Game of Thrones: I loaded the Witcher system

"My lord...it has been confirmed that all the war horses we left here are gone..."

The knight of the Royce family reported the results of the investigation to Count Yoon Royce in a low voice, without even daring to raise his head.

There was nothing they could do. The evil aura exuding from their Lord Earl's body now made them, the shivering Valley Knights, feel like the air around them was almost frozen.

However, everyone can understand the mood of the earl. This lord claims to be a general in the entire Seven Kingdoms and on the battlefield. He always compares himself with Randyll Tarly of the Reach.

Originally, after the earl led the army in the valley to defeat the 20,000-strong army of Robb Stark's wolf cub, he didn't even care about the remaining Clay Manderly.

Yohn Royce has been telling people around him that if this kid Clay Mandler stays in the Twins City, he will let him go. If he dares to go south and get involved, he will definitely not let him go. Eat the good fruit.

When Clay Manderly actually arrived at Riverrun, and then had the audacity to lead two thousand cavalry eastward from Riverrun, Yohn Royce couldn't bear it anymore. He felt that Clay Manderly was Challenge yourself.

We have already defeated the 20,000 people led by your king. Now you dare to hang out under my nose with 2,000 people. Isn't this clearly looking down on yourself?

In this case, I, John Royce, have the obligation to let you know what the battlefield is and what the dangers of society are! If I don't give you some color, will you go to heaven?

So, the confident John Royce led five thousand cavalry and chased the tail of Clay Mandler's two thousand cavalry northward.

But what happened next was a complete nightmare for this great nobleman in the valley.

First, at Actor's Beach, he encountered the first problem that Clay Mandler gave him. Hey, I've divided my troops and gone all the way to your logistics line. Lord Royce, will you follow?

At that time, Yohn Royce had 5,000 people and was very powerful, so he decided to throw out his chips and follow.

Two thousand people, led by Count Leonor, chased due north. He himself took the remaining three thousand people and continued to chase Clay Manderly.

But... as he went deep into the interbank area of ​​the Trident River, the consequences of his unfamiliarity with the land were immediately revealed, and he gradually could not keep up with Clay Mandler's forward speed.

Later, Clay Mandler gave the confident and self-righteous Earl of the Valley a hard slap in the face through a hearty battle between scouts.

After a battle, the scout team sent out by John Royce almost completely disappeared. In just two days, the army of three thousand people encountered the dilemma of having no scouts available.

This was a situation that Yohn Royce could hardly imagine, but the bloody corpse told him that this was the fact.

From that time on, Yon Royce curbed his arrogance and began to regard Clay Mandler as his opponent. But at that time, he was still unconvinced and felt that this was all a trivial matter. Ray Mandler did not dare to fight an honest battle with himself.

This is actually true. Clay has a hole in his mind, so he would use 1,500 people to hedge your 3,000 people.

Yohn Royce held his breath in his heart, thinking that if he had to catch up with Clay Mandler no matter what, he had to have a fight to let you know how powerful the Valley Cavalry was.

However... when he crossed the Blue Fork River from the beauty bridge, he once saw the traces of the division of troops left by Clay Mandler.

Looking at the horse hoof prints facing both sides, John Royce felt a deep insult.

Isn't this just bullying?

Fortunately, he was not stunned by Clay Mandler's anger. After some brainstorming, he decided to choose a direction to pursue.

After that, he saw the turning traces of the march...

Yohn Royce could swear to no matter whether it was the Seven Gods, the Old Gods or the Lord of Light, R'hllor, that when he saw that scene, he really almost fell off his horse.

This is no longer bullying him, this is naked contempt, playing with him, the Earl of Runestone City, in the palm of his hand!

From that moment on, Yohn Royce's mentality began to collapse. He was not the only one. The valley cavalry who came back to their senses also knew that they had been fooled by Clay Mandler, like a monkey that was acting up. .

At first, they were very determined to chase Clay Mandler south, and they wanted to tear this guy alive for treating them like a monkey.

This situation made Yohn Royce think that the military's morale was useful for a while, but as he pursued it, Yohn Royce gradually felt that the mentality of the army was slowly changing.

The passion brought about by the anger of being teased lasted for a day, and then began to fade away rapidly. The soldiers began to fall into self-doubt. If they continued to pursue them all the way, they had fallen into Clay Mandler's trap again.

