Chapter 339 The first battle in King's Landing City

It was expected that King's Landing would fall into war, but it happened much later than expected.

Originally, according to outside expectations, Stannis's fleet should have sailed to the waters near King's Landing a few days ago, but Stannis did not attack immediately after bringing the Stormlands army to Dragonstone. King's Landing was very cautiously waiting for the arrival of the five thousand mercenaries hired from Braavos and Pentos before setting off from Dragonstone.

During this period, he was not waiting on Dragonstone. He had many people sneak into King's Landing, spreading rumors and creating unrest, forcing Tyrion to send out gold robes to hunt down spies.

As for Jinpaozi's character, he knew better than anyone else how he could obediently hunt down spies. He would definitely use the opportunity of hunting down spies to frame him and line his own pockets.

Even if the spy is caught in the end, the people in King's Landing will probably be harmed by the golden robes.

This also caused the relationship between the people of King's Landing and the Red Keep to deteriorate further before he attacked the city, and even reached a state of hostility. This can be seen from the fact that the nobles in the city no longer dare to go out alone. If this continues, wait for him. During the siege, it would be difficult for the Red Fort to mobilize the people in the city to unite to defend the city, and his purpose of sending spies would have been achieved.

Of course Tyrion knew Stannis's plan, but he had no way to stop it. He could only do what Stannis wanted, because he had no room for maneuver at all. The only thing he could do was to clean up the spies after , seize some of the most unpopular guys in the golden robe and cause the most harm to the people, and publicly execute them in the square, so that the people can have a place to vent their grievances.

However, even so, the relationship between the people of King's Landing and the Red Keep did not ease much, and Tyrion could no longer care about sorting out internal relations at that time, because Stannis's fleet had already set off and was heading towards King's Landing. .

The first confrontation between King's Landing and Stannis can be said to be a win or a loss for both sides.

In order to weaken the lethality of the archers defending the city as much as possible, Stannis chose to attack the city late at night when the sight of the archers was at its worst. Tyrion also anticipated Stannis's thoughts, so he also specially laid a trap.

Before the fleet officially attacked the city, Onion Knight Davos saw through part of Tyrion's arrangement and asked some death row prisoners to drive dilapidated ships, disguised as a regular fleet, and sail into the Blackwater River.

As a result, when the ships entered the Blackwater River, the chains at the entrance of the Blackwater River were pulled up, and the wildfire placed in the Blackwater River was also ignited, burning all the intruding ships.

After the Blackwater River trap was cracked, Stannis's vanguard fleet officially sailed into the Blackwater River, intending to land at the Blackwater River dock and attack the city directly through the Mud Gate.

The reason why I chose the Mud Gate is that it is spacious enough, and the gate here is the weakest in defense in the entire city of King's Landing.

Before the official siege, Onion Knight Davos tried to persuade the siege commander Imri Florent to send spies to explore the situation at Mud Gate Dock to prevent traps.

However, Imri felt that the previous traps on the Blackwater were all the traps set by King's Landing, and there was no need to waste time exploring them. Moreover, he had to complete the deployment of siege equipment and other things before Stannis's official army arrived. This is a task that he must complete, otherwise due to Stannis's character, even if he completes it afterwards, he will still be punished.

Therefore, when the fleet arrived safely at the dock, Imrie Florent announced the siege as soon as possible, transferred the siege equipment on the ship to the land, and arranged it in a suitable place.

However, when the siege equipment was halfway transferred, Tyrion ignited the second trap he arranged at the Blackwater River dock. The wildfires hidden in the warehouse and surrounding houses caused countless wildfires to explode instantly, covering the entire dock with mud. The doors were all wrapped up.

In the wildfire, Stannis's vanguard and siege engines were completely wiped out, and even the ships on the river were set alight and burned. The Onion Knight Davos himself fell into the Blackwater River and escaped, and he All his sons died in the fire, including Imri Florent, who insisted on his own way.

