Above the gate of the Red Keep in King's Landing, the bright red flag of the Raging Lion fluttered in the wind. Below, various noisy sounds mixed together, making the usually quiet Red Keep seem extremely noisy.
The gate of the Red Keep was divided into two sides by a large number of Lannister guards. On one side, countless civilians wearing simple clothes huddled together, trying to enter the Red Keep for refuge.
On the other side, servants of dignitaries dressed in gorgeous aristocratic casual clothes were surrounded, slowly entering with various valuables.
Some civilians who either tried to sneak into the ranks of nobles or rushed in frantically were caught by the Lannister guards and had their hamstrings cut off without explanation and thrown out.
In other streets in King's Landing, the usually bustling and lively scenes have all disappeared. There are only figures in gold robes and Lannister family soldiers running hurriedly in the corners and alleys.
The current highly tense atmosphere in King's Landing is the result of the activities of the Northern Intelligence Organization.
Long before Robb's army set off, they had begun to spread a lot of news, claiming that the King in the North personally led an army of hundreds of thousands to attack King's Landing, and that the entrance to Blackwater Bay had been occupied by them.
Hoo, ho!
At the Riverside Gate of King's Landing City, thousands of golden robes were breathing heavily and nervously.
Most of them were newly recruited into the Golden Robes team. They usually only bully the civilians in King's Landing. When have you ever seen such a scene?
I saw that the barrage chain of the Heishui River on the left side of Linhe Gate had already been pulled up high. In the Blackwater Bay, a large number of enemy warships that had blocked the entrance to the sea a few days ago were quietly waiting for something.
In front of Linhe Gate, a large black mass of enemy troops in the distance surged toward King's Landing like a tide.
It seemed that even the sky was affected by their huge formation. The thick black clouds turned the distant sky extremely dark and continued to approach King's Landing, as if the end was gradually approaching.
Fortunately, at least these golden robes are not the main force facing the enemy directly. Under the Linhe Gate, there is a relatively neat military formation, the Lannister army numbering nearly 40,000.
Check, check, check!
Da da da!
The footsteps and hooves of nearly a hundred thousand troops marching towards King's Landing. After a while, Robb's army set up a military formation not far from the Lannister army, and the two sides faced each other.
In fact, it's not just the golden robes in King's Landing who are nervous. The thirty thousand recruits at the forefront of Robb's army are also nervous at this moment.
Although they had been plundering with Tongfeng before, they were originally refugees coming south from King's Landing, so how could they not know the difficulty of attacking King's Landing.
Ta, ta!
A burst of heavy footsteps came from behind the military formation. When the recruits turned around and saw the huge ice dire wolf, they all moved left and right to make way for a passage.
In the process of marching from the front army, Blood Wind's body, which was slightly larger than before leaving Highgarden, began to expand rapidly.
When it walked out of the front army and stood at the front of the army's formation, Xue Feng's size had almost doubled. Its height reached nearly six meters, and its body length also reached nearly twelve meters.
You may not have much of a concept based on the data alone. If you use common objects from past lives to describe it,
Now Xuefeng's height is equivalent to the height of a two-story ordinary commercial house, and his body length is equivalent to a twelve-tire flatbed semi-trailer that pulls a container.
Compared with humans, Bloodwind has become a giant!
"Tsk, tsk, I didn't choose to hold on to King's Landing, but directly placed my Lannister army under the city.
Tywin is clearly telling me that there is a trap here!
Interesting, is it the smellless wildfire outside the cave city last time? Or is there another trap?"
Standing straight above Bloodwind's head, Robb touched his chin and said to himself.
"Forget it, no matter how much you think about it, it's useless, just try it and you will know! Well, the opponent has about 30,000 to 40,000 troops, so let's send the same number of troops!
Order the Duke of Metz to charge with all his troops except his cavalry!"
After thinking for a moment, Robb turned to the messengers who were following him closely and gave his order.
Woo!
Wow! Go for it!
The order was quickly conveyed to the Duke of Metz, and then a horn sounded. After hearing the order, 30,000 new soldiers and 10,000 riverside noble infantry had to start moving towards King's Landing.
The faces of the 30,000 recruits at the front were full of panic and fear, and some of them even wanted to turn around and run away.
But they knew that if they turned around and ran away at this time, with the army of 10,000 noble lords following closely behind them, they would become more terrifying than the enemy.
