Iger didn't know who gave Arya the idea of the "chief female night watchman", but the living naturally couldn't be suffocated by urine, and since there was a risk that the plan to balance the north by land grant alone would go wrong, it would be enough to bring up the originally envisaged "backup plan" and bring the Bolton family into the scene.

Speaking of which, the stability of the three-legged stand has to be taken to a higher level.

After a knock and a pie to make the old skin, everything went smoothly: the promised Bolton family invested all their savings and energy into the queen's conquest, which not only gave Daenerys a loyal and strong supporter, but also inadvertently intervened in the subsequent big meeting - creating a "catfish effect" within the northern aristocracy:

Originally, many of the princes who came to pledge their allegiance were motivated by the intention of not contributing to their work, and made great reservations in supporting the queen...... Daenerys knew this and intended to accept it by default. But among the many bastards, there was a struggling Luce Burton, and with him in front of him to make a comparison, the situation suddenly became awkward: a group of northern nobles soon discovered that the men, horses, grain, grass and armaments of several of their families could not suppress the Bolton family together!

How does this work?

The Bolton family can show such abundant financial and material resources and military strength, and it is certainly an important factor that they have been preparing for war secretly for a long time, and other families are definitely not comparable, but in the end, the population and size are over there, even if they are not too bad...... The self-proclaimed "decent people" of the northern bigwigs were actually compared to a "northern traitor" in terms of loyalty, which still made them unbearable.

couldn't afford to lose this face, so everyone had to quietly raise the sponsorship amount, not seeking to overtake it, so as not to be too outrageous. Give a little more for this one, and half a point for that one...... Everyone gathered firewood and the flame was high, and in this way, Daenerys quickly raised more food and grass than needed, and the southern expedition finally had everything in place and began with a bang.

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Daenerys went north with three dragons, but when she went south, she had one less, but she had an extra army of more than 10,000 people by her side. With the exception of the Unsullied Guard, the composition was roughly as follows: more than 4,000 land grants, and nearly 6,000 soldiers from the North—2,000 of which were owned by the Boltons, and 4,000 by the rest of the families.

It's not much, but when the north still needs to guard against the invasion of the iron people, it is already an extremely clear stand and declaration, and the political significance is far greater than the actual combat power.

With the Bolton Army as the vanguard, the Southern Expeditionary Force set out from Winterfell, marched south in a dragon-like manner, and after several days of marching along King's Road, they arrived at the last stop before stepping out of the north, Carlin Bay, the north-south transportation hub.

After meeting with the small nobles in the south of the north such as the Locke family in the old city and the Gray Water Wangli family, who had already received the news here, and after accepting their oath of allegiance, the queen could be regarded as pocketing all the nobles in the north who were willing to change their banners. After ordering the army to pause for a moment, she convened an operational meeting at Egger's request to discuss the core points that must be determined before entering the war zone.

How to fight this southern expedition?

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"Three or four months ago, when the Battle of Long Lake had just ended, and the Night's Watch was still sweeping the battlefield and chasing the escaped ghosts, the southern battlefield did not pause. After learning that the queen was in the north and could not return to the south for a short time, the puppet king Stannis organized the defenders of King's Landing to take the initiative to investigate the reality and start preparing for a decisive battle after finding out the deployment of the Innocents and the Free Militia in the besieging army. ”

Facing the detailed map of the river-royal realm hanging on the wall, Egger pointed while unhurriedly briefing on the situation on the battlefield.

Normally, the nobles of Westeros would hold a battle meeting, and most of them would spread out the map on a large table, and everyone would discuss it in a circle. But what Iger chose today was to have the others sit in a row, standing at the end of the room by himself—like a teacher teaching students, just talking and not listening.

The main reason for this, in addition to creating a sense of oppression and establishing authority, is that he already has a complete and clear plan for how to conduct the southern expedition, and has gained approval after communicating with the queen...... He didn't want to, and didn't need to consult, with these discerning nobles.

Fortunately, the Queen's appointed commander, Grey Bug, was keenly aware of the intention of the opponent's camera decisive battle, and after some deduction and judgment that the odds of victory were not good, he took the initiative to shrink his army to Rosby City in the north of King's Landing and the Night's Watch Industrial Park in the southwest of King's Landing, and continued to encircle the city. ”

This is actually a bit of a forced blow, in fact, the battle situation on the periphery of King's Landing has reached a rather dangerous level a while ago - the encirclement was not actively withdrawn by the Gray Worm, but was broken by Stannis. How keen-minded this battle-experienced leader of the army is, after determining that Daenerys's dragon will not be able to participate in the battle, he decisively led his troops to attack, and directly penetrated the weaker Free Militia Regiment in the Queen's troops, not only tearing the battle line in one fell swoop, but also trying to take advantage of the victory to pursue and create annihilation results, if it were not for the fierce and fearless Innocent Legion quickly mobilized to step forward to withstand the pressure, and the Golden Regiment stationed on the south bank of the Blackwater River also reacted quickly and immediately made a posture to cross the river to join the battlefield, and finally forced Stannis to withdraw from the battlefield in a two-pronged manner。

If he really loses the huge saltpeter reserves in the industrial park, a lot of Egger's subsequent tactics and strategies will have to be greatly changed, and I am afraid that he will have less confidence to stand here and speak today.

Of course, he naturally wouldn't do anything stupid to destroy his prestige, and since the worst didn't happen, all he had to do now was to show full confidence, not even mentioning Little Aegon's role in this incident.

Taking advantage of this gap, Stannis concentrated his forces to briefly open the route to the Riverlands, obtaining a batch of food to relieve the emergency, and alleviating the food shortage in King's Landing...... It would be a shame that months of siege would have been in vain, but on the other hand, the hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of King's Landing, with their benevolence, would never have expected to starve them to break the city. ”

With this summing up, Iger turned to look at the seated group.

"Now that we have a rough idea of what lies ahead, the next steps we are going to take are clear: go south as soon as possible, join up with the Queen's forces outside King's Landing, and lay siege to the capital of the Seven Kingdoms. ”

He raised his hand to weigh a little more heavily somewhere in the lower right corner of the map, at least at this point, no one had any doubts.

"But it's not that simple, we have the entire Riverlands between us and King's Landing, and we have to at least let the Riverlands, at least Tully, and the important families along the King's Road, take a stand in order to ensure the safety of our backs and the safety of the grain and grass transportation routes. He lowered his hand and looked at Daenerys, who was sitting in the first row, "The queen has decided that tomorrow morning she will ride a dragon to the south first, and go to the front line of Rosby City to join the main force of the Unsullied, to boost morale, and ensure that the confrontation state does not collapse before our army moves south to join them." Now, in my capacity as the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, I will issue to you the specific operational directives for the first phase of the War of Conquest, on behalf of Daenerys I Targaryen. ”

After a pause, Iger raised his voice: "Sir Willis Mandalay and the logistics commander of the Land-Grant Army, Pedi, led the soldiers of White Harbor and two hundred Land-Grant Army infantry to stay in Carlin Bay, responsible for guarding against the enemy from the south and north, and coordinating the subsequent transit and storage of grain and grass in this place and the transportation to the front; The route of the two avenues between the rivers to King's Landing prevents the grain transportation of the princes of the Riverlands to King's Landing, and annihilates the possible puppet king's grain convoy, ensuring that not a single grain of grain will flow into the hands of the enemy from the outside before the combined army attacks King's Landing...... If possible, troops should be sent to take Harrenhal, but the former task should be the primary objective, and as for the remaining commanders of the armies, who have not been named, they will be led by me and Duke Robb Stark to enter the hinterland of the river through Luanhe City, submit the princes of the three rivers along the way, and go to Riverrun City to persuade Duke Edmure Tully to be loyal to the queen...... Or take the capital of Riverlands. ”

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