Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

As Grus's chief commander had said before, it was Beoro who betrayed the alliance.

But because Gros was a fortress city, the city walls were very wide and long, and there were several round towers in the middle of the walls that blocked the view.

If we rely on only one commander, we will not be able to see the overall situation, which will lead to command loopholes.

So Beoro took a group of personal guards and heralds to coordinate in the middle, and asked his right-hand men "Butcher" Wheeler and "Viper" Gerry to assist in the defense of the left and right walls.

Gerry 'Viper' has a short grey beard, a hooked nose and long hair that reaches past his shoulders.

He often wears a gorgeous golden cape on his tall and thin body.

From the outside, you can't tell that he has anything to do with his nickname.

But friends who are familiar with him, or enemies who have fought with him, know it.

Gary is cunning and treacherous. He is like a poisonous snake hiding in a cave, showing its fangs only when it is fatal.

'Butcher' Weller is a warrior with rich battlefield experience. He is famous for his burly physique and cruelty.

These two, one civil and one military, were selected by Beoro from among his many pirates. They are both capable of taking charge and can share some of his burdens.

shhhhhh!
The soldiers under Edmund's command pushed the siege towers and moved quickly. Since the forest was located on the right side of Gross,
So they soon came to the right part of the city wall defended by Gerry.

Without any hesitation, as soon as Gerry saw the local army within range, he immediately ordered the archers to draw their bows and shoot.

Duh duh duh!
Arrows continued to shoot at the siege tower, but the soldiers under Edmund's command who were hiding inside the siege tower had already clung to the edge of the tower.
When they heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air, they skillfully crouched down and hid in the siege tower covered with rawhide, and did not suffer much damage.

Those pushing the siege tower were all civilians temporarily captured from all over the disputed land. Their equipment was obviously several levels inferior to that of Edmund's soldiers.

Therefore, the rain of arrows that fell on the civilian crowd produced a very good killing effect.

But the entire right side of Grus was defended by less than 3,500 soldiers, and there were less than 100 archers.

Compared with the large crowd of civilians from the disputed land under the city wall, at least 10,000 to 20,000 people, the damage caused by the rain of arrows was basically negligible.

Gulu, Gulu!
Huh, huh, huh!
When dozens of siege towers were pushed to the front of the southern wall and stopped shaking,

The archers under Edmund who were hiding in the siege tower immediately stood up and began to shoot at the south wall.

The archers on the walls of Gros began to shoot at Edmund's archers on the enemy's siege tower.

Since the siege tower was built higher than the wall of Gros, the archers on the enemy siege tower had a clear shooting advantage.

At the same time, other Western archers who had entered the shooting range began to shoot upwards from under the city wall.

However, there are only seven or eight archers standing on an enemy siege tower, and the power and accuracy of the arrows shot from bottom to top are very poor.

So for a while, the archers fought back and forth, and were evenly matched.

While their own archers were suppressing them, the civilians of the disputed land near the city wall placed dozens of siege ladders firmly against the city wall.

Some brave civilians, emboldened by the pre-war rewards, immediately climbed up the ladder, trying to compete for the huge reward of being the first to reach the city.

However, the benefits are proportional to the risks!
Puff puff puff!
What greeted them were countless stones falling from above, and blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

The first batch of brave civilians who attacked the city died simply under the city walls.

As the frequency of stones thrown from the city wall decreased, the civilians who were attacking the city slowly climbed to the upper part of the siege ladder and were approaching the battlements of Gros.

Two Grus soldiers who had been prepared to defend the city waited until the attacking civilians were about to climb to the end.

At the same time, he used the 'Y'-shaped fork in his hand to fork the left and right sides of the siege ladder, and then pushed it back suddenly.

what!what!
Bang!
The siege ladder was successfully pushed out, and the seven or eight attacking civilians on it fell heavily to the hard ground with screams.

The civilians who climbed low under the siege ladders were fine, and basically did not suffer any serious injuries.
But the two or three civilians attacking the city in the front were lying in a pool of slowly seeping blood and twitching constantly.

An unlucky archer under the city wall was hit by a siege civilian who fell from the sky. Both of them fell to the ground, and their life or death was unknown.

Gulu, Gulu!
Due to the large difference in numbers between the two sides, the defending archers on the walls of Grus were gradually suppressed.

The siege tower started up again and began to move towards the city wall.

