Chapter two hundred and forty seventh: the death of winter
"Blow the horn quickly and let the whole army retreat!"
Seeing Viserion being killed by a giant werewolf, the ashen-faced Tyrion gave the order to the messenger in a confused manner.
But just like before, there was no need for orders from the Hand of the Queen. On the battlefield at the east gate of Highgarden, Oberyn had already led the Unsullied Army and the Dornish Army, recruiting soldiers to quickly approach them.
As the cavalry from both sides clashed on the battlefield, approximately 40,000 Dothraki cavalry were able to escape thanks to the Golden Company's great self-sacrifice.
After they returned to Tyrion's main formation, they immediately used their respective khalasas as units to clear out the number of people and reorganize their formation.
The nearly 10,000 Dothraki cavalry who were mercilessly left behind were completely surrounded by the cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms and were being constantly eaten away.
As for the Golden Company... Captain Harry felt distressed and left behind eight carefully selected and long-cultivated armored war elephants and more than half of the cavalry to join the infantry.
At this moment, he was hurriedly escaping in the direction of Tyrion's main formation, completely lacking the invincible aura he had before.
In summary, both battlefields of Daenerys's army began a great rout called retreat!
Of course, the cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms would not let go of this good opportunity to beat the drowned dog. Since Little Jon fell from his horse, Ed, who was in charge of the northern light cavalry, led nearly 20,000 cavalry from the Seven Kingdoms in pursuit.
The gate on the east side of Highgarden also opened at the same time. The two brothers Garland and Willas, with the remaining three thousand Tyrell family cavalry in Highgarden, shouted loudly in response to the cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms, and launched a pursuit together.
Ouch!
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The unbearable sound of the Dragonbinder's horn sounds again!
But I don't know if they were frightened by Viserion's death. Neither Rhaegal nor Dany dared to show their faces. They sprayed two flaming dragon breaths directly from above the clouds towards the pursuing cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms.
The blazing dragon flames turned the white clouds in the sky into golden yellow, but due to the distance, the two flaming dragon breaths did not cause much substantial damage.
However, the scorching dragon flames instantly raised the temperature in front of them, and the sudden dazzling flames stopped a large number of cavalry horses from the Seven Kingdoms, which still had the effect of persuading them to retreat.
As Bloodwind was devouring Viserion's dragon corpse, Robb jumped on its back.
When he saw Daenerys's army retreating under the cover of two giant dragons, Robb could only shake his head helplessly. It was impossible for him to leave Bloodwind and pursue alone now.
However, they prevented the opponent's strategic plan to invade the Reach and killed a giant dragon. They achieved a brilliant victory in this war!
Eleven days ago, Robb, who was in charge of King's Landing, was stunned on the spot after receiving the information that White Harbor had been captured by Daenerys riding Drogon.
He thought that the butterfly effect would have little impact on Daenerys in Essos, but he did not expect that the other party not only had an extra dragon, but also stopped insisting on landing on Dragonstone Island, which was of great significance to the Targaryen family.
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However, the combined information only showed Drogon and Daenerys' army of only about 30,000. Robb immediately judged that they should have divided into two groups.
Moreover, there is a high probability that they will land in Sunspear and attack the Reach, just as Lord Landau said before. They will attack King's Landing from the north and the south at the same time.
Robb, whose thinking was no longer limited to memories of past lives, immediately began to change his previous strategic plan after understanding this.
First of all, it is impossible for Robb, who has the strategic depth of the entire Seven Kingdoms, to divide his troops into the north and south according to the opponent's rhythm!
Robb made up his mind to concentrate all his strength to deal with one enemy first. As the great man of the past said, it is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt ten of them!
Then, there are no Stark family relatives living in the North, and it is no longer Robb's only base. The most important granary of the Seven Kingdoms, and the River Bend where the Tyrell family fully supports him.
Without any hesitation, Robb made his choice!
However, because he had to fight the dragon on land, he had to spend several days equipping the chariot with a scorpion crossbow.
Therefore, after receiving the news from the spies of Sunspear that Tyrion had landed with three dragons. In order to delay enough time, Robb wrote a letter and taught Lady Olenna the thirty-six strategies of the Chinese nation in her previous life.
