Yujin Civil War: Just the Facts

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2/10/1953
Liangang - Protesters have been taking to the streets for nearly two weeks, representing a diverse variety of political opinions. Their protests are typically peaceful, though in the days leading up to the lunar new year, skirmishes between police forces and protesters often involved fists, batons, and thrown rocks. Protests continued through the New Year itself, playing host to a number of public celebrations and numerous fireworks.

The Guisi Year was heralded with great joy across the nation, with millions of people travelling back to their family's homes to take part in traditional family dinners, sharing hongbao and other gifts with each other. However, all was not well - the government had earlier warned protesters to disperse before the New Year or there would be conquences. Those warnings were ignored...

2/11/1953
Liangang - Imperial Army soldiers responded to a radio call for assistance from Imperial Police who had apprehended several Hongmenghui members smuggling contraband, radio's and small arms. Imperial Army soldiers arrived on the scene and executed the Hongmenghui members, seizing the contraband for themselves. Among the contraband were notifications that Hongmenghui had been organizing protesters.

The information was relayed up the chain of command, and the decision was made by the General responsible for securing Liangang, Yang Zidi, to initiate a city-wide crackdown. In an operation utilizing hundreds of soldiers and dozens of tanks, including members of both the Imperial Army and New Army, members of the military met with protesters and began isolating groups of them into pockets. Sharpshooters were deployed to the roofs of many structures near protests, where they began opening fire on the crowds. With protesters falling dead to gunfire, crowds panicked and quickly dispersed. Several bodies were left on the streets, blood pooling in the drains, before Imperial Army soldiers moved the bodies out of sight.

The Imperial Army has enacted martial law for large portions of Liangang Commandery, and the total presence of soldiers in the city is counted at two partially mobilized divisions, or 16,480 men, as well as an additional 40 tanks which are being used to increase military visibility and deter protesters from high value locations.

 

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2/12/1953
Liangang - The sound of sniper fire still resounded through the city once every few minutes as a rooftop gunman picked off another passing civilian. The protests all but disappeared, but rumors spread like wildfire through the city of the massacres that had been committed, each tale being woven into something even more elaborate and ruthless as it was told again. There was rage in the city, a rage that had cut short any sense of joy and luck brought by the new year.

The city had become quiet in the streets, and slowly the sharpshooters posted on the rooftops began to silence their guns and withdraw back to the base. The government gained a false sense of security, but within each home there was anger, violence. Door to door, organizers for the next protest surged, risking gunfire from the few sharpshooters that still lingered, delivering flyers with simple instructions: Friday, City Hall. There, they would stage a protest before the government and the eyes of the Western embassies that filled Liangang.

It did not take long before the government discovered the instructions on the dead corpse of a courier shot dead; there were dozens of dead men still laying in the streets, their bodies not yet carried away by their friends and family. Almost immediately, the Imperial police and Imperial Army dispatched units to arrest any and all suspected ring leaders of the organization, as well as dozens of random arrests. These men were sent to a quickly constructed camp on the outskirts of the city, there they would be processed and eventually sent to the labor camps in Seora where thousands of political prisoners were already held.

Nianxu - The Yujin Revolutionary Alliance finished convening a summit wherein the three interested parties, the Hongmenghui, Fuguotian, and Dongyuhui determined that mutual cooperation was the only reasonable way to force the Emperor to abdicate his thrown in favor of a interim government headed by the Alliance. There was little agreement as to what form the interim government would look like, and the organization has a long way ahead of it.

Nianxu is slowly being transformed into a base of power for the Fuguotian, who have organized non-violent protests and worked to undermine government institutions by boycotting numerous goods monopolized by the government, including opiates and rice.

 

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2/13/1953
Nianxu - Several militia's were organized by the Restore the Nation League, numbering upwards of four thousand men and women armed mostly with pitchforks. Among their numbers include large numbers of low ranking police officers and Imperial Army deserters. Imperial Police precincts within Nianxu have been slow to respond, and confusion has gripped the local government. Red, yellow, and blue tricolor banners are being flown throughout the city, which was the home of the 1921 Revolt. The Imperial government has received word that Han Juemin, the leader of the Fuguotian, is leading the movement from the front and is within the city and has mobilized the 12th Corps, which includes the 62nd, and 88th New Army Infantry Divisions, to respond isolate the threat and disperse the citizens.

2/14/1953
Nianxu - Republican protesters within Nianxu stormed the local state radio and have begun broadcasting anti-government declarations, a general call to arms among the citizenry, and several revolutionary songs in defiance of Imperial law. The number of protesters has increased to ten thousand in a city of roughly 600,000, though only a handful of these protesters are members of an armed militia. The Imperial garrison has retreated back to important objectives, including the harbor and governor's prefecture. Numerous police prefectures have been surrounded, and several have begun flying the revolutionary tricolor and distributing weapons to the militia.

