Chapter 366 Dramatic Fall

The key to defending a city is to be foolproof.

This means that nothing can go wrong.

On the contrary, those who attack the city complete their victory in one battle, find a breakthrough point, then tear open the defense line and rush in.

This battle can be considered a win.

The same thing happened in the King's Landing scene.

Aegon Targaryen, with 30,000 men under his command, crowded the walls of King's Landing.

The dragon-shooting crossbows that were worked so hard to make were also distributed on almost every tower on the city wall.

As the saying goes, too many mosquitoes will kill an elephant.

The thick crossbow arrows, densely packed like locusts, did cause a little trouble for the dragons of Clay Manderly and Daenerys Targaryen.

Because no matter how thick the dragon scales on the body are, the thin membrane wings on the wings cannot withstand the concentrated fire of the crossbow arrows.

This problem did not exist before, because even if a crossbow arrow made a small hole in the wing, it would be a little painful at most, but it would not affect the flight, but would arouse the dragon's anger.

But after six or seven consecutive blows and three or four more holes, Clay knew that he could no longer force the dragon to charge forward.

The people down there are risking their lives.

This was about to lead to the final victory, and he did not want himself and Galesos to follow in the footsteps of Visenya and Melaxes.

If this arrow penetrates the eye, the demon hunter's body will not be protected from falling from a high altitude.

Maybe there will be additional damage.

Therefore, Clay and Daenerys chose to increase their altitude and hover above King's Landing, constantly putting pressure on them.

These "anti-aircraft guns" must always face the sky and cannot lower their heads to shoot at the enemy's siege army below.

Their goal was successful.

In fact, wherever the two giant dragons flew, the dragon-shooting crossbow position became tense.

Judging from the news they received a few times ago, every time the dragon attacks, the first breath of dragon flame will definitely be sprayed on the heads of these dragon-shooting crossbowmen.

So far, there has been no report of anyone escaping from the dragon flames alive.

The death rate is as high as 100%, a high-risk occupation.

In this devastated city of King's Landing, this news is no longer a secret.

If the officers hadn't forced these crossbowmen with knife handles, they would have given up long ago.

Without him, the psychological pressure is just too much.

The battle on the ground was also extremely fierce.

The first to launch was the Gate of the Gods, which was the widest on the battlefield.

This huge city gate located in the northwest corner of the city, as a protrusion, will be subject to pressure from three sides.

Therefore, this has always been the place with the greatest defensive pressure.

The city walls are broad and thick, and the city gates are covered with iron.

The two-person leadership team composed of Count Rickard Karstark and Count Tytos Blackwood, the commanders of the temporary ground forces who commanded this King's Landing battle, also placed the main force of the attack here.

Harrenhal's long-term efforts to build troops are not in vain.

Several people who had already set the goal of conquering a huge city like King's Landing had made plans in advance.

The heavy siege equipment was pursued all the way from the non-threatening rear, and finally transported to the front line before attacking King's Landing.

Then, with the melodious and desolate horn sound, the horn sounded.

The first to attack were not the infantry who were ready to attack.

Instead, they were large siege equipment that had been set up long ago.

For example, the large row of trebuchets placed behind the position.

There was a heartbreaking sound of wood being stressed, and the thick slinging arm was pulled down.

The heavy stone ball was wrapped in thick grease and was carried into the launching position by the warriors.

As the trip wire blocking the counterweight was suddenly opened, there was only the sound of howling wind, and the fireball, which was ignited by grease, traced a dark trajectory in the sky and slammed into the gate of the Gate of the Gods and its vicinity. of city walls.

The probability of burning the enemy to death with these greases and flames is not high, and this is not the purpose of using them.

The real purpose was to put thick smoke on the city wall to obscure the defenders' sight, create confusion for them, and buy time for the upcoming infantry attack.

The people from the Golden Company and other mercenary groups in Essos have almost never seen such a battle.

It's not that the battle in Essos isn't fierce, but that as a mercenary, once you see this kind of work where both sides fight to the death, no matter how high the price is, most mercenary groups will not accept it.

Everyone becomes a mercenary to make money, not to serve a city-state. For a reason that the mercenaries don't understand, they risk their lives.

In business, there is no need to work hard, right?

