Chapter 207 The problem of eating

Margaery Tyrell has not been with her nominal husband Renly Baratheon for a long time.

Renly and Stannis, the two Baratheon kings, fought fiercely in the streets of King's Landing.

Basically, Renly attacked during the day and captured Stannis' position in several blocks at a great cost. Then, at night, Stannis, who was more familiar with the terrain, waited for an opportunity to push back.

In short, it went back and forth like this, and fought over and over again. In the end, because Renly's army had a numerical advantage, and with only about 6,000 people left, Stannis finally decided to abandon all the neighborhoods except Aegon's High Hill.

The morale of Renly's army was greatly boosted, and they were ready to pursue the victory, but an unexpected problem caused them to pause their attack.

The hungry people of King's Landing finally reached the breaking point. In order not to starve to death and to still have something to eat for their wives and children, some people finally chose to take a desperate risk and attacked the patrolling Renly soldiers at night.

Not all food in Renly's occupied area in King's Landing was gone, but most of it was hidden. In order to snatch food, the hungry people first had to arm themselves.

As a result, in a very short period of time, nearly a hundred mob attacks on the army occurred in King's Landing. Once again, the master changed his golden robe and did not dare to enter the dark alleys of King's Landing.

As local gangsters, they knew very well what was going on in King's Landing. If they entered, a rusty blade would be handed out from nowhere.

There was no other way. An earl in charge of public security in Renly's army had no choice but to do it himself. He sent more than a thousand soldiers into the alleys of King's Landing to try to seize the weapons in the hands of the mob.

But he soon paid the price for his foolish behavior.

In a very short period of time, two-thirds of more than a thousand people were killed by the mob in King's Landing in various ways. The rest fled as if they were dead, with faces full of fear and vowing never to go inside again.

This matter reached the ears of Duke Mace Tyrell, which made Duke Gauting, who was full of thoughts about the future life of the Prime Minister, very angry, so he ordered that three thousand people be mobilized to enter.

One thing to mention, the three thousand people he mobilized were all the troops from the Reach, and this idiot actually mobilized the army himself without even saying hello to Renly Baratheon.

Facing a violent army of three thousand people, the mob in King's Landing immediately disappeared. The Tyrell army rushed in, and what they saw was shocking.

Of all the soldiers who had disappeared during the first search, almost none had a complete body. Many of them had even been torn into pieces, both raw and cooked, into an unknown number of pieces.

Some even had only one head left. As for where the body was, the soldiers looked at the fearful, numb, but hungry eyes around them, and a chill ran from their heels to the top of their heads.

The soldiers suddenly realized that in the eyes of these people, they were probably not heroes maintaining order or justice, but... prey!

As a result, the morale of the Tyrell family collapsed, and the timid ones even peed on the spot. They might not be so scared if they went to the battlefield to fight. Faced with a group of similar people who always wanted to eat them, they ran away.

Duke Mace Tyrell was furious, but there was nothing he could do about it. Only then did King Renly Baratheon, who was staying at St. Baelor's Cathedral, find out about it.

At this point, everyone finally understood why Tywin Lannister dared to give up King's Landing so generously.

Originally, they thought that Tywin Lannister deliberately gave it up and wanted them and Stannis to kill each other.

But now it seems that Tywin Lannister knows very well that if King's Landing continues like this, he will definitely not be able to defend it. This is a mess thrown to them, but they happily accepted it.

King's Landing has a population of hundreds of thousands, and their army brought some food. Coupled with the long supply line from the Reach to King's Landing, the food they could bring was very limited.

This is not a time of peace. A lot of transportation capacity has been used elsewhere, and there is no way to feed the hundreds of thousands of people in King's Landing. The only way is to reach peace as soon as possible and restore the river's normal food supply to King's Landing.

Previously, the Reach had chosen to side with Renly, so Joffrey, who was still in King's Landing, was naturally starved of food. Unexpectedly, he was tricked now, what a twist of fate.

Stannis does not have this problem. He has a small army, and the connection between the Red Keep and the Mud Gate has not been cut off. As long as his fleet is there, it can continue to send food to the Red Keep.

There's no point in Renly grabbing that little food, as it won't be able to meet the huge food shortage in King's Landing.

"Everyone, now you need to turn your noble brains on and tell me, how to solve the situation in front of you?"

It was another banquet, but this time, no one had the heart to taste the delicacies placed in front of them.

"Perhaps, we can give them some of our food first and let them endure it for a while. When we take down the Red Fort, the food provided to them will return to normal."

Mace Tyrell was wearing a noble robe embroidered with golden roses. He didn't look like he was on the battlefield at all, but more like he was in the garden of his High Court.

"Well... what you want to share is not just a little food. Stannis has abandoned the entire mob in the city to us. They have been hungry for many days. How much food do you expect us to give them?"

Randyll Tully did not give any face to Feng Jun, who was nicknamed "Inflatable Fish", and pointed out very simply that this plan was whimsical and had no possibility of being implemented.

"Then I would like to ask Mr. Landao, if we don't distribute food to them, these people are so hungry that they eat people, have no honor and morals, and should go to the seven levels of hell, what should we do?"

"Knight of Flowers" Loras Tyrell immediately retorted. In his opinion, it was completely unimportant whether Lord Randyll was right or not. His retort against his father made him very unhappy.

Duke Mace Tyrell glanced proudly at the somewhat mute Earl of Horn Hill, with a cheerful smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, should we withdraw from King's Landing temporarily and leave this trouble to Stannis?"

The speaker came from the nobleman of the Stormlands, Count Bryce Cullen of Nightsong City. He was a young man in his early twenties, but at least his suggestions made sense.

However, as soon as these words came out, they were immediately opposed by all the nobles in the River Bend.

"No! Your Majesty's army has not failed, why should you retreat?"

"Stannis has a fleet. What if he brings food to these mobs and arms them to deal with us?"

"We broke into King's Landing and then retreated in embarrassment. How do others think of us?"

I yelled a lot, whether it made sense or not, in a loud voice and a low voice. In a word:

There are no doors!

On the other hand, the princes of the Storm Land on the side are all interested. They all know that withdrawing now is the best choice, and King's Landing can no longer stay.

The mob has just begun, but they are already making trouble like this. By the time they are completely hungry, they will suffer heavy losses. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this city that smells of shit and urine.

It's ridiculous. In fact, only they themselves understand the reason why the nobles of the Reach are firmly opposed.

That is, they want to fight because they have everything they need if they win, but the soldiers under their command don't want to fight at all. If they withdraw, their military morale will be completely ruined.

The stormland nobles and the soldiers below all understood that this was their king, their master, and defeating him would definitely make their side popular and popular.

But for the soldiers of the Reach, many of them had no idea who Renly Baratheon was before. They followed him to the end and worked hard to the end, but they could not get anything. No one harvested their own food, and their wives might have been stolen by others.

It is really difficult to keep the morale of such an army high. There is no console. You can just call it up and enter a code.