After a few breaths, Hobb said in surprise: "I think it's okay. With your peerless martial arts, as long as one person enters the Red Keep, Cersei will definitely die."
Since the beginning of the War of the Five Kings, Arthur Bracken's name has repeatedly made armed nobles and knights across the continent fear him. Who else can fight against an army alone?
The Duke of Mace reacted slowly, but also expressed his position in time: "If you can rescue my mother and two children, the Tyrell family will be loyal to you from now on. If you can also rescue the remaining heads of the Riverbend family, I can guarantee that
Most people in the River Bend only recognize you as their king."
Queen Cersei, like her father Tywin, is unusually strong towards her subordinates and vassals. Judging from the changes in King's Landing, the leader of the Lion family must be a little crazy.
After getting along with each other these days, Mace had to admit that among the existing kings, River King Arthur Bracken should be the gentlest.
Of course, except on the battlefield.
To the nobles, a gentle and unruffled king is a good king. As for a chaotic life, a love of spending money, a love of organizing tournaments, etc., that's not a problem.
Sixteen years ago, it was precisely because of Robert and Eddard's lenient treatment of the people of the Reach that the Duke of Mace led an army of 60,000 to surrender outside Storm's End Castle.
Arthur walked down from the main seat and walked slowly in front of Mace, "I promise to rescue your family and vassals."
His voice was calm and powerful, which made Mr. Inflatable Fish, who had been feeling at a loss for a while, inexplicably feel at ease.
The three people leaned together and began to discuss the details of the operation.
"Because King's Landing is also short of food, the merchant ships from Blackwater Bay to Pentos have begun to move again. We can hide on the food ship, and then... By the way, do you know the secret passage in the Red Keep?" Hopper said.
Arthur recalled, "I know one of them, but it is relatively narrow. Not many people can go in at one time without alerting the defenders."
Because the Red Keep is the home fortress of Targaryen, and Baratheon was not a formal inheritance and did not pass on the secrets of the Dragon family, the late Robert, the still living Cersei and others have no idea about the entire underground structure of the Red Keep.
He may not be as familiar as Varys, Pycelle, Petyr Baelish and other veteran players.
The secret passage Arya took Arthur through was the secret passage where Illyrio and Varys met.
Based on Illyrio's size, this secret passage is probably the widest in the Red Keep secret passage system.
But he didn't tell the two of them this cruel fact.
"By the way, there should be a way for Little Finger. That way will make it easier to get in and out."
As far as Arthur knew, Littlefinger Baelish climbed in and out from the cliffs near the coast of the Red Keep.
Judging from the fact that Duke Eddard, who is in his thirties, can also climb the cliff path, a stronger adult male can walk this path.
The Duke of Metz was shocked by the River King's knowledge, but he wisely did not ask Arthur how he knew it.
The three people deduced back and forth for a long time, and finally decided on the order of entering the Red Keep.
First, Arthur sneaked in with a dozen top warriors, killing Cersei and the senior officers of the West, causing chaos in the scene. Then he led people to guard the prisoners in the river bend, allowing more of his own soldiers to come from
Climb in through the cliffs or various secret passages in the Red Fort, and take the opportunity to open the Red Fort gate.
"You can let Lord Randyll Tarly lead the army to advance towards King's Landing. There are no people sent by the Lion family in his army. When the time comes, we should cooperate with the outside to capture King's Landing in one fell swoop." Hopper suggested.
Arthur thought for a while, "But how to make such military maneuvers without telling Cersei? Or to put it another way, how to make Cersei think that it is normal for Randyll to lead his army south?"
To be honest, there is really no reason for Landau's 10,000 people to return to the vicinity of King's Landing. Letting him lead the army south will only cause Cersei to send soldiers to fight.
Although the Queen Mother is a little crazy, she is not stupid.
"And the movements of my riverside army are also very important. According to Cersei's acting style, now she should be ordering Landau to continue the northward attack. Then I have to show up near Maidenpool. If I disappear for a period of time, then Cersei will definitely
Becoming suspicious."
The second big trouble came.
Hobo pondered for a moment and suggested: "You can let Landao create chaos in his army. Let's say that Fossoway, Peake, and Mariweis made trouble because their lord was imprisoned in the Red Keep. Landao had no choice but to lead
Follow the soldiers south to seek an explanation for the troublemaking soldiers."
The Duke of Metz shook his head.
