Chapter 0210: Beauty and Fortune: Illyrio Plotting Pantos (1)
"I don't want to be cannon fodder. Jaime whispered, "I'm not going to fight, I'm going to go first when I get the chance." ”
The walls were very high, and the Dothraki had no siege equipment. But despite this, for a Pantos with only a few thousand city guards, it was only a matter of time before the city collapsed in the face of tens of thousands of iron horsemen.
"There will be no war. The ragged prince beside him glanced at the boundless Dothraki cavalry below the city and said lightly. His tense emotions relaxed suddenly, and there was even a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
Bands of guards and mercenaries ran and garrisoned the walls, and a high-ranking officer of the Unsullied with a bronze helmet and three spikes commanded the deployment of the defenses in a loud voice. Jaime and the Ragged Prince bowed their heads and followed a troop of reserve motley troops to a battlement in the city gate, their swords hung from their waists, and their spears in their hands.
The only trouble for the two of them is that the dragon egg hidden on their bodies is a heavy stone. Fortunately for Jaime, the two dragon eggs of the Ragged Prince are two heavy stones, and if it weren't for the crowd, he would be more beggars than beggars, and it would be easy for people to see his strangeness.
As the Dothraki were besieging the city, no one noticed them at all.
"You two, take care of this place. A guy on a horse commanded with a short sword.
"Yes, sir. Jaime and Prince Ragged spoke in unison, with great deference.
Command the horses to run away, command the other recruits, and beckon them to hold their positions.
The Ragged Prince was nozzled, and Jaime saw Illyrio Mopatis, the most popular governor of Pantos, whose fat stature stood out among the many governors. After he escaped from the killer life, the favorable living conditions made him fortune too fast, and he completely lost the fitness skills of his youth.
At the Governor's side was a silver-haired, purple-eyed young man with a slender build, a young man with the same characteristics of the Targaryen family as Daenerys.
The young man was in high spirits, with a long sword hanging from his waist, and from time to time he looked at the army under the city walls with some nervousness, and then looked at the dozen or so governors who were arguing anxiously around him, his eyes were very purple and shining, as if reflecting the flames of excitement.
But the towering hip bones on the young man's face and the deep sunken eye sockets also showed that he had suffered in his heart. His haggard look was as clear as his excitement was right now.
"Illyrio and I were once comrades-in-arms, and I knew him, and if his life was in danger, he must have smuggled out of the walls and left Pantos with all his wealth. And the young man beside him is Viserys of the Targaryen family under his protection, the down-and-out prince who calls himself the true dragon. ”
"Viserys Targaryen. Jaime said. His eyes kept rolling over Viserys. He has been specially trained to have an unusual eyesight and can see the subtle expressions of people at a distance.
At Viserys Targaryen's side was the taciturn Jorah Mormont. Jaime was eager to figure out why the former hero of Westeros had suddenly appeared here, and he loved his wife Lynnice Hightower so much that the two lived together on the night of the tournament in Lannisham.
Jorah Mormont is a native of the North, a vassal of House Stark, how did this once high-spirited creature end up in exile in the Narrow Sea Free Trade City-State?
"Someone, do you know that mercenary?" said the Ragged Prince, leaning against the wall.
"I know the Westeros guy next to Viserys. Jaime whispered.
"Oh, he's a mercenary. Illyrio hired him and then recommended him to the Targaryen sisters. Illyrio took in any exile from Westeros, whether it was a bachelor, a nobleman, a knight, a lord, a criminal, a rebel, a rebel, or a rebel, and he was generous enough to help them. Do you know Jon Clinton, the exiled Hand of Kings in Westeros?"
"I've heard of it. ”
Jon Clinton, the third prime minister of the Mad King, in the Battle of the Bells, faced the Vale army of Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark, Horst Tully and Jon Arryn, because he refused to set fire to Stone Town, which would burn the innocent people of Stone Town, so he missed the opportunity to kill Robert Baratheon, and was exiled by the Mad King Aerys Targaryen. He is Prince Rhaegar's most sincere friend.
"The guy crossed the Narrow Sea, and was taken care of by Illyrio, but later stole while serving as a mercenary in the Golden Regiment, discredited, and was expelled from the Golden Regiment, and while in Reese, he fell into the sea due to drunkenness and fell into the sea. ”
Jon Clinton stealing?
Jaime wanted to laugh.
But he didn't actually have any strange expressions at all.
James knew that with Jon Clinton's character, he would never steal even if he was forced to do so with a knife. Even if the world's treasures were placed in front of Jon Clinton, he would never secretly take even one.
Jon Clinton was such a noble man.
So, how did this rumor come about? Jaime shook his head, leaving his doubts aside. Isn't he a monarch killer who was scolded by everyone in the Seven Kingdoms?
Back then, the Mad King asked him to kill his father, Tywin Lannister, to carry his father's head to him, and asked Prime Minister Rosat to order a wildfire buried under King's Landing, blowing up the entire city of King's Landing, and burning hundreds of thousands of people in King's Landing. Jaime couldn't think of it, so he had to kill Prime Minister Rosat first and then the Mad King......
He saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city, and then was spit on and humiliated by all the people in the city, as if anyone had the right to scold him, in front of or behind him, and he avenged the Stark family, but was deeply despised and spit on by Eddard Stark.
- And the notoriety of this kingkiller will stay with him forever......
If that's the will of the gods, Jaime despises them!
Jaime looked coldly at the anxious circle of governors in the distance, he saw a smile on the face of Illyrio who walked out of the circle, he was talking to Viserys beside him, such a distance, Jaime could not hear Illyrio's words, but he had a special ability to read the shape of the mouth, his gold was enough to buy two armies, and it was not given to the black and white courtyard on the island of the gods of Braavos.
He's learned a lot about top killers, such as being able to understand dialogue from a distance just by lip syncing.
"Viserys, do you see Drogo Kao's army?"
"Behold, his army is my army. ”
"Oh, then do you still hate me for preventing you from taking your sister's virginity? That night, in the Great Red Temple, after the priest presided over the secret marriage ceremony for your sister and Drogo Kao, before Drogo Kao rode your sister between heaven and earth. ”
"I still hate you, Illyrio. My sister should have belonged to me, and her chastity should have belonged to me. I am the true dragon, and you and Drogo Kao should both assist the true dragon, and I will not treat you badly when I reclaim the Iron Throne. You know, your investment will return a hundredfold thousandfold. ”
"Hehe, you won't even give up your sister's chastity for your Iron Throne?How can you call Drogo Kao give you his army?How can you take back the Iron Throne without his army?"
"My sister has been ridden by Drogo Kao under the witness of heaven and earth, the Daenerys of the true dragon blood are already barbarians, and chastity is also dedicated to the barbarians, why do you still want to stop me from riding Daenerys? I can't even ride once, she belongs to me! The Targaryen family has intermarried brother and sister in order to ensure the purity of the bloodline. Tonight, you'll have to give me a chance to ride Daenerys so that the true dragon bloodline can continue to be pure. I'll give you something back, I swear in the name of the true dragon that you won't regret it, Lord Illyrio. ”