Chapter 647: Crossing the Mountains

A few days later, early in the morning.

A troop of heavily armed soldiers of the King's Army was assembled at a distance from the Prince's Pass.

In front of them is the towering and steep Crimson Mountains. Although the western section of the Crimson Mountains is not as steep and steep as the eastern section of the bone road, it is also very difficult to walk. If you are not careful, you will be buried in the cliffs.

And the biggest difficulty in crossing the Crimson Mountains is not that, but that there are no obstacles on the bare ridge.

The soldiers of the Fowler family in Tianjicheng could see the enemy trying to cross the Crimson Mountains at a glance. Many Dornish people who wanted to cross the Crimson Mountains and flee to the Reach were captured or killed because of this.

The Fowler family only needs a few teams of highly mobile desert cavalry, and they can set up beacon towers along the way to guard this stretch of endless mountains.

Therefore, not to mention the harsh geographical environment and extremely poor climatic environment of the Crimson Mountains, it is impossible to support a large-scale army march.

And even if a large group of enemy troops crossed the Crimson Mountains, it would be impossible to take a detour to attack the Prince's Pass.

There are no obstacles on the bare mountains, and the whole situation is unobstructed. The Fowler family's scout cavalry will always find the enemy's trail first, and then report it to the pass level in front, so that they can prepare to deal with the enemy from the rear.

The pass of Prince's Pass is not only able to deal with the enemies in front of you, but also a two-way heroic pass, and the enemies from behind can also be resisted.

This is the reason why the Prince's Pass has rarely been occupied in the history.

And now, Jon Clinton, the hand of the king, commander-in-chief of the king's army, has selected a team of fifty top players from the army in one breath.

Equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and equipment, they set out from Wang Jun's camp, climbed the Crimson Mountains under the guidance of a local guide, and then attacked the Prince's Pass from behind while taking advantage of the darkness.

In the end, a fire that could be seen by the entire Dorne was ignited. On the other side, the main force of the Wang division would also cooperate with the warriors' attack and launch a fierce attack on the northern gate of Dorne from the front. Zhuangxiongguan.

That's exactly what Jon Clinton had in mind yesterday, and it's now being implemented.

"My lords, the road we chose is the steepest and most dangerous, and it is an almost impossible road!"

"But the corresponding Fowler family sentries were the least attentive to this part of the road, and they put most of their attention on the main access road, setting up watchtowers on the ridges."

"The probability of going into the mountain from there and wanting to be undetected is almost zero."

The guide of the king's army is Karen, a young man from a village near Tianji Castle who escaped from the Fowler family's iron shoes not long ago.

It was when Ser Owen Fowler, the only male of the Fowler family, led his troops to pursue Cullen and the others, he clashed with the Knights of Ash Beach.

Then Owen Fowler died on the avenue, which aroused strong dissatisfaction with the 'Old Falcon' Franklin Fowler, who led his troops to launch fierce revenge on the Cenford family, which finally triggered this time. war with Dorne.

However, Karen, who escaped under the iron hooves of the Dornish cavalry, has now become the guide of the king's army because of his excellent guiding ability and his familiarity with the road into the mountains.

Karen grew up near the Crimson Mountains and hunted with his father. Karen was the most talented hunter in the entire village, but now this talented young hunter has become a guide for the King's Army. plays a very important part in the action.

"Are you from Dornish, boy?"

And among the fifty good hands selected by Jon Clinton himself, there are many private armies of nobles from the riverlands.

People are all selfish. When the aristocrats handed over their military power, they handed over the old, the weak, the sick and the ordinary soldiers, and the most elite soldiers stayed by themselves. Although there were not many people left, at least Has a psychological comforting effect.

Now this knight with dark short hair and a fleshy face, who suddenly spoke, was wearing the coat of arms of a certain river land noble. He looked up and down the guide Karen, and then opened his mouth to question.

Although the stone people in the Dorne region are the descendants of the Andals and the ancestors, they themselves are not too different from the Reach people in appearance, with brown-blond hair and fair skin, but in some facial features You can still hear some differences in the details and accents.

The Reach knight realized that the young-looking guide was a Dornish man, and questioned.

"what happened?"

"How can a Dorne bastard act as a guide for this operation? Huh?"

The sudden opening of the knight in the Reach caught the attention of the other forty-nine knights and soldiers present. They were all arranging their equipment with their heads lowered, and then raised their heads to look at Karen after hearing his words.

"The choice of the guide was personally decided by the Hand of the King, Lord Jon Clinton, Olifa, do you want to question the order of the former Prime Minister?"

On the other side, a knight in the Reach who was wiping his saber glanced at the knight of the Oakheart family and said in a faint voice.

"Humph--"

"I certainly do not question the order of the former Prime Minister."

The knight with a face full of flesh snorted coldly, and did not jump into the language trap buried by the other party.

The life of the Oakheart family is not easy now. If the news of questioning Lord Jon Clinton spreads, even if the other party may laugh it off, if it is serious, the Oakheart family can't bear it. The other party wears small shoes.

However, he was still haunted by the Dornish identity of the guide, and many soldiers and knights from the Reach also looked suspicious.

"I'm afraid this little bastard of Dorne is not going to lead us directly into the trap of the 'Old Eagle' and then kill us all."

However, as the object of suspicion and accusation by everyone, the young Karen, the guide of this mission, remained silent throughout the whole process.

He didn't have any refutation or justification. His status as a Dornisher didn't make him feel ashamed. Then, after everyone had finished speaking, their eyes were focused on him, and the brown-haired boy spoke hoarsely.

"I am Dornish."

"But my father, mother, and younger brother all died at the hands of the Fowler family."

The young Cullen's words were succinct, and silenced all the knights and soldiers in the Reach, including the knight of the Oakheart family who had initially questioned him.

His father was the best hunter in the village, but he didn't die on the way, but a month before that, because he shot the prey that Master Owen Fowler fancy in the mountains, and then In the process of selling animal skins, he was identified as tax evasion and was eventually beaten to death.