Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 207 Battle of Greyshield Island

Drums beat out the rhythm of battle, and the Golden Rose rushed forward, her bow splitting the turbulent gray water.

The longship ahead was turning the corner, its oars slapping the sea, and the quarter-checkered sickle-and-peacock banner of House Harlow of Greygarden fluttering in the wind.

The Golden Rose rammed into her side with such force that half the crew, who were preparing to board, fell down. The oars snapped and broke.

Garlan Tyrell was the first to leap over the gunwale and land on the deck below, his green cloak billowing behind him.

The Ironborn on the ship usually wore no armor, only leather armor and protective gear. When they saw Garlan Tyrell, who was also wearing only leather, their faces were less nervous. In order to fight on the sea, nine out of ten Roses did not wear armor, and the remaining one only wore stitched scale armor.

The ironborn held swords, spears, and axes. They were not ironborn, but mailed knights of the Greenlands, and they wore no mail now, the ironborn thought.

The sea is the home turf of the Ironborn.

"Kill him!" someone shouted, "He's alone!"

"Come on!" Garland roared back. He was tall, strong, and bearded. Now his face was covered in blood, and he looked very wild. "Come on!"

The Ironborn came around from all sides.

With the sword in hand, Garland was not panicked. He raised an oak shield embroidered with a pair of golden roses in one hand and charged in the opposite direction with the sword in the other.

Three ironmen raised their axes and chopped down at the same time.

Garland rushed left and right, cutting off the arm of the first man, piercing the shoulder of the second man, and the third man smashed his axe on Garland's shield and got it stuck. He turned his shield against the idiot's body, knocking him over, and then took advantage of his unstable footing to chop the man's neck with a sword.

The blade got stuck in the man's neck, and Garlan struggled to pull the sword out of the half-cut neck. A spear stabbed at his side, and he simply gave up drawing the sword. He turned around and grabbed the spear, dragged the man directly in front of him, and hit the man's head with the edge of the shield, knocking him unconscious.

Garland swung the spear he had grabbed and threw the man he had knocked unconscious directly out, knocking down several people and making their attempts to kill Garland slow down.

When he stabbed the fifth man in the neck with his broken spear, the soldiers of the Rose family had already jumped onto the attacked longship with him. He heard the first sergeant howl, and saw the second one rushing into the battle group with the protection of scale armor and hitting an enemy in the chest with an axe.
Garlan was free to pull his sword from the ironman whose neck had been caught by it. He continued to charge, killing two more, and was about to kill the eighth, but another sergeant arrived and killed him first.

"Well done!" Garlan called out to him, then turned to look for the next victim for his sword.

Soon, the port terminal of Grey Shield Island was completely controlled by the Rose Army.

However, at this time, there was a commotion from the direction of the castle.

The team responsible for monitoring the castle was retreating, as if they were being forced to the port.

At this moment, Garland saw the enemy leader, a tall man with a gray-white coat stained with blood, and Garland saw that his emblem was a black and white quarter shield: a silver sickle on a black background and a peacock on a white background.

There is no doubt that this person is Horus Harlow, the patriarch and knight of the Harlow family of Greygarden Castle.

It is said that during his invasion of the Shield Islands, this man planted his flag under the Glinton Castle, which was ruled by the Glin family on Greyshield Island, and defeated seven members of the Glin family, killing five of them. The monks in the castle believed that this was God's will and persuaded Lord Glin to give up Glinton Castle. After this battle, Heras took the position of the new lord of Greyshield Island and was said to have been recognized by the false king.

Garlan looked intently at the sword in his hand.

The sword had a round moonstone head and was grayish black with black ripples. Its owner had used it to kill several Rose Family soldiers, but the blade was not stained with much blood.

It was the Valyrian steel sword, Nightfall.

"You!" The other party had obviously also discovered Garland in the killing battlefield. He shouted, "The one with the rose shield, are you Loras, the Knight of Flowers?"

