Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

"No more hesitation, make a decision, Lord Marquis!" The speaker was Edwin Frey, the great-grandson of Marquis Walder Frey. His inheritance rights are now ranked second in the Frey family.

"It was Stark who betrayed first and trampled on the dignity of the Frey family. He must be dealt a heavy blow!" The second person to speak was Lyman Frey, the first in line of succession. After speaking, he drank a sip of wine for himself. He is not a qualified heir, is gluttonous and alcoholic, and likes to hang out with prostitutes. His two sons secretly fought for succession.

"The Frey family has paid so much for his royal estate. Your eldest son and heir, my grandfather Sir Steveron, died for him, but what he got in return was oath-breaking and ruthless betrayal!" The third person spoke It is Black Walder Frey, who is third in line of succession.

This is a resolution within the Frey family. Walder Frey, the ninety-year-old patriarch of the Frey family and Marquis of the Twins, is sitting in the middle of the family's table. He is no longer young and is trapped by gout. in the chair.

Due to the important strategic position of the Twins, the Frey family has made a fortune since building the twin castle, the only cross-river bridge on the Green Fork River, a tributary of the Trident River. They soon became one of the richest and most powerful families in the Trident River Valley, but their rapid rise in status also made other families look down on them and regard them as nouveau riche. Therefore, they are always looking for opportunities to advance to positions of power that match their wealth.

The current Marquis of Ward has married eight wives and has many children, including twenty-two legitimate sons and seven legitimate daughters, as well as an unknown number of illegitimate children. He is jokingly said to be "able to give birth to an army on his own." House Frey grew rapidly during Lord Walder's reign.

This old Walder is conceited, sensitive, and ambitious.

Now the most ambitious and cunning members of this huge family have been summoned to decide on a major event that affects the family's honor and disgrace. But the main ones who spoke were the heirs at the top of the order of succession. It is worth mentioning that all members of the family close to Stark were sent outside the castle.

Now only Frey, who is radical to Stark, and Frey, who is more radical to Stark, are participating in the meeting.

Old Walder looked at his great-grandson of the same name, Walder, known as "Black Walder": "What did Roose Bolton say? King Targaryen's letter is not good for him, Tilly of Lannister Ang is also married to Sansa Stark, but he still insists on cooperating with the Lannister. Apart from negotiating with us, he is appointed as the Warden of the North by King's Landing. What else is he hiding? "

"Arya!" said Dark Walder, the third in line. "Tywin promised him Arya Stark."

Tywin doesn't have the real Arya, he has a fake one. The girl's name is Jeyne Poole, the daughter of the steward of Winterfell and Sansa's good friend. Since few people in the North had seen Arya, Tywin used a fake one to deceive Roose Bolton.

Old Walder asked: "His and Fat Walda's son marries Stark's daughter?"

"Definitely not," said Edwin, who was second in line. "It's Ramsay Snow, his illegitimate son. But it's not a cause for concern. An illegitimate son is not as good as a legitimate son. Walda's son will become the leader of the North after him." Guard. There is no one in the north now. With our help, Roose can easily conquer the north, and we will get the riverlands. No matter who is the ruler of Lannister in the future. He is a Targaryen and can move forward and retreat freely."

Old Walder's face darkened: "Have you ever asked why King's Landing didn't respond to our Targaryen matter on Dragonstone? If they could handle it and drive him out of Westeros, why didn't they reply to let us feel at ease? Tywin Lannister is so arrogant!"

"Tywin promised us the Riverlands, and Grandfather Emmon will have Riverrun!" said Edwin. Emmon Frey is married to Tywin's sister, Jeena Lannister. This is undoubtedly a reflection of the sincerity of the in-depth cooperation between the two companies. "The Freys will conquer the Trident and the Riverlands!"

Lord Walder, who twice delayed responding to the Tully family's summons of vassals during the Usurper's War and the War of the Five Kings until he confirmed that he had made a profit, said: "The appeal of Targaryen very dangerous!"

Black Walder replied: "As far as I know, no river nobles who received the letter responded, let alone the northerners. Eddard Stark was King Robert's right-hand man. Lannister and Tyrell , King Joffrey and Margaery's wedding will be held in the New Year, Lord Marquis, the two richest families in the Seven Kingdoms have formed an alliance! And that Targaryen is on Dragonstone, which is a poor and rotten land. Stannis's defeated army is beyond control."

Old Walder narrowed his eyes like a weasel: "You don't understand that Targaryen may gain the support of Dorne. Dorne has not used a single soldier since the beginning of the war."

