X Day War
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These three sea battles are only the most influencial of the war. A couple others took place, but for the most part, these were small skirmishes between islands. Note that all of these battles took place upon the southernmost island of the entire Josephel island chain, greater and lesser.
Battle of Boren Cove
The first battle of the X Day War took place on an island airbase under control of Josephel on July 21, 2004. On that day the 13th "Olympian" Fleet & the 2nd "Titan" Fleet were out on training drills roughly 6 miles off the coast. The battleships "Nemesis" and "Morpheus" of the 13th were assigned to hit targets on the beach with their 21 inch guns. The smaller "Zenith", "Zues", and "Cronos" were assigned to hit target ships about 2 miles out with their 16 inch guns. At 1132 hours, Admiral N.T. Xander, who was in command of both fleets ordered the ships to "move within 2 miles of the coast". After a series of manuevers to avoid reefs and sandbars, the ships finally reached position. At 1401 hours Admiral Xander ordered the change of targets to a place farther inland and inside Boren Cove. However the fleets, who had never been at the island before, had no idea that the sister 12th "Vivera" Fleet was stationed there. At 1430 hours, all 46 guns of combined battleships fired. one and a half minutes later the hellfire of enormous shells began to rain upon the cove and the 12th Fleet. After 5 minutes of rain, 1 out of 2 ships was destroyed and out of the 3 battleships, 1 survived, but the "Ares" would later capsize due to unseen leaks. at 1500 hours N.T. Xander declared war on his home nation. His navy consisted of 5 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 32 cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 9 submarines. Not only that but over 150 battleready aircraft.
Battle of Corries Point
At 1800 hours the military fort of Corries Point spotted the 13th and 2nd Fleets rounding the island, in defense the commander of the fort, General Sid G. Paterson, called fo aid from the 24th "Dolphinus" Strike Fleet, a group of 45 light, fast, and heavily armed Cruisers. Each with 2 18 inch guns. At 1903 the 13th and 2nd fleets began to lay seige to the fort atop the cliff. Admiral Xander, when hearing that the cliff was too high for shells to reach accuratly said, "if you cant hit it, hit the cliff under it, if the wall goes so will half the fort". For 6 hours the rebel fleets laid seige, unchallenged, upon Corries Point. However at 0137 hours July 22, 2004, the 24th Strike Fleet arrived and distracted the rebel fleet. During this time, the Fort was able to set up, and begin fireing artillary from the high ground. In a mere 30 minutes the rebels were forced to retreat with the arrival of yet another stike fleet, the 5th.
Battle of The Last Island
On July 31, 2004 the last day of the war, that third and final naval battle took place. Last Island, referencing the last island that the rebel still controlled took place on and around the same island as the first two. At 0000 hours, Admiral N.T. Xander ordered his 8th and 9th fleets, which had turned to rebels, to "set up a wall and defend this island with your godamn lives". The fleets, now under control of V.Admiral Louis C. Salnam, were positioned. The 8th was split into two divisions, A was in charge of surrounding the island. B, was assigned to be sentinals on the outskirts of the island water. The 9th was split into 3 divisions, C was assigned to hold the entrance to Boren Cove. D was to assist A, and E was to serve as reinforcements and was to stay held inside Boren Cove. This scattered force gave the illusion of a large fleet, but in reality, the 13th, 2nd, 67th, and 7th were retreating to behind the island and preparing to take it back if needed. At 1256 hours, the first shot was fired, said to be fired by the "Vinchtag" of the 110th Strike Fleet. For 6 hours the Josephel fleet poured on until the defence broke, Division E, a relatively small force was sent out a reinforcements, upon rounding the exit to the cove and seeing "more ships than drops in the sea" as General Clideworth put it, they surrended without a fight. After this the other fleets split into groups of two and went around the island on opposite sides. Planning to catch to Josephel Fleet outnumbered in the small cove. However, upon rounding Admiral Xander was said to have thrown up, 8 fleets had joined in one force and were shelling the cove as if to kill all people unaware of the surrender. Xander realizing the situation order an imediat turn around, however upon turning around, they saw more ships, the 110th Strike Fleet had come up on them from behind. The 13th Fleet and 2nd Fleet put up their flags. The Josephel Navy had won. However the other group was not so lucky, halfway through rounding the island they were jumped by a couple of squadrons from the air force. All ships were destroyed. With this surrender the war had ended and the rebels had been put down, hopefully forever.
