Dispatch from the front: the Coalition enters in Wolfshein - Military Junta surrenderVanukuan tanks welcomed in WelfsheinThe coalition's military forces reached Wolfshein, the capital of Ostland, where they were welcomed by celebrating people, Gao-Showan mainly but also Dundorfian ones, among them also many Ostlandian soldiers
The steamroller of the overwhelming coalition forces that moved from north, south and east for months in Ostland and thus the definitive withdrawal of the Hulstrian occupation forces, have definitively made lose to the military junta led by dictator Dietrich Hohenstein its grip on the country and especially on the armed forces: after the initial cases of desertion following the invasion from the south and the sea, demotivated and clearly unable to oppose the slightest resistance, brigade after brigade, division after division, mutinies followed each other in the arc a few days, both between the troops and the officers, now totally abandoned by Hohenstein who, according to the high rank military who have surrendered, has spent the last few weeks preparing his escape together with a dozen senior officers of the General Staff.
However, the Ostland troops have not only surrendered to the coalition forces, but in several cities not yet reached by Western forces and therefore in the capital, several brigades have assaulted buildings of the power as well as the airport of Wolfshein and the headquarters of the Supreme Command. So, when the Istalo-Vanukuan armored units arrived in Wolfshein, they found thousands of people on the streets to welcome them and then a young Colonel of the dissolved Grand-Ducal Guard, Kurt Blauel, at the head of a reconstituted 1st Division of Ostland, which welcomed the General Staff of the Coalition together with numerous members of the Council of State and of the Government preceding the coup, freed from a long-term imprisonment. Regarding the Grand Duke Wilhem I, son of Ludwig I, Colonel Blauel said that after his protests following the pro-Hulstrian coup, he was placed under arrest in the Grand Duke's Palace from where he unfortunately seems to have disappeared for months.
For the time being the Coalition has decided to place the fate of Ostland in the hands of a newly formed Territorial Command of the Coalition and to second in Ostland about 15 thousand Istalian troops and as many Vanukuan troops which will undertake to bring aid and to assist the liberated political authorities and who seems to be the new head of the army, Colonel Baluel, shown to be fully available to cooperate. It was Blauel who personally met Army Corps General Belardi and the Deputy Commander of the Southern Joint Command, the Vanukuan Lieutenant General Eksandr Wilhelmsrmo, along with former Minister of State Gunter Baumgarter. Belardi, as instructed directly by the Istalian Government, immediately made it clear to the two Ostlanders that any dialogue with local authorities will pass through a process of pacification and above all of equalization between the Kunihito population, the majority Gao-Showan ethnic group in Ostland, and that Hulstro-Dundorfians.
The meeting, however, was brief, both Belardi and Wilhelmsrmo immediately departed following the bulk of the troops in the direction of the Hulstrian border where the Istalo-Vanukuan forces will definitely join the rest of the Coalition in Hulstria, where Belardi will expect a strong defense by part of the Hulstrian forces who will fight to the bitter end, especially when the coalition will reach the capital.