Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Duh duh duh!
Puff puff puff!
The endless rain of arrows drew a perfect parabola and fell on the phalanx of Blackwood soldiers holding wooden shields and siege ladders.

Most of the arrows were embedded in the thick surface of the wooden shields, while a small number shot through the gaps and into the flesh of the attacking soldiers.

At the same time, solid stones the size of heads were thrown from the relatively low inner city walls of Riverrun.
There was a loud clatter with the wooden shields held by the Blackwood soldiers.

Most of the stones were directly bounced off by the sturdy wooden shields, while a small number of stones smashed the wooden shields and the heads of the siege soldiers below into pieces.

Lord Samwell, who was commanding and watching the battle from a safe position in the rear, looked ahead with some annoyance at the inner wall of Riverrun, which was full of cracks but had not collapsed.

Perhaps it was because the inner walls of Riverrun were low that they did not collapse like the outer walls and the keep.

Moreover, these soldiers who were loyal to the Tully family still fought stubbornly under such circumstances and had no intention of surrendering.

But it doesn't matter. Since there was no formal siege warfare before, the combat effectiveness of our army is well preserved.

This low inner wall could be flattened even with a pile of corpses.

"Send the order, attack the city at all costs!
The first warrior to climb the city wall and survive will be rewarded with 300 gold dragons! "

The first-come-first-served reward is 300 gold dragons!!!

This is an astronomical figure for ordinary soldiers, and the strongest outer wall of Riverrun has been breached, so the reward for being the first to reach the city is within reach.

When Earl Samwell's order was passed down, the morale of the siege soldiers suddenly reached its peak.

The Blackwood siege soldiers, who were under attack from the guards in the inner city of Riverrun, soon arrived below the inner city of Riverrun.

clap clap clap!
Countless siege soldiers emerged from the defensive wooden shields and placed their siege ladders on the inner city walls of Riverrun.

This indicates that the bloody and tragic battle to climb the city has officially begun!
The amount of blood and screams suddenly increased several times more than before, and the inner city of Runliu City suddenly became a meat grinder.

"My Lord, His Majesty Jacaerys will return from the Iron Islands in the next two days.

Should we wait any longer?
If your majesty's dragon joins the battle, the inner city of Riverrun will be destroyed in a snap! "

Samwell's captain of the guard watched his own soldiers fall from the siege ladder like dumplings.

He immediately gave advice to his lord with a worried look on his face.

"No, if Your Majesty takes this city, our military achievements will be greatly reduced."

Samwell shook his head when he heard this, then looked at his soldiers fighting bravely on the city wall and continued,
"Look how brave our soldiers are. With them here, it's only a matter of time before we capture the inner city of Riverrun."

“Well, they are very brave indeed.

But... the casualties are also huge!"

Upon hearing this, the captain of the guards first nodded in response, and then muttered something in a very low voice.

Just as he said, his own soldiers who were attacking the inner city of Riverrun were doing so recklessly.

Thanks to the new military reward system that Jacaerys had previously promulgated, the soldiers of the Seven Kingdoms who now fight for the king are extremely brave.

They rushed to climb up to kill more enemies and gain more military merits.

But they didn't know how to protect themselves while killing the enemy, so although they maintained their momentum, their casualties continued to increase.

Lord Varys Mooton of Maidenpool was one of the earls who responded to the coalition.

He had been listening quietly by the side, and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Samwell, I understand that you are thinking about our military exploits.

But why are you unwilling to capture civilians near Riverrun to use as cannon fodder in the siege?
Our soldiers suffered heavy casualties as a result of today's forced attack on the city.

The death rate is almost reaching about 10%! "

"Use the civilians near Riverrun as cannon fodder?

Indeed, they can go and die to consume the enemy's physical strength and arrows and stones.

But they have no fighting will at all. If they collapse after a few seconds, it will affect the overall morale of our army.

Besides, His Majesty Jacaerys had previously promulgated new laws to improve hygiene and encourage childbirth in order to minimize the death rate among civilians.

Lord Mooton, how many civilians do you think will have to die before the soldiers in Riverrun are exhausted to the point of being unable to move?

And do you think His Majesty will praise us or punish us when he sees so many dead civilians when he arrives at Riverrun? "

Samwell looked at the siege situation expressionlessly and answered without turning his head.

"Well, yes, you are more thoughtful.

But I want to ask, why are the soldiers of my Muton family always the vanguards of the siege? "

As he said, during this period of battle, the Mutton family has always been acting as the vanguard.

Therefore, half of the casualties were from the Murton family. Earl Murton, who had been patient for several days, finally took the opportunity to speak out.

