The first people to sense the abnormality in the west were the horses.
They pawed their horses' hooves uneasily and snorted with their thick nostrils.
So the mercenaries began to check the surrounding area, including near the Lion Gate and the pier to the east, but found nothing. The golden robes guarding the city huddled behind the crenellations, not even daring to show their heads.
There was basically no longship near the usually busy dock. After Stannis decided to block Blackwater Bay, only half of the ships were left here. After the fish and wolf coalition came over, all the ships hid in the south of the Blackwater River.
shore, including the longships of the royal fleet still loyal to King Joffrey I.
Within a moment, Arthur and the mercenaries knew exactly what made the horses uneasy.
Even across the entire city of King's Landing, they could see the red light reflected by the flames in the west.
Of course, there are also a few rays of green light mixed in.
"Let's go back." Arthur suddenly understood what was going on.
The golden robes guarding the city should have attacked the coalition camp with wildfire.
According to the original plot, King's Landing has been preparing for Stannis' attack, so Cersei secretly ordered the Alchemist Guild to create wildfire as her biggest trump card.
Wildfires are no different from ordinary fires except that they burn quickly and have green flames.
But in a camp crowded with cloth tents and wooden siege weapons, "burning quickly" is the most fatal point.
Fortunately, there are not many qualified military commanders in King's Landing, and Roose Bolton and Aenys Frey are both qualified in their ability to command troops. The coalition should be able to handle this battle.
Arthur led more than a hundred mercenaries to the north and bypassed the city wall, then walked west for half a day before arriving near the Gate of the Gods in the northwest corner of King's Landing.
Along the way, the Frey family's siege soldiers also disappeared.
The coalition camp is about half a league west of King's Landing (on land, one league is about 4.8 kilometers). From a distance, everyone can hear the sounds of fighting, screams and the burning of large ordnance there.
The crackling sound.
The golden robes and a small number of royal family soldiers should still be fighting against the coalition forces.
According to reliable intelligence, there are over 8,000 garrison troops in the city, with newly recruited civilians accounting for the majority.
In other words, in terms of pure combat, the coalition army, which is basically composed of retired family soldiers, is more than one level stronger than the King's Landing defenders.
Arthur suddenly had an idea.
When the King's Landing defenders return to the city, he can take advantage of the chaos and lead his men to kill them.
If you are lucky, you can meet Joffrey, who loves to show off, but if you are not lucky, you can also intercept and kill the senior officers of King's Landing and weaken their strength.
"Get off your horses, send a few men to hold the horses and hide them, and the rest of you will follow me." Arthur ordered the mercenary leader, Locke Holt.
Both his golden-armored giant horse and the black-and-white-striped horses of the Kohor mercenaries were very conspicuous and not suitable for ambush.
Locke, who loved counting on his fingers, faithfully carried out his employer's orders.
So Arthur, who was holding a giant hammer and carrying four weighted hand axes, and mercenaries in their early 100s walked to a mound next to the Gate of the Gods, where they prepared to wait for the returning King's Landing defenders.
Coincidentally, a large group of friendly troops also thought the same way.
Nearly three hundred sword and shield soldiers wearing mail armor and the twin tower robes of House Frey were hiding behind the mound.
"Is this Lord Arthur coming?" The leader of the Frey family is a tall, bald man with red eyes, who looks very much like Inis Frey.
"Exactly, you are?" Since they were friendly forces, Arthur was not polite and brought the others together.
"My name is Aegon Frey, and my father is Aenys."
Arthur thought about it for a long time and remembered the deeds of this man in the original book. He was called "bloody" Aegon, and he must have turned into an enemy after the Battle of the Green Fork.
Because Walder Frey and his eldest son Stevron are both extremely fertile, the Frey family is now flourishing.
Old Walder himself had about twenty-two sons and nine daughters, as well as countless illegitimate children. They continued to multiply, bringing the number of Frey family members to hundreds.
However, there is only one heir to the Twins and the River Crossing territory, so the Freys who are lower in the succession have to find their own way.
According to Old Walder's arrangement, Freys mainly have three ways out:
One is to marry other nobles, and then let the married Frey go to his wife's natal family to develop;
The second is officers like Inis and Hosteen, who are positioned as soldiers and serve the river crossing territory;
The third is to join the Citadel or the Church of the Seven Gods. For example, Luchen Frey is an influential archbishop. Another example is William Frey, the seventeenth son of Walder, who received the Citadel Necklace before he was thirty years old.
Outstanding Bachelor.
There are hundreds of Freys, not all of them are cunning and ruthless people like Old Walder. There are also loyal people like Steve Lun who died fighting for Robb, and there are also "Concierge Ali" who will open a door for everyone.
own door.
As for the "Bloody Aegon" in front of us, his most famous characteristics should be his aggressiveness and bloodthirsty.
"What are you doing here?" Arthur asked after asking the mercenaries to hide.
