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After sixteen hours of fighting, around midnight the 5th Liberation Battalion began to withdraw slowly, leaving behind the shattered remains of the 6th Liberation Battalion to screen their retreat. On the morning of July 23rd, 8 Rifle Brigade took the airport in full. A follow-on air assault took place within the next 36 hours, and during the daylight hours on July 24th, 11 Parachute Brigade inserted onto the airfield to assist with the counter-offensive. | After sixteen hours of fighting, around midnight the 5th Liberation Battalion began to withdraw slowly, leaving behind the shattered remains of the 6th Liberation Battalion to screen their retreat. On the morning of July 23rd, 8 Rifle Brigade took the airport in full. A follow-on air assault took place within the next 36 hours, and during the daylight hours on July 24th, 11 Parachute Brigade inserted onto the airfield to assist with the counter-offensive. | ||
=== Stabilisation and Withdrawal === | === Stabilisation and Withdrawal === | ||
8 | Ma'kle Tytosh concluded that the war was lost, and fled from his compound near Iraso, to Sofrine, the Northwestern most town in Istrenya. By the fall, 8 Rifle Brigade had fought to the outskirts of Iraso, linking up with 11 Para, who themselves had fought down the length of Highway 3 (Iraso-Mogtepeni) to the South of Iraso. The two brigades conducted the final major offensive action of the war. Fighting for Iraso lasted most of September, and by September 30th elements of the Arcerion Parachute Regiment had reached the Arcer Consulate, relieving the members of the Arcerion Commando Regiment and the consular staff who had been encircled in Iraso for months. | ||
8 | In Sofrine, members of the Intelligence Directorate of the Office of Public Safety and National Security had used human sources they had cultivated within the NIPF, and had been informed that Tytosh was staying at a Plumbing Union's local headquarters. This information was quickly disseminated to the Office's HQ in Kurst, who briefed Prime Minister MacCallough, and with proper authorization the OPSNS inserted a pair of Operations Directorate teams, 'Francoise' and 'Gregory,' with orders to capture Tytosh. After liaising with local Populist sympathizers and former police officers remaining as part of an underground resistance, the teams fought an open gun battle in the streets, eventually leading to Tytosh being killed. Istrenyan National Policemen paraded the corpse through the streets, eventually nailing it to a lamppost in the town square in central Sofrine. With their leader killed and Arcer soldiers and their National Guard counterparts closing on all fronts, the remaining NIPF forces collapsed, with 8 Rifle Brigade securing Sofrine in its entirety by the last week of November. The mountain stronghold of Koungheul was the final NIPF area to surrender, with the commanding officer of 7 Rifle Brigade and the commander of the 3rd Istrenyan Division jointly accepting the formal capitulation of the 5th Liberation Battalion on December 11th, 1960. | ||
==== Arcer Embassy Closure ==== | ==== Arcer Embassy Closure ==== | ||
diplo scandal and withdraw | diplo scandal and withdraw | ||
== OPSNS Involvement == | == OPSNS Involvement == | ||
== Aftermath == | == Aftermath == | ||
[[Category:Arcerion]] | [[Category:Arcerion]] | ||