Chapter 0933 - Retreat as Advance, Kill the Light Night Attack Army
With an army of 20,000 men, including thousands of recruits, Arlen was stationed in the city of Halberd and Shadow by land and water, and the curved walls were an impenetrable defense, and many of them suffered crushing defeats here.
Prince Michiro was not overjoyed by Alian's arrival. He was calm, as if nothing had happened. His joy and anger are invisible, which is related to his withdrawn personality since childhood. His mother was Queen Dorne, and he had several older siblings than him, and he was the most inconspicuous of his siblings, and none of them liked to be friends with him. He grew up in solitude, which gave him a quiet personality.
The younger brother Oberon, the Red Viper, has the opposite personality of him, being outgoing and hyperactive, and is deeply loved by the children.
"Father, I will send warships to protect you and go to the city-state of Mill on the other side of the Narrow Sea. Alianne said to her father, Prince Michiro.
"No, I'm going to the Flowing Water Garden. "You'd better run away at night and leave Dorne, for Dorne won't be able to hold on this time." ”
Alen's eyes were full of sadness and joy when she looked at her father, and she was amazed at how a person could be so calm in the face of the collapse of a thousand-year-old ancestral business.
"Father, do you think the savage army can break through the curved wall?"
"They had griffins, and giants who were taller than the gates. Prince Michiro said, "They have also gained the hearts of the people along the way." That's something we can't do. Can you divide the nobles' domains, their lands, their money, and their food and interests among their subordinates, servants, commoners, and slaves?"
Alen did not answer. She couldn't, she didn't know how to answer the question.
"If you can't do it, you won't get the same popular support as Will. The power of the nobility is strong, but the basis of the nobility is the commoners and servants, and the nobles who lose the commoners and servants have no power. Prince Daolang said lightly.
"But I have 20,000 loyal soldiers. ”
"It's also 20,000 soldiers who will collapse and turn against each other at any time. Prince Michiro said calmly, "No one can refuse wealth and land, not nobles, let alone commoners and servants. It's a subversion, but it's also a grave that Will himself dug for himself. ”
"Why do you say that?"
"The change in Dorne's political system will not be limited to Dorne, the news will soon spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, which will make the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms uneasy, and they will slowly rise up against Will, there is no doubt about this, it is only a matter of time. Prince Michiro said. He looked out the window at the sea and heard the sound of waves crashing against the shore.
"We can go to the other side of the Narrow Sea first and preserve our strength, just as Nymeria crossed the Narrow Sea with two thousand warships. Valyria's dragon legions swept across the continent of Essos, and the Loynas had no choice but to abandon their homeland and cross the Narrow Sea to our Dorne. Aleen said.
"I'm not Nymeria. Prince Michiro said, "But you can be." ”
Arlene was silent for a moment, "I want to go and fight the Savage Legion first. Geralt Dane was still in the west, and he had gathered fifteen thousand people. ”
"Our combined strength is only thirty-five thousand, and Will's army is over sixty thousand. And the people are leaning more towards Will day by day. Prince Michiro said, "We can't win this war." In every battle in history, the enemy was unpopular, so in the end we always won. ”
"Sixty thousand troops? Will's navy and army combined are less than 50,000. ”
"His army is growing stronger day by day, and our army is dwindling day by day. Oberon's Eastern Army, with eight thousand men surrendered to the savages. Every time we go to war, that's when Will strengthens himself. After the fall of the cities of Wangzuka and Ellenwood, four thousand warriors surrendered to Will. ”
"I can't believe that Nymeria, Trenier, Adric, and Count Elion have all surrendered to Will. Arenn said hatefully.
"I can't believe it either. "Count Elion has brought thirty guards back to fetch the three of Nymeria, who have been in contact with Will, and the incident must have happened in Ellenwood City." ”
"Will persuaded them to defect?" Arlene asked.
Prince Daolang withdrew his gaze from the sea and looked at Alian: "Dorndo is lost, which of us has seen Will?"
Arlene was speechless for a moment.
"Until now, Dorne has been forced to make peace, forced to dismiss the loyal nobles, forced to transfer forces to the Narrow Sea, and we have been forced to lose Dorne, but who has seen Lord Will? I? You? Geralt Dayne, any other general, who has seen Lady Laura, Janessa, and Burns of the House of Bremont. Nymeria, Trenier, Adric of House Dane, Count Aryon of House Elion, I have discovered a pattern, all the noble generals who have seen Will and survived, have surrendered to Will. ”
Alen was speechless.
