Chapter 0396: The Treacherous Crab Claw Peninsula (2 more)

In the early morning, mist and sunlight were sprinkled like gold on Rossby Road outside the steel gates.

Magic Mountain took his own three hundred iron horsemen, pulled two hundred carts of supplies, and set off towards the Crab Claw Peninsula.

The people of King's Landing are short of food and clothing, but the Magic Mountain has sufficient military supplies and supplies, which are all rich rewards for the capture of Harrenhal.

But these materials to 'comfort' the families of the soldiers killed in the war are not the materials of the Magic Mountain himself, but the things that have been allocated from the royal treasury. The official in charge of King's Landing was Lord Petyrberry the Littlefinger.

On the eve of the Battle of the Heishui River, most of the materials of the nobles of the royal collar were still left in the Magic Mountain. In order to extend the hand of power into King's Landing Red Keep, the price of the Tyrell family is to pay for the living materials of the people of King's Landing, and Littlefinger no longer worries about the food problem of King's Landing, and it is not difficult to send two hundred carts of things to the Magic Mountain.

Cavalry Captain Sweetmouth Rav de Cregan and Light Cavalry Captain Julie Cregan are responsible for building warships in Blackwater Bay, while Big-Headed Chiswick and Fat Zorro are responsible for fighting bandits in the Royal Forest and protecting the lumberjacks. A lot of wood is needed to build a battleship, and there is a lot of dry wood in the arsenal stockpile, but more is needed.

General Jacologge was in charge of all training of the Cregan Army, and General Officer, Notebook Mark, was in charge of all supplies. Military pay is paid.

The big black bear, Rolger and Fang, are in charge of military discipline patrols.

Magic Mountain walked beside a carriage with the ice greatsword on his back, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and in the carriage sat Lady Jenny and a little maid.

On either side of the lady's carriage are two female generals: Brienne of Tars and Zeligerda, who are responsible for keeping Jane safe.

In addition, before and after the carriage, there were also Angay, Erin, Gra Lamp, Polivier, Dunson and other fierce men.

This time the warriors and leaders of the hill tribes were useless, because they had a particularly bad temper and were prone to quarrel with the tribesmen of the peninsula over a glass of wine. The inhabitants of the Crab Claw Peninsula are also temperamental and are said to be more ferocious than the hill tribes.

Horse Affairs Officer Thomas Man drove a carriage loaded with a set of heavy armor from the Magic Mountain, which Jane had brought from Fort Klegane, and was another set of super plate armor for battlefield charges carefully crafted by the master weaponman Tobmot and the apprentice Gendry, a pile of steel that neither soldier could move, and it was difficult for ordinary swords to pierce the armor.

In addition, the carriage was also carrying the shield of the Magic Mountain: a heavy iron-trimmed oak shield. It is very difficult for ordinary soldiers to lift it, let alone dance to meet the enemy!

"Lord Duke, do you know that you might run into some trouble going to the Crab Claw Peninsula this time?" said Jenny.

"Oh?" Moshan glanced at the generals around him, and all the generals smiled and didn't care. None of them were young, and none of them had participated in the Usurper War seventeen years earlier, and they didn't know what was going on with the bloody battles of the warriors of the Crab Claw Peninsula.

Jenny's gaze swept over Brienne, Zeligerda, Angey, Erin, Gralan, Polivier, and Dunson, and her heart was worried. Seventeen years ago, when the Usurper War broke out, the Duke of Tywin in the West waited to see what happened, and none of the generals and soldiers in the West had a chance to fight the warriors of the Crab Claw Peninsula led by Rhaeggar.

It was clear that there was no real reverence for the peninsula, including the Magic Mountain, which was a red flag.

Jane, who is familiar with history and wild history, knows the history, geography, people and events of the Crab Claw Peninsula very well and clearly. As a lady carefully cultivated by a great noble, it is compulsory to be familiar with the characters of the major families of the kingdom and the history of special places in various parts of the kingdom.

"Hey, Lord Duke, generals, would you like to hear a story about the Crab Claw Peninsula?"

"It is a great honor, ma'am. Brienne replied with a bow. Although she is also from a great aristocratic background, she is a strange woman who refuses to hold a quill pen and only a long sword.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about the Crab Claw Peninsula. ”

The Crab Claw Peninsula is located northeast of the royal territory, and the peninsula juts out into the narrow sea, with Crab Bay in the north and Blackwater Bay in the south. The peninsula is barren and barren, with only three things: mountains, swamps, and pine forests.

The peninsula is large, hundreds of miles wide.

From the Iron Gate of King's Landing, set foot on Rosby Road, past the Rosby Family Castle, and then past the territory of the Stockworth family controlled by Boron, at the end of Rosby Road, is the Crab Claw Peninsula.

If you beat the horse and gallop, a day and a half riding.

The fiancΓ©e of Baron Anguet, the Elan Normuton family, borders the Crab Claw Peninsula to the south.

On the Crab Claw Peninsula, there are dozens of valleys for people to live in. Each valley has its own lord.

Historically, lords and subjects never trusted any outsiders. They are the descendants of their ancestors.

6,000 years ago, when the Andals led a large army to seize the Crab Claw Peninsula, they ran into walls everywhere and kept suffering defeats. Eventually, they realized that they could only win conquests that could not be obtained by the sword through marriage.

In the past, the kings of the Daklin family in Twilight Valley City in Blackwater Bay had tried to conquer the Crab Claw Peninsula, as well as the Muton family in Female Springs, including the Saitiga family that later rose to prominence on Crab Island, but they were all defeated by the mountain people of the peninsula and the fishermen near the sea.

