The king on the Great Wall

He was also worried that a well-known warrior like Iger would make shocking moves such as "dodging sideways" or "flicking the crossbow with a sword", but the crossbow hit his chest impartially, but in It was bounced off with a strange crashing sound, and hung limply on the opponent's black clothes.

He wore armor under the black coat!

"Hahaha--"

Ernst laughed out loud. It was an interesting and extremely difficult target.

But his armor will only increase his glory after he gets it!

"Shoot him in the leg!"

The assassin has no glory of a knight, and shouted orders to two subordinates who were reloading in a panic. Ernst simply let go of the military crossbow he was holding, and pulled out his crossbow from the left and right waists at a dizzying speed. A pair of long tile-steel daggers moved so quickly that it looked as if two weapons had leaped out of their sheaths into his hands.

He cut the rope that hung the crossbow around his neck in mid-air with a beautiful almost graceful arc, kicked the crossbow away before it hit the ground, and then waved his daggers to welcome Iger.

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Chapter 723

Ernst sideways avoided Iger's first slash like lightning, and immediately found that although the queen's hand in front of him was quite fast and powerful, his sword skills were only second-rate.In order to prevent this is a false opening trap created by the opponent deliberately showing weakness, he conservatively did not attack the vital point directly, but blocked the possible path of Iger's long sword with one hand and swiped the dagger at his waist with the other hand, before easily slashing Broken Iger's black clothes to find out the type and outline of the armor under his clothes, but at the same time, he didn't wait for the counterattack in defense.After confirming that the target was not pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he boldly lowered his head to avoid his second sweep, and at the same time slashed Iger's arms with a pair of daggers.

These two fierce attacks that could have cut off Iger's sword-holding hands still failed, and only brought out a series of teeth-stinging metal friction sounds and a few pieces of black cloth. Ernst was slightly surprised: his own The two weapons are top-grade even among Valyrian steel. Cutting iron like mud can ignore most of the light armor, and it's okay to be blocked by the thick breastplate. How could it be impossible to cut through a pair of ordinary armguards!

Could it be that the opponent is wearing tile-steel armguards?Never heard of such a thing.

When he was distracted, he was almost chopped off by Iger, and after dangerously blocking the long sword, he rolled over. Ernst retreated out of Iger's attack range, thinking about the next attack strategy, and waiting for the two subordinates to respond. assists.

……

Iger didn't know Ernst, but he knew that standing in front of him was the most powerful and dangerous opponent he had ever encountered in his life.

If the Dragon Steel Armor on his body hadn't perfectly fulfilled the mission of the armor, he would have been fatally injured twice in the short span of time.He had only seen such an astonishing martial skill when he competed with the "Red Viper" Oberyn Martell in King Robert's barracks.

Oberyn, who is merciful, can make him sweat, and goes straight to Ernst, who came to take his life with all his strength, which will naturally give Iger a greater sense of oppression.

And when an enemy who completely crushes him in skill doesn't speak martial arts...

Iger stared nervously at the two long daggers shining with a strange cold light, knowing that his life would be taken away by them as long as he was distracted or half a superfluous movement, and he had no mind or energy to pay attention to the two people next to him Aim at his crossbow. "Boom", "Boom", two short crossbow bolts shot into his legs, the huge impact and pain almost made him fall to his knees.

Ernst rushed over again the moment he was hit by the arrow—this time targeting Iger's unprotected head, face and throat.

"Roar!" A low growl that was barely audible came out of Iger's throat, and he found the feeling he had when he was fighting with the White Walker: he was going to die!

With all his strength, he threw the long sword towards the killer who was reloading the crossbow a few meters to the right. Before he could see if he hit the target, he raised his hands and bent his arms to protect his face, and assumed a classic defensive posture in boxing. His life was handed over to the arm guard of the Dragon Steel Armor.

"Zheng-"

"Zheng-"

The tooth-piercing sound of tiles and steel rubbing against each other resounded through the street. Ernst launched a stormy continuous dagger swipe within a few seconds. Iger held his head and heaved like a boat in a stormy sea. Backed away, but the dagger never cut even an inch of his skin.

Ernst took half a step back, and after confirming that the opponent was indeed wearing the Wagang armguard, he realized that he had just been on the top: He should have changed his attacking thinking immediately after two attacks to no avail, but he still slashed more in disbelief. He touched the armguard a few times, wasting a second of precious time.

