The Nasoruga Expidition

First Battle of La Cattaire de Connorasse
Part of Ulmur-Lillian War
Ulmurian Forces Under Louis Calraille engage Nvradian Forces holding their ground.
Date April 12 1782 - April 15 1782 Location La Cattaire de Connorasse Result Nvradian victory
Belligerents
Nvrads	Ulmur
Commanders and leaders
Wilhelm von Hurpitz Karl von Kamogne	Unknown
Units involved
9th Infanterie Army	Unknown Infantry Regiment
Strength
190,000 Men 200 Artillery	175,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses
Dead: 70,000 Wounded: 10,000 Missing: None Captured: None	Dead: Over 50,000 Wounded: Over 25,000 Missing: 5000 Captured: 75,000

The Battle of La Cattaire was an engagement between military forces of Ulmur and Nvrads that took place from between 12 April 1782 and 15 April 1782, in the small town of La Cattaire, Ulmur. This engagement was the second contact between Nvrads and Ulmur in the Ulmur-Lillian War and resulted out of a surprise confrontation between the opposing forces. It lasted from 4:40 p.m, 12 April 1782, to 14 April 1782, when the 9th Infanterie Army under the command of Field Marshal Wilhelm von Hurpitz took control of the town.

Background

This battle was the second in a series of engagements between the militaries of Nvrads and Ulmur. These engagements began when Nvrads, then the kingdom of Leuen, propsed a unification of a Nvradian State with Ulmur, who refused harshly.

Opening Engagement

First Encounter

At 4:40 P.M., On 12 April 1782, the 3rd Scouts Battalion of Nvrads scouted out and was engaged by a Ulmurian Scout Battalion. Sappers Built Cover and the Nvradians dug in. A messenger arrived, famously saying, "Hold until they arrive!"

Reinforcements Arrive

The first available units to come to the scouting column's aid were the leading battalions of the 9th Lineinfanterie Army. These units were equipped with the main battle grenadiers in service with the 11th Core, the Linengrenaders. The high-explosive grenadess and camoflaugey uniform were able to inflict heavy Ulmurian casualties, And sustaining themselves, while relieving the beleagured 3rd Battalion the Grenadiers Square the Scouts until wounded and dead are evacuated. Other battalions arrive and reliving the two battalions and create a defensive line, while Ulmurian battalions and artillery have arrived, along with Nvradian Artillery.

Later in the morning, as the fighting continued between the Entrenched Nvradian Battalions the attacking Ulmurian troops, the first artillery units trickling into the fight began to fire into the battle area. By 11:00 p.m. half of the artillery strength of both massive battalions, bear on the Ulmurians

Main Engagement

Counterattack

At roughly 6 a.m, on the 13th, Battalions that hadn't left for the front and stayed in the trenches or the artillery stationed behind the trench revved up and began to move out. The 1st Nvradian Battalion was tasked with flanking La Cattaire and assaulting once they arrived on the western-most edge of the town, while the 5th Nvradian Core was responsible for attacking head-on with the brunt of the manpower of the 9th Infantry. The 11th Core met weak resistance on the left flank and overran the western trenches with the calvary that finally joined the fight. Once they reached their stopping point, the core hooked east and plowed straight into the weak defenses on the west of the town. 9th was met with stiffer resistance, but did not suffer much casualties. Nvradian infantry flooded the trenches and killed or pushed back all Ulmurian defenders.

The trenches on the western, southern, and eastern sides of the town were quickly overrun by advancing Nvradian infantry supported by Artillery and Calvary. Retreating Ulmurian soldiers hastily fortified buildings and reinforced the northern trenches in anticipation of the advancing infantry and dragoons. Infantry columns from 11th Core and 9th Core(Both a Part of the 9th Infantry) changed their course and hooked left and right, respectively. The encirclement of Le Cattaire was completed around noon.

Destruction of the Ulmurian Garrison

After the encirclement of the Ulmurian forces was complete the objective of destroying the remaining defenders was at hand. The 9th Battalion of the 9th Core began making thrusts southward from the northern side of La Cattaire to break the line, but was initially unsuccessful. The last 1,600 Ulmurian troops put up stiff resistance on the northern flank, although the eastern, southern, and western sides had already fallen and the surviving troops had pulled northward to link up with the last bastion of defense (which happened to be the Auervere Town Hall). Repeated attacks of both armor and infantry were repelled by the defending Ulmurian soldiers within the building they were holed up inside. By 3:00 p.m. roughly 1,000 able-bodied defenders were still engaging the attacking Nvradian troops.

At 4:30 p.m. Salor III Artillery guns of 11th Core arrived on the northern flank of Le Cattaire and began to give close fire support to the advancing Grenadiers of 9th Core. The western half of the building collapsed due to the firing of the Salor III Artillery guns and claimed the lives of roughly a three hundred Ulmurian soldiers. This prompted the commanding officer of the defending troops to attempt a break out as soon as possible. Roughly 500 able-bodied troops in the Le Cattaire Town Hall abandoned the 1,300 wounded troops taking refuge in the lower levels of the building and rushed out of the eastern hall into the murderous fire of the Grenadiers of 9th Core. The Ulmurian troops scrambled for cover in a low gully between two roads on the western side of Le Cattaire, only to be trapped there under intense fire for roughly half an hour. Less than one hundred troops survived the breakout attempt.

Aftermath

14th April, 1782. Grenadiers of 11th Core were the first to enter the front entrance of the La Cattaire Town Hall and were able to capture all 1,300 wounded Ulmurian troops were captured without firing a shot. The division Pioneers cleared enough rubble that it was able to start moving men and material into the town before nightfall. The less than one hundred surviving troops from the so-called "Blood City" were rounded up and transported to a holding area with the other 1,300 troops apprehended.

This engagement marked the first usage of the 9th Army and proved its effectiveness in combat, and Wilhelm von Hurpitz. The vast technological and strategic superiority of the Nvradian troops proved to give them the upper hand in battle. The ability for the Nvradian troops to react quickly and efficiently in battle with the resources provided allowed them to encircle and destroy the entirety of the Nvradian forces, eliminating the chance that they would escape to fight another day.The remaining two divisions of the 11th and 9th Core, arrived in Auerbach the next day at 8:00 a.m, 15th April. The 9th Core, now at full strength, could utilize the town as a center launch off from towards the next objectives.