Chapter 0454: Conquest and Crisis
The wedding of Baron Anga Clegan and Elano Muton was held in the sanctuary of Fountain Town, red candles as thick as children's arms, huge torches, more than a thousand soldiers of Clegan and Muton soldiers, the people of Fountain Town were also called from home by the soldiers sent by the Magic Mountain, the black head of the crowd filled the inside and outside of the church, and the bachelor took the apprentice and a few servants and a few knights of the family, and sang hymns.
Count Murton's face was blackened all the time, but when Angel and Elano knelt in front of the statue of the Seven Gods, lit candles, and anointed holy oil with the blessing of Sister Evelyn, his black face was relieved, and he stretched out his hands and helped his daughter and son-in-law up.
The wood has become a boat, and the woman should get married, but what!
Moshan clapped his hands, and the four guards carried in two large boxes, Moshan looked at Yilanor and Angai, and said: "Yilanor's daughter, General Angai, I am a rough person, I didn't prepare a wedding gift for you, and I don't know what gift to prepare, these two boxes of golden dragons will be given to you as wedding gifts." ”
Two boxes of golden dragons?!
The Earl of Mouton suspected that he had misheard.
Yes, that's right, two boxes of golden dragons.
When Magic Mountain saw the city walls of Nüquan destroyed—it wasn't really a wall, but a stone wall—and half of the town's shops were destroyed—there was no doubt that Nüquan was in dire need of a fortune.
The box was brought in and opened, and the golden dragon reflected golden light in the candlelight, and Angay, Elano, Count Murton, nuns, and scholars were all surprised.
Demon Mountain's move, I'm afraid there are 10,000 golden dragons.
Such a large sum of money is beyond everyone's expectations!
In order to marry a Frey woman of the same weight as a coin, Luce Bolton chose the fattest Frey woman, but Walder Frey did not pay gold, but silver.
But the Magic Mountain paid for gold.
The combined weight of the two heavy boxes must have far exceeded the weight of Elano Murton.
For the first time, Count Muton looked squarely at the Magic Mountain.
When Randolph Tully came with his troops to rob the town of Fountains, and when the Count was forced to agree to the marriage of Deacon Tully and Elano Mouton, the soldiers of the Tully family were still removing the antiques from his main fort.
When the Magic Mountain came, he did not rob anything, but gave a large sum of money that was enough to rebuild Nuquan Town.
One in and one out, who is really coming to marry, Earl Murton is a smart man.
"Lord Duke!" Count Muton addressed the Magic Mountain for the first time, 'The Muton family is ashamed of such a generous gift. “
"Elano is my daughter, and Ange is my son-in-law. Moshan said, simple and clear.
The rest does not need to be said more, and it is useless to say more.
Only money is the most real. Credit has an echo, and money, the most talking.
At this time, what Nuquan Town needs most is a large sum of money.
Muton took the initiative to reach out and shook the hand of the magic mountain.
In the small tower outside the town, the Magic Mountain wanted to shake hands with the Earl, but the Count didn't even stretch out his hand, and there was no basic etiquette, it was the Magic Mountain who forcibly shook hands regardless of shame.
Nuns, scholars, knights of the clan, and soldiers of the clan looked at the Magic Mountain unconsciously.
There is absolutely no robber in the world who comes to your house and gives you a large sum of money!
Lord Moorn Mountain came with money and soldiers, he rescued more than 600 soldiers of the Muton family from the dungeon, and also rescued Earl Muton, after the marriage of Ange and Elano, if Randolph Tully wants to come back to find trouble, Lord Moorn Mountain will undoubtedly not stand idly by.
At a time when the Tully family could no longer count on the king of the north to take care of himself, Elano's adoptive father, Demon Mountain, looked as if he was the only ally of Nuquan Town.
Magic Mountain's move made many soldiers and people in Nuquan Town have a different impression of him.
The whole town brought out the good wine that had been hidden, the women cooked, the butchers slaughtered the sheep, and the cauldron was opened on the school yard in the main fort of Nuquan Town.
