The largest, tallest, and thickest castle in the Seven Kingdoms is Harrenhal in the Riverlands.

Will stood under the gates of Harrenhal and looked up at the trebuchet on top of the tower, which was as small as a dragonfly.

Harrenhal's Lannisters had long since fled, the gates wide open, but the castle was filled with smoke.

When the Lannisters fled three days ago, they set fire to everything they could in the castle, and the fire burned for several days and nights before it was finally extinguished, and now only a few wisps of green smoke remained.

The night attack of the Trident River, although not the main force of the Lannister army, was also a great victory. The army that launched the attack was not the main force of the valley army, but only more than 300 cavalry of a vanguard army in Nine Star City.

After his victory, Eddard Stark sent back the farmers, hunters, fishermen, and mountain people who had been forcibly brought in to make up the numbers, and ordered 3,000 of the old, weak, sick and disabled men of the valley to be stationed on the spot.

As soon as the news broke, the Lannister garrison in Harrenhal fled overnight.

And Eddard Stark led more than a thousand elites slowly.

Sending out the news, scaring the enemy away, and then taking Harrenhal without a single soldier is Eddard Stark's way of using his troops.

Will, Eddard Stark, Blackfish, Arya, and Simon Templeton are at the front.

He was followed by Gilly, Ange, Tyrion, Bron, the captain of the Northern Guard, Jory Kesso, Erin, Harwin, the dance teacher Celio, and others, followed by the Northern Guards and Simon Templeton's Guards.

Will became more and more surprised, the thickness of the city wall exceeded his imagination, one murder hole after another, walking through twelve pairs of murder holes in a row, as if passing through a tunnel under the desperate Great Wall.

The walls were as thick as the six Winterfell walls combined.

If you want to forcibly attack such a castle, you can't even break through the murder hole without paying several times the price.

After seeing the thickness of Harrenhal's walls and the arrow holes in the murder holes, the brave and combative Simon Templeton put away his contempt for Eddard Stark.

His strategy of 'surrendering without a fight' is undoubtedly good!

After passing through the city walls, the courtyard inside was also very wide, and more than a thousand troops all entered Harrenhal and settled in the courtyard, but occupied a quarter of the open space. Even if another 3,000 people come in, there will be more than enough in the courtyard. In addition to the open space in the courtyard, there are five very large towers that can accommodate thousands of people.

"Harrenhal is three times the size of Winterfell. The size of the tower is even more, at least ten times the size. There is no castle in Westeros that compares to Harrenhal. Just the gatehouse we walked through was as big as Winterfell's main castle. Eddard Stark said to Will.

The two dismounted, Eddard Stark led Will into the Burning King's Tower, the height of the hall made everyone exclaim, and after entering the room, the surprises came one after another, Da Jili couldn't take his eyes off it, she walked all the way, and saw the real castle of the Seven Kingdoms, and this castle was so big that she couldn't believe it again, even a giant could live in this castle, and live in these rooms that were unbelievably big.

Arya's eyes widened as two wolves circled around her feet.

The Burning King Tower is the main fortress of Harrenhal.

The top of the tower was already so skewed that it looked like it was going to collapse at any moment. The massive rock twisted in a fluid shape, the result of Aegon the Conqueror riding his dragon.

The guards and troops began to extinguish the remaining dark fires, and the logistics soldiers began to clean out the kitchens, armory, and storage rooms. A large group of subordinates were released. They escaped the catastrophe by hiding before the Lannisters withdrew, but most of them were forcibly taken away and those who resisted were killed.

"Father, does this tower have a name?" Arya asked.

Eddard Stark said, "Arya, the original names of these five towers are no longer known, they have been replaced by new names, and the main fortress we are in now is called the Burning King's Tower. ”

"Burning King's Tower, what a terrible name!" Arya said with a grin. She said that it was terrible, but there was nothing terrible in her words.

"Herron, the original owner of Harrenhal, ruled the fertile land of the Iron Islands and the Riverlands, and it took him forty years to build this great castle, and thousands of people died in the work of building it. When the castle was completed, it was boasted as an impenetrable plains castle on the continent of Westeros, and he was right until Aegon arrived on his dragon. ”

"Dragon Blaze burned King Heron, who was hiding under the rocks of the main castle, through the walls, and the main castle of Harrenhal was given the name of the Tower of the Burning King. Do you see the bridge? It connects the Burning King Tower to another tower, which is called the Widow's Tower. ”

"Why is it called the Widow's Tower?"

"All the men who lived in this tower died in the past, and only the widows remained, and the widows lived in the tower. The tower behind the main fort is called the Ghost Tower, and legend has it that it contains the ghosts of King Heron and the lords of the city. ”

"Is it true?" said Arya, undoubted.

The crowd couldn't help but laugh.

"Maybe it's true, all the families that lived in Harrenhal have been wiped out, and the last Riverbank family, only the Riverwoman lives in the widow's tower, and now she has also been killed by the Lannisters, alas! Eddard Stark sighed.

He remembered that in the year 281 of Aegon, the prominent and powerful Ha'an family held a far-reaching Harrenhal tournament here. Here, fifteen-year-old Jaime Lannister was appointed by Aerys Targaryen as the King's Guard, the youngest of the Guards in history, and when he was ready to take part in the tournament in his white robe, he was ordered by Aerys to return to King's Landing alone to guard the Maegot Tower, and he was not allowed to say a word more.

It was here that Prince Rhaegar Targaryen defeated all his rivals and won the spear tournament, bypassing his wife, Princess Elia of Dorne, to present Lyanna Stark with a laurel of love and beauty, thus sowing the seeds of the usurper's war.

Soon after, Rhaegar and Lyanna eloped, Eddard's brother was strangled by the Mad King, his father was burned by the Mad King, and the Mad King demanded that the Vale Lord Jon Arryn deliver the heads of Robert and Eddard, and the rebellion finally broke out. The Hean family, led by vassals and knights, chose to be loyal to the royal family, and was defeated by the combined forces of Robert and Eddard, as well as Jon, and almost all the men of the Riverbank family were killed in battle, and the family fell into ruins.

It is a castle full of ominous legends.

Any noble family that received a castle suffered an unfortunate fate. The castle is said to have been cursed and haunted by Heron's reign of terror, and legend has it that Heron built the castle by mixing human blood with marl.

After Heron, the Harroways, the Sstrongs, the Rostans, and the Hean families all perished.

Eddard Stark's heart swept through the past of Harrenhal, and his heart suddenly felt faintly uneasy, now that Harrenhal has been taken by me, will my Stark family also suffer misfortune?

Eddard Stark will wait here for the army of the Vale by water, and then join forces to rescue King's Landing.

"Report!" Blackfish's guards accompanied the bachelor in, and the bachelor had two letters in his hands, his expression was excited, and his fingers were trembling slightly.