"Get ready to throw oil!"

Gary calmly gave orders to his messenger, then he seemed to remember something, grabbed the messenger who was about to leave, and continued,
"By the way, remember to inform Lord Beoro in the middle and Weller on the left wall of this order."

"As ordered!"

Lord Beoro didn't know Weller's background, but his men knew each other very well.

Weller looks big and has a reputation as a butcher who can intimidate people.

In fact, he was a very cautious and timid person. Gerry was worried that something might go wrong with the section of the city wall he was guarding, so he sent a messenger to notify everyone.

But he couldn't say these words directly to Beoro.

If I really said it, I would have a direct falling out with Wheeler.

Even Beoro would probably think that Gerry was trying to win favor and power and was speaking ill of Wheeler behind his back.

After all, Wheeler's previous reputation was indeed earned through his own hard work.

Closer to home!
When Edmund's siege tower moved to within four or five meters of the wall of Gros,
Hiding on the second floor of the siege tower, Edmund's soldiers, holding swords and shields, swallowed nervously.

At the beginning, there had been the sound of arrows shooting at the siege tower, but now it had strangely stopped and everything became quiet.

It was this unusual silence that made the tension in their hearts soar to the peak.

Bang!
The siege tower reached a position about two meters from the wall of Gros. The archers on the top of the tower cut off the strong ropes tied on the left and right sides, and the thick baffle on the top of the siege tower smashed directly onto the wall of Gros.

Ah!
The soldiers under Edmund's command who were hiding on the second floor immediately vented their tension by roaring.
As soon as the baffle fell, they stepped on the thick baffle that became a springboard and rushed towards the wall of Gros.

shhhhhh!
Crack!

Seeing this, the enemy archers who had been waiting for them immediately drew their bows and shot arrows.

At the same time, the soldiers guarding the city, holding clay pots with burning cloth strips stuffed in the mouths of the pots, threw these pots that had just been ignited at the group of soldiers under Edmund who were preparing to climb the walls of Gros.

Most of the arrows were blocked by Edmund's soldiers holding shields, but the pottery jars that hit them shattered instantly, and the black oil in the pottery jars immediately spilled all over the shields and the bodies of Edmund's soldiers.

what! ! !
The flames on the strips of cloth directly ignited the black oil, and the first few soldiers under Edmund who rushed out of the siege tower immediately became human torches.

Two soldiers, all on fire, jumped down from the siege tower in panic, and several others jumped towards the wall of Grosse with flames all over their bodies.

呲!
As soon as these soldiers under Edmund's command jumped onto the parapet, a row of Grus guards armed with spears directly stabbed them off the wall.

A burning soldier luckily avoided the spear attack and stepped onto the wall of Gros. The infantrymen behind the spear guards chopped him into a bloody mess with their swords or axes.

In the middle area of ​​the southern wall of Gros, Beoro, completely disregarding his own danger, was personally joining the battle with an axe in hand.

He looked brave as he fought with an axe in hand, and still had the demeanor of the fierce general he once was.

But in fact, he is surrounded by a group of elite guards.

After Edmund's soldiers jumped down from the siege tower, they had great difficulty breaking through these elite guards with extraordinary martial arts skills and reaching Edmure's side.

Indeed, Beoro's current identity is different from his previous role as a pirate.

But he is the commander-in-chief of the two cities' allied ground forces.

If he really got into trouble in close combat, then this last fortress city would basically be handed over to him.

Whoo, whoo!
Weller hid behind the Silver Shield Guards and watched quietly as Edmund's soldiers climbed up the city wall through the siege tower.

With his current status, he really doesn't need to participate in the battle personally. He just needs to stay and give command again.

As early as when he heard that the enemies in Westeros had several giant dragons that could burn down a city, he had already formed the idea that dragons were invincible.

Although the enemy dragon has not appeared yet, Weller is actually ready to escape at any time. He even has a boat ready for escape.

Wheeler is not stupid, but he sees things very clearly.

He has been a pirate for so many years, plundering everywhere, isn't it just for the sake of enjoying himself in the future?
A giant dragon, a creature that usually appears in stories, shows up in the enemy's camp. What's the point of fighting it?

call out!
Just as Weller was daydreaming, a stray arrow with a sound of breaking through the air shot in through the gap in the guards' shield.

It passed through Weller's ear and pierced the throat of a tall follower beside him.

