Chapitre 33: Besiege 2
At the top of the wall, Aslan could see Robert's army preparing to attack.
Robert in the middle of his army shouted with all his strength, making himself heard up to the wall.
"The whole army! Besiege the city!"
"SHAAAAAAA !!!!!!!" All the soldiers shouted and they started running towards Lannisport. The soldiers loading Lannisport carried different banners. There were banners Baratheon, Stark, Lannister, Tully, Arryn and other little lords including the Frey.
"Robert seems to want to do everything quickly."
Aslan frowned.
"He gets too caught up in his emotions. This crazy charge will only lose him unnecessarily."
Aslan looked at his commanders who nodded. The commanders relayed messages on all the ramparts and soldiers transported wooden barrels on the catapults of the ramparts.
Aslan looked at those barrels with firm eyes but his commanders had pity in the eyes.
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On the other side, Tywin, Jon, and Ned watched these movements on the ramparts strangely and they felt uncomfortable. They shared their concerns with the others, but Robert ignored them. Hoster meanwhile only wanted to recover military merits despite the warnings of his brother, Brynden who is his strategist.
Tywin, Jon and Ned shook their heads against Robert and Hoster. They sent messengers recommending their men to be careful and to withdraw if there were any problems.
Tywin was a cunning person but he could not lose his military strength, Jon was a wise man and he knew that Aslan was not an idiot and Ned did not want to lose his men and return women from the North, widowed or orphans.
As for Robert and Hoster this day, he will never forget him in their lives.
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On the walls, the catapults were ready to fire.
Aslan waved his hand in confirmation. The commanders seeing Aslan wave their hand gave the command without hesitation withdrawing the pity they had for their enemies.
"Soldiers! Release the catapults!" The men cut the ropes of the catapults which threw barrels towards the army charging Lannisport.
Robert's army men continued to charge as they watched these barrels fly over them. Robert and the others next to him watched these barrels with their eyes close to the ground.
Many looks followed these barrels, whether on the North, South or East side of the ramparts.
When the barrels crashed to the ground, a green light followed by a loud explosion sound resulted. Many people closed their eyes and when they looked again at the place where the barrels had landed, their eyes widened.
A wild green light was burning on the ground and the soldiers' corpses had already turned to ashes before they had even had time to scream.
"Wi-Wildfire ..."
"A-All have burned ..."
The army charging Lannisport had stopped watching the fire consume the last remains of their brothers in arms.
However, Aslan had not finished. He wanted to instill fear in the other kingdoms showing them that Lannisport was inviolable. Anyone who wants to attack the city will be destroyed.
"Ballistae! Prepare the special tiles!"
The commanders knew the next movements.
The triggerfish were loaded with tiles with sacks made of pork intestines filled with oil.
Hundreds of triggerfish were loaded with this type of tile. Aslan wanted to cause a chain explosion to do more damage and terrorize the armies.
Aslan followed the philosophy of the Byzantines who with the Greek fire terrorized and repelled the Arab and Western invasions for centuries.
Ned, Tywin, and Jon were shocked, quickly they ordered the retreat of their men. Tywin did not believe his son capable of such destruction, Jon was shocked at the cruelty of Aslan and Ned was silent but he especially felt sadness for his men.
Robert meanwhile had his mouth open. He was awakened by the cries of Ned, Tywin, and Jon who commanded the retreat.
"Order the general retreat! As soon as possible!" Robert also commanded the retreat, he may have been reckless but he was not an idiot. Hoster was the only one who was silent all along, his brother, Brynden, shook his head at his older brother.
Aslan standing on the walls had not finished, he wanted to crush this army making Lannisport a terrifying city that no one would dare to attack.
"Notch" Aslan cried out on the walls. The commanders of the other walls followed and also commanded.
"NOTCH !!!" Archers prepare their bows aimed at men on the run.
"Release!" The archers of the east wall following the order of Aslan released their arrows without hesitation. Thousands of arrows were raining down on the enemy's back.
The north and south walls quickly followed the east wall and they released their arrows.
Thousands of soldiers died under these arrows and Aslan ordered a second volley.
