Hulstria and Gao-Soto

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After the fall of Llwybr Hawl, capital of the Draddwyr CCR, the Rowiet Union, to the Imperial Army on December 28 last year, the Red Army attempted to set up a perimeter around the city.

The perimeter was broken through that same day. The wider DWCCR fell, and the minuscule Kazulian Autonomous CCR, which makes up a sliver of land attached to the DWCCR's east, fell with it.

The Rowiets then set up a lengthy perimeter around the DWCCR to contain the Imperials. That perimeter was broken too less than a day into its creation.

Now the Imperial Army's force of 600,000 men, supplied by a seemingly endless stream of airdrops from well-protected transport aircraft dubbed the 'Idōwa Express' is running rampant across Eljang Province, in the Kyo CCR, which makes up the bulk of Rowiet territory, is home to most of its population as well as the communist dictatorship's capital of Seongtaek, and separates the DWCCR in the east from the Draniano CCR in the west. Eljang is the second most populous province of the KCCR as well as the southernmost province of both the KCCR and the UCCR, and housed as an enclave within it is the KCCR's capital of Hyeokjin, an important strategic target. Bordering Eljang's west is Seongtaek itself. But to capture Seongtaek, the Imperial Army force (now officially dubbed Group North) must capture Hyeokjin, and its leader, General Sano Katsukiyo, was apparently at liberty to reveal that in a call to the Shimbun today.

Hyeokjin, and the rest of the KCCR, is ripe for conquest in the name of the Emperor, and being careful and prudent will mean certain victory this year.

This is owed in part to General Sano's daring dengeki-sen (電撃戦, lit. 'electric shock war') offensive tactics, which may not be new (they are a modernized adaptation of 20th-century traditional Hulstrian blitzkrieg, or lightning war, tactics) but are nonetheless undeniably effective. In dengeki-sen, enemy lines are broken through by mobile units with the aid of close air support (which, note, has greatly advanced since the 20th century) and the enemy "cannot outhink friendly units, so much as outmaneuver them", according to Sano. The enemy is promptly destroyed in a zetsumetsu notatakai (絶滅の戦い, battle of annihilation).

While designed for an age where survivability meant the thickness of one's armor rather than the ingenuity of one's armor and firepower meant the caliber of one's weapons rather than the ingenuity of one's weapons, dengeki-sen remains effective in this day of missiles and thermal vision. If anything, it is more effective, as long as the attacker maintains technological superiority, which in this case, he does. Now the dengeki-sen is sweeping across Eljang, with satisfactory and substantial gains in Sekoku and Azumatochi having already been made by Groups South and West. Group North is knocking on Hyeokjin's door, ready for a surely decisive battle. The only remaining question, a closely guarded secret, is when.

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Rowiet Kyo to the Gao-Sotoan Government!

O Chojo, Gao-Sotoan demon and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of man are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked a**? The devil s**ts, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Communist sons. We have no fear of your army; by land and by sea we will battle with thee. F**k thy mother.

Thou Idowan scullion, Kienist wheelwright, brewer of Kamakura, goat-f**ker of Syakusen, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Gao-Soto, pig of Dovani, Zibonese thief, catamite of Miyako, hangman of Kyo, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before Metz, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our d**k. Pig's snout, mare's a**, slaughterhouse cur, uruly brow. Screw thine own mother!

So the Rowiets declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Communists. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the winds of time. The day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our a**!

This was the eloquently written reply to an ultimatum delivered yesterday from the office of Prime Minister FM Kidehi Chojo to KCCR president Pak Kang-Ho, with Group North of the Imperial Army knocking on the CCR's capital of Hyeokjin's door.

Below is said ultimatum, which has not been made public by the Prime Minister's office until now.

Prime Minister, Field Marshal Kidehi Chojo to President Pak Kang-Ho: As the Prime Minister; son of the Emperor; brother of the land and sea; grandson and viceroy of Amatubime; leader of the people of Gao-Soto, Sekoku, Azumatochi, and Dankoku; governor of governors; leader of leaders; extraordinary general, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Meijiyo; trustee chosen by Amatubime Herself; the hope and comfort of Kamists; confounder and great defender of Daenists – I command you, the President of the Kyo Communist Councilist Republic, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

Needless to say, Coordinating Minister of Will Tanigawa Kazuki believes that the Kyo response is inappropriate.

