The king on the Great Wall

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But the time and the number of ships are completely insufficient.

Is it a hasty response made in an emergency, trying to rescue the trapped forward?

It seemed so, but it would have been better if I had known it would be a horizontal formation from the beginning.First use the striker as cannon fodder to send him into a dangerous situation, and then pull the formation in a panic to rescue him, lifting a rock to shoot himself in the foot, what is he playing?

Could it be that it is a special formation newly designed to deal with the enemy on both sides?

But Euron couldn't figure it out when he looked at it horizontally or vertically: How would the Queen's Fleet, which had already joined forces with Stannis' navy, deal with the next massive attack by the Iron Fleet?

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"Boom~"

The front line was already fighting in a group. In order to avoid accidental injury, several gunships in the center of the Queen's fleet stopped firing, but the silence did not last for 2 minutes, and was broken by the deafening salvo again.

It wasn't until he heard the exclamation of the crew, turned his head and saw the sailor pointing, and followed their eyes to see the big ripples and splashes beside the ship, that Euron came back to his senses: the other party turned around and started bombarding his fleet !

court death?

A fierce light flashed in the blue eyes that had never been blindfolded, and the evil thoughts and murderous desires suppressed by reason suddenly awoke.

I wanted to let the enemy live a little longer, but since they are impatient to seek death, then I will fulfill them!

"Order, full speed ahead! Whether it's Stannis or Daenerys' ship... take no prisoners today!"

The sound of war horns was more dull than that of the Royal Fleet, passed from one ship to another, and in a blink of an eye, the horns of the entire Iron Fleet were blown. Some of them were made by the islanders, but more of them were The trophies plundered in the process of plundering the Seven Kingdoms came from all over the world, so their sizes and timbres are also different.Immediately, the entire Black Water Bay seemed to be soaked by one after another of humming or high-pitched noises... Hearing the sound, the warships of the ironmen began to accelerate suddenly, pulling a wide horizontal array whose length was measured in miles, and fought fiercely towards the north. The dragon and deer fleets of the regiment rushed forward.

Euron has the right to be arrogant, although there are not as many as a thousand ships as claimed, but the Ironborn ships that participated in the battle today are indeed more than the combined of Stannis and Daenerys... hundreds of ships!

For the first two kings who have many supporters and acknowledgments, this naval battle may be just a part of the entire battle for King's Landing, but for the Iron Islands and Euron the Crow's Eye, this is a gamble on the "national fate", The first battle that really appeared in front of the world and showed its ambition.

Not only did he win this battle, but he also had to achieve victories that shocked the Seven Kingdoms and even the two sides of the Narrow Sea.

And to achieve such a goal, there is no better way than to wipe out Stannis and Daenerys' fleet in one battle!

Euron didn't dare to hope to fully realize this goal, but now that the Stannis fleet is attacking with all its forces, and the little queen's navy is blindly responding, the golden opportunity is in front of him!

The bows of hundreds of ships split the blue water, and directly in front of them, the queen's weird battle formation, which seemed to have defended against the ironmen, seemed bloated and unresponsive: the front line was caught in a close melee with the royal fleet; Half of the center line is trying in vain to rescue the front line and the other half is maneuvering in a panic; the rear line is barely in a combatable state facing the south... However, when the entire fleet is difficult to fight against the Iron Fleet , How long can this mere one-third of the ships last?

The huge array encircled the "snipes and clams" who were fighting fiercely like a huge fishing net. Because there were too many ships, the ironmen could not only easily achieve outflanking - but at the same time, they could attack Stannis With the Daenerys fleet, there is still room to send the fastest light longships to stab around the back.The situation of the battle seemed to be without any suspense, but the attacker still did not dare to be careless.Whether it was the small and powerful Icestrait Harbor Fleet created by the Northern Territory in cooperation with the Night Watchmen, or the astonishing rumors that the land-grant army by the Blackwater River had broken down into thousands by the hundreds, they were all alarmed.

The Iron Islands have already suffered several times from the damned night watchman, and this time they must not capsize again!

