The Mountain of Ice and Fire

In one morning, Gregor Clegane acquired over five hundred cavalry, a hundred reserve cavalry, and a thousand warhorses.

All with brand new saddles, the best horseshoes, and pristine reins.

Each warhorse was plump and strong!

Warhorses are very different from ordinary horses. They are carefully selected and specially trained by horse masters, capable of traveling at night, climbing mountains, wading through water, and obeying commands and whips.

Each well-trained warhorse is worth a fortune!

It must be said that Riverrun is located on a fertile plain, good for raising horses, and the Tully family can still afford this.

However, the garrison and the Duke's guards of Riverrun would have to have the horse masters train warhorses again.

Because Riverrun is difficult to attack and is a time of peace, there are not many garrison troops. Over four hundred cavalry, six hundred infantry, the entire Riverrun has only a thousand garrison troops, and usually the soldiers guarding the city gate and patrolling are no more than a hundred.

In this world, King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, usually has only two thousand Gold Cloaks, and at most it expands to six thousand during grand holidays. In times of war, more than one hundred thousand troops will be assembled, for a period of two months. In peacetime, warriors return to the fields, nobles' armed forces return to the nobles, and the King's Majesty has only two thousand armed forces around him.

Riverrun is the capital of the rich Riverlands, and the Riverlands have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, but the garrison in the capital usually has only a thousand people.

The thousand warhorses that the Mountain demanded happened to plunder all of Riverrun's cavalry.

Tywin Lannister, the Duke of the Westerlands, is richer than a country. What is the number of his cavalry guard battalion: five hundred family cavalry; how many warhorses? More than a thousand!

Because of the acquisition of these thousand warhorses, the Mountain's cavalry force has become comparable to Duke Tywin's cavalry force in the Westerlands. Except for the four major families in the Westerlands that can compete with the Mountain's cavalry force, the other hundred or so large and small nobles are far behind the Mountain's cavalry force.

Warhorses are a very important component of the cavalry!

The Mountain's general, the newly promoted knight and given the Clegane surname, Chiswyck the Big Head—has quickly recalled his former subordinates in Lannisport and formed a mercenary group of over a thousand people; if you add the strength of the thousand new recruits that the Mountain trained in his father-in-law Gavin Westerling's Crag, the Mountain's military strength has become the first among the nobles in the Westerlands.

It's just that his strength is not all gathered at Clegane's Keep, and using his father-in-law Gavin Westerling's Earl title and the vast territory of the Crag to support more than a thousand professional soldiers is justified and concealed.

The two captains of the Clegane cavalry, Sweetmouth Raff and the Hangman Dunsen, couldn't stop smiling. They suddenly had the excitement and joy of becoming super rich from beggars, while Earl Leo of Golden Tooth and his heir, Knight Ilyn, were jealous, because looking at this situation, the Clegane cavalry was so rich that one cavalryman actually had three warhorses.

One person with three warhorses is the standard configuration that only the Mountain has; this is also the highest configuration that only great nobles have. And an ordinary cavalryman of the Mountain is now a war power configuration like an earl. They will be able to carry more food, supplies, bows, and javelins, and travel faster and farther in the same amount of time.

Earl Leo's thousand soldiers were jealous. Their centurions and generals had no more than two horses per person. However, the Mountain's ordinary cavalrymen had three horses per person.

With this configuration of cavalry military strength, the Mountain suddenly became the number one in the Seven Kingdoms! Only the Dothraki cavalry on the Great Plains across the Narrow Sea can compare with the Mountain's cavalry configuration.

Earl Leo was itching, and said with a smile: "Sweetmouth Raff, Knight Dunsen, you can't afford these horses. Horse trainers, fodder, stable equipment, and horse workers are a huge expense in the long run. Clegane's territory is very limited, why not sell me five hundred horses!"

Sweetmouth Raff smiled and said: "Earl Leo, selling you horses is no problem, a thousand horses are fine, but I have to wait until our Mountain Lord returns across the river, and I will say a few good words for you in front of the Mountain Lord."

The words that Sweetmouth Raff said at any time were smeared with honey!

Earl Leo was overjoyed: "Brother Raff, thank you for your kind words. If it works, you will receive the friendship and gratitude of the Lefford family!"

