Arthur had just split open a poor Western soldier and was about to search for the latest target when he saw a man rushing towards him.
This man is wearing golden armor, a lion helmet on his head, and a white robe on his back. He has a tall horse on his hip and a hard lance in his hand.
It is Lord Tywin’s eldest son, “Kingslayer” Jaime Lannister!
This is really a rat calling a cat out of its den, seeking death.
Arthur kicked Red Rabbit's horse's belly with the heel of his iron boot, and jogged towards James.
The two began to run in both directions.
The Western soldiers along the way retreated one after another. They did not want to be split in two by the Hejian War God on the back of the golden-armored giant horse.
At the command center of the Western Territory Army, powerful figures from the Western Territory nobles such as Countess Alexa Redford of Golden Tooth City, Damon, Lord Malbrand of Brand City, Earl Gavin Westerling of Cliff City, gathered together.
, bet on who will win.
"I'm optimistic about James. After all, he is a veteran knight who has been famous for a long time."
"It's hard to say, but it is said that the man on the golden armored horse is named Arthur, and he was the champion of the martial arts tournament a month ago."
"The battlefield is different from the competition field. This Arthur can only chop people. His mount is too slow, so he may not be able to defeat Sir James."
"That is, as soon as he falls off the horse, a bunch of soldiers will rush up and take him down and tie him up in two strokes."
"This is a battlefield, please be serious, people will die."
Everyone had their own views and opinions, and they started arguing one after another. There was no strong person from the Lannister family to restrain them, so these nobles just cared about themselves.
In their expectant eyes, the two horses crossed each other. Both of them were on the horse well, but James's lance was broken.
Since the Kingslayer's horse was too fast, Arthur only had time to place the sword across the horse's back, thinking that James would rush up and knock the blade over.
Unexpectedly, James directly pushed the horse's head down, leaned on the horse's back, and ran under the knife.
The lance also accurately hit Arthur's calf, but it had no effect.
There was no way around it. Although James's horse was tall, Arthur's horse was higher than a human head with the shoulders, which made the two of them not at the same height.
James turned the horse's head, pulled out a new lance from the horse's belly, fixed it on the lance rack at his right elbow, and charged again.
Arthur didn't need to look back to know that the Kingslayer would be able to rush over before Red Rabbit could turn his horse's head.
At that time, I will be stabbed in the back.
So he dismounted directly, held up the knife, and with a sliding shovel, he shoveled under the belly of James' horse.
Without any effort on his part, the poor horse caught the knife with its belly.
Arthur was showered with blood, intestines, tripe and other organs from the belly of the horse that fell from the head.
Even with the helmet on, Arthur could feel the hot horse blood flowing from his mouth.
The horse corpse used its inertia to rush forward with its head on the ground, and James on the horse was also thrown off.
Arthur got out from under the horse's hind legs, and first quickly rubbed his head and face, removing part of the horse's blood from his head so that it would not block his sight.
Then he turned around and rushed towards James who was a little confused after being thrown.
He doesn't care about the organs on his body, as long as it doesn't affect his movements.
After arriving at the side of the Kingslayer, Arthur hit Jaime's golden helmet with the back of his sword several times. After making the Kingslayer even more dizzy, he lifted him on his shoulders, rushed towards his giant horse, and jumped
Mount your horse and rush towards the camps of Vans and Piper.
When the giant horse turned around, he laid James across the horse's back, and then easily knocked over a Western soldier who wanted to save his savior.
Red Rabbit carried the two of them and rushed toward the camp in small steps.
The command center of the Western Border Army.
The Countess of Golden Tooth City, Alexa, was so sickened by the scene she saw.
Arthur's silver plate armor and golden sword were turned bright red by horse blood and horse's internal organs. Even from a distance, Alexa thought she could see Arthur's horse intestines still throbbing.
The rest of the nobles were not much better. Even though they were on the battlefield, they thought the fight would be exciting, but they didn't expect it to be extremely bloody.
After a while, someone finally realized that their coach had been snatched away.
"He took James away, chase him quickly."
"Come on, everyone resting in the back, get up and get Sir James back."
"Whoever takes Lannister back will be rewarded with ten thousand gold dragons."
The great nobles of the Western Region each issued orders.
However, due to the command structure of this partial division, they could only instruct those under their own command.
Fortunately, the bounty of 10,000 golden dragons played a big role, and the messenger promptly reached the ears of the Western soldiers resting in the rear.
The soldiers who took turns in the wheel battle suddenly became excited. The nobles promised to just snatch it back, which was much easier than killing the giant horse and golden armor warrior.
Therefore, two to three thousand Western soldiers rushed over from the vicinity of Golden Tooth City. The target was very conspicuous. They only needed to rush towards Arthur.
