While no one knew that the war was coming, he sent a caravan out of the Blood Gate to the West and the Reach to buy up the autumn harvest. This was Gao Yuan's first step in strategic planning for the upcoming war.

Whether it is to prepare for the coming of war, or to cope with the challenges brought to them by the long night and cold winter, food is undoubtedly the most urgent issue for him as the guardian of the East.

Especially after the War of Five Kings, the lords and people of the Seven Kingdoms will face their homes turned into scorched earth, and they don’t know how long it will take to restore food planting and harvesting before the war. Moreover, the cold winter and long night

When it comes, food will no longer grow in the ground.

At least in the original book, until the Night King's army of White Walkers came with force during the long night and winter, the continent of Westeros was still filled with disputes and wars. At the same time, Daenerys Targaryen also led

With her three giant dragons and her army, she crossed the sea from the continent on the other side of the strait.

When winter and long night come together, high-ranking lords like them may be able to hide in the castle to ensure that they have enough food and clothing. But the common people and small lords at the bottom can only rely on the food harvested in the past.

The long nights and cold winters have passed.

Because of this, Gao Yuan pays so much attention to the food issue. Now someone wants to destroy his plan to hoard food. This is behavior that Gao Yuan cannot tolerate. He believes that this is a provocation or declaration of war against him.

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"Sir Nestor, since this matter has attracted your attention and decided to report it to me, it must be that the other party's attack on our caravan is not as simple as once or twice." Gao Yuan tapped lightly with his fingers.

Desktop, "The other party must have come specifically for our caravan. I want to hear your opinion on this."

"Lord Gao Yuan, I'm sure they are not ordinary bandits!" Sir Nestor's face gradually became ferocious, and the birthmark on his face became distorted with anger, "Because they are not here to steal anything at all.

, every time they attack our caravan, they will burn all the food and other goods transported by the caravan."

"And the bandits don't all ride horses and wear armor." Sir Nestor replied calmly, "They also hold fine steel spears and swords in their hands, as well as the battle axes they use to kill caravan members.

It is carefully crafted by blacksmiths with excellent craftsmanship."

"How many people are there in that group of 'robbers'?" Gao Yuan nodded in agreement.

"There are at least two hundred of them, because we have a caravan of up to three hundred people who were attacked by them on the way back to the valley." Sir Nestor replied solemnly, "According to your instructions before coming to King's Landing, my lord.

According to instructions, we have arranged a considerable number of valley soldiers in disguise to protect each caravan."

"During that attack, all fifty of our brothers who were disguised as being in the caravan were massacred. There were more than three hundred people in the entire caravan, and only one carriage driver survived."

"Did the surviving coachman tell you which family's flag they were flying and what kind of armor they were wearing? Did he notice the patterns and decorations on them, or the family crest on the shields and helmets?"

"It's a pity, Lord Gao Yuan!" Sir Nestor shook his head helplessly, "It would be nice if they had these conspicuous features, and we could retaliate against their families and forces, but what they wear

The armor styles are very ordinary."

"The driver who leads the carriage must have seen it with his own eyes!"

"The coachman said that the leader was a short, fat man with a pale pig face and small pig-like eyes." Sir Nestor recalled, "Although the leader was dressed like the others,

He looked like a man, but the coachman said he clearly remembered the man's features because he had never seen such an ugly man."

Gao Yuan snapped his fingers excitedly: "Very good, we now know where this group of 'bandits' who attacked our caravan came from!"

"My lord, you have already guessed who sent those people to attack our caravan?" Sir Nestor obviously still didn't understand.

"Humph, is there any need to ask? The person who led the attack on our caravan must be Sir Amory of the Lodge family." Gao Yuan sneered, "The people of the Lodge family have been serving Lan for generations.

The lackey of the Nestor family, this must be the good deeds that the old lion of the Lannister family ordered him to do."

During the Battle of King's Landing during the Usurper's War, Ser Amory Lorch once joined Ser Gregor of the Mountain in the bloodbath of the Red Keep. He was regarded as a cruel and narrow-minded man.

