Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

"It's almost done. Pass on my order and let the real siege team start the action!"

Looking at Glus's shouting and screaming, Duke Forrest knew that the time was almost up, so he turned his head and asked the messenger beside him to convey the order.

Duke Forester, who was experienced in battlefields, knew that it would be difficult to capture this large fortress city by brute force alone.

Of course, if we could rely on the power of Prince Lusris or Ella, we would be able to capture the city easily.

But Prince Luciris was not here, and Ella was completely uninvitable.

In her words, as long as the other side does not have a transcendental person who bullies the weak, she will not take the initiative to participate in such a war between ordinary people.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Duke Forester placed his hope of breaking the city on a surprise attack.

The situation on the entire battlefield is now extremely intense. Normally, both sides are only focused on killing the enemies standing in front of them and basically will not pay attention to other places.

Wow!
Outside the southern wall of Gros, ripples spread in the turbid water of the moat.

Dozens of newly built small rafts were gently pushed into the moat in the south by a group of Frey family soldiers.

The moat of a large fortress city like Gros is generally about twenty meters wide and seven or eight meters deep.

Duke Forester had spent countless manpower and resources to fill one side of the moat, so it was indeed impossible to fill the second side.

Blah, blah!
After the small raft entered the water, seven or eight Frey family soldiers rushed into the raft, picked up the oars that had been prepared in the boat, and paddled hard towards the south wall across the moat.

Compared with the western wall, there are very few soldiers guarding the southern wall.

Moreover, most of them were watching the battle situation on the west city wall with nervous expressions. After all, it concerned their life safety.

It was not until the dozens of small rafts had crossed nearly half of the moat that the soldiers defending the city began to shout and scream.

shhhhhh!
Bang, bang!
Sparse rain of arrows and two large crossbows shot in from the southern city wall.

This sparse rain of arrows posed little threat to the Frey soldiers on the small raft.

However, the thick and long crossbow arrows fired from the two large crossbows had amazing destructive power against the small raft.

Puff! Clang!
I saw a crossbow arrow as thick as a spear hit a small raft.

The two Frey family soldiers above were pierced through by the thick crossbow arrows like candied haws.

The thick and long crossbow arrow with slightly reduced kinetic energy directly pierced through the bottom of the small raft, and streams of water rushed in directly from it.

This small raft was naturally useless, and it would be good enough for the remaining five or six Frey family soldiers to turn around and row back.

Fortunately, the large ballista has great lethality, but its shooting accuracy and reloading speed are very poor.

Only three small rafts were lost, and the remaining dozens of small rafts approached the south city wall.

To be precise, it was close to an iron gate under the south wall, which was made of thick and hard steel bars crossed in an 'X' shape.

Probably because it has been soaked in water for many years, a large amount of red rust now covers the lower half of the gate.

Moreover, there were streams of turbid water with a strange smell flowing into the moat from inside.

This is the channel used by Gros to drain sewage from the city, and it leads directly to the inland waterway within the city of Gros.

When dozens of rafts arrived at the watergate, the commander of the siege team, a middle-aged man wearing the classic hat of the Frey family, immediately ordered his soldiers to take action.

The soldiers were seen fastening the steel chains that had been prepared long ago firmly onto the heavy iron gate.

Once these steel chains are fastened, they are connected to dozens of small bamboo rafts piled here.

When the commander gave the order, the hundreds of Frey family soldiers immediately paddled in the direction they came from with all their strength.

Wow!
The steel chain that was being pulled was suddenly stretched diagonally tight.

Crunch, crunch!
As the sound of dozens of steel chains being pulled rang out, the rough steel bars on the iron gate made unpleasant noises after bearing the strong pulling force.

There were noises at first, but gradually the steel bars began to twist slightly, and it was obvious that they could no longer bear the weight.

click!
tom!
A steel bar of poor quality was the first to collapse and broke in the middle, falling into the moat.

Boom, boom, boom!
That steel bar was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. As it broke and fell into the river, the other steel bars of the iron gate also began to fall into the river.

"okay!"

Seeing that the fallen steel bars were enough for the rafts to pass through, the commander of the Frey family quickly stopped dozens of small rafts around him.

