Queen Meereen, Queen of the Andals, Leunars, and Ancestors, Carrisie of the Prairie, Liberator, Mother of Dragons, Unburner, Daenerys Targaryen, born of the storm...... Just threw down a huge stall and slipped away alone at this juncture of entrepreneurship?

On the day the queen rode the dragon to the east, she rushed to Petyr Berishi at the top of the pyramid when she heard the news, and looked at the cracked stone slab where the black dragon landed and the empty queen's residence, and almost lost her temper to the point of scolding.

That's right, the black dragon is the only one of the three dragons that is large enough to carry people for long distances, and it has magically gone and returned because it misses its mother, and it is difficult to guarantee when the next time it will appear, so Daenerys will not bother to discuss with the council, so she seized this opportunity to jump on the back of the dragon and take off directly into the air.

She wants to master the dragon mastery as soon as possible, throw the demon dragon into battle, and bring blood and fire to the enemy, and the starting point is completely good. But the army of Yuankai had not yet retreated, and Valantis' fleet to maintain the slave trade was still on its way to Slave Bay, picking on her at such a critical moment when powerful enemies were surrounded and there were many dangers, this stupid woman...... Are you really afraid that when you return from school, you won't have a single follower left?

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No matter how violent his heart was and his hatred of iron was not made of steel, Petyr finally returned to his senses and took the most correct and beneficial measure for the queen: he lied that she was unwell and could not go to court, and blocked the news that she had ridden the dragon and left Meereen.

Unfortunately, paper can't contain the fire after all, and the news of Daenerys' disappearance spread quickly, and even because of the official blockade news, multiple versions of outrageous rumors have evolved, and in order to refute the rumors, the Queen's Hand still had to make a public appearance to explain Daenerys's whereabouts.

Then, things quickly took a bad turn.

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[Do not kill but expel the top nobles, and instead support the inferior nobles to achieve good control over Meereen.] The most important condition for the realization of this plan is that there must be enough strength to prevent the old nobles from counterattacking and to counterbalance the new inferior nobles, preventing the former from fighting back and restoring or the latter from gaining a foothold and crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and rebelling against the water to become their own masters.

This balance is achieved by the strength of the Unsullied, the support and affection of the freed slaves, and the legendary prestige brought by the three dragons.

Littlefinger, who joins halfway, has no command or influence over the Unsullied, and his blackface in day-to-day rule is not liked by the Freedmen...... People who are not related to Targaryen should not think about it.

Originally, the tacit cooperation with Daenerys has gradually begun to make him feel that "this Targaryen girl is still worthy of assistance" and "everything is getting better". But with the former parting ground, Petyr was once again in the worst of his own isolation and had to fight alone.

The freedmen could not see their liberators, the petitioners could not present their demands and opinions to the queen, and the green dragon and white dragon, locked in a pit at the base of the pyramid, could not see their mother......

All of the above are minor issues.

One month, two months...... As the days of the Queen's absence increased, so did talk about what had happened to her.

The first thing to think about is the new nobles in the city, Daenerys expels the old nobles and helps them ascend to the throne, but it is not good to be ruled by an arbitrary queen, and it is naturally better if they can govern themselves.

Then there is the defector with a ghost in his heart, Prince Dorne, who rushed to the jungle not long ago, actually relied on the thin "true dragon blood" flowing in his body, and tried to steal the dragon while Daenerys was not in the help of a group of mercenaries, but unfortunately the two imprisoned dragons seemed to disown him as a distant relative, but instead burned him to a point with a mouthful of breath, and escaped from the pit unceremonably.

As for the Yuankai army outside the city that had not yet retreated, after hearing the news, they quickly considered another plan - the queen's absence made Meereen's defense more fragile than before, and of course they wanted to take the opportunity to grab more benefits: the peace that had been reached was good, but the slave business was currently in short supply, and compared with the "Yuankai family", wouldn't it be more profitable to control the entire slave bay and do more business?

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Inside and outside the city, the minds of people from all walks of life were active, and the situation slid towards the bottomless abyss step by step. At this critical moment for the survival of the "Free Meereen", Petyr Berish made one of the most daring decisions of his life: to strike first, to attack the strong, to the inside, and to fight the outside at the same time, before Valantis's fleet reached the bay, to subdue the new nobles who were about to move, and to repel the Yuankai army outside the city, to buy time for the queen who might still be alive.

He went to the Unsullied Barracks, and finally persuaded the Unsullied Commander Grey Bug to agree to cross the procedure and lead his troops without the Queen's order, and unite with the mercenary group loyal to Daenerys to go out of the city at dawn one day to take the initiative to meet the battle. At the same time, the self-built Free Folk Army in the city also staged a coup d'état at night, controlling the new nobles who were becoming more and more powerful in the city under house arrest, and then released them when the dust of the fighting outside the city had settled.

For the first time in his life, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer in King's Landing, who had no practical experience in military affairs, actually commanded a war. After questioning the professionals and after discussion and deduction, the core council unanimously agreed: if you take action, the chance of winning is less than half, and you will sit back and wait for death.

