Chapter 466
2021-01-06
Chapter 466 The LannistersCold wind hu hu rushing to fill the house.
Outside the door, more guards came after hearing the noise; inside, there were two Night's Watch officers looking up at the intruder with a puzzled look... That's how James is. Aggressively standing in the doorway, completely ignoring the two guards on duty behind him who had drawn their weapons at his vest.
"James?" Igor frowned at the Kingslayer who looked like he was going to eat people at the door, and vaguely knew why he was angry. "I didn't send you back to Queenscrown, you shouldn't be here."
"So I deserve to continue guarding the warship for the northerner at Ice Gap Harbor? I put on black clothed and came to be the Night's Watch. Yes, not to be the guard of House Stark!" James replied angrily, turning around and staring impatiently at the two guards who glare like a tiger watching his prey: "Can you stop chattering? I didn't bring it, it looks like I'm going to assassinate someone!"
Leaving the station without order, and forcibly breaking into the Lord Commander's premises... In this sensitive place where Igor is planning to raise troops south At this point in time, it was Cotter Pyke, Bowen Marsh or Ossel Arwick...any old-fashioned Night's Watch who dared to commit these two crimes at the same time, no matter how high his position could save his life. But Kingslayer is Kingslayer after all, and Igor's front foot is still planning to use his father's power for the Queen's use. Could it be that his back foot can order his son to be chopped into flesh?
Not to mention, Igor knows James well - the way he's got annoyed written on his face, it's unlikely he's going to be bad for oneself.
"You guys go out and close the door." Igor gave an order after thinking for a while, deciding to tolerate James' impudent once. But to be on the safe side, he didn't let Humfrey go - in case something happened, a subordinate would at least buy oneself time to draw a sword. If you can't deal with a bare-handed warrior with the guy you're used to, then the oneself has been a soldier for several years in vain.
The guard who had just been shoved did not withdraw his weapon and closed the door, James snorted stepped into the house without making any threatening move, but went straight to the opposite side of the large conference table, He pulled out a chair and sat down.
…
"What do you want to say?" Igor breathed a sigh of relief, but his face was still stern, and he started to explain: "You know how much effort it took for me to Convince the Queen - neither to trouble you nor to burn the House Lannister? Be low-key, don't oneself jump out to brush your presence, it's a waste of my hard work!"
"Fuck your Queen!" James looked gnashing teeth, "Who do you want to kneel to is your own business, I'll take care of you? I must be the forward commander for this expedition!"
Huh? What the hell?
It took Igor a few seconds to make sure that oneself had heard it right, and then realized that the two were not on the same channel: he thought James was freaking out about oneself swearing allegiance to Daenerys , As a result... he wanted to invite Ying to command a war that would never start?
The strategy of this "beyond the wall expedition" was so successful that even oneself believed it!
Forcing a smile, Igor asked earnestly: "Well, so that's how it is. But—this kind of negotiable thing, why can't you talk about it, but you have to force it in and let it go. I can't get off the stage?"
"Why do you say!" James was even more angry, "How many letters I sent from Bingxia Harbor to Queenscrown to 'discuss' with you, you reply half a word to me now?" He punched the table angrily, "If I hadn't seen the ghoul you sent to King's Landing, do you think I would obediently offer myself to put on black clothed? I've been doing stupid things all my life, I finally wanted to do the right thing, and when you commanded a gang of people and Others to fight murky heavens dark earth, I was blowing the sea breeze in Ice Gorge Harbor, fighting a gang of robbers from the Iron Islands? What's the matter? It's to protect the 'North Navy'! Even Elis and Robert wouldn't dare to humiliate me like that!"
"Cough..." Igor, at a loss for words, led his troops south to pursue the remaining Others, and then tried to kill the wounded. Long pulled back to the last Hearth and wasted a lot of time. It was really only now that he returned to Queenscrown, and he hadn't had time to deal with the backlog of letters. "Sorry, I really didn't see the letter. I planned to deal with it at night. I ordered you to take troops to garrison at Bingxia Port. Considering that the port is threatened by Euron, it needs a not too much but enough elite force to protect it, and nothing else. Meaning. As for the Others not attacking Ice Gorge after crossing the Gorge, I can't predict this in advance..."
