Chapter 201: Overwhelming Victory (6800 chapters, I wish all readers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)
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Rumble!
At the southern gate of the first city wall of Highgarden, the brothers Clay, Ramsay, Garland, and Loras, with 30,000 cavalry from the Tyrell family, launched a surprise attack from the left of the combined army led by Sir Bonifer.
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Sir Bonifer, who was commanding the siege, suddenly looked shocked when he saw the sudden appearance of a large number of Tyrell family cavalry.
At this moment, a small part of the central army of his united army has climbed onto the right side of the southern city wall.
Most of the remaining troops were on the left side of the southern city wall, concentrating fire to eliminate the last part of the resisting Highgarden defenders. Therefore, the distance between the entire combined army formations was widened and extremely loose.
"Send the order, the cavalry troops will immediately charge towards the enemy on the left. The Chinese army will retreat into a defensive formation!"
Sir Bonifer, who had a clearer mind, pondered slightly and immediately gave his order to the messenger.
Sir Bonifer had less than 6,000 cavalry troops at his command. He did not expect these cavalry troops to defeat four or five times the enemy. Instead, he was prepared to sacrifice them to buy time for his own Chinese army to reorganize their formation.
ah!
On the south wall, a Stormland soldier holding a long sword had just killed a defender, when he was bitten in the neck by a hound that suddenly pounced on him, and he let out a miserable scream.
Vilas led his personal guards to block the stone steps of the left city wall, and urged the city's defenders, who already numbered less than a thousand people, to defend the last left city wall. Not far from them, there were defenses on the left and right sides of the south city gate.
The raging fire in the Round Tower was almost extinguished.
Previously, there was a sudden attack by the Liangqi Regiment on the right with mercenaries. In order to stop the enemy, Villas resolutely gave the order to detonate the two flamethrowers that had not been used because the enemy had not used the battering ram.
The purpose of his doing this was firstly to block the enemy, and secondly to prevent this kind of killer weapon from falling into the enemy's hands.
With less than 2,000 defenders left, Villas originally planned to leave half of his troops behind and retreat to the second city wall with the other defenders through the plant maze.
But how can these Tyrell family soldiers under his command compare with the Tully family soldiers? When Willas was about to start retreating, the soldiers guarding the city on the left wall suddenly lost their fighting spirit. They seemed to be waiting for Willas.
After retreating, they immediately fled.
Before Vilas could leave, a large number of siege soldiers successfully climbed to the top of the wall on the left side of the city wall and began to try to occupy this section of the city wall.
Villas knew that if there were no soldiers guarding the city, he would not be able to reach the second city wall in time with his own legs and feet. He had no choice but to grit his teeth secretly and simply refused to leave.
Villas led his guards to block the steps of the city wall and mercilessly killed the family soldiers who tried to escape. In this way, with his desperate response, the southern city wall has been maintained until now.
Vilas, who was concentrating on directing the battle, suddenly felt the pressure from the siege soldiers suddenly relax, and then he was pleasantly surprised to find that at some point, a large number of his family's cavalry were charging against the enemies below the city.
"Everyone, hold on, our reinforcements are coming! Each of the last survivors will be rewarded with five gold coins!"
Seeing his own cavalry, Villas's spirit suddenly lifted, and he immediately used high rewards to motivate the soldiers who defended the city, which numbered less than a thousand.
The power of money is universal in any world!
These soldiers who defended the city originally looked like they were scarred and about to fall down at any time, but after seeing the large number of reinforcements and hearing the huge reward from Villas, they all squeezed out the last bit of strength from their bodies and roared towards the wall.
Enemies in the pile.
Da da da!
The combined cavalry force composed of nobles from the Stormlands and the Reach received the order and charged directly towards the menacing Tyrell family cavalry on the left.
When this cavalry unit picked up speed and rushed out for a certain distance, suddenly its left and right wings broke away from the group's charging formation and headed away from the opponent's cavalry and our own central army.
These are cavalry troops led by the nobles of the Stormlands. They originally followed Sir Bonifer's command with different ideas.
Facing the suicidal charge order issued by Sir Bonifer, how could the nobles of the Stormlands, who always put their interests first, faithfully carry out the order.
After all, their situation is completely different from that of the rebellious nobles of the Reach who either succeed or die.
If the Highgarden War fails, the impact on the Stormlands nobles will be relatively small. They only need to maintain enough troops to defend their one-third acre of land.
