章 769: Defending the Sinai Peninsula

Word came over Telegraph that a war was declared against the Catholic world. The time to put an end to the Papacy's stranglehold over Europe had finally come. The officer in charge of the forces in the Sinai Peninsula was Field Marshall Heimerich von Graz, whose fifty thousand Reichsgarde acted as the main forces in defense of the region. 

Under his orders, the defenses that had been constructed to secure the Kaiser's Pass were rapidly expanded in anticipation of an enemy invasion. Large trench lines containing 25,000 men each were set up on both sides of the Canal in between the reinforced concrete bunkers which housed the artillery guns. A no-man's-land was established with barbed wire and land mines to make any attempt to storm the trenches into a suicide mission.