“I have selected soldiers who are brave and have strong combat effectiveness to attack the city, so that we have a better chance of breaking through the city and winning.

Don't worry, Lord Murton!

After we capture the city, I will reward you according to your merits. You will never suffer any loss!"

Hearing that Earl Murton finally spoke, Samwell snorted in his heart and answered with a normal expression, then changed the subject and continued,

"Lord Mooton, I want to remind you.

I am the commander of this army. I know how to lead the troops to fight. I don't need you to teach me how to do things!
have you understood? "

"Understood, Lord Samwell, I will take my leave first."

Hearing Samwell's ruthless tone, Earl Murton replied with an extremely ugly expression, then turned and left.

Samwell looked at Earl Murton's back, a sneer appearing on the corner of his mouth.

This Earl of Murton always wanted to gain more benefits with less effort, and he often gave orders to himself by relying on the fact that Maiden Spring was a prosperous town with a port.

He deliberately arranged for the soldiers of the Muton family to act as vanguards in order to deplete the Muton family's resources.

Humph, it’s Earl Murton’s fault for making me angry!

The power in Westeros can easily change a person's character.

The honest Earl Samwell had served as the Lord High Admiral in King's Landing for so long that he had learned how to use his power for personal gain and eliminate political enemies.

Woo!~~
As the horn sounded at the Blackwood camp, the Blackwood army, which had only deployed one-fifth of its troops, began to attack the city with all its strength without reservation.

Several catapults that had been hastily made in the past few days were also pushed out and loaded with stones the size of a human upper body in preparation for the attack.

“Haha, Todd, look.

I smashed another enemy to death! I have killed five enemies, and according to the Duke's reward, that's five gold dragons!
Five golden dragons!!!"

On the left side of the inner city of Riverrun, a newly recruited soldier threw a stone to kill an enemy.

He turned around very excitedly and said to another recruit who was hiding under the wall not far away because of fear.

"House, have you forgotten what the veterans taught us?
Hurry up and lower your body, be careful of the enemy's arrows."

Seeing House so excited that he lost himself in excitement, Todd stood up straight and talked to him.

His face changed drastically and he immediately shouted at House.

"Haha, I will be a knight in the future.

How could he die so easily?

Look, their arrows are all flying around me!"

Upon hearing this, House not only did not squat down, but instead deliberately leaned out of the city wall.

When several stray arrows shot over his head, he laughed loudly and said to Tomad very proudly, "Okay, okay. I got it! Just squat down first!"

House saw Todd's panicked expression, so he finally squatted down.

Then he smiled and said to Thomas: "Thomas, be brave and fight.

You have missed a lot of opportunities these days. You will never make any money if you continue like this!
I'll tell you a secret: the more afraid of death one is, the sooner one dies. This is the experience I learned from an old soldier.

So, be bold like me..."

Bang, crash!

Just as House was imparting battlefield experience to Thomas, several catapults in the Blackwood position outside the city launched the first wave of attacks towards the inner city of Riverrun.

A huge stone hit the battlement where House was hiding. The battlements in the inner city of Riverrun were not particularly strong, and were directly shattered by the stone carrying huge kinetic energy.

The broken stones and the boulder smashed heavily on House, burying his remaining words forever.

"House!"

Thomas was stunned by the scene before him, but after he came to his senses, he immediately crawled to the pile of rubble and tried to rescue House.

As Thomas frantically dug at the rubble, large amounts of bright red blood oozed out of it, foreshadowing House's tragic end.

Following two rounds of bombardment from the catapults, the Blackwood siege soldiers came in like a tide.

The commander of the inner city of Riverrun had never expected that the Blackwood army, which had been conducting exploratory attacks as normal, would launch a general attack today.

Facing an enemy that was several times larger than their own, the Riverrun recruits on the inner city walls of Riverrun suffered heavy losses.
Blackwood siege soldiers have begun to climb the city walls and engage in combat with Riverrun recruits on the walls.

Seeing the situation suddenly turn out like this, the commander of Riverrun hurried down the city wall and recalled the veterans who were resting in the inner city of Riverrun back to the city wall to join the battle.

Led by these experienced veterans, the other Riverrun recruits mustered up the courage to continue fighting, pushing back wave after wave of Blackwood siege troops.

The blood, body parts and corpses on the inner city walls of Riverrun continued to increase, and the lives of soldiers on both sides continued to be lost in this offensive and defensive battle.

The defenders in the inner city of Riverrun who were in the fierce battle did not notice that there was a wooden shield installed on the outside of the ship.