Coupled with the morale brought by the previous consecutive victories and downwind plunder, most of the recruits roared to relieve their negative emotions, and then charged forward with the army.
After Robb's front army launched a charge, the Lannister army under the river gate city showed no response and just watched quietly as the enemy got closer and closer to them.
Rest, rest, rest!
Sure enough, when nearly half of the 30,000 recruits at the front entered the shooting range of the enemy archers, hundreds of burning special rockets were fired from the Lannister army.
Peng!
!
There was a sudden violent explosion in the middle of the battlefield in the direction of King's Landing City, and a huge green mushroom cloud bloomed in the battlefield.
"ah!"
"Help, help me!"
"Fire, fire!"
The three to four thousand recruits at the front who were at the center of the explosion were directly swallowed by the green wildfire before they could react.
Thousands of new soldiers behind them were caught in the sputtering wildfires, and they kept wailing and screaming in an attempt to extinguish the green flames that continued to spread on their bodies.
The terrifying green fire in front immediately stopped the new soldiers charging behind and the noble infantrymen in the River Bend. They froze on the spot and looked at the scene of the friendly troops wailing in front of them.
The explosion of this wildfire trap directly killed nearly one-third of the 30,000 recruits. At the same time, it also dealt a serious blow to the morale they had finally built up.
For a moment, the remaining recruits felt that they were neither able to advance nor retreat!
"This new type of wildfire is indeed very concealed and its power has increased. However, compared to the previous big explosion in Riverrun, the scale of today's explosion is much smaller.
Hmm, is it because the new type of wildfire is more difficult to create than before?
However, this wildfire trap didn’t even absorb the cannon fodder troops completely, so it can’t be Tywin’s support!
So, what is the trump card he hides?"
Looking at the blazing green flames in front of him, Robb secretly analyzed the situation while turning around and jumping lightly from Bloodwind's head to its back.
Ouch!
With Robb's current close connection with Bloodwind, there was no need for him to give orders.
Xue Feng raised his head as big as the front of a truck and let out a high-pitched wolf howl that resounded throughout King's Landing and shook the sky.
After about a year, the wolf howl that shocked everyone in King's Landing sounded again. However, this time the wolf howl was no longer the same in terms of power and loudness.
"Army attack!"
As Bloodwind's thundering wolf howl sounded, the Duke of Mace, Prince Oberyn, Clay and many other generals simultaneously drew their swords and pointed at King's Landing, roaring loudly.
Rumble, rumble!
The 20,000 elite cavalry of the Tyrell family, led by the two brothers Garlan and Loras, were the first to pass by Robb and Bloodwind.
During the charge, they spontaneously split into two teams, one on the left and the other on the right. They seemed to be preparing to avoid the green wildfire in the middle of the battlefield from both wings.
Following closely behind was a mixed force of twelve thousand led by Oberyn and Lord Randyll.
When they passed by Robb, the calm and experienced Lord Randyll nodded and saluted Robb, while Oberyn, who was obviously extremely excited and kept pouring wine into his mouth, gave Robb a wink with a blushing face.
When Robb saw this, he rolled his eyes in disgust and stopped looking at the army around him. Instead, he focused his sights on the Blackwater River on the right side of his own army.
At the mouth of Blackwater Bay, after hearing the thundering wolf roar of Bloodwind, Theon and Earl Paxter, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately launched a general attack order on their fleet.
At the same time that the two fleets began to move towards the Blackwater River, a large number of small Ironborn longships headed towards the winch towers on both sides of the entrance to the Blackwater River at extremely fast speeds.
The winch tower is a tower that controls the lifting and lowering of the barrage chain. Logically speaking, it should be heavily guarded.
However, many ironmen who jumped from the small long boats did not encounter any resistance at all, and successfully entered the winch tower to control the lifting device and lowered the barrage chain of the Blackwater River.
Seeing that the barrage chain had no effect at all, Earl Paxter very cautiously asked the crew of the Qing Pavilion to throw burning asphalt barrels when passing the winch tower, destroying the winch towers on both sides of the river bank.
From the height of the Riverside Gate, Robb's army of more than 80,000 people began to circle around the green wildfires on the battlefield, heading towards the Lannister army, which totaled no more than 40,000 people.
Hundreds of large and small longships and rowing warships crowded the entire river on the Blackwater River. The more than 20,000 crew members on board, who had been holding back for a long time, were looking at green light and wanted to plunder King's Landing, which was like a big treasure chest.
city.
