Fall of Bovido

Combatants| * Libirachi Empire
* Obadiah Has
* Persia

On the 29th March 2020, the Archbishop and Emperor of Bovido Has was assassinated by terrorists from the Hǔnluàn, causing the greatest upheaval to modern life in the 21st century and forcing the Has Wars and the collapse of Bovido Has. As peace talks after the assassination broke down and both sides blamed each other for the murder, the schism between the two nations widened and the Libirachi Empire declared war on Bovido Has at 09:30 AM on the 1st April 2020, and Bovido Has responded at 10:10 AM the same day. With the loss of its only leader, Bovido Has was placed into dissaray, and was crippled by the defection of the Bovido Hassian Armed Forces into the nation of Obadiah Has. At 10:10 on the 7th April 2020, Bovido Has declared war on the rival Has, and in a fiery speech to his new nation, Justus Obadiah declared war on its parent nation. While the newly appointed Emperor Damal Clod attempted to keep the Has provinces under his control, Bovido Has began to collapse under the pressure of the Has Wars, struggling to fight off 3 nations and recapture fallen territory, all without a standing army. On the 10th of April, Obadiah Has began its Pacific conquest and saw its first conflict against The Libirachi Empire in the Battle for Burma Has, lasting between the 10th of April and the 22nd of May, and was swiftly followed by the Fall of Viet Has on the 24th April.

Within three months of the conflict, Bovido Has ran out of fight and surrendered its capital after a gruelling invasion of Belitung. Refusing to align with the Emperor and his surrendering forces, Archbishop Syli Dean regathered the remainder of the Hassian New Army and fled to Japan, setting up Tokyo as their new capital. Obadiah Has continued to claw away Has provinces into its midst, and the Libirachi Empire began its invasion of the Northern Has, which was the only remaining territory controlled by the Tokyo Bovido in the Pacific.

## The Fall of Bovido

### The Assassination of Hazael Buller

At 13:34 PM on 29th March 2020, Archbishop Hazael Buller the Rightful and the Libirachi Ambassador to Makassar were both killed by an explosion in the armed one-off Toyota Century Royal car which the Archbishop and Emperor designated for official state duties. Archbishop Buller and Bail Ordain were on their way to the N20 conference on international relations (held between the nations of Asia, Oceania, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa), when the bomb detonated as the car pulled up outside the Makassar Government Building, killing the pair, 7 security guards, the driver and bodyguard in the car, and 17 members of the global press who were filming the car as it detonated. The talks were immediately cancelled, while the Bovido Has official investigation found that the car had traces of a Libirachi TC-5555 explosive, implicating the Libirachi Imperial Army in the assassination. Enraged by the suggestion, Xi Jimping (President of the Libirachi Empire) demanded that Bovido Has released the "true" findings of the investigation, declaring it preposterous that the Libirachi Empire would assassinate the Head of State of its closest ally. Attempts to fix the issue by independent peacekeepers were rebuffed, and the newly appointed Emperor Damal Clod began publicly accusing the Empire of an unprovoked assault on the Bovido. As such, Xi Jimping resorted to his last option; the Libirachi Empire declared war on Bovido Has at 09:30 AM (local time) on the 1st April 2020, and Bovido Has responded at 10:10 AM (local time) the same day. This meant that Bovido Has was placed into dissaray, as the Archbishop had left no succession protocols in place. Eager to seize power, the de-facto head of the Bovido Hasian armed forces, Justus Obadiah, quickly organised his military forces and took power in the Philipino Has and the Indonese Has and reformed their governments into the Empire of the Lord's Has, commonly known as Obadiah Has for the man who founded it. With the start of the Has Wars in April 2020, Obadiah Has was soon drawn into the fray as Bovido Has, lead by Damal Clod attempted to recapture their former territory, both in the Middle East and in Asia. Struggling to fight with a minimal army, the Bovido Has forces quickly abandoned the Pacific Front and continued to fight for control of the Persian Republic and its northern Asia territory.

