-Chapter 101-

-Chapter 101-

-POV MC-

"Why did I have to withdraw?" Viserys said furiously but made sure not to raise his voice at me.

I smiled inwardly and then said: "Listen and learn."

"Have you managed to get a hold of the number of our remaining forces?" I said, looking at Jonothor in the midst of a discussion with the officers under his command.

He nodded and then said, "We've lost about 3 cohorts of heavy infantry and almost an entire cohort of crossbowmen."

I frowned and then said, "Order your soldiers to hide in the ruins as we planned these last few days."

"This is the last emergency plan, your majesty, with all due respect we had managed to push them back to the sea and now they are currently landing all their remaining forces we have only one and a half cohort of heavy infantry soldiers and…"

"Jonothor, obey and have faith in me, our victory is beyond doubt," I said.

I knew Jonothor well, and I also knew that in his eyes, each of his men was like a family member, but unfortunately for him, I did not have the luxury of thinking like him, I was a ruler and 40 million souls entirely rested on me the life.

He sighed and then said, "You heard the orders, deploy your men in the streets and ruins of Lordsport we are going to trap them at the city's entrance."

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-POV Theon Greyjoy-

I frowned as I watched Aegon's soldiers continue to retreat, I knew Aegon and to say the least he was vicious, impulsive but also very calculative, he wasn't really a kind of genius but he made up for all his shortcomings with knowledge unknown to his opponent.

I observed what remained of Lordsport and realized that the knowledge that was unknown to me was my environment.

"Stop our men," I suddenly said, looking at my uncle.

He frowned without saying anything and then I said, "They are hiding in the ruins of Lordsport, they are setting a trap for us."

"Even a monkey could realize that Theon but we have no other choice but to continue to fight, if we wait and besiege him we will simply give him more time to gather his men and prepare his counter-attack."

"No, you don't understand it's a game for him, he gave us a bone to gnaw on and now he's taken it away and he expects us to run after it like good little dogs."

"Theon if you don't want to fight and you're scared I understand but stay out of my way."

He turned to the crowd of ironborn who had finally all landed and then he yelled:

"IRONBORN WITH ME."

I shook my head and then followed him praying that I was wrong.

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-POV 3rd-

The last-chance strategy that King Aegon had prepared was simple, the infantry troops would place themselves in a defensive line in the alleys of Lordsport and once they get engaged the crossbowmen and archers placed nearby in ambush will kill all the ironborn.

It was rather simple but in reality, it was a tactic only imagined to buy time because the ironborn were far more numerous than the soldiers of the eighth legion, there were still more than 25,000 ironborn while the number of heavy infantry of the eighth legion had been reduced to 1500 soldiers and the number of crossbowmen and archers to 2,000 soldiers.

Victarion Greyjoy at the head of the ironborn yelled at the city that seemed deserted: "COME OUT OF YOUR HIDING I KNOW YOU'RE THERE IF YOU COME OUT I WILL MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SOFT DEATH."

The ironborn behind him laughed but despite his provocations, no one responded to his provocations.

Seeing that his enemies ignored him, Victarion Greyjoy ordered his men to split up, find, and kill every person hiding and execute them without delay.

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-POV Gormond Goodbrother-

"Split up and as soon as you find one come back and inform me immediately," I ordered my officers.

The three nodded and then each took 100 men with them to find where these dogs of the bastard king were hiding.

"Be careful," one of my men pushed me aside before being pierced by a crossbow bolt.

"Raise your shields," I yelled but it was already too late.

Hundreds of arrows fell on us I quickly observed the places from where they were shooting and I realized they were hiding everywhere on the roofs in the houses in carts in front of us, behind us they were everywhere.

I grabbed a shield and hid behind it in time for an arrow to sink into it and stop just before piercing my eye.

I looked around me and saw that a dozen soldiers from the royal army were coming straight at us quickly.

They looked like nothing we had known before, they were armed and protected by steel from head to toe,not on the level of knights but they were dressed in quality armor, the only ones who could compare to them were the Lannisters.

I smiled bitterly and then yelled, "FOR THE DROWNED GOD!"

A few of my men followed me in my desperate charge, I ran straight at these soldiers and attacked the unprotected parts of their armor, but instead of confronting me, they hid behind their shields.

I felt an excruciating pain and it was as I turned my head that I saw one of the soldiers had pierced my flank, I caught his gaze and all I saw in it was disgust and disdain.

'Son of a bitch the Drowned God will avenge us in the other world,' I thought as I felt my consciousness clouding.