Chapter 174: Withdrawal
Some time has passed since the news of the approaching winter came.
The Duke of Winterfell Ed Stark disbanded the northern army that had assembled and prepared to join the war, and asked them to seize the time to return to their hometown and prepare to withstand this coming winter.
The tens of thousands of troops in the Northern Territory vanished in an instant, casting a thick shadow over the war that Robert wanted to organize this time.
Can't see the future clearly.
After all, the Northern Territory has always been King Robert's most powerful supporter. Now that the Northern Territory has given up supporting the Iron Throne, it is even harder to say how loyal the nobles in the rest of the world are.
Then in the meeting in the throne room, the main hall was brightly lit.
The brocade symbolizing the emblem of the Baratheon family’s ‘Crown Stag’ was hung on the wall, and the fat King Robert sat on the icy iron throne.
And King’s Landing’s dignitaries stood densely on both sides below.
The former prime minister Jon Ailin, the captain of the Royal Forest Iron Guard Barristan Selmi, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Justice, Stannis as the Minister of Maritime Affairs, and the chief intelligence officer Varys were at the forefront of the crowd.
After that, this time it was not his turn to say something about ‘Anti-War Vanguard’ Jon Allyn.
Below, the nobles could not wait to stand up and persuade His Majesty to give up the idea of fighting across the sea.
The cost and price of cross-sea warfare are too great, and the gains are very few. Of course, these nobles are not willing to do it.
What's more, the news that winter is coming has now passed.
If it is a normal winter, except for the northern border and the river land, other places may not be very severely affected by winter.
It's just that the number of grain harvests in a year decreases, and hoarding more grain can solve this problem. The most serious problem is just to stop production and hide at home. The noble lords will not be frozen to death and starved to death.
The valley and the west have high mountains as barriers, which can slightly isolate the cold air from going south, at least not so cold.
The northern border and the riverland are also an endless plain, and the cold airflow can directly make this large area of land, including King's Landing, even possible to reach the river bend, all covered in silver.
As for Dorne, it's not a shit. The mountains that crossed the line blocked the pace of winter, and it was also at the southernmost point of Westeros, relatively speaking, it was just a breeze.
However, in the worst north and riverlands, every winter comes, if the people here are not fully prepared, it is very likely that they will not be able to survive this long winter.
Jon Alling kept silent. As the first prime minister after the war, his biggest responsibility was to take the country out of the quagmire of war and restore the economy.
So he has always tried to avoid war, but reality does not allow him to do so.
He also knew that the threat of the dragon must be eliminated, but the cold winter is approaching, and the current state of the country does not support him to fight this battle.
The old prime minister didn't know what to do now.
However, he kept silent, and the anti-war voice from below still came like a tide.
It makes sense that people don't want to fight in winter.
Because no one wanted to go out to fight when they came back from the war, their wives and children had been frozen to death and starved to death in the cold wind.
The Duke of Winterfell, his majesty’s good brother Ed Stark therefore wrote a letter to King’s Landing, explaining the matter to Robert.
Although Robert was still very angry and smashed the bedroom again, that night the beautiful blonde queen lived in another room with a dark face, leaving Robert alone to guard the dilapidated bedroom.
However, Robert had to accept this reality after getting angry.
Even if he was a king, he couldn't ask the soldiers in the north to abandon his family and expedition to Andaloth regardless of the coming of winter.
If he really does that, not only the soldiers will be mutiny, but even his good brother Ed will turn his face against him.
In the end, Robert could only endure this breath, and even if the northern army could not come, he assembled the power of the other six nations to kill the **** Targaryen remnant.
Now that the name Viselis was mentioned, Robert hated it, and he wanted to chew him alive.
However, the polarized light is just hate, and Robert has nothing to do with him.
He was hiding too far. If Andalus and Westeros bordered, Robert would have already driven him by himself and lifted all the other's ashes.
But this sea that separated the two continents became the most insurmountable hurdle.
Just as the Andals invaded Westeros, the Andals fought with their ancestors and the Sons of the Forest for nearly a thousand years before they fully gained the upper hand.
It is not so easy for Robert to cross the sea in a short time to solve the enemy on the other side of the sea.
now.
Robert sat on the icy Iron Throne, watching the nobles who opposed him like a wave, his fists were clenched tightly, and his blood gradually surged upwards.
If it were just one or two nobles, Robert would never mind cutting off their heads and hanging them on the head of the Red Fort for public display.
However, there are too many people now, and almost no one wants to send the young and strong people in his territory out to fight at this point in time.
"enough!"
"You bunch of **** on your head!"
Then without any warning, King Robert suddenly became furious and threw the cup in his hand.
Snapped--
The expensive glass cup shattered, directly smashing the nobles who petitioned below.
And suddenly something happened, and the nobles below shivered and dared not speak.
"Dragon!"
"That fellow Viselis already has a dragon!"
The obese Robert stood up from the iron throne, angrily, his black beard was like a steel ball, and the sound of thunder echoed in the throne room.
"Let's not strangle the dragon in the cradle while it is not growing up. Should we wait for the dragon to grow up and burn your sow-raised waste in the castle!"
When Aegon took the three dragons to conquer Westeros, he once burned the Holenberg, which was known as "unbreakable", into a melting pot. Of course, the stone would not burn, but the dragon flames took the last Iron Islands and the river. The king of the earth, "Black Heart" Herron Hall, and his wife, children, and children were roasted alive in the castle.
What Robert now brings up in his anger is the most famous tragedy more than 290 years ago.
The nobles below shivered, not daring to refute the angry King Robert.
In the eyes of Robert ~www.NovelMTL.com~, these nobles with their heads shrunk and dare not say anything are like moths.
Once he hit King's Landing, these nobles who had sworn allegiance to Targaryen immediately surrendered, and even without resistance, they began to praise the merits of the Baratheon family and denounce Targaryen's sins.
At that time Robert still had some ecstasy, but now Robert has only realized that if Targaryen will return to King's Landing one day, I am afraid these people will change their faces.
However, when Robert was angry in the Throne Hall.
Located behind the Red Fort, Queen Cersei in the Meige Building suddenly received a message from the maid.
"Father is here?"
Sitting in front of the vanity mirror, the graceful blond woman stood up from the seat, something incredible.
Then he thought about it and waved his hand.
"Go tell your king."
