Eagle of the Valley of Ice and Fire

Chapter 9 Parting Strategy

The year 296 of Aegon's calendar coincides with the celebration of Prince Joffrey's tenth birthday. According to King Robert's custom, a tourney in Joffrey's name was held as scheduled in King's Landing.

Attis wanted to take this opportunity to go to King's Landing and express his suspicions to his father's face.

Even at night in the Longbow Hall, the other side of the castle is brightly lit.

Robert led the cavalry into the city and looked at the noisy and happy crowd. Many knight tents were set up in the castle grounds without any order.

"This Lord Hunter seems to have no experience in entertaining scum knights." The mercenary Bronn whistled and rode a tall horse. He was very happy. Robert Royce, who kept his promise, paid him a commission. , it was so rich that he even played the harp and sang and laughed on the way back from the Five Fingers Peninsula to the Longbow Hall.

Weimar didn't expect this slovenly-looking mercenary to be able to perform the job of a minstrel.

"My good sergeant, there are many things you don't know." Bronn said in a strong tone, leaning close to Weimar's face.

Robert admired this mercenary very much. He smiled and said: "Weima, don't let him laugh, you can also play a song." He also used the sword as a baton and dangled it in front of Weimar, hiding his words. A kind of brother's joke and encouragement, "Come on, Weimar, you play and we sing.".

Weimar's face was as red as a ripe apple. He didn't know how to refuse other people's jokes. He grabbed Bronn's harp and stroked it lightly. The knights of the valley and the surrounding mercenaries began to cheer, with applause and curses mixed in. piece.

"Well played, Sir!", "What are you playing, Sir?".

Weimar continued to play indignantly, but these damn mercenaries were still out of tune and couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

Unexpectedly, it was Bronn who helped him out, "Stop teasing this knight, let's sing "The Bear and the Maiden"!" Weimar finally returned to his familiar tunes, the harp sang and danced happily on the road, and the knights of the valley Clapping their shields and making beats, the mercenaries sang loudly. Bronn's hoarse and unpleasant singing voice was particularly pleasant to Weimar's ears at this time.

Even the joyful singing could not drown out the chaotic noise of Longbow Hall.

The raven in Longbow Hall is unclaimed. The bachelor who originally served the Hunter family died in the dungeon. The new bachelor has not yet taken office. Attis has already taught himself raven science, but he has never gone to the city to claim the craft. necklace.

He took over the Raven, and for a while he helped Eustace exchange letters with the lords of the Vale, King's Landing, and even the Citadel.

After Eustace received his father's letter and the appointment of earls in the name of Robert and Jon Arryn, the previous dissatisfaction with Attis gradually gradually became clear after he took full control of Longbow Hall and the coastal defense of the Five Fingers Peninsula. After disappearing, he arranged many services for Attis, as evidenced by the piles of books in Attis' room and the maids who changed every few days.

He sent people to search the inside and outside of Harlan Hunter's room, but no letters were found between him and Littlefinger, or even letters between King's Landing and Seagull Town. In addition to the futility, Attis was actually interested in Harlan admired his decisiveness. This guy was not a pig teammate, but he kept his word.

Attis's dagger never left his body. He used the tip of the dagger to pick up the wax wick of the candle. The flame burned on the wax wick. A strange feeling hit Attis's heart. He stared at the flame with his eyes, as if there was a cave in the flame. There is another fire wrapped in the burning candle with a wax wick. If you look closely, you can see that there is someone keeping warm by the stove. His long silver hair is like a waterfall in the valley.Attis frowned and couldn't help but bring his face closer to the fire.

"Ouch!" Adam's voice brought him back to reality. When he looked again, the flame had been extinguished, leaving only black ash and an unpleasant smell in the candle wick.

Attis smiled and shook his head. He cleaned the dagger with water, picked up a piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth.

He didn't like noisy crowds. This was something he had never experienced in Runestone City and Eagle's Nest City. He had never seen so many mercenary knights running around in the castle. In the past few weeks, he even found foreign knights and noble maids. They messed around in the kitchen until they were covered in flour and white. Chickens and ducks even scurried around their bodies, forming a strange scene.

