Chapter 0754: Jenny Asks for Help: Crow's Eyes Returns
"Earl Holland Reed will be able to prove Jon's Targaryen identity. Will said to Arya.
"You want me to find Holland Reed when I get back?" said Arya.
"Yes, I need you to find Horan Reed, go with him to the Wall of Desperation, and tell Jon who he really is. Jon needs to understand who he is, he has the right to know the story of his father and mother, and what Master Eddard Stark didn't have time to do, you should help Master Eddard do. ”
"Why didn't you tell Jon personally?"
"It's going to be a long time before I go back to the Great Wall. Will looked to the east, "Regardless of whether I find the dragon egg in the Midsummer Hall or not, I will cross the Narrow Sea to the east." ”
"East, Essos!" exclaimed Arya.
"Yes, Oriental. ”
Suddenly, Azurite lost control and flew west.
The flames followed and flew westward.
When it got closer, it turned out that there were several ravens flying in the sky.
With Arya and Will's eyesight, the raven was out of their sight, and when they didn't see the raven, the griffon did.
Each raven represents a message. Under Will's deliberate training, the griffin has developed a habit of catching ravens when they see them.
None of the three ravens could escape the griffon.
The parchment rolls on the raven's paws were untied, and all three letters were identical.
The letter comes from the Faman family of Fairy City in the Westlands.
Coincidentally, it was a letter from the patriarch, Earl Jane, to Will. (Jenny Farman, Cersei's best friend.) In the TV series, Cersei and her two female companions go to see the witch queen to listen to the prophecy, and one of the girls is Jane. Witch Queen is Jane Westerling's grandmother and Gavin Westerling's grandmother. )
If Will and Arya hadn't happened to intercept the ravens here, the letters would have been delivered to Winterfell. When Winterfell receives the letter, it will send ravens to Will to the south.
The griffin also took on the task of receiving the raven's letters.
And no matter where he is, as long as he knows the general direction, the raven can accurately deliver the letter to Will's hand.
The raven's form is seen by the griffon in the sky, and there is no escape.
Will released three ravens.
With this experience, ravens will not have the same fear as they did the first time when they send messages to Will in the future. Ravens are smart and will understand that griffons will not hurt them. They come to deliver the message, and it is safe.
The ravens of Winterfell have learned to eat with griffins.
Ravens and griffons share the same food habits and prefer to eat raw, bloody meat.
Will and Arya decide to spend the night in the mountains of the West.
If you are walking, it will take more than a month to walk from Winterfell to the Western Mountains.
Robert Baratheon traveled from the Red Keep in King's Landing to Winterfell in the North, and the group had been on the road for nearly two months.
Horseback riding will be cut in half, but it will also be more than ten days.
And Will and Arya ride the griffon, it only takes one day.
They rode griffons through the sky through the barren mounds of the ancestors, especially to see the ironclad town built by Robb, and then flew westward, along the mountains by the sea, over hundreds of miles of necks, and over the territory of the Riverlands, the city of Haijiang, Will's hometown.
The scenery of Amami Isshiki is beautiful, and the mountains under the sky are also beautiful.
Flying over the mountains, it is easy for griffons to see the right prey to go down and catch.
Griffons eat an incredible amount of food, and once they leave Winterfell, the two griffons and two people will have to take care of their own food.
On the coast of Sea Frontier City, the griffin caught the ravens released by Count Jane Farman. The same letter was transmitted by three ravens, which illustrates the importance of the letter.
Jani Farman didn't want the letter to go undelivered.
"Aren't we going to do something tonight?" Arya asked Will.
"Eat your fill first, then go to the Iron Islands. ”
"Don't inform Janie Farman?"
"No, you don't. ”
"The two of us, plus the two griffins, can't defeat Euron Greyjoy, who has a hundred ships. ”
"Shoot a man before a horse, capture a thief before capture the king. ”
"We're going to kill Euron?"
"I don't know yet, let's find a place to rest first, let Azubra and Blaze find food, you are responsible for lighting the fire, and I am responsible for finding vines to make hammocks. ”
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Janine Farman, Earl of the Fairy Isle of the West, a loyal follower of Melisandre, and a servant of the Lord of Light, is the only nobleman of the sea among the six nobles of the West, Will gave her jurisdiction over the Sea of the Sunset in the West, and ordered her to exterminate the fish that slipped through the net in the Iron Islands: Evangel Greyjoy, the priest of Neptune.
