Chapter 0335: The Battle of the Blackwater River: The Shadow Killer Appears Again
Castle Griffon's Griffons once produced a talent from the Seven Kingdoms when Robert and Eddard rebelled: Jon Clinton.
Because of his integrity, bravery, and fearlessness, he was made the Hand of the King by Aerys Targaryen.
Jon Clinton was Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's most loyal friend and once served as the prince's squire. After the outbreak of the Usurper War, Jon Clinton was the most staunch royalist.
In the Riverlands, not far from Golddust, in the town of Stone, an army led by Jon Clinton surrounded Robert Baratheon in Stonetown. Out of protection for the local people, Jon Clinton and Robert Baratheon agreed to let the monks of the Templar ring the bell first, warning the people to lock the doors and windows, and only after the people entered their houses to hide, Jon Clinton launched an attack on Robert, which became known as the "Battle of the Bells".
Jon Clinton's act of kindness caused a delay in the war, which bought Robert more time for reinforcements.
At the beginning of the war, the army led by Earl Clinton won a landslide victory, but Robert and his army held out until the arrival of reinforcements from Jon Arryn and Eddard Stark, and the situation took a sharp turn, and Jon Clinton's army was counter-surrounded.
Jon Clinton led his army into fierce resistance and personally wounded Duke Horst, killing Sir Dennis Arryn, the nephew and heir of Jon Arryn, the "darling of the valley". Robert Baratheon, reinvigorated by the arrival of reinforcements, rushed into battle and slew six of his enemies, including the famous knight Mith Murton, who served as Prince Rhaeggar's squire. Jon Clinton himself was nearly killed by Robert on the stone steps of the church, but he was eventually able to escape under the guard of die-hard loyalists.
Jon Clinton could have easily besieged Stone Hall and ordered the entire town and its hidden Robert to be burned in order to kill Robert before Eddard Stark, Jon Arryn, and Horst Tully could have led reinforcements to their aid, just as Tywin Lannister would have done. However, killing innocent men, women, and children is too dishonorable for Clinton.
Aerys Targaryen held Clinton responsible for the defeat and stripped him of his official title fief and expelled him. As a result, the Hand of the King, who was most loyal to the Targaryen dynasty, went into exile on the other side of the Narrow Sea and joined the Golden Knights as a mercenary. (Long-winded: Jon Clinton is especially important to the rest of the story.) )
After Jon Clinton went into exile, and with the fall of the Targaryen dynasty, his griffon castle was given to his cousin Ronald Clinton by Robert Baratheon. But Robert did not return his family's confiscated wealth and earl titles, and he also divided much of the Clinton's former land to other Robert supporters.
After Robert's death, Stannis I took the Iron Throne, married the Tyrells of the High Court of the Bend and became king, elevating Ronald Clinton to the title of Earl and appointing Sir Ronald Clinton as commander of his naval fleet.
Ronald Clinton is the current head of the Clinton family and the owner of Fort Eagle's Nest, and he has three children, Roland, Raymond, and Elena.
Tarth's virgin Brienne was promised by her father, Earl Selwyn Tuss, to Sir Ronald's son, Roland Clinton, but Roland Clinton hated Brienne and insulted her, leading to the breakdown of the marriage.
Ronald Clinton led more than 200 naval warships of Lan Li I, and divided into ten warbands in Blackwater Bay, one team of more than 20 warships, of which the two wings of the warships were responsible for destroying Stannis I's royal fleet, and the Chinese warships were responsible for transporting the 20,000 infantry on board to the river bank, and then went to the south bank of the Blackwater River to transport Lan Li's large army on the south side of the Blackwater River - 80,000 infantry and cavalry.
Stannis I's warships were only fifty in total, and none of them were comparable in size to Lan Li's warships.
With more than 200 warships against 50 royal warships, Ronald Clinton stood on the flagship and ordered the drums of the offensive to be beaten.
The two-wing battleships in charge of the attack immediately increased their speed and began to attack the royal warships at the mouth of the Blackwater River at the speed of the attack.
The remaining eight warships moved at a constant speed towards the banks of the Blackwater River, hoping to land the 20,000 infantry on board on the banks of the East Gate of King's Landing.
