Siege of Rethia

The Siege of Réthia was the second encounter in the Rethian Crusade between the Theiosists and the Réthians, it occurred on the city walls and the outskirts of Réthia. Despite winning the first battle the Orthodox had to wait for their siege towers and battering rams to be brought from their ships which took days and gave the Réthians time to rejuvenate, restructure and prepare their forces. The Battle claimed hundreds of lives with very heavy casualties on the side of the Orthodox which they did manage to break through the Réthian walls and the Battle of Rethia followed suit. 
== Battle ==
=== Preparations ===
After their victory in Kholinar, the Orthodox couldn't pursue the Réthians because they lacked siege equipment and had to wait for deliveries from their ships and to build them which bought the Réthians valuable time to rebuild and reconstruct after their defeat. By the time the siege equipment were ready the Réthians had fully prepared their city for the fight that was gonna occur.
=== Siege ===
The Orthodox line up in front of the Réthian forces that were sitting on the walls where Alyzan and Surena had another dialogue · after beginning an arrow barrage from the Réthian Archers. The Orthodox managed to push the siege tower onto the walls of Rethia and Alyzan commanded a complete charge up the tower and onto the walls, but there was fierce resistance from the Rethians causing immeasurable casualties onto the Orthodox forces who continuously charged up onto the walls. Whilst the main attack was happening on the walls, Alyzan had sent some of his troops to the city gates to take it down with the battering ram and because most of the Réthian forces were focused onto the main attack they managed to open the gates which forced the Réthians to retreat of the walls and into the city.
=== Aftermath ===
The Orthodox manage to take control of the city walls but suffer severely heavy casualties with minimal on the side of the Réthians. Because of this historians debate on if this was a Orthodox Victory or a Réthian Victory, objectively it was the Orthodox because they had captured the walls, but the Réthians had inflicted intense casualties on the opposing side while suffering very few. After this occurred the Battle of Réthia the most important and deciding battle of Theiosist History.