Chapter 440 Rushing to King's Landing
Perhaps no other moment in the history of the Seven Kingdoms has been as splendid as it is today.
Dragons, giants, Dothraki, and White Walkers gathered in the land of Westeros to fight each other.
On the contrary, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, ancestors or Andal people who claim to be the masters of this land, many of them are ancient bloodlines inherited from the Heroic Era thousands of years ago, but they were beaten in this war. Bloodshed.
The human coalition defeated the White Walkers, and the alliance fell apart in an instant. The barbarians led by the Targaryen remnants broke through the Twins and Riverruns all the way, and the nobles of the rivers looked down.
The Tully family also voluntarily bowed their knees and surrendered under the fire and the machete. Viserys took away the title of guardian of the riverlands and was reduced to an ordinary earl family.
Because of their resistance to King Harren's rule, the Tully family held high the dragon flag and joined Aegon's army. Finally, after the dragon burned Harrenhal, Aegon was conferred the monarch of the Riverland by Aegon. The reign of the Midlands came to an end at the hands of Viserys.
Edmure Tully, the Duke's title, became Lord Edmure Tully, Earl of Riverrun, in less than one night.
All the riverside nobles who had sworn allegiance to him not long ago looked at him with a strange look.
The Dothraki controlled the entire Riverrun, and the king, who was under house arrest by the Tully soldiers, naturally fell into the hands of Viserys.
Viserys took a look at Robert, who was not in a bad state of mind, and didn't seem to have been hit too hard by repeated betrayals and imprisonment.
He was only angry at the death of Barristan Selmy, and he hoped that Viserys would order the execution of Marin Tran, who had broken his oath.
As for this man's upcoming fate... Viserys felt that Marin Tran didn't seem to be clear.
No king would dare to use such a person as his Kingsguard. He was cruel, cunning, and his character was inferior to that of a Kingslayer. No wonder Robert's Kingsguard was the worst ever.
Marin Tran killed Barristan Selmy from behind, and his actions not only did not help Viserys, but smeared Viserys.
It makes people wonder if Marin Tran has been in contact with him long ago, but in fact he did not, and Viserys would not be able to use such a person who betrayed the Lord.
Therefore, for such a person, not killing is not enough to make people angry, and killing him can also cleanse Viserys from the stains on his body.
The dragon inhabited Riverrun, and under the common witness of countless river land nobles, Tully family soldiers, and Dothraki people, Marin Tran was pinned down in front of the body of Barristan Selmy and the canon was pronounced. .
The legendary knight who was murdered by a traitor and famous in the Seven Kingdoms was buried with a grand burial after the execution of Marin Tran.
He was buried in a beautiful place outside Riverrun, and a stone tablet was erected in front of the tomb, with the story of the life of 'Fearless Barristan' written on it, as well as a sentence written by Viserys himself in Common. .
"He was born a knight and died a knight."
After the Tullys bowed their knees and Barristan Selmy was buried, a day passed in a blink of an eye.
At night, Viserys lived in Riverrun, and the master room where the old Duke of Horst lived before his death became Viserys' temporary bedroom.
It is the most luxurious bedroom in the entire Riverrun, and it has been cleaned by the servants. There is no trace of war, and even the smell of last night's blood is no longer in the air. Instead, there is a bit more woman's rouge. fragrance.
On the first night of the end of the war, the nobles of the riverlands with their own thoughts were either terrified or ambitious.
Because everyone knows that the place guarded by Hejiandi is now vacant, the former monarch has been downgraded to an ordinary earl.
If you want to seize this opportunity, just like the Tully family back then, Aegon's reused as the guardian of the river land for three hundred years, now is the best time.
His Majesty the King was resting in Riverrun, and the nobles of the rivers began to have their own thoughts. They sent the wives and daughters of some defeated nobles, and even sent their wives over.
One of them, Hildy, was the wife of a sworn knight under Lord Tytos Blackwood.
She even tried to sneak into Viserys' bedroom in the middle of the night, but was caught by the Dothraki guards on duty outside the door.
The restless night passed quickly, and although Viserys was a man of vigorous blood, he was not too hungry.
He didn't favor any noble lady who took the initiative to send him to the door, and more importantly, they looked... they didn't quite fit his vision.
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The morning of the third day.
Viserys was dressed, with a metal dragon's head crest on his left chest, and a black-red cape with a velvet lining.
"His Majesty."
"His Majesty."
He appeared in the main hall of Riverrun, and all the nobles of the river, including Lord Xintuli, also took their seats and respectfully.
After a day's rest, Viserys will gather his troops today, and head straight for King's Landing along the main road suitable for a large army along the River Road.
Because Arianne was pregnant, he changed his plan to conquer King's Landing first and ascend the Iron Throne to occupy the orthodox name, and after marrying in St. Baelor's Cathedral, he launched a second war of conquest to regain the whole territory.
The Dothraki brought by Viserys from Pentos totaled more than 20,000 people. After two battles with the White Walkers and the Allied Forces, a total of thousands of people were lost, and now there are only 18,000 people left. people.
However, in the Battle of Riverrun, more than 20,000 coalition prisoners were captured in one breath, and most of them chose to surrender and became a member of the Targaryen army.
The size of Viserys's army has been doubled and expanded. When the armor and food are not enough, the nobles of the riverlands are decisively generous, plus the loot, armor, weapons and so on collected from the coalition camp.
woo~
Then the melodious horn sounded, and the dragon danced in the sky with a dull low roar.
boom--
boom--
The two giants on the ground took heavy steps, each step on the ground, the ground trembled slightly.
"Our goal is that iron chair, which the great Dothraki warriors will snatch for our khal!"
"Hoohoho~"
The rising sun on the horizon, the water of the Red Fork River is flowing quietly, it seems that the blood from a few days ago has been washed away.
The people in the Targaryen army shouted horses neighing, and countless Dothraki crowded on the sides with the newly surrendered coalition soldiers on their knees.
rumbling—
The army marched, holding high the three-headed dragon flag of the Targaryen family, along the broad and flat River Road, from Riverrun to King's Landing.