Chapter 1040: White Harbor City is destroyed
The five largest ports of Westeros: the 1st largest Old Town, the 2nd largest King's Landing Blackwater River, the 3rd largest Lannisport, the 4th largest Seagull Town, and the 5th largest White Port.
White Harbor, the largest coastal port for foreign trade in the north, connects the northern parts of the country through the inland White Blade River. It is located at the mouth of the White Blade River.
The city of White Harbor is neatly situated on the east bank of the Whiteblade River, with wide, straight streets paved with large pebbles and houses paved with whitewashed stone and dark gray stone slabs as roofs.
When the first rays of the morning sun hit the city, it was filled with a white glow, hence the name White Harbor.
The city of White Harbor is divided into two parts. The first part is the Old Fort, also known as the Wolf's Lair, an ancient fortress that is now a prison for prisoners. The old fort sits outside the newly built city walls, near the waterfront, and has an ancient sacred forest inside.
The second part of White Harbor is the New Castle.
The new castle was the home of the Mandalay family, perched on a hill within high walls. The Old Fort and the New Fort are connected by a road, and the Castle Staircase is a wide white stone staircase that goes up that connects the Old Fort on the waterfront with the New Fort on the hill. The streets are lined with marble mermaids who hold flaming bowls of whale oil in their hands to provide illumination. From the top of the castle staircase, you can see the harbor in full view, and the inner harbor and the outer harbor can be seen at a glance. In addition, there is another secret passage.
The Mermaid Palace is the hall of the New Castle, where the Mandalay family dealt with the government. The walls, floors and ceilings of the palace are made of thick wooden planks depicting a variety of sea creatures.
The obese Earl of Mandalay had trouble sleeping at night, and he had developed a good habit of eating to fall asleep, and while he got up late at night to eat, he liked to stand at the window of the Mermaid Palace overlooking the two harbors inside and outside, and then, he was stunned in disbelief
On the sea outside the inner and outer harbors, there is a gray-green boulder that rises from the bottom of the sea and rises more than 30 feet above sea level, choking the entrance and exit channels of the outer harbor. The top of the rock has a weathered stone wall, which was built by the Mandalay family.
In order to prevent the invasion of pirates or other military forces, the ring was guarded by ballistas, fire-breathing crossbows, and crossbowmen.
Because of the continuous civil war, after the civil war, Prime Minister Lord Will ordered the major families to send troops to fight against the strangers, and ninety percent of the Mandalay family's troops were wiped out.
The twenty soldiers were engaged in a battle with an unknown figure.
There were dozens of dark figures dangling from the gray-green boulder, and although they looked small or barely clear, Mandalay knew that there was a battle going on.
Someone had sneaked up the grey-green boulder in the middle of the night and was slaughtering twenty soldiers on it.
In the cold weather, and in the time when the Stranger had won a great victory, the soldiers of the night vigil liked to make a charcoal fire in the ring of the fort and drink a little wine, as the Count of Mandalay did when he was younger. Everything inside and outside the Castle on the limestone was very familiar to him.
In the days of victory after the Wraiths were destroyed, the Seven Kingdoms were unified, and the queens of the continents of Essos and Westeros were in Winterfell, fighting the Wraiths together and forming friendships, the Earl of Mandalay was cautious all his life, and when there were no Wraiths in the north and no enemies inside and outside, he did not expect such a thing to happen suddenly.
Where does the enemy come from?
That's a problem!
Mandalay shouted, "Guard!"
No one answered him.
Damn it, you must have drunk too much and fallen asleep again.
Above the ring fort, flames were burning, and a torch was shaking.
In the harbor of the outer harbor, there was also a torch shaking, and then, the Earl of Mandalay saw that there was also a torch shaking on the harbor embankment of the inner harbor, which was transmitting a signal.
The enemy is passing a signal through a torch.
The harbor of White Harbor is divided into an inner harbor and an outer harbor, separated by a breakwater. The Outer Harbour was larger, but the Inner Harbour was better anchoraged, and the Inner Harbour was supported by a rampart on one side and a wolf's den on the other, and a new stone wall thirty feet high and nearly a mile long was built on the breakwater, with towers every 100 meters. The inner harbor could accommodate dozens of warships.
Where did the enemy come from?
Naturally, it was Daenerys' fleet of more than 300 ships that came today.