Garlan wiped the blood from his face and yelled, "I am his brother, Garlan Tyrell. What about you, Ironborn?"

"Your Grim Reaper." The other side continued to charge towards the dock with the defenders brought out from the castle, heading straight for Garland's location.

"Haha, let's see who is the god of death!"

Garland jumped up and led the Rose Army, which had just fought a battle at the dock, to meet them.

In fact, Garlan didn't have to do this. He was already standing at the dock and only needed to wait for the troops to land. Taking over Greyshield Island would be as easy as taking candy from a baby.

The Rose Army that came to recapture the Shield Islands this time was larger than the defenders of the four islands combined. This was also the reason why the other side gave up defending the castle and came out to fight, because they knew that without the ship, they would be doomed.

Rose's decisiveness caught the Ironmen who stayed on the Shield Island off guard. Less than a day after the reconnaissance, the Tyrell army swarmed out from the mouth of the Mander River and blocked the Ironmen's retreat on the island without any hesitation. The main force went straight to the farthest Greyshield Island to land and fight, while the rest dispersed to monitor the other four islands.

They carried out the blocking operation as if they were certain that the defenders of the four islands were an isolated force with no reinforcements.

This made it impossible for the Ironborn defenders on Shield Island to stay in the castle and pretend to have reinforcements, because the Rose Army obviously did not care about the possibility of Ironborn reinforcements at all.

They realized that the Rose Army was either crazy or already knew the movements of the Iron Fleet.

No matter which one it is, being trapped in the castle means death for the defenders of Shield Island.

So when the leader of Greyshield Island, Heras, discovered this, he immediately reacted and left the castle to seize a boat and escape. However, when he arrived at the dock, he had obviously missed the opportunity.

With no way out, Heras had no choice but to fight, so he challenged Garlan to a duel. If he killed Garlan, who looked like a Tyrell commander, there might be a chance of survival.

Garland was full of vigor and honor, so he certainly would not retreat.

If Viserys knew that the commander was so reckless, he might re-evaluate the commander's ability. If Garlan was the vanguard, his actions would naturally safeguard his personal honor and be commendable, but he is a commander with so many people under his command. It is worth considering if the commander leads the charge without the certainty of victory.

Although Viserys also likes to act based on his own strength, that is because Viserys's strength is overwhelming to the enemy.

But no matter what, most young commanders in this world like to lead the charge and take pride in it.

Back to the present. As the two sides declared a duel, they each led their soldiers to rush forward and finally collided on the flat ground of the dock.

The Ironborn were not used to wearing armor, and the Rose Army was also low in armor because they were fighting at sea. As a result, the battle was extremely bloody, with blood splattering and severed limbs flying everywhere.

The battlefield between Garlan and Heras was divided into an area by tacit understanding between the two sides.

This was a duel between noble knights.

Garland's steel sword was made of top quality steel in the castle, and he wielded it with great vigor. But the sword was unreasonably sharp. As the two sides clashed, a gap appeared on Garland's steel sword that was visible to the naked eye.

Realizing that the steel sword was about to break, Garland quickly fell into a passive defensive position.

And Horas also proved that he was no ordinary man, and it was not all due to the edge of Valyria's sword that he could win seven consecutive duels under the city of Glinton. He keenly sensed that Garlan's sword did not dare to meet it head-on, and immediately found an opening to cut Garlan's lower body.

Garlan deftly used his sword to push back. Heras turned the blade and aimed it directly at Garlan's head.

Garland raised his left hand to block the attack with his shield, wood chips flew everywhere, and with a sharp snapping sound, the rose shield was cut in half in the middle.

Normally, the shield holder would use his backhand to smash the half shield in the opponent's face to gain time to attack or retreat, because once the shield is broken, the shield holder's side will be completely exposed.

However, to Heras's surprise, the opponent still held up the half of the shield, swinging the sword in his right hand continuously, chopping at his thigh.

