Petyr never dreamed that one day he would reunite with his "old friend" in this form.

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A few months ago, in Slaver Bay, the queen refused to listen to dissuasion and insisted on using dragons against the Valantis fleet blocked in the bay. Braving the barrage of arrows and stone projectiles, the process was quite twisty and twisty, but fortunately the result was not dangerous: the enemy had prepared some means to deal with the dragon, but they did not expect Daenerys to suddenly return as a dragon master - or take the initiative to attack without rest on the day of return. Invisible oppressed by three gigantic flying creatures and aided by dragon flames, Meereen's last remaining navy and unsullied army swooped out on land and water, crushing the besieging second army of slavers in one fell swoop.

Half of the Valantis' proud fleet was sunk by the Dragons and Iron Folk warships with flames and rammings, while the other half was captured by the Meereen navy in near intact, with only a handful escaping. And these nearly two hundred ocean-going vessels of various tonnages and the sailor captives on them solved the problem that Daenerys Targaryen had been facing all along: with the addition of that small iron-folk fleet, Meereen now had enough ships to load her army and bring it all back to Westeros.

After "freeing" the slave sailors on the Valantis ship and taking them for their own use, Daenerys pursued the victory, and the victorious New Meereen relied on armed deterrence to force the neighbors of New Gis and Quilles to pay war reparations and sign a truce...... Relying on a large amount of loot funds to buy a large amount of grain and grass and armaments, he rode a dragon to scare off a few Karasa who had heard the news and were ready to intervene, and then stabilized the internal situation again in the last days. With both military and political preparations complete, she finally took the Unsullied and the trained Free Folk Regiment and embarked on the long-overdue counter-offensive against Westeros.

Although the Dragonstone fleet was well-trained, it was small in number, and was quickly routed and destroyed by the overwhelming Meereen warships and the three dragon sandwiches. After more than ten years of wandering, Daenerys Targaryen, born in the storm, has finally returned to her birthplace and original starting point.

But what appeared to them faster than the enemy's counterattack and the swarming supporters was a character that surprised everyone: Littlefinger's colleague in King Robert's reign, and the famous "Octopus Spider" Varys, who disappeared after Stannis ascended the Iron Throne and disappeared from public view for more than a decade.

The greased and perfumed eunuch was hard to welcome, but after showing evidence that he had secretly protected and supported Daenerys' siblings for a long time, and generously made a big gift such as "the distribution map of the king's leading forces", Varys, who was halfway through the car, was allowed to stay on Dragonstone. The Unsullied Legion that was to land on the Crab Claw Peninsula was easily victorious with the support of its accurate intelligence, and the news that King's Landing was already equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft crossbows was confirmed by the Scouts...... In this way, the halfway joiner gradually gained trust and blended into the queen's royal council.

And this, naturally, made Petyr unhappy to the point that his teeth itched, but he was helpless.

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On this day, the military meeting for the planning of the counterattack on Westeros was held in the large and somewhat eerie conference room of Dragonstone.

With a small iron fleet and half of the Valantis navy, plus three dragons, Daenerys gained absolute supremacy of the seas in Blackwater, keeping the other half of Stannis's royal fleet firmly in King's Landing—under the protection of shore trebuchets, arrows, and ballistas. On land, after the Crab Claw Peninsula was completely taken, the army of the Unsullied and the Free Folk Legion had also pointed to the royal city, Twilight Valley Town.

The army with the Unsullied as the core will not encounter an opponent on the battlefield of the king's territory, and there is basically no disagreement among the members of the queen's court, and the direction of the war is basically agreed: after taking the town of Duskdale, attack Rosby City, and then march downstream along the Blackwater River, and finally join forces with the navy under the capital of the Seven Kingdoms to besiege King's Landing.

But in the details that followed, Petyr and Varys offered diametrically opposed opinions.

