The aftermath

Tyrion Lannister ''if you want to anger a Prussian, compare their tercios with the Unsullied''

Randyll Tartly POV

I was exhausted, not even 2 hours had passed since we surrendered to the enemy forces, the adrenaline had already left my body and the hunger returned I hadn't eaten since yesterday and my body started to ache from the deadly combat I had against those men I only managed to kill 5, but I felt like I fought against 20, for the first time my sword did not cut through the armor in most cases it got stuck and after a lot of pressure I was able to cut their bearer, I can understand why they only use blunt weapons it is easier to give a strong blow than to look for the weak part of the armor.

The Prussian camp was well-built, even if we defeated them, they had a place to retreat to, the camp had a ditch and a wooden palisade with 2 guard towers at each entrance

escape, it was out of the question, we were chained by the ankles in groups of 10 unless one of us got the keys I would have to convince 9 others to escape and just looking around, morale was at rock bottom, from hunger and exhaustion.

When I continued thinking about how to get something to eat, it seems that the seven heard me, a young man approached our group with a pot, bowls and spoons, the young man asked us if we wanted to eat, apparently they don't speak our language, I quickly nodded I would eat anything at this moment.

It was a porridge with apple, some strips of dried meat and some dried fruits, they offered us all not only to the nobles, and they all gave us the same, they did not distinguish if someone was of noble birth or small folk

I thought I heard Lord Mace shouting to be given something more worthy of his rank.

As I was finishing my meal, I was approached by a knight who had his white tabard covered in crimson blood.

''Are you Lord Tarly the commander of the Tyrell right flank?'' the knight asked

''I am, what do you need from me?'' returning his gaze.

''My king has been delighted with your stubborn resistance, and he invites you to an assembly with him to discuss certain matters'' the knight asserted

''may I refuse?'' i said

''Of course you can, but that will disappoint my king, since he only wishes to apply the Prussian military customs against the defeated commander, although we only use it when a commander is competent and you sir have demonstrated much competence in strategy'' said the knight with much eloquence.

mmhhh what does that man want me for, maybe he wants to buy my Valyrian steel sword or kill me to keep it for himself?

''All right, take me to your king, ser?'' I said asking the knight

"Charles of Orleans Grand Master of the Teutonic Order" he said puffing out his chest.

they removed the chains from my ankles and reconnected them with my 9 companions, after that, I entered the camp arriving to the only tent that was different from the rest, entering the tent I saw that it was guarded by more knights like the one that was escorting me, they must be a special guard or something like that, finally I find myself in front of who was my captor was a young man who must be barely 15 years old.

''I suppose you are Lord Tarly, I am Friedrich Wilhelm king in Prussia'' said the young man

''yes, what do you need me for young king'' I said with an aggressive tone.

''come on no hard feelings, I just wanted to meet you, according to the reports of my men, you gave stiff resistance, more than I expected myself, I should have changed my battle plans just for you'' he said pointing to a map, which was the best map I had seen of Ashford you could see every irregularity of the terrain, that's how they hid their men.

''I see, worse I still don't understand why I'm here, will I be entitled to ransom or will I be a prisoner for a long time'', I said asking

''well I doubt you can pay your ransom, your castle is already in my possession, relax your wife is fine, and you won't be a prisoner for long''.

What? They took my fortress, how?, ''then how will you release me I have nothing to pay my ransom with, will you send me to the wall, or will you hang me?''I said with an aggressive tone

''relax, nothing bad is going to happen to you, I just want to fulfill the Prussian military custom'' said my captor, I don't like at all that he can read me like a book, this is worse than standing in front of Olenna Tyrell

''what would be this tradition you are talking about'' I asked with serious tone

''in front of a defeated commander, if he proved his ability, he must be honored, not humiliated with the capture, I invite you to eat with me and then offer your freedom, only on the condition that you promise not to raise your weapon against me again'' he said almost as if he was reading a book by memory.

I accepted I did not understand this tradition, but I was not going to refuse the opportunity to be free without paying the ransom, they gave me back my armor and sword and brought me food, it was no different from what they gave me before.

''I apologize Lord Tarly, I do not usually eat more than I give my men, I do not usually impose measures if I am not able to bear them myself'' he said with an apologetic tone

''no, I understand and it is admirable that you refrain from eating more than your men very few are the ones who can control their gluttony'' I said with some admiration.

It is rare this young king, I only know a few people who would do that and I include myself, but only when I have been unlucky in hunting a stag or a wild boar.