Edwin said: "It is said that Princess Myrcella of King's Landing and the prince of Dorne——"

Black Walder interrupted his brother: "My Lord Marquis, what do you think we should do?"

Old Walder's descendants were still fighting against each other mercilessly and shamelessly to please him at such a moment that was related to the family's honor and disgrace. He said displeased: "I'm asking you. Of course, Stark betrayed Frey and trampled on everyone." Frey's dignity, our revenge is reasonable, and the gods will understand our revenge!"

Edwin couldn't help but murmured: "How can Dorne alone resist the alliance of Tyrell and Lannister?"

Black Wald suddenly became excited: "My lord, I heard that Willas Tyrell of the Tyrell family is not yet married, and neither is Martin Lannister, the third son of Ser Kevan."

Edwin immediately retorted: "They won't agree." He wanted to say that he shouldn't humiliate himself, but he didn't say it.

Mery Frey suddenly joined the conversation and said: "What happens to them in the south? What does it matter to us?" This Frey, who was nicknamed the idiot Merry by his father Old Walder, once had an affair with Jaime Lannister. He was known for being strong and muscular among his squire companions, and he liked to bully the weak. He suffered a head injury during a campaign against the Kingswood Brotherhood, and has been unable to go on the battlefield since.

He is the father of the fat Walda whom Roose Burton chose to marry Frey. Because Lord Frey generously promised to use the bride's weight in silver as a dowry.

But he is just like his nickname, idiot. As soon as he finished speaking, the senior heirs of the Frey family turned to look at him, so Merry chose to shut up.

But Old Walder told him to go on: "Go on, Merry."

This basically shows your attitude. Old Walder's descendants began to rack their brains to think about how the Frey family could stay out of the possible disputes in the south and seek benefits.

"Even if Targaryen may have Dorne, their battlefield is also in the South, and the South is so far away. We don't care what they do. I think the Freys can just take care of the Riverlands." But Merry's wisdom is limited to this. , he couldn't tell more.

Walder Sr. was disappointed with his reaction.

"We are helping Roose Bolton pacify the north, and there is still land in the Riverlands to recover. We have enough reasons not to be summoned by Lannister in King's Landing." Black Wald's mind turned quickly, and he said, "Even if we do After all this, wasn’t there any news about the savages going south? We can still evade helping the north to resist the savages.”

Edwin asked coldly: "The winter in the north is freezing to death. Are you going to send us Frey family members to freeze to death?"

"Tell the Lannister then that we will help Roose fight against the wildlings, and we didn't say when we would go." Black Walder smiled, "And this can be regarded as responding to King Targaryen's call. He didn't want the Northern Warden to go to the north. Will the Great Wall support them? We will see how we deal with them next. We will form an alliance with Luce and we will advance and retreat together. Hejian and the North will cooperate closely. The Frey family can sit back and watch the success or failure."

Old Walder narrowed his eyes and asked, "How long until the King of the North arrives in Twins City? Is the banquet ready? Band?"

"Everything is ready, just waiting for you to make a decision. Do you want the band to play that song at the banquet?"

"Where's Roose Bolton? Call him over and tell him that Warden of the North is a good title and suits him very well. It's time for us to talk about how to welcome the King of the North."

Many times, people ask, didn't the Freys think about the consequences when they decided to violate the rights of their guests?

The answer is, yes. But they don't realize how serious the consequences are.

The Ballad of the Rat Chef is often used to remind people of the consequences of trampling on the sacred rights of guests, but that is not a concern for the Freys, who are filled with greed and anger. Before they did this, in their own minds, Robb Stark's breaking of his betrothal to the Freys was equivalent to the breaking of the oath they were about to commit.

And they believe that this behavior is the same as Tywin's cruel and decisive behavior when he eradicated the Reyes family, and the promises Tywin gave were generous enough.

In fact, in this nearly year-long war, Tywin destroyed and killed countless nobles in the Riverlands, and even the once-prominent House of Harrenhal was wiped out.

Nearly a thousand years have passed since the legend of the Rat Chef. The decent people among Frey's descendants are generally close to Stark and excluded from this discussion. It can be said that when decent people are excluded, it is impossible for the Frey family to make the second choice.

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The arrow is on the string and has to be fired. This is the situation Tywin is currently facing.

When another piece of information about dragon sightings on Dragonstone came to him, the battle-hardened Duke actually felt powerless for a moment.

Every piece of information about dragon sightings and every piece of news from Dragonstone was a torture for this cold duke.

It was as uncomfortable as being cut with a dull knife.