The Count of Mandalay was too fat to walk in a sedan chair, and if he was allowed to walk by himself, he would not be able to walk from the new castle to the old castle. The stairs were too high, his body was too fat, and his legs couldn't bear the weight of his body. After a few steps, he needed to stop and catch his breath.
Only traveling in a sedan chair is the best choice, and it is also his only choice at present.
Mandalay had limited mobility, and he knew that what he had to do now was to blow the horn of the enemy attack. But he couldn't blow it, he had to let the guards do it.
The guard fell asleep in the room outside.
This would never have happened before, and Mandalay remembered the officers of the fleet he had warmly entertained Daenerys today, and the guards had drunk with him, apparently a little too much.
Suddenly, Mandalay hated himself, because, no matter how much effort Daenerys had put in her fight against the Strangers, he should be wary of the troops coming from across the Narrow Sea, and he should not have let them into the harbor without permission, thinking that everyone was his own.
The stranger is gone, who will sit on the Iron Throne, and whether Daenerys has a different heart, it can be seen now. The Count of Mandalay went to the door, opened it, and threw the plate in his hand at the door of the guards' room.
That's the benefit of getting up in the middle of the night to eat, and the plate can be smashed!
Smack!
The plate is broken into pieces.
The guards woke up immediately, and several guys ran out of the room, sure enough, they were full of alcohol, but fortunately, they were fully armed, and their long swords were at their waists.
"Enemy attack!" shouted Mandalay, "blow the trumpet." ”
The guards looked at each other.
Enemy attack?
Isn't the war already over?
The Seven Kingdoms are unified, and the War of the Aliens is also victorious, where is the enemy?
"Blow the horn, damn it. If you hesitate, I will cut off all your heads. The Count roared.
"Where is the enemy? ”
"See for yourselves. ”
The guards rushed to the window and looked outside, and in the harbor of the outer harbor, there were already ships on fire, and the sound of killing had already sounded. In the harbor of the inner harbor, the warships of the Mandalay flag are also on fire, and soldiers are pouring ashore on the other side of the narrow sea that have stopped in the harbor during the day today and are capturing the military towers on the embankment.
The guards were dumbfounded!
Woooooooooooooooo
Woooooooo
The low, murderous trumpets of the people of the North sounded.
The whole city was asleep, and even after the end of the civil war and the end of the war of the strangers, the hearts of the entire Northerners were relaxed, and White Harbor of the Mandalay family was no exception. Whether it is a soldier or a civilian, everyone enjoys the night with peace of mind and relaxation.
No one has the vigilance to fight, and no one has vigilance.
The horn sounded, and the sound of the horn was heard throughout White Harbor at the highest point of the city, New Castle.
And all the people of the city were awake.
It had been too long since the trumpets of the enemy had been heard.
But it was too late.
On the breakwater, the Count of Mandalay saw with his own eyes that the soldiers rose up to fight, but there were too many enemies, and ants poured up the embankment and into the towers. Each military tower, previously defended by thirty soldiers, now there are only seven.
Soon, the tower fell, and the enemy still had fire oil with them, which was sprinkled on the tower and ignited, and the entire military tower on the embankment was on fire.
As if suddenly, the sound of shouts resounded through the night sky.
The enemy burned merchant ships, fishing boats, patrol warships of the Mandalay family in the outer harbor. Two patrol battleships were set on fire, and the soldiers on board were naturally killed long ago.
The enemy took control of the gray-green rock, which was called Seal Rock because it resembled a seal, and the ring fort on top was replaced by enemy soldiers.
After taking the embankment and tower, the enemy set fire to dozens of battleships of the Mandalay family. During the days of the war, the Earl of Mandalay hid some of his ships in the Whiteblade River in case they were wiped out by the enemy, and at the same time as a backup for emergencies. But because the war was over, he relaxed his vigilance and moored all the warships in the White Blade River in the inner harbor.
With only a handful of sailors and warriors on duty, hundreds of enemies poured in, shouting and raising their swords to slaughter the sailors and soldiers, then pouring fire oil on fire and setting fire to every Mermaid Flag battleship of the Mandalay family.
The inner harbor and the outer harbor burned into one piece.
And hundreds of enemy warships, before the fire burned, first blockaded the open sea, and then blockaded the inner and outer ports. Looking down from the highest window of the New Castle, the sea is full of ships of all kinds of flags.
Boat!
Enemy ships!
Banner!
Flags on board!
What Mandalay saw, the three-headed dragon banner of the Daenerys family that he saw during the day had become a pirate banner with a skull and two crossed swords.
