgarden.
But in reality, this area is still divided into three, firmly occupied by the nobles of Stormland and Dorne.
Now, Olenna just wants to take advantage of this opportunity thrown by Tywin to essentially occupy the Dorne border.
By then, the River Kingdom, with abundant food and money, an army of 100,000 men and the Redwine fleet, would rely on the Dorne Frontier as its southeastern barrier, and would no longer have any defense loopholes.
No matter it is the Stormlands, Dorne, or the Western Territory, which has been severely damaged by the Northern Territory, it will not be able to pose a threat to it.
"Well, the Stormlands have completely surrendered to the Iron Throne, and I will find a way to get them to give up this area. As for Dorne, they are still fighting among themselves, and they will definitely not give it up casually!
Okay, I agree! Once the Northern Army is dealt with, I will lead a large army to accompany you to take down the Dorne Frontier."
Tywin thought quickly for a while, and finally nodded in agreement in order to form a new alliance with the Riverbend Kingdom, a new force.
"Since there is no problem in the Stormlands, please ask Lord Tywin to let them hand over the controlled area of the Dorne Frontier to our Kingdom of the River to show sincerity!"
Olenna has lived for so many decades and has long been very skilled at playing political games. How could she be fooled into going to war by Tywin's empty words?
Seeing that Olenna was completely giving up on the rabbit, Tywin bit his gums hard, with an ugly look on his face, and replied firmly: "When you return to Highgarden, prepare to have someone take over.
Come on! I will definitely satisfy you before sending troops!"
"Very well, come and drink to the future of our two families!"
After receiving Tywin's promise, a bright smile appeared on Olenna's wrinkled face, she picked up the red wine glass on the table and said.
"cheers!"
Boom!
Tywin, who was forced to look ugly by Olenna, touched the red wine glass in his hand lightly, then raised his head and took a big sip.
Looking at the Western Lion that had been groomed and docile by herself, Olenna took a sip with satisfaction.
"Mrs. Olenna, His Majesty Tommen seems to need me. I'll go over first!"
"OK!"
Tywin didn't seem to want to talk to Olenna any more, so he made an excuse and turned away. However, his originally ugly face returned to calm instantly after turning around, and he even had a smile on his lips.
…
Western Territory, Brand City.
Brand City was built in a flat valley in the Tengshi Mountains. The northern troops set out from Sarsfield City and marched for three days before arriving at Brand City.
Due to the small number of troops in Branded City and the rich vegetation resources around it, Robb and Bloodwind now have the ability to destroy the city alone.
However, a soldier cannot do without training!
Therefore, Robb handed over the command of this battle to Clay, who had been doing intelligence and staff work.
After Clay, who had always been cautious, gained command, he immediately asked the logistics troops to lead the infantry to cut down trees and make siege equipment.
The northern troops of more than 10,000 people rushed to build countless siege ladders, several simple battering rams, and fixed trebuchets in just two days.
When Clay seemed not satisfied yet and wanted to build a more time-consuming siege tower, Robb covered his face and told him to stop.
It’s true that a lion fights a rabbit with all his strength!
Robb patiently explained to Clay that caution is a good thing, but time in a war is also precious and needs to be judged based on the actual situation.
He finally left thoughtfully, and then formally commanded the army to attack Brand City.
When the war began, Robb did not influence Clay's command of the battle at all. Instead, he led all the wolf guards to a remote cliff behind the northern army, and he prepared to watch the battle leisurely.
Before Robb arrived, Will consciously led the Wolf Guards to explore and eliminate all dangers on the road. Not to mention hidden enemies, even wild animals such as snakes and rats were eliminated by them.
Bloodwind's wolves have long matured under the catalysis of the blood bond points. The blood-related wolves are smaller in size than Nymeria and Lady, but with the addition of the wolf guards on their backs, the blood-related wolves are definitely not inferior in combat effectiveness.
Give them.
I don't know if it's because of the blood bond points assigned to the wolves during this period, but Robb, who is already quite familiar with the physiological changes of direwolves,
In recent days, it has been discovered that Nymeria, Lady, and more than half of the female wolves in the blood wolf pack have shown signs of being in heat again.
Robb, who had seen some signs, had already written to Winterfell through the crow's nest in Sarsfield City, asking his mother Catherine to send people to the Wolf Wood to capture more large gray wolves and send them to Riverrun.
