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Lavrentia Rising

An Account of the Civil War

a part of “Lavrentia Rising”, a fictional universe by StrategosXII.

The wheel of history turns endlessly. Civilisations rise and empires fall. Lavrentia rises from the ashes of the past nation, destined to either conquer or fade into obscurity. In this time of turmoil, who will you fight for?

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An Account of the Civil War

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby StrategosXII on Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:35 pm

(NOTE: At this point, I'm just writing this for fun)

THE CIVIL WAR


THE CLAIM
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A civil war had always been an option in Larus Basil's head in his dream to seize power. In fact, some may even call Larus may call himself anarchist, but only to the extent in which the chaos he causes would bring him to power. Larus, however, had the masses behind him. A majority (56.3%) of the Dzhali population of 110,000,000 had supported the Legionary claim to the presidency. Even if he did not succeed, he knew that that eventually, one of the Legionary leaders had to be elected as Senate President as the party grew in power and popularity. Originally, it was one of the twelve leaders who was supposed to be elected president, but despite many of the people supporting his claim, the Legionary picked a terrible candidate who was good at organising, but terrible at rousing speeches. The man lost as the people thought that the Legionary had lost its charm. Instead, it was President Auven, a staunch republican and a supporter of Neodemocratism, who was elected president. Under his reforms, he alienated the members of the Ancient Church as Church lands were seized and priests were killed on the president's orders.

Laurentius believed that he could have won the presidency if only he were the candidate. He believed was being limited in power due to his ambition, and the growing ambition of some of his own colleagues. No matter; he was the original Princeps Augustus, and no doubt, once this information is revealed, he would become the leader of their entire movement. He only bided his time. However, they never allowed Laurentius to run for senate on pain of being exiled, so he didn't even have a chance at running for senate president.

To make matters worse, President Auven's first order of business had to do with "keeping the peace." He forcibly made the Legionary Party an illegal organisation, and banned all members of the Legionary from senate. The Legionary knew that at this point, only violence could win them the presidency. They based their operations in the small city of Dakh, but spread the lie, and made it seem like their base of operations was one of twenty small cities in Dzhalus. At this point, Larus lobbied for support. Eventually, the other twelve gave in to his pressuring. He became the temporary Leader of Operations, but all knew that he wasn't the supreme leader of the party just yet. He also lacked true power, and was only Leader of Operations by name. The civil war began with an attempted coup d'etat. Majority of the military had already been brought into the fold, but when the coup came, the government was already anticipating it. Before Larus entered the Capital Region, he was said to have spoken to his troops: "Today, we will win or we will be forced back. Either way, the Legionary will live on. The empire we will build will shrivel and die in the future, but before it can even come to fruition, this band of criminals called the 'Republic' will die first. And so, let the dice of fate be cast, so help us Kyrios!" As the troops entered the city, they were fired upon by thousands of mercenaries. The coup had failed, and the civil war had begun. The troops withdrew as they did not want unnecessary casualties. Larus knew this would be a hard struggle, but he had planned for it. After the civil war began, Larus was confirmed into the Ancient Church alongside four of his loyal supporters in the Legionary Twelve, and was baptised as Laurentius Augustus Basileus.


THE NAVAL WAR

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The Legionary retreated from the Capital Region and back into one of its hideouts. As this happened, there was a naval battle on Dzhalus' orbit between the rebel and government fleets. While it seemed as if the rebels had been outnumbered in terms of ships, what the government failed to anticipate was that the crews of the ships had mostly flocked to the rebellion. There were a hundred ships all in all. Eighty belonged to the government, and twenty to the rebels. Yet, a large majority of government ships were either unmanned or undermanned. In reality, only thirty ships could fight against the rebels' twenty. Despite having the numerical disadvantage, the rebels ensured that they defeated the enemy soundly. The government lost three ships as the rebels surrounded them. By the end of the day, the thirteen remaining ships surrendered, and the navy was put under the full control of the rebel forces. The entire nation was effectively on lockdown.


