The conquest of highgarden

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POV of Friedrich von Roon

Highgarden is our highest priority, the seat of the most powerful house in these lands where they must have huge amounts of coins and valuable minerals and not to mention the food reserves from the long winters that affect this kingdom.

Conquering it is vital to our plan, this castle must fall no matter what, we must capture the family of lord tyrell to force him to surrender and kneel to our king at any cost.

As we rode to the castle entrance to carry out our deception I remembered the sweet news that had happened in the north.

Lothar had been arrested by order of the king himself, apparently he had gone too far with the interpretation of his orders, which provoked the wrath of the king, who acted summarily removing him from his important position, leaving it vacant.

And to put the icing on the cake many nobles also face treason charges for following lothar's orders when extorting septs from the westerosis, the only hiccup in this is that the northern garrisons should now be more vigilant, as there are several calls for resistance against us, but while that remains isolated it is nothing that a little iron fist won't fix or a campaign of terror from the Finns.

'If all goes well and I continue to show superior effectiveness to the rest, it would not be unusual for my name to be on the list for the top job in the Prussian army'

'I just need this to go well, if I manage to capture this castle with few casualties, the prestige and merit will be enough to be considered for the position, even at my young age'.

The excitement was making my blood burn, I wanted to get to Highgarden as soon as possible and capture the Tyrell family located in the castle.

'Those three walls separate glory and merit from me, but it's only a matter of time before I get there, like an apple ready to be picked.'

"Sir, do you really think the plan will work with that fortress? It's 3 levels of walls, I don't think we can get through all 3 without them noticing we're not knights of house Tyrell or the banner man houses,'' Emil said a little worried.

''The trick has worked so far and if we can only get through one of the walls it's better than having to storm the same castle 3 times, are the ''prisoners'' ready to be handed over'', I asked Emil

We had caged some of our men in armor of the lords of the Stormlands in cages that were modified to open them from the inside so they can help us fight as soon as we took off the cloak of deception, this time we would say that Lord Tyrell secretly sent the prisoners he captured in his siege of Robert's lands and due to the increasing danger shown by the rebels, he preferred to send to his castle than risk being released.

And I should introduce myself as Lord Harlon Roxton, taking advantage of the fact that we had many of his banners when one of another field master's men captured that lord's castle,

'It's a real shame what happened to that lord's family', 'it's a real shame what happened to that lord's family'.

Some idiots had communication problems with the family and Lord Roxton's wife preferred to commit suicide by throwing herself from the keep with her two children with her, terrible news for when in the future Lord Roxton is a prisoner.

''They are ready, sir,'' said my new captain of my tercio.

''So let's think about what is going to happen, from one second to other duties, act with extreme violence to subjugate our enemies'' I said to my men.

We continued advancing

As we approached the gates, Tyrell's guards spotted us and I prepared to do again something I had already done at least two dozen times in the short time of this lightning campaign

''Who are you?, identify yourself,'' the guard shouted.

''I am Lord Harlon Roxton, I come on a secret mission from Lord Paramount Mace Tyrell to deliver captured noble prisoners from the storm lands we caught in the battle of ashford and subsequent sieges we conducted in the area,'' I said pointing to the wagons full of armed men from the respective region.

''Excuse the tone of voice, sir, but we had no information that you were coming, no one reported your presence in the vicinity'' he said with an apologetic tone.

''We have tried to warn, but there is an army of storm lords harassing our supply lines and shooting at our ravens trying to destabilize the siege of storm end, that's why Lord Tyrell decided to send his prisoners secretly to prevent them from escaping if these men become more daring'' I said looking at the guards at the gate.

The guard hearing me speak quickly disappeared and we were waiting for them to ask for authorization to open the castle gates.

'Well, we passed the first wall, we'll save a lot of time and lives with one less wall to assault'.

