There are many who persist in fighting for the Baratheon dynasty for a variety of reasons, but none of them are more loyal than Davos Seaworth.

Not only because he was attracted to Stannis's idea of absolute justice, but also because everything he has now is given by the former.

What an honor and privilege it was for Stannis to make him a knight, to grant him a fief, to leave the smuggling boat, to wear the Hand of the King, and to sit on the Iron Throne to rule the Seven Kingdoms?

At present, of Davos's seven children: Dale, Arad, Malik, and Massos serve as captains or lieutenants of warships in the royal fleet; Davon is knighted and becomes a member of the king's guard; the remaining two younger sons are also accepted as attendants, and it is only a matter of time before they get rid of their civilian status; his wife Maria lives with him in the Prime Minister's Tower, and is accompanied by servant guards when he goes in and out......

All of this was due to Stannis Baratheon, and the price he paid was only a few knuckles—nothing more just than to punish him for his former lawlessness.

If the hereditary nobles of those royal domains, Narrow Sea, and the rest of the Seven Kingdoms may only lose a few faces, lose two fiefs, and live a little tighter after the change of dynasty, he Davos, the founder of the Seaworth family...... If Stannis is defeated, he and his entire family will fall back into the mud from the sky and be beaten back to their original shape. Not to mention today's status and the bright future of the children, it may be difficult to keep even the little money left by the smuggling. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you will be left with nothing!

And that was an outcome that he would never accept.

He was willing to die for Stannis, really.

One is out of loyalty, and the other is to understand that failure is sometimes worse than death!

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Unable to command the naval battles in King's Landing, Stannis was unable to command the naval battles himself, so Prime Minister Davos was now on the flagship in the middle of the first battle column, nervously observing the battle situation and listening to the reports of his subordinates, analyzing and judging the battlefield situation with his own modest knowledge of naval warfare and the advice of his advisers.

The first thing they discovered was that the most advanced of the three lines of Daenerys' fleet, that is, the ships facing the royal fleet, were all flying the red dragon flag and the sea monster flag at the same time.

It's weird.

After questioning and thinking, Davos understood the reason: this was the detachment that Euron Greyjoy had sent to Meereen to retrieve the bride with three dragons for himself, but for a series of long reasons such as the passage of time, this fleet was eaten and digested by Daenerys and integrated into her navy. Today, she put this small group of Iron Folk at the head of the fleet, and let them fight against the royal fleet rather than the Great Iron Fleet of Eurons, most likely to extinguish the danger of this group of people defecting - caught between the main forces of King's Landing and Daenerys' fleet, this group of former pirates can only fight desperately to survive, no matter how many ideas they have.

The second discovery came a little late and was oppressive.

They thought that the sound of the cannon was the signal for the Queen's fleet to start the battle, but it was not until the rumble sounded again and again that they realized that the Night's Watch had actually brought the weapons that had repelled the Southern Coalition forces on the banks of the Blackwater River a few days ago to the warships and used them in naval battles!

In the not too dense but endless cannon fire, the cannonballs that fell into the sea splashed with eye-catching white water, and the ships that hit the ships kept bringing news of the ship's damage and casualties - this is a weapon that far exceeds the ballistae equipped with the royal fleet ships in terms of power and range, although the hit rate is touching, but it still easily disrupts Davos's original battle plan of "long-range attrition and waiting for the Iron Fleet to join the battle".

Through the observation of the lens, he saw white smoke coming out of several warships in the center of the queen's fleet, and also saw that the entire fleet of the other party had almost stopped moving forward, and began to lay out a defensive formation as if to defend the "gunboats" in the center...... The other party wants to replicate the battle on the banks of the Heishui River on the sea - not to fight hard, but to rely on the benefits of new weapons, and to slowly collapse the morale of the royal fleet.

Don't be beaten!

"Order the fleet - full speed ahead, outflank left and right!"

Woowoowoooo......oo

With the experience of the Golden Group, Davos didn't dare to play any temptation and pulling, and directly studded.

The battle horn sounded, although it could not suppress the sound of artillery, but at least it was a brave response.

Fearing a dragon attack, the ships were kept at a good distance from each other, and all ships lowered their sails to avoid the devastating effects of dragon flames or incendiary weapons...... Long pulp, denser than a centipede's legs, stretched out from the side of the ship and began to swing in unison to the sound of the call, and the three-digit manpower applied to the hull of the ship, which weighed only a dozen tons......

Basking in the sunshine that began to set westward, the wide royal fleet formation suddenly accelerated forward, enveloping the pocket iron fleet attached to the queen like a large net.

1,000,000,000,000,000,...... In the face of the roaring cannon fire and the continuous roar of iron bullets flying by the side and overhead, the ships of the royal fleet fought forward.

They were unlucky, falling victim to the world's first naval battle against an enemy ship with thermal weapons, but they were also fortunate because of the urgency of the enemy's overwhelming weaponry, but they were not able to mass-produce equipment to extend their advantage...... In addition, there was a battle in which the Hewan Army was easily defeated on the bank of the Heishui River as a foreshadowing, and under the psychological preparation, he was not beaten to the point of panicking and powerless.

After paying the price of only one ship being severely damaged and incapacitated, they struggled to cross the gap between the range of hot and cold weapons and enter the distance where they could counterattack.

