"Here they are. Ma Shen, who was patrolling the city wall, happened to see a red wave in the distance, and immediately reacted quickly and roared at all the recruits, "Raise your spear!"

"Raise your spear!"

"Raise your spear!"

With a roar from Ma Shen, all the soldiers who heard the shout repeated Ma Shen's words aloud as Ma Shen had instructed, while holding the bottom of the spear tightly and raising the spear in his hand.

"Raise your spear!"

"Raise your spear!"

Although there were only a few 100 people, the sound was deafening, spreading from the west side of the city wall to the east side, making the hearts of all the soldiers present inexplicably steady.

This is a simple method used by Ma Shen, I heard that there is some scientific evidence, people are social animals, through the shouts one after another, let the recruits on the city wall know that they are not fighting alone, and there are many companions around them to fight, which will give them a lot of courage.

The shouting time was always short, and after the shouting, the city walls fell silent one after another, and everyone nervously looked at the Lannister army spreading in the distance.

On the massive ramparts, Ma Shen could see that as the Lannisters approached Harrenhal, the soldiers gradually gathered together in three neat phalanxes, surrounded by a large number of cavalry on both sides.

This is the phalanx, Ma Shen turned his head and looked at Jeffs, the battle on the continent of Westeros is generally biased towards fighting alone, this is not that the lord does not know the importance of cooperation, mainly because there is no money to maintain a standing army, resulting in a lack of training in the army in peacetime, which can also be said to be the disadvantage of the feudal system, without a whole, the whole country cannot be pinched into a fist, and only when the battle is about to be called, it will be difficult to maintain enough standing army.

But the Lannisters were not included, for centuries they dominated the western frontier by dominating the fortified city of Castle Rock, and were the richest of the Lannisters in Westeros due to their large gold mines and easy trade conditions, and some say that the prosperity of the region could only be matched by the rich riverlands.

Of course, the common people who were born in the West were not much happier than in other places, the only difference being that they were able to take up other slightly better paid jobs, and thus have the money to buy food in the market instead of farming all day.

So despite the small size of the West, the special circumstances allowed the Lannisters to have a large army at their disposal, and many were able to leave their jobs to join the Lannisters.

When the lord of Castle Rock summoned his vassals, the vassals took their hard-dressed labor out of their work and marched to the assembly point, usually around Lannister Harbor. There they train under the guidance of professional soldiers of the Lannisters (who are capable of maintaining a standing army).

In addition, the Lannisters have enough gold to recruit and assemble mercenaries, all of which allows them to quickly assemble a high-standard army, which can gradually build up to an army of 60,000 men at a time.

Assembling an army of 20,000 men is trivial, it will not shake its economic base at all, and its wealth makes the army well-equipped, its weapons and armor are much better than the northern army that brings its own equipment, and it is uniformly distributed by the feudal lords, this army configuration has its strategic advantages, so that Lannister commanders can build real combat units according to different types of weapons, so as to adopt a higher level of tactics.

After quickly forming their camps, the Lannister soldiers walked to a position two arrows away from Harrenhal with neat steps, stomped their feet violently, "boom", even though they knew that they couldn't hit themselves at all, the soldiers on the city wall who had originally plucked up their courage still took a step back in fright, and some even sat on the ground.

Naked dismounting, but the effect is quite good, Ma Shen glared at these uncompetitive guys, fortunately on the heavy city wall, there are battlements in front of it, otherwise this battle will not have to be fought, even the most stupid people can see the weakness on their side.

Looking down from the city wall, the red soldiers were pressed down, quiet, and exuding an awe-inspiring momentum, just like the dreary weather before the heavy rain, which made people's hearts press a stone, which was very depressing.

"How many of them are there?" said the old soldier Jeffs, his gaze swept over the neatly arranged phalanx and the large number of cavalry guarding the flanks of the square.

Ma Shen estimated in his heart that there was no difference from what he saw yesterday, "There should be about 10,000 people." ”

"Why are they standing still, what are they going to do now?" interjected Scar Man, frowning as he looked at the soldiers standing still in the city.

