Count Bataglia had just come back from hunting with some of his men as he received a letter from a carrier pigeon, the second one in two weeks. The first one was about his overzealous son going to Patagonia to crush a rebellion. Now has received another letter via carrier pigeon which he handed over to a squire to read to him. But when he looked through the letter his face turned sour.
" Speak up boy , what does it say?" The count barked.
" It says that Baron Lejoys troops were decimated and he has been captured by the rebels."
Immediately Count Bataglias hand tightened on the goblet of wine he was holding for a moment before relaxing.
" Send for Magnus, we need to end this before word of this gets out and embarrass my house."
Two hours later Magnus Bataglia, first son and heir to house of Bataglia also known as the radiant knight made his way into his father's castle.
" You sent for me father." Magnus said as he approached his father.
Magnus was what one would call a golden boy, literally. He had medium length wavy golden hair, Six feet tall with well tones and defined muscles. From the age of five he had shown great promise in swordsmanship and spearmanship . He had also shown great commanding and leadership skills as he was placed in charge of some of his father's men during the conquest of Alfonse and the neighboring kingdoms of Santana and Elysium capturing five cities and their surrounding towns for his father. For this he was personally given the title of a viscount but with no lands as he was being prepped to take over from his father and had an marriage alliance with the daughter of Duke of Fedubara.
" Your brother took one thousand infantry and two hundred Calvary to root out the rebels who had taken control of the Patagonia mine and perhaps determine if your brother Inca is still alive . Now your brothers army has been defeated, the rest of his men are without a leader so I want you to take control of your brothers men together with your army and crush this rebellion before news of this reduces our standing with the empire."
Magnus sighed , he viewed this rebellion as nothing but a passing fancy and would have ended if his ego had allowed him it, he would have taken more men to crush the rebellion but he wanted people to say that he crushed a rebellion with a few men. Now he had to go and clean up the mess that his siblings had made .
As he left his father's presence, he met with a huge man of about seven feet tall and was donned head to toe with blackened plate armor. Even as imposing as this man was , he was nothing but a slave, a personal slave who served all of Magnus wishes.
" Kylo, make preparations and send a letter to the my brothers region telling the men to be prepared for My arrival." Magnus said.
" Yes my Lord ". Kylo replied.
Within a week Magnus had gathered his men , ten thousand infantry and three thousand Calvary, five hundred of those had both the men and horses were heavily armored. These men had joined with Lejoys remaining three thousand infantry and marched to Patagonia.
In Patagonia, three weeks and half had passed. One thousand men had joined the defense force and had been undergoing training. The blacksmiths who were working overtime and with the building of more furnaces they were able to produce fifty more 25 pound cannons and twenty 10 pound cannons bringing the total amount of cannons to seventy 25 pound cannons and forty 10 pound cannons, one hundred and ten pounds total.
At the moment almost all resources were going towards preparation for the upcoming attack.
At the end of the month, scouts who were sent to patrol the roads leading to Patagonia came across Magnus army who all carried sigils of a rising sun combined with the sigil of house Bataglia which was a sigil of the sun atop the crescent moon.
Quickly they rushed back to the town to deliver the news and immediately they all started gearing up for war.
Two days later they could see the silhouette of the army approaching. The defense force marche outside the town and stood in formation outside the town, their cannons pointing in the general direction of Magnus army.
The army stopped one mile out from the defense force just within the range of the army.
A horseman and a flag bearer rode towards the defense force.
" Who is in charge here ?" The man asked , his voice clearly laced with disdain.
Ceaser nonchalantly rode his horse towards the front and then spoke to horseman.
" I know you are here to demand my surrender, but that is impossible. However tell your master that I expect his armies to turn around and any further movement forward would result in a total massacre."
The horseman even as angry as he was knew that he couldn't act out so he and the flag bearer quickly turned around and rode back for their lines.
" Do you think that they would turn back ?" Sir Alfred asked.
" Of course not." Ceaser answered while chuckling as he turned towards the artillery men, " on my command, ready , aim , fire."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The cannons rang out like thunder as solid and explosive shells smashed into the enemy lines. Magnus who was behind the army saw as they were being destroyed by this unknown weapon.
" So this is how they did it."
Then he ordered the infantry to charge straight for the rebels and they charged forward with great frevor and also divided his Calvary into three the bulk of them moving to flank the defense force, hoping to crash into the sides of the defense force.
At the range of five hundred meters the cannons changed tactics and their main fire power facing the flanks . This was a formation called the cow horn formation where the strongest part of the army focused on the flanks .
Then they switched to canister shots and crossbows. The canister shots from the cannons had turned the cannons into giant shotguns and coupled with 1100 men firing crossbows, the casualty rate became astronomical.
Some of the infantry who were charging could see that their companions no longer existed by their side.
The radiant knight, Magnus stared in horror as his entire forces were turned into past tense, he had come here with almost twenty thousand men and now , he had less than three hundred men. Immediately he gave the order for his men to retreat, they had lost.
Ceaser and his men gave no quarter , as long as the person still had a weapon in hand , they were slaughtered. Only those who surrendered were spared.
In the end they managed to capture over two hundred men , with Magnus and the remaining who were mostly knights on horse back escaping.