Anglo-Russian War (DM/Private)

[Great Hyruke]

January 25, 2047

War with the nation of Russlande was not unexpected, Queen Caroline had been waiting for such a chance to show off her Anglo Armies and seek revenge on Russlande, who the nation of Great Hyruke blamed for the Greek War months earlier. However Queen Caroline did not want to cause a large and bloody war, but instead win quietly and with as little death as possible. She choose to limit the number of troops she use to only 45,000. She had already mobilize 15,000 land troops and 80 ships, 50 destroyers, 10 hospital ships, 2 patrol ships and 8 aircraft carriers and 10 submarines and put them under the command of Admiral Nelson II, descendant of the famous British Admiral Nelson.

Hyruke Entente

Great Hyruke
Rhine-East Berlin
Communist Espana

Russlandian Alliance

Russlande

Rules
1.No Godmodding
2. Me and Russlande are co-ops
3. No metagaming
4. No more than 80,000 troops

[Russlande]

January 25, 2047
Saint Petersburg, Russlande

Tsarina Alara, Empress of Russlande had sent her nation in battle many times in the last 33 years of her reign, into various wars, the Mervelliuex War, the Polonge Revolution, Great Motherland War, Nine Year War, Genoese Wars and the Balkan War and Greek War, but never had she ever faced such a formal enemy as Queen Caroline's Empire.

Tsarina Alara had always been wary of Great Hyruke, seeing the nation as one that was free to do what they wish. While the Empress of Russlande's husband, King-Emperor Christopher II may dominate the mainland of Europe, but Great Hyruke was disconnected, always hard to keep in line. After the Greek War Alara would have thought that Queen Caroline would not want to challenge anyone, but she guess that she was wrong and with Espana joining the Anglo Empire, it was even more of a threat to the balance of power.

Tsarina Alara, in her office in Saint Petersburg, appointed General Fervini as Commander of the White Army for the Anglo-Russian War and Admiral Senyeni as Supreme Commander. The White Navy had become very powerful in the last decade, success from the Balkan and Greek War had done so. Admiral Senyeni was sent to meet with Queen Caroline's Royal Navy outside of Kophengan to keep them out of the Baltic Sea and cripple them as much as they could. Senyeni bowed and headed downstairs to go outside.

It was a bad time for the beginning of a naval war, it was still the dead of winter and Saint Petersburg's canals and harbors were frozen, so Senyeni's Flag Ship and naval fleet was south in Liepaja, a city that was 450 miles southwest of Saint Petersburg, 8 hours away by train in the snow. The Admiral would have to move quickly, so before leaving ordered 15 ships to go ahead and head west towards Kophengan.

[Great Hyruke]

January 25, 2047

Admiral Nelson II sailed his navy as fast as he could east ward to the Deritain city of Kophengan to reach the Baltic Sea. The Queen of the Anglo-Irish Empire believed that access to the Baltic was "vitally important to Great Hyruke" for trade as well as a major source of necessary raw materials for building and maintaining warships, and that it gave the Royal Navy access to help Great Hyrukes's allies of Rhine-East Berlin and Mecklenburg-Stertiz, a small kingdom under King George I's rule and where the main source of troops where being station as it was ver close to Russlande, even at 500 miles away. With the winter air and water being freezing, it would take a day to reach Kophengan, 20 hours at top speed however and Nelson choose to do that.

[Russlande]

January 26, 2047
3 miles Outside of Kopenhagen

The White Navy arrived outside the city of Kopehgagen under command of Commander Mervonlinikov. Mervonlinikov was in command as Admiral Senyeni was still in Liepaja, delayed by snow and ice on the train tracks. Instead he would now arrive hopefully within the next two days, as long as he was not continued to be delayed. Commander Mervonlinikov ordered his sailors to get ready for an attack while the fleet continued north to meet the Royal Navy.

