The horses' hooves moved slowly, and the Lannister heavy cavalry pressed forward onto a flat area a hundred yards away from the enemy.
Unlike the hollow lances used in lance competitions, the lances used by the Lion Family's heavy cavalry are all hard lances that can withstand repeated use.
In order to avoid harm to themselves, before colliding with the enemy, the riders will take off the weapons in their hands, and then use a long rope tied to the gun barrel to retrieve the weapon.
As for the nobles and wealthy knights, they use lances that are easier to break. Of course, the lances used on the battlefield are much tougher than those used in competitions.
A large number of attendants were responsible for delivering new lances to the knights who had completed the charge.
The fully equipped Lion Army was lining up, and the Hejian Army on the opposite side was naturally not idle either.
"Stay back and form an array behind Juma."
In order to deal with the cavalry regiments in the west, the king once ordered the production of a batch of simple horses.
This is a kind of wooden ordnance. Wooden pillars are cross-fixed to form a shelf, and the shelf is inlaid with blades and thorns. It can be used to block doors and prevent pedestrians from passing through; in battle, it can prevent and delay the enemy's troops and horses, etc.
After the king's order came down, several river nobles loudly conveyed the order.
Faced with this kind of heavy cavalry charge with hard bridges and hard horses, according to the experience of the king and several core nobles, they could only use the horses to stop the charging cavalry, and then the infantry surrounded them and fought hard.
Considering that riders in the second row and beyond cannot stop quickly after starting a charge, this plan is actually very feasible.
As long as the first row collides with Juma, most of the momentum of the entire Lion Heavy Cavalry Corps will be contained.
The situation was as expected by Arthur and others. Shortly after the enemy began a hundred-yard charge, the Hejian Army successfully retreated a few meters back, allowing dozens of simple horse-fighting vehicles to line up in front of the military formation.
The distance between the two sides was so close that the people in the river could even see clearly the small movements of the Western nobles trying to slow down their mounts.
"What is that?" Kevan, the old knight who also charged with the army, asked in confusion.
He guessed the purpose of this wooden ordnance, but he was too late to stop the accelerating cavalry.
One-armed Adam, who was specifically in charge of the heavy cavalry regiment, had more opportunities. With only one arm, he shouted: "Go around both sides, and rush through the middle if you can't avoid it."
Although the temporary change cannot change the situation of the cavalry in the middle row of the first row facing death, the cavalry in the following rows will feel much better after smashing the wooden ordnance.
A hundred yards, that is, a distance of three hundred feet, passed by in an instant. Only a dozen cavalrymen on both sides carried out Sir Adam's order. Many horses in the middle directly hit the sharp spikes of the horses, and then threw the riders on their backs.
Fall in front of the Hejian army.
Fortunately, some of the resisting horses were dashed away, giving the following Lannister cavalry a few ways to survive.
The fighting began. In addition to King Arthur I, who was wearing golden armor and a golden cloak, Prince Oberyn, who went to the battlefield wearing only cloth armor, also attracted the attention of some people who had the energy to observe the occupation.
The Prince of Dorne didn't even wear an iron helmet, and with only a wooden gun in his hand, he fought against the Lannister heavy cavalry that had been restrained.
The flexibility of his body posture, the strange thrust of his spear, and the agility of his movements all stunned the people around him.
Of course, King Arthur I, who was completely unconcerned, was equally astonishing. The golden sword flew up and down, like a fish entering water, and as silky and smooth as an eagle flying into the sky.
In a battlefield with nearly 8,000 troops between the two major armies, there were only two flashes of yellow that made others dodge.
At the same time, Garland Tyrell, who led the army, also ordered his cavalry to join the battlefield on the south side.
The first charge of 5,000 cavalrymen who had not participated in the battle opened a gap. The Western Infantrymen had been fighting with the soldiers of the Tyrell, Bisbury and other families for a long time. They were already exhausted. The cavalrymen in the Riverbend
Upon arrival, the battlefield on the south side immediately changed dramatically.
Some centurions who could still hold down their men began to gather their soldiers and tried to retreat toward the military camp to the west. Most of the soldiers who could still move either surrendered or fled.
The northern battlefield.
"It is indeed the River Bend Cavalry. Their infantry is running slowly and is probably still on the road."
Bald Inis' confidence increased greatly, and he ordered all the remaining 1,000 elite infantrymen to press forward on the spot.
"Give it to me, give it to me. If we take down the left army in the Western Region, our brothers will have their territories and titles."