"Notch" The archers drew their bows at their ends and with a ruthless look Aslan ordered.
"Release!"
The three walls released thousands of arrows again, killing thousands more and the wounded in the first round of arrows.
The fleeing men ignored their dead comrades and fled, begging the seven gods to protect them.
Watching the fleeing army, Aslan closed his eyes for a long time before mumbling ...
"Indeed, the world cannot be changed with only beautiful words and compassion ..."
Aslan opened his eyes and rearranging the fleeing army, there was no hint of pity in his eyes or regret, only determination.
"I will assume all the sins the day it is necessary, but for the moment the ambitions are strewn with blood and on the blood, I will walk."
Aslan ordered the soldiers to be on their guard in case there was an attack but there were few hints of a new attack.
Aslan stayed on the walls watching Robert's camp in front of him.
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In Robert's camp ...
"What was that?!" A loud shout resounded in the largest tent.
A furious Robert threw a cup of wine on the ground.
"Someone scared to tell me what the hell was that ?!"
Robert's subordinates lowered their heads but Tywin, Ned and Jon was something else.
"I think that trying to take Lannisport now is impossible. Of our 80,000 men we have lost 15,000 while those of my son is still healthy, he has lost at most a few hundred."
Tywin coldly analyzed all of this with figures.
"In addition, the morale of our tropes is horrible. The first days they were pushed back, but today they were massacred without even being able to reach the walls in barely two hours. We will be lucky not to appear as the most shameful battle of Westeros. "
Jon Arryn analyzed the soldiers' emotions which must be discouraged by seeing their efforts in vain.
Ned wanted to return to the North and marry Catelyn. He had had enough of the war, it had taken too much from him and his men were suffering too.
Hoster Tully as for him seemed a broken man because a large part of his army was destroyed. Half of his army was burned and killed, which made his domination in the Riverlands fragile and his attacks on nobles in the year 282 had turned against him. Brynden shook his head in front of his brother who was not a soldier but a scholar, despite that he knew that he had to recruit when they returned because it was his duty to protect his family.
Seeing the other great lords having no plan, Robert was frustrated a maximum and he only wanted to crush heads with his hammer.
Unfortunately, no one had a plan to defeat Aslan or even make peace with him.
The day passed in Robert's camp with heavy tension because they were currently disadvantaged against Aslan who had 66,000 men on the ramparts with casualties among them while they currently had 65,000 soldiers.
Dead silence was in Robert's army.
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Inside Lannisport on the contrary ...
"Load the last few resources and call the last men to get them on board." Aslan was talking to some men at the port.
In less than two hours Aslan will set sail with his entire fleet with his army, gold, and resources to settle in Essos.
He left to Lnnisport 10,000 men of his elite army because they had a family in Lannisport but thanks to this Cersei had a fully loyal army which will protect them until death plus the 30,000 guards of Lannisport who were also elites because they were veterans of old battles. Cersei will be fully protected as there is little chance that she will be attacked.
Aslan watched the men carry crates containing food, materials, gold boxes and the horses in the solid galleons and the men climbed into the frigates.
In Aslan's personal galleon there will be Aslan and his relatives plus Rhaella and her group and Lyanna. Aslan let Victarion, his new admiral in another galleon get used to these new ships. Aslan left spies with Victarion to monitor him in case he had "funny" ideas.
Aslan still admired his personal galleon, which was adorned with gold with the first cannons in this world, although there were always faults. Aslan will revolutionize the navigation of this world and he has many plans for it. There were the summer islands, the basilica islands, and the Grand Moraq to dominate the seas south of Essos and Westeros.
He will create the invincible armada of Aslan.
Aslan went back to the castle to see Cersei one last time because it would be the last time before his departure for Essos. Aslan had confidence in Cersei because over the past 5 years Cersei has supported Aslan in Lannisport positively. Also among his women, she was the only one who really understood Aslan's problems. Shaira, Elia and Janna only knew that the weight of a lord was not easy and that it was an unbearable job because a lesser error and this can lead to the massacre of your family like what happened to the Targaryens
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