[Great Hyruke]

January 26, 2047

The Royal Navy arrived on the northern side of Kopenhagen, aware of the advancing White Navy. The fleet used frigates, to keep a constant watch on the harbour, while the main force remained out of sight north west of the main island of Kopenhagen. Admiral Nelson II's hope was to lure the White Naval force out and engage them in a "pell-mell battle". The force watching the harbour was led by Captain Blacken, commanding HMS Eura. He was brought up to a strength of seventeen ships.

At this point, Lord Nelson II's fleet badly needed provisioning. On the 26th day of the year, 20 ships, lead by HMS Victorious and HMS Tigre, and the frigate HMS Queen were dispatched to Gilleleje under Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Lannyerd to prepare for a massive attack. Meanwhile Admiral Albert III, a cousin of King George I, orders 25 ships to the straits of Stege. Captain Ferson sends a small 7 ship group sneaked south to Nakskov to reach Mecklenburg-Stretiz to pick up the waiting army. These ships were later convoy duty in the Mecklenburg, although Lord Nelson expected them to return. Other Royal Navy ships continued to arrive, and by the next day the fleet was expected to be up to full strength for the battle.

[Russlande]

January 26, 2046
The Sound, Derita Waters

The Russlandain batteries started firing at 1:05 pm, the first half of the White Naval fleet were engaged in about half an hour, and the battle was general by 2:30 am. Once the line was in place there was to be very little manoeuvring. The ships were to attack the Royal Navy from off the coast of Kopenhagen, the city giant in the distance, the line of Russlandain ships and batteries, which was relatively long range, and the two exchanged broadsides until a ship ceased firing. The Royal Navy would encountered heavy resistance, partly because they had not spotted the low-lying floating batteries, and partly because of the courage with which the Russlandain fought. The northern Russlandain ships, coming from Liepaja which were rigged and manned, were ordered by the delayed Admiral Senyeni not to enter the battle but to instead remain on station as reserve units.

[Great Hyruke]

January 27, 2047

The battle raged on for hours, it had been going on for 12 hours when Lord Nelson II was informed, after being woken up in his ship, the HMS Victorious on the arrival of Admiral Albert III arriving at the city of Kap Arkona. As the Royal Navy retreats from the front lines of the naval battle back north to Gilleleje, however, Lord Nelson II orders a bombardment of the Sound, to attack everything that moves and stresses the importance of capturing the straits of Kopenhagen and so at 2:50 in the morning the Royal Navy's batteries fired skyward, bombs bursting as they arched downward into The Sound and the White Navy below as well as the countryside of the island itself.

[Russlande]

February 3, 2047
11 miles south of Kopenhagen

The Battle of Kopenhagen was finally over as Admiral Senyeni retreated from the wreckage. The naval battle had taken ten days and had destroyed 20 of the White Army ships, several innocent Deritain buildings and a bridge that Admiral Senyeni had ordered destroyed , blocking the watersways save The Sound which was now under blockade. The Empress of Russlande saw this as a huge success for the war effort and hoped that Hyruke's Royal Navy would go running back home.

[Great Hyruke]

February 3, 2047

The Anglo invasion had finally started on the Russlandain puppet nation of Sweden, when covert supply vessels began to head out in advance of the main force. The Admiral and Queen of Great Hyruke initiated their plans at 7:34 in the morning, with sixteen submarines ordered to the Getinge and Lund to serve as a screen and advance warning for a Russlandain response to Operation First Snow, which was launched when Admiral Albert III in HMS Remember set out from Kap Arkona for the city of Malm with twelve destroyers.

At 8:41, bad weather began to develop in the region, blanketing the area with a thick fog and causing rough seas making travel difficult. HMS Remember‍ '​s force soon got caught in a heavy snowstorm, and HMS Lordson, one of the destroyer escorts, had to drop out of formation to search for a man swept overboard. The weather aided the Anglo-Irish Forces along with Provites, providing a screen for their forces, and in the early morning they sent out Gruppe 1 and Gruppe 2, who had the largest distance to travel.