Robb was very excited that the Bloodwind wolves were about to increase exponentially again. Because, with the Golden Finger of the Blood Pact ensuring the survival rate of the Blood Pact wolf pups, the wolf cavalry army he had envisioned was getting closer and closer.
Woo!
When Robb arrived at the cliff, the siege of Brand City had just begun.
As the trumpet sounded, a siege phalanx composed of at least 5,000 northern soldiers, holding wooden shields, carrying siege ladders, and pushing siege hammer carts, began to attack Brand City.
The defenders on the walls of Branded City began to fire arrows in unison, and the parabolic rain of arrows fell on the northern siege phalanx with little effect.
Boom, boom!
As expected of the wealthy Western Region, basically every castle is equipped with at least two giant crossbows.
The power of this giant crossbow was not something that a wooden shield could withstand. As the wooden shield was shot into pieces, several northern soldiers were immediately pierced by spears and crossbow arrows and turned into two strings of human candied haws.
Several trebuchets fixed at the northern army camp also began to exert force at this moment, throwing huge stones towards the walls of Brand City and the city.
In fact, Clay built these trebuchets not to kill the enemy, but to lower the enemy's morale and allow his own soldiers to better approach the city wall, playing a supporting role.
Just imagine, if a normal person sees a huge rock roaring directly in front of him, he will subconsciously dodge it.
Therefore, except for the truly brave and fearless soldiers who focus on defending the city, as long as other soldiers defending the city dodge or are distracted, their attack frequency will be reduced.
Facts also proved that this was the case. After only the first round of salvo fire in Brand City, there was a messy free fire.
Facing the obviously sparse arrow rain, the northern siege phalanx approached the Brand City wall very quickly.
Then, these five thousand northern soldiers dispersed in an orderly manner, doing the siege work assigned by their captain.
Countless siege ladders were set up on the walls of Branded City, and the archers covered and shot from the bottom up. Behind them, the siege hammer carts slowly moved towards the city gate.
The five thousand soldiers from the North who attacked Brand City were naturally descendants from the West and the Stormlands. Encouraged by the generous rewards for being the first to ascend, these soldiers who could already be called soldiers from the North carried the stones and
Boiling oil began to climb the siege ladder.
Since the families in the Western Territory did have fewer troops to defend the city, before the siege ram was pushed under the city gate, soldiers from the Northern Territory began to climb up the walls of Branded City, trying hard to compete for the honor of being the first to conquer the city.
The northern soldiers who first stepped onto the wall of Brand City were not treated well at all. As soon as they stepped up, they were drowned among the defenders. However, as more and more loopholes in the defense of the city wall were discovered, some northern soldiers began to stand on the wall.
Stand firm.
When the battering ram truck arrived at the gate of Brand City, it began to hit the gate continuously and made a loud noise. This made the defenders on the city wall more and more uneasy, worried that the gate would be knocked open at some point.
In this way, the first breach in the wall of Brand City was completely opened. The northern soldiers who subsequently climbed onto the city wall began to flood towards the siege soldiers.
The defenders of Brand City, who had few troops to begin with, were completely unable to fill this gap. Gradually, the defenders who became more aware of the current situation began to surrender on their knees and surrender.
After setting an example of surrender, most of the other Brand City defenders began to throw away their weapons and kneel down to surrender.
In the end, seeing that the Earl of Brand City was helpless, Damon Malbrand had no choice but to surrender and admit defeat.
After seeing his direwolf flag flying in Branded City, Robb sent a message to Bloodwind in his heart and left the cliff to go to Branded City.
Wow!
When Robb rode Bloodwind into Branded City, all the surrendered Branded City soldiers and the civilians hiding in the city suddenly screamed in horror, fear, and shock.
Um?
Robb was already used to the many exclamations coming and going. It was just the situation in Branded City that was different from previous cities that caught his attention.
I saw that in the Brand City full of corpses and wounded, a large group of women wearing gray robes, using black scarves to cover their faces except for their eyes, and with the symbols of the Seven Gods erected on their backs, were collecting the corpses.
This is a female organization that serves strangers, the Silent Sisters. They swear an oath of abstinence and silence, and will clean and tidy up any corpse for free.
