When Big Black flew back to Poplar Slope from Astapor, Jorah Mormont's messenger crow arrived almost at the same time.
This time, the "Anti-Magic Mother Of Dragons Alliance" did not only attack from land. In fact, there were more than one army.
One army, five thousand mercenaries, thirty thousand slave soldiers, and three thousand Yellow Silk Cloaks, gathered in Kaiyuan City and attacked Astapor from the north to the south.
One army gathered in Kaiyuan, Meereen, New Gith, and even more than twenty longships, seventy to eighty ships, and more than a hundred ships entered the sea area of Astapor.
There was also a third army, the Gith Iron Legion's assault team from the south to the north …
After the Second Son Regiment was wiped out in the morning, Danny let Big Black return to Astapor alone, and monitor the enemy fleet within a few dozen kilometers from a height of five thousand meters.
Barristan guessed that the Gith coalition had communication with the sea fleet. Perhaps the enemy planned to follow "Danny's plan" and launch a surprise attack this afternoon with both sea and land forces … Well, the Gith Iron Legion north of the Worm River would also go north to destroy the industrial and agricultural production system that Danny had worked so hard to build.
"The army in the north was completely defeated. I thought they would retreat. Did the slave master lose the messenger crow in the process of escaping? Did the sea coalition not receive the notice? "
Barristan rested for more than two hours in his armor, and then began to work again.
"Maybe the ship was equipped with dragon-slaying crossbows, so they became bold and wanted to try to be dragon-slaying warriors?" Danny sneered.
In the process of clearing the camp of the Gith coalition, the militia found the wreckage of hundreds of heavy crossbows. Most of them were trampled by horses along with other military supplies, but there were still dozens of them in good condition in the north camp.
Golden Silk Wood of the Summer Islands was as thick as an adult's wrist, two meters long bow, nine Kohor refined steel wires were wound into a bowstring as thick as a pinky finger, and two strong men turned a winch assembled by pulleys to string the crossbow.
The arrow was three meters long, a fine steel spear as thick as a thumb, and a series of dark red flame runes on the arrowhead — magic runes enchanted by the red-robed priests and fire warlocks.
Danny had tried it herself. She let Little White and Little Green breathe fire on the crossbow, and the steel at the end quickly turned red and slowly softened, but the rune arrowhead burned bright red and showed no signs of melting.
He didn't know if the runes were really effective or if the blacksmiths in Kohor had used special steel.
Just the 2000 steel crossbow bolts that were found cost more than 20,000 gold royals, plus the expensive Golden Wire Wood Crossbow … The Guise Alliance had spent at least 100,000 gold royals on the Dragon Slayer Crossbow.
The newly joined Rose Group also revealed that the Guise people had ordered more than five hundred dragon-slaying crossbows in Kohor. One could imagine that the enemy's warships were also equipped with similar crossbows.
However, Barristan said that Kohor did not know how to make real Dragon-slaying Crossbows. These crossbows were modified from siege crossbows, and their agility and lethality were 80% weaker than the Dragon-slaying Crossbows developed by the scholars.
"All-steel crossbow arrows are too heavy and can't fly high. As long as the Megalosaurus is more than 50 meters away from the crossbow, it's safe. However, the Bellerion Dragon Flame has a direct killing range of more than 80 meters," he told Danny.
Danny cursed in her heart. The Targaryens of the previous generation had holes in their heads. What the hell were they thinking? They actually cooperated with the scholars to study the killing range of the dragon. Did they want Bellerion to cooperate with the scholars to develop a crossbow that could kill them?
The old man seemed to have guessed her thoughts and said faintly, "Only by knowing the limits of your own dragon can you better protect yourself and your dragon."
"That makes sense. I'll be careful." Danny nodded and ordered the militia to prepare firewood for burning the dead mercenaries and Guise people's corpses.
