Nestled between the cliffs on either side of the only passage from the Brightmoon Mountains to the Arryn Valley, the Bloodgate consists of two watchtowers clinging to the rock face, a closed arch bridge of gray stone connecting each other, and a series of battlements to reinforce the first two. From a distance, it looks like a huge and complete boulder falling from the sky, blocking the way into the valley, and Egger only glanced at it, and immediately remembered the famous dangerous pass in ancient Celestial Empire - the Sword Gate Pass, which has the name of "one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open".

Sword Gate and Blood Gate...... It can be seen from the name that the way the two are stuck in the passage between the valleys is actually quite similar, but it is slightly different from the Jianmen Pass standing in the middle of the valley to "suppress" the passage into Shu: the terrain of the road before and after the Blood Gate is close to flat, not so undulating, but on the contrary, the Guanlou completely "blocks" the passage into the valley without leaving a trace of gap - if the defenders do not open the door, even a cat and a dog will not be able to pass. Although it also plays a military defensive role, which of the two is more difficult to overcome, the layman really does not judge favorably.

In any case, the Blood Gate is indeed worthy of the title of the first dangerous pass in Westeros, so how can it be broken when the defenders have already prepared?

Egger secretly doubted in his heart, but in the field he was not good at, he did not dare to assert nonsense, so he decided to watch the play.

He can, in fact, he can only watch the play, as a "night watchman with the army", even if all the Antlerfort troops he follows and are "responsible" for his own life and safety are all on the battlefield and then all die, no one will urge or allow him to go to the battlefield.

This is one of the few perks of the Night's Watch.

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The sun rose from the peaks of the Bright Moon Mountain Range, the time period for the army to take turns to have breakfast had passed, the smoke wafting in the air gradually rose and dispersed, and the attack on the Blood Gate finally began.

The ballistas and trebuchets were the first to be launched, and the army was not idle during the days when it was stationed outside the valley mouth, and a large number of siege weapons of all kinds were produced, among which large trebuchets were the most numerous. At this moment, these big killers in the backward era have been pushed to the front one by one. Lined up in a row, if it weren't for the fact that the valley mouth was not an open place, it would be impossible to arrange more, with the manpower and material resources gathered here by the six countries, it would be possible to get thousands of siege weapons and smash the blood gate.

At the shouts of the officers, the arrows of the spears on the ballistas came out of the strings, and the arms of the large trebuchets were raised, and the stone projectiles, which were far more than the spears, rose into the air as if they were not worth money, and the large adult men could not move, and the small ones were the size of a man's head. The spears fired from the ballistas did not achieve much success, but the stones flew through the clear sky and fell hundreds of meters away, some of the small ones fell through the blood gate, and more of them covered the head or wall of the blood gate, and the victims were immediately beaten into broken bones, flesh and blood before they could scream, and the large pieces of stone chips that hit the wall were splashed, and the loud noise gave people the illusion that "the whole blood gate was trembling".

The defenders also began to fight back, but neither the density nor the distance of the attacks were far behind, and there were still few effective attacks that could threaten the trebuchet positions of the counterinsurgency coalition despite the geographical advantage—the narrowness of the Blood Gate made it easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it also made it more difficult for the defenders to spread out large facilities. In terms of firepower, the "rebels" have been completely suppressed.

What was thrown by the king's side didn't seem to be limited to stone, and Egg could see smoke beginning to rise from behind the walls of the Blood Gate. After a few more rounds of attacks, the defenders' soldiers seemed to take cover one after another, and the attacks became even more sparse.

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"It's a lot of momentum", Iger had to admit, but then what?

The reason why the Blood Gate can become an unbreakable danger is not only because of the wall that sealed the passage into the valley, but also because the builder and his successors built a large number of solid battlements and towers behind the wall, making the entire defense system a small hill dozens of meters high and dozens of meters wide - even if it is broken, it is still such a big lump there, if the gate collapses, it will be even more troublesome for the army to pass!

Soon, Egger's doubts were explained.

After the trebuchet had destroyed enough of the defender's defenses and suppressed their arrogance, the first archers and crossbowmen to take on the attack also appeared, and while the ballista and trebuchet were still firing, they lined up in a neat line to advance more than a hundred meters towards the Blood Gate, and soon reached the range and began to fire arrows.

Damn, how does this sound familiar...... Iger stood in the distance and was a little dumbfounded, in his feeling, everything in this world was so backward, and there should be no advanced tactics to fight. In the conjecture, Robert's way of attacking the Blood Gate was nothing more than relying on the tactics of the sea of people, and the soldiers rushed up with ladders and tsunamis to attach ants to the gray stone wall of the Blood Gate, and then they saw if the defenders could drive people down, but they guessed wrong?

The TV series is really deadly.

Surprised, the drums began to thunder and shouts.

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The Blood Gate is located in the narrowest part of the passage from the Bright Moon Mountain Range to the Arryn Valley, and the space for the attackers to exert is too small, 80,000 troops are stationed here, plus more than 100,000 logistics people, but there are no more than 1,000 people who can directly rush into the entrance of the canyon to attack-this means that most people can only watch the play like Egg, and at most rely on shouting and cheering.

Amid the shouts of the spectators, a team of hundreds of people rushed out of the camp shouting neatly trumpets, surrounded by a huge chariot twenty or thirty meters long with gold-coated battering rams. The siege caravans drove out of the crowd, with a small group of men pushing the carts and the other half crowding around, presumably taking on the task of swinging the ram and replacing the casualties once they were in place.

The siege car, also with a fixed shield to protect the carts and their entourage, quickly crossed the trebuchet and rushed through a gap in the crossbowmen providing cover for long-range fire into the mouth of the ravine, closing in on the Bloodgate.

Iger heard the exclamations and cries of orders coming from the defenders, and the Vale army, which had been overwhelmed by the stones and arrows of the counterinsurgency, sprang up in a panic and began to return fire. Flying stones rained down, and a continuous stream of arrows shrouded the battlefield like a layer of mist, and the attacker's arrows suppressed the defenders at the head of the city with all their might, constantly bringing a scream, while the defender's arrows were concentrated on the slowly approaching siege vehicles, and the ping-pong kept shooting at the body and the protective shield, and soon inserted it into a hedgehog— The narrowness of the blood gate has both advantages and disadvantages for both warring sides, and the disadvantage is that the passage in front of the pass can only accommodate the entry of one siege vehicle, so it is not smooth sailing, and the overwhelming firepower advantage of the attacker only needs to cover the narrow and narrow head of the city dozens of meters wide, so that the defender can continue to suffer casualties.

With a loud shout, the trebuchet's fire stopped—as the siege engine approached the Gate, any further firing could result in accidental damage. Under the watchful eyes of countless people, the siege caravan pushed through the barricades, and under the half-pushed and half-lifted of the crowds, it crossed a narrow trench and reached the gate. Braving the burning oil drums and stones thrown down by the defenders, the battering hammer began to swing.

"Knock" - "Knock" -

The screams of the remaining spectators of the counterinsurgency army subsided in a sound that seemed to penetrate everyone, and even Egger held his breath, as if only the sound of a head banging against the door with a hammer wrapped in metal was left between heaven and earth.

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