Chapter 439: Heading to King's Landing
Perhaps there has never been a moment in the history of the Seven Kingdoms as fascinating as this.
Dragons, giants, Dothraki, and White Walkers, they all gathered on the land of Westeros to fight each other.
In contrast, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, the First Men, or the Andals, many of whom have ancient bloodlines dating back to the Age of Heroes thousands of years ago, were battered in this war.
The human alliance defeated the White Walkers, but the alliance disintegrated in an instant. The remnants of the Targaryens, leading the barbarians, broke through the Twins and Riverrun, and the nobles of the Riverlands surrendered.
The Tully family also voluntarily submitted under fire and curved blades, and Viserys stripped them of the title of Protector of the Riverlands, reducing them to an ordinary count's family.
The Tully family joined Aegon's army under the dragon banner because they resisted King Harren's rule. After the dragon fire burned Harrenhal, Aegon appointed them as the rulers of the Riverlands. However, the Tully family's rule over the Riverlands ended in Viserys' hands.
Edmure Tully's title of Duke didn't even last a night before he became Lord Edmure Tully of Riverrun.
All the Riverlands nobles who had sworn allegiance to him not long ago looked at him a little strangely.
The Dothraki took control of the entire Riverrun, and the king who was under house arrest by the Tully soldiers naturally fell into Viserys' hands.
Viserys went to see Robert, whose mental state was not too bad. He didn't seem to have suffered too much from repeated betrayals and imprisonment.
He was just angry about the death of Barristan Selmy and hoped that Viserys could order the execution of Marlin Trant, who had broken his oath.
As for the fate of this man... Viserys felt that Marlin Trant didn't quite understand.
No king would dare to use such a person as his Kingsguard. Cruel and cunning, his character is even worse than a regicide. It's no wonder that Robert's Kingsguard is considered the worst in history.
Marlin Trant killed Barristan Selmy from behind. His actions not only didn't help Viserys, but they also smeared Viserys' name.
People would suspect that Marlin Trant had been in contact with him a long time ago, but in fact, he hadn't, and Viserys wouldn't use such a treacherous person.
Therefore, such a person, if not killed, would not be enough to appease the public's anger. Killing him could also clear Viserys' name.
The dragon settled in Riverrun, and under the joint witness of countless Riverlands nobles, Tully soldiers, and Dothraki, Marlin Trant was executed in front of Barristan Selmy's body.
The legendary knight, who was well-known in the Seven Kingdoms and was assassinated by a traitor, was solemnly buried after Marlin Trant was executed.
He was buried in a beautiful place outside Riverrun. A stone tablet was erected in front of the grave, which wrote the story of 'Fearless Barristan' and a sentence personally written by Viserys in the Common Tongue.
"He lived as a knight, and he died as a knight."
After the Tully family surrendered and Barristan Selmy was buried, a day passed in a blink of an eye.
At night, Viserys stayed in Riverrun. The master bedroom where the old Duke Hoster lived before his death became Viserys' temporary bedroom.
This is the most luxurious bedroom in the whole Riverrun, and it has been cleaned by the servants. There is no trace of war, and even the bloody smell of last night is gone, but there is a bit more of a woman's rouge scent.
On the first night after the end of the war, the Riverlands nobles, either fearful or ambitious.
Because everyone knows that the position of Protector of the Riverlands is vacant now, and the former ruler has been reduced to an ordinary count.
If they want to seize this opportunity, just like the Tully family who was favored by Aegon and became the Protector of the Riverlands for three hundred years, now is the best time.
The king is resting in Riverrun, and the Riverlands nobles began to have their own thoughts. They sent some of the wives and daughters of the defeated nobles, and even more ruthlessly, they sent their own wives.
Among them, a woman named Hildy was the wife of a sworn knight under the command of Lord Tytos Blackwood.
She even tried to sneak into Viserys' bedroom in the middle of the night, but was caught by the Dothraki guard at the door.
The restless night passed quickly. Although Viserys is a vigorous man, he is not indiscriminate.
He did not favor any of the noble ladies who took the initiative to come to him, mainly because they were... not very pleasing to his eyes.
...
On the morning of the third day.
Viserys dressed up, with a metal dragon head badge on his left chest, wearing a black and red cloak, with a velvet lining.
"Your Majesty."
"Your Majesty."
He appeared in the hall of Riverrun, all the Riverlands nobles including the new Lord Tully also sat down below with respectful attitudes.
After a day of rest, today Viserys will gather his army and head straight to King's Landing along the main road suitable for the army to march along the River Road.
Because Arianne is already pregnant, he changed his plan to first conquer King's Landing, ascend the Iron Throne, and claim the legitimate name. After getting married in the Great Sept of Baelor, he will launch the second government war to recover the whole territory.
Viserys brought more than 20,000 Dothraki from Pentos. After two major battles with the White Walkers and the Alliance, several thousand people were lost, and now only 18,000 people are left.
However, in the Battle of Riverrun, more than 20,000 Alliance prisoners were captured at once. The vast majority of them chose to surrender and became a member of the Targaryen army.
The scale of Viserys' army has doubled. In the case of insufficient armor and food, the nobles of the Riverlands generously donated, plus the spoils collected from the Alliance camp, armor, weapons, etc...
Woo~
Then the melodious horn sounded, and the dragon flew in the sky and let out a dull roar.
Boom——
Boom——
On the ground, two giants stepped heavily, and every step they took on the ground, the earth was slightly trembling.
"Our target is that Iron Throne, great Dothraki warriors, take it back for our Khal!"
"Roar~"
The sun rises in the east, the Red Fork River is flowing quietly, it seems to have washed away the blood of a few days ago.
In the Targaryen army, people shout and horses neigh, countless Dothraki are surrounded on both sides, along with the newly surrendered Alliance soldiers.
Boom——
The army marched, they held
high the three-headed dragon flag of the Targaryen family, along the wide and flat River Road, they set off from Riverrun and headed straight to King's Landing.