Game of Thrones: Holy Flame King

The deep night enveloped the land, and the dense jungle was even more frighteningly gloomy and oppressive.

Fortunately, hundreds of bonfires propped up a piece of light, blocking the darkness from the army camp.

"Who!" The night guard soldier was alarmed by the movement above his head, and was pulling out the scimitar from his waist when he saw a huge shadow covering him.

The bonfire around him suddenly jumped up and down, as if welcoming or paying tribute.

"Lord Caesar!" The soldier finally saw the white dragon clearly, quickly put away the knife, and bowed to salute.

Samwell jumped off the dragon's back, nodded to the soldiers, and asked:

"Where is the commander's tent?"

"I'll take you there."

"Okay." It was so dark that it took Samwell a lot of effort to find it by himself.

Cleopatra seemed to be exhausted and paralyzed, laying on the ground and not wanting to move.

Samwell had no choice but to pat it on the head: "Okay, you can stay here and rest. You have worked hard today."

After explaining some precautions to the night watch soldiers, Samwell went to the camp of the Chinese army.

Earl Landau was still awake, staring at the topographic map in a daze. After seeing Samwell coming in, he stood up and asked:

"Why did you come back so late?"

Samwell didn't talk nonsense, and directly stated the latest information he found: "I found Lannister's reinforcements! They are heading south from the King's Road and have just reached the Wende River. There are 50,000 to 60,000 people."

"Five to sixty thousand?" Earl Landau was also taken aback by this amount, but then he frowned, "Where did the Lannister family get so many soldiers? They don't care about the threat from the north?"

"I captured two prisoners. They said that most of them were recruits recruited by Kevan from King's Landing urgently. I also went to see it myself. It is true that the military discipline is very bad, and the weapons and equipment are not complete. It should be a makeshift army. The new army that comes out will not have much combat effectiveness."

"That makes sense." Earl Randall stood up from his seat, paced back and forth in the tent, and said, "It seems that Kevan is planning to use this new army to defend the city, and by the way, reduce the population pressure on King's Landing. After losing the support of the two major granaries of the Riverland and the Reach, the Lannister family must be very tight in food supply."

"Yes, father. I think we should decisively abandon Luomucheng and intercept this new army going south. They are vulnerable in the wild, but if we let them hide behind the city wall, I'm afraid it will cause us great trouble .”

After thinking for a moment, Earl Randall slowly shook his head:

"No. It is true that Fallen Wood City can no longer fight, but our marching direction cannot be changed, and we will continue to move east."

Samwell was puzzled: "But the king's army is in our northeast direction..."

As soon as he said it, he realized something and asked:

"Father, are you planning to go east first and then north?"

"Yes." Earl Randall nodded, "To the east, we can leave the imperial forest as quickly as possible. This is our first goal of marching, and it cannot be changed because of the appearance of new enemies. But after we leave the imperial forest, we will not We have attacked Fallen Wood City, but changed our course to the north, and went to Tongmen City to intercept the king's army going south."

"Will it be too late?"

"But this is the safest way." Earl Randall emphasized, "Don't forget the troubles you are solving because of the emergence of new troubles. The royal forest is still too dangerous for us, so we must pass carefully.

Moreover, since the enemy also knows that we know their existence, the harassment of the Stormlanders will only become more intense.

When the army leaves the imperial forest, you will lead all the river bay cavalry to head north first to harass the king's army and delay their entry into Tongmen City. "

"Is it just a delay? Then wait for you to lead the army to launch a joint attack?" Samwell asked, "I'm afraid that the king's army has already entered the city before you arrive."

"You can decide on your own whether to launch an attack or not. Although the king's army is large in number, if your previous information is accurate, its combat effectiveness should be poor. You can try it out and see if you can find a fighter."

"Okay!" Samwell nodded heavily, with flames dancing in his eyes.

...

In the next few days, the Hewan army was attacked more and more intensely.

Both the number of dispatches and the number of attacks of the Stormland Qingqi have increased significantly, and sometimes they even try to steal camp at night.

However, night action is a very risky thing for cavalry, especially in the complex environment of the jungle. Losing their wits, they are only harassed by thunder and rain, deliberately creating noise and tension, trying to prevent the people of Hewan from resting as much as possible.

Earl Randall arranged the camp in two circles inside and outside the city. The outer circle was in charge of guarding, and all the people in the inner circle slept with their ears plugged.

After three days like this, seeing that the Hewan army was about to walk out of the imperial forest, the people in the storm were really anxious.

"We must stop the people of the Reach!" exclaimed Lord Heywood Fell.

