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War!

The baton of war has once again been traded over on the great continent of Meillur. For years Turanda waged war against its Lajaz neighbors, and when Lajastine fell, Caraintos with Princess Regent Tasa at the helm took up the cause. But while the Caraintese-Turandan War took up headlines in the many kingdoms along the Southern Sea, to the East trouble brewed. The republics of Hantuonia and Vardozia saw their tensions rise over the borderlands between them and President Markinov over saw the annexation of some Vardozian land.

Along the shores of the Lajaz Coast Caraintos and it’s allies, Colfico and Great Hyruke pressed on the Turandans, while in Hantuonia, Markinov was assassinated and replaced by Michael Cromvu, a ambitious and tyrannical new leader. A another coup, this one in Turanda would put an end to hostilities in Lajastine just as tensions flared with Hantuonia and its many neighbors. Cromvu reignited the war with Vardozia, marched to the very doorstep of the capital, forcing the President of Vardozia to flee to the hinterlands.

The final straw came after weeks of militarization along the Hantuonian borders with Caraintos and Raudoya, when Cromvu attacked Caraintese and Colficoan citizens, enslaving and arresting many within Hantuonia. With this, Hantuonia became an international pariah with a growing list of enemies. Despite being surrounded and outnumbered, Cromvu chose boldness and was met with boldness. With the mission of protecting their citizens Caraintos forces, fresh from the fight in Lajastine invaded Hantuonia, beginning the Great Eastern War.

The Grand Alliance
•Caraintos
•Colfico
•Great Hyruke
•Vardozia

The Borean Tripartite
•Buvaria
•Gosataborg
•Raudoya

The Bozia Coalition
•Hantuonia
•Seoya

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Opening Shots of the War:

Hantuonia
The fleet arrived within 250 miles of the Caraintos shoreline, there are still a few hours of sailing to go before they are able to begin bombardment.

Infantry of Hantuonia had finally arrived to engage Caraintos troops, attack planes formed up and rained steel upon the advancing Caraintos troops, infantry began firing upon the Caraintos troops.

Fighters sat dormant, waiting for Caraintos planes..

Vardozia

In the midst of Hantuonias other war, Vardozia begins spreading out its defenses once more.

Colfico

Caraintos
2nd Task Force
CNS Commonwealth

The massive carrier cut through the waves like a knife, moving seemingly impossibly fast for a ship its size. Admiral Visian Mira watched from his position on the island as aircraft were being launched, a combination of CF-7s, Peregrine Bombers, and NF-1s. It had been barely an hour since the enemy had been detected by patrol aircraft from the carrier, and he had made the decision to attack, deciding to catch the enemy while they set up for a bombardment of the shoreline.

As the aircraft began their journey, he started his timer, it would take mere minutes for the aircraft to reach the enemy, at which point, the battle would begin in earnest.

The aircraft gained as much altitude as they could, with a three tiered formation being employed, with the CF-7s and NF-1s forming the higher echelons above the Peregrines, as they began the attack, diving down upon their targets, and releasing their payload of eight 600 pound armor piercing bombs, built to penetrate the deck armor of a ship, and then explode.

Hantuonia

"INCOMING," Commander Briggs had yelled as he saw various planes of the CNS Commonwealth soaring overhead,
Battleships begun priming their anti-air, the fighter planes that had previously lay dormant took to the skies as various SOS signals filled the military radios of Hantuonia.

"These aren't like anything we have seen before! We need some more support from the air force!" He said to a private.

It was true, the aircraft carriers of the CNS Commonwealth seemed nothing like the average Hantuonian Carrier. Speaking of which, a carrier had been ordered to begin an approach of the battle, the crew of it were excited as previously they had just been keeping guard of the maritime border.

25 Hantuonian XM-50 Fighter Jets ETA: 30-50 minutes.

Colfico

Over the Southern Sea
3rd Naval Combat Wing

Air Captain Alex Wings pulled the flight stick of his NF-1 over, and up, rolling the unique looking aircraft over, and bringing it down into a sharp dive, despite its ungainly appearance on the flight deck, the aircraft was both fast, capable of reaching speeds in excess of one thousand miles per hour, and relatively maneuverable . He sighted himself on the closest approaching Hantuonian plane, careful to come from above, and behind, and sighted the circle of his sight on the aircrafts tail section, and a high pitched humming filled the cockpit as the aircrafts missile seeker locked on, and he pulled the trigger, the Va-2 missile having locked onto the hot exhaust trail of the target, dropped from the aircraft, before its propellant ignited, sending it streaking towards its target at super sonic speeds.

