Battle of Alcove

Military action

Only a week after the first battle of the war, the main part of the crown army advanced towards Alcove while the King went with his elite guard towards Ridgemot.

The Battle began as the crown army came out of the cover of the woods and saw the city, the Northern garrison stationed there was small, only around 2000 men, as Jarl Hanlin has taken the main army towards Ridgemot to make sure the more important location was not lost.   The Southern army broke the weak gates of the city quickly and charged the city, a lot of the civilians had left in the days leading up to the battle but there were still plenty of innocent Northerners left, the Northern defenders held the inner city, including the church and Lord's manor. With most of the soldiers injured or demoralised many spoke of surrender, having faith that the rest of the Northern army would be back to retake the city soon. The Lord in charge decided to offer a parlay with the southern army, sending out some squires, but the southern army took them captive and shouted to the northerners to come out and surrender if they wanted to, or else die. Most of the defenders left the inner fort and surrendered to the crown army, being taken captive immediately, but around a hundred refused to leave. They attempted to hold the inner city but as the crown army stormed them they were overran and killed. Leaving around 500 prisoners, 300 injured and 200 not.   But the crown army didn't have orders on whether to march onto Ridgemot or to hold Alcove. With 20 000 soldiers left after the battle the crown army decided to move back to meet with the king, leaving a garrison of 2000 men to hold the city and the prisoners.