Marquis Frey shouted loudly.
He reached an agreement with the lame Rosso, his twelfth brother, to be loyal to the Dragon Holder, but he had to use extra rewards to win over other clan relatives, especially several powerful brothers and nephews who were not from the same mother as them.
Of course, Inis himself is a little cautious.
The Frey family alone resisted the left army in the West. If some of their nephews died in the battle, they could exchange their deserved territory and castle for something else.
Take Riverkeeper for example.
Riverrun has not pledged allegiance to the Iron Throne yet!
Blackfish Brynden Tully even claimed the title Lord of the North and Three Rivers.
After the last strength of the Frey family joined the war, the situation in the north also began to change, and the balance of victory slowly tilted towards Arthur I.
…
The fighting continued into the afternoon. After the loss of Casterly Rock, the arrival of the Reach Infantry, and the capture of Commander Kevan, many Western soldiers began to surrender.
The king's center position was actually the place where the battle ended.
Only after the golden robe was dyed dark red by blood did Arthur I realize that he had won.
The first to come to the king's side were Podrick Payne and several other attendants, followed by the nobles and knights.
Everyone spoke as loudly as possible and pushed toward the king's eyes, as if the traces of battle on their bodies came into Arthur I's sight.
"I cut down six Western heavy cavalry."
"Don't talk nonsense. I am exhausted after killing four enemies. Besides His Majesty the King, who else can kill more than five enemies?"
"Why, you ignored Prince Oberyn's record? He stabbed more than a dozen people..."
While some nobles were praising themselves, they began to suppress the nobles around them.
As for the king, he wanted to see Kevan.
"Where is our greatest prisoner?"
King Arthur asked loudly.
There were too many noble knights around who wanted to impress him, so he had to be as loud as possible to make his orders heard by useful people.
The lord of Travel's Rest, Count Kalel Vance, answered the king's doubts.
"Your Majesty, Ser Kevan is canonizing Will who captured him. This Lannister insists that he cannot be captured by civilians, so the lucky Will is about to become a knight."
Everyone burst into laughter. This might be Kevan's only chance to save his face.
"Get out of the way first and bring him over."
Arthur ordered.
It is not uncommon for the victor to be captured and canonized. In the previous Blue Star's War of the Roses, such ridiculous behavior was often seen.
So the nobles who crowded in front of the king gave way, and the tied-up Kevan appeared in front of Arthur I.
"I can't figure out how you captured Casterly Rock?"
Although he was disgraced and had some minor injuries on his body, Kevan still stood strong and held his head high.
"You have to ask your nephew Tyrion. He personally designed the sewage system of Casterly Rock."
Kevan was a little surprised now, "Tyrion is not the killer left behind by Stannis..."
He had already ordered a death statue to be built for Tyrion, but he did not expect that his nephew was still alive.
"Don't you know who your niece Cersei is? Do you believe what she says?"
Arthur laughed, and then asked: "Has he completed the canonization of Will?"
Any knight can canonize a squire as a knight and apply holy oil at the same time, but in emergency situations, non-squires can also be canonized as knights, and there is no need to go to the temple of the Seven Gods to anoint with holy oil.
This is how Jorah Mormont, Earl of Bear Island in the North, got his knighthood.
The honest and reliable Podrick replied: "Your Majesty, it's done."
He was a little envious of Will. He was still a squire, and his subordinates became knights.
"That's fine, take him down and lock him up. Let's go see Garland first." Arthur said angrily.
…
One day later, the military camp of the Western Border Army was in the commander's tent.
Since Casterly Rock has been the home castle of the Lannister family for eight thousand years, even if it was captured by his own people, the king did not dare to live in it and would only rest temporarily in the military camp outside the city.
At present, all the nobles of the River, Reach, Dorne, influential knights, and even the captured nobles of the West participated in this enlarged meeting.
There is only one theme: how to carve up the Western Territory.
"In view of the poor performance in the Usurper's War and the two rounds of the War of the Five Kings, the Lannister and the major families in the West must be severely punished!"
The king first set the tone for the meeting.
Although he is a fake Targaryen, the legal basis for the throne comes from the dragon family, and most of the nobles who support him see it as having dragons.
So Arthur I still had to clean up the rebels from the Usurper's War.
The Western Region was punished, and those who benefited naturally were the Hejian family, which was the first to support the king, and the Hewan family, which contributed the most.
