章 159: Strange captives
The Mud Gate, also known as the Riverside Gate, faces the outlet of the Blackwater River and is the closest gate to Aegon's Hill and the Red Keep.
"Okay. I'll send someone to contact the defenders at Mud Gate and King's Gate in the next two days to see if I can win over some officers."
Garland took note of his grandmother's instructions, and at the same time prepared to get some information from the low-level Lion family soldiers.
The Queen of Thorns, who was sitting on the chair, thought of another thing, "You asked Loras to find a few noble knights who often hang out in King's Landing. They stayed with me that day and helped me carefully identify whether it was as rumored. Man was given to someone in Duskdale City..."
The Queen of Thorns lives in Highgarden in the Reach. Like her granddaughter Margaery and grandson Garland, she has never met the eight-year-old Tommen before.
Loras stayed in King's Landing for more than half a year and participated in two tourneys, but he spent a lot of time disturbing Renly. Apart from public occasions attended by many nobles, the number of meetings with Tommen did not count. too much.
"Yeah. But don't worry too much, grandma. Even if Lord Randyll Tarly takes away 10,000 people, we still have more than 30,000 soldiers outside the city. As long as Cersei is in her right mind, she won't have any trouble with us. Disrespectful."
With the army in hand, Garland is still very confident.
For the Reach, which is almost united, it is the person they choose who can become the King of the Seven Realms.
…
Casterly Rock City, Seven Stars Cathedral.
Unlike most people's imagination of the buildings in Casterly Rock, the Temple of the Seven Stars covers an area almost as large as the temple in a normal castle.
At this moment, Tywin's body, which had been processed by the maester, was resting in the middle of the seven-pointed star base in the temple. The large colored stone eyes covered Tywin's eyes, making the body look a bit weird.
Gina Lannister, Emmon Frey, Damion, Lucien and other members of the Lannister family,
As well as dozens of remaining Western nobles such as Lady Alexa Redford, Tytus Brax, Lince Layton, Tybalt Craher, Harris Swyver, etc. Under the leadership of Sir Feng, they walked to the body of Feng Jun one by one to pay their respects.
The whole ceremony went very slowly. After the last nobleman finished remembering his lord, all the noblemen and the stronger wealthy knights were called to the castle hall by Kevan and began to discuss the next move.
"His Majesty Tommen's kingdom has been challenged as never before. The dragon warriors, the Stormlands rebels, the northern rebels...especially threats from the Riverlands. An army of thousands of people has bypassed the mountains south of Stone Hall Town. , Entering the territory of Deep Cave Castle..."
Kevan briefly summarized the current situation, and then ordered each family to mobilize their territories again to prepare for the attack from the Riverlands.
Loyal Lannister Housemasters such as Lord Linse Lydon and Harris Swyver expressed their stance on behalf of the nobles, saying that it could be done.
But this made other nobles dissatisfied.
Mrs. Alexa Redford pointed out: "My family has even lost its territory. How can we recruit new soldiers?"
Her husband, Lord Leo Redford, died in the Battle of the Red Fork led by Edmure Tully. It is said that all the remaining Redford members died in the war, and her family's Golden Tooth City was destroyed by the river people. Control is in hand.
The Redford family had a rather special status in the Western Territory. Kevan did not dare to ignore Lady Alexa's opinions, so he had to comfort them repeatedly.
When other nobles saw someone taking the lead, they also spoke out their demands.
"My father, Andros Brax is still in Riverrun. Should His Majesty Tommen and the Queen Mother find a way to get him back?" Tytus Brax shouted.
He is the eldest son of Count Andros.
"And my lord, Lord Damon Malbrand, Ser Adam lives and dies for Lannister. You cannot leave his father alone."
A wealthy knight loyal to Brand City said.
Kevan quickly expressed his position: "My mother is also from the Malbrand family. I will definitely not let my cousin Damon stay in the water prison for a long time."
There are even members of the Lannister branch who asked Kevan to exchange for Stafford and Davon. The two father and son are currently imprisoned in the Golden Teeth City.
The noble captives in the Western Region are concentrated in Riverrun and Golden Teeth. Currently, these two places still belong to two different forces. The nobles' request for prisoner exchange makes Kevan feel very worried.
There are no prisoners of the same level in the hands of the Westerners to exchange.
Fortunately, the alliance between the Lannister and the Reach was strong enough. After coaxing and deceiving for a long time, Kevan finally got the nobles to start obeying his orders.
But the situation in the West itself is not much better than that in the Riverlands. Places such as Brand City and Crag City in the north were once ruined by Robb and the Northern Army, and places such as Corn City and Crake Hall in the south were mobilized to the maximum extent.