It seems that King's Landing is in danger!
Clang, clang, clang!
The bronze bell in the clock tower square of King's Landing was struck with force, and the loud and long sound of the bell floated outside King's Landing and reached the ears of more than 100,000 people on the battlefield.
Kill!
As the bell rang, the King's Gate located on the south side of the southwest wall of King's Landing was opened.
An army wearing shabby armor and without any flags rushed out of the wide King's Gate in a steady stream. Their tens of thousands of troops quickly turned around the southwest corner of King's Landing and headed straight for Robb's army.
Wow, wow!
In Blackwater Bay, hundreds of rowing warships suddenly appeared out of nowhere. However, this fleet that suddenly appeared looked like it was put together temporarily.
Because not only do they have different ship shapes and sizes, but they also include flags of flaming stags, flags of raging lions, and flags with pebbles wrapped in runes.
This patchwork fleet has an obvious goal, and is quickly heading towards the Iron Fleet and Redwine Fleet, which have completely entered the Blackwater River.
Wheel, wheel!
Not far behind Robb, an army numbering tens of thousands, bearing the banners of the Raging Lion and the nobles of the Stormlands, also appeared with the sound of the bell.
These soldiers pushed rows of Juma shield carts with sharp knives on their shields, approaching Robb's army in front like a moving city wall. Behind the Juma shield carts, there were special tanks filled with wine barrels.
carriage.
Ta-ta-ta!
On the wall of the River Gate of King's Landing, Tywin, wearing a set of exquisite Lannister armor and a red ribbon, slowly climbed up the tower. His posture was majestic, and his face showed a confident expression of wisdom.
Behind Tywin, Cersei was wearing a red palace dress, Tommen I was also wearing a red king's costume, and Tyrion was wearing a custom-made armor.
Immediately afterwards, the 'Bronze King' Anda Royce, who was wearing rune armor and had a worried look on his face, also climbed up the city wall with his personal guards and walked to the right side of Tywin and others.
After Anda, Stannis Baratheon, the 'King of Dragonstone' with a stern expression and his hand on the hilt of his sword at his waist, took Davos and some Stormland nobles and slowly walked to the left of Tywin.
Stand in position.
The strength of these parties at the River Gate, plus the leader of the Bannerless Rebellion, the 'Lightning King' Beric Dondarrion, who has not yet appeared, formed an alliance linked by Tywin to resist Robb Stark.
Army!
"Oh, Robb Stark would never have imagined that several of our forces would join forces to lay this huge trap. Today is the day he dies!"
Seeing hundreds of thousands of Alliance troops gathering like a giant net, Cersei felt as if she was in control and strategizing. She chuckled and loudly announced Robb's death.
"Whether he dies or flees today, I will lead my troops to leave King's Landing after today. Lord Tywin, please remember your promise to me!"
Siluke
As soon as Cersei finished speaking, Anda turned to Tywin, who was staring straight ahead and said.
In fact, Anda is not willing to be an enemy of Robb. He knows that his father was still on Robb's side during the early days of the Rebellion of Kings.
But there was no way. The letter Tywin had given him before clearly stated that if he did not assist him in fighting the demon servants, then 'Bronze Yohn' would be destroyed along with King's Landing.
"Of course, the promise made by us Lannister will definitely count. Tomorrow, I will send your father and Lord Anda to leave King's Landing together."
After hearing Anda's words, Tywin nodded to him seriously and replied.
"Take someone's father as a hostage and force him to fight for you. Tywin Lannister, your character is still so despicable!"
When Stannis, who was on Tywin's left, heard this, he did not hide his contempt for Tywin and spoke directly.
"No, no. I did all this to purify Robb Stark, who turned to the devil to gain power!
Lord Stannis, you actually understand this too.
After defeating him together, you can take back the Stormlands belonging to House Baratheon, and our two families can still compete for the Iron Throne fairly.
But if he captures King's Landing, you will never have a chance!"
Of course, Tywin could not agree with Stannis's words. He shook his head and replied to Stannis.
"Huh, I'm different from you! I just saw this scene in my Lord's revelation and acted according to His arrangements!"
I don't know if Tywin's words hit Stannis. He snorted in reply to Tywin and immediately turned his head and ignored him.
"Yes, yes. Praise the Lord of Light!"
