On a cold night in Čachtice...

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Re: On a cold night in Čachtice...

Postby Alaric_the_green » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:35 pm

OOC: Death to the Trigunian occupiers? I'm intrigued...I don't remember that in Deltarian history! What's that all about?
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Re: On a cold night in Čachtice...

Postby Sam » Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:08 pm

Loděnice, Darali
September 25-October 2, 1953


Lodenice Hill, or Lodeinoe Pole as the Trigunians called it after a town in Kildan Olvar, was an impenetrable defensive position. That was what the commanders said. Whether that was true or not, it was the last defensible position before Cachtice. Inside and around the hill were the iron and coal mines that kept the Daralian war machine running, gold and silver mines that provided the country's foreign exchange, and the second-largest rail junction in Deltaria, moving the metals from the mines to the factories in Cachtice and supplying besieged Hradec Kralove with desperately needed food and ammunition. The two lines of trenches stopped the Ushalandian and Dissuwan assaults, and the 100,000 man Trigunian Expeditionary Force had arrived just when the defenders were almost outnumbered. From the second trench, on the crest of the hill, Lieutenant Ivan Smolenak directed the fire of 3rd Battery. His "Mala Alzbeta" (Little Elizabeth) guns managed to stop several tank attacks dead in their tracks, if the tanks' tracks even survived.

"Szent Zsitomir!"

Invoking Saint Jitomir, a Deltarian king who fought the Arabs, the Dissuwans attacked. Lieutenant Smolenak looked through his binoculars and directed the artillery fire. From the Trigunian section of the line, a bugle call sounded. The Trigunians retreated without consulting the Daralian commanders, leaving the defenders in the lurch. The Dissuwans filled the empty section of the trench and cleared it out in brutal hand-to-hand fighting. The defenders that were still alive retreated. Nobody who was in the Daralian Army on that day would ever forgive General Konstantin Fedorovich Streltsov for his cowardly retreat.
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Re: On a cold night in Čachtice...

Postby Sam » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:31 pm

Čachtice, Deltaria
September 9, 1954


The inhabitants of the Trigunian-occupied city that was formally the capital of Deltaria were interrupted during lunch by the wailing of air-raid sirens for the first time since the war ended. First the fighters came, cautiously poking around in semi-disbelief, scanning the skies for Trigunian planes and not finding anything. Then the bombers dived in, raining thousands of tons of high explosive on the city. Then the troops on the ground came. Smolenak had surrounded the city with a million men, a hundred artillery trucks (they needed a more formal name then "Smolenak tanks"), and fifty tanks. It was unstoppable momentum, just like the Daralian Spisedesultne Offensive and his attack on Viarnassus. Ironically, it was the Communist underground in Cachtice that helped him the most, staging guerrilla attacks on the Trigunians and weakening them. Rodshyadam had stopped sending Streltsov reinforcements, so his force was down to 6,000 Trigunians, 11,000 mercenaries, and 23,000 peasant conscripts. Smolenak minted gold and silver pre-war "Czar Karol" coins in Lodenice, while Streltsov could only print worthless Daralian Telars, which had been printed excessively during the War to finance it and suffered from hyperinflation. The mercenaries and peasants were paid handsomely to get them to defect. It was down to the Trigunians to fight, and 6,000 men had no chance against one million. They fought street-to-street and house-to-house, and were completely destroyed. Streltsov attempted to escape through Lake Majatra, but his boat was machine-gunned by fighters and his body was strung up from a lamppost in Lodenice Station. The Trigunian garrison of Sfantul Gheorge, the other occupied city, surrendered without a shot being fired. Smolenak showed his gratitude by massacring all of them.
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Re: On a cold night in Čachtice...

Postby Sam » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:36 pm

Sfantul Gheorghe, Deltaria
September 17, 1954


As the military band played "Farewell of Slavianka", the last of the Trigunian troops in Deltaria boarded their ships and returned to Trigunia, never to step on Deltarian soil again for the next few centuries. It was orderly, and there were no attacks on the departing troops. The next day, there were no troops anywhere in Sfantul Gheorghe. The euphoria of revolution in Cachtice was repeated in Deltaria's second city, but in a different way. In Cachtice, revolution was followed by an orgy of looting; here, it was more peaceful. They had endured siege, Daralian occupation, street-by-street fighting, and everything else that had happened during the war, and now they had a taste of freedom. Everyone was happy and optimistic about the future. There was no looting. In the central square, under the statue of Carol of Comărom, founder of the city, people piled up their rifles. Men and women spontaneously embraced each other on the street. There was finally peace. All of this, and the events of the next few days, was captured on film and later released as the movie Eleven Days in Ushalande, which gave these events their name.
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