Chapter 0495: Tyrion's Tactics
(Today's 2-in-1 update.) )
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"As you wish, Drogo. Varys nodded and smiled appropriately. He didn't show a look of surprise.
Varys is grateful to the priest on the Mount of Our Lady.
He had experience dealing with shamans, who had certain mystical abilities, but their prophecies were not necessarily accurate.
Of course, on the Mount of Our Lady, no one dares to question the authority of the priests, they are the Son of God. Their word is God's will.
Varys became a eunuch thanks to a shaman-like sorcerer. The guy cut off little Varys's *** and threw it into the fire, summoning some magical creature.
When Varys grew up, he found the shaman, cut off the things between the shaman's legs, and broke the muscles and veins of the shaman's hands and feet, and then nailed the shaman into a wooden box, and gave him a little food and drink for three or seven days. In his spare time, he would open the wooden box and talk to the fearful shaman in the wooden box.
Shamans, despite their mystical powers, are still vulnerable.
Drogo came out of the temple of Our Lady of the Mountain and decided to reclaim the dragon, and it was only the priests of the Mountain of Our Lady who gave him an oracle, and Drogo was convinced of this.
Some of the prophecies are indeed very accurate!
It is at least 7,000 miles from Vis dothraki to the island of Rees in the sea in the northwestern part of the continent, and it is necessary to cross half of the steppe. The Dothraki steppe is larger than the entire continent of Westeros, so it is called the sea. On the northeast side of the grassland is the huge jade sea where dragons were first discovered.
The Jade Sea is an inland sea surrounded by land on all sides, with a narrow strait in the northwest and northeast connecting the Jade Sea with the sea outside.
Legend has it that the warlocks on the islands in the Jade Sea were the first to discover the dragon, a magical creature.
The easternmost part of the steppe is the Land of Shadows of Asha, where many strange shamans and mysterious sorcerers live. Yasha is a place where there are almost no people to see during the day, and even if there are people, they walk in a hurry with their faces covered. The place where Melisandre studied was Asha, where her master and sisters were. Many of them are very powerful, far above Melisandre, and their age is even more mysterious.
You must know that Melisandre is over four hundred years old.
The entire Dothraki steppe spans nearly 10,000 miles from east to west, occupying most of the entire Essos continent.
Drogo Kao was the greatest Kao on the steppe, with 40,000 cavalry under his command, known as 100,000 to the outside world. And as long as his legion is dispatched, he will bring the family members and slaves of the legion every time, and the total number exceeds 200,000.
Dothraki's children began to learn to ride horses at the age of three, and at the age of seven, each child was already a good horseman. The women all knew how to ride and train horses to feed them, and they had a certain foundation in sword and archery, and the horses of the team were domesticated to them.
A Dothraki cavalry usually has three horses, and the other captains, leaders, and blood alliance guards have even more. Their wealth is also mostly honored to show off whose war horse is better and more.
Only a very small number of women, children and the elderly will remain in the holy city of Vis dothrak.
Vis dothraki is the largest city in the world, but it is also the least populated city in normal times. It is difficult for the Kao, who are fighting or grazing in the steppes, to return to the Holy City once a year. The families of the Legionnaires live with the Legion.
With such a large team as Drogo Kao, they are relatively slow.
However, as long as the action is concerned, it is only a matter of time before it reaches the Isle of Rees.
Half a month later, the team crossed the steppes and the continuous demarcation mountains, and reached the first free trade city-state of Kohor in the west.
Kohor is a city known for its fierce mercenaries, and in order to resist the raids of the Kao on the steppes, thousands of Unsullied people were purchased in the slave cities of the East to garrison the walls.
The former leader of the Warriors, Wag Hurt, who made the most notorious name in King's Landing, hails from Kohor. However, as soon as Drogo Kao's vanguard cavalry reached the city, the governor of the city of Kohor opened the gates and sent out several carts of gold and silver, followed by thousands of ox carts with various supplies and horse feed.
The invincible Drogo Kao was so famous that most of the cities east and west of the steppe lost the courage to resist him.
And the next city is Norfoss in the mountains. Norvos, the city where the family of Mélalio, the mother of Dornquentin Martell, lives, and where Méralio herself and Prince Doran Martell divorced.
Compared to Kohor, Norfoss is even more vulnerable.
If the city of Norfoss does not surrender, Drogo Kao will sack the city in blood and turn all captives into slaves.
While Drogo Kao was leading his army through the steppe tribes and free trade city-states of Essos, fierce battles took place on Dragonstone Island on the other side of the Narrow Sea.