On the surface, it can be said that Stannis suffered heavy losses. Not to mention the thousands of vanguard troops, all the siege equipment he prepared in advance were killed. This will undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble for the subsequent siege, and The great luck among the misfortunes is that most of the vanguard is composed of mercenaries, and the lord's army only has Imri Florent, so in terms of army personnel losses, Stannis's losses are not large, and Also saved a lot of commission.

Although Tyrion successfully launched the trap and wiped out Stannis's vanguard, his situation was not very good because he completely misjudged the power of wildfire when it broke out together, the mud door and the mud door. All the defenders on the city wall were affected.

Some of the hundreds of defenders died in wildfires, and some were crushed to death because the city gates collapsed. Tyrion had to forcibly mobilize the people to block the collapsed mud gates and walls before Stannis attacked the city again.

The wildfires that were ignited were almost impossible to extinguish. All the poor houses along the city walls of King's Landing were set alight, and it took several days to burn before they could be extinguished.

Although it seems that this can be regarded as preventing Stannis from attacking the city in disguise, Stannis's siege equipment has been completely destroyed and needs time to be rebuilt. It will not be possible to attack the city in a short time, and this fire will The houses around the city wall have been cleaned up, which actually makes the siege team have fewer obstacles, and there are many more places where they can choose to attack the city.

In addition, although the owners of these poor houses had been moved to the city by Tyrion before Stannis arrived, and there were no casualties, these people did not thank Tyrion for this, but instead hated him extremely, thinking that he burned it down. He destroyed his own house and burned down his few remaining properties, so Tyrion's reputation in King's Landing has become notorious.

After the initial confrontation, the two sides now entered the preparation stage for a formal siege, and things inside and outside King's Landing became very peaceful.

Because he knew that Lind was very concerned about the battle situation in King's Landing, when Balin collected intelligence data, he not only collected intelligence data on Tyrion, but also on Stannis. The content was more than ten pages long, which was extremely Detailed, after reading it, you can clearly understand the entire battle situation.

Not only the information on paper, Bahrain also specially made a panoramic sand table of King's Landing and its surrounding areas to completely display the army layout of Tyrion and Stannis in a more intuitive way.

Jon and others also came to the castle's meeting hall under Lind's call to discuss the situation in King's Landing.

"It seems that the situation in King's Landing is not good. Without foreign aid, King's Landing will not be able to resist Stannis." Although Margaery didn't know much about military matters, she could still judge the situation from the layout on the sand table. The situation in King's Landing.

Moose shook his head and analyzed: "No, if King's Landing has enough money and food to recruit the people in King's Landing, it is not difficult to defend King's Landing. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of people in King's Landing, minus the elderly and children. In addition to women, at least half of them are adult men, which is a combat force that can be exploited. "

Jon reminded: "But King's Landing cannot afford that much money, and there is not enough food."

"No, King's Landing has money and food." Because it was a military issue, Raul Yelinde, who was the commander of the Midsummer Hall garrison, called to the castle to participate in the discussion. He said very seriously: "King's Landing is so The families of many nobles must have a lot of money and food reserves. As long as they are all recruited, this problem can be solved. "

Others were stunned after hearing this, and nodded that this was a good idea.

Margaery and Sansa, who were participating in this kind of meeting for the first time, both showed shocked expressions, and looked at the senior officials of Summer Hall in front of them with a strange look. They could feel that the powerful people in King's Landing were in these people. There is no difference in the mind of an animal waiting to be slaughtered.

Sansa said somewhat naively: "My lords, if you follow your method, after the war, you will definitely be beaten by other nobles and lords of the Seven Kingdoms..."

Before Sansa could finish her words, she was pulled back by Margaery. She shook her head at Sansa and said: "Although it is a bit excessive, in order to defend King's Landing, it is unavoidable to do this. You can do it afterwards." forgive."

Margaery's words were recognized by everyone, and they all nodded.

