Chapter 713: Assassination
The current situation in King's Landing is indeed not good, I said before that King's Landing has 600 troops, and the troops in the north and the troops in the valley are still on the way back to King's Landing, so Stannis chose this time point very accurately, and he also knew that this was the only chance, and when the troops from the north really arrived, he would have no chance.
Of course, a few days have passed, and the troops on King's Landing are a bit expanded. Ye Junwen asked Varys to recruit troops near the royal territory before, and has now gathered 600 troops, of course, all the troops are more than these, but the scope of the royal territory is also very large, and the only people who have come to King's Landing are here, that is to say, Ye Junwen's current available troops are 1200 people.
On Stannis's side, his own troops are only more than 2,000 people, but he called Salado, a big pirate, this guy has more than 200 warships under his command, of course, these warships have sailors, these sailors are pirates, and their combat effectiveness is also very strong. At present, it seems that the gap between the enemy and us is still very staggering.
What's even more troublesome is that because of the lack of manpower and intelligence on the side of King's Landing, coupled with the raid carried out by Stannis in the middle of the night, by the time it was discovered, the opponent's fleet had already entered Blackwater Bay, that is to say, when Ye Junwen got up, the opponent's troops had already arrived in the city, and the King's Landing City was in a hurry to prepare for defense, which was really a bit too late.
The landing of the other party and the like can't be stopped at all, the front few docks have been captured by Stannis's troops, and the current situation is really critical, and Varys and Paisher don't understand the military situation at all, and now King's Landing doesn't even have a general who can go out.
Originally, in this case, Stannis had basically won, but even Stannis himself felt that it was not so simple, after all...... And the dragons. He is not very clear about the specific situation of the war in the north, but the only thing he can know is that Ye Junwen's dragon definitely played a key role, otherwise, how could the troops in the west be defeated so quickly, although there are many troops in the north and the valley, but there are also many troops in the west, Tywin is a famous general in the world, and if he really wants to lose, he will fight for a month, but the news of the defeat from Ye Junwen to the west came, just two days, what do you say was the reason.
When he heard the news of the defeat of the West, Stannis was also a little panicked, of course he also hesitated to fight King's Landing, and at this time, a person stood up and said that she had a way to solve the most troublesome problem, and this person was the red-robed woman Melisandre.
For Melisandre, Stannis still trusts her. When he first saw the other party, Stannis only thought that the other party was a wizard, but soon, Stannis also believed in Melisandre, after all, he also saw many visions through the fire.
Stannis has now changed his faith, abandoning the Seven Gods and becoming the Lord of Light, and Melisandre as the messenger of the Lord of Light, of course, he also trusts it, but Melisandre said at this time that she wants to solve the problem of war, and Stannis is a little unconvinced.
His knights also expressed their suspicion of Melisandre, who did not like the heretic very much, but Stannis pushed it out after Melisandre had stated that she wanted to perform the miracle of the Lord of Light. In fact, there is no need to guess, Melisandre said that the biggest trouble to solve is naturally Ye Junwen, without the dragon, Stannis said that he has a great advantage and can't lose at all.
How to solve Ye Junwen, Melisandre didn't say, and Stannis didn't know what the so-called miracle of the Lord of Light was, but Melisandre said that if she wanted to launch the miracle, she still needed a pre-requisite, that is, she would enter King's Landing. Stannis finally believed it, so he let one of his knights, take Melisandre, and take a small boat to approach King's Landing, although King's Landing City has recently been under martial law, and it is difficult to enter, but Stannis is also a member of the Baratheon family after all, Robert was the king before, Stannis also has some connections in King's Landing, Ye Junwen's current control over King's Landing is not so strong, and it is very simple for these people to cooperate with each other to get someone in.
Anyway, after everything was done, Stannis also set off with a large army, and arrived in King's Landing in the middle of the night, he didn't know what was going on with Melisandre's side, and whether the miracle had happened, but there were no dragons yet, which was a good phenomenon. In short, he didn't know the situation over there, but the siege naturally had to continue, so he also commanded the warships to start the siege. Originally, Stannis's troops were insufficient, and the siege was still quite difficult, but these warships were equipped with siege weapons, and with the help of these warships, it was not difficult to capture King's Landing, in short, before the soldiers in King's Landing were ready, the siege had begun, and the soldiers in King's Landing were also a little flustered for a while, so far they didn't even have a commander, and they didn't know how to fight.
