There was originally a port town outside the Haijiang City, but it had been destroyed by war at this time.

The ruins of the town built around the castle were shrouded and deserted under the dark sky, but there were dense tents stationed here.

The boundless tent belongs to the Targaryen army, dense but not messy, and looks very neat. However, if you look closely, you can vaguely find that the difference is very obvious.

The army of the Unscrupulous, dressed in leather armor and helmets, is well-trained, and is much more orderly than ordinary soldiers. Ordinary army composed of slaves or peasants can be clearly disciplined. The Dothraki are seriously united and do not mingle with others. The most chaotic are the mercenaries in the barracks. Not only are their skin colors and races, but they are even dressed in a variety of clothes. Sometimes regular troops pass by, and their eyes look at them are mostly contemptuous.

At the core of the military camp, a gorgeous tent stands quietly. Under the defense of a large number of guards around, no one can approach it at will, so naturally no one will find a meeting in the camp.

"Or it's still impossible to use the curse?" A calm voice sounded from it, as if it was one of the leaders of the army.

"This castle may be protected by magic." Someone answered indirectly.

"It's not this castle, but the people in this castle. I heard that the Kohl people retreated in a hurry because someone threatened them."

"What kind of threat can make all Kohl run away?"

"Who knows, they don't even ask."

"A bunch of cowards, traitors!"

“…”

"We can only attack hard."

"Is the plague method not good?"

“No results were found.”

...

Outside this camp, near the edge of the encirclement line, a large number of soldiers were busy around several tall catapults. With the dry sound of the catapults operating, rotten and green bodies were constantly being shot into the castle towering on the coastline reefs not far away.

Most of the castles in Westeros were built very solidly. They were once specially built to resist iron people. They faced wars and were more seaside cities than other castles, which were naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if the siege enemies were more than ten times more than the defenders, the castle would not be captured for a while.

What made Targaryen even more worried was that the iron people firmly controlled the sea and could provide reinforcements and supplement supplies from the Iron Islands at any time, but because they went deep into Westeros, there was no ship available, so they could not stop this at all.

Even the aggressive Targaryen was in a stalemate with this small castle. The siege lasted for a week, but there was no effect. Instead, they were seriously injured.

However, Targaryen had no intention of evacuating. If they didn't go to Haijiang City for a day, they would not be able to completely let go. At the same time, the shrinking front also allowed them to be fully defensive and would not be taken by the Iron Throne to counterattack.

Haijiang City is a difficult bone to crack, but no matter how difficult the bone is, it will eventually be damaged. The strength of the two sides is very different. They believe that this castle will return to their own hands sooner or later.

...

In fact, the iron people don’t think they can keep guarding the Haijiang City—

Occupying the sea can be replenished at any time, but the Iron Islands are poor, so they cannot afford to fight attrition. At the same time, even the strong castle will always be damaged continuously, and there will always be a day when it is broken.

However, although they do not think they can defend for a long time, the iron people thought that they could withdraw from the battlefield at any time by relying on the sea, so they did not care how much their lonely city could persist.

...

At this time, Lan Li was still in the Haijiang City, but he had a completely different idea from the iron people here because he received a letter from the Iron Throne.

The letter claimed that the Western Frontier would transport supplies to support iron people, and a large number of soldiers were also transported.

Outside the Haigang City, the army of Hejian and the army of the valley will also launch a full counterattack at some point. The Iron Throne Army will encircle the three sides from the south, the Haigang City and the west from the west, and the valley from the east, and vow to clear the Targaryan of Hejian City.

Looking at the detailed plan on the letter, Lan Li, who was sitting behind the desk, pondered endlessly.

At this time, there were four battlefields in Westeros, one was the naval battle in the East China Sea, the second was the war in Hejian, the third was the tug-of-war in the northern border, and the last was the battle between Qingting Island and Valentis in the southern waters of Westeros.

The naval battle in the East China Sea was mainly to harass the supply ships of the nine free trade city-states. It was led by Stannis and could not conduct large-scale attacks.

The naval battles in the South China Sea were stalemate, the Qingting Island fleet was strong, and the Hewan army continued to support it, so even if the enemy was the strongest Valentis among the nine free trade city-states, they did not do anything to them.

The war in the northern border revolves around the swamp in Kalin Bay. The enemy's goal is to prevent the northern troops from moving south to participate in the war.

The main battlefield is Hejiandi. As long as the war here is won, it is equivalent to the failure of this Targaryen invasion.

Now, the Iron Throne is ready to take this opportunity to counterattack completely.

"Are you a decisive battle?"

Muttering, Lan Li put away the letter and looked out along the window not far away.

He is in the castle bell tower and is very high. From here, you can see the dense tents outside the city and the large number of soldiers flowing endlessly in the gaps in the tent.

The faint shouts kept ringing, which was the slogan for the enemy to start training.

Can we win and lose in one battle, or will we continue to be a stalemate?

Lanley couldn't determine what the result of this upcoming counterattack would be, but he believed that Targaryen was doomed to fail and return.

There is nothing else. After uniting, our side is not weak, and the enemy is an alien invader across the sea, and there is no advantage at all.

This difference cannot be seen in a short period of time, and it will become more and more obvious over time.

What's more, the enemy doesn't seem to be very stable...

Thinking about the information he just obtained, Lan Li was thinking.

"How did you do it?" Reness, who had just arrived at the door, did not leave now, but sat on the desk beside Lanli, with her slender legs swaying, and her little face full of curiosity.

“What to do?”

"Don't be harassed by foreign magic." The girl reminded him.

"Of course I have my own way." Lanli replied simply.

"What's the solution?"

"You don't understand if you say it."

This made the other party sneer, but he didn't continue to ask questions.

Blue Li

He actually didn't expect that he would have the ability to resist external magic, or he actually didn't expect that the scepter in his hand would have such ability.

In fact, before the siege began, he expected that the enemy would use magical means to attack the city. Lan Li was preparing to use the seven gods to trade the enemy's magic tricks, but after the siege began, he suddenly realized that no matter whether it was curse, shadow, or other sneaky means, he could not get close to the seaside city.

It is not that this city has any special defense, nor that the transaction of the Seven Gods takes effect, but that it is the scepter, or that of the faith power of the iron people in the sea border city.

The large number of iron people gathered together, coupled with the special scepter in his hand, faintly constituted a unique position of invincibility, and rejected the powers outside the God of the Gods and entered it.

This repulsion is silent, but can be vaguely felt by Lan Li. At the same time, he also glimpsed some connections between the gods and magic in this world.

Gods are the existences formed by the convergence of many human wills, and magic seems to be the special force formed by the distortion of the huge will of the gods and leveraging the real world.
Chapter completed!