Chapter 174: To Each His Heart
When all the Lords of the North followed Lynn with their own thoughts, under the guidance of the butler Alvered, they arrived at the third-floor balcony of the Lord's Mansion in White Harbor.
Only then did everyone realize that there were round dining tables on the balcony.
When the nobles spontaneously sat down according to their relatives, the trumpet sounded in the inner harbor barracks of White Harbor City in the distance.
The sound of the horn is so melodious that people can't help but be shocked.
The Lords of the North turned sideways and looked at the direction of the horn behind a long wide street in front of the Lord's Mansion that could be seen from the balcony.
Countless soldiers were running up the long street from all corners, standing in line on the left and right of the street.
Soldiers dressed in the most common chain mail of the northern army stood fifty meters apart, looking ahead with their heads held high and not squinting, as if they were quietly waiting for some amazing hero.
The pacesetter stood straight for a while, but everyone looked at a long empty street, and not half a figure appeared.
Before the show began, the appetite of the nobles in the north could only be filled with roast lamb chops from the Rothschild servants.
"It's a mystery. Lyanna whispered.
Beside her was the youngest noble lord of the Northern Vassals, Baron Amber the Younger, from the last of the Hearth.
The Amber family has always been friendly with the Mormont family of the bear clan, and little Amber heard the little bear girl's pouting and complaining, stretched out her chubby little hand and gently tugged at it, wearing a black dress with black bear shoulders and shoulders, and dressed herself up in the sleeves of Lyanna, who was extremely domineering.
"Sister Mormont, why hasn't Lord Rothschild come out yet to let us see the expedition ceremony?"
was called sister by the little straight man, and Lyanna weakly turned white beside her, and the 8-year-old little Amber glanced at her.
Lyanna glanced at the old god sitting in the first place, smiling Lynn.
The little face frowned slightly to express dissatisfaction.
Then he replied politely in a whisper: "It's just a departure ceremony, nothing unusual, don't expect much." ”
Little Amber sighed, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that other northern nobles began to attack the lamb chops on the plate in front of him, and Xiao Amber, who had been salivating for a long time, also began to hold the knife casually and cut the cooked lamb chops on the plate in front of him.
"Knock" "Knock" "Knock"
It didn't take long for the harmonious atmosphere to be heard on the balcony by the sound of drumming.
The sound is from far and near, and it is shocking.
At first, everyone thought it was a drum beating, but as the sound got closer and closer, everyone was shocked, and it was definitely not a drum sound.
Everyone put down the cutlery in their hands and stared at the end of the long street where the sound was made.
When everyone saw a long flag holding a pole at the end of the line of sight, they realized that the sound of dong dong dong was not the sound of drums.
Rather, it is the heavy and uniform sound of horses' hooves.
"Is it the heavy cavalry? I heard that the Lynn Rothschild family relied on a heavy cavalry regiment of thousands of people on the spot to smash Bolton's legion to pieces, and its frontal strength was not inferior to the heavy cavalry in the north accumulated by the Bolton family. ”
Many people looked at the cavalry slowly approaching in the distance, and similar questions appeared in their hearts.
In front of everyone's eyes, Lynn slowly got up from the very center table.
At the same table as him, the commander of the Tiger Regiment, Rodat, the deputy commander of the legion and the leader of the guard team, Duncan, and the commander of the light cavalry regiment and the northern sweeping regiment, Shi Fu, also stood up and stood solemnly.
Lynn looked around and said in a deep voice to the vassals of the North: "Presumably, you must be full of doubts about my choice to declare war on King's Landing, and some people even think that I, Lynn, am not self-sufficient, so now please witness the strongest combat power of the Lynn Gripen Legion." ”
Hearing this, everyone's expressions were solemn, and they all stood up and stared at the heavy cavalry regiment rolling up in the wind and dust on the long street, and the march of a cavalry regiment could actually condense into such a uniform footstep, I am afraid that the discipline was so strict that it was terrifying.
Every nobleman who has led soldiers to war can't help but sigh in his heart.
The sound of horses' hooves, like drums, is deeply shocking.
A heavily armored cavalry regiment with nearly a thousand numbers and luxurious armor was enough for most of the northern vassals to be terrified.
Although it is not real from a distance, this extraordinary military posture alone is enough to capture people's hearts.
There are also people who disdain it.
It's just a heavy cavalry regiment, the valley cavalry is famous on the mainland, and the cavalry of the Dorn people is also brave and good at fighting and the scale is even larger, does Lynn Rothschild think that this heavy cavalry regiment alone can sweep across the continent and compete for the Iron Guard?
Some nobles with higher expectations sighed in their hearts that this new feudal lord of the northern realm was still too whimsical.
Didn't you hear that the Gripper family already has an adult Gripper and a young dragon? With such strength and patience for decades, maybe uniting the North will really have a chance to challenge the Iron Throne.
Now......
The young man was too anxious after all, and several older aristocrats looked at each other, shook their heads and sighed.
