Chapter 257 Plague Disaster

Although Linde's military actions were justified by the maintenance of the Narrow Sea Channel, everyone who paid attention to this matter felt the intentions of Linde's military actions, especially the other two city-states in the disputed area, Lys and Myr. .

Just when Braavos and other Free Trade City-States wanted to unite to put pressure on Lind and ask Lind to withdraw the troops sent to Tyrosh, Tyrosh made a reaction that caught everyone off guard.

Tyrosh suddenly sent a large number of Unsullied and mercenaries to the gem mine that caused the turmoil in the previously disputed land, and declared its ownership of the gem mine, and at the same time sent a large number of personnel to mine gems.

Tyroshi's actions immediately made Myr and Lys furious. They had previously thought of rescuing Tyroshi from Lind's clutches based on the relationship of the trade alliance, but when they turned around, Tyroshi ran to their house. They robbed something, which made them instantly feel like they had been fooled and deceived.

The other Free Trade City-states were also shocked by Tyroshi's actions. When they saw Tyroshi's reaction and thought of Linde's previous military actions, they subconsciously thought that Tyroshi was actually colluding with Linde. Lind's army protects Tyrosh, while Tyrosh's Unsullied army and mercenary regiments are responsible for seizing the resources of the disputed land.

The original plan to support Tyrosh was also shelved, and everyone watched the subsequent actions of Reese and Myr.

It has been hundreds of years since the fall of Valyria to this bad debt in the Disputed Lands. The Free Trade Cities have long been accustomed to the endless fighting between Tyrosh, Lys and Myr over this matter, and they have not intervened. plan.

Lys and Myr also knew that other Free Trade Cities would not be able to give them any support, so seven days after Tyrosh occupied the gem mine, the mercenary groups of Lys and Myr also set off one after another and entered the disputed area. Soon a new round of military conflict began on the land dyed red with the blood of the Dothraki.

In fact, the West of Tyrosh had a hard time facing this military conflict. Even the Lord of Tyrosh was seriously ill in bed because of this incident and could not be a director. There were rumors that the Lord of Tyrosh was dying. Therefore, the consuls, tribunes, and tribunes in the city of Tyrosh and other dignitaries who were qualified to run for the position of king began to prepare for the election of the king. As for the war in the disputed area, they were completely handed over to the mercenary group. and the Unsullied.

And no matter who they ultimately elect, they will have to face a difficult problem, which is repaying Linde's debt.

If it were anyone else, holding the Tyrosi bonds issued that year, the Tyrosi monarch and even the entire parliament would directly declare the bonds invalid, because that is what they did in the past.

But the person who took out the bond now is someone they cannot offend at all. As long as they declare the bond in Linde's hand invalid one second, then Linde's army will enter the city the next second and kill the people in the parliament. They were all hanged from the city walls.

Moreover, Linde's actions will not arouse doubts from other Free Trade Cities. After all, the huge debt of millions of golden dragons can be canceled at any time, and no one can bear it.

If the Free Trade City dares to intervene in this matter, then others can also use this reason to refuse to repay the Free Trade City's debts, such as the millions of gold dragons owed by the Iron Throne to the Iron Bank.

The dignitaries of Tyrosh also knew that other Free Trade City-states could not give them any help in this matter, so they could only send people to lobby Linde. The result of the lobbying did not reduce their debt, but they promised not to accumulate this debt. The interest on a debt is premised on repaying the debt within the specified time, and the debt can be repaid not with gold coins, but also with gems of equivalent value.

It is precisely for this reason that the decision to capture and mine the gem mines in the disputed area was quickly passed at the Tyrosh Conference.

In fact, some people in Tyrosh did see that Lind planned to create unrest in the three free trade city-states in the disputed area, such as the Tyrosh king and a few powerful people. However, they had no other way to go and could only follow the plan. Linde's paved the way for them to move forward.

So when the Unsullied and the mercenary group of Tyrosh left Tyrosh and entered the disputed area, the overall defense of Tyrosh was handed over to the five thousand Chosen Corps that Lind had previously sent to Tyrosh. Except for a few city security teams, all the armed forces in Tyrosh have been transformed into Summer Hall personnel.

