Chapter 253
2021-01-06
Chapter 253 Persimmons must be softly squeezedWhile a bunch of shit happened in Wall , the rest of the ice and fire world did not stop functioning.
Westeros, south of The Neck, where winter has not yet come, and Stannis on Iron Throne is still at war with the pretenders to the throne.
Rebel side: Although the Reach land that has suffered consecutive defeats has a strong family property, the determination and will of the City Lord counts who hold most of the resources to follow the monarch in rebellion is almost exhausted; The Golden Group under the banner of True Dragon, although occupying one of the famous fortified cities in Westeros, Storm's End is not King's Landing after all, and the princes of Stormlands are not the Crownlands nobles who have always been loyal to House Targaryen, "Little Aegon" and the forces behind it. The outlaws occupy the opponent's lair, but they have no control over this land that has been loyal to the Baratheon family for generations; as for the last potential ally, Dorne, although he has sent troops to help on the surface, he has not actually shot a single shot with Stannis. Diplomatically, the flag of rebellion has not been publicly raised to this day. As soon as the purpose of lifting the siege of Storm's End is achieved, they immediately retreat to the Boneway like a loach, and come to work without any effort, and sit and watch the two tigers fight.
The situation seems to be very good for Iron Throne's master, but Stannis can't take the opportunity to dominate the Seven Kingdoms at this moment: the mutiny of the Lords Declarant, the confrontation with the Westerlands after Jaime's murder, and the younger After brother Renly's battle for the throne, Crownlands, Vale, and Riverlands have all lost their strength. The only one who retains his vitality, North, is still turning north after exiting the Storm's End battlefield, ready to save his family... What's more, the Iron Vault refuses to wholesale new loans to Iron Throne. The king of Westeros is facing an unprecedented capital turnover at this moment. difficulty.
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Igor knew about the above situation at Castle Black, but Night's Watch couldn't and couldn't intervene. After he had rectified two thousand land-givers in Queenscrown, he took them grandiose down the Kingsroad south.
Once upon a time, he naively imagined that he would train a new army in the modern mode, and then take the elite line, and rely on an invincible iron army to conquer the world and swept the world... Unfortunately, the plan always fails to catch up Change, for the first time in his life, he really led the army, but he led a group of thugs who were only slightly stronger than the peasants. The only thing that is fortunate is that the elite soldiers who were trained in the industrial park outside King's Landing can now be used as grassroots officers, and it is not a waste of their original plan.
Let's not mention battle strength, a land-grant army with a group of professional soldiers serving as skeletons is at least as good as any Westeros army in terms of orderliness and prohibition... Of course, this "small scale" "The credit also accounts for most of it.
Because of the name of sending troops "to transport food to the North", Igor only distributed weapons to the mountain clans, and to the new land-grant people... He not only disrupted the tribal affiliation and completely reorganized the formation, but also The simple weapons prepared for them were placed in the carriage, and they were allowed to follow the team with their bare hands, disguised as civilians.
The North princes were pretty negative about Night's Watch letting wildling through the Wall, so when this land-grant army got out of the last Hearth, as it should be by rights it was turned away by the Umber house .
Igor was mentally prepared for this. In fact, even if the Umber family is willing to accept wildlings, a castle can't hold thousands of people; and after the attack on Commander Mormont, to be honest...he didn't dare to put everything on wildling's ability to keep himself safe, rest assured and bold Let them enter any North castle.
Fortunately... Anyway, at least the Umber family didn't let oneself, the Night's Watch, also eat cold shoulder.
In the hall of the last Hearth, Igor met Hoser Umber, who was temporarily in charge of the house at the moment, a tall and stout typical northern man, and learned from him that Wall's side had not yet received a better deal. new news.
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Due to the limitations of the times and the backwardness of the way of information transmission, the dissemination of many messages has a great lag, and some lords or Maesters did not communicate with Night's Watch's habit of dealing with... So, in the Wall, I can only wait for Igor, who is occasionally sent by King's Landing's subordinates to send him some news. In fact, the news is quite blocked.
"Balon Greyjoy is dead?" A not-so-surprising news, "When did it happen?"
Horse Umber replied, "A few weeks ago. Well, I heard that old Kraken's young brother Euron Greyjoy, who had been missing for many years, returned to the Iron Islands and was elected as the new King of the Iron Islands... The first thing he did when he came to power was to contact King's Landing, expressing his negotiation and even professing allegiance. ”
“Allegiance to King Stannis, just the lunatic Euron?” This was a surprise, Igor pressed: “Then why haven’t the Ironmen quit North?”
