Chapter 134
When Big Black flew back from Astapor to the White Poplar Slope, Jorah Mormont's Raven arrived at about the same time.
This "Alliance Against the Demonic Mother of Dragons" isn't just from land attacks, in fact, even if the Army is more than one way.
Army all the way, 5,000 mercenaries, 30,000 slaves, and 3,000 yellow silk cloaks, assembled in Yunkai and attacked Astapor from north to south.
All the way army gathers Yunkai, Meereen, New Ghis, and even more than 20 long ships, 70 or 80 sea ships, and more than 100 ships from the four cities of Qarth to enter the Sea Territory of Astapor City.
There is also a third army, the Ghis Iron Legion commandos from south to north...
After the second Sons was destroyed in the morning, Dany left Big Black alone Return to Astapor and monitor enemy fleets within tens of kilometers from an altitude of 5,000 meters.
Barristan guessed that the Ghis coalition had Raven dealings with the Sea Fleet, maybe the enemy planned to follow "Dany's plan", this afternoon, both the Marine and the Army launched a raid at the same time... Well, north of the Worm River. The Ghis Iron Legion will also travel north to destroy the industrial and agricultural production system that Dany has worked so hard to build.
"The north army was a complete failure. I thought they would retreat. Did the slave-master lose Raven in the process of escaping? The sea coalition was not notified?"
Barristan After resting in the armor for more than two hours, he started working again.
"Maybe there's a Scorpion on the ship and they're daring and trying to be dragon slayers?" Dany said with a sneer.
In the process of clearing the Ghis coalition camp, the militia found the remains of hundreds of heavy crossbows, most of which were trampled by horses along with other military supplies, but dozens more were well preserved in the northern camp. .
Summer Isles golden silk wood with the thickness of an adult wrist, a two-meter-long bow, nine Qohor refined steel wires wound into a bowstring as thick as a pinky finger, and a winch assembled by two brawny men turning a pulley to wind the crossbow.
The arrow is a three-meter-long, thumb-thick steel essence lance. The arrowhead of the Mitsubishi thorn model has a string of Dark-red Flame glyphs—Magic glyphs blessed by Red Priest and Pyromancer.
Dany tried it herself, she let Little White and Little Green breathe fire at the arrows, the steel in the tail section quickly turned red and slowly softened, but the arrows with glyphs burned bright red but did not melt. drop signs.
I don't know if glyph really works or if Qohor Smith used special steel.
Only the 2,000 steel essence crossbow arrows found are more than 20,000 Golden Dragon, plus the expensive golden wood crossbow... The Ghis coalition spent at least 100,000 Golden Dragon in on Scorpion.
New addition to the Company of the Rose also revealed that the Ghis had ordered over five hundred Scorpions at Qohor. It is conceivable that the enemy battleship is also equipped with similar crossbow arrows.
However, Barristan said after inspection, Qohor will not build a real Scorpion, these crossbows are modified from the ballista, and the flexibility and lethality are 80% worse than the Scorpion developed by Maester.
“The all-steel crossbow is too heavy to fly high. As long as the dragon is more than 50 meters away from the crossbow, it is safe, but the direct killing range of the Balerion Dragonflame is more than 80 meters.” He said so to Dany.
Dany complained in his heart that the previous generation of Targaryen had a pit in his head, what was he thinking about? It even cooperated with Maester to study the killing radius of dragons, and did Balerion cooperate with Maester to develop a crossbow that kills oneself?
The old man seemed to guess what she was thinking, Faintly said: "Knowing the limit of the oneself dragon can better protect the oneself and the dragon."
"It also makes sense, I will be careful Yes." Dany voted, and ordered the militia to prepare firewood for burning the dead mercenaries and Ghis corpses.
Different from the fact that only more than 200 cavalry soldiers died, the Ghis coalition left at least 12,000 corpses, which was very troublesome to clean up.
And collecting firewood for burning more than 10,000 corpses is a big project, and it is estimated that it will be ignited at noon tomorrow.
"I'll go first, you remember to let the militiamen dig pits for the newly joined slaves, and the Ghis coalition camp will also be sprinkled with lime powder." Dany climbed up on Big Black while talking to Barristan. "Inculcate".
Barristan is a seasoned veteran, but the issue of military hygiene... Civilization has been born for tens of thousands of years, and no one cares about it at all.
As early as half a year ago, Dany quickly formulated the "Barracks Hygiene Regulations" when he saw Unsullied poking around outside the camp.
For example, you must wash your face and hands before eating, and rub with sand if there is no water.
For example, a trench must be dug at the periphery of the camp, and urine and urine must be removed from the trench.
Even if it is not convenient for the general to pee with the soldiers, he has to be pulled into the barrel and carried by the squire into the trench.
For example, after the war, the bodies were cleaned and burned immediately, and a thin layer of lime powder was sprinkled on the battlefield and camp.
In the camps of the soldiers, vinegar is also steamed for disinfection every now and then.
"Go!" Dany shouted to Little White and Little Green, and the three dragons flapped their wings and leaped into the sky with a slamming force.
The broad fleshy wings fanned vigorously, bringing up grass clippings and dust that made Jon Bolton stretch out his hand to block his forehead. In the sunlight, Black Dragon's dark back and dark red wing bones reflected a little bit of metal color.
Seeing him flying higher and higher with Dany on his back, Knight asked worriedly, "Is it okay to go back alone with Your Majesty?"
Barristan indifferently said: "Don't worry, Astapor has another. Kingsguard, more than 3,000 Unsullied, 5,000 Mother of Dragons Guards, 10,000 Militia. Let's go to the registered slave Warriors and choose new freedom guards!"