The pirate flag, with a white skeleton on a black background and two white swords, fluttered on the bow of each ship.
Pirate?
No way!
This is nothing more than a trick played by the enemy.
The Earl of Mandalay watched as the enemy set fire to all his ships, took down the ring fort of Seal Rock, took down the towers on the breakwater, and poured into the old fort with a shout, and fought with a dozen soldiers in the old fort, how could those soldiers hold back hundreds or thousands of enemies? Then, there is the sacred wood forest in the old castle. Those enemies refused to let go of the trees in the Divine Wood Forest, and they set the Divine Wood Forest on fire.
A group of enemies ascended the stairs and came to attack Newcastle, where the Count of Mandalay lived.
Inside the city, on the streets, there were enemies chasing the people and slashing them, and they were slaughtering the city. Every street was burning, the whole city was crying, there was fighting everywhere, but it wasn't a close fight, it was a battle of courage before the northerners fell.
On the highest staircase of the new castle, the Earl's bodyguards, servants and scholars gathered around the Earl of Mandalay, and each of them took up arms.
"Let all the ravens go?" said the Earl of Mandalay.
"Yes, my lord, the ravens will bring the news to every part of the Seven Kingdoms, and the enemy will have nowhere to run. Lord Will will avenge us. ”
The Earl of Mandalay's eyes welled up with tears: "I hate myself. "He looked at his fat body, he couldn't participate in the fight, he even needed to walk in a sedan chair.
The Count had a sword in his hand, but he knew that he could not kill any of his enemies, which was his greatest regret before he died.
The enemy shouted and began to attack on the back, and the battle began on the high steps of the new castle, and the last little strength of the whole city was concentrated on the steps of the new castle, and countless arrows indiscriminately covered from below, but were blocked by the shields of the warriors.
On each staircase, there were five warriors, a total of thirty warriors, firmly guarding the stairs.
The first attacking enemy was crushed, leaving a dozen corpses on the stairs, while the defending soldiers, however two were wounded.
Thirty spears were pointed at the attacking enemy in a dense spike shape.
In the hall, the maester advises the Count of Mandalay to go down to the Old Fort through a secret passage, which has a secret crypt that protects the Count from being discovered by the enemy.
The Earl of Mandalay shook his head. The people of the whole city were fighting, boys and women, old men and children, although they were defeated, but the people of the north were so hard-hearted, when they cried for their relatives, they also had the courage to take up their swords and die with the enemy.
"My lord, water and food are prepared in the chamber. The bachelor said.
The Earl of Mandalay couldn't live without food, he needed to eat constantly.
But the Count's words made the Count feel ashamed.
Yes, shame!
The Count of Mandalay said, "Bachelor, you lead the maid and the children to the basement to take refuge, and I will join the people of the city." He raised his sword to the Bachelor, "Go, Bachelor, this is the order." When the day comes, Lord Will will take the enemy for judgment, we need someone to stand up on behalf of the people of White Harbor and testify against those enemies. ”
"That's what you're supposed to do, sir. "The old fort has been burned to the ground, the enemy will not search it in the fire, and the underground chamber is safe, my lord." ”
"Bachelor, if I'm gone, the enemy will tear down the new castle, and finally the secret passage will be found, and then the basement will be found, I must stay, cover you, go quickly. "As long as the enemy has caught me, they will no longer search the new castle, they will set it on fire, and you and the children and the maids will be safe." ”
Seven or eight maids and three or four children were already crying.
"Now is not the time to cry, go, maester, I need you to avenge me and all the people of White Harbor. ”
The enemy besieging Newcastle suffered heavy losses, and thirty White Harbor soldiers held the high staircase, repelling dozens of enemy attacks, and the battle lasted from night to day, and thirty soldiers of Mandalay held the staircase, and any enemy who tried to storm the staircase was defeated miserably.
So, the enemy decided to set fire.
They tied the arrows with oil and sprinkled them on the soldiers during the fight, and they burned thirty warriors to death with their flamethrowers.
But up and down the ladder, thirty warriors killed at least three hundred enemies, and wounded countless others. A thousand-strong squad of the enemy suffered heavy losses here.
The enemy finally took Newcastle and opened the gates of Newcastle, where they captured the Count of Mandalay, brutally tortured him, humiliated him, and finally hanged him from the window of Newcastle.
By the time soldiers from other parts of the north arrived at White Harbor, the most prosperous city in the north had become a ruin in a fire! 2k reading web