''Remember to stay close to the gates in case something goes wrong, we must take control of them away from the defenders, if anything we should call for help from the other tercios who are awaiting the outcome of this operation'' I whispered to my soldiers.

Quickly, we passed through the first gate and were greeted by a captain of the guard in Tyrell heraldry

'Welcome, Lord Harlon Roxton, I hear you brought some traitors' the captain said with a smile.

'UFF good thing you don't know the real Lord Roxton, or it would have all been over very soon.'

''Yes, here are the traitors, besides I have a letter for Lord Tyrell's wife'' I said to the captain showing him a letter with a forged seal of the Tyrell house that the Finns made when they found old letters

''Oh, don't worry, Sir, I will deliver the letter to Lady Alerie'' said the captain trying to take the letter from my hands.

''With all due respect Captain, lord mace, has ordered me that the letter be delivered personally, to prevent anyone else from knowing the contents than his beloved wife'' I said taking away the sealed letter I was holding in my hand

''Lady Alerie is in labor, she will not be able to receive the letter''said the captain stretching out his hand again.

'So in labor eh..... the Maester must be busy, we will have more time if we are caught.

''Then I'll wait, I suppose you will have a guest room for me, the journey has been quite long and I would like to rest'' I said with a relaxed tone showing a slight smile

''Of course, sir, I will accompany you to the castle'' said the captain as he escorted me to the second gate.

We continued riding to the second gate

The second gate was opened without any problem, as we rode on I made sure that some of the prisoner wagons had breakdowns so I left several men behind to secure the gates.

But when you were getting to the third gate, that's when they made us wait the longest.

'Damn, all my senses tell me we are about to start a fight, we were so close, it was just one more wall and it would have been a clean conquest.'

''Why don't you open the gate? Lord Roxton is waiting to rest,'' shouted the captain to his men at the third gate.

There was only silence, and I saw more guards arriving at the gate bringing bows and crossbows.

'Well, we got as far as we could'

''WE ARE DISCOVERED, ATTACK, FOR THE KING FOR THE VATERLAND'' I shouted at the top of my lungs to be heard by my men.

Hearing this Captain Tyrell turned around with a surprised look on his face and his eyes extremely wide open

In a swift movement of my dexterous hand, I drew my crossbow from my side and fired a bolt at captain tyrell between the eyebrows

"SECURE THE DOORS, SEND THE SIGNAL TO OUR MEN''I shouted as loud as I could.

Quickly, I got off my horse and drew my mace from my side and sought to form a fighting line as quickly as possible.

I looked to the walls to observe the archers and crossbowmen, but they were still not sure to act, as there was a high probability of friendly fire.

While my men were already out of their cages and we were outnumbering the defenders in our sector.

'The prudent thing to do is to secure what we have and eliminate resistance from the walls'

I approached my men

''FAST, we have to secure the walls behind us, the third one is out of our reach for the moment, we must wait for them to bring ladders or siege equipment'' I said to my men who were about to finish killing the few guards escorting us.

Returning to the second gate, we found that the men I left behind had already secured the gate mechanism, although I can see that there are many guards around the walls that are not yet liquidated.

But as there is only one entrance to the final defenses of Highgarden they were trapped with us.

I climbed to the top of the walls, I observed that the same result had happened at the first gate, but there the fighting was being extremely violent, as the bulk of the guards were there and the soldiers who were fighting were outnumbered

''Emil take your men and go help the men at the first wall, if we lose control of that area we will be trapped here and will not be able to receive reinforcements, I'll take care of here'' I said as I turned to coordinate with the rest of my captains.

In a few minutes, we managed to establish a strong control of the castle, luckily still no ravens, the Maester must be busy with childbirth

'With a little luck, the reinforcements will arrive and we will storm the walls'.

The atmosphere began to calm down, as the sounds of fighting began to end because the last pockets of resistance outside the third wall were being extinguished.

''Lord Roon, the reinforcements have arrived'' shouted one of my captains pointing to the outside,

''Call the rest of my men, begin to engage against the defenders of the third wall,'' and then call the rest of my men.