The last time King Greyjoy Greyjoy attacked the North, he was in charge of attacking the city of Torun with the cleft palate - and before the cleft palate could reach the cleft palate, Eren immediately fled, fleeing back to the Iron Islands with his five hundred monks, hiding in the westernmost part of the island of Great Wick.
Janine Farman was ordered by Will to exterminate Iren, and sent people to occupy the Iron Islands, and moved the people of Fairy Island to live on the Iron Islands.
But there is actually a question, that is, after eliminating the original Greyjoy family in the Iron Islands, will a new Greyjoy be cultivated as the king of the mountain decades later?
It's entirely possible!
However, despite everyone's objections, Will still gave jurisdiction to Janine Farman of the Iron Islands.
Janine Farman was ordered to wipe out Eren and his monks, as well as some of the iron people who had slipped through the net, and the warships of Fairy Island had secretly landed, and a thousand elite warriors had penetrated the warhammer corner where Eren lived.
Warhammer Point, located on the rocky hills of Great Wick Island, is home to the defunct House of Gubler. Although the castle was burned down by Will and Robb, the megalithic castle still exists. Unless it's a dragon fire or a wildfire, it can burn down the boulder castle and turn it into a fluid.
Will and Robb set fires that only burned down the other buildings, but not the walls of the megalithic castle.
The castle at Warhammer Horn still retains its sharp iron battlements, clumsy and strong. Under the city walls, countless caves and ancient pits are like toothless black mouths. The former people were enslaved to dig iron ore in the caves of the mines, and many of them never saw the vast sea water from life to death.
It's a bloody land!
Jani Farman's legion was defeated.
Eren Greyjoy had only five hundred monks, and their weapons were wooden clubs, which they claimed to be the clubs of the sea gods.
One thousand elites can easily win against five hundred monks and soldiers in yellow robes and holding wooden clubs in their hands, no matter how you look at it.
But they were ambushed.
The castle at Warhammer Point had no gates, and the knights and soldiers of the House of Faman entered the city without any resistance, but the battle did not take place, for they searched all the places in the city and did not see a single monk in yellow robes.
There was no one in the city.
But apparently, there was no one in the sea either.
The sea area has been controlled by the warships of the Farman family, and they have also patrolled this area beforehand and captured all the iron people who have slipped through the net.
Where did those Iren and his five hundred monks go?
The knights at the helm of the army looked at the entrances to the mines.
Beneath the city walls are many of the now abandoned mine entrances.
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There was no doubt that the knights had judged that Eren Greyjoy and his five hundred monks were hiding in the underground mines.
A knight suggested that a stream from the mountains be diverted into the mine, which was undoubtedly a very good idea, and a thousand warriors only had to defend the hole in the ground, like a mouse, and come out and kill one by one.
But the knight who led the army refused the offer, and he ordered to go into the cave and be hanged.
And so, disaster struck.
The new and ancient mines are entangled underground, the terrain is very complicated, and the priest Eren and his monks occupy the advantageous position, in order to prevent being driven out by the people sent by Will, they store food underground, and draw a map of the underground, and rehearse each place, and make their special signs at the entrance of the dead cave where there is no way out.
The mine is too complex and unfathomable so deep that a thousand soldiers entering the cave are like a pebble thrown into a river. As we went deeper and deeper, there were always small groups of soldiers walking into the dead hole, and then being attacked from behind by the monks who suddenly rushed out.
It is not easy to turn around in the burrow, and it is dark, and the torch will be quickly extinguished in the absence of oxygen.
By the time the soldiers turned around and organized an attack, the enemy was gone.
In pursuit with torches, the warriors strayed into other caves, some of which fell and could not climb out again. Some monks and soldiers brought stones to seal the shallow entrance of the cave, and the people inside could not come out at all.
As time passed, more and more casualties and missing soldiers of the Farman family were lost, and some cavalrymen sensed that something was wrong and ordered them to retreat.
A thousand people entered the cave, but only four hundred escaped.
Victorious Iren was also carried away by the victory and ordered to go out of the hole and pursue.
Iren believed that on the islands in the sea, they were protected and blessed by the god of the sea. The iron people and monks who believe in the god of the sea are immortal.
So, a group of immortal monks came out of the hole in the ground, and they brandished wooden sticks and fought fiercely with the four hundred warriors on the ground.
It turns out that the immortal monk soldier will die.
Their yellow robes and the magic sticks in their hands could not block the attacks of swords and war hammers, their yellow robes were defenseless, and the sea god did not give them blessings and protection.
