I Became the Mother of Dragons

     When Big Black flew back from Astapor to the White Poplar Slope, Jorah Mormont's Raven arrived at about the same time.

This "Alliance Against the Evil  Mother of Dragons" isn't just attacking from the land, in fact, they have more than one army.

The Army consists of, 5,000 sellswords, 30,000 slaves, and 3,000 yellow silk cloaks, assembled in Yunkai and attacked Astapor from the north.

Along the way, the army gathers Yunkai, Meereen, New Ghis, and even more than 20 longships, 70 or 80 sea ships, and more than 100 ships from the four cities of Qarth to enter the Sea Territory of Astapor.

There is also a third army, the Ghis Iron Legion commandos from south to north…

After the Second Sons were destroyed in the morning, Dany had Big Black leave alone to return to Astapor and monitor enemy fleets within tens of kilometers from an altitude of 5,000 meters.

Ser Barristan guessed that the Ghis coalition had Raven dealings with the Sea Fleet, maybe the enemy planned to follow "Dany's plan", this afternoon, both the Naval and Army launched a raid at the same time… Well, north of the Worm River. The Ghis Iron Legion will also travel north to destroy the industrial and agricultural production system that Dany has worked so hard to build.

"The Northern army was a complete failure. I thought they would retreat. Did the slave masters lose their Ravens in the process of escaping? The sea coalition was not notified?"

Barristan after resting in his armor for more than two hours, started working again.

"Maybe there's a Scorpion on the ship and they're daring and trying to be Dragon slayers?" Dany said with a jeer.

In the process of clearing the Ghis coalition camp, the militia found the remains of hundreds of heavy crossbows, most of which were trampled by horses along with other military supplies, but dozens more were well preserved in the northern camp.

Summer Isles golden silk wood with the thickness of an adults wrist, a two-meter-long bow, nine refined iron wires wound into a bowstring as thick as a pinky finger, and a winch assembled by two brawny men turning a pulley to wind the crossbow.

The arrow is a three-meter-long, thumb-thick iron lance. The arrowhead of the thorn model has a string of Dark-red Flame glyphs—Magic glyphs blessed by a Red Priest or Pyromancer.

Dany tried it herself, she let Little White and Little Green breathe fire at the arrows, the iron in the tail section quickly turned red and slowly softened, but the arrows with the glyphs burned bright red but did not melt the same way.

I don't know if glyph really works or if a Qohor Smith used special treatment techniques.

Only the 2,000 iron crossbow arrows found are more than 20,000 Golden Dragon, plus the expensive golden silk wood crossbow…The Ghis coalition spent at least 100,000 Golden Dragon on the Scorpion crossbow.

The new addition to the Company of the Rose also revealed that the Ghis had ordered over five hundred Scorpions at Qohor. It is conceivable that the enemy battleships are also equipped with similar crossbows and arrows.

However, Barristan said after inspection, Qohor will not build real Scorpions, these crossbows are modified from a ballista model, and the flexibility and lethality are way worse than the Scorpions developed by Maesters.

"The all-iron crossbows are too heavy to hit high-flying targets. As long as the Dragons stay more than 50 meters away from the crossbow, it is safe, but the direct range of Dragonflame is more than 80 meters." He said so to Dany.

Dany complained in her heart that the previous generation of Targaryen's had an aneurysm in his head, what was he thinking? They even cooperated with the Maesters to study the killing radius of Dragons, and did Balerion cooperate with the Maesters to develop a crossbow that kills?

The old man seemed to guess what she was thinking, and faintly said: "Knowing the limit of Dragons can better protect yourself and the Dragon."

"It also makes sense, I will be careful yes." Dany sighed and ordered the militia to prepare firewood for burning the dead sellswords and Ghis.

Different from the fact that only more than 200 cavalry soldiers died, the Ghis coalition left at least 12,000 corpses, which was very troublesome to clean up.

But collecting firewood for burning more than 10,000 corpses is a big project, and it is estimated that it won't be ignited until noon tomorrow.

"I'll go first, you remember to let the militiamen dig pits for the newly joined slaves, and the Ghis coalition camp will also be sprinkled with lime powder." Dany climbed up on Big Black while talking to Barristan.

Barristan is a seasoned veteran, but the issue of military hygiene… Civilization has been abound for tens of thousands of years, and few care about it at all.

As early as half a year ago, Dany quickly formulated the "Barracks Hygiene Regulations" when she saw the Unsullied poking around outside the camp.

For example, you must wash your face and hands before eating, and rub with sand if there is no water.

For example, a trench must be dug at the periphery of the camp, and urine and feces must be removed from the trench.

Even if it is not convenient for the generals to pee with the soldiers, he has to go into a barrel and have it be carried by a squire into the trench.

For example, after the war, the bodies must be cleaned and burned immediately, and a thin layer of lime powder is to be sprinkled on the battlefield and camp.

In the camps of the soldiers, vinegar is also steamed for disinfection every now and then.

"Go!" Dany shouted to Little White and Little Green, and the three Dragons flapped their wings and leaped into the sky with a slamming force.

The broad fleshy wings fanned vigorously, bringing up grass clippings and dust that made Jon Bolton stretch out his hand to block his eyes in the sunlight, the Black Dragon's dark back and dark red wing bones reflected a little bit of a metallic color.

Seeing him flying higher and higher with Dany on his back, the Knight asked worriedly, "Is it okay to go back alone with Her Majesty?"

Barristan calmy said: "Don't worry, Astapor has more Kingsguard, more than 3,000 Unsullied, 5,000 Mother of Dragons Guards, and 10,000 Militia. Let's go to the registered slave soldiers and choose new freedom guards!"