THE GROUND WAR

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The war on the ground began slowly. Raids on factories, assassinations, guerrilla warfare. A large portion of the military had joined Laurentius, but that was not enough to fight the private armies and loyal factions of the military. Laurentius personally ordered the assassination of several loyalist generals and politicians to weaken the government resolve. The government also attempted this, but failed due to Laurentius rarely showing himself to the outside world. The government assassins were caught and paid a large bounty to return to his former client and kill him instead. This worked, and just like that, the government had lost its Spymaster. He also organised various raids on enemy factories, stealing guns and equipment for his growing citizen militia, all of whom were being trained for conventional warfare by military personnel.

Three months into the war, Arkad began supplying the legitimate government with weapons. In turn, the bitter Barkus Dominion supplied the rebels. While Barkus was later forbidden from further reinforcing the rebellion by the Galactic Federal Union, it had already sent military engineers and officers long before. These engineers and officers assisted the independent production of weaponry and equipment While the Republicans had a technological edge, the Legionary had grown in number and skill. As the militia grew more effective and more organised, the guerrilla war turned into a conventional one, especially with the birth of the Caput Mortis from the original batch of soldiers associated with the Legionary. They were the elite infantry of the rebellion who were drawn from the best. By the end of the war, there were 24,000 Caput Mortis soldiers. Decius Armator Perfluo was one of the leaders of the Legionary who lobbied for its creation.

Many skirmishes were fought between the regular troops of the rebellion and the private armies of the legitimate government. It was mostly over small villages that the government military had no real sway over, as well as cities both small and large. Laurentius' positioning gave his troops the advantage all the time. The Republicans were driven out of the field time and time again thanks in part to Laurentius' strategic thinking and his officers' tactical skill. He would spend days force-marching entire armies across difficult terrain to get to an advantageous spot, from which they rained hell upon the enemy, who had negated their advantages by spreading their line of defence too thinly. Eight months into the campaign, and the Legionary already controlled 3/4 of the planet through simple positioning and scaring or starving the enemy to submission. Decius did similar work. He used small mobile detachments of regular or Caput Mortis infantry and weakened the enemy before exploiting the gaps he created in the enemy lines.


THE BATTLE OF NORTHERN DZHALIPOL

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The first full-scale decisive battle happened in the outskirts of the Capital Region. Laurentius and his friend, Decius Armator Perfluo took the task of assaulting Northern Dzhalipol, a separate city from Dzhalipol which was not under the Capital Region. The Legionary had tried to take it time and time again, but kept failing due to the heavy defensive line on the outskirts of the city behind a river. Only Laurentius and Decius were known to be capable strategists after their manifestos and their actions during the early war. It was now reaching its bloody climax, and everybody knew that only the most skilled should be picked for the mission. They were given 48,000 men and one tank to counter the 65,000 on the defensive behind barricades and a small river. Here, the first Themes were formed and used. Three regular Themes, and the very first full-strength Caput Mortis Theme were present in the battle. There had also been given access to heavy artillery, but they knew it would be a battle of tricks. The strategy Decius and Laurentius agreed on was to trick the enemy into thinking that it was just another regular attack on the enemy.

Decius was ordered to remove the enemy battery temporarily to allow Laurentius to harass and annoy the enemy. He knew that their general was a hotheaded one. Most of the incursions into Northern Dzhalipol failed because the initial rebel advance would grind to a screeching halt with many casualties on the Legionary side before he would suddenly abandon his position and send the entire army to destroy the enemy force. He also knew that more reinforcements would come within a fortnight to bolster the government force to 80,000 in anticipation of a major rebel offensive, and in anticipation for a government counteroffensive that would, in turn, evolve into an offensive to the north. He came up with a solution that made use of the navy to assist in the bombardment of the enemy positions before dropping a small contingent that would disable the battery and be extracted. Within a few days, the navy approved of the plan. Dzhali bombs were dropped on Dzhali buildings, disabling the enemy naval cannons. The Caput Mortis company defeated the government forces defending the battery before conquering the bunkered batteries themselves. Before sun could rise, the entire government battery had been destroyed by heavy explosives. The Caput Mortis was extracted by a fighter as soon as the mission ended.

