Chapter 172 Military Parade

"Nineteen ships, and one main ship with 150 propellers." Cole listened to Gilbert's series of statistics.

He has been responsible for managing the army's baggage deployment.

In this battle, they successfully captured Greenstone City. Cole stood on the top of the city and announced the treason of all Ismons. At the same time, in the name of the Prince Regent, he deprived the Issmon family of everything they had on Issmon Island. rights, and renamed Ismon Island "Greenstone Island".

Cole planned to rest for a while on Greenstone Island, and then lead the army to turn around and head towards Stonehelm City.

Cape Wrath still has a Lannister nail stuck in it.

Cole's trip was naturally not to fight, but to invite people. He planned to lead his troops around Cape Wrath and then return to Storm's End, just in time to go to Stonehelm to invite Earl Sven.

After this battle, Cole's army was in great disarray. Although its number had been reduced by nearly half, only about a thousand of the two thousand men he brought out from Storm's End now remained.

He was not prepared to recruit more soldiers. The days of fighting in Cape Wrath convinced him that he had to cultivate an elite force of his own, and under the current conditions, maintaining about a thousand full-time soldiers was a good choice.

Soldiers value elites, not many.

Of course, as for the remaining soldiers, Cole does not intend to let them disarm and return home. In the coming days, the battle is likely to last for a long time, so Cole will set up a garrison in the territory of Storm's End. So, let these soldiers form towns, plan them uniformly, let them be self-sufficient, train themselves, and do not collect taxes.

When war comes, as long as the castle calls, a large army can be quickly reorganized.

The purpose of farming is naturally to cope with the protracted war.

Of course, with the coming of winter in Westeros, it is estimated that it is no longer possible to harvest wheat, fruits and vegetables, but fortunately, Storm's End is close to the sea and relies on a huge royal forest.

He didn't know how the farm was run in his previous life, so Cole decided to use the night watchman system to establish the farm.

"Your Highness, I suggest that we return by sea." After capturing the fleet on Greenstone Island, the number of ships at Storm's End was expanded.

It only takes about a day to travel from Greenstone City to Storm's End by sea, which is much less time-consuming than traveling by land.

"I'm going to take the soldiers for a walk around Cape Wrath."

"Take a walk? Please forgive me, Your Highness. I don't quite understand what you mean." Gilbert touched his beard.

Cole smiled, "We have to let these rainforest people see the power of Storm's End, my sergeant. I don't want us to leave, and another guy pops up here claiming to rule the Stormlands." He said Open the map and say, "This is the route I chose. What do you think?"

Gilbert hesitated and looked at the map with the route, from Rainhouse City to Misty Forest City, passing through Stonehelm City, and then over the Crimson Mountains and back to Storm's End.

"This will undoubtedly increase our logistics expenditure." As a logistics personnel in the battle, he knew how much this army spent on golden dragons every day of travel, and Storm's End didn't have much money to squander right now.

"Don't worry, our rainforest friends will be responsible for ensuring the expenses of this march." This is their responsibility.

He would recruit troops along the way and then bring them back to Storm's End to build a garrison.

They have no right to refuse to the defeated.

Cole was not stupid enough to change the owners of all these castles and then reward them to his subordinates. He only tried the mastermind. As for the other defeated families and the princes who voluntarily surrendered, Cole allowed him to continue to be his lord. As for those who fought with him to the end, Cole supported those in the family who were willing to submit to him to become the head of the family.

For those who had meritorious service under his command, Cole divided the land from Storm's End Castle and Summerhall and rewarded them.

Each family in Westeros has been rooted in their own castles and territories for thousands of years. It is extremely difficult to change owners, especially the more powerful the territory.

Just as Lannister rewarded Nightsong City to the mercenary Sir Philip Ford, it was difficult for this mercenary knight to make Nightsong City surrender to him. Neither the branches of the Cullen family nor the minor lords under it would. Agreed to let a hedge knight rewarded by Lannister take the position of Lord Marshal of the Marches.

Just like when Lannister made Cole the Duke of Storm's End, even if he was really fascinated by this title, he would have difficulty sitting still.

Now even though he is already the prospective son-in-law of the Baratheon family and the regent prince whom Stannis personally crowned, it is still difficult for them to surrender.

These are the rules of Westeros.

For thousands of years, not many people have been able to break this set of rules.

Cole didn't expect the nobles of the Stormlands to turn to him wholeheartedly. He didn't care whether they had evil intentions or endured humiliation and waited for revenge.

As long as this group of people didn't cause trouble in his next plans, that was enough.

He looked across the narrow sea. Cole only hoped that Daenerys and her horse king husband would not come too recklessly, and would not be used as guns by others.

Cole still cared a little about his blood relative whom he had never met, and the girl with an extremely tragic fate flashed through his mind.

His mother died in childbirth. When he was a child, his country was destroyed and he followed his brother to a foreign land. His only relative, Viserys, was deceived and became lame. He always used her to vent his anger and show off the "wrath of the sleeping dragon". He was sold to the public at the age of thirteen. King Ma finally met a man who loved him, but he was turned into a monster by blood magic, and his son also suffered a miscarriage.

Suffering is indeed the most disgusting teacher of mankind.

Although Cole and Daenerys have disputes over the right to rule, they might as well take back their own things first. At that time, they can even have a duel with the horse king to decide who sits on the Iron Throne.

Of course, when it comes to that step, no one can predict how things will develop. The final results of many things may be far from the initial expectations.

Just like Cole himself, he could not expect what kind of path he would take.

All he can do is to keep getting stronger.

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The war in the Stormlands was swept away by Cole's firm determination. When the eyes of all parties were just pulled back from the north to the south, they found that the storm here had subsided.

The fleets of Redwyn and Lannister did not even have time to react. They had just headed north from the Summer Sea south of Dorne, and there was still a long way to go before the Dorne Sea.

Cole led the army around Cape Wrath and joined another army under Stonehelm.

He marched his army directly to a mile outside Stonehelm City and stationed them there. Along the way, his army continued to expand.

As soon as the servants set up the tent, Earl Sven's envoys were sent over.