Tywin gave a perfunctory reply and returned his gaze to the battlefield. At the same time, he muttered to himself in an inaudible voice,
"The huge fishing net was successfully cast, but the key to this war is whether they can catch that big fish!"
Under the city wall of Riverside Gate, the Lannister army, which had remained motionless, finally began to take action after the bell rang.
This Lannister army of 40,000 was composed of 20,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantry, and 10,000 recruits.
Under the command of Kevan Lannister, 20,000 Lannister cavalry took the lead in attacking from the left and right wings. Their goal was to intercept the 25,000 Tyrell soldiers attacking from both wings.
Another 10,000 infantrymen and 10,000 new recruits moved toward their left flank, hoping to encircle the enemy with the flagless rebels who rushed from the King's Gate to the right flank.
A group of about a hundred people, extremely well-equipped, consisting of horses and carriages, was mixed in with the 40,000-strong army. It quietly moved towards the enemy in front.
Among the nearly 60,000 flagless rebels on the right wing, Berry, Soros, and Magiro did not enchant the rebels with flaming swords. Instead, they hid in the huge crowd like ordinary people.
Farthest away from the battlefield in King's Landing, Robb had jumped back onto Bloodwind's head.
At a glance just now, he saw that the force behind him responsible for cutting off the retreat was commanded by Davon Lannister, who had kept his promise and sent it to King's Landing.
Moreover, he also discovered that behind the horse-rejecting shield vehicles, there was a row of special carriages filled with wine barrels. Judging from this shape, they were similar to the carriages used to transport wildfire in the Western Region.
Therefore, if Robb wants to lead his army to escape, and the horse-rejecting shield vehicles in the front row cannot stop them, they will set off wildfires, using the large amount of wooden materials and corpses of those killed in battle as fuel to cut off their way back.
I didn’t expect that Tywin, who was basically at the end of his rope, could still lay such a trap!
But, Tywin, you would never expect...
In our game of chess, I already have the power to overturn the chessboard!
Robb had a sudden thought in his mind, and turned around and ignored the Davon troops behind him. Instead, he shouted loudly to the Northern army who was protecting him due to the unexpected incident:
"Brothers, our way back has been cut off! The only way to survive now is to rush forward!
Everyone, come with me to break through King's Landing, kill Tywin Lannister, and destroy the Lannister family!"
"Destroy King's Landing, kill Tywin, and destroy the Lannister!"
"Kill Tywin and destroy the Lannister!"
"Kill Tywin and destroy the Lannister!"
As Robb's pre-battle speech spread, 15,000 northern soldiers shouted in unison, 'Kill Tywin, kill Lannister', while rushing towards King's Landing.
Puff, pff, pff!
Oops!~~
Tear, tear!
At the front of the battlefield, the cavalry units on the left and right wings were the first to engage in battle. The two sides collided at extremely fast speeds, and tens of thousands of cavalry collided with each other to fight.
Large numbers of war horses screamed and fell to the ground. The cavalry on their backs also fell to the ground like dumplings.
Some of these cavalry fell to death on the spot, and some were trampled to death by horses that were unknown whether they were enemy or friendly.
The lucky ones who survived began to fight for their lives in an environment where the horses charged wildly and blood and stumps were flying everywhere.
Behind the cavalry of both sides, 20,000 recruits from the Tyrell family and 10,000 noble infantrymen from the River Bend joined the battle. The 30,000 vanguard of the Bannerless Rebel Army on the right and 10,000 Lannister recruits on the left also rushed forward.
Come in.
Suddenly, a total of 110,000 people on this battlefield began an unprecedented melee!
Tear, tear!
Just after a Tyrell cavalry cut down a Lannister cavalry, he was immediately stabbed through the throat by a Bannerless Rebel soldier who seized the opportunity.
However, the soldier of the Bannerless Rebel Army did not have time to be happy. An arrow was shot from the hand of a noble infantryman from the rear of the River Bend and penetrated his right eye.
This war has entered a fever pitch from the very beginning, with hundreds of lives lost at every moment.
To be honest, except for a few sober soldiers on both sides who can distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, most of the soldiers have already begun to kill each other.
The way they now distinguish between ourselves and the enemy is very simple and crude. Those with their backs to me are friendly forces, and those facing me are enemies!
Therefore, we don’t know how many soldiers died at the hands of our own people.
This huge battlefield of flesh and blood has become such a mess. Of course, the commanders at the rear will not be stupid enough to rush in.