The soldiers from the West who besieged the camp did not know the bounty of 10,000 gold dragons, so after killing a dozen people, soldiers from the river appeared in front of Arthur.
The advantage of Red Rabbit's tall body was revealed. It jumped directly over the pile of corpses, leaving thousands of river soldiers and western soldiers to continue to attack each other.
Scattered tents, overturned bullock carts, burning wooden fences, and injured soldiers are the main eye-catching things in the rear.
There wasn't much horse blood on the vest, so someone recognized Arthur and directed him to Clement, the governor of the Piper family.
"Hey, I grabbed the Kingslayer, please retreat quickly." Arthur shouted.
Marco Piper, Raymond Darry, Lord Berry and others have already entered and are resting.
They looked up and saw Arthur, who was covered in blood with a piece of intestine and several pieces of meat hanging on his body, and James who was still struggling on the horse. They were all shocked and speechless.
This scene is enough for them to remember for a lifetime.
"God of Light! How many people have you killed?" Thoros muttered to himself.
The Earl of Pink City, Clermont, who was here before, was also frightened by the arrival.
"Is there really such a strong general in Hejian?"
he asked himself in disbelief.
"Why are you standing there? Retreat. The Western soldiers behind are crazy. They want to take James back." Arthur shouted again.
Only then did this group of river nobles and stormland nobles, who had never seen the world, react.
The Earl of Clermont ordered a retreat.
Count Vance of Travel's Rest has been seriously injured, and he is now commanding the two armies.
After the messengers galloped to give orders, the soldiers from both families finally responded to the order to retreat.
Under the cover of a group of good players such as Arthur, Raymond Darry, Thoros, Lord Beric, and others, the Riverside Army began to retreat towards Riverrun.
Not far from the camp is the River Road, which makes the retreat much easier and faster.
Since there were too many soldiers in the West, they could only bring the slightly wounded and soldiers from Vance and Piper who could run on their own.
The Kingslayer will be handed over to Lord Clermont, and his personal soldiers will lead the Lannister all the way until they reach Riverrun.
After all, this is the biggest result since the war began in Hejian and the Western Region.
After another fierce battle, the corpses of the River Soldiers and the Western Soldiers were piled into a hill, and the soldiers of Vance and Piper completely withdrew from the camp.
"Alright, brother Raymond and the others will leave first. I'll be the last to leave alone. Don't worry about me." Arthur shouted.
Soros, who was also covered in blood, muttered: "Who has ever worried about you? I have always been worried about the soldiers from the Western Region on the opposite side."
Raymond and others were not polite and retreated on horseback.
Soldiers from the Western Region all over the mountains and plains are still rushing over in a steady stream.
The words of a bounty of 10,000 dragons have reached the ears of more than 10,000 people. The civilian soldiers who may never earn so much money in ten lifetimes have gone crazy.
Even though Arthur slashed one person at a time, he still couldn't stop the oncoming enemies.
No matter whether these enemies came voluntarily or were squeezed in.
He also had to drive Red Rabbit to run backwards slowly, otherwise when there were too many corpses piled up, Red Rabbit and Horse would be squeezed.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Arthur felt that the Guandao in his hand could not be held due to the blood pooling and coagulation, the soldiers from the West were still rushing towards him.
At this time, another pile of corpses had been piled up in front of him.
Guessing that the Hejian Army had gone far, Arthur felt that it was time for him to escape.
"Hejian Arthur is here, who dares to fight to the death with me?"
He reined in his horse and shouted.
Maybe the Western soldiers were finally tired of fighting, or maybe his invincible momentum suppressed the Western soldiers.
The entire battlefield suddenly became silent.
The cries of the crows in the Golden Teeth Mountains can be heard clearly, echoing with the echoes of Arthur's shouts in the Golden Teeth Mountains.
The infantrymen of the Western Region finally realized that they were facing the unrivaled Hejian War God. Although the 10,000 golden dragons were tempting, their own lives were also very important.
So they all stopped moving forward. Although the people coming from behind slowly pushed them forward, they still stopped the attack.
Behind them, the great nobles of the Western Region saw that their soldiers' attacks had stopped, and said angrily:
"Fuck me, fuck me."
Arthur laughed when he saw the Western soldiers who did not dare to step forward and the Western nobles who shouted to me.
Laughter and echoes spread among the Golden Teeth Mountains, falling not only on the ears of the soldiers of the Western Region, but also on the hearts of the nobles of the Western Region.
This made the Western nobles who had a bad start even more frustrated.
"What are you laughing at? Little nobleman of the Riverlands." Someone asked loudly.