"Don't you think Will is mysterious, who is he, what he looks like, we don't know anything about it. The army of savages marching eastward, the general in power is called Taryn Ash, and the vanguard is the formidable king Marg, where is Will? In the Eastern Army, or in the Western Army, or at sea? We don't know. ”
Alen listened to it with a heartache!
"If I want to have a chance to come back in the future, my advice for now is to quietly leave with my loyal soldiers and go to the other side of the Narrow Sea. ”
"And what about you, father?"
"I'm going to stay and see Will. Prince Daolang said calmly, "Such a person, not seeing one, not dying." He lifted the silk cloth that covered his knees, which were red and swollen into small watermelons. The legs were skinny and covered with bones, "I'm too sick to bear the bumps of crossing the sea, so I'll stay here and make a little effort for the last bit of dignity of the Martell family." ”
Alene looked at her father's red and swollen knees, knowing that he was suffering from amazing pain as he spoke. On the sea, no matter how big the ship is, it will rock, and my father will be hurt to death. Usually, as long as there is a little bump, my father will be in unbearable pain. When you sleep at night, you can't touch it in the slightest. Crossing the sea is not a day or two, half a month in a straight line, and my father is indeed unable to cross the sea. In that case, he would be better off living than dead.
After a while, for the first time, Alen decided to accept her father's advice.
Prince Daolang instinctively ordered Princess Aleen to lead his troops across the sea in the form of an order, first begging to preserve his strength, and waiting for the time for all the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms to rise up against Will, but he didn't, he calmly gave Princess Aleen advice, without a little force. This time it was Arlene herself who figured it out.
"I ordered Geralt Dane to lead my troops across the Narrow Sea with me, and we can live well on the other side of the Narrow Sea, waiting for our chance. Princess Arrene said.
Instead of speaking, Michiro reached out to Arlene, his hand took Ariane's hand, and the other hand covered it, patting Arian's palm on it.
"Hota, herald guards, let's go to the Flowing Water Garden. ”
"Yes, sir!"
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Chapter 0933-2
In the tent of the Free Folk Army, Tyron Ash was very depressed, but he still had to suppress the irritability of the other generals, and he did not dare to show the stronger irritability in his heart.
He regretted that he had volunteered to lead the army this time.
If General Mu Dun comes to lead the army, he can be the vanguard, then he can rush all the way and kill. To be honest, the two-hundred-pound Sword King had never opened a blood light in Dorne, which made him unbearable. If it weren't for the kobold hapw who tossed him around every night, he would have suspected that he would go crazy.
The Ash Warriors all breathed a sigh of relief, since entering Dorne, they thought that they had finally gotten rid of the noisy and resperious long march, and could finally go to the battlefield to fight the enemy with real swords and guns, who knew that it was like a child's game, and there was no hard battle. When encountering some small groups of local armed forces, there is no need to fight, just shouting, and the other side will throw away their armor or simply surrender on their knees.
Before the war, Lord Will and Mance Rader had strict military orders not to kill any soldiers who surrendered, and when they entered Dorne, they were not to kill any of their people and nobles, and Tyron Ash, like Doghead and Hambar, did not think about it, and happily agreed, and now they know the true meaning of 'not killing indiscriminately', which is the source of suffering.
When did the Ash Warriors fight without killing anyone?
This is the expedition!
When did a freedfolk warrior fight without killing anyone?
This is the expedition!
The enemy's eastern army was originally another 15,000 people, enough for the giant king Marge, the dog-headed Harr, Tyron Ash and the wooden shield general to kill for a while, who knew that before they met to start the battle, the enemy had collapsed, all the important generals were killed by Will and others, half of the soldiers were scared away by the griffin, and half of the soldiers chose to surrender.
Such a battle is really pointless, and it is more comfortable to hunt and kill a few strange scouts in the ice and snow outside the Great Wall of Desperation.
Will's hundred guards and the Ash Guards were all equally boring, and Rosso, Black, Abel and the others all possessed the great Valyrian steel sword, but once they entered Dorne, none of them came in handy.
