Operation : Khatardak

It was morning on Mount Jorhud. Even though sun shines upon the ground, it was still cold and chill, in about 10 degrees celcius. There's even a bit of snow on top of the mountain. But that's not the main topic here.

Om the Foothills, Cayden have gathered all his soldiers, lines up. Cavalliers on the front while foot soldiers slowly pushed forward with archers. Cayden gave his men some decent motivational words before the soldiers depart with Oufouni.

"Charge! For Zaghirite Army!" Oufouni shouted to his men before blowing a whistle. He shoved his sabre forward to inspire his soldiers.

All the soldiers, cavalliers, foot soldiers and archers pushesd forward, running up against the hill, charging towards the long big stone walls full of guards.

Meanwhile on the walls of Fort Tarahud, the guards were seen preparing themselves. Arrows, spears, swords, everything the could find and arm themselves with.

The archers immediately took aim and releases arrows upon arrows to Zhagirite Cavalliers, which made many of them fell down and died on the spot. But that doesn't stop the others to continue pushing forward.

The battle to gain control of the 146km² fort has just started now, on the early morning. The cavalliers managed to reach the gate and tired after climbing the hill, until they realised the gates barely had any entrance.

"Fuck! This fort barely had any entrance!", one of them said.

"Obviously. They had expected us to be here earlier. So they of course have destroy the gate and replace them with stones", another cavalier said. Both of them panting hard.

"I know! Let's just pull off these bricks and stones! It would work right?"

"... If it works, I'll get you promoted"

Both the cavalier start to drop off from their horses and began tried pulling the bricks off the walls but it was very hard to do so. The bricks were stuck hard with each other.

"We need more men, I think. GUYS! OVER HERE! WE NEED HELP!", he shouted to the incoming cavalier.

Soon, more and more cavalier began joining them both pulling off the bricks. Barely any progress but they still tried. Soon, the wall archers began seeing what they were doing down there.

" They're under us! Shoot them!", one of the them shouted but he was quickly met with multiple arrowr volleys to him.

The archers of Zaghirite have arrived together with foot soldiers to provide cover fire for the cavaliers trying to pull out the bricks.

" The fuck are they doing up there?", Oufouni said once he noticed the sight of cavaliers gathering around together at a spot.

"I hope they are doing something useful. Erik, go support them! We need to breach the walls by today", he ordered Erik as Erik was just arrived there, walking.

"Dang... Can I get at least catch a breath? Going uphill is never easy you know?", Erik said as soon as he stopped besides Oufouni. After a few seconds of resting a bit, he began walking back to the walls.

Unlike other soldiers who took cover from the arrows of Khatardak, the grey knight simply walked towards the gate. His heavy armour, though kind of limit his movement, gives a really great protection when ever arrows shot to Erik, simply scratched his armour.

Once arrived at the walls, he simply barrage punches the walls for a minute before it went down literally. The soldiers on top immediately fell and collapsed on the debris.

Once the soldiers woke up, they were immediately met with the lances from the cavalier ending their fate there. Then, all cavalier and foot soldiers immediately rushed into the fort.

What they didn't know is that the fort were operated by nearly 93,000 soldiers of Khatardak. They all thought there were only about 11000 or so. This lielterally meant that Khatardak is outnumbered, for now.

"Charge! For Zaghirite Army!", Erik said while raising his sword up to the sky. Yet he's not charging too with the soldiers.

"For Khatardak! For Queen Azelia!", the khatardak guards raised their weapons before charging against the incoming soldiers.

Soldiers consists of orc, human, elves and gollum unite under a banner of khatardak. Fighting against the zaghirite invaders. Spears against swords. Swords against lances. Arrows against arrows. Bloods dripped and began being puddles, which slowly becomes larger.

Yet even the casualties keep increasing, both sides didn't stop to kill each other. And what's worse, Zaghirite Army was slowly but surely advancing deeper inside the fort.

"Shit! They are too many! We need to retreat!" one of the elf guard said while his left elbow bleeding badly due to a lance attack. He gripped his left arm before retreating back away.

Seeing his scared and bleeding condition, the other soldiers felt demoralised too. Even though the fact that their numbers overpower the Zaghirite's, they still felt fear, all because of a single soldier.

With that, the remaining soldiers slowly felt the fear overcoming inside them and shakes their braveness before they all retreated. Not all retreated but most of the soldiers did.

However, there were still soldiers firm on their feet, not turning away. Their boldness was out of the world, but so did their souls. They were quick to get killed and overrunned by the opposing forces.

"Charge! Don't let them escape!", more and more cavalliers and foot soldiers tried to chase the retreating soldiers, but most of them were too tired to do so. So, the archers just shoot countless arrows to their enemies, at least 230 died to that.

That evening, Cayden Haig personally came to the battlefield, seeing all the bloodsheds and dead bodies burned. He turned to Oufouni and walked to him.

"Oufouni, status report"

"Gladly, sir. We lost 750 men and 1800 injured. All others are fit enough to continue fighting."

"I see. Thanks for the report. Bring me to the injured. I'll personally meet them"

They both walked together to where 10 infirmary were placed. As soon as Cayden entered, nearly all soldiers inside stood up and saluted him.

"At ease", he said. The soldiers immediately relaxed and continued their works.

The injured soldiers saw him and shouted "We're ready to die for Zaghirite, sir!". "We're with you sir! Until the end!". Cayden was touched hearing those, he only gave thanks to them, but deep down, it meant much more to him.

He then sat down with an injured cavalier whose limbs were all shattered and broken.

"Name, soldier?"

"Eric Jackelson, sir!"

"Wanna die, Eric?"

"Yes, sir. I want you to shoot me in the head so I can come back here again."

"If only I can make sure of that, our respawn server gave different spawn time different... But I suppose it's the best", Cayden said before he pulled out a Webley revolver and aimed at Eric's head.

"Tell them you're under my command, then surely you'll arrived here faster"

Cayden shot Eric on his forehead, instantly Killing him. All the other soldiers, saw what was he doing, and felt a bit jealous. Knowing if they died, they'll simply respawn in a new body of theirs.

"Dammit! I want to get shot too!"

"Hey chill. Respawn time sometimes are weird. So maybe you'll respawn very late? The latest I've heard is 340 years. You surely won't want that right?"

"Tch, okay okay. I understood".

Cayden stood up and bids goodbye to every personnel inside infirmary. He then went outside and met his soldiers on their tents.

"Tomorrow, we're going to continue pushing. But I'll be there too so you guys won't get demoralised. Understood?"

"Yes, sir!", the answer from every soldiers were loud and clear. It's clear they want to fight again and they all were very energised for the next battle.