In Highgarden there were one thousand five hundred Prussian soldiers, but with the reinforcements that had arrived their numbers had increased to almost nine thousand and equipped with ladders and scorpions, they began to harass the defenders for several minutes.

The Prussian soldiers made use of their crossbows and paves shields and advanced slowly but surely towards the walls, provoking enormous casualties among the desperate defenders who saw how every minute that passed more and more enemies were arriving, while their numbers were diminishing at an alarming rate.

After more than fifteen minutes of bloody combat between the Prussian crossbowmen and the defenders

The Prussians had succeeded in driving the defenders from the walls.

Before long the Prussians had set up their ladders and had secured the third wall

While the defenders were closing in on the keep to hold the last line of defense.

'Still no crows, fortune has favored us considerably, that damned labor has prevented them from calling for help.'

"Ravens, Ravens, Ravens" shouted one of the crossbowmen who was watching the towers of the castle searching for the Maester.

All the crossbows of my men were aimed at the tower, currently that the Maester leaned out to try to throw the crows, he was greeted with a rain of bolts and arrows, killing all the crows and the Maester on the spot

'The Maester is dead, but that doesn't mean they can't launch more crows'.

Seeing that we had gained control of the situation and with the ravens neutralized for the moment we had to bring down the keep before nightfall, since at that moment not even the best archer could shoot them down.

With the arrival of a contingent of shock infantry of the Teutonic order we began to force our way into the keep to finish off the defenders.

Upon entering the keep with the support of the Teutonic I saw the little that remained of the defenders being crushed by the order's infantry.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Teutonic's were subjugating the defenders without problems I decided with the rest of my men to start checking the rooms of the huge castle searching for the relatives of the lord of the castle.

'Shit, I think I got lost, I think I have already seen this hallway'.

Roon over here'' an officer from another tercio shouted to me calling me to the upper floor.

''Did you find them, if they got away from us, we are in trouble'' I said with a serious tone.

''If it's them, we keep the honors for you, since you are the commanding officer of the military operation'' said my partner.

I walked into the room that was guarded by the infantry of the Teutonic Order.

When I entered I found four women, three children and a newborn, the new mother had a worried face while protecting her new offspring by her instincts, all of them had frightened faces except the oldest woman of them all

She looked at me with a steady gaze and a calm face.

''Oh lord Roxton I don't remember you as young, maybe the years have taken their toll on me, but I don't remember you as such'' the old woman said

''Ah, you are absolutely right my lady, I am not lord Roxton I only used his name to be able to enter the castle, from now on, you and your whole family are my prisoners'' I said with a kindly tone

''Who are you working for?, I can pay you double what your lord pays you for your loyalty'' said the old lady.

'This bitch, you just tried ....., if she thinks my loyalty has a price she was very wrong''

Drawing my sword from my belt in one swift motion I placed the blade's edge against her neck

''If you think that my loyalty can be bought you are very wrong, damned woman, I am a loyal servant of the king of Prussia'' I said very annoyed.

The calm of the woman's face vanished at the sight of my sword, but at the same time I heard the shrieks of the rest of the family, who were frightened.

''I beg your pardon, I think I misjudged you, my lord?'', said the old woman trying to calm me down.

''Friedrich von Roon field master, never make that mistake again because, next time, I will test the edge of my blade with your neck'' I said with disdain.

''This king in Prussia, who is he?'', asked the old woman.

''None of your business, woman, you are just a bargaining chip now'' I said putting my sword away.

"ROON, SEE THIS," said one of my companions, handing me some letters.

Before my partner's rush, I started to read it.

'But what, shit, it can't be, this indicates that she'.

I turned to the old woman

''So I see that you are the one who truly rules the reach, old woman'' I continued using my condescending tone.

the woman just kept quiet

'Well, it looks like I came looking for copper and I found gold'.

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