It's really unlucky to encounter such an offensive. The mercenaries will withdraw from the battle immediately.

Either surrender, or simply flee the city.

But now, they wanted to run, but found that they couldn't.

The dragon roared in the sky, and 50,000 people surrounded them outside the city.

Even at the Mud Gate in the south, the siege troops used arrows to shoot out a no-man's land from the city gate to the pier.

We had no choice but to bite the bullet and resist this visually shocking attack.

A sharp explosion was heard as the stone hit the city head, bringing with it flying fragments of wall bricks. Like bullets, it instantly penetrated the bodies of the surrounding soldiers.

Amidst the screams, they would either fly over the city wall, or get stuck on the wall of the city wall.

All the combustibles on the battlements were more or less ignited by flying sparks.

In an instant, thick smoke was everywhere!

The defenders all hid behind the battlements, hoping that this thin brick wall would provide them with a safe enough bunker.

In this state, there is no way to fight back.

There were shouts of various meanings everywhere, including rough yells from officers telling soldiers to stand up and shoot arrows downwards, dying wails from seriously injured soldiers, and the soldiers' prayers to gods who didn't know where to go.

On the city wall, it was simply hell!

The guy responsible for guarding the Gate of the Gods and confronting Clay's main army is Harry Strickland, the leader of the Golden Company.

This guy is not good at fighting. He is in this position purely because the Golden Company holds too many shares in this listed company named Aegon Targaryen.

The assassin, this guy was hiding on a tall building far away from the city wall, staring blankly at the smoke-filled defense line in front of him.

"Sir, we... need your orders on what to do."

The soldiers who came to ask for help asked in a low voice when they looked at the leader whose hands were trembling.

"Fight back... fight back."

Harry Strickland could only utter this feeble word.

The soldier said in his heart that if we can fight back, I still need to come to you?

Just as he was thinking about it, a huge explosion suddenly occurred in a tower about fifty meters away on the right side of the Gate of the Gods.

The deafening sound immediately froze everyone on the spot.

No one knows what happened.

A large number of stones collapsed into the sky. The tower was cut off in the middle, and the upper part that was still intact fell directly into the city.

The sound of falling stones, accompanied by the loud noise of heavy objects falling to the ground, finally made Harry Strickland wake up.

See the little bits of green emerging from the rocks.

He finally realized what was causing this scene.

His face turned red, he ignored the trembling, kicked over the chair in front of him, and shouted:

"Damn it, I told those guys a long time ago that the wildfire things need to be stored separately. Are they pigs? Ah!"

Yes, wildfire.

After they entered King's Landing, they found a sealed door beneath the ruined Pyromancer Guild.

No one knows what is behind this, because no living member of the Pyromancer can be found on the ground in King's Landing.

Either he died in the turmoil in King's Landing, or he escaped from this cemetery with the refugees.

This sealed gate can stop unorganized and poorly equipped mobs.

But they couldn't stop Aegon Targaryen's elite army.

So, after some operations, the door was opened, but what was found was surprising.

That was the wildfire that the Pyromancer Guild had accumulated for quite some time but had been unable to use.

Bottles after bottles, barrels after barrels, are all neatly stacked in the cold and damp basement.

The eye-catching fire ban sign above makes people feel chilly when they look at it.

However, no matter what the soldiers thought, Aegon Targaryen and his staff felt like they had found a treasure.

Especially Varys, this guy knows how powerful this thing is.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended to use this high-risk thing in city defense battles.

Any siege force exposed to such a can of wildfire, even if it is wrapped in iron armor, will definitely end up being torn into pieces with no bones left.

After a small experiment on the power of this Westeros-style "bomb", everyone agreed to the proposal.

However, they never expected that this thing would hit their own people first before it could hit Clay Mandler's army.

The soldiers didn't know the power of this thing. After all, there was no time to educate them one by one.

Wildfires are placed separately on the walls of King's Landing. Logically speaking.

This is something Harry Strickland emphasized again and again.

However, there is only one possibility for this scene to happen:

The bastard in charge of military supplies piled these things together with ordinary defensive equipment.

Moreover, the guy in charge of the inspection must not be aware of this.

The fireball that had just been projected in had flames, and was carried into the tower by soldiers or gravel.

