Louria Kingdom’s Invasion of Gim

**Louria Kingdom’s Invasion of Gim** is a battle that broke out between the Louria Kingdom and the Qua-Toyne Principality when the Louria Kingdom Eastern Subjugation Army began invading the border town of Gim. It is the first battle on the main story that broke out after the start of the war between the two countries. It was also called "**Battle of Gim**."

* Louria Kingdom Eastern Subjugation Army
* 1st and 2nd Dragon Squadrons of the Louria Kingdom's Eastern Subjugation Army
* B-class General Pandour
* Dragon Rider Captain Aldebaran
* 20,000 infantry
* 5,000 heavy infantry
* 2,000 cavalry
* 1,500 specialty soldiers (soldiers specializing in siege weapons, projectile weapons, and other special operations)
* 1,000 guerilla soldiers
* 250 beast tamers
* 100 mages
* 150 wyverns
* 2,500 infantry
* 200 archers
* 500 heavy infantry
* 200 cavalry
* 100 light cavalry
* 30 mages

**Western Knight Order, 1st and 2nd Dragon Squadrons**
* Estimated over 3,800 Western Region Army dead
* 24 Qua-Toyne wyverns shot down
* Gim town destruction
* Only 100 townspeople released as a survivor.

## Prelude

Louria's ambition to conquer the Rodenius Continent and exterminate the demi-human races led to tensions between the radical anthropocentric Louria Kingdom and the last independent two nations of Rodenius, the both demi-human dominated Que-Toyne Principality and the Quila Kingdom.

Shortly before the outbreak of the war, Louria's king Hark Louria XXXIV and his Royal Council held a meeting in order to plan the invasion of the Qua-Toyne Principality and finally realize his dream of a united Rodenius free of demi-humans. It was decided that the Lourian Army under the command of Lieutenant General Adem would capture the border town of Gim and use it as a springboard to attack Que Toyne's capital. At the same time, the Lourian Navy would sail around Rodenius to capture the port city of Maihark and seize all food transports to the Qua-Toyne's ally Quila Kingdom. It was expected, that without the vital food supplies from Qua-Toyne, Quila would be forced to capitulate which would bring the entire Rodenius continent under Louria's rule. The Royal Council was confident of their victory over Que-Toyne due to Louria's massive numerical advantage and dismissed the threat of a Japanese intervention due to the seemingly large distance between Rodenius and Japan and Japan's assumed weakness because the Japanese did not seem to field any Wyverns in their armies.

On Que-Toyne's side, the tensions with the Louria Kingdom held the entire nation in a semi state of emergency. When a Que Toyne delegation asked the Japan for help in a possible war against Louria, the Japanese declined pointing to their constitution which prohibits Japan from waging war. But the threat of war between Qua-Toyne and Louria raised concerns in Japan, that the food imports from Rodenius, which were vital to Japan's economy after its transference to the New World, might stop.

## Battle of Gim

On the 12th April 1639 of the Central Calendar, about 30,000 Lourian men under the command of B-class General Pandour crossed Que-Toyne's border at Gim. The about 3,500 men strong Western Knight Order under the command of Captain Moizi, which was in charge of protecting Gim, reacted immediately by deploying ground forces to slow down the enemy advance and two Wyvern squadrons to intercept enemy wyverns. After a short battle in the air, the more numerous and better trained Lourian Wyvern Forces prevailed, which then used their air superiority to harass the ranks of the Western Knight Order. Qua-Toyne's Western Knight Order lost at least a third of its strength to air attacks before being overrun by the advancing Lourian ground forces and its commander Moizi captured.

## Aftermath

Following the battle, the town of Gim was captured by the Lourians. The city was then sacked and its population and the prisoners of war raped, killed and fed to Louria's war beasts. Only a hundred townsmen were able to escape Gim to spread fear to the surrounding towns. The news about the massacre and the possibility of a genocide against Qua-Toyne's people finally prompted the Japanese government to intervene on Qua-Toyne's behalf.