19-02-2025, 06:52 PM
Large scale counter-attack on the Peninsula
While in Alaria the new Istalian state is being organized the newly reconstituted Imperial Armed Forces lands on the south of Fidelia: puppet states tremble
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General Alessandro Appiano-Solari adressing his speech to the crowd and the nation in the central square of Faro
January 5617
Faro - The reconquest of the Sarrentine Peninsula has officially begun! The counterattack against the puppet states on the Peninsula has begun with a large-scale operation that has seen amphibious forces land unopposed on the continent both north and south of Faro, the easternmost city of the Peninsula, from where the authorities of the puppet government of the Free State of Istalia have already fled while in Taranda, Lecci, Neapoli and Ingona the population has taken to the streets and has launched into real urban guerrilla actions that are only being limitedly countered by the collaborationist authorities whose leaders, in truth, seem to be focused on organizing their escape as happened in Faro.
National and international analysts and experts believe that the campaign to reconquer the Peninsula will see a rapid fall of the Free State of Istalia and a less rapid but still constant progression northwards into the territory of the so called Great Emirate of Quanzar which eventually will fall too.
The Peninsula during and after the distrous conflict lead by Nevio Russo was hit hard, the main roads and railways were destroyed both by the Communist forces retreating during the conflict with Pontesi and Kafuristan, by the Invasion forces during the fall and then they were further hit by the Resistance which thwarted the reconstruction efforts of Quanzar and of the Free State of Istalia.
Crops and industries were equally not spared and among the major losses were recorded three large gas-fired power plants which led to a chronic situation of regular blackouts throughout the Peninsula with consequent energy rationing.
After years of guerrilla warfare and armed opposition, both Pontesi and Kafuristan have withdrawn most if not all of their troops from Istalian territory, leaving their puppet governments to essentially defend themselves alone. Unable, and indeed uninterested, in maintaining large forces on the ground to control and suppress opposition to the new regimes, it is now certain that both Kafuristan and Pontesi will leave their allies and collaborators in Istalia to their fate, recognizing the impossibility of controlling over 110 million Istalians.
In the north of the Peninsula, despite the proclamations of the Ahmadi extremists in power to defend to the death Quanzar, thousands of families have already left the country towards Solentia but especially Kafuristan and given the scarcity of means and armaments of the Regular Forces and the Ahmadi Militias, the intelligence information departments have reported how the local authorities and key collaborators have already transferred their financial resources abroad while the hundreds of thousands of Solentian refugees welcomed in the past years by Quanzar have been literally left to their fate, victims together with the Ahmadi communities of assaults and harassment by the local Istalian population that also in Quanzar is beginning to rebel against what had been imposed as a dictatorship of the Ahmadi Majatran minority.
In Romula, only the curfew that was imposed immediately after the landing of the Resistance Forces and the massive presence of the Military Forces of the Free State of Istalia on the streets are preventing massive popular demonstrations, although urban clashes and assaults conducted by the Resistance forces on site are multiplying.
In the streets of the cities already fallen into chaos, there are also episodes of veritable public lynchings against certified or presumed collaborators of the Free State's regime and the killing of three Pontesian citizens has been reported, two known for having been some of the main industrialists who forcibly took over the ownership and control of several local companies, the third instead appears to be a fixer who on behalf of the Pontesian Government organized the dismemberment and sale of several other companies and the transfer of large amounts of capital to Forum Hortus (capital of Pontesi). The efforts to drain financial resources and to totally put the economy of the south of the Peninsula Under Pontesian control are well knonw and the local population have suffered a lot of misery and deprivation as well as brutal repressions, the only real way both puppet governments could follow to keep the large local population in check.
Welcomed triumphantly by the population of Faro, the Forces of the newly reconstituted Imperial Armed Forces of Istalia paraded along the main axis of the city led by Alessandro Appiano-Solari, now General in charge of the Expeditionary Force as its Supreme Commander as well as new heir to the Istalian Empire, although the proclamation of his father has been postponed to the end of the war on request of the new Emperor himself. Having reached the crowded square in front of the Torre d'Istalia (Tower of Istalia), the one kilometre-long skyscraper built under the First Empire along the foundation of the city, Alessandro Appiano-Solari spoke to the crowd broadcasted to the rest of the country:
While in Alaria the new Istalian state is being organized the newly reconstituted Imperial Armed Forces lands on the south of Fidelia: puppet states tremble
General Alessandro Appiano-Solari adressing his speech to the crowd and the nation in the central square of Faro
January 5617
Faro - The reconquest of the Sarrentine Peninsula has officially begun! The counterattack against the puppet states on the Peninsula has begun with a large-scale operation that has seen amphibious forces land unopposed on the continent both north and south of Faro, the easternmost city of the Peninsula, from where the authorities of the puppet government of the Free State of Istalia have already fled while in Taranda, Lecci, Neapoli and Ingona the population has taken to the streets and has launched into real urban guerrilla actions that are only being limitedly countered by the collaborationist authorities whose leaders, in truth, seem to be focused on organizing their escape as happened in Faro.
