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Dring During the Battle of Traitors Moss, fewer than 900 Fen Guards crushed a force of more than 20,000 separatists. The 72nd was granted Right of conquest to the continent as reward for the victory.
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The zone that Woortan chose was an enormous chain of marshes and bogs that later would be known as Traitors Moss. While the Fenguard took positions in bogs, the enemy began his disembarkation. The transports of the enemy landed on the luminous signals that they had captured from the explorers. Each one of the ships carried hundreds of men and tanks. When the first touched earth, it became evident that the ground could not support the enormous weight of the disembarkation ship and, when it began to list and sink in the soft earth, the rest of ships tried to alter their course. However, the approach vectors were already fixed and the great mass and inertia of the troopships meant that it was impossible to alter course on time. In a matter of minutes, the disembarkation ships became clogged in mud as their passengers desperately tried to escape. At this moment he 72nd attacked. They emerged from marshes like ghosts and cut down the traitors in their hundreds. The Mounted Guard of the Marsh ranged through the fog while the engines of the descending ships vaporized marshes, annihilating without mercy the separatists with hunting lances. In less than one hour, enemy soldiers who had not been engaged by the men of Drook fled into the marshes and dispersed before their ferocious attackers. In less than one week the Drookians had hunted them down and those that did not die were taken as prisoners and handed over to the Crusade fleet when it arrived three months later.
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