Timbian War of Independence: Difference between revisions

The colonization of modern day [[Stenza]] started in the early 1600s, when a [[Daxia]]ese vessel captained by [[Xi Haifong]] suffered a major scurvy outbreak and decided to deviate off its course to find land. The landmass they found turned out to be [[Stenza]], and upon returning home the crew reported of their findings. [[Xi Haifong]] was employed by the [[South Seas Development Company|South Seas Trading Company]] rather than the Daxian state. The land they had discovered was deemed interesting enough and of untapped economic potential that several other expeditions were organized, and within two years a Daxian walled compound had been found in the [[Cape of Hope]] on the northwestern part of the island, named after the fact it brought hope to the ill sailors who discovered it. The Daxian called this city Xīwàng (Hope), but is now known as the regional capital Faamoemoe (Hope). The Company would gain authorization from the imperial court to further colonize and exploit the new landmass, for the greater glory of the Empire.

In the early 1900s, the guerilla threat seemed to have mostly died down for the [[Daxia]]ese. Unknown to the colonial government however, multiple guerilla bands had settled in the mountains at the current day city of Etangeni in 1901, spending multiple years training and planning a future struggle to fight their colonial oppressors. The guerilla bands grew over the years through word of mouth recruitment, until it was decided in 1906 that the struggle should begin. Armed with stolen weapons and, in some cases, tribal tools. The guerilla bands each set off in different directions, having agreed to start their fight the next spring across the country.

Apart from the previous groups, a relatively small force of regular Daxian troops operationally called the [[Xiwang Army]] was also present. The Xiwang Army was led at the start of the war by General [[Heshen Shenbao]], from who Governor Zhu received his orders, making the general the true ruler of the colony. The Xiwang Army's numbers had been dwindling since the 1890s thanks to the relative peace in the country and engagements in other parts of the Empire. With the Stenzan Security Force seeming competent enough at first, the [[Daxia]]ese government in [[Stenza]] saw no real need to maintain a large Daxian military garrison if the colonial forces could maintain security on their own. The increasingly intense guerrilla war, the hostility of much of the population and the surprisingly constant unreliability of the colonial security force would lead the metropolitan authorities to greenlight a much larger deployment of Daxian regulars to bolster the combat power of the [[Xiwang Army]]. Additionally, men from the loyalist northern districts would instead be recruited to the regular army, away from the local security force.

The immediate [[Daxia]]ese reaction to these attacks was to condemn them as outright criminal. Stenzan workers were informed by Zhu's government that anyone found aiding the guerillas would be shot without hesitation, and a witch hunt for those who helped the guerillas march across the country started. It is widely believed that this witch hunt led to the deaths of over 10,000 innocent civilians in the mountains. Conscription for the Stenzan Security Force increased, and increased Daxian forces were shipped in to both lead the increased Security Force elements and provide additional manpower to the Daxian Army in Stenza.

[[Category:Stenza]]