### Battle for Burma Has

Within a week of the conflict, the mainland Burma Has provinces quickly fell into the hands of the superior Libirachi Imperial Army after barely a days worth of fighting, and was established as the Wartime Province of Imperial Myanmar, although a governor was not appointed to be the local head of government. However, by the 10th of April, Obadiah Has had already set its eyes upon expanding once more, and began an invasion at 8 AM (2:30 GMT), attacking the military installation at Thingangyi, using a flotilla of *YL-09*-class and LCU-2001-class landing ships, backed up by 2 *Takanami*-class and 4 Murasame-class destroyers, while a squad of The Lord's Nameless paratroopers made a landing at a local farm. The Libirachi deployment was overwhelmed by the enourmous numbers of soldiers, and the willingness in which Obadiah soldiers would lay down their lives for the mission, and quickly made a retreat to nearby Labutta at 4 PM (22:30 GMT) on the 11th, where they joined the Imperial Navy in an attempt to defend the peninsula. The Obadiah forces continued their assault, sending the destroyers up the Ywe river to destroy the Type 051B destroyer *Shenzhen*and its Jiangkai II class escort frigates *Linyi*and *Qūzhújiàn.*A short naval battle ensued, and the Obadiah Has forces were pushed back to Thingangyi, but they resumed their assault with a further assault on the Libirachi standing bay at 2 AM (8:30 GMT), in which they sunk the *Shenzhen*and the *Linyi,* although the *Qūzhújiàn*escaped to Pyin Ywa, where it was ambushed by the *Hatakaze*-class guided missile destroyer *Shimakaze* which had outflanked the *Qūzhújiàn*by going up the parallel Klone See Mann river, and around the confluence by Shwelaung. With the destruction of the only Libirachi Military forces in the coastal regions of Wartime Province of Imperial Myanmar, only the Imperial Purge Trooper Battalion Falcons (PTD-003) could prevent the fall of the Province. As the Obadiah Has forces approached the city of Naypyitaw, the Imperial Army positioned 600 Type 96(A/B) battle tanks in a defensive perimeter around the local capital, along with 100 Purge Troopers and 6,000 First Legion soldiers, whilst thousands of Lord's Nameless commandos seized cities across the country. Within weeks, all the major cities below the Libirachi boarder had fallen to the Obadiah Has forces, and on the 20th May, the two forces collided at Naupyitaw, and as a result the Libirachi Empire was forced to retreat from the Province, and the Wartime local government officially surrendered to Obadiah Has on the 22nd May after further minor skirmishes both above and in the capital of Naypyidaw

### Fall of Viet Has

As the Battle for Burma Has began to swing their way, Obadiah Has began preparing for an invasion of Viet Has, which launched on April 22 with a landing at Da Nang, in the Hải Châu District. Consisting of 20 *Ōsumi* class and 5 *LCU-2001* class landing ships, and a deployment of 6,000 men, 14 amphibious tanks and 5 helicopters for air support. The minimal Bovido forces (2 *Hayabusa* class patrol boats and a garrison of 200 men and 5 Nameless) were assaulted at the port of Bến Cá Thọ Quang, just off Da Nang Bay, where the navy was stationed, whilst the landing craft deployed at Nam Ô Beach, where they destroyed the beach emplacements and engaged the local garrison in a short battle on the beach, after which the entire garrison and 4 of the 5 Nameless were killed for 100 Obadiah Has soldiers. As the port town fell to Obadiah, the rival Has prepared another assault in a neighbouring provenance of Viet Has. On the 23rd April, a second task force consisting of 15 *Ōsumi* class and the 5 *LCU-2001* class landing ships from the invasion of Da Nang, as well as a contingent of 4,500 men and 2 helicopters for air support, made a landing at Cảnh Dương in Chan May Bay. The Battle for the Thua Thien Hue provenance once again was a short battle with limited (17) casualties compared to that of Bovido Has (104). At the same time that the Bovido forces fell in Thua Thien Hue, an invasion of Quảng Ngãi was underway. In a strategy of re-purposing soldiers from previous landings, Obadiah Has was able to seize the majority of northern Viet Has by April 30, and in a temporary alliance with the Libirachi Empire, the combined forces took the northernmost point of the Has, although the Libirachi Empire later betrayed Obadiah Has and took the north for themselves, as well as an attempt to make headway into the newly procured Obadiah terirtory on May 2nd, although Obadiah Has forced the Libirachi Imperial Army out on the 8th of May. At roughly the same time, another Obadiah deployment was seizing land across the neighbouring Central Has and the two forces met on the 28th of April at the Oudomxay Province in Central Has and together the combined task-force of 50,000 men pushed south together and reached Kien Giang on the 15th May, having marched through large swaths of Viet Has unopposed, using helicopters to deploy further south. The Bovido Has forces from the combined provinces met at the South Libirachi Sea coast and created a solid line of defence that was not broken during the Fall of Viet Has, although a later invasion from the sea would force the line into collapse.

