Chapter 301 Falling apart
"This can't go on like this!"
Lord Mace Tyrell roared angrily.
Although not many people paid attention to him.
Their current location is on the Blackwater River outside King's Landing.
When Stannis knew that there was no possibility of his daughter coming back, the window for peace talks was completely closed.
Furious, he even ordered his troops to launch a counterattack against Renly's army that surrounded them.
But his will was not implemented well.
The soldiers on the front line still fought bravely when they clashed with the Reach army.
But when facing Renly's direct troops, they often become just a joke.
Originally, everyone was in the same trench. If it weren't for two kings from the same Baratheon family, the two sides would never have fought against each other.
This kind of thing will naturally be known to the commanders of both sides as soon as it comes and goes.
However, surprisingly, Renly and Stannis seemed completely invisible.
There is a kind of tacit understanding inside.
In addition, the Reach is also responsible for the security issues in the occupied areas of King's Landing.
However, the hungry and anxious residents of King's Landing could do anything after breaking through their own bottom line.
In the past, soldiers from the Reach simply did not dare to enter those deep alleys.
After all, if you go in whole, it will probably come out in parts.
And as time goes by, "stealing" people sometimes happen even on main roads at night.
The soldiers went from working in pairs to groups of three to five, and now, no one dares to patrol unless there are ten of them.
There's nothing we can do about it!
Moreover, Renly's army has basically no consumption, and it plays tricks with Stannis's army every day.
On their side, the casualties suddenly increased.
The nobles complained, and the soldiers' fighting will was like an avalanche.
Even if the Tyrell family gave orders repeatedly, the people below them would obey and not move.
In view of this situation, in desperation, the Reach army, which had no relationship with Renly, withdrew from the city in despair.
With their withdrawal, Renly's direct descendants were left with less than 20,000 people. Faced with King's Landing, which was now like a devil's cave, Renly was encouraged to find a solution quickly.
Renly is not a fat man who can take out things to solve problems from the pocket in front of his belly.
What can he do?
So, after sending a letter to Stannis, Renly also led his army to withdraw from King's Landing.
The feeling of being stared at and used as food rations every day was too bad, and no one could bear it.
Of course Stannis's men knew what was going on.
They didn't foolishly take over King's Landing's defenses.
Besides, ten thousand people guarding such a large city of King's Landing is tantamount to not defending.
The relatively small place of the Red Fort is more conducive to defense, and the hungry people in the city cannot enter.
Stannis has food for himself, but he cannot tell the people in the city that he has food, otherwise, these hungry people will immediately become cannon fodder for Renly's army to attack.
Both sides know that this force is extremely powerful. If they use it well, the outcome can be reversed in an instant.
But the problem is, this is not controlled at all. Who can guarantee that these guys will not bite themselves back?
Therefore, the area outside the Red Keep of King's Landing has actually become a state of neglect.
If no one takes over, someone will die.
As for the people inside?
Sorry, the superior men can't see it.
As a result, both sides are now at a point where they are riding a tiger and are unable to get off.
We can't fight anymore, now it's up to us who can take more time.
Just like this, Clay had a good time in the north, but things were calm here.
The siege of King's Landing was actually lifted. After several city gates were ignored, the civilians of King's Landing who were finally able to get out ran like crazy.
The former residents of the capital are now dressed in rags, like refugees from a battlefield.
They looked angrily at the crowned stag banners of Renly and Stannis.
The royal banner that once protected them was now the culprit that brought them to this situation.
It can be said that the name Baratheon has completely stinked the streets in the minds of these people.
But they speak softly and can't change anything.
I can only drag my family and leave with my family.
Both parties acquiesced in the incident.
After all, with such a time bomb lying around, no one can sleep well.
Just when almost all the civilians in King's Landing were evacuated, the Tyrell army also added some soldiers to prepare for the second attack.
The news that the dragon burned Star Shuttle City reached the front lines of King's Landing.
All of a sudden, everyone was in an uproar.
Where is Star Shuttle City?
Home, can that cause problems?
What's that?
That was one of the most powerful nobles in the Reach.
Even if the current head of the family is a coward, the army is several thousand strong and he is still quite influential in this coalition.
Such a powerful Baker family, within one day...
All of a sudden... gone?
The princes of the Reach immediately blew up their camps.
"Immediately, mobilize our army and go south along the Prince's Pass! Fight in, kill the evil dragon, and avenge Lord Titus Peake!"
Later, news came that Titus Peake had narrowly escaped with his life, so the slogan became, hold the Dornish people responsible for the losses in the Reach and so on.
What a strong image of a big country.
However, Renly Baratheon, the coldly watching king, ruthlessly tore the fig leaf of these well-dressed nobles of the Reach.
