Blood And Iron (ASOIAF/GoT)

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POV of Antti

''No, looks like you guys are out of luck, kittens, this little thief has friends'' I said looking at the guards who looked scared as they were locked up.

''Throw down your weapons and no one will have to get hurt, so you better obey and you can go home to your families'' I said with my deep tone of voice looking at the guards.

''You are mistaken if you think you are going to get away with this, we will capture and kill you all'' one of the guards said

''Brave words, but can you keep them?, now I won't repeat, throw your weapons and no one will have to get hurt'' I said while I took a dagger out of my clothes and my men did the same.

''We can beat them, we have better training and weapons than those damn thieves'' said one of the guards to his leader.

The leader was thoughtful and looked me in the eye

''If we surrender our spears and swords, what will become of us?'' said the leader of the guards.

''We will take you as prisoners and ransom your lives, we are not idiots to kill the gold cloaks, so if you obey and without shouting nothing will happen to you'', I said with a cold tone.

The leader became thoughtful and looked at his men.

''Surrender your weapons, we get nothing out of fighting, against so many'' said the leader throwing his spear and sword at my feet.

The other two guards obeyed and surrendered their weapons.

''I am glad you are wise many idiots would have preferred to fight and die only for their poor families to mourn their death'' I said to the guards as I approached them

''But you are very stupid if you think you are going to get out of here alive'' I said as I slit the guards' leader's throat.

My men killed the other two guards following my example burying their knives in the guard's throat after making sure they were dead we started to remove their armor.

''What do we do with the bodies, Antti?'' said one of my men.

''Let's hide them in the boxes, apply a tourniquet on the wounds, so the blood doesn't drip out, at night we'll come to get them to throw them into the sea'' I said to my subordinate while I took off the chain mail of one of the dead.

''Shall we take everything?'', my subordinate continued to ask.

''Yes everything I prefer not to have to rely on supplies from outside the city, it's better to get everything inside the city'' I said while putting everything in a bag.

We finished taking everything away from the guards, hid the bodies and quickly started to split up and returned to deliver our cargo to the warehouse

I started to wipe the blood off my hands, when one of my men had approached me.

''Antti, we have a problem''said one of my comrades.

'Shit if we mess this up on the first day Aleksanteri is going to kill us.'

''What happened, did they catch someone?'', I said worriedly

''No, but it's an ambush, we caught a man-at-arms of a noble house'', said the soldier.

''Wow, that's not good, we should focus only on the guard, since we won't be able to replace soldiers from noble houses because they will only recruit in their territories, avoid them, we don't want more attention than what we're going to get

''But kill him, in a way that doesn't indicate a violent death, make it look like he drank beer and hit his head and throw him near a tavern''I said while drying my hands.

''Yes, Antti'' said the soldier coming out of the storeroom.

Finishing cleaning my clothes I went back to the streets

The Finns went back to the streets looking for guards, which they could cut the throats of in their ambushes, which happened for the rest of the day, but every time their plan worked the gold capes patrols became more and more numerous in the area because they wouldn't make the job any easier either.

At the moment that the gold cloaks realized that their companions were not returning they began to look for them, which facilitated that this day of ambushes in the streets of the capital dozens of guards died, but at the same time increases the risk that the plan would fail because everything depended on not being discovered by their enemies.

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Several days had passed since the arrival of the Finnish regiments to the capital of the seven kingdoms and their plans had gone perfectly, hundreds of guards had died in the last few days and everyone knew what they were being chased but not by whom.

In a show of absolute brutality the Finns had begun to kill the guards in their homes in front of their entire family so that word of what was happening to the city guard would spread.

As they had also smashed their competition for the illegal goods market, both in the concept of stolen goods and physically killing their leaders, thousands of stolen goods were moving on the black market that lined the pockets of the Finns who used it to pay other groups of petty thieves to perform acts of bribery or pay for information.

Several days had passed since our arrival in the capital and everything had gone relatively well, we had begun to take other places as safe houses, which gave us more opportunities to act because we were still killing guards around the city without any repercussions.

Everything had gone as planned by our master Aleksanteri, whom to my surprise, had gotten a position within the castle servants, he had used his manipulation skills to get an important job, he could now stab the mad king in the back, the security levels of this kingdom are pathetic we could take this city to total anarchy and nobody could do anything.

