Bovido Invasion of the Libirachi Empire

Commanders| * Vice Admiral Koon
* General Eli
* Captain Fui
* Fleet Admiral Kallus
* Lieutenant Xi Bojing

Strength| **1st Bovido Mainland Army Core*** 40 Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bombers
* 500,000 Lord's Grand Army soldiers

**14th Holy Navy Pacific Division*** Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier
	+ *Rightful*
* Ōsumi class landing craft
	+ *Shimokita*
* 30 Martadinata class frigates

**4th Bovido Pacific Fleet*** Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier
	+ *Dormancy*
* Type 42 destroyers
	+ *Witch Hunter*
	+ *Heavenly*
	+ *Rightful II*
	+ *Glory*
	+ *Castan*
	+ *Loger*
	+ *Kallus*
	+ *Shanghai Fall*
* Type 055 destroyer
	+ *Beijing Lord VI*
	+ *New Dawn*
	+ *Nanchang*
* Wasp class assault ship
	+ *President Zuma*

**Tianjin Libirachi Militia*** 10 *FV721 Fox* armored reconnaissance vehicles
* 2 *T-80* battle tanks
* 200 First Legion soldiers

 The **Bovido Invasion of the Libirachi Empire** was a strategic campaign undertaken by the Lord's Holy Army following the Assassination of Omar Jude in order to attempt to gain control over select Libirachi territories on the mainland; despite ultimately failing to manifest into a victory, the assault was able to hold Libirachi President Xi Jimping hostage for a short period before being repelled during the Battle of Beijing.

Following the defection of the Lord's Grand Army into the nation of Obadiah Has on March 30, Bovido Has was left without an army to defend itself with. As such, former Marshal Omar Jude, descendant of Mattathias Jude, was tasked with re-building the remnants of the LGA into a new fighting army. Created on April 3, the Lord's Holy Army was an amalgamation of leftover forces and weaponry staffed and controlled largely by veterans and conscripts. With the May 26th defection of Nathaniel Eli and his 2nd Obadiah Mainland Army, the LHA started to re-establish itself as a serious fighting force and was placed under the command of Jude after the passing of Gabriel Stomas (the former leader) on May 28. With the re-emergence of Bovido Has as a serious combatant in the Has Wars, the Libirachi Empire began to seek an end to the LHA's effectiveness and ordered the assassination of Omar Jude on June 20th. At 12:31 PM (5:31 GMT) on June 24, Omar Jude was shot dead whilst onstage addressing soldiers at LHA Badung, 5 miles from the centre of Badung. The assassin was found later that day wearing LHA uniform, but with a Libirachi Imperial Army dog-tag identifying him as Sgt. Damian Flait, and Imperial Special Forces Commando working (allegedly) on the orders of the Empress Laura Fox herself. The assassination further increased the turmoil of the Has Wars, and the aftermath lead the broken Bovido political system to attempt an invasion of the Libirachi capital of Beijing

With the death of Omar Jude on June 24, the Emperor of Bovido Has sought vengeance upon the Libirachi Empire for ordering the death of the leader of their military and began collecting plans for an invasion of The Libirachi Empire. On July 4, the 1st Bovido Mainland Army Core, under the command of Nicholas Eli, launched a flotilla of ships consisting of the *Kuznetsov* class aircraft carrier *Rightful,* the *Ōsumi*class landing craft *Shimokita* and a collection of unnamed *Martadinata* class frigates, backed up by a division of Holy Hammer *Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit* bombers and a contingent of 500,000 LHA soldiers. The fleet began its journey towards invasion at 12:30 (4:30 GMT) when they crossed into the South Libirachi Sea and immediately came into combat against the Imperial Naval Legion's 7th Fleet (consisting of the *Type 051B* destroyers *Castan, Loger, Kallus* and *Shanghai Fall,* the *Type 055* destroyers *New Dawn, Beijing Lord VI* and *Nanchang,* the *Wasp class* assault craft *President Zuma* and several Escort Frigates), under the control of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The ensuing conflict at the Parcel Islands saw the destruction of 3 *Martadinata* class frigates, whilst only one Libirachi escort frigate was sunk. Acknowledging defeat, General Eli ordered Admiral Fui to begin a retreat around the Libirachi Seas and was swiftly followed by the 7th Fleet who perused Eli's forces relentlessly for the next 5 weeks as they made their way towards Japan Has.

Upon arriving at Fukuoka, the Bovido fleet was bombarded by Thrawn's fleet, inflicting severe damage upon the *Rightful* and killing hundreds of soldiers who were infected by a disease making its way around the 14th Holy Navy Pacific Division. As such, the Eli's division merged with the 4th Bovido Pacific Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Adamar Koon, and together they pushed Thrawn's 7th Fleet back to Dongying, where the Bovido fleet continued to assault them, whilst a landing party overran the city of Tianjin, destroying the local militia. Having marched through Tianjin, the Bovido forces marched onwards, approaching the Beijing suburbs by August 25, in which a series of large scale battles would see the Bovido forces temporarily seize control of the outskirts of Beijing and even hold the President of the Libirachi Empire hostage for a week.