"I don't think this statement is very reliable. Lord Randyll Tarly once suppressed the Bitterbridge Rebellion. Thousands of soldiers causing trouble were not enough for him to lead his army south."
Arthur whispered: "It can be explained this way, that is, it was your order at that time, so Landao dared to kill two or three thousand people. Now he doesn't know what to do, so he led his army south. After all, this army
They are not all his private soldiers."
The other two people looked at each other and felt that this statement should work.
"As for me leaving Maidenpool, I have a perfect reason now." Arthur had agreed to marry Sansa after finishing his service in the Vale soldiers, and now it's time to fulfill it.
When Randyll Tarrley led his army south, he took some nobles to Harrenhal to marry Sansa.
When newly married, it is normal for the King of the River to stay with his wife for a while. During this period, Arthur traveled by water to Dragonstone, then mixed in on a merchant ship and arrived at King's Landing Port.
He told some of his ideas to the two of them.
After hearing that the King of the River was going to marry Sansa Stark, Duke Mace's face suddenly darkened, but fortunately he also knew what the situation was in his family and didn't say anything more.
Hopper Redwin had no reaction to this. He thought about it again and again and thought it was feasible.
"In order to keep it secret, you can only bring some fierce generals. I will pick some soldiers from my warship who dare to fight to the death for the lord. As long as the gold dragon coins are enough, I don't have to worry about the soldiers not being able to fight to the death."
Redwin's territory is Qingting Island, and the Qingting wine produced by his family is known as liquid gold. In terms of financial resources alone, the Redwin family should be among the top five in the entire continent, and several feudal families cannot compare.
The three of them discussed for a long time to make this plan more feasible.
Then, taking advantage of the darkness, Hopper slipped out of the castle, boarded a merchant ship parked in the port, and left here.
After returning to Dragonstone, he will contact Count Tully and start this series of operations.
…
Fifteen days later, Harrenhal.
After Randyll led his army south, Arthur returned here with some nobles and prepared to marry Sansa.
The army is managed by Sir Hosteen of the Frey family, Sir Thaos of the Rowan family, and Hugo of Aram City. These people have low status in the family, so they have been trained as military commanders. Noble private soldiers
One advantage of the coalition is that as long as there are people from the lord's family, the entire army cannot be in chaos.
In the main hall of the main castle, all the nobles who could come gathered together to discuss the etiquette and the before and after aspects of the marriage.
Sansa is a not very devout believer of the old gods, and Arthur is a vocal believer of the Valyrian gods, so some details of the marriage are different from others.
This is what Arthur and the nobles are arguing about.
Matus Rowan, William Mouton and others believed that the wedding must be presided over by a monk or other clergy, and only after the two parties swear an oath to their respective gods can a holy marriage be considered concluded.
At first glance, this statement makes sense, but upon closer analysis, you realize that this is purely a trick.
There is currently only one known cleric of the Old Gods: the Three-Eyed Raven.
The physical body of this person, Lord Bloodraven Brynden Rivers, is still trapped in a tree cave north of the Great Wall.
What's worse is that Brynden Rivers is probably a corpse, and the Three-Eyed Raven is his consciousness itself.
There is a lot of evidence to support this statement. The most powerful one is Brynden Rivers' milk-white skin and bone-white hair, as well as his special constitution that is extremely sensitive to sunlight.
According to the Targaryen law of intermarriage with outsiders, the appearance of Brynden Rivers, an illegitimate son, must follow that of his mother's Blackwood family, but he rarely has other characteristics.
Various theories in the city cannot explain this clearly, but if Duke Bloodraven has been walking around the world in the form of a corpse, this can be explained.
Back to business, after talking for a long time, the nobles agreed to let Sansa choose how to worship the gods.
As for Arthur's Valyrian gods, that's even more outrageous. In the entire continent of Westeros, there are no priests, monks or other clergy who believe in ancient gods such as Balerion and Vhagar.
They might be able to find one or two in Volantis in the east, but they wouldn't have enough time.
"Everyone, please listen to me." After speaking for a long time, Arthur raised his arms and shouted, "Now that we have Alduin, what other clergy do we need? Dragons are the magical animals closest to gods. I am directly facing
Isn’t it enough to just take a wedding vow?”
Not wanting to get entangled with these boring nobles on such small details, Arthur wanted to use the magic dragon to skip this step.
After discussing in twos and threes, the nobles reluctantly agreed.
