The Two Days War

The Two Days War (Year 215)
The Two Days war was an invasion by Telman III of Sumaires against Tolemark.

The Battle of Hartting

Telman III began a siege on a major city in Tolemark known as Hartting. Baron Ervig Goldpool, fearing a late arrival from the Petty King of Tolemark, Tieas Medelton, sallied forth the garrison as well as a small army of foot soldiers. While the baron's army was superior in numbers, it was ill equipped and unskilled compared to well trained and state-of-the-art troops of Telman III. The Baron's army broke at the first cavalry charge, and nearly the entire army was killed or captured. Telman III's army occupied the city of Hartting.

Two days after the occupation of Hartting, Tieas Mendelton's brought an army sized to reinforce a city... not take one. Outnumbered, Tieas Mendelton began sieging the city of Hartting with his royal army, hoping the populace would revolt upon seeing the Mendelton standards. However, Telman III occupied the city peacefully and was promising no harm to the people so long as there was no trouble, and only had to quench a few isolated fights between civilians and his men.

The first night of the siege, Telman III launched a risky night assault on the enemies fortifications. Catching the army off guard, the Mendelton soldiers scattered, shattering the spirit of many of the Tolemarkian cities. The Crown Prince Hames Mendelton was killed in this assault.

By morning, the siege had broken and 2 more Tolemarkian cities had surrendered by messenger to Telman III. Petty King Tieas Mendelton was forced to surrender.

Results

Telman III is a renowned military leader, and became something of a folk hero.

The Crown Prince of Tolemark, Hames Mendelton was killed.

Tolemark is allowed to remain "sovereign", but is essentially made a puppet state of Sumaires. Sumaires was rumored to avoid the occupation of Tolemark due to fearing a rebellion from the Tolemarkian landowners.