On the twelfth day, the ogres got their wish.
Aldrath sent a strike force of eight hundred cavalry and four hundred dismounted heavy infantry on a flanking route through the southern farmland with the specific objective of destroying the 1st Kani'karr Corps' siege equipment, the catapults and ballistae whose bombardment had been degrading the combined force's positions since the ford battle.
The strike force reached the siege equipment's position at the fourteenth hour. The position was on the reverse slope of a low ridge, the catapults and ballistae arranged in the firing configuration that the troll crews maintained, the equipment's components visible above the ridge's crest line.
The thirty-two ogres were sitting around the equipment in a loose perimeter, eating. Several were asleep. One was scratching its back against a catapult arm with the specific contentment of a very large being addressing an itch in the only manner available to it.
