Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 172 Escape, the final siege

Wow!
Korakshu's long and narrow dragon neck smashed into the banquet hall with some stones and rubble.

Garcia's swordsmanship is extremely advanced, but he is still a mortal after all.

He could only watch as Korakhu used his tongue to roll Damon, who was already at the end of his strength, into his mouth.

Damon didn't know whether it was because the poison had worsened or because he felt relieved after seeing Korak.

As soon as he entered the dragon's mouth of Korakshu, he fell unconscious.

Ding Ding Ding!
The guards of Zainen Palace who came upon hearing the noise attacked Korakshu with bows and arrows, but apart from hearing the noise, no harm was caused.

Toss, who was surrounded by guards, had some means to cause damage to the adult dragon.

But he couldn't use blood magic openly now, so he just watched quietly.

Hooray, hooray!
After succeeding, Koraxhu did not hesitate and flapped his wings directly towards King's Landing in Westeros.

It grew up in the dragon's lair in King's Landing, so when it encountered danger, it subconsciously flew towards the safe area in its mind.

"Daemon Targaryen was a despicable traitor, and the death of the previous Sea King may have been caused by him.

Send word to the governors of Pentos to give us the Uncrowned Queen.

Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude.

Also, invite the heads of all the temples in Braavos. I want to have a good talk with them!"

Toss looked up at the Zainen Temple with a big hole in it and gave instructions to Garcia.

"As you command, Your Majesty the Sea King!"

……

When a series of events occurred in Braavos, the crisis of Winterfell in Westeros was resolved by Jacaerys.

Duke Forester is methodically carrying out the occupation of the disputed land.

This land was previously seized and occupied by the four city-states of Tyrosh, Myr, Lys, and Volantis.

Naturally, you can know its richness and vastness.

They had suffered repeated defeats in previous battles, and even the Hand of Holy Fire, which they had high hopes for, was completely wiped out.

The coalition forces of Lys and Volantis abandoned a series of small towns, withdrew all their ground forces, and guarded their last major city.

Gelus, located in the southeast corner of the Disputed Land, was originally a city under the rule of Rees.

As a fortress city of the former Kingdom of the Three Daughters to defend against the invasion of Volantis, Grus was armed to the teeth.

But as fate would have it, Lys and Volantis have now formed an alliance and are stationed in this city to resist the powerful enemy coming from Myr.

Oh oh oh!
As the sky was just turning white, the urgent sound of siege horns rang out, directly breaking the tranquility of this fortress city.

This is already the fourth battle of attack and defense of Gros.

The previous times were just small-scale fights, but this time can be regarded as a real all-out siege.

Originally, Gros was surrounded by moats, but now the western moat facing Myr has been basically completely filled.

This can actually be said to be filled with the lives of civilians in the disputed areas.

Since it was not in Westeros, Duke Forrester had no scruples at all.

Having suffered a loss due to the moat during the first siege, he had during this period specially sent out search teams to arrest civilians in the disputed areas.

Then he used the archers as a threat with their flashing arrows and ordered the civilians to fill the trenches with earth baskets.

The coalition forces of Lys and Volantis would not show mercy, and the archers on the city walls launched an attack directly.

Faced with the all-round rain of arrows, these defenseless civilians fell down in large numbers like harvested leeks.

However, after a group of civilians died, Duke Forester captured another group of civilians.

Even the bodies of the civilians who had died before were used to fill the moat.

So it is said that in troubled times, human life is worth less than that of a dog!
Closer to home!
Wheel, wheel!
As the horn sounded, a battering ram with wooden wheels was pushed by dozens of Frey family soldiers and rushed towards the western gate of Gros.

This wheeled battering ram had been in production since the very beginning of the siege of Gross, and after so much rush work, only this one was made.

Its overall appearance is like a wooden turtle, and its shell is protected by a wooden shield covered with raw animal hide.

It has wooden rollers underneath for easy movement, and the turtle's head serves as a heavy battering ram.

The Frey soldiers who pushed the wheeled battering ram were well protected within its tortoise shell.

Next to the wheeled battering ram was a black mass of at least seven or eight thousand soldiers of the Westeros noble coalition, carrying shields and siege ladders.

