Alpachnee War: Difference between revisions

''Daxiaese-Kiravian victory''

Like many native Cronite states, the [[Alpachnee Confederation]], which occupied much of northwestern [[Crona]], was a {{wp|weak state}} that had long struggled to balance the competing interests of its many different resident ethnic groups, develop strong political institutions, or sustain reliable economic growth. As the states around the confederation were dismantled and replaced with colonial rumps, Alpachnee elites at first adopted a conciliatory tone to avoid the same fate. However these attempts were rebuffed, with the confederation's territory already being divvied up in secret talks between [[Kiravia]] and [[Daxia]]. Alpachnee's entry into the [[Nysdra Sea Treaty Association|NSTA]] was torpedoed by [[Daxia]]ese diplomacy to prevent it from invoking the organization's mutual defense clause. Alpachnee's diplomatic attempts to gain international attention of its plight at the [[League of Nations]] went mostly ignored, with Daxiaese representative [[Shang Tsung]] mockingly calling them 'the last pathetic mewling of a terrorist state'. On the 15th of September the Daxiaese announced a blockade of Alpachnee's western coast ostensibly to combat drug and weapons smuggling. Three days later the Kiravians did the same on the eastern coast.

Open hostilities broke on October 31st 2020 with [[Daxia]]ese forces striking several Alpachnee military sites with unmanned drones and artillery attacks on border posts. A few hours later Daxiaese units of the [[Army of Conquest]] and auxiliary forces from [[Chimoche]] began a wholescale offensive into Alpachnee; dubbed '''Operation Spring Clean'''.  

==Daxiaese operations==

Daxiaese forces faced only weak resistance on its advance on the regional capital as the majority of local forces retreated into Tarum and made it the lynchpin of Alpachnee's southwest defense. Alpachnee reinforcements streaming south from Umuto ballooned the city's defenders to around 10,000. Crucially for the defense, Alpachnee had in its posession very few anti air systems, mostly older Pelaxian models. During the siege these would prove completely unable to shoot down Daxiaese drones which picked apart artillery emplacements, troop convoys and strategically important buildings. By November 6th Daxiaese forces had broken through defensive lines east and west of the city and were close to encircling it. Only the highway north to the city of Umuto remained open and was the defender's last line of communication and supply with the rest of Alpachnee controlled territory. By november 7th the Tarum-Umuto highway was within range of Daxiaese artillery. An Alpachnee counterattack managed to recover five villages east of the highway before being repelled back. On November 8th and under LoN auspices, Daxiaese and Alpachnee commanders agreed to set up a humanitarian corridor to allow Tarum's remaining defenders to leave the city while abandoning all of their ammunition, vehicles and heavy weaponry.