Battle of the Bloody Retreat (TCG)

The Battle of the Bloody Retreat was a bitter and brutal rearguard battle fought by the Scorpion Clan against the monstrous forces of Iuchiban to buy the needed time for the clans to raise forces large enough to offer help. Fields of Victory, p. 32
== Preambles ==
In the year 750, the spirit of Iuchiban escaped his tomb, gathered an army of Mahō cultists and reanimated corpses, and attacked the Empire again. The Bloodspeakers converged on the Twilight Mountains to join their evil master. Marshaling his monstrous forces south of the Shinomen Forest, Iuchiban launched them on a vicious rampage that swept across the lands of the Scorpion Clan, culminating in the fall of Ryokō Owari Toshi. 
== Battle ==
The Scorpion implored the other clans for assistance, but they knew it would take the clans time to raise forces large enough to offer meaningful help, fighting a bitter and brutal rearguard battle to buy the needed time. Pressed relentlessly by the horde of undead, the Scorpion were forced ever northward, toward the Spine of the World Mountains. Eventually, they were forced out of their lands entirely, and into Beiden Pass. 
== Aftermath ==
When all seemed lost, the Lion Clan finally arrived, flanking Iuchiban's forces from the south and drove them northward. By the time the Lion reached the vicinity of Sleeping River, forces dispatched by all of the clans had arrived to support the Lion and Scorpion, and the Battle of Sleeping River ensued. Lasting several days, the battle saw the Bloodspeakers and their undead legions defeated. Iuchiban himself was never found. Some legends said that his body was still in its tomb. Fields of Victory, p. 33
Category:Battles (TCG)