Chapter 138 Asking for the Bone Bridge

The Gale Tower is located at the end of the backbone on the north side of the Weir River. It is the last watchtower under the control of Blackport. Going south, you will cross the Weir River and enter the area actually controlled by Weir City.

Standing on the top of the Gale Tower, you can clearly see the Weir River and the Bone Bridge across the river. You can also see the Serpent Tooth Tower on the other side of the Weir River, which is the fortress used by the City of Weir to monitor the north.

It was already evening when Linde's team arrived here. They did not continue marching, but camped on a slightly flat ground under the Gale Tower.

While setting up camp, Linde and Nymeria took a few people to the Weir River and looked at the situation under the Serpent Tooth Tower on the other side.

It has been three days since they set off from Black Harbor. During these three days, Rosso, Daisy and Rossos reported on the situation ahead from time to time.

In general, things did not go beyond Lind's expectation. With the addition of Russell and Daisy, the Weir soldiers who tried to destroy the village had no way to resist the attack of these cavalry.

What was even more unfavorable to these Well City soldiers was that in order to destroy the village faster and drive away the people in the village, they dispersed the soldiers into more than a dozen teams. As a result, Rosso and the others were given the opportunity to defeat each one.

Only about 30 of the more than 1,000 soldiers garrisoning the city of Vail fled back to the north bank of the Vail River. Almost half of the remaining soldiers were killed by the cavalry, and the other half were all captured.

Among the hundreds of captured soldiers, except for some relatively honest soldiers who were not seriously injured and were taken with them by Rosso and the others, the rest of the prisoners were all handed over to those who were attacked by the Weir City soldiers at Rosso's suggestion. Destroyed village guard.

As for the final treatment of those prisoners, they are not responsible for it, but from the hatred-filled eyes of the villagers, it is not difficult to guess that the fate of these prisoners will not be good.

Weir City obviously did not expect that Linde would act so decisively, and the cavalry under his command fought so fiercely. In less than two days, more than a thousand garrison troops were wiped out before they could ask for help from Weir City.

This obviously frightened the lord of Weil City, Wyland Weil. As if facing a powerful enemy, he temporarily recruited a large number of farmers from the villages in his territory to serve as soldiers, mixed with a dozen knights and more than a hundred real knights. Soldiers were stationed at the other end of the Bone Bridge and even began to build fortifications to block the Bone Bridge to prevent Linde's cavalry from raiding the bridge.

"The Bone Bridge should be in our hands." Standing by the river, Nymeria looked at the defenses built on the other side and gave her advice very directly.

Lind nodded in agreement. In fact, when he considered restoring the Bone Road trade route, he had already decided to take over the bridge connecting the Stormlands and Dorne. After all, this is the most important location on the Bone Road, affecting both sides. Whether the local trade routes can be connected must be in his hands to make him feel at ease.

"Does this bridge have a clear ownership?" Lind turned and asked the knight captain sent by Blackport City.

"Nominally it belongs to Well City." The knight captain thought for a while and replied: "But in fact, it belongs to whoever controls it. Black Harbor also controlled this bridge for a period of time in the past." As he said, he guessed Linde's thoughts added: "Actually, sir, you don't need to worry too much. The battles between the borderlands and the surrounding lords have never stopped for thousands of years, and the territories controlled by the lords also change frequently, except for the fixed territories around the castle. , The territories in other places are controlled by whoever is powerful. As long as there is not too much movement, the lords and Iron Thrones of various kingdoms will generally not interfere with what happens here. "

Listening to the Knight Captain's analysis of the situation in the border area, Lind nodded repeatedly and seemed to agree with the Knight Captain's analysis, but in fact he did not take these analyzes seriously at all.

The identity and vision of this knight captain can only see part of the situation in the border area. If he really follows the principle of whoever is powerful and who controls the territory as mentioned by this knight captain to expand the territory at will, then what he is waiting for will probably come from With the Iron Throne's rebuke, he will also be ostracized by the lords of the entire border area. Even the Black Harbor who has already formed an alliance will probably be wary of him.

"Let's go! Let's go meet our future leader." Lind pulled the reins and drove the horse towards the Bone Bridge.

Nymeria also followed after hearing this. It seemed that the two of them did not pay attention to the Weir City garrison soldiers on the other side of the Bone Bridge.

Seeing Linde's actions, the knights sent by Black Harbor felt a little worried.

