The fortress was by now means important enough to house specific information like that but it did have one scroll that could be useful for Yun. Every base of the fire nation had the fire nation's army record proudly on display. On the scroll it could be seen that the battle in which his uncle was captured was won by general....Jia Zhang.
''You rotten traitor!'' Jin had screamed while being dragged off to his doom. Full blown army training was hard enough for any 13 year old boy but Jin wasn't doing himself any favors. His tendency to complain and whine were a terrible combination with a drillmaster.
'WHAT DID YOU SAY WORM! 50 LAPS! AS A START!'' The old commander roared when Jin whined his muscles felt sore after his third round of push ups.
''Aaaaaah! yes sir! sir!'' The boy peeped terrified and started running.
An hour later an utterly exhausted Jin was allowed a break of....two minutes. Jin now played his part masterfully, endearing himself to the drill master...somewhat by offering to clean the weapons in the storage room so he could get to the charges and then get the hell away from that idiot drillmaster!
It took a while but eventually Ran had rested enough to be useful again. His first look outside made him curse himself. In his absence the battle had taken quite a dire turn.
Their troops had managed to burn the pirate fleet but the siege on land was going poor indeed. Things had gone well for a while but once the captain emerged from his base the tide turned.
With a single punch on the ground the giant unleashed earthquake after earthquake upon the fire nation troops and even the sand was his to control in order to harass his enemies. Genji and Lee engaged him just to give the army a break from his attacks but it was an uneven fight. The iron gauntlets were touch enough to block Lee's sword and should he not be able to block with that then that massive body could handle quite a few cuts. Genji had it even worse. The captain just kept going despite her lightning bolts. Lightning was a dangerous weapon because it could instantly kill or at least incapacitate an enemy in one hit but it also greatly taxed its user. Genji was exhausted while her enemy didn't seem any worse for wear.
''...I have an idea'' Ran turned to his sister ''Do you recall that...thing father commissioned for me? Its not done yet but...I should be able to get some use out of it, follow me sister'' For once Ran gave orders without hesitation, it was about his and his father pet project after all.
Ran natural had an edge in navy battles but drawing huge amounts of water from the ocean was far to taxing to be used efficiently....so what if something else carried that water out of the ocean, towards Ran and eventually the enemy?
Steel tubes came out of the ship, going down into the ocean, sucking up large amounts of it and storing it in a large tank. The tank in turn had two other tubes connected to it that led to two canons to fire it. Ran did not have to bring the water to him nor fire it away, that was the machines job, he just needed to gently guide the water with his bending.
''Those water benders employed by the pirates will seek to bend the water I'm about the fire at them'' Ran told Suyin as he used his bending the steer the water in the tank into the canons ''Could you snipe them for me?''
High pressured water suddenly shot out of the ships canon, right towards the island defensive fortifications and after that, the enemy troops themselves.