Igor oneself stopped, he thought it was a bit funny - in this war, Night's Watch and North All Fortress City Forts attacked by Others, only Eastwatch and Queenscrown barely defended, and the rest were conquered and leveled and slaughtered in one fell swoop. And even these two defended strongholds were tragically won by the help of the Red God priests and the Dragonsteel bombs respectively... In the many fortresses on the east line of the Wall that were not attacked by the Others, I don't know how many people were thankful that the Others did not call, the result There are people in this world who are mad because they didn't meet the Others? Also came to oneself, the Lord Commander, to ask for guilt?
oneself have to explain to him in a good voice?
This is really called realistic magicism.
"Your point is wrong, sir." Humfrey, who didn't leave, interjected with a smile, "The reason Ser Jaime is angry is neither your arrangement nor the fact that Bingxia Port is a North military port, he is angry— I finally made up my mind to fight against Others and the dead to atone for the sins of the first half of my life, but I didn't even see the dead and Others, and the battle was over..."
"Don't speculate on others What are you thinking!" What nonsense are you talking about? James blushed and roared, "The idea of using Ice Gap Harbor as a naval port for North is stupid! You don't get involved in the fight between House Stark and the Iron Islands to provoke the Ironmen, how can they be fed up? Attacking Night's Watch's stronghold on the night the Others attacked? There was no Ironmen harassment to contain the Ice Gorge Port defenders. Nearly 2,000 people guarding the port filled the Gorge line, and the dead might not be able to cross the defense line at all. Even if they still can't resist, there are I'm in Canyon Watch or Shadow Tower, and I'll never let the dead break through a fort so easily!"
Igor doesn't deny that Kingslayer martial skill is the best of Seven Kingdoms, but to say which fort he is in Others Can't break through? This is too arrogant. In the face of such a crazy tactic of attacking the whole line, doubling the defenders along the Gorge line will not change the outcome. One or two thousand more people can only be delayed for a short time at most; as for personal martial The role of skill in the face of ghoul tide... Even if you give your Kingslayer a "Dark Sister" or even "Blackfyre", how many ghouls can you kill? The Night King hides behind thousands of ghouls, can you throw your sword a thousand feet away?
"It's just your personal opinion." Igor shrugged, but didn't say I thought you were bragging. "I feel that if Night's Watch does not provide a hidden military port in extreme north... No matter where North builds a navy on the west coast, it will inevitably spend several times the manpower and financial resources of Ice Gorge Port to maintain a military presence on the west coast. In order to ensure the safety of the shipyard and the smooth flow of materials from North to the military port. In such a situation that most of the troops are trapped in the quagmire of war, if Others still bypass Queenscrown and go directly south, House Stark will not be able to convene another army within a week. If you let the Others enter the North to kill and kill, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Isn't this also your personal one-sided idea? If Gorge does not fall, the Others can still fly to the North? northerner to deal with?" James was excited, "Forget it, I don't want to deduce a war with you that has ended here... This trip, you won't let me open the way, I will also lead someone to the forefront. !"
Igor didn't know whether to cry or laugh, this Kingslayer, who is in his thirties, can really compete with teenage children since secondary school, how should oneself answer he?
Disagree? Although James's behavior of leaving without permission and breaking into the house is a bit arrogant this time, it is oneself who is at fault first, and his request is not too much. He refuses him for any reason... Please, this is A fierce man who has stabbed two kings, it takes a certain amount of courage to form a relationship with him. It's not that Igor doesn't have this courage, the key is that this beam is unnecessary!
Confess that the so-called "beyond the wall expedition" is bullshit? Although James can be regarded as a oneself, Igor is very suspicious of his ability to keep secrets - not that he is a big mouth, but: light tells him "sorry, all Others in this world have been killed for thousands of years. After the next round of Cold God Invasion will be played again, so you have no chance." After... Will he be furious and roaring and make a scene and cause the news to leak, Igor doesn't want to take the risk.