Liangang - Local military units have begun establishing checkpoints throughout the center of the city in an attempt to prevent the illegal assembly of citizens on the 15th. This has drawn many members of the military from the outskirts of the city, and Hongmenghui members have begun moving to secret armories and arming themselves. Several neighborhood officials structures have been seized and the officials held hostage, preventing word of the seizure from spreading to the Imperial-controlled portions of the city. The Imperial Navy has deployed two frigates and a battalion of Imperial Marines in the harbor. The total number of Imperial troops in the vicinity of the city has surged to 18,000; though many reservist levies have either failed to or refuse to mobilize to their respective units. Of the three divisions deployed to Liangang, only one division (the New Army's 16th) can be considered combat capable.

Northern Frontier - Hongmenghui members have begun assemblying in the northern countryside. Many of these members are reservists who have failed to deploy with their units to Liangang. The total number of members of Hongmenghui clustered around training camps that dot the northern frontier can be estimated at 12,000, rising by an additional thousand every day. Cadres of Hongmenghui members have begun infiltrating into the Imperial-controlled regions to the south, principally along the river leading to the west of Liangang, separating Mao Province from the majority of the nation. These units have begun setting themselves up at strategic locations nearby bridges and railroad lines that lead into Mao Province.

 

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2/15/1953
Liangang - A mass rally of 95,000 protesters organizes and moves into the center of Liangang. Flags are raised on numerous buildings along the consulate boulevard, and Army units are forced to fall back to key objectives, ignoring the barricade put up intended to keep protesters out of the center of the city. Further military units are being redeployed from neighboring Commanderies to Liangang to reinforce the city.

Nianxu - Protests in Nianxu number around 70,000, and have gained the support of numerous state facilities including a number of police and fire precincts, as well as state radio which has been broadcasting revolutionary and patriotic music and reiterating their manifesto, the same demands enumerated by the Revolution of 1923. The New Army's 62nd, and 88th Divisions are being deployed to secure the city.

2/16/1953
Liangang - The rally of people in Liangang has risen to 120,000 people in a metropolitan area of roughly 900,000, with many people from nearby cities taking the train into the city to join the protests. Many of these people are unemployed workers who have been unable to acquire a good job, but others of these people are in fact Hongmenghui and Fuguotian agitators mobilizing peasants and workers in the surrounding areas.

2/17/1953
Liangang - Hongmenghui paramilitary units have taken several more outlying areas of Liangang and have begun solidifying control of outer parts of the city. Imperial military units are still unaware of Hongmenghui activity in the suburbs.

Nianxu - The number of protesters in the city has reached nearly 100,000, and several more state facilities have defied government orders, including state utility services which continue to provide power, water, and gas to the city in defiance of Imperial orders.

2/18/1953
Liangang - Word of Hongmenghui activity in the outlying areas of the city, as well as events in Nianxu, have forced Imperial Central Command to issue orders to put down the protests by any means necessary. Surrounding a crowd of nearly 60,000 protesters outside city hall and the consulate promenade, the Imperial Army and New Army initiated a violent crackdown on protests using tanks and automatic weapons. Over three thousand protesters were killed, another six thousand were wounded in some way, and nearly one thousand have taken refuge in the Parthavan, Carentanian, Frescanian, and Havenshire consulates. Imperial military units have closed access to these embassies. Imperial military units also launched an operation to expel the Hongmenghui from the outer regions of Liangang, but this operation quickly became bogged down in asymmetric combat. Hongmenghui casualties are at 46, including 8 dead; Imperial Army casualties are at 212, including 78 dead.

Nianxu - Republican revolutionaries in Nianxu briefly took control of City Hall. While staging a victory speech at the site, Han Juemin was captured by New Army units belonging to the NA's 62nd, who also began to attack the protesters. 182 protesters were killed, 310 wounded, and 500 taken prisoner. The protesters continue to rally throughout the city, despite the 62nd having pushed in from the North and the 88th having moved in from the south.

 

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2/19/1953
Liangang - Low-intensity fighting continues in the outskirts of Liangang between Hongmenghui insurgents and Imperial Army troops. Hongmenghui troops have begun manufacturing their own ammunition to support themselves, but material supplies are limited. Imperial Army forces have retaken two neighborhoods, forcing Hongmenhui units out of Imperial-sympathetic neighborhoods. Imperial Army units have had no traction in retaking revolutionary-leaning neighborhoods.

Nianxu - New Army units continue to put down protests with violence, despite limited incidents of injuries among military personnel. 88th Division commanded by Zhao Yue in southern Nianxu has encountered the most tenacious protests. In total, sixty civilians have been reported dead on 2/19 with minor injuries sustained by military personnel.

2/20/1953
Liangang - Low intensity fighting continues in outskirts of Liangang with little progress being made by either side. Imperial Army forces stormed the Parthavan Consulate with tanks and four companies of troops and killed everyone on the premises. Casualties for 2/20 are 1,238 civilians and militia; 21 Hongmenghui were killed in combat; 236 Imperial soldiers were killed, with another 192 wounded. In addition, 30 Parthian ProNat guards, and 86 Parthian civilians were killed, including the Parthian Consul and his family.

Nianxu - Protests continue to be organized and put down by New Army units. Several protests have been organized within New Army held territory, and the New Army has found itself unable to completely detain revolters nor able to push into rebel held territory in Nianxu. Casualties: 43 civilians killed, 1 New Army soldier wounded.

 

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2/21/1953-2/25/1953

Liangang - After a brief lull in fighting due to the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations culminating in the Lantern Festival, a celebration used by revolutionaries throughout the country to cast skyward their hopes for revolution with red, yellow and blue lanterns sent to the sky, combat resumed throughout the port city of Liangang. Hongmenghui forces have been bolstered by insurgents from the countryside, and many units have begun infiltrating further into the city despite city-wide curfews and checkpoints being put into effect. Currently, combat in Liangang is at a stalemate, with the Imperial Army unable to capitalize on progress in any specific area and Hongmenghui drawing on popular support to go to ground during Imperial gains.

Liangang Consular Boulevard - New Army and Imperial Army units continue to besiege the Carentanian and Havenshire consulates, which together shelter one thousand four hundred and eighty political refugees. The Imperial government is attempting to move through diplomatic channels to end the Consular Crisis which has become an international embarrassment for the regime after the Parthian debacle damaged Imperial ties with its allies in Danmark and elsewhere. Meanwhile, over one hundred members of the revolutionary Alliance - principally from the Fuguotian - have begun tunneling around the clock into the Carentanian consulate in a desperate attempt to bring the refugees and Carentanians there much needed supplies of food and, more importantly, a path of escape before the Imperial units tire of diplomacy and the government declares war on the People's Republic.

Qi River - Imperial Army units have counter-attacked Hongmenghui bands that skirmished with Imperial forces near some minor bridges. Imperial commanders are assured that they successfully rebuffed the bulk of Hongmenghui forces, but Hongmenghui assets in the region have risen towards six thousand militants.

Nianxu - New Army forces continue to harshly suppress protests, although protesters espouse non-violence and continue to take to the streets with tenacity. Small instances of violence on behalf of the protesters have often been responded too with tremendous violence. The death toll in Nianxu continues to rise, but the New Army has not made progress into the western portions of the city, which can now be said to be entirely under Republican control, with defecting law enforcement personnel continuing their duties and preventing mass looting.

 

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2/26/1953

Liangang - Carentanian and Havenite consulates were able to successfully evacuate 1,360 refugees, and the Empire of Yujin has formally declared war on both nations. The rest of the 1,480 refugees either were killed or fled on their own way. The withdrawal of consular staff was used as a signal to initiate a city-wide revolt by combined Hongmenghui and Fuguotian forces, both of whom had been organizing a broad underground resistance. Currently, over ten thousand insurgents are engaged in combat with forty thousand Imperial and New Army soldiers.

Liangang Harbor - Naval officers aboard multiple ships assigned to the Imperial surface action group in Liangang Harbor defected to the revolutionary cause and attacked their compatriots. Of the eight vessels in the Liangang SAG, only the battleship ISS Tianguo and destroyer Linggan remain, both modestly damaged yet operable, and pledged to the revolutionary cause.

 

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2/27/1953

Liangang - Intense fighting continues throughout the city, with Imperial reinforcements bolstering the city's defenses. The Imperial forces have secured critical areas in the city, including the local arsenal, rail station, air strip, harbor, and government district. Rebel forces are currently contesting over 70% of the city and have solidly secured another 15% of the city, including a number of routes through which supplies are being sent in from rebel camps outside the city.

Mao Province - Of the Eight Commanderies of Mao Province, four have pledged their support to the Revolutionary Alliance and are supplying rebels with what little grain reserves they maintain, and recruitment of revolutionaries in the area is helping to increase the total number of revolutionaries in the area. Hongmenghui forces in Mao Province have been organized into Provisional combat units, with approximately eleven battalions formed in the capital of Mao, Liangang, and a further five battalions formed throughout the countryside and Qi River, which forms the Western boundary of Mao Province, separating it from the rest of the Empire.

Nianxu - Nonviolent protests continue to be crushed in Nianxu, and Imperial reinforcements are arriving in the city daily. New Army forces, spearheaded by units of the 62nd New Army Infantry Division, are initiating a counter-offensive into Republican-held areas of the city. Casualties among protesters are high, and units of the 62nd ID are responsible for raiding a large number of households in the search for protesters, executing entire families of those where paraphernalia is discovered.

