Hunt for the Hǔnluàn

Location
  **Laura Fox** Xi Jimping Penny Fox Timothy Laden †

 1. ↑ As the former leader of the Hǔnluàn, Wang Yi had been detained by Ashton Morre after Morre's takeover, and was responsible for leaking the location of Kamchala base to COMPNOR

The **Hunt for the Hǔnluàn**, codenamed **Operation: Valance**, was a Libirachi military and security forces campaign conducted by the Fox Dynasty of the Libirachi Empire between December 9, 2019 and February 1, 2020, succeeding in the mission aim of eradicating the Hǔnluàn terrorist group from the empire, although unbeknownst to Empress Laura Fox and President Xi Jimping, the Hǔnluàn ended up within the employ of COMPNOR, with Director General Penny Fox feeding them funds and weaponry to cause chaos within Asia, causing the Assassination of Hazael Buller, and the subsequent Has Wars as part of a covert plot to destroy the nation of Bovido Has.

During the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état, Wang Yi, a former assistant to deposed President Nathan Jackson, proclaimed himself as the president of the Libirachi Republic and fled Beijing with a cohort of supporters, before joining with a paramilitary terrorist group led by dissident Ashton Morre to form the Hǔnluàn terrorist group.

Following the Coronation of Fox I and the proclamation of the new order, the Hǔnluàn launched a terrorist campaign against the new Fox Dynasty beginning with an explosion at the Xi Kanna Power Plant, followed by an explosion at the Ulaanbaatar Government Building which killed the Libirachi government's chief policing minister Timothy Laden. On December 27, 2019, the downing of Flight LA-0031 led to widespread outrage and the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order was tasked with hunting down and destroying the dissident group.

After months of searching, COMPNOR discovered the location of the Hǔnluàn's headquarters, and the subsequent assault on Kamchala Base forced the group to flee the Libirachi boarders, now under the leadership of Ashton Morre. In the aftermath of the group's escape from Libirachi boarders, the organisation would go onto become increasingly militant as it plotted terrorist attacks against other nations. Unbeknownst to all, including the Libirachi government, COMPNOR leader Penny Fox brought the Hǔnluàn under the control of COMPNOR and used the group to spark a war with Bovido Has after the assassination of Hazael Buller in March 2020.

The hunt for the Hǔnluàn marked the beginning of the Fox Dynasty's 6 year period of unrest and warfare, as the group plunged the nation into the Has Wars, the subsequent Libirachi Civil War, followed by the Wahngso Crisis in 2026. Many of the details surrounding Operation Valance were only made public knowledge in later revisions of the government's official history and following the leaking of historical documents by the Shu Han dissident group in the 2040s.

## Hunt for the Hǔnluàn

In the aftermath of the Invasion of Iran and the destruction cased by the nuclear warfare, Marshal of Ranjor, Ashton Morre, began a rebellion against the Government of President Nathan Jackson and escaped his arrest with the assistance of his most loyal supporters, building an organisation from the mountains of Imperial China. Founded in September 2019 following the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état by deposed government minister Wang Yi, the Libirachi Republic adopted it's flag and new leadership as a government in exile with Wang as the self proclaimed President. Encountering former Marshal of the LIA Ashton Morre and his band of cohorts in the western mountains, Wang and Morre formed a working partnership, merging the two entities with Morre's gabble becoming the armed wing of the republic. Persuaded by Morre to rebrand the organisation into a paramilitary style regime as so to actually control the territory in which it occupied, Wang re-christened the group as the Hǔnluàn, with Morre's forces conducting various terror attacks against the new Fox Regime in the Libirachi Empire.

Beginning on December 9 following the Hǔnluàn claimed Explosion at the Xi Kanna Power Plant, the Libirachi Commission for the Preservation of the New Order under the leadership of Director General Penny Fox began a hunt to track down the leadership of the mysterious new organisation, with the December 9 attack being the first attack attributed to the organisation. Mobilising the Imperial Directory Board into action, Director General Fox called for a board meeting at the Ulaanbaatar government building on December 11th, with Commissioner Timothy Laden, COMPNOR Deputy Director Lloyd George, ISB Director Keyton Monolith and assorted heads of the Libirachi Policing Core all set for attendance, with the police chiefs and Commissioner Laden set to meet a day prior on December 10, 2019. However, this meeting of the COMPNOR heads would never come into fruition as the Hǔnluàn launched their second attack upon the Libirachi empire with an explosion at the Ulaanbaatar Government Building killing Laden and other high ranking police officers.

With the death of Timothy Laden, the Imperial Directory Board was closed and Director General Penny Fox began to assert her personal dominance over COMPNOR, whilst expanding the Internal Affairs Taskforce division of the Imperial Security Bureau in order to allow greater cooperation with the Libirachi Imperial Army and it's own Imperial First Legion. Under serious political pressure from her mother, Empress Laura Fox, and President Xi Jimping, Director Fox formally began Operation: Valance and upgraded all intelligence operations on the Hǔnluàn into an active military hunt for the organisation and it's leadership.

On January 1, 2020, the Valance Taskforce of the First Legion began its advance on Kamchala Base, engaging in fierce ground fighting against the insurgents, led by Commander Anton Ivanov of the Hǔnluàn, and initially the battlegroup was able to make significant strategic gains around the base. However, by the evening of the 1st Hǔnluàn sentries had been able to establish a perimeter and succeeded in repelling the Libirachi army for several days, until January 3, 2020 when the taskforce broke through the perimeter, seizing control of the base in the process - despite this, Marshal Ashton Morre and Commander Anton Ivanov had fled the base unbeknownst to Libirachi intelligence, evading Libirachi capture to set up base in the Republic of Persia, where they would later lead an uprising to topple the regime there.

## See Also

* Hǔnluàn
* Assassination of Hazael Buller
* Has Wars
* Emirate of Persia
* Hǔnluàn Missile Strike on Imperial High Command