Chapter two hundred and ninety fourth: the calamity of the savage
In the afternoon, the sun shines through the transparent gauze.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Mance Rayder, King Beyond the Wall, has been captured by Stannis."
Ramsay Snow got a chair and sat next to Viserys. There were only two people in the empty study.
Viserys sat behind his desk, holding in his hand the latest intelligence from across the Narrow Sea.
This is information that has just been sent back from there. Although there has been a long interval, it can no longer be regarded as news when it comes here.
But there is no way.
After receiving the information, Ramsay hurried over.
At the same time, he also had in his hand an autographed letter from his father, Lord Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort.
However, this letter was not written to his illegitimate son Ramsay Snow, but to Viserys.
Although Ramsay was his illegitimate son, Roose Bolton only regarded him as a tool, not his biological son.
Sending him to Viserys is actually an act of betting on both ends.
It's just that Roose Bolton didn't expect that Ramsay would be reused by Viserys, so Ramsay, the tool man, grew into a more important tool man.
At least according to Roose Bolton.
"The usurpers burned each other alive."
Ramsay continued to explain.
This incident still caused an uproar in the northern border.
But there were no waves in the area south of Zeneck. For people in the south, they had no idea about the King Beyond the Wall.
Even the wildlings are just legendary creatures.
Giant? Cannibal?
How could these things really exist?
However, due to the lack of information, most farmers in the south did not know that a large number of agile savages had fled to the area south of Zeneck.
They broke into pieces and hid in the deep mountains and forests during the day to avoid the pursuit of the noble armies, and came out at night to attack and plunder the surrounding villages and towns.
There have been many cases of savages massacring villages near Twin River City and Seaside City.
Old Frey of the Twins was said to be furious when he heard about this. However, he did not dare to scold King Robert. He could only curse the people of the North for being a loser for letting the wildlings escape from the Neck and causing his property to suffer losses.
Then Old Frey sent his sons to lead the Frey family soldiers to capture these savages and bring them to justice.
However, these savages are very cunning and extremely sensitive to the smell of danger.
They do some damage here today, and tomorrow they go to the other side and do some damage.
A shot was fired in the east and a cannon was fired in the west.
This made Old Frey's eldest son Steveron Frey very depressed.
Although the family soldiers are not very effective in combat due to neglect of training, they also have a lot of cavalry under their command.
However, we are always led by these savages, especially these savages who like to go into the mountains.
Every time Steveron and his son led the soldiers of the Frey family and were about to catch up with these hateful savages, they would dive into the dense mountains and forests.
The infantry had already fallen behind, and the cavalry had no choice but to dismount and walk in as it was inconvenient for them to enter the mountain.
However, as soon as Steveron, Lyman Frey and his son led the soldiers to dismount and pursue them, they were ambushed by the wildlings.
A hail of large stones and arrows fell, killing many soldiers and escaping hastily.
But this is actually not because the wildlings are so strong, but because the sons of the Frey family are useless.
And over there in Haijiang City, there is a clear contrast.
The main force of a group of savages suddenly attacked Haijiang City, seeming to want to seize the castle and the town, capture the ships here, and then escape overseas by ship.
This is the strategy set by Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall, for the wild people. Don't try to fight the king's army, don't try to resist, just run away, and run as hard as you can to the warmer places in the south.
It would be even better if you could seize a port and a few ships, and then escape to the Essos continent on the ships.
There was actually nothing wrong with Mance Rayder's plan. Even though he was burned alive, more wildlings survived.
He doesn't care about the life or death of the people behind the Great Wall. Everyone is for themselves. They themselves are about to die, so who cares whether others can survive.
So this group of wild people broke into pieces and fled south as hard as they could. They did not fight the nobles and the king's army, and ran into the mountains and forests when they encountered them.
However, this group of savage tribesmen who attacked Haijiang City seemed to have mistaken their location.
Even if they capture Seaside City and the ships, they can only lead to the Iron Islands from here.
If you want to go to the more prosperous and vast Essos continent, you still need to bypass the Summer Sea to reach the Essos continent.
However, there is the Mallister family in Seaside City, and Earl Jason is not a waste like the little Freys.
This brave earl once led his army to resist the Ironborn attack tenaciously, beheaded King Balon's sons and drove them all into the sea.
Now this group of savages want to attack Haijiang City, but they are really kicking on the iron plate.
Jason Mallister then led the soldiers of Seaside City directly out of the city, defeated the attack of the savages, beheaded thousands of heads, and drove the savages deep into the mountains of Desolate Stone City.
This group of defeated savages fled towards the west.
And the other side.
The strongest 'fortress' in the valley, there are a large number of mountain clan tribes living in the Mingyue Mountains.
There seems to be traces of savages here as well.
However, these savage tribes did not conflict with the mountain clan tribes. Both of them were tribal clans that disobeyed the king and did not obey the control of the Duke of the Eagle's Nest City, and mainly relied on plundering to make a living.
They hide in the mountains, and the knights in the valley cannot enter the mountains to destroy them. Instead, they often encounter ambushes. The mountain clan has always been a serious problem in the valley.
Nowadays, the savage tribes and the mountain clan tribes seem to have joined forces and are crazily active on the Green Fork River, the King's Road, and even the towns and villages in the valley, plundering caravans and travelers.
It disturbed all the trading towns along the Mingyue Mountains, and the wars were everywhere.
The devastation caused by the influx of hundreds of thousands of savages into the Seven Kingdoms continues, and is rapidly expanding to various regions like a disease spreading.
Nowadays, traces of wildlings have gradually appeared in the Northern Territory, the Riverlands, the Western Territory, and the Valley.
However, this influence continues to push towards the south.
Perhaps we will soon see these wildlings appearing near King's Landing and the Reach.
The Queen's Hand, Jon Arryn, who was left behind in King's Landing, was worried about these things.
Viserys, who was thousands of miles away, looked at the information with great interest.
In fact, the destruction caused by the wildlings is just a scabies disease, and is not enough to overthrow the rule of the Iron Throne.
Because apart from the battle of Seaside City, this group of savages did not systematically attack the castle, but only harassed the villages and towns.
If they want to attack King's Landing, they are really seeking death.
However, it is this little itching problem that makes people extremely annoyed.
It is impossible for Jon Arryn to launch another conscription in the name of the king and lead the army to run around the world and wipe out these annoying wildlings one by one.
We can only let the nobles from various places sweep away the snow in front of their doors, instead of just driving them back and forth.
Although the Battle of Seaside City was a complete victory, the wildlings who were driven to the West caused a lot of damage there, which attracted protests from Casterly Rock City.
Solve your own family's affairs yourself, and don't expect the king to wipe your ass. What Jon Arryn is most afraid of now is that these nobles use the wildlings as a means of political struggle.
Don't kill those who can be killed, just drive them to the competitor's territory and give them a headache.
Time flies by.
In the blink of an eye, Robert led his troops to the north, and it had been almost a year since he left King's Landing.
However, at this time, another thing happened that made the already busy Jon Arryn even more anxious.
That was a rumor that suddenly spread among the people in King's Landing.