In the grief of their comrades being missing or killed, the Faman Legion adopted the tactics of retreating to lure the enemy, suddenly counterattacking, outflanking, and encircling on all sides, and surrounded 500 monks and Iren at the core.
The monks who spent more time praying and preaching than they were training could not match the strength of the Faman Legion, and although the Faman Legion did not have an advantage in numbers, their sword and armor protection had a great advantage, and their well-trained tactics turned the tide in an instant.
All that remained was the muffled sound of the sword stabbing into the body, and the monk soldier who was not afraid of death still let out a miserable scream like an ordinary person.
A hearty counter-slaughter.
Only a few dozen monks escorted Iren and fled into the underground mine again.
In the face of the intricacies of the mines, it is not easy to say 400 people, even if 4,000 people go in. Any tactics are useless in a dark hole.
The knight who led the army decided to kill them all, and this time he learned the lesson of the previous time, and instead of sending troops into the mine, all four hundred men dug ditches and diverted water from the nearby stream to bring the water from the stream into the mine. But the water in the stream looks too small to know when it will fill the holes. Again, he ordered everyone to dig a canal in a farther place to divert the water from the river.
There are rivers and streams on Big Wick Island, as well as waterfalls.
In order to wait for the moment when Yilun and the others escaped from the cave, after the canal was dug, the soldiers camped on the spot and waited for good news.
However, after a few days, some of the low-lying holes have been pouring out of the river, and no one has climbed out of the mine.
Another day passed, and the water in the mine poured out, and every hole was full of water, but no one came out, and there were no floating corpses.
The knights discussed it and decided to go back to Fairy Island to resume their lives.
Although they killed Erun by water and took revenge on five hundred monks, they themselves suffered more casualties.
It was a battle that could not be said to be victorious.
With all the advantages, this victory is actually very miserable.
The knights and warriors returned dejectedly, and when they came, the ship laughed and laughed, but when they returned, no one spoke, only the sound of wood pulp paddling in the water.
That night, the battleship broke down in the sea, and the knights and warriors rested with peace of mind, and no one was on duty. In the middle of the night, the knights and warriors were awakened by a sudden fire, and when they got up, they saw that more than a dozen battleships were all on fire.
On the sea outside the fire, there was a circle of warships all pirate-flagped.
These pirate warships were no less impressive than their ships, and their flagships were very strong, with a huge flag flying on them: the coat of arms was two crows holding a black iron crown, and below it was a black pupil and red eyes.
"Euron Greyjoy!" a knight recognized the sign.
Euron Greyjoy is the eldest brother of King Balon of the Iron Isles and the captain of the Serenity. All of Euron's crew had their tongues removed, and his ship was named the Serenity.
On the side of the tall ship of the Serenity stands the crow-eyed Euron Greyjoy who has made the waters famous. He was pale-skinned and handsome, with black hair and a black beard, and his left eye was covered by an eye patch.
His right eye was bright blue with his famously friendly smile. He wears an eyepatch on his left eye, from which he gets the nickname "Raven's Eye", but no one knows what kind of eye is hidden under the patch.
According to Theon Greyjoy in Winterfell, the eye under his uncle Euron's blindfold was a terrifying "black eye that shimmered with malice".
Under the light of the fire on the sea, the lips of 'Crow' Euren are blue, which is the result of the change in the color of his lips caused by his long-term drinking of the 'eye shadow water' of the Eastern wizards.
"Put down the dinghy, leave no one behind. Raven's voice was full of pleasure, and a smile welled up on his face.
So the battleships lowered their small boats, small ones, and walked between the burning ships and slaughtered the knights and warriors who jumped into the water and came out of the water.
Crazy and cunning by nature, Euron takes pleasure in destroying the hearts and minds of those around him, and there is a saying among the Iron People that describes the cruelty of Crow's Eyes: Baron is a madman, so is Elen, and Euron is even crazier than the two of them combined.
The elite of the Faman family on Fairy Island, including the ship and all the warriors, oarsmen, bachelors and servants who accompanied the army, were all killed and none survived.
The next evening, Count Jane Farman of Fairy Island received a raven letter from Crow-Eyed Eulon, asking Jaenne Farman to submit to Crow-Eye and become a Raven-Eyed woman, otherwise Fairy Island would be destroyed. Crow's eyes give Jenny seven days.
On the eighth day, Crow's Eye will land on Fairy Island!
When Jenny receives Raveneye's letter, she immediately sends Raven to ask Will for help.