Chapter 354: The Night King Shoots a Dragon Wound
According to the plan, Artemisia and Sir Jorah led a thousand warships to attack the Iron Islands fleet, which had only 400 ships in the waters off Dragonstone.
At the beginning, relying on the superiority in the number of warships, the allied fleet had an absolute upper hand, but in the middle of the battle, nearly 800 warships suddenly appeared from the northern seas, and the addition of these new forces suddenly changed the situation on the battlefield.
Despite Artemisia's command skills, the coalition fleet eventually lost nearly 500 ships and retreated.
When the news of the Battle of Dragonstone spread, everyone found out that they had underestimated the current King of the Iron Islands, Euron.
In the eyes of all the nobles in the Seven Kingdoms, the Greyjoy family and the Iron People on the Iron Islands are just some unruly and indiscriminate shameless pirates, although they are disgusted, but they all think that they are not very harmful.
These ironclad people are unwilling to submit to anyone, and have rebelled many times in history.
The most recent was when the Starks, Lannisters, and Baratheons were destroyed together, all ships were burned, two sons of Baron, King of the Iron Islands, were killed, his younger brother Euron was missing, and the only remaining son, Theon, was sent to Winterfell as a hostage.
During the War of the Five Kings, Baron saw that the opportunity had come, and immediately reneged on his original oath, taking advantage of Robb's army to attack the north, occupying several cities such as Winterfell and Deepwood, but was later killed and expelled by the Skinning family, and the ambition to occupy the north failed again.
This time, Euron led the Iron People pirates to attack, and successively attacked several of the richest cities in the south, plundering wealth and slaves, and it seemed that he was still insatiable, but no one expected that his goal was not the money.
After many years of wandering, Eulun, who had only recently returned, knew the disadvantage of the Iron Islands, that is, there were few people in the land, and they were not enough to fight with any family, so he changed his strategy.
The Lannister family, known as the richest in the Seven Kingdoms, have several gold mines in their territory, and although the gold in these mines has been mined in recent years, these riches are stored in Kaiyan City.
Euron first attacked the richest cities of Castle Rock and Lannister Harbor in order to obtain the first pot of gold to carry out his next plan, which was to feed the war with war.
The slave owners of the continent of Essos have a wealth of experience in taming slaves, and those unsullied warriors who are famous, loyal, and fearless of life and death are among their commodities.
Using the women, children, and money he had stolen from several cities, Euron had exchanged the slave owners for a large number of Unsullied warriors, and he later used the gold stored by the Lannisters for years to buy a large number of warships in the trading city of Braavos.
While everyone thought that Euron had only a few hundred warships and seven or eight thousand Iron People pirates, he actually had a super fleet of more than 1,200 ships and 30,000 warriors.
When the news of the defeat of Artemisia and Ser Jorah came, the coalition led by Leenan, Jaime, and Daenerys had already arrived in the Tricha River Valley.
After reading the message from the Crow, Jaime said apologetically, "Leo, I'm sorry. Euron's fleet is on Dragonstone, and I'm worried he'll attack King's Landing, so you should know about me, so I'll have to take my troops back to defend against the Iron Pirates! ”
Of course, Li Nan didn't want Jaime to return with a third of his troops, but his lover and children were in King's Landing, and there was a fierce and cunning Euron nearby, and even if he didn't agree, he would definitely go back.
"Go ahead, I understand you." In this case, Li Nan could only say helplessly.
Seeing Jaime leading a large number of troops towards King's Landing, Li Nan looked at the beautiful Dragon Queen beside him and said, "Daenerys, you don't want to withdraw your troops too, do you?" ”
Seeing Li Nan's worried expression, Daenerys smiled and said, "Don't worry, you want to protect those innocent people, and I'm the same, let's go quickly." ”
Daenerys, the queen of the dragons, led her troops to the Seven Kingdoms this time, although she wanted to get the position of the Iron Throne and the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, but she was indeed very different from Cersei.
