Dominate the Game of Thrones with Mount and Blade

The Redwyne family is one of the top five families in the entire Western Continent in terms of financial resources, so the equipment of their soldiers is far superior to that of the Riverland soldiers.

Specifically, while most of the Riverland soldiers are still using pot-shaped helmets and hanging mail on their faces to block damage, this group of Redwyne elite soldiers have already changed into bascinet helmets, commonly known as pig-faced helmets.

This is a full-coverage iron helmet, with almost no exposed area on the head except for the eyes.

The hound visor helmet of Sandor Clegane, the Hound, is a typical bascinet helmet, except that the pointed visor is made into a dog shape.

As for the body, the Redwyne soldiers are more comprehensive, with large areas of armor such as breastplate, greaves, thigh armor, and arm armor all made of plate armor, and only the joints are covered with more flexible mail armor.

This level of defense is already very exaggerated among the soldiers Arthur has seen, but it is still slightly inferior to the main soldiers of the Lion family.

The helmets worn by these Lion soldiers only reveal their eyes and mouths, but in order to allow the soldiers to adapt to more occasions of battle, the visor of the lion-shaped half helmet is designed with double doors on the left and right, and there are fixed buckles when it is fully opened.

In such a battlefield with poor light, the lion-shaped half helmet is very advantageous. They can open the visor to fight, and the visor of the Redwyne soldiers can also be opened, but it is easy to slide down during the fight, which blocks the vision again.

The battle in the entire Red Castle has entered a street fighting mode of fighting against each other. The two sides fought back and forth around the throne room and the large meeting hall next to it.

When the King of Hejian led his men into the throne room, he saw such a scene.

"Cersei is dead, and Randyll Tarly is about to lead his army to attack. What are you still holding on to?" Arthur shouted after a Lion soldier was killed with a slash.

In order to shake the enemy's morale, the King of Hejian ordered his soldiers to spread the news that 10,000 River Bay troops were about to attack the Red Castle.

At the same time, Arthur himself led the fight, with nearly twenty strong warriors guarding the two wings, and broke through the battle line all the way to the garden outside the throne room.

The road from the throne room to the garden was narrow, and Arthur's breakthrough quickly allowed the Redwyne soldiers to reoccupy the entire hall.

However, the garden was wide and the number of Lion soldiers was large, so the two sides were deadlocked again.

But under the double blow of the death of the Queen Mother and the imminent entry of the River Bay Army into the city, the Lannister soldiers finally began to panic.

The full-time warriors that Master Tywin spent a lot of gold dragon coins to train during his lifetime were naturally not to be underestimated, and several centurion captains immediately organized the formation.

"Hold the line!" (Keep your footing)

"Don't rush in!" (Don't rush in)

After this group of Lannister soldiers formed a tight square, several people immediately went to explore the situation of the north and south towers and the main gate of the Red Castle.

Arthur and the Redwyne soldiers stood on the steps at the exit of the throne room, facing the enemy from a high position.

Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting between the two sides, the King of the River ordered someone to summon Sir Willow Kuy.

"Where are the nobles of the Reach? Have you taken them back?"

The helmet that Willow wore was similar to the one on Arthur's head. They were both armet helmets commonly worn by nobles. Their characteristics were that they basically completely covered the head and neck, but they could not shake their heads with the helmets.

So Sir Willow lifted his visor and sighed, "Our great nobles and subordinate lords are with these soldiers stationed in the Red Castle. Not a single noble has been taken back."

Arthur thought for a moment and asked, "Is your Kuy family head also in the hands of the enemy?"

He vaguely remembered that several vassals under the name of Hightower followed the Rose Family to the north, including the Kuy family of Sun House City, the Mullendall family of Highland City, the Bulwe family of Black Crown City, and the Bispary family of Bee Forest.

Among these powerful viscount families, except for Valen Bisparry, who was in his hands, the rest of the heads of the families were all wiped out by Cersei in King's Landing.

"It should be, but I don't know the exact news." Sir Willow replied.

"Don't worry." Arthur patted him on the shoulder, "We have a large number of westerland noble captives, and we can always exchange them."

He had several Lannister members such as Kingslayer Jaime, Davon, and Stafford, plus some small westerland nobles in the Golden Tooth, and three or four westerland earl-level heads and first heirs in Riverrun, so there was no worry about not having captives to exchange.

After half a day, this group of Lion Family soldiers finally responded.

A captain of a hundred men stepped out of the crowd and shouted: "We want the complete remains of Her Majesty Cersei and Her Majesty Tommen, you can designate two earls to exchange."

