Four hundred and ninetieth chapters fire joint venture
Oberyn unleashed a fire in this ancient and mysterious forest that was visible to the entire Westerlands.
The raging fire was soaring into the sky, mixed with green flames. Oberyn had borrowed several things from Viserys before leaving King's Landing. With the help of these things, he was confident that he could capture the entire West.
One is the Iron Islands fleet, led by Euron Greyjoy who has defected to Viserys.
Now that the Iron Islands have fallen, the iron fleet carried by Euron is the last iron species. Viserys allows Euron to return to the Iron Islands after this battle and rebuild his homeland.
The second is the wildfire hidden underground in King's Landing. As soon as the Golden Company arrived in King's Landing, they found traces of a large number of wildfires in many cellars. It was said that they were left by Viserys' father, the 'Mad King' Aerys II.
Although these wildfires were moved outside the city, they were of little use outside King's Landing. On the contrary, they were very dangerous, so Oberyn took many away and used them in this battle.
Wildfires are very reactive in nature and are first-rate combustibles.
The Targaryen soldiers only needed to throw the jars containing wildfire onto the ground and smash them to burn after the Western Army fled into the woods in panic.
Moreover, when a can of wildfire explodes and burns, it will soon burn with the rest of the wildfires. In addition, this ancient and vast forest is an excellent combustion aid.
In an instant, a worldwide fire was formed that could be seen throughout the Western Territory.
Thick smoke billowed into the sky, and flames illuminated the sky above, making it as bright as day.
"ah--"
The shrill screams of the soldiers in the Western Region sent chills down your spine, like the sound of food being fried at high temperatures, and even emitted the aroma of fat.
Oberyn wore a sand-yellow battle robe, with a dazzling golden spear clan emblem on his chest.
He rode his horse and stood on a small hill not far away, his weathered cheeks were illuminated by the firelight, and his pair of dark and deep eyes quietly looked down at the fire.
"Prince."
The guards standing next to him couldn't even bear to look at it with their eyes, especially the horrific scene of people being buried in the sea of fire. However, only Oberyn still had a heart of stone.
"This fire burned half of the effective strength of the Western Army."
He sat on the horse and said abruptly.
"More than 20,000 young lives, more than 20,000 families of fathers, sons and brothers."
"How will the people in the West view me? Or...how will they view our Lord Tywin?"
Oberyn said to himself, or seemed to be asking the guards around him, and then an unpredictable smile appeared on his face.
"Let's go."
Then he turned his horse's head and walked down the hill with his guards. He didn't want to continue watching.
"Get away!"
Not far away, a tall knight from the Westland escaped from the sea of fire. He panicked and killed several Lannister soldiers along the way just because they blocked his way.
However, after he escaped from the fire, there were still Targaryen soldiers waiting for him. The crazy knight was like a mad dog. Four or five people were helpless, but in the end they were outnumbered and were captured alive and tied up.
But this is just a small episode in this war.
The Targaryen army's attack on the camp took place in the middle of the night, and the fire burned until the night of the third day before it slowly came to an end amid heavy rain.
The fire devoured this ancient forest that recorded the battle between the ancestors and the children of the forest, and also devoured the lives of more than 10,000 Western soldiers.
Most of the soldiers and nobles of the West were buried in the sea of fire, and some were captured by the Targaryen army, such as Sandor Gregor and others, but only a few soldiers and nobles escaped alive.
sky.
They fled to Crake Hall in one breath, but Oberyn followed with an army.
Lord Roland Crach of Crake Hall and his eldest son were both buried in the sea of fire. The remaining defeated soldiers of the West who had just escaped from the sea of fire were in panic all day long, and naturally they were unable to resist the siege of the Targaryen army.
August, 293 Aegon.
A fire that attracted worldwide attention was accompanied by the fall of Crake Hall. The Targaryen army finally won the game against time and occupied it first.
One of Oberyn's soldiers climbed to the top of the city first and was canonized as a knight, while Duke Tywin, who was belatedly arriving, could only "look at the city and sigh" when he arrived at the city.
At the same time, he had also received news that more than 20,000 Western Army troops had been wiped out.
The Red Viper was astute and cunning. He deceived the Lannister army and lured them back. Then, like the best predator, he waited for the opportunity and ate the army in one bite. It is said that Lord Tywin heard about it.
When I got the news, I almost didn't vomit blood on the spot.
And his cousin and elder brother-in-law, Ser Stafford Lannister, a rising general in Westeros, did not know whether it was luck or the Targaryen army's deliberate betrayal, but he was protected by his guards to the death.
Fortunately, he escaped from the fire.
"Cousin, spare your life!"
Now Stafford fell on his knees in front of his cousin Tywin and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy. However, he could not move the furious Lord Tywin.
Taiwen's face was as dark as water, and he looked at the relative in front of him coldly.
Even for the sake of his deceased wife, Tywin could not forgive Stave, because many of the soldiers and nobles who perished in the flames were relatives of the nobles in the West around him.
"Davon I will take care of you."
Then Tywin waved his big hand, and the guards on both sides stepped forward and pushed the gray-faced Stafford down, and sent him to the gallows, leaving a whole corpse.
All the many Western nobles and knights on both sides of Tywin were silent, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive. This disastrous defeat greatly damaged the confidence of the Western troops in resisting Targaryen.
And a young Lannister with blond hair and brown eyes had red eyes. He was the son of Stafford Lannister, Davon Lannister, but he could only watch his father being pushed to the gallows.
Nothing can be done.
The news of Oberyn's victory over the Western Army in the Battle of the Red Lake soon reached King's Landing.
This was an epic battle destined to go down in history. Oberyn led his army to defeat the Lannister army in two days.
When the city of King's Landing received the good news, they immediately celebrated with joy, celebrating the victory of the Targaryen army in the war. After all, most of the people in the city of King's Landing hated the Golden Lion family.
Tyrion had mixed feelings when he heard the news, but for Cersei, it was like a thunderbolt, and her last support collapsed.
But Viserys had no time to care about these things at the moment, not even the news of good news.
Because time flies by, and he is ten months pregnant, and his queen, Arianne, the princess from Dorne, is about to give birth.