Chapter 564: The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind
clang
The swords collided violently.
"Go to hell!"
Brynden Tully's voice was hoarse and his face was weathered. He seized the opportunity and chopped down a charging Royce family soldier with his sword.
puff
Then he staggered and stabbed an enemy in the chest, blood spurted out, and his gray hair was stained with the splattered blood.
"Huh~"
"Huh~"
Sir Blackfish was breathing heavily. Although he was superb in swordsmanship and brave in battle, he was ultimately outnumbered. The soldiers around him had fallen one after another, and the battle situation became precarious.
The second son of the Royce family, Sir Robert Royce, stood up at this time, took over the baton from his father and brother, and commanded the army to siege the camp and avenge his father.
"kill!"
The shouts of killing were loud in the camp.
However, at this critical moment, outside the battlefield of civil strife in the valley military camp, the heavy rumble of iron hoofbeats suddenly sounded.
Rumble
The cavalry galloped and trampled on the ground. Countless knights of the valley formed an array. Under the leadership of Littlefinger Petyr Baelish, they rushed toward the battlefield with the spears in their hands raised high.
It turns out that Littlefinger had already secretly persuaded several nobles to defect to the Targaryen family.
After all, the situation is now set, and the Targaryen army has swept across all the land except the northern border and the valley. Now it is the end of the road to continue to resist.
Although the valley has high mountains and steep wonders, it cannot stop the giant dragon from flying around at will and even shitting on their heads.
The geographical conditions of the West are similar to those of the Vale, and are also very complex, but they still succumbed to the dragon's flames. The Lannister family was almost killed, and even the people with blond hair and green eyes in Lannisport were almost killed.
Empty.
Although the nobles in the valley do not want to lose the power in their hands, they do not want to lose the heads around their necks, including the lives of their entire family.
Therefore, some nobles expressed the idea of surrendering, but they encountered opposition from the warring nobles, and Littlefinger persuaded this group of people to side with him.
He revealed his identity to these capitulating nobles, saying that he was a secret envoy of the Iron Throne. He had secretly surrendered to the new king in Pentos two years ago. As long as these people obey his orders, they can be forgiven by the Iron Throne.
Let bygones be bygones.
Therefore, Petyr Baelish first appointed his lover Lysa Tully to provoke a conflict between the two giants in the Valley Army. One was the powerful Earl Yorn Royce of Runestone City, and the other was the Knight of the Blood Gate.
Brynden Tully.
The two of them killed each other and both suffered losses, but Petyr Baelish's army entered the scene and easily swept away these people, seizing the power of the valley in one fell swoop, proving his strength to His Majesty the King, and indirectly claiming the authority of the valley.
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This is Littlefinger's ultimate plan.
However, now, Brynden Tully and the Royce family really fought hard, and blood flowed from both sides. Littlefinger led the army forward, and the mantis stalked the cicada and the oriole behind, destroying the troops of both sides like a dead tree.
"Knights of the Vale obey my orders!"
Petyr Baelish was well-dressed, with a black cloak fluttering in the wind. He pinned the cloak with a metal mockingbird pin. This was his own change of the Baelish family crest. He thought
Mockingbird is more in line with his identity, wearing deerskin gloves on his hands.
Then he took off his gloves and put them on the saddle, raised his hands and pointed straight ahead, and said loudly.
"For the Iron Throne, put down this rebellion!"
The knights in the valley cheered when they heard his order, and then swooped down with rumbles of iron hooves.
"kill!"
Rumble
The sound of galloping horses' hooves, the neighing of war horses, the screams of soldiers, and the sound of metal cutting into flesh and blood.
On the battlefield, neither of the two sides in the melee expected that a third party would intervene.
"what happened?!"
When Sir Robert Royce, the second son of Runestone City, was riding on his war horse, he was horrified when he saw the knights of the valley with various banners pouring into the battlefield like a torrent of steel and slaughtering them indiscriminately.
"It's Lord Petyr Baelish!"
The sharp-eyed guard immediately saw Petyr Baelish surrounded by stars and moonlight in the center.
"Littlefinger?"
"Why is he able to command so many valley troops?"
However, at this time, no one could explain to Robert Royce what happened and why Littlefinger had quietly won the support of most nobles.
The situation of the civil strife has turned sharply after the intervention of the Valley Knights. The soldiers of the Royce family have suffered heavy casualties and are on the verge of defeat.
"Sir! Run away!"
With the urging of the loyal guards, Robert Royce could only grit his teeth, glanced in the direction of Little Finger one last time, and then, under the protection of the guards, urged his horse to escape from the battlefield and headed towards his hometown of Runestone City.
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And Robert Royce abandoned the formation and fled, and Brynden Tully on the other side also felt uncomfortable.
He was besieged in the center by the Runestone City army. By the time the Valley Knights broke through, he had suffered several injuries and was about to collapse.
"Lord Brynden!"
When Littlefinger Petyr Baelish saw that Brynden Tully had not died in the war, there was a trace of regret in his gray-green eyes, but no one noticed it.
He immediately swung the reins and jumped off the horse, running over quickly to help Brynden Tully.
"I'm bringing troops to rescue you!"
After all, Littlefinger was once fostered in Riverrun. If it hadn't been for what happened later and Littlefinger was expelled from Riverrun, he would have called Brynden his uncle. Therefore, his claim that he was here to rescue Ser Blackfish naturally did not arouse any suspicion.
The soldiers loyal to Brynden Tully looked at each other. Although they had been killed a lot by the Vale Knights, they still put down their weapons at this time. After all, the Vale Knights had already controlled the situation and were outnumbered. Pointless resistance would only lead to death.
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"Petyr"
Brynden suffered several injuries and was breathing heavily. His right hand still held the sword tightly as if in a stress response, while his other hand grabbed Petyr Baelish's palm.
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At this moment, he thought of the time in Riverrun, when he was very friendly to all the children of the Tully family, including Petyr.
He advocated family unity, but in the end, something like that happened.
Now that Petyr was able to ignore the past grudges and lead troops to rescue him, Brynden Tully felt a little warm in his heart.