When the inhabitants of the peninsula do not fight against foreign enemies, they will kill each other internally for the sake of the scarce living resources on the peninsula, the few hunting rights in the valleys, plains and forests, and the family blood feud is as black and deep as a swamp in the mountains. Historically, there have been several heroes on the Crab Claw Peninsula who unified the entire peninsula, but the good times did not last long, and when the hero died, everything returned to its original state.

Three hundred years ago, Aegon Targaryen came with a dragon to conquer Westeros, and after taking the Riverlands, Vales, Stormlands, and Riverbends, Aegon sent his sister Visenya Targaryen to the Crab Claw Peninsula to recruit peace. When the fierce lords of the peninsula heard of the fate of King Heron, who owned Harrenhal in the Riverlands, they all surrendered and swore allegiance to House Targaryen. So the queen took them as her vassals.

For three hundred years, no matter how turbulent the House of Targaryens may be, the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula have always been loyal to the House of Targaryens. Seventeen years ago, the Usurper War broke out, and the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula were involved in the war to protect the royal power, and sixteen years ago, in the Battle of the Trident River, the major families of the peninsula fought with Prince Rhaegar to the end, until Rhaegar was killed in the battle, the royalist army was defeated, and the remaining warriors of the Crab Claw Peninsula fled back to the peninsula.

Later, Robert became king and sent people to recruit the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula, but the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula did not give in, they proudly called themselves the model subjects of the dragon family, and erected the Three Dragons banner of the Targaryen family. They did not pay taxes, drove out the garrison sent by the king and killed the tax collectors, King Robert refused the courtiers' offer to send a large army to exterminate the warriors of the peninsula, he respected the loyalty of the people of the Crabclaw Peninsula to the Targaryen royal family, recognized the natives as model subjects of the dragon family, and allowed them to erect the Three Dragons banner of the Targaryen family in the valley.

Robert's generosity won the hearts and minds of the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula, and they surrendered, nominally under the jurisdiction of the House of Baratheon, recognizing Robert's royal power, but in fact being independent, not taxing, and not allowing outside nobles to enter the garrison.

The peninsula is barren and the people are poor, and even if they collect taxes, they cannot collect them, but the warriors are brave and good at fighting, and once they are loyal, their loyalty is extremely high. Robert liked this, and the Royal Navy he established with his own hands mostly came to recruit soldiers on the Crab Claw Peninsula, because it was the bold and generous king who personally came to recruit soldiers, and the military pay was extremely high, and the resistance of the soldiers on the Crab Claw Peninsula was not high, so some fishermen and mountain people became part of the Royal Navy soldiers. The captain of the Royal Battleship King, Archibald Warner, hails from the Crab Claw Peninsula.

"Madam, I understand what you said. Magic Mountain said.

"No, you don't know. Jenny said.

"Oh?"

"My lord, Sir Archibald Warner is dead, isn't he?"

"Yes, ma'am. ”

"What did you promise him?"

He took his eleven-year-old son, Comwarner, as a squire, and made him a knight at his coming of age. ”

"Really?"

"Yes!"

"If you knew the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula, you wouldn't make such a promise. ”

"Why?"

"After Commander Archibald Warner was killed in battle, his children may now have been killed by neighboring tribes, or driven out by his own family for control of the territory. We probably won't even be able to find where the kid is. ”

The magic mountain and the generals were all stunned.

"The people of his family will also drive him away?" Zeli asked.

"Zeri, how did you end up on the streets?" asked Jenny.

"I don't have food at home. Zeli said.

"There's no food to eat, but you're eating a lot, so your parents kicked you out of the house, right?"

"Yes, ma'am. ”

"For the sake of profit, the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula will do the same. If an eleven-year-old still owns a stone fort, land, and woods, he has even more reason to do so. If the family is united, the people of the neighboring tribes will not let go of the child. On the Crab Claw Peninsula, the strong are respected. How the beasts of the forest live, the inhabitants of the Crab Claw Peninsula live approximately. Once there is a foreign enemy, they can work together, and once they lose a foreign enemy, they kill each other, and it is difficult for tribes to have peace between tribes. ”

Brienne said, "Madame, I did not know of such a terrible place in the royal realm. ”

"I couldn't believe it either. Ange said.

"There are several heroes in the history of the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula, who have brought a short period of peace, and then the Targaryen family has brought them peace for a long time, Robert is just a king they have a good opinion of, he has never really gone deep into the peninsula to rule, what I am worried about is that after the death of Robert, the kingdom has a new king, and the lords and warriors on the Crab Claw Peninsula will no longer recognize the royal power we represent, we are going, one is to fulfill the promise of the Duke, this is an explanation to the soldiers who died in battle, and the pensions in other places have been distributed, and the soldiers on the Crab Claw Peninsula are left; 。 We need to be mentally prepared. β€œ

Dunson said: "In that case, is it necessary for us to go to the Crab Claw Peninsula?" ”

"Nope. "As long as we handle it properly and win the favor of the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula, we can get a very strong army." In fact, there is a deeper reason, Jane did not say, if it succeeds, this army will only be loyal to the Magic Mountain.

Although there are some unpredictable risks, once successful, the rewards are high!

Magic Mountain said: "Madam, according to your meaning, what should we do after we enter the Crab Claw Peninsula?"

"In two days, we will enter the edge of the Crab Claw Peninsula, and from then on, I hope that when something comes to us, the Duke and the generals, will listen to me. Jenny said.