Marriage to the Tullites would indeed increase the Tyrells' voice in the Seven Kingdoms, and even solidify the latter's rule in the Riverlands...... But these things, in peacetime...... At best, it was the icing on the cake, and even the layman of Egger's aristocratic game didn't think it was worth it to use up his only daughter's marriage chance for this little promotion.

In the case that Margaery is bent on becoming queen, she will not succeed in seducing the king, and will definitely set her sights on the prince...... Poor Edmure doesn't know when he will be able to settle the marriage matter.

Wait, he is the future supreme lord of the Riverlands, even if he doesn't have a wife, can he still have a ** and a lover, and it will be his turn to worry about the marriage of the Tully family as a night watchman?

Thinking of the Night's Watch, a wave of anger suddenly appeared in Egger's chest for no reason: his black-clothed brothers were fighting a life-and-death confrontation with countless savages and human natural enemies in the north of the North, but these nobles of the Seven Kingdoms were holding a blind date in the barracks in front of the Blood Gate, while watching waves of soldiers die under the first danger of Westeros, while wantonly carrying out a shameful distribution of benefits?

How absurd! This evil feudal society!

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The anger came and went as fast as it came and went for no reason, and even Egg himself was confused by the sudden strong emotions and thoughts, could it be that he had pretended to be a loyal night watchman all day long, pretending to be around himself?

Secretly snorting at himself, he no longer thought about it: "To sum up, everyone wants to climb high, but no one can climb it...... It's a mess. ”

The old earl didn't notice the temporary anomaly that Egger had just appeared, he looked at the tent forest in the distance and sighed: "Yes, it's really chaotic, but not everyone wants to climb high, just now I mentioned the big nobles whose identity, status and strength are above my Antler Castle, and it is normal for them to have some ideas." But the Seven Kingdoms, after all, are composed of countless down-to-earth earls and knights...... As far as I know, there have been at least two marriages, which were negotiated in this barracks before the first battle was fought today. ”

"Congratulations to these four. For some reason, Egger also became uninterested for a while, and he didn't want to ask who the four families were, so he changed the topic: "Today's siege is quite exciting, but it's a pity that the defenders are one step higher, what is the king's plan next?

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Seeing other people's families happily talking about alliance and relatives, but his own son was far away on the desperate Great Wall to deal with the wildlings, Earl Bookwell actually didn't want to continue this discussion, and just changed the topic along with Egger's question: "Of course you can't wait, after all, it is not a lonely city after the blood gate, but the Valley of Arryn, which has hundreds of thousands of people, it is more time-consuming, the rebels in the valley have no problem guarding for a hundred years, and it is we who are short of time- Until the food in the Eagle's Nest City ran out and we were forced to surrender, we still did not break through the blood gate and failed to rescue the people to be saved, then this battle is equivalent to our loss. ”

The Earl of Bookwell made a clear and well-founded analysis, and continued: "The door is blocked...... This is really no one expected, the blood gate is such a narrow section, if you want to rely on the ladder to climb the city wall to capture it normally, I don't know how many casualties you have to pay to take it. In order to deal with this dangerous pass, the combat meeting everyone came up with all kinds of strange tricks, some said that they sent people into the hole of the gatehouse to dig through the stone pile of the sealing wall, and some said that they piled up a slope as high as the gate in front of the blood gate and then the infantry rushed directly up...... It's outrageous, it is actually recommended to dig the cliff through the edge of the blood gate and enter the Arryn Valley, you are the night watchman, you should be good at guarding the city, you say, are these methods easy to use?"

Iger had never defended the city at all, but that didn't stop him from judging that these methods would not work: "When you go into the cave of the gatehouse and dig a pile of stones to seal the door, the defenders can easily suffocate people to death by throwing a few oil drums at the gate, and the earth slopes and tunnels are dug ...... Adults say that it is us who are short of time, how can these methods be in time?"

