Chapter 582
2021-01-06
Chapter 582 is bigger than a fist?"Igor, you really make it difficult for me." Tyrion was extremely troubled, "father agreed that I would come to negotiate with you because you and I are close, and the most hope is that we can negotiate a suitable suitable for both parties. The price has come. But now the Queen has put forward such harsh conditions, doesn't it force the Westerlands to choose another way? There are 3,000 defenders in Golden Tooth, and Lanisport has assembled more than 10,000 elites. On the Oxcross side, my cousin, Ser Stavor The trained 10,000 new army has also begun to take shape, ready to enter the battlefield at any time. Counting the recruitable mercenaries and Freeriders...Westerlands can make up an army of 30,000 people! This force is to hold the Red Dragon flag high for Queen to fight or fight against her, it all depends on what we can talk about today!"
Tyrion didn't want to say such an obvious demonstration, but the truth is: because it has been maintained for several years For the reason of neutrality, the Westerlands is indeed the one that retains most of the strength in the Seven Kingdoms, and it has full leverage and qualifications to negotiate with any party. It is the conditions listed by Igor. At first glance, people who don't know it may think that the Queen's army has broken through Lanisport and surrounded Casterly Rock City... forcing House Lannister to a corner.
In desperation, he had to show his muscles to pave the way for the next haggling.
"Westerlands can pay for Iron Throne's iron treasury debt left by Robert Baratheon, all." Tyrion directly threw out the negotiated reserve price that Tywin gave him, "If Queen Your Majesty is not satisfied, you can take it again. A loan of 100,000 Golden Dragon has secured her financial position to rule Early-Stage..."
Igor interrupted Tyrion with a raised hand.
He didn't want to make this conversation between friends too much medical smell, but... Politics is impersonal.
Westerlands can indeed come up with 30,000 troops. This number is not at all watery, and with Tywin's rigorous schemes and deep foresight, it is impossible to say that even dragon hunting crossbows have been installed in large-scale troops...so strong His strength has undoubtedly given House Lannister the confidence and ambition. If he doesn't show his strength, he wants to talk about it with just one mouth. It will only make Tyrion feel that oneself has no regard for the past feelings, and wants to rely on feelings to kill them. .
"It's a little stuffy in the tent. Come out for a walk with me. I happen to have a new thing to show you."
Is this a talk about breaking out and expelling guests?
Tyrion frowned, but seeing that Igor didn't look angry, he jumped off his chair and followed Igor to the outside of the tent.
They were heading towards the west wall of the temporary camp.
“Who is the garrison commander of Golden Tooth at this moment?”
“I am Uncle Kevan.”
As the number two person in Kevan Westerlands, a trifling Of course, it is not his turn to come to the frontier fortress. Tywin put the great character of this level on the front line. The subtext is actually: The Westerlands is ready for war. Here... From here into the Riverlands, follow the road to King's Landing King - King Stannis, of course.
Stag Family's Old Second was mean to the Westerlands, but at least didn't intend to kill House Lannister.
Tyrion hopes that smart people like Igor can hear the meaning.
"Excellent."
Igor, with a relaxed expression on his face, said a word out of nowhere, and continued to lead the way.
The war between you and me is about to break out. What's the good?
Tyrion almost wanted to ask, but finally held back. The two climbed up the western wall of the barracks, which was actually a wooden shelf behind a thin wall, followed by a group of guards, and looked towards the Westerlands.
Although the winter is still not over, the climate of the Riverlands is a little warmer after all - even the snow-covered wilderness is not as white as North, but mottled and mixed. Bare land dotted with stars. The road run over by the chariots and horses is like a thick black line, extending from under the feet to the distant one... At this distance, it looks like a small toy Golden Tooth.
The temperature here is actually ten degrees higher than in Winterfell, but due to the higher air humidity, it feels colder. Tyrion shivered as he stood up high and was blown by the wind.
"Where's the new stuff?"
"Over there."
Tyrion followed Igor's point and saw dozens of meters away. A boulder.
Stones, which are not rare in the Westerlands where the mines are full, can be seen everywhere around the Golden Tooth in the mountain range, but this one is a bit "outstanding": it is vertical It was a bar, about fifty feet high, slightly sloping, with a hat-like mass of snow on top, and the whole thing was an ordinary tan, like a half-rotted log that Gods had planted in the ground.
A very ordinary big rock, but people who often walk this road will basically have a little impression of it - because it stands beside the River Road, anyone who leaves the Westerlands and enters the Riverlands must inevitably Will see it when passing by, and Tyrion is no exception...he even had a thought when he was a kid, planning to flatten the side of the stone facing the Riverlands and inscribe "Welcome to the Westerlands" or something like that, Unfortunately, after asking the engraving master, I learned that the texture of this stone is brittle and hard, so it is not suitable for this kind of construction.
