All the combat forces of Stormlands secretly withdrew to rescue the besieged Storm's End, but they were ambushed by the Golden Knights in the Royal Forest, and most of the combat power of Stormlands was wiped out, and the small army that was crippled had nowhere to go, so they had to take refuge in the Cullen family stationed in Nightsong City overnight.

The Karen are a powerful and ancient noble family in the Borderlands that pledge allegiance to Storm's End. They retained the title of "Commander-in-Chief of the Frontiers", and their home fort was the Night Song City, a well-fortified castle at the northern end of the Prince's Pass.

The coat of arms of the Cullen family is a black nightingale on a yellow background.

Under the leadership of Count Bryce, the Cullens initially pledged allegiance to King Ranley Baratheon, and after Ranley's death, the Cullens were loyal to King Stannis Baratheon. Earl Bryce was a warrior and a warrior, and because he wanted to prevent the invasion of the Dorns and protect the borders of the Stormlands, Count Bryce's soldiers did not participate in the war against the Tyrells.

As a result of this battle, eighty percent of the Legion forces in the Stormlands were wiped out, and all but the remote and barren Frontier Lands and the impregnable Storm's Breath fell to the Golden Knights. The descendants of the local nobles were either killed or captured in the rebellion, and the entire kingdom of Stormlands fell, and the nobles of the remaining frontier lands could not organize a strong resistance.

The Earl of Bryce's Nightsong City on the border has become a place to contain the remnants of the defeated soldiers who have come to defect one after another.

The news of the almost complete destruction of the Stormlands reached the Bitter Bridge not far away, and the coalition forces were panicked, and the legions of the northern and western kings needed to return through the territory of the Stormlands.

And the Tyrells went from a disadvantage to a huge advantage.

In light of the fall of Stormlands, a peace agreement between the Coalition and House Tyrells was soon concluded, and the Coalition began to return to relieve the siege of Storm's End.

House Tyrells also sent an army of 1,000 men symbolically to participate in the war against the Golden Knights. And the reinforcements of Dorne that the coalition were looking forward to have never appeared.

After Eddard Stark left, the commander of the coalition was composed of Allister Floren, the Earl of Onion, Davos Seaworth, and Kevon Lannister, and after reaching an armistice with the Tyrells, it was Earl Davos Seaworth who insisted that the Tyrells send legions to join the alliance.

He wanted to take Garland Tyrell of the Tyrells hostage to prevent Mace Tyrell from raising troops behind him.

Behind Mace Tyrrell, there has always been an old enemy that is the Dorne family, which is also a big reason why the Tyrell family does not dare to really turn against the coalition army, once the big war starts, the Mace Tyrell family will be attacked on their backs, and the situation will be extremely unfavorable for him.

However, this time the Tyrells were lucky, although the Dorne family agreed to flank the Tyrells with the coalition forces, they did not see Dorne's army appear in the rear of the Tyrells.

The Dorn, who had promised to form an alliance with the coalition, never appeared.

After the coalition resolved the Tyrells' worries, they gathered all their legions, left the Bitter Bridge, and marched towards Storm's End.

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After capturing the Ragged Prince, Eddard Stark sent a warning to the Storm's End and Bitterbridge coalition forces, and in his letters to the coalition forces, Eddard Stark only vaguely expressed that there might be spies of the Golden Knights in the army, but did not dare to tell the generals that the masterminds were Kaivon Lannister and Mace Tyrell.

Because the ravens given to the coalition are likely to fall into the hands of Kaivon.

If the matter leaks, the Onion Count Davers and the others are in danger.

Once Kaivon knew that the matter had been revealed, there was a good chance that he would kill the killer and get rid of the loyal ministers in the Valley of the Kings and the North.

Eddard Stark confided the secret alliance between Kevon and Tyrell to Ser Gilbert Fallin, the general guarding Storm's End, and told the Golden Knights that the boss behind it was Kevon Lannister.

The ravens were released in the waters of Dragonstone, and they came to the sky above Storm's End at dawn, however, the army besieging Storm's Rest had an old opponent Jon Clinton who Eddard Stark didn't know, he was the legion leader's right-hand honor, this position was equivalent to the legion leader's deputy, in order to prevent the internal and external transmission of Storm's Rest information, Jon Clinton had already arranged for archers to be everywhere, and Eddard Stark's raven was shot down by arrows as soon as he flew over the legion.

None of the ravens released from Storm's End escaped the arrowman's shot.

Cutting off the enemy's raven message was one of Jon Clinton's tactics. It's not complicated, but it's very effective.

You must know that in the 'whole campaign of Robert and Eddard's rebellion', the only general who has the ability to have a chance to kill Robert is Jon Clinton, because he refused to kill innocent people because of the war in Shitang Town, Robert and other reinforcements came, this is the famous 'Battle of the Bell' - the bell rings to let the people hide first, and then the war - otherwise Robert who is surrounded by layers has been killed by him, Robert dies, and the situation of the whole war will be completely changed.

He also paid a heavy price for his 'kindness' to the people, being stripped of his position as Hand of the King by King Elis, and exiled to the Narrow Sea.

Jon Clinton is Prince Rhaeggar's best friend, and the two have an extraordinary relationship, and his military talent can only be compared to the famous general Randolph Tully of the Riverlands, and in the Rebel War, Randolph Tully is the only super general in the royal army to defeat the combined forces of Robert and Eddard.

With a top figure like Jon Clinton as the deputy commander in the Golden Knights, Ed Stark is definitely not his opponent, not to mention, Eddard Stark has no idea that he and Robert's old rival Jon Clinton are back this time.

They both received the news that Jon Clinton had drowned because he had drunkenly fallen into the Sea of Reese.

Varys, the octopus, deceived the best and most powerful people in the world with his plan to fake his death.

The downed raven was quickly delivered to Jon Clinton, and the waxed letter from the raven's feet reached Jon Clinton's hand.

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Meanwhile, in the north, Will and his legions have returned from Winterfell to the Wall. Commander-in-Chief Mormont has led two thousand rangers to attack the Wraiths in the Thern Mountains, and the news of the bloody battle keeps coming back, the Wraiths advance in the Thern Mountains layer by layer, and the 100,000 people of Mance Rader have suffered heavy losses, half of the people have been killed by the Wraiths, and the remaining half have abandoned all the pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep and other livestock, and escaped the Ancestral Fist Peak.

The army of strangers that roamed the mountains did not march fast, they marched slowly, like ploughing the ground, not sparing any place with the breath of life, they advanced in a planned way, everywhere they went, whether it was a man or an animal, leaving no one alive.

The only advantage of a carpet advance is that the slaughter is complete, and the disadvantage is the slow pace of the march.