With the battery gone, Laurentius ordered the pricking to begin under the supervision of Decius. The enemy became either wary or amused at the puny attempts by the enemy forces to raid the bunkers both night and day. They thought it would be a major offensive, not some tiny warbands trying to inflict casualties. They began to grow lax, but at the same time, Laurentius was chipping at their patience and their much-needed rest. The troops Laurentius sent were Caput Mortis veterans who were well-fed and rested. However, Laurentius ordered them to paint their black armour a drab green to make the enemy think that they were fighting a regular rebel force, while stationing the rest of the army in a faraway city, two days' march away. It was the first city the government would try to conquer in the event of an attack, and it was where Laurentius' line of resistance would be. In a fortnight, the enemy force was bolstered to 80,000. He continued pricking the lines before ordering a small offensive of 10,000 grenadiers to destroy a weak point in the line with no intent to break through. As the point was destroyed with over 7,000 casualties on the enemy side, reinforcements began flooding in. By the onset of dusk, the enemy lost 15,000 soldiers, while the rebels lost 2,000. The rebels retreated. Another 10,000 was sent to a point that grew weak as soldiers from this area reinforced the other points. Another hole was blown in the enemy's lines, with them losing 8,000 soldiers and Laurentius losing 500. They returned and rested by the makeshift camp several miles north.

Two nights later, Laurentius assaulted them in a similar manner, and inflicted more casualties before retreating and force-marching the Caput Mortis soldiers to the village. Three days later, the enemy abandoned its fortifications and began its advance northward without waiting for the major offensive to come. They marched into Laurentius' trap. The enemy assaulted the city from all sides, and the defenders easily repelled them twice on that day with the help of the hidden heavy artillery. What the enemy did not expect was for Laurentius to be behind the enemy lines, hiding in the forests, jungles, and mountains. As the enemy set up camp and rested, an entire Theme, one battalion of Caput Mortis grenadiers, and one tank overran the enemy camp. The men in the buildings abandoned their defensive positions. The enemy force surrendered as it found itself surrounded on all sides. The soldiers were imprisoned, and the Dzhali mercenaries were executed on the spot for their treason.

Meanwhile, Decius was asked for command over two veteran Themes trying to assault the eastern bank of Dzhalipol. He stopped the offensive for several days. Convinced that the attack wouldn't come due to the enemy's underestimation of the rebels' capabilities, the government forces weakened their line there to support the northward advance. When news of the destruction of the 80,000-man army reached Decius, he ordered a lightning fast major offensive at the enemy's weakest point on the line and exploited their penetration before grabbing hold of the city. The urban fighting was bloody, but the Themes he had were veterans, and succeeded in taking Dzhalipol by storm a day later. He entered Northern Dzhalipol, which was occupied by a mere few thousand government soldiers. The city fell, and Decius and Laurentius were celebrated as heroes. At that moment, Laurentius' popularity had grown. He humbled the other leaders, and he himself became the face and the leader of the Legionary, as it was meant to be.

Laurentius proved himself a capable administrator as well when Northern Dzhalipol was defeated. He won the love of the citizens by granting them food and allowing soldiers belonging to Northern Dzhalipol to swear fealty to peace, and return home as citizens with full pensions for their families. The factories were also populated with workers once more, allowing them to continue producing civilian goods. Dzhalipol was also occupied, but the government deemed Dzhalipol to no longer be a part of the Capital Region and pulled all funding from its development, so that if the government won, Dzhalipol would not receive the economic benefits of the Capital Region. Angered, its citizens joined the Legionary cause.


BATTLE FOR THE BLACK FIELD

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After the government defeat at Dzhalipol and Northern Dzhalipol, the Republicans lost a large amount of resources. Their last remaining treasure trove of resources was the Black Field Region five hundred kilometres west of Dzhalipol, just by the outskirts of the Capital Region. The Legionary needed to put a chokehold on the government by taking over the mines or by surrounding the Capital, but the latter suggestion was far-fetched, as 500,000 troops were deployed on the wings of the city to prevent it from collapsing. No matter how well the Legionary fought against militiamen and mercenaries, their limited numbers would be a disadvantage in the battle. A month after the victory at Dzhalipol, Laurentius gathered the five nearby Themes to secure the Black Field and began extensive planning sessions with his newly-built War Cabinet. While planning, Laurentius was informed that the mines ran deep, and there were also reserves by the sea. It would be wise to secure the resources being extracted underwater, but for that to be successful, they would have to take over the secured floating rigs. However, it was reported that a citizen militia made of radical Republicans and communard rebels were sent to defend it, alongside a regular brigade. All in all, there were 200,000 soldiers, with 100,000 Republicans, 2,000 communards, and 98,000 regular troops, all dug in.