Oberyn and Lord Randyll's 12,000-man army chose to detour from the right wing of the battlefield. They faced the Lannister infantry on the enemy's left wing.
This is a bit of Oberyn's selfishness. He wants to kill all the infantry of the Lannister family on the right wing more than the motley army without flags on the enemy's left wing.
Bah, bah!
The soldiers of the Martell family had already demonstrated their offensive prowess when they attacked the Vilas troops before. Their attack this time was equally sharp.
The Martell family's spearmen who maintained their formation, the moment they came into contact with the Lannister family's infantry, the spears in their hands burrowed into their standard armor like poisonous snakes.
The front row infantry of the Lannister family suddenly fell down piece by piece like harvested leeks.
However, after withstanding two rounds of thrusts from the Martell spearmen, the Lannister infantry rushed into the enemy's formation.
They took advantage of the fact that the threat was greatly reduced after getting close with long weapons, and began a crazy killing of the Martell family's spearmen.
Fortunately, there were still soldiers from the Tully family in this battle. When the spearmen in the front row were massacred, Earl Landau commanded the soldiers of his own family in the center to advance forward and engage the enemy.
Nearly half of the Tully family soldiers were lost in the previous War of Highgarden. Now half of the two thousand soldiers were transferred from Horn Hill, which can be regarded as Earl Randyll's hometown.
However, these veterans of the Tully family who followed Lord Randyll on many expeditions were indeed rich in combat experience. After engaging with the Lannister family infantry, they quickly adapted to cooperate with the Martell family's spearmen.
The combination of a row of spears and a row of long swords not only killed all the Lannister family infantry who rushed into the military formation, but also began to press the enemy back step by step, instantly occupying the advantage of this battlefield.
On the other side, the remaining 30,000 flagless rebels originally wanted to bypass the extremely chaotic huge battlefield in the middle and launch a surprise attack from the rear. However, they were directly engaged by the 15,000 northern troops who came up to take over.
Among the 30,000 flagless rebels, there are 15,000 direct troops with strong combat effectiveness.
However, what they had compared before were those former refugees. Now when they came into battle with the Northern Army, which had experienced hundreds of battles and had terrifyingly neat military formations, they discovered the huge gap between the two.
Clang, clang!
Tear, tear!
The front row of shield soldiers blocks, the back row of spearmen harvests, and the back row of sword and shield soldiers are responsible for filling in. The northern army, which cooperates with each other tacitly, is like a harvesting machine, harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Rebel Army in a mechanized manner.
.
Even if some brave soldiers of the Flagless Rebel Army break through the northern army formation and die together with the northern soldiers, the next second, other northern soldiers in the rear will immediately take up their positions and continue fighting.
Ah Ang!
!
Sounds like roars of wild beasts erupted from the formation of the Bannerless Rebel Army. More than two hundred members of the Holy Fire Hand who drank the violent potion attacked the northern army's formation like wild beasts.
In the blink of an eye, these burly and terrifying-looking members of the Hands of the Holy Fire tore a hole in the neat formation of the northern army, and they continued to extend inward.
"What is this? Well, Westeros is so incomprehensible now!
Will, bring the wolf guards up to help. There are not too many of them, and with the help of the fruit, you can definitely handle them!"
Looking at the strange soldiers he had never seen before in his previous life, Robb let out a sigh and ordered Will and the Wolf Guards to go and kill those strange soldiers.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After receiving the order, Weir and the Wolf Guards rode forward on blood-related direwolves to assist the Northern Army in killing the members of the Hand of the Holy Fire.
After the Wolf Guards left, Robb and Bloodwind were left with only the vine thorns that had transformed into direwolves in advance, and Leaf with a veil riding on the thorns.
At this time, the three Berry men, who had been hiding in the Bannerless Rebel Army for a long time, took advantage of the Wolf Guard to be distracted by their plan. They led a hundred newly recruited members of the Holy Fire Hand to break away from the army and headed straight towards
Rushing towards Robb from behind.
On the other side, James, who took off his cover and wore a red mask, and Ella, who was covered in black robes and wore a white mask, also rode towards Robb at the same time.
Behind the two of them, there were hundreds of elite Lannister cavalry escorting a carriage.
The moment he saw them, Robb understood Tywin's plan. He couldn't help laughing loudly:
"Interesting! I haven't even started beheading Tywin yet. Instead, you started to attack me!
bring it on!
Let me see why you are considered the trump card by Tywin!"