Chapter 0544: Snowball Legion: Secret Letter
Weir's legion went south, leading the Great Wall legion of 500 cavalry, and the free people's 500 cavalry, a total of 1,000 cavalry, to the south. When they arrived in Winterfell, Robb Stark's 500 northern cavalry and more than a dozen nobles' sons crossed the Twin River City, and Stevren, Edwin and Havard and 500 Frey cavalry, a total of more than 2,000 people, crossed the Green Fork River and marched towards Haijiang City.
With only 500 cavalry of his descendants, Will united the Free Folk and the Northern Stark, and in the blink of an eye, he expanded his strength to more than 2,000 people, and more than 10,000 Great Wall legions were not damaged at all.
Haijiang City was only about three hundred miles away from Twin River City, and this time the team traveled at a faster pace. The city is the domain of the Mellister family, and the lord of the city, Jason Mellister, is brave and upright, and loyal to the Turi family of Riverrun. Haijiang City is also an important city to prevent the Iron People from invading the interior, because of its proximity to the sea, Haijiang City is also a city that has been invaded by the Iron People many times in history.
Jason once killed Asha and Theon's brother Roderick Greyjoy during an invasion of the Iron People.
Before Will and Robb and the others could reach Haijiang City, Jason Mellister led the family legion to travel hundreds of miles to meet them.
Will and Robb designed to destroy the Iron Islands in one fell swoop, ending the history of Haijiang City being repeatedly infested by the Iron People, and the entire Haijiang City is grateful to Will and Robb. Whether it was the Targaryen dynasty of dragon power or the era of Robert Baratheon, the iron people never stopped invading Haijiang City. Outside the sea frontier city, it is also the world of pirates, and the supporting force behind these pirates is still the Iron Islands.
Will and Robb are warmly welcomed by Jason Mellister.
As soon as the three ghoul prisoner carts entered Haijiang City, they caused a sensation.
The high platform for displaying the ghouls has long been set up, and there is no need for Will and Robb to worry about it, the soldiers of the Mellister family have already taken all the protective measures, the guests and hosts are happy, Jason has a feast, and the entire Haijiang City has become a grand festival for onlookers to watch the ghouls and welcome Will and others. Whether it is a fisherman or a hunter farmer, they are all warm and friendly to Will and others, and Will and Robb, who destroyed the Iron People, have become the people's favorite legendary heroes in Haijiang City.
After three days of revelry, without Will's request, Jason Mellister took Will Robb into the family's Seven Sacred Halls to take the oath, and at the age of more than sixty, he led five hundred iron horsemen from Haijiang City to follow Will, and embarked on the road to Blackwood and the Bracken family.
The Blackwood and Brecon families are mortal enemies, and whatever the Blackwood family approves, the Brecon family will definitely oppose. It is not difficult to convince one of the two families, but it is a bit difficult to convince the two families to send troops, money, and materials together and follow the whole country to carry out government affairs together.
Jason Mellister of Haijiang City had a good relationship with both families, and he got Will's consent to take the family legion's 500 cavalry to take the lead and persuade the two families to send troops together to follow Will to carry out government affairs throughout the country.
With the foresight of Jason Mellister's civil and military skills, he had already seen the real purpose of Will asking the nobles to send hundreds of troops everywhere he went, that is, to promote government affairs to hostile places, such as the arrogant royal nobles and the hostile south, not only by an order from His Majesty Shireen, but also by the swords in everyone's hands.
A two-pronged approach.
Now that General Jason Mellister has seen through this, he doesn't want Blackwood and Brecon to be absent.
The Blackwood and Brecon families are both loyal and capable of fighting, and the Blackwood family still maintains the belief in the Old Gods, which were originally shared by the ancestors of the Riverlanders.
Will and Robb are not in a hurry, as long as the nobles in the Riverlands and Valles are persuaded to follow, they have gathered a powerful legion, capable of advancing the territory of the royal nobles who have always been known for their arrogance, this is not a war, this is the government policy issued by Her Majesty Shireen, and any arrogance of the nobles will be broken by each.
It is not difficult to conquer the nobles of the Riverlands, and the most difficult of them has already been taken by the Freys. The Lord of Riverlands, Duke Horst of Riverrun, had a private friendship with Will, and his life was saved by Will's healing skills.
It is not difficult to conquer the valley, and Will has prepared a killer weapon, which is the magic weapon against Lyza Tully: Petyr Berish, the little finger who has been replaced, is the absolute weakness of Ryza Tully.
This is also the real reason why Will still took the Chief of General Affairs Green at the critical moment of the construction of the Great Wall and the start of trade, and it was up to him to control Lyza Tully, and then get an order from Ryza Tully.
A letter of order from the princes and kings to his subordinates was very important, which was politically 'justified', and when Will carried out the government of the joint fight against the strange spirits in the valley, he first occupied absolute justice, both public and private.
There were not many legions of the nobles accompanying them, and the powerful nobles only needed to send 500 troops to follow, but when combined, they were a huge force. That's the snowball, and it's only going to get bigger.
Will and Robb walked slowly, because they were accompanied by cavalry, so the actual speed of the implementation was not slow. Before arriving at Raventree City, Brinnden Blackwood, the heir of the Blackwood family, led three hundred horsemen to greet him, and before the team entered the city, Jason Mellister led Janos Bracken of Stonehedge City with dozens of attendants to greet Will and his party......
Raven Tree City and Stone Fence City are adjacent to each other, and it is precisely because of the proximity that the grievances between the two sides come from the boundaries of the fiefdoms, and there are some territorial disputes that have lasted for thousands of years, and the vendetta against each other has started from the ancestors, and it is impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong. There have been many reconciliations and intermarriages between the two sides, but in the end, the dispute has been revived by the accumulation of some blood feuds.
These are two inexplicable families, both powerful, both warlike, and both loyal. The only solution is to move a family out of the area.
The two families sent people to greet Will and his party at the same time, so it was a difficult question whether Will would enter Raventree City or Stone Fence City first.
If you enter any of them first, you will offend the other.
In the end, Will used the ghoul prison car as an excuse to build a high platform in the middle of the two sides, allowing the people on both sides to come and watch the ghouls. On the first day alone, the number of people on both sides watching the ghouls was unprecedented.
After the propaganda of the ghouls going south in Twin River City and Haijiang City, the people of Raven Tree City and Stone Fence City have been looking forward to it for a long time, after all, everyone has been talking about ghouls for thousands of years, but this is the first time they have seen it.
Ghouls are very scary, which worries and fears the populace.
But ghouls are also very vulnerable, and with just a little fire, they disappear and burn like oil.
The populace, who knew about the ghouls' weakness, were confident of victory under the propaganda of Lord Green.
Only by making the people believe in victory can they be supported by troops and materials.
In this respect, Green is a master of agitation, and everywhere he goes, people are frightened and then struck by his speeches and the performance of the burning ghouls, and reinvigorate the belief in victory.
A few days later, when the legion left Raventree and Stonehedge for Riverrun, the legion added 600 new cavalry, followed by 300 cavalry from Blackwood and the Breckens.
Before the team advanced to Riverrun, Will's legion already had more than 3,000 horses, and the generals leading the army were all good generals. Although the Frey family's Stevren and Edwin are not good at martial arts, Haward, who is in charge of leading the army, is still a fierce man.
The team crossed the Red Fork River and marched towards Riverrun, but on the way, Griffon Blaze grabbed a raven and threw it down, and the frightened raven fell like a stone into Will's arms.
A raven from the valley with a secret letter to Will strapped to its paws.