But Aleksanteri has warned us about the children, something that I had also worried about, there were some children that were quite attentive in the streets, waiting for our traps to happen and from time to time they have tried to follow us to our hideouts, but as we are not novices, we have taken care that they can not permanently warn their lord.

According to Aleksanteri they serve directly to the spy master, so our actions have not gone unnoticed by the high command of the mad king, but we must continue with our plan, no one can get in the way of our objective, the king's will must be fulfilled.

Although it is becoming more and more difficult the guards of the city were incredibly scared of what was happening, since in the last few days more than three hundred of their comrades have died and I have heard from loose mouths that some of the leaders of the guard patrols do not want to go out to do their job for fear of never returning home.

But also what we expected had happened, today a herald of the king started to say that there would be a recruitment of new gold cloaks for the protection of the city, so far, they have not set requirements for the recruitment, so I think they will recruit the ones that look the strongest

''Antti, what are we going to do today?'' said one of my men.

So far in the city there are almost five hundred of my men and we have started to spread out all over the city to uncover secrets and get financing.

''We are going to try to steal, to force a patrol of the gold cloaks, but then we have to present ourselves to the gold cloaks recruitment to see if, we can infiltrate within their ranks'' I said as I sharpened my dagger.

''Right, but since two days ago, the cowards are no longer guarding the sectors where we happened to attack, now they only guard in large groups'' said my subordinate quite annoyed.

''It's normal, every day your comrades go out to do their job and some don't come back, it's scary, they don't know what's going on, many have families and don't even want to think what would happen to the families when their only livelihood is dead'' I said with a cold tone

''Well with how many men will we go out to ambush today'' said the soldier

''Only twenty, we will dedicate today more to spying and investigate in case we find something better than stealing coins from brothel customers'' I said with a small smile.

My subordinate nodded and we changed our clothes to go out to steal.

For the next few hours, no luck with the guards, the patrols were only the big ones, even now, they were no longer fifteen, now they were twenty-five, no doubt they were scared of what was going on.

'Damn cowards, there aren't many places to corner such a large group, we'll have to put the daggers away for today'.

So, all we did was cut wallets, steal from some craftsmen, mainly blacksmiths, as we were short of daggers to keep stabbing in the shadows.

When the sun was at its highest position, we made our way to one of the city guards' barracks, where recruiting for new guards would be taking place.

In the barracks there were extremely few interested people, it seems that people had heard what was happening to the city guards, this is very good, as it would mean that there is a good chance that we would be accepted.

Looking at those interested in being recruited there were barely forty between my men we made almost a hundred and to my surprise they were not people who were in good physical shape and they were quite small, they do not exceed one meter seventy, while most of us men exceeded one meter eighty.

'We looked like giants among these dwarfs, he, he, he, he, Aleksanteri would give me a good beating if he heard me say that'.

After waiting a good while a man in golden armor came out to talk to us, closely followed by several other gold cloaks.

''I am Manly Stokeworth commander of the city guard, first I want to tell you that the vile rumors that our members are disappearing are simply inventions of the traitors, that said we need two hundred and seventy-two new members for the guard'' said the commander with a proud tone.

When this nobleman observed that he had nowhere near the numbers he was looking to recruit he frowned showing a furious face

''It seems that people do not consider it worthy to receive twenty silver stags as pay without considering the prestige of serving within the honorable city guard'' said the commander very angrily.

After saying this he approached me and began to observe me.

''But it seems that the quality of these recruits is high'' said the commander touching my arms.

The commander was observing all the recruits and I could see in his face how he was pleased with the physiques of my men, but when I arrived with the locals his face reddened again.

After the commander checked all the recruits, he went back to the place where he gave us the speech in the beginning

''Well you all passed the requirements to be gold cloaks, go to the barracks and take your new armors, you will have to take care of keeping your weapons and armors in good condition, if you don't meet these requirements you will be punished'' said the commander and then he went back to the barracks

''This must be a joke'' said one of my men, whispering to me.

''Yes they are more desperate than we thought, but we must not be confident, we must send this information out, we must ask for more reinforcements, we could try to completely replace the city guard'' I said to the soldier.

We entered the barracks and we were given the complete set of armor of the city guard, and they began to distribute us among the groups of several patrols.

After putting us in our new clothes, we were assigned to a captain whom we were to serve.

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