I do not feel that further reporting on this subject is necessary.

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The 4th Army, the spearhead of Group North, a 600,000-man-force of the Imperial Army currently conquering the Eljang region of the Kyo CCR has been admitted by Group North's commander, General Sano Katsukiyo, to be bogged down fighting in the KCCR's capital of Hyeokjin. The Red Army, once continuously shredded by armor and close air support thanks to Sano's mobile dengeki-sen tactics, decided to stand its ground in Hyeokjin when the 4th struck on January 20th. Sano explained that after the Imperial Air Force conducted multiple days of intense bombing of military targets throughout Hyeokjin, he had expected an easy victory upon his arrival.

What he got was a drastically different situation. The Red Army decided to engage in a sadistic, brutal campaign of guerrilla warfare between the ruins of Hyeokjin, using civilians as human shields and literally fighting atop Rowiet citizens' dead bodies. Worse, civilians themselves were made to fight, being given weapons and essentially thrown at Imperial forces. Even children have been reported to be among them. Unfortunately, the nature of the battle meant that these civilians had to be treated as enemy combatants proper and thus neutralized.

The sheer scale of the sprawling metropolis of 9 million and the military forces involved mean that these tactics have kept Imperial forces at bay for weeks, vastly prolonging local suffering. While the 4th made it into the urban area of Hyeokjin easily, it has thus far been unable to penetrate to the critical city center, and has instead been engaged in a visceral quasi-siege made up of house-to-house fighting. Manpower has been diverted from the 5th and 6th Armies to the 4th, a force initially made up of 250,000 men, and CAS efforts in conjunction with the wider Group are being increasingly focused on the city. However, the Rowiet network of fortifications throughout urban Hyeokjin combined with their outright malicious tactics are largely preventing these efforts from having a significant effect.

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The Shimbun's website is adorned in black (and will be for the three days after this article's publication) for we mourn the deaths of hundreds of thousands of national heroes. But we also celebrate the glorious way in which they died. 300,000 brave men's lives have been taken from us, but we must also rest in comfort, for we have 300,000 more kami watching over our great Empire.

Today, the entire 4th Army engaged in a massive final banzai charge in all directions against surrounding Rowiet forces, after a brutal multimonth battle for the critical Kyo Rowiet city of Hyeokjin, the beating heart of the Kyo left. The cowardly Red Army engaged in a long campaign of guerrilla warfare, resorting to the use of civilians and child soldiers in place of soldiers proper, and slowly enveloped the 4th Army until it formed an outwardly impenetrable shield completely encircling our captured territory in Hyeokjin, made up of large swathes of suburban land as well as some areas near the urban center. Slowly, the bastards starved and whittled down the 4th, reinforced by its fellow Group North Armies, the 5th and 6th. But before the Rowiets could close in for the kill, we did.

Lieutenant General Okabe Sanetane, the commander of the 4th, was recorded to have, at his field headquarters in the heart of Gao-Soto's held gains, given a speech to his starving men, explaining that there was only one way out of the situation, being death. Here is the speech in full.

My friends, we are surrounded. The communist enemy is on our doorstep, ready to stone our fathers, stab our mothers, shoot our sons and rape our daughters.

But you might be wondering why I have not mentioned any siblings. That is because all the brothers are here. You are all my brothers. We are all our brothers.

There is a path out of this predicament that we have gotten stuck in. It is an easy path, and one with peaceful safety and refuge at the end of it. That path is death. But the whole of the 4th Army will not kill ourselves just yet. No, my brothers.

I intend for the 4th Army to go down fighting. One glorious attack against the communists, who oppose us from all sides. If you have no tanks, ride in IFVs. If you have no IFVs, ride in APCs. If you have no APCs, ride in LUVs. If you have no LUVs, ride on whatever you can find here in Hyeokjin. If you can find nothing to ride on, then take up a grenade and prepare to pull the pin. If you have no grenade, take up your gun and load it with ammunition. If you have no ammunition, affix your bayonets. If you have no bayonets, draw your other blades. If you have no blades, pick up a rock. And if, by some vastly unlikely twist of chance, you can find no rock, clench your fists. But I urge you - once you charge, never cease to fight until you depart from this mortal coil. For it is better to fight for a 1% chance of victory than to do nothing, maintain a 0% chance of victory, and become dishonored in the process.

