Chapter 236
"I'm not sure, the current situation is confusing me. Renly, Robb, Joffrey, died one after another, and even Duke Tywin died in the hut."
Barristan frowned. Kagawa, "I've never seen Westeros in such a mess. Mace Tyrell was leading the siege of Storm's End - just like fifteen years ago, he couldn't take it down even without a Stannis guarding it.
Randyll Tarly Earl is a famous general who is leading oneself's army to help King's Landing clean up the rogues in the Crownlands and Riverlands.
Reach's army is involved 70%, fortunately Garlan Tyrell When I got Brightwater, I came back with half of the army."
Well, half of the army here is not half of Reach's total force abroad, but half of Highgarden House Tyrell.
In a nutshell, Duke Mace leads House Tyrell's army, and Randyll Tarly leads the Tarly family's army (maybe there are other family troops, similar to Roose Bolton after the split with Robb).
Garlan is only the second son of Mace, not the heir to Highgarden. He wants to inherit Brightwater and can only rely on House Tyrell's army. Randyll is not obliged to help him.
"It is said that Stannis has left Dragonstone and disappeared with his pirate fleet. But Dragonstone and Storm's End are both dangerous places for one man guards the pass, ten-thousand men are blocked, and it is difficult to get them in a short time. Next.
The Arbor fleet besieged Dragonstone at Blackwater Bay and could not return for a short time.
The Reach, known as the 'Hometown of the Knights', was somewhat empty.
It is said that Highgarden Tyrell paid so much for King's Landing, Lannister should be very grateful to this in-law, but after Tywin's death and Cersei's regency, he started to frantically suppress the Highgarden forces."
Old Knight Bewildered, he said: "In the latest news, 'Virgin Queen' Margaery has been accused of promiscuous - the mastermind behind it is Cersei, because of the court battle.
But Grand Maester Pycelle also admitted that he Moon Tea has been formulated for Queen Margaery many times, this..."
The Virgin Queen who loves Moon Tea?
How ironic!
In modern society, in order to regulate body hormones, women may take a small amount of contraceptives even if they are not holding hands, but Moon Tea has no additional effect at all.
Obviously, Cersei may have slandered Little Rose, but Margaery herself is not someone who is easy to deal with. Her husband Tommen is only 9 years old, so she probably can't stand it.
"Daughter is locked in Great Sept, Duke Mace naturally has no intention of besieging Storm's End, and is currently on the way to return to the dynasty, Storm's End..." The old man sighed, "So The lords of Stormlands have all gone to Oldtown to join the Tourney, and they don't want to take over the mission to besiege Storm's End. After all, Baratheon has been their king for three hundred years."
"King's Landing is full of court battles and fierce palace battles. I don't know how it will end, and Stannis has disappeared. Alas, it's complicated!" The old Knight sighed again and again.
"What's up with North? I'm going to send Big Black back with a letter for Ser Jorah," Dany said.
"North is also very..." White Cloak frowned with an old face, "didn't expect your prophecy to come true, Frey not only violated the tradition of guest right, but also put Direwolf His head was sewn to Robb Stark's neck, almost exactly like the prophecy."
"What happened to Westeros? Is there justice, conscience, glory!?" said the old Knight As he spoke, he shed two lines of tears. This untrustworthy and unrighteous country made him feel unfamiliar.
I've only been away for two years, how could it be so rotten?
The old man thought bitterly.
“Where did that Jordan Snow go? Half a year is enough to go back to Westeros.” Dany asked.
"I don't know, why don't I go to the dock area in the afternoon to ask? His boat is called 'Sloe'?"
"No, it's 'Sloe-Eyed Maid' ."
The two had lunch, Dany was practicing Fire Control in the house against the fireplace, and in a few days, he was going to be a boss, and the shriveled Fireball couldn't handle it.
The old Knight put on his cape and roamed the Citadel, hotels, streets, docks and other places skillfully.
At night he was for Dany, no, it should be good news for Mormont: his family is not dead.
In the Red Wedding that took place in The Twins, Robb's side lost more than 4,000 elite cavalry, almost draining the blood of North people, but House Mormont didn't lose many people.
Alas, the reason is a bit embarrassing - Mormont's Bear Island is too poor, soleiers and generals few...
Unlike the rest of the Earl's horde of Knight squires, Maege only has With the elder daughter Dacey, a female Knight, there are few soldiers, four or five hundred fishermen with harpoons.
Maege is Jorah's aunt, the old Mormont is clothed in black clothed, Jorah chooses exile, she inherited the position of Earl of Bear Island.
"Dacey is Earl Maege's eldest daughter and heir to Bear Island, serving as Robb's personal bodyguard - exactly as Jorah was to Eddard Stark."
"Stark trusts Mormont," the old Knight emphasized.
"Karstark is also very loyal, and Stark also trusts him, so what happened?" Dany smiled coldly, "Old Stark wanted to cut Mormont, little Stark cut Karstark directly, killing all loyal and loyal whole family members. Great loyal minister. On the contrary, Bolton, who has repeatedly rebelled against Stark, has been living well."
