Harrenhal covers a very large area, and the thick and steep city walls stand like cliffs. Viewed from the ground, the guards and defensive equipment in the battlements on the top of the city walls are as small as sparrows.
The gatehouse of Harrenhal is as big as the main castle of Winterfell. The stone on it is cracked and faded. From outside the gatehouse, only the top of the five towers can be seen because the view is blocked by the high wall.
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Among the five towers in the castle, the shortest tower is even taller than the tallest tower in Winterfell even if it is reduced by half, but not a single tower is intact.
The tower baptized by the scorching dragon flames of Balerion, the Black Death, was like a melting candle. The stones of the tower were shattered and the whole was scorched black.
Winter winter winter!
In the Burning King Tower late at night, the Magic Mountain's deputy, nicknamed "Sweet-tongued Rafe" Rafford, had just fallen asleep when a rapid knock on the door woke him up.
"Lord Rafford, no luck, the enemy has begun to attack the city again!"
When Lufford opened the door with a sleepy look on his face, an anxious-looking Lannister soldier hurriedly reported.
"Why are you panicking? Aren't they coming every night during this period? Let's go!"
Ravford didn't even bother to put on his own armor. He just put on an officer's civilian clothes and took the lead in the direction of the gatehouse of Harrenhal.
Stepping onto the dirty city gatehouse wall, Lufford saw more than a thousand defenders on the city wall, composed of a mixture of Lannister family soldiers and Stormland soldiers.
They all looked drowsy and had no reaction to the countless torches that were constantly moving under the city wall.
Lufford rubbed the sandy hair on the top of his head. He wanted to punish these Harrenhal defenders but felt unable to do so.
There really was no way, because not long ago, the Mountain took half of Harrenhal's remaining troops out of the city to plunder. The combined armies of the North and the Riverlands surrounded Harrenhal.
Then, they used small and dispersed forces to try to attack the city from different directions during the day, and continued to harass the city at night. The remaining more than a thousand Harrenhal defenders were exhausted mentally and physically.
In fact, when he saw the densely packed enemies outside the city wall, Rafford was quite nervous in the early stages of the siege.
But then he discovered that the enemy was just harassing him at night, so he ordered half of the soldiers to stay in the city and the other half to return to the city to rest.
As a result, the enemy commander seemed to know exactly the movements of Harrenhal City's troops. During the routine harassment that night, a large number of shield soldiers were suddenly dispatched to cover a special carriage and rush toward the city gate tower.
Fortunately, Ravford, who arrived on the city wall in time, discovered something was wrong. After the archers' attacks were blocked by the shield soldiers, he realized that something was wrong.
He made a prompt decision and threw down two of the last four barrels of wildfire that Lord Tywin had left at Harrenhal as his trump card.
Immediately afterwards, the two barrels of wildfire were detonated by Rafford using a large number of rockets, and after the specially-made carriage was swallowed up by the flames of the wildfire, it actually let out a deafening violent explosion.
This violent explosion near the gatehouse of Harrenhal directly blew a gap in the already faded but unusually large fastened city gate large enough for a normal carriage to pass through.
At that time, Rafford looked at the huge mushroom cloud that dyed the night green, and was so shocked that he couldn't even close his jaw.
If he hadn't used his trump card without hesitation, his head would have been hanging on the gates of Harrenhal before dawn.
After coming back to his senses, while the green flames were burning in front of the gatehouse of Harrenhal, Lufford immediately called to the Harrenhal defenders to release a large number of prisoners from the cells, and supervised them to quickly repair the gates of Harrenhal.
Before the wildfire was extinguished, the Harrenhal garrison led a large number of prisoners to dismantle a large number of cell door panels and pillars, completing emergency repairs to the city gate.
Lafford knew that after the city gate tower was repaired in this way, this large gap would definitely become the focus of the enemy's attack.
Therefore, he ordered his soldiers to supervise the prisoners to knock down a partition wall of the stable, and then use these stones to completely block the gap.
After this frightening night, even though Lafford knew that the enemy's night siege actions were mostly just harassment, he still had to be on guard, just in case.
He believed that the Mountain, who was plundering outside, must have discovered that Harrenhal was besieged, and he just had to hold on until the Mountain came back with reinforcements.
