Blood And Iron (ASOIAF/GoT)

Chapter 28: Anarchy in kings landing III



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POV of Antti

''alright guys, I know no one bought the commander's speech, things are really bad, many of our members are dead or missing, but we have to stick together, whatever is hunting us, doesn't attack large groups, as long as we stay together everything will be alright'' said my new captain.

''Go home now, keep up with good armor maintenance, I know I should train you before taking you out on the streets, but the timing doesn't allow it, we need to get back to patrolling the streets of the flea bottom or things could keep getting worse'' said the captain with a serious tone

We all nodded and started to leave and return to our safe houses.

Arriving at the warehouse where we had stored most of the armor of the deceased guards and verifying that no one followed us we started to laugh

We were all laughing, everything was going perfect, their recruiting standards were pathetic, we thought they would try to verify where we came from, but not even that happened.

We were euphoric at how well the plan was going, we had to send more information to bring more of our men, if we are lucky when the king arrives in this city the entire city guard will be completely made up of our men.

After drinking a little with my men we decided to sleep because tomorrow would be the fire trial of our plan.

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The Finnish soldiers infiltrated in the city guard used their positions to know more accurately the patrols that ran in the city, but as now all patrols were increasing their numbers to avoid being caught in an ambush, the casualties of the guards had decreased considerably.

Antti with some information gathered that he managed to steal from the room where the captains of the city gate were meeting, decided to make a show of muscle to the guards by demonstrating that no matter how many numbers were patrolling the streets they would always find a way to stick their knives into their victims.

Putting together the information from the patrols with mass attendance of events by the small folks, the Finns set up a murder in plain sight.

Near the great Sept of Bealor there was a large mass of people who were celebrating one of the common religious festivities, among all the crowd there were several tens of the Finns waiting for their moment to act.

They waited patiently, waiting for everything to be in place for them to act.

When a patrol of guards was walking in the direction of the Sept because the route was through one of those streets, a Finnish soldier took out his dagger and stuck it between the ribs of a craftsman whom they had previously tried to threaten and who had rejected all their attempts to obtain his products by force.

this murderer in full view of all the people and hearing the screams of pain of the craftsman caused many people to panic and try to flee the place as soon as possible so as not to be the next victim of the killer.

This provoked an avalanche of people who wanted to escape from the stairs of the Sept of Baelor as soon as possible, and the direction of those people was the patrol of the guards.

The guards were left in the path of the people although most of the people avoided them a group of men taking advantage of everyone's confusion, the Finns violently plunged their knives into weak parts of the armor or into the eyes of the guards.

From one moment to the other all the guards were on the ground being stepped on by the people who were still running.

When the dust rose, there were several bodies crushed by the people, but all the guards had knife wounds out of the twenty-five guards none came out of the attack alive.

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It had been several days where we had participated in patrol of the gold cloaks, where they gave us an incredibly accelerated training because they did not teach anything at all, they only wanted to fill their numbers and make the murders that we were provoking had not happened.

Since what happened in the Sept of Baelor we had noticed that several times the spymaster of the seven kingdoms has spent time with the commander of the city guard, making plans to finish us off for good.

But the information I have managed to hear from their conversations indicates that they do not even know one of our multiple lairs, they are just beginning a serious investigation it will take them quite some time before they begin to uncover our operations with so many people we have bribed to look the other way.

The next day I got up very early, our informers had left the city, very soon more men will arrive to secure the city, but today we will be able to endanger the larger patrols, since we have been this time gaining the trust of all our comrades.

Now that we are members of the guard, we will be in the patrols and when one of my men is seen stealing, we will pursue them, but it all depends on how many Finns we are in the patrol, if we are more than the guards we will take them to a place away from the main places and show our teeth.

I had given the order to start attacking the rival gangs of thieves because we would need their bodies to justify the death of our fellow guards.

I began to head to my barracks and prepare for this new day.

Arriving at the barracks we began to wait patiently for the captain to arrive.

When the captain arrived he began to hand out to his subordinates where they were to go on patrol and began to divide up the new recruits

Within our patrol of twenty-five, thirteen are Finns, if we get an uncrowded route we will make an ambush.

To our good fortune the patrol was passing near one of our safe houses, we will ambush there.

The sergeant who was assigned to us in the patrol was looking very happy

''Well, we got the silk street, we'll have a good view, guys'' said the sergeant very happy.

After the organization was done we got into position and followed our sergeant through the city.

We marched through several streets of the city, I had almost gotten used to the foul smell that emanated from the streets due to the lack of a good sewage system and the disgusting culture of the Westerosis of urinating on the walls leaving the smell of urine in the air.

