by 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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