As a result, this bright green fireball, which was enough to collapse the walls of King's Landing, slowly rose under the gaze of everyone on the battlefield.

Damn it, everyone should know about wildfire before they can use it!

"what is that?"

Outside the city, Tytos Blackwood tried his best to comfort the frightened horse under his crotch, and retreated continuously.

The lips under the beard were still muttering involuntarily.

This scene was completely beyond his knowledge reserve.

This is definitely not the kind of momentum that can be created by the flints fired by oneself.

"I don't know, but... obviously that's good news."

Rickard Karstark was much more nervous.

When I saw this scene, I was just surprised. I immediately discovered that the originally solid tower at the explosion site had now become a pile of construction debris.

The air wave caused by the surrounding explosion almost overturned all the surrounding defenders still standing on the city wall.

The 100-meter city wall on the east side of the Gate of the Gods is now undefended.

good chance!

If we don’t attack now, when will we wait?

The two earls, who were the ground commanders, looked at each other, drew their swords from their waists, and issued the order for a full-scale attack.

There are piles of rubble, so it doesn't matter if the cavalry can't get in. As long as the infantry can rush in, attack some distance to the west and capture the Gate of the Gods.

By opening the huge city gate, which is large enough for four horses to enter and exit at the same time, their cavalry can charge directly into the city.

This battle was decided by three points.

Another horn blast sounded, and the slings stopped firing. The infantrymen in the front row, carrying heavy shields to block arrows, pounced towards the obvious flaw in the wall of King's Landing.

For these big soldiers, being able to achieve military merit recognized by everyone in a high-mortality battle such as a siege battle is their only chance to be promoted from civilians to minor nobles.

After all, knights are qualified to be canonized as knights, but first, you have to show enough for others to canonize you and grant you the merits of your family territory.

It was expected that there would be heavy casualties and a considerable amount of bloodshed in order to get close to the city wall.

However, by the time they had reached the front, there were not even a few arrows stuck in the shields.

The explosion just now destroyed not only the surrounding defenders, but also the courage in their hearts.

Seeing the army coming like a tide, they stood up swayingly, without the courage to resist at all.

Screaming and running away.

No one tried to stop them, because the supervising team also ran away, and even faster.

…

In the Red Keep, Aegon Targaryen, who felt that the king should stay here, rejected the suggestion of his staff to move to a nearby residence.

But now, he couldn't help it.

"Your Majesty, let's go quickly. There is a big hole in the wall on the east side of the Gate of the Gods. That place... is probably lost now!"

The speaker was Harry Strickland, who had escaped in embarrassment.

This commander-in-chief, who should actually be on the front line, is now covered in fat and shaking like chaff.

The scene just now frightened him.

It started as anger, but it went away faster than anything else.

He realized that if he was also supervising the battle on the city wall, maybe he would still be alive now.

Others didn't know, but he knew exactly how much wildfire he had brought to the city wall.

Just at the Gods Gate, the big fireworks just now can be lit at least twice.

Moreover, the enemies outside react too quickly.

He looked at the breach with his own eyes. His soldiers who still had the courage to resist, holding their swords, formed a thin front line on the pile of rocks with disgrace.

However, facing the wolf-like enemy, they only resisted for less than ten minutes before being directly broken through.

Clay Manderly's banner has entered King's Landing.

When he saw this scene, he was immediately filled with fear and thought that he could not stay in a dangerous place for long.

So, taking his own guards, he quickly ran towards the Red Fort in the southeast.

Before leading him away, he gave the order to the entire garrison near the Gate of Gods to defend to the death.

They cannot withdraw. If they do, it will be a total collapse.

When the time comes, how will big men like them have time to decide whether to leave or not.

"Can't hold on any longer?"

Little Aegon really didn't expect that King's Landing, which he had yet to warm up, would be in danger of falling because of such an almost dramatic mistake.

"Captain Harry, I think your current position is not here, but on the front line."

Prime Minister Jon Clinton reminded him coldly.

Harry Strickland ignored him at all, but looked at Governor Illyrio behind Little Aegon, and Varys who was silent beside him.

After a long time, the Governor of Pentos sighed and whispered:

"Protect Your Majesty, let's go!"