there were rumors they were eating their own
dead, and, the enemy.
199 The water treatment plant had been destroyed, and they were
drinking the water out of the swamp, which was polluted. Many were
getting sick. Their people had put them on boats and brought them out
here in the middle of the night.
200 Gray Boar delayed his attack long enough to remove this wretched
humanity, then pressed on. it was four weeks before the city finally
fell, only a few hundred ragged, sick and half-starved enemy
surrendered. But in Mu it was over. Never again would The Oneness ever
push through the mountains and enter that Land again.
201 Gray Boar was weary but he withdrew as much of his forces as he
could, traveled north through Tr, The Holy Land, Zo, and came south.
Here, things would not be so easy. For one thing, the enemy had a
considerable navy that virtually ruled the Southern Lakes.
202 But a canal had been built between the southern and the northern
lake big enough to handle heavy warships so Gray Boar brought down
everything he had. He was not a seaman himself , and asked who the best
in the area was. Everyone told him Spitting Serpent from Fin was the
best they had. So Gray Boar told him, "Take everything you've got, go
down and blow the enemy out of the water. I don't want one thing of his
afloat by the end of the week!"
203 ''They outnumber us, two to one," remarked Spitting Serpent, "and
they've got a couple of ships that are bigger than anything we've got.
But if you say do it, I will. Our torpedo planes and bombers will help.
We have the edge in the air, and our submarines are better than
anything they have."
204 He sailed south and two days later the enemy came out to meet them.
Off Repentance the two fleets fought, for four days! Finally, the enemy
tried to withdraw, two-thirds of his forces gone. But Spitting Serpent
pursued