Game of Thrones: The Bronze and Fire Lord.

Chapter 97: The Wall of River Valley Town
Three days later.

A large team consisting of strong women and children walked into the spacious mountain road of Raven Ridge.

What is striking is that some of the teenagers have red foreheads and a giant dragon tattooed on the left side.

The healthy women and young children who were traveling with us did not have any on their foreheads.

According to the new decree issued by His Royal Highness.

All the young and strong men in the prisoner camp and boys taller than the wheels had to have a giant dragon tattooed on the left side of their foreheads using the tattoo technique of the mountain clan.

This represents the origin of the Gaoshan clan and is a member of the prisoner camp.

With this tattoo, everyone knows their identity, reducing the chances of ordinary citizens being harmed.

The tattoo can never be washed off, and there is no need to worry about them escaping back to the Mingyue Mountains.

Likewise, His Royal Highness kept his promise and left them a way out.

As long as you join the construction of Riverdale Town, you will have the first dragon emblem tattooed on the right side of your forehead when it is completed.

It symbolizes that they have been cleansed of their sins and become official rulers of the valley.

The old patriarch of the Painted Dog Clan and the old blacksmith of the Firesmith Clan had a third dragon emblem right above their foreheads, more than anyone else.

The three dragon emblems are complete, which coincide with the three-headed red dragon emblem of the Targaryen family.

Prove that they are loyal and are messengers of the "honorable Dragon King".

He is a cadre of moderate size.

"Beep!"

Aemon rode at the head of the procession on a white stag, blowing from a bone whistle hung around his neck.

The white deer turned its head and glanced, its eyes full of curiosity.

After waiting for a while, there was no movement.

Aemon looked up at the sky and muttered, "The Painted Dogs can train dogs with a whistle, but they are not qualified to train dragons."

"Hiss!"

After a long while, a gray shadow poked its dragon head out from the thin clouds and mist, observing the movements of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Didn’t we agree to ask it to start eating?
Imon was speechless and said, "When the whistle stopped, you came out."

That's right, he wanted to use a bone whistle instead of shouting to give simple instructions to the gray shadow flying with him.

It can be seen in the melee that the accompanying dragons are difficult to communicate with and have difficulty reacting in the first place.

Forget about Silver Wing.

It is an adult dragon, and no one can command it unless it is tamed and a bond is established.

Gray Shadow is still a young dragon, and he should be able to make progress if he is trained from a young age.

"Hiss?"

The gray shadow looked puzzled and turned back to the clouds.

Aemon rolled his eyes and continued to ponder the bone whistle.

Gray Shadow is currently insensitive to whistles and does not understand the meaning of different whistles at all.

The bone whistle was made of inferior material and was not strong enough to convey instructions to a dragon.

"Why not try using dragon bones?"

An idea suddenly occurred to Aemon.

Maybe it's feasible. I can go back to Dragonstone and dig up a piece of dragon bone.

The team hurried forward and saw a road construction team ahead.

It's almost noon.

The old, weak and strong women of the road construction team paved the last section of the road, and the cook next to them cooked thick porridge.

His Royal Highness is kind and generous. Those who do heavy manual labor only have three meals a day.

"You will build the road with them later."

Imon gave instructions, and habitually made promises: "Once the road is built, you will be free."

The Valley Knight in charge of supervision stepped forward and led away two thousand healthy women and children.

Most of them were family members of the Huaquan clan, and they accepted their fate after being persuaded by the old patriarch.

"Hiss!"

Syrax stood on a pile of rubble, breathing dragon fire to burn lime.

Aemon rode a white deer and slowly walked towards that side.

When you get closer, you can see the silver-haired girl in the corner.

Rainier squatted on the ground, hugged her knees with her hands, and stared at the ants moving on the ground.

It looks almost jade-like.

"You haven't figured it out yet?"

Aemon came forward, leading the white stag.

The poor dragon-riding skills are indeed a major flaw.

Throughout the period of "A Dance with the Dragons", Rhaenyra and Syrax were both supporting characters who carried out the principle of living a great life and dying a cowardly death to the end.

