Chapter 432: Our City

Harrenhal, located next to the Three Forks River that divides the North and the South, on the north shore of Lake Vision, was built over a period of forty years by the Black Heart Heron of the House of Hale and is considered the greatest castle of all time.

Heron the Blackheart, former King of the Iron Islands and Riverlands, built Harrenhal in his honor, intending to make it the greatest castle in all of Westeros to stand out from the others. It took him 40 years to make his dream come true. Thousands of captives from other kingdoms died in quarries or on five massive towers. Countless fishbeam timbers were cut down to provide rafters and beams.

When it was completed, King Heron boasted that his new fortress was impregnable, and it was. But he did not take into account Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons. Dragons are not stopped by high walls and towers, and eventually Heron was burned alive by Dragon Flame in the tallest tower, hence the name Burning King's Tower. Due to the extremely high temperatures, the castle has a charred pitch-black appearance.

Since the War of Conquest, the castle seems to have become a liability—too large and too expensive to maintain. Since Heron's death, the castle has changed hands several times, and every noble family that has acquired the castle has suffered an unfortunate fate.

It is said that due to Heron's reign of terror, the castle was cursed and haunted. Legend has it that Heron built the city by mixing human blood with marl. The curse prevents anyone from possessing the castle all the time. All the families that gained Harrenhal are dead.

And now the actual control of Harrenhal is the Lannisters, and there are many Clegon soldiers stationed there, and the current batch is obviously the current one. As for the Lannister soldiers, there are not many of them stationed in the castle, after all, the main force is still in Castle Rock, and under the command of Tywin, they are ready to deal with Robb Stark.

In this case, Li Lingyi is really a little tempted, in fact, there are many cities on this continent, but many cities do not have any strategic value. Even if it is occupied, it will be completely useless.

The most important thing is that he now represents not himself, but a group of people with their own needs.

Even if these Brotherhood without flags are "natives", it doesn't mean that they are NPCs without any autonomous thoughts. As the leader, if Li Lingyi's decision-making is meaningless, then his subordinates will definitely have doubts and even distrust him, and in the end, there will only be a tree falling and scattered.

So, not only looking at the main quest, but also considering the overall situation of the group, and now he has an idea about this Harrenhal. It is the largest castle among the Seven Kingdoms, and although it has been destroyed by Dragon Flame, it only looks dark and functional.

Moreover, there are not many garrisons in the castle during this time, which is the best time to take it, otherwise when the Rebellion of the Five Kings is over, it will definitely be heavily guarded, after all, it is also a very important strategic location.

Of course, even if there are not many garrisons, it is still relative to a large number of troops, compared to the number of 10,000 troops, but at least there are still a few hundred people, which has reached the level of ten times that of Li Lingyi now. Besides, they are still defenders, not attackers.

The ancient Chinese art of war has a cloud: the method of using soldiers, ten are to encircle, five are to attack, and multiple is to fight. Youyun: The army is plotting, the second is the war, the second is the army, the government is attacking the city, and the method of attacking the city is a last resort.

Why do you say that, because most of the siege needs to face the upward attack of climbing the ladder, which is called ant attachment in ancient times. Because the ants are affected by the terrain, the casualty rate is very large, and tactics similar to flooding and digging tunnels can only be achieved in specific terrain and landforms, and are not widely applicable.

With Li Lingyi's current manpower, even if he goes crazy and wants to attack, his subordinates will definitely not do it, and they will be completely sent to death. But it doesn't work if you sneak in, it's fine if it's a small city, but the walls of Harrenhal are tall and heavy, and there are guards all over it, even Li Lingyi is not sure that he won't be discovered when he sneaks in, let alone others.

Therefore, if you want to fight Harrenhal, don't worry, after all, the main line has sixty days, and the final thing during this time is to transform sixty thousand golden dragons into real combat power, food, and manpower. Holding coins is undoubtedly the stupidest thing to do.

At this time, everyone had already pulled out the corpses of the soldiers of the Clegan family, put all the good armor on their bodies, and looted all their belongings, and then Li Lingyi took them out of here, and from the moment these soldiers arrived, this secret den of the cave could no longer be used.

"Where do we go now, new chief?"

The group shuttled through the mountains and forests, Soros and Berry walked on either side of Li Lingyi, the former asked with a smile, Li Lingyi glanced at him, "Now we want to expand our team." ”

"What the hell do you want to do?" asked Berry, raising his sword to cut through the thorns that stood in his way, without looking back, "I can feel that you are not what we want." ”

"What do you want?" Li Ling asked rhetorically, "just wander all the time, and then die at will one day, right?" ”

"......" Berry did not refute, they are indeed like this now, because they still have chivalry, so it is naturally impossible to do the thing of looting, but now the battle of the five kings is fierce, the price of the entire continent is soaring, and they can't support themselves by commissions or hunting, plus there is a pursuit from the Lannisters every three or five days, if one day is unlucky, maybe the group will be wiped out.

"Then what do you think?" Soros on the side spoke, looking a little resistant, "I heard that you have a very good relationship with Lord Ned, you don't want to take us to Robb Stark, right?"

"Do you have any opinion on Robb?" Li Lingyi was a little surprised by Soros's tone, and the latter shook his head, "No opinion, it's just that I don't want to do things under a kid." ”

“……”

"Ugh. Thoros was stunned for a moment, and then realized that his new leader seemed to be the same age as Robb Stark, and he also belonged to the imp, and immediately laughed dryly, "Haha, of course, Ive, you are different, you are much more powerful!"

Glancing at Soros, Li Lingyi straightened his expression and said solemnly: "I want to develop our power, I want to belong to our city." ”

Soros and Berry are important management talents, Li Lingyi naturally will not hide his thoughts from them, in fact, it is not easy to act if he does not explain it.

As for the two of them at this time, their eyes widened after hearing this, and they looked at Li Lingyi with some incredulity, Soros blinked, looked at his little leader and asked with some uncertainty: "You mean... You want a city? a city of dozens of us?!"