Chapter 345: Dragon's Death and Great War
While Li Nan and more than 100,000 others were preparing to face the battle on the Great Wall of Desperation, the siege of King's Landing was still continuing.
King's Landing originally had a permanent population of 500,000, but after the Great War of the Five Kings, countless refugees fled to survive the war, and it is estimated that the population of the city exceeded 1 million.
Since the capital of the Seven Kingdoms was surrounded by the army of the Dragon Queen Daenerys, and the two caravanserai transportation lines by sea and land were immediately lost, Cersei and many nobles in King's Landing could still hold on, but the millions of people who were already hungry could not hold on.
Having enough to eat is the basic need of all living things, and when people are about to starve to death, they are no longer humans, but crazy beasts!
The shops selling grain in the city were the first to be looted by the rioters, and then to the other places where the food was sold, and although the golden robes of the city's garrison were dispatched, they could not shake the thousands of victims.
All kinds of shops, ordinary commoners, the mansions of small and medium-sized nobles, the churches of the Church of the Seven Gods, etc., all became the targets of the plague, and when the inferior nature of human beings suppressed by moral reason was stimulated, the disaster came.
Although the Minister of Intelligence, Eight-clawed Spider, reported the incident to the Queen Mother Regent Cersei and King Tommen, and warned of the horrific consequences of the incident, no one paid any attention to him.
The Queen Mother Regent Cersei now ignores the army of the besieging dragon queen, and does not want to take care of the rebels in the city, she believes in the witch's prophecy, and has decided that the queen Little Rose is the woman who snatched her son, and she does not want to lose her only son, so she is busy fighting with the queen Little Rose for King Tomman.
Just as chaos was about to break out in the city, Cersei's long-awaited reinforcements finally arrived. Her own brother, Jaime the Kingkiller, and her lover, led an army urgently recruited from the west and the riverlands to relieve the siege.
Jaime is bent on rescuing his lover and children in King's Landing, and Daenerys, the Dragon Queen, wants to claim her family's lost throne, and the two forces finally fight off on the plains outside King's Landing.
At the beginning of the battle, Jaime led the traditional heavy cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms and fiercely charged into the spear formation of the Unsullied slave soldiers.
Everyone knew the consequences of infantry against cavalry, but these humanoid weapons of war, trained by slave owners since childhood, looked at the galloping heavy cavalry, but there was no fear, and they resolutely aimed their rudimentary spears at the approaching enemy.
The heavy cavalry reaped the lives of the Unsullied spearmen like scythes, and their sturdy armor was completely unconcerned with the stabbing of the spears, except for the hapless cavalry who fell off their horses and were killed, it was a perfect kill.
The Unsullied Slave Legion is a well-known class of troops on the continent of Essos, and even resisted the nomadic Dothraki cavalry, but after they came to Westeros, they suffered heavy losses in the first battle in the face of the heavy armored cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms.
Seeing that the Unsullied Legion had been wounded, Daenerys, the queen of the dragons, hurriedly chanted Valyrian and ordered her three dragons to attack the enemy.
The appearance of the three dragons, before they attacked, the powerful dragon power and dragon roar made the war horses of Jaime's army panic, and the next three pillars of flame that fell from the sky ploughed a scorched black trajectory in the cavalry ranks, and all the cavalry and war horses contaminated with the dragon flames were turned into flying ashes by this high temperature.
Although the three dragons weakened the morale of their own army and caused a lot of damage, the battle-hardened King Slayer Jaime was prepared, and the three specially made scorpion ballistas were pulled out, and the trained crossbowmen began to aim at the dragons hovering in the sky.
"Collapse! Collapse! Collapse! ”
The taut crossbow strings made a loud sound, more than three meters long, and the black crossbow arrows as thick as fists shot at the dragon in the air at great speed.
This is a collision of the highest technology and the strongest creatures in the world, and it has been proven that only by giving creative humans enough time and resources can they create weapons that kill everything, and even destroy their own living homes and all races.
Zhuo Geng's whole body was dark, his mouth was spitting black and red flames, and Zhuo Geng, the largest of the three dragons, saw the threat coming, and hurriedly flew forward to dodge the three crossbow arrows. Bronze blue, black teeth and black claws, spitting orange flames, Rego also deftly flashed past, but the milky white Viserion did not escape its doom, one crossbow bolt pierced its wings, and another bolt hit its eye and went deep into its brain.
Viserion screamed and staggered down from the air, hissing at the sight of his brother wounded and the other two dragons screaming......
Ever since the three dragons hatched, Daenerys had treated them as her own children, and now seeing Viserion being shot by the enemy's crossbow, she felt as if she had been hit by an arrow in her heart, and she quickly covered her heart in pain, and tears could not stop flowing.
Viserion fell to the ground, killing many of the hapless cavalry, and the other two dragons had already seen the three scorpion ballistas that had shot their brothers, and the two dragon flames of different colors immediately spewed out.
Having lost a ballista that could hurt the dragon, Jaime the Kingkiller knew he couldn't continue to fight, because the horses under the crotch of his cavalry had been frightened by the dragon, and he couldn't use the power of the cavalry charge at all.
Jaime immediately gave the order to retreat, but an enraged Daenerys did not want to spare any of the enemy, and countless Dothraki light cavalry, wielding scimitars, chased after the fleeing heavy cavalry troops.
The Dothraki wore no armor, only light leather vests, and they wielded longbows and scimitars, making them out-and-out light cavalry.
The light cavalry, who did not have much to bear, easily caught up with the heavy cavalry led by Jaime, and they slashed at the enemy with their scimitars called 'Arrak'.
The traditional knights of the Seven Kingdoms were accustomed to wearing metal armor on the outside and chain mail on the inside, both of which had a strong defensive effect on swords and the like, and could only be more effective against these iron cans if they were to use heavy axe and hammer weapons.
The most effective tactic of light cavalry is probably the kite flying tactic of long-range mounted archery, and hand-to-hand combat with heavy cavalry like the Dothraki is basically the result of abuse.
Fortunately, Jaime had prepared too few scorpion ballistas, and the heavy armored cavalry, who had long been frightened by the dragon, did not have the courage to turn back and fight back, otherwise it was really impossible to say who would win or lose this battle.
Daenerys slowly walked over to the corpse of the dragon Viserion, holding it and weeping loudly, she was not the queen of dragons, but a sad mother.
The battle made Daenerys realize many things, such as that her three dragons were not invincible, that dragons would die, and that the Unsullied and Dothraki warriors who swept through Essos might not be able to kill all of her enemies.
The death of the dragon Viserion was not only the loss of a lethal weapon, but also caused a huge change in the morale of the Dothraki who revered her as a god.
When Daenerys and her army were at a low point, Li Nan and the others, who were looking out from the Great Wall of Desperation, finally saw countless undead creatures coming out of the ghost forest on a cold morning when the cold wind was blowing and the sky was gloomy.
As the saying goes, there are 1,000 people, and there are 10,000 people, and there are no boundaries, so what about 100,000 people? What about millions?
Very few people can see more than a million creatures, because there are too many of them, and they can't see the edge at all under normal times, but standing on the desperate Great Wall that is more than 200 meters high, everyone really saw it this time.
The clearing between the Ghost Forest and the Great Wall of Desperation was covered with thick snow, and at this moment, the endless army of undead was like a black cloth, slowly covering the white snow, and they stopped when they were a stone's throw away from the Great Wall of Desperation, silently waiting for the command of the strange ghost.