Valkyria Chronicles: Bundeswehr/NATO vs Valkyria

Through the Gates

Alright then. Let's kick some Imperial butts and show them who's boss in the town, shall we?

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18th of August 1935

Fouzen (occupied) (contested)

Mining site

Time: 0245 hours

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In the mining town of Fouzen, heavy fighting has been taking place in the lower parts of the mine, where most of the Darcsen have been brought by the Imperial Army to mine the vital Ragnite ore. A large Imperial division was sent here about a month ago, and many in the Gallian High Command feared they would attack directly through their northern flanks, but that never happened.

Their informant, a Darcsen, reported that the division went through a giant portal and has not been seen since. No one knows what is going on, but some fear that they are using it to attack the Federation. This also leads to the inopportune time to liberate Fouzen with the help of the Gallian militia, withholding the main army, citing that the famous Squad 7 could do it.

From now on, Lieutenant Welkin Günther, along with his Sub-Lieutenant Alisa and his subordinates, were keeping several armored and infantry forces from overrunning their positions. Their mission was to liberate the city, but when they saw the huge forces, nearly the size of a division, they decided to focus on helping the enslaved Darcsens escape. This would effectively prevent the Imperials from gathering new resources in the city for a long time.

Unfortunately, they're pinned down by the huge artillery train that's firing cluster munitions at their positions, forcing them to keep moving and not stay in one place too long, or else they'll be shredded like the first group of rescued civilians caught in the indiscriminate artillery fire. Friend or foe, the crazed Imperial general doesn't give a damn who's in his range.

And there is the huge Gate, engraved into the side of the mountain valley. Since they managed to covertly and silently waltzed into the city and found their informant the mystery only deepened. With the Imperials primary force concentrated around it, they had a small breathing room, but it was already gone. Multiple medium and heavy tanks were slowly cornering them into an inescapable position.

Their prototype medium tank, Edelweiss, inherited from his tank, for which he became the tank commander and gunner, with his half-sister, Isara, as the driver, was unfortunately not available as she also was pinned down by a flood of enemy infantry, crawling over the tank near the Gate. He feels bad at leaving her at this moment, but she insisted that he must lead the others and that will deal with this.

Seeing the situation, he thought at laying down his arms, but is soon reminded that the Imperials may execute them as also Darcsens were integrated into the Militia Squad. This only leaves fighting to the last bullet. But as hopes were flying away a grumbling noise is heard, coming from the gate.

The gunfire stops abruptly, partially, and everyone looks over to the huge old gate. Suddenly, without warning, the wooden gates burst open in a huge cloud of dust and debris that covers the immediate area. Several vehicles, heavily armored and armed, emerge.

Several large tracked and wheeled vehicles, armed with small and large cannons, each having a weird looking turret, charged through the gate, spewing heavy smog into the air. More and more vehicles appeared, and some began to open fire on the Imperial tanks, destroying many of them while killing the surrounding infantry with secondary explosions or machine gun fire.

Immediately, the Imperial medium tanks opened fire on the most dangerous vehicle among them, the huge heavy tank. But instead of a piercing side shot, it looks from the side armor into the mountain. In response, the huge, tracked vehicle with a single turret and a strange box opens the box and aims the turret at the enemy tank. Suddenly, a rocket flies out of the strange box and hits the square face of the tank, detonating the ammunition it hit and destroying the tank.

Meanwhile, one of the Fenneks, equipped with a 7.62mm and .50 cal machine gun (Deuce Gun), saw that a blue tank (which looks like a modified Panther G of the former Wehrmacht) was infested with enemy infantry. Fearing the worst, the command/gunner immediately fired the machine gun at the infested medium tank, killing most of the Imperials. The lucky ones quickly jumped off the tank and ran for cover or back to their lines as best they could.