Chapter 93 Water Dance

He stood on the high tower of Storm's End and watched the fleet leave Shipbreaker Bay.

From today on, this castle will be temporarily in his hands, and he doesn't know how long he can be the acting city lord.

Shengxia Hall is also the Marquis of Green Valley City. The meaning of the Marquis is very clear. In fact, the Marquis can also be called the border count. It just so happens that Summer Hall is also the border land of the Stormland, and Green Valley City is also included in it.

But how long can he be a marquis?

Sir Gilbert Farin, who stayed with him, was arranged to be his deputy. Sir Farin had 200 free soldiers, Cole himself had 300 personal soldiers, and the rest of the troops were all taken by the king. Taken away.

Cole knighted both Camilo and Jose, and they were the ones who had followed him the longest.

Some of these soldiers were from other families and some were mercenaries, but at the moment they were all willing to swear allegiance to him.

At this time, Storm's End Castle was quite empty, and Maester Pyros and several others had been taken back to Dragonstone Island.

"Ouch." But he heard a sound that hit his ears.

Cole looked over there and saw a boy, oh no. I saw a girl lying on the ground.

She jumped up quickly, it was Erya. Arya Stark.

Well, Cole had almost forgotten about this family, and it seemed like they hadn't left yet.

"Is that you?" Arya looked up at the family crest on his cloak, "You are the White Bird Knight."

"White Bird Knight?" Cole laughed dumbly. When did this nickname come about.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Practice dance." I saw the girl raised her legs, similar to the independence of a golden rooster.

"Is this practicing balance?"

The girl nodded in surprise, "That's what Sirio said."

"The Chief Swordsman of Braavos."

"Do you know him?"

"I don't know, but I have heard that there is a unique martial art called 'Water Dance' across the narrow sea. The leader among them is the chief swordsman of Braavos."

"Yes, Syrio is the chief swordsman, and he is my swordsmanship teacher." Arya said.

"So, you are practicing the water dance?" Cole imitated him and stood up independently.

She looked at Cole's bulky look and couldn't help laughing, "You look like a big, bulky bear."

"Hey, Jon's little sister, have you ever seen a bear?"

Arya was speechless for a moment. She had never seen it before, but Syrio laughed at her like this. But she quickly realized that Cole called her Jon's little sister.

"Okay, I finally met you again. You said Jon was your little brother. What proof do you have?" Arya asked him.

"If there is any proof for this, you can ask him yourself."

"You liar, Jon is not your little brother."

"Well, the little brother thing is really just a joke, but we are friends. At least when we were on the Great Wall, we were." Cole said to her. "He told me he had a sister named Arya."

"I am Arya."

The two talked about Jon, and Cole told her about Jon's time on the Wall, but she heard her gritting her teeth.

"Alliser is such a scoundrel," she swore at the master of the Night's Watch.

"Yeah, he's an asshole."

Someone came to him and said that there was something in the castle that he needed to decide. Cole said nothing and followed the man to the hall.

Deputy Gilbert Fallin had been sitting in the hall for a long time. When he saw him coming, he stood up and saluted.

Cole walked to the main seat and sat down. He turned to Sir Fallin and asked, "What happened?"

"Sir, it's a manor outside the city."

Four peasants in simple clothes stood in the center of the hall.

A manor outside Storm's End was attacked by bandits, and many people died. Now the serfs of the manor asked the castle for help.

Cole understood the reason. He thought he was affected by the war. After all, in a war-torn place, bandits are bound to be rampant. Maybe this bandit is composed of a rebel army.

Cole asked the peasants, "Have you seen how many there are there?"

"More than a dozen people, all riding horses, would kill anyone they saw in the village."

He nodded, "I will send people to patrol around your village. At the same time, I will allow you to train your own armed forces and patrols. As for you, considering your losses, I promise to exempt all food taxes for the next quarter."

After settling the matter, Gilbert brought several more letters from various places, "Sir, these are letters sent by the raven."

Cole opened a letter, and it turned out to be from the Great Wall. Mormont asked the major castles for help in the voice of the Commander-in-Chief. The letter stated that a dead man similar to a white ghost appeared on the Great Wall, and among them was the Commander-in-Chief's steward Joan. En Snow killed one, and another dead man was surrounded and killed by other brothers of the Night's Watch, but the Night's Watch also lost four people.

He handed the letter to Gilbert.

"How many prisoners are there in Storm's End now?"

"There are some war criminals, about twenty of them."

When Gilbert read the letter, he felt that the content in the letter was absurd. "Sir, we don't have the manpower to send war criminals to the Great Wall. And the reason is really..."

"Then let the night watchman come here to fetch you. I need a pen and paper."

He wrote a letter to the Night's Watch in the name of the acting Lord of Storm's End Castle, asking the Night's Watch to send men to Storm's End to take over the criminals from the Seven Kingdoms.

After dealing with the affairs in Storm's End, Cole quickly came to the training ground. He planned some physical training and swordsmanship training for his personal soldiers, and of course trained their ability to cooperate in combat.

They were already full-time soldiers. Although Cole reduced the number of cavalry and supplied the horses to Stannis who was going to the war, he still left 100 cavalry. Their duty in the future is to fight for Cole.

After checking the effect of today's training, Cole called Camillo, who was now Cole's cavalry captain.

Cole asked him to lead the troops out of the city for patrol, and at the same time issued an order. In order to protect the safety of the village, all the affiliated villages of Storm's End sent 20 people to Storm's End for combat training. The weapons were provided by themselves, and the food was supplied by the castle.

He sternly stated to Camillo that this order was not a conscription, but a short-term combat training. Those who performed well in the training would directly join the city defense team.

Camillo set off with his men.

Cole called José, and then handed him the arrangement plan for the city defense patrol. Because he was illiterate, Cole could only explain it to him word by word. Which places need patrolling, how many shifts a day, how many people in each shift.

He and the soldiers had dinner in the hall. The soldiers were divided into two groups and came alternately.

Of course, Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn Stark were also present.

But our Lord Stark seemed to be in a bad mood.