Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

The troubles brought by war, whether pre-war preparations or post-war reorganization, are very troublesome.

Even for those who surrender, they need to be fined.

And those who died with Stannis will be deprived and redistributed, and sent to the Wall.

There are also rewards that need to be considered.

Stannis's active attack disrupted Viserys's plan.

The Stormlands were recovered earlier than expected, leaving Viserys unable to handle it for a while.

The composition of Stannis's army is complex, and it is troublesome to deal with the surrendered at the mouth of the Wend River. Some of the lords of the Narrow Sea need to be sent back to the Narrow Sea and dealt with, but in addition, there are also the lords of the crown lords other than the Stormlands and the lords of the Riverlands represented by Florent. These lords originally served Stannis to help him become king. Now that Stannis's kingship has failed, they are not under the rule of Shireen, the Duke of Storm's End, who was appointed by Viserys, so in theory they surrendered to Viserys.

It was not an easy task to recruit and deal with these people. Finally, the decision was to reorganize them as guest troops and let them help Shireen unify the Stormlands, and then deal with them separately. He had to make a clear reward and punishment at Storm's End.

Now that Viserys had returned to Dragonstone for a short time, he had only the space to place the captives, brainwash Stannis to prevent him from going on a hunger strike, and appease the Dorne envoys who were visiting Dragonstone. He simply appointed Oberyn as his King's Hand, partly to appease the fact that the previous plan to attack the Stormlands had completely failed, and partly because he really needed a more suitable manager than Earl Gunther to assist in managing state affairs.

Viserys temporarily asked Oberyn to help him temporarily manage the Narrow Sea, and then he lit up the Dragonstone affairs officer and part of the guards, and took Daenerys and Nightfire to the mouth of the Wend River by boat.

In an emergency, there were still two weeks before Viserys' wedding, so only those who stayed on Dragonstone could continue to prepare, and the protagonists of the wedding went to the Stormlands to help Shireen regain the Stormlands.

Viserys had to guard against any unusual movements in King's Landing and possible resistance in the Stormlands.

In order to ensure that nothing could go wrong, when the reorganized Dragonstone and Stormlands coalition forces returned along the original route of Stannis's march, Viserys began to patrol the Blackwater Bay and the Kings Road from Storm's End to King's Landing with Nightfire.

Fortunately, King's Landing never dared to make any unusual movements.

The troops that sent Shireen back to Storm's End to take office as the Duke of Stormlands were directly divided. The cavalry rode quickly to Hayhall and Bronze Gate City, while the infantry took a boat upstream along the Wender River - although the Wender River was relatively flat, it still took a lot of time to find trackers along the river.

In order not to expose his ability to transform into a dragon, Viserys had to show the ability of the giant dragon to become smaller while following the boat, which attracted the trackers, the lords and soldiers of the Stormlands to marvel at him, and made them feel that King Targaryen was unfathomable.

The army began to spread rumors that King Viserys had visited the ruins of Valyria, where he had obtained magic and dragons.

The return journey was a forced march, and after only four days, the infantry and cavalry on the ship met at the Kingsway on the south bank of the Wender River.

At this time, Hayhall and Bronzegate had already surrendered to the new Duke of Stormland, Shireen Baratheon.

When the army gathered together and went to Bronzegate to rest and prepare to go to take over Storm's End the next day, considering that the commander left behind in Storm's End was Alister Florent, everyone felt that everything was foolproof.

Even Viserys felt that as long as Shireen returned to Storm's End and used ravens to spread the message that she would succeed the Duke of Stormland to all parts of Stormland, Stormland could be directly recovered without a fight. He only needed to consider how to deal with these surrenderers fairly, how to punish them, how to subdue them, and how to calm people's hearts.

No one expected that Bronzegate would receive a request for help from Storm's End that night.

A knight of the Florent family named Alette Florent rushed to the Bronze Gate City along the King's Road overnight and was caught by the scouts deployed by the coalition forces symbolically.

Only then did Viserys know that something had happened to Storm's End.

"The Golden Corps surrounded Storm's End two days ago."

According to this knight, he was receiving a batch of shipping materials at the port outside the city and staying in the inn at the port. It was not until the soldiers of the Golden Corps came to block the port that the knight realized that something had happened. He wanted to escape back to Storm's End. Unexpectedly, when he approached the castle, he saw that the Golden Corps had already blocked the outer perimeter of Storm's End.

At that time, there were already four or five thousand people, and the mercenaries of the Golden Corps were still appearing from the west.

This is the most bizarre part. The Golden Corps actually surrounded Storm's End by land!

And Storm's End had not received any news before.

This was a premeditated and planned raid.

Daenerys, who was accompanying her, asked, "Should we call the princes to discuss this?"

Viserys was not in a hurry, and just ordered indifferently, "No need. Come, arrange for this knight to go down and rest. Send someone to notify the camps to make good protection for the camps at night, and arrange the night sentries properly. The army has been traveling day and night for the past few days, and they are tired. Have a good rest tonight. Let's discuss the rescue of Storm's End tomorrow morning."

