The fall of Enkidu

The bombardment of Enkidu had been going on for nearly 4 years, with the amount of Urudiki bombards only growing in number over the years, the size and ferocity of the attacks would also grow with time. For a long time any damage done would be quickly healed by the cities defenders, using sandstone from makeshift mines in the city and rubble from collapsed houses, patched together with wooden scaffolding and plaster to keep t
he facade that the defences couldn’t fall. But they would.
The day had started off as many others had done with the booming bombards of Urudik tearing into the walls, targeting the same area they had done for many months before, and as with the previous days the wall would take damage but be slowly repaired to make sure it wouldn’t fall. As midday approached the republic army stopped firing, confusing many on the wall as the attacks normally lasted all day. Trying to take stock of the situation a few Enkidi stood atop the wall looking out for any sort of messenger or important republic individual that might require the battle be halted for a while. Seeing non they begun to turn back and head to their posts when the world was torn apart by an earth-shattering explosion from underneath their very feet.
For many a day before sappers had been dragging barrels of gunpower only a few feet below the walls foundations, and as midday drew closer the republics commander Erûs Abišĭras would order troops withdraw back to the camps to make sure they where out of harms way. When the charges were detonated it appeared as though the earth had opened up to swallow a part of the megalithic construction, with the sound of the explosion being heard for miles around. Only minutes later a pre-organised attack would take place, with heavy horsemen ruching through the gap and cutting down the poorly equipped and malnourished men that had rushed to fill the gap, with the horsemen being followed up with infantry.
Small headways would be made into the city over the next few days with several counter attacks being attempted but ultimately unsuccessful. As food would make its way into the city behind the army surrounding groups would surrender and allow the republics forces into all the way to the city centre where the civil war was still going on. Resistance would then be quickly put down as it had been earlier and withing 2 months the standard of the republic would fly over the city.
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