Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

"Is the Grand Marshal still here?" Grazdo Zo Arc, the 'Ass-Shaking General', came to the Grand Marshal's tower with some anxiety.

He didn't know what he would do to prevent his private reselling of Yunkai's grain reserves from being exposed if the Generalissimo directly ordered to agree to Ian's request and provide the other party with supplies within one day after hearing that Ian refused to enter the city.

"Yes, the generalissimo is discussing matters with General Fazaha and several mercenary captains." the guard captain replied.

The butt-shaking general nodded and walked directly into the tower.

Of course, Ian would not follow him and fly in from the main entrance in a swagger, but flew directly to the top.

The design of this tower for observation was certainly not as outrageous as the pyramid of Yazan. As soon as Ian flew to the top, he saw several luxuriously dressed figures through several large windows.

The leader of them was riding on a sedan carried by four people. He had a hunched back, wrinkles on his face, and all his teeth. This reminded Ian of Tyrion Lannister's description of the Yunkai Grand Marshal. ——Human-shaped sour plum.

The short man standing next to the Grand Marshal was wearing a linen skirt, a tunic dyed dark yellow, and a cloak sewn with copper sheets. His hair was twisted into a tower, and it was shiny. This is the traditional attire of Yunkai's military nobles, distinguished from the tokar robes of other nobles.

Based on the large front teeth he showed when he spoke, Ian guessed that this was probably the one known as 'Rabbit' among the three deputy commanders of Yunkai.

If you think about it carefully, Yunkai's mercenaries are really talented and can give their three deputy commanders such apt nicknames as 'General Shake-the-Butt', 'Rabbit' and 'Pudding Face'.

"That's why I said the key point is the cavalry." The person who is speaking should be a mercenary from the appearance. Ian has no impression of his appearance, but Ian can probably confirm that he should be a member of the Stormcrows or the Bloody Legion. The leader of a certain party in the group.

After all, the tall body of the guy standing opposite this person and the red beard that almost reaches his waist have clearly stated his identity - Mero, the leader of the Second Son Regiment, the illegitimate son of the Titans.

"Don't be so serious," General Rabbit took over, "This is just a hypothesis."

"And the other hypothesis is even worse, isn't it?" the mercenary leader asked.

cavalry? What if? What are they talking about? Just when Ian was about to continue listening to what the other person was saying.

Footsteps were heard from the spiral staircase, and everyone in the room immediately stopped talking and looked at the stairs.

"Generalissimo." The butt-shaking general saluted the people on the sedan chair, and then nodded to the others.

After it was over, the butt-shaking general looked at him privately unnaturally, and his buttocks began to shake unconsciously.

"What happened? Didn't you go out of the city to pick up Earl Darry and his friends? Where are they?" General Rabbit saw the hesitant expression on General Shake-Butt's face and asked.

But Ian can clearly feel that General Rabbit has no doubts on his face at this moment. There is a hint of contempt in his tone, and there is an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth, which makes people feel like he is gloating.

"Lord Darry declined our invitation, he said." He said that he hoped to complete the supplies as soon as possible and then march to Meereen. The General shook his butt and gritted his teeth, but did not dare to say these words.

"It's a good thing," General Rabbit said, "We were still worried that he would not leave, but we didn't want to violate the etiquette due to his allies." If General Rabbit was still holding back his laughter just now, , and now he took advantage of General Shake-His head to hide his head and did not see him, and directly put his gloating on his face, "By the way, why did he refuse to enter the city?"

"He, he." I'm done. When General Shake-his-Ass was in despair, he didn't know where he came from, and suddenly blurted out, "He said that Yunkai people were not worthy of sharing food with him. He humiliated Yunkai and also humiliated Yunkai." The Grand Marshal himself and the Yazzak family!”

Damn it? ! Are you slandering me? If Ian wasn't a bird now, he would have wanted to go up and slap his big mouth.

It's hard to say whether General Butt Shake's move was good or bad. His lie itself was easy to expose, because in addition to him, there were also Grazdan Mo Eraz and several Yunkish cavalry present.