After the arranged people went down, Viserys said to Daenerys, "The Golden Group's goal is probably not Storm's End. They should not be hired, but march on their own initiative."

Daenerys was surprised: "What do they want to do?"

Viserys curled his lips and said, "They want to get on the ship first and then pay the ship's fare."

"What?"

"Our ship is now a big ship, Dany." Viserys said.

"You said they want to surrender to us?"

"Just wait and see, we'll know tomorrow." Viserys suddenly said, "Can you slow down the dragon egg beside you and not rush to sing to it?"

Daenerys brought the dragon egg she brought out of the tomb of Enar with her on this trip, and insisted on taking a piece of dragon bone into her dreams to sing to it every day. Now, with the burning of her flames, the magic in the dragon egg seems to have gradually become more agile. It seems to be shaping a new soul.

"Why? I have a hunch that it will come alive soon."

"Wait until the matter of Storm's End is over before trying again. The Golden Company has always been related to Blackfyre. I don't want anyone to covet the dragon you hatched with so much effort."

Daenerys said vigilantly: "Do you think there is Blackfyre in the Golden Company?"

"It's always good to be on guard."

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The next day, the army did not set out at the expected node. The commanders of various units received orders early in the morning to meet in the central army tent where Viserys was to discuss military situation.

After everyone arrived, Viserys asked Arlette Florent, who had arrived last night, to tell the intelligence in public.

"What, the Golden Group? Could it be hired by the Lannisters of King's Landing?"

"Damn it, while we are away, can we defeat this army?"

"Your Majesty, please let us, the Stormland army, be the vanguard and clear the way for you!"

With a dragon on their side, no one took the Golden Group seriously. They were furious and asked to fight. Especially the newly surrendered Stormland lords, who wanted to make merit quickly to reduce possible punishment.

Viserys thought for a moment. "Send the order to temporarily stop here." He said, "Send scouts along the way to find out the movements of the Golden Group. I will go to Storm's End first to see the situation, and everyone will come to my tent at noon to discuss the battle situation."

After Viserys gave the order, he immediately returned to his tent in the rear. Not long after, he and Daenerys took off from the camp and guided south to Storm's End along the King's Road at high altitude.

Soon, Viserys saw the Golden Company's siege camp from the sky. The legion was stationed in three camps, each of which was compact and orderly.

A deep trench was dug around the camp, with sharp wooden stakes in it. Tents were lined up in rows, separated by wide roads. Public toilets were placed in the hollows. Horse stables were to the north, and in front of them, two dozen elephants even grazed by the river.

Yes, this group of sellswords had thousands of horses, and elephant cavalry.

Towering gold banners flapped on long poles around the edge of the camp. Below them, fully armed sentinels patrolled with spears and crossbows.

The Golden Company seemed to have fought a battle with the defenders of Storm's End. There were many bodies under the castle. On the walls of Storm's End were the soldiers of House Florent who stayed behind, boiling barrels of pitch and preparing catapults, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the sky. In addition to the red and gold fox flag of the Florent family, there was also the flaming red heart flag of Stannis on the wall of Storm's End - perhaps because the ravens from Bronze Gate City were unfortunately intercepted by the Golden Company, Storm's End still didn't know that Stannis had been defeated and captured.

Soon, both groups saw the dragon in the sky.

To be honest, Viserys didn't expect what happened next. He just appeared in the sky for reconnaissance and didn't plan to do anything.

But in a moment, both the Golden Company and Storm's End raised the Targaryen flag with a black background and a red dragon, waving it in the sky.

Even Daenerys was speechless by this strange scene on the battlefield: "This"

Sure enough, the situation that Viserys didn't want to see the most appeared. The Golden Company chose the strategy of getting on the bus first and then buying tickets.

Viserys believed that Jon Connington and "Aegon Targaryen" must be among this mercenary group now.

And Viserys knew who was behind this. It was undoubtedly Illyrio, the finance minister who had borrowed money for Viserys in Braavos, and Varys of King's Landing.

Now think about it, if Stannis had gone out a few days later, Melisandre would have been able to get rid of a lot of trouble for Viserys.

Daenerys had never seen this scene before. Seeing Viserys just hovering, she couldn't help but ask: "Should we go down?"

Viserys sighed inwardly: "No, let them meet us at Bronze Gate."

Viserys swooped down from the sky above Storm's End Castle, and the wind was howling, accompanied by his voice: "Meet me at Bronze Gate."

Then, he spread his huge bat wings and flew over the tops of the three tents of the Golden Group. No matter what they thought, he still said: "Meet me at Bronze Gate."

After that, he flapped his wings and flew straight into the sky and headed north.

After Viserys flew away, the senior officers of the Golden Company came out of their tents in shock, looking at the dragon's shadow in shock.

The commander of the army, "Homeless" Harry Strickland, looked at the officers who were surprised and speechless, and after the shock, he couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

I wonder if his commanders who were instigated by Jon Connington regretted putting their swords at the feet of the young prince and swore allegiance today.