Chapter Twenty Seven: In Victory...
(From the Runic Book:)
Summer 385AD
It has taken three winters of fighting, drinking, and marching, (mostly marching), to free the homeland of the Polish tribes from the iron grip of the Hunnic Empire. With the defeat of the Demon Brothers, there has been a civil war that has erupted within the Empire, it was split into five pieces. The four sons of Attila taking four pieces, and the daughter of Bledda taking the largest piece. The Son in charge of the Polish territoires was a demon named Urugus. He was a complete fool, for he got into two different wars with his brothers that controlled the Baltic lands and the Outer Steppes. This of course left Poland WIDE open. We immediately assaulted the western borders. All that we found there were undead slaves, which were blown aside with incredible ease.
The Polish lands are a rather poor country, in all of them there are only two great towns, Warzwoz, and Crazkowz, the former being nearly completely indefensible, being there only due to its important position of the trade routes of amber and furs. Needless to say we got there with good speed. The town was under defended to say the least, there weren't even any Hunnic cavalry to defend the little town. We took it in a matter of days.
Crazkowz was a different matter, there was a significantly larger number of Huns there the first time we attacked it, however when we arrived most of them had run off to their lords war in the east. So it was another easy victory.
However when Urugus heard of the towns being taken he immediately ran to defend his assets. All that he had left to fight us with were his pure blooded Hunnic horsemen. It was a viscous battle that the Polish armies lost with brutal chaos. As a result he re-invaded a now hostile Poland. It was two years of raiding and counter-raiding, but in the end he was killed, and his army's remnants fled to another one of the Hunnic lords. As a result There is now a friendly Kingdom of Poland guarding our eastern borders. This has freed up a LARGE portion of the men that were tied down fighting these demons, to gather the harvests once more. A large crop has finally removed the last traces of famine and plague from our lands.
The High Queen has learned much from this excursion. She has seen the ways of war for herself. She has also become very good with a bow, and is learning how to use and axe to cleave a man in half. She still wants to stay with our armies on campaign, while i protest this the Regent still gives his blessing to it, so there is nothing i can do.
We are now in preparation to invade the Baltic lands and reclaim them for our Baltic friends.
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