Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 101 Daring Darren
"Sir Brandon, what's wrong?" When Lord Urwin Peake saw the front army stop advancing, he immediately rushed to Brandon Hightower. "Something is wrong." Brandon Hightower stared at the densely wooded Flower Valley. There was only a narrow dirt road for the army to pass through the valley, and the three sides were high ground covered with dense trees. It was simply a natural ambush site. Brandon Hightower could easily guess that Alan Bisbury, who loved ambushes, would definitely choose this as the next ambush site.

"How many people does Alan have? 2000 at most." Earl Urwin said confidently, "Even if the Tullys and the Kaon come to support us, with our current strength, as long as we can withstand the first round of attacks, they will be easy prey for us when Earl Mond's army arrives. Moreover," Urwin pointed to the sky. "We have Prince Daeron and the dragon. If they dare to show up, we will burn them."

"The Blacks also have dragons." Brandon Hightower couldn't stand Urwin Peake's confidence. "The Blue Queen is too small. Even Prince Jacaerys's dragon can threaten her."

"The Black Party's Dragon Knights are probably in King's Landing partying with that slutty bitch." Urwin Peck said this and suddenly sighed: "It's a pity that I don't know the situation of His Majesty, what do you think..."

"You'd better stop talking, Earl. Go to the rear army and prepare for our evacuation." Brandon Hightower finally couldn't help but say, "Let's try not to take risks. Let's prepare to retreat and wait for Lord Mond's main force." Brandon knew very well that the Green Party's usurpation of the throne became a truly worthless move after Dragonzel officially raised the black flag. The absolute violence on which the Targaryen dynasty relied to maintain its existence was not the army, but the dragons. Whoever had more and bigger dragons could wear the real crown. The only ones the Green Party could rely on were Vhagar and Dreamfyre, but Dreamfyre and the Black Party had more capable dragons. In the case of absolute violence being at a disadvantage, the only capital that the Green Party could use to prove its value and seek reconciliation was the army of the Riverlands and the Westerly. As long as this living force was retained and as long as Rhaenyra was not crazy, they would not be too embarrassed even if they lost.

"Retreat? For..." Before Earl Urwin finished speaking, a sharp hissing sound suddenly came from the sky. The Blue Queen Tesserien, who had just been scouting in the sky, suddenly let out a sharp cry. Daeron hurriedly lowered his body: "Tesserien, calm down, calm down." From the message sent by his companion, Daeron immediately understood what happened. Tesserien found that there were its kind in the woods below, and they were very dangerous.

"There is an ambush! The rear team becomes the front team, and the whole army retreats!" Brandon Hightower immediately verified his guess. It seems that there is not only an ambush, but also a big one. There is probably a dragon in the forest. "Urwin, go to the rear army and command the retreat immediately!" Brandon Hightower whipped Urwin's horse directly. Before Urwin could react, his horse took him to the rear. "Knights dismount and prepare for infantry combat. Longbowmen and crossbowmen prepare to cover, and light cavalry prepare the flanks!"

"Heh." Valar fastened the straps of the dragon saddle. "It seems that we should not underestimate the senses of a dragon. Silverwing, it's our turn. Xiaojie, I'll go fight Tesserion, and you go and give Hightower a big fire."

Jacaerys nodded, and Womax excitedly shook off the leaves on his body, flapped his wings, and suddenly flew high out of the woods.

Brandon Hightower heaved a sigh of relief. Vermax was about the same age as Tesserion, so he was not a big threat. The heavy knights in plate and chain mail dismounted and formed a simple line with the heavy infantry in the front army, ready to cover the rear army. "Longbowmen, crossbowmen, prepare to cover Prince Daeron, attack the riders and the dragon's eyes." As soon as the words fell, a black cloud rose from the woods, and dense arrows hit Hightower's army. Fortunately, almost everyone in the front army was heavily armored and equipped with shields, and the dense rain of arrows was bounced off by the plate armor or stuck on the shields. Hightower's bows and arrows also launched a counterattack.

"Archers, don't stop." Although the chief retainer of the Vareses family, Earl Vincent Kaon, was old, he was still an outstanding general. He was assigned by Longzier to the East Blemont Valley and built a solid stone fortress, Kaon Castle, by the river in the valley. In the year when the castle was completed, when he was 57 years old, he successfully gave birth to the heir of the Kaon family, a beautiful boy, with his 23-year-old Valyrian wife. Longzier personally named the chief retainer's child "Rhaegon", which is a variation of his eldest son's name "Lingol", to show his importance to the chief retainer's family. Now the 3-year-old Rhaegon Kaon was taken to Dragon's Nest by Longzier and grew up with Lingol.