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"Count Mouton, I hope that the town of Nuquan will build a truly tall wall, not a stone wall several meters high, but a wall, a wall that can only be attacked by a siege ladder. ”
"Lord Demon Mountain, it will take at least two years to build the city wall. ”
"Then first build the city walls in the west and north of the town, and leave the east of the town behind to build. ”
Outside the east of the town is the sea, and the enemy is attacking from the sea, so you need to walk a long and steep mountain road. The condescending archers occupy a geographical advantage.
"Lord Duke, although the town of Nuquan is rich, it has just been looted by Randolph Tully......"
"I'll pay for it. The Magic Mountain stopped Count Murton, "Stonemasons are recruited from the Crab Claw Peninsula and King's Landing, and there are more than seven hundred stonemasons and carpenters in the Cregan barracks in King's Landing. ”
Earl Mouton's hand holding the glass froze in the air.
He stared at the Demon Mountain, still reluctant to believe it.
Moshan patted Muton on the shoulder: "Earl, we used to be strangers, but now we are a family, Yilanor is my adopted daughter, and the father-daughter relationship between me and my daughter was sworn in the Seven Holy Churches." You can doubt the sinister intentions of the Magic Mountain, but you can't doubt my oath in front of the Seven Gods. Angai Clegane is a member of my Clegane family, a hereditary baron, and my family. ”
Earl Murton said: "Lord Duke, you naturally want to gain the allegiance of the Muton family, and at the same time, Sir Angay's future child will also be surnamed Clegane, and the power of your Clegon family will reach into the Riverlands, and the town of Fountain will be surnamed Clegane from now on." ”
Moshan laughed: "Earl, Elano is a daughter, if she doesn't marry the knight of the Clegon family, she will marry the knight of other families, and my Moshan is a hundred times more generous than Lan Dao Tully, who reached out to rob the property of Nuquan Town." Angay marries Elano, this is not my Clegon family forcibly bullying people, if you don't have to worry, Angay and Elano's first child, the eldest son or eldest daughter, the heir of the family, surnamed Muton. ”
"Lord Duke has drunk too much?!"
"It's never drunken words. ”
"So...... Kindness...... Will General Angai agree?"
"I gave him his last name, and I can make decisions for him. ”
The vigilance in Earl Mouton's heart completely dissipated, and at the wine table, he suddenly pulled out the short knife at his waist, and in front of everyone, in the unexplained eyes of the knights and soldiers of the family, in the surprised eyes of Yilanor and Angei, he knelt down on one knee, held the short knife in his hand, raised it high above his head, and swore allegiance to the Magic Mountain!
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Harrenhal, the Tower of the Burning King.
Randolph Tully stood in the lobby of the tower, looking down at the huge courtyard, which was as small as a fist, and a group of people were going out in a column, it was the Brecon family, the nobles of the Riverlands, who had come to surrender. Randolph Tully accepted the surrender of the Brecon family and ordered the Earl of Brecon to attack his neighbors, the Blakewood family.
The Blackwood family declared that they would rather die in battle than surrender. Undeterred by the Blywood family's rhetoric, Randolph Tully decided to wait for the Earl of Bracken to attack the Blakewood family before sending a heavy attack, and if Blakewood would rather die than surrender, he would kill them all.
The Blackwood family and their neighbors, the Breckens, have had a blood feud for thousands of years. The two families have also intermarried each other for the sake of peace, but as long as the slightest incident occurs, the previous family blood feud will be turned out as evidence of each other's sin. History has long proven that once there is a change in the land between the rivers, the two families always choose the hostile side to fight, and they have won and lost each other for thousands of years.
Randolph Tully, who knows the history of the feud between the two families, knows how to use people, and he promises to send heavy troops to help Brecon attack the Blackwood family, and when Earl Brecon leaves, Randolph Tully can see the cold light in Earl Brecken's eyes.
In Randolph Tully's room, there is a huge map showing the geographical locations of the major families in the Riverlands.
