Battle of Kastar Fields

A skirmish early in the Amin-People's Resistance Conflict in which Amini Forces were trounced.

## Battle

### September 14th

The government was warned by the police of a gathering of the People's Resistance south of the city of Bidir. The Amini Armed Forces would order the police to withdraw and group up with soldiers being delivered in Bidir via 30 UH-1Ds to defend the city in the case of an enemy offensive along with a Gearing-class destroyer for naval support. Simultaneously, the Amini Armed Forces deployed a BF-109 to perform a reconnaisance flight to confirm the enemy's pressence before being ordered to return back to base. This map was recorded on that day by reconnaissance craft.

After the confirmation of the rebel force's presence at 1600 hours, the Army formally began fortifying the city while beginning to plan out possible methods of dealing with the threat. The result was deciding to commit to a aerial bombardment whilst moving artillery to reinforce the forces currently on the island. However, the aerial bombardment on its approach at 1750 was responded to by AAA fire from the People's Resistance in which Brigadier General Matthew Tayyip Johnston ordered the strike to be carried through with. A decision which caused a F-5 to be shot down and the pilot to be captured by the People's Resistance without any real damage to the People's Resistance. Nothing happened much over the night as the People's Resistance slept in the forest near the fields while the Amin Armed Forces defended Bidir.

### September 15th

The government attempted to send two more BF-109s to attempt another reconnaisance flight but both planes were quickly dispacted by a single ZU-23 with no survivors from either plane. The government's next action was to commit to a 6 hour bombardment of 21,600 shells which killed 20 of the People's Resistance before finally ending the barrage with smoke shells. The Amini Armed Forces believing that the People's Resistance were softened, carried through with a march through the field and behind the smoke until they came within 200 meters of the enemy's position.

All hell broke loose when over a 100 Amini Armed Forces were killed in the beginning volley as the 12 ZPUs and ZU-23 opened fire along with the 380 remaining forces of the People's Resistance on the Amini Armed Forces in the field. The result was a massacre as AAA fire was simply cutting through men in the field which led to a near instantaneous route after only a handful of minutes with the Amini Armed Forces tossing smoke to cover their desperate flee with their lives and their remaining equipment. Unfortunately, the smoke broke behind them as the People's Resistance continued to fire into their rear and gunned down hundreds. The remaining soldiers of the Amini Armed Forces dropped whatever rifles and injured they still had and fled back to Bidir in a total route.

## Aftermath

The Amini Armed Forces were forced to fall back as the People's Resistance exploited the fact they had only suffered 20 dead in the actual engagement.Meanwhile, they were unable to catch the fleeing People's Resistance Members as they struggled to regroup the 240 remaining soldiers. This led to a near-instant end to Brigadier General Matthew Tayyip Johnston's career as he was sacked over the instance due to his handling of the battle.