The Mountain of Ice and Fire

In the Iron Islands calendar, 2 Greyjoy was born on Great Wyk island. This year is 300 in the Iron Islands calendar, and Euron Crow's Eye is 33 years old.

He has worn a black eye patch over his left eye for many years, as if he were a one-eyed man, but he is not. Beneath his black eye patch is an eye with a dark red pupil, which is intimidating.

In the world of Ice and Fire, two people have unusual eyes: Littlefinger's eyes are black and green, and of different sizes; Crow's Eye's eyes are black and red. Both eyes have black pupils, but one eye is dark red, like the eye of a blood-soaked crow. This is where the nickname Crow's Eye comes from.

Crow's Eye is naturally mad and unpredictable, often taking pleasure in tormenting the bodies and minds of those around him, which makes all his brothers utterly disgusted with him. He was exiled for raping his brother Victarion's salt wife. Balon ordered that Euron could not return to the Iron Islands unless he died.

Now, Crow's Eye is back, and Lord Balon has indeed died.

Crow's Eye's flagship, the 'Silence', is a dark red giant ship that looks as if it has been stained with blood, making it deeply terrifying. A huge flag flies high on the bridge, with two black crows supporting a black iron crown, and below them is a black-pupiled red eye.

The black-pupiled red eye - Crow's Eye's left eye. He put this eye on his family crest, which is also his personal symbol on his flag.

The Silence flagship led more than seven hundred warships to the outer sea of Lannisport. Torches were lit, densely packed, drums were beating, shaking the sky and the sea. Euron Crow's Eye stood at the bow, coming blatantly.

He was afraid that the people of Lannisport would not know he was coming!

Gongs and drums were deafening, and shouts shook the sea, the only thing missing was the sound of firecrackers.

Crow's Eye was surrounded by his die-hard followers - a group of crazy pirates. The ship's speed began to slow down. On the Silence, the oarsmen were rowing in silence, and the crew members were doing their work in silence. To keep hundreds of oarsmen and crew members absolutely silent, Euron had all the tongues of his crew cut out, hence his ship was named 'Silence'.

The entire Lannisport was very quiet. Looking around, there was not a single ship outside the harbor.

Crow's Eye's warship was in the center, with hundreds of warships guarding it on the left and right, forming a huge black fan, slowly pressing towards the port of Lannisport.

Finally, the warship stopped at the entrance to the port, blocking the entire entrance and exit of Lannisport.

Crow's Eye ordered the anchors to be dropped, tables and benches were placed on the deck, and meat and wine were brought out. A night banquet was set up on hundreds of warships, and the pirates and Ironborn ate and drank, played finger-guessing games, and did not launch an attack on the port.

They were facing the Mountain, who had deployed hundreds of fire ships inside Lannisport. As soon as Crow's Eye attacked, the fire ships would be ignited, severely damaging the hundreds of warships of Crow's Eye that dared to enter.

But Crow's Eye seemed to know the Mountain's plan. He did not rashly enter the port in the dark night, but anchored his ship outside the port, drinking and playing music, coldly observing the reaction of Lannisport.

The city was very quiet, no lights were seen, and the hundreds of ships inside the port were also silent, as if there was no one.

The entire city seemed like a ghost town.

This made Crow's Eye feel alert. He had already sent a secret letter to the city lord of Lannisport, hoping to join forces to attack the Mountain's Clegane army, but he had not received any reply.

A bottle of wine was drunk, and several plates of meat were swept away, but Lannisport remained silent.

Crow's Eye did not get any response from Lannisport City. Inside the port, warships and cargo ships were squeezed together, as well as fire ships.

Crow's Eye had his own plan. He was a very insidious and difficult person to deal with.

Crow's Eye smashed the wine bowl on the deck and issued an attack order.

*

Inside the city lord's main castle in Lannisport, Count Ode was covered in cold sweat. The Mountain was staring at him in front of him.

On the table was a secret letter intercepted by the Mountain's brother, and the scout sent by Crow's Eye was also thrown at Count Ode's feet. The man was covered in injuries and had already fainted.

"Lord Duke, do you believe me when I say that I have never contacted Crow's Eye?"

"I already know that. Count Kevan asked you to join forces with Crow's Eye. It is easy to infer from the wording in this letter. Kevan hopes that you can summon the loyalty of the Lannister family to attack me." The Mountain grabbed the secret letter and handed it to Maester Bancroft.

The maester read it and could not say a word.

The Mountain said: "Lord Count, what are you going to do?"

"I will reply to Crow's Eye, contact him, trick him into entering Clegane Village, and then surround and annihilate him. Lord Duke, after killing Crow's Eye, we will join forces to occupy the iron ore mountains on Great Wyk Island, and from then on, we will cooperate sincerely and make money together. In the Westerlands, I will falsely convey Kevan's orders, and gather the families in the Westerlands who are loyal to the Lannisters to pledge allegiance to you instead."