Because Cersei's head had been displayed, the westerlanders also believed that she was dead. The River Reach army was outside, and the Lannisters had no strong men to clean up the mess, so there was no need for them to defend King's Landing.

It was understandable that the Lions wanted a complete body, but Arthur was a little confused about the fake Tommen.

After thinking carefully, the King of the Riverlands understood a little.

The Lions' commander who proposed the prisoner exchange probably knew that Tommen was a little bit wrong, so he just wanted to exchange two earls for Cersei.

"Go call Loras and Hobber, and bring Levi Lanny as well, and let Loras decide which two earls to exchange back."

Since he was not very familiar with the nobles of the River Reach, Arthur did not make random changes.

A Redwyne soldier received the order and went back to the Prime Minister's Tower to call people.

A few minutes later, the two people who were called came with their children.

"I advocate the replacement of Lord Paxter Redwine."

Loras did not hesitate and wanted to get his uncle back.

"Okay." Arthur agreed. "Who else?"

After Hopper and Loras looked at each other, the former said: "Lord Brian Fossoway."

King Hejian thought for a while and then remembered that this was the lord of the Cider Hall, also known as the Red Apple family.

"Is this your father-in-law, Garland?" Arthur asked.

Loras replied awkwardly: "Yes."

In order to avoid suspicion, they each told each other which hostage the other wanted most, but upon closer inspection, the two earls were actually core relatives of Tyrell.

Arthur didn't want to change like this, so he declined: "They are all relatives of your family. What do the other Riverbend governors think? Well... let's replace Earl Klein Fossoway with the head of the Mariweis family. , what's his name?"

The River King vaguely remembers that during the time of the Mad King, there was a hand of king from House Mareweis, who took office before Jon Connington.

So this family is more loyal to Arthur who has a dragon.

"Lord Orton Mawriwes," Hobble replied.

Loras had no choice but to obey Arthur's change.

Ten minutes later, the prisoner exchange between the two sides was completed, and the Lion soldiers gradually withdrew from the garden of the Red Fort.

Around daybreak, the Lannister soldiers in King's Landing withdrew, and the Reach army led by Randyll Tarly began to take over the capital that had changed hands three times.

…

Red Fort, Grand Council Hall.

This is the political hall located on the south side of the throne room. There is a large round table where royal meetings are usually held.

Now, Arthur is discussing the next arrangements with several nobles.

After gaining the support of the people of the Reach, his military strength was unprecedentedly expanded, but he also had more things to do.

Due to the Queen of Thorns' reluctance to give up her title, and Arthur's determination that they didn't care whether the band was clear or not, Arthur decided to choose a day to formally declare his claim to the Iron Throne, and at the same time changed his title to the First Men, The King of the Andals and the Rhoynar, commonly known as the King of the Seven Kingdoms.

But this is only one aspect, military and political affairs are equally important.

Previously, a riverbank army was sent to the south bank of the Blackwater River and entered the Stormlands to fight Stannis's soldiers. The commander of this army was Balon Swann of the Kingsguard.

The Swann family is the lord of Stonehelm City. The family territory is located near the rain forest north of the Dorne Sea. It can be said that this family is the most powerful in the Stormlands except Baratheon.

Ser Balon Swann is the second son of Earl Gillian Swann. He can be regarded as a good knight who values ​​honor, is brave and loyal, and his own martial arts and archery skills are also good. In Duke Eddard Stark's contest, At the conference, he once achieved good results in the second place in the archery competition, second only to the marksman Ange.

Therefore, Loras suggested sending someone to persuade Balon Swann to surrender. If he failed, his Reach soldiers would revolt.

"That's well said, but who's going?"

Arthur looked around and found that among the river nobles, only Randyll Tarly was reliable, and the rest were all parallel imports.

But Earl Tully wanted to lead the army, and it was impossible for him to do such a low-level job as persuading people to surrender.

"Your Majesty, I propose Count Matus Rowan. He is very popular among the people, he is calm and wise, and his abilities are outstanding." The half-bald Landao suggested.

He talked about Matus, and Arthur remembered that it was time to solve the problem of the Rowan family.

Previously, in order to capture the Duke of Mace, he had provoked a confrontation between Rowan and the Tyrell family, which caused the relationship between Golden Tree City and Highgarden to plummet.

But now that the people of the Riverbend support him, the relationship between the Rowan and Oakheart families and Tyrell and other Riverbend families will be very awkward.

He couldn't have gone full circle and got close to his prospective father-in-law, the Duke of Metz, and ended up trapping Matus in it.

"The Earl of Golden Tree City is very loyal to me. I will take time to discuss the ownership of his family with Lady Olenna. But when it comes to persuading Balon Sven to surrender, Matus is indeed the most suitable."