When the Frey family's siege force just set out from the moat, the left side of the west wall

Here, because Commander Wheeler found an excuse to protect himself, corresponding negative effects have begun to appear.

The left side of the city wall not only lacked a commander to coordinate at this moment, but also because Wheeler's loud shouting before he left was heard by the soldiers defending the city, they began to have wild thoughts in their minds.

The Frey family soldiers who are focused on attacking the city will not care about you so much.

They are like hyenas, and will attack you fiercely as soon as you show your weakness.

There are already quite a few Frey family soldiers who have climbed up the left wall through the siege tower and siege ladder.

When they gained a foothold, they could clearly feel the Frey soldiers below starting to gather towards this section of the city wall.

Gary also noticed something. He could clearly feel that the attack from the right side of the city wall was gradually weakening, but the other side did not blow the retreat horn.

He snatched the one-handed shield from a soldier guarding the city beside him, and walked to the parapet with the shield on his head and looked down.

I saw a large number of attacking civilians under the city wall starting to gather towards the left side of the city wall.

Oops!

When Gerry saw the situation under the city wall, his heart skipped a beat.

He retreated behind the city wall, returned the one-handed shield in his hand to the soldier guarding the city, then tore off the gorgeous cloak on his back, revealing the brand new armor he was wearing underneath.

Gerry drew his sword from his waist and said to the soldiers guarding the right wall: "Brothers, hold the wall well, these Westeros bastards will retreat in a short time.

The ten squads guarding the city, each squad will send twenty people to follow me to support the left side of the city wall!"

Following his call, more than 200 soldiers guarding the right wall immediately stood up and followed Gerry to support the left wall.

Tear!

blah blah blah!
Beoro cut the neck of a Frey soldier with the sword in his hand. When his hot blood splashed on his face and he was wiping it with the back of his hand, he heard footsteps coming from the right side of the city wall.

He looked up and saw Gerry leading a group of people towards him.

Beoro, who had been immersed in the pleasure of killing, had no idea what was going on. He subconsciously thought that Gerry was bringing people to reinforce him.

Beoro, who felt a little uncomfortable, immediately shouted to Gerry: "Gerry, why did you leave your defense area?
If the city wall is lost because of your absence, can you bear the responsibility?"

"Lord Beoro, it is just as you said. If we don't bring troops to reinforce the left wall, the wall will really fall.

If you don't believe me, look at the direction of the enemy's movement below the city wall!" Hearing Beoro's tone, Gerry frowned and directly told the serious situation.

"Look under the city wall?"

Upon hearing this, Beoro, escorted by his personal guards, came to the parapet to take a look at the general situation. As Gerry had said, the dark mass of siege troops were gathering towards the left side of the city wall.

"Carwell, take 500 men with Gerry to support Wheeler."

Beoro was no fool. When he saw the situation under the city wall, he immediately gave orders to a captain of the guards who followed him.

Originally, the middle section of the city wall had the most military forces. Now the siege force had obviously weakened, so Beoro could mobilize more troops.

"Yes!"

The young and strong guard heard the order and immediately nodded in response.

Seeing that Beoro didn't continue talking nonsense after giving the order, Gerry saluted him and quickly walked across the middle section of the city wall and headed towards the left wall.

Ah!
Kill!
As soon as he passed the middle section of the city wall and arrived at the area on the left side of the city wall, Gerry immediately heard all kinds of screams and shouts.

At this moment, three places on the left side of the city wall had been occupied by the Frey family soldiers, and they were cruelly exchanging lives with the soldiers defending the city.

In the two places close to Gerry, the number of enemies was not large, only about fifty or sixty Frey family soldiers.

At the farthest end, nearly a hundred Frey family soldiers had already climbed onto the city wall, and they had occupied a small section of the wall on the far left.

Corpses have begun to pile up on the left side of the city wall, and the sticky blood has made the stone slabs of the wall slippery. If you are not careful, you may slip and fall.

If you fall on a battlefield like this, there will basically be no chance of getting up again!
"Carwell, take your men and defeat those Westeros bastards in the two places ahead.

I will take care of the innermost area!"

