by colonelvesica » Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:04 pm
BREAKING NEWS: NEWS FROM THE FRONT
Hutorian Forces Continue Offensive in Spite of Order 0216; Capture War Criminals
When news reached General Hiawatha and General Berrigan that Kivonian divisions were taking hostages in major cities and would execute them if the Hutorian forces advanced any further, there was allegedly only a small pause. That pause was long enough for the two commanding Generals of Hutori’s Army Groups to confer with Chief of the Defence Staff General Paul Warwick and Defence Minister O’Reilly on how to proceed. The Ministry of Defence is refusing to comment on how the conversations went, but however it went it didn’t slow the Hutorian down. After a brief pause, Hutorian Army forces continued their ruthless advance into the Davostan with every intention of ending the war.
Army Group North continued their advance, unabated, though in many cases, hugging the northern coastline, Hutorian forces bypassed cities with their armoured spearheads, cutting off the Kivonian forces remaining behind to stop of stall them. Specifically, General Kiawatha urged Third Army’s III Armoured Corps, to ignore all other resistance and continue its thrust towards the western city of Fladborg. Fort Reinhardt, named after the famous hero of Kivonia was surrounded on all sides by the Hutorian Eighth Army, and shelled. While the defending 8th Corps indeed executed the hostages as ordered, the moment the first shots rang out, Hutorian infantry had begun pouring into the city on four sides while VIII Armoured Corps has remained on the outskirts of the city, daring any to try and break out. Three days of brutal fighting settled Fort Reinhardt, with the Hutorian flag flying over the name sake city of the Kivonian warhero being published widely on social media to show the downfall of one of the most important cities in the north. The other northern city, Langstad, was weakly held, and captured by the Hutorian Sixth Army, after a short but sharp battle.
Army Group South meanwhile dealt with the hostages a bit differently. General Berrigan, advancing into Ostraland from two sides had long decided to deal with the issues head on, and with help from the I Airborne Corps would be able to head off the death squads. As First and Fourth Army approached Knivby and Soderborg respectively, the death squads executed their hostages and attempted to pull back to Stormfall and Vermillion. However their retreat was blocked by waiting paratroopers of the 6th and 9th Airborne Divisions. Retreating Kivonian forces were held by the Paratroopers long enough for Hutorian armoured formations to catch up and take the retreating Kivonians in the rear, wiping out four Corps of valuable troops the Kivonians didn’t have left to resist the ever advancing Royal Army.
General Berrigan entered the city and found the bodies of the hostages in the streets and in hastily dug shallow mass graves. He paraded civillians in front of the graves, pointing out the evil of the regime, and making sure the images of the mass graves were seen back in Hutori, Telamon and indeed to the wider world to prove exactly how depraved and desperate the Kivonian regime was, and shoot down any possible argument against the Hutorian invasion.
Hutorian Forces capture Kivonia proper as Royal Army closes in on Flagborg salient
The images of the executed hostages in the eastern stretches of Davostan have seemingly broken most resistance throughout the nation, as the Hutorian Royal Army’s advanced as continued without cease or issue. Images of the executed civillians were circulated far and wide throughout Davostan and the wider world, with mass civilian uprising in eastern Davostan, making the advance of General Berrigan’s Army Group South, proceed even faster then even optimistic projections had placed it at. The remaining cities of Ostraland fell within weeks with the province as a whole coming under Hutorian occupation. This coincided with the arrival of allied Telamonic forces, the 1st and 4th Armies, and the rising of the newly formed Hutorian Ninth Army, injecting an additional 200,000 troops into the Davostani mainland theatre of the war even as desertions and defections have further whittled down what little was left of the Kivonian Army. The biggest coup thus far was the surrendering of the Capital Defence Corps of Kivonia to the advancing Hutorian First Army. Kivonian Lieutenant General Oskar Posse surrendered his command and the city to First Army’s commander, General Kaitlin Everdeen. The surrender of the capital came as Lieutenant General Posse refused to execute Order 0216 and as he saw the images of the executed civillians in eastern Davostan. The capture of Kivonia proper, and it’s widely publication that the capital had been captured without a shot fired, has destroyed what little morale and organized resistance had been left in Kovmark, with arriving Hutorian forces, moving to occupy other major cities.
Meanwhile General Hiawatha’s Army Group North continued its advanced into Sonderhavn, slowed, but never stopped, by stiffening Kivonian resistance as the Hutorians approached the Fladborg salient, known as the last major point of resistance for the Third Kivonian Republic. Tarnbaek and Ballenus were captured by advancing Hutorian combat forces, and General Hiawatha slowed his force to allow the full might of the Royal Hutorian Army to come to bare on the twilight of the Third Kivonian Republic’s final redoubt on the mainland.
Hutorian Commonwealth Launches Final Assault against Fladborg in Operation Reaper
The climax of the war on the main land approached as the Hutorian Army prepared it’s final and ultimate offensive at breaking the final resistance against their might. After a reshuffling of forces, Army Group South, consisting of the Hutorian First and Fourth Armies, occupied Kovmark and Ostraland respectively while Army Centre, consisting now of the Hutorian Fifth and Ninth Armies and the Telamonic 1st and 4th Armies joined Army Group in the final push.
Fladborg, defended by the Kivonian 3rd Army, had a little over 64,000 combat effectives left to it’s name, spread amongst three distinct Corps. Meanwhile the massive Hutorian assault force made up some 740,000 troops, that were all well prepared for the final hammerblow. Coming under the overall command of General Hiawatha, Operation Reaper was launched on the 1st of September, 4776. The most powerful armoured spearheads in this massive Army Group, II, III VI and VII Armoured Corps began their blistering assault, as the Hutorian forces pushed forward by sheer weight of numbers, steels and firepower, eroding the defensive lines around Fladborg into dust before a brutal street by street melee began, brought out by the Hutorian Infantry that showed as little mercy as had been offered to their homeland years prior. STASA formations Kivonian forces motivated, whether by fear or other means, and were well prepared in the rubble of Fladborg, which had been decimated by constant straffing by Hutorian Air forces, and the overwhelming artillery barrage brought down upon it by the advancing Hutorian Army.
The true highlight of the battle was the race between Telmonic forces and the Hutorian 5th Infantry Division, over who could capture the Central Government HQ in the city first. The 5th Infantry Division is widely seen as the formation that stopped the advance of Davostan into Hutori on the St. John River four years ago, and were the unit that have fought for the legacy of the fallen Crown Prince Charles on the land as the Hutorian Marines have done elsewhere. 5th Infantry ultimately won the race, battling a brutal room by room assault in the Government HQ building that ended with the Hutorian Commonwealth’s flag flying high above the city, showing the absolute end of resistance. Casualty numbers haven’t been released by the Hutorian Ministry of Defence, but it’s expected that Hutorian losses were moderate, while Kivonian losses were exceptionally high, with Hutorian combat forces having shown little in the way or mercy or restraint in the heat of avenging the assault on their homeland.
With Fladborg fallen, resistance on the Davostani mainland has come to it’s chilling conclusion with the only question being left, what of the Shadow Council, which nominally controls the nation, that chose to flee to the island of Dovmark as Hutorian forces were closing in, and leaving their final city to Hutorian mercy and occupation.
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