Assault on Irnetia Kingdom

**Assault on the Irnetia Kingdom** is a blitz (lighting) attack of Japan against the Gra Valkas Empire's occupied territory, the Irnetia Kingdom. Japan diverted a fleet of submarines and destroyers from the Great Naval Invasion of Japan to immediately launch an assault on the Irnetia Kingdom, with the help from Holy Milishial Empire.

* **Japan Self-Defense Forces**
* Fleet Commander Akhail (KIA)
* Captain Eliga (KIA)
* Captain Hoshi (Submarine Fleet)

**Holy Mirishial Empire Death Bar Fleet**
* 13 Warships
	+ 1 Battleship *Rigel II*
	+ 12 Cruisers and Destroyers

**2nd Central Fleet**
* 20 Warships
	+ 3 Orion-Class Battleships
		- *Kornephoros* (Flagship)
	+ 2 Aircraft Carriers
		- *Ogma*
		- *Smeltorius*
	+ 15 Cruisers and Destroyers
* 1st Submarine Flotilla
	+ At least 4 Soryu-class & Oyashio-class submarines

**Holy Mirishial Empire Death Bar Fleet**
* All defense fleet sunk
* Tanker ship anchored on Irnetia sunk

2nd Central Fleet
* All warships sunk except Destroyer *Sareen* that went into SAR

## Background

### Gra Valkas Empire

The Gra Valkas Empire's total defeat at the Invasion of Japan brought total humiliation for every one of the officials. Suffering catastrophic losses while they also prepare to defend at Leifor. Siegs lay out his plan to deploy sea mines to seal off the Northern approach, aware that the JSDF may infiltrate Leifor with submarines.

### Japan

While the Gra Valkas Empire is occupied at the Great Naval Invasion of Japan, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force deployed 1 Submarine Flotilla consists of 4 submarines. When the Gra Valkas Empire's Great Fleet has been repelled and has yet to reassemble its fleet, Japan immediately makes their move to the Irnetia Kingdom.

The submarines, originally deployed to slow the 1st Battlegroup are immediately went to Mu once the operational objective was achieved to refuel and set course to Irnetia Kingdom.

## Battle

### Surprise Attack on Irnetia Kingdom

The JMSDF 1st Submarine Flotilla commenced a torpedo attack on the Gra Valkas 2nd Central Fleet deployed off the coast of the former Irnetia Kingdom, sinking twelve ships, including a Battleship *Rigel II*. Also, they attacked and sunk a tanker from Karslein Co., and other ships moored.

While the Gra Valkas Empire is currently on the discussion to determine the future of the empire, one of the military officials rushes in to report that the entire fleet guarding the Irnetia Kingdom has been eliminated by Japanese submarines.

The result of the battle coped with the catastrophic loss of the Great Fleet terrified the Gra Valkas imperial government so much that they are forced to declare state of emergency within Imperial cities in their mainland. Furthermore, from now on, war discussions and meetings would be held underground in fear of JSDF air raid.

### Attacks on the 2nd Central Fleet

As Gra Valkas Empire position in Leifor was weakened by JSDF airstrikes, the Gra Valkas Empire carrier group in Irnetia was called to reinforce Leifor. The surprise attack by JMSDF submarines caused the morale of the crews to be all time low and some had went mad.

To prevent similar attacks, Fleet Commander Akhail tried to deploy sonars to detect JMSDF submarines and confident that he could take down JMSDF submarines. Unfortunately for him, JMSDF submarines had commence an attack on his fleet without him noticing. By the time the fleet took notice of the incoming type 89 torpedoes, Akhail frantically ordered anti-air guns to desperately shoot down the incoming torpedoes that were heading toward the aircraft carriers *Ogma* and *Smeltorius* to no prevail.

The torpedoes attack destroyed two aircraft carriers much to Akhail's fury and disbelief at the sheer overwhelmingly military power of the JMSDF submarines as his fleet unable to detect JMSDF submarines and this is the first he and his crew ever witnessed guided torpedoes. Realizing it was suicidal to continue tracking JMSDF submarines, Akhail ordered massive drop of depth charges to create massive acoustic disruption to prevent JMSDF submarines from tracking the fleet while the fleet made their escape to Leifor.