Therefore, after the stormland nobles reached a consensus in a very short period of time, the current scene was staged.
After the Stormland nobles who deliberately stayed on the left and right wings fled, the remaining Reachland noble cavalry troops had no choice but to grit their teeth and attack.
However, in the face of an enemy that was at least ten times their own, the two to three thousand River Bend noble cavalry troops only caused some confusion to the opponent, and were directly submerged by this torrent of cavalry.
The Stormland cavalry troops fled before the battle, which directly disrupted Sir Bonifer's response plan. The cavalry troops did not have the slightest blocking effect, and the retreating infantry troops had no time to form a defensive formation.
Although the armies of both sides have not yet formally contacted each other, Sir Bonifer knew in his heart that in the face of the impact of tens of thousands of Tyrell family cavalry, it was impossible for the remaining combined armies to resist, and the defeat of the South City Gate was inevitable.
Without any hesitation, after he issued the military order to fight to the end, he quietly led his hundred-member holy war group to evacuate towards the east gate.
Sir Bonifer's nickname is a good man, not a fool. If he dies in this battle, there will be no way to continue to spread the faith of the Seven Gods.
After the battle situation in the port area of the West City Gate of Highgarden was reversed, the battle situation outside the South City Gate was also reversed.
Outside the north gate of the second city wall, Robb, a brave and skilled man, rushed directly into the Dornish army alone, causing the Dornish soldiers in the middle and rear sections to focus on him.
With the assistance of Weir and other Wolf Guards who were specially left behind by Robb, the northern soldiers gradually suppressed the Dornish soldiers at the front and pushed the lines of these Dornish soldiers back.
Tear, tear!
During the war in Highgarden, except when Robb consumed a lot of magic power when the Mander River was frozen, he basically didn't consume much physical energy at other times.
At this moment, after an abnormal situation occurred in Bloodwind that he could not understand, Robb, who was anxious to know the answer, immediately opened fire and headed straight towards Oberyn like a heavy truck loaded with cutting machines.
Those Dornish soldiers and personal guards who dared to stand in front of him were all chopped into piles of broken limbs by Robb's giant sword, Ice, which was powered by the immense power of both arms. Basically, no whole corpse was left.
"Why does my magic poison have no effect on this damn guy? Is he still human?"
Seeing Robb rushing forward while constantly slaughtering his own soldiers, Oberyn whispered to himself with an ashen complexion.
His confidence in his magic poison did not arise out of thin air, but came from the results of a large number of experiments on animals and humans.
In fact, after many years of research before the arrival of the Red Comet, he successfully developed a manticore poison with some magical effects.
The normal manticore poison is a powerful poison that can directly attack the heart and kill instantly. Oberyn, who was determined to make his enemies taste the pain, created new changes in the poison he created after fusing some magic.
This magical poison changes the instant lethality of the manticore poison, and will take effect slowly after being poisoned. It will allow the test subject to clearly taste the intense pain caused by the toxin corroding the body before death.
Moreover, there is still no cure for this evil poison!
This can be seen from the fact that Coburn, the 'great scientist' in his previous life, was helpless against the poisoned Magic Mountain and could only fight poison with poison to create a biochemical Magic Mountain.
But when the red comet pierced the sky arrived, Oberyn's research on magical poisons seemed to break through some bottleneck, and he continuously developed various magical poisons with strange effects.
Of course, after careful testing, there are only a few that are more practical.
What Oberyn just used against Robb was the extremely practical blood fly poison that paralyzes the human body.
The larvae of this blood fly are also used in Essos to prepare the wine of courage for the Unsullied to drink during training. This is also one of the important reasons why the Unsullied are not afraid of pain and are brave and fearless.
Of course, the poisonous amount of blood fly larvae in the Wine of Courage is very low, and there are other secret formulas added to the Wine of Courage by the Good Lords of Astapor.
Back to business!
Although Oberyn kept whispering venomous words in his mouth, his eyes were fixed on Robb, looking for the hint in his movements.
flaw.
good chance!
When he saw Robb slash three of his bodyguards with his giant sword from right to left, but his strength gradually lost and he was hugged tightly by the fourth bodyguard with his own flesh and blood, making him unable to take back the giant sword for a while.
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Oberyn stepped forward without hesitation at great speed, thrusting his spear towards Robb's open right abdomen.