Two thoughts came into his mind at this time:

The first is that even if he kills Iger today, it is estimated that it will be too late to peel off the trophy of the pair of tile-steel armguards on him.

The second is, according to his rich experience in "assassinating targets with armor", there must be a gap between the breastplate and the tile-steel armguard to insert the dagger.

Half a second later, he raised his leg and kicked Iger hard in the chest.

Ernst is an assassin, and his strength is not very outstanding. Under normal circumstances, even if Iger can't dodge, he should be able to take this foot back half a step and stand firm, but now both of his legs have been hit by crossbow arrows.

In the severe pain, he couldn't stand upright, and fell backwards. He still used his arms to protect his throat and face tightly while trying to ensure that his back instead of his head hit the ground. He didn't give the killer any chance machine.

Ernst jumped up and rode on him, raised his daggers high, and stabbed fiercely at Iger's armpit exposed by the curved arm mask.

"crunch-"

Finally, the dagger no longer felt hard and blocked, but there was no Ernst’s familiar feeling of piercing into the gap in the armor and piercing into the chest cavity—the tip of the dagger deeply penetrated into the armguard and chest of the armor Iger was wearing. Among the metal chain links of the armor, the impact force was so strong that the chain links were stretched and deformed, but after all, none of them could be cut or crushed. Instead, only the tip of the dagger penetrated through, and most of them were stuck outside. .

Ernst was able to judge that Iger was wearing a tile-steel armguard in less than ten seconds. This is already a rare and amazing judgment, but he never dreamed that Iger was actually wearing a whole piece of dragon steel armor— ——Every metal part of it is made of Longgang!

The assassin, who was so surprised that his eyes widened, finally vaguely realized the truth of the matter: what was preventing him from killing this person was probably a priceless treasure that could not be bought by exhausting the wealth of the iron treasury.Is such a treasure worth taking the time to snatch it from the target?

He couldn't make a decision immediately, and soon he didn't have a chance to make a choice again.

The surprise, stupefaction and hesitation of the dagger failing to pierce the target's armpit gave Iger a fleeting opportunity to counterattack. The safest and safest strategy: hold the assassin's arm tightly with both hands, endure the pain of being pierced, clamp the opponent's hands under the armpit, and stare at Ensi with bloodshot red eyes special eyes.

Gu Aiger really wanted to stare at the killer with glaring eyes, and also wanted to tear Ernst's two arms off him with a loud roar, but his reason told him that "tearing the enemy alive" was just one of the illusions brought about by endless anger.The enthusiasm from R'hllor's gift at most made his adrenaline secrete wildly, and his strength was two or three times greater than usual. It was absolutely impossible for him to transform into an anti-Japanese hero or a superman.

After looking at each other, Iger adopted the only counterattack strategy he could take at the moment.

head hammer.

He jerked up and hit Ernst's face with his forehead.

With a crisp "click", Ernst's nose bridge snapped, and blood gushed out of his nostrils in an instant.

The assassin tried to dodge, but Iger's hands clasped his arms tightly like iron clamps, allowing him to remain on him in a riding position. He also wanted to twist the dagger to force Iger to let go of the pain, but only let the oncoming His second header was stronger.The landing point of the second blow changed from the face to the mouth, and in the more cracking sounds, an unknown number of teeth left the gums; the third hit was the jaw, and the fourth hit was the cheekbone... Soon Ernst's face It was like being splashed with a bucket of red paint.

In fact, the assassin's only escape at this time may be to fight back with the head hammer, hoping that the opponent will be concussed and unconscious first, but facing the dying struggle of a trapped animal, who would have the guts to fight it?

After all, this was a hunt, not a suicide attack, and they weren't fighting one-on-one.

"Pull...Pull me!" Ernst yelled indistinctly with his mouth full of blood, hoping that his two subordinates could help him out of danger.

At this moment, Iger was sitting on the ground and couldn't move. It was an excellent target for shooting - no matter how powerful the Dragon Steel Armor was, it was impossible to prevent the shooting to the head.However, one of the two crossbow killers was stabbed in the stomach by Iger's powerful long sword throw just now. The two of them swayed left and right with their military crossbows in their hands, and finally roughly aimed at Iger's head. Suddenly, there was a crisp shout from the direction of the carriage.

