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The region now known as Oyashima and its fragmented states came under the gradual sway of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]]. The entire area was reorganized as the "Far East Colony". | The region now known as Oyashima and its fragmented states came under the gradual sway of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]]. The entire area was reorganized as the "Far East Colony". | ||
===Late modern era=== | ===Late modern era=== | ||
[[File:Charette.png|right|200px|Joan-Charles Maronnet rallying troops at the Battle of Kydo, 1821]] | |||
Following the abandonment of the colony in [[1817]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]] the shoguns and daimyos formed various factions and started fighting to control the territory. The Matsutorine traditionalists wanted an empire similar to those of the Toshimochi dynasty with an ethnically and culturally Matsutorine dominated government of the whole of the Kita-Hanto. The Danehonger imperial traditionalists sought a resurgence of the Ai dynasty with a dominant Danehonger court to rule over the whole expanse of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc colony]]. Oyashimi monarchists were looking to create an ethnically Oyashimi micro-state with a monarchy at its head, not inclusive of the Matsutorine or Danehonger lands or people. The Matsutorine modernists sought to maintain strong connections with [[Burgundie]] and to the [[Occidental world]]. They included 6 regiments of the army and a squadron of the navy with majority of the ships for the colony. | Following the abandonment of the colony in [[1817]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]] the shoguns and daimyos formed various factions and started fighting to control the territory. The Matsutorine traditionalists wanted an empire similar to those of the Toshimochi dynasty with an ethnically and culturally Matsutorine dominated government of the whole of the Kita-Hanto. The Danehonger imperial traditionalists sought a resurgence of the Ai dynasty with a dominant Danehonger court to rule over the whole expanse of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc colony]]. Oyashimi monarchists were looking to create an ethnically Oyashimi micro-state with a monarchy at its head, not inclusive of the Matsutorine or Danehonger lands or people. The Matsutorine modernists sought to maintain strong connections with [[Burgundie]] and to the [[Occidental world]]. They included 6 regiments of the army and a squadron of the navy with majority of the ships for the colony. | ||
Feeling that their role as arbitrator of state power was going to be taken advantage of by the ever changing claimants on sole power the modernists in the military broke from the “state” and fortified the colonial capital forming the Soldier’s Republic of Harimoto, in [[1818]]. They expelled the various other factions and set up check-points into the city. In March, [[1819]] the Siege of Harimoto was laid by the Matsutori traditionalist forces. Lacking firearms and mostly consisting of peasant levies the siege was broken in a few weeks as the long range guns from the ships were brought to the city’s walls and pounded the undisciplined levy camps. They scattered and the remaining core of trained samurai had no means of breaching the walls. They fell back 20 kilometers and hoped to draw the republicans into open battle. An emissary was sent to invite the “cowardly westerners” to the field of battle. They ignored the request and set about creating a foreign mission to garner support. Their republican sentiments fell on deaf ears strongly entrenched in monarchism, but they did return with some [[Burgoignesc Grand Crona Trading Company]] troops and canons who hoped to further disrupt the monopoly of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]] in [[Alshar]]. The troops were led by Joan-Charles Marronet, a [[Burgoignesc|Burgoignesc]] captain of the 3rd Colonial Artillery Battery of the 5th Grand Crona Artillery Regiment. Joan-Charles set about training the army in combined warfare with the effective use of cavalry, line infantry (mixed musketeers and halbrediers), artillery, logistics trains. The following June, [[1820]], he led an expedition of two infantry regiments, a squadron of horse archers, a squadron of lancers, and a battery of artillery. They stuck to the rivers as they were followed by a train of barges. They made 60 kilometers a day until they reached the end of the river system and then had to switch to pack horses. They travelled for another three weeks until they met the traditionalists at their capital of Kydo. The palisaded city was guarded by its garrison of 2,000 soldiers plus an additional force of 250 samurai and 8,000 levy troops. Marronet’s troops set up camp about 4 kilometers from the city along its main road. They built up a [[Latinic]] earthen fort and entrenched their canons. Over the next week the traditionalist forces probed Marronet’s camp and attempted to disrupt the supply chain. On [[May]] 5th, [[1821]] Marronet’s decided to attack. His cannons fired heated cannonballs through the palisades and set the wooden buildings on fire. Under cover of the cannon fire the horse archers swarmed the distracted levy troops. They scattered as predicted but caught against the flood of city residents streaming out of the burning city. The lancers, close on the heels of the archers, plunged deep into the panicked crowd. Stabbing and crushing hundreds of the levy troops and the city’s fleeing masses the cavalry turned the field into a slaughterhouse. | Feeling that their role as arbitrator of state power was going to be taken advantage of by the ever changing claimants on sole power the modernists in the military broke from the “state” and fortified the colonial capital forming the Soldier’s Republic of Harimoto, in [[1818]]. They expelled the various other factions and set up check-points into the city. In March, [[1819]] the Siege of Harimoto was laid by the Matsutori traditionalist forces. Lacking firearms and mostly consisting of peasant levies the siege was broken in a few weeks as the long range guns from the ships were brought to the city’s walls and pounded the undisciplined levy camps. They scattered and the remaining core of trained samurai had no means of breaching the walls. They fell back 20 kilometers and hoped to draw the republicans into open battle. An emissary was sent to invite the “cowardly westerners” to the field of battle. They ignored the request and set about creating a foreign mission to garner support. | ||
