Brook had received a hammer blow from the battle, morale was low and all the troops were getting ready to split up since the rebellion was now going nowhere but backwards at this point seeing how most of the troops saw no point in continuing the fight. Yuri wasn't going to respond back as Brook soon heard two students talking.
"You know I think the Czar is sending us out to die for no real reason and we're just withering away thinking this is going to be our future. I think we should get back to him when we get the chance." One of the male students began speaking. A female student began talking as well.
"Maybe it should be time we begin our revolution and take over the school. No more white king, the color shall now be red." She told him. Brook wandered over as she wanted to see what was going on.
"Hey is there a problem you two?" Brook asked as she was wondering about what was going on. The female student turned to her.
"Yes, we want to get back at the Czar and Yuri isn't coming to our rescue any time soon." She responded. Brook soon thought about it as for the past week or so her relations with a stubborn Yuri had been breaking down. And with reinforcements on the way, she thought maybe this was the perfect opportunity to get back at her as she really wanted to get her revenge on her.
"You know what, Idi Nauhi, Yuri, we go do what we want, riot in the streets, strike against the government, we get rid of them and adopt the ideas of the reds, when those reinforcements are on their way, tell the remaining students in the school to riot against the czar. That will draw their attention away and therefore we can finally get ourselves out of this war." Brook told her. At this point he was ready to do the same thing to Yuri as she did to Kay, take her out from the back. The female student looked on as she smiled, she knew exactly what to do. She walked over to her radio as she began to get into contact as she began radioing in as she began to speak.
"Students of the Srednyaya shkola russkikh koroley, the war has dragged on long enough and we're just fighting a losing battle but if you truly want us to go home, do everything you can if you want to get rid of the czar, start riots, strike on him and turn his own weapons against him. We've been resisting the wrong enemy all this time and it's the czar and his family that needs to go. Now let's go out of way and do this!" She called out. The students on the other side were beginning to mobilize as they soon began doing what Yuri and the others did to their school ship weeks earlier. The call was going to have students mobilized for war and this will lead to disasters on their end.
Kay and the others were listening to their radios as they were also having a cookout as Darjeeling came forth with some news as their morale was high, the recent victories gave the students the confidence to carry out their plans as Kay intended to deliver one more blow to the rebels.
"Kay, Srednyaya shkola russkikh koroley students are holding a revolution in their own school as the reinforcements that Brook was going to receive are being called back to deal with the unrest. Also I got a telegram that Jatkosota has joined indirectly and is sending arms to those rebels in the hopes it ties them down for a moment, and that isn't the best part about this." Darjeeling was telling her the news that was happening on the other side. Kay looked at her as she began speaking.
"What is the best news that we can receive?" Kay asked as she was tending to her grill, it was clear there were many different types of meat on there as Darjeeling looked out as she cleared her voice.
"I got news from Kaya-San that the forces at Port Arthur have surrendered. Yuri was captured and thus she is marching her forces back up to our position to help deliver the knockout blow in the following battle. Those rebels are on their last legs and we just need to finish them off." Darjeeling told her that they were no more, Kay smiled as she began speaking.
"Awesome so we'll have Kaya-San, Alisa and Kinuyo fighting alongside us in this climatic battle that will tell us and by the looks of things, we're still outnumbered but we got everything else but numbers on our side." Kay soon told her as this game was coming to an end and there could be only one winner. Fukuda stumbled around as she was getting up and getting some strength into her legs. Darjeeling looked at her.
"Fukuda I see you're on your feet, I bet you're here to sit down and taste some of the food. I know you must be hungry." Darjeeling encouraged her to sit down but Fukuda had other things on her mind.
"Darjeeling, I want to head out onto the field of battle again, I don't want to sit around in my bed unable to do anything. I want to help my friends to victory." Fukuda began. Darjeeling looked out for her as she knew the girl was eager to fight but with that one battle where she was injured. Darjeeling spoke.
"I know you seem eager to get out there and fight but with the injury you've just taken, you're still going to have to sit this one out and the rebellion would be over, I'm so sorry you were out so early, maybe when the next one comes around I promise you." Darjeeling was still going to set Fukuda aside even though she was eager for battle. She soon turned to Kay as she knew one thing and one thing only.
"We should get ready tomorrow since they will have low morale and wouldn't dare to resist." Kay told them as she wanted to get ready and move deep into their forces in the hopes that she gets to encircle their entire army. Darjeeling nodded as she knew she needed every single battle-ready student and tank ready. Olivia would provide some help but would it be enough.