Though the weather did make it hard to see, the winds and waters sped up the pace of the invasion force. The Entente's force were massive. boasting 300,000 troops, 80,000 Anglo-Irish troops, 80,000 Spanish soldiers from Queen Caroline's new nation of Espana and 60,000 Provite troops. There were 3,000 tanks fitted for travel in deep snow along with 500 pieces of massive large artillery.

[Russlande]

February 16, 2047
Stockholm, Sweden

Work by Russo-Swedish engineers to construct field defences around Stockholm had gone on since the beginning of the war and positions between the forts had been built, inundations formed and the foreground cleared of obstructions. The clearances proved unwise, since they made the forts visible, trenches could only be dug 5-foot deep, because of the high water-table and had no overhead cover. During the Anglo Entente advance to Malmo, most of the Russo-Swedish army occupied the 4th Sector between the 3rd Sector and the city of Gotenbburg, only light forces held the 3rd Sector and the 4th Division held the sector around Boras. The 1st and 2nd divisions were sent to the 3rd Sector and the 5th Division took up reserve positions behind them.

The Russo-Swedish army made a first sortie from Stockholm to help The White Army's troops engaged in fighting at the Oruste and at the Hova Canal. The operation was intended to distract the III Reserve and IX Reserve corps observing Stockholm and to cut German communications through Goteburg and Jonkoping. After reconnaissance on 14 February, four divisions advanced southwards from Jonkoping the next day, leaving one division of infantry and the Cavalry Division of tanks in reserve. The sortie was halted on 16 February, after receiving news of the withdrawal of the White Army from the Hova Canal south towards Kalman to curve north back to Stockholm and that General Joseph Geoffre, commander of the Russo-Swedish army, did not intend to attack immediately and the forces returned to Stockholm.

[Great Hyruke]

On the night of the sixteenth of February, The advancing Anglo Entente was becoming tired from the mass about of twists and turns of the Russo-Swedish Army and the winter storms of the region. General Wellesley, Infante of Espana through marriage but Anglo-Irish by birth personally lead the Entente Armies north from Goteburg and along the western coast of Sweden. After retreating from the Hova Canal, General Wellesley III decided that it would be foolish to move the Entente Armies across the centre of the country and instead loop north around Lake Torso to the city of Karlstad. The Entente Armies, now at 280,000 troops travelled in caravan style of trucks and jeeps made for the icy Swedish roads. Artillery was dragged behind them on special made sleighs. They brought with them tanks and carrier trucks of cows, goats and chickens along with coolers of canned beans, peas and fruit. Men who were tasked with outside patrol wore thick gray uniforms with gray fur coats and helmets. They placed down metal planks over areas where the tanks and cars and trucks would have difficulty moving over the motorways.

General Wellesley III and the head officers of the Entente Armies, including General Guy Pierre-Charles, a mastermind general borrowed from the Imperial Army of Derita and General Sir Gregory Tess from Ireland road in a special war train that travelled along side the main motorway and the jagged western coast of Sweden. General Pierre-Charles had joined in the Entente Armies after the 10-day battle of Kopenhagen, nearly a month earlier. General Wellesley III dined in the war trains dining car as it moved 50 miles per hour, hundreds of feet about the many fords and minor inlets of the Skagerrek Inlet, only miles behind the main force of the Entente Armies. General Tess while dining with the Supreme Commander spoke up on an update.

General Tess:
Sire, The men, they are complaining of the conditions of this campaign. It is most undesirable.

Wellesley III:
Oh, are they? Tell me, what has caught their concern General?

General Tess:
Well, Sire, The weather is becoming worse and worse. While in Kopenhagen and in Norway the weather was only cold and mildly snowy, We predict that not one but two massive snow storms heading northward. By the time we reach Stockholm, that is if our men do not freeze to death along the way, the city will be eight feet under snow.

Wellesley III:
Gentlemen, I expect us you be flying the Queen's Flag over Stockholm by the first of March. In the meantime we will be allowed a two day rest in Karlstad, then on eastward.

General Tess:
Yes Sire.

