Shadowsaraus: Unfortunately, I fail to understand what you mean by that. Do you mean that I'm making them too black and white? Or that they're just inherently black and white?
Super Comrade: For now, things will fall into a lull as we go back to our friends on Paradis. Nothing really major will happen here over the winter.
Superkoola: Exactly, and it will probably continue to help us until our extinction.
Uwu: I write much longer chapters now, so be prepared!
A/N: Please see the wiki! I have just made Stella's page, so check it out!
"(New orders!)" The flight leaders navigator told him, "(We are now to cover the armies retreat by bombing the Titans.)"
He nodded, "(Change of plans, we will now support the retreat of the army via tactical bombing. Rather than our original strategic bombing mission.)"
Reiner breathed heavily as the armored cars reversed and began to retreat, firing at the armor as they covered the retreat of their army.
'Where are they going…? They had us on the run.'
Suddenly, a horn blew from the Marleyan lines, signaling a retreat. Reiner got up, and turned around, and was beginning to walk back to the Marleyan lines when suddenly, he was hit with a shell in the back.
'What the?! The armored cars pulled back! And their cannons didn't have this much power!' Reiner thought as he fell over to his knees.
He heard the whir of an airplane engine as an SDG pulled up from a dive beside him,
'Airplanes? At this low of an altitude?!' He thought. He'd never heard of such a thing.
Suddenly, two more bombs landed on his back, as two more SDGs dropped their payloads on the Armored Titan.
"(We got it!)"
"(We missed the nape though!)"
The flight leader watched as he approached the situation in his ABB.50 bomber.
"Altitude - 4,000 meters!" His navigator shouted,
"Drop bombs!" He shouted,
Reiner heard a sickening whistle and could barely roll over to avoid the brunt of the bombs, however, several bombs still crashed into his armor, and - already battered from the earlier assault from the armored cars - gave out and shattered. In several places, craters had formed from the bombs, and his titan could barely stand.
Immediately, he discarded the broken pieces of armor, and broke into a run, however, from behind, an AVU dived upon his back and fired bullets in an attempt to stop him.
Reiner suddenly stopped and whirled on the AVU, without warning, he slammed his fist into the low flying plane, instantly killing the pilot and causing it to explode before continuing his retreat.
"(Keyen!)" A pilot screamed over the radio, his SDG was in the middle of a turn, when the flight leader stopped him.
"(Hailer no!)" The flight leader shouted,
"(But Wing Commander-)" Haller complained
"(His death is a tragedy, yes. But our assault on the Armored Titan has left us running out of ordinance and men, what will we do if the Warhammer shows itself?)" The flight leader asked him.
Haller tch'ed, but moved his SDG back into position regardless.
Reiners wounded armored titan stalked towards the command hill. It's facial armor was cracked, it's breastplates were missing in several areas. It's left arm was hanging on via ruined strings of muscle, and it's back had several impact craters.
Evangelica discarded a cratered and cracked shield, before kneeling and sliding out of the nape of the Warhammer Titan.
"We underestimated the enemy." Was the first thing she said to Stella, and she nodded.
"This will be reported to Magath, they've developed new Anti-Titan artillery that we're hard-pressed to deal with." Stella told them.
"What I want to know-" Annie came up to them, "-Is why did they retreat?"
Stella thought about if for a moment, "They're preserving their strength. They may have immense speed, but they need to give their supply lines time to catch up. Not to mention maintaining armored units in the field is a hassle, ammunition, spare parts, crews, all that takes time to make and send over. Besides-" She looked up at the graying clouds, "It's nearly winter."
"There's no way an offensive can be launched at this rate." Großadmiral Karl Haldsten stated, "Attacking now is begging to be caught in blizzards and below 0° weather."
"I'm not saying we drive them back into Thrace." Stella stated, "It's 32 and a half miles-"
"Ignorant Eldian!" Karl barked, causing Stella to jump back, startled. "I will not sacrifice my fleet on a plan thought up by some arrogant mutt!"
Stella balled her fists, but said nothing.
"There are other reasons why we can't push for Xanthi." Magath said, "Take a look." Magath handed the officers photos.
Stella and Evangelica gasped at the image they portrayed, while Zeke stared at them with apathy. Karl scoffed, as if he expected this all along. Teren gritted his teeth.
They were various images of the thirteen miles between Kavalan and Piegi. Roads had been bombed, the ground turned black with ash and artillery fire, there was no vegetation, only charred and ruined stumps.
'They turned it into a giant no-man's land!' Stella thought, if these were just the roads, then god help the citizens of Mandres and Karvail.
"There's no way an offensive can be sustained through this route. The roads need to be fixed, and they're undoubtedly mined, and an offensive through the mountains in the middle of winter is downright insane."
Stella chuckled at the irony, "All we can do is stare at them…" She sighed, the same reason that made Kavalan such a good defensive position, was now working to their detriment.
Excerpt from c.915 textbook "Embers in the Ashes - The forgotten pre-war of 850 to 854" by Amber Hösem
While the First Battle of Kavalan ended in defeat for the Mid-Eastern Forces, there was no denying it heralded the end of Marley's superiority in the field of combat. The Armored Titan - regarded as the second most powerful of Marley's Titans - sustained the most damage of the battle. As it's armor cracked, so did the image of Marley's invincibility, the Mid-East would be quick to capitalize on this, before long, images of the cracked armor would become famous, and the eyes of the world would turn to the region of Balan, in the hopes that Marley would finally meet its end…
First Battle of Kavalan
Combatants:
Combatants: The Marleyan Empire
2nd Balan Army
40,000 Infantry
240 7.7 cm Type 48 Infantry Guns
Warrior Unit
Jaw Titan
Beast Titan
Cart Titan
Female Titan
Warhammer Titan
Combatants: The Mid-East Allied Forces
- 40,000 Olturka Infantry
- 150 HSA-49 Type G Armored Cars
- 100 HSA-49 Type C Armored Cars
- 430 75mm 45-yazın light howitzers
- 290 77mm 48-yazın heavy howitzers
Leaders
Leaders: The Mid-East Allied Forces
Büyük General Izzet AHmed
- Or-General Jinad Abu-Dali
• Kor-General Kain Kazal
• Kor-General Enver Kamal
Leaders: The Marleyan Empire
2nd Balan Army
Generalmajor Howard Teren
- Oberst Halden Getzbi
Warrior Unit
Kommandant Theo Magath
- Warchief Zeke Jaeger
• Vice Chief Evangelica Tybur
Casualties
Casualties: Marleyan Empire
- 1,928 Infantry killed
- 4,380 Infantry wounded
- 72 Type 48 Infantry Guns destroyed
Casualties: Mid-East Alliance
- 1,270 Infantry Killed
- 2,380 Infantry wounded
- 1,873 Infantry Captured
- 56 HSA-49 Armored Cars destroyed
- 101 HSA-49 Armored Cars damaged
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