The lord of Fallen Wood City had a horse face, his beard and long hair were grayish brown, messy and dense, like weeds growing wildly.

"I'm afraid I can't stop it." Sir Kunta Bukele from Bronze Gate City looked melancholy.

He's always been so sad, ever since he found that expression attractive to girls.

"If you can't stop it, you have to stop it! Don't let the people from the River Bend enter our territory!" Earl Heywood spat wildly at Sir Quinta.

"Lord Heywood is right." Earl Astan Selmy said.

The Earl of Harvest Hall is the nephew of the famous Captain of the Kingsguard, Barristan Selmy. This time he was ordered by the Duke of Storm's End to lead the northern princes in the Stormlands against the Northern Army of the Riverbend. Although not as famous as his uncle, he also has very rich experience in leading troops in combat.

"Everyone, don't take any chances." Earl Astan solemnly reminded, "Once the people of Hewan capture your castle, they will not return it to you. So, this time you are not fighting for Duke Edric, Not for King Tommen, but for your own castles, domains, and titles!"

These rather blatant remarks made the nobles of the storm feel awe-inspiring.

They did have some hesitation before. After all, the current Duke of Storm's End has no prestige and has a problematic background. Few of the Stormland nobles are willing to serve him.

As for the king on the Iron Throne, few stormy nobles are willing to admit it.

But Earl Astan was right. Regardless of their political stance, they had to go all out when facing the people of Hewan this time, otherwise the lost castle and title would be their own.

"For the Stormland!" Earl Heywood hurriedly roared upon seeing this.

"For the Stormlands!"

"For the Stormlands!"

Finally, the nobles of the storm land decided to go all out.

Just after noon, the fight against the jungle reached its climax.

The people of the storm no longer just sent light cavalry to harass, but the army pressed forward, and the arrows were as dense as rain, pouring towards the army at the river bend.

The Hewan army has long been ready for battle, and the sword and shield soldiers in the outer circle raised their shields in front of them, while still maintaining a slow but firm forward speed. The archers followed closely, and they did not forget to move forward while fighting back.

Even at this time, Earl Landau still insisted on his first military goal——

Get out of the royal forest as soon as possible.

During the march, there will inevitably be gaps in the shield wall. Facing a large area of ​​arrows, even with the protection of shields and leather armor, there will still be casualties.

But Earl Landau did not intend to stop the army from advancing, even though this was very likely to be the most ferocious attack launched by the enemy.

Seeing that the rain of arrows could not stop the people of Hewan, the people of Stormland began to change their formation.

With the swaying of various flags and the rumble of drums, the archers in the storm retreated, and the swordsmen began to press forward.

This is to prepare for the battle.

Earl Landau saw this situation and issued a new military order:

"All the cavalry gather in the formation, the whole army slows down, but must not stop advancing!"

While the messengers scattered to deliver the military orders, the Stormlanders had already started to charge.

The first to go in this kind of charge is usually cannon fodder, which is used to consume the arrows of the Hewan people and wear down their swords. At the same time, the lives of these cannon fodder are used to shake the Hewan army formation and look for flaws.

Cruel, but it is the basic law of warfare in this era.

Samwell could clearly see that few of the stormtroopers who rushed up in the first wave were wearing armor. It is estimated that most of them were urgently recruited civilians. After simple training, they were given weapons and sent On the battlefield, but there are indeed quite a few of them. At a glance, there are two to three thousand people.

A wave of charge can have this scale, it can be seen that the people of the storm have really invested a lot of money.

In the face of such a charge, the most important thing is to stabilize the formation.

As long as the formation remains stable, the Stormlanders will collapse on their own due to the surge in casualties.

In fact, Lord Riverbend had better stop and fight at this time, but for some reason, Earl Landau still insisted that the army keep moving forward.

Even if the speed is a little slower, we must move forward.

Amidst bursts of shouts and screams, the two armies began a brutal hand-to-hand combat.

The dense stormlanders rushed into the army formation of the Shanghewan people like a tide, splashing bright red blood flowers one after another.

The patchwork array of river bends caused the stormlanders to pay a heavy price for their charge, but their tenacity also exceeded expectations, and they forced themselves to further crash into the front of the crossbow formation despite a large number of casualties.

Fortunately, the crossbowmen of Hewan also wore leather armor, and the soldiers who could bend their bows and shoot arrows were not weak. Even if they put down their bows and arrows, they could still fight with their waist knives drawn.

However, in this way, the long-range killing efficiency of the Hewan Army was affected.

More and more Stormland soldiers took this opportunity to break into the formation, and the fighting became more bloody and fierce.