As the Rhine marched south toward the the border of Silesia at breakneck speed General Marcus Vedici and his vanguard company of Cosa Sicuri mercenaries charge to take position across the valley from their bitter rivals from Metra. As the battle begun, an ambush as the conscripted Leponese and Lower Rhine soldiers crossed the river in what is now known as the Valley of Martyrs caught the Rhine slave-drivers off guard and in the minutes of terror, many of the Leponese who had only been on the march for a week since the conquest of Lepo by the Rhine were slaughtered. During the slaughter fell a friend of Oliver de Lepo, the man who would eventually become the right hand of the General. This death would impact Oliver for the rest of his life.