The Entente Armies would likely arrive in Karlstad by mid day on the seventeenth and hopeful it would be easy to take, but if not then the city was to be bombed by an airship.

[Russlande]

February 18, 2047
Stockholm, Sweden

After the end of the first sortie, the Russo-Swedish field army joined the fortress troops in improving the defences between the forts, while the White Navy moved into position from Liepaja. Troops were made to circle around the city on both the northern and southern sides of the lakes around the area and preparing for the stronger storms heading their way. Admiral Senyeni wanted the ships to be position to fire onto the Entente Armies once they arrive outside the city.

[Great Hyruke]

February 18, 2047

After resting in Karlstad, the Entente Armies continued to move eastward and at Orebeo was rewarded with supplies being dropped by Anglo-Irish air support. The Entente Armies reached the city of Marsta, north of the city of Stockholm and General Wellesley III choose to have this place as his base against the forces in Stockholm. Marsta was located on the edge of a slope and covered in snow. The Supreme Commander choose the city due to the airport located there.

General Tess ordered an bombardment to commence against Stockholm via airship and long range artillery. The bombardment began at 12:12 in the afternoon, with Anglo-Irish siege guns directed by observation balloons on gun emplacements, flanking positions and magazines, which were the most vital parts of the forts, had begun by 6:00 p.m.

[Russlande]

February 19, 2047
Stockholm, Sweden.

There was no sunrise, there was no brake of dawn. No, only the overwhelming gray sky of snow over the forts around Stockholm. The flat multi island city was unrecognizable with snow banks made 12 feet high and wooden and stone forts ringing the city. There a total of eight forts located around Stockholm with 9,000 troops at each one.

The largest fort and farthest one from Stockholm was Fort Enkoping on the northern side of Lake Malaren. Ft. Enkoping rose unchallenged over the landscape 50 feet tall. It was made of stone slaps moved from Finland. It was shaped like two overlapping pentagons and edge side lined with anti-aircraft guns and artillery. Surrounded by the icy flat fields, it would be near impossible to past by without being destroyed by the artillery. Ft. Enkoping was 43 miles southeast was Stockholm.

The next fort on the North Curve Line was Fort Balsta, 30 feet tall and located next to the shore of Lake Malaren, it was very close to the city of Marsta and 27 miles north of Stockholm, and was in turn was suffering the worse of the bombardments from the Entente Armies. The fort returned fire, the heavy artillery moved in line outside of the fort, half covered in the snow, launching 2 ton shells northwards in hopes of hitting the forces staked against the Russo-Swedish Army.

The next two forts on the northern side of the city were Fort Bro and Fort Upplands-Vasby which were separated by a inlet of the massive nearby lake. Around both forts were surrounded by trenches and mines to protect the two dismantled roads leading towards Stockholm, Bro protected the northwestern road and Uppsland-Vasby protected the mine covered north-to-south road.

[Great Hyruke]

February 19, 2047

General Wellesley III ordered the Entente attack began on forts Bro, Balsta by the 5th Reserve and Marine divisions. By 11:00 a.m. Fort Balsta was to hit hard to be severely damaged, and Stockholm was attacked with dozens 20-inch shells, and the Enkoping and Bro redoubts were mostly intact and the intervening ground between Fort Enkoping and Fort Bro redoubt had been captured. the city with in range of the Anglo-Irish super-heavy artillery. General Tess sent proclamations warning the inhabitants that The Russian admiral and his Russo-Swedish Army should leave Stockholm or the city would be left off the map, permantly, were dropped of Stockholm during the day. No attempt was made by the Entente Armies to pursue during the retirements, despite the inundations on the south bank of the Malaren Lake being only several hundred feet wide and patrols reported that no attempt had been made to cut the line of retreat from Stockholm, the Southern Curve Line was to be left unattacked.