Murdered Prince Rhaegar's four-year-old daughter Princess Rhaenys.

The screaming girl was dragged out from under her father Rhaegar Targaryen's bed and stabbed dozens of times with a dagger until the girl completely lost her breath.

The person who originally plundered the Riverlands on the orders of Tywin Lannister should be Ser Gregor Clegane of the Mountain. But now the Mountain has been killed on the way to the King's Road, so now it is executed

The person responsible for this task became Sir Rocky.

"Lord Gao Yuan, I don't mean to be disrespectful to you. But we cannot conclude that the bandit is Sir Rocky. There are many people in the Seven Kingdoms who look the same as Sir Rocky. And why do you conclude that this is the old lion?

What do you mean?" Sir Nestor asked doubtfully, "They are not wearing red cloaks or carrying lion flags."

"The old lion Tywin is not stupid enough to let people plunder the Riverlands under his own banner. This will only bring dissatisfaction to King's Landing and Riverrun, and lead to a joint crusade from both families."

Gao Yuan continued, "The fact that we assisted Lady Caitlin in kidnapping the dwarfs on the King's Road must have made the old lion Tywin very angry, so he sent these people to attack our caravan."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "If my prediction is correct, Sir Rocky is leading his team to plunder everywhere in the Riverlands right now, right?"

"As Lord Gao Yuan expected, that team is indeed plundering various villages in the Riverlands." Sir Nestor said respectfully, "Because we are organizing forces to encircle and suppress the mountain clans in the Mingyue Mountains.

, the canyon leading from the River Land to the Blood Gate is full of cavalry from the valley, so they dare not bring people into the canyon. Now they are just wandering around the nearby River Land outside the canyon."

"Although the Lannisters cannot threaten the Vale of Arryn at the moment, we cannot simply let them go, my lord!" Ser Nestor tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart.

Sir Qi and the others have more than 500 Valley people in their hands, I hope you can allow me to send a team to encircle and suppress them."

"Ser Brynden Tully, who was stationed at the Blood Gate before, where is he now?" Gao Yuan asked.

"Blackfish Brynden has just completed the phased mission of encircling and suppressing the mountain clans. At this moment, he must be leading the team back to the Blood Gate to rest." Sir Nestor replied.

"You pass my order to Ser Brynden. In the name of the Warden of the East and the Duke of the Eyrie, order him to immediately raise my golden dragon banner of the Evening Star and lead the team at full speed to the Trident River, which is invaded by Ser Loch.

River Basin, punish the hypocritical knight Amory Lodge, and all the accomplices who conspired with him."

"As you command, my lord!" Sir Nestor bowed his hand to him as a sign of respect.

Ser Blackfish Brynden Tully was born in Riverrun. As a member of the Tully family that rules the Riverlands, he is the younger brother of Duke Hoster. He is obviously more familiar with the Riverlands than others in the valley, so he was sent to lead the team.

Going to the Riverlands to encircle and suppress Sir Rocky and his associates is undoubtedly the best choice.

Ser Blackfish Brynden is more easily accepted by the nobles and people of the Riverlands, and will not cause misunderstandings from Edmure Tully in Riverrun. As for whether Duke Hoster will be dissatisfied because of this, that's

Wait until he can get off the hospital bed in Riverrun. Moreover, what does the misunderstanding between Blackfish Brynden and Duke Hoster have to do with him?

Moreover, even if Gao Yuan had not issued this order, Blackfish Brynden would have resigned as a knight of the Blood Gate and led his own people to the Riverlands to hunt down Sir Rocky and his associates.

Brynden can be regarded as one of the few good people in the original novel. He would never want to see the people of the Riverlands invaded and plundered by the lackeys of the Lannister family.

The Riverlands are under the jurisdiction and protection of the Tully family, and it should have been the responsibility of the Tully family to encircle and suppress Ser Lodge and his associates. But right now, the Lannister family is amassing troops on the border between the two places.

