Ikta and his soldiers are sent to deliver supplies to the struggling imperial armies as the war continues. Unused to fighting in the high mountains, and led by incompetent leaders the imperial soldiers suffer heavy casualties.  Ikta devises a brilliant stratagem to retake an enemy fortress, but when a messenger begs him for help in saving his allies, he's forced to choose between risking his own soldiers life, and bringing another imperial force to certain doom.
They deliberately left the fortress empty.
تعمّدوا ترك الحصن فارغاً
Sie haben die Festung
bewusst leerstehen lassen.
Dejaron la fortaleza a propósito.
Dejaron la fortaleza a propósito.
L’abandon du fort était une ruse.
Avevano lasciato la fortezza
volutamente sguarnita.
Eles deixaram isto 
abandonado de propósito.
Крепость была оставлена намеренно.