With the West Saxon skirmishers liquidated and their contracts forcibly terminated, Ragnar and his Directorate host were once more on the march. It did not take them long to arrive at the outskirts of Nottingham City.
However, when they arrived, the steam from their engines mixing with the morning fog, they noticed that the West Saxon field army had already fled the scene.
There was not a single sight of an ongoing defense of the outer districts, and the blockade they left behind appeared as if it was abandoned mid-shift.
Ragnar was quite disappointed at the sight, seeing how he wanted to test the new High-Explosive Shells on a massed formation and spread market uncertainty among their ranks.
However, it would appear that the reputation of the "Iron Father" had already depreciated their morale, and as such, they had fled the city proper to hole up in the Castle of Nottingham, leaving the industrial districts in the hands of the Directorate.