Rhaenyra glanced up and lowered her head even lower.

She often blames herself for not being a boy and believes that her gender causes the public to have an unfair view of her.

After the battle at Mingyue Mountains, this idea was shattered.

He was so frightened on the dragon's back that he lost his mind and the battle situation was almost overturned.

From any perspective, she is unqualified.

"You can blame yourself, but you still have to eat."

Aemon squatted down and took out a silver tray from his bag.

Rainier had no appetite and was about to hide her head in her arms when she smelled a familiar fragrant smell.

When I looked up, a small cream cake came into view.

"Where did it come from?"

Lenira's beautiful eyes widened, and her mind was filled with a lot of thoughts in an instant.

Aemon shook the silver plate and said, "Johanna made it. The materials were specially shipped from Seagull Town. They are very valuable."

Cream is a luxury product, and ordinary nobles can only eat it a few times a year.

There is no production in the valley, and all items have to be purchased regularly from Seagull Town.

"Made it especially for me?"

Rhaenyra couldn't believe it.

Yimeng said: "Eat, there is an important event today."

Even though he's stupid, he's here to help.

Being busy is also busy.

pat!

A teardrop fell on the silver plate, making a small dot on the cream dough.

Before Yimon could react, a pair of arms tightly wrapped around his neck.

"sorry."

Rhaenyra confided, her head buried in the other's neck, sobbing uncontrollably: "I didn't mean to kill them."

After the melee, only 569 of the 800 longbowmen were left.

She was responsible for the number of casualties.

Yimeng couldn't forgive her on behalf of the dead. He put his face against her hair and said seriously, "Everyone makes mistakes, but you have to remember the pain so that you won't be scarred again."

"I will remember them all."

Rhaenyra bit her lower lip and held him tighter and tighter.

Feeling the softness against his chest, Yimeng showed helplessness and patted her on the back: "Okay, blaming yourself too much is weakness."

When they choose to be recruited into the army, they should be prepared to meet strangers.

In this regard, he inherited the cold-bloodedness of his father Damon. When a person dies, it is like a light going out. The living must look forward.

Remember, that's enough.

Lenira was a soft-hearted person, and was easy to persuade and coax.

After calming down for a while, he took the cream cake and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

He completely forgot about royal etiquette and just started eating from the plate.

"you eat."

Halfway through the meal, he brought the plate to Imon's mouth.

"Thank you."

Aemon took a bite and couldn't get used to the sweetness of the cream.

Rainiera loved to eat it, so she nestled in the other's arms and concentrated on dealing with the cream cake.

I've been hungry for days.

Aemon's thighs were pressed down, acting as a chair.

Occasionally, I could smell the sweet aroma of cream, but I couldn’t tell whether it was coming from a person or the cake.

Until the cream cake is eaten up.

Rhaenyra licked the butter off her fingers and whispered, "The five hundred women and children of the Firesmiths can repair a hundred meters of road every day. So far, six miles have been repaired."

The mountain road from Raven Ridge to the river valley is a total of fifty miles long.

Aemon did some calculations and estimated that the arrival of two thousand women and children from the Painted Dog Clan and the Black Stone Clan would increase the speed of road construction to three hundred meters per day.

The number of people is not proportional to the distance of road construction.

Anyone who has built a road knows that materials and excavating the road surface are the most time-consuming.

There was no card to provide materials for the road construction project. It all relied on oxcarts to bring in fine sand and clay, plus separately burned lime.

Digging up the road surface is even more difficult.

Although the mountain road in Raven Ridge is wide, it is covered with vegetation and vines, and the road surface is bumpy.

Before building the road, Aemon drove Wormithor to wash the ground with dragon flame.

All vegetation within a fifty-mile radius was burned, and all the huge rocks that were in the way on the ground were burned into volcanic ash.

This also caused the cliffs on both sides to become pitch black, leaving traces of smoke and fire.

When the road construction is completed, it will also be considered a feature.

With the help of Dragon Flame, the road construction team still had to dig a roadbed one meter thick and twenty meters wide.