## Bovido Invasion of the Libirachi Empire

### Prelude

Following the defection of the Lord's Grand Army into the nation of Obadiah Has on March 30, Bovido Has was left without an army to defend itself with. As such, former Marshal Omar Jude, descendant of Mattathias Jude, was tasked with re-building the remnants of the LGA into a new fighting army. Created on April 3, the Lord's Holy Army was an amalgamation of leftover forces and weaponry staffed and controlled largely by veterans and conscripts. With the May 26th defection of Nathaniel Eli and his 2nd Obadiah Mainland Army, the LHA started to reestablish itself as a serious fighting force and was placed under the command of Jude after the passing of Gabriel Stomas (the former leader) on May 28. With the re-emergence of Bovido Has as a serious combatant in the Has Wars, the Libirachi Empire began to seek an end to the LHA's effectiveness and ordered the assassination of Omar Jude on June 20th. At 12:31 PM (5:31 GMT) on June 24, Omar Jude was shot dead whilst onstage addressing soldiers at LHA Badung, 5 miles from the centre of Badung. The assassin was found later that day wearing LHA uniform, but with a Libirachi Imperial Army dog-tag identifying him as Sgt. Damian Flait, and Imperial Special Forces Commando working (allegedly) on the orders of the Empress Laura Fox herself. The assassination further increased the turmoil of the Has Wars, and the aftermath lead the broken Bovido political system to attempt an invasion of the Libirachi capital of Beijing

### Retreat from the South Libirachi Sea

On July 4, the **1st Bovido Mainland Army Core**, under the command of Nicholas Eli, launched a flotilla of ships consisting of the *Kuznetsov* class aircraft carrier *Rightful,* the *Ōsumi*class landing craft *Shimokita* and a collection of unnamed *Martadinata* class frigates, backed up by a division of Holy Hammer *Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit* bombers and a contingent of 500,000 LHA soldiers. The fleet began its journey towards invasion at 12:30 (4:30 GMT) when they crossed into the South Libirachi Sea and immediately came into combat against the **Imperial Naval Legion's 7th Fleet** (consisting of the *Type 051B* destroyers *Castan, Loger, Kallus* and *Shanghai Fall,* the *Type 055* destroyers *New Dawn, Beijing Lord VI* and *Nanchang,* the *Wasp class* assault craft *President Zuma* and several Escort Frigates), under the control of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The two forces collided on the shore of the Parcel Islands, a former Bovido territory (1895 - 2005) until it gained independence as an impartial peace keeping force in the Pacific. Under the watch of Rithnuro Thrawn, the Libirachi forces quickly began laying waste to Bovido ships, launching an almost continuous volley of shells towards the Bovido fleet, whilst employing Type 92 submarines to sink approaching reinforcements for the christian nation, forcing them into a retreat towards the city of Fukuoka in Japan Has, all the while Thrawn pursued them with his 7th Fleet.

    Upon retreating from the Parcel Islands, the combined 1**4th HN Pacific Division** and **1st Bovido Mainland Army Core** forces began setting a route to the Bovido stronghold in Fukuoka after the 7th Naval Legion outflanked them, preventing a course back to the Bovido mainland and forcing them out into Libirachi controlled seas. While the main bulk of the Bovido force was held on the *Rightful,* lots of important supplies were lost with the sinking of 7 *Martadinata* frigates, meaning that the *Rightful* would soon run out of essentials like food and clean water. As such, Captain Solomon Fui permitted an emergency assault on the Libirachi flagship *New Dawn*, which saw an elite team of Nameless soldiers infiltrate the *Type 055* Destroyer via the supply ducts, and then attack the engine room. However, the forces were apprehended by Thrawn's personal Special Forces Commandos and were taken to the command deck, where the Libirachi Command was having a virtual meeting using the nation's state calling system. Upon the arrival of Thrawn and his prisoners, Fleet Admiral Kallus (who has his command located upon the aptly named *Kallus*) called the *Rightful* in an unusual manner, using Skype, to inform them of their failed plan and then the summary execution of the captured soldiers.

After the incident aboard the *New Dawn*, the Bovido forces were trapped without supplies and eventually began to experience waves of soldiers dying from the brutal conditions, whilst the Libirachi fleet bombarded the aircraft destroyer *Rightful* with the full force of the 7th Fleet. In a desperate humanitarian plea, Nathaniel Eli demanded that the Bovido Fleet be allowed to dock at Fukuoka to unload its dead and ill soldiers, before returning back to its base in the Makassar. This request was granted and on August 5, the *Rightful* and its fleet docked at HNL Fuku, escorted by the *Kallus* and *Loger.* As the unloading process was underway, the two Type 051B destroyers opened fire upon the escort frigates containing the injured and dead soldiers, sinking both and killing all on-board. With the loss of 5 more frigates, the fleet was at a terrible loss and was only saved by the deployment of the **4th Bovido Pacific Fleet** to aid Eli's bombarded forces. Under the command of Vice Admiral Koon, the Pacific fleet quickly pushed the Libirachi forces back into the East Libirachi Sea. This set the stage for a daring last minute assault on the Libirachi capital of Beijing in a desperate attempt to end the war.