The Mountain shook his head: "Count, I only want you to do one thing."

"What is it?"

"Kill Martyn Lannister in public as a sacrifice to the flag!"

*

Crow's Eye tore open his throat and shouted like a beast. The orderlies passed on the order, and the warships slowly entered the port together. The decks were densely packed with archers, and pre-prepared fire basins were placed at the feet of each archer. Arrows tied with oil-soaked cloth pointed downwards together.

"Ready!" The orderlies shouted.

The archers' arrows reached into the fire basins and lit the oil-soaked cloth on the arrowheads.

Bang bang bang!

One rocket after another was lit, burning with bright flames.

"Fire!" The orderlies shouted.

Far and near, the shouts on the first row of warships rose and fell, and the sounds came from near to far: Fire...Fire...Fire...

The rockets pulled the fire lines, densely packed, whistling, and shot into the port.

Duo duo duo! Duo duo duo! Duo duo duo!

The rockets were inserted into the hulls of cargo ships, warships, fishing boats, and fire ships.

The soldiers ambushing on the warships and fire ships shouted and jumped ashore to escape.

Crow's Eye stood at the bow and laughed loudly.

After he was exiled, he started from scratch, became a pirate, started as a low-level pirate warrior, and worked his way up to captain, becoming a small pirate leader, a big pirate leader, and then sailed everywhere, gathering pirate leaders of all sizes from all over the world. He fought hundreds of naval battles and won every battle, creating the most powerful pirate group. Crow's Eye's tactics are flexible, changeable, ingenious, cruel, ruthless, insightful, and generous with rewards, which is why he has gained so many followers. After getting rich, Crow's Eye always threw a lot of money to the pirates who made meritorious service. Heavy rewards were his consistent style. He was a truly formidable enemy.

Bang!

The first warship was ignited by a rocket and began to burn. Then the second, third, and fourth warships began to burn...

Shoo shoo shoo!

The rockets cut through the night sky, illuminating the port, densely covering the sky above the port. Thousands of rockets poured into the hulls of the ships in Lannisport in round after round. The second row of cargo ships, the fire ships mixed between the warships and cargo ships, and the small fishing boats all began to burn.

Crackling!

The fire turned into a raging fire, and the sky was filled with flames, illuminating the night sky of Lannisport!

*

The next morning, the fire gradually went out.

A naval warship fleet carefully managed by Lannisport was burned to ashes. Hundreds of cargo ships anchored in the port also failed to escape the disaster. The fire ships prepared by the Mountain fueled Crow's Eye's rocket attack, burning all the ships in the port, large and small: warships, fishing boats, and cargo ships.

On the shore, the city's military flag was raised in the square formation of naval warriors, as well as the Lannister family's lion flag, and the Clegane family's Red Smoke Beast and Ice Sword flag. Next to the naval warriors' square formation was the Clegane infantry square formation.

Two square formations, four thousand infantry.

Several centurions of the Lannister family branch stood on horseback in front of the square formation; in front of the Clegane infantry square formation were the Mountain's brother Chiswyck and Deputy General Tobert.

Crow's Eye held a black, heavy iron rod full of spikes. He pointed his rod forward. The Silence and the escort ships moved forward together. The drums beat densely. The warships in front started together, at ramming speed.

Standing on the dock, the sea in front of him was densely packed with enemy ships that could not be seen at a glance. The flag patterns on the enemy ships were mostly skulls, swords, and strange fish. Seven hundred warships. The Seven Kingdoms had never had so many warships, such a strong naval power. When Crow's Eye let out the first shout, tens of thousands of pirates and Ironborn shouted together. Their swords struck their armor and shields, sending out the military might of seeking battle.

"Ready!" Crow's Eye raised the spiked rod.

"Ready!" The shouts of the orderlies spread out, from one ship to another. Thousands of bows were raised, and the soldiers drew their bows and nocked their arrows, with the arrowheads pointing to the sky.

Lob shot!

The first strike of naval warfare: bows and arrows!

This was the first offensive tactic that Crow's Eye had summarized in naval warfare: to carry out indiscriminate arrow rain coverage before the two sides' warships approached. This move had allowed him to repeatedly defeat his pirate counterparts.

"Fire!" Crow's Eye shouted.

Then, the sharp iron arrowheads rang out in unison, like the buzzing of swarms of bees descending from the sky.

"Retreat!" Chiswyck drew his long sword and issued the order.

They were sword and shield soldiers, but the naval warriors were not. The naval warriors did not have enough shields to block the dense, torrential rain of arrows.

Count Ode's naval commander also drew his sword and shouted: "Retreat!"