The Land Battles
Only two battles took place during this war and on the second half when Josephel was taking back the islands. Mostly because of the 15 islands taken by the rebels, only 3 had militant forces, and all 3 of those sided with Admiral Xander without a fight.
Battle of Noricks Strait
Despite Noricks Strait being a water mass, the battle was engaged by rebel marines and Josephel Army men on July 26, 2004. Commanding the rebels was General Jose Valundy, a young general with the strategies of a legend. His goal was to cross the Noricks Strait and finally land the rebellion upon the Southernmost main island. Using amphibius vehicles he set across early that morning before the sun had risen. With the support of the 13th Fleet 6 miles off, the first craft landed before sunrise with almost no resistance. However, the tide would quickly turn. With the arrival of the Josephel Air Force. The rebel marines were beaten back at the beaches. However this was repulsed with the arrival of rebel aircraft. With no-one having air superiority, the ground battle once again turned to the favor of the rebels. By mid-day some rebel columns had penetrated 4 miles inland. Seeing the dire situation Admiral Josephel, the leader of Josephel, took command and his purebred talent was shown for the first time. His goal was to first push back the 13th Fleet, which he did with long range land artillary, aircraft, and other vessels. Second, gain air superiority. Third push the rebels across the starit. And fourth, he had to keep rushing the rebels till they were off the smaller island across the strait. After a sweep of bombs took out the General Jose and 1/4 of the rebel force, they began to panic. The strait was 2 miles wide, the water freezing, and the amphibius craft were now stuck in the sand of the beaches. Some frantically tried to swim across the strait, others simply surrended as prisoners of war. However many stayed and fought, which would turn out to help them when EVAC helicopters and craft landed. By sunset, the beach was clear of rebel threats, the 13th was on the run, and air superiority was acheived by Josephel. However, now the fight was on the opposite shore, where the rebels were being pushed back at an average of a mile every 10 minutes. After less than an hour of fighting upon that island. The rebels were surrounded by water on 3 sides, and the Josephel army on the other. The feild commander Captain F.L.W. Phoenix, decided surrender was not an option. And in a last charge ordered his men to "either go and take 4 enemies with you, or try to swim to the next island", neither of these choices equaled living. This victory was the first which would lead to the regaining of the 15 islands lost to the rebels.
Sanders Island
Sanders island was the 11th island to be taken by the rebels, and the 8th regained by Josephel. Being the largest island in the extended archipeligo of Josephel, it housed an old, but strong fortress atop its highest point. From there you could see all the way to the southernmost main island on a clear day. On July 28th, being surrounded by Josephel armymen and the Josephel navy. The 238 last living men of rebel force inside the fortress decided to, in a bold effort, fight south down the hillside and use dingys to get to the next island which they assumed was held by more rebels. However little did they know they next island was surrendered to Josephel. At about noon seeing the leaving troops the ships leaving, they took their move. 12 stayed behind to blaze a trail for them from atop the hill with 6 peices of artillary. The group, orignally together, was a scattered mess of lost soldiers within the hour. By the end of the day, a total of 21 made it to the beach, the about 50 were killed by freindly fire from artillary or other rebels rifles, and the other 170 were slaughtered by the Josephel army, the twelve up at the fort would later kill themselves. The 21 men that made it set sail on the dingies to arrive the next day, at an island under Josephel control.
Origin Conspiracies of The X Day War
The beginnings of the X Day War are shrouded in mystery. How the coup force of such size was formed, why not a single member of the millitary divisions that tried to overthrow the government went AWOL. Some conspiracies claim that Admiral Vincent B. Josephel V himself ordered the seige.
