Chapter 170: Civil War at the Red Fort
Everything has a cause and effect, and what happened to Robert today is all self-inflicted.
Think about it, if the Kingsguard were all like Barristan Selmy, what kind of splash would Jaime make even if he had three heads and six arms?
The Kingsguard exists to defend the King and his royal bloodline, and the selection criteria are to be strong, loyal, and wise. At the end of the Usurper War, there were five Kingsguard gaps to fill, including six for Jaime, the Kingkiller. In order to show his love for his new wife, Robert thanked his father-in-law for his "strong support" of the hundreds of thousands of gold dragons worth hundreds of thousands of gold in the new dynasty of Baratheon, and perhaps also meant that James was taken hostage - not to mention deciding the position of kingkiller, he also generously gave Cersei the choice of five other key personnel!
Under the watchful eye of the world, Cersei, who was still young at the time, could not unscrupulously install all the Kingsguard as the Lannisters, but she did not intend to do her best to select good guards for Robert - so she made the queen's first decision without consulting her father Tywin: bypassing the three kingdoms of the North, the Riverlands, and Dorne, which had always had a grudge or discord with the West, and from the remaining riverbanks, valleys, and stormlands, In the five lands of the Western Realm and the Royal Territory, each chose a small family that was good friends with their own family, and asked them to choose a family member to send to the palace...... Serve as the Kingsguard!
The Imperial Guard, who was chosen with such a child's play and a strong sense of political bribery, of course, could not be strong. The five new Kingsguards may be considered the top warriors of their respective families, and being a mercenary is more than enough...... But by no means as a white robe, Barristan said of the five new colleagues: "Even now, I can cut down all five of you like cheese."
Despite his denial of the regocide's treachery, Barristan sadly admits that Jaime Lannister is the only Kingsguard to be qualified outside of himself. The five newcomers may not have betrayed Robert in the infighting between the King and the Queen, but in any case, the fighting power and quality of this group of Kingsguard is considered to be the worst since Aegon landed and created the position of White Guard.
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Concerned about Cersei's safety, Jaime burst out with unprecedented power in his desperation - the familiar backstab, or attacking the king he swore to protect, and the scene of the murder of the king sixteen years ago floated before his eyes. Honor?Jaime silently recited the word with red eyes, knowing that it was something he could not hope for in his life. The dagger pierced the armor behind Robert's back in front of the two white robes and stabbed into the king's flesh, but that was not enough, and Jaime slammed his shoulder into Robert, knocking down the opponent's fat body with strength and physical inertia. At the moment before the opponent pounced, he grabbed the war hammer that had killed Rhaegar with both hands, and snatched it from the unprepared master.
"You!" Alex Oakhet let his guard down for a moment when he saw Jaime fall to the ground with his sword broken, and before it was too late to react, he burst out and drew his sword and rushed towards Jaime, who had attacked the king.
Robert suffered pain and impact on his back, and the moment he fell, his hand loosened, giving Cersei a chance to break free, and the queen breathed air again, ignoring the pain in her neck, took a deep breath without hesitation, and screamed: "Do ——! hands"
The shrill soprano voice drowned out the exclamations of the three children and pierced the door of the room, and the battle inside and outside the room began again at the same time.
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The hammer was heavy, and Jaime thought to himself, that Robert could wield this weapon and defeat a man who dared to be careless with such a strong warrior. Jaime muttered the second word to himself, grabbed the hammer, which weighed nearly twice as much as his usual weapon, and swept it away, "Get out of here!"
The two Kingsguard didn't give in to each other, and their weapons were just a fraction of a second away from each other, Alex's sword slicing through the deck of the Kingkiller's chest, and Jaime's hammer smashing the former's gauntlets. As usual, Jaime would have been able to abuse the two colleagues without injury, but this time, knowing that the garrison was rushing to take Cersei to escape, he chose to play together, and the advantage of the warhammer was maximized in this situation where both sides were armoured, and neither was defended or dodged, Alex was beaten to the point that his arm was broken and his body lost his balance, and he fell half a meter and knocked down a wooden table and lay on the ground, instantly losing his combat effectiveness.
Outside the door, hundreds of red-robed men attacked the king's men at the moment they heard the cry of their young lady, and although the three royal guards were more powerful than ordinary soldiers, they had less than fifty men. The so-called Guardian of the Royal Red Fort...... To put it bluntly, it is a small detachment in the capital garrison that is responsible for the inner area of the Red Fort, which is also wearing golden robes, and its combat power is not as good as the red robes from the Lanniport Guard.