Balin suddenly said: "It doesn't matter if you don't forgive me. In fact, you can just accuse those nobles of collaborating with the enemy. After all, Stannis has been in King's Landing for so long, and he has more or less been with these nobles. The powerful have interacted with each other, and as long as they have interacted with each other, they may be potential allies of Stannis, and it is not wrong to say that they are collaborators. "

Except for people with low-level backgrounds like Raul and Rosso who agreed with Bahrain's approach, Jon and Bert both shook their heads. Apparently they thought it was inappropriate to rob other people's money and ruin their reputation. Agree.

Lind quietly listened to everyone speaking out their thoughts. After a while, after everyone had poured out their thoughts, he turned to Margaery and Sansa and asked, "What if You are the defender of King's Landing, what are you going to do to survive this crisis?"

Margaery and Sansa were stunned, not expecting that Lind would ask them such a question, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.

However, Margaery soon came to her senses and said, "If it were me, I would immediately send someone for help and do everything possible to win over the allies I can."

"Miss Margaery, what you are doing is no different from what King's Landing is doing now." Jon shook his head and said, "I think my lord wants to hear your own thoughts."

Hearing Jon's words, Margaery bit her lip and said: "If it were me, I would have my confidants secretly arrange a large number of wildfires in the residences near the city gate that Stannis attacked, and then use all kinds of chaos to The objects blocked all the streets, allowing the most loyal troops to guard the city gate, taking the opportunity to bring Stannis's army in, creating a stalemate in the area, and allowing Stannis to send more troops into the city. After most of Stannis's army entered the city, he used a pre-arranged trap to close the city gate, ignited wildfires, and burned everyone in the area to death. At the same time, he concentrated all his troops to rush through the other gate. Go out and attack Stannis's central camp directly. As long as Stannis is killed, Stannis's army will immediately collapse, and the siege of King's Landing will naturally be lifted."

Listening to the method of defending the city that Margaery said, everyone around looked at Margaery in surprise. They had been famous for Little Rose of Highgarden for a long time, and knew that Little Rose was regarded as a model of aristocratic ladies because she often helped Gao Garden. The poor people of the family, so she is also regarded as the embodiment of kindness and beauty.

But now to Jon and the others, there is nothing to say about the beauty of Little Rose. She is definitely the best in the Seven Kingdoms. As for kindness? Obviously this is debatable. Judging from the method of defending the city she just mentioned, this method really has nothing to do with kindness.

"The method is good, but there are too many loopholes. Many things are taken for granted. In war, it is impossible to do many things exactly according to your ideas," Linde said in a deep voice: "What if those soldiers you chose to die are suddenly afraid?" You don't want to die with the enemy and choose to escape? What if Stannis sees through your plan and manages to ignite the wildfire in that city first? When it is extinguished, according to the number of wildfires you set, the result will be that the entire city of King's Landing is burned down by wildfires. You have accomplished a feat that Mad King Aerys failed to accomplish back then."

After listening to Linde's words, Margaery showed a slightly embarrassed expression on her face.

At this time, Sansa suddenly said: "I can hand over Cersei and Joffrey so that Stannis has no excuse to attack King's Landing again."

After Sansa finished speaking, everyone looked at Sansa blankly.

Perhaps it was the first time that someone had watched her like this, and Sansa was a little nervous. She lowered her head and whispered, "Just now, Lord Lynd said he was going to defend King's Landing, not the Iron Throne. In this case, Stannis will attack King's Landing." Handing over the city's ultimate goal gave Stannis no reason to attack King's Landing, and King's Landing was naturally defended."

"Although this is a bit strange, it is also reasonable. As long as you keep King's Landing, who cares about the Iron Throne?" Rosso first agreed with Sansa's approach.

"This method is very feasible. Although you may be accused of betraying the master afterwards, at least King's Landing is defended." Jon also nodded and said: "With Lord Stannis's character, even if you do this, He can successfully obtain the Iron Throne, and he will never give up on punishing you. In other words, Sansa, you are dead."

"But if you can save an entire city with one life, it's a good deal!" Moose also said with a smile.

Others also expressed their surprise at Sansa's method and praised Sansa's wit.

After Sansa heard everyone's teasing and compliments, she also looked embarrassed, while Margaery on the side looked at her newly acquainted little sister with a hint of reexamination.