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A dispute between the nation of Ecera and the nation of Silver erupts into bloody warfare


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Ecerian and Silverian forces clashed in the first two offensives of the war today, gunfire and explosions piercing the usual tranquility of the nation of Silver. Dictator and self-proclaimed "Warlord" Eriso refused to comment, however, high-ranking army officials have confirmed that the armed dispute is over a trade offer which soon turned very sour.

The fighting began when Ecerian soldiers, all newly equipped with AK-47s, PKM machineguns, SVD dragunov rifles and RPGs, arrived under the cover of darkness. Reportedly, several battalions of Ecerian infantry soldiers spread out and began advancing into the nation of Silver, systematically taking control of towns and villages, driving a 'wedge' in between the military forces of Silver in the process. It was only once the Ecerian soldiers advanced upon a military outpost did they meet any resistance.

And a fierce resistance it was. Ecerian soldiers, with the element of surprise, had managed to surround the outpost during the fighting, hammering it with bullets, mortars and RPGs. None-the-less, despite the overwhelming numerical disadvantage, Silverian soldiers repelled the attack with 17 Silverian and 58 Ecerian soldiers reported killed in action.

"It was a massacre; after the first firefight alone, a quarter of my soldiers were dead or wounded, and I heard other squads had been hit much harder," one Ecerian officer reported under the condition that he remain anonymous as he and his soldiers were under strict orders not to give information to the press. "My squad was maybe, 200, 300 metres away... we were on higher elevation, but I couldn't see any movement in the base... they were definitely shooting back at us though, putting up the good fight. Though we got some new equipment recently, it's still inadequate; Silverian soldiers are better equipped than my grunts, to the point that we were scavenging weapons from dead Silverian soldiers... and they better trained, too. My soldiers were the most undisciplined grunts I've ever seen; just sprayed the sky with bullets, and the moment things got hot they wanted to run away. Bloody greenhorns if I'd ever seen one, haven't even had any prior combat experience, I'm told. Some of them were as young as 14 years old. Who is in charge of this operation, anyway?"

The aforementioned officer was found dead shortly afterwards with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, though the nature of his death remains unclear.

As the fighting momentarily died down, both sides agreed to a temporary cease fire as medical personnel retrieved the dead and tended to the wounded. It wasn't long before bullets were crackling through the air again, however; the second offensive had begun. What exactly occurred remains unconfirmed, however Silverian military commanders accuse the Ecerian military of taking advantage of the ceasefire to move their forces to a more advantageous position closer to the military outpost, where it was then over-run after several more hours of heavy fighting. Ecerian military commanders denied this accusations, claiming that Silverian soldiers had opened fire on medics as they tried to retrieve their fallen, and the Ecerian soldiers had merely returned fire in self-defense.

Either way, no survivors from the military base were reported; equipment was looted and smoke billowed into the air as the victorious Ecerian soldiers fired rockets into the base, effectively demolishing it.

Afterwards, the invading forces continued on with their advance deep into Silverian territory. Surrounded and separated, the Silverian military fell into disarray. By the end of the second offensive, the majority of the Silverian army was reported as dead or missing in action, however, not without a great cost; 110 more Ecerian soldiers had fallen in the second offensive, bringing the total dead up to 168, thereby suffering heavier casualties but triumphing through sheer numbers alone. "I had a bad feeling about this op from the start," an Ecerian soldier said, referring to the day's fighting, "our men and women kept falling, yet we were ordered to keep on going, to keep on advancing, no matter what the cost is... morale is starting to get low... we're been used as cannon fodder out here."

None-the-less, with the Silverian military crippled and the nation of Silver now embroiled in anarchy and chaos, Ecerian soldiers had successfully over-run the nation of Silver.

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[size="1"]Exhausted Ecerian soldiers return from a day of intense fighting.[/size]

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