On the decks of the overwhelming fleet ships, there are sailors running around here and there - they are distributing buckets, wet cloths and shields.The explosive bombs and wildfires used by the defenders of the Great Wall left a deep impression and a huge psychological shadow on the Ironmen. If they encounter them again this time, at least they have made targeted preparations for these two weapons.

The sun gradually began to sink to the west, and the huge shadow of Aegon High Hill began to change from a small mass on the shore to a long and narrow sword, spreading from west to east at an alarming speed, and it was about to overwhelm the first person in the fierce battle. warband.Under continuous bombardment, the Iron Fleet approached the Daenerys fleet.The other party obviously also saw the identity of the flagship of the "Tranquility", and took care of this terrifying warship with black sails and red hulls in the random fire. The hull has already been hit by a shell, but Euron is still not afraid Standing firmly on the bow of the ship, he directed the fleet's attack without changing his face.

Euron could not be seen dodging fire.

With the morale of the mob he led, there might be a little trouble and something wrong, and there will be a crisis of collapse in an instant.

The formation has been disturbed by Stannis, and the queen's fleet struggled to pull the rear ships to the south of the entire fleet, forming a thin formation facing the Iron Fleet, which was dozens of ships captured from Volanti. The large ships of the Sri Armada, each of which has a tonnage not inferior to the Tranquility, lined up in a horizontal line is quite intimidating at first glance. If the crew is really replenished, it may not be able to withstand the first round of attacks, but only the two wings Surrounded...

Euron threw the huge long-handled ax from one hand to the other, relying on this boring repetitive action to restrain the mania and bloodthirsty impulse in his heart at the moment, he scanned the line of warships approaching by the Queen's fleet, and prepared Pick the unluckiest one and take it personally.

His pupils dilated suddenly - he suddenly saw a somewhat familiar long boat.

The two-hundred-foot-long black streamlined hull, the huge mast with the thickness of one person's arms, hundreds of long oars, a deck enough for two or three hundred people to stand... plus a huge steel ram without any fancy at the bow.Although it is still a long ship in shape, its design and construction are more about combat and sea control than plunder.

There are ships of this size everywhere, but there are only a handful of giant long ships of this shape in the entire world.

Even if it turns into ashes, Euron can't fail to recognize it: this is his younger brother, Vic, who was sent away from the Iron Islands to Meereen, and died under the dragon flames because of sounding the dragon's horn. Talion Greyjoy's ship, once the flagship of the Iron Fleet, "The Invincible Iron Bell"!

Is it my stupid brother who came back from the dead to be my enemy, or which bastard dares to touch my bad luck at this juncture and use this unsightly boat to provoke me?

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Chapter 612

All the Ironborn ships sent to Meereen by Euron fought against the Royal Fleet on the western front, only the "Invincible Iron Bell" was alone among the captured warships from Volantis to face the Iron Fleet come.

If the Crow's Eye was careful enough, that alone would be enough to make him suspicious and alert.

But Euron doesn't have the word "counseling" in his dictionary—everything he has today is based on "following the feeling" and recklessly coming out all the way!

He just wanted to order the Serenity to approach the long ship that shouldn't be there, but found that the other party was also coming towards him with a clear goal. It was so fast without lowering its sails that it even left the friendly ships on both sides far away. Behind... just such a ship took the lead and rushed towards the core of the first array of the Euron Fleet, which was composed of the archipelago's main longships.

"Hongyang Monster" and "Night Walker" also discovered this prominent and conspicuous giant longship, while projecting long-range attacks on it, they actively moved closer to "Serenity" to cooperate and protect the flagship.Both sides are advancing at full speed, and they are heading towards each other. The speed at which they are approaching each other can be described as astonishingly fast.With a loud clatter that seemed to tear the sky apart, the two old and new flagships, "Serenity" and "Invincible Iron", ruthlessly collided head-on. The force was so fierce that all the crew members who were not leaning on the fixed facilities fell down on the deck without any image...

Both sides were reinforced warships. Although the damage caused by the collision was large, it did not bring about a devastating impact. Before the shaking of the ships stopped, Euron jumped off the bow impatiently and landed on the deck of the other party. .