What should I do?
After being in a dilemma for a moment, Igor thought: Wait, what are you struggling with? Anyway, James is the mortal enemy of House Targaryen, this trip south to conquer the Seven Kingdoms is impossible to bring him with Daenerys, and oneself has already planned to send out the old-fashioned Night's Watch who may rebel and overthrow oneself during oneself's southward trip. The wall is hanging to the north... One more and one less will have no effect on the overall situation, so why not just promise him and let him lead his troops to go beyond the wall, where there is no one and no ghosts?
After this guy finished walking around, but "couldn't find the trace of Others" and had no choice but to return, when the time comes Night's Watch officially announced that he had successfully "expelled Others from human power", James wanted to With all the honor and credit, is it possible that oneself, the Lord Commander, can be blamed for not finding Others?
Just do it!
With a certain idea, Igor began to think about which fortress to send James to and which way the "expedition army" should be sent out, and quickly began to organize the language, but before he opened his mouth to announce oneself's decision, the guard outside the house stopped. There was another knock on the door: "My lord, Miss Maeve, please see me."
Myrcella? is it possible that is to know that oneself's father is making a fuss here to save oneself?
Igor doesn't think it's possible, but even if he comes, Igor is a little curious - in front of oneself's biological daughter, can James continue to make trouble like a child who can't eat sugar.
"Let her in."
......
"Good afternoon, Lord Igor." Myrcella's slender body only opened the door less than halfway He squeezed in and greeted him sweetly, and the next second he saw James, and the expression on his face suddenly became unnatural.
The girl actually heard vaguely yesterday that James had returned to Queenscrown from Bingxia Harbor, but as she is now the adopted daughter of House Stark, it is neither suitable nor reason... oneself The name of the Great Fathers' biological father. But now that I'm about to leave Queenscrown, I don't know when I'll have the opportunity to come again, and I decided to say goodbye to Igor, so even though I heard James' voice outside the door, I still asked for a visit.
"Myrcella?"
The exact opposite of her daughter, James is really big startled - he was already restricted to Joffrey and Tommen, plus Myrcella's now public name The identity is Maeve Snow - Winterfell and Night's Watch's combined identity cover-up is so well done that even after the father and daughter were in the same town for two days, he was still completely unaware of the girl's existence!
Just as Igor guessed: James' anger disappeared in an instant, he stood up from his chair, and instantly put the topic he was arguing about to the back of his mind... Hesitated for a moment, hesitated, and slowly changed it to With a tender expression.
"Honey, you... have you been doing well recently?"
As he spoke, James approached the girl with slightly open arms, as if he wanted to hug she.
"I'm fine." Where can I get better? Can't pretend not to know each other, Myrcella replied helplessly. Fortunately, the three people in this room knew her original identity for a long time, and they were not worried about leaking the secret... As she spoke, she carefully stepped back a few steps to the side, avoiding James' hug without revealing a trace, with a face on her face. Blame: "Uncle, you can hear your voice from a long distance outside the house. No matter what, Lord Igor is your superior after all, can't you... just pay attention to the volume."
Zhan Mu was speechless. It was supposed to be a reunion after a long absence, but he didn't greet each other and cried when we met. He came up to blame... Although his tone was not serious, but this attitude alone made him feel embarrassed because of his nerves. Good speechless.
"We...we're discussing some issues."
He grudgingly answers, and then there is nothing more to say. Not because of clumsiness, but because—whether it was Myrcella's deliberate call of "uncle" or her silent body movements to avoid his embrace, it actually conveyed the same meaning: she didn't feel reunited with oneself. I'm happy, and I'm not interested in acting with him in a drama where father and daughter meet. She didn't come to oneself, but oneself, who has no qualifications and position to be angry with her indifference - after all, Myrcella has been reduced from Little Princess in Red Keep to now incognito as a guest, all because of Cersei and oneself's stupidity Impulse.
"I'm relieved to see you're all right..." This is true, but the frozen awkwardness and the interest in Igor and Humfrey's eyes behind him made James thorn in his back— - He couldn't stay any longer, "I live in the second officer's quarters in Neiburg, it's easy to find, if you want to see me later... come and see me."