For the distance of twenty kilometers, the three Dragons traversed it only after a quarter of an hour, Dany could see the Ghis fleet four or five nautical miles from the Dragon's perspective in Dreki's state.

The brown, black, and white sails are like roses blooming on the azure sea, and together they seem to form a flowerbed half-circling the city of Astapor.

She came back just in time for the battle to begin.

"pēng pēng pēng…" Ballistas and catapults roared on the Astapor city wall.

The Astapor guards are higher up, and the trebuchets are bigger, more powerful, and farther than the catapults on board, so they attack the ships first that are trying to line up in attack formation.

The thick long crossbow arrows sheened with cold light and the black smoky kerosene tanks cut through the sky. Most of them only caused a splash on the sea, and a few hit the target on the deck of the enemy ship, leaving a hole, or lighting a string of flames on the giant sails.

Dany even saw Ser Jorah in white robes shouting loudly, the Wings of Freedom flag on the city wall walkway fluttering in the sea breeze, and the sturdy shirtless soldiers wrung the winches to rewind the catapults.

She also sees the Ghis sailors' monkey-like dexterity climbing on the ropes, over the sails on fire, dumping the sand in their backpacks on the fire.

Then four or five crossbow arrows with a length of two meters flew, which was very unfortunate. One just pierced the waist and abdomen of a skinny sailor, like mutton on a skewer, and the thick and long wooden arrow carried on. The sailor who was waving his limbs wildly flew seven or eight meters away and finally nailed it under the bridge fence.

The tail section of the crossbow bolt was still shaking, and the sailor was still moaning, but no one paid any attention to him. The captain on the bridge only leaned over to glance at the hanging corpse below, and then foul-mouthed shouted at the catapult on the bow and stern decks to shoot back.

As the warships steered, Astapor's docks were within their attack range…

"Dragons, the Dragons are back!" on the city wall The Mother of Dragons guards cheered loudly.

The warring parties looked up and saw that the three Dragons hovering and flying in the sky were only the sizes of falcons, and with the strong sunlight, most people would not even notice them, but the Astapor people were too familiar with the three Dragons, half a year ago I don't know how many times I've seen similar scenes.

At first, there were only a few people, but gradually, nearly 20,000 soldiers in the city shouted together: "Long live the Queen, long live the Mother of Dragons!"

The enemy ships on the sea heard shouting, holding the spyglass to observe for a while, and also immediately found the three Dragons circling under the sun.

"wu wu wu ——" The low sound of a horn slowly spread on the sea surface, and almost all the sea ships began to lower their sails for a while.

The battleships that had not yet set their positions, stretched out long paddles from both sides of the boat, with the drumming of "dong dong dong", hundreds of naked sailors shouted "yo hey hey" and slide the paddles vigorously.

The ship obeyed the captain's command and moved "squeaky".

Well, the oarsmen are unclothed, and most of them wear leather slave collars.

"It's a lot of courage, I've caught up to the Worm River delta."

Looking at the longboats wandering in the river, Dany chuckled.

There are two types of sea-going ships of the Ghis coalition. One is the slow-moving, but large-tonnage sea-going ships. There are several or even dozens of catapults on the decks, and there are rows of huge ships on the sides of the ships. Might's ballistic, with a hard ram on the bow.

This type of ship is mainly used to gain control of the sea.

Another kind of battleship is a narrow, low-slung longboat. When the oarsmen paddle with all their strength, the speed can even briefly reach 25 knots. The oarsmen are also elite warriors who are familiar with sea battles.

In boarding and pursuit battles, this longboat is as sharp as a scalpel.

Capitan Blackbeard Groleo's dozen or so ships were completely unable to fight the enemy, so they entered the Worm River a few days ago and hid in the delta plain port in the middle of the river, where dozens of merchant ships were also stranded.

Illyrio's 100-meter Saduleon slumped on the beach.

Well, the big-bellied sailboat cannot be used as a warship, and Groleo's flagship at this time is Euron's "Silence".

Of course, it's long since ceased to be called Silence, and has been renamed "Viserys".

In memory of Dany's shitty second brother.

Mainly because Groleo the Blackbeard wanted to call it "Aegon", and Dany felt that someone as awesome as Aegon should be treated better.

As the ruler of the Gulf city-state, she will definitely build a huge fleet in the future and will build a more mighty battleship.

"Aegon" will be saved for the future, let the dead bastard Viserys have this.

However, 'Viserys' is really ominous. Since it was named, it has been harassed and besieged by Ghis warships. It doesn't dare to leave the Dragon's field of vision. Now it is forced into the freshwater river, not even the seaport.

"bang!" Dany jumped off Big Black's neck, her iron boots leaving two shallow footprints on the red brick city wall.

"Incendiary bombs for my Dragons," she said to the approaching militia Captain.

"Your Majesty, go to the pyramid and wait, it's too dangerous here," advised Jorah Mormont.

"bang!"

Before he finished speaking, a packet of flaming burning packets smashed into the root of the city wall. The black smoke made Dany's eyes a little watery.

"Asphalt?" She climbed on the parapet and looked down, only to see the burning fabric sticking to the wall, spreading out, and the thick black smoke smoked a black line on the wall.

"It's a refined fire ointment," Jorah said.

A dozen flames of smoke billowing from the city wall facing the sea in the north have risen. The Unsullied shouted loudly at the militiamen to put out the flames, and the non-commissioned officers wielded a long sword and shouted at the soldiers under them: "Quickly wind up the catapults and kill those bastard slave dealers."

The war is gradually heating up and was even more tragic than the sneak attack in the early hours of the morning.

"I'll stay here to command the Dragons." Dany laughed, saying, "Arrange four Unsullied to hold a shield for me to block the crossbow bolts. The fire can't hurt me."