Set up for Brook was unfavorable. Although she had about 34,000 students compared to Kay's 27,000, these were the last that Brook could scrape together and then she would be out of troops. This battle had to be the one where she could knock Kay out of the battle. Plus in terms of equipment, she was incredibly badly outnumbered in everything else. She knew she was withdrawing into a box where she set up the artillery on all four entrances as she was determined to hold them off until the revolution the middle school students were holding was finished, combined with the escapees from Port Arthur, she knew this wasn't going to be enough.
Kay, Alisa and Naomi were scouting ahead as they were happy to reunite for the first time as they were keeping their distance. They looked at the line of defenses the girl had set up. On each side was one trench with the box housing the reserves and their artillery. Kay looked out as she knew that this girl was out of her mind.
"Very little depth she has set up. By the looks of things we should be able to trap them in the box and then we should be able to destroy her." Alisa smiled as she knew this battle was an easy one. Kay nodded no.
"Even with the little depth she has set up, she still has that town where she could possibly be resupplying from, if we can trap her in there we could send the message for her to surrender the entirety of the forces inside. Alisa nodded as she knew Kay could possibly be right about this so they decided to pack up onto their jeep and drive off.
Back at their camp, Olivia had just arrived with her forces as she was part of the 27,000 strong. Kay, Maho, Darjeeling, Anchovy and Kinuyo were busy discussing strategy as they knew they needed to trap her to prevent an escape.
"This battle needs to be the one, if she does escape, she's running out of ground and troops to rely on, she'll be trapped either way but still we need to trap her in here like we intended to, Kay I know you reported encircling and destroying some 2,000 students right?" Darjeeling knew that they needed a complete annihilation of the rebels. Kay looked at her as she began speaking.
"Yes we had at the last battle we fought at. At this point if we pulled off one last encirclement, Brook is destined to surrender soon. She'll see no point in continuing the fight so it's best we decide to make one last decisive action." Kay told them as she knew what happened at the last battle.
"So what's the plan for our deployment? I want to boil some pasta after this meeting." Anchovy asked, wondering what the plans were. Kay soon looked at her as she began the deployment process.
"Okay me, Alisa and Naomi will concentrate on the northern end because that is where they will most likely try to escape from if they know they need to evacuate. Kaya-San and Darjeeling will concentrate on the southern end since that is most likely the strongest point they have. Maho and Erika would concentrate on the western end and Anchovy and Kinuyo will concentrate on the eastern end." Kay decided to lay out her plans as the others soon came to an agreement.
"We'll move out under the cover of darkness and begin bombarding them in the morning. Sensing that we should be able to hold an advantage since they will mostly be asleep." Kay decided to do the plans like last time seeing how even though they were caught off guard, there was no way they wanted to attack during the night.
"I agree, we move under the cover of darkness and surprise them in the morning." Kinuyo told them all as they soon departed as they went to get themselves ready.
Early the next morning, Kay and the others were in their positions. She looked out as the sun was beginning to rise as they had taken control of the surrounding hills with no opposition. Brook was now trapped as Kay soon began speaking into the radios.
"Northern force we're in position over." Kay began speaking into her radio. Darjeeling was the next to speak as she was just about finished with her deployment.
"Southern Force in position." Darjeeling responded as Olivia was finished with polishing her Gewehr 98. Now she was reassembling it. The radio crackled with Anchovy's voice as she wanted to signal she was ready.
"Eastern force, we're ready to kick off the attack." Anchovy gave her signal now they were waiting for Western Force to say that they were ready before kicking off the attack. Soon the radio crackled with Erika's voice as she began speaking.
"Western Force got into a bit of a traffic jam but we're ready." Erika told them what was holding them up. Kay nodded as she soon looked up a shrill of explosions were happening on the western end of the box. Erika soon noticed that the western forces were beginning the attack, taking advantage of the fact that Western Force was still deploying. Erika soon turned to the artillery crews as she knew the situation was frantic. "They're attacking! Fire all of your guns at their direction in an attempt to drive them off, we'll chase them down while they retreat!" Erika gave the order. Soon the barrage of artillery and tanks coming from the west end began to open up on the charging students. Rebels were being thrown from their paths by incoming artillery that Western Force had deployed. Southern force heard the radio call as Olivia soon got up as she wanted to lead this.