"King's Landing, including the walls of the Red Keep, is full of anti-dragon ranged weapons, and in the case that His Majesty's three dragons cannot join the battlefield at will, relying only on the flesh and blood of the Unsullied, the Free People's Legion and the navy to carry out a strong attack, in the face of a famous general like Stannis's layout of the city defense with few holes, it will inevitably pay a terrible price. Varys tried to persuade Daenerys to give up the assault on King's Landing, "Your Majesty's goal is not only to reclaim the Iron Throne after all, we will inevitably have to face the River, the Vale, and the North in the future, and if too many of the elite of the descendants are rashly buried on the first battlefield, the road to unifying the Seven Kingdoms will be a long one." ”

"Ridiculous, is it possible to hoard an army under King's Landing and leave the Seven Kingdoms unhurried to prepare for the Queen's return?"

Littlefinger unceremoniously spoke out against it. When he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the Baratheon dynasty, not only was he not as senior as Varys, but his apparent task was simple, in Robert's words, to count copper plates, so he seldom expressed his opinion in public. But now, he is Daenerys's hand of the Queen, who has assisted her all the way from the time she took Meereen to overcome many difficulties and gain a firm foothold step by step until today's patriarch, if Varys, who has only jumped out for less than a month, is allowed to arbitrarily influence and influence the Queen's thoughts, wouldn't it be to give up influence and the right to speak?

He was not very good at military affairs, but he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs run, even if it was purely against Varys, he had to raise a different opinion: "Even if it doesn't cost a single soldier to defeat King's Landing, are we going to unify Westeros with the 20,000 men brought from Meereen?" Quickly win a major victory, occupy the political and economic center of the Seven Kingdoms, and sit on the Iron Throne, and you will find that there are more supporters and supporters popping up like loaches under the sand, far more than you think!"

"Your Majesty, Lord Petyr is right—this is no longer the time for your ancestors to conquer the Seven Kingdoms. The Targaryens have ruled with dragons for more than 200 years, and everyone agrees that 'dragon = orthodoxy', but they all know how to deal with dragons. In this case, the symbolism of the dragon is far greater than its practical value, and 'riding the dragon into battle' should always be considered as a last resort. Varys spoke softly, but resolutely, "Of course, the army can't be outside King's Landing, we can surround King's Landing and continue to fight against the rebels who come to King Qin' from all walks of life." Stannis was ready to take on the dragons in King's Landing, but his vassals were not! The rebel army that arrived in a hurry did not have dragon hunting crossbows, and field warfare was also the strength of the Unsullied. As long as we fight outside the range of King's Landing's crossbows, we can win victory after victory. In this time, the army will be able to prepare siege engines outside King's Landing, and I will secure the support of Your Majesty in Riverlands and Dorne, and even your nephew, Aegon Targaryen, will surely take this opportunity to arrive with the Golden Regiment. When the army gathers, and then besiege and take King's Landing in a dignified manner, and order the western and northern regions to submit to submission, and refuse to be rebellion, isn't it more perfect?"

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Damn, Petyr was momentarily speechless. Varys said that if he could convince Riverbend and Dorne to come to support, then most likely he could, as for "letting the dragon go to war should be the last choice", this sentence is a proposition that he also made in Meereen before, how can he oppose a point of view that he also agrees with?

The Great Eunuch was full of chips and was full of ambition, while Littlefinger, who felt that his position was threatened, was full of seriousness and pondered a way to refute it—Missandei, who had listened for a long time, had roughly understood the disagreement between the two Tycoons—the former believing that he should prepare calmly and join up with the allies he could win before seeking a decisive battle, while the latter believed that he should quickly storm King's Landing, capture the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, and attract followers.

Misandei, who had not dared to interject before, finally found an opportunity to speak weakly: "Your Majesty, the two adults have their own ideas, but why do you have to go through the normal channels of war like this." Wouldn't you pick a dark and windy night for a month and go straight over and burn down the Red Keep and destroy the False King Stannis, won't you end the war at the root?"

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