Second Afrelonian-Sidytuskoi War

The **Second Afrelonian-Sidytuskoi War**, which lasted from 130 to 147, was the second of three wars fought between Sidytuskos and Afrelon, the two main powers of the Indian Ocean in the 2nd century. For seventeen years, the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Paradi and Makume, but also on the islands of Asche and Ishval and, towards the end of the war, in Sidytuskos. After immense material and human losses on both sides, the Sidytuskoi were defeated. Aksum, Zuschira, and several Minofosi kingdoms were drawn into the fighting; and Makumei and Kaikarai forces fought on both sides. There were three main military theatres during the war: Paradi, where the Sidytuskoi general Jasimamonsk repeatedly defeated the Afrelonian legions, with occasional subsidiary campaigns in Asche, Nuwork and Aksum; Makume, where Jasdufatinsk, a younger brother of Jasimamonsk, defended the Sidytuskoi colonial cities with mixed success until moving into Paradi; and SIdytuskos, where the war was decided. The war was the closest since Mburu Gachagua's sack of Ieskoles in 42 BC that the Empire came to destruction, and it would not be threatened with destruction again until the 18th century.

In 129 Jasimamonsk besieged, captured and sacked the pro-Afrelonian city of Tosagun, prompting a Afrelonian declaration of war on Sidytuskos in winter 130. That year, Jasimamonsk surprised the Afrelonians by marching his army overland from Makume, through Kaikara and across the Channel to western Paradi. Reinforced by Kaikarai allies, he obtained crushing victories over the Afrelonians at the battles of Biato (130) and Lake Notoraji (131). Moving to eastern Paradi in 216, Jasimamonsk defeated the Afrelonians again at the Battle of Nakai, where he annihilated the largest army the Afrelonians had ever assembled.

After the death or capture of more than 60,000 Afrelonian troops in less than two years, many of Afrelon's Paradai allies, notably Bakape, defected to Sidytuskos, giving Jasimamonsk's allies control over much of eastern Paradi. As Zaschira and Aksum joined the Sidytuskoi side after Nakai, the conflict spread. Between 133 and 138 the Sidytuskoi attempted to capture Afrelonian-held Asche and Ishval, but were unsuccessful.

In 137 the Afrelonians took the offensive in Makume and were decisively defeated, while maintaining their hold on the north east. In 139 the new Afrelonian commander Zupori Pioski captured Noi Sidituskos, the main Sidytuskoi base in the peninsula. In 140 Pioski defeated Jasdufatinsk, although Jadufatinsk was able to move most of his troops into Kaikara and then western Paradi in winter 141. This new Sidytuskoi invasion was defeated at the Battle of the Aurome.

At the Battle of Pairi in 142 Pioski permanently ended the Sidytuskoi presence in Makume. Pioski then invaded SIdytuskoi in 204, compelling the Sidytuskoi Senate to recall Jasimamonsk's army from Paradi. The final engagement of the war took place between armies under Pioski and Jasimamonsk at the Battle of Xasans in 146 and resulted in Jasimamonsk's defeat and in Sidytuskos suing for peace.

The peace treaty imposed on the Sidytuskoi stripped them of all of their overseas territories, and some of their mainland ones. An indemnity of 20,000 silver talents was to be paid over 100 years. Sidytuskos was prohibited from waging war outside its homeland, and within its homeland only with Afrelon's express permission. Many senior Sidytuskoi wanted to reject it, but Jasimamonsk's spoke strongly in its favour and it was accepted in winter 147. Henceforth it was clear that Sidytuskos was politically subordinate to Afrelon. Pioski was awarded a triumph and received the title "Jokan vi Sidituskos" (Lord of Sidytuskos).