Imperial Senate
Sadera
"It was an embarrassment, Your Majesty" said Marquess Casel one of the many imperial senators
"We lost 60% of the empire's military might over two gates, what would you have us do? How would you guide the state"
"Marquess Casel, think about how the people must feel" said the Emperor Molt
"It is true that our latest losses have cost us our military advantage. They worry that vassals of our states and others may revolt and attack the Imperial Capital itself"
"How pathetic"
"Every time our empire is in danger, the emperor, the Senate, and the people become one to confront the danger, No war is won without some loss, therefore I will not hold anyone responsible for our recent losses, to think that two other nations dares surround the Imperial City."
"I trust that none of you will waste time in court" finally said the emperor as the Senate becoming happy at his speech except to the senator Casel
"He denies all his responsibility" he whispers
"But what shall we do?" a voice yelled
"The army we sent to the two gate was defeated in just two days, and now the two of them are captured"
"Of course, we attempted to take back Arnus and Acropolis Hill as well but the enemies in the distance..."
"We need to fight back" yelled a another voice from the Senate
"If we do not have enough men, we need only to recruit them from our tributaries and take back the two Hill" as soon he finished all the Senators begin to debate between fighting and peace
Until the emperor raises his hand to interrupt the debate
"I do not wish to sit idly by, we must fight, go tell to our tributaries and neighbouring states"
"To defend the continent against those men from another's worlds and that we will lead the allied army to attack Arnus and Acropolis Hill!"
The Senate started to clap and shout "For Emperor Molt!" but also "Glory to the Empire!"
Then Marquess Casel look to the emperor and said
"Your Majesty it would be a bloodbath"
The Emperor respond with a malicious smile
Acropolis
The different leaders of the Coalition all look at the Megas Basileus for his orders
They just have received a report from the scouts and learned that a big army of 150,000 men is coming for them
"I will go set up an ambush on their road with the Stratos of Macedon and Mesopotamia it should sufficed they have enough experience to win without problem while half of you will go explore and destroy any remaining army in the environ"
Everyone nods
"Bring be the Count of Itarica"
After a few minutes the man enter he has actually seen better days but he's at least better than during the interrogation luckily for him they have managed to learn a bit of their language and wasn't foolish enough to go against their wish, he immediately swore allegiance after all what the emperor did for him and his people nothing at all!
"What village around" Alexandros speaks in imperial broken language
"I know there an elf village in the Coan forest and there one of my villages named Koda in the south"
The Basileus nod his head before telling "We go Koda after fighting"
Then he stands up and exit the tent and see the two Stratos lead by their respective legate and commanders ready to departs with the 3,000 elephant's cohort of Mesopotamia right outside the newly constructed fort
Alexandros who is Infront of them rise up his sword and tell to march to where the scouts have predicated the road that the enemy will take
After two hours of marching, he finds a good spots to ambushed the were trees and little hills to hide them, the elephants and cavalry will go little more far away from the road than the infantry to avoid being seen
The Stratos of Macedon will attack from the right hidden by the trees while the Stratos of Mesopotamia will charge the left hidden by the hills
They wait until sunset
The army is finally here
The two Stratos is getting ready to charge they only wait the signal of their Megas Basileus
And after a minute Alexandros yelled "CHARGE!" the infantry begins to run toward the enemy legion while cohorts of heavy infantry begin to form a phalanx formation at the front and the back of the road and advance slowly toward the cavalry who try to make a breakthrough of the encirclement
After 5 minutes of fighting the Basileus begin to order a tactical retreat toward the hills and forest while the two phalanx begin to let a massive passage right in the middle of their formation
Then ground begin to loudly shake as the elephant's begin to approach
The majority of the horse that belong to the enemy army begin to violently throws off their rider and try to run away with the soldiers but it was too late
The were nowhere to run the two Stratos have form a phalanx all around the road and kill mercilessly the runners
The elephant's who arrived from both directions begin to crush the soldiers
After a while they were all practically dead except those who surrender at this victory Alexandros begin to cheers along his soldiers at this victory of 140,000 men that won against the 150,000 army with only 400 casualties
After travelling back at Acropolis hill he enslaved the prisoners while the nobles where interrogated
He stands on a platform as a crowd of soldiers take form Infront of him
"Today we have won an important battle, that is marking the beginning of our conquest to this strange world that why today I proclaim the construction of new city to celebrate this victory at this location the hill of Acropolis will be now known as Alexandria Acropolis that would the great capital of our empire in this world!"
"LONG LIVE ALEXANDROS!" the soldiers yelled
The Megas Basileus immediately orders the importation of resources from the entire Empire to help with his project with the help of the slaves coming from the GATE and the enslaved prisoners the project begin to take form immediately
This is the beginning of a new era for the Continent of Falmart
Hello hope you like this chapter
I decide to name the village of Coda to Koda and Italica to Itarica as in the map their name like that and the only way they know comes from the count and the soldiers who got 'interrogated'