The Hangman Dunsen couldn't help but smile slightly. The red-eyed Earl Leo was an idiot who dared to believe Sweetmouth's words! His courage was extraordinary! His mind was extraordinarily simple!

Earl Leo and Knight Ilyn, as well as their generals and centurions, forgot their complaints about the Mountain before departure. They thought that the Mountain was trapped in a predicament and came to ask for help. It seems that it is not the case. The Tully family is trapped in a predicament!

With a thousand warhorses in hand, Sweetmouth Raff ordered to set up camp on the spot and open a cavalry training camp on the west bank of the Red Fork River to prepare for a long stay, waiting for the arrival of the Mountain Lord.

With the benefits in hand, they did not intend to leave.

Earl Leo, who led a thousand guards to reinforce the Mountain under Duke Tywin's military order, had to order to set up camp.

On the west bank of the Red Fork River, two military camps were set up on the left and right, remotely supporting the Mountain in Riverrun.

*

The main hall of Riverrun.

Duke Hoster and Earl Edmure sat together, with Maester Vyman writing beside them. Maester Vyman showed the written document to Hoster and Edmure. Duke Hoster nodded in agreement after reading it. He handed the document to Edmure, Edmure had a... complex expression... He didn't look at the words on the document at all, picked up a quill pen from the table, and signed his name.

Pa!

Edmure dropped the quill pen, and the ink from the tip of the quill pen splashed on the table and on the document.

Maester Vyman picked up the document and handed it to the Mountain who was sitting aside.

The Mountain did not take the document, and said: "Maester Vyman, please copy two more identical copies; Earl Edmure, it is not enough for you to sign your name, you also have to stick your family crest with wax mud and stamp it next to your name."

Edmure suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened, and he was about to explode, when two hands stretched out from behind and pressed on his shoulders.

The Mountain's bandits stood behind Edmure, their hands on the hilts of their swords.

Although the young man was twenty-five years old, he was still too young! He only remembered eating, not remembering being beaten!

Hoster nodded to Maester Vyman, so Maester Vyman took the document and copied two more copies.

"Ser Gregor, why should Edmure's letter of apology be written in triplicate? The conflict on the Knee has been written very clearly! He has also admitted his mistake and apologized on it, and signed it!" Duke Hoster said unhurriedly.

Old ginger is spicier!

Just with this calm and unhurried demeanor, Edmure is not even close to his father!

"Duke Hoster, Edmure's letter of apology is in triplicate. I must keep one copy to remind Earl Edmure not to be impulsive in the future. The Tully family must also keep one copy; and one copy, I will send someone to King Robert's Majesty. As the saying goes, reason can go all over the world, but unreasonableness makes it difficult to move. I have to let His Majesty the King understand the detailed process of this conflict, and not let the King think that I, the Mountain, am bullying the weak. In this conflict, I am the weak! It is Earl Edmure who is bullying the weak!"

Duke Hoster, Maester Vyman, and Earl Edmure were all stunned!

They never expected the Mountain to come up with this.

Edmure's face flushed red—sending his letter of apology to the King for review is no different from sending it to all the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms for review? The King's mouth, once he drinks wine, will undoubtedly continue to promote his glorious deeds.

Edmure suddenly felt as uncomfortable as if he had been punched hard in the chest!

He is a young noble and Earl who cherishes his honor very much!

He could hardly believe this way of humiliation that would make the King a topic of conversation and then spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms! How could this scumbag, the Mountain, have thought of such a thing?

The way the Mountain demanded to write a letter of apology and sign it was also the first time Edmure had heard of and personally practiced in his life!

The Mountain said lightly: "I never argue unreasonably, I just argue forcefully; Duke Hoster, do you think that's right?!"

Duke Hoster was speechless!

There is the wax seal of his Tully family crest on the letter of apology!—A trout representing family responsibility and honor!

"Earl Edmure, please sign these two letters of apology and stamp them with your family's emblem wax seal!" The Mountain said politely, but his tone was quite unkind!

The Seven Kingdoms' chief villain, who never reasoned, was now talking about reason in a serious manner!

When Transcendent Mountain was in college, he learned a truth: a temporary victory lies in strength; a lifelong victory lies in reason! He wants both!

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