He then pulled over to the right, leaving the missile to track its target, and sighted in on the next closest, and this time, raised his finger over the trigger for the planes four 23mm cannons, and sighted it in just in front of the aircraft, leading the target in consideration for its speed and angle, before pulling the trigger, and four repeating flashes, followed by a sound like repeated thunder, filled the air, but only for a second, as he swept down, and straight past the target, and dove away.

Hantuonia

The fighter jets of the Hantuonian air-force are of higher quality than any other war machine within Hantuonia's military, one fighter went to track down the Air Captain while the other 22 fighters gained speed on their way to the naval battle, all of them housing missiles ready to be deployed in air-to-air combat, and perhaps even against ships.

The Aircraft Carrier continued its journey, it is estimated to reach its destination is 35 minutes. It carried 15 Fighters and 10 attack jets.
One other Aircraft Carrier is sent to the battle, the ETA being 5 hours. This carrier is the SSM-Warlock, a relatively large carrier that can carry 28 Fighters and 9 attack jets.

Hantuonian military continued battling the Caraintos invaders, the missiles that had previously been launched landed upon Caraintos troops.

Colfico

2nd Task Force

The admiral smiled as he watched radar blips begin approaching his position, he had the enemys attention, now it was time for phase two of the operation. He turned to his helmsman and yelled out "Set course south east, flank speed, and deploy a smoke screen, make it a good show."

"Aye sir."

He felt the ship begin tilting as it turned hard to the right, as its escorts each responded with a similar manuever, as streaks of rocket vapor began to streak from the lead ship, sending missiles guided by the ships own radar screaming towards the approaching aircraft.

Then what seemed like clouds of black smoke began to fill the air, obscuring the view of the colficoan ships, as they began to speed south east.

3rd Naval Combat Wing

The air captain smiled as a fighter got on his tail, and pushed forward hard on his throttle, the afterburner pushing the aircraft past the sound barrier, a cone of vapor briefly covering the aircraft as it broke the speed of sound, and streaked away, while a second and third aircraft dove down from above, down onto the chasing aircraft, each themselves opening up with their own cannons.

The Peregrine bombers lined up on their targets, and each began diving down, using their own aircraft to aim their ordinance, and releasing the bombs at the last second before pulling up, repeating a tactic that had been used against the Hyrukians during the Southern War.

Great Hyruke

HMS Audacious
Off the Lajaz Coast

As with Great Hyruke’s entry into the war in Lajaz, Leal’s entry into the defense of Caraintos was a quiet and sudden one. The very arrival of Hantuonia forces into the Southern Sea were considered to be intolerable.

The mighty aircraft carrier that had over the last year patrolled the edges of the Celestial-Colficoan maritime boundaries and then sailed to Laja now turned its attentions northward towards Caraintos, in defense of the Caraintese shoreline. Launching from its flight deck, came the wing of Royal C7-F under Commander Letitia Alvery, twenty of the supersonic fighterjets shattering the sound barrier over the Southern Sea as they joined in the defense of Caraintos. Followed from the deck of the Audacious came fifteen Seafire-II, small fast planes outfitted as torpedo bombers, and placed under the command of Gale Norsfield.

Now the veteran of two wars, Alvery wing shot towards the Hantuonian SSM Warlock, accompanied by a triple squadron of Hyrukian Corsair attack fighter jets launching from Prince-Royal Island under the command of Jodie Cole. The Corsairs flew fast and high, following after their C7-F cousins as they moved to intercept the Hantuonian aircraft carrier, arming and prepping their new short range Wasp missiles. Alvery and Cole’s jets approached the Warlock from

The frigates Redwine and Massey sailed north to join the assault on the nearer of the Hantuonia aircraft carrier with Norsfield’s Seafire-IIs.

