As they approached the rocky ridges Fortress, the battalion led by Sir Philip suffered several attacks—both nighttime raids and daylight disruptions. As Byron lamented, those aristocratic foes finally started learning how to fight a proper war, but alas, they learned too late.
The commanders at rocky ridges Fortress could only devise attack plans based on outdated military paradigms—they imagined the Cecil Combat Corps to be another aristocratic private army equipped with powerful magic weapons, thus extrapolating the discipline, marching style, camp setup, and command responsiveness of the Cecil Clan from this assumption, and then formulated various attack strategies. The outcome, of course, was unsurprising.
Sir Philip acknowledged that the commanders of rocky ridges Fortress were indeed actively engaging in combat, but unfortunately, they failed.