The empty city plan.
The final facts prove that smart people like Tyrion who like to think too much are indeed very fond of this trick.
If he were a general like the Duke of Metz, he would have rushed into the open high court with a smile on his face!
Kaba, kaba!
Huh? Come again?
Just as Robb stared at Daenerys' army retreating in panic, ice crystal cracks began to spread on the ground with a crisp sound.
Instantly recalling the memory that had been frozen by the ice lotus for more than twenty days, Robb immediately jumped up and left the bloody wind that was obsessed with devouring Viserion's dragon corpse.
If Robb was frozen by the ice lotus for more than twenty days in a war of this scale, when he came out, he would definitely face a catastrophic result that he did not want to see.
It wasn't until Robb fell to the ground and shouted to all the surrounding Tyrell soldiers to stay away from the bloody wind that the ice crystal cracks on the ground stopped spreading.
The reason why it spreads slowly this time is because its targets are the dragon corpses of Bloodwind and Viserion.
As petals became crystal clear, ice crystal fragments tens of meters in size rose up, and the dragon corpses of Bloodwind and Viserion were wrapped in this ice crystal lotus that was tens of meters high.
An ice crystal lotus that was even bigger than last time appeared outside the High Garden again. Its height was much higher than the east wall, allowing most people in the High Garden to see it.
As time goes by, there are already many civilians in the Seven Kingdoms who believe in the title of 'god' Robb literally. At this moment, these people in the High Garden all knelt down and worshiped the giant ice lotus!
On the other side, Tyrion led tens of thousands of defeated troops back to the outside of the Star Shuttle City that he had captured during his previous march. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and began to reorganize.
After a rough calculation, more than 600 people were killed in the Unsullied Legion, and a total of 6,000 people were killed in the Dornish army and levied soldiers. 21,000 Dothraki cavalry were missing or killed, and nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Golden Company.
Daenerys' 100,000-strong army, which attacked from the south, lost about one-third of its troops in this battle.
The most important thing is that the life of the yellow-scaled dragon Viserion was lost!
Since the Star Shuttle City is not large, only Tyrion and other high-level officials, officers, and Dothraki warriors can stay there.
In the inner castle meeting hall, Oberyn, who looked a little ugly, asked Tyrion, who looked even worse: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, what should we do next?"
"Recall the two troops of ten thousand sent out before, and then we will wait where we are!"
After hearing this, Tyrion pondered for a moment, then bit his lip and replied in a deep voice.
"Waiting where you are?"
"Yes, although I don't know why Robb Stark gave up the North and appeared in Highgarden. But Her Majesty the Queen is now occupying the entire North.
As long as we drag Robb Stark's main force here, no one can stop Her Majesty the Queen from going south!"
Seeing that Oberyn was a little surprised by his answer, Tyrion continued to explain.
"Prime Minister, I have a straightforward personality, and I will speak out if I have anything to say.
What makes you think we can hold off Robb Stark?
A hundred thousand troops and three giant dragons can’t resist it, let alone only two!”
After hearing this, Oberyn was not polite to Tyrion and spoke very directly.
"Why should we fight them?
I will send a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to detect their movements. If they continue to pursue, then we will retreat to the Prince's Pass and retreat to Dorne.
If they go north to deal with Her Majesty the Queen, then we will continue to attack Highgarden and occupy the Reach!"
Tyrion first told Oberyn his next tactical plan, and then continued to speak to him in a slightly aggressive tone,
"Prince Oberyn, the 'indomitable' Martell family once led the people of Dorne to resist the Targaryen Dragon King for hundreds of years. Don't you have the confidence to stop Robb Stark in Dorne?"
"Of course not. If Robb Stark really dares to lead an army to Dorne, I will definitely let him taste the enthusiasm of the Dornish people!"
Hearing that Tyrion's words contained his family's clan language, Oberyn immediately raised his head and replied unwilling to be outdone.
"Very good! If there is nothing else, I am now going to write to Her Majesty the Queen about the situation of the war in High Court!"
"Then I..."
hold head high!
