The central hill is a rammed earth fortress.
Liu Qian stood on the highest lookout of the rammed earth fortress, holding a secret letter from Mezzo in his hand.
His eyes swept over the letter's detailed report on the recent upheaval in Westeros.
Jon Arryn died violently, and Ed Stark went south to take over as the king's hand—
A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Indeed, it is so.
Ed Stark still went south to serve as prime minister after all.
He should have received the letter from Liu Qian, after all, the raven brought by Coben and Malwin from the school city was very familiar with the route to Winterfell.
The reason why Liu Qian wanted to provoke the conflict between Ed and Lan Li was that Stark and Lan Li had no possibility of cooperation.
In his opinion, there is a big problem with the conspiracy of the little finger.
If it weren't for the red-robed witch hanging up Stannis, Lan Li would most likely be pushed to King's Landing and crowned king.
You know, there is no irreconcilable contradiction between Lan Li and the Stark family, and the two sides have room for cooperation.
Although Robb is also known as the King of the North, this was also caused by the execution of Edd by the Lannisters, and has nothing to do with the Baratheon family.
Later, Caitlyn was also sent as a special envoy to Bitter Bridge, hoping to establish an alliance with Lan Li.
Of course, Lan Li would be killed by the Red Robe Witch, but the Tyrell family would not.
Liu Qian also had to provoke a dispute between the Tyrell family and the Stark family.
He received news that Stannis had been relieved of his post as Minister of the Sea by Robert and that the Duke of Metz of the Tyrell family had taken over the position.
The Duke of Metz contributed a lot to Robert's expedition to Bloodstone Island, and also paid war reparations for the Iron Throne and became a popular man in the court.
The Duke of High Court, who was not familiar with naval affairs, took over as Chancellor of the Sea, rather than the Earl of Paxter, apparently due to Robert's importance.
The Tyrell family was very happy about this value.
However, now that Jon Arryn is dead, the king does not promote the existing Duke of High Court, Mace Tyrell, as the king's hand, but instead goes to the north and asks Ed Stark to go south to serve as the imperial prime minister, which is undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face to the Tyrell family.
Therefore, the contradiction between Stark and Tyrell has emerged.
The introduction of Ed into the conspiracy that Lan Li was preparing to replace was to intensify this contradiction and eventually turn into a power struggle.
Once Ed exposes the conspiracy of Renley and the Tyrell family, what will the Tyrell family think of Ed?
Also, what will the Lannisters think of Tyrell?
As for the relationship between the Stark family and the Lannisters, there is no need for little fingers to provoke with daggers.
As long as Cersei's matter breaks out, Lannister will instantly become the target of public criticism.
Almost all the original families that supported the Baratheon family to ascend the Iron Throne will be hostile to the Lannisters.
Of course, just leading Ed to suspect that Lan Li was replaced was not enough to really intensify the conflict between Lan Li and the future Stark family.
Liu Qian's more important layout is still behind.
At this moment, Chai Yi brought another message from Mezzo.
"Your Majesty, Lord Mezzo has indicated in his letter that the recent free trade city-states seem to have some views on the wars in the disputed lands, and that the Archons of Valantis claim our existence as a destabilizing factor throughout Sieusus. :"
Liu Qian pondered.
Regarding the attention of other free trade city-states to the war in the disputed land, Liu Qian had long been mentally prepared.
After all, he couldn't hide anymore.
Telosi and Reese were captured one after another, and as long as he defeated Mir, he could dominate the Three Daughters Kingdom.
In this way, his presence would pose a great threat to other free trade city-states.
Although he didn't think that those free trade city-states would directly go to war to help Mir.
But he had to guard against it.
Over the past month or two, he has made several tentative attacks on the highland fortresses entrenched by the Mil.
Slave soldiers operated dozens of captured and newly built trebuchets, raining boulders and incendiary materials day and night on the fortified stone walls.
The roar continued day and night, and smoke and dust obscured the sky.
However, the results are frustrating.
The stone bullets of the trebuchet hit the tower, which may have an effect.
Because the walls of towers are generally not that thick.
However, smashing on the thick outer wall of the castle can only leave shallow dents and peeling rubble, which is difficult to cause structural damage.
The Mir people huddled in the fortress, relying on perfect fortifications and sufficient reserves, and resisted stubbornly.
They stored quite amazing food in the castle, enough to last one to two years.
The war situation fell into a scorching stalemate.
What worried him even more was that the cavalry raid tactics, which had remarkable effects in the early stage, gradually lost their edge.
The Mir people, who had suffered a lot, clearly learned their lesson, and quickly built simple but practical high walls and watchtower fortresses on important estates, farms and transportation nodes in the rear, and organized slave soldiers to defend them.
It became extremely difficult for the Dragon Spirit Guards and the cavalry of the Wind Blowing Regiment to plunder and burn wantonly as if they were in a no-man's land.
Reports of casualties and blockages began to increase.
The Mir people are using space and fortifications to offset Liu Qian's mobility advantage little by little.
Faced with this situation, Liu Qian did not do anything at all.
He looked at Chai Yi: "You and Jelena stay here, I'll go back to Crown Town." "
After arranging the battle on the front line, Liu Qian led a team of dragon spirit guards to ride horses through the woodland of the three daughters and the watch camp, all the way south, and arrived at Wangguan Town.
After more than half a year of construction, coupled with the 100,000 Reese slaves he transported, the Conquest Fort has revealed its magnificent outline.
The main building made of white marble has been completed, and the rest of the work is focused on the construction of the curtain wall and ground road.
He found Coben, who was staying in the Arsenal.
With sufficient iron ore in the military workshop, ten weapon workshops and five armor workshops have now been built.
But the purpose of Liu Qian's trip was not to review these workshops.
He came to the deepest part of the Arsenal Workshop, where there was a huge stone building full of people wearing yellow hoods and solemn expressions.
Their robes were decorated with a green flame of the Alchemist's Guild pyromance.
These were all "invited" by Liu Qian from Reese and Tellosi.
The Alchemist's Guild is not only distributed in King's Landing, but also in Essos and even Yasha.
At this time, the workshop was crowded with hundreds of pyromancers.
They are involved in a dangerous project.
Make a wildfire!
When facing the fortified castle of the Mirs, he thought of wildfire.
Wildfire is a dark green flammable liquid that can burn for a long time.
Once a wildfire is lit, it is bound to burn the object to death.
It can seep into clothes, wood, leather, and even steel, setting them all on fire.
Even wildfires floating on water can burn, which makes them an ideal weapon of war, Liu Qian plans to throw this group of wildfires into the fortress with trebuchets, so that the mercenaries who huddle in the castle can taste the taste of being roasted by fire.