"Hey!"

A petite red figure stared at the killer with round green eyes, made a strange gesture with his hand and pointed at him: "Go to hell!"

The killer was taken aback: the intelligence did show that there was a tall, beautiful and glamorous high-ranking priestess of the Red God Sect following Iger—anyone with a little knowledge of the horror and weirdness of these red robes would never be ignorant. I heard nothing.Although the little red-robed girl in front of her does not match the height and figure claimed by the information at all...

The crossbow-wielding killer didn't have time to think about it, so he turned the direction of the crossbow under the instinct of self-preservation, and shot the crossbow bolt at that touch of red.

Myrcella shrank her head in fright, the crossbow almost flew past her scalp, she quickly ran to the back of the carriage, hid behind the cover, picked up stones on the ground and continued to harass the killer.

The killer looked down at his body and found that his body was neither on fire nor bleeding. He immediately realized that he might be being tricked. He scolded "Smelly Cousin" and then looked back at his team leader, only to find that he had been overturned. Pressed on the ground, the two daggers have already been dropped, and the assassination target of their trip is sitting on him and punching him in the face, then hurriedly took out another crossbow arrow...

He never had a chance to reload this last bolt.

A huge group of black shadows descended from the sky with a violent howl, like an eagle plunging into a narrow gutter, it suddenly plunged into this street with no rules and grace, and its two hind feet stomped heavily on the ground not far behind Iger On the road, the stone slabs on the road were cracked, and the huge wings could not be retracted, so they had to hang on the roofs of the houses on both sides.Before it came to a stop, the green dragon's slender neck was already hanging down, biting the last assassin who was still standing, including his crossbow, into his mouth.

……

The green dragon was stuck between the two rows of houses, and every slight twist of its body could bring down sparse building debris to the ground.Under the belly of the dragon, the Prime Minister, whose face, hands, and legs were covered in blood, sat slumped on the ground as if his strength had been drained. A shrunken version of a red-robed woman was kneeling beside him, panicking and trying to deal with the wound on the former's leg. The two crossbow bolts were thrown... And beside them, lying on his back was an assassin who was completely unrecognizable, whose facial features could no longer be distinguished, with two jewel-hilted daggers stuck straight into his chest.

This is the scene seen by the rear guard who finally got rid of the obstruction and rushed to the scene a few minutes later.

"grown ups……"

"I can't die!" Iger waved his hand, interrupted his concerned question and pointed at the carriage, "Go and drag Melisandre out!"

"Yes, but you..."

"Then wake her up, slap her or pour cold water on her face, it's up to you, in short, wake her up as soon as possible!"

"Ah—this?"

"Tell her, use any damn magic, and immediately contact Priest Maqiluo in King's Landing." Iger took a breath before he had the strength to continue, "Notify the queen, tell her the news of my assassination, and ask her to cancel immediately." All the schedules for these few days, hide in the Unsullied Barracks, don't go anywhere!"

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Chapter 724

Inside and outside the walls of Old Town, King's Landing, and throughout the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a large-scale search and arrest of assassins and spies began.

At the same time, in the narrow sea, to be precise, on the ocean east of Blackwater Bay, a fleet from the opposite bank was also aggressively rushing towards Dragonstone Island.

The southeast trade wind filled the sails, and the bow quickly cut through the sparkling waves. The "Queen of the Lorne" sailed smoothly and lightly under the blue sky.At the tip of the towering prow, there is a stretched and aesthetically pleasing female figure at the end of the ship. Dizdong Megya is standing behind the side of the ship, looking out at the vast blue ocean and the faintly visible outline of the island while holding the handrail. , and then looked around at the huge fleet he led, feeling more complacent than ever.

As the new Lord of the Navy of Volantis and the commander of the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance Fleet, he is stepping on the flagship of the Volantene Navy and the multi-city-state combined fleet, and the entire known world is accompanied by the entire known world, perhaps not the largest number... …but the largest and most powerful fleet.

And what awaits him is the most vicious and terrifying enemy the Free Cities have ever faced - the Great Dictator, the Mother of Dragons, the slave-killer Daenerys Targaryen and her restored truth. Dragon Dynasty.

The Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance, which started to have voices more than ten months ago, has not officially launched its first frontal military attack on the enemy until now. To be honest, it is really slow, but the reason for this is a long story.

The free trade city-states are scattered all over the western part of Essos, and there are complicated conflicts of interests and grievances between them. Anyone who wants to ascend to the top and get everything answered is a dream.In fact, in the first full year of the alliance's birth, it was just an idea and an empty shell, without even a frame between the quarrels, quarrels and wrangling...

Until the Queen of Dragons won consecutive victories on Westeros, she was about to become the final winner; then the Pentos diplomat Illyrio was brutally killed by guards in King's Landing, and Braavos, who had always been neutral, also semi-publicly Hostile to the Targaryen dynasty...

In the last few months following this series of events and timings that fueled the fire, things have only begun to move forward in a slightly choppy but overall orderly manner.

The combined city-state fleet was formed more than two months ago. Since then, it has been cruising in the narrow sea to block merchant ships attacking both sides of the strait, and carrying mercenaries to land and harass the coast of Stormland and Crab Claw Peninsula.

The reason why they didn't immediately make a big move to seek a frontal battle is that firstly, they need to assemble, run-in training, and clarify the command authority; King Aegon carried out good communication and exchange of interests, and made many friends and fewer enemies, so as to avoid a bad battle that was out of control; and the third and only 100% purely tactical consideration was: can't win.

The destruction of the Iron Fleet in Blackwater Bay proved to the whole world the adaptability of the "artillery" weapon and its overwhelming power in naval battles, coupled with the existence of the magic dragon...Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance The fleet is at an absolute disadvantage in both sea and air dimensions, no matter how the frontal decisive battle is deduced, it will undoubtedly be defeated, and there is no possibility of winning.

To solve this difficulty, the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance's plan is: If the enemy has it, we must have it too!

This is not a whim.

As early as when Iger led the land-grant army to embark on the southern expedition to besiege Lindong, and used gunpowder to fight against the capital of the northern border, this powerful new weapon entered the vision of the ruling class of the various city-states.

Under the instruction and financial support of slave owners, countless intelligence personnel, alchemists and even wizards have devoted themselves to tireless work, through all the methods they can think of - stealing, guessing, imitation or simulation to try to get this weapon, A lot of messy technology trees were placed right or wrong... but in the end it didn't work.Until the Illyrio stealing incident broke out in King's Landing, and the complete gunpowder formula and artillery blueprints were sent back to Pentos, half of Essos was boiling over it.

Under the coercion and lure of other city-states, Pentos released the information sent back by Illyrio to the entire Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance on the condition that it offset its own military apportionment.

Next, several major city-states contributed money and powerful efforts to jointly tackle key problems with unprecedented unity and forge ahead, and soon thoroughly understood all the basic knowledge of thermal weapons that they had stolen... On this basis, the alchemists and great craftsmen He also keenly discovered that although the formula blueprints stolen from the Night Watchman Industry are true from a general perspective, they are very rough and random when it comes to specific ratios, wall thickness, and length-to-diameter ratios.Produced and deployed according to the raw data above, the "artillery" produced is either not as powerful as the ballista and can only be heard, or it will explode and kill the test personnel.

After dozens of days and nights of hard work and large-scale iterations regardless of cost, the first batch of improvements was completed, and the power and range of the ballista surpassed the same weight. Finally, the artillery that met the actual combat performance requirements was urgently cast, delivered and loaded. To the main battleships of the city-states... This impromptu catch-up was not only completed in time, it was even more than a simple copying operation.

Although their artillery is temporarily inferior in number, it is likely to be stronger than those of the Dragon Queen and the Black Prime Minister!

Although the person in charge of the relevant project clearly assured that as long as no cost is spared, the second and third generations of finished products with better performance will soon be iterated, but with King Aegon Targaryen's surprisingly rapid defeat and death, and The surrender of the Reach—especially Oldtown and the Arbor—they couldn't wait any longer.

At this moment, the alliance fleet only needs to face Daenerys' royal fleet and a dragon.

After a while, maybe the fleet can indeed be equipped with more and better artillery, but what we have to face will also become the Wang Family + Qingting Island, or even the entire fleet of the Seven Kingdoms, and the two dragons.