"I am preparing to ambush the defenders of King's Landing..." Aegon Frey explained his plan to Arthur in detail.
He was originally responsible for the defense near the Old City Gate. After sensing something was wrong, he found that all the Frey soldiers near the Gate of the Gods were dead, so he summoned the Frey soldiers near the Dragon Gate and prepared for a massacre.
This coincides with Bracken's ideas.
So the two led their troops to wait for the King's Landing defenders who returned to the city.
Not long after, several riders returned with hundreds of golden robes on foot.
"Dog head mask, this person is a hunting dog."
"Bloody Aegon" suddenly said excitedly.
The hound is Sandor Clegane, the Mountain's younger brother. If nothing unexpected happens, Sandor has inherited the Mountain's small territory and castle.
When the gate of the Gate of the Gods slowly opened and the leading riders entered, Arthur and "Aegon the Blood" rushed forward with more than 400 people.
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Inside the Gate of the Gods.
Joffrey I, who was guarding the city gate and waiting for news of victory, looked at the returning Sandor Clegane.
The latter is lifting his mask.
"Hound, have you won the battle?" the king in gorgeous plate armor asked urgently.
"No, we were still fighting before I came back. There were still many people in the north, and the golden robes could only manage to draw a tie."
Sandor replied.
Behind Clegane were the gold robes who were lining up to go to the city. Because the king's nobles blocked the road, their progress was very slow.
"Then why are you back?" Joffrey suddenly became a little angry and asked.
"I'm afraid of fire, both red and green. The fire over there is too big!"
"Go back and fight." His Majesty the King pointed to the outside of the city, "I let a dog become the Kingsguard, and you don't fight for me."
But Sandor just took the wine handed to him by the attendant and drank it down, ignoring the king's order.
This made Joffrey furious, "If you still stay here, I will let my grandfather, Lord Lannister, deprive you of your territory."
After Sandor had a drink, he threw the cowhide wineskin to the ground, "F*** Wildfire, F*** Lannister."
These two sentences shocked everyone present. No one in King's Landing dared to speak like this in front of the king.
But Sandor's next words shocked Joffrey and the defenders even more:
"F*** the King!"
After Sandor Clegane finished speaking, he ignored the shocked group of boys, got on his horse, and headed out of the city.
At this time, the sound of swords clashing outside the gods' gate also reached the city.
"Your Majesty, someone rushed in." A man in gold robe with quick reaction reported.
"Why don't you tell me?" Joffrey glared at the man with great resentment.
The fact that the hunting dog disobeyed the order made him shocked and disgusted. He was shocked that the previously submissive and obedient attendant suddenly changed his face to a face he didn't recognize. He was also disgusted that the public disobedience of the order made him completely humiliated.
He even wanted to use his winch crossbow to shoot an arrow at the hunting dog, but he didn't bring the toy with him.
The hunting dogs rode horses, avoiding hundreds of fighting soldiers, and headed out of the city.
Arthur was rushing inside when he suddenly saw Sandor Clegane riding out, so he raised his giant hammer and prepared to attack.
Unexpectedly, the hunting dog didn't even look at him and went straight out of the city.
"Aegon the Blood" behind Arthur was very puzzled, "Hound, come down and fight with me."
This Frey was very aggressive and wanted to rush over and fight Clegane, but was held back by Arthur.
"See if you see Joffrey and Greenfield? That's the target of your fight. Let's go over and kill them."
I don't know why, but Joffrey only has one Kingsguard named Priest Greenfield by his side.
The rest of Balon Swann, Merlin Tran, Mandon Moore and others are not here.
"Aegon the Bloody" was immediately overjoyed, "The blood of a king is enough to satisfy my great sword."
He didn't care about the dozens of golden robes and royal guards in front of him, and rushed straight towards them with his sword in hand.
Several Frey sword and shield soldiers guarded the commander.
Arthur was happy to catch the mistake and followed behind, preparing to snatch Joffrey.
This Frey lived up to his nickname, killing blood and flesh all the way, and the golden robes couldn't stop him at all.
Preest of the Kingsguard shouted in fright: "Let your majesty mount, let your majesty mount, and escort him to the Red Keep."
A loyal royal guard brought a horse, but Arthur saw his target and chopped off the horse's front legs with a hand axe.
Joffrey was so frightened by the menacing enemy and the ax that his face turned pale.
A dozen royal guards from the Stormlands held large shields and formed a shield formation to protect the king as he moved to the Red Keep.
But "Aegon the Blood" killed faster, rushing behind the shield array in a few breaths.
So Sir Prest and a few people came out of the shield formation and fought with "Aegon the Blood" and the Frey Sword and Shield Soldiers.
Arthur, who was following behind, bypassed the area and strode towards Joffrey.
After catching up with the shield formation, he raised his giant hammer and smashed open the shield twice. Perhaps out of panic, a royal guard fell down, tripping his king along with him.
