Invasion of Japan

Commanders| * Grand Admiral Thrawn
* Major General Fang
* Admiral Kallus
* Etsushi Toyo (Late)

**Lord's Holy Army*** High Admiral Torrent Koon
* High Admiral Keynan Sato
* High Admiral Etsushi Toyo
* Vice Admiral Adamar Koon

**Japan Has*** Emirate Hasan Eli (*early*)

Prime Minister* Yamaguchi (*early*)
* Zen Engr (*late*)

Casualties|  | * Syli Dean
* Yamaguchi
* Hassan Eli
* Visan Mausent

 The **Invasion of Japan** was a four month long campaign by the Libirachi Imperial Army to overthrow the Tokyo Bovido remnant of Bovido Has led by self-proclaimed Archbishop and Emperor Syli Dean. Launched in June 2021 and lasting until September 2021, the campaign saw the fall of Archbishop Dean's regime in the Battle for Tokyo after the Fuji Grand Council Meeting ended with a coup against Dean from members of his own armed forces, with High Admiral Etsushi Toyo taking over the new regime and instantly pulling out of the war, leaving the Japan Has led by Zen Engr to surrender unconditionally to the Libirachi Empire, and Japan Has would eventually be integrated into the Libirachi Administrative Zone.

As the Battle for Persia began to escalate in the Middle East, Bovido Hassian Archbishop and Emperor Syli Dean began to re-assert his leadership in Bovido Has and the Pacific after the disastrous Invasion of Belitung capitulated much of the High Command and left former Emperor Damal Clod dead at the hands of the Libirachi Empire. Returning from their captured capital, the various remaining forces of Bovido Has re-established themselves in Tokyo whilst various provincial sectors of the Christian empire declared their independence, whilst others pledged loyalty to Archbishop Syli Dean. Bringing together the last major holdouts of the crumbling empire to rebuild from the damage inflicted upon them, Dean also began a structural reshuffle of the Lord's Grand Army, placing High Admiral Etsushi Toyo as the Chairman of the Bovido Has Grand Council, having dismissed Gabriel Toomes after his failed defence of the Bovido capital.

## Invasion of Japan

While the Battle for Persia was raging in the Middle East, Archbishop Syli Dean of Bovido Has had begun constructing a new empire for the remnants of the fallen Bovido. Establishing himself in Tokyo after escaping the Siege of Makassar in early 2021, Dean set about re-organising the forces of the provinces of Russia Has, the Bovido Line, Japan Has, Egypt Has, Jordan Has, Palestine Has and the Holy Province of Jerusalem. Scattered across three continents, the last major holdouts of the Bovido Hassian empire converged at Tokyo to rebuild, creating the Tokyo Bovido; a provisional government consisting of military leaders and politicians alike meeting in Japan Has to discuss troop movements and deciding on how best to win the war. Whilst in the Middle East, Major General Chen Wei's combined forces were toppling the Hǔnluàn, Grand Admiral Rithnuro Thrawn was recalled to the Pacific in preparation of an invasion of the Tokyo Bovido. With the Battle for Persia intensifying, Thrawn and recently promoted Major General Fang Torrent created the Libirachi Pacific Strategic Task Force (LPSTF or PSTF) from the 4th and 7th Naval Legion Fleets as well as the 2nd Libirachi Occupation Army together with the 7th Libirachi Occupation Army.