But if he did nothing, he would be found out about reselling stored grains anyway. Judging from his previous conversation with the warehouse manager, he thought he would die after this was exposed.

So he would not lose anything if he tried to the death at this time. If he was exposed, he would still die at worst, but if the instigation succeeded.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, several Yunkai generals, including the Grand Marshal and General Rabbit, showed very indignant expressions at the same time.

This reminded Ian of some details from the original novel.

Yakkhaz Zoyazak, an old man who looks like a human-shaped sour plum, didn't have much of an impression on him because he didn't have a big role in the original work and he got his lunch quickly.

But in fact, his identity is not just the Grand Marshal of Yunkai. After the alliance against Dragon Mother was established in the original book, this person served as the Grand Marshal of the entire coalition.

In other words, Xingis, who undoubtedly had a much stronger army, and other allies of the alliance at that time, all handed over command to this person.

Considering that Yakhaz Zo Yazak has not shown any military talents, and no major achievements can be found on him, the only explanation is that according to the tradition of the Gith people, his The status (family) is extremely noble.

Then his humiliation of the Yazak family will undoubtedly arouse the anger of these decadent nobles who live in the ancient empire's wet dream.

"Such people are not qualified to be our allies!" A Yunkai general immediately said.

"We should cancel the alliance! Any humiliation to Yunkai should be punished!" Another general immediately agreed.

"That's enough." To Ian's surprise, it was the humiliated Generalissimo himself who stopped them. "That's the end of the topic. Even if the count doesn't come, then give him supplies as soon as possible and send him away. Let's go." After saying that, the generalissimo waved his hand vigorously, signaling the slaves to carry the sedan and leave.

Seeing the attitude of the Generalissimo, the others instantly became dumbfounded and began to look at each other in confusion.

"That's it for today," General Rabbit waved to everyone, beckoning them to leave, and then said to General Shake-Butt, "Do as the Generalissimo wants. You are in charge of food, so I will leave this matter to you. Are you okay?"

"No problem." The butt-shaking general tried to force a smile, but failed.

Ian thought for a moment, and instead of continuing to follow General Shake-the-Butt, started flying back.

Camp outside the city

"Did you find something again? With that expression?" Celia asked after seeing Ian's livid face.

"Yeah, I almost got tricked, by that guy."

"So, what happened?"

"General Waking his Butt and selling food is just a cover."

"Is that guy acting?"

"No, he doesn't have that ability. I'm afraid that player can't believe that such a scumbag general has been tricked. The Volantis businessman's sudden offer to buy grain from him at a high price is a trap in itself.

Just now when General Shake His Butt went to meet the Grand Marshal, the look on the face of Yunkai's other lieutenant, 'Rabbit', made me confirm this. It was obvious that Rabbit knew the player's complete plan and was one of that person's collaborators. But the stupid ass-wagging general was sacrificed by them. "

"What's the purpose?" Celia was still confused.

"This is a psychological trap. If after we arrive in Yunkai, Yunkai directly tells us that they have not prepared food yet and asks me to wait here for a few days, then I will definitely be wary.

Because the agreement between us and Yunkai has been signed for some time, and it is only about 20 days of rations for an army of less than 20,000 people, there is no reason why Yunkai cannot prepare it in advance.

So Yunkai chose to use a seemingly unreasonable 'warm invitation' to arouse my vigilance and induce me to investigate the matter, but then let me find out on my own that 'General Shake-the-ass resold food, causing Yunkai to I can't get any food for the time being, so I want to keep this truth about me.

I remember I told you before that the best way to deal with smart people is to deliberately let them 'see through' your own ideas, pretend to be manipulated by them, and satisfy their sense of superiority in terms of IQ.

The trap is like this. When I have doubts and investigate the problem myself and rule out the possibility of 'party murder', I will breathe a sigh of relief and let down my guard.

At the same time, since Yunkai really can't get food at this time, I have to stay here temporarily. They probably thought that I was going to speed up the march when I set off from Astapor, and they knew that I could get supplies in Yunkai. , so it will only carry about 20 days’ worth of food.