HMS Seahawk
Undisclosed Location in the Southern Sea

Meanwhile, Captain Caitlin Bass received orders in the dark depths of the ocean aboard the Seahawk, the cutting edge stealth submarine that had effectively landlocked Turanda during the Caraintese-Turandan War thanks to its chemical rubber synthetic coating, nicknamed bodiecca, which had effectively hidden it from Turandan sonars, infamously firing on any ship that had so much as attempted to leave port. While Bass had been looking forward to returning home, it seemed that her reign of terror on the high seas was now to be directed away from the Turandan ships to Hantounian ones. The predatorial vessel lurked silently depth beneath the waves in search of its latest victim.

The Caraintese Army pressed on as they engaged the Hantuonian attackers.

In the far south amidst the vast grasslands that had been homed to nomads for generations, Colonel Orkwood had his armored Calvary move quickly as they meet the Hantuonia infantry at the front lines, organizing them into spread heads, allowed to move independently of one another their spear leaders saw fit. They were ordered to prioritize speed, firing on the infantry forces in defensive coordinated volleys to cut paths through. Reaching the southern bank of the Allettan River, Orkwood ordered all bridges a cross it to be fired upon it as he turned his forces eastward along the river.

Further back the heavy artillery that had bombarded the Chayare River valley for months now turned to attacking the Hantuonian Air Force, massive shells arching through the sky towards their targets.

In the middle of the front the 4th Regiment was taking the brunt of the Hantuonia’a counter assault. They had managed to advance the banks of the Genzorga River, the mighty River that zigzaged lazily across the Caraintos-Hantuonia border, and effectively separated the more woodland Caraintese side with the prairies of the Hantuonian side. Pushing to the banks amidst the resistance upon reaching the river they began using it as a defensive line, repositioning their line of light artillery to act as interceptors.

The fiercest fighting took place in the north as the 3rd Regiment, the largest fielded thus far on the frontlines, under the command of Niclas Hayward attacked the Hantuonia with infantry following behind small units of tanks with dozens of light artillery peppering the flanks while long distance heavy artillery, once positioned towards the Revassa now pivoted and fire ahead of Caraintese advancing tanks.

Caraintese Middle
6th Guards Armored Battalion



Tank Commander Igor Masalok watched through his commanders sight the battle unfolding, and frowned, it was going to be a busy day, but this was exactly why he and his unit had been deployed to the area, and so it was time to get to work. He used the sights manual range finder to work out the distance and then yelled out

“One point two clicks, HEAT, fire when ready!”

“Firing!”

The entire sixty five foot tank jerked backwards , and a massive dust cloud was kicked up around the tank as the massive 125mm main gun roared, sending out a massive boom, like that of a nearby lightning strike, sending the lethal shaped charge shot flying through the air at more than eight hundred meters per second, and with enough penetrating power to pierce more than four hundred milimeters, or forty centimeters, of steel.

That sound was repeated again and again, as the eighty H-1 Caiman Heavy tanks of the battalion opened fire, marking the first time ever that the tank had actually fired in anger.

South-Western Hantuonia

Approximately 4.7-thousand Hantuonian infantry and 50 Tanks marched into the recently gained Caraintos territory that was once owned Turanda, this is due to the land being separated from main Caraintos, the invasion force quickly marched into the bit of land and prepared for long-term occupation of not annexation.

The Southern Sea

The naval battle of the Southern Sea continued, more and more losses happening on both side and more and more fighter jets taking to the sky to fight. One more aircraft carrier, the SSM-Subjugator had been sent to assist in the battle, it being 1479 ft. in length and 598 ft. in width could carry 31 Fighters, a majority stored in a hangar bay built into the ship, however, the fighters can be lifted via mechanized platform, battleships a part of the fleet fired completely upon the Commonwealth, the firepower of multiple battleships upon the Commonwealth may be a risky loss for Colfico..

Caraintos-Hantuonia Frontline

75 Tanks came to aid the frontline after a few hours of traveling, Hantuonian snipers camouflaged themselves with brush and armored clothing the color of the tall grass, they fired upon oncoming Colfico and Caraintos attackers. Artillery had also arrived after days traveled, Hantuonia almost seemed ready at this point of their build up of a defense, and what will be an offending force. The artillery was in a quantity of 10, the cannons staying behind the few hills that were scattered around the grasslands, bombardment of the forces began shortly after the artillery was set up.