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Just as Oberyn was about to retire, a dragon roar sounded in Star Shuttle City.
Tyrion and Oberyn looked at each other, and immediately left the study in a hurry and headed towards the direction where the dragon's roar sounded.
"ah!
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Katcha!
As soon as the two of them hurriedly arrived at the Xingsuo City school grounds, they heard a scream.
Then, they saw the huge Rhaegal standing in the center of the school grounds, with a Dothraki guard body bleeding heavily and only half of it in its mouth.
Putting aside the bloody scene that Rhaegal was chewing in his mouth, Tyrion immediately noticed the heavy crossbow arrow on its left leg.
Judging from the marks on Lei Ge's left leg, it seemed that he had tried to pull out the heavy crossbow arrow. However, the serrated arrowhead of the crossbow arrow made the wound more serious, and a large amount of dragon blood was oozing out.
"No, you have to take out the crossbow arrows from Brother Lei immediately. Otherwise, even if the dragon has strong recovery power, it will be useless!"
Upon seeing this, Tyrion said something to Oberyn, and then walked towards Rhaegal.
"Sir, be careful. Just now Hakam tried to help Master Shenlong take out the crossbow arrows, but he was eaten as soon as he got close!"
Watching Tyrion's movements, a Dothraki guard hiding in a corner of the school grounds shouted to him.
Hearing the guards' shouts, Tyrion did not stop. Instead, he continued to approach Rhaegal from the front at a steady pace.
I don't know if it was because Tyrion was not a threat at all, but it wasn't until he walked in front of him that Rhaego swallowed the food in his mouth, lowered his head and smelled Tyrion's scent with his huge nostrils.
As if he had confirmed something, Rhaegal's huge body changed its downward direction, showing his injured left leg in front of Tyrion.
After Tyrion carefully observed Rhaego's wound, he spent a lot of effort to cut open some flesh and blood around the wound. Finally, he took out the two-meter-long heavy crossbow arrow.
hold head high!
Hooray, hooray!
Without an iron thorn stuck in his flesh, Rhaegal, who suddenly felt relieved, groaned softly to Tyrion, then flapped his wings and flew up into the sky to join Dany, who had been hovering.
"I heard that the dragon only gets close to Her Majesty the Queen. Why can the Prime Minister get close to them too?"
Looking at Rhaegal flying into the sky with a roar, Oberyn walked up to Tyrion and said.
"Who knows! Maybe it's because I'm a dwarf!
Just like you don't care if there are insects around you, in the eyes of the dragon, I'm just the size of an insect!"
Tyrion, who was wiping the dragon's blood from his hands, heard this and shrugged at Oberyn as if he was joking.
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North, Winterfell.
Rest, rest, rest!
Thousands of arrows were shot from the walls of Winterfell, drawing parabola lines and falling towards the levied soldiers attacking from the winter market.
Duh, duh, duh!
The arrow rain from the Winterfell defenders was basically blocked by simple but very wide wooden shields.
Due to the difficulty of cutting down trees in the snowy areas of the north, these simple wooden shields were made from wooden doors and windows that were dismantled by soldiers recruited from winter markets.
When the levied soldiers approached the walls of Winterfell and set up the siege ladder, the brutal siege began again. This was the third time Daenerys' army attacked Winterfell!
More than half a month ago, after Daenerys led an army to raid White Harbor, she followed Tyrion's strategic plan and headed straight for the Gulf of Cailin.
Facing Daenerys's army attacking from the north, even though Trogg, the commander of the Cailin Bay Fortress, used his spare time to build a defense system against the north, he was completely unable to withstand their attack.
In less than half a day, Cailin Bay, where Trogg had been stationed for nearly two years, had a new owner.
Subsequently, Daenerys' army took advantage of the situation and occupied the new port town of Carlin in the north. She controlled all three important gateways in the north.
After that, Daenerys's army marched north along the King's Road. First, they captured Severn City, which had basically no defense force to resist, and then surrounded Winterfell, the capital of the North.
Thanks to the information from the Northern Intelligence Organization, the area around Winterfell already knew that Daenerys' army was invading the North.
