39 Taking of Gulltown

One could say that Lord Grafton actually a stupid lord . Because he chose the wrong side of this war. Maybe he thought that with the crowns support , he could become a Lord paramount . If I think about it , maybe Lord Grafton actually thought that other houses of the vale would support him . It's true they would , But he wasn't given the time and opportunity for that .

Because Lord Arryn responded fast , And He only gathered all mounted knights from the his lords and rode fast to subjugate to his Rebellious bannermen .

The gathered knight is amount Seven thousand , And all of them have good amounts of fighting skills and experience , And they sure know how Ride in formation .

The houses that joined us is House Belmore , House Waxlay, House Redfort , House Malcom, House Royce from the moon Gate , House Royce of Ruinstone . And also House wynewood .

And rest of the lord's wants to wait and see what is the outcome and which side they should chose.

So taking the Gulltown is very important for Lord Arryn . And if he could successfully take it, he's other bannermen won't hesitate to join him .

282 Ac We are currently camping outside few miles away from Gulltown .

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Inside Lord Arryns tent small talks of strategies being held . And few important commenders are allowed to attend . Though I was amongst them . I'm just stayed in corner and listening to there argument with close eyes. Then Lord Arryn shut them up . and the

dialogue started .

"Ahm... All right my lords we need silence ! Yes thank you . We have the report of the Gulltown forces that Lord Grafton currently holds ." Then lord Arryn called to Lord Yohn "Yohn could explain it to us in details ! "

Yohn Royce : "Yes my Lord , The City of Gulltown is already had one thousand City guards . And five hundred household knights . He also armed Three thousand fresh levy's to defend the city walls . And last one is a small sellsword company of thousand Men arrived few weeks ago from bravos . And half of them are crossbowman" .

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Lord Redfort : "That makes it Five thousand Men and five hundred men . And we currently have seven thousand . The odds are against us , We should starve them out ".

Lord Melcom: "That options can't be applied here my lord . Because Lord Graftons still holds the Vale navy and with it he can resupply foods and fresh troops in time . And we do not have the forces for a naval blockade ".

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Lord Waxlay :" But attacking the city won't be a good outcome . Because even if we could take the City, The casualties of our side will be horrible . And we also need foot soldiers for a siege not mounted knights" !

Lord Melcom: "But we do not have the time because the other kindoms are gathering there forces as well . So we should act fast and make preparation for the defense of bloody Gate And also need to secure the sea from naval invasion" .

Lord Waxlay : "But they have nearly six thousand Men and a wall my lords . Thus half of our men will eventually die from the arrows before they climbed the city wall . And we should not underestimate there forces . And do we even have any siege ladder's" ?

Then Robert spoke with his booming voice to everyone " pah ....They won't stand a chance against our might . Except those sellsword All they have is few thousand Men that never seen blood . They will shit them self facing the knights . All we need is teardown that gate with a battering ram . And my friend here, lord Morton wynewood has already built one . And you will see it's capabilities in action , Because it was designed by my foreign friend Ser Winters ".

Then I elbowed Morton to speak " a a yes mMy lords the battering ram is very effective .And it will be here in afternoon with additional five hundred men that have experience in battle . They are also bringing lots of siege ladder's as well ".

Then Lord Arryn spoke " Excellent Morton that will be great aid for us in the upcoming battle . I will make sure to reward you after everything is settled ".

Morton " It's not nesessary my lord , and what I'm doing is just a duty of a loyal bannermen ".

John Arryn " Thank you lad I wished Lord Grafton had a sense like you . (Sigh) Well my Lord's I had already talked with Lord Grafton but he did not wanted to surrender and chose to stand against us . Robert you will lead the cavalrys . Yohn you should take the north wall and Horton Redfort will take the south . And ser Alan Winters if you would "?

I was a little surprised by it " Yes lord Arryn what can I do " ?

john Arryn " You have experience in this kind of warfare correct ? And the battering ram is designed by you so I want to give you the command for the assult of the main gate. Though you never pledged your loyalty to Robert but I can see that he truly trust you and you have done a remarkable deeds for the Vale . So as to show of my trust I give you this duty . And ones it destroyed our forces will poured in to City . "

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Showing trust my ars , all this old man wants to do is using me as mercenary Canon fodder . Or in this case a battering ram . But I still accepted it because I know I can do this because there are lots of memories inside my head about this kind of battle . I just have to command the soldiers that push the battering ram and protect them from those that came to destroy it . And the battering ram have lots arrow protection so that the soldiers won't need a shield . Ones the gate is down we will have the access to fight the enemy commenders . And one they're defeated ,Then rest of the soldiers morale will fall And the battle will be won .

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Hundreds will die from this pointless war but people like me will rise high from there dead body . I feel bad for this all this man's but that is all I can do .