He wanted to kill, to make his ax and his armor drink blood.

The previous owner of the Invincible Iron Bell was not only his own younger brother, but also the commander-in-chief of the fleet who was very popular among the Ironmen. Therefore, even if he thought he was in the way and was no longer afraid of the worldly eyes, Euron would not be afraid of it after sitting on the seastone seat. Openly persecuting Victarion - choosing instead to trick him far to the other side of the world, plotting him never to return.

The plot against people succeeded, but the ship returned to Westeros with a lingering ghost!

Today, no matter who the new owner of this ship is or where he comes from, he must chop off its head with his own hands, and use his blood and tongue to sacrifice the great existence that suddenly stopped talking to him!

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The captain and king jumped onto the enemy ship frivolously, and the sailors hurriedly raised the wooden shield covered with iron and the wet cloth doused with seawater and jumped over the side of the ship to follow. The tile-steel armor is also indestructible, but it can't stop wildfires from burning. If the opponent uses incendiary weapons to defend, they must come to put out the fire urgently.

But on the deck of the Invincible Iron Bell, which was as wide and huge as the Serenity, there were no soldiers who came to resist the boarding battle at all, only a dozen sailors running back and forth in a panic, all jumping on Euron In an instant, the ship dropped all the tools in his hands and fled into the cabin with his head in his arms. Only Euron, who was full of anger and desire to kill but had nowhere to go, was left behind.

"A bunch of cowards!" growled the Crow's Eye. "Where's your captain, let him come out and die!"

"Uncle, you don't need to look hard, I'm right here."

It was extremely weird for the crisp female voice to appear on this occasion. Euron followed the voice and saw Asha standing in front of the entrance of the cabin.

Compared with the last time I saw her on Pyke Island who "escaped from the claws of the night watchman" last time, my niece looks energetic and radiant today: her slender waist and long legs are outlined in the close-fitting combat outfit, and the The tomahawk and the round shield clearly showed their hostile relationship with themselves... As for the blackness that was dyed on the leather cloth like the deepest night, they seemed to be shouting this sentence: "That's right, don't pretend, I He is the lackey of the night watchman!"

"Dear baby Asha." Euron smiled angrily, and slowly pushed towards the girl with a ferocious expression on his face, "That boy Aiger sent you to kill me, but you failed, uncle will send you back to kill him, you It seems that I missed it again... Tsk tsk, tell me, what else can you do with this little girl?"

"I may not be able to accomplish anything, Uncle, but at least one thing I can confirm." Asha remained unmoved, and just slapped the shield with her battle axe, "When the queen rides a dragon into the battlefield, it seems huge The mighty Iron Fleet will collapse in response. Today, here, is the place where you will die!"

"Hahaha... the spirit is good! But your sailors don't seem to agree with your point of view."

Euron said this for a reason—during the brief conversation, all the enemies visible on the ship had escaped into the hull through the hatch behind Asha. The sailors of the Serenity, who held wooden shields and wet cloths to guard against the explosive bombs and wildfires that did not appear, were left with only the Daughter of the Sea Monster, and not even half of the loyalists.

He's happy, really.

Even if the crazy characters are set to the extreme, he still has to worry about the thoughts and words of the archipelago.

He had killed relatives—more than once, but he had never committed it himself in broad daylight and in full view.Asha appeared here today, wearing black clothes and holding a weapon, clamoring that this is her burial place, and finally gave him the opportunity to unlock the achievement of "Public Killing Parents".

The excitement brought by "killing my niece with my own hands" is by no means comparable to killing an unknown person; and "sacrificing the gods with the blood of my dearest relatives" is extremely pious just by listening to it; the most important thing is , this time, there are countless people who can prove: Asha committed suicide!

This must be the second chance God gave him!

With a grin, Euron stopped talking nonsense: "Okay, little girl, let Uncle come and see, you learned something from 'White Ghost Slayer'!"

After all, without waiting for the other party to retort, he picked up the long-handled axe, and rushed towards Asha with the momentum of a moving train.