Forget it, the cost of engraving on it was more than oneself's pocket money for a month, enough for him to go to the best women's branch in King's Landing dozens of times, so Tyrion had to give up.
"A stone, what's wrong?"
Igor didn't answer, but nodded to the soldier next to him: "Let's start."
A soldier held it up The bugle blew a sound, and then waved in the direction of the boulder.
Only then did Tyrion realize that there was someone under the boulder, and after hearing the sound of the horn, he stood up from the sheltered place, and started to walk around and do some chores that were not quite clear. At the same time, the soldiers on both sides. He also put down the weapon in his hand, raised the big shield, and protected the top of the front and top of the two great characters.
? ? ?
Dwarf was confused and was about to ask a question, but the staff under the boulder in the distance began to frantically run away from the place and hide behind another large boulder more than ten meters away.
A dozen or so seconds later, the roots of the boulder near the ground suddenly flashed a few times, and the rumbling sound came a little later than the rays of light, and the whole earth began to vibrate.
Igor arrived outside Golden Tooth yesterday, and had already started preparations when he set up camp - he ordered to find a boulder between the coalition camp and Golden Tooth to ensure that both sides could see, and then ordered the sappers to carry it The guy went to the bottom of it to dig a hole, buried the explosive pack and laid the lead wire in the dug hole, and carried out a similar arrangement of "demolition demolition", just to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat today, and let the people of the Westerlands see : The martial power they possess is ridiculous and impossible to withstand a single blow in the face of the power Igor wields.
The artillery can also complete this mission, but after all, the body of the cannon uses lifespan, and he is not good at shooting Golden Tooth without declaring war just to show off his martial power. Blasting the objects that are invulnerable, indestructible and impregnable in the eyes becomes the best alternative.
Directed blasting is a proven technology, Igor oneself does not know it, and he has no relevant talents under his hand, and his solution to this is: to win by quantity, use enough gunpowder to ensure this performance Able to achieve the effect of shocking the people of the Westerlands.
"Boom long long long..."
Limited to the absence of high-end technology such as electric detonation, the result of purely relying on wire ignition is that several explosion points buried at the bottom of the boulder are not. As expected, the explosion occurred at the same time, but scattered irregularly within two or three seconds. The resulting loud noise was not only directly transmitted to the audience's ears, but also reflected back and forth on the cliffs and rock walls on both sides of Golden Tooth. There were echoes, and finally they merged into a continuous effect like rolling muffled thunder.
Not perfect blasting, but under the overflowing destruction of a large amount of pipes, there is no suspense that the columnar boulder that may have been standing beside the Westerlands-Riverlands dividing line for thousands of years The support of the ground was destroyed, and it lost its balance under the action of gravity and smashed to the ground fiercely, shattering into several pieces, and at the same time bringing a muffled sound that made the ground tremble.
A small amount of small rubble splashed by the explosion crossed a distance of nearly 100 meters, and crackled on the wooden wall of the land-grant-North coalition camp and the shields raised high by the soldiers on both sides - and as a shield One of the people he protected, Tyrion, was already stunned and completely lost in a state of absence.
A hundred catties of gunpowder is worth a thousand words.
Igor didn't speak again until the smoke from the blasting boulders in the distance slowly dissipated.
"You know, in fact, I can completely hide the latter condition from you, first lure the Westerlands into the Queen's camp, and wait until the day when the Seven Kingdoms are unified. How can I resist?" He said indifferently, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with oneself, "but I won't do that, because I really regard you as a friend, and I really hope you can come to serve as my time in power. The Master of Coin in front of the royal family, so I don't want to cause a crack in the relationship between you and me because of such a trick. Iron Throne's gold control in the Westerlands is imperative, either by House Lannister oneself, or by... I don't know Which Westerlands noble, passively accept it after becoming the Queen's new favorite."
Tyrion's mouth was dry and bitter, how could he say anything witty?
"I have good news for you, and that is - the Queen doesn't need the Westerlands to send troops to attack King's Landing for her, she has other arrangements for the armed forces that House Lannister has. So, you don't even have to Reply to me in a short time, before the Queen seizes the King's Landing and sits back on the Iron Throne, you have plenty of time to discuss with your Uncle Kevan and your father Duke Tywin whether to accept the terms of Your Majesty."
"Oh yes, I almost forgot to pass on Your Majesty's most important statement: No matter what banner the Westerlands army is fighting for, whoever steps into the Riverlands without her order and permission half step, will be directly regarded as hostile, and will be treated the same as the stone just now."
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(end of this chapter)