Chapter 375

DOMERIC BOLTON POV

"There are 5000 horses behind you." Ygritte said with a frown "Gods… how many horses do the Lannisters have?"

"They had 8000-9000 cavalry at the start of this war." He said as he easily rode his horse at the front of his small army "My men have been chipping away at that number for the past 2 weeks but I'm not surprised they still have so many horse riders remaining in their army."

Ygritte joined his army on her own horse and looked over at the enemy cavalry with some fear "Will our trap be enough?" she asked.

"Definitely." He replied "I've created the trap with double that number of cavalry in mind so they won't be able to escape no matter what."

Then he finally saw the hill in front of him and said "Varko! Take half the men to the left. Baka! Take half to the right."

He turned to Ygritte then "Ygritte. Go and inform the crossbowmen, the giants and the bowmen to be ready."

His subordinates followed his orders and took a semicircle position over the hill surrounding the large clearing that would soon turn into a tomb for the cavalry coming behind them.

Soon enough, he could see the Lannister Cavalry coming at the clearing.

The men and horses at the front were peppered with arrows from his horse archers.

He waited until the cavalry came near 100 meters from his position before he gave the signal to the men who quickly raised a large number of palisades made of pointy spears in front of him before they turned and then quickly left afterwards.

He waited and waited as the Lannister came forward and moved their horses around the palisades to try to get to him.

None of them had died so far but that was understandable. He never intended those palisades to kill in the first place.

It was just meant as a delaying tactic.

As the front part of the cavalry slowed down to navigate through the palisades, the end part of the cavalry caught up and created a large and messy crowd of horse behind them.

He smiled at that and raised his hand and let it fall.

A few moments later, an arrow of fire flew over the Lannister Cavalry who slowed down for a moment to look at the arrow sail above them before it eventually came down and.

BOOMM!!! BBOMM!!! BOOOM!!!

Continuous wildfire explosions shook the earth as caches buried underground continued to explode until the whole area behind the Lannister Cavalry was surrounded by a literal sea of flames.

A sea of flames that burned the tall grass they were standing on and was slowly spreading toward the Lannister army.

Panic instantly took over the cavalry as they tried to move forward as quickly as possible to get away from the sea of flames.

More then a few horses collided with each other during the ensuing panic and anyone that fell was quickly trampled up by the others.

He crossed the wooden bridges that his men used to cross the large trenches and took out his staff from the bottomless bag.

With a wave of his wand, he cut through all the bridges behind him and the climbed to the top of the hill where his men were waiting in hiding.

He watched at the first horsemen came out of the palisade trap and started riding toward him with his sword raised high.

The man never reached him.

A few meters later, the ground beneath the horse gave way and the man fell into a 5 feet deep trench.

A few behind him followed in the same footsteps before the others learned and tried to circumvent around the trenches or to simply jump over it.

He turned to Ygritte and nodded.

She gave the signal and the archers who had been in hiding so far came out and positioned their arrow and bolts at the enemy army.

The Lannister men didn't stop. By this point, they must have realized just badly they had fucked up but had no other choice left except to continue moving forward.

Ygritte gave the signal and over 3000 arrows and bolts flew in the air and rained down upon the Lannister army.

The sounds of dying men immediately started to reverberate throughout the entire clearing as the crossbowmen pumped their crossbows, reloading the next bolt and continued to fire at the enemy while the bowmen nocked another arrow and released.

Credits where it was due. The Lannister knights had decent quality armor as well as a kite shield and only a few of them died from the first barrage or projectiles.

But then the rain of arrows and bolts continued and more and more of them started dying.

The panic caused by this made them hurry. They tried to escape from the side by climbing the hill or jumping across the trenches.

They couldn't climb the hill as it was too steep but a fair few succeeded in jumping across the trenches and coming just that bit closer to him and his men.

He gave another hand signal and a few minutes later, the 30 giants took their bows and went down the hill in a single file.

They nocked their magical arrows and released.

The magical arrows that he'd carved runes upon turned in duplicated into 8 different giant arrows in mid air and then fell upon the horse riders in the lead, pierced through them and pierced through one or two row before stopping.

It was as if 300 scorpion bolts had been launched at once.

He heard Varko curse under his breath at the brutal display.

The Lannister men paused for a moment but then continued.

They jumped across the bodies of their comrades and tried to get away from the fire coming from behind them or just to get away from the rain of projectiles.

In the end, it was all futile.

By the end of the hour, his men had decimated the Lannister cavalry.

Not a single man that Tywin sent after them survived.