Chapter 185: King's Landing

According to the plan of Daenerys and Alaric, while Alaric went to King's Landing to sow chaos in the Seven Kingdoms, Daenerys had her own mission here, which was to sweep across the Dothraki Sea.

After Alaric burned Khal Drogo and his men to death with dragon fire, Daenerys took over Drogo's Khalasar, which was the most powerful Khalasar on the entire Dothraki Sea. No other Khalasar could match Drogo's.

Now, with this Khalasar as her foundation, Daenerys established the most powerful cavalry in the entire Essos, even surpassing the Westeros knights.

As a nomadic people who lived by raiding, the Dothraki were natural cavalrymen, with riding skills superior to any knight. 

But they also had their shortcomings: they mainly relied on light cavalry and lacked heavy cavalry.

There was a reason for this. The Dothraki believed that wearing armor was the act of a coward. 

They typically wore painted leather vests, tied horsehair around their legs, and their weapons consisted of curved swords, longbows, and whips. 

Such cavalry were virtually invincible on the battlefield, but they lacked somewhat in siege warfare. In this regard, the Dothraki had learned painful lessons.

The most famous incident occurred over four hundred years ago in the Battle of Qohor.

At that time, the most powerful Khalasar on the Dothraki Sea, led by Khal Temmo, marched to attack Qohor, one of the Free Cities. 

The Qohorik hired two mercenary companies—the Bright Banners and the Second Sons—and later purchased three thousand Unsullied. 

When the Unsullied arrived, the Qohorik army was already in disarray. 

But after the Unsullied formed up in front of the city gates, the Dothraki charged them eighteen times and still couldn't break the Unsullied legion. 

After the battle, over twelve thousand Dothraki, including Khal Temmo himself, lay dead on the field.

The Unsullied were typical heavy infantry—although they called themselves light infantry—they were eunuch slave soldiers trained since childhood in Astapor (a city in Slaver's Bay). 

They were characterized by absolute obedience to their masters and fearlessness in the face of war. 

Their equipment included short swords, shields, long spears, and spiked helmets. 

They fought in a formation similar to the Roman phalanx, using tightly organized shield walls to defend against arrows and using a forest of long spears to repel cavalry charges. 

Faced with such opponents, even the Dothraki were helpless.

However, since joining Daenerys's ranks and adopting the faith of the Dragon God and following the divine messenger, the Dothraki's combat style had changed. 

They started wearing armor and light armor mass-produced from Pentos, greatly improving their defensive capabilities. 

In addition, Daenerys selected some young warriors who were faithful and willing to obey strict discipline. 

They wore heavy plate armor, switched to lances, and began training in modern heavy cavalry tactics like the wall charge.

The nomadic cavalry, already unmatched, combined with the equipment produced by agricultural civilizations—almost industrialized—and heavy cavalry tactics, the chemical reaction produced by the two had long since formed the cavalry force capable of sweeping across the entire Essos, which Daenerys named the Dragon Wing Cavalry.

With such a cavalry force, along with infantry composed of the people of Pentos and various mercenary groups, Daenerys, armed with this formidable power, was ready to conquer the entire Dothraki Sea.

According to Alaric's estimate, within a year, the Seven Kingdoms would fall into chaos and civil war. 

By then, Daenerys should have unified the Dothraki Sea, and the focus could shift to Slaver's Bay, where she could do something she had long wanted—free the slaves of Slaver's Bay.

After that, it was only natural for the Free Cities to openly declare allegiance, and then she would lead her army across the Narrow Sea, land in Dorne, and launch a counterattack against the Seven Kingdoms.

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After Daenerys secretly mobilized her forces, Alaric also began his journey to Westeros. 

Everything in Pentos had been arranged, the leadership of the divine messenger was handed over to Melisandre, which Alaric was confident about, and the internal affairs of Pentos were entrusted to Arianne.

With her dedication and months of getting along, she could now be considered a trustworthy person—on this point, Alaric was quite confident in his abilities—although Arianne herself did not possess the great leadership and charisma of Daenerys, her political acumen and cunning were quite remarkable. 

Even in terms of political maneuvering, she far surpassed Daenerys herself. 

Although she couldn't compare to Daenerys as a ruler, in handling political affairs, her methods were much more mature than Daenerys's.

So, Alaric himself disguised himself and boarded a merchant ship under Daenerys's banner, heading for King's Landing.

The distance from Pentos to King's Landing was not far, it was closer to King's Landing than any other Free City. In just one week, the merchant ship arrived at the port of King's Landing.

At this moment, Alaric stood on the deck, gazing at the entire King's Landing.

Three hundred years ago, this highland was completely covered by forests, with only scattered fishermen settling on the north bank of the rushing and deep Blackwater Rush.

Later, the ancestor of Daenerys, Aegon the Conqueror, came across the sea from Dragonstone, and his army landed here.

Then he built his first crude defensive fortress on the highest hilltop with wood and mud.

Now, as far as Alaric could see, it had become a prosperous urban area, with mansions, pavilions, granaries, brick warehouses, wooden inns, and market stalls, taverns, graveyards, and brothels, one after another. 

Even from a distance, he could still hear the hustle and bustle of the fish market.

Wide avenues lined with trees, winding narrow streets, and alleys so narrow that two people could not walk side by side passed between buildings. 

The marble walls of the Great Sept of Baelor surrounded the top of Visenya's Hill, with seven crystal towers towering within. 

On the other side of Rhaenys's Hill, there were ruins of Dragonpits, collapsed domes, and bronze gates closed for a century.

 Between the two hills, the Silent Sisters' Street ran straight like an arrow, while the solid city walls surrounded the outside.

Over a hundred docks lined the waterfront, with countless ships moored in the harbor. 

Deepwater fishing boats and river ferries came and went endlessly, and boatmen paddled back and forth on the Blackwater Bay. 

Alaric recognized that most of the surrounding merchant ships came from Pentos because their styles were very different from the medieval-style ships in this world.

Alaric recognized them because their designs were based on the galleons and schooners of Earth that he personally designed. 

These two types of ships' mature designs had been validated in Earth's age of exploration. These merchant ships continuously unloaded various goods from Pentos.

In addition, Alaric also saw a gorgeously decorated yacht moored next to a whaling ship with a deep draft and a hull coated in black tar. 

Upstream, there were about ten long, narrow warships, their sails furled, and their iron rams gently tapping the water.

Overlooking all of this was the Red Keep on Aegon's Hill. 

It consisted of seven huge drum towers reinforced with steel fortifications, a massive and imposing fortress tower, a round hall with closed bridges, barracks, dungeons, granaries, and brick warehouses, as well as thick defensive walls adorned with arrow slits, all made of reddish stones. 

Aegon the Conqueror ordered the construction of this castle, and his son, Cruel Maegor, completed it. 

After its completion, he beheaded all the stonemasons, carpenters, and architects involved in its construction, vowing that only true Targaryens could master the secrets of the Dragon's fortress.

But now, the flags fluttering on the walls were gold instead of black. 

Where the three dragons once breathed fire, it had become the domain of the Baratheon family's crowned stag, galloping proudly.

However, Alaric believed that the flames of the dragons would burn here again, and soon the black dragon flag would fly here once more.

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