lys is one of the nine Free Cities, located on the southern coast of the eastern continent, south-east of Tyrosh and west of Volantis, and is known as 'lovely lys'.
lys is an island city, surrounded by the stormy Summer Sea.
but during the calm periods of the Summer Sea, the entire island of lys has a cool climate, abundant sunshine, and fertile land.
there are large amounts of palm trees and fruit trees, the sea is emerald green, and there are many schools of fish.
the alchemists of lys are widely known, working in the city and famous for making poisons, among which the strangler is one.
the people of lys are extremely dependent on the slave trade, with the number of slaves outnumbering free people by three to one, and most are bed slaves and pleasure houses.
breeding, producing, and selling beautiful young boys and beautiful female slaves has become one of lys's pillar industries.
the most famous pleasure house is called 'perfumed garden'.
at this moment, the entire island of lys is surrounded by the Conqueror Fleet.
outside the city of lys, many Westeros soldiers were even stationed.
after taking the entire Disputed Lands, the armies of Duke Forrest and Lucerys re-converged.
after a simple military meeting, Lucerys made the decision to pursue the victory on behalf of his older brother.
after leaving the local Edmund's troops to establish and maintain the Disputed Lands, the entire Westeros army, which had absorbed surrendered soldiers and slaves, reached a scale of forty to fifty thousand people.
when Beoro's army fell into infighting and Grus was captured, it marked the official collapse of the lys and Volantis coalition.
in fact, even if it didn't collapse, their repeated defeats had already exhausted their foundation.
these two Free Cities are now like clay buddha crossing the river, in a state of being unable to protect themselves.
due to lys's closer location, it unfortunately became the primary target.
however, because these Free Cities are like hedgehogs, not only are their walls high and strong, but they are also filled with various defensive siege equipment.
the only way in and out of lys, besides the currently completely closed and blocked port, is the East City Gate.
and the focus of lys's defensive strength is naturally the east wall.
now Westeros has landed for seven or eight days and has not launched a formal attack.
so the mentality of the several thousand defending soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians in lys has changed from the initial fear of the Westeros army attacking the city to being accustomed to it now.
in their opinion, it seems that the group of Westeros soldiers surrounding lys are just putting on a show, and their biggest activity every day is just cooking on time.
as usual, when the sun was directly overhead, many cooking smokes rose from the Westeros army camp as per routine.
clang clang clang!
a very urgent warning sounded in the city of lys, making the hearts of the defending soldiers on the east wall of lys city tighten.
but when they looked outside the city wall, they found that there were no enemies on the only east road.
"there are no enemies at all, who is banging the alarm bell randomly?"
"yes, those who falsely report military intelligence should be arrested."
"it wasn't us who rang it, it came from the west wall!"
"west side?"
many defending soldiers on the east wall looked to the west upon hearing this.
but due to the same height of the two sides of the city wall, they couldn't see the situation outside the city at all, only a large plume of black smoke rising from outside the west city.
"the governor has ordered, seven hundred people are to remain on the east wall.
the rest are to carry defensive items and go to the west wall for support."
just at this moment, several messengers ran up the different city wall stairs to the east wall to convey the governor's order.
due to the terrain, the east wall of lys city is much higher than the west wall.
this is because the western terrain is steep, and it is almost impossible for the enemy to attack from this direction.
therefore, when the governor of lys arranged the city defense, he placed the vast majority of soldiers on the east wall.
there are only five or six hundred lys city soldiers on the west wall, and they also simultaneously serve as city police and guards.
they just didn't expect that the enemy would unexpectedly attack from the west wall.
so how did they land from the steep terrain of the west side?
they couldn't have flown up, right?
at this time, looking at the enemy Westeros army of at least tens of thousands outside the west wall, the face of 'great' lysandro was ashen.
