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[June P38] Battle of Falkens River; June 17 - June 22
Topic Started: Jul 13 2013, 12:34 AM (39 Views)
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The Battle of Falken River

The Battle of Falkens River was an engagement between Yoriel and Sandra forces along the Falkens River in Sandra territory on June 22nd, Polara 38. The Yoriel offensive was codenamed Operation Ajax, and led to one of the largest clash of military force between any faction that year. The Republic-backed Yoriel offensive into Sandra was stopped along a defensive line hastily built along the Falkens River with military aid from Tenzen, and by a larger degree, the Celestial Royal Military.


Operation Ajax

On June 17nd Polara 38, following nearly a full year of intense border clashes due to the killing of religious leader Brilus Farol in Sandra, Yoriel, backed by Relenza in secret, deployed the 3rd Corps in a blitzkrieg attack along the Yoriel-Sandra DMZ. The strong offensive caught Sandra entirely by surprise, and the militia was left unable to mount any significant action against the Yoriel push. At the same time, special forces belonging to Yoriel infiltrated the Sandra capital and assassinated General Alexander Septem. Losing the charismatic leader and top military general, Sandra was forced to turn to Tenzen, their closest neighbors for aid. Tenzen, having already stationed forces prior to the aid request, rapidly mobilized the 19th Tactical Armored Battalion along with Royal Guard assets belonging to the 13th Celestial Imperial Royal Guard Battalion.

Sandra high command was turned over to a joint Celestial-Tenzen-Sandra task force that was assembled under 3 star General Kirk Evans. Evans realized that the Yoriel offensive could not be halted unless all available forces belonging to the task force were to be unified on a single front, and thus ordered all forces to congregate at Falkens River, where a final defensive line would be erected just outside the capital. Defensive preparations were bulked up along the entire Falkens River, consisting of minefields, bunker fortifications, pre-sighted artillery fire zones and anti-tank strong points, which extended approximately 300km in depth.


Operation Holocaust

While on paper Relenza offered only war materiel to the Yoriel forces, in actual fact elements of their Special forces were called in for a separate mission. Markava Special Forces infiltrated deep into Sandra territory and attempted to capture Royal Princess Estel Myrddin to use as a bargaining chip against the Celestial Union - they engaged and overran the security detail dispatched to serve her, forcing what was left of the surviving forces to escape. The Markava's pursuit would persist until they were joined up with elements of the 13th Guard battalion, where then security was folded into to the Royal Guard's command. As the Yoriel-Relenza forces pushed through to meet the defensive forces holed up at Falkens River, the encirclement threatened to cut off the Celestial defenders from their supply lines. It also made it increasingly dangerous to extract the Royal Princess from the battlefield.


Battle of Falkens River on June 22nd

The actual cross-river assault of the Falkens defensive line was conducted on the early morning of the 22nd June, spearheaded by the 1st armored cavalry. Pinpointing the assault along a narrow section of the river, along southern stretch, the initial assault was carried out with saturation bombing from the air force followed by infantry assaults up during low tide. Joint forces defending the first line suffered catastrophic defeat after just one hour into the battle, overwhelming force cracked the first line and resulted in brutal close combat between Striker units and deadly trench warfare between infantry forces.

Although the battle would favor the offensive forces, Yoriel found themselves quickly running out of steam, any attempt to advance the lines of war resulted in both sides incurring extremely grave losses. To top it off, Yoriel's supply lines that were constantly being harassed by commando teams deployed by Tenzen soon found themselves collapsing. By the end of the first day, Yoriel would only have moved up twenty kilometers beyond the river, faced with constant artillery and air strikes they still had to break past close to one hundred kilometers of the elite Royal Guard forces entrenched the entire way before they could reach the Capital.

The most intensive of the Falken's battlefront would end by the 2nd day, and quickly degenerated into static trench warfare and exchange of artillery barrages. Faced with the threat of Celestial further deployment of forces to aid Sandra and Tenzen, on top of the risk of a massive counter offensive into their own territories, Yoriel would call for a temporary ceasefire, and swiftly extracted all forces out of Sandra. The ceasefire lasted a total of 72 hours, and saw little to almost no hostile action between the two nations, enforced by Celestial Royal Guard's 23rd Battalion.


Outcome of the Battle

Although Sandra successfully repelled the Yoriel offensive into their territory, Operation Ajax had accomplished its objectives. Even if one were to discount the fact major cities and towns were not seriously damaged during the war due to the general retreat to the Falkens Line, over 90% of Sandra's crop growing land were sacked or burnt to the ground. It had effectively crippled Sandra as nation capable of sustaining itself, and ended the nation's era of self imposed neutrality on the continent. The pyrrhic victory enjoyed by the Sandra could also be shared by Yoriel, who was censured not only by the Celestial Union, but also the other independent nations. This thus forced the country, having suffered possibly one of the greatest defeat in history to rely even more on the Republic.

Losses, Estimated

Yoriel joint forces lost over four thousand armored vehicles and battle strikers, up and including un-repairable vehicles as well as those that were not recoverable during the hasty retreat back to Yoriel. The Sandra-Tenzen joint task force lost over five thousand in total, and suffered close to twenty thousand causalities, many of whom taken during the crushing defeat at the first defensive line. Yoriel suffered although far more human losses, with over twenty two thousand dead. Most of the infantry causalities were attributed primarily to the deadly trench warfare after the initial crossing of the Falken River, with that one engagement making up to 87% of their overall losses.

Aftermath

The stalemate effectively destroyed both nations politically and economically, and turned into little more than puppet leaderships that had to obey the whims of the Republic and Celestial Union. The battle of Falkens River became the symbol of the new era of cold war between the Republic and the Union; War by proxy. Military forces deployed by Tenzen had only returned back after nearly fifteen months of post-war reconstruction, and those who returned were branded Heros of the Celestial. General Kirk Evans returned back to Tenzen to receive the Order of Nebula, the highest possible military award. Colonel Ricardo Septem, son of the late General Septem took over as Sandra's chief of staff, and began embracing greater relations with the Celestial Union.

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