His niece is also a good player, and Euron, who has watched her grow up, knows this well. She dares to drive the "Invincible Iron Bell" to provoke today, and she must have something to rely on.But relying on the terrifying physical fitness transformed by the potion and the priceless and unique tile-steel armor, there is no warrior in this world who is his opponent.

He thought that there would be a life-and-death struggle between blood relatives, a thrilling, epic but ended in his victory, a wonderful confrontation that will be sung by the bards in the future, but facing his aggressive offensive, Asha did not Receiving the move with a well-regulated combat technique, he gritted his teeth and threw the battle ax in his hand towards him with all his strength.

Ok?

That's it? !

The throwing ax is not Asha's first invention. Of course, it is impossible to catch a seasoned fighter like Euron by surprise. It feels strange. Euron dodged this flying gadget with his head... Just as he was about to sarcastically, he found Asha Squatting down slightly, exerting force on his waist and abdomen, he threw the remaining round shield in his hands as a frisbee towards him with both hands.

Swinging the long-handled axe, Euron flicked the flying shield away, but his forward momentum was interrupted by a series of dodging and defensive actions, and he was about to say some more harsh words and kill the unarmed However, Asha made a move that was completely beyond his expectations in the next step:

After throwing the weapon and armor in her hand to Euron, she turned around without hesitation and fled into the cabin!

"Run?" Euron yelled angrily, took big steps without thinking, and chased after him.

It wasn't that he couldn't imagine that there might be a trap waiting ahead, but the distance between the two was only a few feet away. Even if she set up some kind of trap in the cabin, Euron was confident that he could catch this damned little girl before she was caught!

There was no oil lamp or torch, and suddenly entering the cabin from the bright outside, everything in the field of vision suddenly became dim and difficult to see.However, as a giant longship built by the same group of shipbuilders as the "Serenity" and "Hongyang Monster", the "Invincible Iron" is similar to the former two even in the internal structure and layout of the cabin. In the same place, Euron, who was also from the ironborn, led a group of dumb sailors running wildly in the narrow passage and all the way, turning left, turning right and then down the stairs, always following Asha who was fleeing, and finally passed the last corner After entering a door, she was blocked in a cabin that seemed to be a warehouse.

What is the taste?

Euron wrinkled his nose, feeling as if he had walked into a pile of rotten eggs. He saw the figure of Asha in the room. She was struggling to open the window panel and lifted a pile of what seemed to be ropes by the window. He threw them out together...By the light that came into the cabin, he found that he had entered a room full of shelves: one after another, the small dark wooden barrels were tightly stacked on the shelves, and they were fixed and tied with a lot of ropes to prevent them from falling. As he shifted, a little fire caught his attention: he looked closely, and there was actually a thin thread on the shelf beside him, and sparks were splashing on the head.

Wildfire!

This word broke into his mind in an instant, the barrels in this room must be full of wildfire, this stinky girl actually wants to die here with herself!

Before it was too late, Euron picked up the long-handled axe, and made a fierce sweep with all his strength, cutting off the fuse together with the tied wooden pillars, and the broken wire ends on the ground It burned and rotated helplessly, and finally burned out the last section, and turned into a small wisp of white smoke when it was extinguished.

"Hey hey..." Euron, who was proud of his quick response, turned around with a grin, only to see Asha who was standing by the window sneer contemptuously, turned around, bent over and exerted herself like a mermaid He jumped up, drew a beautiful arc, jumped out of the small cabin window, and jumped into the sea.

Ran?

Where can I go!

Although the harsh winter is about to end, the only thing that rises quickly is the temperature, while the sea water is still icy cold. People who jump into the water, even if they leave her alone, will only end up freezing to death after a while.

Euron chased him to the window, poked his head out and saw Asha who was sinking and floating in the water and was freeing the battleship. His burning desire to kill almost made him jump off, but that pitiful bit of reason strangled him at the last moment. Bundle.He is the king of the Iron Islands, the commander-in-chief of the side that is about to win this grand sea battle.Jumping into the sea during a fierce battle to chase down a woman who has already lost her power will waste too much time. Once the gang of mobs under the command temporarily lose their command and do something stupid to affect the outcome of the battle...

