Chapter 343 Surrounding Riverrun City
Ruby Beach, where Rega died thirteen years ago, is located in the Hejian land of the Trident River, and belongs to the territory of the Tully family. The current ruler is Duke of Horst Tully.
As the central area of the Trident River, the land of Hejiandi is very fertile. It can even be said to be the richest land in the entire Westeros continent. It has rich resources and its development level is almost not weaker than that of the Wangling, where the King's City is located in the southeast, so it has a large population.
However, compared to Wang Ling, although the Hejian land, as the core of Westeros continent, is rich, it is also a very embarrassing area.
The north of Hejiandi is the Neck Scene, which is the dividing line between the southern border and the northern border. To the north, it is the northern border ruled by the Stark family. Catherine Tully, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Tully, is the wife of Ned Stark, the ruler of the northern border, Alia, and Bran.
To the west is the Lannister family, which is the western border ruled by Queen Cersei's family.
To the east is the Eileen Valley, ruled by the Eileen family.
To the southeast is the king's king's king's town where King's Landing is located and the Storm's king's Baratheon family ruled by the current royal family.
To the southwest is the river bay area ruled by the Tyriar family.
In other words, during the war period, Hejiandi, located in the center of these areas, was a place of four battles, and there was almost no danger to defend around it. Its location was similar to Jingzhou of the Three Kingdoms.
So normally, lords of similar territories are often just fat from lords in other territories, and it is very difficult to achieve hegemony.
However, such a land fell into the hands of Lei Jia, the "Lich King" chosen by Yao Jie, and became the foundation of the king and domineering.
Because for the Legion of the Undead, nothing else is important except population.
No race likes to fight against the undead army in open areas without any dangers.
In the Warcraft Universe, the Kingdom of Lordaeron is the best role model.
And now Hejiandi has fallen into the same situation as Lordaeron.
The ruling center of Hejiandi, the city of Runliu.
A knight covered in blood galloped from a distance, but before he could run into the city gate, he fell to the ground due to excessive blood loss.
The guards at the city gate hurried forward to check.
"Luanhe City... White Walkers... White Walkers... Just in the ruby..." The knight on the ground struggled tremblingly and handed out a parchment war report. Before he could repay the words, he lost his voice.
Soon, the war report was submitted to Duke Horst Tully through layers of submission.
The first time I saw the content of this war report, Duke Tully had only one thought in his mind, that was, it was impossible.
This is not only a war report, but also a letter of help, from the ruler of Luanhe City, the Foley family who is loyal to the Tuli family.
The letter states that Luanhe City was besieged by the White Walkers.
But how is this possible?
Because the existence of White Walkers was in the period of the heroic era more than 8,000 years ago, time has passed too long. Even in the northern region, people no longer believe in the existence of White Walkers. The former noble "Man in Black" Night Watch Legion has now become a shelter for exiles and criminals from the seven kingdoms. There were once nineteen legion castles on the border line of the Great Wall in the North, and now there are only a few left and there are still people stationed, with a total number of people even only a thousand.
The target of its defense is the savage tribe outside the Great Wall.
White Walker? What is that?
This is true in the northern border, let alone in the southern border. White Walkers have long become myths used to scare children.
So Duke Tully doesn't believe in any White Walkers at all.
What's more, even if there are White Walkers, shouldn't you fight the Great Wall of the North first? How could it appear in Hejian?
"Although the White Walker's statement is likely to be nonsense, it should be true that Luanhe City was attacked. I don't know who did it. I have sent a scout to investigate the situation!" Duke Tuli's eldest son and only heir. After reading the letter, Edmu said to his father.
"Well, I'll send someone to Crowshu City, Shili City, and Derei City, let them send troops too! Also, you should also be careful. I always feel that this is a bit strange. Our King has only been north of more than a month. I'm afraid that we have just arrived in Winterfell, but now we are being attacked inexplicably... No matter how you look at it, there are problems!" Duke Tuley said with some concern.
As he expected, King Robert had just arrived in Winterfell and had no idea what was going on in the south.
Don’t look at the northward direction of Hejiandi, which is the northern border, and the southeast is the king’s territory.
But in fact, the territories in the northern border are equivalent to those in the southern border.
The distance unit of Game of Thrones is Rig, which is about 4.8 kilometers to the real world.
There are only more than one hundred ligas between Junlin City and Benliu City, which is about five hundred kilometers, but the distance between the running process and Winterfell City is more than one thousand six hundred kilometers. At such a long distance, it will take more than half a month for the army to march in a hurry.
King Robert took a group of royal relatives to stop and stop, inspected the territory along the way, and had some fun. It would be fast to get there in more than a month.
"Are you saying...rebellion? Will it be Erin or Lannister?" asked Edmu.
The reason why he guessed that these two families was not because the Tuli family had a bad relationship with these two families, but because Luanhe City was located in the north of Benliu City. Only the families that had the strength to surround Luanhe City were on the east and west sides of the Hejian land.
As for the Stark family in the north... it shouldn't be said that King Robert went north with his army. Even if the army in the north went south, the first one who suffered should be the Crowshu City further north, not the Luanhe City.
"I don't know... wait, I'll know when the scouts' investigation results." Duke Tully shook his head and said.
However, after four days of waiting, Benliucheng did not wait for the scouts' information.
This is obviously very abnormal, because if you rush to the horse, it will take more than a day to run from Luanhe City to Luanhe City.
There was no news for four days, which was obviously unusual.
But when Tully and his son realized this, it was too late.
The "Whites" army with a total scale of more than 200,000 has formed an encirclement of Benliu City.
As for the scouts sent by Benliucheng before, they have long become members of these "Whites" army.
Because as Tuli and his son guessed, the one who appeared in Hejian was not a White Walker at all, but a army of undeads from Rega.
However, because ordinary undead soldiers looked somewhat similar to the legendary White Walker, they were regarded as White Walker by the Foley family in Luanhe City.
As for why the scout sent out failed to send the message back, the reason is very simple.
Because unlike White Walkers, the undead legion originated from the Warcraft Universe and was created by Yao Jie, but there are Air Force... How could a mere scout war horse run past the gargoyles flying in the sky?
The knights of the Frei family were able to run out before, but the number of gargoyles was still small.
In the past few days when the city of Benliu was still unknown, the gargoyles of the Undead Legion of Rega have already become quite large, so naturally there will be no more fish that miss the net.
Chapter completed!