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The crowd cheered as Admiral Gupta sailed off in the last ship, joining the 2 thousand other warships and 10,000 troops loaded on their transports. Sailing away to do battle with "The Beast" Mmcleod. Confident of victory they sailed into the sunset from their home port of Tears.
One of the peasants remarked to another "Did you hear the Admiral slept with the King's wife?"
"I heard it was his sister." was the reply as they walked away
The sun rose over the harbor, and as the dawn broke the lookouts cried "sails ho!!" Very quickly the cry followed "Ours!".
The news quickly spread, it was easy to see thousands of ships were not returning, only a few score warships, and many of the transports seemed to be missing. That could be good, they could be holding the captured city!
As the first ship docked, it was easy to see in the eyes of the sailors returning, and the Captain who walked down the ramp the news was not good. The Captain met the King's majordomo at the end of the pier.
"Report"
"We were defeated. We broke through their warships, even though there were thousands and we took heavy losses, but we landed the troops on the beach. That's when the trap was sprung, we saw the banners of a dozen cities as thousands poured from the walls and slaughtered our men. We killed thousands of them, but thousands more remained. Our scouts reported more warships converging on us, so we retired, and saved what we could"
"This news will go hard on the king, come to the palace and make your report there".
One of the peasants remarked to another "Did you hear the Admiral slept with the King's wife?"
"I heard it was his sister." was the reply as they walked away
The sun rose over the harbor, and as the dawn broke the lookouts cried "sails ho!!" Very quickly the cry followed "Ours!".
The news quickly spread, it was easy to see thousands of ships were not returning, only a few score warships, and many of the transports seemed to be missing. That could be good, they could be holding the captured city!
As the first ship docked, it was easy to see in the eyes of the sailors returning, and the Captain who walked down the ramp the news was not good. The Captain met the King's majordomo at the end of the pier.
"Report"
"We were defeated. We broke through their warships, even though there were thousands and we took heavy losses, but we landed the troops on the beach. That's when the trap was sprung, we saw the banners of a dozen cities as thousands poured from the walls and slaughtered our men. We killed thousands of them, but thousands more remained. Our scouts reported more warships converging on us, so we retired, and saved what we could"
"This news will go hard on the king, come to the palace and make your report there".