章 213: For Faith, King, and Fatherland!

Rain once more poured upon the Balkan landscape, flooding the trenches built outside the Serbian capital of Belgrade, which was now a ghost city. Fog ruled throughout the city and its surroundings, as echoes of artillery and gunfire in the distance crept throughout the haunted ruins of what had once been a thriving metropolis. 

It was clear that whatever reinforcements were closest to Bruno's position had encountered the Serbian Army, or what composed the provisional government's armed forces after Bruno had massacred the overwhelming majority of the Serbian Royal Army, both in the initial engagement of the war and when he gassed the capital of the once-proud Slavic kingdom.