The Winter Offensive

In the winter offensive there was around a million men involved in the assault on the Ashikanuga side. This offensive was aimed to besiege and capture a vital PRZ fort. Named Fort Zhoudong, this fort was armed with cannons, artillery, and anti tank. This fort was located near the city of Tongliang, a vital city to supply PRZ troops.

## Offensive towards the Fort

The Ashikanuga deployed their Jeguggun Nr 14, Jeguggun Nr 13, and Jeguggun Nr 15 army groups to advanced to the city. The PRZ had only 1 army standing by, and that was the 46th Liberation Army. The 46th Liberation army only had 17k manpower, and was exhausted after heavy fighting in the fields below the mountain on which Fort Zhoudong was located. So on January 12th 1923, at 8 PM the Ashikanuga armies started to march towards the fields below the fort. In the fields there were 5 main outposts that were the first lines of defense. The eastern outpost named Outpost Huangding, was relatively weak and defended by a company of 102 PRZ soldiers. So the Jeguggun Nr 14, Jeguggun Nr 13, and Jeguggun Nr 15 army groups advanced onward. After 1 hour the army groups had arrived and were now assaulting the outpost. The Outpost held back the Ashikanuga Troops and killed 895 Scouts in the first attack and with 0 losses. Then General Ashigano Takonota had sent 6000 Infantry to go attack the fort. But they failed also and had 5989 Men killed and the rest ran away into the mountains, with again 0 losses for PRZ. After that General Ashigano had enough and sent all of the army groups. When the army groups tried to besiege the outpost, most of their charging soldiers died to a lone KT-22 tank that had been guarding the outpost. Now 3 hours had past and still no progress. Now 70000 Infantry were dead and 50000 Scouts. But for PRZ they only lost 32 Soldiers. Realizing enough was enough General Ashigano drew his katana and ordered all his men to charge. The charge was a disaster having 102K men die, 30k Scouts, and General Ashigano was also shot and he was dead shortly after. Then Major Shikatzu Kajabawa managed to blow up the KT-22 tank and the outpost was secured, and the armies continued up the mountain.

## Breaking into the Main Gate

The Ashikanuga Troops have now succesfully reached the main gate. But the PRZ was ready having 13K Men in the fort, the fort was also armed with machine guns, artillery, and rigged explosives. When the Ashikanuga troops tried to enter they were always immediately always shot down. This cycle kept repeating till the Ashikanuga finnaly managed to blow the main gate up. But the PRZ was ready and when the Ashikanuga Troops enter there was a rain of bullets causing all ashikanuga troops that entered to die. After 39 more tries and more casualties, the ashikanuga troops made it in the outer area of the fort.

## Storming the Inner areas

The PRZ troops and Ashikanuga troops were fighting in cramped prison hallways, officer quarters, living quarters, cannon storages, and ammo storage rooms. When the Ashikanuga troops went in Captain Sueggen Ashikanota lead 705 Ashikanuga troops into the ammo storage to kill all PRZ. But all they found was a time bomb. And it was too late to go out so when the time bomb exploded, it caused all the ammo to explode causing all the 705 Ashikanuga troops to be exploded and it also caused a section of the fort to fall down and collapse into the fields below. And the section that collapsed was also were almost all the Ashikanuga troops were in. So when it collapsed the Ashikanuga troops fell down with it. After that PRZ lieutenant lead 30 Men into the cannon storage room. When they arrived they took one of the cannons and brought it to the main area were the PRZ was gonna hold out, which was a entrance to a underground tunnel that lead to one of the exits out of the fort and into PRZ territory. So in the underground entrance which was a small mineshaft all the 1900 PRZ troops were ready to defend. Then the 129K left over Ashikanuga troops charged in. But when the battle was over. There was only 1203 Ashikanuga Troops left out of 1 million men. Then when those 203 Ashikanuga troops were about to exit through the underground tunnel. The tunnel collapsed and all of the troops died.

Victor : PRZ