THE COWARDS OF HAENSE
A depiction of the cowering Haensemen, not leaving their walls!
The day had started with a force of 10 Haensemen heading out towards Rubern, upon seeing the forces within - they quickly turned tail and ran towards their “bastion” of New Reza. Upon gaining entry to their city, they quickly rallied all their banners and blew all their horns! Summoning a “mighty” force to their city, ready to combat against the AIS.
Or, so the AIS thought - as they also rallied in tandem; both armies gathered in their respective cities. The men of AIS assumed they would meet a mighty horde on the field, but upon marching out, what did they see? Nothing.
The field was barren of any Haense presence, odd. So they continued onwards towards New Reza and it opened their eyes to a displeasing sight… Thirty Haenseman locked behind gates and key and hiding in their city with no ambition to push out. The AIS retinue sat outside New Reza for nearly a saints-hour, with no movement from within apart from the stray arrow shot that was nocked and loosed over the roads.
After an hour of inaction, and only a few kills as a result from this, the men of AIS jeered at the cowering Haenseman who assumed it would be an open-field, equal numbered fight - yet it was equal-numbered; it was not open-field.
Their only victory they proclaimed was defeating a single horse, not even the horse-men, just a horse.
In a last-ditch effort to try and acquire an actual fight, the men of AIS sallied forth from Rubern again and managed to catch out Jasper! An Orenian Marshal, upon bringing him down to his dying-breaths, the men of Haense merely sat and watched their dying soldiers.
Nothing too exciting happened thereafter, just the occasional Haenseman wandering outside and being cut off by the far mightier AIS men. Their numbers were being thinned, but nothing of note. Despite this, the Haenseman found it in them to still hurl slurs from over their walls, even while the man named Adrian was caught out.
In the midst of battle, Doctor Daniel was even safe enough to take off his armour and commence a sketch!
In the end, the fight had been prolonged to two saints hours; they did not come out of their once as a group - only single souls who were promptly picked off via a flank. Though, in fairness, it is no surprise they are petrified of the AIS men.