After all, they were either marching or on the march every day. After Riverrun ordered to fortify the walls and clear the fields, they didn't even see a ghost along the way. How could the soldiers not be suspicious?

John Royce made several mobilizations, but with little success and very few people responded.

Later, he gave up because he himself also fell into doubt. Was it because of Clay Mandler's plan that he chased south so angrily?

He suddenly began to understand the Kingslayer Jaime Lannister. Was he in the same situation as he is now?

Yohn Royce didn't know, but now he had no choice but to bite the bullet and chase south along this only possibility. If he made another mistake this time, he would never gain the trust of the soldiers again. .

Fortunately, the gods still favored him. At the Operator's Ford crossing of the Red Fork River, he finally found traces of Clay Manderly's army, but then he realized that something was wrong.

Because his departure took away almost all the mobile power north of Shili City, Yohn Royce knew very well what the current defensive state of the three eastern cities was like.

If Clay Mandler chose them as the target of his attack, everything would really be over.

After thinking about this, a trace of decadence appeared on Yon Royce's bloodless face. He understood that in this air confrontation with Clay Mandler, he was completely defeated. Failed.

In other words, Clay Manderly only had 2,000 riverland cavalry with poor combat effectiveness. If he had 5,000 men like him, and replaced them with the Northern Elite Cavalry he once led, then he might leave. No more crossing the banks of the Trident.

Jaime Lannister loses without complaining, and he loses without complaining. When encountering such a celestial battlefield general, there is really no way anyone can do anything but to hide and protect themselves.

Although his heart was full of despair after the failure, he was the first commander of the army in the three eastern cities after all. If there was a threat to the army, he had to rescue it.

So, John Royce led his 3,000-man army that was exhausted and marched toward Shili City in the southwest. However, not long after walking, he encountered two broken soldiers who had escaped from the military horse farm.

At this moment, Yohn Royce knew that he had finally guessed correctly this time, but it was too late.

Clay Mandler had already attacked his horse farm. There were four thousand horses stored there. Yohn Royce felt that his heart was bleeding. Without saying a word, he rushed forward with his troops. Headed there.

And when he arrived at the military horse farm, all that was left for him was ruins and corpses on the ground.

Clay Mandalay also cared about killing and not burying him.

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Taking a deep breath, Yohn Royce tried to calm his restless heart. He knew that he must not be chaotic at this time.

He grabbed the defeated soldier who was covered in mud and blood, and there was no warmth in his voice:

"Tell me, where did Clay Manderly's troops go?"

"Sir... I, I don't know, I should... I should be heading towards Shili City."

"What about our military horses? Were they also taken there by Clay Mandler?"

The defeated soldier who had narrowly escaped death was almost crying at this time. He really didn’t know that the reason why he was the lucky one to survive was because he was afraid of death enough. The moment he saw Clay Bingfeng appear, he Ran.

Otherwise, he would have been sleeping with his comrades on the meadow of the military horse farm, under the thick snow.

His voice trembled, and he wanted to reach out to grab the palm of Yon Royce's hand, but he didn't dare. He was at a loss and replied cowardly:

"Sir, my brothers and I fought desperately to break out. I really don't know what the final situation will be like. I really don't know where the army and horses are. I don't dare to deceive you, your lord."

There was a hint of rage in his eyes, but it was restrained by Yohn Royce.

As a veteran, he certainly knows that any breakout is a lie. This is simply running away. Only by running away when he sees the enemy will he live to see himself.

But there is no point in killing this deserter now. On the contrary, it will give another blow to the fragile military morale.

For some reason, Yohn Royce thought of the Frey family, which was exterminated under the leadership of Clay Manderly.

The then Marquis Walder Frey was late, and he has been nicknamed the late Marquis Frey all his life.

And now, the grass on the graves of the Frey family is already one meter high. This reputation of being late will probably fall on me, the Earl of Runestone City, from now on.

The late arrival of Earl Royce really left Eoin Royce with no room for rebuttal.

He was indeed late, and he was not even a little late. No matter how tired or miserable he was, he must dare to go to Shili City as soon as possible, even if his three thousand people were already far behind.

If we are still late this time and the camp under Shili City is destroyed, then the entire eastern battlefield in the Riverlands will be reversed.

And this is a responsibility that John Royce cannot bear.