Chapter 173 The Night Watchman's Request for Help

The Prince Regent returned with victory, and the whole Storm's End was filled with joy. Although the war did not bring practical benefits to everyone, people always like to follow the crowd.

The Prince Regent wore silver armor, rode a silver-armored warhorse, walked at the forefront of the team, and accepted the continuous cheers on both sides of the road.

Cole heard people calling him "Silver Knight", "Silver Highness", "Prince White Bird".

He never thought that he would be so welcomed, and Cole never thought that he had done anything for them.

He didn't know that among the people and the bards, Cole Julius's reputation was no less than "Fearless Barristan".

Cole's story was talked about by the singers.

After returning to the castle, Cole quickly invested in the construction of the military farming plan. For Lannister's military operations, he sent a ship as a representative of Storm's End.

As for the rest of the ships, he anchored them at the port of Storm's End in Shipbreaker Bay.

In the letter, he claimed that these ships were seriously damaged and were under repair.

Each garrison has 200 people. In addition to Cole's own troops, he needs to settle nearly 5,000 people. This workload is not small.

First, a military camp was established in Midsummer Hall as a gateway to control the Stormlands, the Reach and Dorne. This point is crucial. He cannot build a castle in a short time, so he can only build a military camp to station troops here, and use five garrisons, which he also called "small war groups" to supply them with supplies.

He has to deploy almost 2,000 troops in Midsummer Hall.

The remaining soldiers are divided into 15 small war groups distributed around Storm's End, guarding the castle in the form of satellites.

For this plan, Cole also ordered people to train a lot of military pigeons. Although the mainstream of the Seven Kingdoms is ravens, the training of ravens is much more rigorous than that of pigeons, otherwise it would not have formed a subject in the Citadel.

He asked people to keep pigeons in military vehicles, so that they can move with pigeons within a certain range, and the base of the small war group will not be too far from the Stormlands, so it is extremely convenient to use this kind of pigeons to send messages.

Cole's basic configuration for a small warband is: a warband leader, an inquisitor, and an administrative officer.

The warband leader is the general person in charge of the warband, responsible for the training and task allocation of warriors. The inquisitor is directly appointed by Storm's End and has the right to supervise and judge. He will fight against the rebels on behalf of Storm's End in conflicts within the warband, and the administrative officer is responsible for the logistics management within the warband.

The initial candidates for the warband leader are from those warriors who have made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, but Cole is not going to canonize them as knights. Such a strategy can also be regarded as a reward.

This is also a way for Cole to cultivate talents. His subordinates are really scarce. There are only Camillo and José who have followed him all the way. In this battle of Cape Wrath, he realized that he needed more capable people.

Although nobles are easy to use, they are easily constrained. If your decision goes against the interests of their family, it is easy to be betrayed.

Honor is noble and worthy of praise, but Cole does not believe that every knight in the Seven Kingdoms pays attention to this set.

How many dragon knights Aemon and Prince Baelor the Spearbreaker are there in Westeros?

The reason why these people are praised by the singers is nothing more than that they have noble character that ordinary people can hardly possess.

As far as today is concerned, all Cole can think of are Eddard Stark, Brienne of Tarth and a few others in the North, many of whom are not knights.

Even Cole sometimes feels that he is a villain, and noble character is not related to him. He cannot give up his own interests or life because of some noble character praised by the world.

But Cole thinks that he is not a pure profiteer. He can't be like Brynden Rivers, the blood crow, who has no bottom line for the purpose of maximizing interests.

After the Dragon Queen landed in Westeros, the seven kingdoms will inevitably fall into chaos.

He doesn't think that the arrival of the Dothraki will be like a gust of wind sweeping away fallen leaves, clearing the world.

How long this battle will last and who will win are unknown.

After a victory, Cole's warband plan began to proceed in an orderly manner. In order to appease the knights who were loyal to him, Cole also specially set up a warband exclusively for the nobles, and he personally served as the warband leader.

Because not many people had experience in this matter, Cole fell into a busy schedule after returning to Storm's End. He needed to train the warband leaders and teach them how to train soldiers and manage the warband. Most of these people were mud legs before participating in the war, and they could only read and write.

He didn't need these people to do well. He was actually panning for gold in the sand. If someone could achieve results according to his instructions, then this was the talent he needed.

Cole returned to Storm's End with a tired body. He planned to take a bath and then go to deal with the documents in the study.

Recently, the Golden Group and the Lannister army have been fighting fiercely on Dragonstone. The group of well-trained mercenaries really made Lannister bite a hard stone.

Now, I wonder if Lord Tywin has received any new news, but the Lannister fleet has retreated to Crab Island, near Crab Bay.

Cole's news is much behind King's Landing. He is actually also working on building his own intelligence network, but he doesn't have a good way. He can't make a bunch of literate little birds like Varys.

Ravens can't convey language, although they can mimic speech.

So Cole hired some people to collect information in taverns and brothels everywhere. They would bring the information back to Storm's End, and then Maester Pylos would value the information. The more recent the information, the higher the price. Of course, some high-value information would also be priced high.

Although this is not very efficient, don't underestimate some talented people. Cole discovered some talents from these people.

This is how he initially established his intelligence system.

Cole's intelligence system is only distributed in nearby King's Landing and other places, not even in the North, let alone across the Narrow Sea, so he can only guess about many things, or ask Caesar to help him take a look, but Caesar is now bigger.

He didn't know what he ate, and his body grew bigger. Little Black Balerion didn't grow so fast, and he is still a small dragon that can't fly very high.

"Your Highness." As soon as he walked into the hall, Maester Pylos came to him in a hurry. Obviously, he had been waiting for a long time.

With the maester, Cole was relieved of many things. Those who could be sent to various castles outside the academy were all very capable.

Cole took his letter and looked at the Great Wall wax seal on the envelope. This was a letter from the Night's Watch brothers.

He told the maester that as long as it was a letter from the Night's Watch, he would be given priority.

Cole nodded and then opened the letter.

——Wildlings invade!