After forging enough dragonstone for the Vale River fortress's defenses, Viserys and Rhaenyra hurriedly mounted their great dragons and flew toward Wyl.
Without the dragons to deter them, the savage, stubborn Dornish would launch surprise attacks on the allied Stormlands army regardless of the cost.
Fortunately, this time the allied Stormlands army strictly followed Danyla's strategy of a steady, methodical advance, with Dorea Sand and several other wargs scouting out the enemy for them. As a result, every Dornish raider who attacked along the way fell into their hands and became a display on their crosses.
With its elite troops already gone, Wyl could hardly withstand the assault of two great dragons and more than five thousand elite Stormlands soldiers. In just half a day, Wyl fell to the allied Stormlands army.
After taking Wyl, Lord Swann immediately ordered his army to conduct a thorough search of Vyr City. Every suspicious tunnel and hidden door was sealed with stones and mortar.
To prevent Dornish spies from slipping in, they also drove everyone in the city, men and women, young and old alike, into the central square and kept them under guard.
The next day, all the women and children remaining in Wyl were escorted to a nearby dock and sold at discounted prices to the slave traders Markris had sent. More than three thousand people brought them only a little over fifty thousand gold dragons in extra income.
Like Yronwood, Wyl had been stripped of almost everything of value. Even the provisions left behind were only enough to feed the old, weak, sick, and disabled for half a month.
Thus, apart from occupying vast stretches of land that did not belong to them, the allied Stormlands army had not even recouped the costs of this expedition. At least they had