Chapter 456
2021-01-06
Chapter 456 Operations"Let me ask first, Your Majesty." Igor's distracted appearance, Igor knew that she couldn't count on her to preside over the meeting, so he took the initiative to speak after sitting down, "The soldiers will be able to transport Drogon into the city before dark, and if necessary, we can even rush to build the dragon's nest overnight. ...but I need to know now, what exactly is Drogon's injury, and how long will it take to regain his mobility and return to the sky?"
"No one can tell." Melisandre answered this question for Queen, "The dragon's wings The piercing on the top is a small problem, the trouble is that the left skeleton is broken by the attack of Others. Moqorro and I have some Magic that can speed up the recovery of injuries, but the effect on Magic creatures is not as obvious as it is on people, and the dragon is too big, even if The magic that can bring people back to life is like scratching it. Not to mention that its belly is also injured, resulting in injuries to its internal organs... Our ability is limited, we can only give priority to saving its life, injuries other than the core organs in the torso It has to be healed by oneself."
"From the records, the life force and resilience of dragons are much stronger than those of humans, and Drogon's life is likely to be saved. Unfortunately, there are guardians All the people with experience with dragons have died, and the Queen has never encountered such a situation." Moqorro took the words of the priestess, "We can only make a rough inference: it should take more than a month, and there is no guarantee to what extent it will recover. Therefore, , Lord Commander had better be prepared with both hands."
It wasn't worse than expected, Igor, who had thought it would be "wounded for a hundred days", breathed a sigh of relief, but his face was calm. The ground nodded: "The other dragon, Rhaegar, can Your Majesty ride it?"
No one else can answer this question, Daenerys thought about it, and then explained: "If you say 'ride 'It refers to whether it can climb on Rhaegal's body, which is likely to be no problem. But if it means riding him to fight or fly long distances, it is unlikely. The specific reason is very complicated to explain...Dragonrider, not just riding on the back of a dragon It's as simple as above, even if I'm their mother, I can't violate this rule."
Igor didn't quite understand what Queen was talking about, but since the other party was definitely an expert in this field, he could only Explanation is fully accepted.
"The situation is a bit troublesome, Your Majesty." He frowned. "With Your Majesty's love for the oneself child, I'm afraid you won't leave Drogon until he's healed. A dragon is not easy to ride, and it is conceivable that for a long time to come, you will stay in the last Hearth - and this brings at least two problems."
"First The only problem is that you cannot return to the southern battlefield in the short term, so you have to consider the reaction of other forces. In the battle of Long Lake, although the North has no time to assemble the entire army, it will be hurriedly confronted, and the number of participants is not large, at least there are Three or four thousand left the battlefield alive. Details of the battle between man and ghost, as the soldiers returned home, the daily exchange of supplies between land grants and North residents, and my sending Night's Watch to various places to perform various missions Soon to be spread north of The Neck... On the bright side, the spread of the truth will turn opinion in our favor: it is difficult for the princes of the North to choose one-sidedly in the Night's Watch and Queen when you have just made great sacrifices to protect them Go to war; but at worst, once word reaches Riverlands, Vale and especially King's Landing that your three dragons have been killed and two wounded in the Battle of Long Lake, your army in the south has the ability to meet all sides in your absence A challenge from the forces?"
"Stannis is a tough opponent." After a few seconds of silence, Daenerys replied solemnly, "Without the dragon, even if I were in the army, I wouldn't be able to beat him. "
"It's really good for you to understand this." Queen's brain circuit is not the same as oneself, but fortunately, her IQ is normal. She can clearly recognize this and save Igor a lot of work. He said, "Then I think the next most important thing is-at all costs, notify you of the army surrounding King's Landing with the fastest speed, lift the siege formation, shrink and retreat to the nearest castle and stronghold and switch to a defensive state , lest Stannis lead his army out of the city to attack."
"Is there a Raven flying south in this castle?"