Therefore, the nearest ruler of Severn City, Clay's father, Earl Meech Severn, brought his family papers and family soldiers to Winterfell in advance to defend the city with Jory.
However, under the fierce attacks of the Unsullied, levied soldiers and ironborn.
Even though Jory and Earl Meech led thousands of northern warriors to fight desperately, they lost the newly built outer city of Winterfell, which was the original winter market, in the second siege.
In fact, they don't know that the reason why they can persist until now is entirely because Daenerys and Drogon did not personally participate in the war.
The reason why Daenerys has not personally participated in the war since White Harbor is because Daenerys listened to Tyrion's previous suggestions.
In order to facilitate future rule, try to reduce the hatred value of the never-forgotten Northerners towards her as much as possible!
However, today's situation is completely different!
hold head high!
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Along with the attack of the levied soldiers, a dragon's roar that seemed to contain anger suddenly came from the sky of Winterfell.
Standing on the wall of Winterfell, Jory and Lord Meech looked at each other and swallowed nervously.
Although they had heard the news about the giant dragon attacking White Harbor, they had actually never seen the giant dragon with their own eyes in the past few days. When they heard the roar of the dragon, they were trembling uncontrollably.
Hooray, hooray!
The extremely large Drogon's wings broke through the clouds and descended over Winterfell. Daenerys, who was riding on his dragon's neck, had a frosty face, and the anger in her eyes seemed to be about to turn into reality.
At this moment, Daenerys's mood was agitated, and the rage of revenge in her heart was overflowing uncontrollably.
Drogon and the other three dragons were hatched and raised by her herself, and the Dragonbinder's Horn added a mysterious connection to them. Daenerys has long regarded them as her own children.
Now, one of the children has died. How can her mother not be sad and angry?
And Drogon seemed to be infected by Daenerys' anger, and the huge vertical boy was also full of violent emotions that longed for killing.
"Dragon Flame!"
Finally, Daenerys, who had been struggling in the air for a long time, opened her red lips and uttered this familiar Valyrian word.
Oops!
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Upon hearing Daenerys's command, Drogon flapped his wings and began to dive. At the same time, blazing dragon flames spurted out from his dragon's mouth, pouring down directly towards the walls of Winterfell like a bolt.
The flaming dragon's breath that Drogon sprayed this time still looked golden yellow overall, but the outer edge of the dragon's breath was slightly whitish.
On the wall of Winterfell, a row of warriors holding shields and spears were enveloped by the dragon's breath before they even had time to scream.
After burning for a few seconds, the flaming dragon's breath followed Drogon away. But this row of warriors and the shields in their hands had turned into a pile of charred ash.
"I don't want to die, my son is the Hand of the King! He is the Hand of the King!"
Lord Meech looked at the black-scaled dragon that was getting closer and closer, and suddenly collapsed and screamed randomly. Jory, on the other hand, looked at the section of Winterfell wall that was destroyed by the dragon's breath with blank eyes.
Drogon will not let him go just because Lord Meech's son is the Hand of the King, nor will he let him go just because Jory is lost.
Oops!
A scorching flame dragon's breath swallowed them both instantly, and the walls of Winterfell were completely lost.
ah!
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In the school grounds of Winterfell, when they saw the giant dragon blowing its breath and destroying the city wall, a large number of civilians from the winter market who had taken shelter in advance screamed and ran away in panic.
But the louder the noise, the easier it is to attract the attention of the dragon in the sky.
Oops!
Drogon turned around in the air and breathed out flaming dragon breath at a large number of civilians in the school grounds. All of them, men, women, old and young, were turned into charcoal in its dragon breath.
This was far from over. The dragon's breath of flames continued to spray along the school grounds and hit the main castle of Winterfell. The ancient building suddenly exploded from it.
Drogon continued to breathe out the flaming dragon's breath and completely ignited the main castle, then destroyed the towers, glass gardens, tombs and other Winterfell buildings in sequence.
Daenerys did not stop Drogon's wanton killing because she could not stop one of her children from avenging another!
Winterfell, which was built around the same time as the Great Wall and has a history of nearly 8,000 years, ushered in its day of destruction today!