Chapter 118
Let's talk about Lannister.
Westerlands + Crownlands (partially), almost hostile to all six remaining kingdoms.
Even putting aside the ambiguous attitude of Vale of Arryn, it is still a situation of "wolf + fish + deer + rose" vs "male lion".
Dorne also glares to the lion like a tiger watching his prey.
If one of Second Stag and Robb's IQ is on the line, the Lion Family is over.
Second Stag The goose didn't come down, so he started shouting "I will eat the roast goose alone, you don't have any", which is a bit brainless.
Robb's father and grandfather died consecutively in King's Landing, which gave rise to the idea that "it's not that we northerners are too politically intelligent, but the southerners are too cunning".
He wants to break the unity of the Seven Kingdoms and declare the independence of the North and Riverlands. He considers himself the king of the north - what's wrong with us northerners? I don't play with you anymore!
If he only declares North independence, it is estimated that no one will pay attention to him.
The bitter cold in the North, on the surface not only does not contribute at all to Seven Kingdoms, but is a huge burden - the winter is coming, and the northerners cannot survive and will go south to ask for food.
The key lies in the Riverlands, the vast plains of the Trident basin are the center of Westeros, and the Reach next door is called "Seven Kingdoms Granary". Any King who wins the Iron Throne will not allow the Riverlands to become independent.
Third Stag Renly is still a bit sensible. Faced with such a request, he just said, "Let's knock down King's Landing first. The bottom line allows North independence, and the Riverlands issue is postponed."
Second Stag directly declared Robb a traitor, and gave him a "Great Curse Killing Technique" by the way.
Even though Robb and Second Stag had a pit in their brains, and the feud began before the enemy was eliminated, the Lion Family's situation was still not good.
Second Stag is battle-hardened, and Robb is a natural talent -- the author of "Song of Ice and Fire" writes Huo Qubing.
Huo Qubing also has an awesome Great General uncle who taught him that Robb was born with a "divine light ring" - his dad Eddard Stark was neither a famous general nor a fierce one, and no one taught him.
Huo Qubing worked as an intern in the army for several years, until he was 17 years old, and then he took off. Robb was still practicing sword techniques with Master-At-Arms for 13 years before, but he didn't have finished apprenticeship, and he was 14 years old. rays of light ten thousand zhang, even a generation of famous marshals Tywin and a generation of fierce generals Jaime were defeated by his sword.
How did Robb cheat?
Because of Tywin's preemptive strike, the first time his son Tyrion was kidnapped by Catelyn, he divided his troops into two groups: one led by Jaime, 12,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, soldiers out of Golden Tooth, took River Road, and attacked directly The capital of Riverlands "Riverrun" (Robb's grandfather is Riverrun Duke); all the way, Duke Tywin himself led, about 20,000 people, took Goldroad, borrowed the way of Crownlands, and circled around the Riverlands "back".
In the Early-Stage war, the Riverlands was almost crippled due to the front and rear attacks, and the "Fish" was captured by the "Lion". Not only was Riverrun besieged by Jaime, but even Robb's uncle, Edmure, the only heir to the "Fish" nor captured.
The Tywin army ate the Riverlands and completely destroyed the aristocratic rule and industrial and agricultural production of the Riverlands.
——Tywin hired a mercenary group from Essos continent, Bloody Mummers, for dirty work.
Bloody Mummers is the first notorious mercenary group in the world of "Song of Ice and Fire", and the Riverlands is almost reduced to purgatory.
Then Robb, who had just entered the battlefield, led 13,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry to the south.
At that time, Tywin was already waiting for work, and the Kingsroad on the east bank of Chen Bing's Green Fork was the "only" road going south to King's Landing.
If Robb goes directly south, he will encounter the Tywin army occupying favorable terrain.
And Tywin did prepare a killing move for Young Wolf: let Tyrion's mountain clans force + The Mountain lead the old, weak and sick on the Green Fork side.
Because The Mountain and Tyrion are leading the team, Robb's side must think they are the main force.
Wait for Robb to put the main force into it, and Tywin's real main force will burst out from the east, driving the team fighting by the river into the river together - including his oneself.