Therefore, the nobles of these two places spoke out to reprimand the Westerners.
"No shame, no morality."
"No noble noble with integrity would kill children or women."
"If you cause rebellion several times, you must be demoted or reduced in title."
Duke Tywin's speculation in the two wars was only to ensure the best interests of the family. The nobles in the rivers and rivers could not blame him for this, so they concentrated their firepower on killing Rhaegar's wife Elia and two innocent people.
Enter the child.
Such remarks quickly spread throughout the tent, and not only the captured Westlanders, but also the meritorious Tyrion felt ashamed.
"Quiet!" shouted the king.
Seeing that the nobles of both realms and Prince Oberyn supported severe punishment of the West, Arthur I slowly put forward his conditions.
"The Lodge family, a landed knight, was deprived of its fiefdom, and Clegane Castle was inherited by Sandor Clegane."
This is the punishment for the murderer.
But some people raised doubts.
Garlan Tyrell asked: "I remember Sandor is the Kingsguard, how can he inherit the fiefdom of a wealthy knight?"
The king, who was sitting on the main seat, replied: "The establishment of the Kingsguard is a tradition throughout the ages, and there is no precedent for dismissal. Sandor replaced Ser Barristan Selmy's vacancy, so it should not count, so he is just a
Ordinary guard."
Garland nodded and saluted, obeying the king's arrangement.
After ordering Podrick to pour himself a glass of wine, and after taking a sip to moisten his throat, Arthur I continued to announce in the eyes of hundreds of expectant eyes:
"As for the families in the Western Territory, Kraihe of Crake Hall was reduced to a viscount family. In addition to paying compensation to the Oakheart family for twenty villages, the remaining territory was divided into five parts. Kraihe would keep one share and the rest would be taken.
Come out and seal it to the Hejian Hewan family."
Generally speaking, the fiefdom of a landed knight usually only has one village, so it is not called a lord.
The barony basically consists of seven or eight to a dozen villages, with a population ranging from one or two thousand to five or six thousand.
As for the viscounty, it is about five times larger than the barony, starting with forty or fifty villages, and the population ranges from ten to twenty thousand to seventy or eighty thousand.
Larger counties can be called great nobles. In the densely populated Riverlands, the smallest county has a population of about 100,000. For example, the entire territory of Harrenhal may have 200,000 to 300,000 citizens.
As for a large family like Frey that could challenge the position of king, the number of its members is estimated to be 300,000.
Most of the territory of the Kreher family is in the forest, and the population should be far less than that of the Earls of the River, but there can still be 70,000 to 80,000 people.
Divided into five, the subjects are almost at the entry level of the Viscount family, but the land is much larger.
"Golden Tooth City was removed from the Western Territory and was under the jurisdiction of the feudal lord of the Riverlands."
"The Leiden family and the Malbrand family were reduced to viscounts. The Deep Cave City and Brand City to which these two families belonged were divided into four. In addition to their share, the rest were also awarded to meritorious ministers in the two realms.
"
"As for other Earl families in the West, they will not be demoted, but their titles will be reduced. Silver Mountain City, Corn City, Cliff City, Corner Valley City, Feast Fire City, Sarsfield City and other places must allocate at least one viscounty territory, and the title will be reduced.
Give me the designated hero."
The reduction of titles and titles of these earl-level families is related to the vital interests of the nobles in the rivers and bays, so Arthur announced these first.
Sure enough, when they heard that so many viscounts were going to be given out for rewards, the eyes of the nobles from both realms were straightened.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
"The disobedient Western Family must be severely punished."
"We absolutely uphold the orders of the Iron Throne!"
Seeing that his idea was supported by quite a few nobles, the king became bolder.
"The last is the punishment for the Lannister family. All gold mines belonging to the Lannister family except Casterly Rock City must be handed over to the Iron Throne and become the private property of the royal family, including the mines in Golden Teeth City, Kas
The gold mines of Teme City.”
The gold mine is the lifeblood of the Lion family. If the gold mine is taken away, the Lannister's power will be far less than before.
"In view of the fact that there are huge amounts of iron ore, copper mine, lead mine, etc. in the Western Territory, the original Western Territory family has to implement a punishment, which is to provide the royal family with a batch of fine iron armor. The specific style and number of pieces will be discussed with the Imperial Council.
Decide again."
King Arthur said.
This is the key to forming the royal family's standing army. The people of the West have good iron forging skills, so they are suitable to take this opportunity to produce a batch of high-quality armor.
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