The Red Bear Is in Nihonkoku Shoukan

Back from the Ashes(2)

'The Swedish Eagle In 1709, Napoleon's Eagle in 1812 and Hitler's Falcon in 1941 All Failed to Bring down the Russian Bear, Why Would the American Eagle Claim they can do the same? Is a Bird stronger than a Bear? If one makes lies to justify their superiority, Then They are not as Powerful they claim to be, For all Liar States can Be Broken' -Vasily, 1973

Outside Fort Louisbug, January 20th 1640, Russian Camp

General Zelonsky Looked at the map with a Intense Look. In Front Laid a Fort so Big that He can't even grasp how long it would have taken to built it, With 613 000 Defenders, He felt this was Going to be the longest Battle he would ever have. He didn't have Air Power as they were too far away for that and He had only Anti-Air Missiles, His 1000 T-14 Tanks could on Paper be used against the enemy Wyverns but he wouldn't count on It.

As He Lamented about how they were only Here for 4 days and already in a jam, His Chief of Staff, Natasha Zvereva, Not to be confused with the Tennis Player Walked In, She was A Master At Planning from years on the Job, She was Also Cautious, Which was needed for a Battle like this.

''Comrade Zelonsky, News From The Other Fronts'' She Said, He Nodded to let her to continue ''Right, The Northern Attack Has Done Quite well, We have Pushed them back to about Half way To their old border in 4 days, Of 400 000 Enemies, we have either killed or captured 100 000, with about 60 000 Being Captured, The south is the Same but less land taken, they have reached Toulon, the 1/3 way mark, of the enemies 500 000 Soldiers, Only 80 000 Have Been killed or captured, Our Losses are slim, 384 Wounded and 21 Killed in a 'Magic Attack' near a small town. Our Allies, The Kingdom of Papaldia Lost some 50 to 80 000 People killed''

Zelonsky Was Happy, Those losses cannot be replaced in time, Not to mention the lands they are losing is a blow to their war effort, the less resources the better for Russia. But the Critical Point was the downfall of the fort in front of them, If it Fell than The kingdom of Papaldia could officially Become a Legitimate state again. But the Fort certainly was strong, Ant with over 600 000 Men to defend it and the area around it, which had many towns as well, Provided The General With a Very Bad conundrum, If he took the towns first, he would be able to starve them but at the cost of them being all in the fort, Which would be Bloody even with a 200 Year gap.

The other was to attack the fort now when they was only 1/3 The numbers, But this plan would be risky for the towns, the people would be at risk of killings, And taking the fort without proper planning could leave to some bad results.

As he Looked at the map, Not knowing which to take, An Idea came to mind, It would be Bold, But if it worked, Then it would be his masterpiece.

''Comrade Natasha, Tell Me, If we split the 70 000 men we have into a Force of 3500 each and had them attack each town at once save for 4 of them, And have those 14 000 Men Attack the Fort, Would it be possible?'' He asked

''If we attack, We would certainly win, But 400 000 Divided into 16 Is Still 25 000 Men to deal with, Those are 7 to 1 odds, That would be akin to suicide To make us even smaller'' Natasha said

Zelonsky stayed silent, Looking at the Map, This was the only plan he saw that could crush the enemy without having to commit all his men at once, After Informing the Soldiers, The Next Day, The Russian Army Attacked the Towns, Despite be inferior In numbers, All the Towns fell after some time, The Papaldians however, Seemed to have learned of their past defeats, Hiding in hard to reach places, Attacking the Russians in their rear and Using Magic weapons, Such as a Handgun That Shot out Bullets of Fire which would be able to Kill a Man In one Hit.

It took The Russians 3 Days Of savage Fighting to Clear out All the Towns, Of 400 000 Papaldians, 157 000 Were Killed, 83 000 Was Captured and 105 000 Escaped towards the Rear, Away from where Russia Could Attack, Russia For the First time lost lots of men, 4830 Men Wounded and 290 Killed, with 200 Killed when their Convoy was Attacked By A 'Magic mine' which was More or less and Mine that was filled with so much 'Mana' that when the Truck detonated it, It's explosive power was that of A 5000Kg Bomb, Creating a Hole in the Convoy, where 50% of it was Just Gone.In the Aftermath of the Incident, orders to Developed a Magic Detection Machine began, Which was Easy, They Converted a Radar to detect Magic, Greatly helping the Military in Future wars.