The Battle of Green River

From TMK:
The
seventh day brought so many men and animals that queues began to form on the
south bank as people milled about. Not many of the men were being patient and
fights broke out resulting in more than one body floating off downstream.
The
traffic steadily increased until the fourteenth day, when officers leading
companies of more organised men, those that had been legitimately ordered back
to Ju, arrived and rounded up any of the deserters too weak, injured or unlucky
enough to have crossed already. Hundreds of them were put to death, making this
already nightmarish scene even more like a landscape in hell.
The
commanders and captains, having restored order began to attempt the seemingly
impossible and organise the tens of thousands of men still stuck on the south
bank into patient lines.
The
ford was not wide enough for any more than five men abreast and it was slow
going as the current was strong. The weak, starving or badly injured were
merely swept away and drowned, forming into drifts in an eddy about a hundred
yards further down the river.
On
the fifteenth day all semblance of order was lost as a second wave of panicked
deserters arrived, throwing the companies into disarray in their frantic desire
to cross into Ju.
Anarchy
ensued and weapons were drawn. The army of Ju fought a tremendous battle
against itself, those organised by their commanders against desperate bands of
deserters, turning the river red with blood and filling it once more with
drowned bodies.
On
the sixteenth day the army of Kaletan arrived.
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