In that case, the food left in my army will not be enough for my army to continue marching to Meereen, and out of the need to maintain the alliance, I cannot send troops into Yunkai villages to rob. Therefore, I can only wait in Yunkai for a few days until the food and fodder in Yunkai are ready."

"What's the purpose? What's their purpose of leaving us here for a few days?"

"Keeping us here for a few days is their purpose in itself."

"Um?"

"From the beginning, that player never expected me to go to Yunkai for a banquet. Since he was able to devise such a trick, it means that he has actually been investigating me for a long time. He knows my cautious character, so his plan is definitely He wouldn't simply trick me into Yunkai and then murder me.

Since I can't squat in the grass and I don't go out to face him, the only way he can kill me is to fight in a group. Ian said as he took out a map and spread it on the table.

"You mean taking on our entire army? Yunkai takes the lead?"

"How could there be only Yunkai? Yunkai is not the only city that was coerced by us and had to sign an unequal treaty with us and send troops to fight the Horse King. Compared with Yunkai, Meereen had a greater motive to kill me. Dorsingis usually keeps pace with Meereen on external matters."

"This is too exaggerated. These cities have obviously allied themselves with us."

"Yes, but we have just ruled out the possibility of a mole in our army. Then that player wants to defeat or even annihilate my army, unless he can predict the future. As early as the news of our alliance with the Three Cities of Gith spread It became the only possibility to set off from Volantis with a fleet of tens of thousands of people and rush here to rebel against the three cities of Gith before leaving.

After all, we have analyzed it a long time ago. For the three cities of Gis, they have only two choices, either to beat the horse king or to beat us. They allied with us to fight against the King of Horses entirely because they knew that the King of Horses could not capture Astapor and had to make a decision.

But now I have left Astapor, and my force is divided into two parts. Ian pressed his finger on the map, "Look, the land distance between Meereen and Yunkai is 50 leagues, while the sea distance is even closer, only 48 leagues."

(ps: I made a mistake when calculating Ian's march time earlier. In fact, the march time from Yunkai to Meereen should be ten days, which has been revised)

According to the news we have received before, the four legions of New Gith participating in the war have arrived in Meereen by ship. Together with the troops and mercenaries that have been assembled in Meereen itself, there are a total of 23,000 people in Yunkai. There are nearly eight thousand people here, not counting the sailors in the fleet.

Today, the average speed of warships in Slaver's Bay is 9 knots. Of course, they cannot transport the entire army to Yunkai at once with warships alone. They need to use a large number of civilian ships at the same time.

The average speed of civilian ships in Slaver's Bay is 6 to 8 knots. We use the lowest speed of 6 knots to calculate. The voyage from Meereen to Yunkai only takes more than two days.

We arrived in Meereen much earlier than the other party expected, thus disrupting their plans.

We can guess that Yunkai discovered that we would arrive early when our pioneer scout cavalry arrived in Yunkai, that is, three days ago. At that time, they sent an envoy to Meereen by ship to inform them of the arrival in Meereen. conspirators.

Slaver's Bay does not have the habit of using ravens for communication. Although I have ordered my men to start raising ravens, the time is too short and they have not yet been able to train ravens that can travel between Meereen and the military camp independently.

The messenger must have taken a fast ship, which only took less than a day and a half. At this time, Meereen discovered that their army needed to set off early, so they began to make preparations. Since their army had already been assembled, this preparation The work won't take long.

After preparations begin in Meereen, the spies I deployed in Meereen will definitely notice something unusual and send someone back to report to me, but I have not received the news until now.

That shows that the other player has already considered this problem. He only needs to ban any civilian ships in Meereen from leaving the port when the army begins to move, and send people to ambush on the Ghiscari coastal road to stop anyone trying to rush to the Abyss quickly. Kai's Rider will do. "

"So, isn't Meereen's fleet arriving soon?" Celia stood up, "Shouldn't we take action now?"

“No,” Ian shook his head, “Actually, when I discovered that there might be players behind this incident, I had already let the falcon fly to Meereen.

It has now flown 40 leagues north and still has not found Meereen's fleet, which means that we only have close to two days to prepare. "