Bab 29: Preparation for war at sea
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During the night Ser Barristan used to join us, to play chess with me, I wonder about the training he did and the moral codes of the soldiers.
Ser Barristan: Tell me, child, I saw your men refuse the alcohol that was offered to them and they drank boiled water or infusions of water and tea leaves. When I asked, they told me that you created a code for your soldiers.
Adrián moves a chess piece and answers: Yes, the code is really simple, during their services or working hours they cannot drink, drinking clouds your judgment, a vice that is better moderated to a minimum, second, no woman can drink, drinking is a dishonorable act to their family and humiliating for the women themselves.
they are forbidden to kill civilians, loot, or participate in acts, even if they are part of the Lord's army, each soldier receives 10 gold dragons a month as payment, in addition to taking an oath to the old gods on their marriages, surprisingly they are more useful than at 7
Ser Barristan nods and moves his bishop: As for his training, I've seen your soldiers review formations at night or practice spears or rapiers.
Adrián: yes they must be the youngest soldiers, they are nervous, we train them so that in battle they can fight with any weapon, if their sword breaks, they will use their spear, if it also breaks, the dagger, if all else fails they will use their fists, but they won't go down helpless if we go down we'll go down fighting to the last drop of blood
Ser Barristan was surprised and we continued playing, Jammie came away and told Ser Barristan that it was his turn to replace him, the poor man looked bad, and Robert was having sex with 3 peasant girls, I passed him a cup of mint, and orange tea.
Jammie: Thanks boy I need it, he answers me.
Adrián: Hard night from what I see. Take a sip of the tea.
Jammie: You can't imagine it Boy, tomorrow we will arrive at the meeting point with Ned Stark and the hosts of the north, The Reach and the Tyrell army, and The West with my father. At least Robert will hold back for a bit.
Adrián: Right, he would have to be planning a strategy, The damned Calamares, they have terrain in their favor, they know the sea and it is their land.
Jammie: You seem to hate pirates kid.
Adrián: The truth is that along with the slavers they are what I hate the most, my father died defending the islands when my mother was pregnant, by the gods the Greyjoys are a disease, damn those idiots ignore the wealth they have in the sea.
Jammie drinks more tea and asks: What wealth do they have?
Adrián: First fishing, which is what the North lacks most, but they have plenty of resources
Jammie: The north lacks food and has wood, minerals, and animal skins.
Adrián: Exactly the Greyjoys could be the richest house in the north just feeding the north with fish, but their old customs are simpler, killing and stealing, another unpleasant practice the Salt Wives, I spit on that they are slaves.
Jammie nods his head they were horrible beings.
Adrián: knowing Robert, I'm sure he would leave Old Balon still on the island, hell what he would have to do is dissolve the Greyjoy house, limit the ships of each house between 10 to 20 and name a new house the most convenient Rodrik Harlaw the reader, the guy doesn't want to get into the old ways and he's a great trader, send all the greyjoy asses to the wall, come on I even think ned will have a greyjoy squire, being serious with anyone else that would work but you're talking of the Greyjoys.
Jammie nods, she had to admit the boy looked like his father, but he had a heart for his people, he was ruthless with those who tame the common people, his company was pleasant and in truth, if Cersei had a Daughter she was going to recommend that her couple was the Child.
He was a true gentleman from head to toe, he avoided all of Robert's vices.
he had practiced with him and he was an excellent swordsman, he was a little jealous he had a masterful sword, it was not Valyrian steel, but it was much more beautiful in a soft green tone, hilt in the shape of leaves and the sword was engraved with various golden patterns of trees, according to the boy Dulan had forged it if I wanted I could ask for one, I would deliver it later (although Adrián had already made one)
Robert would sometimes join in eating, the boy had shown many new foods, rare fruits, there was one called dragon fruit, a very strange fruit when you cut it you could see that the fruit had different colors, it tasted delicious Mild and sweet a little intense.
Also in the supplies they brought a meat grinder as he called it, a tool with a crank and an input and output for the meat, inside there was a blade that chopped and ground it, and ground meat was obtained, with a mixture of egg, salt, and other species could be made into hamburgers, they could be made on the grill, they were accompanied by two slices of lightly toasted bread inside, some vegetables were added, pickles, onions, tomato, lettuce to your liking, although the boy said they were good with condiments and cheese, the truth was that they were delicious.
Robert came to eat several in the camp, even the boy said that he would send him the recipe and the grinding machine. Robert was slapping the boy on the back vigorously.
Everyone seemed to like the boy, he was young but he had wisdom, he was a good negotiator and strategist according to Barristan, they had talked about how to raid the iron islands several times and each plan seemed feasible as long as Stannis, Paxter and Davos broke the fleet, besiege the gates and directly attack the simplest but feasible plan, minimize civilian casualties and recover the salt wives, the problems are Euron with his ship the Silence and Victarion with his Iron Victory,
That day a raven arrived Varamar had been attacked, Jason Mallister had killed Rodrik Grayjoy and repelled the attack meanwhile the combined fleets of Stannis, Paxter, and Davos were planning to finish off the iron fleet
Pov Davos meeting of captains flagship Trant, Gea.
Lord Stannis and Lord Paxter boarded the flagship of the House of Trant Davos named after a Galleon a giant ship about 100 meters long and about 20 wide, a ship made purely of Iron Wood.
Equipped with Ballistas 10 on each side and 1 catapult on the bow and stern, large copper tubes that spit fire called flamethrowers, the second floor was equipped with flame throwers that spit fire from openings in the sides of the ship in a total of 84 tubes, 42 on each side.
the ship was a monster of war, in the captain's chambers there was a wooden board with a map of all the lands.
On the map there were marked trade routes and safe sea routes, several hand-carved ships were positioned, and in the chamber, there were also instruments never seen before, Davos explained that they were inventions of Dulan and the other inhabitants.
one was a compass, a navigational instrument that provides a reference direction concerning north in the horizontal plane and allows the measurement of horizontal angles concerning this direction. Stannis was as amazed at the invention as Paxter was.
Soon we focus on the map
Stannis: We have to break the Iron fleet, if we don't the soldiers will never be able to attack Pyke.
Paxter: The fleet is Led by Victarion, and they know these seas like the back of his hand, their ships are fast and will try to strike first, Paxton took the figures of the ships in black and framed them around the iron islands
Davos: what if we give them what they want
Stannis: Davos, what are you thinking?
Davos - give them what they want or what they think their ships are better and they are better sailors, set them up, Davos looks at the map and marks a spot here, Beautiful Islands
Stannis: Interesting, it could work, but we need the perfect distraction so our ships can hit them.
Davos: and the best ship in the fleet is Gea, an IronWood battleship, it is large but the fastest and easiest ship to maneuver, even if they ram with all their strength they would not make a dent in the hull, in addition, the ship has a thousand crew members each trained in Lord Adrian's sea guard. And we have 400 flame tubes and another 2,000 on the resource ships.
Paxton: It could work, but we have to be perfect in the attack and outrun them quickly, we have to be careful with the damn ships Silence, Iron Victory, and Golden Storm are personal ships of the Greyjoys and they outperform regular ships quite a bit
Davos positions the allied figures on Bella Island
Each captain returned to the ship from him. And we set out for the island
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