Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

"Yes, there are no natural villages on the west bank of this tributary. All the villages and farmland in Yunkai are on the higher east bank." Grazdan nodded.

Why not build river embankments? Ian really wanted to ask this.

But if you think about it carefully, they built the river embankment to prevent flood seasons that would last for seven to eight years or even ten years. It was hard to say whether the Gith people could carry out such a project with their level. Maybe the ancient Giths can, but the current Giths, they can’t even build a city wall.

Anyway, the farmland on the east coast is enough to support Yunkai, so it’s okay not to need the west coast.

"But..." Grazdan finally couldn't help but ask, "Why did you suddenly mention this? I am talking to you about something very important now."

"Yes, I'm talking to you about this very important thing." Ian pressed his hand on the map and rowed up the tributary, until he reached the main channel of the Tamakaha River, and then headed north He paddled to another tributary and paddled all the way to the mouth of the sea, which was about 20 leagues north of Yunkai and less than 30 leagues from Meereen.

"What are you doing?" Grazdan frowned, wanting to know what Ian was expressing, but he couldn't figure it out even after racking his brain, so he had to ask respectfully.

During this process, Ian kept observing Grazdan's expression, and the good news was that he didn't notice even the slightest bit of shock.

Are you really unaware? Ian took back his hand on the map and whispered: "If your news is true, my friend, then I may be in big trouble."

"How could it be? You didn't enter the city, so they couldn't murder you, right?" Grazdan was a little confused.

"However, we are running out of food and grass. Originally, I thought we would be able to get food replenishment immediately after arriving in Yunkai, so we only brought 20 days of supplies in total. It has been 18 days now." Ian gritted his teeth. road.

This is still part of the trial. Ian's food and grass will be sufficient for at least a short time. The Unsullied are all elites selected through strong weight-bearing training. In order to keep them at the same marching speed as the Iron Legion, which had only been an army for three months, Ian asked the Unsullied to carry a lot of food.

"Are you worried that Yunkai will refuse to provide you with food and fodder next?"

"Yes, as long as Yunkai refuses to provide us with food and fodder, my army will be in a very bad situation. After all, we cannot capture Yunkai in two days without siege weapons."

"You need me to provide internal support for you?" Grazdan suddenly thought, "I have nearly a hundred guards in Yunkai. If I capture a city gate internally and open the city for you."

"The moment you leave your pyramid with your people, you will be annihilated by the troops sent by the Generalissimo who has been watching you for a long time."

Grazdan was stunned.

"As the first person in Yunkai who came into contact with me and is still meeting me today, do you think they will not be wary of you?" Ian continued.

"I didn't expect this at all." Grazdan's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly showed a fearful expression.

"This is a trap." Ian has completely ruled out the possibility of Grazdan cooperating with the other party. "They deliberately neither recruited you nor controlled you, just to use you as a bait to catch me. This fish.”

"They." Grazdan's voice was a little hoarse.

"They expected that my army would soon be short of food." Even though he believed Grazdan, Ian still did not change his words of "food shortage", "because since I asked Yunkai for supplies to go to Meereen , he would not carry more food than is needed for the march to Yunkai." A normal person would probably think so.

"So their complete plan is to first pretend to have a Volantis merchant secretly purchase a large amount of grain stored in Yunkai's warehouse from General Grazdor (shake his butt)"

"When did this happen?" Grazdo was a little confused, and he interrupted Ian.

"Just three days ago," Ian had received the first report from the spies sent to investigate the matter before Grazdor arrived, "just the night my vanguard cavalry arrived in Yunkai."

"So this is directed at you?"

"Yes, this way, Yunkai has an excuse for being unable to deliver food to me for the time being, and puts all the responsibility on General Grazdor, so that I will not have further doubts and wait patiently. Their food collection team returns.

They would tell me that it would only take five days at most for the food collection team to come back, and during this period they could even out a small amount of food to provide us with supplies, to trick me into waiting. But in fact, this food collection team will not come back, and Yunkai will not really provide me with a small amount of food. They will try to delay it until I run out of food. For them, this is the most perfect result.