"You just want to bring the army back to your castle as soon as possible, and then take care of your belongings, or prepare to fight the dragon. In short, you don't have the courage to fight the Dornish people head-on."
He said this very calmly in front of all the nobles at a banquet.
Most of the stormland nobles sneered at the riverbend nobles who had funny expressions on their faces, while the riverbend nobles, whose faces were slowly turning red, loudly refuted Renly's words.
They believed that this was the king's distrust of them.
At this moment, some nobles said that such an army would be boring and threatened to leave the coalition with their own troops.
Renly didn't coddle them at all.
The king is not threatened by anyone.
He allowed the nobles to leave with their own troops.
In fact, he had no power to stop them.
He has the power, but not the ability.
He knew very well that these guys were pawns sent by the Tyrell family to test him.
After the dragon burned Star Shuttle City, if Renly insisted on launching the Battle of King's Landing, then the alliance between the two sides would in fact cease to exist.
As soon as these troops left, a chain reaction immediately started.
Every once in a while, nobles would ask to leave the king's army and return to their fiefdoms.
Renly had no intention of stopping it, and he couldn't.
He said he was the king, but in fact, the only people who could really listen to him were the nobles of the Storm Land.
Although they look down on the Tyrell family, these Reach nobles will definitely maintain the same stance as the Tyrell family on this matter.
After this period of ups and downs, Renly is no longer the foolish and sweet royal child he used to be.
He saw it clearly, so he didn't stop it at all.
As for Stormland, he also had similar worries.
Although the dragon has only attacked the Reach, the Baratheon family is, after all, the culprit of the Usurper's War.
There was no way the Targaryens would let them go.
Although Renly was only a child when his eldest brother Lao Peng went to war.
He had thought of this a long time ago, and he had thought of it when Star Shuttle City turned into ashes.
Therefore, the reason why he so happily agreed to the betrayal of the people of the Reach was that he himself could no longer fight.
He sent a letter to his brother.
"My brother."
"King's Landing, I give it to you."
"I'll let you sit on that iron chair."
"Don't get your butt pierced~"
"There is nothing I can do. The Targaryens are here. I have to go back and protect my Storm's End Castle."
"I give you the throne, but not the crown."
"When there is a chance in the future, we two brothers will still have to decide the outcome."
"I'm looking forward to that day."
"Also: I'm sorry about Celine. I never wanted to do anything to her."
"Just burn it after reading it. Pretend that this letter doesn't exist, so you can save some face for me."
"King of the Seven Kingdoms, Renly Baratheon I, your brother."
When Mace Tyrell, who was both up and down at the same time, finally couldn't perform his set of loyal ministers anymore.
In Renly's sneer, Margaery Tyrell, still a virgin, left the king's camp, and together with her family's army, left the camp that once had a hundred thousand troops.
Among the Seven Kingdoms, the Hebang and Stormland Alliance forces, which were once overwhelming like Mount Tai, have since been officially disbanded.
Both parties know very well that if nothing unexpected happens, there will be no chance for cooperation between the two parties.
After all, a broken mirror cannot be reunited. A fruitless war has made both sides see many things clearly.
After the Tyrell family left, Renly took one last look at the magnificent but dilapidated capital of the Seven Kingdoms and rode away.
From this moment on, the Battle of King's Landing officially came to an extremely imperfect end.
This battle started with Robert Baratheon's "son" Joffrey Baratheon ascending the throne and ended with Renly Baratheon's withdrawal from King's Landing.
The three kings of Westeros, with a total of more than 130,000 troops, fought bloody offensive and defensive battles for this city.
Later, when the new king who unified the seven kingdoms summarized this period of history and counted the number of casualties that year, he realized the cruelty of this battle.
A total of nearly 40,000 people on both sides died directly or indirectly on the battlefield, and an uncountable number of soldiers were devoured by the hungry citizens of King's Landing.
There was no winner in this battle. Even after the battle, Stannis Baratheon, who was temporarily sitting on the Iron Throne, lost his heir. His rule quickly fell apart after a series of events.
And he also became the second crown to fall after Robb Stark in this "War of the Five Kings".
Sitting on the throne, but no one worships him.
Government orders cannot be issued thirty miles outside Junlin City.
But in any case, Stannis is much stronger than Robb Stark and his brother Renly Baratheon.
At least he sat on the Iron Throne he had always dreamed of.
Even if it is not recognized by the throne, it is dripping with blood.
But it was worth it. After all, when he lost his daughter and could not surrender to Targaryen no matter what, the only thing left in his life was this cold, sin-stained throne.
Everyone has his own ambitions.
Isn't it?
