Chapter 0728: Besieging Storm's Breath Castle
"Harry, are you going to rebel?" Sister Lemore leaned down on her horse, feeling very uncomfortable. The air was fresh in the woods in the early morning, but with her face down and her horseback undulating and bumping like this, Sister Lemore's good figure could not stand it.
"Lemore, he's the Faceless. Halton said, "We've been captured by the Faceless. ”
"The Faceless One strikes, never leaves a mouth alive, don't think I'm stupid, Halton. Sister Lemore retorted.
Halton snorted coldly, "Lemol, this Faceless One is an exception. ”
"Faceless without exception, Halton, I'm pretty sure of that. ”
The two men have been cultivating and educating Aegon VI for more than ten years, and they have also been bickering with each other for ten years.
"The real Harry Stryclan wouldn't tie us to our horses and carry us out of town, he had a Harry accent, but he wasn't really Harry, and if he wasn't really Harry, he could only be a faceless. The Faceless One only kills, not kidnaps people, but this Faceless One kidnaps people, so he is an exception. ", who is good at debating, is absolutely top-notch in his critical thinking.
His speculation is all right!
Sister Lemore was silent, and slowly, her big eyes filled with tears: "Halton, our little Griffin ......"
"Every mortal dies, Lemore. ”
"He's dead?"
"If he hadn't died, we wouldn't have been tied to our horses and taken out of Storm's End. Halton's faint voice. He was calm, without the slightest expression of sadness, as if these things had nothing to do with him, "Lemore, our little Griffin is gone, and the dynasty of Aegon VI lasted two months and twenty-three days from its establishment to its fall. ”
Sister Lemol's tears flowed.
When the group of three and four horses came to the fork in the road, the Faceless One, speaking with a Harry accent, got on Sister Lemore's horse, and the two of them rode together, and the other two horses were scolded by him to catch up on another road, which was a path that led deep into the forest.
With two horses left, continue on Wind's End Boulevard.
The Faceless One rode skillfully, galloping on his horse, and the sound of the hooves of the two horses sounded intensively, startling the birds in the woods. Lemore and Halton quickly became dizzy during the violent jolting and eventually fainted.
I don't know how long it took, but Sister Lemore woke up and found that she seemed to be floating in the clouds, and she gradually recovered her breath to find herself half-lying on the ground, with her back to a large tree. Two horses were tied to the tree, and Halton, the priest, sat pale under the tree opposite, looking at her.
In addition, there was no one else around.
Lemore found that his hands and feet were free, and he was not tied. Race Bearden was likewise free, unguarded and untied with rope. Sister Lemore tried to stand up, but found herself weak and her hands and feet sore.
"Halton, help me up. ”
"I want to, too, but I can't move either!" said Halton, faintly. He seemed to think that Lemore was bored, and did not want to make eye contact with Lemore's eyes, his eyes looked upwards, and then, he saw a beautiful girl sitting on a tree branch above his head. The girl was eating, her legs were wearing her boots, and she was looking at him for a while.
Halton looked at the girl for a long time, and then he said calmly, "Everyone dies, Faceless, kill me." ”
The girl looked at Halton with a sense of scrutiny: "Halton, you are the smartest person you have ever met, but you are not a warrior, I don't want to kill you?"
"All mortals die! The Faceless One kills without any chivalry or glory. ”
"What if I give you a chance to live?"
"What do you want me to do?"
There was a chance to live, and Halton didn't seem to want to refuse.
"Follow me, and I'll recommend you a good place to do what a real bachelor should do. Your ingenuity should not be wasted on a tyrannical king like Aegon. He'd be a mad king like Aerys Targaryen. He kills children, the elderly, and innocent women. ”
"Hmph, there is no king who doesn't kill, the Faceless One, where do you want me to follow you?"
"Go to the Red Fort first and become a bachelor of the royal family. ”
"The Faceless One was bought by the royal family?"
"The Faceless will not be bought by anyone. ”
"I won't promise you, little girl. I am Halton, the great master of His Majesty Aegon, and I will not be a scholar to anyone else, nor will I be a vassal of any other king. ”
The little girl who was talking to Halton was naturally Arya Stark.
"Well, I'll fulfill you. Arya said lightly, she handed Halton a wine bag, "Great Master, take a sip and you will be able to stand up." ”
Arya shook the wine bag, and there was a sound of water coming from the wine bag.
"Since I can't stand up, then don't stand up again, poison me, or cut my throat, please!"
"I'm not going to kill you now, Halton, you're still useful. ”
"The Faceless have also learned to take hostages?
