Boom! Boom! Boom!, you could hear dozens of artillery unleashing their payload on the docks of Pyke sinking and burning the wooden ships that were unfortunate to be hit by them . Some men were screaming for help as there ships were blown up by the unknown force ,they can't see, Forcing them to abandon the burning ships and swim towards land.
Some made it safely but others were not that fortunate and either drowned or were blown apart by the artillery.
The barrage continued for atleast 15 minutes until only wooden debree and bodies were left to be seen floating on the surface of the water.
On Ren's Ship....
" send in the soldiers ." ordered ren to one of his commanders who scrambled off instantly to carry out the orders .
Five minutes later you could see dozens of rectangular shaped wooden boats moving without oars very fast towards the coast of pyke.
As soldiers the soldiers landed on the wet sand of the beaches the were met by flaming arrows.
"Form up !" shouted the sergeant as he seemingly tried to organize the troops .
The soldiers remembering their training followed their superiors orders and formed up in squares .
Each squares holding 50 men .
"Testudo!" Shouted the sergeant
And a few moments later the soldiers arranged in the testudo formation, the ones in front line brought up their shields to eye level while looking through the gaps ,the soldiers to both sides of the formation brought up their shields to shoulder length protecting the flanks from incoming arrows and spears while the soldiers between the first rows of soldiers and the columns at the sides brought up their shields above their heads. Shielding the formation from arrows and spears above them.
"Forward March !" shouted the sergeant as dozens of footsteps began to move simultaneously, large scutum shields in front and above blocking out projectiles fired or thrown at them .
As they neared the lines of the iron born warriors which had war axes in hand and rusty swords which were now screaming profanities .
The sergeant shouted pilum which the soldiers in the second line proceeded to prepare.
"Throw" shouted the sergeant ,the front line opened their shield wall and allowed the pilum to be thrown which connected to dozens of iron born killing and impaling dozens of them .
As other iron born warriors saw there brothers in arms being impaled by the enemies short spears they became enraged and charged savagedly at their enemies.
But unfortunately for them another volley of pilums were thrown accompanied by crossbow bolts which brought down their numbers further .
Screams of the iron born could be heard all over the beaches as the romans now advanced in close formations stabbing their enemy then returning to block their attacks which proceeded to tire them.
Stab and block , stab and block that's all the romans did as they advanced together , and after 30 minutes the beaches were rid of the defenders and the soldiers were now moving up the rocky hill towards the castle of pyke. And in 30 minutes they were now outside the castle gates lined up in larger square testudo formations ,but didn't advanced towards the gates even though the iron born were firing arrows and throwing spears towards them. It's as if they were staying clear of the wall, as the iron born were firing arrows at the Roman testudo formation a long metal tube was brought up the rocky slope, the long metal tube was then placed perfectly in line with the castles large wooden gates and then a explosion was heard as the door was blown up, schrapnel flying in all directions killing and injuring ironborns that were on the walls or behind the door or within the range of the explosion.
Inside the castle of pyke …..
balon POV
"Fathered they've breached the gate !" shouted yara as she ran in the throne room,
" what !" I proceed to shout in astonishment
" It's the same vile sorcery they used to destroy the docks " exclaimed yara
I slumped down in my seastone throne , this couldn't be I thought
If they could destroy the docks in half an hour with their foul sorcery , of course they could use it to destroy a simple wooden gate .
I was brought out of my thoughts as i heard the screams of my men dying in the passage way leading to the throne room and a few minutes later, the doors to the throne room were rammed open as dozens of soldiers pored in , they were silver colored scaled armor with copper accented edges , a stoic faced copper mask hiding their facial features ,short broad steel swords and a large red slightly curved shield with a steel cross crusted on the face of it from top to bottom.
The soldiers stood there looking at him with weapons drawn , but waiting for something, as he was thinking about this , the soldiers in front of him made way for another soldier which was atleast 6 feet tall and wore a black version of the scaled armor with gold accented edges with a red plume on top of his helmet ,he was clearly their superior .
"Balon Greyjoy surrender yourself to the empire !" He spoke menacingly,
I spat on the ground showing my resistance to these mainland fools
"What is dead may never die and before I was finished I started choking.
POV end
"What is dead may never die but , balon didn't as he was lifted 7 feet off the ground by some unseen force and was choking as if some one squeezing his throat he grabbed at his throat seemingly trying to pull away the invisible hand but it was to no avail.
His now blood red eyes seemingly tried to look around the room for the culprit of this sorcery and saw more figures enter the throne room, there was a man dressed in full black with his hand out in a gripping hold followed by 8 tall guards in pristine red armor, then the man in black spoke.
"We will see about that balon Greyjoy" ren spoke
As he threw balon at the foot of some of the soldiers
" throw him and the girl in a cell " said the emperor as the soldiers picked up the now unconscious balon while some arrested yara .
The iron islands are now mine thought the emperor as he stared at the ugly looking seastone throne.