Click, click!
The tall attendant who was coughing up blood seemed to want to say something to Wheeler, but in the end he fell to the ground without making a sound.

When Wheeler saw his close follower breathe his last, his expression suddenly turned grim.

The most feared thing on the battlefield is this kind of stray arrow, which is completely unpredictable.

If he had been a little more careful just now, this stray arrow would have almost taken his life.

Damn it, weren't all my properties transferred to the Iron Bank in Braavos in advance?
Why are you still risking your life here?
That’s right! I can use this opportunity…

Looking at the enemy arrow stuck in his personal follower's throat, Weller suddenly had an idea.

He leaned over and pulled out the arrow with force, then took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and carefully wiped the blood.

Then... he grasped the tip of the arrow in his right hand and stabbed it hard into his left shoulder.

"what!!!"

Weller let out a loud scream, covered his left arm which was beginning to bleed, and shouted to the guards around him,

"Damn it, I was shot!

Quick, send me back to the city to treat my wounds!"

Of course, his personal guards saw all these naughty actions of his.

However, as a group bound together by honor and disgrace, the guards would of course help Wheeler, to whom they were loyal.

So they shouted that Lord Wheeler was hit by an arrow, and protected Wheeler as they walked towards the stairs of the city wall.

While Beoro was enjoying the killing, Gerry was concentrating on commanding the defense of the city, and Weller pretended to be shot by an arrow and escaped, the battle on the entire battlefield had entered a white-hot stage.

There were also enemy siege towers on the western wall of Gros, and many of Edmund's soldiers were preparing to climb the city walls through the steps.

On the west wall of Gros, the boiler that had been covered before has now been opened, and a foul smell is wafting over the wall.

Those boilers were filled with boiling golden juice, which was the "golden juice" made from the horse and human feces in Gros.

Of course, the so-called golden juice was the name used in ancient China in the previous life.

This kind of gold juice was a very traditional city defense weapon in ancient times. There are two types in total:

The first type is the metallic gold liquid obtained by melting various metals at high temperature.

If the metallic gold liquid is thrown out from a container and splashes onto the civilians attacking the city, it will cause great harm to the enemy and kill them instantly.

For the specific effect, you can refer to the miserable appearance of "Beggar King" Viserys Targaryen, who was cast into a crown by Khal Drogo using gold and gold liquid.

These metallic gold juices can also effectively defend against siege weapons. Just pour them on siege weapons and the high temperature is enough to destroy and ignite them.

However, metal is rare in this era, and few defenders are willing to spend a lot of money to boil metal gold juice.

The second type is biological gold juice made from animal and human feces. The material of this biological gold juice is extremely easy to collect and is "large in quantity and sufficient in quantity", which can be said to be an excellent weapon for defending the city.

In this era, civilians attacking a city would be considered dead if they were doused with biological gold.

The burns caused by this biological gold juice are extremely difficult to heal, and there is a high probability of death due to severe bacterial infection.

Some people may wonder, aren’t these biological gold juices boiled and sterilized?

In fact, many bacteria require long-term continuous high temperature to be killed.

Moreover, even if the biological gold juice does not carry bacteria itself, it is a high-nutrient body for bacteria and can accelerate the reproduction of bacteria in the air, thereby infecting and corroding wounds.

Wow!

A soldier under Edmund's command who was about to jump onto the wall of Gros was directly poured with a spoonful of golden juice on his head by a Gros guard.

Ah!
His entire face was burned by the golden juice, and at the same time, a foul smell went straight to his brain through his nasal cavity.

It is purely a double torture of physical and mental suffering.

However, this torture soon no longer affected him. The soldier under Edmund's command covered his face with his hands while struggling, and did not pay attention to his feet. He fell directly from the pedal of the siege tower and died on the spot.

His body fell right next to a civilian who was shouting "attack" while attacking the city. The gold juice and blood on the body splattered all over the soldier's body and mouth.

Ahem, bah, bah!
The civilians attacking the city obviously felt that the taste was wrong and immediately opened their mouths to vomit.

The Gross guards used this biological gold juice without caring whether Edmund's soldiers and the civilians attacking the city were well-equipped. It simply ignored defense and caused continuous damage.

Because of this disgusting defense method, the entire siege of Grus has entered a tragic stalemate, and the entire battlefield is like a meat grinder devouring blood and flesh. (End of this chapter)