The Rowiets are everywhere. They are on our left, they are on our right, they are in front of us, and they are behind us. They cannot get away this time.

The 4th proceeded to charge in all directions with what motley assortment of vehicles and weapons they had left. With cries of Tennōheika Banzai, the men charged on foot and on wheels, weapons at the ready. They killed many Rowiets, though not enough to force a breakthrough; all died gloriously. Okabe was shot in the arm during a counterattack against an assault on his headquarters; unable to use a weapon against the enemy, he withdrew to his quarters and committed sepukku (ritual suicide) along with the rest of his staff.

Okabe and the rest of the 4th Army are being hailed as heroes at home, with a public memorial service in Idōwa attracting more than 100,000 mourner-celebrants. Prime Minister FM Kidehi Chojo, Coordinating Minister for Will Tanigawa Kazuki, and Coordinating Minister for Functioning Ina Tomotada all recommended that the Emperor posthumously award Okabe the Imperial Grand Order of the Black Sun, 1st Class - the highest award in the Empire - as well as to the 4th at large as a unit citation.

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The Empire has been sadly bereft of allies in this great imperial struggle, but no longer. An Autonomous State of Dankoku was declared today, composed of what was once the DWCCR, the KACCR, and taken by the 300,000-man force that is Group North. While its President, Col. Dremidydd Yarwood, formerly of the Red Army, still retains Group North's commander, Gen. Sano Katsukiyo as regional military advisor and while Dankoku is under the protection of the Empire, it is for all intents and purposes a free state, of the Dankowan people, by the Dankowan people, for the Dankowan people - who, of their own volition, have chosen to submit to the Emperor.

At the same time, a Coalition of Nations was declared between the Empire and Dankoku. The Imperial War is now fought by two.

Celebration has broken out in Dankoku's capital of Llwybr Hawl (its Draddwyr name. In Kyo, Ilbae) upon Col. Yarwood's inaugural speech, which is as follows - translated from the original Draddwyr into Luthorian.

Glory to the Empire of Gao-Soto and the imperialist thought and doctrine! Long live the immortal science of Metzism-Leonidism-Yarwoodism, which is the dialectical practice of the great class party! Long live the immortal friendship of the Autonomous State of Dankoku and the Empire of Gao-Soto!

You may think that these phrases may not work together, but they can.

The worker and the proletariat have forever been told empty promises by the communist Rowiet government, making a giant, unmanageable body where the lungs frequently crush the heart right when it needs to beat and that tears out its own liver to beat the armies of Emperor Pwer Anfeidrol (Mugendjikara's name in Draddwyr) instead of fighting honorably with fists and blades.

What the body needs is a head. We have found this head in the Emperor, a guide to the future of the worker and the proletariat, who leads him to a direction that in turn leads to a bright future where the needs of the people are above the needs of the bourgeois!

Long live Dankoku! Long live the Emperor!

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Prime Minister FM Kidehi Chojo and Group North's commander Gen. Sano Katsukiyo expressed in separate news conferences today the dire need for the rebuilding of the 4th Army, which was killed in its entirety in April at the Battle of Hyeokjin along with its commanding officer. Sano, in particular, stated that given the sufficient gains made in Azumatochi and Sekoku, manpower needs to be transferred from Imperial armies located there - though not to the point of complete absorption, since 'sufficient' does not mean 'expected', since 'expected' means the full conquest of the continent of Dovani. But at present, a breakthrough on the currently stalled Northern Front should be the Empire's priority, Sano said.

The 4th Army was the spearhead of Group North, responsible for first striking the UCCR on its home turf early in the year at Llwybr Hawl, the former Draddwyr CCR. Now, the primarily supportive 5th and 6th Armies (made up of 170,000 and 130,000 men respectively) are unable to push into enemy territory. With southern soldiers making up a reformed 4th Army, this important goal will finally happen.

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Bianjie, once on rather friendly terms with the Empire (our Emperor's first visit abroad as Emperor was to a visit to celebrate the 50th anniversary of modern Bianjie's founding) is a member of the Dovani Pact. All member states are to be called to war against aggressors if said aggressor declares war on so much as one of them.