Laurentius was given command over 60,000 regular troops and the veteran Caput Mortis Theme he fought alongside during the war. Outnumbered by almost four to one, he asked for more available troops, and was granted three more freshly-trained mechanised Themes, boosting his forces to 108,000. He divided his force into three separate corps, each made of three Themes. Unlike before, he would be working under time constraint. He calculated that if he took any longer than a month trying to take the Black Field, enemy reinforcements would have been organised to attack the rear of the army. He called his force the First Laric Army, named after himself. His strategy was to attempt to surround the Black Field, but the enemy flanks were secured by dozens of thousands of men and makeshift forts. He would have to plan everything carefully. He sent a dozen spies to steal enemy documents, and bribed several officers in the enemy military. He had perfected the strategy when he saw the troop deployments. Three assault Themes would attack the rightmost flank of the enemy's formation from the north. The wings were more weakly defended than the leftmost, and the Themes would easily overrun them, allowing the I, II, and III Mechanised Themes to exploit the penetration. The River Dzhalipol, which flowed to the sea from the mountains east of the Capital Region, was heavily defended, however, so the III Mechanised Theme was sent to destroy the fortifications there, eliminating the Republican rearguard.

The I and II Mechanised Theme, after penetrating through the enemy's first line of defence, swung westward behind the enemy frontline, and crashed into the enemy's second line. Without proper anti-armour weaponry, the second line was routed towards the main body, sustaining almost 30,000 casualties within the first three days. The enemy frontline was then open for the taking, but the enemy's strong left wing attempted to swing around to the rebel right to get rid of the centre. After all, the rebels were outnumbered 2:1 on that flank. All three Themes on the Legionary right wing performed a heavy defensive action, but as the Legionary right retreated, the government troops began to further run out of supply. They had pinned themselves, and as the days dragged on, their line grew thinner and was stretched thinner as units were left behind to defend the advancing left wing's flanks. The advance faltered. The Legionary began its counterattack two days later when a veteran Theme was sent by Laurentius to eliminate the threat to their right wing. The leftmost wing of the enemy collapsed two days into the counteroffensive, and the survivors fled to their barricades to ensure that the enemy doesn't get an opening on the left flank. The tired veteran Theme attacked, but was repelled with minimal casualties. The Legionary right wing reformed after the advancing Republican left wing was annihilated with barely any survivors.

While this happened, the I Veteran Theme and the I Caput Mortis Theme under Laurentius assaulted the strong centre of the enemy. With the I and II Mech. Themes' advance to its rear, however, the job was made easier, and a mere week later, the Veteran Theme achieved penetration, and secured the line as the Caput Mortis Theme exploited the gap and joined up with the II Mech. Theme. The mines were eventually reached, and heavy urban fighting ensued. What wasn't quite expected was that the mines were filled with coal. Nobody risked using guns, so everything nearby descended into hand-to-hand fighting. Though the enemy militia was a savage group, the Themes had greater cohesion and skill. The battle lasted for days. The III Mech. Theme, after destroying the enemy rearguard, moved to intercept the supply line, keeping the enemy ineffective in a prolonged fight. The Caput Mortis won the mines after intense battles using makeshift spears tipped with their combat knives and rigid phalanxes.

