28-04-2025, 04:43 PM
Operation Holy Fury (Legion) & Operation Firebreak (Coalition) - April 5637 (Backdated)
While the Battle of Ketia raged, the Legion had not been asleep at the switch. They did not want the Coalition gaining access to one of the most important ports in the south, and it was the opinion of the Legion Army High Command if the Coalition could be shoved directly back into the sea, they could be forced to the peace table and the Legion's reign over Kundrati would be forced to be accepted as a fait d'accomplai. To that regard, the Legion gathered a massive counter offensive, under the codenamed Operation Holy Fury. Consisting of three tank divisions, the 2nd, 7th and 21st and the full might of the 1st Infantry Shock Army, some 160,000 combat troops and 350 tanks. The general commanding, General Vladan Komárek, assumed he would be able to sweep through, push across the airborne and relieve the Legion's defenders.
The Coalition Commanders, had been expecting this, and had been watching the skies like a hawk; moving a massive formation like this without notice was not only difficult, but nearly impossible, and allied air patrols saw the approaching armor and infantry long in advance. Coalition fighter bombers, performing strafing runs on the advance tanks of the column, slowing them down and causing mayhem throughout their armored fist. It was assumed by the Coalition's air commander in the south, Brigadier General Alexander Steuart-Carmichael, the Hutorian Crown Prince, that the Air Force wouldn't stop, the approaching Legion army. Stopping it had never been the intention, merely mauling it and slowing it down.
Kundrati tanks were wrecked on the roads, slowing the advance by hours and days, buying precious time for the Airborne formations surrounding Ketia to dig in and prepare. When the Kundrati hammerblows finally began to hit, the first elements hit, the 19th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of Hutori's 7th Airborne Brigade, mauled the initial Kundrati infantry advance, throwing Legion commanders, not beliving the Coalition could be as prepared as they were, nor were they had tough as they were. The offensive was further bogged down when Coalition intelligence made sure General Komarek knew that Teal Beach was threatening to break out and threat Jildrath province. Detachments were pulled off the main advance, in attempt to both flank the dug in Airborne troops, but also strike all five invasion beaches that they could. The diluation of the offensive, and the coalition preparations were enough to further hold up the Legion's counter offensive.
The Coalition had also been preparing for their own counter stroke. With the invasion beaches more or less pacified, the Coalition forces began arriving en masse, and the first units off the beach were the Hutorian 1st Armoured Division and the Luthorian 3rd "Burning" Armoured Division. Both struck north from their respective beaches, Ivory and Crimson, and punched through north, crashing through Legion defences that had been focused on containing Ketia and encircling the Airborne troops. After three days, the advance elements of Hutorian Leopard 2H7Es and Luthorian Challenger 2, broke through and relieved the airborne forces, backing up the Airborne forces with heavy armor and infantry, and stopping the Kundrati forces cold.
Out of desperation, Legion forces lobbed mustard and sarin gas shells directly at the dug in airborne and arriving coalition forces. The Coalition, having been warned in advance by intelligence of the possibility, got hurt by the chemical and biological weapons attack, but were unable to ultimately lodge them. Despite moderate casualities to the dug in Coalition forces, they were ultimately unable to break.
General Komarek had been preparing for another offensive when the unthinkable occured; he was told to hold off after Legion High Command got the worst news of the month; Hutori and Davostag had successfully landed in northern Kundrati, and forces would be needed to dig in or head north. The chance for the Legion to end the conflict here in the beaches of the south were over.
While the Battle of Ketia raged, the Legion had not been asleep at the switch. They did not want the Coalition gaining access to one of the most important ports in the south, and it was the opinion of the Legion Army High Command if the Coalition could be shoved directly back into the sea, they could be forced to the peace table and the Legion's reign over Kundrati would be forced to be accepted as a fait d'accomplai. To that regard, the Legion gathered a massive counter offensive, under the codenamed Operation Holy Fury. Consisting of three tank divisions, the 2nd, 7th and 21st and the full might of the 1st Infantry Shock Army, some 160,000 combat troops and 350 tanks. The general commanding, General Vladan Komárek, assumed he would be able to sweep through, push across the airborne and relieve the Legion's defenders.
The Coalition Commanders, had been expecting this, and had been watching the skies like a hawk; moving a massive formation like this without notice was not only difficult, but nearly impossible, and allied air patrols saw the approaching armor and infantry long in advance. Coalition fighter bombers, performing strafing runs on the advance tanks of the column, slowing them down and causing mayhem throughout their armored fist. It was assumed by the Coalition's air commander in the south, Brigadier General Alexander Steuart-Carmichael, the Hutorian Crown Prince, that the Air Force wouldn't stop, the approaching Legion army. Stopping it had never been the intention, merely mauling it and slowing it down.
Kundrati tanks were wrecked on the roads, slowing the advance by hours and days, buying precious time for the Airborne formations surrounding Ketia to dig in and prepare. When the Kundrati hammerblows finally began to hit, the first elements hit, the 19th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of Hutori's 7th Airborne Brigade, mauled the initial Kundrati infantry advance, throwing Legion commanders, not beliving the Coalition could be as prepared as they were, nor were they had tough as they were. The offensive was further bogged down when Coalition intelligence made sure General Komarek knew that Teal Beach was threatening to break out and threat Jildrath province. Detachments were pulled off the main advance, in attempt to both flank the dug in Airborne troops, but also strike all five invasion beaches that they could. The diluation of the offensive, and the coalition preparations were enough to further hold up the Legion's counter offensive.
The Coalition had also been preparing for their own counter stroke. With the invasion beaches more or less pacified, the Coalition forces began arriving en masse, and the first units off the beach were the Hutorian 1st Armoured Division and the Luthorian 3rd "Burning" Armoured Division. Both struck north from their respective beaches, Ivory and Crimson, and punched through north, crashing through Legion defences that had been focused on containing Ketia and encircling the Airborne troops. After three days, the advance elements of Hutorian Leopard 2H7Es and Luthorian Challenger 2, broke through and relieved the airborne forces, backing up the Airborne forces with heavy armor and infantry, and stopping the Kundrati forces cold.
Out of desperation, Legion forces lobbed mustard and sarin gas shells directly at the dug in airborne and arriving coalition forces. The Coalition, having been warned in advance by intelligence of the possibility, got hurt by the chemical and biological weapons attack, but were unable to ultimately lodge them. Despite moderate casualities to the dug in Coalition forces, they were ultimately unable to break.
General Komarek had been preparing for another offensive when the unthinkable occured; he was told to hold off after Legion High Command got the worst news of the month; Hutori and Davostag had successfully landed in northern Kundrati, and forces would be needed to dig in or head north. The chance for the Legion to end the conflict here in the beaches of the south were over.