This army will be dealt with like this for the time being, and another River Bend army will have to be used.

"Where is Garland? Let him lead his army to block the Lannister army returning from the west. Lord Tully will lead his army to pursue it. First, we will completely disperse this Lion Army."

In order to seize King's Landing City, Landao did not send soldiers to pursue the Westerners. Now that the situation in the city was temporarily stable, they had time to intercept and kill the Lion Army.

Hopper replied: "My cousin is roughly at the intersection of the Lake River and the Golden Road. People from the West cannot cross the Blackwater River, so this place is blocked just right."

Lake River is a tributary of the Blackwater River and is named after its source is at God's Eye Lake.

If the lake and river were wider, large ships could pass from King's Landing to Harrenhal.

"Send a message to Garland and ask him to lead his army to block the Lannister soldiers returning west. The soldiers from King's Landing will arrive soon."

Hopper noted this and then talked about another topic, "The Ironborn have begun to plunder the west coast of the Reach. Many nobles who stayed behind have sent letters asking for help. Should we send an army back?"

Because the nobles left behind in the Riverbend did not know the previous situation in King's Landing, they used ravens to send a large number of letters asking for help.

"Soon, after we defeat the Lion Army, most of the Riverside soldiers will be able to return to support." Arthur reassured.

The city of King's Landing was full of Riverside soldiers. He decided to send some of the Riverside soldiers back south in the name of expelling the Ironborn, and then mobilized an army of his own.

Moreover, there is still a dispute over the ownership of Brightwater City and the county, which he has not discussed with the Queen of Thorns yet.

At the same time, it was time to set up a royal meeting. The Kingsguard, the Royal Guard, and the Great King's Landing plan should also be put on the agenda.

At the round table in the meeting hall, this newly founded kingdom was quickly solving most of the troubles, but a bigger crisis was about to come.

…

Stormlands, Griffin's Roost.

This is a standard earl-level castle. It originally belonged to Jon Connington. After he was deprived of his family castle and territory by the Mad King Aerys II, Griffin's Roost was given to Ronald Connington, and then inherited by Roland Connington.

In the castle hall, Governor Illyrio of Pentos discussed the war with several chief and deputy chiefs of the Golden Corps, as well as Aegon VI, who had a weak presence.

"The owner of King's Landing has changed again. It used to be a lion in deerskin, and now it is a rose in dragon skin." A deputy chief of the Golden Corps, Quinn, introduced to his companions.

Because the new master of the Iron Throne basically has no team of his own in King's Landing, most of the leaders of the Seven Realms believe that the Dragon Bearer is at the mercy of the Rivermen.

"Our situation is very dangerous. The Dragon Bearer may be the biggest beneficiary of this war. In his case, the four realms have been taken. Why don't we just make a quick buck and run away."

Quinn believes that they should capture a group of Stormland farmers as slaves and return to the East Continent. After all, they are mercenaries, not family soldiers fighting for power for the lords.

"Some contracts are written in ink, and some are written in blood. Supporting Aegon VI to become the King of the Seven Realms is our established goal." The fat man Illyrio waved his hands irritably, as if this could drive away all the troubles.

However, the senior members of the Golden Group are not optimistic about the current situation. In order to boost morale, the cheese seller decided to throw out some good news.

"You don't have to be so pessimistic. We have friends in King's Landing, and there are many of them. They are enough to pry open the gap between the Dragon Bearers and the Rivermen, just like the Dragon Bearers pried open the gap between the Lion and the Rose. And several governors of Pentos also want to participate in the big business of selling slaves, and they will send us more mercenaries. The trap to capture Stannis has been set, and the Stormlands will soon be ours."

Daenerys Stormborn made a big fuss in the Slaver's Bay, leaving behind several smoking city-states. Only Meereen is still operating normally, but Meereen controlled by Dany does not allow slavery, which almost interrupted the slave trade.

Jon Clinton listened to the fat man's words and felt more and more that something was wrong.

"We let His Majesty Aegon VI return to the throne, not let Westeros become a breeding ground for slave traders. I will never accept the behavior of letting mercenaries plunder farmers in large numbers."

In the Battle of the Bells, the young King's Hand did not choose to burn Stonetown in order to protect civilians from harm.

Lord Tywin once commented on this man: Killing innocent men, women, and children was too dishonorable for him, so he decided to kill Robert himself to win the war.

Illyrio looked at Jon Connington coldly, thinking that this man was too stubborn, "I decided to send you to find Daenerys, her Unsullied and mercenaries are useful to us."

This man has repeatedly stated his opposition to plundering farmers as slaves, so Illyrio is going to send him away for a while.