Woo!
After an hour or two of tossing around with countless torches outside the city wall, they finally moved back amidst the low sound of horns. As expected, tonight was still a routine nighttime harassment by the enemy.
Rafford did not let the tired-looking defenders of the Dreadfort go to rest. He casually gave a casual warning and returned to King Burning Tower to continue resting.
However, he was not able to rest for long. Three hours later, at dawn, the combined armies of the North and the Riverlands were once again preparing to launch a siege against Harrenhal.
"Send the order, the whole army launches a general attack!"
Outside the city of Harrenhal, Count Tytos was still wearing a cloak made of crow feathers. After loudly giving his order to the messenger, he tilted his head and said to Count Jason beside him,
"Earl Jason, today, I will leave my back to you!"
"Don't worry, Count Tytos. As long as I'm not dead, there won't be a scar on your back!"
Earl Jason, who was wearing armor with the crest of the Mallister family, directly lifted a sharply sharpened sharp ax from the ground and assured him firmly.
"Why die? After this battle, we are going to drink together!"
After hearing this, Count Tytos immediately glared at Count Jason and spoke with a reproachful tone.
"Haha, I know you are dissatisfied with the fact that I convinced you last time. Well, I'll give you a chance to convince me!
Then, I’ll get ready first!”
When Earl Jason heard what he said, he immediately laughed boldly and replied, then waved his hand and turned around to leave.
Count Tytos looked at Count Jason's seemingly relaxed back, and his expression gradually became serious.
Although Earl Tytos and Earl Jason are both nobles of the Riverlands, their families have no interest relationship and no marriage relationship. Their relationship can only be regarded as a casual acquaintance.
But during the siege of Harrenhal, these two earls with similar personalities gradually became close friends.
Count Jason's duty today is both dangerous and important. Apart from him, Count Tytos can't think of anyone else who can take on this duty.
Woo!
The horn sounded to launch the general attack, and a large number of siege soldiers carrying wooden shields and extra-long siege ladders flocked to Harrenhal like a colony of ants.
Clang, clang, clang!
The warning posts on the walls of Harrenhal City immediately noticed that this was obviously different from the previous battles, and immediately cheered up and continuously sounded the alarm bell to warn.
More than a thousand Harrenhal defenders wearing armor and resting on the wall were immediately awakened by the alarm. They braced themselves and dragged their exhausted bodies to prepare for the defense of the city.
Rest, rest, rest!
The siege soldiers under the city wall entered the bow and arrow shooting range of the Harrenhal defenders for a while, and then a relatively sparse arrow rain began to fall on the city wall.
Duh, duh, duh!
These sparse arrow rain attacks did not cause much damage to the siege soldiers. They quickly approached the towering city wall of Harrenhal and placed a much longer siege ladder firmly on the city wall.
Afterwards, many brave siege soldiers either climbed the siege ladder securely with their wooden shields on their heads, or simply threw away their wooden shields and used both hands to climb the siege ladder very quickly.
Correct
Hoo, ho!
Wow!
A large number of irregularly shaped stones and golden juice made from various kinds of excrement came towards these heroic siege soldiers.
Leaving aside the stone, using gold juice as a defensive method was something Tywin learned in Riverrun. However, this method of defending the city with simple and collected materials did cause great casualties to the siege soldiers who climbed up the city.
Coupled with the unusually tall defensive walls of Harrenhal, it would be difficult for siege soldiers who fell from the extremely long siege ladder to survive.
Fortunately, after hearing about Lord Robb's various classic siege methods, Earl Tytos implemented the night harassment tactics very successfully.
After the soldiers who defended Harrenhal drew their bows a few times and threw a few rocks, they began to feel more tired than ever before, and the attack rhythm involuntarily slowed down.
Feeling the pressure from above their heads loosen, how could the siege soldiers who were climbing the siege ladder let go of this opportunity? They began to climb up quickly.
Soon, a brave siege soldier took the lead in scaling the walls of Harrenhal. However, after he killed two slower-moving Harrenhal defenders, he was directly submerged in the enemy crowd.
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But after one of Harrenhal's defense lines was breached, there were successive breakthroughs. Gradually, siege soldiers took a firm stand on the city wall, and more and more siege soldiers came behind him.