[Russlande]

February 19, 2047
Northern Curve Line, North of Stockholm

The area the Southern Curve Line redoubt was evacuated at 3:15 after the garrison of Fort Bro ran out of ammunition and those in the SCL was transported north across Stockholm to reinforce Fort Bro. With the Entente Armies artillery-fire aimed mainly on Fort Balsta on the flank of the break-in and the Northern Curve Line, Admiral Senyeni moved troops north to defend. Then he ordered a plan to reinforce the area between forts Enkoping and Bro, at 4:00 the White Marine Brigade arrived opposite Lonking in requisitioned heavy truck buses and occupied a position around the northern fringe of Lonking, which turned out to be sections of a shallow trench between hedgerows, with one strand of wire in front. Some skirmishing took place in the town and the position was bombarded by the Entente's artillery, against which the Russlandains had no reply except from an continued landing from across the Malaren.

[Great Hyruke]

February 20, 2047

At dawn , General Wellesley III and General Tess had two Anglo-Provite battalions of Reserve Infantry Regiment 26 crossed the Arlandra Inlet at Anderstad farm, 1-mile below Lonking, under cover of enfilade fire from the outskirts of Lonking, using a trestle bridge built in a creek nearby, braving the deadly freezing water. The crossing-point was screened from view by high snow banks and the two battalions were able to hold the river bank until midday when two more battalions crossed the creek and the inlet. Attacks at Lonking had taken the town up to the line of the Ferstad Arlandra and on the flank had reached the line of the inundations. Anglo-Spanish heavy artillery commenced a bombardment of fort Bro the south.

General Wellesley III was disappointed to be informed by Sir Tess that the Russo-Swedish Army had refused to surrender the city of Stockholm and several of their war airships had been destroyed over the Malaren. General Pierre-Charles ordered that the heavy artillery from Karlstad move forward to help the siege.

On the southern flank at Fort Upplands-Vasby south of the bases at Marsta, 28 miles north of Stockholm, Anderson Brigade 33 was reinforced by Reserve Earlshire Brigade 5 and attempted to cross the snowy fields ahead of the fort from 1:15 to 2:55 at Senbberg, Dendeping and Baasrodet, 3 miles downstream but were repulsed. By the afternoon of February 20th, the 3rd and 6th divisions still held ground in front of the outer forts, between fort Bro and the massive Enkoping to the north-west of Stockholm and around to the west but in the south and south-east the Anglo-Irish attack had reached a line within 15–16 miles of the city, which would be in range of the Entente Armies' heavy canon guns as soon as they were brought across the Arlandra. The 6th Division was moved through Taby to reinforce the 4th Division and the armoured Tank Division, which was guarding the escape corridor to the east.

In the city of Motala Two Anglo-Irish naval brigades had arrived early on the 20th to reinforce the Marine Brigade but were diverted to move north through the icy canals to attack forts 5–8 of the southern inner ring, where the trenches were again found to be shallow and the ground cleared for 500 yards by the dreadful snow and smooth ice in front which made them easily visible to artillery observers of the SCL forts. Admiral Albert III planned to reach the Baltic Sea, following Wellesley's orders and curve north to attack the Southern Curve Line in hopes of separating the Russlandain's forces. But the canals between Motala and the sea had to be cleared of three foot thick ice first.

[North Timeria]

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[Russlande]

February 21, 2047
Stockholm, Sweden

Intervening trenches between forts Upplands-Vasby and curving south to the coast were occupied by the one Russo-Swedish division of infantry with light artillery in snow dug trenchs and lined with barbwire and the 1th and 3rd Fortress regiments, with the Russo-Swedish 2nd Division and the White Marine Brigade in reserve. The Russo-swedish forces under the command of Major-General Alexander Gerterv, were ordered by the Empress of Russlande to continue the defence for as long as possible and to be ready to cross north to counter-attack against the Entente Armies rather than participate in a surrender.