"That's right, that's the problem. The old earl shook his head: "Although these methods are not easy to use, after all, they are the plans proposed at the combat meeting...... It's okay for us to talk casually in private, don't talk nonsense, understand. ”

"Military secrets, I know. ”

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The two of them talked casually and casually, and together they returned to the headquarters of the king's army and the army of Antlersburg. Judging from the flow of a large number of soldiers returning to their respective camps from the front of the battle, it is estimated that the command level has decided not to attack the city today, and after saying goodbye to each other, the two returned to their own tents.

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On the second day of the first failed siege, the 80,000-strong army stationed outside the Bloody Gate was divided into more than 30,000 and rushed to various parts of the valley to help uproot the many castles exposed outside the Vale of Arryn. The rest of the army, according to the dukes to which they belonged, was divided into six groups according to the nationality of the six nationalities, and took turns to undertake the work of attack and defense.

The reason for this arrangement is easy to understand: the rebels blocking the gate certainly made it much more difficult to attack the fortifications, but at the same time, it also cut off the possibility of sneak attacks and harassment from the valley, and in this case, it is undoubtedly a great waste of energy to keep the whole army vigilant day and night, and it may also cause overall fatigue over time.

Whichever army is on duty, this army will not only be responsible for the defense of the large battalion, but must also go to the bloody gate to call for battle and symbolically attack...... It seems that they want to drag down the rebels through wheel warfare, but the rebels in the valley are also as many as thousands, and they also take turns to rest.

There was only one possibility: Robert hoped to force the rebels to surrender by capturing the rest of the valley castles outside the Vale of Arryn.

After two more attempts to enter the city, with hundreds of casualties and no results, the counterinsurgency war entered a stage of tactical stalemate, and both the offensive and defensive sides fell into an embarrassing situation of riding tigers - several nobles of the Alliance of the Righteous dared to launch a mutiny, hoping to drive Lyza, a mad woman, out of the valley and take back autonomy through "justice and justice" and bloody natural dangers, and he could not have imagined that Robert would be so violent as to summon the armies of the Six Nations to deal with his former allies and supporters without any negotiation......s; It is also because of his military talent and self-confidence that he can easily win the blood gate, so he will call the people of the six countries to watch the show with great fanfare, and he never imagined that the "rebels" in the valley would just reach this level.

After a few days of staring at each other through the bloody gates, the rebels in the Vale were the first to make concessions and offer peace talks—as long as Lysa Tully could leave the Vale, Jon Royce, the leader of the Alliance of the Righteous, was willing to confess his rebellion, give up the position of head of the family to his son, and put on black clothes, on the condition that Robert would not hold the rest of the family accountable.

This was already a very sincere condition, but unfortunately Robert still ruthlessly rejected this condition, insisting that the rebels surrender first, and all other conditions would be discussed after the surrender was completed.

Iger can understand why Robert insisted on this, and even in the modern world, some countries still adopt a similarly hard-line policy of not negotiating with terrorists. The reason is very simple, if any person who rebels can negotiate terms with the king, then the country will never be at peace in the future.

At the base camp of the coalition forces in front of the Blood Gate, Iger did not know if the siege of the rest of the valley was going well. Taking advantage of the dull phase of the two armies, he only made a fortune in silence - casting a wide net, collecting more fish, and choosing the best: walking the barracks of various feudal states, and selling the night watch industry to every potential customer.

To be honest, in this era of general backward concepts, it is indeed difficult to convince people to make such advanced financial behaviors as "investing". In any case, it is much more efficient and easier to get money out of the hands of these wealthy and powerful aristocratic classes than it is to raise money among the common people at the bottom of the exploitation.

After countless encounters and exercises, his Amway skills have become more and more proficient, and with the physical objects in the hands of booksellers in the barracks and the hot sales as evidence, even he is not aware of it...... The number of nobles who were willing to receive him to sit in the tent for a while, and after negotiation, agreed to pass by to visit the factory temporarily, had begun to increase unconsciously.

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