Battle for Angel Valley:

The **Battle for Angel Valley** happened in **Angel Valley**, Pinely, Somerland. Starting on the the 3rd of May 1915. It took 50 days until it ended and had over 20,000 casualties, injuries and people missing. It is held as the bloodiest battle in Somerland's recent history.

**The Carriland-Somerland Annexation War** was the first war in Europe in the 1900's and had many key battles, the first was the **Battle for Angel valley**; started by Carriland troops who began to invade **Angel Valley** using assorted types of military boats in hopes of conquering it. Artillery was mounted on the boats and was used to fire at the village to destroy and hopefully capture it. At first, the Carriland troops were winning, using the artillery to attack from the river and riflemen to attack on foot. They were succeeding until Somerland artillerymen fired back at the boats while standing on the broken stone walls that had been shattered by Carriland troops. It became even until Somerland bomber planes destroyed the Carriland troops, causing them to leave the boats and head onto the ground with just their rifles and crudely-made bayonettes. They were unprepared for the artillery and cavalry that were defending the valley. Civilians were then evacuated to the train stations nearby. The remaining Carriland boats stayed strong, even though they were losing badly. They were barely able to hold unrest until they were forced to retreat as there were only 10 remaining ships out of the 60 that were sent to attack. The Somerland troops thought they had won and celebrated, not realing Carriland riflemen were hiding in the broken walls and stormed the village at midnight. The Carriland troops had won, and headed further south through Pinely. The battle was lead by General Finn, who lead the entire battalion through the valley but was then shot by a civilian with a shotgun after the battle had ended. The battalion was the lead by General Conor.

**A news station** had reported the incident and wrote a newspaper report about it. It contained key information about the battle:

## *Carriland Troops Attack Angel Valley in cold blood!*

*Three days ago Carriland military forces headed in from the coast of Pinely county into Angel Valley and attacked mercilessly, killing and injuring an estimate of 20,000 Somerland citizens, the last thing they saw were the ugly, dirty faces of the Carriland military.They started off with a naval-artillery attack, with mounted artillery units on boats shattering the town's red brick walls and riflemen heading in the village to attack civilians and our glorious guards who triumphantly kept their ground and used collective manpower to stop the enemy force, all while standing on the shattered walls that were made to keep intruders out. Somerland guards evened out the battle and bombers were called in to destroy the boats; this tactic worked as there were only 10 remaining ships of the 60 sent to take over the valley. They were forced to retreat, but some riflemen where hidden in the walls they destroyed; the people of the valley were rejoicing and did not realise that the enemies had been hiding. When all were asleep, the Carriland riflemen went out and slaughtered most remaining people. Those who did survive were quickly evacuated and placed in underground shelters to be safe from the elements. A citizen who was thought to be dead got up, picked up his shotgun, found the general (named "General Finn") and heroicly shot him straight in the forehead, forcing opposing forces to need a new general, General Conor.*

*Maddie Fig (aged 24) survived the attack by fleeing to Pinely City and says: "It was loud, very, very loud. All you could hear was gunshots, shouting and crying children. Frankly, it was quite... stressful, in the sense that you're just annoyed rather than scared. I mean, you'd be stressed as well if you had to keep running and running to get in a boat while carrying your 2 infants. " Another woman called Alice Robinhood (aged 51) was evacuated and put in an underground shelter and says: "It was very cold that day. My fingers were numb and so was my face. I couldn't even hear anyone when they were trying to tell me to get to the community hall, it was that loud."*