Laurentius eventually learned of a supply stockpile behind enemy lines. He himself was at risk of lengthening his supply lines. He ordered a nighttime raid on the stockpile with him. Upon realising that he couldn't transfer the foodstuffs, he took the ammunition and burned the food. It was a hard decision, but it caused the enemy's morale to drop significantly. In a week's time, the enemy flanks had been eliminated, and the centre had been weakened. By the end of this phase, the Republicans gained 80,000 casualties, 50,000 of which were dead, and the 30,000 wounded. By then, the battle had been going on for almost a month. Laurentius then heard that the Republicans were being supplied by sea, so he timed it perfectly. While an incoming supply ship was making its way to the docks, a spacefaring naval ship fired upon the vessel, sinking it. Morale continued dropping. For almost a week, there was silence and minor skirmishes as the opposing armies reorganised themselves. When the Laric Army had reorganised itself, Laurentius ordered his troops to break through and secure a decisive victory. The Republican elements surrendered then. He showed mercy, but stripped any non-military survivor of their political freedoms, whilst many of the troops who were at Laurentius' disposal were ordered to return home and never take up arms against him ever again. The enemy reinforcements, however, were coming, and the Legionary troops were exhausted. Laurentius set up a defensive line using his military engineers, but even this was unsustainable. He would eventually run out of supplies. Luckily, the enemy was still a week away from making contact with the Republicans. He ordered the Legionary to supply him with as much food and ammunition before the week could end, but they were unable to fully supply the Laric Army. When the Republican army came with fresh recruits at 200,000 men once more, Laurentius held a valiant defence of the front, but the exhaustion and lack of supplies got to his troops. Instead of making any rash decisions, Laurentius calculated that he could keep up the defence for only two weeks before he would need another supply of food, and if he counterattacked now, he would burn through supplies quickly trying to support the growing Republican chokehold on their positions.

Laurentius made a difficult decision, and ordered the mines to be sealed shut, and the transport vehicles destroyed. Four nights later, he retreated. The battle had been a loss, but the enemy suffered more. By the end of the battle, the Republicans sustained 107,000 casualties, and the Legionary sustained 13,000. Despite this, the enemy managed to once again get hold of the mine, but Laurentius' decision to seal the mines was, for the near future, a good strategic choice. Despite his retreat, he was praised once again by his people when he told them that the battle was, in the end, a victory, as they denied the Republicans power.


THE BATTLE OF THE GULF

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When Laurentius retreated, the enemy wanted to go after him. Despite the generals disagreeing with the order, the officials of the Republican government were desperate. They gave the order to advance within the month. Despite the Republican general's reluctance, he had no choice. In the small period of time that the was given, he gathered as much supplies as possible, though with the collapsing of the mines, the supplies he received were minimal. He also trained the militiamen, who made up most of his army. Originally, there was a compliment of 50,000 communards, but the general had them work to their deaths trying to recover the mine. By the end of the month, 30,000 of the communards were left, and they were sent to the frontlines. As expected, they were all killed by the Legionary forces.

He attempted to attack the fields west of Dzhalipol, where the enemy was weak in order to threaten the city's flank. He succeeded in pushing away most of the resistance there by the end of two weeks, but he had sustained 8,000 casualties just trying to advance. Laurentius was not happy that his defensive line did not work, but conceded to Decius' idea that defensive lines should be flexible. Laurentius gave Decius the order to defend Dzhalipol with 120,000 soldiers. They discussed a strategy that would halt the enemy charge and dislocate the enemy. Decius began giving way slowly, but he didn't give up without a fight. In his opinion, everything was too easy. He began suspecting an enemy ruse, because not even the most foolish general in the Republic would send wave after wave of men. By the end of it all, 30,000 were dead on the enemy's side. As he inspected them, however, he realised that these were all communard soldiers that blitzed. As the weeks passed, there was a sudden shift in the atmosphere. Decius knew something was wrong. The enemy soldiers that were sent on that particular day were more skilful, and once more, Decius had to retreat, but this time, he inflicted minimal casualties but taking large ones. When they had finally retreated into hilly Laurentius watched as the enemy soldiers stopped their advance and pull up the heavy artillery. His troops were suppressed, and couldn't make a move.