### Battle of Beijing

Following the disastrous Retreat from the South Libirachi Sea, the **14th Bovido Holy Navy Pacific Division** was left in a dire state, with its flagship *Rightful* having sustained severe damage from Grand Admiral Thrawn's fleet, and a greatly diminished task force crew after a bout of illness on-board the fleet's major ships. Whilst docked in Fukuoka, General Nathaniel Eli transferred his command to the *Dormancy*, the sister ship of the Rightful, and begun compiling forces for the planned invasion of Libirachi. However, after being forced up towards Japan, the fleet was in no position to invade from the South Libirachi Sea, and instead plans were drawn up for a desperate attack on the Libirachi capital of Beijing, using the **4th Bovido Pacific Fleet** under the command of Adamar Koon to reinforce Eli's fleet. The new 4th Bovido Pacific Fleet (consisting of the *Kuznetsov* class aircraft carrier *Dormancy,* the *Ōsumi*class landing craft *Shimokita,* the Type 42 destroyers *Witch Hunter, Heavenly,* *Rightful II* and *Glory* and the *Martadinata* class frigates *Samiel, Damal, Buller III, Ezra IV, Despair* and 20 unnamed frigates, backed up by a division of Holy Hammer *Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit* bombers and a contingent of 700,500 LHA soldiers) began prepping for invasion and launched on August 19 with a quick assault up the Yellow Sea, through to the Bohai Sea, where they once again encountered Grand Admiral Thrawn's 7th Fleet, although with the extra re-enforcements gained on the island of Fukuoka, the **4th Bovido Pacific Fleet** began a serious battle, forcing Thrawn to retreat towards Beijing as Nathaniel Eli pushed forwards with superior numbers and using a new form of D-16 torpedoes to sink several *Jiangkai II* class escort frigates and inflict structural damage upon the *Nanchang* and *Loger*.

With damage to Thrawn's fleet forcing a further retreat to Dongying, the **4th Bovido Pacific Fleet** began a landing at Tianjin where the local militia (10 *FV721 Fox* armored reconnaissance vehicles, 2 T-80 battle tanks and a garrison of 200 First Legion soldiers), lead by Xi Bojing, was subdued after a 6 day fight in the streets of Tianjin, with the Bovido forces only having taken 134 casualties, and began the march towards the outskirts of Beijing. Upon arrival in the city, the Bovido forces encountered fierce resistance from locals and the First Legion, who inflicted major casualties upon the invading forces through the usage of improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails, whilst the First Legion attempted to force the Bovido army back through the use of T-14 battle tanks. However, the Bovido forces pushed through, and by August 30, had full control over the eastern outskirts of Beijing, and in an unprecedented wartime effort, managed to capture the President of the Libirachi Empire, Xi Jimping, in an assault on the Beijing International Sports Exchange Promotion Association facility in Fuyuanzhuang village, where the president was giving a commemorative speech, unaware that the Bovido forces had pushed that deep into Beijing. The lack of knowledge on the invasion was due to a Hǔnluàn infiltration in the Homeland Security Agency, which allowed for all reports of an invasion to be deleted from Libriachi databases in an attempt to de-stablilize the Empire. With half-an-hour's intense fighting, the facility was overrun and the President was held captive by a team of Nameless forces. With renewed resolve, the First Legion began an increased repulsion of Bovido forces and, using local organized malitas and people's rebellions, managed to fight off the Bovido forces from the continent and back onboard their flotilla after 13 days worth of combat. Having been repeled from the Libirachi Empire, the Bovido forces attempted to flee the area on their ships, but the 7th Naval Legion fleet led by Grand Admiral Thrawn blocked them off and destroyed the 4th Bovido Pacific Fleet at Beihuangcheng Island, and rescued the President from onboard the *Dormancy,* before it was sunk by the *President Zuma.* The remnants of the fleet attempted to flee, but were quickly mowed down by the *Type 055* Destroyer escort. Among the prisoners taken, Nathaniel Eli and Adamar Koon were the most high ranking, and were transferred to a secure prison in Imperial Iran.

### Aftermath

As Obadiah Has began to sweep away Bovido Has' mainland territory, the fractured political system of the Bovido also began its final collapse, triggered by the Assassination of Omar Jude, the leader of the Lord's Holy Army on June 24 by the Libirachi Empire. Keen to assert their dominance in the pacific, Bovido Has begun an all-out assault on Beijing with its newly rebuilt army and attempted to seize the Libirachi capital. However, after meeting fierce resistance for three months on the ogutskirts of Beijing, Bovido forces retreated to the stronghold island of Heren which had been liberated from Obadiah forces after theFall of Viet Has. Unbeknown to them, Libirachi Imperial Army had begun preparing for an invasion of the Bovido capital island and launched its forces on September 24th, in a snide nod to the date Omar Jude was assassinated. The invasion fleet made quick work of the Bovido Holy Navy at Port Tuing, but the combined forces of the Holy Angels and Nameless halted the invasion 20 miles short of Kamass where the two armies participated in minor skirmishes until the Libirachi Army broke through the Bovido line on November 12th and begun the march towards Makassar.