White Cloak disagreed with Dany's sarcasm, and seriously said: "Stark is not wrong, they are all for their honor not to be tarnished. ”
Dany did not refute, obviously, the old Knight, who always regarded glory above everything else, was the same way of thinking as Eddard and Robb.
She asked, "So, only two of House Mormont died? I remember he had five cousins, and there are four left!"
"No, Earl Maege isn't dead. At the time Winterfell was taken by Theon Turncloak...you know Theon Greyjoy? Balon's third child, and now only son."
"Yes."
Ten years ago Balon rebels, Robert and Eddard join forces again, beating him to his knees and shouting "father". In that battle, Jorah Mormont was named Knight for her merits, and she also met Little Foe Lynesse.
In that battle, Balon eldest son and second son died in battle, leaving only the third child, Theon, who was adopted as an adopted son by Eddard, essentially a hostage.
Eddard and Robert have also been adopted sons, but Theon is completely different to Eddard than Eddard is to Jon Arryn.
Duke Arryn really treats those two adopted sons as sons and gives them a sincere and complete fatherly love.
For them, the old Arryn was willing to be Littlefinger's pick-up man, and even fought against King's.
Eddard is a good man with integrity, that's right, he also wants to learn from Adoptive Father and take Theon as his own son. But reality doesn't allow it, neither Theon nor Eddard can do it.
Eddard has the potential to kill his adopted son at all times - if Balon rebels again, he will chop off Theon's head immediately.
Eddard knew this, as did Theon, who was ten years old.
——Eddard Stark is used to executing executions by himself, using the ancestral sword 'Ice' to cut off the heads of death row prisoners, and let Theon watch each time (not Eddard's pervert, Theon also serves as his squire , to follow him at all times... to learn), that scene... I can fully imagine how big the shadow was in Theon's heart at that time.
This creates a father and son relationship between the two deformed, Eddard has a fatherly love for Theon, true love. In Islands of the Ironmen, Theon, who has always lacked fatherly love, also felt the Adoptive Father's affection for oneself.
Afraid of him, in love with him, and always longing to be a real Stark like Robb and Jon, it's good that Theon isn't perverted.
All his actions, all the tragedies, stemmed from this.
"The Ironmen occupied Moat Cailin, so before the Red Wedding, Robb arranged for Earl Maege to go to The Neck to find the Greywater Watch."
"Greywater Watch?"
"The Neck is a large marsh that stretches for nearly a thousand miles, inhabited by a group of short-statured First Men, whose leader is House Reed, the bannermen of King in the North.
Greywater Watch is built on the marsh On a floating island is the fortress of House Reed.
From time immemorial, no enemy has ever found the island because it is alive and moving,” explained the old Knight.
"So House Mormont has only lost one heir?"
"Yes, Earl Maege must be at Greywater Watch at this time. The Ironmen still occupy Moat Cailin, Roose Bolton's The army is trapped in The Neck Great Way and is often sneak attacked by the marsh people."
"Your Majesty, I find that Robb looks a bit like you." The old Knight said suddenly and strangely.
"No, we don't look like that!" Dany didn't ask the reason, but firmly denied it.
I used to say that I was like Rhaegar, but now I think that I am like Robb. Those two divorced men ended so badly, saying I was like them, didn't they curse me!
The old Knight said seriously: "I have investigated Robb's battles, the battle of Whispering Wood, the battle of the battalion, the battle of Oxcross...
His tactical ideas Heavenly Horse is just as good as you are.
He nearly beats old Duke Tywin to Grazdan in frontal battles.
And he's very good at using Direwolf , For example, in the night raid, let Direwolf sneak into the livestock camp first, so that the horses and other livestock are very afraid, and then cause huge chaos. Even in the siege battle, let the wolf bite the city guard to death."
Later, the old man found a map of the whole Westeros, a little bit to restore the situation of the battle for Dany.
Dany also gradually discovered that Young Wolf is indeed a bull, and in some respects, stronger than her, because she has the experience of countless ancestors in China, and has a dragon that is far more buggy than Direwolf.
But she also saw a fatal flaw in Robb.
"Robb doesn't seem to pay much attention to fighting Lannister, Stannis, Highgarden, Dorne, or even oneself's aunt Lysa.
Too much grasp of the big picture.
" Poor, there is no brilliant politician around." She touched the chin and commented regretfully.
Actually, Dany misunderstood, Robb didn't pay attention, he was just mentally and physically exhausted by a series of incidents, and gave the mission of combining external forces to mother Catelyn.
Undoubtedly, Catelyn is a qualified and great mother, but her political talents, like her husband Eddard, are about zero.
That night, Big Black took off from the mountain range where he had been staying for a day, this time he would not land midway, and Dany wanted to test the dragon's flying limit.
Second day morning, Dany moved out of town with Barristan with his reworked Iron Armor.
Well, she signed up for Tourney as a mysterious Knight and will live in a marquee for a few days after that.