It is precisely for this reason that Lord Tyrosh has already seen Tyrosh's future, and his despair makes him sick.

The occupation of Tyrosh was much smoother than Linde had expected. This was mainly due to Linde's early arrangements and infiltration. In fact, what the Tyrosh king didn't know was that the entire Tyrosh consuls and protectors Nearly half of the tribunes and tribunes had secretly surrendered to his command, and most of the remaining half were unwilling to become enemies of Linde.

Only a small number of people insist on resisting Linde's invasion, and they have no role in this tide. They don't even dare to use drastic means, such as assassination, to deal with Shengxia, who has already entered Tyrosh. The people in the hall, because they know very well that Tyrosh can still maintain its reputation as an independent city-state, but once they take action, this reputation may not be guaranteed.

In fact, what the people of Tyrosh didn't know was that the person they feared had already arrived on Blackstone Island.

"Everything is going according to plan. There is no need to pay attention to the opponents. Taking down the entire Tyrosi armed forces step by step is our goal at this stage." Because Tyrosi's infiltration has reached a critical stage, Linde needs to be at the forefront. He took command and adjusted his strategy at any time, so he took Augustus to Blackstone Island.

"There are still some magistrates who have not surrendered to us. Should we take them..." Tribune Artest asked Lind.

Since the last meeting with Linde as a peace envoy, Tribune Artest has chosen to join Linde, and has played a big role in helping Linde expand his power in Tyrosh and bribe the powerful.

He knew very well that once Lind took complete control of Tyrosh, the identity of Lord Tyrosh would inevitably disappear, so he never thought about obtaining the position of Lord Tyrosh from the beginning, but wanted to Obtaining certain rights and status in Tyrosh controlled by Linde, it would be even better if he could become a governor or something like that.

"No need." Lind obviously did not want to solve the problem by assassination. He thought for a moment, looked at Artest, and said: "The people have always hated bribes and other things, and those sheriffs who accept bribes should not Once again on the streets of the city, I think as a good tribune you should report those who have committed crimes."

"I understand, sir." Artest nodded repeatedly.

At this moment, the intelligence officer in charge of the Eagle's Nest suddenly walked in in a hurry and handed a piece of information to Linde.

After Linde took it over and looked at it quickly, he couldn't help but frowned and his expression became serious.

"Sir, what happened?" Artest asked after seeing Lind's expression.

Lind handed over the letter in his hand, and Artest quickly took it and looked at it carefully. After reading it, his face became very ugly.

Only one sentence was written on the letter. Signs of the plague were found in the military camps of Lys, Tyrosh and Myr.

"Go back immediately and prepare." Lind ordered Artest.

Artest didn't say anything. After saluting Linde, he hurriedly left. The solemn expression on his face never disappeared.

"Are all the medicinal materials prepared sufficient?" Lind turned to ask Jon, who had become his affairs officer again.

"Already prepared." Jon nodded, then hesitated and asked, "How did you know in advance that a plague would break out in the Disputed Lands?"

"What you actually want to ask is whether this plague was caused by me, right?" Lind directly revealed what Jon was thinking.

Jon didn't defend himself and nodded, acknowledging Lind's idea.

"No, I just made a prediction in advance." Linde directly denied this speculation and said: "The Dothraki have fought hundreds of battles in the disputed land in the past six months, with more than 100,000 casualties. The corpses of those people were lying on that piece of land, and many of them were thrown into the water source of the disputed area. If given half a year, maybe these corpses would be completely digested by the earth, but they were born in this place. After the Dothraki left, the three major city-states started a civil war. In the end, all the corpses turned into sources of plague. This information was put on the surface. Anyone who paid a little attention would find it, but it was a pity that it was in their eyes. All I saw were gems and benefits, and the dangers surrounding the gems were subconsciously ignored.”

Jon, who had suffered from illness, asked worriedly: "Will this plague spread to..."

Linde shook his head and explained: "No, I have ordered that all ships traveling to and from the Essos continent must stay in the quarantine area for a period of time before they can go ashore."