Unlike their own side, which only had about 200 cavalry dead, the Guise Alliance had at least 12,000 corpses left behind. It was very troublesome to clean them up, and they only managed to clean them up around two o 'clock in the afternoon.
Collecting firewood for burning more than 10,000 corpses was another big project, and it was estimated that they could start a fire at noon tomorrow.
"I'll go first. Remember to ask the militia to dig latrines for the new slaves, and sprinkle a layer of lime powder on the Guise Alliance's camp." Danny climbed onto Blackie's body while 'instructing' Barristan.
Barristan was a veteran general who had been on the battlefield for a long time, but the matter of military hygiene … No one cared about it for tens of thousands of years since the birth of civilization.
As early as half a year ago, when she saw the unsullied people defecating everywhere outside the tent, Danny quickly formulated a 'military camp hygiene regulations'.
For example, they must wash their faces and hands before eating, and if there is no water, they must rub sand.
For example, they must dig a trench outside the camp, and they must go to the trench to relieve themselves.
Even if it was inconvenient for the general to pee with the soldiers, they had to be pulled into a wooden bucket and carried by the attendants into the trench.
For example, after the war, the corpses were immediately cleaned and burned, and a thin layer of lime powder was sprinkled on the battlefield and camp.
The soldiers' tents were also steamed with vinegar to disinfect every now and then.
"Let's go!" Dani yelled at Little White and Little Green. The three dragons flapped their wings and leaped into the sky with great force.
The wide fleshy wings flapped vigorously, stirring up bits of grass and dust. Jon Bolton could not help but cover his forehead with his hand. Under the sunlight, the black dragon's dark back and dark red wing bones reflected a metallic luster.
Seeing him fly higher and higher with Danny on his back, the knight asked worriedly, "Is it okay for His Majesty to go back alone?"
Barristan said faintly, "Don't worry, Astapor still has a Kingsguard, more than three thousand unsullied people, five thousand Mother Of Dragons guards, and ten thousand militia. Let's go and choose new free guards from the registered slave warriors! "
The three dragons only took a quarter of an hour to cover the distance of twenty kilometers. From afar, Danny saw the Gith fleet that stretched for four or five nautical miles through the Megalosaurus's perspective in the dragon spirit state.
The brown, brown, and white sails were like roses blooming on the blue sea. They seemed to form a flower garden that half surrounded the city of Astapor.
She came back just in time, and the battle had just begun.
"Boom, boom, boom …" The ballistas and catapults on the city walls of Astapor roared.
The position of the guards of Astapor was higher, and the catapults defending the city were bigger than the catapults on the ships. They were more powerful and had a longer range, so they first launched an attack on the ships that were trying to form an attack formation.
Thick, long crossbow bolts that glinted with cold light and oil cans that were emitting black smoke streaked across the sky. Most of them only caused splashes on the surface of the sea, but a few hit their targets and left a hole on the enemy's deck or ignited a string of flames on the enormous sails.
Danny even saw Chora in a white robe shouting loudly. The Wings of Liberty flag on the walkway of the city walls danced in the sea breeze. The strong, shirtless soldiers turned the capstan hard, rewinding it for the catapult.
She also saw the Gith sailors nimbly climbing the ropes like monkeys, coming to the top of the burning sails, and pouring sand from their bags onto the fire.
Then, four to five two-meter-long crossbow bolts flew over. Unfortunately, one of them pierced right through the skinny sailor's abdomen. Like a piece of mutton on a skewer, the thick wooden bolt carried the sailor, who was howling and flailing his limbs wildly, for another seven to eight meters before finally nailing to the bottom of the bridge railing.
The tail of the crossbow was still buzzing and vibrating, and the sailor was still groaning, but no one paid him any attention. The second mate loudly urged the second firefighter to climb up the mast. The captain on the bridge only bent down to look at the hanging body below, and then cursed and shouted for the throwers on the bow and stern deck to fight back.