The distance of twenty kilometers, three dragons only After a quarter of an hour, Dany could see the Ghis fleet four or five nautical miles from the dragon's perspective in Dreki's state.
The brown, brown, and white sails are like roses blooming on the azure sea, and together they seem to form a flowerbed half-circling the city of Astapor.
She came back just in time for the battle to begin.
"pēng pēng pēng..." Ballistas and catapults roared on the Astapor city wall.
The Astapor guards are higher up, and the trebuchets are bigger, more powerful, and farther than the catapults on board, so they attack the ships first that are trying to line up in attack formation.
The thick long crossbow arrows glowing with cold light and the black smoky kerosene tanks cut through the sky. Most of them only caused a splash on the sea, and a few hit the target on the deck of the enemy ship. Leave a hole, or light a string of flames on the giant sail.
Dany even saw Jorah in the white robe shouting loudly, the Wings of Freedom flag on the city wall walkway fluttering in the sea breeze, and the sturdy shirtless soldier wrung the winch to rewind the catapult.
Also see Ghis sailor ape-like dexterity climbing on the cable, over the sails on fire, dumping the sand in the backpack towards the fire.
Then four or five crossbow arrows with a length of two meters flew, which was very unfortunate. One just pierced the waist and abdomen of the skinny monkey sailor, like mutton on a skewer, and the thick and long wooden arrow carried one side howling. The sailor who was waving his limbs wildly flew seven or eight meters away, and finally nailed it under the bridge fence.
The tail section of the crossbow bolt was still shaking with "Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!", the sailor was still moaning, but no one paid any attention to him. The captain on the bridge only leaned over to glance at the hanging corpse below, and then foul-mouthed shouted at the catapult on the bow and stern decks to fight back.
As the warships steered, Astapor's docks were within their attack range...
"Dragon, the dragon is back!" on the city wall The Mother of Dragons guards cheered loudly.
The warring parties looked up and saw that the three dragons hovering and flying in the sky were only the size of a falcon, and with the strong sunlight, most people would not even notice them, but the Astapor people were too familiar with the three dragons, half a year ago I don't know how many times I've seen similar scenes.
At first there were only a few people, but gradually, nearly 20,000 soldiers in the city shouted together: "Long live Queen, long live Mother of Dragons!"
The enemy ships on the sea heard Shouting, holding the glasses to observe for a while, also immediately found the three dragons circling under the sun.
"wu wu wu ——" The low sound of horn slowly spread on the sea surface, and almost all the sea ships began to lower their sails for a while.
The battleship that has not yet set its position, stretched out long paddles from both sides of the boat, with the drumming of "dong dong dong", hundreds of naked sailors shouted "yo hey hey" horn, slide the paddle vigorously.
The ship obeyed the captain's command and moved "squeaky".
Well, the oarsmen are unclothed, and most of them wear leather slave collars.
"It's a lot of courage, I've caught up to the Worm River delta."
Looking at the longboat wandering in the river, Dany sneered.
There are two types of sea-going ships of the Ghis coalition. One is the slow-moving, but large-tonnage sea-going ships. There are several or even dozens of catapults on the deck, and there are rows of huge ships on the side of the ship. Might's ballista, with a hard ram on the bow.
This type of ship is mainly used to gain control of the sea.
Another kind of battleship is a narrow, low-slung longboat. When the oarsmen paddle with all their strength, the speed can even briefly reach 25 knots. The oarsmen are also elite warriors who are familiar with sea battles.
In boarding and pursuit battles, this longboat is as sharp as a scalpel.
Blackbeard Groleo's dozen or so ships were completely unable to fight the enemy, so they entered the Worm River a few days ago and hid in the delta plain port in the middle of the river, where dozens of merchant ships were also stranded. .
Illyrio's 100-meter Saduleon slumped on the beach.
Well, the big-bellied sailboat cannot be used as a warship, and Groleo's flagship at this time is Euron's "Silence".
Of course, it's long since ceased to be called Silence, and has been renamed "Viserys".
Well, in memory of Dany's hapless second brother.
Mainly because Groleo the Blackbeard wanted to call it "Aegon", and Dany felt that someone as awesome as Aegon should be treated better.
As the ruler of the Gulf city-state, she will definitely build a huge fleet in the future, and will build a more mighty battleship.
"Aegon" will be saved for the future, let the dead ghost Viserys on top.
However, 'Viserys' is really ominous. Since it was named, it has been harassed and besieged by Ghis warships. It doesn't dare to leave the dragon's field of vision. Now it is forced into the freshwater river, not even the seaport. dare to leave.
"bang!" Dany jumped off Big Black's neck, his iron boots leaving two shallow footprints on the red brick city wall.
"Incendiary bombs for my dragon," she said to the approaching militia Captain.
"Your Majesty, go to the pyramid and wait, it's too dangerous here," advised Jorah Mormont.
“bang!”
Before he finished speaking, a packet of flaming burning packets smashed into the root of the city wall. The black smoke made Dany's eyes a little prickly.
"Asphalt?" She climbed on the parapet and looked down, only to see the burning fabric sticking to the wall, spreading out, and the thick black smoke smoked a black line on the wall.
"It's a refined fire ointment," Jorah said.
A dozen flames of smoke billowing from the city wall facing the sea in the north have risen. Unsullied shouted loudly at the militiamen to put out the flames, and the non-commissioned officer wielded a long sword and shouted at the soldiers under oneself: "Quickly wind up the catapult and kill those bastard slave dealers."
The war is gradually heating up, even more tragic than the sneak attack in the early hours of the morning.
“I’ll stay here to command the dragon.” Dany laughed, saying, “Arrange four Unsullied to hold a shield for me to block the crossbow bolts. The fire can’t hurt me.”