A fellow Legionary general, with the II Cavalry Theme, arrived to dislodge the enemy. He was a skilled general, and managed to cut through most of the enemy's defensive flank through unrecorded tactical manoeuvring, but his advance stopped when the flank reformed behind it as the Theme charged, cutting it off from supply and having it surrounded. The Republican general then crushed the II Cavalry Theme. It was, up to that point, the greatest loss to the Legionary cause as majority of the Theme were slaughtered or imprisoned while the rest escaped with major injuries. The general himself died an honourable death in his last stand. The Republican general attempted to lure the Legionary army into a trap, but Decius saw through this. Yet, he gave in. The only way for him to counter the trap now is to know what he has in store. Laurentius, meanwhile, quickly assembled an additional three Cavalry Themes, and the very first Legion, albeit without the genetic enhancements and with a primitive version of the Legionnaire Battlesuit, from the remnants of the destroyed II Cavalry Theme and matured members of the Legionary Youth civil service corps. This Legion was a half-strength Theme, and was trained to be specialised heavy infantry. Hence, Legio I was born. Unlike the light Caput Mortis troops, Legionnaires were practically tanks. They carried Handcannons and AG-9s as their primary weapons. Despite them being heavy infantry, however, they weren't just thrown at the enemy. Laurentius made sure that they were able to sneak around the enemy. He was unable to do so through land, and definitely not through air, as the enemy brought heavy ordnances against planes, and had occupied the position with a sea by the left of their position. His option was to use the navy. The navy was wary of allowing the Themes to jump from low altitude, as it was confirmed that the enemy had anti-navy guns.

Laurentius, however, ordered the navy to perform sorties with its fighters and commence orbital bombardment. He reused the same strategy from the Battle of Northern Dzhalipol, and landed behind enemy lines with the Legion using a small frigate. The enemy, seeing this, tried to set up a valiant rearguard defence, tactically outmanoeuvring the Legion. However, the Legion was fearless, and their armour impenetrable by the enemy weaponry. Yet, a few Legionnaires were lost when it was discovered that anti-tank weaponry like Plasma Busters could work. Despite this, the enemy had a lack of anti-tank weaponry. At the end of it, the 20,000-man rearguard was reduced to 1,000 fighting men, who quickly surrendered.

The Legion then destroyed the communication lines and attacked the enemy forward operating base. A few weeks later, the massive host of men were starving, but there seemed to be an elite corps of Republican soldiers who didn't lose their morale. When it was clear that the enemy army had run out of cohesion, Laurentius ordered a general charge. His three new Themes broke through the leftmost flank of the enemy and connected the Legion to the rest of Legionary territory. It seemed as if the Republicans would be crushed and surrounded, and for the first few days, that's what it seemed like. Militiamen died by the thousands, but by the end of three days, the Republican army was all but routed, except for a group of 10,000. These ones the Legionary called the Immortals, as they didn't seem to run out of soldiers. They made daring raids on Legionary encampments at night, and performed equally daring manoeuvres which even Laurentius was impressed by. He once again sent his Legion to finally destroy this final bastion of resistance, but even they were eluded for an entire week before their encampment was finally found and burnt. The Republican general surrendered, and was praised by Laurentius, but his loyalties were still to the Republic, so he had him imprisoned. Decius, however, convinced him to let the man return. Alone. When the general returned, despite his skill, he was murdered by his fellow loyalists when they suspected him of being bought by the Legionary. This created further distrust in the enemy ranks.


THE BATTLE OF THE CAPITAL REGION

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Laurentius spent day and night trying to create a strategy to invade the rest of the Capital Region and end the war. There were still battles going on around Dzhalus, but in order to finally end it all, he had to make a quick decisive blow to the Republican body's head to paralyse it. Yet, he did not quite know how. He wouldn't dare risk trying bomb the Capital and making the Republican resolve harder. In the middle of a planning session, he was interrupted by a spy, who claimed that the unused Dzhali nuclear bomb would be launched, as they knew that they couldn't succeed in breaking through the Legionary lines, and with distrust in the ranks, they expected desertion. The only option was to decisively end the war by destroying the Legionary capital with a nuclear bomb. Laurentius thought that he could invade the Capital, or send a force of saboteurs to disable the bomb. He was stopped by Decius. Even if the bomb were to be neutralised, more people would die. Laurentius wanted to act fast to prevent needless casualties, but Decius countered that it was either the government bombs would drop on some small city and kill a couple thousand civilians, or there would be tens or hundreds of thousands dead in the Capital, especially after the government enacted the Citizen Militia Order, which called on the 12 million citizens of the Capital Region to defend the city to their death.

