Chapter 420: The Oath
Stannis wanted to cry without tears, and now he only had such a small number of soldiers at hand, so he could only bite the bullet.
After a little rest for a day, the king of the eastern realm took such a poor person on the road to the royal city, although he felt that such a few people might not even touch the walls of the royal city and might be killed, but he had already made a promise that he could not do nothing and flee back, and besides, until now the god of fate is more favored by himself, and he will be able to take the royal city smoothly after taking the shit luck?
Sure enough, God seemed to bless him again, and his troops set off, and the territory of the Dukedom, which had already entered the summer, began to produce heavy fog for several days, which hid the traces of this surprise force very well, and even if they encountered enemy patrols, Charlie, as the vanguard, was able to quickly deal with them before they had time to warn.
With half luck and half caution, this army unexpectedly captured the gateway to the royal city, Shining Silver, without anyone noticing, and after capturing all the two hundred Garcia defenders in his sleep, there was nothing in front of Stannis that could stop him from reaching the throne in the city, except for the tall walls.
Sure enough, the news of his capture of the gate of the royal city in one fell swoop shook the entire principality, but just as he had planned before, the people on all fronts of the principality were stuck by the opponent, resulting in the inability to return to reinforcements quickly, even the fastest people needed ten days to return to the defense and support, which means that Stannis still had 240 hours to capture the royal city.
However, looking at the epic city wall in front of him, which was 100 feet high, Stannis said that it was too difficult for him to use the resources at hand to capture this big city, and the troops given to him in the south were too few or even enough to complete the siege, and at the same time, he lacked the necessary siege equipment to launch a strong attack, and after his man-made siege tower and ram hammer, he believed that Garcia's reinforcements had already returned, and most of them were infantry at that time, and they really had nowhere to escape if they wanted to.
However, the good news was that there was only a garrison of 500 men in the royal city, and they needed to defend a city of 50,000 men, with an average of less than 10 men per 500 meters of walls, so Stannis could concentrate his forces and launch a strong attack from either direction.
Stannis deployed all his men in the town of Shining Silver, and began to sit in front of the map and ponder how to use the scarce resources in his hands to capture this impossible city, maybe he could bluff? Capture some civilians in the town, and put on the armor and weapons of the captives as his own to strengthen the momentum? Maybe when the Duke saw that so many people appeared under his city, he was directly frightened and abandoned the city and surrendered? Even if it was not good, he would sign an alliance under the city.
However, this idea was quickly rejected by Charlie, because half of the garrison in the city was Garcia's descendant unit, Black Watch, and these people were all monsters with a dozen or ten, and if they knew that many of Stennis's troops were ordinary civilians, the consequences would be unimaginable.
But when the ten-day period was almost halfway over, Stannis could do nothing about the city in front of him, until the evening of the fourth day he heard a noisy sound of horses' hooves outside the town.
When he heard the shouts of the guards, Stannis kicked off the quilt and drew his sword and rushed out.
"So fast!" Stannis exclaimed in disbelief, he didn't expect Garcia's reinforcements to appear in the city in only four days, wouldn't he be dead!
But Charlie, who was in charge of the vigilance mission, did not raise any alarm mission, did he really betray himself as Romon Advisor feared!
"This bastard!"
Stannis tried to find someone else to put up resistance, only to find a small cheer in the town square not far away.
The king, dressed only in his pajamas, walked barefoot and found that a group of strange cavalrymen had indeed appeared in the square, but their armor and banners did not have the coat of arms of the Garcia family.
So who the hell are these guys?
Just as Stannis looked confused, the first guy to storm into town lifted his visor to reveal Robert's smug face.
"Turnips!"
Stannis didn't expect that this freshly dressed and heroic knight would be his little brother who would be full of obscenity.
But the young leading knight was indeed Robert, unless he had a twin brother, "Hail to you, King Tanis, I have come here with the army of Griffin to pay your allegiance!"
Stannis opened his mouth and there he was completely confused about the situation, wasn't the Griffin family that Robert was talking about, and where did he get such an entire army, and it seemed that there were quite a few of them.
By this time, Robert had turned over and dismounted to the cheers of the crowd, his shiny armor was painted with a gilded griffin, a pattern that Stannis had never seen before, but he still judged that it was indeed the lost coat of arms of the Griffins.
"Boss, I know you're excited, but don't come to welcome me in such a costume, right?" Robert still said cool words to taunt Stannis, but now Stannis no longer cares about his own attire, and quickly shouted in surprise.
"These are your people?"
Robert nodded very happily, "Yes, a total of three hundred cavalry, fifteen hundred infantry, they are all under your command now!"
"But...... But where did you get an army?"
Robert turned his head with sadness in his eyes, " These people used to be my father, Duke Griffin, after the fall of the griffin family, most of his army was forcibly disbanded, and the rest escaped Garcia's culling, and lived in seclusion among the people waiting for this opportunity to prove themselves again, and when they heard my name, they took the initiative to come to me and said that they would never forget the glory of being a golden griffin army, and were willing to continue to serve me, because most of them lived in seclusion around the royal city so it was easy to assemble, so it took me a little time to recruit themγ β
After listening to him, Stannis looked behind him, and sure enough, these cavalry and infantry were all old men, although their beards and hair were gray, but their eyes were still full of determination, and Stannis knew that they had been waiting for this opportunity, waiting to prove to the world the oath they had made, to prove that 'the blood of gold will never be extinguished'!
"But these people have families, right? how could they abandon everything to be loyal to a man who is long dead?"
Robert shook his head as well, his father died when he was very young, and he couldn't even sketch a portrait of his father in his memory.
"Maybe it's for a so-called man's vow. β
The two men looked at each other in unison, and now they had to fight for their oath too!
Dressed in his pajamas, Stennis raised his sword and shouted.
"It's time for Garcia to pay the bloody debt and conquer this city, only today!"