One Mile Outside Of The Capital of Vardozia

With a relatively firm defense force in the west, Hantuonia begins looking back towards Vardozia, with the capital in eyesight Hantuonian forces begin moving into it. Capturing or ending any Ardozian soldiers and burning all buildings once looted. Once the Hantuonians secured enough parts of the capital they replaced Vardozia flags with Hantuonian ones, the center of the capital was not yet in reach, as a majority of it was still Ardozian controlled, however, Hantuonia has enough resources to very slowly wear them down.

Caraintosian-Hantonian Front line

As the tank battle raged, behind the line, the 11th Heavy Artillery Battery had finished setting up its infamous 185mm howitzers, guns that had famously defended Vizerman island from naval forces during the Southern War, the massive guns possessing a monsterous range of more than thirty miles, and now they would sing again. Before long, the command from fire was given, ranger on coordinates given by troops on the front line, and dozens of loud booms began to fill the air, as the massive 185mm shells began flying through the air towards their target many miles away.

On the front line, Colficoan infantry units did everything they could to slow the attack, using their shoulder fired rocket launchers and recoiless rifles, as well as the deadly towed 125mm anti tank guns, which occasionally filled the air with their distinctive deep boom.

Southern Sea

The CNS Commonwealth continues its race south, all the while it’s compliment of 85 aircraft doing everything they could to keep the enemy busy. She raced at a speed of 33 knots, and her escorts kept up with her, using their radar assisted dual purpose guns to keep aircraft away from her.

Over Hantounia

fifty-five colficoan transport aircraft took off from bases in north eastern Colfico, escorted by twenty two CF-7Bs. These aircraft were part of an operation that had been thrown together as an effort to aid the Vardozian front, they carried with them the 3rd Airborne Battalion, as well as arms and munitions for them to do their job. It was a risky operation, but if it paid off, could give the Vardozians the breathing room they needed to dig their feet in and hold the line.

They began racing towards Vardozia as fast as they could, aiming to cut north into the northern sea and then shift east, however, it would still be a perilous Journey at best.

North Caraintese-Hantuonian Frontline

Hundreds had been lost amongst the 3rd Regiment, but they had thousands of soldiers. As the 3rd Regiment’s tanks came into contact with the camouflaged mechanized enemy, two members of a squadron were lost, erupting in a column of flames. Their advance slowed. As the 3rd Regiment’s tanks found themselves outnumbered. They fell back in line with the infantry, serving as shields as the Caraintese set up anti-tank gun positions. To negate the effectiveness of the Hantuonian shields,took up defensive positions. Soldiers cut a series of shallow trenches one to two feet deep and matted down the tall grass as the light artillery recalibrated its bombardment, pausing as their ammunition was switched out with incendiary artillery shells. As the new volley fired and streaked across the sky they fell, set to light the grasslands ablaze.

Central Caraintese-Hantuonian Frontline

From the far side of the Genzorga River reinforcements in the form of the 5th Regiment while the 4th Regiment worked in tandem with the Colficoans. They opened continuous fire on the Hantounians, soldiers continuously rotating in and out of formation along the front.

The 5th Regiment ordered a platoon of anti-tank armored carriers across the river. The vehicles were low profile, heavily armored and amphibious, rolled beneath the waves with only short snorkels peaking out the water like the nostrils of a crocodile. They rolled out on the other side, unloading small teams of infantry soldiers as they moved to flank the enemy.

South Caraintese-Hantuonian Frontline

Orkwood’s regiment continued their speedy campaign along the Alletton River, moving further eastwards, leaving the sparsely populated nomandic lands behind rather than engaging the Hantuonians directly.

Great Increase In Troops

With the capital of Vardozia practically under Hantuonia-control, 31-thousand soldiers that had been fighting in Vardozia for the past weeks were sent to scatter across the border, about 4-thousand of those troops went to counter Caraintos’s push in the South, along with those soldiers came 397 Tanks and 104 total aircraft that are ready to be deployed. Another 109 Tanks were sent to the Northern frontline where the most fighting was taking place. Five attack aircraft soared toward the trenches, raining bullets upon Caraintos soldiers and Colfico soldiers alike.

A Bit North Of The Central Frontline

An invasion force of 21-thousand soldiers, 12 artillery cannons, and 124 tanks pushed into the space a bit North of the frontline, they planned on suddenly pushing into Caraintos territory then flanking Caraintos and Colfico forces. More aircraft were on the way, including Zepzad-91 bombers that could carry great and broad payloads, the aircraft are estimated to arrive within 51 Minutes.