The number and combat effectiveness of the king's side were at a disadvantage, if it weren't for the three half-hung Kingsguard guards, they would have collapsed in an instant, and the three white-robed people wanted to get out of the battle and rush into the house to see what was happening, but they knew that if they did that, when the things inside the house were dealt with, there would only be Lannister's soldiers left outside the house.
"Kill them both!" Robert fell to the ground, reaching out and grabbing Cersei's skirt to stop her from escaping, but tearing off only a piece of cloth...... So he tried to pull out the dagger on his back, but his body was too fat to reach the handle of the knife, and as the injury to his lungs expanded, he immediately began to feel a sharp pain like a knife in his chest. It was difficult to breathe, and his strong body quickly began to collapse and weaken with insufficient oxygen supply, and his eyes were black, and he couldn't stand up.
"Don't come here!" Jaime reached out and touched his abdomen, only seeing blood but not seeing the injury, not knowing the extent of his injury for a while, he looked up and pulled Cersei, raised his war hammer and pointed at Beros Braun, who was standing in front of Messira: "The king is not dead, watch him, I don't want to kill you!"
"Don't be scared by him, he was hit by my sword, not your opponent...... Stop him...... Other...... Let him run. Alex lay on the ground, his right arm almost gone, so he had to hand the sword to his left hand, struggling to get up.
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If the fighting power and quality of this edition of the Kingsguard were the worst ever, then Sir Beros Braun was the worst of the worst edition: he was slow and didn't keep up with his teammates' attacks, not to mention watching Alex Oakhart being knocked down by Jaime at the expense of injury. Trembling with his steel sword, he stood cautiously beside Robert, and with the excuse of "protecting the king" offered by Jaime, he remained as immobile as a statue nailed to the spot.
Cersei beckons to the three children and shouts, "Little Joe, Messella, Tommen...... Come with me!"
"No, stay here!you're princes and princesses, and Eddard Stark wouldn't dare hurt you!" Jaime felt a pain in his stomach with every word, clutching his belly and rejecting Cersei's words, he didn't believe what he said, but he knew that with three children, Cersei would never be able to escape King's Landing. Wiping the blood off his hands, he dragged his sister and lover, who still refused to give up, and stepped back step by step in the face of Beros, arrived at the door, opened the door and turned around and rushed out of the house.
Outside, the sounds of fighting, shouting, wailing, and the clash of weapons were incessant, and it was clear that the outnumbered side had the upper hand. Preston Greenfell saw the white-robed James, who was stained with blood, and Cersei, who was holding in his hands, and roared, "Jaime!
"You have to go to the stables, and without mounts, you can't escape King's Landing. Jaime ignored the cries of the enemy, the Red Keep was already under the control of Stark, and it was not possible to escape with a horse, but it had to try. There was a shock from the ground, and a large number of soldiers were rushing here, and he pushed Cersei hard: "Find the horse and lead the people to pick a side gate with few people, storm it, and escape from the city before they close the king's landing gate, go quickly!"
"It's not me, it's us! I've already arranged the way back!" Cersei unquestioningly pulled Jaime by the arm again and dragged him hard in the direction of the stable, "Potter, take half of the men to stay here, Amos, take twenty men with me...... Stop that white robe!"
The Kingsguard who rushed towards Jaime with his sword raised was forced back by several spears, and a dozen red-robed opponents who solved or drove away themselves gathered around Cersei and the wounded Jaime, covering the retreat of Childe and Miss to the stables, but there was a thunderous sound of footsteps from the south direction of Megar Tower, and Ed appeared at the end of the field of vision with a large number of garrison soldiers, and after seeing the battle scene here, he accelerated his pace, and in a blink of an eye, he would arrive at the scene.
"Can you still do it? Hurry up, the guard of the iron gate of the sewers of the Red Keep is my man, this gate is marked very small on the map, Stark forgot to send someone to replace him, it hasn't rained for the past two days, and there must be no water. The captain of the Gates of the Gods guards in King's Landing is also one of my men, so we can escape!" Cersei pulled Jaime from his heart and death, and at the last moment did not forget to turn around and give a loud order: "Hold them back!"
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