The Baraka River Defense

The Baraka River stretched like a serpent across the landscape, its waters glinting under the pale sunlight. Three hundred kilometers long, it was a natural barrier that Duke Farl's forces had turned into a formidable line of defense. Along its banks, a series of wooden forts had been hastily constructed, each one a bastion of resistance against the advancing Latvian army. The river was the last line of Defense, and Duke Farl was determined to hold it at all costs.

The fort where Duke Farl now stood was one of the largest, a sprawling structure of timber and earthworks perched on the river's edge. Around it, hundreds of tents dotted the landscape, housing the soldiers who had been deployed to defend this stretch of the river.