''Lord Tarly I have a question about the customs of the seven kingdoms.''he said asking

''what is it if I can answer it'' I said looking him in the eyes

''you see the Valyrian sword of house roxton, orphan-maker is now in my possession and Lord roxton's family is no longer among us, unfortunately his lady wife decided to take her own life thinking she would be raped by my men and threw herself from the keep with her 2 sons, who would be the rightful owner of such a magnificent sword'' the young man asked with doubt

''the history of the sword itself is worthy of analysis, unwin peake took possession of it for his life, but when he died the peake family returned the sword to the roxtons, lord roxton has no ties to another house, the sword should be yours by right of war'' I said with a serious tone.

''I see, Lord tarly feel free to retire at any time, you will be given a horse to ride home and we will release some of your men to accompany you and take this letter, give it to the commander of the garrison at Hornhill to return possession of your castle to you''.said the young king

I left the tent in disbelief, I didn't think I would actually be released, they gave me about 20 horses and released 19 of my men, they gave us supplies and I set off for home.

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Friedrich Wilhelm POV

''How was my performance Charles?'' I said raising my eyebrows

''worthy of a Greek tragedy, my king'' said the Teuton laughing.

''but why did I want to free Lord Tarly?'' he said incredulously

''you see I am more and more sure that they did not respect the contract we have signed rumors of the church calling for the small folk to rise against me are more and more recurrent but they do not happen because we have not committed any harm against them only against the faith of the seven, but surely the supreme septon will do something'' I said looking at the battle map.

''then in the best case we will receive a ransom for the castles, this way I leave a political opponent of the tyrells moderately intact'' I said without much importance.

the tyrells had a lot of letters on how to deal with Lord Tarly because of their hatred for Lady Olenna and now I leave things a bit complicated for the tyrells if they don't respect my contract and if they respect it I will have a vassal who will think well of me.

''Now send for Von Ruppin, I will give him his punishment for defying my orders'' I said in a cold tone

''at your command my king''.said the Teuton Knight

I waited for 10 minutes until the figure of Lothar von Ruppin appeared through the entrance.

''You sent for me, my king? Lothar asked

''that's right, I suppose you know why I sent for you'' I said in a serious tone.

''I have an idea why I am here'' he said, looking me in the eyes.

''Why Lothar, why did you do it, why did you act against the faith of the seven?'' I said with an angry tone

''sir they are heathens, they do not deserve our mercy'' he said in a serious manner.

''do you realize what you have provoked, I have reports of how the local septon are calling to rise against us, your childish actions could cost us our contract with the future king Robert, and why, just because they are heathens?'' I said angrily

''DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM THE RELIGIOUS WAR HOW THEY BURNED OUR BROTHERS IN FAITH FOR THEIR THINKING AND YOU DAMN FOOL DO ALMOST THE SAME,14000 LIVES WASTED IN THIS CAMPAIGN AND FOR WHAT, THEY DIED IN VAIN BECAUSE OF YOU, VON RUPPIN, THEY WILL NOT HONOR OUR CONTRACT, IF THEIR FAMILIES WERE HERE, WHAT WOULD WE TELL THEM? THAT WE DIDN'T GET ANYTHING BECAUSE OF YOU, BECAUSE OF YOUR CARELESS, EH, ANSWER IDIOT'' I shouted

''my king...I...I ask your forgiveness for my actions''he said looking at the ground and kneeling

''oh then all is forgiven von ruppin, magically my 14000 men will revive and the faith of the seven will forget what you did just because you asked for forgiveness''I said with a sarcastic tone

''if it wasn't because of you, we survived the Great Religious War, I would have you crucified by now Lothar and for that, your punishment will be light, but ruin my plans again, and I will make sure that in your next punishment you will beg for your death.''

''Lothar von Ruppin as your king, I suspend your position as captain general of my armies until further notice, you will not be able to enter high command when we determine future strategy and I will give you some mission in the future to earn my forgiveness, that's all, get out of my sight, NOW''

When lothar came out of my tent, it took me a while to calm down.

''Guards call Aleksanteri'' I shouted, so I wouldn't have to deal with the protocol.

After about 15 minutes, Aleksanteri appears in my tent with his typical smile.

''wow my king you are angry, your screams were heard all over the camp'' he said smiling

''I'm not in the mood for jokes, I have missions for you, I want you to put your best men to watch Lothar if he tries anything that puts us in danger you are authorized to kill him, I also need you to look for any weakness in the king's landing, corrupt guards, secret tunnels, lords that want to defect whatever you find you report to me, is that clear?'', I said with a grim tone

''Yes my king, it is clear, you will hear from us soon'' he said as he bowed

''before you go, inform them to send a raven to Lord Arryn, he may want to know what happened here'' I said as I turned back to my reports of the recent battle.