At the same time, Ye Junwen had just gotten up here, and he had just asked Varys about their specific situation. Of course, Ye Junwen is ready to ride a dragon to attack, but it's just some boats, what's the problem. It's just that he rode a dragon to attack, and the defensive battle on the ground here still needs to be commanded by someone, and Varys and their civilian officials forget it, he needs a general.
Of course, there were still generals in the city, and Varys immediately recommended a few, all of whom were Kingsguards. Speaking of the Royal Forest Iron Guard, he also explained a little to Ye Junwen, these people are simply the personal bodyguards around the king, of course, most of these people are knights, they are all people who have been on the battlefield and have made war exploits, you must be joking when you say that they don't know how to command the troops, so at this time, of course, let them help command the city guards to defend the city.
It's just that there are still some problems with the current Kingsguards, after all, these Kingsguards are the Kingsguards who were sealed during the Baratheon Dynasty, and now Ye Junwen is the king of the Targaryen Dynasty, so if you let the officials of the previous dynasty protect the current king, is the issue of loyalty to be considered?
Varys said that the current few Kingsguards, a few of the obvious problems have been brought under control first. The most problematic is the captain of the Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister, who is Tywin's eldest son, so it's good that he has been captured now, and he is obviously removed. Then the second, Sandor. Clegane, this Clegane is a knight family under Tywin, his brother is the Magic Mountain, so of course the people of this faction in the West must be controlled, so Sandor. Clegan has been arrested and imprisoned. The third one is Marin. Tran, this guy is a die-hard fan of Robert, and after Robert died, he became Joffrey's personal lackey, and he didn't have anything to say about this thing, so he was arrested and imprisoned. Fourth, Preston. Greenfell, the reason is that the Greenfell family is a family in the West after all, although he himself has no obvious inclinations, but he still catches it and talks about it.
After these obvious people are disposed of, there are only three people left in the Kingsguard, although these three people are not obviously problematic, but after all, they are all from the Robert period, so how much loyalty do you say. It's just that after all, the Royal Forest Iron Guard can't be dealt with all at once, Varys put these people on hold for the time being, and originally planned to study this matter with Ye Junwen later, but now there is nothing to do.
Varys also recommended the most stable person, Alex. Sir Oghardt. This guy can only say that he doesn't have any special tendencies, and then the Oghert family is the family of the Riverwan, although the troops of the Riverbend are rebelling with Lan Li, but after all, they have also contacted Ye Junwen and them, after thinking about it, it is estimated that it can still be used.
Among the people mentioned, Ye Junwen didn't know anyone except Jaime, so what else could he do, he could only trust Varys's judgment. So Ye Junwen also asked Varys to inform Alex and let him temporarily take over the city guard and organize the defense.
By the way, the city guard is also a golden robe, and there was a captain before. Originally, the city guard was supposed to be led by the captain, but this captain Genos. Slint, a subordinate of the Lannisters, was one of the culprits who betrayed Ed and captured the Northerners. Before, as soon as he saw that the situation was wrong, he ran away with people, so the captain of the city guard is currently vacant, and there is no one to command at all.
In short, the commander in the city is considered to be someone, although Ye Junwen has never seen this Alex, and he doesn't know how much ability he has, but basically he doesn't have to repel the enemy army or anything like that, just maintain law and order in the city. The main output still depends on Ye Junwen.
After making such a simple decision to command, Ye Junwen directly wanted to ride the dragon out, but at this moment, something unexpected happened, Varys and Paisier, who were sitting in front of Ye Junwen, suddenly changed their faces drastically, and looked behind Ye Junwen with a frightened expression, as if they had seen something terrifying. Ye Junwen was stunned for a moment, and turned his head a little strangely to see what they were looking at, but before he could turn around, he suddenly "poofed", Ye Junwen suddenly felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest from behind, directly piercing his body.
Looking at his chest, a black blade pierced out of his chest, and it seemed that someone had stabbed him. However, Ye Junwen was not very surprised by the assassination, he was surprised by the strength of the person who assassinated him, you must know that his current body is very hard, this is not something that can be pierced easily, before Ye Junwen thought that the strength of this person was not very good, but he didn't expect someone to be able to pierce himself with a sword.
"Your Majesty!" Varys only then stood up in shock, and Paisel next to him was already frightened.
"Don't worry." Ye Junwen calmly turned his head and first looked at who killed him, but when he turned his head, he was also a little stunned.