Chapter 360 Dragon(1/4)
Even though very few of the Ghiscari traditions survived with the fall of the old empire, the people of Slaver's Bay are still extremely proud of their Gith heritage.
The city of Slaver's Bay still retains the harpy symbol of Guges, replacing the lightning in the banshee's hands with open shackles. The people of the Free City State call them "sons of the harpy".
The ancient Ghiscari language has been largely forgotten, and the inhabitants of Slaver's Bay now speak High Valyrian, the language of their conquerors. Even Valyrian has been joined by the Low Gith people.
A roaring accent and the slang of slave traders.
The Gith today still retain the unique hieroglyphics of the Ancient Gith. In fact, the ancient Gith blood in the current Gith bloodline is very thin.
Due to their corrupt lifestyle, most people overeat and become obese.
The racial characteristics of the Gith are tawny skin, black hair, and black eyes.
The slave trade is the absolute pillar industry of Slaver Bay, and the ruling classes in major cities are the largest slave traders.
The slavers of Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen call themselves the Good Lord, the Good Lord and the Great Lord. They like to wear a kind of clothing called a tokar, which is a robe that only free people can wear.<
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The value of the materials used in the toka's decorative lace symbolizes the owner's status and wealth.
Slave traders lived in extreme luxury, sitting on pontoons for recreation at dusk, and holding various ceremonies at night to celebrate their glorious history.
On the other hand, most slaves endured extremely cruel treatment.
The cities of Slaver's Bay are in peaceful competition and make every effort to prevent the outbreak of war. When the Dothraki khalasar invades, Slaver's Bay is more inclined to pay tribute to them than to repel them.
Since every free man in Slaver's Bay is extremely wealthy, the city's army here is all composed of the children of wealthy slave traders. They regard joining the army as more fun than performing on the stage.
The soldiers wore gorgeous cloth armor and styled their hair in strange shapes. They were gaudy and had no combat effectiveness at all.
The main defense forces of these cities are slave soldiers and mercenary legions.
While most of the slave soldiers were weak and untrained, Astapor's eunuch army, the Unsullied, were renowned for their obedience and indestructibility.
This is also the reason why Gao Bin chose Volantis as the landing place.
With Slaver's Bay at his back, he is not afraid of running out of manpower at all. If it doesn't work, he will just buy it.
As for the money to buy people, it's easy to deal with it. If you pretend to attack Slaver's Bay, these slave traders will pay tribute.
There are three major cities along the coast of Slaver's Bay: Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen.
Astapor is world-famous for the Unsullied, and it is the only city where you can purchase the Unsullied.
This famous slave soldier is an important source of income for the good masters of Astapor.
The city itself is very old and dilapidated, and most of the buildings are built of mottled red bricks. It is said that this color is dyed by the blood of the slaves who died while building the city.
The ubiquitous red brick powder in the city often stings people's eyes, so free women wear veils.
The city's main buildings are huge step pyramids built along the coast of Slaver's Bay, some even four hundred feet high.
The huge Pride Square is a public slave market, a place where the Unsullied train in formation, and where free groups gather.
Under the midday sun, the red-brick avenues become unbearably hot, so almost no one appears in the city during the day.
In the evening, slave traders hung silk lanterns on all the houses and steps, and enjoyed themselves in their flower boats amid soft music.
The good masters of Astapor were particularly cruel to their slaves.
Extremely bloody competitions were staged in the arena, and even slave children were made to fight animals.
Unruly slaves will be whipped alive until their skin is torn apart.
This also creates the highest achievement of the good Lords - the Immaculate One.
These slave soldiers were selected from childhood, and after extremely cruel and inhumane training, those who survived became war machines with no emotions and only knew how to obey.
Unlike other cities in Slaver's Bay, Astapor does not need to rely on any other mercenary groups to protect the city. The city is not afraid of any threats under the defense of the Unsullied.
Astapor was conquered by Daenerys Targaryen, who promised to trade dragons for all the Unsullied in the city, then ordered them to attack the defenseless slavers.
Daenerys then established a provisional government composed of a physician, a priest and a scholar.
When Dany left, a former butcher named Cleon seized control of the city and castrated all the children of the former slave owners in an attempt to create new Unsullied.
Cleon, the butcher king, presented gifts to Daenerys and proposed to her. Dany dismissed him and never recognized his rule, but she had no time to take care of herself.
Yunkai is the smallest of the three cities and is famous for its hippodrome and brothels, both of which are busy cultivating and exporting slaves to various places.
The architectural style of this city is very similar to Astapo, except that it is one size smaller, and most of their buildings are made of yellow bricks instead of red bricks.
The slave traders of Yunkai call themselves the Wise Lord.
Yunkai's defense relies more on untrained slave armies and any mercenary legions they can hire.
After the fall of Astapor, Yunkai used a slave army of nearly 4,000 people and hired more than a thousand mercenary groups, including the Second Sons and the Stormcrows, to protect the city.
Daenerys lured the Stormcrows to surrender and ambushed the Second Sons, and then the Wise Masters announced their surrender and freed all their slaves.
Meereen is the largest of the three slave cities, with as many inhabitants as Astapor and Yunkai combined.
Meereen's architectural style is very similar to Yunkai and Astapor, but it is built with bricks of various colors.
