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Region: The Hole To Hide In
RP: The First Etrian-Liaoxianese War (II)
Long Wang was forced to concede to the fact that initially, his forces were at a disadvantage. Admittedly, he expected resistance to initially be bitter, but the sheer determination of the locals and preparation of the enemy forces had worried him. Furthermore, the sheer presence of enemy artillery was enough to have him asked about his exact strategy. As it stood, the soldiers were equipped with enough anti-tank weaponry, but he still needed to position artillery somewhere, so he ordered 80 percent of the cannons to be moved into the captured highlands out west, and the 20 percent to combat the intense shelling in the jungles. Long Wang would authorize the use of incendiary shells to be fired from the highlands into high concentrations of enemy forces. Among them would be dozens of anti tank cannons for later use.
The clashing on the homefront would be relatively intense. Upon the prospect of being shelled, the 3rd and 4th divisions pull back in an attempt to lure the enemy into a killzone where they would be in range of Liaoxinese artillery opposite of the border. Rebels in 'occupied' villages would be killed, and the very few that decided to join up would be armed and pulled back with the retreating armies.
In the air, 50 divebombers supported by 15 fighters and 3 bombers would be sent to the skies. Albeit primitive WW2-era craft, they'd fly along the coasts, supported by a horde of about 100 weaponized civilian fishing boats (some armed with naval infantry, others rudimentary mortars, others full artillery cannons), 5 destroyers, and 5 submarines would be sent down the coast in an attempt to relieve the 4th Division from the pressures of Army Group East by striking what is considered to be the largest harbor within a reasonable distance of their border.
Even though the quality of some of the wooden boats and their nailed down mortars/machineguns and crude torpedo launchers was laughable, Long Wang knew that by using sheer numerical superiority, they might have a shot at temporarily incapacitating the lefternmost units of Army Group East.