The JMSDF saw through this tactic and switched to use Harpoon missiles against the retreating fleet. As the Harpoon was launched toward the fleet, the crews of the fleet shocked at the missiles flied straight out from the water surface and desperately tried to intercept it futilely, leading to the destruction of 8 destroyers and cruisers. The remaining of the 2nd Central Fleet increased their speed to escape the carnage while one destroyer tried to rescue the sailors of those from the destroyed ships.

As Akhail assessed the damages of the battle, he was utterly flabbergasted by the fact that it only took a single JMSDF submarine to sink most of his fleet. To add salt to the wound, he received communication from the homeland to intercept twenty-three ships of the Holy Milishial Empire Death Bar Fleet and ten ships of JMSDF 1st Escort Flotilla heading toward his position. Due to the order is absolute, he steered the remaining ten ships of his fleet to attack the World Union Fleet except one destroyer *Sareen* was left behind as a rescue ship.

### Holy Milishial's Ambition to Regain Pride

Fleet Commander Tachion set his flagship aboard an Orichalcum-Class Magic Battleship, *Cosmo*, to challenge the Gra Valkas Empire's remaining Task Force head-on. He has an ambition, which is to regain the pride of the Holy Milishial Empire's power as number one in the entire world. Tachion decided to engage the remaining of Akhail's fleet with only his ship and strive to win without Japan's help to disperse the idea that HME cannot win against Gra Valkas Empire without Japan's support that circulated throughout many countries. This move worried the Japanese due to fact that HME warships are largely inferior to WW2 ships but they decided to attach an escort ship to observe the performance of Holy Milishial Empire newest battleship. Furthermore, it is also revealed that, despite Japan's tremendous performance so far in the war, Holy Milishial Empire still holds a lot of influence in the New World, which would cause Japan into a lot of diplomatic problem in the future, if Japan decided to forcefully intervene with their military operation.

Tachion made contact with the 2nd Central Fleet in an act to warn and demand their surrender, only to be denied by Akhail and his associates, those who were brimming with hopes of regaining their footing against their rival, Holy Milishial Empire, plus the fact that Japan, the most dangerous enemy, did not participate. Realizing that the enemy would not surrender, Tachion ordered three Ultima-I SSM Guided Magic Warheads - or "Fire of Heaven" - to be launched at the three battleships of the Gra Valkas fleet. All three warheads worked well, destroying the flagship *Kornephoros* along with the battleships *Hunor* and *Majar*, killing Akhail along with thousands of other sailors on the three ships. The last guided light munition that fired annihilated a cruiser, with the remaining three cruisers and three destroyers bombarded to scrap by *Cosmo*’s equally terrifying main battery, which enormously outranged them. Tackyon was deeply pleased with the result but unknown to him, his ship was facing an under-strength fleet as he was not aware that JMSDF submarine group decimated more than half of Akhail fleet before that.

On this day, the magic battleship *Cosmo* single-handedly sank the surviving ten ships of the Gra Valkan 2nd Central Fleet.

## Aftermath

The fact that a single warship could destroy an entire WW2-level fleet was unprecedented, even for the JMSDF, and was considered a resounding feat for Milishial, helping it regain some of its international reputation globally and showing their powers toward Japan. Although JSDF was less impressed by the performance of the Guided Magic Warhead due to its inferiority in term of flight trajectory, predictability and speed compared to JSDF's conventional guided missiles, the sheer firepower of the missiles could not be ignored. Captain Hidaka of the JMSDF Destroyer Kongō voiced his concern that the Ravernal Empire might possess guided magic warhead or weaponry with the same power like the HME guided magic warhead but cannot be intercepted by CIWS or RIM missiles.

Drunk on victory, the Death Bar Fleet headed to Leifor with great confidence, unaware that the Gra Valkas Empire still had their submarine group intact in Leifor's shore, which Death Bar Fleet has zero defense against.