Southern Vardozia

Hantuonian forces pushed into the peninsula below the capital, swiftly spreading into it and conquering it.

Hantounian Front line

As colficoan soldiers were subject to strafing runs, both emplaced and vehicle based anti aircraft weapons assigned to the divisions opened fire, a mixture of 13.2mm, 23mm, 40mm and 75mm guns did what they could to either shoot the aircraft down, or force them to pull of early and miss their target, however, the NCAF also joined in the fray, as 22 CF-11 Vipers, aircraft capable of speeds in excess of 1,900 miles per hour, began engaging enemy aircraft, using their speed and heavy firepower to outrun enemy aircraft, and swooping down on them from very high altitude.

It was at this point that the National Colficoan Army decided to hit the enemy with everything it had, and performed an all out armored offensive along the central line, hitting the enemy with 94 heavy tanks, 205 main battle tanks, and 102 light tanks, as well as more than thousand armored cars, armored personnel carriers and other motorized and mechanized vehicles. This offensive was also supported by the 4th Fighter Squadron of 32 plans, utilizing new CF/B-12 Skinwalker, each aircraft carrying 15,00 pounds of ordinance, and with a maximum speed of 1,400 miles per hour, using a wide variety of ordinate, from unguided rockets, to incendiary canisters, cluster munitions, regular bombs, and strafing with their 23mm six barreled cannons.

North Caraintese-Hantuonian Frontline

Caraintese forces held the line as more and more enemy reinforcements arrived to challenge them. The 3rd Regiment pushed southward as the Caraintese CF-7Bs took to the skies, the fast flying jets moving to act as interception across the frontline, taking advantage of their sleek design and home field advantage to strike in overlapping cyclical hit and run patterns. On the ground the regiment moved along the front spread out as it tablized, refusing to give the Hantounians an inch or any quarter.

Central Caraintese-Hantuonian Frontline

5th Regiment, seeing the approaching massive force of Hantuonians pulled back across the Genzorga, blasting apart all crossing and guarded the areas capable of fords, arranging overlapping kill zones of fire as the Hantounian’s attempted to break their line.

Left on the far side of the river however there the platoon of anti-tank armored personnel carries hitch moved southward to meet up with the main Caraintese-Colficoan forces while it’s infrantty that had crossed spread out into smaller teams, and, taking notes from reports from their comrades further north, dawned camouflage for the tall grass, setting obstacles for tanks to facilitate harassment assaults.

tMeanwhile the 4th Regimeny fought to keep up with the Colficoans as they launched an offensive, meeting the attacking Hantounians head one, the Royal Air Supremacy fighter jets joining the fire fight above in a support roll while the Caraintese heavy artillery peppered the ground with craters and explosions.

South Caraintese-Hantounian Frontline

Orkwood’s fast moving regiment pivoted movin the southeast as they formed a V shaped divet in the frontline between the Alletton River and a second in the southeast. Orkwood’s main infrantry retreated to the point of the V, fanning retreat and silently inviting the Hantounians to advance onto his seemingly vulnerable position.

Over Lake Samer, five CF-7Bs lead a bombing raid over Hantounians positions in occupied Caraintese-Lajastinean Territory, a five airship team of Hyrukian bought Bercastles bombers dropping over 9,000 pounds of explosives each over the area.

New Bozia, Hantuonia

Ardozians, Kakozians, Caraintos People, and various ethnic groups of Colfico were rounded up into "destiny trucks".
Destiny trucks were similar to prison-vans and lead POWs to concentration camps. In this case, the destination was not a concentration camp but a rural area in Northern Hantuonia. Once the truck arrived these people of the ethnic groups were rounded up.. And well.. they went bye-bye.

"A cleaner Hantuonia, where the citizens are what the name of our glorious nation advertises," Cromvu said "This is no dictatorship as people have stated, this is a new era for Hantuonia, a new calling for a better Hantuonia.."