Although they have all heard of Linde's powerful strength like a mythical hero, they have never seen it with their own eyes. At this moment, there are only about twenty of them, and it seems that there are thousands of people on the opposite side. If there was any sudden irrational move over there, it would be absolutely impossible for them to withstand the siege of thousands of people.

But as knights, they still knew that their mission was to protect Linde and Nymeria. No matter how worried and scared they were, they still had the courage to follow them.

Seeing Linde and the others walking over from the other side of the bridge, the Weir City soldiers on the other side of the Bone Bridge were all stunned. They felt that the people on the other side were crazy, otherwise how could they have done something like twenty people rushing over to fight against thousands of people? matter.

However, when they saw clearly the appearance of Linde and others, their faces immediately turned a little pale, and their eyes were full of awe, because they all immediately saw the two huge horses under Linde and Nymeria's crotches. The glory around the war horse and Linde guessed their identities, and various legends about Linde brought great pressure to these ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, the officer responsible for guarding the Bone Bridge immediately sent people to the nearby Snake Tooth Tower and called the knight captain in charge. This matter was obviously not something he could handle.

Soon the knight captain who was sent by Wyland Weir to defend the Bone Bridge hurried to the simple wall made of wooden planks and stones. After seeing clearly the person coming on the other side, he showed panic on his face and muttered. : "Oops, we are in trouble!" With that, he turned to the officer on the side and said: "Go back to Weir City immediately and tell the Earl what happened here."

After hearing the order, the officer did not hesitate, mounted a fast horse, and galloped towards the direction of Weir City.

"Everyone is on alert." The knight captain shouted another order to the people in the camp.

Then he took a deep breath and led a few people out of the simple wooden wall and walked to the front of the fortification, waiting for Linde's arrival.

Although Lind is not a Dornish person, this does not prevent the Dornish people from worshiping the strong, and the knight in front of him is one of them.

He was one of the few followers in Weil City who accompanied Wyland Weir to participate in the Shen'en City Tournament. He had seen with his own eyes how Linde easily dealt with the bet challengers as if he were dealing with children, and he was in Shen'an. The small town of Encheng also saw how Linde dealt with the assassins who assassinated Vilas.

Over the past year, various rumors about Linde have continued to reach Dorne, which has made him feel in awe. So much so that even though there are more than a thousand temporarily recruited garrison soldiers standing behind him, he still can't stand it. There is no sense of security at all, because he knows better than anyone else what kind of people these garrison soldiers are.

Soon Linde and his party arrived. In order to prevent Linde from seeing the true situation of the peasant soldiers in the fortification, the knight quickly led the people out of the fortification, walked to Linde and Nymeria, and looked at them. The two of them saluted and said: "Your Excellency Count Terra, Lord Count Fudley, I am Anders Schad from Weir City, please come here..."

Before the knight could finish speaking, Lind raised his hand to interrupt the subsequent inquiry. Then he looked at the soldiers hiding in the simple fortifications behind the knight. It was easy to see from some details that these soldiers were all temporary. The farmers recruited were not standing soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was almost zero.

So, sitting on the horse, he looked down at the knight again. He felt that the knight's face looked familiar and said, "Has Sir Anders seen you somewhere before?"

Anders Schad said quickly: "I also participated in the Shen'en City Martial Arts Tournament a year ago. When you accepted the challenge, I watched from the side and received your guidance."

"It's a pleasure to see you again, Sir Anders." Lind nodded, and then said seriously: "In this case, I won't talk nonsense. The invasion of Weir City a few days ago has already caused harm to my territory. Irreversible damage, although those invaders have been annihilated, the main messenger of the invaders must be punished. "

"Sir, this matter..." Anders Sand looked panicked and quickly wanted to explain to the Lord of Well City.

Lind raised his hand again to stop him from talking, and said: "You don't need to say anything. You are just a knight and cannot make the decision. I just need you to take my words back and tell them to Lord Wyland Weir in full. Only He can make the decision, you know?"

Facing the power exuded by Linde, Anders couldn't help but lower his head and said: "Understood."

Linde said with an extremely serious expression: "Tell your lord that the Bone Bridge will be used as compensation for the invasion of my territory by Well City. Within two days, evacuate all the people around the Snake Tooth Tower. If not, I will treat it as a crime." In order to declare war on me, I will take people directly to Well City, and what I want to take away will no longer be a bone bridge. Do you remember what I said clearly?

"Remember clearly, my lord." Knight Anders responded in a low voice.

