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Region: Coldonia
Bone valley
The civil war raged on, and it was far from over.
After two months of failed offensives, the People’s Liberation Army managed to reach the south-eastern entrance to the city of Boinokura, after capturing a trench near a city and pushing the enemy divisions inside the city. The communists managed to move along the border of the city, planning initially to encircle the city and cut the supply. However, this plan failed miserably, as the western suburbs of the city were defended bravely by the National-Socialist soldiers. However, the Communist divisions were disorganized and a quick action was needed before the fascist mobilized for a counter-attack. Therefore, the People’s Liberation Army started, on the 3rd of May, a bombing campaign over the city of Boinokura, using plenty of their newly manufactured cluster ammunitions. The bombing campaign lasted for days and destroyed a lot of the city, inflicting massive civilian casualties and destroying the morale of the Nationalist-Socialist troops defending the city. A railway that reached the city from the east has also been damaged, leaving the troops stationed in the city with a very poor supply line.
However, the spies of the fascists were always working. 3 weeks after the bombing campaign started, the fascist troops have started using the howitzers they had left to damage enemy artillery positions, and the mission has been mostly successful, damaging the ability of the enemy army to conduct further bombings. The battle of Boinokura has also seen the first use of the navy in the civil war, as one of the Ueshidese Navy destroyers stationed in the port city has been used to bomb a highway, passing right near the shore, that might have been used to supply the communist forces.
While the battle unfolded, the fascist generals realized that the fall of the city to the communist troops was very likely, and started to retreat equipment secretly and efficiently from the city, along with the leaders of the National State government, who intended to move the capital to the town of Toinokoa, located deep in the mountains, still very far from enemy troops. Meanwhile, the National Army started to install several booby traps and rig doors, cars, and even dead enemy bodies placed strategically with grenades and explosives, planning to inflict a large number of casualties on the enemy troops. They have also enacted a plan to evacuate civilians from the ruined city, after obtaining a two day armistice with the enemy troops, the first of this war. Among the “Siege of Boshitogutwa” plan, a poisoning of the water reserves of the city was performed by the fascist troops, as well as a plunder of the shops and food providers. The naval ships located in the port have been moved to Okiron, in order not to be captured by the Communist troops.
The actions of the People’s Liberation Army, specifically the deliberate civilian bombings and war crimes, which were, of course, censored to the main public, brought a huge hatred to the people affected, who were unlucky enough to be living near the front lines and fall victims to those actions. Furthermore, the “humanitarian operations” conducted by the National Army in Boinokura convinced many to join the army, already indoctrinated in a “holy war against communism” because of the events they have witnessed.
Fortification plan
The National State is now more vulnerable than ever, being forced to retreat from the capital after months of continuous attacks from the human wave of the People’s Liberation Army. Therefore, in a secret meeting in the National State’s leader train, the top military generals met and came up with a defensive line along the base of the Great Ueshidese Mountains in the east, which is to be fortified with modern-style trenches and land forts, in order to stop the human wave tactic used by the People’s Liberation Army. According to the military leaders of the National Army, the information they have from the spies in the Socialist Republic suggests that, after the projected fall of Boinokura, a short period of reorganization will occur, followed by an all-out-attack of the rival army, having in mind a quick and total defeat of the National State. The fortification plan is expected to be finished in a total of 2 to 3 months, and the fortifications will be crucial in preventing such a plan to be successful.
The hills of death
The war continued in the island of Okiron also, where the communist troops suffered continuous defeats for a long time, being effectively pushed back and losing territory. In a few months, the National Army managed to take over a half of the island from the communist troops. However, supplies started arriving from the North-Eastern islands into the port of Kimoshima, in the south of the island, equipping the communists for a longer fight, and a potential combat. Unaware of the maritime supply line used by the Socialist Republic across the Ueshidese Sea, the National Army generals, confident that a further push will have the potential of forcing an evacuation of the communist troops of the island, engaged in multiple offensive battles along the frontlines of the islands, losing a large number of soldiers and equipment, even being forced to retreat for several miles.
||Both sides seem to want to find a way to seal the conflict as fast as possible in their favor, but the bloodshed is far from over||
