Major Yukina Kisaragi took a deep breath through her gas mask before sounding the charge to start the offensive. She hated her orders, but they were clear. The 901st was ordered to serve as the new vanguard and relieve the bloodied right flank like they did when they retook the city of Jakobsdal almost a year ago. The men and women of the 901st were equipped with the latest gear to protect against the RIM's Bio-chemical ordinances in addition to their standard gear leading them to acquire several mechanized half-tracks to punch through the enemy trenches. Despite their upgraded gear the soldiers knew that the battle would an uphill one with the RIM holding the home field advantage. The battalion roared as they moved to engage the enemy, running and gunning to the nearest enemy trench, while their armored vehicles provided suppressing fire allowing the infantry to continue to cut a bloody swathe forward with the Army following close behind to exploit the holes the Battalion made as they tore through RIM lines like paper.

The ease in which the Major and her battalion tore through the RIM lines were thankfully due to the due diligence of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) who logged hidden RIM missile launchers, artillery sites, and other key hidden installations as other units took the brunt of the initial retaliatory chemical weapons attacks and Anti-Air Fire during the first few days of the offensive. ONI then shared their intelligence with their Sedunnic counterparts updating Sedunn's previous targets provided by frontline WPR partisans.

'Things are going from bad to worse,' thought Politburo Minister Aguri Kokonoe just before she spoke to her fellow ideologues. "Comrades, its clear as day that the Sedunners have launched a saturation attack on the Province in support of the Imperialists. We must call for reinforcements from Bruuma and Kai Fa lest we fall victim to the Imperialists ploy. I know that Politburo leader Kirihito will convene another meeting, so we must be in agreement to denounce the Sedunners as aggressors and push for our socialist brethren to send volunteers." "Of Course" responded the other ideologues. Another shouted, "We must circumvent the Politburo leader and ask for help immediately!" "Yeah!" another responded. Minister Aguri thought about it for a moment before nodding, "You're right we must inform them of our intent to ask for help so that they will not be caught unawares." The Minister then turned to her secretary and said, "Send a message to Kai Fa first to request reinforcements to fortify Seranuma from a Frost Invasion since they are closer and can respond faster. After the meeting then we'll inform our Bruuman brothers to harass the imperialists home islands."

Office of the Politburo Minister of Communications

My Fellow Comrades of the Revolution, We of the Worker's Party of Reizen humbly request for your immediate aid in light of a new Imperialist offensive. This offensive threatens the proletariat's revolution in Reizen as the Imperialist tyrants of the Frost Empire have enlisted the aid of the Kingdom of Sedunn to cover their weaknesses. The Party is currently encircled by the RIM and we fear that the tyrants will take advantage of this to push an offensive directly into the city and attack us. Please send volunteers to help defend the revolution.

regards
Minister Aguri Kokonoe

 

Credence Airfield was a strategic airfield critical for the deployment of sarin bombs used by the RIM Airforce. The airfield was located 100km south of the frontlines and relatively isolated being used primarily as a resupply depot for RIM pilots. Due to its isolated location the garrison was stripped of its usual complement of 250 soldiers was dropped to a skeleton crew of 30 men plus the garrison commander. With reinforcements temporarily added when the frontline troops were rotated out for a brief period. As luck or misfortune would have it, Captain Eko Onoda and 5 his raiders were resting in the barracks after being rotated out of fighting the Imperialists when they were assaulted by a foreign enemy. The Captain was rudely awoken by the explosion of their IFV. Captain Onoda shouted, “Get to your positions!” As he instinctively kicked the remaining raiders awake while the skeleton crew of the Credence Airfield Garrison engaged the enemy unsuccessfully.  The Garrison commander, Col. Sono Ripp barked orders to deploy the chemical weapons currently stored in the secondary armory. Several soldiers tried to comply but were pinned down at the main entrance. The Captain ignored the shrill cries to charge and secure the weapons  over the intercom as he barked his own orders. “Raiders! Go upstairs, take fire positions and lay down suppressive fire on the enemy.” his raiders nodded in acknowledgement before falling behind and following the Captain who placed them into their respective positions. Captain Onoda then unslung his own LMG and took aim as his other raiders fired their LMGs in short bursts.  The Captain then picked his targets and opened fire taking down 3 enemy combatants in a machine gun salvo before quickly taking cover as the enemy returned fire. Unfortunately one of his raiders was slow to take cover and was hit on the shoulder, the shock and blow of the bullet knocked him onto the floor.  Seeing that the situation was untenable, The captain murmured, “This isn’t good, we have to warn the High Command of a new threat…” He then turned to help up the wounded RIM Soldier as he said, “On your feet soldier. We are Leaving!” Captain Onoda then ordered the men to fall back downstairs, round up the survivors and proceeded to exit the garrison from the rear while the garrison commander burned sensitive documents before taking his own life.

There was a flurry of activity within the Headquarters of the Reizen Independence Movement. The Sedunnic Saturation attack had disoriented the Reizen Independence Army with many chemical weapons launch sites being crippled. Even worse the loss of Credence airfield to Sedunn opened a new avenue where the enemy could flank the rear of the army. However despite these losses, the RIM had successes abroad like the raid on Oyana Harbor. The Raiding party captured thousands of “volunteers” for the martyr brigades while the nameless helped Point Rain Armories smuggle in several Nuclear warheads.  Now they needed another win in an increasingly desperate war for independence. Their next move was simple, the news reported that the Kingdom of Sedunn was responsible for the devastating attack. Therefore, they needed to retaliate against the Kingdom. However, the question was how? Some in the Reizen Independence Army believe in a surgical strike like they did in Ela, but others remember an old peacekeeping mission that the Sedunners had undertaken in Transsuneria to remove the strongman there in an illegal invasion. Seeing that the RIM have a mutual enemy, perhaps it would be time to pay this strongman a visit, restore him to his rightful position and have him distract the Sedunners long enough to seize the province for the Republic of Reizen.