After all calculations, the entire Western Territory can only gather three to four thousand people now. This is the total number that can only be obtained by adding the elite guards at Lannister Port and the defenders of Casterly Rock.
Before it was over, two pieces of news came from the maester, which made Kevan feel even more troubled:
Roose Bolton, the Warden of the North, asked the Iron Throne to send two thousand reinforcements; his nephew Tyrion was assassinated by the killer left by Stannis, and even his body was not found.
When Sir Kevan traveled thousands of miles to mourn, he deliberately did not take Tyrion back to the West in order to delay the dispute over James and Tyrion's inheritance.
Unexpectedly, this little scheming actually cost my nephew his life.
"Alas! Maester Krelen, ask the stonemasons to build a stone statue for Tyrion, as tall as possible, and then bury him in the Hall of Heroes. Then order him a set of gold-plated armor and put it on the stone statue. His Life is full of disgrace, let him be more dignified after death."
Kevan ordered.
The Hall of Heroes is a unique building in Casterly Rock. All Lannister families and close relatives, warriors who died for the family can be buried there. Jaime and Tyrion often played there when they were children.
The maester noted Ser Kevan's orders.
After carefully considering the situation, Kevan felt that the few people in the Western Region could not defend Deep Cave City and Silver Mountain City. The lords of these two counties, Leiden and Saliot, were relatively important and could not just sit idly by.
"Go and send ravens to King's Landing, and ask the people of the Reach to send an army to rescue the West. The number of soldiers will be tens of thousands." He ordered the maester again.
As for Duke Bolton's request for help in the north, he was unable to do anything for the time being.
There are only two ways for thousands of troops to enter the northern border, the land route going north from Carlin Bay, and the sea route landing near White Harbor.
But these two lands are still in the hands of the Northerners who are loyal to the Stark family, and there are rebels in the Riverlands. No matter how brilliant Kevan and the Westerners are, they can't figure out how to send troops into the Northern Territory. .
After taking all the remedial measures, Kevan appointed his cousin Myonda Lannister as the new acting city lord of Casterly Rock. As for the guardian of the West, he temporarily assumed the role of guardian of the west.
After Kevan ordered most of the nobles to return to their territories to recruit peasant soldiers, this gathering of the lords of the West ended hastily.
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King's territory, near Dusk Valley City.
A large number of military camps are neatly arranged on the coast, and the soldiers are doing what they should do in an orderly manner. The infantrymen on the watchtower glanced in all directions with bright eyes. Within a league outside the camp, there were light cavalry under the banner of the Hunters patrolling back and forth.
With their hands tied, Brienne Tarth and Lady Stoneheart were "escorted" by a group of Tully cavalry, riding into the riverside military camp, and were then taken to the main tent by the officers.
After the female knight was captured once by the mercenaries led by Rock Holt, she set off from the River King's military camp alone and returned to the northern part of the king's territory again, preparing to find traces of Mrs. Stark.
Unexpectedly, she was found, but she was captured by the Brotherhood Without Banners, and then almost hanged from a tree by the possessed Madam Stoneheart.
Fortunately, the Riverbend soldiers arrived in time and defeated the Brotherhood Without Banners detachment, leaving Lady Stoneheart as a prisoner of war with her hands tied.
"We discovered a few members of the Brotherhood Without Banners, annihilated most of them, and obtained two strange prisoners. These two have a special status. We dare not kill them, so we will bring them back for your disposal."
The officer briefly explained the cause and effect to the commander Lord Randyll Tarly.
Landao, who was considering the marching route, raised his head, waved the officers and attendants out, and stared in surprise at the big scar on "Mrs. Stark's" neck.
"How are you, madam?"
Mrs. Stoneheart made a "ho-ho" sound, and Brienne Tarth on the side answered for her:
"Madam can still move. Your people killed her translator. Madam Stoneheart's throat leaked and she was temporarily unable to speak."
Lady Stoneheart, with all black eyes, stared at Brienne with a ferocious and resentful expression.
Randyll looked at "Mrs. Stark" several times in surprise before turning to another acquaintance.
"Miss Tas, to which king are you loyal to now?"
Because Brienne had joined Renly's Rainbow Seven before, Landau was very familiar with the only daughter of the Stormlands noble.
It was he who told Brienne about the soldiers' boring bet before, and the two had a good relationship.
"Please call me Ser Brienne." Miss Tarth corrected Lord Tully's mistake, "Since His Majesty Renly was killed by the shadow, I have not loyal to a certain king, but to Miss Sansa Stark. Allegiance."
