Tywin's death does not mean the end of the story of Westeros, but a beginning.
The regicide was killed in the encirclement of the allied forces of the river princes and the valley cavalry and fled.
As for where he went, no one knows. The Riverlands and the Vale divided the wealth of the Golden Tooth. Then the Vale cavalry withdrew and the Golden Tooth was occupied by the Tully family.
At the same time, the internal fighting in the deer family began. Stannis and Renly were about to beat their brains out. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and they were really fighting.
Snow took the remnant army of his vassals and rushed to Casterly Rock City to join Gao Bin. Seeing that there were more than 15,000 troops when he left, and only less than 10,000 troops were left when he came back, Gao Bin still felt very complicated.
On the one hand, his plan succeeded; on the other hand, the people who died were all the people of the northern border. The population was not large in the first place, and the loss of even one was heartbreaking.
Among them, the one with the ugliest expression was Old Bolton. Among the 5,000 people who lost, the soldiers of his Bolton family died the most. Because Snow followed Gao Bin's instructions and arranged for the soldiers of the Bolton family to attack the city, so there were natural losses.
Tragic.
Therefore, when old Bolton saw Gao Bin, he went crazy.
"I want an explanation!"
Looking at the angry old Burton below, Rob was puzzled:
"What do you want to say?"
"Why did my people die the most, why were my people allowed to attack the city?"
There was no need for Gao Bin to open his mouth, Rob spoke back:
"Oh, then if I go to someone else to attack the city, more people will die than you. Can he also ask for an explanation as to who we are targeting? Someone has to attack the city, why can't it be you?"
So annoying!
Gao Bin gave a thumbs up in his mind. It seemed that he made the right move by giving Casterly Rock City to Rob.
Now if we want to say who are Gao Bin’s supporters, Rob will be the first to raise his hand.
Old Bolton was speechless for a moment, but he was still unconvinced when he looked like that.
But is there any use in not being convinced?
He may not know yet that Little Peeling has been captured by Ned, and he is waiting for Gao Bin to go back and deal with it.
Of course, old Bolton doesn't care about a little skinner. What he cares about is his own power.
After sending Old Bolton away with a few words, Snow breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the chair, and threw the sword casually at his feet.
"My mission is successfully completed!"
"Thank you for your hard work, Jon, find a room to rest and rest."
"I'm not tired, what's your next plan?" Snow asked with concern.
"We have to wait until the Baratheon civil war is over before we decide what to do next."
According to the original direction, the next step should be the Battle of Blackwater River, which is also the largest battle in the War of Five Kings!
After the death of King Robert, "Littlefinger" Baelish indirectly provoked the war between the lion and wolf families.
As a result, a total of five people became kings during the Civil War. Joffrey, Stannis, and Renly all claimed that they were the legal heirs to the Iron Throne, and Robb Stark was supported as the King of the North. Balon
Greyjoy took advantage of the chaos to get rid of the rule of the Iron Throne and called himself the King of the Iron Islands.
Dragonstone is Stannis's territory, Storm's End is Renly's territory, and the Iron Throne is in King's Landing.
At that time, Stannis was originally in a weak position. With the help of the red-robed witch Melisandre, he not only defeated Renly, but also won the surrender of some of his troops.
As a result, Stannis's strength greatly increased, and then while the Lannister family was confronting the Stark family in the north, Stannis directly sent almost all his troops to King's Landing, where the Iron Throne is located.
Facing Stannis's army, King's Landing only had a few thousand soldiers defending the city, causing panic in the city.
Moreover, Tywin was afraid that King Joffrey would make a mistake at this critical moment, so he sent the "little devil" Tyrion back to King's Landing.
No matter how you look at this war with great disparity in strength, it feels like Stannis will win.
However, the "little devil" Tyrion became the key to reversing the situation and played a key role.
He did two things in total to temporarily stabilize the situation.
The first step: To deal with the outside world, you must first make peace with the inside!
Tyrion knows very well that internal threats are equivalent to internal problems, while external threats are equivalent to superficial wounds.