A special carriage with rawhide covering the wooden shields arrived at the inner city gate of Riverrun under the cover of a team of Blackwood siege soldiers.

When this special carriage stopped at the gate of the inner city of Riverrun, the Blackwood siege soldiers immediately fled hurriedly to the rear, as if some monster was chasing them.

boom! ! !
A violent explosion sounded, and the familiar emerald green flames directly engulfed the oak iron gate of the inner city of Riverrun, along with hundreds of soldiers from both sides on the city walls.

The commander who was mobilizing the newly recruited soldiers and servants in the parade ground in the inner city of Riverrun was stunned for a long time after hearing the loud noise.

Looking at the empty inner gate of Riverrun, where the Blackwood siege soldiers were constantly putting out the fire with mud,

The commander reacted immediately and shouted angrily: "The city gate is broken, everyone come here and form a battle array to resist the enemy!"

When the wildfire at the gate of the inner city of Riverrun was completely extinguished, the commander of Riverrun gathered five or six hundred soldiers defending the city into a square formation in the parade ground.

But facing tens of thousands of Blackwood soldiers, their fate was already determined.

Tear!

Samwell rode his warhorse into the inner city of Riverrun and saw the Blackwood soldiers finishing off the seriously wounded enemies.

At this time, in the parade ground in the inner city of Riverrun, about four or five captured Riverrun soldiers and thousands of civilians were kneeling densely on the ground.

"I am Samwell Blackwood. Who of you is the commander? Stand up and talk to me!"

"I am Mills Riverman."

Samwell had just finished speaking when the commander of Riverrun, covered in blood and with a bloody sword wound on his left shoulder, stood up from among the kneeling crowd.

“He Wen serves as a surname, but he can command the soldiers of Riverrun.

So, you are a bastard of the Tully family?"

"Yes, Lord Samwell.

Since we are all nobles, please treat us as noble prisoners.

At the same time, we will also give you the corresponding ransom in exchange for your freedom!"

Mills nodded when he heard this, then answered Samwell loudly.

“I’m sorry, this time it was His Majesty the King who personally ordered the suppression of the traitors.

Therefore, you will not be able to enjoy the treatment of noble prisoners, and it is impossible for us to return your freedom in exchange for a ransom.

What I want to ask is, where is Lord Graver Tully?"

Hearing Mills' words, Samwell shook his head and refused and asked back.

“You want us to betray our lord?
Hehe, dream on! You are a dog that betrays and bites its own master! "

Seeing that the negotiations failed, Mills immediately burst into laughter and then started to curse.

"Yes, I admire your loyalty!

However, the master of the Seven Kingdoms is His Majesty Jacaerys.

If that's the case, then Marquis Graver is the first dog to be betrayed and bite his master back!
Hehe, you are actually scolding your own master!"

When Lord Samwell heard his words, he teased Harion without getting angry.
Then he turned to the other northern captives kneeling on the ground and said loudly,

“There should be many non-combatants among you who were forcibly conscripted.

If you don't tell me, I will kill you all and throw your bodies into the river to feed the fish.

And the first person who tells me and helps me capture Marquis Graver will be rewarded with three hundred, no, five hundred gold royals!"

Earl Samwell's words immediately made the kneeling captives restless.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Mills rolled his eyes left and right, and immediately lost his previous tough look.

He just said, "I'm sorry, Lord Samwell.

I was a little excited just now, but now I have thought it through.

I will take you to Grafford Tully now!"

"Tsk, I really thought you were a tough guy just now!
Let’s go! Lead the way.”

Mills, with his hands tied, immediately stood up and walked in front, leading Earl Samwell and his party to the basement of Riverrun.

But as soon as they entered the basement, Mills immediately rushed towards the burning brazier on the left wall.

Seeing this, Samwell immediately became alert and hid behind a guard, using him as his meat shield.

Bang!

Bang!
The brazier fell to the ground and an orange-red flame rose up.

As the firelight illuminated, it turned out that the Tibetan's basement was clearly a wine cellar.

And Mills had obviously made preparations in advance, with the ground sprinkled with flammable liquor.

boom!
The wine cellar exploded, and Earl Samwell and his personal guard were knocked to the ground by the strong impact at close range.

Although his life was not in danger, the flames from the explosion in the wine cellar caused severe burns on the right side of his body.

Da da da!
Earl Samwell endured the pain and walked to the ground, shouting to the stunned Blackwood soldiers around him: "Mad, kill everyone in Riverrun!
After looting all the valuables, set fire to the castle!"

"Yes!"

With the excited responses of the Blackwood soldiers, the bloody massacre in the castle began! (End of this chapter)