Battle of Upper Rodenburg
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The Battle of Upper Rodenburg was the first large scale skirmish between the Renatian Alliance and the Orenian Alliance during the War of the Two Emperors resulting in a decisive Orenian Victory after the two armies clashed on the fields of Upper Rodenburg
Prelude
A Saint's day before the battle the spies of Renatus had managed to gain information that the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska and The Golden City of Ves was planning to swear fealty to Joseph I, Holy Orenian Emperor with the intention to restore House Marna to the imperial throne. Once rumors had begun to spread across the realm Antonius I, Emperor of Man who at the time was on a pilgrimage in Aeldin dissolved the Empire of Man.
Once the news had broke that the Empire was dissolved Renatian legionnaires began patrolling the roads between Reza and Ves to ensure that order was maintained and to possibly seize the Emperor-claimant. As a response small skirmishes between the two factions occured all over the countryside with no clear outcome other then chaos.
Joseph managed to make his way to Reza alongside Vîlachians and Fennic allies. There they linked up with the Haensetic forces and High Pontiff Everard V crowned him as Emperor of the Holy Orenian Empire in the Basilica of Fifty Virgins. During the same time as the coronation, Renatians loyal to the line of Pertinax rallied in Helena to engage the Orenians, together with their allies from the Rexdom of Krugmar.
Just after the coronation the Orenian army marched towads Helena where outside of Rodenburg they'd encounter the Renatian host.
Battle
The Orenians who outnumbered the Renatians placed their infantry in the centre and on both flanks the Fennic cavalry, whilst the Renatian troops formed up on the opposite side awaiting the Orenian charge. Both on opposite sides of a river with a bridge seperating the two. Once the formations were in order the Orenian army and their allies seized the momentum to push forward with an all out charge in the centre over the bridge rather then skirmishing with the Renatians. Once the bridge had been crossed the Orenians clashed with the Renatians vanguard.
The two armies got locked into a grim and deadly fight all over the bridge as the Renatians tried to push the Orenian infantry back across the bridge. During this engagement across the bridge the Orenians suffered most of their casualties and the bridge was littered with dead from both sides.
Whilst heavy fighting was taking place in the centre the Fennic cavalry had waded across the river on both flanks and after a short moment charged down on the Renatian rearguard and flanks, pincering the entire army.
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Aftermath
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