The northern sea frontier city and twin river city in the river land are still hundreds of miles away, those castles, after the Blywood family is solved, there is no need to rush to attack, first surrender all the nobles near the Tully family's Rushing City, and then besiege Rushing City, as long as Rushing City surrenders, Haijiang City and other big cities such as Twin River City will win without a fight.
Looking at the fat of the Riverlands, Randolph Tully was confident. As long as he takes the Hejian Land, his military exploits will overshadow the Magic Mountain and achieve the first military exploit of the Seven Kingdoms.
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There was a lot of noise outside Harrenhal, and from the window of the Burning King's Tower, there was nothing to see outside the walls.
The walls were so tall that the huge towers were a child and a half size compared to the walls. Standing on the ground and looking at the city walls, the trebuchets on the walls are as small as a dragonfly.
In the doorway, three columns came out, all of which were cavalry. The flags of the leader fluttered, one was the banner of Joffrey's king, one was the banner of the Red Smoke Beast's Ice Arrow, and the other, the Red Salmon Flag.
The Red Smoke Beast's Ice Sword represents the Magic Mountain Legion, and the Red Salmon Banner represents the town of Nuquan, which he has crushed and surrendered.
The Magic Mountain and the Mutons entered Harrenhal together.
Everyone else is afraid of the Magic Mountain, but Randolph Tully is not afraid.
When it comes to fighting a war and commanding an army to attack cities and plunder land, Randolph Tully asked himself that in addition to Jon Clinton and Tywin Lannister, who were once the hands of the king, looking at the Seven Kingdoms, he would be difficult to meet opponents. Blackfish, the famous general of the river, heard that he led a large army to attack the riverland, but he only dared to retreat in Rushing City to hold on, and did not dare to take the initiative to attack him, the invader.
Although the Magic Mountain slaughtered Stannis Baratheon in the Battle of the Blackwater River and earned glory and prestige, Lan Dao believes that the Magic Mountain is purely by virtue of its bravery, the arms thicker than the trunk of a tree, the oak shield that is unspeakable, the armor weighing two hundred pounds, and the huge two-handed sword, and the real battle is not only about personal bravery, but also requires military talent.
However, the Magic Mountain is the Minister of War, and since he has come to Harrenhal, then in Harrenhal, he is the highest military governor.
Randolph Tully was a brave man, but not reckless, and he knew that he couldn't be tough when dealing with a vicious and brutal man like the Demon Mountain. This is a fierce man who does not kneel when he sees the king, and a wicked man who kills people if he disagrees.
The Magic Mountain drove away the Tully soldiers in Nuquan Town the day before, and declared that the marriage between Deacon and Elano was invalid, although Randolph Tully had a large army, he did not immediately send troops to reason with the Magic Mountain, he knew that to deal with a rogue nobleman like the Magic Mountain, he needed a suitable opportunity, if he could not kill the Magic Mountain, then do not fight with him.
The Magic Mountain Legion and the Muton soldiers kept entering the castle, and Randolph Tully stood in front of the window of the tall Burning King's Tower, staring at the column below without saying a word.
Hula!
A raven flies into the window.
The military scholar stretched out his hand, and the raven landed on the palm, and the other palm of the bachelor was open and there were corn kernels. The raven cooed, pecked at the corn kernels, and let the bachelor untie the letter from the raven's leg.
The letter was sent by Sir Horace Redwin and Ser Hopper Redwyn of the Riverlands, twin brothers from the richest and most powerful Redwyn family in the Riverlands. The Qingting Island wine produced by his family is world-renowned and exported to the farthest eastern city on the Essos continent.
Olena, the Queen of Thorns, is from the Redwin family.
Horas and Hopper were ordered by Randolph Tully to lead an army of 1,000 men under the command of Adam Malbran, and pursued the Brotherhood without Banners on the plains on the south bank of the Red Fork River.
Randolph Tully was overjoyed, and it was a miracle that the Bannerless brothers knew about Tywin's killer and were willing to tell the truth, so he immediately asked the bachelor to reply to the letter, treat the two captives well, and bring them back to Harrenhal as soon as possible, as long as the other party was willing to tell the truth, no matter what conditions he wanted, he would agree to it first.