Chapter 0552: Seagull Town: Three-Way Negotiation

Will said, "Sir Robert, I wonder why you have sent me a letter with only one sentence and not a single word of mention of the bloodshed?"

"Lord Chancellor, I am afraid that Lord Robb Stark will read the letter and be bent on revenge, and if he impulsively leads the Northland Army and the legions of the Riverlands to attack the Bloodgate, he will surely suffer a crushing defeat. Ryza Tully dared to do this, and he and the Lannisters must have been prepared to be attacked. Our rush to attack the Bloodgate may be exactly what Lysa Tully and the Lannisters want. Robert Royce said.

Everyone nodded yes.

Will was also impressed by Robert Royce.

This young man is very calm, sensible, and has a strong executive ability.

He gathered the soldiers of his family, formed a regiment of 100 people, and persuaded the soldiers to join him in the blood gate to save people, which fully demonstrated his ability.

"Prime Minister, we are now trapped on the Five Fingers Peninsula, do you have any plans now, and how do we get out of danger?"

"We're in danger at the moment, but we're alive," Will said. First, we have the most powerful fleet in the port of Seagulltown, with more than 400 warships that are invincible in this sea, and as long as we want, we can easily take Seagull Town in the valley and control all the maritime trade in the valley. ”

"Yes, Seagull Town is the economic lifeblood of the Valley, and with Seagull Town in our hands, all maritime trade in the Valley has come under our control. Petyr Berish said.

Will's first plan to take control of Seagull Town was unanimously agreed upon. Her Majesty's small heart also felt that she had found her way. If you rashly attack the Blood Gate, it is indeed the worst military plan.

Will continued, "I'll ride a griffon and mobilize a hundred warships to take Her Majesty Shireen out of here by water, the Five Fingers Peninsula is not too far from Seagull Town. Our mighty fleet will split into two routes, escorting Her Majesty Shireen all the way to White Harbor in the north, and up the Whiteblade River, with the goal of safely escorting Her Majesty Shireen into Winterfell. The other fleet conquered all the islands and fishing villages in the valley, including Seagull Town, and conquered the ** island, pebble island, and the Three Sisters Islands in Bite Bay. ”

Robert Royce immediately stepped forward: "Your Excellency, I am willing to lead a fleet to attack all the islands and fishing villages in the valley, I belong to everything here. ”

"How many ships do you want?"

"The coastal fishing villages, pebble islands and ** islands are all vulnerable, and the real difficulty is the Three Sisters Islands in Bite Bay. "Your Excellency Prime Minister only needs to give me 3,000 soldiers, and I will be able to take the Three Sisters." ”

The Three Sisters are made up of three islands in Bite Bay – Sweet Sister Island, Eldest Sister Island and Miss Island and the surrounding nameless small islands – located just south of White Harbor.

"The Three Sisters are ruled by House Sunderland and nominally loyal to House Arryn, but Eagle's Nest is simply not in a position to command them. "From time immemorial to the present day, the Sunderland family has relied on trade, smuggling and piracy to make a living. They sold seafood to the north in exchange for wood, hides, and wool. For hundreds of years, the Three Sisters were also a den of smugglers and pirates. If we give them enough temptation, we can convince the Sunderland sisters to send troops to help us attack the Vale. ”

"How sure are you, Lord Petyr, that you will be able to convince the Sunderlands to submit to us?" said Will.

"Sir Robert Royce and I arrived at the Three Sisters with a hundred ships and thousands of soldiers, and Sir Robert Royce did not move, and I took the might of the warship and went to the island to persuade the Sunderland family to rebel against the valley. Petyr Berish said lightly.

The strong self-confidence shown by Petyr Berish gave everyone confidence.

Will said, "Okay, let's do it first, I'll ride a griffon to Seagull Town tonight, I'll take control of Seagull Town first, and then send two hundred and fifty warships to the Five Fingers Peninsula to meet you." With a hundred ships escorting Shireen to Winterfell, and one hundred and fifty ships to Lord Petyr Berishes and Ser Robert Royce to sweep the coastal fishing villages and all the islands of the Vale, I hope that Lord Petyr will be able to persuade the Sunderlands to come and submit. ”

*

After the outbreak of the Bloodgate, the first person to receive the message was not Will, but Kaivon Lannister in the Southern Royal Forest. The Raven of the Valley, in the hands of Jaime Lannister, brought the news to Kaivon as soon as possible.

