Chapter 455
2021-01-06
Chapter 455 ChampaignAlthough the sleigh carrying the Black Dragon was huge and cumbersome, fortunately, there was no one outside Hearth for a long time. The cleared snow was thick and smooth enough that the land-grant army transport team that received the order moved Drogon about half an hour later, pulled it out from behind the woods at the corner of the road outside the castle, and dragged it to a place that could be seen from the city wall. direction location.
After reaching the top of the wall and indeed seeing a Black Dragon curled up on a Union sleigh, Rickard Karstark, as agreed, began ordering the troops to be reorganized and evacuated from the last Hearth.
Old Guy's previous whispers to send his son away did not escape Igor's eyes, but after... They did not take him away, but divided them into two groups: the main force and the rear of the palace. Before dark, the last person withdrew neatly and completely gave up the castle.
After a series of twists and turns, the battle for the empty city has come to an end.
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Dragons are really useful.
Igor had to admit that no matter how much he felt in his stomach that the Queen without a dragon was easy to control.
With only ground troops, a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses would probably be hard to get a man like Rickard Karstark out of the castle without a single shot. But there is only one dragon... It is still a dragon that is not huge in size and has just experienced a war. It relies on deterrence to easily complete the mission of 100,000 troops and impossible.
Igor realizes that oneself for a long time has fallen into a misunderstanding.
He came from another world, and no matter how magical creatures are, they will never be more mysterious than the "traveling" itself, so... His perception of dragons has been impossible and The same as ordinary people. In addition, I know the plot, I already know the existence of dragons, I also know its weaknesses and I have seen weapons that can deal with them... Igor can't help but despise dragons subconsciously, thinking that they are only suitable for dealing with ghouls. In the war of conquest it is just a burden.
But he ignored: not everyone can look at Magic creatures with his mentality and perspective, and not everyone knows astronomy and geography and has seen dragon hunting crossbows - even if there are, With the technical level and productivity of this world, it is also difficult to quickly popularize a new type of weapon and install it on a large scale.
If the enemy ignores the existence of the dragon, then these flying fire-breathing giant beasts can show the destructive power that surprises and frightens the Dragonrider; on the contrary, if the dragon is the first priority, it is the enemy It is bound to spend time, energy and materials to build weapons and train talents... And these consumptions will eventually lead to the fact that the forces have insufficient resources to deal with conventional troops - this is "backward productive forces" and "powerful people". The irreconcilable contradiction between the demands of having to deal with a very enemy". It is conceivable that this contradiction will exist for a long time before weapons such as guns that can both slay dragons and kill people are popularized.
And it is this contradiction that makes dragons of great value even if they don't go into battle!
Dragon is the nuclear weapon of this world. Although it is incomparable in terms of destructive power, it is even more powerful in deterrence. Even if they want them to die quickly so that Queen can keep their feet on the ground, they should at least wait until the overall situation has been decided before thinking about it - at least for now, oneself should be happy that they are in the oneself camp!
With this sudden enlightenment in mind, Igor took Drogon to heart. He gave orders to the first soldiers who gleefully flocked to the castle: start devising plans for the removal of the last West Gate of Hearth so that Drogon could be transported into the castle.
After a while, the Queenscrown Guard, the core of the land-grant army, also escorted the Queen into the castle.
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"Finally, Hearth is yours, Queen Your Majesty." Igor announced after a simple salute to Daenerys, and then tried his best to suppress the blame. "But, we didn't make an agreement before: I'll go into the city to check the situation, you wait a little far outside the city, don't let the dragon show up... Why do you still let Rhaegal fly over the castle?"
Igor didn't do what he told Rickard at all... and Daenerys agreed to "let the dragon burn the city if he doesn't come out in an hour". Rhaegal's overflight turned an ordinary inquiry like going into oneself's house into an adventure like going alone into enemy lines—not that he was reluctant to take risks, but that he hated such unplanned, unnecessary risk. Although he finally succeeded in persuading the other party to evacuate by relying on the deterrent force of the dragon and the improvisation, he doubted whether Rickard was really moved by the promise of oneself. It is more likely that the Old Guy pretended to be attracted by the lure of dividing the land, but in fact, as soon as he returned to Karhold, he immediately sued Robb Stark, claiming that Night's Watch had robbed the Umber family's castle with unscrupulous intentions.
The seeds of conflict have been planted, and the plan for North to provide Dragonglass and nitrate as usual may be difficult to proceed smoothly.
Saying there is no resentment, it is impossible, however, no matter how you plan, Queen is also Queen, she is not a puppet controlled by oneself. Igor wouldn't be stupid enough to commit a crime revealing his emotions, and question why the monarch to whom oneself is allegiance should cheat on oneself.
"You've been in for so long, I'm worried you're in trouble," Daenerys explained unaware, "What if something happened to you, and no one in the Land Granters knew me? What to do?"
