Chapter 2 Harrenhal
Click, click, click, Zhou Shijie followed Ma Shen on the grass and walked step by step: "Boss, you should know how to get to Harrenhal, will we go the wrong way." ”
"You can get there by walking along this great lake. Ma Shen glanced at Zhou Shijie, who was lucky, "I think you should worry about yourself, the people who follow me usually die miserably." ”
"How miserable?" Zhou Shijie shrank his head and asked timidly.
Ma Shen pretended to sigh heavily, did not answer, and walked with his head covered, leaving only the panicked Zhou Shijie.
Bring Zhou Shijie back, or bring a box of gold back, two choices, Ma Shen hesitated a little and decided to take Zhou Shijie, a loyal subordinate who understands the plot of the world of ice and fire is much more important than a box of gold, there is a saying that a thousand troops are easy to get, and a general is hard to find, not to mention, Ma Shen also found a little unexpected surprise in this system, that is, he can prove whether his subordinates are loyal by indirectly obtaining energy.
When Zhou Shijie killed a giant, he was able to get 3 points of energy, that is to say, he could get one-tenth of the energy income through his subordinates, Ma Shen tried, kill a giant, no matter how big the height difference is, even if one is 4 meters and one is 15 meters, as long as it is an ordinary giant, the energy is very fixed at 30 points, as for the strange type in the original play, he has not encountered it, so he can't judge.
At the same time, this also shows that Zhou Shijie is still reliable, although people's hearts are fickle, and loyalty now does not mean loyalty in the future, but Zhou Shijie is very rare among modern people with unpredictable intentions, which is also the most important reason why Ma Shen brought Zhou Shijie to the world of ice and fire.
But then again, this God's Eye Lake is really big, as far as the eye can see, Ma Shen lifted the big box in his hand hard, it is still a little inconvenient to rush without a horse, I don't know how the black rabbit is now, Ma Shen suddenly remembered his mount Black Rabbit, when he encountered a large number of chasing soldiers in ambush, it was not clear where the black rabbit ran under the chaos.
According to the speed of his own walking, the time he can buy for such a night trip will not be too long, and with a kick of the broken wood on the ground, Ma Shen and Zhou Shijie, who was a little sleepy, accelerated his pace.
In a hurry, Ma Shen finally saw a huge city at noon the next day, the thick and steep city walls stood like cliffs, and several trebuchets were placed in the battlements at the top of the city walls, which was due to Ma Shen's good eyesight, and from here those trebuchets looked as small as insects.
Harrenhal's gatehouse is as large as Winterfell's main castle, the stone on it is cracked and faded, and the view of the five towers is only visible from the top due to the high walls.
"It is worthy of being the largest fortress among the Seven Kingdoms. Ma Shen sighed with emotion, with such a huge city, give himself hundreds of soldiers, and sufficient food and water, and he is sure to defend it in the hands of thousands of elite soldiers for a year and a half.
Harrenhal, a huge castle built before the War of Conquest, is located in the Riverlands, on the north shore of the Eye Lake, and is the largest fortress of the Seven Kingdoms.
Before the War of Conquest, this massive castle was built by Heron the Blackheart, King of the Iron Isles and the Riverlands, with the aim of making it the greatest castle in all of Westeros to stand out from the rest.
To achieve this, he spent 40 years fulfilling his dream, with thousands of captives from other kingdoms dying in quarries or on five massive towers, and countless fishbeams were cut down to provide rafters and beams.
When completed, King Heron boasted that his new fortress was impregnable, and it was, but he did not take Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons into account.
The dragon will not be stopped by high walls and towers, and eventually Heron was burned alive by the dragon flame in the tallest tower, so the tower is called the Burning King's Tower, and due to the extremely high temperature, the castle also looks like a charred and melted appearance.
After the War of Conquest, the castle seemed to become a liability—too large and too expensive to maintain, and the castle changed hands several times, and every noble family that got the castle suffered an unfortunate fate.
It is said that the castle was cursed and haunted due to Heron's reign of terror, a curse that prevented anyone from possessing the castle all the time, and all the families that acquired Harrenhal were dead.
"Such a huge castle!" Seeing that Harrenhal had arrived, Zhou Shijie, who had been on the road for a night, was sleepy, and instantly cheered up, "Mrs. He'an actually gave up such a large city to the Lannisters, it's really funny." ”
"No matter how big the city is, it must be guarded by soldiers, and the Lannister army we encountered on the road seems to be nearly 10,000 men, and it will definitely not be able to hold it. "Perhaps in addition to the lack of soldiers, due to the surprise attack of the Lannister army, the food in the castle was not prepared, so Mrs. He'an didn't even have the idea of defending the city, and ran away directly with the remaining soldiers of Harrenhal, well, I don't know if Mrs. He'an sent Alia and them to the north before running away.
As the distance from Harrenhal got closer and closer, Ma Shen found that the gate of the castle had been blocked, and the carriages full of goods crowded the huge castle gate, and the well-informed rich merchants were not like those civilians who were still ignorant and stayed in the castle, and they had already brought their goods and money and were ready to run away like Mrs. Hean, and the Lannister army was about to arrive, and he must not stay here for a while in this time of chaos, in case his money was used as military funds by those reckless soldiers.
"What now?" Looking at the congested city gate, Zhou Shijie turned his head to look at Ma Shen.
"There's not even a single soldier at the gate to maintain order, don't care, let's talk about it in the city. Ma Shen squinted and observed, and walked towards the castle with a large box on his shoulder, stepping on the truck from time to time, "Hey, let let, let let." ”
In the midst of the merchant's cursing, Ma Shen soon arrived in the city, and Zhou Shijie, who was originally following him, had been flooded by the truck, and it might take a while to get in.
Taking advantage of this time, Ma Shen roughly observed the situation in the city, unlike the city gate, the civilians in the city were doing their own thing, occasionally glancing indifferently at the crowded door, as if the Lannister army that was about to arrive in front of them had nothing to do with them.
It may be that in the eyes of these civilians, being under the command of the Lady of Harrenhal is no different from being ruled by the Lannisters, and the Lady of the Riverman fled with the soldiers, and where can they flee to them, so most of the residents of Harrenhal still stay in Harrenhal honestly, and only a small number of them seek refuge elsewhere.
No wonder the Duke of Tywin occupied this huge fortress without a single soldier, Ma Shen looked up at the huge city walls, and the five tall towers in the city, the shortest tower was half taller than the tallest building in Winterfell, but unfortunately no matter how thick the walls were, no matter how majestic the building, what was the use of not having the hearts of the people, and could only contribute to the enemy for free.
"Boss, I'm finally squeezing it out. Zhou Shijie's voice came from behind, Ma Shen looked back, and saw Zhou Shijie standing embarrassed, with a gap in the corner of his clothes, "When you stepped on the truck with the boss just now, it seemed that I accidentally stepped on something, and a coachman grabbed me and said something, but I didn't understand what they said, so I didn't care about him, and came in directly, and the clothes were ripped out by the coachman." ”
Eh, it looks like this guy's English is not good, Ma Shen shook his head speechlessly, it's okay, all the seven kingdoms speak English except for himself, and I'm not afraid that he won't be able to learn English after staying for a long time: "Let's go, go to the place where Mrs. He'an lives." ”
"Didn't Mrs. Ha An run away?"
"She should have been in a hurry to run away, to see if she had pulled anything down. ”