Melisandre entered the Lord's Mansion in the fishing village early the next morning, dressed in her symbolic red robes, and saluted Lynn reverently, with the reverence of the Lord of Light.

Lynn introduces Dani, the housekeeper.

"How about arranging for Dani to follow you for a while, and try to make her a shadowbinder with the power of the Lord of Light before winter comes?"

Melisandre looked up to see Dany in a red shawl, her face as bright as a flower, and her heart as bright as a flaming heart.

The jewel on the red-robed woman's chest shimmered slightly, and her eyes shone slightly.

Melisandre smiled at Lynn and said, "She is beautiful, and she will certainly please Rahlo, and I promise to do my best to teach her to be a good priestess, my lord." ”

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The dawning wind tore through the dawn, and the heavy curtain of ink blue sky slowly retreated. A pale mist floated from the river at White Harbor, and men and horses stumbled in the icy mist.

Under the Gripen's banner, the soldiers were busy saddling their horses and extinguishing the campfire, the knights jumped on their exhaling horses, and the infantry archers buckled their swords and quivers.

The muffled sound of trumpets rang out from the barracks of the Tiger Regiments and the Horse Regiment, across the fields outside the old city, and into the ears of the soldiers who were keeping vigil on the city walls.

In the Locke family's lordship, Count Locke and Stannis were enjoying breakfast: honey cake baked with blackberries and nuts, bacon, fried starfish meat, cheese with eggs, milk, mead, and mild golden sweet wine.

The food was plentiful and delicious and the atmosphere was congenial.

As the commander of the Old City garrison hurried into the dining room of the Lord's Palace, Count Locke was talking to Stannis about wooing someone in the North.

The two talked and laughed.

Earl Locke noticed the visitor and subconsciously wanted to invite him to the table, but he soon noticed that he was still wearing armor and looked a little anxious, "Sir Sheehan, do you want some breakfast?

"I'm afraid I don't have time to eat now, my lord. The outside of the city was already surrounded by an army that had suddenly appeared. Sir Sheehan, the commander of the Old City garrison, nodded to Count Locke and Stannis, and turned to look at Old Locke with a solemn face.

"Army, pirates?" said old Locke, who was a little senile and demented from his old age, and he didn't understand where an army would come out to attack the old city.

As we all know, Stannis and his army are visiting the old city harbor, and counting the soldiers on both sides, this ancient castle has been crammed with nearly three thousand fighting forces.

"The enemy is not by the sea, but on the land, the north and west gates, my lord. Sir Sheehan reminded.

To the north? There's White Harbor City, is it the army from White Harbor?

The sudden appearance indicates that the army is likely to have marched overnight.

Count Locke suddenly realized the gravity,

He got up in a panic, hesitated too quickly, his knees pressed against the table, the pain almost making him faint.

Old Locke ignored the pain, took a breath of cold air, and shouted with no grace: "Quick, gather the army." ”

Stannis took a sip of the wine in his glass, frowned and turned his head to look at the onion knight behind him, Davos Seaworth nodded to the former, and left with the knight's sword at his waist with Sir Sheehan, he was going to rush back to Stannis's barracks immediately, just in case.

Groups of fully armed soldiers, led by the leader, went to the walls of the old city.

The streets and squares were full of flags and soldiers holding two crossed bronze keys on a purple background and white stripe on a purple background and soldiers of the Deer family.

The closed gates were crowded with residents who wanted to leave the city, and the garrison of the city drove them away with weapons, and the bell tower in the center of the old city rang the deafening bell for the first time in a long time.

The scouts sent the latest information, confirming that an army of 2,000 Gripens claimed to have come to fight against Stannis, and the army surrounded the west and north gates of the old city, and more than a dozen siege trebuchets were lined up in the wilderness outside the city.

The eldest brother of the late King Robert Baratheon, Duke of Dragonstone, known as King Stannis Baratheon, sat high in the Old Town Hall, tall and balding like his older brother, with a broad chin and a thick black beard.

At this moment, Count Oulu Locke, who was looking pale, said slowly: "Then Lynn sent the Gripen Legion to attack the old city, claiming that it was to crusade against me, the killer of my brother, Oulu, you can open the city gate and let my army go out of the city to fight, so that it will not affect the innocent residents of the old city." ”

Count Oulu Locke is old, but he is not dizzy, he looked at Stannis on his left, and said firmly: "Your Majesty, I have sworn allegiance to you, since the young wolf lord Robb died in the Riverlands, the north has been occupied by Lynn's guys, before he has sent troops to attack the widow Wangfilint family who swore allegiance to you, and now he has raised the butcher's knife to the old city, and I, the Locke family, have sworn to advance and retreat with Your Majesty." ”

Stannis Baratheon has a typical second-child personality.

In aristocratic families, with a few exceptions, most of the time the eldest son is cultivated as an heir, cultivating the eldest son's communication ability and leadership, and cultivating the temperament of the overlord of his side, and the eldest son himself is also a popular object of marriage.

Stannis has Robert's eldest brother above, and as the second son, he can only be cultivated as a spare tire for the heir, in case of an accident to the heir, the second son can be replaced at any time. Therefore, from an early age, this second son was taught to obey the eldest son. Even though this second son has certain leadership skills, he is still unable to truly take charge of himself because he has been taught to be obedient since he was a child.

This kind of upbringing also made Stannis Baratheon develop a cautious, rigid, unexpressive, serious and stubborn character.

He always bites his lip, stubborn, forbearing, his parents don't give him much love, he is not humorous, not sunny, not friendly.

Hearing Count Locke's statement, Stannis reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said: "It is said that the army from White Harbor is only two thousand, are they going to use this army to attack the old city, I estimate that this siege wants to force me to leave the north, he is expressing his dissatisfaction with my efforts to win over the nobles of the north." ”

Oulu Locke sneered and said: "The Rothschilds are not comparable to Stark, how can it be so easy to really win the support of all the nobles in the north, before he took the initiative to deprive the Kastark family of Kahoe City at the vassal conference, it is simply bold." ”

As the patriarch of an ancient family in the Northlands, Oulu Locke has repeatedly expressed disrespect for Lynn as an upstart, believing that Lynn is a land stealer and that his reputation is simply not enough to rule the North.

Moreover, he thought that Lynn's Gripen Legion could successfully defeat Bolton's Skinners legion, which must have used shady means, because the old city was very close to the fishing village harbor of the Rothschilds' previous territory, and he did not believe that such a broken fishing village could breed an army that swept away the Skinners.

Oulu Locke stubbornly believes that everything that Lynn has reached now is due to shit luck.

The old-fashioned nobles believe more in family inheritance and noble prestige, and the Baratheon family, as the blood family of the king, is more qualified to be favored by the nobles.

All it takes is one chance to expose Lynn's false prowess for the Northerners to choose to side with Stannis, who will learn the lessons of the last defeat at Blackwater and eventually ascend to the Iron Throne.

Stannis looked at Oulu and nodded: "There are thousands of troops in the old city now, and they can't conquer it with only two thousand people, but the old city can't be besieged indefinitely, we need to find a way to make the inflated Lynn have a long memory." ”

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