Since he didn't see Wheeler and his guards in his field of vision, Gerry didn't think much about it and spoke directly to Cavill.

"no problem!"

Cavill readily agreed and led his men directly towards the two Frey family soldiers on the city wall.

Although Gerry looks more like a commander than a soldier.

He is actually a battle-hardened and experienced pirate...well, warrior.

Gerry, who was leading the charge at the front, immediately rushed forward when he saw a Frey family soldier killing a soldier guarding the city.

clang!
Gerry saw the Frey soldier coming with his sword, so he held the sword with both hands and used the back half of his sword to block.

After blocking the enemy's sword, he used the cross guard of his own sword to block the opponent's sword, then flipped his hands forcefully, and the weapon of this Frey family soldier immediately fell to the ground.

Swish!
Sizzle, sizzle!
Seeing his weapon fall, the Frey family soldier raised his right hand and was about to speak.

Gary slashed his right palm with a sword, and at the same time the tip of the sword scratched his throat, and blood immediately gushed out.

"We will deal with the enemies on the city wall. The archers will suppress them, and the infantry will use their forks to push their siege ladders down!"

With the addition of new reinforcements and Gerry's command and leadership, the soldiers defending the left side of the city wall suddenly seemed to have found a backbone.

They all followed Gerry's command and performed their duties accordingly.

what! ! !
As the defending soldiers fought in an orderly manner, siege ladders were constantly pushed off the city walls accompanied by screams.

Afterwards, the steps of the siege tower were also forcibly pushed down the city wall. Without a steady stream of reinforcements,

The number of enemies from the west on the left wall began to decrease slowly, and the situation gradually returned to the control of Gerry and Cavill.

In the middle section of the west city wall, after being dealt with by Gerry, Beoro lost the mood to continue killing.

He thought of Gerry and others who had just left, so he directly assigned one of his personal guards to go and inquire about the battle situation on the left city wall.

After a while, the exhausted guard ran up to Beoro.

He reported incoherently: "Lord Beoro, Lord Weller, no... not on the city wall."

No! Where did he go?
After hearing the report from his personal guard, Beoro's face suddenly turned surprised and he lowered his head to think.

……

The commander of the siege force was taking a boat through the damp and dark sewage channel, enduring the stench and paddling a raft upstream. After entering the interior of the fortress, his view suddenly opened up.

shhhhhh!
But just as the siege commander took a few steps with the Frey family soldiers who had just jumped off the small raft, a human-shaped black shadow appeared in his field of vision and the sound of an arrow breaking through the air was heard in his ears.

A dense rain of arrows shot out from the exit of the sewage channel.

This group of Frey family soldiers who had just emerged from the sewage channel were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of the Frey family who was in charge of the siege was stunned when he saw this. Logically, there shouldn't be so many troops here.

After all, the main forces are on the front battlefield of the west city wall.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. After Beoro reacted, he prepared to lead his men to support the left side of the city wall.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the south wall came to ask for help.

So Beoro led his archers and hurried to the exit of the sewage channel, waiting for them to fall into the trap.

With the exit blocked, even if the commander of House Frey forced his soldiers to charge regardless of death, they still could not break through.

no way!
After throwing away a large number of memorials, he could only return the same way in shame.

"Huh, pass on my order, beat the drum and withdraw the troops!"

When the commander came in person to report the failure of the raid, Duke Forester let out a long sigh and then ordered him to withdraw.

"Withdraw troops? Your Excellency the Duke, although the surprise attack plan has failed, it seems that we can capture it as long as we make a little more effort!

We have all lost so much..."

Upon hearing about the withdrawal, Kevan, who had clearly seen his own side attack the city wall several times and had the advantage, asked in confusion.

“Today’s siege was originally intended to cover your raid on that passage.

Since the surprise attack plan has failed, there is no point in this siege.

If this continues, it will be impossible to rely on the civilians in the disputed areas to attack the city.

But if we do this, the casualties among our elite soldiers will be very high.”

"This...obeys your order!"

Boom boom boom!
When the drums sounded, all the attacking soldiers and civilians began to retreat immediately as if they had been pardoned.

In the end, Beoro's side won the first siege! (End of this chapter)