National and international analysts and experts believe that the campaign to reconquer the Peninsula will see a rapid fall of the Free State of Istalia and a less rapid but still constant progression northwards into the territory of the so called Great Emirate of Quanzar which eventually will fall too.
The Peninsula during and after the distrous conflict lead by Nevio Russo was hit hard, the main roads and railways were destroyed both by the Communist forces retreating during the conflict with Pontesi and Kafuristan, by the Invasion forces during the fall and then they were further hit by the Resistance which thwarted the reconstruction efforts of Quanzar and of the Free State of Istalia.
Crops and industries were equally not spared and among the major losses were recorded three large gas-fired power plants which led to a chronic situation of regular blackouts throughout the Peninsula with consequent energy rationing.
After years of guerrilla warfare and armed opposition, both Pontesi and Kafuristan have withdrawn most if not all of their troops from Istalian territory, leaving their puppet governments to essentially defend themselves alone. Unable, and indeed uninterested, in maintaining large forces on the ground to control and suppress opposition to the new regimes, it is now certain that both Kafuristan and Pontesi will leave their allies and collaborators in Istalia to their fate, recognizing the impossibility of controlling over 110 million Istalians.
In the north of the Peninsula, despite the proclamations of the Ahmadi extremists in power to defend to the death Quanzar, thousands of families have already left the country towards Solentia but especially Kafuristan and given the scarcity of means and armaments of the Regular Forces and the Ahmadi Militias, the intelligence information departments have reported how the local authorities and key collaborators have already transferred their financial resources abroad while the hundreds of thousands of Solentian refugees welcomed in the past years by Quanzar have been literally left to their fate, victims together with the Ahmadi communities of assaults and harassment by the local Istalian population that also in Quanzar is beginning to rebel against what had been imposed as a dictatorship of the Ahmadi Majatran minority.
In Romula, only the curfew that was imposed immediately after the landing of the Resistance Forces and the massive presence of the Military Forces of the Free State of Istalia on the streets are preventing massive popular demonstrations, although urban clashes and assaults conducted by the Resistance forces on site are multiplying.
In the streets of the cities already fallen into chaos, there are also episodes of veritable public lynchings against certified or presumed collaborators of the Free State's regime and the killing of three Pontesian citizens has been reported, two known for having been some of the main industrialists who forcibly took over the ownership and control of several local companies, the third instead appears to be a fixer who on behalf of the Pontesian Government organized the dismemberment and sale of several other companies and the transfer of large amounts of capital to Forum Hortus (capital of Pontesi). The efforts to drain financial resources and to totally put the economy of the south of the Peninsula Under Pontesian control are well knonw and the local population have suffered a lot of misery and deprivation as well as brutal repressions, the only real way both puppet governments could follow to keep the large local population in check.
Welcomed triumphantly by the population of Faro, the Forces of the newly reconstituted Imperial Armed Forces of Istalia paraded along the main axis of the city led by Alessandro Appiano-Solari, now General in charge of the Expeditionary Force as its Supreme Commander as well as new heir to the Istalian Empire, although the proclamation of his father has been postponed to the end of the war on request of the new Emperor himself. Having reached the crowded square in front of the Torre d'Istalia (Tower of Istalia), the one kilometre-long skyscraper built under the First Empire along the foundation of the city, Alessandro Appiano-Solari spoke to the crowd broadcasted to the rest of the country:
Quote:People of Istalia! My fellow Compatriots!
The day of redemption has finally come! For too long our beloved land has been trampled by the vile traitors, by those puppet governments that have sold out the honor of our nation, bowing to foreign masters, breaking our spirit and suffocating our freedom! But today their lies crumble under the weight of the truth! Their dominion is almost over!
The Forces of Liberation advance unstoppable! The traitors tremble in their palaces and even flee, because they know that their hour is near! They know that the people of Istalia have awakened, that they will no longer accept chains, that they will no longer remain on their knees! We rise again! We march towards our reunification, towards greatness, towards the destiny that awaits us!
Istalians! Look around you! Look at your Brothers and your sisters! We are one people, bound by one history, one identity, one destiny! Istalia will be once again one and indivisible and there will be no more borders imposed by the traitors, there will be no more masters dictating the law on our own land! We will finally be free, masters of our future, proudly ruling on our homeland!
And when the Sun of the new dawn will rise, it will shine on the Star of Istalia that will shine again! It will shine on a land finally liberated, on a people newly united and sovereign, on a nation that stands proud in its ancient splendor! No force can stop us! No obstacle can extinguish the ardour of an entire people that has decided to take back its own fate!
Let us march together, united under a single flag! For Istalia, for freedom, for glory! The days of misery and shame are over! New pages of history open before us, pages that we will write with our courage, with our determination, with our unshakable will to be, once again, united, free, prosperous and great!
Forward, Istalians! Towards freedom! Towards victory!