Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 74

"Damn it, there's no need for us to rob it. They are pirates themselves, and now they want to rob us!" Captain Glory cursed loudly.

"How do you know it's a pirate ship?" Dany was puzzled, "Didn't it fly the skull flag for pirates?"

That's right, pirates in this fantasy world are also very popular with skull flags.

"The skull flag is for those wild pirates." Blackbeard shook his head gloomyly. "If the Pirate King has his own family crest, there is no need for the popular skull flag."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Dani and began to hastily yell at the sailors to line up.

Dany observed the ship carefully for a while again, except for the unusually conspicuous golden black jade with its black sails, and when it turned sideways, she saw the word "Serenity" painted on the dark red hull with black paint.

"My God, people of Westeros!" Dany exclaimed, "Why do people in Westeros go to the Summer Sea to become pirates?"

It turns out that "Serenity" was written in the Common Language, not Valyrian, the most popular language in Essos.

"Ser, do you know about the Serenity?" Dany asked Jorah Mormont, who was on tiptoe, turning her head.

Uh, except for the captain, first mate, and lookout, no one else has binoculars.

"The Tranquility?" Jorah showed doubts, "It's a little familiar, I don't know where I've heard it before."

"That ship is from Westeros, with a huge golden cuttlefish painted on its sails, which looks a bit like Greyjoy's sea monster!" Dany explained.

"Seven layers of hell!" Daxiong slapped his forehead suddenly, and shouted like he saw a ghost: "Is the hull of the ship dark red?"

"Yes," Dany said in surprise, "You know someone?"

"Euron Greyjoy, the villain known as 'The Crow's Eye'!" Jorah paused, gnashing his teeth, as if he hated the person represented by the name extremely.

"But that cuttlefish is alright, even if it is a sea monster, its direction is reversed. The Greyjoy sea monster's head is facing down, but the other's head is facing up, and the tentacles are different." Dany said puzzled.

Don't think that this is a trivial matter, the family emblem cannot be sloppy, the reverse direction is almost equal to two different family emblems.

Refer to the national flags of the modern society on the earth, such as the flags of Russia, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Ordinary people will be confused when they see them, but they are indeed different flags with differences.

"This instead explains why Euron Greyjoy is here." The white bearded Astan showed a surprised look on his face.

Jorah also nodded and said: "He must have done something to be expelled from the Greyjoy family by Duke Balon. People who are exiled are often ashamed and do not want to shame the family, or out of jealousy, they will deprive the family of the family. The emblem is slightly modified, such as reversing the orientation."

Dani glanced at the black bear on his chest, opened and closed her mouth several times, and really wanted to ask: Do you have no sense of shame, and do you have the slightest bit of jealousy?Why don't you let the big bear lie on the ground?

The big bear Mormont has a black wool sweater on his upper body and a brown leather armor. There is a big black bear on the chest of the leather armor. He stands up and growls with his mouth open, which perfectly echoes the motto of the Mormont family, "Stand tall".

In Westeros "everyone knows" tradition, if he feels ashamed, he should follow Euron's lead and put the bear down.

Dany's gaze was caught by Daxiong, his face flushed, and he said falteringly, "I don't hate my family."

White Beard said coolly, "Aren't you ashamed?"

Big Bear was furious, "I serve the queen, I am honored! Besides, no matter what I do, I am better than you, a guy who dare not even show his family emblem."

"You..." White Beard opened his mouth wide in anger, wanting to refute, but after glancing at Dani, he choked back the words abruptly.

Only nobles have coats of arms.

The nobles in Westeros are divided into knights, earls, marquises, dukes, kings, and knights are the lowest level.

Cavaliers can also be called jazz, but they are actually half a level lower than jazz, and they are only considered noble reserves.

Mormont the Great Bear has two identities, the ancestral Earl of Bear Island, and the knighthood bestowed on him by King Robert, who suppressed the Greyjoy rebellion 10 years ago—it is also a knight, but he already has the title of Earl.

Big Bear is about to be tried by Ed Stark for selling slaves—the ice is taken away, and his head must be beheaded—he is afraid of death, so he gives up his earl status and exiles himself.

But the knighthood Robert gave him was not taken away, because he escaped the trial, and Eddard had no chance to take away the knighthood bestowed on him by the king.

Therefore, Dany and others called him "Ser Jorah" or "Ser Mormont".

Both Dany and Jorah knew that Whitebeard was hiding his identity.

His knowledge, experience and conversation are not as good as the earl of Mormont. It is difficult for someone who has not received an orthodox aristocratic education to possess the excellent qualities he displayed.

But Whitebeard was dressed in a plain linen robe, with a cane, and never showed his identity credentials such as the family emblem.

White Beard also guessed that his identity was suspected, so he was speechless by Big Bear.

Well, when it comes to this, I have to sigh with emotion. As the most orthodox descendant of the royal family, Dany didn't get the family emblem out.

Moreover, she is theoretically "illiterate" and has not received formal aristocratic education.

"That sea monster ship is so fast, it's really chasing us!" The lookout exclaimed, breaking the awkward silence among the people on the bridge.