Angrily, he smashed his ax into the bulkhead of the ship, almost splitting the window frame, suppressed the anger that had not subsided, turned around, and stared angrily at the group of dumb people who followed stupidly.

"Kill everyone on board, leave a dozen people to control the ship, and if it sinks, I'll feed you all to fish! Also, remove all the wildfires in this room..."

He stopped suddenly, remembering Asha's sneer before jumping off the boat.

Turning his head to look left and right, Euron found that there was a fuse burning at the end of the row of shelves by the window, and there was also a small spark at the end of the row of shelves on the other side of this row...

After being stunned for a quarter of a second, Euron realized that there was a high probability that every shelf in the room had a fuse already lit, and Asha would never have time to light so many fuses in just one second. The group of sailors who got into the cabin earlier, they were not running for their lives, but came down to prepare a trap!

One, two, three, four, five... It was too late to count how many rows of shelves there were. With fury and unwillingness, Euron turned his head and grabbed the window sill, and jumped out of the cabin as well.

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Chapter 613 Stabbing the "King"

The King of the Iron Islands fell into the water with a plop, and was instantly submerged above his head under the action of inertia and disappeared on the sea surface. The cold salt water seeped through every gap in his body, penetrated into his clothes and made intimate contact with his skin, allowing him to relive the Biting cold.

Surprised and angry, Euron couldn't open his mouth, but Euron wanted to laugh.

Unlike the cowards in the Green Land, the ironborn are always as fully armed as possible in naval battles-in the culture of the archipelago, people who die in the sea can go directly to the Drowned God's Palace of Floating Water to have a feast, so compared to Wearing heavy armor and drowning after falling into the water, they are even more afraid of jumping on the enemy ship but failing to win the board battle.

And the Crow's Eye wore Valyrian steel armor.

The density of tile steel is only one-third of that of iron, but its physical properties are far superior to the latter. It only needs half the thickness to achieve the same protective effect. The combination of two factors leads to: the weight of tile steel armor is usually only four times that of iron armor. to a fifth.

Although this data is not exaggerated enough to allow the wearer to float on the water, under the joint effect of the buoyancy of the human body and the cavity wrapped between the armor and clothing, he will not be like a drowning man in iron armor... straight sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Holding his breath, Euron threw away the battle ax in his hand to lighten the weight, using all fours together, he swam towards the surface of the water like a frog.

Before his head came out of the water, before he could take a breath, the "Invincible Iron" behind him exploded.

The continuous shelling has made almost everyone on the battlefield familiar with the sound of "boom", but this one is different: if the sound of the artillery is just the muffled thunder far away in the sky, it will make the hearts of those who hear it tremble and their chrysanthemums tense. Well, the explosion of the powder kegs that filled two cabins was like a hard blow to the head—the kind that hit the ear.

On the vast ocean at the mouth of the Blackwater River, there are thousands of ships of various types from the three parties, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the seven countries—no, soldiers from all over the world are fighting with each other, fighting, or sailing towards the enemy...but even if they are far away The sailors of Stannis' Royal Fleet, who were battling the Unsullied for life two or three miles away, were numbed by the terrifying sound.

Countless people stopped their ongoing work or battles and looked towards the source of the sound. They saw the "Invincible Iron Fleet" surrounded by three huge long ships including the "Serenity" at the core of the first battle line of the Iron Fleet. Type number", two huge balls of fire emanated from the middle part like a side leak—under the action of the huge amount of gas released by the rapid combustion and expansion of the black powder, the thick and solid wooden hull of this long ship for sea control seemed to fall to the ground It was easily cracked, squeezed, and blown away like an egg. Under the action of the shock wave visible to the naked eye, the whole ship was broken into two pieces, the front and the back. Because the collision angles with the Tranquility are embedded in each other's hulls, they are hung in front of it like this, so that all the impact force it bears will be applied to the Tranquility through the front angle of attack, as if a second collision was initiated, and the rear There was a smack on the blood-red hull of the victim, and then a gap was torn open.

