The Battle For Valley OB

In the first wave of 9 surprise attacks by the Banana Army at the beginning of Shroom War I, the one on The Valley Operating Base proved to be the most effective and the biggest loss by the Mushroom Kingdom. Valley was a large Mushroom Army base used to house the second largest weapons cache in the kingdom and dozens of jets, helicopters, tanks, and gunships. It was located in the center of the south border of The Mushroom Kingdom. The initial attack was led by Colonel Thomas Brigade of The Banana Army, commanding around 9,630 soldiers from his 77th Banana Core. The attack was a complete surprise to the soldiers at Valley, not leaving them with enough time to fuel up their vehicles in time for defense. The Valley soldiers were quickly overrun within the hour, with multiple small groups of holdouts, staying hidden in the base until they were hunted down by Colonel Brigade's men. In the following week Brigade had his soldiers erect 17 foot concrete walls around the base. Valley was used as the main source of Banana soldiers entering the Kingdom. On M4/D22/346PE, 9 months after Colonel Brigade settled into Valley, Commander Antos was instructed to lead the 46th Attack Battalion to take back the base. Antos demanded the Colonel return control of the base to The Mushroom Army to no compliance. Antos created a blockade around the base waiting for them to run out of Food, Water, and other necessities. With their high count of 7,370 soldiers food quickly became scarce. After 67 days and 67 nights and dozens of failed attempts to break the blockade, on M6/D29/346PE Colonel Brigade surrendered himself and his soldiers to prevent anymore from dying of starvation or attempting to break the blockade. Brigade and his soldiers were taken as POWs until their release at the end of the war a half months later. The loss of Valley stopped 70% of the Banana soldiers entering The Mushroom Kingdom, and being one of the main causes for the Bananas losing the war.