The arms of the catapults swung and the torsion of the ballistas rattled, and a large number of incendiary canisters, stone projectiles, spear arrows, and projectiles in woven bag nets were thrown into the air and smashed into the pocket iron fleet, which was the vanguard of the Queen's fleet...... However, the density of the enemy's counterattack fire was also much higher than expected, and the ammunition that also carried the smoke with the flames fell like raindrops on the side of the ship, and from time to time one hit the deck and burst into flames, causing the nearby crew to run around and hurriedly extinguish the fire, and the thud and sporadic screams of the projectile hitting the ship's gang made the fighting atmosphere ten times richer in an instant.

Despite the numerical superiority in the local area, when the opponent still had artillery cover to cheer on, Davos found that they were unable to form a fire suppression!

"The main function of the Iron Folk warships is to plunder, and they should not have such powerful long-range firepower, it must have been the queen's craftsmen who urgently modified them and installed the siege weapons captured from the Rivermen on the ship. An adjutant craned his neck and said nervously and loudly, "Your Excellency, we should not continue to shoot at each other, but should let the warships collide and fight at close distances! As long as we are close to the enemy, and the new equipment in the center of their formation has some scruples, we will no longer be able to continue to hold our might, and our warships and sailors will have an advantage in quantity and quality, and we will definitely be able to win!"

The staff's suggestion coincided with Davos's idea, and it was immediately adopted and communicated. The battle was officially underway, the chain of command remained unscathed, and soon the commanders of the ships were given orders. The direction was finely adjusted, the speed increased again, and the collision angles of the battleships were faintly visible under the waves of the setting sun...... As the warships of the two sides continued to approach, in addition to catapults and ballistas, the crossbowmen also began to shoot each other, and even if it was a contest between arrows, the front of the queen's fleet did not fall behind, and it seemed that the other side not only added ships and equipment, but also added a lot of personnel.

But everything didn't matter, the warship was not a war elephant, and it would not turn around and trample on its own people in fright because it found that the enemy was different from what he imagined, and time passed quickly, and the distance between the two fleets was soon close to the point where it was impossible to bombard indiscriminately, and the faces and expressions of the soldiers on each other's decks began to become clear.

"Angular velocity!"

"Keep course!"

"Right full rudder!"

......

Amid the roar of the navigators of both sides as they controlled and commanded the ships, either rammed or tried to evade, the middle of the royal fleet finally rushed into the Queen's naval vanguard.

The Iron Islanders were so familiar with naval warfare that they certainly didn't forget common sense just because they had been loyal to the queen for two years, and despite being inferior in numbers, size, and speed, they managed to avoid the collision angles of most of the royal fleet's ships as much as possible.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

"Sting!"

"Click!"

In a jumble of indescribable sounds, such as the dull sound of a god stomping on the ground, it means that a battleship has turned around in time to avoid the other side's collision angle, and the sides of the two ships have collided solidly, while the more piercing and penetrating cracking and tearing sounds mean that the belly of a ship has been pierced and torn apart by the other party's collision angle, and the sporadic and continuous crisp cracking sound mixed with the loud noise is that the oarsmen of some ships have not reacted in time, and the oars that have not been retracted have been crushed and broken by other ships......

Amid the screams and exclamations of the overboard, Davos steadied himself from the massive shock caused by the impact, and found himself on the Fury and the friendly ship on the right sandwiching an enemy warship in the middle. It was a fat and wide ship, but slightly shorter than the Fury, and it was not a serious warship at all, but mostly an unfortunate armed merchant ship that the iron people had taken prisoner on the sea...... He put the largest and most powerful ship in the first column, but the queen even threw such a ship into the vanguard, and in order to win, she took out all the cards in her hand.

He didn't know what the name of the enemy ship that collided with him was, and he didn't want to know, he only heard a few crisp and subtle ping-pong sounds, and saw the opposing crew throw up and hook the grappling hook on the edge of the battleship he was on...... The other party used ropes and tools to pull the two warships that were still moving in the opposite direction and were about to pass by, and tied them together!

was caught between two warships, and still had the courage to take the initiative to initiate a broadside battle?

This is also too arrogant!

"Soldiers, take up arms!" Davos only felt a wave of contemptuous anger welling up, and the battle intent and pride were instantly filled - there were second and third battle columns behind the Fury to fight, and the two wings were about to take shape, how could this battle be lost?

He pulled out the short knife from his waist with a thud and shouted to the crew members who were looking at him: "Long live King Stannis!"

"Long live King Stannis!"

Led by the Prime Minister and his personal guards, the morale of the soldiers and crew of the Fury was so high that they grabbed the most useful weapons they could get their hands on, followed the officers, ran to starboard, jumped over the edge of the ship, jumped off the height difference of nearly a metre, and stepped onto the deck of the enemy ship.

The first row of soldiers held their shields aloft, and everyone kept an eye on the enemy's every move in their field of vision, they didn't know the name of the bomb yet, but after learning about the battle on the banks of the Blackwater, they all knew that the queen's troops had a strange weapon that could explode...... However, they did not see the panicked sailors of the enemy ship, nor did they wait for the large black balls thrown above their heads, but only saw countless Unsullied soldiers pouring out of the cabin, lined up in a neat formation, pressing down on them as if they were at home.

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