As soon as Stannis's fifty royal warships saw that the enemy was attacking, and drums sounded on the flagship, they did not come to meet them, but retreated, and fled at the speed of battle into the Blackwater River.
This made the Blue Rite Naval Officers on the ten fronts laugh.
Ronald Clinton ordered the two-wing battleships to pick up speed and pursue at the speed of impact, deep into the Blackwater River.
The two-wing battleships received the order and accelerated the pace of the attack.
Stannis I's royal warship also sped up and fled into the depths of the Blackwater River.
Ronald Clinton then ordered the Chinese army to march at the speed of attack to the east gate of King's Landing, and send 20,000 infantry ashore first.
Amid the shouts of 20,000 infantrymen, a rocket whizzed out from the walls of King's Landing, because it was too far away from the navy commanded by Ronald, causing the allied forces of Storm's End and High Court to burst into laughter, and the mockery and humiliation of 20,000 people rushed into the sky like a huge wave, like a tsunami storm like a mountain roaring tsunami.
The lone rocket had not yet fallen into the sea, and in the other direction, outside the mud gate to the south, someone had also shot a rocket, and the target was the mouth of the Blackwater River.
Outside the mouth of the Heishui River is Heishui Bay, which is dozens of times wider than the Heishui River.
Ronald Clinton's two-wing battleship was a stone's throw from the mouth of the Blackwater River. And fifty royal warships had already fled into the depths of the Heishui River.
The depths of the Blackwater River are also home to many fishing boats and merchant ships. One of the advantages of the requisitioned fishing and merchant ships was that they did not fall into the hands of the Lanli Navy and were used as troop carriers.
As soon as the rocket on the eastern wall of King's Landing entered the water, a blue flame burned at the place where the rocket landed, but in the blink of an eye, the blue flame spread to both sides like a swimming blue fire snake, and soon, the blue flame spread on the surface of the water, but in a short time, a large blue sea of fire burned.
"It's wildfire, stop the ship!" Ronald, who was standing on the flagship, was shocked and hurriedly passed the order. The sound of the snare drum on the flagship immediately turned into the sound of the order to stop the ship and stand by, and more than 160 warships on eight fronts slowed down one after another, several ships collided together, and the stern of the front ship was hit by the head of the battleship behind The ship made an astonishing loud noise, and the soldiers on the side of the ship were shaken into the water one after another.
At the same time, at the mouth of the Heishui River, the rocket also shot into the water, and with a whoop, the blue flames spread over the river, and soon burned into a blue flame, blocking the mouth of the Heishui River and blocking the nearly fifty large warships on the two flanks of the battle line responsible for the attack.
On the flagship, Ronald Clinton's snare drum beat turned into an order to retreat.
As a result, whether it was the eight central lines responsible for transporting soldiers or the warships on the two wings of the royal warships, the commanders hurriedly issued orders: retreat, retreat, retreat, retreat.
Stannis I's side of the Red Witch was famous, the witch believed in the Red God, was good at using fire, and the most powerful lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Tywin Lannister, had 15,000 elite soldiers in the West, who were burned clean by a fire on the shore of the Lake of Tears.
Wildfires burned at the mouth of the Blackwater River, blocking the entrance to the Blackwater River, and wildfires burned along the line of Blackwater Bay near the coast, preventing Ronald Clinton's Chinese troop carriers from approaching the East Gate bank of King's Landing.
Wildfire is a flammable substance that can only be refined by fireman, and this flame, even on rivers or seawater, can burn and flow in the direction of the current.
Before Ronald Clinton could give the order to retreat urgently, the commander of the two-wing battleship in charge of the attack had already ordered the battleships to turn around and retreat at the speed of battle, because some blue flames, following the current, chased the battleship.
Wildfire material can float on the surface of the water and burn for a long time. What determines their direction is the direction of the water.
And the Blackwater River is upstream, and the royal warships that escaped into the Blackwater River don't have to worry about wildfires burning their ships - the water flows towards Blackwater Bay, forming a whirling water, and finally flows to the east and into the Narrow Sea.
Bang bang bang!
Pursued by wildfires, several warships collided again.
Loud clicks rang out one after another.
More than two hundred warships, huddled in the same water, were now all turning away from the wildfires, and out of fear of Melisandre's rumors, and even more so of the wildfires, there was confusion among the ships that scrambled to retreat.