Riverrun's attention was all drawn to the Golden Teeth City on the border, and they had no time to pay attention to this team that was plundering in their hinterland.

Edmure summoned all the vassals in Riverrun, preparing to march to the Golden Tooth City to confront the Lannister army, which caused a gap in the internal defenses of the Riverlands. This is how Sir Lodge and his associates were able to

The reason why they were slaughtering and plundering wantonly in the hinterland of the Riverlands, and no one could resist or punish them.

"Ser Loach and his lackeys were wandering around the Riverlands, killing and plundering wantonly. Didn't Lord Edmure of Riverrun react at all?" Gao Yuan asked curiously.

"Reporting to your lord, Edmure sent a small group of troops led by Ser Raymond Darry to search for survivors nearby, and then Ser Darry took them to King's Landing to meet the king," Sir Nestor said.

, "By the time Ser Darry led his troops back to the fiefdom, Lodge and his lackeys were nowhere to be found. It was said that they had crossed the Red Fork and returned to the hills of the Lannister family."

"Now Sir Edmure has sent troops to garrison all the villages, towns and manors within a day's ride from the border." Sir Nestor guessed, "It's just that I suspect that Loch and the others did not leave the Riverlands, but hid in

Near the God's Eye Lake in Harrenhal."

Gao Yuan nodded indifferently. This was probably the purpose of the old lion Tywin. Gao Yuan knew very well that he wanted to use this to squeeze the power of Riverrun and lure young Edmure on the long border to the west.

Distribute your troops so that you can defeat them one by one.

Ser Edmure was still too young. He thought he was invincible after deploying all the troops in the Riverlands. But he didn't expect that the old lion was even better. He only sent a team of two hundred people.

It turned his home front upside down, making him suspicious and fearful.

How should we evaluate this Sir Edmure? Gao Yuan can only be said to be brave, but lacking in strategy and war wisdom. He vowed to do his best to defend every inch of land and protect every man, woman, and child who is attached to his name.

A shrewd and experienced person like Tywin Lannister would naturally not choose to have a head-on confrontation with the opponent's main force. The old lion Tywin probably wanted to attack the east and west, and planted suspicious troops on the frontal battlefield to confront the Riverlands army.

Mainly for the purpose of bluffing and confusing the enemy.

Secretly, he led the main force of the Western Territory to sneak around the enemy's main force, go around the enemy's rear and attack Huanglong. Now the troops in the hinterland of the Riverlands are empty, which has been verified by the actions of Sir Rocky and his friends.

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As long as he leads his troops to capture several important castles and areas in the Riverlands, such as the Pink City, Acorn Hall and Harrenhal, he can easily cut off the supply lines and retreat routes of the Riverlands army, and position the Tully family in the Riverlands.

The territory of the land is surrounded.

Most of the troops in the Pink City and Acorn Hall were used by Edmure to pursue and guard against the small force of Loki and others. The remaining defense force could only defeat Tywin Lannister's main force with one blow.

They were defeated. And Lady He'an of Harrenhal would have to surrender because she didn't have the troops to defend herself.

From this point of view, Tywin Lannister is not so much a lion as he is an old fox. If he really just wants to send Ser Loach to kill people and set fire... Depending on the other party's cunning, the old lion

Amory Lodge would have been specially instructed to be careful, operate at night, make no fanfare, and pretend to be an ordinary robber.

But it's obvious that his purpose is more than that. Sir Rocky's small team is just a flag used by the old lion to test the opponent. His real purpose is to start an all-out war against the Riverlands.

The golden lion of the Lannister family has quietly opened its bloody mouth, but the trout in the riverlands still has no idea about it. Only today did Gao Yuan suddenly realize that, in fact, since Catelyn

From the moment the dwarf was kidnapped, the war had begun, but he kept stressing that the war was about to break out.

Now that the war has begun, how should the Eastern Territory and the Valley respond and break the situation?

Ignoring Sir Nestor's strange look in front of him, Gao Yuan began to rummage around the room until he found a huge map. Gao Yuan flattened the huge map on the table, and what was depicted on it
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