Arthur stopped laughing wildly and replied: "Wait until you understand the difference between coming to me and coming with me before you can command the army."
Seeing the soldiers from the Western Region who stopped for him alone, he felt very happy.
This is what a man should do!
"Who dares to fight to the death with me?" Arthur asked again.
Still no response.
There were more than 10,000 people in the entire Western Territory, but it was as quiet as if there was no one there.
Arthur raised his knife and pointed it horizontally, "No one is a man?"
Finally, a noble from the Western Region reacted, "Archers, prepare."
Then the Western Archers in the rear began to gather, and the Western Soldiers in the front row slowly got out of the way.
Seeing that these people were really going to shoot him to death with arrows, Arthur quickly turned his horse around and officially fled.
This is not a horse-and-blade game where one can borrow a whole bunch of arrows and still be alive.
Even if his plate armor could withstand the damage, the giant horse under his crotch could not withstand the rain of arrows from the sky.
Of course, you have to say a harsh word before running away.
Losing people does not lose the formation.
As he rode his horse towards the north, he turned around and shouted:
"You are playing dirty tricks, aren't you? Wait for me to assemble the army before fighting."
After saying that, he slipped away without looking back.
Count Gavin Westerling, Count Damon Maranbre and Lady Alexa of the West looked at Arthur riding away in silence for a long time.
After a while, Lady Alexa said: "It's better to stay in the Golden Teeth City. This person is really unstoppable. Send a messenger crow and ask Duke Tywin to send it to the Magic Mountain. Maybe we can defeat this person."
"Madam can still see clearly."
"Just do it."
A group of people did not want to bring their own soldiers to die in vain for the Lannister family, so they ordered their soldiers to station near the Golden Teeth City, waiting for Duke Tywin's order.
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After two hours of riding, Arthur caught up with the retreating Hejian Army.
"There are only more than 2,200 people left. My family has lost 800 people, the Vans family in Luxi City has lost a thousand people, and his family's governor has been seriously injured." Ma Ke said to him.
Arthur thought to himself, aren't there more than two thousand people left?
If the original work is to be followed, all four thousand people died outside Golden Teeth City.
With heavy losses and no results, everyone remained silent and walked quietly along the Hejian Avenue.
Three days later, Riverrun.
This second-largest city between the rivers stands at the intersection of Tengshi River and Hongcha River, at the node of a horizontal Y.
When the two rivers reached nearby, they were already very wide, so the army could not easily cross the rivers.
Therefore, after thousands of years of experience, if the army of the Western Region wants to invade the Riverlands along the River Road, they must capture this important town surrounded by water on three sides.
If the Western Frontier Army invades along the Red Fork River, they will either cross the river in the territory of Pink City upstream, or attack along the valley between the Golden Teeth Mountains and the Red Fork River.
This is exactly the meaning of the existence of Pink City and Traveling City.
Their purpose was to block the Western Army's attack on the upper reaches of the Red Fork River, so that the enemy could only attack Riverrun.
It's just that Edmure was really not smart enough to allow these two families to block 4,000 people in Golden Teeth City, and almost gave away these 4,000 people.
At the moment, the eldest son of Lord Tully, who is not very bright, is leading the prominent princes of the Riverlands out of Riverrun to welcome the "returning victorious" members of the two House Lords and the King's Landing law enforcement team.
Yes, his term is victorious return.
The scouts had received the news, and the Western Army in Golden Tooth City had stopped advancing. This made Edmure feel that his previous decision to send people to block the Western Army was right.
After a while of greetings, many nobles boarded the boats, crossed the moat, and entered the hall of Riverrun.
Everyone sat down according to their status in the great hall of Riverrun, and Arthur sat very close to the front because of his outstanding military exploits.
Edmure first praised Arthur's feat of slaying the Mountain with great enthusiasm, and then praised his great achievement in capturing James.
"We won the first battle in the Riverlands, and Arthur contributed the most." He concluded in the end.
Vance and Piper were also praised by him.
But neither of the two families were happy.
Vance's family governor had been seriously injured and died, and Kalel attacked the title and territory.
The Pink City of Piper's family has been burned by Tywin's army, and the entire earldom has been utterly destroyed.
"The king has passed away, King's Landing is in chaos, and now we have to resist the Western March forces on our own," Edmure said.
He briefly introduced the current situation.
During the five or six days when Arthur killed the Mountain and went to the Golden Tooth City.
In King's Landing, Robert died after being wounded by a wild boar, Lord Eddard was imprisoned, and Renly and the Knight of Flowers escaped with only a few followers.
Robb Stark of Winterfell has gathered an army of vassals and is preparing to go south to rescue his father and sisters.
