Chapter 38: The Battle of Riverrun (Part I)
An overwhelming array of arrows struck the walls of Riverrun like a black rainstorm.
The side-by-side 'stone' throwing machine roared incessantly, and the ejected gravel was coated with black oil, and then tied and compressed with ropes, and ignited before being projected, and every time it hit the castle tower, it would emit an earth-shattering explosion, and the cracked burning rubble would then cause secondary damage.
The large ballista carts had not stopped since the siege began in the evening, and the top of the walls had been pierced like hedgehogs.
However, the warriors of Riverrun City were not to be outdone, and all kinds of crossbow arrows drilled out of the archery holes and murder holes, and fiercely retaliated.
The Lannisters had just tried to build a makeshift bridge out of driftwood, but they had to retreat after leaving only a floating corpse in the river.
The shield soldiers of the western frontier hid behind their shields, and tried again and again to advance forward, transporting some siege equipment to the front line of the battlefield, but all failed.
The rivers on three sides of Riverflowing City are a natural danger, and the invincible army of the Western Frontier has finally encountered its true enemy at this time.
At the same time, Jones and others intercepted all kinds of logistics materials behind the Western Frontier Army, and dragged it out like this, and when the arrows and food were exhausted, the Western Frontier Army would be completely at a disadvantage.
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At night, in front of Riverrun.
The banner was dyed black, and the golden lion was hidden in the shadows.
Tents were erected, fortifications lined with sharpened stakes were erected, but there weren't many people patrolling outside.
The scout watched from afar, and reported the news to Jones.
"Boss, should we go on a sneak attack at night?" This time it was Sir Carter who proposed, and Sir Carter, who had always been calm, looked very excited at the moment, and Percy, the bald head, was as usual.
"Chief, I feel like I've seen the light of day, as soon as we join forces with Riverrun to defeat the Kingkiller, Tywin's old lion's army will be alone, and victory is already beckoning to our north. Carter excitedly said his thoughts, "When the time comes, I can go back to my hometown to ......."
"Shut up!"
Before he could finish his sentence, Jones hurriedly interrupted his mad death flag.
Even for a moment, Jones was already in a cold sweat on his head.
The crowd looked at him in bewilderment, and it seemed that the leader had never spoken to them so harshly.
Jones also felt that his reaction was a bit too big, so he patiently explained, "You can't talk nonsense, don't you read the knight's story? Well, even if the story is not told, you see Lord Eddard's brother Brandon Stark, who said that he would marry Lady Caitlin when he came back from King's Landing, but he was strangled to death when he went to King's Landing. ”
After hearing this, everyone had a sudden sense of enlightenment, there are many such plots in the knight's story, and they have never noticed that it is different if the leader has studied in the school city.
"Then do we still want to get married, no, do we want to sneak attack?" Rhona then asked.
"It's still going to be disturbed, but don't really try. ”
So something happened in the middle of the night that drove the king-killer crazy.
Originally, the defense of his barracks was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, just waiting for the tail behind to rush in.
As a result, the tail did come, but when they approached the camp tent, they fired a wave of arrows and immediately turned away.
By the time the heavily armed spearmen and archers of the West chased after him, the 'tail' had long since disappeared.
"When did such cunning people come out of the North?" Jaime asked the counts, a little helplessly, "shouldn't they all be as stubborn and old-fashioned as Stark?"
The Earls of Xijing looked at each other for a moment, and they all shook their heads in confusion.
What drove the monarch killer even more crazy was that there had been more than one such interference.
In the middle of the night, almost every once in a while, the cavalry of the northern border rushed towards them with a rumbling as if they were about to roll up the earth, and then they didn't even shoot arrows, but turned around and ran away in the distance.
Aren't these people resting?, Jaime thought, a little tired.
The constant harassment of the tail made his planned operation of secretly building a bridge and crossing the river in the middle of the night canceled.
He didn't know that in order to interfere with the Western Army, Jones divided the cavalry into several squads, and then frantically let the team drag branches behind the horses and harass them in turn.
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"Lord Amude, the Lannisters have sent someone to say that the Kingkiller wants to talk to you personally. Early the next morning, the guards reported it.
"What do we have to talk about with him?" said Amoud Tully before he could speak, and the Earl of Blackwood preemptively spoke.
The Bald Earl retorted casually, "Listen to what the king-killer has to say? ”
Amud actually wanted to hear what the famous kingkiller had to say, so he nodded in agreement, and went to the city wall under the escort of the others.
At this time, in front of Riverrun, the monarch killer had been waiting for a long time with his trademark 'blade-like smile' on his handsome face, wearing golden armor and riding a tall white horse.
"Monarch Slayer, are the walls of our Riverflowing City stronger than you think? As soon as he saw Jaime, Amud couldn't help but say proudly.
"The Tully family is an ancient and noble family," Jaime did not reply, but first complimented him, and then he said loudly, "The Tully family has ruled the Riverlands for hundreds of years, and you have been sung by the common people as a good and glorious knight. ”
"Of course, these are things that a treacherous regicide like you does not have. Amoud scoffed loudly.
"So, I'm now inviting you out of town for a knightly duel. Of course, you can also take your vassals and soldiers out of the city for a decisive battle with us. ”
"I won't choose either. ”
The Kingkiller's swordsmanship is extremely superb, his body skills are also very flexible, and his combat power is one of the top few people in the Seven Kingdoms, and of course Amud will not choose to fight him.
"Will you choose?" replied Jaime.
Forgive me, I'm all for love, and for the war to end sooner, Jaime said silently in his heart.
After a while, the soldiers of the western border pressed hundreds of old people and children, everyone was in rags, the old people were hooked up and almost pushed up, and the children were crying loudly at a loss.
"Amud, you're a good knight, but I'm not, I'm a man who broke my oath, and if you don't leave the city, I'll let the people you swore to protect rush to the front. Jaime put away the smile on his face and said coldly.
Amoud looked at the rickety old man and the helpless children not far away, and his eyes were tearing.
"How dare you do this, aren't you afraid of the gods to blame?" he roared through gritted teeth.
"You know I dare, if you don't believe me, I can kill a few of them for you right now. ”
As soon as Jaime's words fell, soldiers from the West stepped forward, slowly slicing across the necks of several old men as if they were slaughtering livestock.
The old man was powerless to resist at all, and fell to the ground, holding his neck tightly, trying to make the blood flow more slowly.
"Ahh
Amud saw the scene in front of him and roared.
Then he closed his eyes in pain.
Amud Tully thought of many things, of his father, who was also old in bed, and of the inhabitants of the realm, who affectionately called him Little Tully, when he was a child, when he was a child, and then spoke happily of this year's harvest.
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"Lords don't protect civilians, and commoners don't protect lieges. Amud Tullimer recited his father's teachings as a child.
Aimoud opened his eyes violently and said coldly, "Get out of the city, everyone." ”