Zima buys Loděnice Hill Deltarian Ogliarch Vladan Zima has begun his battlefield restoration project with the purchase of the land on Loděnice Hill, the site of a major battle in 1953. Initially, the locals were quite resistant to giving up their land but Zima continuously upped his offer until they had an offer that could not be refused. Each of these former landowners have found themselves very wealthy following this purchase. Loděnice Hill was also the site of Gold and Silver mines that provided much of the Daralian foreign exchange. Though long since dried up, these details are likely to be replicated in full. It was one of the major battles of The Terror, an era of civil war. He also plans to allow for shops to set up and lease the land in certain parts of the battlefield considering the large maintenance costs of such an area. The main work of replication will likely be the two trench lines the hill itself and the Disswuan positions. Some replicas of the small arms, artillery guns and tanks will also be brought in as a showcase.
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On a cold night in ČachticeLodenice Hill, or Lodeinoe Pole as the Trigunians called it after a town in Kildan Olvar, was a defensive position thought impenetrable. 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 Majatrans, 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.