For the audience in the distance, no matter how loud and deafening the sound of the explosion, no matter how big and shocking the fireball is, it will only make their eardrums ache and their eyes sore, and they will stand there dumbfounded for a moment.

But the people near the explosion point are not so comfortable and relaxed. Euron felt as if he was thrown into a rolling wooden barrel filled with water, and the air waves generated by the explosion wrinkled the surrounding sea regardless of the water body. , pushed away, and squeezed in all directions, the King of the Iron Island who was involved in it could only feel his world spinning, and the zero-degree icy water hit his face fiercely, and poured into his nose and mouth.He struggled, choked on water, he didn't know where he was, which head or foot was on... The amazing physical quality given to him by the potion seemed so insignificant and vulnerable in the face of the mighty power generated by the large-scale chemical reaction. In the middle, Euron relied on his water skills for many years, and wisely chose to give up resistance and go with the flow by feeling. Finally, after being suffocated for half a minute, he briefly poked his head out of the water amidst the calming waves. Wu Qian grabbed a piece of wood that had just flown over and hit him on the back, hugged him tightly as if hugging the love of his life, and looked at the scene in front of him with an expression of disbelief.

This is not wildfire.

If it's that kind of weird liquid, I'm afraid that there are traces of flames everywhere on the sea at this moment, and the moment he floats up and inhales his first breath, his lungs will be burnt to charcoal.

The "Invincible Ironborn" he jumped out of just a moment ago no longer exists. The second half of the flying out is tens of meters away and the tail is tumbling down and sinking. The impact force of the front of the "Tranquility" dragged the latter's hull so that its head sank and its tail turned up-this level of inclination would not have caused a fatal threat to a large ship like the "Tranquility", but it happened. The latter's bow had been torn apart in the previous collision.

The weight of half of the bow of the "Invincible Iron Species" just pressed the big hole in the hull to the surface of the water. vicious circle.

With just one look, Euron decided that it was only a matter of time before the ship sank.

Among the two approaching friendly warships... the "Night Walker" was slightly smaller, and when the explosion occurred, it faced the "Invincible Iron" sideways and tried to jump off the ship. Unfortunately, it suffered the side shock of the air wave Being scraped and overturned, the "Hongyang Monster" survived due to its larger size and slightly longer distance, but it was also pushed far away, still shaking violently from side to side.

Directly above the explosion point, a column of smoke hundreds of feet high was still rolling and rising towards the sky, as if erecting a haze for Victarion Greyjoy and his ship who had already been buried in the mouth of the dragon. A pale and gigantic tombstone, after shocking the world with an explosion, left a beacon to let people know which direction to worship, and to inform everyone that the King of the Iron Islands has...

Fuck!

Euron was frightened suddenly, of course he wasn't dead yet, but the Iron Fleet, which was arrayed several miles across, didn't know it, they would only see the Serenity being hit by a terrifying explosion and then sinking to the bottom of the water!I have to get back to the ship as soon as possible, and let the messengers send signals to the surrounding ships to prevent this scattered pirate fleet from disintegrating!

Facing the undulating sea waves, he tried his best to swim towards the nearest intact ship, the "Ghost of the Ocean", but he had only swum more than a dozen meters when the abnormal ripples from the water caught his attention. Euron turned his head to observe Around, I found someone swimming towards me.

For a moment, he thought this was his surviving subordinate, but he realized immediately that the soldiers of the Serenity were all in full armor, and it was impossible for him to float on the water after falling into the water. This was the killer who came for him!

The trapped beast is still fighting, being surrounded and caught in a crisis suddenly activated Euron's fighting spirit and killing desire that had just been blown away. He swam towards the nearest man with wide eyes and roaring: "Want to kill me? Just try!"

Probably because of timidity, or because he knew he was invincible, he turned around and swam in the opposite direction without hesitation after being targeted by him.The surrounding water was littered with wreckage and debris from the explosion, and Euron was chasing so intently and quickly that when someone approached from under the water and touched his leg, he thought he had hit something. A piece of half-sunken, half-floating garbage...

He didn't realize it until the man grabbed his ankle and tried to pull him down into the water.