Robb felt a little strange that there were so many Silent Sisters in Branded City. However, his eyes were interspersed among the Silent Sisters, a small group of nurses wearing white robes and carrying wooden first aid boxes.
Finally, when Robb's eyes fell on one of the nurses, he couldn't look away.
This nurse has long black hair and a beautiful and dignified appearance.
At this moment, she was under the eaves of a house whose roof was inlaid with huge stones. Her face was covered with blood, and she was concentrating on treating a wounded enemy who had a large gap in his waist.
she is……
I don't know if it was due to the fusion of souls, but when Robb recognized the nurse, his heart beat faster inexplicably, as if he felt like the first time he confessed to his first love in his previous life.
Click! Bang!
While the black-haired nurse was carefully suturing the wound, the roof above her head was suddenly crushed by a huge stone from a trebuchet. The entire roof and the huge stone hit the black-haired nurse and the wounded.
ah!
The surrounding soldiers, civilians and other nurses heard the sound and looked at the tragedy that was about to happen, and they suddenly screamed in surprise.
call!
Click, click, click!
A giant white shadow quickly rushed in front of the black-haired nurse and the wounded, and then, a huge semicircular ice crystal shield appeared out of thin air, wrapping them tightly inside.
Snap, snap!
Click!
Fragments of the eaves and boulders fell on the ice crystal shield that seemed to break at a touch, and were directly bounced around. However, the ice crystal shield was also hit with a long crack by the boulder.
Seeing that the defensive power of this layer of ice crystal shield was as expected, Robb nodded secretly, and then looked to the side of Xue Feng.
I saw that the black-haired nurse who was almost smashed to pieces was completely unmoved and continued to suture the wounded man's wounds very calmly. Judging from her blood-stained but steady hands, she was definitely not pretending to be calm.
.
"Okay! Take him away!"
After finishing the suturing in her hands, the black-haired nurse spoke to the northern soldiers on the side with a calm expression.
The two northern soldiers looked at Robb inquiringly, and after seeing him nodding in approval, they stepped forward and carried away the unconscious wounded enemy.
"Hey, I saved you, shouldn't you thank me?"
Seeing the long-haired nurse standing up and about to leave with her hands stained with blood, Robb suddenly shouted with interest.
"Your Majesty, this war was initiated by you, and you ordered the throwing of the boulder. Therefore, you are not saving me, you can only count as not killing me!"
Hearing this, this very individual black-haired nurse turned around and greeted her very politely before speaking.
She looked at Xue Feng, who was surrounded by white ice mist, and Robb's crystal clear eyes. Except for the slight shock in his eyes, her overall expression was still very calm.
"First of all, it doesn't matter whether I started this war. What matters is that I won this war!
And what you said next makes no sense!
A farmer grew potatoes and sold them to you, and then you accidentally choked on the potatoes and died. So, was that farmer the one who killed you?"
Originally, Robb would not answer these boring topics at all. But who knew, he would unexpectedly start a debate with the black-haired nurse.
"Haha, I didn't expect that in addition to marching and fighting, His Majesty is also very capable of sophistry. Sorry, I don't have time to argue with you. There are still many wounded waiting for me to save their lives."
The black-haired nurse, who was confused by Robb's words and didn't know how to respond, chuckled lightly and prepared to leave.
After seeing this black-haired nurse today, Robb was completely different from usual. The more he looked at her, the more he felt that she had a distinct personality and was very dignified and beautiful.
In fact, aesthetics is actually a very personal matter. In addition to the same definition of ugliness, everyone has different aesthetics.
This black-haired nurse may not be very beautiful, but at this moment, in Robb's eyes, it seems that there is a filter from the anchor in his previous life, directly beautifying her.
Looking at the black-haired nurse who had turned around and walked a few steps away, Robb felt an impulse surge in his heart and subconsciously asked, "What's your name?"
"Theresa!"
As if she didn't hear, the black-haired nurse Theresa took a few steps again. Then, she suddenly stopped in her steps and answered Robb's question loudly without looking back.
Yes! This black-haired nurse is Theresa Meguya!
The fundamental reason why Robb broke the Frey family oath and died at the Bloody Wedding in his previous life!,
As fate would have it, the two of them met again in the Western Region!
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