Second Tōkai War

### Result

Limited Tōkai Faction victory - Empire of Kaldania sues for peace and retains the majority of its wartime gains. Franz Kohler and other ultranationalist officials in Kaldania are arrested.

## Belligerents

**Imperial Union:**

Empire of Kaldania

Southland Commissariat

Ankika Commissariat

**Tōkai Faction:**

Imperial Republic of Shingō

Republic of Tsukimoto

Ankikan State

Yokoze Freedom Fighters

Abiran Mercenaries

## Commanders

**Imperial Union:**

Supreme Chancellor Franz Kohler

Field Marshall Albert Jäger

General Markus Regel

Acting Governor Narokan Vinasi

General Kemor Nisakir

**Tōkai Faction:**

Prime Minister Akio Hayashi (January 323 - January 331)

Prime Minister Ichirō Nakajima (January 331 - January 339)

Field Marshall Akira Fujiwara

Field Marshall Mitsuo Yamazaki

President Tak Hyun-woo

Grand General Jung Ha-jun

President Izora Nonak

General Karin Erza

## Casualties

**Imperial Union:**

~217,000

**Tōkai Faction:**

~128,000

The **Second Tōkai War** was a regionwide conflict that lasted from 327 to 333 G.E. It involved all existing states in Tōkai at the time, forming two opposing alliances: the Tōkai Faction and the Imperial Union, the latter consisting solely of the Kaldanian Empire and its satellite states. The war was instigated by Kaldanian demands for territorial expansion at the expense of nearby states in the region. Prior to the outbreak of war, several border conflicts and undeclared wars would occur between Kaldania and the Yokoze Confederation, resulting in the annexation of several disputed areas as well as additional lands in Southern Tōkai. These conflicts would soon be followed by a full-scale invasion of the entirety of Yokoze and threats against the sovereignty of Ankika, which would escalate tensions in the region and lead to the deployment of several volunteer Shingōan peacekeeping divisions.

The war is generally considered to have begun on 1 August 327, when Kaldanian military personnel wearing Ankikan uniforms fired upon a Kaldanian military base and munitions depot near the Ankikan border. Soon after these events, the nationalist Kohler administration in Kaldania formally declared war on Ankika and authorized a full-scale military invasion of the comparatively smaller state. Within two months, the entirety of Ankika would be conquered by invading forces and turned into a Kaldanian satellite state by the name of the Imperial Commissariat of Ankika. Throughout the course of the war, the nations of Ankika, Yokoze, and several regions of Shingō would be partially or entirely occupied by Kaldanian military forces, who would become infamous for their harsh treatment and looting of resources from local populations. After several months of deadlocked fighting in and around the city of Kanazawa, Shingō, the ever-growing industrial capabilities of Shingō and Tsukimoto would give the Tōkai Faction the upper hand throughout the remainder of the war. In mere months, the Tōkai Faction would make significant progress in taking back lost territory, as well as the territory of Ankika and Yokoze, which would lead large portions of the Kaldanian population to lose faith in the war effort. In the final years of the war, the Kaldanian military would treat several indigenous groups that had allied themselves with the Tōkai Faction with hostility, and several villages and farms would be looted and burned by Kaldanian military forces. The war would eventually come to an end following a full-scale attack of Tōkai Faction forces on the Kaldanian capital of Freiburg, which effectively cut off all communications between the imperial government and its military forces. The process of negotiating peace would be quite difficult, as several Kaldanian forces on the front lines would continue fighting under the leadership of Field Marshall Albert Jäger after the surrender and arrest of Franz Kohler and other high-ranking officials in Freiburg. Peace would eventually be reached as the exhausted governments of Shingō and Tsukimoto were eager to end hostilities and negotiated terms of peace that were relatively favorable to Kaldania and let the empire keep control over the majority of its wartime gains. The nations of Ankika and Yokoze were left feeling betrayed and outraged by these terms, which would motivate later acts of violent protests and rebellion throughout the regions of these occupied nations.