The cement road surface is only ten meters wide, with one meter of roadside soil reserved on each side, expanded to eight meters of sandy and gravel flat land, and finally one-meter-wide drainage ditches dug on each side.

This is the ancient process of road construction.

The roadbed was supposed to be 30 meters wide, with trees planted on both sides to block the wind and provide direction.

Unfortunately, the mountain road is not that wide, and there is no need to plant trees on the cliffs on both sides.

"I have seen the previous section of the road, and the cement ground is very solid."

Rhaenyra was a little proud.

However, considering the speed of laying, it is still a time-consuming and labor-intensive project.

Aemon pondered, "Raven Hill is fifty miles long, and the mountain to the Vale of Arryn is thirty miles long. It will take about half a year to pave the whole thing."

The river valley stretches one hundred miles from east to west, and it will take another half a year to pave the road.

There is a long way to go.

"Come with me, there is something important to do."

Aemon encouraged himself secretly and picked up Rhaenyra, who was lying motionless in his arms.

You are an older girl, but you don't have the demeanor of an elder sister at all.

Not as good as Lannar.

……

River valley city.

The skull of Meraxes is brought out again.

Under the arrangement of the Chief of Internal Affairs Johanna and Bachelor Mu Kun, a "bluffing" ceremony was held, which shocked the 5,000 laborers in the prisoner camp.

"Hiss-"

Womisol and Silver Wing flew together, turning shock into astonishment.

"Your Highness the Prince."

The old patriarch of the Huaquan clan, Heigu, and the old blacksmith of the Firesmith tribe, Xia Ga, all knelt down and surrendered completely.

"Leave your people in good order. The ceremony is about to end."

Aemon looked calm and walked to the shore of the Long Lake alone.

Then, take out the red card [Iron Wall].

The construction of River Valley City is booming, and the walls of River Valley Town cannot fall.

He has unique insights into city wall planning.

First of all, the palace should be rectangular, and the city walls don’t have to be square.

Based on the shape of the walls of King's Landing and Highgarden, it was designed to have a polygonal circular outline.

The area is large, as large as 12 square kilometers.

The general topography is that the foot of the mountains extends all the way to the vicinity of Chang Lake, where the palace "Valley City" is built.

The city wall starts from the high valley city, and the two sides are curved and converge towards the shore of Long Lake.

Coincidentally, there is a protruding estuary on the shore of Long Lake, like a pacifier near the foot of a high mountain.

The city wall surrounded the river mouth, the original east gate was abandoned, and a Changhu pier was built in place.

Encourage the territory's fishery to make up for the lack of water transportation.

Imon increased the height and thickness of the city wall to the maximum.

It is ten meters high and six and a half meters thick at the bottom, and is designed to be indestructible.

One outer wall was not enough, so an inner wall was built.

The inner city wall is even more majestic, eighteen meters high and twelve meters thick at the bottom.

It's like there's always a mountain higher than the other, and there's no end to it.

Double wall defense will crush any enemy's wishful thinking.

Even if the giant dragon leaves its nest on the mountain one day, River Valley Town will still be as stable as Dragon Mountain.

"Balerion be upon you!"

Aemon whispered softly and placed the card in his hand on the lime-marked foundation of the city wall.

[Iron Wall]: "The card effect has been activated. Please name your city."

hum!
The red card shattered in an instant, turning into fiery red fireflies that drilled into the large, solid foundation.

next second.

An inexplicable wave spread outward from this center, like soft ripples, faintly emitting a faint blush.

Aemon closed his eyes and felt it, then said the name that had been decided long ago: "Riverdale Town."

When building River Valley City, one and a half months were wasted on the foundation.

Having experienced the loss, this time I used the cards early to lock in the construction time.

The card's task list gives hints:
"The River Valley Town was successfully named, and the construction period is scheduled to be 2 years."

"let's start."

Aemon opened his eyes and saw his subordinates standing behind him.

Heigu and Xiaga did not dare to delay and ordered their tribesmen to start work.

Digging foundations, moving stones, burning lime...

Looking down from the sky, it looks like a nest of small ants moving around and building new anthills.

(End of this chapter)