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Adius made the decision to attack an isolated segment of the Ceironian army - quickly crossing a river at the crack of night and attacking in morning when the Ceironians were just awakening. Their morale was low and the Ceironians were quickly pushed back by Adius's morally superior and more mobile task force. Due to this the Ceironians began to rapidly consolidate and prepare a counteroffensive. While this is happening, a separate small ceironian force crossed the river south of Adius and moved to rapidly flank him. The larger task force moved to engage, in a bid to distract Adius. The attack began and was quickly devastating for both sides. The fortified Adius troops against numerically superior Ceironians resulted in nearly ~50,000 deaths in 2 hours. Adius moved to disengage but found himself cornered. He moved north but his army was exhausted. He made the choice to surrender about 3 days after the initial crossing into Ceironia, with nearly 150,000 losses taken and about 180,000 inflicted. However, this was not the end.

Another lord and series of generals in the south took charge, assembling a force of about 50,000 to hopefully demoralize the Ceironians. To their luck, a northern secession movement had quickly appeared as the Ceironians began their offensive into the Southern Imperium. This movement called for the end of the endless war. The ceironians were forced to split their force in half, with 100,000 heading north and 100,000 heading south. Unfortunately, on the trek north, many deserted and starved as harvests across the nation proved inefficient for such a large, mobilized army. This left them with almost 85,000 demoralized troops for the north, and 95,000 for the south. Despite this, the Northern secession movement was brutally suppressed with 15,000 losses taken and several thousand civilians and townsfolk murdered in an act of pure brutality to keep the Imperium together.