Battle of Batagay

The Battle of Batagay (Romanised Russian: Batagayskaya bitva) also known as the Battle of the Crater was strategic and decisive battle of the Westward Offensive during the Chemgotan War of Independence taking place from the 11th towards the 14th of May 2030 from a 4 day period at the Batagaika Crater and the surrounding settlements of Ese-Khayya and Batagay itself. The battle inflicted large amounts of casualties to both sides of the Battle respectively because of communication and organisational problems regarding the surrounding terrain and troop formations on both sides. Incidentally but yet purposely, the incompetent Russian Brigadier General Skvortsov Robert launched a offensive against the Chemgotan positions located North of the Batagaika Crater in an attempt to delay and decimate the Chemgotan advance towards the strategically important settlement of Batagay, however this led to the Russian forces going directly through the Crater and the surrounding open space, a nearby mountaintop surrounding the Batagaika Crater was occupied by Chemgotan Ranger forces which launched an ambush hit and run assault against the Russian left flank during their advance, this disorganised them further loosing a total of 7,000 casualties during the skirmish. Skvortsov decided to react and send the majority of his forces to assault the hilltop, but the attack ended in insufferable losses for the Russian forces which nearly annihilated them during the initial engagements, soon afterwards the Chemgotan forces led by Loginov Mitrofan and Carl Johnathan whom was a former American Advisor gone rogue, decided to launch a shock attack with bayonets fixed against the Russian stragglers, frightened to submission the Russian forces decided to surrender and around 40,000 Russian soldiers were captured, to Skvortsov's dismay, the majority of his forces has either defected or given up, leading to Skvortsov to request desperate reinforcements, but distance and logistic overstretch caused reinforcements not to arrive and the ultimate defeat of the Russian forces, Skvortsov attempted to muster a force of 10,000 to attack but most of them mutinied and turned against him and the rest of the commanding NCOs, Skvortsov was soon captured and the mutineers were offered passage and fair treatment according with the Geneva Conventions. This led with the Chemgotan forces of merely 34,000 managing to overcome 73,000 with the odds of 6 to 1. Despite the numerical advantage, the Russian forces were not well versed, equipped and did not have high morale to carry out the operation, as the war was obviously turning against them as years of endless and seemingly pointless fighting was closing in onto them.
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