Their republican sentiments fell on deaf ears strongly entrenched in monarchism, but they did return with some [[Burgoignesc Grand Crona Trading Company]] troops and canons who hoped to further disrupt the monopoly of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]] in [[Alshar]]. The troops were led by Joan-Charles Marronet, a [[Burgoignesc|Burgoignesc]] captain of the 3rd Colonial Artillery Battery of the 5th Grand Crona Artillery Regiment. Joan-Charles set about training the army in combined warfare with the effective use of cavalry, line infantry (mixed musketeers and halbrediers), artillery, logistics trains. The following June, [[1820]], he led an expedition of two infantry regiments, a squadron of horse archers, a squadron of lancers, and a battery of artillery. They stuck to the rivers as they were followed by a train of barges. They made 60 kilometers a day until they reached the end of the river system and then had to switch to pack horses. They travelled for another three weeks until they met the traditionalists at their capital of Kydo. The palisaded city was guarded by its garrison of 2,000 soldiers plus an additional force of 250 samurai and 8,000 levy troops. Marronet’s troops set up camp about 4 kilometers from the city along its main road. They built up a [[Latinic]] earthen fort and entrenched their canons. Over the next week the traditionalist forces probed Marronet’s camp and attempted to disrupt the supply chain. On [[May]] 5th, [[1821]] Marronet’s decided to attack. His cannons fired heated cannonballs through the palisades and set the wooden buildings on fire. Under cover of the cannon fire the horse archers swarmed the distracted levy troops. They scattered as predicted but caught against the flood of city residents streaming out of the burning city. The lancers, close on the heels of the archers, plunged deep into the panicked crowd. Stabbing and crushing hundreds of the levy troops and the city’s fleeing masses the cavalry turned the field into a slaughterhouse. | |||
As the cannons quieted, the infantry advanced over the broken ground. Their slow approach made them easy pickings for the wall archers who stalwartly stood in defense as the city burned behind them. Pushing forward nonetheless, the infantry, under the personal command of Marronet, reached the splintered walls and the musketeers opened fire on the remaining defenders. After the first volley the halberdiers charged through the holes. Many were spooked when they reached the far side of the walls and found themselves face to face with an inferno. Many tried to fall back but were blocked by those behind them. Seeing the infantry bunch up Marronet assumed the halberdiers had come in contact with defenders. He withdrew a large portion of the musketeers and sent them to support the cavalry mopping up the levies. Many of the halberdiers caught in the crush were burned alive and the remainder were unable to capture the city’s battlements. By days end the city was practically undefended but Marronet was not the victor. He withdrew his troops to their base and learned of his fatal decision at the walls. He and his commanders decided to wait until the city had burned out and then to attempt to make an entrance. After another week of waiting he proposed to the officers to make another attempt. His combined arms tactics had lost credibility with the men so the attack would be just the infantry, unsupported by artillery or cavalry. The troops marched out again across the broken ground. | As the cannons quieted, the infantry advanced over the broken ground. Their slow approach made them easy pickings for the wall archers who stalwartly stood in defense as the city burned behind them. Pushing forward nonetheless, the infantry, under the personal command of Marronet, reached the splintered walls and the musketeers opened fire on the remaining defenders. After the first volley the halberdiers charged through the holes. Many were spooked when they reached the far side of the walls and found themselves face to face with an inferno. Many tried to fall back but were blocked by those behind them. Seeing the infantry bunch up Marronet assumed the halberdiers had come in contact with defenders. He withdrew a large portion of the musketeers and sent them to support the cavalry mopping up the levies. Many of the halberdiers caught in the crush were burned alive and the remainder were unable to capture the city’s battlements. By days end the city was practically undefended but Marronet was not the victor. He withdrew his troops to their base and learned of his fatal decision at the walls. He and his commanders decided to wait until the city had burned out and then to attempt to make an entrance. After another week of waiting he proposed to the officers to make another attempt. His combined arms tactics had lost credibility with the men so the attack would be just the infantry, unsupported by artillery or cavalry. The troops marched out again across the broken ground. | ||
Having been given a week to reorganize the traditionalist forces sent a swarm of cavalry troops to attack the slow moving infantry column. The halberdiers made a valiant effort, forming a tight square around the musketeers but the sheer number of cavalry overwhelmed them. By the time Marronet, who was with the infantry in the field, was able to signal to release his own cavalry, it was too late. The infantry square was crushed and Maronnet was stabbed in the left arm and his right leg was crushed under a horse hoof. The traditionalist cavalry returned to the city celebrating their total victory. The surviving infantry men and the wounded were brought back to the republican’s fort. Maronnet suffered the amputation of his whole left arm and the right leg below the knee. After coming too from his shock-coma, he ordered, in the following order: Kiravian whisky, his saddle be retrofitted to address his new condition, and that a combined attack be made to secure the city while the traditionalists were celebrating their victory. After a liberal application of the whisky, he was carried up to the ramparts to watch as his forces worked together in perfect unison to flush the celebrating enemy from the city and to take the walls. | Having been given a week to reorganize the traditionalist forces sent a swarm of cavalry troops to attack the slow moving infantry column. The halberdiers made a valiant effort, forming a tight square around the musketeers but the sheer number of cavalry overwhelmed them. By the time Marronet, who was with the infantry in the field, was able to signal to release his own cavalry, it was too late. The infantry square was crushed and Maronnet was stabbed in the left arm and his right leg was crushed under a horse hoof. The traditionalist cavalry returned to the city celebrating their total victory. The surviving infantry men and the wounded were brought back to the republican’s fort. Maronnet suffered the amputation of his whole left arm and the right leg below the knee. After coming too from his shock-coma, he ordered, in the following order: Kiravian whisky, his saddle be retrofitted to address his new condition, and that a combined attack be made to secure the city while the traditionalists were celebrating their victory. After a liberal application of the whisky, he was carried up to the ramparts to watch as his forces worked together in perfect unison to flush the celebrating enemy from the city and to take the walls. | ||