Then, the sound of retreat orders rang out in unison.

Shoo!

Sharp arrows were lobbed down from the sky and shot into the crowd. Screams rang out.

Shoo shoo shoo!

More arrows drew black shadows and shot into the crowd.

Duo duo duo!

Many arrows shot into the shields of the Clegane sword and shield soldiers, piercing the first layer of iron skin on the surface of the shield, the second layer of iron skin, penetrating into the shield, but were blocked by the iron skin on the back of the shield, unable to injure the arms behind the shield.

Reinforcing the position of the shield arms with iron skin, reinforcing the front and back sides, was first created by the Mountain.

Armor-piercing arrows could not shoot through two layers of iron skin and then pierce through the shield itself, and then shoot through two layers of iron skin.

Soon, the shields of the retreating sword and shield soldiers were covered with sharp arrows.

The Lannisport harbor warriors, who did not have much shield protection around them, were shot by arrows one after another. Even wearing armor, it was difficult to block the long-range lob shot of armor-piercing arrows! Screams and shouts of retreat rang out in unison. The naval warriors' square formation began to become chaotic.

*

Crow's Eye's Silence began to approach the dock. The naval warriors of Lannisport shouted and collapsed.

Arrows rained down like raindrops.

The warriors fell one after another.

Chiswyck held up his shield and retreated step by step with the warriors. The square formation advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and the speed was actually faster. He quickly withdrew outside the range of the arrows. When the naval warriors threw away their weapons and fled madly, Chiswyck also threw away the shield in his hand and fled madly.

Deputy General Tobert also threw away his shield, sheathed his long sword, and ran away.

The warriors' square formation collapsed with a bang, and they fled in droves.

Hoo!

The enemy warships docked, and the warriors on the deck jumped onto the dock to pursue the enemy.

On the dock, soldiers were lying all over the ground, mostly naval warriors who were injured by arrows and unable to walk. Crow's Eye ordered the massacre of the wounded soldiers of the Clegane army, and all the wounded naval soldiers in Lannisport were captured and became prisoners of war.

Crow's Eye's ambition was not to enter the palace and become a sea affairs minister under a prime minister. His ambition was to become a king, or at least a prime minister. The captured prisoners of war in Lannisport were his bargaining chips to show off in the future to rise further.

Boom boom boom!

Warships docked one after another, long ladders were built, and pirates and Ironborn poured onto the dock like locusts, shouting and rushing into Lannisport.

In front, the enemy soldiers, as chaotic as ants in a disturbed nest, ran even faster, with shields, long swords, and helmets scattered all over the ground.

Every long sword is money; every shield is also money; helmets and armor are all money.

The pirates and Ironborn's eyes lit up, and they rushed up in droves to pursue and pick up the armor and weapons on the ground.

Crow's Eye stood on the high deck of the Silence, watching the team in front fall into the chaos of scrambling. This was a bit dangerous. If the other side had an ambush and soldiers rushed out of the civilian houses on the street, the pirates and Ironborn would be caught off guard.

Crow's Eye ordered the war drums to be sounded!

The war drums resounded throughout the harbor. The pirates and Ironborn in front maintained their ranks from the chaos and began to advance along the street. The warships behind docked, and more soldiers jumped onto the dock, forming a black iron stream, flowing forward along the streets of the dock.

Crow's Eye also jumped onto the dock, waving the black iron spiked rod. The die-hard followers on the left and right held up Crow's Eye's 'Crow's Eye Crown' flag and surged forward.

Boom!

Crow's Eye kicked open a tightly closed door. The guards around him rushed in, and a dense series of banging and crashing sounds rang out. The sounds of boxes and cabinets collapsing were endless, but there were no sounds that Crow's Eye wanted to hear: the screams of women, the cries for mercy of men, and the cries of children.

Where were the citizens of the city?

Crow's Eye had informants in the city, but he did not receive any replies to the letters he sent out. Those informants did not see large numbers of citizens leaving the city in groups. Perhaps this street was close to the harbor, and the citizens must have been frightened and ran away last night.

Last night, Crow's Eye's rocket attack on the port, and the fire burned until dawn. The nearby citizens must have fled.

The Ironborn's reputation has always deterred all the nobles and people on the coastline of the Sunset Sea. When they hear that the Ironborn are coming to attack, the citizens will only run for their lives.

Before attacking Lannisport, Crow's Eye had already ordered not to loot the city, only to rob some money and beautiful women, not to burn down the city's houses, not to kill all the prisoners of war and civilians, and even more not to rob everything that could be seen and exchanged for money.

Remember the goal: to destroy the Clegane army.

Raven Eye was ambitious. He wanted to enter the royal palace and carry out even greater schemes. He was no longer just a pirate leader who made a fortune by plundering everywhere; he wanted to be remembered in history.