"Western Force is under attack, we must help them, launch an attack on the southern end to relieve their forces." Olivia soon gave the order to come to Erika's aid. She raised her Gewehr 98 that she finished reassembling as she soon gave the order. "TENNO HEIKA BANZAI!" Olivia screamed as the students began charging from the positions while Assam covered them with an artillery barrage to destroy their trench from the Southern end so that resources could be redirected to this end including the precious manpower that Brook had left. The artillery at the southern gates opened fire as they wanted to take down the wave of the charging students that were coming at them. Darjeeling and the other tanks were rolling forth to support the Southern Force in their attack.
Meanwhile in the center, some of the students were praying to their friends in the sky to help them try to turn this victory around but it was clear that they weren't coming to their help any time soon.
"Brook-San we need help if Kiril Pantalejev is coming to help us with this battle, anything you want to say to him that could give our troops some encouragement?" One of the students asked her if she had any words to help them keep fighting. Brook only had one thing to say about this.
"Врагъ не забудетъ день схватки кровавой, Материться Русскій нашъ штыкъ кляня." Brook responded as she knew the situation was falling apart. And she was right.
The western side despite taking the first attack was falling apart as the troops began retreating much to Maho and Erika's amusement, they decided to pursue them. The Southern force was bogged down as they were waiting for Darjeeling and the others to soften their forces up just a bit.
Kinuyo and Anchovy meanwhile joined the action as they were now charging out with their tanks to take on the Eastern defenses as well as the artillery that were firing upon them. Anchovy soon radioed to Kay as she wanted to give her the signal.
"Kay we've joined the action as we're going to take a crack at their forces in an attempt to drive their force into the box and take out some of that artillery." Anchovy told Kay. Kay nodded as she knew that it would be her turn soon to join the action. She decided to contact Darjeeling.
"Darjeeling-San how's the Southern Force holding?" Kay asked. Darjeeling looked out to see that the Southern Force was one big slugging fest with most of the reserves being called to this sector. Darjeeling watched as Olivia clubbed a rebel on the top of the head with the stock of her rifle before swinging it, clubbing another student on the cheek.
"The Southern Force has drawn all the attention of the rebels as we are wiping the floor with them. I don't know how Kaya-San is able to take these forces on?" Darjeeling gave her status as her Churchill lumbered along the field of fighting students.
"That's Great so we should be able to join the attack thinking the Northern defense lacks any of all troops there since they have been recalled to the south?" Kay told Darjeeling wondering if they had nothing at the Northern end thinking all of them were part of the slugging match.
"Not that I'm aware of, but if you want to attack, go ahead." Darjeeling told her as Kay soon nodded.
"Okay." She soon hung up and she turned to the others. "Okay we got confirmation that Darjeeling says the Northern defenses have deserted so we're going to charge in and hopefully break in and block their escape route." Kay told them as the Shermans came to life, they were going to go first as the infantry would follow behind.
Kay, Alisa and Naomi lead the group as they were speeding ahead. And much to Darjeeling's words, she was right, most of the defenses have been stripped away to support other gates. Kay soon looked down her sights as the students were firing away from their weapons in an attempt to slow them down but it wasn't going to happen right away. Kay soon fired the tanks as the other tanks fired away displaying their enthusiasm in their gunnery, and learning from their mistakes from the last battle, most of their shots land perfectly, the northern defenses or rather what was left of them were bombarded away as Kay saw this as an easy win, the Infantry would clean the mess up while they would cruise on ahead and capture the northern gate. Soon Kay reached the Northern gate as she got onto her radio.
"This is Kay, we've reached the Northern gate, how is everyone else doing?" Kay asked as she was the only one who reached the gate. Soon the radio buzzed as it was clear someone was going to answer in her response.
"We've beaten the western defenses off at this point and they're pulling their defenses into the gate." Maho responded as she was now heading into the western gate. Now they needed to wait for the Eastern and Southern Forces.
"They're falling back so we'll be there in a few minutes." Kinuyo responded as they continued to move forward as they were going to block the Eastern Gate so they didn't fall back and abandon the town. Darjeeling buzzed as she told her this of the following.
"The rebels on the Southern End, while they put up a good fight, are falling back to the town and we'll chase them down. I think we level the town to rid them of their defenses." Darjeeling suggested to completely wipe the town out but Kay had another solution.
"I wouldn't suggest that. We should send them an ultimatum that they should either surrender or face complete annihilation." Kay told Darjeeling as she didn't want them to be completely wiped out as much as surrendering and letting them live to see another day. Darjeeling nodded.
"Whatever you say Kay." Darjeeling told her as she got on her tank and drove off. The southern gate was now secured.