The former Earl of White Harbor City, and now the Earl of Mandalay, who is now the lord of Horwood City, are full of doubts in his eyes, Lynn has always been a scheming and then moving, from a small fishing village to the lord of the port, he has grown into the current feudal lord of the north in more than a year, it is impossible to be so short-sighted.
He had a hunch that perhaps Lynn's ritual arrangements with the other lords of the North might be the opposite.
The nobles of the North often show their military appearance in their fiefdoms, and they have always placed their ace knights at the forefront of the army to have the effect of striking first.
It is not necessary that there are stronger units behind this heavy cavalry.
But are there any more powerful units in the north than cavalry?
The Count of Mandalay hesitated.
Oulu Locke, Earl of the Old Town, was an old man with a gray beard and a bloated body, and he stood up tremblingly with the support of his attendants.
He first bowed politely to Lynn, and there was a hint of sincerity in his cloudy eyes.
"Lord Guardian of the North, your heavy cavalry regiment is certainly extremely powerful, and the Flint family who offended you will naturally be captured, but now that you have declared war on King's Landing, the northern border is in danger, it is not the old man who says bad things, you have the confidence to declare war rashly, if it is only the source of this cavalry, while there is no new monarch on the Iron Throne to ascend the throne, it is not a good move to negotiate a compromise with King's Landing. ”
Lynn had no expression on his face, his eyes stared at the old city earl, and corrected with a light smile: "No matter how my cavalry wants to compare with the other cavalry of the Seven Kingdoms, my confidence in declaring war always comes from the land of the north, you have personally signed and submitted the letter of vassal, you have sworn allegiance to the Rothschild family, in this case, I Lynn has your support and why not be afraid of King's Landing, including the Stark family, there are hundreds of nobles and tens of thousands of soldiers in the north."
They died in the Riverlands, and most of this vengeance will be remembered on the Lannisters and the Demon Queen of King's Landing, but Lynn, as the new Lord of the North, will not dare to forget!"
The Earl of the Old City shouted disdainfully in his heart: "A good northern border will never be forgotten, you are dragging the northern land to be buried with your Lynn!"
His face was indifferent, and he said with a smile: "Lord Rothschild is so courageous, in my old city Locke family, the younger generation of Sir Donald Locke also died tragically in Twin River City, and he avenged him for the loss of the Lord Guardian of the North."
I believe that there are many nobles in the Northern Realm who are here because of this matter, and they are very appreciative of Lord Lynn's position as the guardian of the North, because you have a general understanding and dare to act. ”
Lynn smiled and said, "So the old earl thinks that what Lynn is doing now is ignorant of the general situation and dare not do it?"
The sound of horses' hooves outside the mansion was deafening, and everyone on the balcony listened to the conversation between the two, but they had long forgotten to appreciate the grand torrent of iron armor.
The Old Town Earl listened to Lynn's question.
He quietly glanced at his eldest daughter, Hibena Rourke, and her husband, Baron Robert Glover, Baron of Deep Limburg.
Then the old earl smiled and said: "How dare the old man judge the lord, it only involves the safety of the north, and my Locke family thinks that since the guardian lord has chosen to declare war on behalf of the north, now bow his head, I am afraid that King's Landing will not agree." ”
Lynn raised his eyebrows lightly, and said lightly: "What advice does the old earl have?"
Count Locke's grey eyes narrowed, and a grin formed into the corners of his mouth.
"Since the Lord hastily declared war, the strength of the Northern Realm is empty, and there is no name to sit on the Iron Throne, why don't you unite with other families? ”
The old man slowly said his final plan, and Lynn suddenly felt in his heart.
Since you don't really support yourself, you don't need to give a good face, and you haven't counted the accounts that sent someone to steal your Kalin Bay in the first place.
Suddenly, Lynn lowered his face, his voice could not hide the coldness, and said sarcastically: "I heard that Stannis Baratheon is a guest in the old city with the remnants of the Deer family, do you want to persuade me to lend the northern army to the Deer family to reorganize the drums?"
"The strength is not strong, and it should be united, otherwise the situation in King's Landing will be stable, and the northern lands will not be able to face the wrath of the Lannisters. ”
Ignoring Lynn's angry gaze, Count Locke turned his head to look around at the northern nobles who were still shocked by the change in the situation and continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, the widow Fliplint family and my old city Locke family, and the Glover family of the northern deep forest castle are willing to choose to support Stannis, Stannis inherits the family of the former king Robert Baratheon, and has the king's righteousness, as long as we support him in the north, the Deer family promises that as long as he can make a comeback one day, win the Iron Throne, and give the fief knighthood as he wants." ”
The heavy cavalry regiment rumbled through the long street outside the mansion, and the sound of dong knocked like thunder on Lynn's heart, and Lynn was full of unhappiness at the moment when he heard it.
The dead old man of this special mother actually dared to run his own vassal conference and do an advertisement for digging the wall.
It's a deer antler, and you don't put yourself in your eyes.
He just wanted to scold, but he heard a thin figure in black get up and scold angrily: "Shut up, you bald old man." ”
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