On this evening, Randyll Tarly, who thought he was well-informed, was shocked again: "Shadow, His Majesty Renly was killed by Shadow? Can you elaborate?"
The apparent corpse of Mrs. Stark shocked Randyll once, and another piece of breaking news reached his ears.
"Yes, it was a shadow that looked like Stannis that attacked and killed His Majesty Renly." Brienne also wanted to find a sensible old nobleman to tell what she saw with her own eyes, so that the world would know that she did not betray His Majesty Renly. .
So the female knight started from the time Renly took 20,000 troops and his ally Lady Stark to confront her brother outside Storm's End, to the shadow attack, and then to the two of them being killed by Red Guard Robert Roy. Si let go.
"After that, we headed north, preparing to return to Riverrun, but a Lannister cavalry attacked us on the way. I...I failed to protect the lady, and then..."
Seeing that Randyll Tarly was still interested in listening, Brienne told Earl of Horn Hill everything that happened in the next few months.
After hearing this, the serious Earl Tully couldn't help but marveled.
"The world has changed. The order established by the previous oaths and knights began to collapse, and magic, parricide, and oathbreakers began to run rampant."
He thought of the magic he had done for his eldest son Samwell, and wondered why the two wizards failed, but shadow magic and necromancy could succeed.
Sir Brienne also echoed: "Yes, I am the only real knight left. The oaths are cast aside casually, the royal family can even kill their relatives, and the Imperial Council of the Iron Throne is even more ruined by stupid queens, eunuchs, and conspirators." Controlled by the family and the butcher."
Since Grand Maester Pycelle had a decent public image, Brienne did not say anything bad about him.
After fiddling with her voice for a long time, Lady Stoneheart finally said her first words in the tent:
"You are working for the Lion family? I will kill you sooner or later."
Resurrection did not make Lady Stoneheart cherish her new life, but instead solidified her hatred for the Lannister family infinitely.
Randall Tarly shook his head, "I am working for the Tyrells, the guardian family of the Reach. Whether it is Renly or Tommen now, my feudal lord pledged allegiance first, and then I followed his loyalty."
Although he was robbed of his beloved Brightwater, this earl who still adheres to the style of an old-fashioned person still has some loyalty to the Tyrells, at least on the surface.
"What's the difference? You're still killing people for the lions?" Lady Stoneheart's target of resentment was Randyll Tarly, "I'll kill you sooner or later."
Her black eyes made Lord Tarly feel creepy, so he called his servants to properly place the two strange women.
No matter what "Lady Stark" said, Randyll decided to obey Kevan's orders first and lead the River Reach Army to attack northward until they captured Maiden Spring and other places.
...
On the south side of the Moon Mountains, the River Camp.
The tall Hostin proudly walked into the camp hidden in the dense forest. Behind him, several valley captives were being pressed by the mailed sword and shield soldiers of the Frey family.
"I have captured another important captive. This time, His Majesty will reward me with a piece of territory."
After meeting a knight from Arran City, Hostin said this.
Hugo Vance looked at the captive behind Frey in surprise.
"Seven Gods, I think this prisoner is worth a baron."
As the commander of the scouts, he naturally recognized that the important prisoner Hostin was Simon Templeton, the owner of Nine Stars City and the strongest knight with property in the Seven Kingdoms.
The two of them then took Sir Templeton to find their king.
In the big tent, after listening to Hugo Vance's introduction, Arthur hurriedly asked Podrick to take off the rag on Sir Simon Templeton's mouth so that the old knight could speak.
"My people are rude."
The King of Rivers first apologized to the old knight, and then sent Hostin away, saying: "Your territory will be near Stone Hall Town. The specific scope will depend on your future achievements, but at least the title will be a viscount. Now you leave first."
Horsting was very satisfied with the king's arrangement. After bowing, he walked away arrogantly.
According to Arthur's previous chat with Sansa, he learned that the owner of Nine Stars City had some relatives with the Stark family.
In fact, the youngest son of Lord Romar Royce married a certain Miss Stark, and then the three daughters born were married into the three great families of the Vale, Waywood, Corbray, and Templeton, which made the Wolf family have many distant relatives in the Vale.
Since it was no longer a secret that Sansa was about to marry the King of the Rivermen, Arthur tried to win over the old knight.
"Sir Simon, I am considered Miss Sansa Stark's fiancé, and we are still relatives!"
Arthur personally moved a chair to the old knight and asked him to sit down and talk.
"Don't talk about other things, I was ordered to contact you to kill Lynn Corbray."
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