Old Vincent no longer had any scruples. He was wearing heavy silver armor that almost bent his waist, but he still leaned on his spear and stood with Silver Scorpion, the commander of the Unsullied in the Silver Blood Army. "Unsullied, step out and hold off Hightower's heavy infantry. Lord Tully, your cavalry is on standby. Lord Bisbury, you and your archers will cover the Unsullied's spear formation."

Donald Tully nodded and got back on his warhorse. "Alan, follow closely." Alan Tully also rode back on his warhorse and drew his sword.

Darren saw Vermax flying out of the woods and breathed a sigh of relief. "Tesserion, attack."

Tesserion roared, flapped his wings several times, and suddenly increased his speed, approaching the just-laying Womax. The Blue Queen opened her slender dragon head, and sprayed a mouthful of deep blue flames at Womax. Womax folded his wings without hesitation, dodged the dragon flames with a dive, and when Tesserion just shut up and prepared for close combat, he suddenly climbed up and circled behind Tesserion.

"Get out of my way, you bastard!"

"Daren, be careful, you are not my opponent, Vermax, dodge, dragon flames are interfering." Jacaerys looked at Daren with a trace of pity in his eyes. With his body tightly pressed against the dragon saddle, Vermax flapped his wings and deflected the arrows flying from below. A ball of dark green dragon flames spurted out and exploded in front of Tesserion who had just turned around. The dragon flames scattered, and Daren hurriedly raised his arms to block his face. The dragon flames dissipated. Vermax had already dived towards the Hightower army on the ground. The crossbowmen and longbowmen had no time to suppress the Unsullied heavy infantry of the Vareses family, and hurriedly shot into the sky, but all the arrows were deflected by Vermax's scales and thick skin.

The reason why Wolmax has such a thick skin at this age is thanks to Shadow Nightmare. The dragon with a scalp as hard as bone not only grows very fast, but also loves to snatch food from Wolmax. The two dragons snatched the Shadow Nightmare from being much smaller than Wolmax to Shadow Nightmare being about the same size as Wolmax, and even longer than Wolmax. Of course, the relationship between the two dragons is not bad. They often steal Silverwing's food together in the dragon cave. They were driven out of the dragon cave by Wolmithor several times, and could only fly to the top platform of the Twin Towers to ask their partners to take them in.

"Tesserion, stop Vormax!" Daeron waved his hand to clear the dust in front of him, and immediately saw Vormax diving towards his own position. His own heavy-armored infantry and dismounted knights had already faced the Unsullied's spear formation. The two sides almost collided and blood flowed all over the ground. The spears of the first row of Unsullied were twenty feet long, which was extremely difficult to hit or poke at the infantry. However, the first row of the Hightower family were all dismounted knights with superb martial arts. The knights either dodge the spears nimbly, send their swords into the gaps of the Unsullied's heavy armor, or raise their axes and hammers to smash the spears and fight with the Unsullied in close combat. Both sides were wearing heavy armor, and the sound of steel colliding was heard in front of the woods. However, the Unsullied were castrated men after all, and soon they were a little exhausted. But the iron-like discipline and the characteristic of ignoring pain allowed the Unsullied to withstand the charge of the dismounted knights.

The Blue Queen roared and dived down. At this moment, a huge black shadow finally flew up from the woods. The Blue Queen tried to dodge in panic, but the dragon was bigger and faster.

Brandon Hightower blocked an Unsullied's spear and smashed the Unsullied's spiked helmet with his left-handed hammer, making it dented. The Unsullied even tried to retract his spear, but luckily Knight Jon Rockton rode past the Unsullied and cut off his head with his Valyrian steel sword "OrphanMaker".

"Seven layers of hell." Seeing the silver dragon pounce on Tesserion fiercely, Brandon Hightower felt his eyes go dark again and again.

Silver Wing opened his dragon mouth like an eagle hunting sparrows and bit the Blue Queen's wing. The Blue Queen immediately struggled, twisting her slender neck and spraying deep blue dragon flames at Silver Wing's head. Silver Wing closed his eyes and swung his dragon head, and Tesserion screamed and fell to the ground like a rag bag that was thrown out.

"Tesserion, balance, balance." Daeron pulled the gauntlet hard, and Tesserion screamed in pain, but he finally managed to stabilize his body, flapping his uninjured wing - the other half of his wing was almost bitten off by Silver Wing, and barely flew up.

"Daren, do you have the guts to come over here!" Valar yelled, "Come, face me like Luthris!"

Daeron silently pulled down the visor of his helmet. "Tesserion, attack!"

Tesserion roared and rushed towards the swooping Silverwing.

The boiling dragon blood spilled, and wherever the blood fell, both Hightower's soldiers and the Unsullied twisted in pain.

"Tesserion, attack!" Daeron roared and rushed towards Silverwing's open dragon mouth.

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