Coughing a few times, Dany asked, "Why did Euron Greyjoy chase us? Could it be that we guessed wrong, he also failed to explore the Valyrian ruins, and suffered heavy losses, so he needs to rob us to restore blood?"

"It's possible." Jorah glanced at Whitebeard and said thoughtfully, "We only saw the Serenity struggling inside the wall of the storm. Maybe he was lost in the storm and didn't enter the ruins. After all, even the dragon got lost. .”

"If we expose our identities, will he let himself die for the sake of fellow villagers?" Dani said with a strange smile.

Whitebeard was stunned before he realized it, and asked, "Are you sure of victory? Greyjoy is not easy to deal with. Last time Balon rebelled, Euron showed extraordinary cunning and ruthlessness. Port Lannister almost Fallen by the Ironborn led by him, if he is not sure of defeating our fleet, he will not rush to chase us."

"I have a dragon, not an ordinary fleet." Dany said confidently.

The old man looked up at the white and green dragons hovering in the sky, and said solemnly, "He saw your dragon."

"Hahaha, you don't think I'm going to let the dragon burn his ship?" Dany laughed.

"I am their mother, and I cherish their lives more than anyone else. The young dragons can't even resist bows and arrows. If I really let the dragon fly over the enemy ship and breathe fire, I would kill my own children."

Speaking of this, she ordered the blood alliance guard next to her: "Call all the warriors in the cabin, and bring bows and iron shields."

Horse people are afraid of the sea, and they prefer to stay in the cabin with their horses if they don't have to.

"How do you think the opponent will arrange tactics?" She asked Grole the Blackbeard.

The old seaman frowned, as if he had encountered something incomprehensible, "Under normal circumstances, pirates without a large fleet would not attack us. The three-to-one ratio of sea-going ships means that when he meets us, the other two ships Can attack his mothership from the side and rear.

We have a total of more than 600 sailors, and the opponent only has a small ship, which can accommodate [-] pirates is the limit. With twice the number of people at a disadvantage, how could Euron win? "

"Unless he has a trump card!" White Beard said solemnly.

Dany thought for a while and asked, "What kind of person is Euron? Will he suddenly go crazy? By the way, why was he exiled?"

"Ironborn Island is relatively closed, Euron is not Lord Balon, and few people pay attention to him. I didn't even know he was exiled, but I'm sure, he won't go crazy, that man is cunning and unpredictable."

Whitebeard shook his head and looked at the bear, "Perhaps Ser Mormont knows him better."

The ironborn often plunder the west coast of Westeros, especially the north where there is no seagoing protection, and the people of Bear Island often fight the ironborn disguised as pirates.

Mormont sighed. "I hope he's suddenly turned silly, but let's get ready for battle."

After speaking, he walked towards the cabin, where he wanted to put on the full body armor.

This fantasy world is not without gunpowder, but unfortunately it is not very powerful. It is just a prop used by pyromancers for juggling. Therefore, without cannons, naval battles are still dominated by side-to-side battles, supplemented by mutual shooting of bows and arrows. Armors will be safer.

Of course, the premise is not to fall into the sea.

In addition to Mormont, Dany's centaurs and sailors also began to change their equipment enthusiastically.

The centaur all wore dark red leather armor with a breastplate, a shiny red copper helmet, a small wrought copper round shield tied to his left wrist, an arakh machete at his waist, and a longbow in his hand. It already looks like a regular army.

Unlike the uniformed centaur, the armor of the sailors is messy, including rusty plate armor, chain mail that does not fit the size, worn leather armor, and some people hold pot lids as shields

Dahei broke into the storm around 12:30 in the morning and came back at 3:[-], and then the Serenity began to pursue the fleet when it was close to [-]:[-], and the distance at that time was no more than [-] kilometers. combat distance.

1 kilometers.

Although there is no artillery in this world (the battleship artillery in the Armada period actually only had an effective range of 400 meters), trebuchets and ballistas were installed on the bow and stern decks.

What was thrown was not a stone, but a cotton cloth bag soaked in oil. The linen cotton cloth soaked in oil juice was wrapped into a "solid bomb" the size of a school bag, which was lit and thrown out.

It is very difficult to hit the target with that thing. It is mainly used to hit fixed targets, such as sea ships attacking cities, and sneak attacking fleets in other people's ports.

The Saidu Lyon is a purely sea-going ship, without any weapons installed, but rowing the Summer Sun and the Joking Yoso itself serves as a merchant ship "frigate", not only has more sailors (more sailors are needed for rowing), There are also a total of six trebuchets and eighteen ballistas.

Blackbeard's original idea was to delay as much as possible. If it got dark, Serenity might not be able to catch up with them.

But he really underestimated the speed of the narrow boat. Not only was the ratio of the sail to the hull huge (the bigger the boat, the faster the boat), but after approaching the Saidu Lyon, the Serenity put down 200 straight oars on both sides of the ship. The drumbeat came from afar, as if hitting everyone's hearts.

(End of this chapter)