Seeing that the city wall was in danger, Lafford could no longer care about anything else. He immediately sent an order to transfer all the soldiers guarding the city gate and important positions in the city to the city wall to participate in the defense.
"Lord Rafford ordered all soldiers to go to the city wall to participate in the defense of the city!"
At the entrance of Harrenhal's underground storage room, two soldiers wearing dark green turtle crests hurriedly ran to notify two Lannister family soldiers who were standing guard.
"Huh? Ask us to participate in the defense of the city? What should we do here?"
A Lannister soldier heard this and asked in a doubtful tone.
"The city is about to be destroyed, why do you care about this place?"
"Well, I'll stay here. You go find Lord Rafford to fulfill this order."
The Lannister soldier who spoke first was about to agree when another, more cautious soldier suddenly spoke.
"good!"
Clang, Clang! Tear!
The Lannister soldier nodded in agreement, and as soon as he walked between the two soldiers of the Innsmond family who were delivering the order, the two soldiers of the Innsmond family suddenly pulled out their swords and slashed him hard.
"you……"
The remaining Lannister soldier screamed and was about to draw his sword, but was killed by the combined force of the two men in the next second.
"It was very noisy outside, and no one heard the sound and came down to check. It seems that their other group's operation went smoothly!"
After killing two Lannister soldiers, an Insmon family soldier listened attentively and spoke.
"Well, let's go in and move the wildfire! If we fail to open the city gate of Harrenhal today, we will be dead!"
When the other Yin Simeng family soldier heard this, he opened the door and entered the underground storage room with an anxious look.
These soldiers of the Yinsimen family are all close followers of Aura Yinsimen. Aura made up his mind to surrender when he led the army in the west and was defeated by Robb.
Later, during the prisoner exchange in front of Riverrun, Robb took the opportunity to return him to Tywin.
Although Aura followed Kevan's army to King's Landing due to his identity, he took the opportunity to leave several of his confidants at Harrenhal.
During this period, various news about Harrenhal, including the Magic Mountain, leading troops to plunder, and internal troop mobilization, were all delivered by Aura's confidants through preset methods.
Now, one group of them came to seize the remaining two barrels of wildfire from Harrenhal, and the other group went to release all the imprisoned prisoners, causing chaos.
The siege soldiers' frontal attack on Harrenhal and the internal operations of the Insmon family soldiers went very smoothly, but Earl Jason, who was waiting with three thousand elite infantry, was facing a severe test.
Ta-ta-ta!
Nearly 1,500 Lannister cavalry took advantage of Lord Tytos's command of the army to press onto the walls of Harrenhal. They circled out from the hills behind them and came straight towards the rear of their formation.
As the distance got closer, the burly knight leading him, who could only be carried by a very strong tall horse, attracted the attention of Earl Jason.
Magic Mountain!
The existence of this physical ceiling for ordinary humans in Westeros can play a key role in defeating more with less on the battlefield.
"The archers draw their bows and shoot, the shield soldiers raise their shields, and the pikemen raise their spears!"
Looking at the Magic Mountain Cavalry troops getting closer and closer, Count Jason calmly issued his various orders.
Check, Qiang!
The shield soldiers at the front drove their kite shields heavily into the soil, while the pike soldiers used their gleaming steel spears to set up a steel jungle facing the outside world.
Um?
Seeing a small group of cavalry troops break away from the Magic Mountain Cavalry troops and speeding towards their own side, Count Jason couldn't help but frown.
Oops!~~
After this small group of cavalry stepped on the horse trap and the horse rope on the ground, they were immediately thrown upside down.
However, this also caused the Magic Mountain Cavalry troops behind to immediately change direction, and they began to circle to the right.
Obviously, after a series of long-term wars, both parties have a relatively clear grasp of the enemy's tactical methods.
After sending out several groups of cavalry to find a safe charging path, the Magic Mountain Cavalry troops rushed towards Count Jason's military formation from the right.
Poof, poof!
Bah, bah!
The moment the two sides collided, a large amount of human and war horse blood was sprinkled on the ground. Some of Count Jason's troops were knocked out by the horses, while some of the Magic Mountain troops were cut into rags by spears.
Tear!
