Chapter 16: Crack of Empire

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Emperor Fortress, Kronix Peninsula
14 Choud 1058 HY | 11 July 2024

The OHU Forces still preparing for incoming battle. The reinforcement for Ground Troops such as Special Forces, Artillery Corp and Military Police and present in the scene.

The Emperor Fortress located 4 KM from them, can be seen from far away. It's mobilize to defend their surroundings area as long as it can. The European style fortress is estimated to take a few weeks to fully capture it.


General Campbell of Australia observed the fortress, thinking for plan that will help the battle.

Suddenly, his comrade, Lt. Gen Stuart come to him, "So, still planning...? We already plan the stuffs, we will do..."

"Geez... Mate.. You scared me... Why don't you look at the fortress... Its just an upgraded version of Napoleonic Fortress... It's 10 times bigger than Fort Graça ", Campbell says

"Yeah, it's kinda like Napoleonic Era Fort then continue by Medieval era wall to its sides.... Frankly, we could repeatedly fire our artillery at the same target until it collapses..", Stuart says

As both of commanders observe the situation, the whistle is blowed. It's sign of artilleries, ready to fire.

1st Kedah Artillery Regiment with help of 2nd Australian Support Regiment prepare to demolish the wall of the fortress. The day is clear, no bad weather for today. "Fire!"

Blowing sound echoing continuously, destroy its target. The Kouleon Forces located there in high alert of incoming battle.

Sir Von Khoa on in shock with sudden attack, command on the cannon, "Get the defence cannon on active, you bastard! Aim on the enemies!"

Special Force from Australia and Kedah, prepare on ambush the fortress, the artillery successfully distracted the Kouleon. Despite having a strong defence, the Kouleon unable to withstand the OHU superior firepower.

The Zenido Corp quickly dispatched to the scene. The 2nd Australian Support Regiment seeing this, prepare on their next plan.

"Aight, boys! Prepare the anti-air!", the artillery and self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) quickly deployed to the battle to stop the incoming Zenido.

The scene very intense but the Kouleon Forces quickly lose it momentum. First sector of Emperor Fortress defeated by OHU's Special Forces.

"Retreat!" The commander of Kedah Forces says.

The Kouleon thought , they're giving up but they look at the sky, few PC-7B dive towards them and drop the 100 KG bombs.

"They are distracted again, charge!", the OHU's Forces quickly enter the fortress that is thought to be impossible to penetrate but only few hours, the fortress already entered by the enemy.

Sir Von Khoa seeing this, take his flag to give signal to Howitzer corp nearby. "Take this... Humans..."

The Howitzer corp seeing the signal of red flag, aim the Howitzer and targeting the enemies.

"Faster boys! We need to win this battle for sake of our Empire!", the commander of Corp says, but suddenly a large group of drones fly toward them.

"What..? Is that a group of birds? Seems a weird shape...", the commander as he sees the OHU Drones carrying 2x F2 Blast Grenade.

The grenades that have been modified to to use pin attached on the drone. As the drone, unattached the pin from the grenades and drop it. It gives the soldiers of Howitzer corp confused with the grenade as they never see it before.

"What is that flying thing...?", Sir Von Khoa seeing from far away with his binoculars. Suddenly, the scene where the Howitzer was standing exploded, destroy everything there.

"No... No way... Impossible.... It's that old technology use by our armies hundreds years ago.... The grenades.... Impossible... It's opposed to be slow and obsolete..."

The drones quickly fly back to the camp. There are nothing Kouleon Forces can do as they don't have any anti-air capability.

As the drones arrive back to the camp, few soldiers march towards them, which Lt. General Stuart seeing this walks towards them. "So what now...? Reload them?"

One of the soldier currently reload the drone hears Stuart question then says, "Sir, yes, sir! Unlike UAV, these cheap drones need to reload manual and use hand grenade instead of expensive missiles."

Lt. General Stuart hearing this as he actually didn't know about this, "Ah... This must deployed recently.... I have no idea about this drones... Seems like the one Ukrainian Forces use..."

The battle goes one for while as the fortress is big as you can imagine. Then echoing the cannon from 1st Fleet of Kouleon Navy. Even after heavy casualties, they able to gathered all leftover of the Imperial Navy.

After their show up, they quickly destroyed by Artillery, Drones and Nesrby Patrol Vessels.

"Ah, that's quite unfortunate....", CDRE Sabarre says. "Now.... Fire at the fortress with HE round!"

The fortress face more heavy attack from the side, the reinforcement unable to arrive in time have to watch the fortress slowly collapse under the heavy fire and explosion by the OHU Forces.

"Dammit.... I can't do this anymore.... Where is the white flag...", Sir Von Khoa walks around his room.

Then one of his co-commader seeing this, prevent him from finding it, "Don't you dare... If you do this... You are so dead...."

"F...fine! Go hold this falling bricks, this is suicide mission...", Sir Von Khoa says angry, "This is under my command, if you are not satisfied, so you command all the soldiers who will meet their death!"

"Beg you pardon...", the co-commader says.

"I say we better surrender than die for no reason, waste the manpower for nothing...", Sir Von Khoa says as he find the white flag. "If you excuse me..."

He open the door on the top to get access to the roof, bringing the white flag with him.

He waving the white flag as hard as possible to make sure the OHU Forces see this. While, his men make sounds with drum and trumpets.

"Huh, that quite fortunate... I guess we win....", General Campbell says as he look at the white flag with his binocular.

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