Arya did not answer, she walked up to Sister Lemore, "Lemore, do you want to drink, you can stand up and ride with me, if you don't, I will have to continue to tie you to the horse." ”
Lemore glanced at Halton, who no longer wanted to be burdened on horseback with her face to the loess and her back to the sky, she took the pouch and took a big sip. The wine was spicy and cold, like a knife down the throat and straight to the stomach.
After a while, Arya and Lemore rode together, while Halton continued to tie his horse with his face to the ground, and the trio rode on.
Half an hour later, the sound of horses' hooves behind them was loud, and it was evident that a marching legion was pursuing them. Soon, the three of them heard shouting.
"The Faceless, the Golden Regiment warriors are all warriors, you are good at assassination, and you can't block the attack of hundreds of swords. Sister Lemore said coldly, "You're dead." ”
"The Faceless One who breaks the rules of the Faceless One will inevitably die a tragic death under a thousand swords. Halton spoke with difficulty.
Arya was expressionless, she shook her head, her reddish-brown hair turned silver-gold, the same color as Aegon Targaryen's hair, and the color of her eyes changed from blue to purple. A handsome boy who is not very easy to distinguish between genders.
"Ride!" a soft snap, and Arya galloped again.
Behind, a biao cavalry appeared, the forward was three hundreds, and there were a thousand horsemen behind, who were rushing rapidly. They saw the three of Arya, and the cavalry centurion gave the order to outflank, and the vanguard pursuers were divided into three, with two wings in a roundabout, and pursued in the middle, whistling towards Arya's side.
Arya galloped as Sister Lemore burst into laughter. Her laughter was interrupted by the violent jolts and winds, and turned into staccato sounds.
Sou!
An arrow came and landed behind Arya's horse.
The pursuers got closer and closer, and Arya and the two of them were on horseback, and their speed was quickly slowed down by the pursuers.
Whoosh!
Three arrows fell behind the horse, although they failed to hit, but in the land of one arrow, it was only a short time to catch up.
Arya's narrow sword was unsheathed, this sword was so thin that it looked like it would break at the slightest touch, how could it be suitable for immediate slashing and slashing.
The Faceless One is adept at transfiguration, stealth, assassination, and poisoning, and it is not a strong point to immediately charge the Legion.
"Catch the killer and avenge Aegon. ”。
"Capture the Faceless alive and avenge Your Majesty, Commander, and Captain of the Kingsguard. ”
His Majesty naturally refers to Aegon VI Targaryen, the commander is Harry Stryclan, the former head of the Golden Regiment, and the captain of the Iron Guard is Raleigh Dakfee.
"Murderer, put down the royal director Lemore and the national teacher Halton. ”
*
The sound of horses' hooves exploded in the royal forest,
The pursuing party began to morph, weaving a wide net to outflank Arya Stark and the others.
Whoosh, arrows kept chasing Arya's horse down.
An arrow caught up with Arya for the first time, swept to her right, and landed a large tree in front of her with a thud.
Poof!18980333077
An armour-piercing arrow struck the strand of the lagging Halton's horse, and the horse neighed in pain and surged forward, past Arya, and ran to the front of the whole team, forming the tip of the sword.
Suddenly, a white-robed and white-armored general flashed on the road ahead, and he let Arya Stark ride three people and two, one of them standing in the middle of the avenue, stretching his bow and arrow, bending his bow like the moon, and shooting an arrow. The arrow sounded with a sharp iron whistle, which made the eardrums tingle, the arrow was like a meteor lightning, poof, and shouted loudly in the throat of the captain of the cavalry vanguard under the command, the captain screamed, turned over and landed, and the cavalry war horse behind roared and rushed over, unable to dodge, the iron hooves stepped down, and the chest of the captain was ......
Woohoo blah blah!
At the same time as the whistle of the iron whistle arrows sounded, countless arrows were shot out of the woods on both sides, and the vanguard cavalry chasing Arya was hit by arrows one after another, the horses fell, and the cavalry rolled down, and they were in a mess.
"There is an ambush! Retreat, retreat!" The cavalry behind them turned around one after another.
Dense arrows rained down from the woods ahead of them into the Golden Cavalry.
The team that was rapidly pursuing Arya's three was like a rapids crashing into a reef, and the tide in front of them was shattered in an instant, scattering and splashing in all directions. The jet stream behind forms a vortex that reverses backwards and crosses the current.
The white-robed general hung up his bow and arrows, jumped on his horse, drew his long sword, and shouted, "Long live King's Landing, attack!"
