Chapter 230 The Loss Outweighs the Gain

"Haaaaaa. Ah?" A fur-covered, mail-armored northern veteran was the first to jump off the longboat, but he had only half of his battle cry. The moment he saw the burning ancient city, the northern veteran closed his mouth in a daze.

As the vanguard, all the participants were nobles and veterans, and even many noble family heads participated. Those young guys didn't understand things, but the old guys and the noble family heads had to know more about what the ruins in front of them meant.

The dragons landed one after another in front of the landing Iron Throne army, and every dragon rider had a bad face. Daeron jumped off the dragon's back and looked at the army that had landed and was unloading horses and food with a sullen look. The commanders of the vanguard were Sir Adam, Sir Will Hunter, the captain of the Kingsguard, Earl Benjico Blackwood, and Duke Shufu Arryn of the Vale.

"Your Majesty, everyone." Earl Benjico Blackwood, who had the most experience in war among the several commanders, stepped forward immediately. He said without disguising, "What's going on?"

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be an internal conflict in the city." Kong Yi slowly crawled to the crowd, and Jakaris said in a deep voice. "Rika Lakron is the city of strife. Too many forces are gathered here. Our removal of their sentinels should remind them that we are here."

"Fear." Irion said sullenly, "Fear takes away the city's reason." Womax under him grinned and roared at Sendrolos. He didn't like this fierce, aggressive, and rude dragon. In the battle just now, Sendrolos showed off his dragon flame and agile figure in front of other dragons more than once.

Menghuo is now in an absurdly good temper. Haiyan and Telekshu don't know what Cendroth eats to grow up. It seems that the growth rate of the dragons in Dragon Nest City is a bit abnormal. Shadow Nightmare, Star Song, and Cendroth are all dragons with a frighteningly fast growth rate. Even the long-lived Huohuo grows faster than ordinary dragons. Although Cendroth is young now, in terms of size, it is second only to Menghuo among the dragons participating in the war.

This is also the root of its unbridled recklessness. However, it seems that because they have been together for a long time, this unruly dragon will give Kong Yi some face, and will not be too arrogant under Dan's restraint.

"Your Majesty, you have overlooked the complex situation in the Disputed Lands. We are not prepared to burn the city down." Aerion continued, "It will take time for the dragon flame to extinguish, and we may not be able to occupy the city in a short time."

"Your Majesty, the army cannot wait." Earl Benjiko stretched out his gauntleted hand and pointed at the blazing Rikka Lakron. How many people will be left alive in the city after the flames are extinguished? They don't know, but everyone who has war experience, or at least learned relevant knowledge, knows it. What their 5,000 vanguards need is a station, food, time to rest, and craftsmen who can repair weapons.

So Rikka Lakron is very important. As an ancient Rhoynar town, even if it was destroyed once, it still retains many buildings and complete infrastructure, so it was colonized and used again by the colony of Valyria, and eventually became one of the largest towns in the Disputed Lands. Its population and facilities are enough to support the stationing of the vanguard and the subsequent army.

But now.

Maybe there is nothing wrong with the underground drainage facilities of the Rhoyna people, but what will happen to the surface buildings and the residents who didn't have time to escape? We have to wait until the fire is out to know.

Daren and his men saw it clearly from the sky. The fire started from the wooden barracks in the west city, and then burned uncontrollably to the wooden palace, the wooden board houses and ancient shrubs densely distributed in the city. Even if the dragon knights were careful, the dragon flames inevitably aggravated the fire. Even now they can still hear the screams from the city from time to time.

Now even they can't say when the fire will be extinguished.

People with flames all over their bodies rushed out of the city screaming, shouting in an unrecognizable dialect: "Save me, save me!"

But when these people saw the fully armed Westeros army that was still pouring down from the endless sailing ships, everyone collapsed to the ground as if they had lost their strength. Let the flames completely engulf them.

Only the Westeros commanders with faces as gloomy as water were left.

"Your Majesty, I will write to my father and elder brother immediately." Dan looked at Daeron with a gloomy face and stood up: "The supplies waiting in Silver Crown City will set sail immediately. The supplies we have now are enough to support the arrival of the next batch of supplies."

"Not enough, Your Highness." Benjiko interrupted Dan. "The destruction of Rikka Lakron is bound to cause great turmoil in the Mangrove Coast and even in the disputed land. We cannot guarantee that they will kill each other or concentrate their forces to eliminate us."

He glanced at King Daeron and sighed.

If it was Prince Daemon or Prince Longzel, Rikka Lakron should have been completely delivered to the hands of the vanguard by the local forces they bribed at this time, and the "guides" who had sought enough benefits or were overwhelmed by force would be ready to cooperate in the battle at any time.

It's just a matter of cutting off some meat and taking it away. When the fighting is almost over, it's hard to say whether the meat will still be left on the bread of those "guides".

"Our main force is still gathering, Your Majesty. If the warlords in the disputed land gather together and even attract those well-equipped large mercenary groups, we must defend the undefended Rikka Lakron area before the main force arrives."

Earl Benjiko said firmly.

"I understand." Daeron nodded, the cold sweat on his forehead had not yet faded. Although the king was young, he had an amazing war intuition. He knew very well that what Benjiko said was an irrefutable fact. "Earl Benjiko, Duke Shufu, no, Rhaegar."

Rhaegar, who had a neat silver short hair and wore simple leather armor, immediately perked up.

"You will immediately ride the Horn Tide to scout the area around Rikkar Lakron."

King Daeron then looked at Dan and Jacaerys: "Uncle, thank you for writing to Grandpa and asking him to give us intelligence support."

"As you command, Your Majesty."

"Lord Benjiko, Duke Shufu, you will take everyone to camp and rest on the spot. We will change camps when Rhaegar comes back. Sir Adam, please command the fleet to patrol the coast." Daeron quickly arranged all the arrangements.

When the army started to move again, he looked at the still burning city fiercely.

The screams became clearer and clearer. Dreamfire hummed and slowly put his head on King Daeron's side. He gently nudged his partner who was obviously in a bad mood.

Daeron also gently stroked Dreamfire's scales, and his frown gradually relaxed.

On the other side, Sendrolos roared and took off. Dan was worried that the raven was not fast enough, so he had to rush back to Dragon's Nest City for help.

Time is running out, and the opportunity is running out. Daeron doesn't want to repeat Baratheon's mistakes.

He needs to be fast, the faster the better.