'great' lysandro's full name is lysandro rogar, the patriarch of the rogar family in lys, and also the richest banker in lys.
the rogar bank controlled by lysandro now has a greater presence on the continent of Essos than the iron bank of Braavos.
so this first governor of lys, who declared himself the lifelong first governor, single-handedly suppressed the other governors of lys.
and the reason for lysandro's ashen face was that the enemy actually 'flew' up from the ships in the western sea.
below the west wall, strange elliptical objects, larger at the top and smaller at the bottom, made of huge canvas, rose up one by one.
many large baskets were hanging below these strange elliptical objects, and inside the large baskets sat Westeros soldiers one by one.
the natives of game of thrones naturally wouldn't know about hot air balloons.
this was a story Jacaerys had told Lucerys when he was a child, and Lucerys had unexpectedly kept it in his heart.
after considering that these Free Cities were all easy to defend and difficult to attack, Lucerys thought it would be great if his soldiers could fly.
when he thought of this, a flash of inspiration hit him, and he instantly recalled hot air balloons.
so he teamed up with Ela to create this batch of hot air balloons that could carry soldiers for short distances.
although Ela's magic has broken through now, let alone carrying so many soldiers, even temporary flight for herself consumes a lot of magic.
but if you just use air convection to make the hot air balloon rise, that's much simpler.
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
after reacting, lysandro immediately ordered his archers to shoot at those hot air balloons.
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
these roughly made temporary hot air balloons naturally had no defensive capabilities and were directly pierced with dense holes by arrows.
the hot air filled with Ela's magic inside immediately began to dissipate.
but it didn't matter, this height was already enough for the Westeros soldiers to land below the west wall.
after all, they were experimental products, these hot air balloons had no control valves to ensure a safe landing.
so it was naturally impossible to directly descend from the distant sky towards lys city for an air raid.
lysandro didn't know what other means the enemy had, and he didn't think the relatively low west wall of lys city could stop them.
looking at the enemies who had successfully landed and were surging towards the west wall of lys city like a tide.
lysandro was preparing to escape with himself and his family at the cost of sacrificing most of the people.
hmm? these foreigners!
but when lysandro saw this group of foreigners getting closer and closer, he suddenly seemed to discover something,
then he spoke with a face full of surprise and shouted to the defending soldiers around him: "soldiers, don't be afraid!
these enemies seem to have only brought one battering ram and no other siege equipment.
now focus your attacks on that battering ram, don't let them get close to the city wall!"
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
the defending soldiers on the west wall heard this and found that it was indeed as their first governor said,
these enemies didn't even have siege ladders, and their morale immediately soared as they began to focus their fierce attacks on a group of enemy soldiers carrying a battering ram.
Westeros soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell, and in order to reduce the weight of the hot air balloons, they not only had no other siege equipment.
they didn't even have kite shields that could cover their entire bodies, and these Westeros army siege soldiers only used small single-handed round shields to barely protect their upper bodies.
the Westeros army siege soldiers carrying the battering ram suffered very heavy casualties, but fortunately, other siege soldiers from the rear continued to replenish them.
this thick and long battering ram, which was transported separately by two hot air balloons, slowly moved towards the gate of lys city.
ah!!!
various screams and wails sounded on the west wall battlefield, and these sounds were all from the Westeros siege soldiers.
even lysandro was extremely surprised; these nearly a thousand siege soldiers did not cause a single death on their side.
"******..."
suddenly, a series of melodious and strange singing voices that could not be covered by the extremely noisy screams entered lysandro's ears.
his gaze involuntarily shifted to the left, looking towards the source of this melodious singing.
he saw four Westeros army siege soldiers, he didn't know when,
carrying a sedan chair covered with wooden shields and reinforced layer by layer, quietly arrived in front of the west wall of lys city.
because the eyes of the defending soldiers on the west wall were basically focused on that battering ram, they didn't see the existence of this sedan chair until now.
boom boom boom!
as a small hand stretched out from the sedan chair and pointed at the left side of lys's low west wall,
lysandro immediately felt the ground begin to tremble, as if a monster about to break out of its cage was brewing underground.
crack crack crack!
the compacted soil below the left side of the west wall was suddenly torn apart by an invisible force,
a crack nearly ten meters long, seven or eight meters deep in the center, and then decreasing from the middle to the left and right, abruptly appeared.
bang bang bang!
these meters of city wall, which had lost their compacted soil foundation, were like castles in the air, and after making a cracking sound,
they directly split open from the middle and fell into the black, deep crack.
after the huge dust raised by the collapse of the city wall dissipated, at this time, the west wall of lys city had become 'v'-shaped with the depth of the large crack.