But Robb grew up listening to Duke Tywin's Legendary story, deep in one's heart was actually afraid of fighting him head-on, and Robb's god of war cheat "spiritual sense" also reminded him: this battle is dangerous.
And then he really cheated.
There was also a split, and the most cautious Roose Bolton led 13,000 infantry to confront Duke Tywin, and his oneself Commander 5,000 cavalry marched westward to help Riverrun.
In addition to taking the Kingsroad, the only way to cross the Green Fork is The Twins.
——Marquess Frey, with only 600 years of "shallow" family heritage, built a bridge over Green Fork.
In order to cross the river, Robb signed a sacred contract with Walder Frey: Frey made a vassal to King in the North, not only allowed Robb army to cross the river, House Frey also sent thousands of soldiers to join Robb's team.
In return, 1. Robb will marry a House Frey woman; 2. "Arya" Arya will marry into House Frey; 3. Catelyn will adopt two House Frey's direct sons as adopted sons.
To be honest, Marquess Frey wasn't profiting from somebody's misfortune, and the pay and the return were almost equal.
After all, Robb is in rebellion, allowing the crossing of the river is the second thing, and Frey also provided a lot of troops and materials-in Robb's bannermen, in addition to his uncle, House Frey belongs to the group of people who contributed the most , about four or five thousand soldiers.
Robb oneself's 5000 cavalry plus Frey's thousands, led by local tyrant "Blackfish", sneak attacked at Whispering Wood and captured Jaime Lannister.
Blackfish, Brynden Tully, Robb's second grandfather, became famous in the War of the Ninepenny Kings, and participated in the "Battle of Usurper" that overthrew the Targaryen Dynasty.
Robb's innate talent + Blackfish's experience=fight every battle without defeat
After taking Jaime and sweeping the 15,000 "Lion Family Army" besieging Riverrun, the situation in the Riverlands was immediately reverse.
Tywin's frontal battle is pinned down by Roose Bolton's North infantry, and on the flanks, Robb integrates the Riverlands vassals army, creating an army of armies.
In the rear, King's Landing was not only unable to provide support, but also faced the army siege of the "Deer" family.
It can be said that at that time Lannister's survival was between Robb's a single thought - as long as Robb is not so smart and desperate, even if Tywin can escape, he can only escape into King's Landing alone .
Unfortunately, Robb is too smart.
It's not a pejorative meaning, he has already taken into account the post-war situation: Second Stag does not allow him to be independent, and he is also an enemy of oneself. If "Wolf" and "Lion" are violently anal, even if he can win, he will kill him The enemy lost one thousand and eight hundred, and finally let Second Stag clean up the mess.
Of course, Lannister is not the same as Second Stag after all, Second Stag only opposes North independence, but Lannister cut off his father's brain.
So, Robb won't let Tywin old thief go.
Since you can't have a hard anus, then just outsmart it.
——I was born a god of war anyway!
So, instead of encircling Tywin eastward, Robb turned westward and led the war into Lannister's territory.
He made a different world version of the "drag knife". If Tywin followed suit, then he would find a favorable location to ambush him - Blackfish and Robb even found the ambush location.
If Tywin doesn't chase, the Westerlands will be ravaged by the Wolf Family - House Lannister has a lot of gold and silver mines, Robb they grab a lot of money, and when they hit Casterly Rock, House Lannister will be finished.
I have to say that Robb's plan was very detailed. In order not to reveal his own strategy, even his uncle Edmure and Roose Bolton of the Commander North infantry did not know his "drag knife".
Even, in order to be more real, Robb deliberately left Edmure in Riverrun to "resist" Tywin West.
——Robb knows that his uncle's war skills are trending, and he must not be able to stop Tywin's trip to the west. If the bait of Edmure is defeated, Tywin will not suspect that it is a conspiracy.
Throughout the whole process, Robb can be said to be both others and himself, and his tactical skills are used to the extreme.
According to his assumption, even if Second Stag can easily take down King's Landing - King's Landing has only 3000 miscellaneous soldiers, and the "Wolf" family lost a lot in the battle with the "Lion" family, he can also get Westerlands. Benefit - Jaime has been captured by him, and then take Duke Tywin, Casterly Rock will probably surrender.