"en ." Myrcella is always that well-behaved and polite, she nodded agreed, but did not give any clear reply.
James sighed, rubbed his daughter's shoulder lightly, then turned to look at Igor, unable to return to his tough tone: "I hope Lord Commander will think about what I just mentioned. Now, please give me an answer before it gets dark today."
After saying that, he withdrew his hand and walked out through the door he just entered without looking back.
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(This may be the fate of a man who can't protect the people around him.) Humfrey looked at the back of the Westerlands Young Lord who was still tall and straight, but seemed a little lonely for some reason. I can't help but think about it. Seeing Myrcella's equally sad expression, she probably couldn't bear the indifference of oneself. However, in order to protect herself and James at the same time, she is right not to meet her oneself's father... This little girl has a nodded brain!
"Sir, I'm going to prepare the mission you explained." Putting away his thoughts, Humfrey folded the list in half into his coat pocket, glanced at Myrcella with a smile, and followed James's footsteps and left the hall.
What kind of eyes are those, why does it seem to be making room for the remaining two to have a tryst? Myrcella blushed slightly, but quickly explained her intentions to Igor's inquiring gaze: "Lord Igor, Lady Stark has returned to Queenscrown from Wall, and she plans to leave for Winterfell at dawn tomorrow. I'm afraid when the time comes You're too busy to see anyone, so I'm here to say goodbye in advance..."
so that's how it is, count the time, Lady Stark is slow. Igor nods: "Where's Arya?"
"She - after hearing about your loyalty to the Queen, she was so angry that she didn't want to see you again in this life."
"Hmm... tsk."
Igor smacked his mouth in embarrassment - that's an expected reaction: Miss dignified Stark, she's going all out to get under your bed, and still can't stop you. Take refuge with another nasty woman, anyone will be flustered and exasperated. Arya didn't take Needle to stab oneself, which is already quite impressive restraint.
In the past several times this girl played a temper, Igor had no fear. First, it didn't matter. Second, it wasn't oneself that did something wrong. It just took time for the girl to understand that it was her.
Make a mistake and then let it go. But this time...
After thinking about it, Igor decided it was better to do nothing.
As long as oneself does not intend to change its mind on the point of "supporting the Queen", no matter what kind of explanation and persuasion it is, it will only make the situation more chaotic. Wan accidentally revealed that Arya and oneself had slept together in the quarrel. One more reason for the opposition between House Stark and oneself would negatively affect North's judgment and decision on the land grant policy. That would be bad.
His impossible makes everyone in the world happy and satisfied, Miss Stark's favorability, in front of oneself's plan for most of his life since he planned to travel to this world... After all, the importance is to go back a little of.
"Thank you, my lord, for taking care of Tommen and Joffrey so much, and for making so many arrangements to keep my identity a secret." Myrcella didn't wait for Igor to think about it any further, and she quickly went on to say the purpose of oneself's visit : "I don't have anything to give you in return... I can only make a small gift. I hope it can accompany my lord instead of me, and bless you-no matter what you do next, everything will be safe and smooth. Just... just... So, you're busy!"
Finished in one breath, as if she was very nervous to be alone with Igor, Myrcella shoved something into Igor's arms, and just walked away with her forefoot after saying goodbye Like the two adults in my room, I ran dong dong dong and left the conference hall.
What? Also, why are you in such a hurry?
Igor was a little confused by the Lannister father and daughter who came and went as if they had an appointment. He picked up the thing Little Princess put into oneself, and it turned out to be a little puppet. A head with four legs, nose, eyes and mane, it looks vaguely like a lion, not only has the body temperature of the previous owner remaining, but also exudes a faint good smell, apparently filled with some unknown source in the stomach Spices are the Westeros version of aromatherapy.
It's a small toy with no practical value, but the courtesy is light and affectionate. Igor took it in his hand and observed it for a while, and suddenly realized that this is the first time that oneself has received such a gift since he can remember. , thinking about it, couldn't help but smile: What a lovely little thing.
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(end of this chapter)