Chapter six
A dagger in the nightThe Battle of Gwalherm turned out to be a desperate affair.
This upstart King of North Vallia cleverly drew us onto a strongly fortified position which, in the normal way, we would have bypassed and possibly masked. As it was he’d sited the line of entrenchments across a convenient line of march. We were into the battle almost before we were aware.
In the end we managed to tumble him off, and a magnificent charge by a division of heavy cavalry finally threw him out.
I call this king an upstart. Well, by Krun, and so was I.
All the same, my upstartedness was the result of the people of Vallia calling me to be their emperor. We had heard stories of the cruelty of this North Vallian king, who apparently went by a number of names. The latest name he was us
