The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 254: Fight for the Western Territory
The change of flag in King's Landing had a huge impact on the whole country. As the capital of Westeros for three hundred years, the change of hands of this city had a huge political impact on the whole country.

Inevitably, more and more nobles began to lean towards the owner of the seven-pointed star. Hugo was the preferred party in the hearts of the people, and this was even more so after King's Landing changed hands.

Especially in the south, the destruction of Raymond of Green Court and the chaos in Oldtown Hightower greatly damaged the marriage system built by the Tyrell family, and the Reach became unstable.

The descendants of the Gardener King were unruly and were extremely unhappy with the former Gardener King's steward. Many of them had other ideas, but the prestige of the Queen of Thorns was enough to keep them under control, and the River Bay did not immediately become chaotic.

However, everyone understands that the change of hands of King's Landing will not change anything. What both sides need to do now is to seize the time to gain every advantage for themselves. For example, now, the ownership of the Western Territory has become the top priority.

After Tyrell took the royal family south, the Southland immediately sent a large army to the Westland. This army was mostly composed of River Bay nobles who were not Tyrell's relatives. The reason they were so active was simple, because Tyrell promised them the entire land of the Westland, which meant that as long as they had the ability, they could take as much land in the Westland as they wanted.

Of course, if it was just an order like this, it would not have made the shrewd nobles so active. The more important reason was that Tyrell gave them approval to occupy the land in the name of Cersei, and the situation was different.

Although Cersei has a very bad reputation in the West, she is still Tywin's daughter and the Duchess of Casterly Rock. With Cersei's recognition, it will be very convenient for them to do things.

Through this move, Tyrell successfully found something to do for those restless southern nobles and temporarily fed them.

On the other side, under Hugo's order, the three Lannisters in the east also brought their direct descendants and hurried to Casterly Rock to take over the Westerly. After all, what is swallowed into the stomach is the safest. No matter what, under the premise of Tyrion's patricide, Cersei is the first heir to the Westerly.

Now, in the river lands, the three Lannisters have joined forces with the Lannister forces in King's Landing and are heading west with all their might.

Although the army they brought was flying the Lion Flag, this army was obviously different from the well-disciplined and well-equipped Western Army in people's impression, because their armor and clothing were extremely complicated.

The Western Frontier Army that is familiar to the public also exists, but in small numbers. Most of them are soldiers wearing Eastern armor, unarmored centaurs, and barbarians from God knows where. This army marches like an exhibition team of various ethnic groups.

Therefore, when they saw this army passing by, the people of Hejian, who had experienced the baptism of war, closed their doors and windows and held their weapons in their hands. Some were even ready to run away at any time, preparing for the worst.

Some river lords also led their troops to supervise the Lannister army until they left their territory - everyone remembered what the Lannisters had done in the river.

In this way, under the vigilance of the Hejian people, the army crossed Hejian and entered the western border.

Seeing the low hills of the Westerly Region again, Tyrion, who had climbed the mountains of northern Essos for several months, felt quite emotional. This emotion was not only because of the feeling of a wanderer returning home, but more because his identity had changed after returning again.

He used to be a little devil of the Lannister family, a dwarf whose father was ashamed to let him see the public. Later, he became a kinslayer and was forced to flee to the East in a desperate situation.

Now, with the support of his uncles, he has taken a position that he never dared to think of before, becoming the Duke of Casterly Rock. Tyrion feels light and airy. When he entered the core of power in the East, he thought that he would probably be like this for the rest of his life, and Casterly Rock was just a dream. But now, he is on the road to becoming a duke.

His two uncles also supported him, and the reason they supported him was their love for their father - Uncles Tyget and Gillian had already acquired land in the east, and they did not have much desire for Casterly Rock - they hoped that Tywin's bloodline would continue to rule Casterly Rock, and hoped that Tywin's bloodline would not be cut off.

This made Tyrion very uncomfortable, but he would not refuse the benefit that was delivered to his door, so he calmed down as much as possible and accepted the help of his uncles - the reason for this was that his uncles were trying hard to forget the fact that he was the one who killed their father.

Tyrion's feeling of lightness did not last long. He was a down-to-earth man, and he knew very well that until he reached Casterly Rock, the castle would not truly belong to him.

As they entered the Westerly, various troops and news came one after another. Many people looked at Tyrion unkindly, but Tyrion decisively ignored these looks. After all, he was a deformed little monkey who killed his father. Many people here came to support him only for the sake of his uncle and the feudal order.

Tyrion also learned a lot of information. First, the River Reach army came from the south and entered the southern part of the Westerly in the name of taking over the defense. Then they raided the castles of local nobles and occupied many places. Before that, everyone had not yet come to their senses and realized that the River Reach had actually held the royal family hostage and betrayed them, so the River Reach people succeeded.

Now the nobles in the West are uniting under the organization of the Lannisters, preparing to deal with the invaders from the south, and the various armies are gathering again.

Speaking of this, for the Lannisters, this invasion can be considered a blessing in disguise. Over the years, Tywin has relied on terror to rule the West. Terror rule is useful, but the backlash is also extremely terrible.

Since the death of Tywin, the westerlies have become increasingly rigid, and under Cersei's rule, the westerlies even became a place where government orders could not leave Casterly Rock. However, with the massive invasion of the Reach, the westerlies discovered that they still needed the Lannisters to organize resistance - and just like that, a crisis of rule was temporarily resolved.

Tyrion and others solved an urgent problem for everyone, which was the leadership issue of the coalition forces.

After understanding the current situation, Tyrion immediately ordered the entire army to march quickly to the coalition forces of the westerly nobles, where Tyrion was able to learn more about the battle situation.

The key to the Riverbend Army's smooth occupation of a large amount of land in the southern part of the Westerly was the centaurs. Yes, the centaurs, those centaurs tribes that Tywin migrated from the east.

Tywin was very successful in taming these barbarians, and they were so good at completing the tasks Tywin gave them, so good that Tywin simply disposed of the other dogs one after another and only used these centaurs.

At the same time, because of Tywin's success, the horsemen were very stubborn. They had set their sights on Cersei, so when Cersei's "order" came, they chose to lead the Rivermen without hesitation.

"There will be a tough battle next." Tyrion said, touching his head, but in his heart, he was full of confidence in this battle - he could be considered a veteran.

(End of this chapter)