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Tyrion's dozens of warships included the ships of all the subjects of Dragonstone, far and near, and the good naval warriors were taken to King's Landing by Stannis I, and the remaining warriors were either old or disabled, and Tyrion commanded such a fleet that lost several battles in a row, and finally had to abandon the ship and land, giving the fleet of dozens of 'merchant ships and fishing ships' to the attacking mercenary army.
From the mouth of one of the captured mercenary soldiers, Tyrion figured out the mercenary legion's name: the Wind Blower. The wind-blown flag is a tattered garment made up of strips of cloth of different colors.
The head of the regiment called himself the Prince of Ragged, and his subordinates called him the King of Tatters. He was to be sacrificed to the prince of the god of Pantos because of the unfavorable wind and rain.
The princes of Pantos would be beheaded and sacrificed to the gods to appease the wrath of the gods in the years of poor harvests, so no nobleman wanted to be the prince of Pantos.
The Ragged Prince's life was saved at the sacrificial convention by Tyrion's brother Jaime Lannister, who was also the one who stole Daenerys' three dragon eggs, and after selling them for a large sum of money, he quickly raised a mercenary group in the disputed land of the three free trade city-states of 'Rees, Telosi, and Mill'.
This time, he was secretly hired by Kaivon Lannister's people at a high price, he led his wind blowing group and three other mercenary groups, a total of 300 warships, 12,000 mercenaries drove the battleships to besiege Dragonstone, and won several naval battles in a row, all of which were completely victorious, and now he controls the large and small ports and all the beaches of Dragonstone, and 10,000 mercenaries abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, besieging the city of Dragonstone.
The walls of Dragonstone Island are very high, and the entire city is made of huge rocks, and the walls are full of gargoyles of various shapes, and the whole city is built in the shape of a dragon, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Tyrion's naval battle was completely defeated, the navy soldiers composed of fishermen on the large and small islands under the jurisdiction of Dragonstone and the old and disabled left by the former Stannis I were all killed, all the ships were snatched by the Ragged Prince, the large and small islands near and far of Dragonstone were swept by the Ragged Prince's people, all the large and small villages and castles were burned to the white ground, the mining of dragon crystals on the main island of Dragonstone had long been forced to be interrupted, and thousands of professional miners from the west all retreated to the city, and Tyrion ordered the gate of Dragonstone City to be closed tightly.
The battle did not stop for a day, and the prince of ragged clothes saw that there were not many soldiers on the city wall, and he could not see more than a thousand, so he ordered a fierce attack, and in a few days, he was ten times the strength of the opponent, but every attack was repulsed by the opponent.
Dragonstone's reserves of oil and oil, rolling stones, bows and arrows, and food are all very abundant, and the walls are even more difficult to attack, and Tyrion is confident that he can hold on to the walls for at least a year. But his mission is not to fight, but to mine dragon crystals. Tyrion wanted a quick victory, so he released the ravens calling for help.
After receiving a letter from Will and Eddard Stark, Tyrion decides to surprise and fight the Ragged Prince before the warships of White Harbor and King's Landing's royal fleet come to flank the Ragged Prince.
The real main army around Tyrion has never shown up, and his warriors of the Valle Mountain tribe are 7,000 people, and only 1,000 people are rotated every day to defend the city, and the remaining 6,000 are silent.
The one-eyed avatar banner of the Burning Man Division, the Double Axe Banner of the Stone Crow Division, the bloody Blood Ear Banner of the Black Ear Division, the Double Dog Banner of the Painted Dog Division, and the Star and Moon Banner of the Moon Man Division...... The military flags of every tribe have never been flown even once on the city walls.
The warriors of the tribes of the valley admit that they are not good at naval warfare, but when it comes to fighting on land, they never consider themselves to be afraid of any legion.
They followed Tyrion to Dragonstone, where they were given the fine armor and weapons they had dreamed of all their lives, they were well fed and dressed, their lives were heaven compared to what they used to be, and now they desperately craved the supreme honor of warriors.
No matter how fiercely the Ragged Prince urged the mercenaries to attack, Tyrion allowed only a thousand men to defend the city each day, and he himself took Bronn and two of the sons of the forest from the Lake of God's Eye - Cren the Green and Fred the Gold - to oversee the army on the walls. However, he was careful, and every time he went up the wall, he lowered his mask to prevent the stray arrows from hitting him in the face.
And in Dragonstone City, every day, there are 6,000 energetic and incapable warriors nesting in the city and doing nothing, which makes the leaders and warriors of each tribe very angry.