Bah, bah!
Out of the corner of his eye, Robb caught sight of Oberyn's offensive movements. He immediately released the hilt of the ice sword with both hands. Then he turned slightly to the right, and held two hilts of ice crystals in his palms that were raised to the left and right sides.
The long sword quickly condensed out of thin air.
Bah!
clang!
Robb, who was holding an ice crystal sword, was doing two things. The ice crystal sword in his left hand pierced the eye socket of the brave guard who was holding on to the ice. The ice crystal sword in his right hand was swung outwards to drive away Ober.
The thrust of Lunjin's lance.
After the golden snake spear was swung away by Robb, Oberyn's dexterous and soft body shrank inward, and his hands retracted his golden snake spear like lightning.
Then, after a brief pause, the power hidden in Oberyn's hands suddenly exploded as fiercely as a flash flood. The golden snake spear he held tightly in his hand launched a series of violent thrusts at Robb in a very short period of time.
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Due to the explosive and continuous thrusts of the Golden Serpent Spear, Oberyn could not perfectly control where to stab Robb's body. He could only roughly target Robb's chest, abdomen and thighs.
But what happened next made Oberyn look extremely shocked.
Dang, Dang, Dang!...
Facing the explosive ultimate move that Oberyn was proud of, Robb's dark ice eyes quickly moved left and right, and his super vision clearly captured the movement trajectory of the golden snake spear.
The ice-crystal sword in his right hand flicked left and right, and a series of crisp and loud collision sounds kept ringing between the two.
Hoo, ho!
Oberyn, who wanted to take advantage of Robb's flaw and use his strongest move to defeat the enemy, was constantly being depleted by the continuous thrusts, and his normal breathing rhythm began to become rapid.
At this time, in Oberyn's eyes, Robb was like a majestic mountain that was getting higher and higher. The more he attacked, the smaller he felt.
I think that force is the best in Westeros, but I can't hurt him in the slightest.
Even his feet and left hand were not used.
Oh, I can't even hit him with one hand?
With the dual changes in physical strength and mentality, finally after a thrust with all his strength was easily blocked by Robb, the golden snake spear in Oberyn's hand became powerless, and his offensive came to an abrupt end.
It was not until this moment that Robb withdrew the ice sword that stabbed the guard's eye socket with his left hand. He glided forward lightly, swung away the weak golden snake spear, and placed the ice sword on Oberyn.
on the neck.
"Let me say it one last time, whatever magic you used on my direwolf, remove it immediately!"
Bang!
Listening to Robb's cold words, Oberyn, who had no intention of resisting anymore, threw away the golden snake spear in his hand, showed a wry smile on his face, and said: "That beast... the direwolf went crazy, it really wasn't because of me.
What have you done.
However, noble King of the North, please order your army to stop killing, we are willing to surrender to you!"
The abnormality of Blood Wind really has nothing to do with the Red Viper? Then what is going on?
He had always thought that it was Oberyn's magic that caused Bloodwind's abnormality, but when he heard his sincere words, Robb suddenly felt that he had no clue.
By the way, he said stop killing?
After pondering for a moment, Robb remembered Oberyn's words and immediately turned his head and looked behind him.
I saw that behind Xue Feng, who was still in an abnormal state, a large number of northern soldiers, led by Weir and other wolf guards, were continuously slaughtering Dornish soldiers and quickly pushing the front lines of both sides forward.
"Prince Oberyn, I accept your surrender. Let your Dornish soldiers abandon their swords and surrender!
In fact, as those of us who also hate the Lannister family, we should not draw our swords at each other!
Moreover, I heard that you have an army of 30,000 to 40,000 men, but now it is probably about 10,000 at most! I don’t seem to see any Lannister family soldiers!”
After a quick glance around the battlefield, Robb turned back to Oberyn and replied pointedly.
"Lannister family?
Phew, they were still outside the first city wall before I entered the city. Since these cowardly guys didn't show up, they must have fled in a hurry after seeing His Majesty's flag!"
Hearing Robb's words, Oberyn curled his lips and turned his head to spit, then replied in a disdainful tone. Then he remembered Robb's other words, and continued with a somewhat dark expression,
"If it were just me, I would not ally with the Lannister family even if I were killed. However, my eldest brother is thinking about the entire people of Dorne.
