Slow War

"Move!"

"Put more dirt over there! Get me more nails!"

It was an active work area, they were building the rail. Illnor was sitting on the back of a white steed watching it, his army was defending them as they built it. The rail was all paid for by the Zotts family as a way to get closer to the promising young archbishop, he needed it to work.

"We will reach them in about a week, so far they have only observed us. No real obstruction."

"I want you to check the ground for any traps, nothing can be overlooked. Don't act like a careless woman, you are a man right?"

He knew facing the Monroe family was never easy, they were crafty, strong and ancient. They fought the church more times than anyone else in its history, only in recent times they never fought. These mountains separated the holy land from the godless land, south of them. Only demons, and evil sorcerers lived in it, all of them under the Monroe family banner.

They were building the rail system while pushed and pulling the finished war carts. They had six royal hammers on it, it was going to destroy that damn fortress. The goal was to smash it, not capture it. The fortress was built for demons, and it would be impossible to hold in this harsh land.

"We have over four hundred cannons prepared to destroy that fortress, from what the scouts can see they intend to defend it believing we will besiege it."

"Good, continue the plan keep making sure they believe we won't take down the fortress."

They were doing things to standard procedure, they had scouts check the area. As the main army just advanced slower than usual, they were masking the fact they were building such a rail system. It was going to be a sudden knockout blow that will finish them, and their main army in the mountains.

"The army has gotten familiar with their new weapons, they wanted to stop carrying their old ones but we prevented them."

"Good, the Tosser is a good weapon but it's only a single use. The rifles take too long to reload to be used more than maybe twice at best, don't let the men become arrogant because we destroyed some cults."

The tosser was a single barrel 10g shotgun, it was a front loaded shotgun using black powder. It was perfect for breaking close quarter situations that were tough or impossible to breakthrough, the other was a simple rifle that used black powder. They trained the whole army in using them, but didn't line fire them or organize shooting. It was more of a free for fall, shooting and aiming wasn't yet instructed on the field instead soldiers were expected to know when to do so.

"We have the raiders ready to breach them, they all have Tossers and combat gear for close combat."

"Get them a cannon to carry inside, they can try to use the idea I had."

Bringing a cannon into a fort raid and then shooting it point blank at their people inside with grape shot, like a giant shotgun was the idea. They had other ideas they were testing guns on, they were too new to be fully utilized but they were trying.