North Caraintese-Hantounian Frontline

The 3rd Regiment continued their operations of slash and burning of the Hantuonia countryside. Hayard began developing a tactic of intensive punches against the Hantounians to try and push them further East. Artillery bombs were concentrated in specific locations along the front for rapid fire bombardment strikes and followed by an advancement by tank and infrantry units. Aaa the ground became blacken and cratered, Hayard moved one of the lone hills of the on the Caraintese controlled side of the grassland, having his men carve out embankments for heavy artillery guns to be positions. Shielded, they guns fired long rage heavy shells onto the shifting frontline.

Central Caraintese-Hantounian Frontline

The 4th Regiment took the inch they had gain their offensive and intended on taking a mild. Added by the arrival of the 2nd Regiment, and more chiefly their two hundred Wylde-I tanks, armed with 76 mm turrets. Thickly armored on the front, they were light on their sides, allowing for their great priority of speed. It was with that usage of speed that was considered as they launched their Roccioro Offensive, launching attack on the south flank of the Hantounians as they supported thr Colficoan right. The 2nd Regiment then shot southwards towards and long the Roccioro River, using it as a shield and advancement tool as they engaged the Hantounians with their tank killer guns.

South Caraintese-Hantounians Frontline

Meanwhile the heavy aerial bombardment of the lands around Lake Samer continued, the Bercastles carpeting the arid flat land with their payloads. Within days they had used more bombs in the area than in the entire Chayare River Campaign during the Caraintese-Turandan War.

Undisclosed Location, Caraintos

At the order of the Princess Regent, prisoners of war were sent to secluded fortified camps, stripped searched, given prison uniform and controversially recorded and tattooed on their right hand, marking them as a captured combatant. However they were otherwise treated humanely as, given small cots to sleep in and provided with basic meals. News crews from neutral Turanda, kept unaware of these locations when en route to and from, were invited to view and evaluate the conditions of the POWs.

Over Vardozia

It had been a perilous journey, and several of the transport aircraft had indeed been shot down, but they had made it, and now the most dangerous part of the operation began.

Commander Origan Horigard stood as he heard the jump master yell out “red light, jump positions.”

He instinctively clipped the parachute cable to the line of the aircraft, and felt it shake, he knew it was going to be a hot drop, but it was of vital importance that they make it. A few minutes later, the light turned green, and the jump master yelled out .

“Go now!”

One by one, the paratroopers filed out the door on the side of the aircraft, and dropped down towards the earth below, and before long, it was his turn, and without hesitation, he stepped out and let himself drop, feeling gravity pull him down to the earth below, before he was suddenly jerked upward as his parachute opened, and he drifted down to the world below. He looked around, and saw the hundreds of other parachutes drifting down, some of them larger and carrying vehicles and materials that would be needed for the hard fighting ahead, and they all knew the stakes, they likely would not survive if they lost and were captured.

It seemed like forever before he finally touched the ground, but when he did, he cut himself loose of the parachute, and grabbed his rifle, a small light, but accurate colficoan built semi automatic carbine. He organized his unit, and moved towards the frontline, where he could already here the battle escalating, as Colficoan paratroopers joined in the battle against the Hantuonian forces, including the occasionally high pitched boom of the ultralight howitzers that they had dropped with.

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Over New Bozia

More than three dozen CB-5 Peregrine Bombers had been ordered into action, and their orders had been clear,to hit the city, and hit it with everything they had. They were escorted by 32 CF-7s, and carried in their bellies the same thermite cluster munitions that had been used against Turanda. They moved at a surprisingly frightening speed for a bomber, moving at over 600 miles per hour, however, they still had to make it through Hantuonian air defenses.

Over New Bozia

Hantuonian radar picked up signs of oncoming aircraft, air-defenses activated and about 127 XF-50 Fighters soared from a combination of 3 airfields near New Bozia. Anti-air turrets shot towards the bombers and the fighters while the Hantuonian fighters engaged the bomber and fighters directly, the jets soared at speeds of 1820 MPH

Southern Caraintos-Hantuonian Frontline

With hundreds of thousands of Hantuonian military personnel ready to be deployed, military strategists decide to place 150-thousand of those soldiers in Southern Caraintos.. The reason? A counter-attack, 50-thousand infantry surround the Caraintos push on all three sides then collapse on it, from there the invasion force will turn their eyes towards Caraintos territory, along with the infantry there will be 107 Leper-9 Standard Tanks and about 91 aircraft ready to be utilized, artillery cannons are beginning to line up along each frontline and prepare to bombard the invaders. At this point in time the counter-attack has begun and the artillery cannons are making their way towards the frontline. 25 Zep-7 Bombers approach the central frontline, 10 approaching the Northern, another 5 approaching the southern frontline, the payloads of both ready to be dropped.. One bomber carries 6500 lbs of explosives.