Eddard Stark and the royal courtiers are dead, and Jaime wants Kaivon to make a move, preferably taking King's Landing immediately.

Eddard Stark gave up King's Landing, the center of power, and left King's Landing with its garrison and royal courtiers, giving Kevon Lannister the best chance to take the Iron Throne.

And Jaime and Cersei, who live in the Eagle's Nest, as well as Tomman and Messira, are completely safe. No one can break through the Eagle's Nest unless someone does it from within the Eagle's Nest.

As long as Cayvon can take King's Landing, the situation will turn in favor of the Lannisters.

Instead of taking the time to complain about Cersei when he got the news of the raven, Kevon immediately consulted with his ally Tyrell and decided to implement a bold plan to take Storm's End, which was in the dark.

*

Among the Southern Alliance, the only legions in the north were Luce Bolton the Skinner and his 2,000 cavalry infantry mixed legions, Maggie Mormont of Bear Island had returned to King's Landing with Eddard Stark to suppress the King's Landing rebellion caused by the great master Melisandre, the more than 10,000 legions in the Vale were led by Jonn Royce the Bronze, there were not many legions in the Westlands and the Riverlands, and all of them had only symbolic and insignificant soldiers, and the nobles of the royal domain were mainly royal courtiers, among whom Davos Brown, Earl of Onion. Seaworth and the Minister of Justice, Alice Florent.

The legions of the Stormlands were defeated, and the castles of countless nobles were taken by the Golden Knights, in this case, Kaivon and Tyrell had already invisibly grasped the initiative of the situation, and all the advantages fell to Kaivon's side.

In the era of relying on ravens to transmit news, once something happens in a certain place, the diffusion and transmission of information is very lagging behind.

Most of the knights of the Vale and most of the knights of the royal realm had no idea of the bloodshed, they didn't know that the employer of the Golden Knights from the Narrow Sea was Kevon Lannister, and they didn't know that Mace Tyrell and Kevon Lannister had long been allies.

Most people are ignorant of the real situation.

*

The coalition army lost its strength in the face of the powerful Golden Knights, and the battle of 20,000 legions in the Stormlands being defeated by the Night Raid of the Golden Knights shook the morale of the army.

Luce Burton, a skinner in the North, has long lost his will to fight, and only wants to return to the North safely with his legions. The nobles of the Vale are also unwilling to sacrifice their soldiers for the benefit of the nobles of the Stormlands. The king's generals were willing to fight, but unfortunately the number of the king's legions was very limited, and without the support of other nobles, the red-robed monk Soros, who only had a few hundred people, was too weak to make the trip.

With no one willing to step up and act as the vanguard, Kevon Lannister suggested that the two principals of the coalition, Allister Florent and Davos Seaworth, negotiate peace with the Golden Knights.

Mercenaries come from afar, fighting to seek money, and when the war situation is unfavorable and the army is unstable, seeking peace is undoubtedly the best choice.

Everyone was unanimously in favor of suing for peace, no one was willing to sacrifice their military power to help the nobles of the Stormlands recapture the family castle, and the reason why the people of the Vale sent out more than 10,000 soldiers was to covet the wealth of the Tyrell family, and now that Tyrell has not been able to defeat it, the wealth cannot be obtained, and he is unwilling to accompany his military power.

The meeting quickly reached a result: Kevon Lannister, Lord of the West, Allister Florent, Lord of the Crown, Davos Seaworth, Earl of Onion, and Tyrell, Duke of Riverlands, formed a peace team, and they sent messengers to contact the head of the Golden Knights, Harry Stryclan, the Homeless Ones, and the other party agreed to negotiate peace, according to the agreement, the armies of both sides each retreated dozens of miles, vacated a hundred miles of no man's land, and then chose a middle position, each with a hundred guards to negotiate.

