In the regular sound of the hammer rushing to the door, Egger suddenly had an answer to a question that had arisen before - in the degree of easy to defend and difficult to attack, the blood gate is still a step worse than the sword gate after all, the sword gate pass is condescending to look down on the passage into Shu, from ancient times to the present, but no attacker has ever been able to send such a huge ram to the sword gate closed.

Can this slight gap change the final outcome of the war?

The oil drum fell to the front and back of the siege engine, ignited by the unknown fuse or rocket, and burst into a large cloud of flames, completely encircling the head of the ram, and the soldiers who were splashed with burning fuel screamed and ran away from the protection of their shields and planks, and the lucky ones were able to put a few rolling fire extinguishers on the ground and then returned to the protection of the siege engine, while the unlucky ones were directly killed by the defenders' stones and arrows - and then the defenders who rose up were shot by thousands of archers who were waiting a hundred meters away.

Every minute someone is injured and killed.

"Knock" - "Knock" -

The front end of the battering ram was completely engulfed in flames, but the thick skin made of a special material and watered to retardant flame retardant slowed the spread of the fire, allowing the soldiers in the back half of the siege vehicle to push the ram together for a few last attempts. But as more oil drums fell, soon, the siege vehicle would be scrapped.

Iger didn't want to continue watching, and today's attack would most likely end with the destruction of the siege vehicle. So far, the casualties and casualties on both sides caused by this war may only be in the triple digits, and compared with the total of more than 100,000 troops participating in the battle, the casualty rate of one in 1,000 is really a drop in the bucket and is not worth mentioning, but the soldiers who are in the blood and fire in front of the pass will certainly not agree with this view.

The narrowness of the battlefield doomed the scale of the battle, and it also determined that the casualties could not rise quickly, but the intensity of the battle under the blood gate and the small square inch on the battlements was no less fierce than any bloody battle from ancient times to the present. Everyone is the center of their own world, how can these soldiers who are fighting the front line be ignored as a "1" in the number of 100,000?

In the eyes of a child, war is a distant story, and in the eyes of a young man, war is the supreme glory, but Egger was already an adult, and for the first time he was on the battlefield and listening to the moans and screams of the wounded soldiers, he felt so vividly that war is not a fun thing.

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The war was not caused by Egger, but it was indeed inseparable from him, he turned his head and left from the front of the battle to return to the camp, but at this moment, there was a sudden deafening cheers and cheers around him, and Iger turned back in horror, and immediately found the reason for the screams of the soldiers watching the battle around him: the head of the ram wrapped in the raging flames had actually broken through the outer door of the blood gate and fell into the doorway!

What, this is broken?

Is it because the "fire suppression" of arrows and stone bullets arranged by Robert this time is too advanced, or is it too good for the rest of the troops who have attacked this level in the past thousand years?

With the applause of the sky, a cavalry dressed in the decorative uniform of the Baratheon family also decisively rushed out of the formation, and rushed straight towards the blood gate that had been broken. As long as the results achieved are stabilized so that the defenders cannot reseal the gate, this eternal danger will be broken by the great King Robert!

But faster than the cavalry were the soldiers who crowded around the chariot, pushing it and the ram, pushing it and the ram, pushing it away from the doorway before the flames completely engulfed the siege vehicle, and rushed into the doorway first.

Who doesn't want to rob the city? If you get it right, you can become a knight and become a nobleman, and it is possible to protect your descendants!

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It's too fake. After preparing for so long, the result was that the battle ended in just one battle? What about the good one-man pass? What about the unbroken danger that was said to be good? Egger felt a little slapped in the face, but more than that, he was glad that it was not a bad thing that the war ended early and everyone suffered fewer casualties.

But just when everyone was smiling bitterly at this farce of preparing for a month and fighting for only half a day, the situation was reversed, and the coalition soldiers who rushed into the door rushed out again after only ten seconds, and ran back to the coalition position in the face of the defenders' continuous falling rocks and arrows, shouting something, and running back to the coalition position like a desperate man, and suffered many casualties along the way, and drove back with the royal cavalry that rushed out.

The offensive was thwarted, and the crossbowmen who had been tasked with fire cover were soon withdrawn by order, and the assault on the trebuchet positions was also aborted, and the siege facilities were withdrawn out of range of enemy weapons. Except for the siege engines that were still burning under the Blood Gate, even if the first wave of attacks was over, the words shouted by the siege survivors quickly fell into Egger's ears after being passed from person to person:

The defenders of the Blood Gate actually completely sealed the gate with earth and stones!

After the first wave of attacks was repulsed, the second wave was delayed in organizing, and it seems that this news brought a lot of surprise to Robert and other army commanders, and before there were new countermeasures, Iger estimated that there would be no new war.

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After a little twists and turns, things finally became normal, and the bloody gate was dangerous, and it was really not so easy to break. Iger turned back and walked to his little tent in the depths of the coalition camp.

It's a barracks, but it's actually like a city built out of tents - just by looking at the population density, it's still the largest city in all of Westeros. The only difference from ordinary cities is that most of the inhabitants are soldiers and nobles.

In order to make a good life for so many people, the merchants who followed also started business in the middle of the six large military camps stationed in the six countries. And the services that businessmen can provide, there are only things you can't think of, and there are no things you can't buy with money: hotels, restaurants, brothels, bathrooms, ...... Although it looks like a bunch of tents at first glance, it has all the functions it has and is very complete. The commercial street of King's Landing was almost moved outside the valley entrance and into tents, but the service became slightly worse and the fees were appropriately changed.

It stands to reason that the command will never tolerate making the barracks so lively, but the fact now is that the main rebel force is blocked in the Arryn Valley behind the bloody gate, and all the fiefs and castles of the families involved in the mutiny outside the Arryn Valley have been controlled and surrounded by troops loyal to Robert, and the vigilance and reconnaissance work on the perimeter of the barracks has never been relaxed - the commander-born warrior king has not given the enemy any chance to turn the tables at all: unless there is infighting, the barracks will not be attacked at all.

Maybe I should join in the fun and set up a temporary office for the night watchman here?

The Chief Logistics Officer considered the matter quite carefully, and then his eyes were quickly drawn to the crowd in front of him: a tent was crowded with soldiers of all colors from six countries, all dressed in different colors, who were clamoring and shouting, as if they were competing for some kind of merchandise sold by the owner of the tent.

Egger was curious, but now he also has an identity and a subordinate, so he can naturally be lazy about certain things: "Casey, go and see over there, what are they robbing?"

The boy obediently ran over, burrowed into the pile like a loach, and came out again half a minute later, running back to Iger with an expression of excitement and eccentricity: "My lord, it's a book, a book we printed!"

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