As the root cause of this "war of usurpation", everything related to Rhaegar·Targaryen is the reverse scale of Robert·Baila Theon.
Titus hasn't spoken yet, but Eddard is unhappy.
"Your Majesty, do you know what you are talking about? That is just a three-year-old little girl! You will never kill innocent people indiscriminately like Tywin·Lannister's men?"
Eddard heard about the death scene of Rhaegar's son from Titus, and was very unhappy about it, which was evident from his title to Robert.
The eldest brother and the second brother actually had a quarrel over this matter.
Eddard thinks this is a despicable murder. Robert has no objection to the crimes of Gregor, Clegane and others, but the death of Rhaegar's son says it is an inevitable tragedy in war and can only applaud.
When Eddard claimed that the young prince of the previous dynasty was no different from an ordinary baby, Robert, who had just ascended the throne at that time, responded harshly, "I didn't see any baby, I only saw the evil dragon's seed!"
Thanks to the intervention of Jon·Arryn, the quarrel between the two was stopped, and the two put aside the dispute and reconciled.
Unity is the most important thing within their alliance, and there is no need to make trouble over a dead and irreparable baby.
Moreover, at this time, Lyanna may still be alive, Robert can still control his anger, and Eddard can also make some changes.
At this time Eddard was unhappy, but Robert was even more angry. "That Rhaenys·Targaryen, who knows how long she can remain innocent?"
He spoke the last name of the previous royal family very strongly, his tone was full of strong hatred, and his loud voice gradually rose: "----This child" I'm afraid it won't be long before he spreads his legs and breeds a bunch of evil dragon poison to cause trouble for me and us!"
"Having said that----"
Eddard responded without any sign of weakness, "Do you really want to kill a child? Such an idea is really outrageous----"
"Outrageous?" the king shouted angrily.
"What Aerys did to your brother Brandon is so heinous! Thinking about how your late father died tragically, wouldn't it be even more heinous?! This is what the evil House Targaryen family does!"
Robert pointed at Ned angrily. "I will personally kill every member of the Targaryen family, kill them all! I will let all Targaryen die cleanly and completely like their dragons, and finally I will sing and urinate on their graves——"
"Robert!"
Seeing that His Majesty the King was getting more and more uncomfortable, and that the quarrel was purely an emotional vent, Jon Hand of the King rubbed his forehead and interrupted the quarrel between the two brothers.
This damn familiar feeling!
Warden of the East can't help but think of the two little guys on the Eyrie. Now one has become a king and the other is a duke, but they are still so noisy and become more and more difficult to discipline.
Although Titus Earl, who had been eating melon by the side, sighed at Jon Hand of the King's interruption, he also knew that he had to speak.
"Oh---- everyone calm down first, we are all brothers, what can't we talk about? Robert wants to kill all Targaryen, this is correct----"
When the eldest brother saw his third brother supporting him, he lost his anger instantly and smiled happily at the latter. Eddard was about to speak, but was blocked by Titus. He continued with a smile, "----Ned said that war is war, and the hatred of adults should not involve innocent people, let alone children. It is not wrong."
Everyone is right, so who is wrong?
Robert's smile faltered, Eddard looked puzzled, and the other two dukes also looked at something strange. Everyone was staring at the young black Lord Earl to see what new things he could come up with.
"Change Rhaenys's surname to Martell" and draw a clear line between "Rhaenys" and "Targaryen". Then let their mother and daughter go to Great Sept of Baelor, witness by many nobles and people in the capital, and swear in the name of the former royal family to voluntarily give up any claims to Iron Throne. I think part of the problem can be solved."
Jon Hand of the King nodded slightly, this is a way to solve the problem.
The head of the Arryn family of As High as Honor actually has a bias in his heart. At least in this matter, he supports his other adopted son Eddard·Stark.
Master of Laws Hoster The Duke looked around. He didn't care, he just followed the crowd.
Eddard nodded frequently, secretly thinking that Titus had more ideas. As long as he didn't anger the little girl and dealt a heavy blow to House Targaryen's other forces, he had no objections.
After all, most of his family members died at the hands of Targaryen.
After all three people expressed their opinions, only Robert seemed to have some dissatisfaction on his face. Titus had to work harder. "Robert, that child has brown hair and brown eyes. He is completely Dorne Salt Dornishmen's appearance is that of a Martell----she can't even recognize her biological father! After all, when she was growing up, Rhaegar was neither King's Landing nor Dragonstone, but was fooling around outside----"
Titus put on a sincere expression, and the words in his mouth were very convincing.
"I believe that even when she grows up and learns about her life experience, she will still feel contempt for such an arrogant and irresponsible criminal father."
Robert looked at the other "four permanent members" on the table, rubbed his face with his hands, and shouted impatiently, "Okay, okay! You are all good people, and you are all honorable knight models. I am the only one who would offend an innocent little girl, okay? For the sake of her bastard Seven Hells, I will let her go - but!"
Looking at Ned's smiling face again, Robert snorted, suddenly straightened his face, and said seriously, "This Rhaenys--Martel, must stay in Red Keep, stay where we can all see it, otherwise, if they let their mother and son return to Dorne, things will become very troublesome----"
Obviously, when Robert is not furious, his mind is still quite clear.
After deciding to let the little girl go, he, like Titus, immediately realized the flaws in Dorne's inheritance law.
"Of course."