"Ha, a Kraken who has been missing for so many years, suddenly came back and took the place of the big brother to show his favor to a king who doesn't even sit securely on the throne? The devil believes it! He is just looking for an excuse, justifiably Just looting the coasts of the Westerlands and Reach...his niece Yara Grejoy is currently occupying Deepwood Motte and the Dragon horn, planning to build another Ironmen kingdom to rival the Uncle. Crow's Eye If you really want to take care of Iron Throne, you should first The stinky girl from oneself's house packed up and brought it home, so that the North army could fight with Stannis in the south and the north without any worries... instead of slapping the butt and starting to build ships and go to the south to burn, kill and snatch."
It turned out to be the case, Euron pretended to have the intention of making peace with Stannis, not only left a way out, but also restored the Old Way looted by the Ironmen just and honourable in the name of King Qin and the rebellion. The "enemy" loyal to Iron Throne really kills two birds with one stone. This trick actually does the same thing as Igor instructing James and his men to vote for Cotter Pyke - helping to support the weaker of the two competing sides, so they can fight each other longer, to ensure that oneself is the third , can more easily sit back and become the fisherman who sweeps the benefits.
Stannis and the others, it's impossible to see Euron's tricks, he's mostly if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off, at this juncture, we really need external forces to contain the Reach That's all, even if you know it well, you can only see it without saying it.
Speaking of which, Igor actually regretted hanging Ramsay Snow outside Queenscrown early on - he couldn't help but wonder if "Little Flayer" and Euron Crow's Eye were equally cruel and When a crazy villain touches a piece, there will be some sparks.
Of course, one of the two has been burned into ashes and buried in the wilderness outside Queenscrown, and Igor's brain hole can only stay in the imagination stage forever.
It would be nice to deal with Euron as easily as against Ramsay.
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Igor quickly combed through the newly acquired information in his mind, and found that the change in the situation was beneficial to oneself's plan: "That is to say, now , the Ironmen who invaded the North have been disconnected from the Ironmen of the Iron Islands, and the former have been unable to obtain support from their old nest?"
"Yes, they can only hide in Wolfswood now on the west coast. It's too late to bring people to deal with them now."
"Yes, please forgive me." Igor felt that it was just in time. , he has no experience and ability to lead soldiers, and now he has this soft persimmon, isn't it perfect? "It doesn't matter, isn't the Deepwood Motte still in their hands, let's take this place first."
"hmph ... if you go to the Deepwood Motte, you might as well go south to Moat Cailin. We are new Lord Stark led the troops north to the rescue, but was blocked by the Ironmen at the gate guarding The Neck. We just need to send some people to attack from the north and south, knock on the door, and let my 20,000 North men return home. , sweeping away the clay chickens and pottery dogs led by Kraken's daughter, and even attacking the Iron Islands and subduing Greyjoy again, is not what the soldiers are referring to."
Moat Cailin was North's "Bloody Gate" , located on the causeway, the only way to pass through The Neck, has been North's most favorable defensive barrier against southern aggression for thousands of years. Now it has been occupied by a sneak attack from behind, but has kept the oneself out of the door. , is quite ironic.
Horser Umber's suggestion itself is fine, but Igor has other plans: "Well...that's what I mean, but Deepwood Motte is closer after all. Besides, don't take out the enemies in the north first. , just go south to The Neck, in case of being copied from the back of the butt by the opposite side, with the training level of the mountain clans, it may not be able to stabilize the position."
"It's up to you, anyway, the people are brought by you. It's none of my business." Horse Umber snorted, after staring at Igor for a while, he suddenly patted the table: "Damn, I understand what you're thinking - you're afraid of Robb Stark I came back to investigate the responsibility of Night's Watch for letting the wildlings enter the customs without authorization, so I want to bring them to North first, so that Young Wolf owes his favor and has nothing to say, right!"
Hey, This "prostitute" looks like a rough guy, but he can see through oneself's plans so quickly, really you can't judge a person by appearance. However, Igor didn't intend to deny it... It's nothing shameful: "There are some reasons for this, but more importantly, I still want to restore peace to North, so that I can purchase your food more safely to help Wall support. Let's get through this winter. Your lord, the Mountain Clan, and the New Landgrant are not familiar with the Wolfswood terrain, would you like to send us a guide...to lead us to reclaim it?"
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p>"Which little bastard brought a litter of wildlings to my door!" Before Hauser could answer, another rougher voice came from outside the door.
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(end of this chapter)