Ronald Clinton's flagship gave the order again, and all the battleships lowered their sails, because now all the ships were in a headwind. The east wind was a tailwind when attacking, and now the retreat becomes a headwind, a very strong obstacle.
Lower the sails and paddle all by hand.
Just as the navy of Lan Li I was in chaos in retreating to avoid the wildfires, Melisandre's small fishing boat, under the cover of night, quietly rowed across the Black Water River in the upper reaches of the Black Water River, and went down the river against the south bank of the Black Water River, quietly landing not far from the Blue Li army.
On the fishing boat, the knight in charge of rowing was more nervous than Melisandre. Melisandre, with her big belly, stared at the rowing knight with interest. The knight is from the Bal Amon family and is a proletarian freelancer with excellent water and boating skills.
"You're afraid, knight. Melisandre's voice is so amorous, and her exotic accent makes her charm always seductive.
"Madame, I'm not scared, I'm just excited, and a little bit - nervous. The knight said.
"I prefer to row Sir Davos, and though I dislike him very much, he rows in the dark with the confidence of a walk in the Red Keep, and is it said that he knows every part of the Narrow Sea, and knows the reef everywhere, are these rumours true?"
"Yes, ma'am. Lord Davos has unrivaled night sailing skills, he smuggled in the Narrow Sea for at least ten years before becoming a knight, smuggling ships like to sail in the dark, and he also has a very close relationship with the different pirate fleets of the free trade city-states, calling him a brother. ”
"Oh, is it? I'm sorry he didn't come to see me off this time, but this time it's none of his business, send me ashore, knight, and wait for me on board. ”
"Yes, ma'am. ”
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More than two hundred warships in Blackwater Bay crashed and several were destroyed during the retreat, and hundreds of soldiers fell overboard. In the midst of the confusion, Ronald Clinton discovered that the wildfire would not spread to the middle of Blackwater Bay, but the warship would not want to dock.
Bang bang bang!
Several more warships were driven by turbulence at the place of the Mermaid King's Spear and swept into the waters of the Mermaid King's Spear, and were pierced by the spear-shaped reef below the water, and the sea water rose from the bottom of the ship, and no one dared to rescue the nearby warships.
The Mermaid King's Spear is a landmark in Blackwater Bay. The spear-shaped reefs jutting out of the sea are up to 100 feet highest, and the shortest ones are merely showing a few spikes above the surface. And under every "spear" that sticks out of the water, there are an unknown number of spear reefs hidden underwater.
This area is extremely dangerous for any vessel. Hidden reefs underwater tear through the bottom of every passing boat.
And once swept into the waters of the Mermaid King's Spear, unless it is a flat-bottomed boat, any large ship with a deep draft can no longer get out safely.
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In the waters of Blackwater Bay, more than two hundred large warships retreated and turned together, and it was indeed too crowded to withdraw from this water. And again, in the dark of night, the wind and waves are high.
Ronald Clinton's flagship once again issued a safety order, and ordered everyone through the sound of drums to pass through the waters of the mermaid king's spear at a uniform speed, first withdraw half of the battleships outside Blackwater Bay, and the other 100 warships remained in Blackwater Bay, and the wildfire could not burn the mouth of Blackwater Bay.
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High up on the south bank of the Blackwater, His Majesty and his Rainbow Guards, his knights and lords, the knights and lords of House Tyrrell, and the knights of Randolph Tully watched the wildfires on the Blackwater River and the wildfires in Blackwater Bay. The wildfire forced the battleships led by Ronald Clinton, who had absolute superiority, to retreat and avoid fire, and during the retreat, there was a constant loud sound of battleships colliding, the shouts of soldiers falling into the water, the shouts of officers directing soldiers to rescue, the sound of warships giving orders, and the curses and shouts of soldiers, mixed together, resounding in the night sky......
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In the woods, a black shadow walked through like the wind, a black blade in his hand, he was more eerie than a ghost, he passed through the scouts' sentinels and dark sentinels, and no one noticed his presence. The forest of the Royal Forest is a dark world in the dark night, although the barracks of the Royal Forest are lit with torches, but the shadow cleverly avoids all the light of the torch along the way, and in the shadow of the trees, it quickly approaches the Blue Rite I, who is embraced by the Rainbow Knights.