Taking advantage of this great opportunity, Arthur swung his giant hammer and knocked down several royal guards in two or two blows. The remaining four or five people saw that Arthur was too fierce, so they quietly slipped away.
When Bracken was free, he pulled out a hand ax from his back and gave Joffrey a blow on the head. After knocking him unconscious, he picked him up by his waist and carried him on his shoulders, before rushing out of the city.
The night was dim, and the sound of gold and stone was loud near the Gate of the Gods. About seven hundred people were fighting here.
Arthur walked quickly across the battlefield, wielding his giant hammer and fought his way out of King's Landing.
"Retreat, retreat." He shouted towards the Qohor mercenaries and Frey Sword and Shield soldiers.
The mercenaries were all veterans, and most of them rushed out quickly after hearing the retreat. Most of the Frey Sword and Shield soldiers followed their commander and refused to retreat, and only forty or fifty of them followed Arthur.
The nobles with some military power in the city should have gone to attack the camp, so not many people rushed out to take back their king.
Arthur and the others were able to leave the battlefield smoothly, and then the mercenaries rode on horses and the sword and shield soldiers walked towards the camp.
In order to avoid the King's Landing defenders returning to the city, he deliberately moved more than half a circle to the north.
…
"Oh my God!" Arthur, who had brought people back to the camp, couldn't help but sigh loudly when he looked at the mess all over the ground.
The camp of more than 16,000 people has been turned into a sea of flames. It is almost autumn, the vegetation is withered and yellow, and the fire cannot be stopped at all.
The battlefield between the King's Landing garrison and the Fish and Wolf Alliance has been moved. If they fight near such a sea of fire, everyone will be cooked.
According to the sounds of fighting, the current battlefield should be on the Blackwater River slightly to the south. There are few trees there and it is close to the water source, which is more suitable for the current battlefield.
So he led his people to bypass the large sea of fire from the north, preparing to return to the coalition forces from behind.
Joffrey, who was knocked unconscious, was placed horizontally on the golden horse. He was a qualified material for hatching a dragon.
I don’t know where uncle Yule is?
Now that Arthur has captured Joffrey, he naturally has to start hatching dragons.
With a dragon, even if he can't ride on it, he still has some qualifications to become the king.
As for the territory, we have to conquer it slowly.
After walking for another half an hour, we bypassed the sea of fire and arrived at the Blackwater River.
Now there is two pieces of news in front of Arthur: the good news is that part of the Fish and Wolf coalition is really here, and the bad news is that these coalition soldiers are almost exhausted.
Thanks to the reflection of the sea of fire, Arthur could clearly see the current situation.
There were about a few hundred Stark soldiers wearing Guillotine robes and soldiers from various river families they brought with them to resist the more than 4,000 people in gold robes. The remaining coalition forces had disappeared.
"This damn old skinner!"
You can figure it out with your feet. Bolton must have seen Arthur's absence, so he sent his men to cut off the rear with some Stark soldiers.
Even if he captured Joffrey, Arthur couldn't just leave. He had to save these soldiers before leaving.
After selecting a few reliable mercenaries to guard the dragon hatching materials, Arthur dismounted and shouted.
"Follow me!"
Then he led the people towards the center of the battlefield.
The mercenaries and Frey Sword and Shield soldiers had seen Arthur's bravery and naturally knew that the safest place was behind him.
So more than 150 people piled together, roughly in the shape of a triangular arrow, inserted into the center of the battle between the two armies from the north, and then turned to the enemy army in the east.
Arthur, who was wielding a giant hammer, was so powerful that he could take away a golden robe wearing mail with one hammer. This made this new force powerful and rushed directly towards the command center of the golden robes.
Balon Swann of the Kingsguard and Janos Sterling, Commander of the Golden Robes, were in charge of the raid. Arthur's rapid advance naturally attracted their attention.
Sterling, who was tall and mighty, was not very courageous, not to mention that he had just obtained the title of Duke and the territory of Harrenhal, so he naturally cherished his life very much.
"I heard that this man once killed the Magic Mountain. I don't think any of us can beat him. The task of attacking the coalition forces and destroying the siege weapons has been completed. How about we retreat?"
Although it was a question, Sterling said it in a sighing tone.
Balon Swann was also a qualified military commander. He knew that he still needed to conserve his strength to defend King's Landing, so he agreed to retreat.
"Go back to the city, go back to the city." Several messengers conveyed this order to the golden robes.
The rear team immediately became the front team, and more than 4,000 people began to evacuate in an orderly manner.
After the Jinpaozi who were fighting broke away from the battle, the coalition soldiers did not pursue them.
After the fighting completely stopped, Arthur ordered to count the number of people, treat the wounded, and then began to advance to the west.
After counting the number of people, some bad news also reached his ears.
In the chaos, the little devil asked someone to untie the mercenary Bronn who had been tied up, and then escaped.
Daniel Gendry, Arya and others are also missing.
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