Tyranny of Steel

Word came over Telegraph that a war was declared against the Catholic world. The time to put an end to the Papacy ’s stranglehold over Europe had finally come. The officer in charge of the forces in the Sinai Peninsula was Field Marshall Heimerich von Graz, whose fifty thousand Reichsgarde acted as the main forces in defense of the region.

Under his orders, the defenses that had been constructed to secure the Kaiser ’s Pass were rapidly expanded in anticipation of an enemy invasion. Large trench lines containing 25,000 men each were set up on both sides of the Canal in between the reinforced concrete bunkers which housed the artillery guns. A no-man ’s-land was established with barbed wire and land mines to make any attempt to storm the trenches into a suicide mission.

Large bridges were already constructed over the Kaiser ’s Pass to allow transport trucks to cross, even if such vehicles were only in the development phase. This meant that the soldiers on either side of the Canal could rapidly cross over and reinforce the other if necessary.

While the Crusader Kingdom may have officially gained control over Egypt, the Timurid Army was still located in the region, and if they wanted to press forward into the Kaiser ’s pass, they would first need to defeat the Sultan and his army.

Because of this, Heimerich coordinated with Colonel Arnwald Gerwig and confirmed that the most likely region of attack would be coming from Syria-Palestine, where the bulk of the Crusader Army was still present.

Though many of them had begun to set sail for the shores of Hungary and Italy. It would take a long time for all of them to do so. After all, nearly a million men had embarked on the crusade to the Holy Land. The Catholic World had gone all out on their attempts to conquer the region and had emptied their fields to do so.

However, that did not mean that every soldier would be heading back to Europe. A combined army of roughly one hundred thousand men. Consisting of soldiers from the English Army and the Order of the Red Dragon, under the command of King Lawrence Lancaster, were tasked to take the Canal. Because of this, his army was marching towards the German position.