However, they also know very well that I cannot sit still and wait to die when I am about to run out of food. At this time, I will definitely ask Yunkai for food. Even if the people in Yunkai City starve to death, I will not sit back and watch. soldiers starved.

If Yunkai refuses at this time, then I can only make two decisions.

First, they have the idea of ​​​​attacking the city, so they can find you as an internal response.

At this time, they only need to annihilate your guards in the city, and then pretend that you have succeeded, so that they can trick me into attacking the city. And when I arrived at the city, I would only be greeted by a barrage of arrows and ruined reputation. Without siege equipment and internal support, I would not be able to capture Yunkai.

Of course, it's also possible that they were unable to extract the code we agreed upon from your mouth," or that he knew that I was a skinchanger, "which led to me discovering your failure in advance and not choosing to attack Yunkai.

But it doesn't matter. In both cases, I have only one choice left - I don't have enough food to return to Astapor or continue marching to Meereen. I have to collect food locally. This goes back to the problem of the river. "Ian pointed to the map again.

"This tributary of the Tamakaha River. Because its west bank almost turns into a wetland this season, if you want to collect food, you must cross the river to the east bank. Only there are the villages and farmland of Yunkai." Grazdan then said I finally understood Ian’s intention when he mentioned the river before.

"The second decision I could make after being rejected by Yunkai is," Ian continued, "to go directly eastward and go to the east bank of this tributary to collect grain. This is the same result as the first decision. They are different paths to the same goal, but the former will damage my honor even more."

"With food shortages and the inability to capture Yunkai, you really have no other choice." Grazdan nodded.

"What they want is to force me here." Ian tapped the river on the map.

This is what Meereen's army is waiting for without setting out. They are waiting for me to run out of food and food, and they are anxiously urging Yunkai for food. Once I start raising food, the Yunkai players will immediately spread the news to Meereen - through the means of shapechangers.

That's right, Ian has almost concluded that the other party is also a shapechanger. If such a plan is not comprehensively examined from a high altitude and from a God's perspective, the terrain around Yunkai is absolutely impossible to come up with based on those finished maps.

Whether it is finding a river path that can easily pass through by warships, or discovering the conditions on both sides of the Tamakaha River tributary, it must be done from the air.

Of course, even if the other party is a shapechanger, Ian doesn't have to worry about being eavesdropped, because his black dragon is always hanging around him. Normal animals under the pressure of the dragon dare not approach at all, but any abnormal ones come close. All the animals were shot dead by their own guards at the first opportunity.

As for the bugs that the guards couldn't find - Ian once tried to shapeshift bugs, but the bug's body would not provide any senses to the shapeshifter at all, and the bug's body was simply not strong enough to withstand the mental power of intelligent creatures. After success, it won't take long for the bug to die.

The player used the method of skinchanger to send the message, and it only took a few hours to send the message to Meereen, and at that time, Meereen could immediately arrange for the army to set off.

"What is their purpose?" Grazdan asked.

"The Grand Marshal has reached an agreement with the generals of Meereen and New Gith. As long as I convey the news of the food shortage to Yunkai, they will let the army currently stationed in Meereen sail to Yunkai.

Since there are a large number of large sailing ships parked in the port of Meereen at the moment, they do not need to requisition those slow ships at all. They can completely transport their army by relying on ships with more than 8 knots, and then pass the army through this place in one day. "A river." Ian once again rowed the path on the Tamakaha River that he first rowed, "sending the fleet to the place where I crossed the river. At this time, even if I discovered their fleet in advance, it was already too late." . "

Grazdan did not speak, but listened silently, as quietly as a primary school student.

"If I don't cross the river, then they will just block the river, and we will be trapped and die without food and grass. And if I choose to forcefully cross the river, they will wash away the food I found when I am halfway across the river. On a small boat crossing the river, I cut my army in half and annihilated each one.