"I don't know, I guess they'll come and surrender first, and Harrenhal will be like a hedgehog when the door is closed. Ma Shen answered Scar's question as he observed Lannis' army, trying to find out where Duke Tywin was.

These soldiers were dressed exactly the same, and they were all red from the city walls, and it was impossible to tell which one was the Duke of Tywin, but only roughly judged from the position that the Duke of Tywin should be observing the situation here from a position close to the front.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, the Lannister phalanx at the front cracked a narrow passage, and a cavalryman held a lion flag in his hand and galloped towards the city wall.

"Here comes the surrenderer, Sir. Jeffs reminded.

"Hmm," Ma Shen nodded heavily.

Kicking and tapping, the cavalry holding the lion banner quickly passed through the land of two arrows, and came to the wall of Harrenhal and shouted loudly: "Who is the lord above?"

It's not good not to be loud, the walls of Harrenhal are too high, I don't see the army standing two arrows away, the higher the wall, the farther the bow and arrow shoot, although I am not afraid of death, otherwise I will not take the job of surrendering, but if you can not die, try not to die, in case the people on the city wall do not hear, what if an arrow is shot down, it will not be unjustly killed.

Ma Shen, who didn't know what the knights under the city were thinking, heard the voice, and also poked out his head and replied loudly: "I am a knight canonized by King Robert himself, Ma Shen"

"Ma Shen?" the cavalry didn't react for a moment, "Isn't that the wolf slayer who is famous in the Seven Kingdoms and won the championship of the martial arts competition?"

"That's right, I was entrusted by Lady Ha'an to help her manage Harrenhal, I wonder why Duke Tywin has brought so many soldiers here?"

"Lord Tywin has asked me to convey a message to you to open the gates of the city and surrender immediately, and Lord Tywin has promised that he will treat you as you deserve. ”

The ghost believes you, when you chased and killed me last time, I don't know who wanted to kill me when I surrendered, Ma Shen opened his mouth slightly, and was about to speak, but Jeffs on the side couldn't hold it back: "Go back and tell Tywin mongrels that Harrenhal will not surrender if he dies!!"

Jeffs's loud voice reached the ears of the cavalry, and even some of the soldiers standing in front of the Lannister phalanx heard it, and suddenly there was some chaotic movement.

What the hell, how can this guy be more excited than himself, like gunpowder, Ma Shen glanced meaningfully at the angry Jeffs on the side, if it wasn't for the fact that he was robbed of his daughter-in-law by the Lannisters when he was young, it must be that he wanted to cut off his idea of surrendering.

But now the focus is not this, Ma Shen thought with some distress, although he didn't want to surrender, but he didn't want to fight with the Lannister army endlessly, people came to surrender with a good voice, wouldn't it be too rude to answer with dirty words on his side, and you can scold when you say scolding, just scold in private, why scold in front of so many people, now people may be annoyed and angry, and they will wave their hands directly to attack the city.

"I hope you don't regret it, and I'll tell Lord Tywin the truth when I get back. Hearing that the people in Harrenhal were not only unwilling to surrender, but also insulting Duke Tywin, the cavalry who had surrendered turned decisively and left.

Is this a threat, Ma Shen looked at the back of the cavalry leaving without tears, this sentence was not said by me, can you come back and listen to my explanation?

"Hahaha, sir, this sentence is so cool, I have long wanted to find an opportunity to shout. Jeffs, who couldn't understand Ma Shen's feelings, laughed beside him.

You are very happy, forget it, since it's all like this, put his lungs on it, Ma Shen slapped the wall and shouted, "Kanro!"

"Adult" Kanluo, that is, the middle-aged carpenter, hurriedly bent over to listen to the order.

"You inform Zhou Shijie, it's the strange-looking one, let him immediately use those trebuchets to attack the phalanx at the front, and it's best to kill that Tywin miscellaneous hair. ”

"Okay, my lord" Kan Luo was about to leave after receiving the order, but was stopped by Ma Shen again, "Wait, don't tell him, that guy can't understand you, just tell the person next to him." ”

"Oh oh" Kan Luo nodded strangely, this order is not complicated, how can he not understand.