They had just arrived, and at this moment, they all looked full of morale, and seemed relaxed as if they were eager to gain a lot of military merit.

Whoohoo!
Earlier than the Frey family siege infantry launched the attack were dozens of catapults in the positions behind them.

The catapult, about three meters high, was suddenly lowered along with the counterweight.

The five or six meter long fishing rod threw rocks the size of a human upper body at Glus.

Boom boom!
The stones thrown by the catapults at the solid walls of Grus only left shallow pits, while the stones thrown into the city destroyed some houses and some defensive facilities.

What was most damaging to morale were the few catapult stones that accurately hit the city walls.

At this moment, many guards were standing densely on the walls of Grus.

In addition to the infantry and archers defending the city, there were also many conscripted servants who were lighting many covered boilers.

Under the powerful impact of several catapult stones, a row of neatly-standing soldiers defending the city were smashed to pieces, causing some unlucky soldiers to lose their arms and legs. Some of the unlucky soldiers were directly hit and smashed into meat paste.

In fact, the damage was not too great, but it caused some chaos on the city wall.

Looking at the chaos on the city wall, Beoro, as the supreme commander, didn't even frown, his eyes fixed on the wheeled battering ram.

He understood that attacks like catapults were insignificant; the key was the wheeled battering ram that was charging straight at the city gate.

After this round of attack, the Frey family's catapults were silenced and entered the time-consuming and laborious reloading stage.

"Fire arrows!"

When the Frey soldiers came within range of their own archers, Beoro waved his hand fiercely and gave his orders.
Thousands of sharp arrows drew a perfect parabola and fell like raindrops from the highest point in the sky into the formation of the Frey family siege infantry.

Duh duh duh!
The huge wheeled battering ram was pierced into a hedgehog by countless arrows in an instant.

But these arrows could not penetrate the wheeled battering ram and the wooden shield covered with rawhide.

The Frey family infantry hiding inside, intact, struggled to push it forward.

However, among the numerous siege infantrymen of House Frey carrying shields, there were always some unlucky ones who had arrows piercing their bodies through the gaps.

But apart from the soldiers who were shot in vital parts and died on the spot, the Frey family soldiers who were shot in other parts did not suffer much damage due to the protection of sophisticated armor, and continued to advance.

In general, this hail of arrows from the soldiers defending the city of Gros did not cause any damage to the well-equipped soldiers of the Frey family.

Beoro saw all of this. He had seen this situation before during the small-scale siege.

As the rain of arrows did not cause much casualties to the Frey family's siege soldiers, he had already made other preparations, so he was confident and did not care.

But the wheeled battering ram is not so easy to deal with.

Since the moat of Grus had been filled in, if it broke through the gate, the two sides would definitely not be able to defend it as the difference in military strength was at least four times that of each other.

"Archers, fire the second volley. Large crossbows, aim at the wheeled battering ram and start attacking!"

As Beoro gave the order, the archers on the wall of Grus drew their bows and shot arrows.
After hearing the order, the soldiers in charge of operating the three large crossbows deployed on three high platforms on the city wall focused their attention on the wheeled battering rams.

Since the large crossbow had a low accuracy rate when firing at long distances, Beoro did not order the attack at first until it was within the optimal shooting distance.

Boom boom boom!
The bowstrings of the three large crossbows on the city wall made loud sounds, and three crossbow arrows as thick as spears shot into the Frey family's army in the blink of an eye.

Two crossbow arrows hit the left and right sides of the wheeled battering ram, piercing three Frey infantrymen and pinning them to the ground.

what! ! !
A Frey family infantryman, who was not sure whether to say he was lucky or unlucky, was hit in the left leg by the second wave of arrows.
He limped along, slightly increasing the distance between himself and the soldier in front of him.

This allowed him to luckily dodge the crossbow attack, and he was not skewered like a candied haws by the crossbow arrow next to him, killing two people with one arrow.

However, the arrowhead of the crossbow just pierced through his right foot and nailed him firmly to the ground, causing him to scream violently.

The third crossbow arrow accurately hit the front of the wheeled siege hammer. The powerful force directly penetrated the wooden shield on the front of the wheeled siege hammer, penetrated into the inside of the wheeled siege hammer, and shot an unlucky Frey family infantryman in the head.