These people were not very religious to the Seven Gods, so they did not ask the River King to strictly abide by the teachings of the Valyrian gods.
Sansa, who was sitting in the main seat, had her eyes wide open and looked excitedly at her fiancé discussing the details of the wedding with the nobles.
Lady Riveron has died of illness and is now the Countess of Harrenhal.
Different from the image of the desolate hostage that Arthur saw a few months ago, Miss Stark is obviously brighter now.
She combed her long maroon hair into a shiny style and twisted it twice on her head before letting it fall down to her tight-fitting indigo velvet robe.
Since she's been eating well lately, Sansa looks a little stronger.
Arthur's visual inspection showed that the children's canteen should have sufficient funds.
Seeing that many nobles were struggling with their future husband over the details of the oath, Sansa stopped watching. She walked down the high platform where the main seat was and suggested:
"My lords, since it is the wedding of Arthur and me, we will arrange these details. On the morning of the wedding, Arthur and I went to find a weirwood to swear our vows, and then before the banquet started, we did it again in front of Alduin.
Once again, is this enough?"
The two parties involved have said this, and the details of the wedding vows have been confirmed. There is one more important thing next.
Someone who knew Sansa would have to lead her into Arthur's hands.
According to the current situation, Blackfish Brynden Tully would be the best candidate for this role.
But because of the incident in Crowtree City, the relationship between the River King and him was not very good, so he did not dare to rashly let Blackfish come to Harrenhal to attend the wedding, and hold Sansa's hand for a while.
"This matter is still difficult to solve. Which family in the Riverlands has a closer relationship with the Tully family? Can you help me with this matter?"
Arthur asked loudly.
Many nobles looked at each other, and someone replied: "The He'an family and the Tully family are very close."
This is nonsense, the last Ha An has passed away.
Seeing that the scene had cooled down, Sansa said harshly: "You don't need to worry about this matter. I personally wrote a letter to my uncle and asked him to come to the wedding. At the same time, I will also make up for the relationship between the Tully family and you."
Miss Stark is not a fool. She also knows that the relationship between her uncle and her fiancé is not good recently.
But because of Tywin's use of troops against the Riverlands, the relationship between the Tully family and the Lannister family became even worse.
"Then it's up to you."
Falling out with Ser Blackfish was one of Arthur's biggest mistakes. If Uncle Sansa could come, then the King of the River could have a thorough talk with Blackfish and get to know each other thoroughly.
"Between you and me, there is no need to be polite." Sansa gently patted her fiancé's plate arm guard.
After arguing for a long time, everyone finally decided on a date for the wedding, which would be held in four days.
For Sansa, who has been preparing for a long time, this time is enough.
But the lords at all levels still felt that the wedding was too rushed, and they were so anxious that they could not even prepare a valuable gift.
Since it was the new king's wedding, the governors loyal to Arthur prepared to send something good.
"There is no need for everyone to be extravagant and wasteful. I don't really choose gifts. You can just give me a book." In order to put these nobles at ease, Arthur said this in advance.
"You are so generous."
"Is there any other king in the whole world who is so considerate to his vassals? No more, right?"
All the nobles were moved by the generosity of the King of Hejian.
What they don't know is that in the days to come, expensive gifts will still have to be given.
Anyway, Arthur will have more opportunities to get married in the future, so he won't have to worry about not receiving family gifts.
After the specific date of the wedding was determined, the entire Harrenhal and the town of Harren began to move.
Arthur had previously asked Sansa to order enough meat to be prepared so that the nearby farmers could have a good meal on his wedding day.
However, the nearby territories have experienced plunder by the Western Border soldiers, so they cannot produce so much chicken, duck and mutton.
Miss Stark, who was relatively frugal, came up with a clever idea. She ordered people to catch a large number of fish in the God's Eye Lake: mandarin fish, trout, salmon, carp, etc., then pickled them and prepared them for the wedding banquet.
This was just a small aspect of the wedding banquet. More details were revealed in the next two or three days: Arthur's sword and horse flag and Sansa's direwolf flag were planted all over the walls and towers of Harrenhal;
To make her life events more solemn, Sansa ordered a circus to be invited. They would perform a performance in the Hall of Hundreds, and then go to the town of Heron to perform for the common people...
The vain Sansa even ordered two pure gold crowns to be made to show that she was the real queen.
PS: I'm a little late for something, so I beg your forgiveness.
