Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

Countless rockets rained down, their flaming arrows piercing flesh with excruciating pain, while those landing on leaves and branches ignited into raging fires.

The end of the savages has come.

...

As the wildling rebellion escalated, Robert hardened his heart and made a great effort to deal with them properly.

Of course, it's not impossible to 'suppress bandits'.

"Master Huang" has the ability to "suppress bandits".

But we need to consider how much it will cost to 'suppress bandits'.

The ratio of cost to loss, and whether it's worth the effort, are all things to consider. The cost of deploying a large army is astronomical, with losses of military pay and supplies.

In fact, many nobles were not incapable of suppressing bandits, but considering the potential losses, they felt it was not worthwhile to do so.

As the wildlings began to wreak havoc on the Seven Kingdoms and gradually approached King's Landing, Robert grew increasingly anxious.

Robert once thought that sending troops to guard the causeway would ensure everything would be safe.

However, he made a mistake: he treated the savage tribe as a regular army.

The savage tribe was not a regular army; in fact, they were a motley crew, quite different from the enemies Robert had faced before.

Blocking the causeway was a way to deal with the regular army, but there were actually many densely packed paths in the neck of the swamp.

The people of Zedi are extremely familiar with the terrain here and travel through it on a daily basis.

Pedestrians could pass through, but the army had no way to abandon heavy baggage wagons and traverse the narrow paths through the swamps and the waterways through the reeds.

Therefore, the causeway was the only way to ensure the safe passage of a large army.

Unlike the barbarian tribes who lived year-round in the extremely harsh environment of the northern frontier, the 'pampered' southern army...

They were just small teams organized by tribe, and crossing mountains and swamps was already commonplace for the savages.

The wild people also suffered greatly and paid a heavy price to cross these routes that only the people of the swamp knew.

Robert, seeing the savages spreading like a plague, had no choice but to harden his heart and expend great effort to suppress them, even resorting to setting the mountains on fire.

However, Robert's ruthlessness had an immediate effect.

Within a month, the wildlings that had been ravaging the entire North had all vanished.

Countless heads rolled down.

Of course, Robert didn't kill all of these roaming savages; he killed a group of them, and the remaining group became much more low-key and continued to hide, no longer as rampant as before.

After Robert led a coalition of 60,000 humans to expend great effort in suppressing the bandits, the next step was to deal with a possible attack by the White Walkers.

Although the sounding of the Winter's Horn did not completely collapse the Wall, only a small section collapsed, a breach has been created in the Wall, and it is impossible to repair it quickly now.

The Great Wall of Despair was built on an extremely grand scale, almost as if it were an engineering feat that humans could not have accomplished.

Robert no longer has the power to rally the nation to rebuild the Great Wall; he can only continue patching it up as it stands, hoping it will still have some effect.

The winter wind was biting cold.

The obese man with a black beard held a heavy Stormhammer, a heavy two-handed hammer and Robert's favorite weapon.

He gazed at the ghostly forest shrouded in the morning mist in the distance, remaining silent for a long time.

Robert, who usually loves to drink, has been abstaining from alcohol for the past few days, perhaps feeling his inner unease growing stronger.

He didn't know what White Walkers were or whether they could be killed with a single blow to the head.

However, he knew that this battle would be the most difficult one he had ever fought, perhaps even more critical than the War of the Usurper.

Although he now owns seven kingdoms, far more territory than the Targaryen remnants who fled overseas, and has a large army.

However, the seven kingdoms were too entangled with each other, making it difficult for them to unite and exert their strength.

I don't know why...

Robert suddenly felt a strong urge to meet the young man named Viserys Targaryen.

"Ed".

"We'll defeat that piece of shit White Walker, won't we?"

Robert suddenly cursed for no reason, then turned to look at his good brother standing beside him.

Eddard Stark clearly knew Robert's temperament well; he was a foul-mouthed jerk.

If he hadn't been the heir to Storm's End and hadn't had his fiancée taken away by Rhaegar, perhaps he would have been a mercenary traveling the world, living a life of wine, women, and prostitutes.

The man with long, dark brown hair frowned slightly, then slowly relaxed.

He was the same way.

Eddard had an older brother, Brandon Stark, who was later burned alive by the Mad King.

Therefore, Eddard was never intended to be the heir to Winterfell, which is why he was sent to the Vale to be Jon Arryn's adopted son.

"Will do."

Eddard Stark took a deep breath and spoke.

"Just like back then."

...

The far north.

The human coalition is actively preparing fortifications.

And in Pentos.

Rumble...