However, this is the limit of the power of this crossbow arrow.

At the command of the captain of the infantry in the wheeled siege hammer, two infantrymen of the Frey family threw the headless body outside.

Then the wheeled battering ram with a crossbow arrow inserted in it continued to move towards Grus' gate.

Seeing that the powerful force of the crossbow arrow did not break the wheeled siege hammer into pieces after hitting it head-on, Beoro knew that this wheeled siege hammer was definitely carefully made by the Frey family.

So he immediately gave his order to the messenger beside him: "Change the crossbows!"

The order was quickly conveyed to the soldiers operating the three large crossbows. The soldier in charge of the auxiliary work immediately took out a crossbow arrow with an arrow wrapped in thick oilcloth from the wooden box beside him.

When the crossbow arrow was installed, the auxiliary soldier carefully took out a glass bottle filled with thick green liquid from the wooden box, which was wildfire ointment.

Needless to say, this wildfire ointment was naturally collected on Lanark Island.

The soldiers operating the large crossbow poured the pungent wildfire ointment on the oilcloth at the front end of the crossbow arrow and ignited it instantly with a flint.

A emerald green flame rose from the front end of the crossbow arrow, and it spread over the entire oilcloth at a very fast speed.

Boom boom boom!
Three loud bowstring sounds were heard, and a crossbow arrow burning with green flames hit a Frey family siege infantryman and the siege ladder he was holding.

The emerald green flames spread rapidly along the corpses and siege ladders, two excellent fuels.

Seeing this, the other Frey family infantrymen immediately dropped the siege ladder stained with green fire.

The other siege infantry around also moved away far away, and the burning corpses and siege ladders left a blank area in the dense siege formation.

The remaining two crossbow arrows burning with wildfire, as the distance was closer and after a round of test firing, accurately hit the wheeled battering ram directly.

Beoro saw from the city wall that this carefully crafted wheeled battering ram had not yet been shot apart by the crossbow arrows.

However, it stopped after being hit by the arrow and no longer moved forward.

A minute later, more than a dozen siege soldiers with green flames on their bodies crawled out from under the wheeled battering ram, rolling and struggling frantically on the ground.

Then, the wheeled battering ram began to emit green flames, which spread rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, the wheeled battering ram turned into a giant green torch.

Seeing that the biggest hidden danger of siege had been eliminated, Beoro remained calm on the surface, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Without the encumbrance of wheeled battering rams, the speed of these seven or eight thousand Frey family siege soldiers actually increased.

They came to the walls of Gros with shields, set up siege ladders and started a fierce siege.

There was a temporary high platform in the formation of the attacking army.

Duke Forester looked at the blazing green flames burning from the wheeled battering ram, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

He had never imagined that the wildfire ointment, which was said to be able to burn the sea, could be used in this way.

The carefully crafted wheeled battering ram, which was not afraid of ordinary fire attacks, was burned by the wildfire on the crossbow before it even got close to the gate of Gulus.

Duke Forester stared at the battle ahead. Although his family's soldiers had just approached Gross, he already roughly knew the outcome.

Pursing his lips, Duke Forester turned his head and instructed the messenger beside him: "After we lose the wheeled battering ram, it is impossible for Gros to be conquered.

Give the signal for Edmund's army to move!"

"it is good!"

Oh oh oh!
As Kevan conveyed Lord Forrestal's orders, horns sounded from near the temporary platform.

Wheel, wheel!
A series of siege towers, also covered with raw animal skins and with wooden wheels at the bottom, were nearly 20 meters high.

He was pushed out of the dense woods near the west wall by Edmund's soldiers.

These siege towers were obviously not as sturdy as the wheeled battering ram, and they kept creaking while being pushed forward.

At the same time, it was shaking, forcing the soldiers standing on the siege tower to hold on to the edge of the tower tightly to stabilize their bodies.

These siege towers were originally manufactured in large quantities, and their only purpose was to provide an opportunity for the large number of captured civilians to climb into the city.

That’s right, Duke Forester is planning to use the huge number of civilians in the disputed land to suppress the population!

(End of this chapter)