Chapter 0709: Littlefinger Attacks Sleepover City
Will recognized Michelle Redford as not Michelle but Mia Stone the moment she was accompanied by Taryn Ash to the City Gate Square. It was Will who asked Eddard Stark to take Mia Stone as a maid and wanted Eddard to give her a surname to get rid of the bastard label.
Through Michelle's armor, Robb only saw that Michelle was a woman, but he knew that Michelle Redford was not a woman. The last time Eddard Stark led the Trilateral Alliance to the West, Robb had a brief and hurried glance at the squire Mia Shidong standing behind Eddard Stark.
But he is very aware of Michelle's name, Michelle was a squire of Lynn Cobray before he became a Knight of the Vale, and Lynn Cobry was also a well-known fierce man in the Vale.
Robb, who is a martial artist, knows all the first-class swordsmen of the younger generation in the Valley. Michelle's swordsmanship is said to be above Robert Royce. Michelle served Lynn Cobray from a young age, and Lynn Cobray's swordsmanship has always been superior to that of the Valley Swordsmen.
Lynn Cobray is in possession of a Valyrian steel sword: the Lady of Silence. The Cobrays, like the Royces, have chosen to secretly ally themselves with the Lannisters. The benefit that the Royce family will receive is the entire valley. The Royce family was the king of the valley until the Arryn family became the masters of the valley.
The benefits of the Kobray family are also obvious, the position of the Imperial Retainer will be the patriarch of the Kobray family, and their territory will be expanded several times. And buying Lynn Corbray is even simpler, the first is gold, and the second is boy.
Lynn Cobray loves boys, it's his secret.
I don't know if Michelle, who has been Lynn Cobray's squire since she was a child, has inherited Lynn's 'love'.
Lynn Cobray and his family's 300 soldiers are currently in the regiment of Cayvon Lannister in the South, while his older brother Leonor Cobry remains in the heart of the Vale.
Leonor Cobray was forty years old and had no children, and his heir was his second brother, Lynn Cobray.
The city of Hearts is located in the north of the Eagle's Nest, and Petyr Berish the Littlefinger secretly landed on the Five Finger Peninsula and marched into the Valley Plain, his Five Finger Peninsula is desolate and barren, and there are almost no people along the way from the Five Finger Peninsula to the Valley Plains.
The first Vale nobles that Petyr Berish the Littlefinger would attack was the Kobri family in Hearts City.
As for Littlefinger, who is also a member of the nobility of the Vale, he knows everything about the nobility of the Vale.
In the entire valley, the most powerful is the Royce family, and the second is the Cobray family.
The true strength of the Cobray family has been severely reduced, both in wealth and military strength, which is a major reason why they quickly agreed to form an alliance with the Lannisters to betray their loyalty and honor. If they don't think of any other way, this family will not be able to hold its head up in front of the other families in the valley, and its strength will become weaker and weaker, and it will not be respected by the nobles.
It's just that their false name is still there, and they have always been recognized as the great nobles ranked after the Royce family among the nobles of the Vale. However, the days of concealing the truth about the family's rapid decline will not last long.
At the same time as Will and Robb launched a night raid, perhaps by providence, Petyr the Littlefinger also launched a night raid on the Cobray family's heart.
Will gave Littlefinger more than 2,500 soldiers, the main strength of which were King's Landing's garrison, the Black Armor Army, and the captured mercenaries of the wind-blowing regiment on the other side of the Narrow Sea, plus the nobles of the Three Sisters Islands who were persuaded by Littlefinger's incorruptible tongue to surrender, and his legion suddenly grew to about 4,000 men.
The lord of the Three Sisters was the Marquis of Triston Sunderland. He had seven sons who were fierce and good at sea, and the Marquis hoped that all seven of his sons would be knighted by the noble nobles. He had hoped that Lord Arryn would help him achieve this honor, but Lord Arryn did not grant his request, and this time, Petyr the Littlefinger agreed, and personally bestowed knighthood on one of his sons as a royal minister. Littlefinger also promised that the Prime Minister of the Seven Kingdoms, Lord Will, the Guardian of the Realm, would personally give his heir the title of Knight.
Of course, this little favor can't impress Triston to betray the Arryn family, but for Triston, this is not a betrayal of the Arryn family, he has never obeyed the call of the Arryn family, every time he shirks it with various excuses, except for taxes, he has not responded to many orders from the Arryn family. For such a family, if Littlefinger wants to impress him to follow, there is only one word: profit!
Now is the time for Littlefinger to make good on his promise, holding his warriors on the main roads, cutting off the nearby nobles from reinforcements to the House of Cobray, and then giving the opportunity to attack the House of Cobray to the Marquis of Triston Sunderland.
Naturally, this was not a real attack on the castle, but a sack.
As long as they take the heart city of the Kobri family, Petyr will allow them to loot.
Triston Sunderland also has several fierce men, among which the Bonnell family on Sweet Sister Island is the most brave and good at fighting. The battle that made the Bonnell family famous took place in the early days of the Usurper War between Eddard and Robert, where Goldrich Bonnell captured Eddard Stark, but later heard that Seagull Town, the stronghold of the Vale Protectors, had been captured by Robert and Arryn, and Earl Bonnell, who had always been politically oriented, was easily persuaded by Eddard to release Eddard Stark with enthusiasm. If Goldridge's political stance had been firm, Eddard Stark had been killed by him sixteen years ago.
Under the moon of the valley, Littlefinger gave the order, and the Marquis Triston Sunderland led his seven sons in the center, the fierce general Godrich Bonnell on the right, and the Count of Miss Island on the left, Alessandor Torrent, after the order, these nobles who could fight and rob led the soldiers who could grab and fight poured out and began to attack the city.
Leonor Cobray's castle in Hearts is as defenseless as the Vale Bloodgate.
For more than 1,000 people who habitually steal and rob, the defenseless city is facing an absolute disaster.
More than 1,000 people are more than 1,000 hungry wolves, because as long as they enter the city, everything they grab is their own, including the wives and daughters of the nobles, which is the greatest reward for male livestock.
Among the noble knights who live in the city of Mistaking, there are many who have daughters, and even more who have wives, and everyone has them.
Countless improvised siege ladders climbed the walls, ants climbed up the walls, and Littlefinger and Robert Royce, as well as the loyal and fierce Sir Rosso, Will's new squire, who had sworn to follow Will, stood in the shadows, as strong as an iron tower. While on the Five Fingers Peninsula, Will rode a griffon to Seagulltown, leaving Sir Rosso with his former master, Littlefinger.
One of the distinct distinctiveness of Triston Sunderland's soldiers is that there are no shouts. They climbed the city silently, climbed over the city walls with their mouths closed, and never shouted when they killed to strengthen their might.
This style of combat is not because it is a sneak attack at night, but in a head-to-head battle during the day, the army does not shout, and their shouts are the pop sound of their swords when they pierce into the body.
Littlefinger smiled and said to Robert Royce beside him: "General Robert, what really bites people is still a dog that doesn't bark!"