"What are we going to do now?" Jon asked again.

Linde replied calmly: "You don't need to do anything, just wait! Just wait for the show to start and proceed as planned."

It didn’t take long for the show to start. In less than half a month, the plague had spread throughout the military camps of the three major city-states in the entire disputed area. In addition to the Unsullied in their respective military camps, the servants hired by the three major city-states The corps also fell into the plague.

"Sir, those corpses have been disposed of." The commander of the First Corps of the Fengchui Regiment came to the camp and watched the gloomy-looking Prince in Tattered Clothes report.

The Tattered Prince turned to the attendant beside him and asked: "How many people in the regiment are infected with the plague now?"

"Seven hundred and thirty-six people." The attendant looked down at the notepad in his hand and replied.

"No, it's seven hundred and thirty-one." The commander of the First Corps corrected: "When I came back just now, five more people died. I have already sent people to deal with them."

After hearing this, the attendant lowered his head, took a pen, and silently revised the numbers above.

Other generals in the camp said one after another: "Sir, we can't stay here any longer. If we continue like this, we will all die here."

"We should leave this damn place immediately."

"Leave here, where to go?" The Tattered Prince looked at his men and asked in a deep voice: "The Unsullied over there are watching us. If we make any move to escape, the Unsullied will kill us without hesitation. us."

Everyone fell silent.

The Tattered Prince made a decision quickly and said: "Campbell, take people back to Tyrosh immediately, report the situation here to the governors, and ask them to send medicines and doctors here as soon as possible."

Just like the Tattered Prince's decision, other mercenary groups also sent people to their respective employers for help.

However, the answers they received were surprisingly unanimous. Each city-state had no manpower to send out, but would provide food, medicine and other items. As for doctors, there were very few, only a dozen or so, which was a drop in the bucket for the entire plague situation.

In addition, after they learned about the plague situation, they all ordered the city gates to be closed and no one was allowed to enter or leave the city. They also sent letters to various towns outside the city, ordering the people in these towns to spontaneously build walls to prevent people from entering. Getting too close, in short, puts everyone in danger.

The Golden Group, the Wind Blowing Group, the Cat Group and other large mercenary groups located in disputed areas are relatively safe except for some people staying in various city-states. Others are not safe, even those who are not sick yet. , and you always need to worry about being infected.

As time goes by, more and more people get sick and die in pain. Large numbers of people who die from the disease are buried on the spot. There are even cases where people who are not dead but are still alive are buried as dead.

"We can't continue like this. If we continue like this, everyone will die." As the commander of the archers, Baqu stood up on behalf of everyone and said to Mistoyin: "Now there are already people in the regiment. More than 3,000 people were infected, and more than 900 died. Even the doctors of the regiment were infected and died. Everyone else was frightened. No one would want to continue fighting. If they continued to stay in this hellish place, They're afraid..."

"Afraid of what? Afraid of a mutiny?" Mistoin looked at his archer commander, then looked at everyone, and said: "You guys just want to leave, but the question is where will we go after we leave? Myr? Or Pentos? Do you think they will allow us to enter the city? And do you think the food we have now can support us from leaving?"

Everyone fell silent after listening to Mistoin's words.

Mistoin continued: "And the Golden Company has never broken an oath of employment. Now that we leave, all the credibility established by the Golden Company in the past will immediately collapse, and we will become like those guys in the Second Sons." I can only pick up some leftovers, do you want it to be like that?”

Everyone in the camp lowered their heads slightly.

"What's the situation over there with the Unsullied?" Mistoin asked.

"More than a thousand of them died, and more than a thousand more were infected. Now there are only a few hundred left to fight." Someone reported the situation there and then said: "Those guys are also scared."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions became even uglier. They did not expect that the Unsullied, who were not even afraid of death, were actually afraid.

At this time, a scout broke into the camp and reported: "Sir, there is a troop approaching, about two thousand people."

After hearing the report, everyone's expressions changed suddenly, and they all looked at Mis Toyin, who immediately gave orders to prepare for battle.