The credit was snatched from Will and Arya, Jaime, and Jaime's eyebrows, and the young Pence, much to Taryn Ash's dissatisfaction, but helpless.
The huge Chinese military tent is full of murderous generals and giants, but no one has the interest to speak, they want to fight, kill, big tough battle, kill generals, but can't, such a war, each of them wants to ...... Die!
Count Elion's fingers tapped on the table, and his gaze swept over the audience, and everyone had to raise their heads and keep their eyes open to show that they were listening. This Earl of Elion is Lord Will, and there are one hundred and sixty people standing behind him, one hundred of whom are the elite rangers of the Night's Watch, and this time they are specially here to guard their leader and commander-in-chief, after all, the battle takes place in the southernmost part of the continent, and Will is the head of the whole army, and there is no room for error.
Of the other thirty guards, twelve were Ash Warriors, eighteen were first-class swordsmen selected by Rosso and others, and the other thirty were more than twenty of the top killers in the Inquisition, including Arya and Jaime Lannister, and the rest were guards that Will had taken over when he broke down the cities of the King's Tomb and Ellenwood, and served as guides.
Will appeared in the form of the Earl of Arion in order to discourage the morale of the Dornish army and the people.
Elion's fingers tapped on the table, and when the dejected eyes of everyone focused on him, Count Elion spoke: "Tonight, three armies are coming to attack the forward battalion, the middle army tent and the grain cart of the rear army, who wants to fight?"
Brush!
Everyone raised their hands, including Tyron Ash, who was required to command by military rule.
Except for the hundred guards behind Will, the other generals and the guards around them all raised their hands.
They are really suffocated, they just want to kill people and kill people!
Count Elion said, "Well, in that case, the whole army will be sent out and ambushed in various places, waiting for the enemy to come and rob the camp, and then kill everywhere, leaving not a single one." Anyone who misses a soldier will be severely punished. ”
All the generals agreed together, all of them were gearing up, just waiting to fight.
The Earl of Elion then arranged the formation, where Marg led the giants to ambush, and where the dog-headed Harf was ambushed, but no matter how it was arranged, more than 30,000 people could not all arrange this kind of ambush, so 20,000 people were left to feign sleep in the army, and when the enemy came in, they would rise up to attack, and everyone had a share, and if they were slow or unlucky, no one could blame anyone for killing them.
Princess Aleen deliberately sent three groups of men and horses to steal the camp, but the real aristocratic elites got on the ship first under the cover of night and evacuated the first batch of people.
There are not enough warships, so they need to be evacuated in batches, and in the middle of the evacuation, on the sea, they can forcibly requisition merchant ships to pick up people. The free-trade city-state on the other side of the Narrow Sea has no shortage of ships.
Will's connection with the griffin is like the connection between the Green Prophet and the birds and beasts, and what the griffon's eyes see, Will accepts one by one. This ability is like the blood raven Brinnden Hewen possessed by the three-eyed crow, and everywhere the crow goes, what he sees and sees, is what Brinzon sees.
This time, a total of 3,000 soldiers came to steal the camp, which could make these suffocated generals and soldiers feel a little cool, and then, Will decided to move his army westward, and attacked Thorn Shirt and Thunder Fist Tormond in front and back, and the 50,000 army surrounded and ate all the 15,000 men and horses of the Dark Star first.
It was a moonlit night, and two griffons were flying in the clouds, and from the ground they looked as if they were two little birds and the moon as companions, and the griffon's vision was what Will saw, and the Dornish on the ground were divided into three groups, one group of three thousand men, and came secretly, one to attack the vanguard camp, one to attack the tent of the middle army, and one to attack the grain carts of the rear army.
The first group came to the vanguard tent and lay in ambush on the ground, their swords stuck in the mud and sand, and did not move.
The second team of men and horses came to the middle section and aimed at the Chinese military tent, and all the men and horses fell to the ground from a distance and did not move.
The third group made a detour to the side of the rear army's grain cart, and with a shout, a thousand torches were lit, and they threw them at the grain cart.
When the fire starts, it is the signal to attack.
At the same time, the griffons in the sky cried, and the two griffons swooped down from the sky, ambushing soldiers everywhere, and the soldiers who were sleeping in the camp turned over and jumped.