Naval Siege of Naval Fort Gerico

## Bombardment of Naval Battery H

Now Naval Battery H was located on a island close to the main fort. Although just a naval battery, it boasted 3 machine gun nests, and a garrison of troops. The Garrison was the 36th Empreyean Guard, comprised of 600 troops. Which were armed with Tuperashov Modal 23 bolt action rifles bought from the Imperial Imperium. The 36th Guard were also armed with 3 Armored Cars. The Bombardment of the Naval Battery H began at 3.00 AM, as the Korinian Expeditionary Vessels/KEV has started to bombard the place. The Korinian fleet was made up of the ship the KEV - Luther and the KEV - Grunner which were both light cruisers. The bombardment continued till 8.39 AM when the K.E.C marines got into landing ships and headed for the Naval Battery H.

## Battle for Naval Battery H

The K.E.C marines were armed with Karzbinera-20 bolt action rifles, and hand grenades. So when the korinians made it to shore they got peppered with the Machine Gun bullets. The first wave failed with 200 Casualties for KEC so far. The 2nd wave managed to take down the machine gun and continued to the forested part of the island. They managed to capture the naval battery and pushed the garrison of the island. KEC had 1200 casualties so far, but for the Empryeans only had 291 troops killed leaving the rest into the Main Naval Fort Gerico.

## Boarding of the Empryean War Vessel/ EWV - Mirrage

The Empryean's did have a ship in the port, the ship was a brand new battleship that had been constructed only 9 days ago. The crew were experienced and well equiped. When Naval Battery H was occupied by the KEC. The horn of the EWV - Mirrage sounded and the crew of the vessel were woken up and got to work. Getting the ship ready for combat, and in only 9 minutes the ship was ready. When the mirrage was off the port it spoted the KEV - Luther and immediately opened fire. The Luther's explosive on deck and got hit, and the explosives went off causing a chain reaction to the ammunition storage below causing that also to explode. This caused the KEV - Luther to explode so loud that some of the sailsmen on the KEV - Grunner went deaf because of that. All of the KEV - Luther was up in flames and it was sinking quickly and the 5000 marines, and 3000 Sailsmen onboard were quickly blown away, set on fire, and drowned in the wreckage of the Luther. The Luther's captain Rudolf Wolff and 9 sailsmen were the only that had managed to escape. After seeing this catastrophe the KEV - Grunner immediately blew its horn and fired onto the EWV - Mirrage. After the barrage the KEV Marines left managed to board the EWV - Mirrage and took control of the ship.

## Storming the Fort

After the Mirrage had been taken control of, Naval Battery Z had opened fire onto the EWV - Mirrage. But this didn't do anything, and the KEC managed to storm the Naval battery and main port area. After that the KEC Captain Herrming Schmutz took 200 men and barged into the barracks were the shot sleeping soldiers. After that Herrming stormed the main fort area. The KEC Commander Bernhard Lange took 300 marines and went to the ammo storage were they found a lone Empryean Soldier. The Soldier then lit a fuse causing the whole building to explode causing the 301 KEC men to die. After a while the fort was taken leading to a Pyrrhic victory for the Korinians. 3329 Deaths in Total