From the family's perspective, the threat of internal troubles is far greater than the threat of external troubles.
So he made Bronn the captain of the garrison to maintain law and order in the city.
Step two: Stabilize military morale!
It is not only the people who are in panic, but also the lax defenders.
Tyrion personally led the defenders and asked Joffrey to stand at the top of the city as the commander.
This is indeed effective, plus Tyrion had already ordered someone to set an ambush on the Blackwater River.
The power of wildfire was so powerful that even the little devil watching the results of the battle from a distance could not imagine it, and finally killed many of Stannis's troops.
Unfortunately, Stannis still had an absolute advantage in numbers. After a lot of fighting, he began to siege King's Landing!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the puppet coach Joffrey escaped from the battlefield, and the little devil couldn't stop him...
In order to stabilize the morale of the army again, the little devil said some inspiring words:
"This stop is not for the king or the kingdom, but for you. They rushed in and robbed your money, burned your house and toyed with your women."
Indeed, when life and death are at stake, most people will only think about problems from their own perspective!
Although the last-ditch defenders performed very well under the leadership of Tyrion, it was only a matter of time before King's Landing was breached.
At the critical moment, Tywin and the Tyrell family reached a consensus on their interests, unified the front in time, caught Stannis off guard from behind, and finally saved King's Landing.
After this battle, the Lannister family stabilized the situation, and Stannis was seriously injured and basically no longer a threat.
The Lannister, who had suffered consecutive defeats on the northern battlefield, now gained confidence to defeat the northern army.
This victory gave Roose Bolton and Duke Frey in the Northern Army the idea of betraying Robb, and it also paved the way for the subsequent Blood Wedding.
During the War of the Five Kings, Mance Rayder led hundreds of thousands of wildlings to attack Castle Black.
Faced with overwhelming military superiority, the only thing the Night Watch can rely on is the desperate Great Wall built by the ancestors.
The Great Wall of Despair at that time could basically be called an absolute defense, and it was completely impossible to break through.
Therefore, the savages adopted the strategy of attacking in the east and attacking in the west:
1. The giants and mammoths attacked the city gate head-on. The Great Wall was easy to defend but difficult to attack, but the city gate became its only weakness.
Second, disperse your troops to climb at multiple points, cross the Great Wall, and use human sea tactics.
However, all this is just a cover-up. In fact, the King Beyond the Wall has already sent an elite team to secretly cross the Great Wall and attack Castle Black from behind, preparing for a flanking attack.
If Snow hadn't learned the news in time, it is estimated that this move would have successfully taken Castle Black.
As for the Night Watchmen, they definitely cannot be confrontational.
First, Snow, who was stationed at the Fist of the First Men, led a special team to sneak into the savages and kill the King Beyond the Wall.
As a result, the mission failed and Snow lost her virginity...
In the end, the savages successfully broke into the city gate, and the night watchmen were almost unable to retreat.
Obviously reconciliation is impossible, and the King Beyond the Wall knows what will happen to them if they do not reach the Great Wall.
At this time, the red-robed witch Melisandre persuaded Stannis to go north.
So when Snow was negotiating with the King Beyond the Wall, Stannis entered the scene and directly captured the King Beyond the Wall alive.
After helping the Night's Watch repel the wildlings, Stannis plans to take advantage of the situation and start a war with Skinny in order to capture the North.
However, Stannis's army was not enough, so he asked the wildlings to fight for him, but he was rejected directly.
After the Battle of Castle Black, the savages no longer have much fighting power.
And Snow finally realized that the savages were never a threat, but the aliens were.
So after he became the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, he decided to reach an agreement with the wildlings.
He allowed the savages to take refuge on the Great Wall. As a condition, the savages must help the Night Watchmen fight the future war.
Gao Bin didn't think about what happened in the north for the time being. He believed that Ned was in the north and the Night's Watch was united, so his home would not be stolen by wildlings and white ghosts.
Right now, his attention was entirely focused on another battlefield in the War of the Five Kings, where Renly and Stannis were fighting inextricably, with both sides suffering numerous casualties.