Titus spread his hands and was the first to express his approval.
"Martell and his daughter cannot stay in my hands forever, that would not be appropriate - I will accompany Red Keep's defense in the future - and leave it to you and Lord Jon."
Jon Hand of the King was very satisfied after hearing this. He originally wanted to ask Lewyn Martell from Starpike Earl in order to prepare for comforting Dorne later. Then he saw Starpike Earl Considering the overall situation, I am embarrassed to mention it again.
On the one hand, Titus·Peake has made great achievements in battle, and on the other hand, the Allied forces are currently strong and are not too afraid of Dornish's reaction. History has proven that it is extremely difficult for the kingdom to completely conquer Dorne. The nobles and people there have their own cultural customs and a strong spirit of resistance.
But on the other hand, Dornish is a small and sparsely populated area. Even if we include the remnants of the army that fled after the battle of Trident, we can only gather an army of 20,000 to 30,000 people.
Iron Throne can't beat it, and they can't beat it either.
As long as you don't think about "conquering Dorne", Dorne-including Sunspear and House Martell are not difficult to deal with.
The alliance still has Prince Princess Elia and Lewyn in its hands, which is enough to deter Sunspear from making rash actions. The minimum requirement is that Martell and the others do not join forces with the remnants of Targaryen.
"Okay, let's leave the brown-haired little girl alone. You can't just ignore the silver-haired dragon, right?"
Robert spoke again, discussing Leila's mother and son who were hiding on Dragonstone.
Seeing that he had nothing to do for the time being, Titus leaned back in his chair again with a smile and watched Master Jon take over the performance with a wrinkled face.
"This - I'm afraid it won't be easy to deal with. According to the information given by Master Titus, Dragonstone currently has nearly fifty warships. Counting the manpower of this fleet alone, there are at least five thousand -"
"It's only five thousand, but there are fifty thousand of us!"
Robert said a little unhappy.
His adoptive father Hand of the King gave a bitter smile, "We have fifty thousand people, but we have no ships, let alone battleships. Once we get to Blackwater Bay, our fifty thousand soldiers will also be defeated by the opponent's five thousand people."
Robert stopped ringing.
Everyone here knows that what the Allies lack most is water power.
Eddard was in a hurry to go south and did not give any instructions to the Manderly fleet of White Harbor. Duke Jon was also afraid that Royal Fleet, one of the three major mainland fleets, would invade Vale, so he also did not move the navy after Gulltown surrendered.
And even if the two fleets on the east coast abandon their own cities and cooperate together, they may not be able to defeat Dragonstone, which has fifty warships.
Again, a ship is a ship and a warship is a warship. There is a huge difference between the two.
The only ones that can compete with Royal Fleet and Westeros are Redwyne Fleet of Arbor and Iron Fleet of Iron Islands.
Others, such as the Lannisport fleet of Westerlands and the Hightower fleet of Oldtown, are not enough.
Everyone discussed for a while and felt that it would definitely be too late to build warships slowly.
The only way I can think of, besides contacting Free Cities of Essos to buy a new ship, is to write to Pyke of Iron Islands, using the wealthy the Reach as bait to seduce the Ironborns to go south to plunder and destroy the enemy's rear area.
If Ironborn is willing to cooperate, then go one step further and ask the other party to make a big detour and come to the east coast of the mainland.
Due to the lack of maritime combat power, the Allied forces were unable to do so and could only make some plans on paper.
Everyone was helpless. It would take time to make up for the shortcomings, so we put aside the campaign against Dragonstone for the time being and turned to other topics and matters.
Since you can't fight outside, let's settle inside first.
Except for Dragonstone, who is alone overseas, and Dorne, who is far away in the southernmost part of the mainland, the ones that most need to be appeased right now are Westerlands and the Reach, who have strong foundation and financial resources.
Ned's sister Lyanna is likely to encounter something unexpected----
Jon·Arryn, who was not very optimistic about Lyanna's return, began to think about whether to win over Westerlands's lion, and use the name of marriage with the king to dangle Duke Casterly Rock - his daughter, who is quite suitable in terms of age and status.
He wanted to prepare a wife for His Majesty the King.
No coincidence.
Someone sitting opposite him happened to have similar thoughts.
Robert I, who didn't know that his adoptive father and someone were playing tricks on each other, had their first meeting. He tried his best and continued to advance the meeting. He was also thinking about "Anai".
"Currently, the only major enemy in the interior is the southern army that has been staying at Stormlands and continues to besiege Storm's End!
I have seen the armament level of the Reach people, and they have a large number of people in Stormlands----Titus, are you really sure you want to do it yourself?"
If you wait a little longer, maybe your injuries can recover and you can catch up with this big battle. This is Robert I's idea.
Titus's reaction was:
No need to ask? What are you waiting for?
The opponent is Mace·Tyrell!
It was a bit embarrassing for Starpike Earl, who was also in the Reach, to lead the attack on his fellow countryman Robert - although the other party had already done that once and saved his life.
He himself also wanted to go into battle, but now that he was physically injured and he had just become king, he could not act rashly.
Neither his physical condition nor his adoptive father Hand of the King would allow him to act recklessly.
The opportunity to meet "Seven Kingdoms No. 1" at the top obviously fell into the hands of Titus----
The "Seven Kingdoms No. 1 general" who attacked Storm's End who shook his head in the city of God--Mace·Tyrell: