User:Brant/First Pengolian War

The First Pengoloian War was a military conflict between the Republic of Acadia and East Pengolia. Sparked by a series of incidents involving the two countries, it eventually escalated into a full-scale conflict between the two nations. Despite early victories, Acadia was forced to withdraw following condemnations of the war by its allies. However, the war was more beneficial to Acadia than East Pengolia.

Sub-Antarctic Incident
From its start, East Pengolia had a shaky relationship with Acadia, due to a difference in viewpoints. This, along with multiple violations of penguin rights by East Pengolia, caused Acadia to lay sanctions on East Pengolia. However, following Acadian Vice President Ryan Crosby's comment on East Pengolia, the government of East Pengolia threatened "strong repercussions" to Crosby's words. The Acadian government denounced the East Pengolian government's words as "shallow threats".

In March of 2017, an Acadian plane was shot down by East Pengolian jets, similar to the event that sparked the January Crisis. East Pengolian authorities claimed the plane was flying through East Pengolian airspace, though the plane's logs showed it was clearly in Sub-Antarctic territory during the incident. The Acadian government demanded reparations for the incident, though they were refused.

Acadian Embassy Attacks
Later that month, a group of terrorists carried out two separate attacks on two of Acadia's embassies across Antarctica, namely the one in South Pole City and the one in Snowdon. The attacks killed a total of 12, mostly Acadian diplomats. Investigations launched days afterwards showed that the attackers had connections to the REPT, a group Acadia was fighting against in the AWOT, and was funded by the East Pengolian government. When Acadia demanded that the attackers be handed to Acadian authorities, they were denied.

Battle of St Joeyaasburg
Acadia made plans for an invasion of East Pengolia days after they traced the perpetrators directly into the East Pengolian government itself, many of which had connections with Bolsheevic Penguinsky. The Acadian Parliament voted 77 to 22 to declare war on East Pengolia. Within hours, President Brant Esser ordered around 3,000 soldiers from Fort Cheese to position themselves around the East Pengolian coast. Another 4,000 soldiers from Alexandria and 10,000 soldiers from Acadia were ordered to reinforce the Fort Cheese force.

With a total of 17,000 soldiers at the ready, and another 10,000 soldiers due to arrive, Acadia attacked the coastal city of St Joeyaasburg in the early hours of morning. East Pengolia, who only had 5,000 soldiers in the city, was caught completely off guard and surrendered to Acadian forces within hours. Losing 5,000 soldiers and their second largest city was a big blow to the East Pengolian war effort, costing them their second largest defeat in the war.

Fishwow Offensive
After the Battle of St Joeyaasburg, Acadia situated itself in the city, and made many changes. The Acadian military governed the city based on the laws of Acadia, providing many freedoms to the citizens. They also seized large amounts of money from East Pengolian government officials, who had taken from the people for so long. The citizens of St Joeyaasburg were also exposed to Acadian culture, such as television, food, etc.

Days later, the Acadian forces, now numbering about 20,000, began making their way towards the capital of East Pengolia, Fishwow. Their plan was to capture the city, and subdue the rest of the countryside. However, when Acadia reached Fishwow, they found the city fortified and defended by around 30,000 East Pengolian soldiers. Seeing direct battle would be catastrophic, the Acadian military decided to lay siege to the city, to starve out the garrison.

The Acadian air force dropped leaflets over the city before the battle, both as propaganda and to warn the citizens of the impending danger. Many fled, but the East Pengolian government forced many to stay to fight. With this, the air force began conducting airstrikes on the city, mostly on important East Pengolian positions, to cripple the East Pengolian defense. However, the East Pengolian government continued to hold out.

War in the countryside
While a force of Acadians were besieging the city of Fishwow, and additional 20,000 began to subdue the countryside. Acadian planes began conducting airstrikes on East Pengolian military assets and infrastructure, to weaken their defense. This caused most East Pengolian equipment to be destroyed, preventing them from aiding in the Siege of Fishwow. The war in the countryside was much more successful than the Siege of Fishwow, as Acadia saw many victories.

In the countryside, Acadian forces began liberating many labor camps operated by the East Pengolian government to make equipment for the war effort. Many of these camps provided equipment for the Great Yowien War and the Frosian War. The Acadian government was quick to make this known, possibly to cause East Pengolian citizens to rebel and to get more support from the international community, who didn't know the full extent of the camps.

Battle of Bolsheevicsburg
Acadian forces eventually surrounded the town of Bolsheevicsburg, the third largest city in East Pengolia, guarded by 15,000 soldiers. The town was the last major resistance to the Acadian military, besides Fishwow. Despite the Acadians only having 12,000 soldiers, they quickly gained the upper hand, leading the city's commander to surrender within hours. This victory led to much morale within the Acadian soldiers, and decreased morale among East Pengolian soldiers. This was Acadia's largest victory, and was highly celebrated.

East Pengolian response
With Fishwow under threat of surrendering, Bolsheevic Penguinsky and his highest commanders and government officials, fled the capital, heading to a small village in the East Pengolian countryside, named Bambadoo Town, where he declared the capital. Bambadoo Town was far from Acadian forces, and thus wasn't under threat. Bolsheevic ordered 30,000 East Pengolian soldiers to regroup in Bambadoo Town to prepare for the next phase of the war.

