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The Tofino Times
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019

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[/hr]VOL. XXXII .. Num. 6320 | In the News: 2019 In Review

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[color=#FF0000]BREAKING NEWS
160th Anniversary of Louise Mountains War Battle
Reenactors Arrive At Site of Battle of Wu Dian Fort

Above: Reenactors at 2018's reenactment of the Battle of Wu Dian Fort

Zamastanians across the nation are celebrating the New Year and the beginning of the new decade. Before 2020 comes around the corner and turns the page on this past year, devoted expansion-era reenactors ventured to the eastern-most point of Zamastan to recreate the Battle of Wu Dian Fort. The battle took place 160 years ago on December 31st, 1849, and was the final push by Zamastanian soldiers in the finalizing conquest of the current border we know today.

During the Louise Mountains War (1847-1850), Zamastanian armies were fighting an Old Shen Empire, whose invading force was trying to break over the Louise Mountains and expand into the fertile Pahlan plains. The only 40-year-old nation of Zamastan was caught off guard and suffered thousands of casualties, but a year and a half of massive battles and maneuvers inspired by President Avi Taures’ old Revolutionary War guerilla tactics, Zamastanian soldiers made headwind at a Shen border fortress called Wu Dian.

On December 31st, 1849, Wu Dian Fort was peacefully deep behind the Shen Empire lines. Battles raged in the wheat fields of Pahl several miles past the valley and mountain range that the five-pointed fortress sat tucked away in, with the famed Red Army of Shen sitting in the valley. 400 Shen soldiers within the fort and the more than 700 camping around the perimeter of the fort were celebrating the Shen New Year with feasts, drinking, incense, and the famous Shen fireworks. As the party dragged throughout the night, a 300-man Zamastanian army was slowly and stealthily maneuvering through the mountains towards the fort.

Surrounding the fort under the cover of darkness, heavy foliage, and the occasional flashing illumination of Shen fireworks, the Zamastanian troops began an assault, decimating the outer perimeter camps, killing hundreds of Shen Imperials, and taking hundreds of prisoners. Within the base, the remaining Shen army hunkered down and fought back, firing over the walls with muskets and cannons. A day long siege, however, and the addition of Zamastanian reinforcements culminated into an assault on the fort and the surrender of most of the Red Army of Shen.

The war lasted another 6 months following the Battle of Wu Dian Fort, but the Zamastanians eventually drove the Shen Empire out of the Louise Mountains. The war was won, and the Shen territorial gain was conceded. Tuesday’s reenactment in Wu Dian National Park will mark 160 years since the battle.


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