As the warships adjusted their direction, the dock area of Astapor had entered their attack range …
"The dragons, the dragons are back!" The Mother Of Dragons' guards on the city walls cheered loudly.
The two sides of the battle looked up. The three dragons hovering in the sky were only the size of a falcon, and with the strong sunlight, ordinary people would not even notice them, but the people of Astapor were too familiar with the three dragons, and they had seen similar scenes many times in the past six months.
At first, there were only a few people, but gradually, the nearly 20,000 soldiers in the city shouted together, "Long live the Queen, long live the Mother Of Dragons!"
The enemy ships on the sea heard the cheers, and looked for a while with their binoculars, and immediately found the three dragons circling under the sun.
"Woo woo woo —" The low sound of the horn slowly spread on the sea, and almost all the ships began to lower their sails.
The warships that had not yet set up their positions stretched out long oars from both sides of the ship. With the sound of drums, hundreds of naked sailors shouted "Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo" and used their strength to move the long oars.
The ships obeyed the command of the captain, and creaked as they moved.
Well, the oarsmen were not wearing clothes, and most of them were still wearing leather slave collars.
"They are really brave, chasing us to the Worm River Delta."
Looking at the longships wandering in the river, Danny sneered.
The Guise Coalition Army's ships were divided into two types. One type was slower, but had a large tonnage. Its deck was loaded with several, or even a dozen, cannons, and there were rows of powerful ballistas on the sides of the ship. The bow of the ship had a hard ram.
This type of ship was mainly used to gain control of the sea.
The other type of warship was a narrow, short longship. When the oarsmen used all their strength, they could even reach 25 knots for a short period of time. The oarsmen were also elite soldiers familiar with sea battles.
In boarding and pursuit battles, these longships were as sharp as scalpels.
Blackbeard Grolle's dozen or so ships were completely unable to fight against the enemy, so they entered the Worm River a few days ago and hid in the port of the delta plain in the center of the river. There were dozens of merchant ships stranded there.
Illyrio's 100-meter-long Seduleon was lying on the beach.
Well, a big-bellied sailboat could not be used as a warship, so Grolle's flagship was You Lun's Serenity.
Of course, it was no longer called Serenity. It was renamed Viserys.
Uh, to commemorate Danny's unlucky second brother.
The main reason was that Blackbeard Grolle wanted to call it Aegon. Danny felt that someone as awesome as Aegon should be treated better.
As the ruler of the Bay City, she would definitely build a huge fleet in the future. She would build even more powerful warships.
She would leave the Aegon for the future and let the dead Viserys take over.
However, Viserys was really unlucky. Ever since it was named, it had been harassed and besieged by Guise warships. It did not dare to leave the Megalosaurus' field of vision. Now that it was forced into the Freshwater River, it did not even dare to leave the harbor.
"Boom!" Dani jumped down from Blackie's neck. Her iron boots left two shallow footprints on the red brick wall.
"Prepare the incendiary bombs for my dragon," she said to the militia captain who came over.
"Your Majesty, please wait at the pyramid. It's too dangerous here," Jorah Mormont advised.
"Boom!"
Before he finished speaking, a pack of raging flames smashed into the base of the wall. The flames made the brick wall crackle, and the pungent black smoke made Danny's eyes a little dry.
"Asphalt?" She crawled over the parapet and looked down. She saw burning cloth stuck to the wall and spread out in a ball. The thick black smoke burned a black line on the wall.
"It's refined fire oil ointment," Jorah said.
More than a dozen balls of smoke had already risen from the northern wall facing the sea. An Unsullied shouted loudly for the militia to extinguish the flames. There were also sergeants waving their shining swords and shouting at their subordinates, "Quickly load the bowstrings and kill those sons of bitches of slave traders."
The battle gradually became white-hot, even more tragic than the sneak attack in the early morning.
"I'll stay here and command the dragon." Danny smiled and said, "Arrange for four Unsullied to raise shields for me and block the arrows. The flames can't hurt me."
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