Battle of Workers' Want
A force of 30,000 soldiers advanced from Bambadoo Town to face the Acadian military, who had gathered at a field called Workers' Want in preparation for the battle. The East Pengolians outnumbered the Acadians 3-2, though the Acadian military held a better position. However, in the battle, the East Pengolian forces were able to prevail, out of pure numbers. The Acadian military fled after their position was overwhelmed. Though the East Pengolian military won, their losses were higher, losing 4,000 to Acadians' 230.

East Pengolian Draft
Following their losses, the East Pengolian government sought to replace their numbers. Thus, in May 2017, Bolsheevic Penguinsky announced a mandatory draft for East Pengolian citizens. Overnight, this caused East Pengolia's forces to go from 26,000 to 300,000. Bolsheevic had hoped for more, but war in many places meant that citizens weren't able to sign. However, Acadia, seeing themselves heavily outnumbered, decided to call in their ally Dragonstone, who provided 30,000 soldiers into the fight, though only 15,000 were deployed immediately.

Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Acadian and Dragonstonian forces were more skilled, as they were ranked higher than East Pengolia on the Military Strength of Antarctica list. Many of the newly drafted East Pengolian soldiers lacked proper weapons and supplies. However, the East Pengolians still had the advantage of being able to overwhelm the Acadian and Dragonstonian forces.

Fall of Fishwow
Finally, following weeks of siege and endless bombardment from Acadian forces, Fishwow finally fell in May 2017. After the city's commander surrendered to Acadian forces, 20,000 victorious Acadian soldiers marched through the city. Receiving direct orders not to loot the city, the Acadians instead provided aid to the citizens of Fishwow, who had been starved and oppressed for years by their government. Acadian soldiers, however, did loot the Palace of the Workers and other government buildings, stripping them of the vast amount of riches that had been stolen from the populace for years.

In addition, and possibly the most valuable asset, was the capture of Bambadoo, chief adviser of Bolsheevic. He was found by Acadian soldiers attempting to flee the city. Bambadoo was transported to Fort Cheese to await trial by an Acadian court in Acadia. However, the Acadian didn't plan to imprison him, but rather to use him to bring Bolsheevic to the negotiation table. In the end, the Fall of Fishwow was the largest defeat of the East Pengolians in the war, and sent it on a downward spiral. East Pengolia lost 20,000 soldiers.

Turn of the tide
In June 2017, the East Pengolians were joined by North Joseon, who swore to "defend their communist brethren" as North Joseonan leader Kim Il-Sunguin put it. Around 60,000 North Joseonan soldiers were deployed to East Pengolia, with most of the North Joseonan fleet immediately laying siege to St Joeyaasburg, which had been seized by Acadia at the beginning of the war. Most of the force landed at other positions along the coast, quickly driving the Acadians from most positions.

Within days, North Joseonan forces now held most of the coast, though St Joeyaasburg still remained in Acadian hands. A combined communist force of around 120,000 began making their way towards Bolsheevicsburg, which was defended by only 12,000 Acadian soldiers. Despite aid from Dragonstone in subduing the countryside, the Acadian strategy of spreading out to take over the country was beginning to fall apart, as they were heavily outnumbered to the communist forces.

Battle of Ownage
Seeing the threat to the 12,000 soldiers defending Bolsheevicsburg, President Brant Esser ordered around 5,000 of the 20,000 soldiers in the countryside and 10,000 of the 20,000 defending Fishwow to make their way towards Ownage, a small village and field that lay 30 miles south of Bolsheevicsburg. Additionally, 3,000 Dragonstonian soldiers who were already deployed in East Pengolia, and an additional 15,000 were also Dragonstonian soldiers were also deployed to Ownage. The Acadian and Dragonstonian high command both saw the importance of defending Bolsheevicsburg.

Despite the 33,000 combined forces who had been deployed to Ownage, they were still outnumbered 4 to 1 by the communist forces. Even with around 10,000 soldiers from West Pengolia, an enemy of East Pengolia, the forces were still outnumbered, though less than before, being outnumbered around 3 to 1. Still, the Acadians and Dragonstonians had the advantage of having better equipment and training and experience for their soldiers.

Because of the Acadian and Dragonstonian advantage, but the communists having far more soldiers, the Battle of Ownage was evenly matched. The resulting battle was a Pyrrhic victory for the communists, with over 30,000 communist soldiers were killed, 20,000 East Pengolians and 10,000 North Joseonans, making it the deadliest conflict for both East Pengolia and North Joseon. Acadia, Dragonstone, and West Pengolia, on the other hand, suffered only 1,000, 400, and 1,200 deaths, respectively.

Capture of Bolsheevicsburg
Despite the losses of over a quarter of their force in the Battle of Ownage, the communists still outnumbered the Acadians and their allies, having around 90,000 to the allies' roughly 40,000. Seeing the battle would be deadly, especially in an urban area, the commander of the city, gave the order to evacuate the city. Around 5,000 of the city's inhabitants also followed the allied forces. Many of the allied forces joined the Acadians in Fishwow, while most went south to St Joeyaasburg to aid in the siege there.

Days later, the victorious but tired communist forces finally entered the nearly empty city. Tired from battle, they began to loot the city of the items the Acadians left behind in their haste. There were also reports of the communist soldiers looting the homes of East Pengolian civilians in the city. The capture of Bolsheevicsburg was the biggest success of the communist forces in the war, and boosted their morale.