The Empire never attacked Azumatochi, which is a supposed member of the Dovani Pact, let alone declared war. It merely mobilized troops in to help secure and streamline the annexation of a deserved rogue territory of Gao-Soto. Yet in the name of its Pact obligations, Bianjie has decided to declare war on the Empire. The left-leaning Khan of Bianjie, Fanggon Hala-i Banai (whose father, Khan Fanggon Hala-i Nikan, spearheaded the normalization of Gao-Soto-Bianjie relations until his death in 4944 and hosted our Emperor at dinner) declared today that Bianjie would "defeat these fascist[s] with ease, for we have allies, and they have only themselves to protect them."

Firstly, we no longer fight this war by ourselves. The Autonomous State of Dankoku is here to help, with its citizens, happy proponents of the Metzist-Leonidist-Yarwoodist school of political belief that aims to further the cause of the proletariat by way of a strong leader (found in our Emperor) willing to aid the struggle against Bianjie.

Secondly, even if Dankoku was not existent, our united Empire would still crush the weak Bianjien forces. To so much as match a fraction of Gao-Soto's power, Bianjie must spend its days squabbling with its 'allies' (which it is shortsightedly willing to betray at any time, as its declaration of war on us proves) and conscript one male from every local family. Meanwhile, Coordinating Minister for Will Tanigawa Kazuki pointed out in a joint statement with Coordinating Minister for Functioning Ina Tomotada that our glorious military has seen three decades of buildup, numbering approximately two million men and thousands of airplanes, and the United People's Force is ready to enforce the Teikoku Sensen's will with all the zeal of the Khan who dares oppose us.

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In order to compensate for the mass destruction of Bianjien transport ships bound for Azumatochi by Imperial planes following recent operational difficulties against the UCCR in the Myeoggi Mountains, in Dankuk, Bianjie has been forced to resort to the most extraordinary measures to rebuild its manpower and salvage its grace after a brutally honest analysis of the socialist state's ability to wage war was issued by the Shimbun. Khan Fanggon Hala-i Banai declared yesterday that "for years [Bianjie has] trained elite men for the Bianjien Armed Forces in the military academies built during the years of great cooperation with Liore. Let's show them what [Bianjie's] elite forces are capable of."

Instead of continuing to promote Bianjie's 'elite' soldiers, the Khan then proceeded to make a desperate attempt to beg for violent convicts incarcerated in Bianjie's Nimanggia Mega-Prison Complex to fight for Bianjie with:

• A full year shaved off their sentences, for each Imperial citizen killed,
• a week's leave and a visit home to their families, for each Imperial officer killed, and
• status as war heroes.

As you can see, the first two are essentially bounties, and the second one is an outright bribe.

Coordinating Minister for Will Tanigawa Kazuki issued a recorded statement on his Coordinating Ministry's website entitled 'Response to the Khan's Bribery of Incarcerated Bianjiens'. It consists of footage of the Khan's speech translated into Kunikata, followed immediately by a clip of Tanigawa breaking into a grin and laughing hysterically.

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LBC Home Service, 9 August 4960; Special feature: 'Conquest of Paradise'

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Despite the best efforts of the Hulstrian aristocrats and rotting carcass of the Imperial Front, a thousand years of Septembro-ethnocratic rule (a few attempts by liberal internationalists to appropriate the proletarian meeting of East and West for their own ends aside) came to an end last night as election results poured in from across Hulstria and Gao-Soto to reveal a landslide victory for Geserushafuto-backed candidates. With almost all constituencies now reporting, the Conservative united front has won less than 10% of seats in the new provisional assembly, while in an even more embarrassing result for the Hulstrian ethnocrats the Volksfront failed to win any seats at all. A new dawn has truly broken, has it not?

Although - in the words of the National Bolsheviks - everything has changed forever, our work has just begun. The abolition of the artificial race divide will come with the realisation of the Harusutorokanihiten as the sole national community of a solely proletarian nation. We reject the pathetic attempts of the Rowiet-led occupation authority to impose the Treaty of Maerang and a constitution drafted presumably by Whale Island's top meddlers upon us. We invite the Allied Peacekeeping Forces only to leave the country immediately, lest they face the people's retribution for overstaying their welcome; the new government is not any sort of 'successor state' to Gao-Soto, and we will not be recognising their arms limitations. The same goes for their reparations. From today there is no 'Hulstria and Gao-Soto', only Mikuniharusutāraiku - Mikunihulstria.