"Lord Commander means that he was already confident in persuading the Karstarks to give up the castle, Your Majesty you let the dragon fly over their heads and instead made him passive." Moqorro smiled. He stared at Igor and said, "Is that what your lord means?"
"Uh, maybe I'm confused, sorry. But...you'll be fine." Embarrassed, frankly apologetic, innocent without any arrogance, but blocked all of Igor's grievances back.
This little Queen has a different brain circuit than oneself, Igor thought helplessly. She probably really cares about oneself rather than deliberately making trouble, and what's worse - she's doing some random operations, and hitting right, which really scared Karstark away, but oneself - but it's not like Moqorro said, don't rely on Dragons can also persuade the Karstark family.
While this thriller was triggered by Queen's reckless operation, I am afraid that oneself is also responsible: he should have guessed the purpose of the Karstark family occupying the last Hearth at first, and should not have illusions, but should directly Siege the city, use martial power and dragons to force them to give up the city.
"Forget it...it's nothing."
Thinking about this, Igor couldn't take it anymore, he shook his head helplessly, and decided not to be a grumpy wife - he suffered a dumb loss and remembered. Live lessons.
If a subordinate executes the order wrongly, he can avoid the similar situation by alienating or not reusing the person. Relying on this method, Igor has indeed established a command system and leadership team with high execution and prohibition. However, Queen... can't just kick her out and change her family just because she made a fool of herself.
Working and changing jobs, the more you jump, the higher the salary, but as a supposedly neutral Night's Watch, if you constantly change camps in politics, it will make oneself more and more despised and worthless.
He's a vassal, at least for now. If the brain circuit and personality of the king he is loyal to are special, then what he should do is to take this into consideration as a variable in advance, rather than expecting to reverse the former's way of thinking. Igor has a hunch, similar to the situation caused by different personalities, I am afraid that there will be more or less in the future.
After thinking about this, he no longer bothered about this matter: "I will personally monitor the construction of the temporary dragon's nest for Drogon to rest. The weather is cold, and I also ask Your Majesty to go to the house to rest, I'll be there later."
"en. "Daenerys dethroned and entered the main fort, accompanied by Moqorro.
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Leaving the unpleasantness behind, Igor first began arranging the construction of the makeshift dragon's lair: the Land Granters would first try to transport Drogon into the castle, and then at the Between the fort and the city wall next to the school grounds, a dry area above the ground was paved with wood, and a large shed was erected to create a sheltered and roughly airtight space for the injured Black Dragon. Such a temporary building may be too simple for people to live in, and it is inevitably too cold without a stove, but the dragon itself has a high body temperature. As long as an environment where the heat loss is slower than that in the open air can be created, the dragon's nest will naturally be warm, and there is no need to worry about it. Dragons will freeze to death.
Then, he dispatched several troops to other large winter shelters in the Umber family territory south and northeast of the castle, to collect and buy live sheep that could be used to feed dragons from local residents.
After dealing with this matter, Igor finally summoned the army from the Wall, led by the Castle Black Rangers... those "old school Night's Watch" who had been clothed in black before oneself was elected Lord Commander. ", arranged a new mission for them: Immediately go to various parts of the North, collect the Dragonglass originally distributed to the local residents and teach them to brew the niter.
Positions are now divided, and the land grant and the fragile peace in the North are not known for how long, Igor decided to stop the loss as much as possible before the situation collapsed.
Similar to Jon Snow, an old-school Night's Watch who voluntarily joins the Wall defenders and aims to pursue honor and retirement, impossible supports and supports oneself to get rid of neutrality and help Queen to conquer the world. Keeping them around is not very useful... Sending them out is rather clean: labels such as black clothed and conservatives that have been put on for a long time are the best body protection charms at this time - even if a full-scale war begins, North's strategic goal must be Change to an obedient Lord Commander instead of destroying the Night's Watch Legion. For those ordinary Night's Watch soldiers, North must be mainly to win over and use them, rather than directly arrest or even operate. This means: Sending Night's Watch soldiers out to carry out a mission to collect resources is naturally the best to bring back the desired nitrate, but even if it fails, the result will be nothing more than returning empty-handed, which is suitable for carrying out this mission.
After some piecemeal arrangements, Igor thought about it without any omissions, turned around and walked towards the middle of the castle, and entered the main castle where the Umber family lived for generations.
The fire was blazing in the newly refilled fireplace, and the house was already feeling a little warm.
The soldiers inspected every corner of the castle as instructed. The corpses and bloodstains have long been cleaned up, and there are no people who should not be hiding... Except for valuable items such as gold and silver utensils, which are suspected to have been stolen.
Karstark's house is not lacking, and there are basically no shortage of items. The Queen and the two priests of the Lord of Light had been waiting for him for a long time. Igor didn't dare to waste any time. He sat down in the chair that was lit up by an unknown member of the Umber family. The incomplete Queen was in front and began to discuss the next move. .
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(end of this chapter)