"Mengo, Mosocao and his Karasa are still ten miles away." A Dothraki warrior patrolling the perimeter quickly came to report.

Sitting in the big tent, he was busy with the affairs of the clan, and when he heard the words of the patrolman, he couldn't help but smile and said to the two people who were with him, "Sali, Mondo and I will go with me to meet Mosokao. ”

The three of them left Kao's tent and rode out on horseback to meet Mosokao.

The steppes of the Dothraki Sea were covered with half-man-tall grass, and Mosocao led his Karasa in the direction of Mengokao. In fact, Mosocao did not want to be subservient, but his Karasa had many women and children, and the number of warriors was small and old, so he had little deterrent effect on some towns, and he had received less and less tribute recently. Hearing that Mengo, who had been one of his subordinates, had become one of the four Kao, Moso had the idea of defecting, at least Mengo would give his people a chance to survive in the old love.

Seeing three horses galloping from afar, Mosso stopped the marching procession and put his hand on his forehead to look at the comer.

Soon the three of them came close and dismounted, and Mosocao found that they were all his former men—Mengo, Sully, and Mondo.

Chen Zhong happily hugged Moso: "Lord Kao, it's great that you're here, we are a family again." ”

Seeing that Chen Chong's attitude towards him was still intimate, it was obvious that he had not forgotten the past friendship, and Mosso, who had been worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Sully and Mondo also stepped forward to hug Mosso.

After hugging the three of them, Mosso smiled and said, "Mengo, don't call me Kao, it's not what it used to be, now you're my Kao, and I want to thank you for taking us in." ”

Chen Zhong took Mosso's hand and said: "No matter how tall the tree grows, it can't forget its roots, no matter how far the river flows, it can't forget its source, we are originally from a Karatha, it would be too polite to say this, Lord Moso will take everyone and me back, the roasted horse meat, the delicious pepper wine has already been prepared for you." ”

Mosso and his Karasa arrived at the gathering place of the Chenzhong tribe, and Sally settled the men brought by Mosso.

Chen Zhong pulled Moso to sit down at the table in his big tent, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, Moso couldn't help but admire: "At the beginning, I thought that you would definitely become Kao in the future, but I didn't expect that in a short period of time, not only will you become Kao, but your Karasa will have such strength, I believe that you will definitely dominate the Dothraki grassland." ”

Chen Zhong smiled bitterly and looked up and drank a glass of wine: "People who don't ride horses will never know the bumps on the horse, and they will never know the trouble of Kao if they don't get on Kao." When I first became Kao, I also wanted to unify the entire Dothraki steppe, so I gathered a lot of Karasa, but when the number of Karasa reached more than 30,000, I found that there were many difficulties. ”

Mo Suo said clearly: "Did you find that the weapons and arrows of the warriors are getting fewer and fewer?" Not enough of some necessities? ”

Chen Zhong looked at Mosuo in surprise, "That's true, Lord Moso actually knew for a long time, could it be that this kind of thing happened in other Kao?" ”

Hearing Chen Chong's words, Mosuo couldn't help but think of when he was young, when he was as brave and strong as Mengo, and had great ambitions, but in the end, he grew old slowly, and he could only live with some old and weak people that no one wanted.

Immersed in his memories, Moso suddenly noticed that Chen Zhong was still waiting for his answer, and hurriedly said: "Yes, I was also a large Karasa at the beginning, and there were more than 50,000 people in our Karasa when it was at its most prosperous, but in the face of this kind of problem, our Kao in Karasa did not solve it, so in the end it split into several medium-sized Karathasas. The Dothraki have not been able to become a whole, and our aggressive nature is one of the reasons, as is the inability to get enough necessities. ”

Chen Zhong found that Moso was worthy of being Kao for many years, no wonder people said that there was an old man in the family who had a treasure, "Since you have experienced this, how to solve this problem?" ”

"We Dothraki people don't produce, at most they graze some horses, and everything we need will be plundered to the periphery, but the Lazarins we call sheep people, they are also very backward and can only provide some food, iron tools and other daily necessities are produced by the nine free trade city-states, when we have a relatively large Karatha, the rulers of the free city-states will reduce the supplies in disguise, due to the lack of daily necessities, there will be competition and infighting among our ethnic groups, and finally lead to division, All this was behind the manipulation of the free city-state, and the mighty Temocao of four hundred years ago saw this and decided to capture Kohor, because the people there were very good at brocade weaving and blacksmithing, but in the end, twelve thousand people died at the hands of three thousand Unsullied, and since then no Kao has tried to change all this. ”

After listening to Mosuo's words, Chen Chong also figured out the reason for the problem, the free city-states did not have the ambition to fight for territory, but they also did not allow the emergence of particularly powerful forces on the mainland, and their means was economic sanctions.

Their current power has reached the bottom line recognized by the leaders of the free city-states, no wonder the tribute they have received recently is mostly wine and gold, and the iron and daily necessities have decreased, and they have begun to target themselves, and if they want to break this situation and continue to expand, they can only take the next city into their own hands.

Temocao's strategic goal was correct, he chose Kohor, which can forge weapons, the city is in the interior of the continent, not far from the Dothrak Sea, and there is only a Kohor forest in between, if he wants to choose, this city is also his first choice, if he defeats this Kohor, he can also make up for the fact that his foundation is unstable, and establish a higher prestige to maintain his rule.

With a plan in mind, Chen Zhong asked Mosso about the specific process of Temocao's siege four hundred years ago, so as not to repeat his mistakes.

Faced with Chen Chong's question, Moso said: "The tactics of our Dothraki have always been to charge and fight hand-to-hand after a rain of arrows, which has not changed for thousands of years, and Temocao should have attacked the city in this way. ”

Facing the charge of the spearmen who were in good formation, hearing Mo Suo's straightforward answer, Chen Zhong was speechless, you don't even have leather armor on your body pretending to be some heavy cavalry, no wonder you lost so badly, it seems that you have to train your soldiers first.

Everyone was eating and drinking, and Chen Zhong began to recall what cavalry tactics he had read that could be borrowed.

……

Jon. After the death of Duke Arryn, his wife Lysa. Arryn left King's Landing in the capital with his two young sons and returned to the Arryn family's home base, Fort Eagle's Nest in the Vale.

Built at the top of the Bright Moon Mountains, more than a hundred meters from the valley below, the Eagle's Nest is considered by everyone to be impenetrable.

The entire castle is built of ornate white stone, and the main body consists of seven slender white towers, which can only accommodate 500 people. The patriarch often dined and entertained guests in the hall, which had a peculiar wooden door with a fish-beam carved in the shape of a crescent moon, controlled by a bronze mechanism next to it, which opened the moon gate and threw the prisoner down when he was executed.

At this moment, Jon. Erin's youngest son, pale-skinned and diminutive, with brown hair, Dennis Brown. Erin stood beside the open moon gate, crying out in horror, "Mother! Mom! ”

Lysa. Arryn heard his youngest son's shout and hurriedly grabbed the long skirt and ran over, "What's wrong with Dennis?" Where's your brother Robin? ”

Dennis pointed to the moon gate and said, "My brother was lying there looking at the scenery below, and accidentally fell down. ”

"What?" Lysa. Erin hurriedly looked at the bottom of the moon gate, as if he wanted to find his son's trace, and suddenly a force came from behind him, pushing Lysa down the moon gate, and Ryza's desperate exclamation was heard in the air.

Dennis looked at his little hands and muttered, "The right must be obtained by your own hands." ”