When we arrived at one of the markets many people started to approach our sergeant to give him some of their merchandise, from what I understand, the people were looking to gain the favor of the guards to be able to count on their help with the increasing wave of robberies and kidnappings that has been happening in the last days

The sergeant received fruits, needlework and other objects of a reduced value, telling the merchants and artisans that everything was under control and soon everything would be back to normal and that they would publicly execute those responsible.

'Corrupt and useless, what could you expect from the Westerosis, this man would have been executed several days ago if he was under the command of the Prussians for accepting those bribes'.

We stayed watching the market for some hours, but we had to continue our route, the silk street would be where we should watch for the next hours and we happened to have a house full of rival thieves' bodies inside there, if we managed to lure them there all the guards will die.

Arriving at the street of silk we found what we expected, prostitution in all parts of the street, full of brothels and houses of pleasure so that the most depraved could satiate their sexual appetite.

Most of the guards had that idiotic look on their faces when they looked at the bare breasts of the prostitutes trying to attract customers to their establishments.

To the bad luck of our companions we could not disappear to spend time with one of these women because the sergeant was with us.

Or so he thought. He was the first to disappear following one of the prostitutes into a pleasure house.

When the sergeant disappeared, many of our comrades also followed the sergeant's example.

'Damned, degenerate, the leaders should be the example of the soldiers in the good sense, not towards decadence.... but well, this lack of discipline of the sergeant will serve for when we should finish with our comrades'

While I was thinking one of the prostitutes tried to grab my hand, but I quickly moved it to avoid whatever he was trying to do

''Oh dear, you don't have to be shy, I don't bite, well, I do too if you ask me to.... come with me''said the prostitute trying to grab my arm.

Again I pulled my arm away from her

''No, thanks, I'm on duty, it's not appropriate'' I replied in a serious voice

''Your companions will be having a good time, you can too for a price'' said the prostitute.

I approached her face and she smiled, thinking that she triumphed by bending my will.

''Bother me again and I'll cut your throat, I said I'm not interested, is that clear bitch?'', I whispered in her ear while I had her jaw trapped with one of my hands.

The woman nodded and quickly walked away from me.

My men and I continued to watch the streets, waiting for the others to return to do their work.

For about twenty minutes we had to wait until the sergeant returned, quite happy and we started moving through the streets again.

''Guys, you shouldn't be so strict, this is not the real army, it's good that you can escape and do something fun to spend the day'' said the sergeant to us who didn't visit the prostitutes

''We will take it into consideration for next time sergeant, but we shouldn't do this, we are paid to guard not for.... you know'' I answered the sergeant

''Ha, ha, ha, ha, sounds like when I started working in the guard you'll get used to it in time'' said the sergeant.

We were about to leave the silk street when we saw that there was some kind of bidding for something.

Looking more closely it seemed that they were bidding for the maidenhood of a young girl in the open air, the bids were already reaching the golden dragon.

We continued walking when we passed by a street that I knew like the back of my hand.

I saw one of my companions and gave him the signal to act.

Two men began to beat a worker who was carrying a box.

"HEY, STOP," shouted the sergeant.

The two men started to run in the direction of a warehouse when they saw that we started to chase them.

''QUICKLY, DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE,'' said the sergeant.

We chased them to a warehouse which they entered, the first one to enter was one of the westerosis guards followed by the sergeant.

We made sure we were the last to enter to block the exit.

The sergeant upon entering and starting to check found many bodies of bandits that were still fresh.

''What the fuck happened here, why are there so many dead'' said the sergeant in disbelief.

Some of my men came out of different rooms, showing swords and daggers towards us.

''Form a line quickly'' shouted the sergeant.

I quickly got behind the sergeant and pulled out my pocket dagger.

The sergeant was about to shout more orders when I slit his throat, and several of my comrades did the same with the other guards.

The few survivors left after our betrayal were killed among all of us.

Having finished killing the guards we started to hit the armor of the guards to make it look like they fought hard and it was not a sneak attack.

The rest of my men escaped, leaving the bodies of the thieves, which were about thirty.

Twelve men died for thirty all this will stand up very well to our superiors.

We stained our armor with blood and went to report what had happened.

During the following weeks chaos continued to reign in the city many guards were dying every day on different patrols, as time went on many Finns were taking up sergeant positions as more and more Finns were coming to replace the guards.

The more Finns started to fill the ranks of the gold layers the fewer murders there were, which had caused peace of mind among the guards as finally after almost two moons of murders the numbers were improving.

Of all the Finns that rose through the ranks Antti with the name of Duncan was the one that shone the brightest as he was the most efficient in finding the ''assassins'' that in reality were the Finns' rival gangs in the illicit market making everyone take notice of him and promote him to captain giving him control over an entire gate and many men.

Even though the murders started to reduce and every day, they were catching thieves and smugglers the numbers of robberies and kidnappings were still incredibly high as the real culprits still reigned supreme.

'It's only a matter of time before this city is ours, Aleksanteri will be pleased'.

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