"Your Majesty's fleet on Dragonstone consists of more than thirty ships of all sizes and sizes that Victor Greyjoy brought from the Iron Islands to Meereen, one hundred and five ships captured after the defeat of the fleet of Valantis, and the rest of the ...... There are basically dozens of converted cargo ships with little combat effectiveness. Among them, because the Valantis battleships were basically large ships, we were superior to the Iron Fleet in total tonnage, but they were inferior in numbers, and the quality of personnel was uneven. The representative of the fleet commander, a middle-aged man who did not look like a soldier, answered Egger's question, "Most of our crew are newly trained sailors, and there are also some prisoners who surrendered, and the ship is barely able to operate, and the battle is a bit reluctant, if it is a long-distance naval battle, it can still be fought, once it is approached into the broadside battle, there is no power to parry." It was difficult to deal with the Iron Fleet alone, let alone Stannis's King's Landing Fleet, which was a regular navy with few ships, and none of them were small ships. ”

Similar to Egger's guess, Daenerys's so-called "fleet" is actually just an armed transport fleet, and there is no problem in carrying her Unsullied and Free Militia from Meereen back to Westeros, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it can only be regarded as better than nothing, and the most capable of fighting may be the "Second Iron Fleet" that originally followed Victalion, and it is no problem to block Stannis in Blackwater Bay, but if you really want to fight against the fleet led by the "King of the Iron Islands" Eulen, you may not be able to defect.

After figuring this out, he coughed, interrupting the other people in the room who were arguing about what was going on.

"Your Majesty, even your own members of the Navy admit that our water forces are hardly the match for the Iron Fleet. Egg said to Daenerys, who looked solemn, "But the question I'm thinking about now is - since the Iron Fleet has arrived in Blackwater Bay, why didn't they just invade Dragonstone Island and wipe out your fleet in one fell swoop, but only attacked one of your patrol boats, and even released two people alive?"

"It's obviously a threat. Prince Oberon leaned back in his chair and tapped his fingers on the table with his fingers, uttering his romantic speculation: "I have heard that Raveneye has proposed to His Majesty, but it has been rejected...... Could it be that he wants to destroy what he can't get because of love and hatred?"

"You want to force me to marry him, you think it's beautiful!" The queen suddenly couldn't suppress her anger, she and Euron were originally innocent, and even had a good impression of the iron people because the iron fleet came all the way to Mereen to help in the war, even if she was ambitious and refused to marry, but she was willing to form a mutually beneficial alliance, and whoever thought that the other party would start to take hostile actions if she didn't agree with each other.

That's what touched her scales.

"Do you want me, I'll ride a dragon to find him outside Blackwater Bay tomorrow, so that he can experience the enthusiasm of a woman from the Targaryen family! I don't believe it, there are dragon hunting crossbows on the Iron Min's ship!"

I didn't mean that, Egger smiled bitterly and hurriedly admonished: "It's hard to say whether there is a dragon hunting crossbow or not, but even if there is not, ordinary ballista trebuchets can pose a certain threat, and more importantly, hundreds of boats, relying on Your Majesty and you two dragons to slowly burn or bomb over, when will this battle be fought? There is a possibility of forcing marriage, but this move looks more like a show of existence, telling us: the iron fleet is not only coming, but also not good." Does this look like the work of a team of pirates?"

"No, the style of piracy is to sneak up and fight quickly, riding the wind and riding the waves...... Let people know in advance and grab a fart?" Speaking of this, the fleet representative also frowned, "Uh...... I don't know what they're trying to do. ”

"Analyzing the whereabouts and trajectories of the Iron Folk in the past two years, it is not difficult to guess what they intend to be—the river bays, the rivers, the west and the north, although the Iron Fleet seems to have fought all over the Seven Kingdoms, it has never fought a decisive battle with any of them. The Iron Islands are sparsely populated, although all the people are soldiers, but there is one less to die, and they can't afford to lose, so they are unwilling and will not fight with others easily. Now deliberately attacking patrol ships instead of attacking the military port of Dragonstone, I guess this is a kind of deterrent, and Euron wants to scare us into using the navy without a single sword, and is forced to attack King's Landing only by land, so as to achieve the goal of 'weakening us by the hand of Stannis', so that even if we take King's Landing, we will be greatly damaged, and we will not be able to settle the unity of the Seven Kingdoms with Little Aegon and Riverbend for a long time, let alone settle the old accounts of the Iron Folk sacking the coast. ”

"Doesn't that mean that as long as we don't attack King's Landing with the Dragonstone fleet, Euron won't be in the war?" Robb asked, skeptically.

"My personal judgment is so, but I can't guarantee that I can figure out the mind of a madman, and the alert level of the fleet still needs to be raised. ”

"Since naval battles are difficult to win, then we can only attack King's Landing from land, so what's the matter?" Princess Arrene couldn't understand why everyone was so serious.

"It's not that simple. The Innocent's second-in-command, the snapping turtle, took the initiative to explain to Princess Dorne, "King's Landing is low and weak on both sides of the water, but the walls are high and thick in the direction of the plain, and if we abandon the cooperation of the navy, then Stannis's fleet will lean their ships against the shore outside the steel gate or sail into the Blackwater River to help defend the mud gate." In this way, we will be forced to bite the tongue from the direction that it is difficult to bite. If we only attack the city from the west and north, it will be difficult for 30,000 soldiers to enter the battle at the same time, and it will be difficult to put all the siege equipment captured from the people of Hewan, and the defenders can also concentrate superior forces for defense. In addition, a large number of defensive equipment originally placed on the east and south walls and in the military port of the royal fleet can also be removed and moved to the city wall of the battle section...... It can be said that although the battle line is shortened, the intensity of the offensive and defensive battles will be greatly increased, and our casualties will also increase exponentially. ”

"If it is only to double the difficulty of breaking the city, then the patience will be over, but only attacking the city from the west and north will bring another problem: the attack will likely be dragged into the stage of street fighting. The Red Keep, the core of King's Landing, was located in the southeasternmost corner of the city, and was originally attacked from all directions at the same time, but after the city was breached, our troops would also swarm through the seven gates, and the defenders would not be able to build an effective defense against the enemy from all directions. However, by breaking the city from only two directions, the defenders could build barricades to the west and north to resist, with their backs to the Red Fort, fortified layer by layer, and retreated step by step...... In a bad battle where the superiority in equipment and numbers is difficult to play, there is a high probability that our army's casualties will increase by four digits!"

"And, once the opponent has enough time to retreat into the Red Keep, we will also face a strong fortress on the high hills of Aegon and defended by thousands of men......"

"There's still a lot of battle to be fought ahead, and I can't afford to lose too many soldiers in King's Landing. Daenerys interrupted the Unsullied's ramblings, "I need a solution now!"

Everyone exchanged their heads and ears, but they didn't discuss anything, and their voices became quieter, and they all turned their eyes to Egg.

(It all depends on what I'm doing, I don't know anything about naval warfare!)

Egger's head was suddenly wide.

Prestige is a thing that begins with ability, becomes victorious, and becomes superstition after fermentation...... Everyone seemed to think that he should have a way to break the game. However, the land-giving army was trained by his own hands, and the gunpowder weapons were also developed by him, and he fought all the way through half obscenity and half cheating.

Of course, the trust and persuasion of others is beneficial to him, and Iger naturally does not say that he can't do it, so he can only pretend to think about it, and put forward his opinion after a while.

"There are two lines of thought, one is to compromise, abandon the original plan of advancing by land and sea, and order the Dragonstone fleet to shrink its line to the vicinity of the port to protect itself, and at the same time we will come up with another way to reduce casualties even if we only attack by land. The second is to try to increase the combat effectiveness of the Dragonstone Island fleet in a short period of time, anyway, sooner or later it will be the enemy, so we simply don't do anything - we will go to war on both sides, and at the same time recover King's Landing, we will also clean up the iron fleet by the way, and return the four seas to peace!"

As for the second, it is said lightly, but if there is no concrete and feasible method, it is tantamount to not saying it, so after a slight pause, he added: "At present, it seems that there are roughly the following ways to enhance the combat strength of the fleet -- to draw from the soldiers in the northern rivers to replenish the fleet with men who are familiar with the water nature, to increase the navy's long-range attack capability with artillery, to produce explosive bombs to make up for the weakness of the broadside battle, and to provide air support by His Majesty in the event of an engagement." ”

"There are many means, but none of them require time to prepare, and if Your Majesty is determined to do so, the time for the general attack on King's Landing will have to be postponed for a while. Although the Hewan Army has temporarily retreated, its strength still exists, and if it drags on for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be changes. The stakes and severity of this will have to be judged and decided by Your Majesty himself. ”

It's not that Iger kicks the ball on purpose, it's that he can't really draw quick conclusions in a short period of time.

It's easy to fill the fleet with soldiers who are water, but there are only so many artillery and artillery that they are useless for the navy and army...... The most important thing is that the foundation of the Dragonstone fleet is too poor, even if you give a bunch of people and good things, you may not be able to get a generation of pirates like the Iron Fleet.

On the contrary, abandoning the sea and land and advancing directly to storm King's Landing may seem like a surrender and will lead to increased casualties, but after all, the main force of the siege is the Queen's direct and Dornish people, and his own land grant army has already ventured into battle with the Golden Regiment for the first time, and it is not the turn of reason to rush to the forefront during the siege - in this way, Egger's position on this matter is suddenly unreasonable and extreme.

The eyes of everyone in the room turned back to Daenerys, and a clear hesitation appeared on her smooth and beautiful face, emotionally speaking, of course, she wanted to immediately make the offender pay the price with her color, but she was the queen after all, and every decision involved her whole body, especially taboo righteousness, how to choose, she also made a mistake for a while.

Just when everyone thought that the queen was about to announce an important decision, Missandei, who had been standing behind her, suddenly whispered: "Your Majesty, the stakes are very high, but there is no need for you to make a decision immediately." Today, our army has won a great victory, why not announce the adjournment of the meeting first, let all the adults go back to relax and celebrate, and you can also rest for a while, think about it carefully, and talk about it tomorrow?"

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