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On 14 December 1934, the [[Corumm]]ese Army launched an invasion of [[Pukhgundi]], one of the few "loyalist" states in the Burgoignesc eastern sphere. The invasion, launched over land, was initially very successful, with Pukhgundian and Burgoignesc forces pushed back from the border with heavy losses as of 1 January. The Corummese force outnumbered the allied forces nearly 2-to-1, requiring allied command to concede most of the country and pull back to Pukhgundi's southwestern peninsula. There, a strong line of defense combined with naval support fire stopped the advance, and Corummese forces switched over to the defensive. | On 14 December 1934, the [[Corumm]]ese Army launched an invasion of [[Pukhgundi]], one of the few "loyalist" states in the Burgoignesc eastern sphere. The invasion, launched over land, was initially very successful, with Pukhgundian and Burgoignesc forces pushed back from the border with heavy losses as of 1 January. The Corummese force outnumbered the allied forces nearly 2-to-1, requiring allied command to concede most of the country and pull back to Pukhgundi's southwestern peninsula. There, a strong line of defense combined with naval support fire stopped the advance, and Corummese forces switched over to the defensive. | ||
===Zaclaria enters the war=== | ===Zaclaria enters the war=== | ||
The formal entrance of [[Second_Great_War#Caphiria_makes_its_move|Caphiria into the war]] on 17 and 18 January 1935 necessarily invited action against [[Zaclaria]] by allied forces, although in the initial phase of the conflict the Caphirian protectorate attempted to remain neutral. The end of Caphiric neutrality allowed both the [[Navy of Burgundie]] and [[Urcea]]n [[Royal Navy (Urcea)|Royal Navy]] to begin interdicting Caphirian trade and supply to the east, seriously disrupting the flow of arms and materiel to the Nationalist Association. Many of these ships were flagged as Zaclarian, and the sudden seizure and occasional sinking of Zaclarian-flagged ships induced the country to issue several formal diplomatic objections before eventually declaring war on Urcea and Burgundie on 10 February 1935. | |||
Zaclaria entering the eastern war essentially amounted to a Caphirian eastern escalation of the conflict. Caphirian military assets stationed in Zaclaria, as well as the native [[Zaclaria#Military|Zaclarian military]] greatly expanded [[Audonia#Daria|Daria]] as a theater of conflict. Together with belligerent [[Umardwal#Modern_period|Umardwal]] which recently seized a Burgoignesc possession, the Caphiro-Zaclarian forces posed a serious threat both to Burgoignesc interests in nominally neutral [[Bulkh]] as well as the Burgoignesc islands of [[Chaukira]]. Despite Daria becoming a warzone, the entrance of Caphiria and Zaclaria into this theater became a net positive for Burgundie, as it induced Urcea to commit a significantly larger portion of the [[Royal Navy (Urcea)|Royal Navy]] to the eastern theater of the war. By late February 1935, the allies established naval supremacy in the sea lanes between east and west. The large Levantine naval presence in the east, although largely comprised of older ships, required the [[Corumm]]ese navy to end its skirmish policy, instead shifting to a policy of opportunistic engagement with select segments of the Levantine navies. | |||
===Fiannria and Urcea swap places=== | |||
Caphiria entering the war in the Occident significantly complicated Urcea's plans to reinforce Burgoignesc possessions in the east. | |||
=Peripheral Theaters= | =Peripheral Theaters= | ||