It can be said that Robb has done what he can do on the battlefield.
It's a pity that Tywin was not led by his nose.
From the very beginning, not only did Robb want to defeat Tywin "without loss", but Tywin also wanted to send that hairless brat to meet his dead father with the lowest loss.
When he found out that Robb was not the rookie he thought before, Tywin completely gave up his plan to win the battlefield - Lannister has many enemies, and he has no energy to waste on the "hard-headed, square-headed" northerners. .
War is also just for politics, Tywin not only can fight, he is also proficient in "Game of Thrones".
While Robb was still on the map, thinking long and hard, Tywin had already started writing letters.
Tywin's classic quote: Some victories are won by sword and lance, and some victories are won by pen and paper and crow.
He sends and receives more than 100 Ravens every day. Robb's battlefields are in the Riverlands and Westerlands, and his battlefields are all over the Westeros.
Did Frey and Bolton, who betrayed Robb in the future, receive his Raven?
You must have received it.
Roose Bolton, known to the North as "cautious and mature", did a big "stupid thing" while stationed at Harrenhal, and the already tight infantry split up again.
The original 13,000 infantry were wiped out by Tywin at Green Fork, with only 4,000 or 5,000 left, only about 8,000 left, and then Roose Bolton divided half of them south to King's Landing...
Robb was at Crag at the time, and about one third of North's infantry was attacking Duskendale.
Crag is more than 2,000 kilometers from Duskendale...
Even Roose Bolton's home, Harrenhal, is more than 600 kilometers from Duskendale.
It's all dirt roads, two-legged medieval times.
There is no doubt that the army that attacked Duskendale was wiped out.
Well, it must be stated here that Robb's army consists of many bannermen, and Roose Bolton also brought a group of soldiers from oneself territory.
And the ones he sent to Duskendale to die, all belonged to House Stark's irons, and his oneself people have been staying in Harrenhal well.
After two battles at Green Fork and Duskendale, only one-third of the Northerners' infantry, or House Bolton's men, remained.
This is one of Tywin's methods.
In addition to dismantling the enemy from within, Tywin is secretly developing new allies - the "Golden Rose" who turned into the wild due to the death of Third Stag.
—Tywin facilitates Joffrey's marriage to Little Rose Margaery... lion as king, rose as queen.
On the strength of a country, Highgarden "Rose" is the strongest existence in Seven Kingdoms, not only has Westeros one third navy, but also has the largest number of cavalry.
For example, King in the North Robb has only 5,000 cavalry, and the Westerlands has a little more. The total number of cavalry under Tywin and Jaime is estimated to be 7,000.
But Reach had more than 20,000 cavalry for the Third Stag, and more than 50,000 infantry...even if Khal Drogo didn't die, his Khalasar was no match for the Highgarden family.
As long as the Seven Kingdoms are united, no one can conquer Westeros with martial power unless the Valyria Empire is reborn - not even Dany with three dragons, and ten thousand Unsullied can only make a splash.
Let's get down to business.
The old lion, who secretly allied with Rose, didn't reveal this trump card. He deliberately followed Robb's will and "hurried roar" to the west, but deliberately was not Edmure's opponent. The "Rose" joined forces and went straight to King's Landing.
Well, he ignored Robb.
Because Robb was already dead at this point, it was no longer a threat.
Remember the first-generation divorced man "Prince of Dragonflies"?
Because of Jenny of Oldstones, he broke his sacred engagement with Princess Baratheon; because of Jenny of Crag, third-generation divorced Robb broke his vow to House Frey.
Well, history repeats itself in this brief moment, another gentle and beautiful Jenny, and another amorous and handsome teenager King.
Robb was wounded by a stray arrow while attacking Crag, and then he was cared for by Jeyne Westerling, daughter of Crag Earl Gawen Westerling - why did the Earl's eldest daughter take care of him herself?
What about servants and maids?
It is very likely that Jenny mother Sybell arranged it deliberately. At that time, her situation was very bad, her husband was captured by Robb, and her city was also occupied by North people.
