Chapter Ninety-Nine: The First Battle Between the Two Armies

Chen Zhong gathered all the ministers and generals in King's Landing to discuss the battle with Celine's army.

"The Dothraki cavalry are good at cavalry and are highly mobile, but the commonly used scimitars cannot do much damage to the heavily armored and chainmail-clad warriors of the Celine army, and if we engage in hand-to-hand combat with the resistance, we will surely suffer heavy casualties." Chorah, who is familiar with the way the Dothraki fought and the armies of the Seven Kingdoms. Mormont reasserts his argument.

Chen Zhong realized this problem when he was in Kohor, and he also reequipped the Dothraki cavalry with three-edged armor-piercing arrows, but the other side also had cavalry, and if there were no armored Dothraki warriors, the Unsullied, and the Dorn warriors were approached by the enemy, then it must be the end of defeat.

Arya, who secretly followed Chen Chong, saw that everyone couldn't think of a better idea for this problem, so she plucked up her courage and said, "My sister Sansa and brother Jon. Snow was now stationed at Castle Black on the Wall, and his army had many cavalry still loyal to House Stark, and the heavy cavalry in the north was no weaker than the cavalry in the south. ”

Intelligence Secretary Wallis shook his head, "Jon. Snow did have some traditional heavy cavalry, but they were too few in number, only a few thousand, and most of his men were the night watch and the freedmen outside the fortress made up of thieves, drunks, and hooligans, and even if he agreed to fight, it would not do much to the situation. ”

The words of the octopus spider dispelled a lot of expectant eyes, and in the face of this kind of disparity in the troops, it was not easy to suddenly come up with a good solution.

Tyrion, who was in charge of internal affairs, pondered for a moment and spoke, "We don't have to go head-to-head with Celine's army, that's the strength of her heavy cavalry infantry, and we will use our advantage to win this war." ”

"What are our strengths? How to use it? Sally, who had been promoted to the rank of leader of the Imperial Guards, asked, and his words echoed the doubts of everyone present.

Tyrion pointed to the map on the conference table and said, "Not far from the Storm's End, there are miles of woods, we can put the spear infantry of the Unsullied in the woods to defend, the Dothraki cavalry is strong, they will block every road to the Storm's End, if the enemy's heavy cavalry attack, our light cavalry will immediately retreat into the woods, let the Unsullied deal with them, and some traps can be arranged in the forest." ”

Chen Zhong remembered Taizu's tactics in the real world, and couldn't help but smile and encourage Tyrion, "Go on, is there anything else?" ”

"We've co-opted the entire continent of Essos, so our navy has the upper hand, and after destroying all enemy ships in Shipbreaker Bay, we continue to attack the walls of Storm's Rest with trebuchets and crossbows. Constant blows will weaken the morale of the enemy, blocking the road will leave the enemy empty, and Celine's army of 200,000 people consumes food every day, and I believe that the food stored in the Storm's End will not last long. ”

After listening to Prime Minister Tyrion's analysis, the generals and ministers attending the meeting whispered excitedly.

The other generals also added some details, such as the fact that the woods where the Unsullied hid were all but three paths for their cavalry to retreat, and the rest of the woodland was full of holes that could sink into the horse's hooves, as well as countless triphorse ropes, which would never end well if the cavalry rushed in.

Chen Zhong also gave the Dothraki cavalry the sixteen-character combat idea created by Taizu in reality: the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase.

The plan has been decided, according to the plan, after all the troops entered their positions, the warships at sea began to attack the broken ship bay, in the face of thousands of attacks, Celine's fleet continued to lean towards the castle of Storm's End, trying to use the trebuchets on the city wall to counterattack, but the dozen or so trebuchets on the east wall of the castle obviously did not pose much of a threat, Celine's warships were constantly sunk or ignited by fire pots, and the remaining navy could only abandon ships and flee into the city.

Victorious at sea and the war on land went according to plan, Celine led a large number of cavalry to find Chen Chong's main force for a decisive battle, but she was greeted by light cavalry that fled after firing a wave of armor-piercing arrows, and the enraged Queen Celine sent two teams of cavalry to chase them, but these cavalry entered the dense woods and never returned.

Seeing Chen Chong's shameless war strategy, Celine came up with a way to deal with him.

The soldiers carried a large amount of fire oil from the Storm's Breath Fort, and the infantry in armor sprinkled the fire oil on the trees under the rain of arrows, looking at the burning forest in front of her, Celine began to sneer in her heart, If you want to use the forest to block my cavalry, then I will burn all the trees.

While Celine was looking at the fire triumphantly, something strange happened in the burning forest, and the flames on the trees gathered together to form two-meter-tall fire men, and these fire men rushed towards Celine's army.

"Melisandre!" Celine summoned the red-clothed priestess beside her to deal with the burning man who appeared in front of her.

Melisandre, who regarded Celine as the king of the world, stepped forward and began to fight for control of these burning men, but unfortunately, three waves of magic power similar to her strength came, and the priestess spat out a mouthful of blood and retreated.

Above the burning woods, on the back of a giant dragon stood the Green Saint Gratzdan, the High Priest Beneiro, and the Pink Saint Laza, who belonged to the same Illuminati as Melisandre, and the three of them raised their hands and chanted a prayer in praise of Rahlo, the Lord of Light, and the fire burning on the trees became less and less, all forming an army of Burning People to attack Celine.

After the witch of the Lazarin Faun cast a spell, a green light enveloped the burning trees, extinguishing the remaining flames on the trees, and a burst of vitality turned the trees from black to green.

At the end of the spell, the Green Saint shouted at Melisandre in Celine's camp, "The Red Saint, you have chosen the wrong target, you approve of Stannis. Baratheon is dead, his daughter Celine is also surrounded by Mengo, Mengocao has conquered the continent of Essos, he is the messenger of light chosen by the god of light, Rahlo, you don't continue to make mistakes, for the sake of the saint, I am willing to intercede for you. ”

In fact, as the situation of the various forces in the world has changed, Melisandre has realized that the king of the world she chose may be wrong, and when Stannis died, this doubt has weakened her faith and strength.

With the unexpected death of Celine's ally Sarina, the destruction of the navy outside Storm's End, and now the appearance of three more leaders of the Cult of Light and other sects, Melisandre's faith is shaken, and the ruby necklace around her neck that can only be obtained after becoming a saint flickers brightly and dimly.

The Green Saintess and the others on the dragon couldn't help but sigh when they saw the strange appearance of Melisandre's necklace, and the soldiers around saw that with the flickering of the light on the necklace, Melisandre's face, who had always been the object of many soldiers' dreams, began to change, sometimes old and shriveled, sometimes regained her youthful beauty, and the light flickered more and more frequently, and suddenly in the middle of the necklace, the largest ruby broke, and a flame enveloped Melisandre.

Melisandre in the flames knelt down and shouted, "I was wrong, the great Lord of Light, Rahlo" Before she could finish speaking, the flames burst and the priestess had disappeared into the world.

(To be continued.) )