Chapter 666 Imperial Southern Tour
"it's time."
"I didn't expect to catch so many people at once."
In the sky, a gray Merlin was soaring in the sky, its gray-black eyes overlooking the battlefield on the ground, and then rose with the wind.
On the battlefield on the ground, Franklin Fowler, the old falcon on the wall of Tianji City, watched Wang Jun slowly retreat and returned to his camp. He couldn't help throwing away the blood-stained sword in his hand and looking up to the sky. laughing out loud.
"Hahaha--"
"Our reinforcements are still here."
The armor of the Earl of Tianji City was tattered, and the white beard was stained with blood. The soldiers of the Fowler family on the city wall couldn't even laugh. They all sat on the ground and gasped. With a stern look, his eyes were full of happiness for the rest of his life.
The city of Tianji was just about to be breached, and since the defeat of the Prince's Pass, the Fowler family only had a few hundred soldiers left to stand firm.
If it weren't for the harsh geographical conditions of Tianji City, which was extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, it might have already fallen, and Count Fowler was also escorted to King's Landing for trial.
Fortunately, Franklin Fowler's popularity in Dorne is very good, and the friendship is very wide, and more importantly, the policy of the Seven Kingdoms has caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the Dornish nobles. They want to take the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction, Wang The army broke through the Prince's Pass and invaded Dorne, touching the sensitive nerves of the Dornish nobles.
Of course they wouldn't expect the Iron Throne to change their focus to take into account the feelings of the Dornish nobles.
Although the nobles of Dorne are crazy, they are not without brains. They know that it is impossible, and it is equivalent to open rebellion.
What awaits them will be the same as the first and second Dorne wars. The army of the six countries attacked Dorne from multiple paths, killing blood and paying a very heavy price to win the war.
Therefore, the nobles of Dorne want to take advantage of this incident with old Franklin Fowler to express their dissatisfaction with the Iron Throne. Their only appeal is to let the King of the Reach repatriate those who escaped from Dorne. They were sent back to Dorne to be punished by local law.
Because they violated the laws made by local lords and nobles and left their hometown without authorization, they are criminals on Dorne's side and should return to their hometown to face trial.
In fact, the demands of the nobles of Dorne can't find anything wrong in their eyes.
After all, Dorne is the 'SAR' that Viserys himself promised.
The special zone does not follow the changes in other parts of the Seven Kingdoms, except that it still submits to the Iron Throne in name, but in fact still implements the high degree of autonomy of the old aristocratic period.
Since it is a high degree of self-government and still follows the traditions of the past, the Dorne nobles are qualified to make local laws.
But they clearly miscalculated a bit.
That is, they are not as important and powerful in Viserys' heart as they thought.
Although Dorne had helped him win the Iron Throne, Viserys was certainly not an ungrateful person, but in the final analysis Dorne's help and achievements were not enough to make them so presumptuous.
And the confidence of the Dornish people all along comes from the first Dornish war, they successfully resisted the attack of the Targaryen family, and shot and killed the little queen Rhaenys and her dragon Mila in the prison gate. Sith.
This war lasted from the fourth year of Aegon's calendar to the thirteenth year of Aegon's calendar. After nearly ten years, a truce was reached, and the Targaryen army all withdrew from Dorne, and Dorne paid a very heavy price. maintained independence.
This war gave the Dornish people sufficient confidence, and it has been through the history of three hundred years. Later Dornish people also believed that they could still resist the dragon's attack like their ancestors.
However, the lessons of history often tell people that no matter how powerful a country is, there will be a day when it will decline, and the current Dornish army is not as fierce as their ancestors when they resisted aggression.
Viserys' minister of war, Kargo, has now led his tribe through the poisonous water on a Trojan horse and returned to the continent of Essos.
After the Second War of Conquest, he once used a very contemptuous word in Dothraki and Viserys to describe the combat effectiveness of the Dornish army, probably equivalent to 'sheep'.
Because in the battlefield of the Reach, when the Star Shuttle City was attacking and defending, if it wasn't for the Dothraki Roaring Warriors led by Kargo who arrived in time and attacked the Reach army from behind, the Dorne army would almost be destroyed by Velas Tit. The Reach Army led by Lil was wiped out.
The fighting ability of the Dornish army today is far less than the bravery of their ancestors when they resisted the invasion.
Their ancestors were able to stubbornly resist the dragon attack of the Targaryen family, but it does not mean that they can too.
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At the same time, the distant King's Landing.
Viserys, who had just been crowned the first emperor of Valyria, boarded his dragon to travel south alone.
Viserys is a bit like Aegon in this regard. After unifying the Six Kingdoms, Aegon likes to ride around on dragons when he has nothing to do.
And Viserys's wife Arianne took Diana's little hand to bid farewell to her husband.
"my sweetheart."
"Anyway, please forgive my father."
With tears in her beautiful eyes, Queen Donne pulled her daughter who was just running away. As Viserys' bedside, she naturally knew what her husband was going to do on this southern tour. During this period of time, a few days A battle report is telling about the battle situation on Dorne's side.
The war in Dorne was not optimistic. The old falcon eagle, the earl of Tianji City, was not ready to kneel down and fight the law, but to resist to the end, and even gathered many nobles who were friends with the Fowler family.
And the Fowler family itself is not weak. The Fowler family is the 'Guardian of the Pass'. They are the big family under the Martell family and the 'Guardian of the Bone Road' Ylenwood family, with many vassals.
Even the intervention of the Martell family could not completely quell the rebellion in Tianji City, after all, this is the drawback of traditional aristocratic rule.
The king is a large noble, and the monarch is only a slightly larger noble. Everyone still manages their own affairs. If it is in the common interest, they will listen to you. If it is not in the common interest, they will do their own work.
What's more, now that the Iron Throne needs Old Fowler's head, how could people confess their guilt and obey the law so easily.
"Of course, Arianne."
"This matter has nothing to do with Prince Doran."
When Viserys heard his wife's words, his heart softened slightly, and then he kissed her on the forehead lightly, and then mounted Bellerion's back again.
The huge black dragon turned his head and glanced at the little silver-haired girl who was swaying on the ground.
It knew this was Viserys' daughter.
Immediately, a low roar was made in a low voice, and then the hind feet suddenly exerted force, shaking the wings and rushing straight to the sky, flying toward the south of the empire.