As soon as Old Tywin said this, several generals looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

In their eyes, although Stannis is indeed not too strong, it will not be reduced to a waste, right?

"What, do you have an opinion?" Seeing that everyone was silent, Tywin raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Okay, then let me ask you, don't you think there's anything wrong with Stannis?"

Wrong?

Several of the generals didn't react immediately, but Jaime was a little clever this time, and immediately thought of something, "That's right! His march is too slow!"

"That's right. Tywin gave Jaime an appreciative look and said, "At a normal rate, Stannis should be past King's Landing by now, but according to the scouts, they're still twenty or thirty miles away from King's Landing." At this speed, are all his soldiers turtles?"

"This ......" James thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he was surprised, "Could it be that he wanted to ......"

"That's right!" Tywin waved his hand calmly, "Stannis is a member of the Six Great Families Alliance, but he actually wants to sit on the Iron Throne himself. That's why he dragged his feet behind, I'm afraid it was the fight between us and Ivey, and then he himself took advantage of the chaos to sneak down the idea of King's Landing. ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and exchanged glances with each other, they really didn't think of this, thinking that the six major families were really monolithic, but now that they think about it, it is really impossible.

At this point, Tywin seemed to be in a mood and continued to criticize, "It's not just Stannis, Ivey is a piece of shit. He scoffed, and Jaime was faintly surprised that he had never seen his father look like this.

"I don't have any background at all, I want to ride on the head of the five-hundred-year-old family, I really don't know whether to live or die. The more Tywin spoke, the more excited he became, and he even laughed, "Haha, look at it, what kind of Northern Coalition army, as long as there is a slight defeat, it will be self-defeating, besides-"

Tywin paused, realized something, and didn't continue.

The generals didn't ask, they knew that Tywin was a man of many secrets, and many plans were known only to him, not even his own son, and only trusted his own abilities, which was Tywin.

In fact, what Tywin said, Li Lingyi himself knows.

He knew that according to the normal plan, Stannis was already about to arrive here at this time, but looking at the steady posture of the Southern Army, it was obvious that he did not come.

In the conference room before, Li Lingyi let Stannis be king after he didn't agree to defeat the enemy, which probably also made him feel suspicious.

In fact, he had thought of this in hindsight, but he didn't expect Stannis to really abandon the safety of the entire coalition army for the sake of this disagreement.

It seems like a beautiful ending for the alliance forces of the North and the South to seize King's Landing by themselves, but will it really go so smoothly?

Yes, provided that old Tywin is a fool.

If Li Lingyi guessed correctly, there would definitely be at least 5,000 elite soldiers left in King's Landing, and at the same time, there were generals who were good at commanding.

According to his reckoning, Tywin must have left the little demon Tyrion in King's Landing, after all, the latter had already demonstrated his command skills in the last Battle of King's Landing.

In that difficult situation, the little devil can hold up, not to mention that now the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and the food is sufficient. In this case, even if Stannis used up his 10,000 men, he would not be able to step into King's Landing!

What is the meaning of the coalition army? It is a pair of chopsticks, one for each family, which can be easily broken by the powerful Lannisters. But a pair of chopsticks is very difficult, and there is even a chance to poke the person who broke the chopsticks to death.

And now Stannis's approach is completely self-defeating, Li Lingyi is also quite disappointed, he still has a good feeling, but now it has all dissipated.

However, without Stannis's 10,000 men, the coalition army still has 50,000, which is about the same as the Southern Army, and as long as there are no major mistakes in the short term, it should not be defeated quickly.

And......

Li Ling turned his head and looked back, behind a camp tent, there were more than a dozen baggage carts covered with black cloth, these cars were all from the flagless family, and other families didn't know what was inside.

Ian and others also proposed to take a look, but Li Lingyi refused in the name of "secret weapon", which also made several generals a little dissatisfied, but there was nothing they could do.

Among the soldiers, there was speculation that the contents of the black cloth cart were the weapons that Li Lingyi had used to repel the Lannister siege army in Harrenhal, and that could throw iron buckets thousands of miles away.

In fact, these soldiers really guessed correctly, but inside this black cloth cart is a catapult, but the important thing is that it is a modified version, and it is also a parts version!

After this period of improvement, this catapult has several more combat functions, and at the same time, Li Lingyi also dismantled it into easy-to-carry parts, which need to be quickly put together by the craftsmen who accompany the army.

This is not only easy to carry, the most important thing is that even if these parts are captured by the enemy, they will definitely not be able to study how to put them together in a short period of time, even the craftsmen under Li Ling are only one person can only put together a part, and five people can put together a whole!

As for the specific functions of the improved catapult, it will be reflected when he fights again, and Li Lingyi is sure that he can surprise Old Tywin.

After that, the two sides fell into a protracted stalemate.

Li Lingyi didn't want to attack, and Old Tywin was also dragging on, and it dragged on for a whole day before the Southern Army began to slowly move forward.

The closer he got, the more nervous Ian became, he had been in this state since Rams had said that there were 10,000 heavy cavalry, for fear that the infantry on the opposite side would scatter left and right, and the cavalry would rush over.

But when the distance between the two sides was less than three hundred meters, he let go of his breath. After all, the lethality of the cavalry needs an acceleration, and the farther it rushes, the greater the momentum. If you get close and then charge, you won't be able to give full play to the advantage of the heavy cavalry.

And looking at the current momentum, Old Tywin obviously wants to fight a foot battle, this is the battle that most tests the combat quality of the soldiers on both sides, facing each other head-on, and it is clear who is strong and who is weak. To be honest, Li Lingyi didn't want to see this kind of scene appear, but now he could only let the infantry prepare for a fierce charge, not to mention that at least he couldn't be overwhelmed by the formation.

After all, although the combat effectiveness is weaker, if you lose as soon as you see it, then Soros's long-range attack will not be effective, because old Tywin definitely has the courage to cut the wrists of a strong man, regardless of his hometown, he will directly march north with a large army, and take down Harrenhal, Riverrun and other cities in one go!

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