Coincidentally, neither the rugged hills on the east bank nor the wetlands on the west bank that had been soaked by the river for several years were suitable for cavalry combat. They used this method to offset my most elite troops, which was also my biggest reliance in the field. The two Thousand Dothraki heavily armored cavalry. "

This is also the reason why that player must choose Yunkai for the decisive battle. If it is a head-on decisive battle outside Meereen City, even if he has nearly twice my strength, he has no confidence that he can defeat me. After all, Meereen and Yunkai The quality of the army is really poor.

"How is this possible?" After listening to this, Grazdan fell into a state of confusion. He felt that such a plan was beyond the scope of human beings. "In my impression, whether it is Yunkai, Meereen or New Gis, I’m afraid no one can make such a plan, right?”

"Furthermore," Grazdan continued, "according to your analysis, you are now in a desperate situation. Why are you still looking so calm?"

Ian is of course not in a hurry, firstly because he is not really in a food shortage situation. Although the food he currently carries is not enough to support his return to Astapor, as long as he withdraws his troops to Astapo and passes through The Peregrine Falcon then sent a letter to Astapor, asking Astapor to send a food transport team to pick him up along the Ghiscari Coastal Road, so that he could complete the supplies on the way and return to Astapo safely.

Of course, in that case, Ian's next life should not be so easy.

Although Meereen and Yunkai will also have a difficult time due to the invasion of the Horselord, this time the player who designed the trap is from Volantis, which will not shake the base of that player at all, even if it just forces Ian back Astapor is already considered a victory for that player.

The second reason why Ian is not in a hurry is that after he understands that the opponent's plan is to use him to urge Yunkai for food as a signal, the key to the final showdown is actually in his own hands.

"What? Do you regret siding with me?" Ian smiled.

"Absolutely, sir, I am very glad to be on your side. I believe this will be the most correct decision I have ever made in my life." Grazdan knelt down as he said this, "I don't know. Are you willing to accept my allegiance?"

It was an expected choice, and Ian smiled.

The Generalissimo excluded Grazdan from the plan from the beginning and even used him as a bait. Regardless of whether Grazdan regretted siding with Ian or not, he actually had no choice.

Ian's performance at this moment made Grazdan believe that his bet this time would get him a hundredfold return.

"The next time you kneel before me like you do now, you will become the master of Yunkai." Ian stepped forward and helped Grazdan up, "Grazdan zo Eraz."

Grazdan stood up and said, "I wonder what I can do for you now? Will they attack me?"

"Since you are the bait they throw out, it is impossible for them to remove the bait themselves before the fish takes the bait or runs away, unless your actions reveal that I have discovered their plan."

"what should I do?"

"First and most importantly, maintain normalcy." Ian put his hand on Grazdan's shoulders and pressed down, telling him to calm down. "Let's assume that you didn't actually find anything. Why did you come to see me today? In order to discuss how to get you into the army and do military service, what will you do after you go back?"

"Ah?" Grazdan couldn't keep up with Ian's thoughts. His mind was now filled with the coalition forces, food and grass, and the Tamakaha River. "I'm sorry, I can hardly think now. What you just said Those things have gotten to me."

"You don't need to think about those things anymore. All problems will be solved by me. You just need to do the things I give you." Ian patted Grazdan's face, "Also, although I I believe you know these things very well, but I still have to remind you once. The great sage Yazan is seriously ill and has passed away soon. You are not his son, and you cannot inherit his power.

At the same time, because he has no successor, you may even lose your backer. And now, an opportunity is placed in front of you, an opportunity that you will never get again once you lose it, to become the master of Yunkai. "

Ian is not worried about Grazdan being bribed by hostile players, because Grazdan himself knows very well that no matter who is the final mastermind of this matter, they have already cooperated with the Grand Marshal first, so Yunkai cannot fall in the end. into your own hands.

But Yazan is different. Ian has never had any contact with the richest man. Although from the current clues, it seems that he was not involved in all this, but what if? Therefore, Ian must warn Grazdan that even his old master Yazan cannot be trusted at all at this time.

"I understand, sir." Grazdan nodded.