The defense of the Dragonstone Castle is so tight that even the most expensive assassin in the world, the Faceless Man, has been caught. It is rumored that the growth of another little dragon on Dragonstone is actually visible to the naked eye. Each time the news is more exciting than the previous one. big. Compared with Barristan's appearance on Dragonstone and the wise actions of the king of Dragonstone from time to time. The dragon is the most desperate thing, and the Targaryen is just there, no one knows when he will attack.

Dragonstone left this scheming duke uneasy.

The king was not one to sit around and wait on Dragonstone, and he knew that messenger crows were sometimes more useful than armies. Messenger ravens from the Twins and Roose Bolton showed Tywin a letter from the king trying to disrupt the North, and Varys's little bird confirmed it.

Originally, Tywin wanted to stop the plan to kill the King in the North. After all, the situation is different now. Targaryen and Stark have deep hatred. Keeping the King in the North may be used to fight against Targaryen. ——Although Stark and Lannister are now also feuding.

But the king's letter made Tywin make up his mind. There is a hidden meaning in Dragonstone's letter. That is, if Robb gives up the throne and takes up the responsibility of the Warden of the North and obeys the Targaryen's orders, the Targaryens of Dragonstone will pardon his family.

That was definitely not what Tywin wanted to see. Besides, his conspiracy with Roose Bolton and the Frey family was already imminent. Stopping at this time would not only mean that Robb Stark could return to the North to regain lost territory, but also that Lannister would lose two allies in the Riverlands and the North that he had won with power, fraud and deception.

If the Riverlands and the North could not be stabilized, then Lannister might face a situation of being attacked from all sides in King's Landing in the future.

King's Landing

Tywin really wanted the Targaryen of Dragonstone to attack King's Landing, because in this way he could determine the combat power of the dragon as soon as possible. If he could not fight, he would decisively abandon the city and force Tyrell and important nobles of the Reach to retreat to the West in multiple ways.

Winter was approaching, and the King of Dragonstone occupied the city, and it was very likely that he would fall into the same predicament as Queen Rhaenyra during the Dance of the Dragons in this city.

Now it seems that occupying the city of King's Landing has made Lannister's hands tied. If they had handed King's Landing to Stannis, Lannister could have left.

The most hateful thing is that the Targaryen king with a dragon did not move on Dragonstone, but kept using stories and ravens to create a wise image and disrupt the situation in the interior.

Tywin also wanted Stannis to attack and explore the way, but the king who was hiding in Storm's End could not organize an active attack at all.

His eyes turned to Stoneyon Castle and the Point on the map, which were only separated from Dragonstone by a river.

The narrow land of Cape Marseilles is far away from the road and has enough mountains and woodlands.

Since Tywin got the information about the weakness of the dragon, he has secretly arranged a team of 700 Lannister troops to break up and disperse along the Wend River to secretly rush to Cape Marseilles, carrying enough rations to survive for many days from the deserted woodlands and grasslands to the outskirts of Stone Dance City, and a group of logistics troops disguised as shepherds wandered in the grasslands outside Cape Marseilles to provide them with supplies.

This army of 700 will secretly disperse in various terrains on the coast and in the wild to build the high-altitude fortifications suggested by the Citadel.

He asked these Lannister soldiers to disguise themselves as soldiers from the Stormlands, and put a group of death warriors in between. When the high-altitude fortifications are built, another group of people will fly the king's flag of Stannis to attack the Stone Dance City of Stoneyon Castle - the original plan was to attack the Point, but the surrender of Stoneyon Castle to Dragonstone Island led to the revision of this plan.

Their goal is to try to lure the dragons of Dragonstone Island to attack and lure them into the range of the fortifications secretly set up in the wild.

Are the so-called anti-air defense and dispersed guerrilla warfare suggested by the Citadel really useful?

Lord Tywin has to confirm this.

The person in charge of this matter is Lord Tywin's younger brother Kevan. He should now be exploring the preset battlefield site, and the news brought by the letter of return is optimistic. The terrain of the protruding part of the Marseilles Peninsula is mostly rugged mountains. The mountains near Stoneyon Castle are rarely visited, with many uneven valleys and high points. Kevan dispersed these 700 people among the wild mountains, hiding in caves, and asked the craftsmen in the team to use local materials to quietly build anti-aircraft crossbows in hidden commanding heights.

When the time is right and the giant high-altitude crossbows built are enough, Kevan will order a group of dead men to attack Stone Dance City and try to lure the dragons of Dragonstone to attack.

Although Lord Tywin is in King's Landing now, his heart is already in the Twins and Stone Dance City. His face is still stern and serious, but his heart is not calm.

This famous Duke Lannister knows very well that his layout, whether in the direction of the Twins or Stone Dance City, is already on the string.