Brook was pacing back and forth as she was now trapped and was left with a choice, surrender or be left to have their town leveled. She knew she needed something to calm her down but with Yuri being very stubborn on her end, she breaks her phone in her anger so she had nothing to calm her down. She was looking for something to take her mind off of this.
"Why does it have to be so frustrating? I need something to relax, even with the sun setting before me, I want a relaxer for this." Brook groaned as she didn't like what was happening. One of the students came forth as she was one of the older students that was still holding out. She soon looked at her as she began speaking.
"Look I know this might be hard for you but you have a choice on your hands but I understand you're frustrated, you've taken 9,000 losses today and that is a large drop in the bucket. I think I can play what you need as some of our phones aren't dead but we're almost out of battery." She responded. Brook's frustration subsided for a moment as she knew that she could make a choice in the end but it was clear she missed the tune of something to relax her soul. She soon remembered something.
"Play Ilya Shatrov." Brook told her as she wanted to play music from that particular artist as she nodded and put the music on despite the low battery. The music felt so relaxing for the girl as she slowly melted down into her seat. It truly reminded her of her own father but more importantly the hardship she was struggling with this conflict in particular. The girl looked at her commander as the music had used up the last of her battery. She soon looked at her.
"Battery is dead and I don't think I can provide you with anything else that is soothing." She responded. Soon three students roughly 13 years of age walked up to them as their leader began to speak.
"Hey maybe we can help." He said as he soon got the area set up to accommodate them. He soon got out his accordion as two other students got their balalaika's one bigger and one smaller as they soon began playing the same music that was playing on the phone minutes ago, the town was filled with the soft tone of relaxing music as the students continued trying to go through with their lives. Brook soon turned to the girl as she was uncertain.
"Do you think we will return home one day?" Brook asked as she wasn't certain about this. It almost looked like she was sent out here to die. She looked at her as if her commander was breaking down into her own somber.
"I bet we will, but the situation we're trapped in, the only thing we could do is just surrender at this point, we're defeated, hopelessly outgunned and we've got nothing left." She responded as Brook knew she was right and the only thing they could do is lay down and call this one a loss.
"Tell everyone to be prepared to suffer defeat and withdraw from Manchuria." Brook responded as she knew that it was over at this point and there was nothing more that she could do. She decided to head off for a drink thinking that would calm her nerves.
Morning came as the students knew that Kay was coming in. Kay, Alisa and Naomi walked in as they knew the ultimatum was up and they were looking for a response. Soon the students came out waving white flags around as they were signaling their surrender.
"Okay Kay you win, just throw me overboard or something." Brook told her as she wasn't going to fight any longer. Kay smiled as she knew her opponent had put up a good fight but now it was sadly over.
"Why would I ever do something like that, you look like you've been through the grinder and back as we need to treat you well or something. Come on let's get you something to eat." Kay soon pulled the students away as they were all being escorted from the town. Olivia, Darjeeling and Anchovy were watching this as they began to speak.
"Looks like Tsar Nicholas the II is going to wake up from a nightmare about the battered and wounded Russian forces returning from battle." Olivia began as she knew that this scene reminded her of. Darjeeling laughed.
"Yeah we did about 9,000 of their losses compared to 7,500 but I'm glad this surrender has been called, we're all exhausted at this point and wish to return to our normal lives, you've been a great help." Darjeeling told Olivia as she was sipping her tea. Anchovy looked at them as she shushed them.
"Quiet, Antonio is trying to make contact with us." Anchovy began, the radio crackled as Antonio sounded frantic as he began speaking.
"I think we're all in trouble, the Kamchatka we've found out has linked up with the Russian Baltic Fleet." Antonio began as he was panting between words. Anchovy soon spoke to him.
"So what's so bad about it, I mean it's just a fleet." Anchovy told him to calm his fears. Antonio soon began speaking again as he mentioned the worst part about this.
"Worst part about it is the fact that the Russian Baltic Fleet is sailing to Japan with the intention of taking over the USS George Washington with actual soldiers. They have sent away the colliers and intend on taking the shortest route to find the ship through the straits of Tsushima." Antonio told them. Everyone was soon worried about this and they knew they were going to have to rely on the Japanese Navy again.
[A/N]: Brook has been defeated as she practically surrendered everyone over to Kay but now the Russian Baltic Fleet is almost to Japan and would most likely try to intercept and turn the battle in the favor of the rebels but the rebels are pretty much done for and the Russian Baltic fleet is late to the Party. If you want to see what happens afterward, review on how you like these battles. That is all.