The main buildings in Meereen include the Great Pyramid with a harpy on top, and the Temple of the Benevolent with a golden dome on top.
Of all the cities of Gith, Meereen is the only one with many temples.
The slave traders of Meereen called themselves the Great Master, and they established a regiment of spearmen with extremely luxurious equipment. The soldiers were equipped with traditional Ghiscari bronze scale armor and fourteen-foot-long spears.
After the fall of Astapor and Yunkai, Meereen took measures to clear the country. They burned the surrounding land and nailed the slave boys to pillars pointing their fingers to the sky to challenge Daenerys.
In order to avoid a difficult siege, Daenerys sent people to sneak into the city wall, freed the slave fighters in the arena, and took advantage of the chaos in the city to open the city gate and capture Meereen.
After the Great Lords surrendered, Daenerys executed some of them and stayed in Meereen to rule the city as queen.
Things were just as Gao Bin expected, a hundred thousand troops landed on Volantis without any obstruction.
The slave owners in Slaver's Bay also learned the news immediately. They couldn't defeat Long Ma's three dragons, but they could defeat Gao Bin's 100,000 army?
Look at those dark black armors that look like dragon scales. Can ordinary cold weapons break through them? It scared them to death.
Look at the pair of cold eyes, it is definitely the aura brought by killing. No one can remain calm under such an aura.
The only Legion of Unsullied that Gao Bin was afraid of did not appear. They were taken away by Dragon Mother.
It's a pity. Although he is in awe of the fighting power of the Unsullied Legion, Gao Bin still wants to meet them and see if they are really that strong.
He remembered a section in the original play where Meereen was in danger due to the Sons of the Harpy. This group of "terrorist organizations" planned to lure a patrol composed of the Unsullied Army into the encirclement.
Therefore, after a group of people led by Gray Worm was surrounded, their combat effectiveness was not satisfactory, and several people fought independently.
Except for Gray Worm, everyone else was killed like a chopping of melons and vegetables. If not for the arrival of the fearless Barristan in the end, the Unsullied boss Gray Worm would not have escaped death.
A group of Unsullied was almost wiped out by the Sons of the Harpy. Is the combat effectiveness of the Unsullied army really that bad?
The legend of the Unsullied mainly comes from the "Story of Three Thousand Warriors Defending Qohor", which is presented in the book in the form of Jorah the Bear telling a story to the Dragon Mother. The story is very exciting!
"More than four hundred years ago, the Dothraki first appeared on horseback from the east, sacking and burning every town along the way. The Khal who led them was called Temo. His khalasar was not as big as Drogo's, but it was not small either.
, there are at least 50,000 people, half of whom are warriors wearing braids and bells.
After the people of Kohor knew the news of his arrival, they began to strengthen the city wall, doubled the number of soldiers, and hired two mercenary regiments - the Bright Flag Regiment and the Second Son Regiment.
As the situation reported was getting worse and worse, they rushed to buy three thousand more Unsullied from Astapor, but it was almost too late.
As the Unsullied marched long distances to Qohor, they could see smoke and dust in the distance and hear the din of battle.
By the time they arrived at the city, the sun had set. Crows and wolves were feasting on the remains of the heavy cavalry of Qohor. The Bright Banner Regiment and the Second Son Regiment had already rolled up their flags and fled. Once the mercenaries faced the disparity in strength, there was no hope.
That's what happens.
As night fell, the Dothraki did not fight anymore. They retreated to the camp to drink, dance and carouse all night, preparing to break through the city gates the next day and plunder money wantonly.
But at dawn, when Temo and his bloodriders led the khalasar out of the camp, they found that three thousand Unsullied had lined up in front of the city gate, with the black goat flag of Qohor flying above their heads.<
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If you understand the fighting methods of the Dothraki, you will understand that they do not take this small team seriously at all:
For infantry on foot, they will not outflank and detour, but directly charge and trample them on horseback.
The Dothraki attacked, but the Unsullied held their shields tightly, lowered their spears, and remained motionless.
Facing the desperate charge of 20,000 roaring warriors with ringing bells, they showed no fear.
The Dothraki charged a total of eighteen times, but in front of the shields and spears, they collapsed like waves hitting the rocks.
Temoccao sent out horse archers three times to surround his opponents and shoot in turns. Bows and arrows rained down on the three thousand warriors, but the Unsullied just raised their shields to block their heads and refused to give in.
By the end, there were only six hundred of them left...but more than twelve thousand Dothraki warriors fell on the battlefield, including Khal Temok, three of his bloodriders, all of his kor and all of his sons
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Three days later, in the early morning, the new Khal led the survivors to solemnly line up in front of the city gate. One by one, everyone cut off their own braids and threw them at the feet of the three thousand warriors.
From that day on, Qohor's garrison was composed entirely of Unsullied, and each man held a bunch of human hair braids on the spears he held."
It can be seen that the Unsullied Army is a very powerful army. Although when they were besieged by the Sons of the Harpy - they were not vegetarians, they were trained killers - their individual combat capabilities were not strong, and it seemed that they were not forming a formation.
It's a bit unsatisfactory, and the spear is not easy to use in such a small space, so the performance feels very poor.
Having said that, they have a super big bug, which is their iron will and discipline. Think about the above example, what kind of army can still stick to the battlefield without retreating when the number of troops is reduced from 3,000 to 600?
To be continued...