 

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2/28-3/5/1953

Liangang - After a tenacious offensive, supplemented by sporadic Carentanian air assistance, Hongmenghui provisional combat battalions have failed to capture any major objectives, highlighting a lack of coordination between Carentanian air and naval assets and Hongmenghui ground assets. Sustaining casualty rates ranging from as low as 30% to as high as 60%, all provisional battalions have ceased direct confrontations with Imperial forces and have been ordered to consolidate territorial gains made within the city, increasing the viability of supply routes, stockpiling ammunition which is in very limited supply, and preparing for a future offensive. Skirmishes continue to break out throughout the city, but the lack of a single solid resistance means that the Imperial forces are unable to decisively win these engagements. Imperial forces continue to reinforce the city by rail, with the number of Imperial combat troops swelling to 70,000.

Qi River - The Qi River separates Mao Province from the rest of the nation, and across it span two major railroad routes. Hongmenghui battalions in the countryside have successfully mounted a sizable attack on one of these rail lines, capturing the strategic point long enough to plant explosives and demolish the bridge while sustaining minimal casualties and seizing a number of Imperial weapons and provisions. The rate of reinforcements bound to Liangang has significantly dropped as Imperial forces are forced to disembark and fortify the remaining railway.

Mao Province - Hongmenghui agitators have managed to rally a small portion of the local populace towards a revolutionary goal, with the promise of land reforms and redistribution of wealth, and a total of six thousand villagers have enlisted for the Hongmenghui cause. A lack of weapons and provisions, however, means that these men cannot be pushed directly into combat. Instead, they are receiving training in Hongmenghui training camps in isolated areas of the countryside, with a small number of foreign Parthavan officers assisting.

Nianxu - Imperial forces belonging to the New Army's 62nd have made headway into the Republican heart of the city, killing many civilians either by firing on large crowds with automatic weaponry, or executing entire families associated with suspected protesters. Thousands of residents have begun fleeing the city in fear of Imperial reprisal killings. Members of the New Army's 88th have, meanwhile, moved to garrison the city's main supply routes and strategic locations. Peaceful Republican resistance is fragmenting without the unifying leadership of the Fuguotian's figurehead Han Juemin, who remains a prisoner of General Zhao Yue. Imperial forces have prevented two plots to rescue the imprisoned leader already, and it is unlikely that a band of militia could seize the heavily guarded prison which houses twelve thousand political prisoners.

 

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highlighting a lack of coordination between Carentanian air and naval assets and Hongmenghui ground assets

You didn't even give me a chance, completely ignoring my attempts to establish a contact through my RAI officer :<

 

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3/6/1953
Liangang - Carentanian officer Lieutenant Mlakar contacts Carentanian naval assets in Liangang harbor, calling for air strikes on a variety of targets in Liangang. Because of communications problems, the Carentanians only receive one coordinate, though it is of vital importance: the railyard, which is the primary route for Imperial reinforcements. Following a heavy air strike on the target, many Imperial lives were lost and the railway depot was destroyed. Imperial reinforcements into the city will now need to move into the city by truck. Heavy city combat continues throughout the city as insurgents repel numerous Imperial offensives into rebel-held territory.

3/7-3/10/1953
Liangang - Heavy city fighting continues as Imperial forces in the destroyed railyard successfully breakout of the rebel encirclement, linking up with Imperial forces in the center of the city. Two battalions continue to garrison the railyard as reconstruction efforts are underway to restore the vital lifeline to the rest of the Empire. A lack of ammunition within Liangang is becoming evident, however, as rebel counter-attacks are becoming more tame.

Mao Province - Hongmenghui ambushes on Imperial supply convoys and reinforcements are taking a heavy toll on both Imperial and Hongmenghui forces. Hongmenghui forces are being forced to loot destroyed supply convoys to resupply their own forces.

Nianxu - Massacres of civilians continues throughout the city as Republican protesters are executed in the streets and buried in mass graves. An exodus from the city continues, with upwards of 50,000 residents leaving the city.

3/11/1953
Xinhai - The Third Route Army, a force of 40,000 infantry commanded by General Tan Tongsui, supported by 300 artillery and air defense artillery positioned in the Gujiang Gap, is moving to invade southern Vangala across the Lǜ River at multiple locations across the river. Engineer battalions and two additional fully mobilized infantry divisions are held in reserve, with orders to begin constructing infrastructure and reinforce units under fire once beachheads are secured.

Liangang - Following the withdrawal of the Carentanian carrier task force, Imperial forces have begun deploying air units including

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to strike at rebel controlled territory, targeting primarily hospitals, food queues, utility services and heavily populated residential areas. Civilian casualties have risen drastically and most essential services to the population have been severed.