### Battle for Tokyo

As the newly-created Libirachi Pacific Strategic Task Force began its preparations for an all-out assault on the Tokyo Bovido capital island string of Japan, the Lord's Grand Army entered a phase of re-structuring led by High Admiral Etsushi Toyo and his deputy Torrent Koon after a botched defence at the island of Belitung in the Autumn to Spring of 2020/2021 capitulated much of the previous leadership. Within the Bovido Provisional Government, various fractions of leaders began to emerge, with various different groups supporting war, peace, surrender and nuclear warfare, whilst Archbishop Syli Dean struggled to control members of his own fraction and the military virtually severed itself from parts of government which didn't support Dean, withdrawing their forces from several regions of the Egypt and Russian Hases, forcing the leaders of said provinces to reverse their decisions of key topics of interest. Whilst the Provisional Government crumbled, the LPSTF advanced on the island, deploying the 2nd Libirachi Occupation Army to the northern tip of the island in June 2021 on *Wasp* class assault ships commanded by Admiral Alexander Kallus of the 7th Naval Legion Fleet, whilst the Bovido Defence Fleet commanded by Etsushi Toyo hunted down Grand Admiral Thrawn's flagship in the Pacific. With a flurry of fighting, the 2nd Libirachi Occupation Army succeeded in pushing back the Bovido Forces from the northern tip, forcing the Provisional Government into collapse, with regional leaders cedeing from the leadership of Archbishop and *self-proclaimed* Emperor Syli Dean. Beginning with Russia Has, different provinces separated from the Tokyo Bovido, forming their own mini-empires and withdrawing their military capabilities from the defence of Japan Has. Despite misgivings about their leader, the Japan Has and Bovido Line remained loyal and continued to fight off the Libirachi Empire whilst other splinter groups negotiated peace settlements. As the various splinter groups began to form their own governments and alliances, the Tokyo Bovido continued its fight against the Libirachi forces, although a landing by the 7th Libirachi Occupation Army on the southern tip of the nation later in the year utterly destroyed the fighting capacity of the Emperor's forces.

### Decimation of Fuji

With confidence in Archbishop Syli Dean crumbling, the Bovido Has Grand Council convened under Chairman Etsushi Toyo to discuss war plans as General Ami Yamori's battlegroup suffered continual defeats at the hands of the superior Libirachi Imperial Army, concocting a plan to defeat the Libirachi forces once-and-for-all. Deliberately leaking the location of a meeting of the Grand Council at Mt. Fuji Strategic Bunker to the Libirachi Imperial High Command, High Admiral Etsushi Toyo ensured that all loyal military personnel were re-deployed elsewhere, while senior members of the clergy were invited to take the place of the absent military leaders. As the 2nd and 7th Libirachi Occupation Armies moved to capture the mountain fortress, High Admiral Toyo and his right-hand man Torrent Koon seized control of the Mount Fuji Bunker security system, opening the defences guarding Camp Fuji to the Libirachi Armies.

As the 7th LOA breached the fortress, Toyo ordered the detonation of a 300kt nuclear bomb underneath the strategic bunker, killing both the remaining members of the Tokyo Bovido clergy and thousands of Libirachi soldiers, as well as hundreds of residents of nearby Fujinomiya who suffered from radiation poisoning, the initial heat blast and falling objects blasted into the sky by the explosion. With the remnants of the original leadership of Bovido Has eradicated in one fell swoop, High Admiral Toyo and High Admiral Koon quickly seized power in Tokyo, with Toyo pronounced Emperor and Koon taking up the mantle as commander-in-chief of the Holy Army. As the Libirachi Army threatened to retaliate with a nuclear strike, the new government of Bovido Has attempted to continue the fight before surrendering to the forces of the 2nd Libirachi Occupation Army following an assault on the city of Tokyo. Whilst the remnants in Japan Has were resisting the march of the LIA, whilst Toyo and Koon escaped into the Pacific ocean with the last parts of the Holy Navy, establishing an island hopping empire with Toyo as Emperor.

### Bovido Remnants

With much of the Tokyo Bovido Provisional Government capitulated by the Libirachi invasion, various holdouts across the Japan Has continued their fight against the 2nd Libirachi Occupation Army whilst the official Tokyo government led by Prime Minister Zen Engr moved for an official surrender to Supreme Commander Cassio Tagge of the Libirachi Empire. Meanwhile, Emperor Etsushi Toyo and his fleet moved between islands imposing their rule on former Bovido colonies before being repelled by a local rebellion. In similar circumstances, Cardinal Anton Ujung of Bovido Has (Jerusalem) began to enact a contingency plan devised by vengeful leaders to eradicate rival fractions of the fractured nation, all the while growing an empire in the middle east and northern Africa. Likewise, the state of Russia Has reformed itself into the Russian Federation under the leadership of Viceroy Nadia Crestvick, laying the foundations of a semi-democratic nation. Barely a year after the collapse of the Tokyo Bovido, the last remnants had subsided thanks to the efforts of Cardinal Ujung's contingency and the Libirachi Civil War of 2022 - 24 which pressed many of the unaffiliated fractions into war once more. By the end of the Has Wars in 2022, the last holdout of the former Bovido Has, the Bovido Line, had collapsed under attack from the Libirachi Empire, leaving Ujung's Jerusalem Bovido to claim the title of Bovido Has as the Christian empire entered a phase of re-birth.