The usurpation war launched by the Yinlonwood family has consumed most of Dorne's accumulation. If we don't come to the Reach to snatch some resources, most Dorne people will not survive the next Long Summer!
What's more, there is iron...
Ahem, everyone listen to my order, put down their weapons and surrender!"
At the end of his speech, Oberyn seemed to realize that he had made a mistake. He coughed slightly, then turned around and shouted a surrender order to the Dornish soldiers around him.
Snap, snap, snap!
As Oberyn's order was issued, these Dornish soldiers, whose expressions could not be seen in their turbans, immediately threw away their spears, bows and arrows and other weapons in pieces.
Facing Robb, who can ride into battle alone to capture the king, the Wolf Guards who are killing crazily, and the Northern soldiers who are so full of fighting spirit and whose formations are terrifyingly neat, I believe they all have expressions of relief under their masks now.
"Your Majesty, something is wrong with Lord Xuefeng! We almost got attacked when we passed by him just now!"
As the Dornish soldiers threw away their weapons and surrendered, Will and the other wolf guards quickly led the wolf to Robb's side. After all, their job was to protect Robb's safety.
The Wolf Guards all call Bloodwind "sir", just as they treat their blood relative the direwolf as a friend and relative.
"Vell, let Count Rickard first take Prince Oberyn and the Dornish soldiers into custody, and then you lead the Wolf Guards to surround Bloodwind.
If necessary, I need your cooperation to control it by force!"
"yes!"
Just as Robb was giving orders to Weir, a half-exposed head on the extremely quiet second north wall was slowly retracting.
After Gars carefully retracted his head from the wall, he immediately said to Moroya beside him: "Sister, not only is the giant wolf a monster, but that Robb Stark is also a monster!
He rushed into the Dornish army alone, and after killing at least hundreds of Dornish soldiers, he captured alive the red viper who was "the only one in the world".
Now the overall situation has been decided, all the Dornish soldiers under the city wall have surrendered!
There’s no need for you to suppress that giant wolf anymore, let’s quickly meet up with my eldest brother and leave Highgarden!”
There were beads of sweat dripping down Moroya's beautiful but pale face. When she heard her brother's words, she forced a smile and replied softly: "Gars, I told you to leave a long time ago, but you didn't listen.
Now, we can't leave.
Because...it’s not that I want to keep suppressing it. It’s that it’s biting me and refusing to let me go!”
When Moroya was distracted talking to Garth, the deep blue light of the pea-sized moonstone in her hand suddenly dimmed.
Ouch!
Under the city wall, Xue Feng's eyes, which had been jumping around wildly, suddenly regained their vigor, and he heard a wolf howl facing somewhere on the second city wall.
But this wolf howl, which clearly contained anger, only lasted for two or three seconds before it was interrupted directly. Bloodwind's smart eyes were once again eroded by dark blue energy.
However, Robb, who received the message from the blood wind in his heart, acted immediately. He turned around and pulled out the ice from the body of the brave guard, and at the same time shouted to Will next to him: "Vell, I want to
Let me borrow a soldier!"
When Will heard this, he immediately turned over and jumped off his blood relative, the direwolf. The warriors trained by Robb using the blood contract were much closer to him than Will.
After it leaned down to let Robb jump on its back, it immediately got up and ran forward at full speed.
Although Robb can't communicate with the warriors like he can with Bloodwind, he has trained with the Wolf Guard and has no problem controlling the warriors to change their direction.
"Everyone get out of the way!"
"Quick, make way for Your Majesty!"
When the northern soldiers near the second city wall in front saw Robb approaching quickly with his warriors, they immediately shouted and pulled the surrendered Dornish soldiers aside, making way for him in the middle.
The north gate of the second city wall was tightly closed at this time, and there was no one on the wall.
Before the battle began, Robb originally thought that the enemies who had broken through before had gone to Highgarden Castle, but after receiving the message from Bloodwind, he realized that it was the people hiding on the second city wall who were using some kind of magic to disrupt Bloodwind.
right here!
Arriving at a wall stack on the right side of the north gate of the second city wall, Robb asked the warrior to stop and jumped directly from it.
Kaba, kaba!
Just as his feet were about to touch the ground, a stream of white ice mist shot out from Robb's feet.
A crystal icicle with a diameter of seventy or eighty centimeters rose from the ground, and Robb, who was stuck on the crystal icicle like nails, continued to rise until it exceeded the towering second city wall by a large distance.