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Varys Pov 5 days after Ashford

my little birds have been quiet in The reach and in all the castles of the Tyrell bannermen, I have not received any of their songs in more than 15 days, I had no choice but to send more of my little birds, so they could find their nests, and it was not long before their beautiful songs reached my ears

but their songs were dire, they brought bad news for the good of the realm, apparently the pretender Robert Baratheon got a ''HUGE'' company of mercenaries to fight for him, they had conquered The Reach in less than 20 days and defeated the Tyrell army with minimal casualties, while the tyrell were crushed losing almost half of their army in the battle, this information must be delivered to the king, but unfortunately, he would only order ''Burn them all'', so I decided to go to prince Rhaegar, so he can tell what to do, taking advantage of the fact that he had recently returned from dorne

''My lord prince I fear I am the bearer of bad news, my little birds have been singing a terrible song, and they say that a great army is currently in the south, and they had defeated Mace Tyrell'' I told him in my calm voice.

The prince's eyes opened wide.

''Are you sure? Because we never heard of that army until now'' I said the prince with a worried tone

''I'm afraid they were very skilled at finding my little birds, and they took it upon themselves to make sure they couldn't sing back to me, only recently I sent new little birds to the south and this terrible news has reached me''.

Prince Rhaegar was silent for a few seconds when he looked me in the eyes again.

''I am going to gather a great army, I will recruit as many men as I can, but we also need to ask for help from Dorne, go and tell Grand Maester Pycelle to send a letter to the Martells, to send us everything they can, specifically pointing out the terrible situation we are in, hopefully they will arrive before that great army finishes cleaning up the remains of the Tyrell army, I am going to try to talk to my father to get permission to recruit'' Prince Rhaegar said very upset.

''I will go talk to the grand maester, I wish you good luck with the meeting with your father, the welfare of the realm depends on us being able to overcome these adversities that fate presents us''I said to the prince and proceeded to warn the grand maester

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Jon Arryn POV 2 days later

We were camped near Lord Harroway Town where we could receive reinforcements from the north and the valley as we prepared for the inevitable final conflict, we were in the process of a meeting with several local lords to see if we could crush the river lords who were still loyalist

''we must finish off the Darry's before we go south'' declared Lord Hoster

''we still don't know what the royalists are planning, to commit to a siege would be a bad idea'' said Lord bracken.

This was the problem every day, lord Hoster did not have much control over his bannermen several joined the royalist side and some did not answer the call to arms, every day there was a conflict of what to do, how to do it and when to achieve it, leaving us almost stuck in this position where we can respond to any threat quickly, but we have not taken the initiative.

Besides, I haven't heard from Lord Hohenzollern in almost a moon, sometimes I think the worst that he was defeated by the Tyrells or worse that he has switched sides that great army in the hands of the mad king is keeping me awake at night.

It all looked like it was going to be another normal day of fighting between the lords when a soldier of house Tully arrived at our tent.

''Lord Hoster, Lord Arryn, I have a message for both of you, one from Lord Hohenzollern and one from Lord Brynden,'' he said.

The soldier handed us the messages and I broke the seal of the letter and read it

(The reach under my control, Tyrell Army defeated, all the lords are under my Custody except Lord Redwine and the lords of the shield islands, I await instructions)

Friedrich Wilhelm II king in Prussia

when I read the information that Lord Hohenzollern gave us I could only smile, this was the best news I had received in years, not only did he defeat the Tyrells, but he eliminated any possibility that the crown could recruit soldiers in those territories, the war was already won, we just had to give the final blow.

''What does the letter say, Lord Arryn hasn't stopped smiling since you opened it'' Lord Blackwood asked

''do you remember the mercenary company we contracted with Lord Hohenzollern, he has defeated the Tyrells and has occupied their territories''I said smiling

Silence ruled the tent, everyone was astonished about the achievements of this man, some only had faith that he would take some castles and leave the Tyrells occupied long enough to try to end the war, but he did not achieve everything, while everyone celebrated and had happy faces, everyone was looking at Lord Hoster who had a face of few friends.

''what happened Lord Hoster your brother has bad news'' I asked Lord Hoster

''nothing, but my brother tells me in great detail what he did in The Reach with one of Lord Hohenzollern's officers, it seems that now they are good friends'' he said angrily

''bah forget about that we must celebrate, that day the Targaryen scum are more and more of their end and I will be able to get my betrothed back'' said King Robert with a jug of wine in his hand and a maiden in the other.

They all shouted in jubilation

I don't understand how Robert can talk about getting his betrothed back while he's grabbing another woman's tits in front of his betrothed's brother, or how Lord Eddard doesn't react.

Now all that remains is for us to agree on what to do.

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I read what I wrote in chapter 2 and realized I was wrong, it was either short but frequent chapters or long but more infrequent chapters, but I still guarantee chapters over 2.2k words 5 times a week.