Author: Leaning on the railing and letting the wind blow

"Nineteen ships, and one main ship with 150 propellers." Cole listened to a series of statistics from Gilbert.

He has been responsible for managing the army's equipment and supplies.

In this battle, they successfully captured Greenstone City. Cole stood on the top of the city and announced the treason of all Ismons. At the same time, in the name of the Prince Regent, he deprived the Issmon family of everything they had on Issmon Island.

rights, and renamed Ismon Island "Greenstone Island".

Cole planned to take a short rest on Greenstone Island, and then lead the army to turn around and head towards Stonehelm City.

Cape Wrath still has a Lannister nail stuck in it.

Naturally, Cole's trip was not to fight, but to invite people. He planned to lead his troops around Cape Wrath and then return to Storm's End, just in time to go to Stonehelm to invite Earl Sven.

After this battle, Cole's army was devastated. Although its number had been reduced by nearly half, only about a thousand of the two thousand men he brought out from Storm's End now remained.

He was not prepared to recruit more soldiers. The days of fighting in Cape Wrath convinced him that he had to cultivate an elite force of his own, and under the current conditions, maintaining about a thousand full-time soldiers was a good choice.

Soldiers value elites, not many.

Of course, as for the remaining soldiers, Cole does not intend to let them disarm and return home. In the coming days, the battle is likely to last for a long time, so Cole will set up a garrison in the territory of Storm's End.

Therefore, let these soldiers form towns, plan them uniformly, let them be self-sufficient, train themselves, and do not collect taxes.

When war breaks out, as long as the castle calls out, a large army can be quickly reorganized.

The purpose of farming is naturally to cope with the protracted war.

Of course, with the coming of winter in Westeros, it is estimated that it is no longer possible to harvest wheat, vegetables and fruits, but fortunately, Storm's End is close to the sea and relies on a huge royal forest.

He didn't know how the farm was run in his previous life, so Cole decided to use the night watchman system to establish the farm.

"Your Highness, I suggest that we return by sea." After capturing the fleet on Greenstone Island, the number of ships at Storm's End was expanded.

It only takes about a day to travel from Greenstone City to Storm's End by sea, which is much less time-consuming than traveling by land.

"I'm going to take the soldiers for a walk around Cape Wrath."

"Take a walk? Please forgive me, Your Highness. I don't quite understand what you mean." Gilbert touched his beard.

Cole smiled, "We have to show these rainforest people the power of Storm's End, my sergeant. I don't want another guy to pop up here who claims to rule the Stormlands as soon as we leave." He said.

Open the map and say, "This is the route I chose. What do you think?"

Gilbert hesitated to speak and looked at the map with the route drawn on it, from Rainhouse City to Mistyforest City, passing through Stonehelm City, and then over the Crimson Mountains and back to Storm's End.

"This will undoubtedly increase our logistics expenditure." As a logistics personnel in the battle, he knew very well how much gold dragons this army spent every day of travel, and Storm's End did not have much money to squander right now.

"Don't worry, our rainforest friends will be responsible for ensuring the expenses of this march." This is their responsibility.

He would recruit troops along the way and then bring them back to Storm's End to build a garrison.

They have no right to refuse to the defeated.

Cole was not stupid enough to change the owners of all these castles and then reward them to his subordinates. He only tried the mastermind. As for the other defeated families and the princes who voluntarily surrendered, Cole allowed him to continue to be his lord.

As for those who fought with him to the end, Cole supported those in the family who were willing to submit to him to become the head of the family.

For those who had meritorious service under his command, Cole divided the land from Storm's End Castle and Summerhall and rewarded them.

Each family in Westeros has been rooted in their own castles and territories for thousands of years. It is extremely difficult to change owners, especially the more powerful the territory.

Just as Lannister rewarded Nightsong City to the mercenary Sir Philip Ford, it was difficult for this mercenary knight to make Nightsong City surrender to him. Neither the branches of the Cullen family nor the minor lords under it would.

Agree to allow a hedge knight with a Lannister reward to serve as Lord Marshal of the Marches.

Just like when Lannister made Cole the Duke of Storm's End, even if he was really fascinated by this title, he would still find it difficult to sit still.

Now even though he is already the prospective son-in-law of the Baratheon family and the regent prince whom Stannis personally crowned, it is still difficult for them to surrender.

These are the rules of Westeros.

For thousands of years, not many people have been able to break this set of rules.

Cole didn't expect the nobles of the Stormlands to turn to him wholeheartedly. He didn't care whether they had evil intentions or endured humiliation and waited for revenge.

As long as this group of people don't cause trouble in his next plan, that's enough.

He looked across the narrow sea. Cole only hoped that Daenerys and her horse king husband would not come too recklessly, and would not be used as guns by others.

Cole still cared a little about his blood relative whom he had never met, and the girl with an extremely tragic fate flashed through his mind.

His mother died in childbirth. When he was a child, his country was destroyed and he followed his brother to a foreign land. His only relative, Viserys, was deceived and became lame. He often used her to vent his anger and show off the "wrath of the sleeping dragon". He was sold to the public at the age of thirteen.

King Ma, it was not easy for him to meet a man who loved him, but he was turned into a monster by blood magic, and his son also suffered a miscarriage.

Sure enough, suffering is the most disgusting teacher for human beings.

Although Cole and Daenerys have disputes over collective ownership, they might as well get their things back first, and then they can even have a duel with the Horse King to decide who will sit on the Iron Throne.

Of course, no one can say how things will develop when it gets to that point, and the final results of many things may be far from what was initially expected.

Just like Cole himself, he never expected what kind of path he would take.

All he can do is keep getting stronger.

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The war in the Stormlands was settled with Cole's firm determination. When all parties turned their eyes from the north back to the south, they found that the storm here had subsided.

The fleets of Redwin and Lannister didn't even have time to react. They had just sailed north from the Summer Sea south of Dorne, and they were still a long way from the Dorne Sea.

Cole led the army around Cape Wrath and met up with another army at the foot of Stonehelm City.

He directly marched his army to garrison one mile away from Stonehelm City. Along the way, his army continued to expand.

As soon as the tent was set up by the attendants, Earl Swin's envoy had already been sent over.
Chapter completed!