Not sure how much Duke Tywin played a role in it, but it didn't take long before Robb and Jenny had sex.
Robb wanted to protect Jenny's honor, and because he was a beginner, he was more impulsive, so he didn't take Jenny as his lover, but instead announced his marriage in public on the second day.
And Jenny's mother Sybell has been in contact with Tywin, and secretly fed oneself daughter Moon Tea - Ice and Fire World's birth control pill.
After Robb's death in the Red Wedding, Sybell got a lot of benefits from Lannister: her big brother was promoted to Earl Castamere (a rich estate with gold mines, "Rain of Castamere"), and her son married a Lannister, two daughters have also arranged marriages - including Robb's wife Jenny.
The unfathomable mystery of divorced man Robb went from Game of Thrones big player to outcast, followed by Second Stag Lannister.
Second Stag dispatched Red Woman to kill Third Stag with Blood Magic, and used similar means to capture the younger brother's Storm's End, and went by sea to take King's Landing in one fell swoop.
King's Landing had only 6,000 Gold Cloaks at the time, of which 4,000 were newly recruited street hooligans who were not even qualified to be cannon fodder.
Sea power is also far from being a match for the Dragonstone navy, with sea control firmly in the hands of the Second Stag.
If nothing else, Second Stag can easily take down King's Landing.
But Imp Tyrion has exploded. As one of the protagonists, he is also a hang-up.
To be honest, the experience of Daenerys Dragon Hatching and conquering Unsullied has been considered cheat, but it is still a lot worse than Tyrion.
Facing the Second Stag with absolute military superiority, Tyrion "Zhou Yu+Guan Yu" possessed the body, and suddenly made Second Stag the Boss Cao in the Battle of Chibi.
That battle was like this...
King's Landing was located on the north shore of Blackwater Rush, to the east of King's Landing was Blackwater Bay, and Second Stag's army from the south Come to Storm Territory.
Tyrion pre-fired any structures that would facilitate landings, such as docks, docks, etc. along the Blackwater Rush, and the walls of King's Landing were completely emptied.
To attack King's Landing, Second Stag must build a pontoon bridge over Blackwater Rush.
Therefore, Second Stag's fleet must enter the river from the sea, enter the Blackwater Rush, or transport troops by ship, or connect the ship to the ship, and then take the springboard and assemble into a crude "wooden bridge" .
Tyrion built two winch towers at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, with an iron chain attached between the stone towers. When Second Stag's fleet entered the river, the iron chain sank to the bottom of the river, waiting for most of the enemy fleet. Entering Blackwater Rush, twist the lock plate to straighten the chain, so that the river is blocked by a chain.
This book is nothing, if in the ancient sea battles in the normal world, even if the back road is blocked, but my troops are strong, there is no need to retreat.
And my boat is not locked together like Cao Cao, you set the boat on fire from upstream and I can hide or push the fire boat away with a pole.
The problem is that this is a fantastic and different world, Maester has been developing for thousands of years and has not been able to make something called "science", but Pyromancer has been able to produce strange Wildfire on the assembly line long ago.
Tyrion was indeed possessed by Zhou Yu and set off the boat from upstream, but the cabin was not filled with kerosene but with Wildfire.
Wildfire = (Incendiary + Amaterasu) 2
Green flames burned the lower half of the Blackwater Rush into Hell.
After the battleship was set on fire, Tyrion turned into Second Master Guan again. With a dwarf figure of over one meter, he literally killed seven in seven out of a crowd of tall and powerful enemies.
If it wasn't for Cersei (?) sending someone to shoot him with a black gun, Imp would have passed the Hell difficulty level "Second Stag King's Landing" almost unscathed.
Well, Duke Tywin is also ruthless, he has been hiding on the side, and only waits for Second Stag's army to completely dispel the imposing manner under King's Landing, and then he comes out and picks the fruit of his son's victory.
In this way, in the battle of the four kings, Third Stag, Second Stag, and Robb exited in turn, and Joffrey had the last laugh...well, at least he wasn't dead yet.
Westeros' first wave of Kings is over.