After the overthrow of the Targaryen dynasty, she followed the cruel, abusive, anger-provoking, and violent brother Viserys into exile, hiding from a killer sent by King Robert.
During these precarious years, Daenerys grew up, but she soon became a bargaining chip for her brother's army and was married to the horse king Drogo Kao.
After accidentally hatching three dragons, Daenerys was able to strike her enemies one by one, capture the three major cities of Slave Bay, gain the support of the Unsullied Legion and the Dothraki, and after all the ordeals, she still maintained her true heart, still a righteous and kind girl.
When Li Nan and Daenerys arrived at Carlin Bay with their army, the defense line was almost overwhelmed by the lack of obsidian weapons.
Seeing that the situation in front of her was very critical, Daenerys shouted in High Valyrian: "Spit fire! ”
When the two dragons flying in the air heard the command, they swooped down, and the dragon's mouth spewed out columns of high-temperature flames of different colors, plowing two charred black ravines in the dense swarm of ghouls.
With these two dragons in the battle with the ability to kill in groups, the ghouls who were afraid of the flames were killed, and large swaths were burned to death, and all the soldiers in Carlin Bay cheered.
The two dragons were so conspicuous that they quickly caught the attention of the Night King, the leader of the Alien Legion.
The pale king of the strange ghosts, with blue eyes glowing, looked at the dragon in the air with an expressionless face, and slowly drew the ice spear behind his back.
Li Nan, who had seen the Night King's powerful abilities, happened to see its movements with a telescope, and hurriedly warned the two giant dragons hovering in the air in a loud voice in beast language: "Come back quickly!" ”
Although Daenerys didn't know what was happening, it was the first time she was excited to see Li Nan, so she also ordered in High Valyrian language: "Come back!" ”
The two dragons hadn't had enough of it, but they quickly turned back, the icy spear that had been aimed at them grazing the dragon's wings.
Although the silver-white ice spear shot by the Night King did not hit the bodies of the two dragons, it only grazed the dragon's wings, but the left wing of the black dragon Zhuo Geng was immediately covered by silver-white cold air, and after losing the sensation of one wing, it staggered and fell to the ground.
Looking at the dragon that fell down with its right wing, Li Nan hurriedly said to Daenerys beside him, "Hurry up and let Rego go to Drogon's left and help it land!" ”
Daenerys was reminded by Li Nan and immediately commanded the two dragons, and with the help of Rego, after the unbalanced Zogen, he landed, although he knocked down the two guard towers, but fortunately he was not too seriously injured.
Daenerys ran to Drogon's side, and could see the silver-white cold air that enveloped the dragon's wings spreading upward, and she wept bitterly as she looked at her child's screaming in pain.
The last time he dealt with the Night King's ice spell was the red-robed priestess who solved it, so seeing that the dragon was injured, Li Nan immediately asked Tyrion, "What about Melisandre?" ”
Tyrion took a scroll of paper from his bosom and handed it to Lee, "Melisandre disappeared after you left, leaving you with a letter as she left. ”
The letter didn't say much, and Melisandre confessed her whereabouts.
The Night King and the Wraiths are the Lord of Light's worst enemies, so this time she is returning to the headquarters of the Church of Light on the other side of the Narrow Sea, hoping to bring more church sacrifices to help.
There are many gods in this world, but as far as Li Nan knows, except for the old gods worshiped by the freedmen of the northern and outer regions, and the Lord of Light, whom Melisandre believes, no other gods have been revealed.
After seeing Melisandre's magic and the miracle of the resurrection of the red-robed monk Soros, Li Nan knew that the sacrifices and monks of the Church of Light were somewhat capable, but he didn't know how many living sacrifices they planned to take this time.
Since Melisandre was not there, Li Nan looked at the injured dragon Zhuo Geng with some hesitation. He had a way to heal Drogon, but it was a bit risky.
Considering that Daenerys sent someone to help, and her dragon was also injured as a result, Li Nan decided to give it a try.