### The Fall of Central Has

With the Battles for Burma Has and Viet Has turning in their favour, the Obadiah Has Pacific Campaign opened another front in Central Has on April 24, diverting forces away from Kayah State in Burma Has into neighbouring Mae Hong Son in Central Has. Launching with a task force comprised from the 3rd Obadiah Mainland Army(made up of 600,000 soldiers, 6,000 *Kawasaki C-1* transport aeroplanes, 5,000 *Pindad Badak* tanks, 2,050 *Chaiseri First Win* personnel carriers and 6,050 *Leopard 2* battle tanks), General Nathaniel Eli began an assault on the Bovido Hassian Central Has. The assault on Mae Hong Son was a swift victory for Eli, whilst the Bovido Has boarder guard platoon (consisting of 50 Bovido New Army soldiers and 2 *T-14 Armata* tanks on loan from the Libirachi Empire) was quickly destroyed by forces from the 3rd Obadiah Mainland Army. The field army marched largely unopposed across the northern parts of Central Has until the 26th of April when it arrived at the city of Luang Namtha where the Obadiah forces were halted by Torrent Company of the 4th Hassian Central Division (itself comprised of 8,000 New Army soldiers, 600 *Leopard 3* tanks, 600 *T-14 Armata* tanks and 400 *Mil Mi-35 Hind* attack helicopters; the latter two both on loan from the Libirachi Empire), made up of 500 Bovido New Army soldiers, 20 *T-14 Armata* tanks and a *Mil Mi-35 Hind* attack helicopter. The two forces collided within the city and after sustaining substantial casualties (400 soldiers, 2 *Pindad Badak* tanks and a *Leopard 2* battle tank), Obadiah Has forces crushed the Torrent Company and marched onward to Oudomxay Province, where the divisions which took Luang Namtha merged with the regiment seizing land across the neighbouring Viet Has on the 28th of April. Together the combined task-force of 50,000 men pushed south-east together whilst the rest of the Mainland Army pushed south-west. The Mainland Army continued to take land unopposed from local leaders desperate to escape Bovido control until May 1, when the Army was halted at Saraburi where the 4th Hassian Central Division had sprung a trap. Stranded without reinforcements in Saraburi, the Hassian Central Division began a desperate attempt to halt the attackers and launched the full force of its military (7,467 New Army soldiers, 600 *Leopard 3* tanks, 579 *T-14 Armata* tanks and 3998 *Mil Mi-35 Hind* attack helicopters) against the Obadiah forces (550,595 soldiers, 4,000 *Kawasaki C-1* transport aeroplanes, 3,000 *Pindad Badak* tanks, 2,050 *Chaiseri First Win* personnel carriers, 4 *T-14 Armata* tanks and 4,049 *Leopard 2* battle tanks). The ensuring battle lasted until May 12 and saw both sides encounter serious losses (6,583 **Obadiah** soldiers, 300 *Kawasaki C-1* transport aeroplanes, 94 *Pindad Badak* tanks, 50 *Chaiseri First Win* personnel carriers, 4 *T-14 Armata* tanks and 49 *Leopard 2* battle tanks compared to 7,068 **Bovido Has** New Army Soldiers, 60 *Leopard 3* tanks, 79 *T-14 Armata* tanks and 998 *Mil Mi-35 Hind* attack helicopters). As the 2nd Obadiah Mainland Army completed the conquest of Burma Has, the two field armies broke through Bovido lines and continued to push forward towards Kien Giang, which they reached on the 15th May and met with the combined task-force deployed to take Viet Has. The Bovido Has forces from the combined provinces met at the South Libirachi Sea coast and created a solid line of defence that was not broken during the Fall of Burma Has or Central Has, although a later invasion from the sea would force the line into collapse.