Depths of the Southern Sea

The Seahawk traveled slowly by surely dipping above the thermocline silently as it locked onto its target, the Hantounian Warlock. The stealth sub had come just within range of its torpedos, twenty miles and launched two in quicker timed succession. As the torpedos left their tubes thr Seahawk dived back down beneath the thermocline to go back to lurking in silence.

Southern Caraintos

Meanwhile on land, the Hyrukian Expeditionary Division under the command of Major General Anna Tomlinson moved as quickly as it could to join the front line and support the Caraintese and Colficoans. With 20,000 soldiers, it was the largest force that Great Hyruke had fielded in foreign lands in over forty years. It had been originally been scheduled for landing in Turanda but after arriving on the Laja Coast been reassigned to aid their Caraintese allies. The Expeditionary Division was divided into three brigades with Mechanized, Armored and Infantry being their designations. General Susannah Earll and General Bridget Buckett lead the former two while Rachel Chambers (distant relation to Penelope Chambers) led the latter.

Earll and Buckett directed their forces north to central frontline while Chambers directed hers southwards with a regiment of 20 artillery pieces as support. At direction of Tomlinson, a battalion was directed in a small secret mission, moving north and eastward along the at Turandan border with a team of armored amphibious vehicles.

Over New Bozia

The CF-7s escorting the bombers swept down onto the first group of attacking fighters, using their altitude advantage to gain the intial advantage, and attempting to deal with the fighters in seperate groups, rather than at the same time. The bombers released their payload, and began turning around, suffering some losses from ground fire in the process.

Southern Sea

The admiral watched as two Hantounian carriers had joined the fight, not to mention multiple battleships, now was the time to strike, he gave a nod, and a single sonar ping was sent out into the water, a signal for the ambush to begin. simultaneously, more than twenty submarines of different types, which had been lying in wait, submerged, engaged the Hantounian fleet from the very edge of torpedo range, sending dozens of torpedos streaking towards the enemy fleet. However, this was only a part of the attack.

The 2nd Task Force turned around, and the CNS Commonwealth launched a full flight of peregrine bombers, which streaked off towards the enemy fleet with escorts in tow, intent on striking what ships they could, and sowing chaos.

Central Front

The Colficoan forces on the central front continued their attack, receiving continuous support from the air, and from ground based artillery of various calibers. The 34,000 soldiers, and over 300 tanks concentrated on a single offensive push were hitting with everything they had, and using every tool available to them, including their infamous white phosphorous shells to burn out enemy positions whenever they came across them.

Vardozia

The 2nd Paratrooper Battalion fought desperately to hold its ground, as well as doing what it could to rally the Vardozian forces around them, and provide a more stable backbone for them to form around.

The Central Front

With the Colfico and Caraintos military gaining ground, the Hantuonian military decided to take a different approach to the battle, guerrila warfare, at least 10-thousand infantry of the 14th Battalion was equipped with camouflaged weapons, most of which including snipers and waited.. 5-thousand troops retreated to make the land seem easier to take, little known to the invaders was that there were Hantuonian all around them and hundreds of tanks hidden behind a few small hills in the grasslands.

Vardozia

The front in Vardozia steamrolled closer and closer to the capital, the Hantuonians outnumbering the Colfico troops, the invasion force was comprised of 7 Battalions in total, all of which had minimal casualties. Boats were undocked near Vardozia and sent to bombard the shore and prepare for another invasion, this time closer to the location of the president.

Renato, Caraintos

Bombs had been smuggled into the city and placed in undisclosed locations and warehouses ready to be picked up, once radical Hantuonians picked up the bombs to place them in various places of importance, they detonated them. Once detonations had been completed, the Hantuonians pulled out their firearms and shot towards the crowd.

The Southern Sea

With the serious loss in the Hantuonian fleet, Hantuonians own submarines were sent out to try and hold naval presence in the area, hundreds of XF-50 fighters swarmed the area waiting for contest in the air, the high maneuverability of the jet making it a formidable foe, equipped with two 24mm automatic cannons.