Renly won due to his numerical advantage, and Stannis relied on the help of the red witch to fight back from time to time. For a while, it was difficult for anyone to defeat the other.
However, according to Gao Bin's analysis, Stannis will eventually win. After all, in terms of strategy and city government, Sanlu is no match for Erlu. The key is the bug of the red robe witch. If even Renly can't be taken down, they might as well
Don’t leave Dragonstone either.
However, at this time, the Tyrell family came to the door. They first congratulated each other, and then asked Little Rose to ask the North to send troops to support Renly. In return, after Renly won the Iron Throne, Ned would be the Hand of the King.
,Gao Bin is the Duke of the North!
Margery didn't dare to agree directly. She knew very well that Gao Bin would not be willing to be inferior to others.
What's more, her thoughts are all on Gao Bin now. Renly, what is that? Is it useful to be handsome? Can it be used as food?
"What do you think I should do?" Gao Bin asked Little Rose.
"Refuse!" Margaery said decisively!
"Oh? This is a task given to you by your mother-in-law's family."
"But if I marry you, I will be from the Stark family!"
Gao Bin laughed, he likes girls with their elbows turned outward.
He stood up, stretched out, and took Margaery into his arms:
"If your father and grandmother knew that you had such an attitude, would they feel like you were a white-eyed wolf?"
"That's not important. What's important is the result. I know you will give me happiness, right?"
"Don't you want to fight for the position of queen?"
"Then it depends on whether you are willing to give it to me. I thought Renly had hope before, but compared with you, it's like nothing."
"So you are not optimistic about his war with Stannis?"
Margery knew everything but not military affairs, so she hesitated and shook her head:
"I can't tell. Do you think Renly can win?"
"It's impossible." Gao Bin was very sure.
Renly has always claimed that he is most like his eldest brother, often comparing himself to Robert, but he obviously avoids a fundamental difference between him and his elder brother - Robert has no brother, how can a king have a brother?
And Stannis had accurately spotted his younger brother's only fatal wound.
He understands that Renly must behave "like a good king", and he knows that his brother cherishes feathers and does not want to bear the reputation of bullying his brother, but once he uses himself as bait and takes the lead in provoking...
My younger brother will never let go of such a God-given opportunity!
Stannis is betting that Renly is far more murderous towards him than Joe and Cersei.
And once Renly comes in person with his troops, it will only be for his own head, and Stannis will no longer have to have any hesitations or worries...
The funny thing is that although both the Baratheon brothers made a fuss about Storm's End - one pretended to attack the city, the other used an excuse to return reinforcements - in fact, neither of them really took the castle seriously.
Renly said: "If you want Storm's End, take it... It should be a gift between brothers. Just as Robert gave it to me, I will give it to you now."
Stannis also said: "Lower the traitorous banner and surrender to me before dawn, and I will make you Lord of Storm's End and retain your seat on the high council. Even before my son was born, I still designated you
For my heir."
It can be seen that Storm's End is by no means the focus. What the two of them want is the surrender of the other...or the other's life.
As Cersei famously said:
"In the Game of Thrones, if you are not the winner, you will only die. There is no middle ground."
The Baratheon brothers, who have been immersed in Robert's court for many years, all know this well.
Although Renly is not as dark and ruthless as Stannis, he is never ambiguous about the big issues of life and death.
"I have never liked you, Stannis, but you are my brother after all, and I don't want to hurt you at all." This was Renly's "heartfelt words" during the negotiation.
But listen to what he told his generals before the war began.
"After my brother passes away, no one is allowed to insult his body. He is my blood relative, and I will never allow anyone to put his head on a gun and show it off everywhere."
What an art to say!
Gritting his teeth and clamoring to put the heads of his blood relatives on the spear is something that only a fool like Joffrey would do. Renly elegantly skipped the bloody slaughter process and directly wiped out any prisoners alive with the sentence "After my brother died"
Stannis' possibility!
As long as all the nobles in the south have "the intelligence given to turnips by the gods", they should understand what their master means.