They will be a great addition to the Riverlands.
The great nobles of the remaining kingdoms, the River Bend and the Stormlands began to gather troops, while only the Vale and Dorne remained stationary for the time being.
As for the Western Army, Duke Tywin led his army north and captured the Pink City, and is now attacking Travel's Rest City.
According to legend, Stafford Lannister of Casterly Rock was sent to take over the partial army of the Golden Teeth, and he was accompanied by three thousand men.
This increased the number of troops in Golden Tooth City to 16,000.
"Tywin's cavalry troops passed through Stonehedge last night, and their target should be the empty and defenseless Harrenhal." Lord Janos Bracken added.
The messenger crow from his own territory reported the news to him.
Arthur was shocked, Tywin's speed must be too fast.
"How many people are there?" he asked his distant uncle.
"The spy said it was at least a thousand, but he didn't dare to get close and could only look at it from a distance." Genos replied.
Arthur remembered that he had set out from Harrenhal to hunt down the Mountain, running day and night, and it took him three and a half days to reach the middle section of the Red Fork River.
Tywin's army was larger in number and far less mobile than the small force he led, so it took them more than five days to reach Harrenhal.
Although Riverrun is further away, water transport is also faster.
Although the boats on the Red Fork River are not huge, they are very numerous, and there is no problem in carrying some soldiers eastward.
Five days was still enough time to reach Tywin's cavalry and take over Harrenhal.
"Edmure, I have to rescue Harrenhal and give me enough troops." Arthur said.
Perhaps because of the victory in the first battle, Edmure looked a little happy, "Don't worry, let's discuss the next situation and strategy while everyone is here."
Then the heir of Riverrun spoke his mind.
"We now have 18,000 people, plus the more than 2,000 people from the Vanspiper family, we have a total of 20,000 people. We have enough advantages over the Western Division of Golden Tooth City, so we can start with
Fight in the Golden Teeth City, and then go back and fight Tywin."
Edmure had previously gathered most of the family soldiers in the Riverlands, and the number at that time reached nearly 30,000.
Afterwards, the Mountain and Amory Lodge's small forces successively burned, killed and plundered the Riverlands, so Edmure asked some nobles to return to the territory with their own soldiers for defense.
After receiving news of Tywin's march, he once again summoned his vassal soldiers.
But there were far fewer people coming the second time.
Many noble house governors had selfish motives and left some soldiers in their own territories instead of bringing them to Riverrun.
But Edmure still had twenty thousand men on his hands.
"Go back and fight Tywin, can you say this?" Arthur was annoyed. "If Tywin really takes Harrenhal, your nephew Robb will have to go south from the Twins, otherwise
The soldiers from the north will have to fight with the soldiers from the west in the narrow area between the Green Fork River and the Moon Mountains."
Harrenhal's military status is much higher than simply controlling the south bank of the Red Fork River.
In fact, by controlling Harrenhal, they basically control all traffic north of the Blackwater River.
To join the war in the north, one has to go south along the King's Road or around the Twins; to send troops from the Vale, one has to come out of the Blood Gate and then cross the Ruby Ford before heading south; even the river people themselves, without Harrenhal, can only
I'll live my life north of the Red Fork River.
Some people supported Arthur's point of view and wanted to lead troops to rescue Harrenhal.
There are still some people who support Edmure's point of view, first fight the 16,000 men of the Western Division, and then go back to fight Tywin.
More noble family governors fell silent.
They were convinced by Horst, who was seriously ill. The words of Edmure, a young man, and Arthur, a young boy, could not convince them.
The Pink City had been burned, and Ma Ke decided to support Arthur's view of guarding Harrenhal. He convinced his father Clement, which allowed Arthur to get his first army of thousands of men.
Kalel in Travel's Rest is immersed in the sadness of his father's death in battle. He also has to worry about whether the family castle he just inherited will be captured by Tywin's army.
So he didn't speak out.
Raymond from Darui City did agree with Arthur, but he had too few troops and spoke softly, so he did not have a great impact on the position of the nobles present.
The rest of the people, such as Lord Beric, did it because he was a noble from the Stormlands and could not interfere with the military strategy of the Riverlands. The red-robed monk Thoros was considered by everyone present only to be a warrior.
After a period of stalemate, finally a nobleman with enough influence publicly expressed his support for Arthur.
"I agree to send troops to defend Harrenhal, and I will hand over 2,500 of my own men to him."
The statement from Genos immediately enlivened the scene.
The Frey family from Twins City didn't come, so Crowtree City and Stonehedge City were the two strongest families present, apart from the Tully family.
Lord Bracken's House Superintendent is enough to make some people who are waiting to make up their minds.
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