Laurentius reluctantly agreed with the man, and allowed the nukes to drop on the city of Khariv, one of the suspected centres of the rebellion. Laurentius attempted to evacuate the city, but only less than half believed that the government would be mad enough to launch a nuclear bomb on its own citizens. Yet, they did. Laurentius grieved, and gave a heartfelt speech to the citizens of Dzhalus about the betrayal of the Republican government. Many defected to the Legionary at that moment, citizens, statesmen, and soldiers alike. When the advance order to the Capital Region was given, there was little resistance left. With nobody to order the citizens to take up arms, the civilians stayed in their homes. Small bands of paid soldiers were the only ones left in the way, and some of them surrendered after firing a few shots. The destruction of the Republican cause was imminent. The Hall of Dzhalus had heavy resistance, but in a matter of hours, the resistance had been swept away. Inside, the president and the other officials lay dead, poisoned. However, one man was missing among the pile. The loyal Minister of War. A bloodied telegram was discovered next to the president from the Minister of War. It was a copy of an order to gather all remaining troops to defend the dug-up Black Field or to escape to Arkad. Laurentius, of course, could not allow this thorn on his side to wound his empire and fester.


THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE BLACK FIELD/THE BATTLE OF RAKKAN

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The Black Field had recently been dug-up, its mines mostly cleared, but it was obviously too late. According to intelligence, the Minister of War was elected president by his soldiers. He still had two private armies in his command, a single division of regular soldiers with the rest being wealthy militiamen. The enemy had 800,000 soldiers and 100 tanks, and had managed to loan a hundred battleships to break them out from the Port City of Rakkan, which was a bastion of Republican resistance. The battleships came from beyond and fought directly against the Legionary navy of supposedly 97 ships. What the Republicans did not notice, however, was that the Legionary had used shipbuilders to commission an additional 40 ships. An admiral by the name of Manus did not let the enemy navy through, and managed to destroy them sometime after they passed the nearby planet. The 40 new ships hid behind the moon, and when the enemy got close, they popped out and destroyed them from the flanks. A mere two hours later, the navy had destroyed the incoming flotilla.

Meanwhile, Laurentius gathered a force of 600,000 men and 500 IFVs, with an additional 400,000 badly-trained militiamen. He gave 200,000 men and 100 IFVs to Decius. The enemy's 800,000 had split into two. The one defending Rakkan was 300,000 strong, while the one at Black Field was 500,000 strong. Laurentius would begin operations in Rakkan, but Decius was given the order to stand at guard in case the Black Field army would attempt to retake the Capital Region or attack Laurentius from behind. Luckily, that attack never came. Laurentius swept away the force at Rakkan with 52,000 casualties. He swung around with his remaining 350,000 men and linked up with Decius 200,000 men, while sending the 400,000 militiamen as a screening party. Unable to determine where the actual attack would come from, the Republicans were decimated by a surprise several-pronged offensive from the direction of the seemingly endless plains in the north. The enemy attempted to hold off the rebel advance, but their tanks weren't match for the Legionary ATGMs.

The fortifications fell by the dozens as Laurentius spearheaded the weary, hungry, and sleepless army. The enemy was stubborn, but it only took a week with barely any casualties to finally take the mines and force the surrender of the rest of the enemy. However, the Minister of War and a small council of a few loyal citizens were not among them. They had, apparently, escaped to seek refuge in Arkad while the naval battle happened. Angered, Laurentius wanted to track him down, but knew that the man would be in Arkad by now, and didn't want to cause an international incident by demanding the Minister from the Arkad government.

With this final battle of the civil war, Laurentius took to rebuilding his nation. He returned to the Capital Region, and was crowned a ring of iron and laurels. He was called Princeps of the Legionary Commonwealth of Dzhalus. His dream of power achieved, he looks to the stars. What he has is not enough. He will only have enough when his crusade to destroy Neodemocratism was done, and the galaxy, or even at least a vast part of it, was firmly under his hand.

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