If there is still a choice, no one wants to be a "parricide", but "putting the overall situation first in everything, regardless of one's own feelings" is a necessary condition for a "presumptuous politician" in Wallis's words.
Renly clearly put aside the king's dominance and personal emotions, which was an important reason why he was able to win the favor of the entire southern realm.
And what about Stannis? The only one who supports him is the red witch.
To a certain extent, he is considered a mourning soldier, and a mourning soldier will surely win!
The Tyrell family went back, taking Little Rose's words of rejection with them.
In fact, Little Rose has her own selfish motives. If Renly fails, will Tyrell have no choice but to find another follower?
In Westeros right now, is there anyone more suitable than Gao Bin?
As for Gao Bin's next plan, he is prepared to fish in troubled waters. After Stannis launches an attack on King's Landing, Gao Bin takes advantage of the chaos to do something.
This is also the reason why he has been studying the map of King's Landing recently.
King's Landing is approximately square, spreads out for miles, and is protected by high walls.
There are a total of seven gates to enter the city, namely: Dragon Gate, Lion Gate, Mud Gate, Old City Gate, Gods Gate, King's Gate, and Steel Gate.
Within the city walls, the city is dotted with residences, trees, barns, stone warehouses, wooden hotels, business clubs, taverns, cemeteries, women's wards, and a fish market.
Hundreds of docks can be found in the port, and between the buildings are wide roads, streets, and segmented alleys lined with trees.
There are three huge trebuchets erected at the Mud Gate, known as the Three Prostitutes of King's Landing. They are a new defensive measure in the city.
The city occupies the north bank of the Blackwater River and covers three hills. It is named after Aegon and his two sisters, Visenya and Rhaenys.
The Red Keep is built on the top of Aegon Hill. The royal castle located in the southeast corner of the city overlooks the entire river bend. The marble-walled Cathedral of St. Baelor and its seven crystal towers are erected on the top of Visenya Hills.
The hills of Rhaenys are covered by the ruins of the dragon's lair dome, its bronze gates closed for a century and a half since the death of the last dragon.
The poorest residents live in a slum called Flea Bottom, a maze of narrow streets and alleys crowded with beggars and the poorest part of the city's population;
They sometimes sate their hunger on "brown soup," a mysterious stew that may contain meat from rats and murder victims, among other strange things.
The wealthy people live on the other side of Rhaenys Hills and Flea Bottom.
The upper level of King's Landing is near the old city gate, and tournaments are usually held outside the city, next to the Blackwater River.
The Blackwater is where Stannis is preparing to attack.
At the same time, Stannis's army sailed to Storm's End, and his small army and powerful navy surrounded Storm's End by sea and land.
Renly didn't want to have any worries, so he personally led his troops to rescue Storm's End Castle.
Stannis and Renly threatened each other during the negotiations, but agreed to a decisive battle the next morning.
However, before the battle began, a ghost summoned by Stannis' priest Melisandre killed Renly. Renly's death was blamed on Brienne of Tarth.
After Renly's death, most of the cavalry legions that accompanied him to Storm's End defected to Stannis, with a total number of about 15,000. The leader was Stannis's uncle, Alister Florent.
This brings the total number of Stannis's armies to about 20,000.
Almost all the Lords of the Stormlands and some of the Lords of the Reach surrendered to Stannis.
But Ser Loras Tyrell, Lord Randyll Tarly and Lord Matus Rowan, all the important nobles of Highgarden, did not submit. Ser Loras also secretly buried Renly's body. p>
They led the Reach warriors who refused to defect to Stannis back to Bitterbridge.
The acting Lord of Storm's End, Cortanai Penros, still refuses to surrender Storm's End.
During the negotiations, Ser Cortanai proposed a one-on-one duel with Stannis, but the king refused.
Stannis hopes to obtain Edric Storm, but Ser Cortanai refuses to hand him over, fearing that Stannis will harm King Robert's bastard son - even though Stannis claims that he has no intention of harming him, Ser Cortanai