Gulu!
Garth looked up at Robb, who was standing high on the crystal icicles, looking down at him with cold eyes like a god who controlled the ice, and swallowed nervously.
"Remove the abnormal influence on my direwolf immediately, and then tell me what magic you used and how to avoid the influence of this magic!
If you don't do what I say, then I will let you know that death is my greatest kindness to you!"
Looking at the woman with dark blue light emitting from her hands, who was obviously casting a spell, Robb stopped the extremely restless murderous intention in his heart and opened his mouth to communicate with Moroya and Gars.
After Moroya heard this, she immediately tried to dispel the charm spell she had cast. I don't know if it was because Xue Feng had successfully transmitted thoughts to Robb, so she easily dispelled the spell this time.
He held the moonstone in his hands, which was once again reduced to the size of a soybean, and raised it to his head, with a heartfelt smile on Moroya's pale face.
She looked at Robb with hot eyes and said softly: "Your Majesty, I have followed your instructions to remove the charm spell. And all my occult applications originate from this moonstone.
As for how to avoid being affected by occult applications, this is also a research topic between my father and me. But from our current research, Valyrian steel is the most direct and effective way.
I have answered all your questions. Could you please let me see the rune structure of your ice application?
After all... neither the occult books of Westeros nor Essos mention who can control ice!"
Looking at this woman who was a bit obedient and whose eyes were full of fanaticism, the aloof Robb couldn't help but frown.
There is something wrong with this woman!
Outside the north gate of the first city wall, Kevan was leading tens of thousands of Lannister cavalry away with a large number of horses and resources.
These war horses and resources come from the previous soldiers of the Tyrell family, as well as from the large and small castles in the River Bend that were plundered along the way.
When he saw a large number of direwolf flags appearing in Highgarden, Kevan knew that Lord Tywin's second goal had also failed. He took the Lannister army without any damage to the third goal.
At the southern gate of the first wall of Highgarden, the infantrymen of the United Army, who had lost their commanders, did not need the Tyrell family cavalry to rush into battle, and were already scurrying around like rats exploding their nests.
This is the disadvantage of an army united by multiple forces. It can be as powerful as a tiger when the wind blows, but it can be like a rat when it encounters a headwind!
Clay and Ramsay, with their own soldiers and half of the Tyrell cavalry, were harvesting these war exploits who just wanted to escape.
The brothers Garland and Loras, who cared about their own families, led troops to encircle and suppress some of the coalition soldiers who scaled the southern city wall and fled into the city.
In the port area outside the west gate of Highgarden, the Hightower family's defense line, which was jointly attacked by the Redwyne family soldiers and the ironborn, had long been divided. Encirclements of different sizes were formed, and the final battle was ongoing.
Sir Baelor looked at Earl Paxter who was surrounded by several personal guards. A wry smile appeared on his handsome face and said: "Earl Paxter, for the sake of our previous loyalty to destroying Stannis' fleet together, you can
Let us leave?"
"Ser Baelor, if Highgarden and I were surrounded by you today, would you let us go?"
Earl Paxter's bare forehead was covered with blood. Feeling uncomfortable, he wiped it gently with the back of his hand, and then asked Sir Baelor.
"Probably not! But our Hightower family can save your twin sons. Also, your choice today is indeed loyal to the Tyrell family.
But it goes against the wishes of that adult. If you can let us go, maybe I..."
"Lord Paxter, do you need our help?"
When Ser Baelor was trying to persuade Lord Paxter with other reasons, Theon, who was armed with a bow and arrow and looked so clean that he was incompatible with his surroundings, came to him with a large group of ironmen.
"Thank you Lord Theon for your kindness. I don't think it's necessary. Ser Baelor is telling me that he wants to abandon his weapons and surrender!"
When Earl Paxter heard this, he stared at Sir Baile and spoke without looking back.
Bang!
Sir Baelor dropped the sword in his hand very cooperatively, then raised his hands to Theon and the others and said: "As Earl Paxter said, I demand to be treated as a noble prisoner!
Believe me, the Hightower family’s ransom will definitely not disappoint you!”
With the end of the battle in the West City Port area where the Northern Army was the first to participate in the war, this War of Highgarden, in which a total of 120,000 to 30,000 troops were invested statistically, finally gained the strength of the Northern Territory after gaining the allegiance of the Tyrell family.