On this day, Tyrion led a thousand mixed legions to repel the attack of the Ragged Prince again, and just retreated from the city wall, the leader of the Black-Eared Tribe, Zira, the leader of the Scorching Tribe, Time, the leader of the Moonman Division, Ulf, the leader of the Stone Crow Division, and the clan leaders of many tribal warriors such as the Painting Dog Division, the Milk Snake Division, and the Fog Division, surrounded him together, and the scene was chaotic......
Every day, each tribe has a hundred-man team to participate in the battle, but none of the tribal leaders and the strongest warriors of the tribe are allowed to participate in even one battle, which is the greatest humiliation for the tribal leaders and powerful warriors who are born to fight to the death.
"Tomorrow you will not allow us to go into battle, and we will open the gates of the city ourselves and go out to kill the enemy. Zira, the little beauty with black ears, said, she grabbed the ear necklace around her neck and brought it to Tyrion, "Half-human, look at my ear necklace, each ear is an enemy's life, I can't wait to change to a longer necklace now." ”
"All the people of the Scorching Division will fight tomorrow, half-human, or I'll gouge out one of your eyes and throw it into the fire. One of Time's eyes sparkled.
Tyrion had no doubt about Timeh's determination, the guy had dug out his own left eye and thrown it into the fire, just to prove his mettle.
"And me, half-human. Xia Ga, who was in love with his new and sophisticated new double axe, knocked the double axe out of Mars, this pair of axes was a battle axe specially tailored for Xia Ga by Tyrion asked the blacksmith master, worth dozens of golden dragons, Xia Ga regarded the double axe as more precious than his own life, but unfortunately, the double axe has never drunk human blood. This caused Shagar's previous affection for Tyrion to disappear. If you can't kill the enemy, you might as well use your own broken old axe.
The tribal leaders were spitting violently, but Tyrion's bodyguard, Bolon, was smiling and standing by, only the two sons of the forest guards, Kren and Fred, looked nervous, afraid that these savage-like creatures would get out of control.
However, Tyrion was so calm in the face of the roars of the tribal leaders that he kept their mouths shut with a single word, and although he was the shortest, he looked like a giant with some mysterious power.
"Whoever yells at me again will not get a chance to fight, I will do it!"
Shagati Meizira and the others shut up together, staring nervously at the abominable half-human, their eyes full of anger.
"Well, I have to confess to you, you are all my most respected warriors, and if there is anyone in this world that I can admire, it is you. Tyrion's sycophancy is also top-notch, and this sentence made the resentment and dissatisfaction of Timei Shagazira and the others disappear, and they felt very comfortable in their hearts, like a furnace in winter and ice cubes in summer, but their eyes were still confused, because they had to fight, fight, fight, fight......
"I promised you, tomorrow we'll open the door and fight them!" Tyrion said.
The audience was silent.
These rustic and warlike warriors of the valley tribes are not quite ready to believe their ears.
Bronn saw through Tyrion's tricks, and he laughed and turned away.
Bolon's laughter made Ti Mei and the others immediately wake up, and the roaring applause was like thunder, and the murderous little beauty Zira pulled Tyrion to her side, and imprinted Tyrion on her wide forehead with her thick lips, and then, the half-man was thrown into the air by everyone, and the half-human and half-human shouts also sounded neatly......
Soon, the news of the battle against the enemy will be out of the city tomorrow spread throughout Dragonstone, and all the warriors, including miners, blacksmiths, and tailors, fishermen and peasants who had escaped the scourge of war, were full of long-awaited fighting spirit, and the thousand guards on the city wall also got the news, and they stood on the city wall and shouted loudly at the mercenary group camped on the beach, and the sound was like thunder.
On Prince Ragged's warship, Prince Ragged and the three mercenary group leaders beside him looked at each other, not understanding what amazing things were happening in Dragonstone City......
"Bi Lie, you lead a team of scouts to see if there is anything unusual in Dragonstone City, whether the soldiers in the city have mutinied. "The Ragged Prince ordered.
Something like war intent will have indestructible power when it is suppressed to the point of exploding!
After all this time of Tyrion's tactics, he had convinced his enemies that they would not have more than two thousand men in their city. He also knew that the fighting spirit of the mountaineers of the warlike tribes and mountain people who were eager to kill was on fire.
Tyrion has always been a man who makes plans before he moves, and he has already thought it out and planned for tomorrow's big battle. All enemies who oppose him will suffer greatly.