Moshan, who was holding a two-handed giant sword in one hand, swung the spears in front of him left and right, and easily broke into the infantry formation. Under the terrifying force of his swing, the two-handed giant sword immediately caused a large number of casualties.
In the middle of the infantry formation, Count Jason looked at the Magic Mountain, which was very conspicuous even among the dense battlefield crowd and kept advancing forward. He tightened the ax in his hand.
Poof, poof!
While riding his horse, Mo Shan kept ramming into the enemy and charging forward, waving his giant swords left and right. Just when he seemed to be in a deserted land, seven heavy infantrymen wearing full body armor stood in front of him.
clang!
Magic Mountain didn't think too much. As soon as the strong muscles of his arms exerted force, the giant sword with two hands stained with blood hit the head of a heavy infantryman, making a crisp sound.
His slash did not cut off the heavy infantryman's head as easily as before, but the huge power contained in the giant sword in his hands broke the heavy infantryman's neck, causing his head to droop.
On the side.
For Magic Mountain, killing these heavy infantry is just a matter of using more strength than ordinary infantry.
Oops!
Just when Magic Mountain's eyes were attracted by the heavy infantry, a figure slid past him on the right side. The right front leg of the tall war horse under Magic Mountain's crotch was cut off at the root, and it fell to the ground with a scream.
Naturally, the Demon Mountain riding on it also fell heavily. When a surviving heavy infantryman wanted to step forward to retaliate, he was hit by the Demon Mountain who suddenly sat up, smashing the armor on his waist.
sunk in.
ah!
During this period, the Mountain, who was unable to attack the large siege army and knew that there were no reinforcements in King's Landing, stood up and roared to the sky to vent the negative emotions accumulated in his heart.
Snap, snap!
After roaring, Mo Shan directly held his sword and strode towards the enemy who had just cut off his horse's leg. Upon seeing this, the remaining three hoplites immediately attacked and blocked him from three directions.
After Earl Jason stood up and cut off the horse's legs with a sharp ax, he also returned to help them encircle the Magic Mountain.
After Magic Mountain was knocked off his horse, the remaining cavalry troops behind him gradually slowed down in breaking through the infantry formation without the leadership of his extremely sharp arrow.
However, the momentum of their charge has not been completely curbed. It will only be a matter of time before they penetrate Earl Jason's military formation.
Tear!
Seizing Count Jason's mistake, the two-handed giant sword in Magic Mountain's hand suddenly penetrated his stomach and came out from his back.
ha!
The furious Demon Mountain did not directly pull out the two-handed giant sword from Count Jason's body. Instead, he grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands, and then with a low roar, he impaled Count Jason's entire body on the sword and lifted it into the air.
Count Jason, who was stuck on the giant sword in both hands, seemed to be having a flashback. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the gate of Harrenhal that had not yet been opened, and then sighed softly.
The three thousand infantrymen he led were elite troops composed of veterans from the North and the Riverlands, and most of the siege soldiers were new recruits.
Since they failed to capture the gate of Harrenhal before the Mountain Cavalry troops broke through, they would have no choice but to be defeated in the face of the subsequent charge of the Mountain Cavalry troops.
"Hey, you made me so embarrassed, now I have to pay the price with my life!"
A large amount of blood from Earl Jason's body spilled on Magic Mountain's armor. Magic Mountain stretched out his tongue and licked the blood that flowed from the helmet, and spoke angrily.
Patrick, I can't see the day when you follow Lord Robb to seize the Iron Throne!
Count Tytos, let’s drink our wine again in the next life!
After hearing what Magic Mountain said, various life memories flashed through Count Jason's mind, and finally he came up with these two sentences.
"Ahem, bah!"
Earl Jason used all his strength to spit blood-laced spit towards the magic mountain below.
Peng!
The angry Demon Mountain directly threw Count Jason to the ground, and then slashed at him with his sword.
Ta-ta-ta!
While Magic Mountain kept whipping the corpses with his sword, the sound of horse hooves came from the left side of the fighting battlefield.
I saw thousands of cavalrymen wearing various kinds of worn-out armors, without any flags, charging towards them menacingly.
At the front of them, Berry, who was wearing an eyepatch, showed excitement on his face. He said to himself: "Gregor Clegane, you have reached the end. Today, the Lord of Light will punish the sins."