It was a big gamble with no choice, but interestingly, the victory came more easily than expected.

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Before besieging Meereen, the Sycay army easily took down Astapor, who had been thrown into chaos after Daenerys had taken the Unsullied and killed the slave owner. The battle ended so quickly, but the winner was struck in an unexpected way: the plague that broke out after the chaos in Astapo was infected among them with the arrival of the Yuankai army, and was carried out of Meereen with the march.

After months of besieging the city, the Yuankai army, which belonged to different slave owners without unified command, camped one by one to form a long snake formation, and hundreds of scattered camps were pieced together to form a city of silk and canvas, roughly in the shape of a crescent moon to surround the city of Meereen. In such a tight crowd, the plague gradually spread with the movement of slaves, mercenaries and even prostitutes.

What's even more amazing is that Petyr actually waited for something that he didn't expect at all—a flank from the sea: a small iron fleet that had arrived from thousands of miles away to meet the queen, led by Victarion of the Greyjoy family, arrived in Slaver's Bay on the same day before Meereen intended to take the initiative. Captain Iron sailed the first echelon of a dozen merchant ships captured from Westeros to the Yuankai fleet, and the best Iron Folk warriors were ambushed in the cabin - Daenerys had no navy, and the latter was unprepared for a sudden attack from the sea, and was soon approached by these inexplicable merchant ships...... The broadside battle began. Then came more than forty Iron Fleet warships, many of which were directly sunk, and most of the rest were captured. The red-eyed Iron Warrior landed and stormed the Yuankai camp from the docks!

At this time, the Yuankai army set up the camp into a long line, and the shortcomings of stretching from the city of Meereen to the port of Slave Bay were exposed: after the iron people landed at the port, they directly entered the camp without any buffer, and the Yuankai army had no time to defend in a whole formation, and the chaos was transmitted through the human medium, and spread throughout the entire camp in an instant faster than the plague.

Seeing this scene, Petyr, as the commander of the Meereen garrison, naturally seized the opportunity and ordered the Unsullied, who had quietly left the city and had already completed the battle under the walls, to launch a general attack in advance.

To the west, the Iron Folk began to land and slash and slash, to the north, the world's most trained Unsullied men formed a formation and charged, and in the camp, several typical mercenary groups of wall-to-wall grass rebelled, and overhead, the green and white dragons who had been unleashed by the stupid Prince of Dorne were attracted by the Iron People's horns and firelight, and kept circling and spitting flames.

Under such multiple blows, it was difficult for even the most elite army to withstand, let alone a motley army from all over the world? Petyr Berish witnessed a great scene that he had never had a chance to witness in Westeros: the army of Yuankai, several times his own army, was defeated, tens of thousands of soldiers threw down their weapons before they could engage in battle, and except for a small part of the camp in the southeasternmost corner that escaped by taking advantage of the chaos, the entire army was almost wiped out, and the innocent suffered only more than a thousand casualties.

The fighting outside the city even preceded the end of the coup d'état inside the city.

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Petyr sighed and threw the memories of the battle out of his mind. Although he did not play in person, as the hand of the queen and the supreme conductor, that victory was indeed a brilliant record to boast about...... But now, in the blue waves of the harbor, new enemies have been lined up and spread all over the sea.

Compared to Yuankai, the Varantis fleet was not only large, but also larger and more sturdy, and the Iron Fleet was not even large enough to engage in broadside battles. The troops they carried were small but well trained. Once they had taken control of the waters of Slaver's Bay, they camped at a safe distance, and hundreds of warships forced the Queen's loyal Meereen ships and the pocket-sized iron fleet into hiding in the river. After gaining control of the sea, they began to continuously collect defeated troops, deep ditches and high fortifications, and waited for the arrival of follow-up troops.

Although the Valantis' army was less than half the size of Yuankai's army, they were specially trained and obeyed the orders of unity, and they were no less threatening to Meereen than their original enemy.

The most elite Unsullied died one by one, and when the other side seemed to have no intention of attacking the city, Petyr did not plan to go out of the city to take the initiative to fight a decisive battle, but stuck to the city, sending small troops from the rear to trade with the Lazars in exchange for food, waiting for the queen's return.

Today is the one hundred and seventh day of the Queen's ride on the Black Dragon. His only hope of returning to Westeros, where is this moment and what is he doing...... Or rather, is it still alive?

Overhead, a huge projection of the dragon's outstretched wings swept over the Queen's terrace. The queen rode away on a black dragon, and the green dragon and white dragon, who had been released for a stupid dragon stealing operation, used the top of the Great Pyramid as a nest, and eventually returned here to rest whether it was hunting or playing. After the initial nervousness and fear, the Queen's servants and the inhabitants of Meereen gradually discovered that they had no offensive inclination or intent, and gradually became accustomed to their presence.

It's just that it's rare to fly so low that shadows sweep across the terrace.

Puzzled, Petyr raised his head and shielded his hand from the sunlight, looking for the white or green dragon.

Then, his heart pounded suddenly.

The dragon that had just flown above his head in his field of vision was neither the pale yellow Viserion nor the turquoise Reggo, but another big black guy.

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