A group of golden-robed cavalry appeared one after another, followed closely behind him, and the sound of horses' hooves exploded intensively, and they rushed out.
The white-robed general in the center is none other than the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces in King's Landing, the Iron Guard of the Imperial Forest, and Baron Sven. His magic arrow, lost to only one of the Seven Kingdoms: Angai Clegane.
Baron shot the opponent's cavalry vanguard officer with one arrow, and then fired two arrows in succession, killing the flag bearer and the standard-bearer, followed by Balon, thousands of bows and arrows ambushed in the woods were fired together, and the vanguard cavalry chasing Arya fell from their horses one after another, and the team collapsed in a blink of an eye.
In the ranks on the right flank, a big banner flashed, which was the military flag of the Clegon family in the West: the Red Smoke Beast Ice Sword! The two female generals under it, one was Brienne of Tarth, and the other was Zeligerda the bull, and the two female generals led five hundred Cregan cavalry to roll out, shouting and pursuing. Brienne and Zeri slashed at the front of the line with their swords in the air.
The first general on the left flank, white robe and white armor, from the Tyrell family of the Riverbend, the Iron Guard of the Royal Forest, the brave Garland Tyrellle, he led five hundred Riverbend cavalry, bright armor and bright cloak, and rushed straight into the enemy formation.
The cavalry of the Golden Regiment encountered a three-way counterattack, and the ranks were in disarray, and the soldiers fled one after another, being slaughtered by Baron Swaine, Brienne, Zeli, and Garland Tyrelll, and chased wildly, with only a few cavalry escaping.
Since landing on the continent of Westeros, the invincible Golden Regiment in the Stormlands suffered its first cavalry defeat, and all the generals involved in the pursuit of Arya could not escape, and were chased and killed by Baron Sven, Brienne, Zeri the Bull and Garland.
On the outskirts of the battlefield, Arya said to Sister Lemore and Halton: "The two loyal to Aegon VI, who refuse to surrender, or to others, let alone become nuns and scholars who are their original nuns and scholars, you have your loyalty to uphold, and I am not trying to persuade you to betray Aegon VI." Halton, I told you that you are still useful, and this is what you do. The 3,000 cavalry of the Golden Regiment and the three war elephants have now been wiped out by us, and now that we have wiped out half of the cavalry, it is time for us to completely eradicate the Golden Regiment. ”
Sister Lemore and Halton turned pale and their lips turned purple.
"Who are you? The Faceless One never gets involved in any political or military struggles, and you should have been loyal to only one god: the God of a Thousand Faces. Halton muttered.
"Faceless, if you owe allegiance to Cersei and want to eradicate all of the Golden Order, why do you want to offer us a plan to destroy Faceless?" said Sister Lemore.
"I need Daenerys to loot the gold, because she'll find that there is no gold on the ship that transports it, only sacks of dead grass. And the gold has reached the hands of those who deserve it. Daenerys, who didn't get the gold, will have the notoriety of robbing the gold of the Black and White Courtyard. If she denied the gold, it would be detrimental to her honor. Cersei wouldn't pay the Faceless Ones for the Faceless's commission with the family's Golden Hero Statue, and if she did, it would be because someone coveted the Lannisters' gold reserves, and she wanted the Lannisters to go bankrupt and have no financial resources to rebuild the family's glory. ”
Sister Lemore and Master Halton looked at each other, their throats jammed and their chests clogged with stones.
"I'm sorry, Lemore and Halton, you picked the wrong guy and took the wrong team. You have assisted someone who should not be assisted. Arya's narrow sword unsheathed, piercing Sister Lemore's heart and then Halton's heart.
The name exits, death comes, no exceptions!
*
A day later, all the Golden Regiment soldiers scattered throughout the Stormlands returned to Storm's End. They abandoned the royal title issued by Aegon VI and reverted to the title of the Golden Regiment of Mercenaries, and the Skull Banner was re-erected at the head of Storm's End.
The Golden Regiment has elected a new leader.
The new Commander led the Gold Regiment soldiers to pledge allegiance to Daenerys Targaryen, and they made a decision to hold Storm's End until Daenerys rode a dragon against King's Landing.
A few days later, the Legion of King's Landing had 10,000 men, leading generals Baron Swain, Brienne of Tars, and Garland Tyrell, and the Dorne Legion, more than 25,000 men, leading General Arrene Martell. Araria, 5,000 men of the Riverlands, led by the general Willas Tyrell, and an army of 40,000 besieged Storm's End.
In the waters of Shipbreaker Bay, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy, Wagner Gahr, led a hundred warships to block the two waterways of the port of Storm's End to the south and north.