"In the end, Hearth didn't, but there were quite a few Queenscrowns. I already had a few days ago. Ordered the reconnaissance team to return to the land grant to fetch Raven. From the time point of view, the raven cage can be brought in tomorrow at the latest. When the time comes, you must write and issue an order to your army. Apart from simply disarming King's Landing Outside the perimeter, I also ask you - to station the army in the Night 's Watch Industrial Park, to prevent Stannis from forcibly taking the Night's Watch industry to Iron Throne after learning of my allegiance to you... The Black Wall Fort of Night's Watch is not a strong city, but it is close to the Blackwater Rush, in With your navy and Unsullied on Blackwater Bay and the north bank of the river, and the Golden Company and Reach army glare like a tiger watching his prey on the south bank, the King's Landing defenders won't necessarily take the risk of storming. I assure you, also for reasons that are complicated to explain - that little Black Castle is extremely crucial to your future rule over the Seven Kingdoms! "
The reason is not complicated, but Igor doesn't want to explain it - if Night's Watch Industrial Park continues to continuously carry out the operation of boiling and collecting nitrile after oneself left last time, and incidentally improve the nitrile production process... …From the time point of view, at this moment, Black Wall Fort has probably accumulated several tons of high-quality nitrate. Due to the interruption of the Kingsroad and Eastern Sea coast routes due to the war, it is impossible to transport northward, so oneself can only lead the army to fight Go to the south to get it——simple saltpeter is the next best thing. Those technicians and skilled workers are the greatest wealth. Before the nitrate mine is discovered and controlled, oneself must keep the industrial park.
Fortunately, Stannis only knows that the industrial park has a fairly good productivity and is a cash cow, but it is impossible to know how important it is to oneself and the whole world. As long as there are thousands of people guarding it, he is unlikely to take huge risks. Risk to rob.
Daenerys showed great favor on this request, not asking why: "It's not troublesome, but one more question? "
"Dragon's healing cycle determines that we will stay in the last Hearth for a long time, and the night will last for a long time." If we say that originally... you may also count on Robb Stark to find out in his conscience, choose neutrality after receiving your life-saving grace, and let me go south to serve you... Then as we occupy a North castle for a long time and do not leave, it will inevitably lead to 'we Suspicions simmered that there was a plot in the North Territory. The contradictions are increasingly intensified, and it is difficult to explain them, and the probability of conflict between the two sides is greatly increased. "Igor facial expression gravely explained, "In addition, I have to admit that Others' performance in this attack was much more brutal and cunning than I thought, which directly led to the loss of land grant in defense far more than expected. ”
The fall of the Gorge line of defense and the canyon view transit stronghold, and the thrilling victory of Eastwatch, these two initial battles cost the land grant a total of 3,000 soldiers; then most of the defenders in Shadow Tower were swept away. More than a thousand people; followed by the loss of the Sentinel Building, followed by the defense of Queenscrown; plus the small hundreds lost in the Ironmen raid on Ice Gap Harbor and the casualties of the final battle a few days ago... The land grant is here The loss of troops in the attack of the Others is really close to the tens of thousands of casually mentioned before, more than twice the original estimate!
The military organization attributes of Night's Watch itself, as well as the new troops from beyond the wall. The land-grant people have the great advantage of being a tribal habit, which makes the land-grant have a very high war mobilization rate - although the total population is less than 50,000, Igor estimated that oneself should be able to carry nearly 10,000 People are on the stage for the Iron Throne battle...but now, even if you count all the adults and young adults in the entire land grant, including the mountain clan, you can't make up 10,000 - not to mention oneself must be objective. The army guards the base camp.
Even if the Spearwife are armed, the force that oneself can mobilize will not exceed 4,000, and such a small number of people want to bravely cross the entire North, cross the Neck penetrates the Riverlands and runs to King's Landing to join the Night's Watch industry. It's really a bit of pressure. In order to make others not do it, in addition to love, it has to be matched with strength. Gunpowder is indeed a weapon of generational difference, but There is absolutely no god to the extent that it can act wilfully without hindrance. The army must have a minimum size to form a certain fault tolerance rate to ensure worry-free.
In the at first plan, the Queen treated him It's just a springboard, a tool to get him out of the land-grant right after the Others. But now, as the final battle against the Others doesn't quite go according to plan, a hundred and eighty things have happened. Ten degrees of change: He really has to rely on the Queen now.
“The remaining power of the Night's Watch now cannot ensure your safety, and you may not use these rough men. Be happy. Your Majesty is best if you can mobilize a small number of troops from the south to travel north by sea and come to your side as a guard just in case. ”
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(end of this chapter)