Another army of tens of thousands of people arrived on the eve of the New Year.

They marched in a grand procession to the walls of Pentos.

Chapter 297 The Golden Company's Loyalty

The year 292 of the Aegonian calendar, a grand celebration of the New Year.

"His Majesty."

"Your orders are in the direction the Golden Company's flag points."

Inside the palace atop the nine towers.

The current leader of the Golden Company, Mithril Toyn, knelt in the center of the hall, expressing his submission to King Viserys.

The flag of the Golden Regiment was made by boiling the skulls and flesh of the successive regimental commanders and plating them with gold.

These golden skulls were hung beneath the military flag, and whenever the Golden Legion went into battle, they would be at the forefront, and all the warriors of the Golden Legion would bravely lead the charge in the direction the golden flag pointed.

The Golden Company had actually made contact with Jon Clinton and Viserys six months earlier, before the Dothraki attacked Pentos, through Illyrio's connections.

The Golden Company wanted to join House Targaryen, just like the Windrush Company, transforming themselves from mercenaries into House Targaryen's regular army.

The Golden Company, with over ten thousand soldiers, naturally had conditions for joining the Targaryen family, and these were the conditions they asked Illyrio and Jon Clinton to negotiate.

Many of the commanders of the Golden Company are actually descendants of survivors of the Blackfyre Rebellion during the Targaryen Dynasty.

Many of them were even distant relatives of Viserys, because Blackfyre himself was a branch of House Targaryen, a legacy of Aegon IV's legalization of bastards.

However, they do indeed have Targaryen blood flowing through their veins, though it is extremely diluted.

The remaining members are descendants of nobles and knights who once stood on Damon Blackfyre's side.

Their fiefdoms, titles, and property in their homeland had long been confiscated, forcing them to wander to the continent of Essos, where they have been unable to return to their homeland for generations.

The Golden Company's initial demands of Viserys were that they swear allegiance to House Targaryen and help Viserys return to Westeros to reclaim the Iron Throne, in exchange for Viserys' promise to restore the lands and titles of these nobles.

However, Viserys flatly rejected this condition.

Although the loyalty of the Golden Company's ten thousand warriors is tempting, Viserys is not short of soldiers and generals and does not rely solely on the Golden Company.

Under the new political system, everyone is starting afresh and has the opportunity to become an aristocrat and climb to a high position.

Offering high positions so easily to the commanders of the Golden Company would chill the hearts of the soldiers who have followed Viserys into battle.

And it will also hinder nobles who want to surrender when they attack Westeros in the future.

After Viserys rejected the Golden Company's offer, some time passed.

The Dothraki's siege of Pentos by more than 80,000 Dothraki was a failure. The arrogant and domineering Dothraki rode their warhorses and fled in panic like stray dogs.

After escaping Pentos, the fleeing Dothraki turned their horses around and launched a sudden attack, massacring Myr. The Golden Company, which had signed a contract with Myr, saw that things were going badly and broke the contract for the first time, fleeing to Valantis.

The Golden Company's desertion before battle indirectly led to Myr's complete lack of resistance and its brutal massacre by the Dothraki.

Not long after this incident, the Golden Company's envoys arrived in Pentos once again.

This time, they didn't mention the previous conditions, but instead adopted a very humble attitude.

This time, the Golden Company only asked Viserys to issue a written decree pardoning the descendants of his family who had participated in the 'Blackfire Rebellion'.

This allows them to participate in the promotion system on an equal footing and reclaim their ancestral titles and fiefdoms through military merit.

Viserys agreed to the new conditions offered by the Golden Company without much hesitation.

If the Golden Company members are all descendants of former 'rebels', then the Targaryen family, having lost the Iron Throne, and now swearing allegiance to the usurper, are all 'rebels'.

Viserys could forgive them, so why couldn't he accept the Golden Company?

and.

The 'Blackfire Rebellion' that happened actually had little to do with him.

Because he wasn't a true 'Targaryen,' a fact known only to himself.

Moreover, the state he wanted to establish was not a continuation of the Targaryen dynasty.

Rather, it's similar to the relationship between the Western Han and Eastern Han dynasties, with little connection beyond the names.

In the future, it was not that the great Targaryen dynasty experienced a decade of rebellion and turmoil, the Iron Throne was briefly stolen by usurpers, and then His Majesty Viserys III rose up again across the Narrow Sea and reclaimed the Iron Throne.

Viserys has now established a completely different system in Andalus and Pentos than before.

He is not the real 'Viserys', nor is he from this world; this is his greatest secret.