Chapter 86

As the sun rose in its usual fashion, its rays illuminated the vast expanse of the blue sea, casting a warm glow between the dark yellow sandstones. However, the same sun also shone upon a mountain road that was stained red with blood, a grim and unsettling sight amidst the otherwise serene beauty of the morning.

After a surprise counterattack last night, the Reach retook the ridge.

On that not-so-spacious mountain road, wooden fences were erected and trenches dug overnight, waiting for the Dornishmen to attack again.

On the other hand, on Dorne's side, once the results of many days of hard work were wiped out, morale was inevitably severely hit.

Coupled with the fact that the reinforcements of the Reach had arrived, many Dornish soldiers began to feel that there might be no hope of conquering the pier in front of them.

Fortunately, Princess Arianne had just unified the understanding of the middle and high levels of the army and made an oath, so no one dared to retreat lightly.

But even so, she knew that if nothing was done, the morale of the army would continue to drop, and the pier in front of her might become a fortress that could never be conquered.

And if it goes on like this, it's obviously not good for Dorne.

After all, they are the offensive side, and the loss will be greater.

What's more, Reach was already richer than Dorne, so if it really started a protracted war of attrition, Dorne would be dragged down sooner or later.

This must be done quickly!

Princess Arianne's gaze slowly swept across the faces of the knights in front of her, and finally settled on Gerold Dayne from High Hermitage City.

"Sir Gerold, please lead the attack today!"

"Yes! Princess !" Gerold replied loudly without hesitation.

"Sir Ulwyck, please take charge of the second round of attack."

"Yes, Princess!"

"Sir Perros, you are in charge of the third round."

"Yes, Princess!"

…

After arranging the order of attack, the knights were about to to leave, but Princess Arianne unexpectedly spoke again, something surprisingly:

"Everyone, please take turns attacking in this order, nonstop day and night! Until the Reach soldiers are completely driven out of our territory!"

"Non-stop day and night?" Someone couldn't help exclaiming, "Princess , do you really want to do this ?"

"That's right!" Princess Arianne's tone was similar to Dorne , hard as gravel, "We can't give the people of Reach any chance to breathe!"

"But..."

"This is my final decision!" Princess Arianne interrupted forcefully before the man finished speaking, "Could it be that you have forgotten your previous oath so quickly?"

At this moment, Gerold Dayne took a step forward and said loudly,

"I support Princess decision!"

Immediately, the knights of the Uller family echoed loudly:

"We Support Princess decision!"

Then came the knights of the Blackmont family...

seeing more and more knights sided with Princess Dorne, the remaining few who had opinions also shut their mouths and did not dare to say more.

"Very good!" Princess Arianne yanked out her blood-stained sword and ordered like a queen, "My knights, please prove your valor with the blood of your enemies! Please show your bravery with a glorious victory."

"Glory!"

"For Priness Arianne!" Gerald Dayne was the first to draw out his long sword, roaring at the top of his lungs.

The rest of the people also responded one after another:

"For Princess Arianne!"

...

The drums of war were ringing, and the Dornishmen launched attack again.

But this time, they were even more aggressive.

However, since the Reach soldiers had reinforcements and the famous general Randyll Tarly was in command, they responded more calmly.

The brutal fighting continued from day to dusk, but even after dark, the Dornishmen continued to attack with torches.

Standing behind the fence, Samwell watched the Dornish soldiers rushing one after another in the flames, and couldn't help sigh,

"These Dornishmen are really crazy."

"Beasts before they die are the most crazy." Randyll Tarly dismissed this.

Samwell is not as confident as his father. Night battles are always the most prone to accidents. In the first battle with the savages on Eagle Island, the number one Tiger warrior almost killed him.

"The commander on the opposite side is Arianne Martell?" Earl Randyll asked.

"Yes."

"I didn't expect that Doran Martell, who is so good at forbearance, would give birth to such a fiery daughter." Earl Randyll pulled an inexplicable smile from the corner of his mouth, "The gods always like to use this kind of way to mock the world."

Samwell couldn't help but glance at his father, he always felt that Earl Randyll had something to say.

"If no one on the other side stops that girl, then Dorne has already lost this war." Earl Randyll's tone revealed strong confidence.

"Father, the Dornishmen are fighting against us now." Samwell was not so confident, "Even if there will be reinforcements from Brightwater Keep in the future, our strength is still inferior to the Dornishmen."

"Who said with more people you can easily win a war ? " Earl Randyll curled his lips in disdain.

Looking back at his son who seemed to be hesitant, Earl Randyll explained:

"She abandoned the most powerful tactics of the Dornish people, and instead used the method she is least good at fighting. Hehe, she really asking for her own death."

After finishing speaking, Earl Randyll turned and left.

Samwell pondered what his father said, and finally came to his senses.

Indeed, frontal attack is really the combat method that the Dornish people are least good at.

The real strength of the Dornish people lies in harassing guerrillas tactics.

Back then, Aegon Targaryen the "Conqueror" conquered the Six Kingdoms with the dragon, but only failed in Dorne.

Was the reason that the Dornish people were really strong enough to resist the dragon?

of course not.

Back then, the flames of the dragon almost reduced all the cities in Dorne to ashes, but the Dornish people never confronted the dragon head-on, but hid in the vast deserts, mountains, and forests, constantly attacking and harassing them. After nine years of tenacious struggle, the Targaryen family finally had no choice but to withdraw their troops.

That's what's really scary about the Dornishmen.

They are like poisonous snakes in the desert, stealthy and dangerous, always giving the enemy a fatal blow when they are most slack.

But now, under the command of Princess Arianne, they charged like a pack of mad dogs.

Thinking of this, Samwell completely relaxed, turned around and followed his father's footsteps, and decided to go back to rest.

...

In the next few days, the Dornish people's non-stop attack was indeed fruitful. They successfully captured more than a dozen defense lines of the Reach soldiers , and it seemed that they were one step closer to completely driving the Reach soldiers out of the Summer Sea.

And also in the past few days, more Reach reinforcements arrived one after another.

The Florent family, the Redwyne family, the Mullendore family, the Cuy family... Samwell was very excited when he saw the allies ships almost filling the port.

Sir Caesar laughed triumphantly, pretending not to know that these were actually his creditors.

With reinforcements, Samwell is ready to implement his plan of "surprise attack on High Hermitage City".

This plan has also been unanimously approved by the leaders who came to support. Of course, these people mainly decided to follow the boss because Randyll Tarly also agreed with this plan.

In the end, it was decided that Randyll Tarly and Samwell Caesar would lead the most elite 4,000 troops to carry out the plan, and Alekyne Florent would command the remaining nearly 2,000 people to stay to defend the pier and attract the attention of the Dornish warriors .

In order to conceal, the division plan was carried out in the middle of the night.

And in order to prevent the Dornish people from becoming suspicious when they saw the sudden drop in the number of people at the dock, Samwell also specially transferred a group of savage laborers from Eagle Island to make up the number.

Finally, after everything was ready, on a starry night, a troop transport fleet escorted by the Arbor Island fleet left the pier and went upstream along the Torentine River.

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