Chapter 316 - 312 - Interlude - The Southern Hammer
The third week of the southern campaign began not with a trumpet’s call, but with silence.
And in that silence — Romanus moved.
The southernmost coastal stronghold had fallen, its defenders buried or broken, its walls now flying the gold-and-crimson eagle.
From its heights, Elheat had overseen the dispatching of twelve cavalry outrider units, each tasked with sweeping wide arcs across the southern coast — not merely scouting, but destabilizing.
Fires rose in the distance before sunrise — controlled, precise, like punctuation marks across the Achaeian shoreline.
Watchposts.
Signal towers.
Supply caches.
Minor garrisons.
All gone.
None of it random.
Elheat knew what he was doing, he had served as a commander in the Lunanese military for decades, and while no wars had been fought he had still participated in numerous conflicts.