In addition, Dizdong also learned a very confidential inside message from his father Malachor Megaa, one of the current consuls of Volantis: Braavos may take countermeasures in the near future. Some of the actions of Iger and Daenerys.

If the action goes well, and the two chieftains give their heads, the Targaryen dynasty will be wiped out in an instant, then my march will not encounter any resistance at all, and it will be a great achievement for nothing;

And even if he fails to succeed, as long as the timing of his attack matches the assassination, he will definitely be able to take advantage of the chaos to gain more battlefield advantages and greatly increase the victory rate.

As long as Dragonstone Island is captured and used as a springboard and advance base, King's Landing will open its doors to the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance, without any protection that can be relied upon as a barrier. At that time, whether it is to continue fighting or take advantage of the situation to conduct peace talks with sky-high prices, I will be the number one hero in the war against Dragon Mother, not one of them!

"Clang clang clang..."

On the watchtower at the top of the mast, a sentinel sounded the alarm.

"There are thirty enemy ships ahead!"

It seems that the assassination failed?Dizdong was slightly disappointed, but soon mustered his fighting spirit again: "Order the fleet to disperse and form a battle formation!"

His plan is not complicated: let a small number of capital ships equipped with artillery be centered and hostile, and the rest of the ships will outflank and detour from both sides. With the advantages of numbers and tonnage, they can easily win at a small price.

The flag order was quickly issued, and the entire fleet continued to move forward at the same speed while slowly dispersing. After a while, the enemy ships entered a distance that could be seen clearly without climbing the mast.Dizdong raised the lens and carefully observed the group of enemies who were about to be eliminated by him: within the circular field of view of the lens, more than 20 medium and large warships had already lowered their half sails, facing him sideways with Dragonstone Island as the background There is a long snake array, and it seems that I am waiting for myself to enter the range and suffer the baptism of shells.

Humph.

Let this group of fools who are full of minds to crush the enemy with new weapons be happy for a while, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he began to imagine in his mind the expression of astonishment and panic on his opponent's face when they suddenly found out that they had the same killer weapon, which was even more powerful. .

Today, on the ocean one mile ahead, the first sea duel between hot weapons in the history of the whole world will start, and I will become the winner of this historic battle and leave my name in history!

……

A string of fine flashes of light interrupted his reverie, and white smoke suddenly appeared around the hull of the Dragonstone Fleet in his vision. At first, Dizdong suspected that he was dazzled, until a few seconds later the rumbling sound came to him. Then, he reacted in surprise: the enemy ship opened fire first!Out of twice the distance of your own range!

Before the rumbling sound dissipated, the sharp piercing sound of shells followed closely, and dozens of white water columns shot up into the sky and splashed high within a range of more than a hundred meters around the ship, pouring down like a torrential rain In the splash, Dizdong's original tactical planning and vision for the future were completely ruined.

He was right in thinking that this would indeed be the first sea duel between hot weapons in the history of the ice and fire world, but they misjudged the performance of their weapons.

A few months ago, after the people in Hewan guessed the gunpowder formula, Iger made a mistake and cooperated with Illyrio to perform a "secret leak" drama.The military industry system of the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance can find that there is huge room for improvement in the data in these leaked materials, which is already very good... But the magic height is one foot high, and they never guessed it. This is what Iger designed from the beginning under the trap.

Before the artillery was put into the battlefield for the first time, the military industry of the Night Watchman did hundreds of secret experiments day and night on the land-grant test field before launching the first-generation mass-produced "Land-grant 1".How could it be overtaken in just a few days with such a long-standing accumulation of technology?

If the power of the original product "Land Grant Type 1" is set to 10 points, then the "secret" that Iger deliberately leaked is to castrate it to 3 points.

The Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance spent dozens of days on optimization, thinking that it had improved the artillery from 10 points to 20 points, but in fact it only roughly raised the 3 points to 6 points.

At the same time, the warships of the Royal Fleet on Dragonstone Island and King's Landing are already equipped with the 2.5th generation "King's Landing Type 2" - an improved model with a 20% increase in range and power through material and technological innovations!

The slave owners thought they were scoring 20 out of 10, but they were actually scoring 6 out of 12.One can imagine how the war situation will develop when the weapon performance doubled by being crushed without any psychological preparation is adopted, and then the wrong tactics based on wrong cognition are adopted.

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Chapter 725 The Great Religious Revolution