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The coalition's negotiating team consisted of two officers in charge of leading the Legion of Guards, one was Thoros, a red-robed monk from Mill, and the other was Alken Florent, a member of the Florentine family, the son of the Minister of Justice Alice Florentine and the heir to Brightwater City. Dale Seaworth, the eldest son of the Earl of Onion, was with his father, and Davos's fifth son, Davos, was an attendant of the late King Stannis and had died in battle at the Great Sanctuary of Baylor.

The meeting and negotiation took place at a fork in the road where Eddard Stark rescued Brienne, and the road was wide and smooth, leading north to the Blackwater River in King's Landing, southwest to the Bitter Bridge in the Bend, and southeast to the Stormlands' Storm's End. There is a huge inn at the fork where Eddard Stark rescued Brienne of Tarth and her suitor Hale Hunt.

The Golden Knights have two leaders: Harry Stryclan, the leader, and Jon Clinton on his right. Jon Clinton has recaptured his griffon castle, and his name is no longer hidden. Davos finally agreed to the peace because of Jon Clinton's name.

He knew that Jon Clinton was an honorable and upright man, and that his benevolent act of "letting the people hear the bells and hide first" and then going to war with Robert in the Battle of the Bells of the Year ruined his own future and the future of his kingdom, but also made him erect a monument of benevolence and righteousness in the hearts of the people of the Seven Kingdoms.

Although his 'Woman's Kindness' was later mercilessly ridiculed and despised by Tywin Lannister and others.

Dealing with someone like Jon Clinton, Davos thought it would be a good idea.

When Jon Clinton became the hand of the mad king Elise Targaryen, Davos, Allister, Kevon and others were unknown, and only Mace Tyrell was the duke.

Jon Clinton's personal prestige and benevolent honor were a major reason for the peace talks.

On the side of the coalition army, from the royal courtiers to the generals, there is no doubt about him.

A big man like Jon Clinton will not destroy his honor and play tricks in peace talks.

Harry Stryclan and Jon Clinton arrived with a 100-man guard.

In Jon Clinton's eyes, the accompanying hundred-man guard alone was full of ghosts, liars, pirates, smugglers, looters, and murderers, all of whom had survived failed wars, failed careers, failed lives, and failed rebellions. It's a team of veritable losers, with almost all of the knights discredited and adrift, but that's the strength Jon Clinton relies on, and his best hope of reclaiming the Iron Throne.

The commander of the Guards, Ba Qu, was a white-haired native of the Midsummer Islands, with skin as black as coal. He displayed all his worldly riches, including an ornate mantle woven of green and orange feathers. The golden armband he wore was worth a lot of money, worth a lord's ransom.

Ba Qu is a famous archer and a good hand at the sword.

During Jon Clinton's assault on Fort Eagle's Nest, Baqu commanded his archers and shot down every raven that flew out of the castle.

His ornate cloak of bright feathers and his pitch-black skin immediately caught the eye of the allied soldiers. Ba Qu grinned at this, revealing two rows of snow-white and neat teeth. His smile was friendly and charming, but Jon Clinton knew that it wasn't kindness, it was only killing.

Both sides are seated.

Although one side is from the free trade city-state of Essos on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and the other side is a noble prince of the local continent, in fact, the roots of both sides are on the continent of Westeros, and the ancestors of both sides breathe in the same sky, and the two opposing sides are not a confrontation between foreign states.

It is born from the same root!

Davos Seaworth smuggler was born without the red tape of the nobility, and after the two sides exchanged polite greetings, Davos went straight to the point: "Captain Harry, Sir Jon, what do you want to cross the Narrow Sea to come here?"

It's a simple statement, but it's powerful.

If the mercenary group is seeking money, then it can be negotiated; Davos believed in his own eyes, he had been a smuggler for many years, his eyes were sharp, and his way of going straight to the point was simple and brutal, and he could see some clues in the flashes of the other party's eyes and prevarication of words.

Many people heard about the rumors of the dragon's appearance on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and they all laughed. But Davos didn't take the rumors as a joke. The Golden Knights were created by a force of illegitimate dragons of House Targaryen, legally recognized by the King, with the aim of reclaiming Westeros and the Iron Throne. Although that is history, it is better to be careful in everything.