roar ~ ~ ~
when the west wall of lys collapsed, Lucerys, who had been hiding in the clouds, immediately rode Arrax down at high speed.
at the same time, Arrax also opened his dragon mouth and let out a dragon roar that resounded throughout lys.
and as the dragon roar sounded, the morale of the Westeros soldiers at the west wall suddenly soared, and they all rushed towards the breach in the city wall of lys city.
this was not only because their side had a dragon assisting, but also because Lucerys, following his brother's previous instructions,
personally announced the system of promotion based on military achievements before the battle.
whether they were Westeros soldiers, captives, or slaves, they were all eager to obtain the heads of enemies in exchange for wealth, freedom, and status.
lysandro had fainted and fallen to the ground due to the violent shaking when the city wall collapsed.
after regaining consciousness, he immediately ordered the archers on the city wall to concentrate their fire and shoot at the breach.
then he immediately ran down the city wall and shouted loudly, telling the large number of lys soldiers who had just arrived from the east wall to go and block the breach.
as this large number of lys soldiers approached, extremely fierce close-quarters combat unfolded at this breach.
roar!
lysandro looked at the temporarily blocked breach in the west wall, just thinking about how to block the breach, when a dragon roar that made him tremble with fear came from the sky.
whoosh!
a slender Dracarys, like a flamethrower, exploded on the west wall.
more than a dozen defending soldiers were directly engulfed by the Dracarys and burned to ashes.
thump!!!
crash!
Arrax's dragon body fell from the sky, directly smashing into the v-shaped collapse of the west wall.
large and small broken stones splashed out in all directions due to its impact.
these broken stones were nothing to a dragon, but to the nearby lys defending soldiers, they were no less than bombs or bullets.
swish!
Arrax was stuck in the collapsed breach of the west wall, which was the most intense area of combat between the two sides.
clang clang clang!
several lys soldiers holding swords and shields rushed to the vicinity of Arrax's body.
whoosh!
the sound of heavy dragon wings sounded, and one of Arrax's dragon wings immediately swept around the enemies near his body.
clang clang clang!
the long swords, axes, and other weapons in the hands of the enemy soldiers who rushed to Arrax's side were directly knocked away.
but two or three enemy soldiers, who didn't know whether to say they were lucky or unlucky, directly avoided Arrax's dragon wing attack and then frantically rushed towards Arrax's dragon body.
tear!
hiss!!!
Arrax was no longer the young dragon he once was, and he opened his mouth and bit forward.
those two or three lys soldiers were directly cut in half at the waist, and a large amount of blood immediately sprayed out, like two or three small fountains.
and the three Stormlands soldiers with their internal organs spilling out were not yet dead,
they were wailing in pain while trying to crawl on the ground with their hands, wanting to get away from the terrifying dragon.
Lucerys, who had come through a bloody storm all the way, already had very rich combat experience.
he knew that when dealing with enemies on the battlefield, he would never be soft-hearted!
after controlling Arrax to bite the three lys soldiers to death, the Westeros army soldiers then rushed to the vicinity of the breach in the west wall.
Lucerys felt the pressure suddenly decrease at this time and began to loudly command his dragon and swing his long sword to rush towards the surrounding enemies.
Arrax was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, constantly harvesting lys lives, leaving behind blood and corpses everywhere.
with the efforts of Lucerys and other Westeros soldiers, they successfully expanded the breach in the west wall outwards in a semicircle.
but because most of the lys soldiers were gathered at the west wall, the Westeros army could not break through for a while.
kill!!!
just as the breach in the west wall was about to fall into a stalemate, suddenly, a huge shout of killing came from behind the lys soldiers on the west wall.
it turned out that the Westeros army that had been stationed below the east wall for the past few days suddenly exerted force, directly transferring their manpower and breaking through the east wall of the west wall.
and now they were constantly backstabbing the lys troops on the city wall from the direction of the city.
"lay down your arms and kneel, no killing!"
as the Westeros soldiers in the city shouted in unison, the lys soldiers, who no longer had overseers behind them, threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender one after another.
the once invincible free city, lys! thus fell under the control of Lucerys! (end of this chapter)