Garlan's sword moved quickly, and Heras realized that he had no way to avoid it. So he decided to trade injury for life, and continued to press his sword against the opponent's shield. He raised the steel sword high, pressed his body weight, and chopped it down hard, intending to split Garlan in half, shield and body.

Clang. Heras didn't expect that his steel sword could not cut the shield, but instead split the wood chips with a sharp collision sound.

Hold hands!

Steel armband!

Steel armrests!

Damn, the people in the Green Land are so fucking cunning!

Horus could never have guessed that the inner lacing handle of the shield was made of Valyrian steel.

Now the opponent used this wooden shield to block his fatal blow. And the outcome of a hand-to-hand fight is often just a matter of seconds.

Heras was disheartened.

Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in my thigh.

Heras knew that the opponent's sword had already cut his thigh.

"Ah!" Heras cried out in pain. For a moment, blood flowed like a column. The blood on his face was visibly drained away. "You tricked me!"

He wanted to raise his sword again, but Garlan Tyrell, with the steel shield without a shield, used his feet to attack Heras, knocking the exhausted Heras to the ground.

"You fought with a steel sword, how can you say I was plotting against you?" Sir Garlan shook off the sawdust left by the broken shield and pointed his long sword, which was already full of gaps, at him. "Surrender, you have already lost."

The Tyrells didn't have a Vulcan steel sword, but the family was wealthy and always had channels to buy some Vulcan steel fragments. But those fragments were obviously not enough to be melted into a dagger or anything else. By Garlan's generation, Garlan would be fully prepared for every battle. Sometimes he would think about how to deal with the enemy who had a Vulcan steel sword. One day, he suddenly had an idea. He was good at sword and shield, so he thought that Vulcan steel was light and hard. Since it was not enough to cast a weapon, it would be better to melt it and embed it in the inner wall of the shield to make a small shield inside the shield. It didn't matter how useful it was, as long as it could defend himself from the Vulcan steel sword.

But the Baratheon blacksmith Qohor refuted his idea, and finally he could not persuade him, so he mixed it with hybrid steel - melted the tile steel and ordinary steel together to make an iron handle for his shield. The blacksmith said that if it was only for defense once, it would be more effective to make a handle than a shield.

"The Ironborn will not surrender, boy!" Heras wanted to stand up, but his left leg could no longer support his body. He was pale.

Garland looked at him. "If you don't surrender, you will bleed to death."

"No, I will take you to death with me!" Heras jumped up like a madman and rushed towards Garland.

Garland was startled by the dying counterattack and subconsciously raised his sword to stab. As he felt the blade piercing his body, he soon realized that the other party actually had little strength left and was just asking for a quick death.

Seeing that Heras' throat was making a sound but no words came out, Garlan pushed him away and drew his sword. In an instant, blood spurted out from the wound, which fulfilled his wish for a quick death.

Garland picked up the opponent's steel sword, his heart surged, and he raised the sword high: "Your leader is dead, surrender quickly!"

However, the Iron Men simply shouted in fear, "The dead shall not die," and stood shoulder to shoulder in a circle, determined to die rather than surrender.

At first, Garland thought they were at least men, so he rushed forward to fulfill the wishes of some of them personally.

However, when the battle here was over and Garland arrived at Greenton City in person, he found that all the men and old people in the town had been slaughtered and hanged. Except for a few women who were brutally abused, the rest of the women and children were missing.

The whole town has become a dead city.

It was not just Greenton City that suffered the same cruel treatment. Several villages on the island also suffered the same cruel treatment.

Only then did Garlan understand why those Iron Men would rather die than surrender.

He began to worry, would the remaining three islands suffer the same fate?

Speed ​​is of the essence in war! Garland warned himself secretly.

He issued an order: "Pass it down, leave some troops to settle the wounded, and the rest of you, follow me on the boat to the remaining islands immediately!"

(End of this chapter)