Chapter 0448 - Intricate swampy waterways

For the invaders, only the frogeaters and mud men knew about the unmapped routes, the narrow passages between the swamps, and the waterways in the reeds.

To the west of the neck is the Sea of the Sunset, to the east is the Narrow Sea, a swamp hundreds of miles wide, and the three remaining towers face each other in a triangular shape, controlling the only causeway to the north from three sides. To attack any of these towers, the army must wade through waist-deep black mud, cross lizard-infested moats, and climb moss-sladen slippery walls, all while being exposed to the rain of arrows from the archers of the other two towers.

For thousands of years, for tens of thousands of years, any army that stormed Carlin Bay was defeated.

Only the dragons of Targaryen from above forced Stark from the north to submit.

The assault failed, but what if it was a surprise attack, and on a night when no one was guarding, the three towers attacked at the same time, and with the locals leading them, Carlin Bay was actually within reach.

Victor stood on the bow of the shell and stared at the three towers not far away, and in a few moments, he was about to attack the gate tower. The other two towers were handed over to his knights.

Victalion clenched his hands into fists, with which he had killed four men and a wife. His wife was killed by him crying for adultery with his brother Euron, and his brother Euron was exiled by his eldest brother, King Baron, who was told that he could not return to the Iron Islands for the rest of his life, as King Baron would kill Euron if he dared to show his face.

Baron Greyjoy has three younger brothers: the exiled Crow-Eyed Euron Greyjoy, his loyal third brother, Victor Greyjoy, Commander-in-Chief of the Iron Fleet, and the Priest Ellen Greyjoy, who has returned from the dead in the Rebel War a decade earlier.

Among the three younger brothers, the strongest fighting power is Victarion Greyjoy.

Viktarion's hair was already sporadic gray, but he was as strong as ever, with a bull-like chest and a young man's flat belly. His battle axe was very heavy, invincible in naval battles, and he never met a real opponent.

In addition to his two-handed battle axe, he still had a sword belt around his waist, a long sword dangling from his waist on one side, and a long dagger like a short knife on the other. His bodyguard, Newt the Barber, fastened the Commander's mantle over his shoulders, woven from nine layers of gold thread and sewn into the shape of the Greyjoy family sea monster, with the sea monster's arms dangling from the boots.

Beneath his cape, he wears heavy gray chain mail lined with black cooked leather armor. In Carlin Bay, Victarion and his warriors were very careful, they had to wear armor day and night, which was very physically draining, and the weight of armor was not light.

However, back pain is better than a bad stomach. The people of the swamp are devils, they are short, they are well versed in all the terrain here, they can easily ambush in the swamp, their swords are very terrible, because they are boiled with the poisonous insects of the swamp, and if you are scratched by their swords or the small arrows they shoot, you will die in a cry of pain in a few hours, accompanied by a clump of red and brown excrement between your legs.

The most feared thing about the Zedi people is their poison.

Anyone who fights the Zedes head-on in the swamps of the Neck Ridge is stupid.

Victor wears a towering black helmet in the shape of a sea monster with arms around his cheeks and attached under his chin.

The shell boat rowed across a field of reeds, and Newt, the "barber", was suddenly surprised: "Commander, the frog eater and the clay man are gone." Victor Leone kept his eyes on the three towers of Carlin Bay in front of him, and when he heard Newt, the barber, exclaim, he realized that the two boats he had led the way in front of his boat were missing.

On the two small boats, there were several frogeaters and clay men who had received a lot of money from Victalion. They are all Zedi people who grew up here.

The swamp's reed waterways extend in all directions, stretching hundreds of miles across the marshland, and the people of the swamps who are familiar with the waterways can easily sail the shell boat from the sea of sunset to the west across the marshland and into the narrow sea.

Victarion shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, we have reached our destination, this is already Kalin Bay, and the Zedi people who left may be afraid that we will kill them when the time comes, and they are even more afraid that the people of the Reed family will know to lead the way for us, so, Newt, you are responsible for leading the Second Legion to attack the Children of the Forest Tower, Ralph Ninken, you lead the Third Legion to attack the Drunkard Tower, and the First Legion will listen to my orders and attack the City Gate Tower." ”

So, the order was passed down layer by layer.

Hundreds of shell boats watched the Kalin Bay not far away, and after a few bends, they were shocked to find themselves getting farther and farther away from Kalin Bay. The direction of the bow of the ship is an endless marshland, while the three towers of Carlin Bay are in the direction of the stern.

Will it go farther and farther, or will it just continue to row forward and just turn a corner?

Victor made a decision: his First Army made a U-turn, the Second Army led by Newt the Barber moved on, and the Third Army led by Ralph Ninken waited on the spot.

Victalion's fleet then became the front team, the shell boats were very light, and there was no need for the boat to turn around in the waterway, the bow was the stern, and the stern was also the bow, and the people on board only needed to change the direction.

Victalion's fleet turned back, turned several waterways, and a fork in the road ahead, and he ordered the fleet to split into two and move on, both of which watched as the three towers of Carlin Bay continued on their way.

However, as the waterway in front of them diverged more and more, their fleet went around and around, only to find themselves circling round and round, and the Kalin Bay was in front for a while, then in the back, sometimes on the left, and sometimes on the right, as if there was no waterway leading directly to the three towers of Karlin Bay.

Obviously, it is a bright waterway, and the three towers of Carlin Bay are towering in front, but as soon as you turn in the reeds along the waterway, the position of the three towers of Carlin Bay changes.

Victor suddenly thought of a way, so he sent an order: "Don't panic, everyone, find the causeway first, and abandon the ship to go ashore." ”

The causeway, a narrow causeway, traverses the entire marshland and passes through the middle of the triangular area of the three towers.

This was a good idea, and after the news went down, all the ships were heading in the direction of the stars in the sky, and just headed in the direction of the east. It doesn't matter what's in front of the ship, as long as it's heading east, it's right.

There will always be times when you will run into the causeway.

Victor's fleet was the first to find the causeway, which was very narrow, and they abandoned the ship and went ashore. And the men of the other two legions were still marching east in the waterway. As for the direction of the three towers of Kalin Bay in the direction of their ship, it no longer matters.