The Busyl Causeway
military_conflicts.busyl_causeway
military_conflict
Revakgol's worst defeat of the Great Wyrm War, 1281 AZN. An imperial military road driven into the Ihtaa Fens was ambushed at its midpoint after the Zegtuzsos deliberately let the head of the column pass.
Also known as The Long Fault, The Gift of Mud
Timeline
- Year End AZN
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1281 - Year End MV
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5881 - Year Start AZN
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1281 - Year Start MV
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5881
Content
Consequence
The causeway is where imperial logistics stops being an assumption and becomes an institution. The aftermath of the Great Wyrm War credits the founding of the first Imperial Logistics Corps to the strain of long campaigning; the specific failure it was founded to prevent is this one. Revakgol never again attempted to cross the Ihtaa Fens. Phase III begins with the decision to drain and flank instead.
Engagement
The Zegtuzsos had been watching the causeway advance for four years and had prepared the crossing point for two. They let the vanguard pass unmolested - the discipline this required is the detail imperial accounts find hardest to explain - and struck the centre, cutting the column in three. Fascine sections were fired and the roadbed collapsed into the fen under the weight of retreating troops.
Two Tufae generals died. The vanguard, isolated on the far side with no supply and no road behind it, was destroyed over the following eleven days.
Overview
Seven years into the Drowned Years, the Empire attempted to solve the Ihtaa Fens the way it had solved every other obstacle: by building through them. The Busyl Causeway was a raised stone-and-fascine road intended to carry the Grand Army across the wetland belt in a season.
It was ambushed at the midpoint in 1281, with roughly a third of the column already past the killing ground.
Two Names
The Long Fault is an engineering term the Empire adopted as a euphemism. The Zegtuzsos name it the Gift of Mud, which is not gratitude but attribution - the fens did the work, and the songs are careful to say so.
Relations
- Belligerents
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- The Grand Army
- Coalition of Tribes
- Location
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- The Ihtaa Fens
- Busyl Causeway
- Parent Conflict
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- Great Wyrm War
Raw JSON (for debugging)
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