With supplies now arriving once again, albeit slowly through the still dangerous Foramen Interdictum, general Kutuzov was once again able to go over to the offensive on Mordecai. He was helped by the arrival of a fresh army corps of Lycanon guard, who were quickly deployed to the eastern sector of the front line, which had been holding out against minor probing attacks from the newly arrived Emerald Serpent forces. The city of Danyth still remained in imperial hands as well as the rugged heights of the Scorched Lands.
Kutuzov planned his attack to retake Skrime, and the narrow isthmus connecting East Tersius to the main continent of the planet, to gain a bridgehead over the narrow sea and hem the chaos forces on a line running between the Valyin mountains and Lake Peri. He knew that the stiffest resistance would come at this narrow choke point.
The terrain in this region was ideally suited to the Lycanon regiments, who were able to use their armoured formations to batter the chaos forces into submission. Recognising the threat, the Emerald Serpent, led by a powerful sorcerer who some claimed was Ahriman himself, conducted a counter attack at the head of the imperial advance, intending to halt the advance and hold the loyalist forces west of the Skrime isthmus.
Summoning a host of daemons the Emerald Serpent initially forced the Lycanon tanks to halt and deal with this new threat. The battle raged back and forth across the Skrime gap and for a time Kutuzov was considering calling a halt to the offensive, but with overwhelming firepower the imperial guard eventually exhausted the chaos counter attack, the chaos sorcerer meeting an ignominious end to lasgun fire.
By 0605.019 the imperial advanced had reached its planned objectives and taken up positions at the foot of the Vaylin mountains. The imperium celebrated their victory, but Kutuzov knew the war on Mordecai would not be over quickly.
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