Attis thought back.I couldn't help but feel a wave of excitement in my heart.My father has been very strict with himself in this aspect since he was a child. He always uses Robert as an example.

"If Robert hadn't planted seeds in the valley, would Lyanna have resented him?" his father said angrily. "Maybe so many things wouldn't have happened, and Lyanna might not have followed Rhaegar. Okay." After saying that, he was silent for a while.

Attis always thought that Rhaegar abducted Lyanna, and he was full of doubts and confusion at that time.His father was never stupid, and now Attis roughly understood the story behind that period of history, but his father would not talk nonsense in front of outsiders.

"In short, I will arrange a wife with good appearance and character for you in the future.", the father swore.

Then Attis waited 16 years.

I heard from Earl Jon that his father seemed to be very interested in the little rose of the Tyrell family in Highgarden. He even treated Duke Mace Tyrell as brothers when they met. At that time, King Robert was very interested in this matter. He seemed a little angry.

However, Mace's mother Olenna Redwin has always declined the marriage, which sometimes made her father very unhappy. Later, her marriage was put on hold due to numerous government affairs.

Attis hurriedly drank a glass of wine. Why did he suddenly remember these things? Although there was no one around, Attis still pretended to cough to relieve his inner discomfort.

Lynx Adam squatted on the table, looking at Attis curiously with his big eyes. He got rid of the distracting thoughts in his heart, picked up the book again, thought of the many strangers in Longbow Hall, and decided to leave here as soon as possible.

A voice in blue robes sounded outside the door, "Sir, Master Royce is back, and Earl Eustace has arranged a dinner for them.".

Attis knew that he was going to blend into the chaos of Longbow Hall. He stood up, straightened his clothes, and walked out of the room.When daylight came, Weimar felt a warmth on his face. He squinted his eyes and woke up, and found Adam rubbing his clothes with his paws. He was so frightened that he jumped up quickly, "Adam!".

When he came back to his senses, he found Attis looking at him with a smile, "We should go, Weimar." Attis said, and threw Weimar's armor over.

"Are you in such a hurry? We just came back, and we didn't even serve wine at last night's dinner, Eustace." Weimar muttered, but still got off the bed and put on his armor in an orderly manner.

"Hurry up, we have to go on our way." Attis turned around and left. When he came to the castle, he found that all the messy knight tents were gone. Eustace nodded slightly to him, "Let me see you off. Attis." Behind him were heavily armed cavalry.

Attis closed his eyes. There was no Lord Yohn in the team. He left Longbow Hall with his eldest son Anda a week ago and returned to Runestone City.Robert looked at Attis solemnly. The flag of the Royce family was floating in the air, but the blue moon eagle flag of the Arryn family was missing.

When Weimar arrived, everyone had been waiting for him for a long time. Robert urged him. Weimar hurriedly galloped over and stopped beside Attis. "Are you starting?" Weimar asked an unnecessary question. He As soon as he spoke out, he secretly resented his own stupidity.

"I've been waiting for you, you guy." Robert scolded.Then the cavalry slowly walked out of the city gate, and Attis also rode away.

The army set out in the area closest to the desert in the valley. The green shade could only be found in the distant mountains and forests. Weimar noticed that the army slowed down significantly as it approached the mountains and forests. He looked at Attis in confusion and found that he was just calmly Looking forward, he doesn't seem to care.Luo Ba kept observing his surroundings and casting his gaze to the distant sky.

Eustace followed closely behind the team. From the beginning, Weimar wondered why he kept a considerable distance from them with his fully armed cavalry. It was like the relationship between the front army and the rear army. Weimar shook his head. , he found that he couldn't understand it more and more.

"Weima, there have been many cases of rocks breaking and falling in the valley. Will the residents in the mountain forest approach the falling rocks when they seem calm after the rocks fall?" Attis suddenly asked.

Although Weimar didn't understand why Attis asked this, he saw many situations like what Atis described in Runestone City. "Definitely not. Maybe the entire cliff will collapse in the next second. This is just a storm." It's just the peace before." Weimar replied confidently.

