Deep inside the Karlian Forest, the moonlight shines upon the living beings, floras and faunas alike, the silence brought peace and calmness to every beings there. Suddenly, the sound of horse steps echoes in the forest, it sounds like the it's stepping on the rocks.
The horse stopped after a few moment, before the owner of the horse stepped down on the ground, he bended his knees to reduce the force given while landing.
"Ah finally, rest time.... You good buddy?", Captain Oufouni stretched his back a bit before petting his horse. He just returned from the palace after declaring war a week ago.
"We got orders to stay here for a while, so easy, buddy. I'm here with you", he patted gently on his horse head.
He looked back and noticed quite a handful of Khatardak foot soldiers followed him earlier before, in about 20 soldiers, mostly humans and a bit orc.
"Attack me all you want, my soldiers are already here, you fools of Khatardak!", Captain Oufouni shouted to the bushes. It is a split of second before one of the grey orc of the foot soldiers come rushing to him while raising his sword high.
"I'll kill you on the name of Queen Azelia!", the orc shouted. But his voice then seemed as silent as ever, as nearly 24 arrows seemed to emerge behind Oufouni and hit the orc perfectly on his face, covering it with the arrows.
Then, emerged in about 55 pikemen soldiers from the bushes behind Oufouni, all of them wearing cotton blue t-shirt without any armour nor protection just charging randomly towards the Khatardakian soldiers.
The first battle has started, though small in numbers, but gave a big impact for both sides. The Khatardakian soldiers was very shocked with the amount of opposing soldiers, but they don't want to give up just yet.
Swords and shields clashed against pikes. Shields managed to stop the pikes attacks, but they didn't stopped their spirit. The pike men once knew their pikes couldn't penetrate the shields, they just resort to hand to hand combat before returning back to using their weapons.
The fight lasted only about 14 minutes before all 19 Khatardakian soldiers died, in return of nearly 30 dead pikemen. But Oufouni didn't care about the casualties he had, it's all only about how many his enemies are dead.
He then went to one of the dead soldier's bist before putting his right hand on top of the soldier's chest.
"Rest well, soldier. You'll return later", he said calmly while closing his eyes.
It's not long before countless portals opened up right behind him, emerging 10,000 archers, 25,000 medium armoured foot soldiers and 17,000 light armoured cavalier. But, the soldiers stood besides and created way for someone to walk through.
Oufouni also stops up straight before turning back and raised his hands in a saluting way.
"Captain Oufouni reporting for duty, sir!", he said with full intent of commuting to the cause.
The man behind him wore the British Great War Sergeant uniform. He fixed his helmet before tapping lightly on Oufouni's left shoulder.
"Good one, mate. I appreciate what you did for us", he said.
He's white and had brown eyes. He had no facial hairs and his hair is brown. The man is the same height as Oufouni. The man is none other than War Sergeant Cayden Haig.
"Just chill out, I'm still a sergeant, even though Khardanki appointed me to be the one leading us for this operation..., right Erik?", je said as he turned around his head to his back.
A tall and big heavy grey armoured knight was standing behind him. He's about 2 metres tall. He looked at Cayden with his mask before nodding. His eyes barely seen through the mask.
" Yes sir, you are absolutely right", he said slowly and his voice is deep. He then stood up straight back and looked around as he watched the surrounding, trying to adapt to it.
"Haha, nice one. Okay back to the scene! 255th Tarazmy!", Cayden shouted loudly before all the soldiers raised their weapons on the air and shouted "Rooh!" loudly.
"Clear the perimetre! We'll be sleeping here for this night! Our invasion will be commenced tomorrow! And get rid of the dead bodies! Burn them!", he ordered his men.
All the soldiers began clearing the trees a bit before setting up the tents. The Grey Knight began taking care of the dead bodies. Stocking them in a position before burning their bodies, allies and foes alike.
" You guys will be back later. I'm sorry. But don't worry. One soul, many bodies", je said calmly to the dead bodies, to reassure himself, before throwing a stick with fire to the bodies, letting them get engulfed by the flames and heat.
The next day
The forest was shined with sunshines. And birds chirping showing how beautiful and peaceful is nature. But will it be ways like that?
12 blue flags were waving in the air. The flags showed a logo of three mountain, with under them the number 255, sword and fire. The flags indicating the strength of 255th Tarazmy manpower for this operation, yet it's still very far away from its even 3% full manpower, and the numbers can always grow.
The sounds of metal clicking really is quite noticeable, even from a kilometre away. Luckily for them, the villages are kinda far away, so their arrival would be hopefully unnoticed.
After 2 hours of walking, they finally arrived at the villages. They saw multiple children were playing beyond the village gate, but they weren't supervised. Cayden took his binocular and surveyed the area.
"It seems the walls are made of wood, so we can easily took them down, if we have cannons or Artilleries. But Khardanki ordered us to only use equipments like these, I need to adapt", he said while looking at the village scenery.
"Do we have catapults or something like that in case?", he asked Oufouni and Erik.
"Nope, I don't think we do", Oufouni answered.
"But you can ask Khardanki for more equipments later you know, sir", Erik added with his deep voice.
"I won't ask now, maybe later. If the time is right. We must not show them our technology advantage yet, they may use them against us", Cayden said as he put down his binocular.
"Alright, soldiers. Here's the plan. Foot soldiers, divide into 2 groups. First group enters the village with cavalier. Cavaliers, sent some of your fast horse to immediately went deeper into their territory and scout for us. Archers, stand outside the walls and just shoot if there's any enemies incoming. Understood?", Cayden said to his men.
They all nodded, some replied" understood, sir". Cayden smiled knowing they all understand his tactic.
"Okay, prepare now! We need to attack this city as fast as we can! ", Cayden shouted a bit loud to his men.
After a while, nearly 3000 cavaliers just rushed inside the village, ignoring the guard post that seemed to be abandoned and unmanned. Once inside the village, they were greeted by confused gaze of the villagers.
But the cavaliers ignored them, knowing civillians casualties wasn't a aprt of their plan. Yet. The cavalliers just charged mindlessly inside, and wondering where the heck are the soldiers supposed to be guarding the village.
It was until a few minutes before they saw a drunken elf Khatardakian soldier, he exit a bar before he saw a cavalier rushed to him. Without a moment to react, he got stabbed by the cavalier's lance.
The momentum made them both crashed into the bar. The cavalier harshly landed on a table before he saw the sight of nearly 15 drunken Khatardakian soldiers. The soldiers tried to reach their swords and shields but were stopped by the cavaliers rushing to the bar.
It was a mess inside the bar. Really a mess. Fortunately, the owner managed to hid under the table and survived the fight inside the bar. Bloods splattered everywhere and it was very loud until it went dead silent after a while.
Turned out, the victorious is the cavaliers. The owner peeked from the table and he saw all the Khatardak soldiers lay around dead, one of em got his body split in half horizontally, his lower body on a table and his upper body were stuck with a lance on the wall.
It was not long before the soldiers to forcefully gather every villagers on the village centre and Cayden confidently said the villagers are no longer under Queen Azelia's rule, but under his now.
"You guys are going to follow my order and all, understand? Glory to Zhagirite Army!", he shouted as he raised his knuckle up on the air and his soldiers followed suit.