Linde didn't say anything more, turned the horse's head and walked back.

Nymeria and the others were a little confused when they saw Lind's threatening approach, but they did not ask immediately, but followed Lind and left.

After seeing Linde leaving, Knight Anders relaxed a little, then hesitated, ordered the deputy who was following him, handed over the affairs here to him, and then rode quickly towards the city of Weir.

I don’t know whether it was because the previous officer was not good at riding a horse and his speed was too slow, or because of other reasons, Anders actually caught up with the officer first, so he continued to report to Vail City in place of the officer.

Just as Knight Anders rushed to Weir City to convey Linde's words, Linde and others also returned to the camp under the Gale Tower.

Lind and Nymeria handed the horses to Asha and Brienne, returned to the tent, took the towels handed over by the twin female attendants, and wiped the dust on their faces and hands.

At this time, Nymeria finally couldn't help but ask: "Will Wylan Veer listen to your threat and give you the Bone Bridge?"

"I don't know." Linde shook his head and said.

"I don't know?" Nymeria looked at Linde in surprise and said, "When you said those words, didn't you think about Wylan Veer's reaction in advance?"

Linde shook his head again and said, "I never thought about it. Those words just now were just said casually on a whim."

Nymeria stared at Lind dumbfounded for a long time before saying, "Why do you suddenly want to say those threatening words?"

"It's very simple, just to try your luck!" Linde said truthfully: "Didn't you notice? Starting from Green Valley City, everything we encountered went very smoothly, without any obstacles. Before setting off, we expected to encounter Those problems, such as lords, bandits and savage tribes, etc. were all solved easily, as if they were really blessed by the gods and were surrounded by good luck. So I want to see if luck can still be achieved here in Weir City. has an effect."

Nymeria smiled and asked: "Have you ever thought about what would happen if Wylan Veer didn't agree to your threat? What would you do?"

"What else can we do? Let's start a war like I said!" Linde shrugged and said: "Didn't we already plan to attack Weir City in advance? We just lacked an excuse. We originally wanted to use the Savage Tribe He colluded with Vail City and invaded my territory as an excuse to start a war, but it is no longer necessary. Who could have imagined that Wyland Vail was so stupid that he sent people to my territory to cause destruction and was caught by me? Well, why waste such a good excuse?”

Nymeria opened her mouth and didn't know what to say for a while. In her opinion, the recent series of successes had made Lind a little complacent, and he became more casual in doing things, no longer as cautious and thoughtful as before. She I want to persuade Linde a few words, but I don’t want to dampen Linde’s current enthusiasm.

Lind seemed to see what Nymeria was thinking, held her hand, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I haven't been dazzled by the previous success. Although I did it a little casually this time, It’s not beyond my plan, and I can use this threat to test the Earl of Weir’s bottom line.”

After hearing this, Nymeria nodded and didn't take it to heart anymore. She picked up the battle ax and walked out, going to find the knights of Blackport to practice again.

Compared with the mercenary knights that Nymeria recruited in Tengshi Town, the knights from Blackport are better at military coordination and put more pressure on Nymeria, so Nymeria has been He has been borrowing the military formation cooperation of these knights to increase his practical experience in multi-knight military formations.

At night, Daisy and the others escorted the prisoners of war from Well City to the Gale Tower.

Linde asked the people in Heigang to escort these prisoners of war to Heigang for detention. After the various facilities in the territory here are built, they will transfer these prisoners of war back.

Although Rosso, Daisy, and Rossos eliminated more than a thousand Well City garrison soldiers this time, they also caused more than 70 casualties, and their record was not very good.

You must know that the Weir City soldiers they faced were not a group of more than a thousand people, but were scattered into more than ten villages. Each village only had one or two hundred people at most, but they had four or five hundred people. They are all well-trained cavalry, and they use more to defeat fewer under absolute advantage.

In such a situation where he had an absolute advantage, he still caused more than 70 casualties. Such a record was obviously unqualified in Linde's mind. Fortunately, only three people actually died in the battle, and the others suffered injuries of varying severity. .

Linde asked a few people to take the officers in the team to review the entire battle and find out their shortcomings in commanding the battle. He wanted not only some strong generals who led the charge, but also people who were good at command and dispatch. General.

And just when several people were reviewing the situation late at night, the camp guard suddenly came to tell Linde that there was an envoy from the savage tribe asking to see him, and this familiar scene made Linde couldn't help but have some associations.