"Yes, the crisis seems to have been resolved, but in fact the most fatal thing is behind it, such as the regretful guest after Harlan Hunter." Attis's flat tone made Weimar feel lingering fear, and he thought about Attis Probably frightened by the assassination of the regretful guest, Weimar said comfortingly: "Attis, don't worry, it was all my fault before, I didn't think much of you." Weimar looked at Attis seriously.

Attis smiled when he heard this, and Robert couldn't bear to look at it. He slapped Weimar on the head and said, "Hurry up!"

Weimar glared at his brother with dissatisfaction, flicked the riding crop, and tried to speed up the horse's pace, but he suddenly slowed down, and the bugle of a scout in the distance suddenly sounded.

Luo Ba immediately rushed in front of the army, "All the troops move forward! Move forward!, speed up!" The valley knights all accelerated their pace and followed Luo Ba.

"What's going on?" Weimar then realized that the charging battle flags were all Royce's family flags, and he was used to obeying military orders and following among the Roba cavalry.

Attis raised the iron gun hanging on the saddle, "I will lead you to make great achievements and become famous. Weimar, how can you thank me?" Weimar was about to reply. After entering the forest, he suddenly found the Aylin family in front of him. The flag fell down, and countless disheveled mountain clans looked at Luo Ba's charging team in horror.

The army attacked and the Gaoshan clan fell apart in an instant. Weimar leaned tightly on his horse and slashed with his long sword frantically on both sides. At least ten Gaoshan clan members died in his own hands.

Flesh and blood are flying in the mountains and forests, and the green shade is dyed with blood, as if luxurious red dye is swaying among the natural green, as freely as freehand brushwork.

The head of the leader of the mountain clan was hung on Attis's spear. He rode his horse into the middle of the battlefield and said, "Your leader is dead. Surrender or not!" After saying this, brave warriors who were not afraid of death rushed over and died in the steel. Under the power of guns and crossbows, Eustace's cavalry regiment also instantly occupied the mountain forest highlands. They dismounted and held crossbows, shooting deadly arrows at the mountain clans who tried to escape into the mountains and forests but could not roar.

Weimar saw Bronn on the battlefield. He was entangled with a mountain clan. The steel sword in his hand sliced ​​open the enemy's fragile armor, and blood sprayed from his chest. He tossed his hair coolly and also discovered Weimar.

"You are not bad, ser." Bronn quickly moved closer, and three mountain clans surrounded him.Weimar turned his horse and attacked the enemy from the side to cover Bronn. "You haven't left yet, mercenary?".

"Whoever has the money will follow." Bronn killed the last enemy and thrust the sword into his throat with a joking tone.

Attis swept his steel spear to block the thrown stone axe, and the blue robes swarmed forward and killed the remaining mountain clans. He said to Bronn, "Then you should go to the Lannister family. They are the richest, and the land is full of golden dragons." All."

Bronn waved his hands helplessly, looking at the embarrassing battle situation in front of him. The alpine clans who had surrendered obediently raised their hands and buried their faces on the ground. "There is no chance, Lord Aylin. I just focus on the present and seize the current opportunity.", Bronn. Long said with a smile.

Attis left satisfied, he liked the mercenary's sincerity.

Weimar only learned about Attis's full plan from Robert. It turned out that Attis specially arranged a group of cavalry to lead the empty carriage to warm the seats, send them by horse, and ran to the house under the banner of the Arryn family. They set up camp in the mountains and forests, and then led their light cavalry to follow, in order to induce the Alpine clan, which had a thousand-year hatred against the Aylin family, to appear and catch them all.

"A Lannister must pay his debts." Attis said to Waymar as if joking. Waymar imitated Bronn in depression and searched for the corpse, ignoring Bronn's strange eyes. All he thought about was that Attis didn't tell him. own distress.

"You slept like a dead pig last night." Robert revealed ruthlessly, and everyone laughed again.

Attis got the number of deaths. Only a few of the decoy cavalry he arranged were left alive, and as many as 300 people from the Alpine clan were killed or injured and surrendered, which was enough to keep them alive for decades, Attis thought to himself.






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