[Great Hyruke]

February 21, 2047

Admiral Nelson II and Rear Admiral Albert III arrived in the Baltic Sea, though the bulk of the Royal Navy was still docked in Kopenhagen, but with the seven warships and one small aircraft carrier the two commanders hoped to destroy the remaining Russo-Swedish forces at Stockholm and finally end this bloody siege quickly. General Wellesley III had his troops slowly advanced forward, even into the trenches of the Russo-Swedish soldiers to engage in hand to hand combat if needed.

[Nenget]

A large navy drifted towards the Great Hyruke's ports. They fire. But they were not Nengetan, they.. were Polish, but were pressured by the Nenget government presuured them.

[Russlande]

February 21, 2047
Stockholm, Sweden




The commanders decided to continue the defense of Stockholm with the garrison troops and move the Russo-Swedish 2nd Division and the White Army troops across the Malaren lake, when the erroneous report was corrected and it was decided that if forts Enkoping and Balsta were lost, the White Naval Division would withdraw at dusk. News arrived that the forts had fallen at 5:00 p.m. and orders were sent to the Russo-Swedish 2nd Division and the White Army to retire. The Russo-Swedish division withdrew in stages between 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and crossed the Malaren to curve to the SCL by 11:30 p.m. The White Army began to retire at 7:00 p.m. but the orders failed to reach all of the 1st Naval Brigade, only one battalion of which withdrew.

At 9:30 p.m. the mistake was realized as the rest of the division began to cross the river from 10:00–11:30 p.m. and moved east parallel to the Baltic Sea. The 1st Naval Brigade reached the city of Stockholm at midnight, only to find that the bridges were being demolished and under an Entente bombardment. The troops crossed using barges and boats and set out for a rendezvous at Tumba, which was reached at 4:00 a.m. on the 22 of February.

February 22, 2047
NCL Stockholm, Sweden

The White Army moved on to Fort Upplands-Vasby, where information arrived that the Entente Armies had cut the railway at Sundbyberg. The White Naval commander Commodore Heinvikov, decided to head for the northern coast of Stockholm and Lake Malaren to the north and at 10:00 p.m. ordered a naval bombardment against the advancing Anglo-Provite Army.

[Great Hyruke]

February 23, 2047

Rear Admiral Albert III ordered the Royal Navy to attack the Russo-Swedish Naval Force under Admiral Senyeni's command. The Royal Navy sailed north towards Stockholm, firing on to the enemy ships with long range missiles, aiming for the command centers of the White Navy's warships. The rest of the Royal Navy was still moving through the TransSwedish Canal.

[Russlande]

February 23, 2047
Stockholm, Sweden

The White Naval forces in Sweden were instructed on the 23rd to cover the retirement of the Russo-Swedish and White army from the city of Stockholm across the Aland Sea to Ahvenanmaa, Storby, Maarianhamina, North Lemland Island and Degerby and Kokar Island and then join the left flank of the WAF, as it advanced into Finland, a Princpility part of Russlande and into the city of Turku-Abo.

[Great Hyruke]

February 23, 2047

General Tess was surprised to see that the Russo-Swedish Army was truly in a full blown retreat from the frontlines, closing on to Stockholm. The Knight General however was not aware that it was a retreat from Stockholm as well and expected that the White Army would launch a counter-attack soon. Sir Tess in turn choose to advance quickly to counter the effect of a counter-attack. He ordered the Anglo-Irish Army to move forward. From Marsta they quickly marched into the areas in front of Fort Upplands-Vasby with support from tanks moving ahead of the infantry and artillery firing at the fort from behind the infantry.

North of the ongoing battle at Fort Upplands-Vasby, General Wellesley III ordered the Anglo-Provite Army to attack the largest of the forts, Fort Enkoping, blasting giant holes into it's side, But as they stormed inside they were surprise to see it was empty, the Russo-Swedish Army having fled the fort the day before. twenty miles south of the Anglo-Provite Army, General Wellesley III himself arrived at Fort Balsta, another fort abandon by the Empress of Russlande's army. Wellesley III saw that the Russo-Swedish Army was moving towards Stockholm and ordered the boats be brought onto Lake Malaren and travel to the city itself.