There was originally a port town outside Haijiang City, but it had been destroyed by the war.

Under a dark sky, the ruins of the town built around the castle are dilapidated and barren, but densely packed with tents are stationed here.

The boundless tents belonged to the Targaryen army, dense but not messy, and looked neat, but a closer look reveals a faint difference.

The army of the Unsullied in leather armor and helmets was well-trained, much more orderly than ordinary soldiers, and the ordinary army of slaves or peasants was also disciplined, and the Dothraki were very grouped and did not mingle with others, and the most chaotic were the mercenaries in the barracks, who were not only of different colors and races, but also dressed in a variety of ways, and sometimes the regular army passed by, and the eyes that looked at them were mostly disdainful.

At the heart of the barracks, an ornate tent stood quietly, surrounded by a large number of guards and defenses, and no one could approach it at will, so naturally no one would notice that a meeting was going on in the tent.

"Still can't use the curse?" A calm voice sounded from it, seemingly one of the leaders of the army.

"This castle may have magical protection." Someone answered sideways.

"It's not this castle, it's the people in this castle. I heard that the Kohor people retreated in a hurry because someone inside threatened them. ”

"What kind of threat will get all of Kohor to run away?"

"Who knows, no matter how you ask them, they won't say."

"A bunch of cowards, traitors!"

“……”

"We're going to have to attack."

"Won't the plague do it too?"

"I didn't see any results."

……

Outside the tent, near the edge of the enclosure, a large number of soldiers were busy around several tall trebuchets, and with the dry sound of the trebuchets running, a rotting and green corpse was being hurled into the citadel that stood majestically on the reef of the coastline not far away.

Most of Westeros' castles are very well built. Once built specifically to defend against the Iron People, Haijiang City, which faced more battles than other castles, was naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack, so that even if the besieging enemies were more than ten times more than the defenders, this castle would not be captured for a while.

What worries the Targaryens even more is that the Iron People have a firm grip on the sea, and can reinforce and replenish supplies from the Iron Islands at any time, but they can't stop this because they are deep in Westeros and have no ships available.

Even the menacing Targaryens were in a stalemate with this small castle, and the siege lasted for a week, but it did not have any effect, but caused them a lot of damage.

However, the Targaryen side has no intention of evacuating, and if they don't go to Haijiang City for a day, they will not be able to completely let go of their hands and feet, and at the same time, the shrinking front also makes them fully defended, and they will not be taken advantage of by the Iron Throne side to counterattack.

Haijiang City is a difficult bone to gnaw, but no matter how hard the bone is, there will be a day when it will be gnawed, and the strength of the two sides is very different, and they believe that this castle will return to their hands sooner or later.

……

In fact, the Iron Folk don't think that they can keep defending Haijiang City-

Occupying the sea can be replenished at any time, but the Iron Islands are already poor, they can't afford to fight a war of attrition, and even the strongest castle will always fall into tatters if it encounters continuous damage.

However, although they don't think that they can hold it for a long time, the iron people think that they can withdraw from the battlefield at any time because they rely on the sea, so they don't care how far their lonely city can hold out.

……

At this time, Lan Li was still in Haijiang City, but he had a completely different idea from the Iron People here, only because he received a letter from the Iron Throne.

The letter claimed that supplies would be sent from the West to support the Iron People, along with a large number of soldiers.

Outside of Haijiang City, the Army's own army in the Riverlands and the armies of the Valley will also launch a full-scale counterattack at some point, and the Iron Throne Army will encircle the city from the south, the Haijiang City and the west from the west, and the valley from the east, vowing to sweep away the Targaryens in the Riverlands.

Looking at the detailed plan on the letter, Lan Li, who was sitting behind the desk, groaned.

At this time, there were four battlefields in Westeros, one was the naval battle in the East China Sea, the second was the war between the rivers, the third was the tug-of-war in the north, and the last was the battle between Qingting Island and Valantis in the southern sea of Westeros.

The naval battle in the East China Sea consisted mainly of harassing supply ships from the nine free trade city-states, led by Stannis, who were unable to make a large-scale attack.

The naval battles in the South China Sea were stalemate, the Qingting Island fleet was strong, and the river bay army was constantly supporting, so even if the enemy was Valantis, the strongest of the nine free trade city-states, he didn't do anything with them.

The war in the north revolved around the swamps of Carlin Bay, and the enemy's aim was to prevent the northern army from moving south to join the war.

The main battlefield is the Riverlands, and as long as the war here is won, then it is equivalent to saying that the Targaryen invasion ended in failure.

And now, the Iron Throne is ready to take advantage of this opportunity for a full-scale counterattack.

"Armageddon."

Muttering, Lan Li put away the letter and looked out of the window not far away.

It is located in the bell tower of the castle, and from here you can see the dense camp tent outside the city, and a large number of soldiers in the gap of the camp.

The faint shouting was constantly sounding, it was the slogan of the enemy to start training.

Will it be able to win or lose in one battle, or will it remain a stalemate?

Lan Li couldn't be sure what the outcome of this impending counteroffensive would be, but he believed that the Targaryens were doomed to fail.

Without him, the strength of one's own side is not weak after uniting, and the enemy is a foreign invader across the sea, and he does not have an advantage at all.

This distinction will not be visible for a short time, and it is destined to become more and more obvious over time.

What's more, the enemy doesn't seem to be very stable internally......

Thinking about the information he had just obtained, Lan Li was thoughtful.

"How the hell did you do that?" Rhaenys, who had just sent a key piece of information to the door, did not leave, but sat on the desk beside Lan Li, a pair of slender legs swaying, and her little face was full of curiosity.

"To do what?"

"Don't be harassed by foreign magic." The girl reminded him.

"I naturally have my own way." Lan Li replied simply.

"What's the solution?"

"Useful methods, you don't understand them."

These words made the other party pout, but he didn't continue to ask.

Blue Rite

He didn't actually expect that he would have the ability to resist outside magic, or he didn't really expect the scepter in his hand to have this ability.

In fact, before the siege began, he had expected that the enemy would use magic to attack the city, and Lan Li was ready to resist the enemy's magic tricks by trading with the seven gods, but when the siege began, he suddenly found that no matter whether it was a curse, a shadow, or any other sneaky means, he could not get even half a step close to Haijiang City.

It's not that the city has any special defenses, it's not that the trade of the seven gods is in effect, it's the scepter, or the power of faith of the iron people in Haijiang City.

The large number of iron people gathered together, coupled with the special scepter in his hand, faintly constituted a unique position of inviolability against all evils, excluding the power of the drowning god from entering it.

This rejection was silent, but it could be faintly felt by Lan Li, and at the same time, he also spied some connections between the gods and magic in this world.

Gods are beings formed by the convergence of many human wills, and magic seems to be a special force formed by the distortion of the gods' huge wills and the prying of the real world.

This made Lan Li have to think deeply, if his own will was strong enough to be comparable to that of a god, then he could also distort the world without relying on external forces, or release magic alone.