War of the White Sea 297-283
After the events of the 2nd Asiri war The twin sultanates of Castilian and Abria Was on the vearg of economic ruin so they attempted to take the iron richer black marsh in the coast of the White Sea under the reign of Mohammad 13th
The Conflict
Prelude
After the defeat of house asiri the twin sultanates was on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to get more money the new sultan emperor Mohammad (who succeeded his father after his death after the war) mohammod 13th decides he would plundered the ravabski coast for resources. mohammod wanted to use small forces and ships to plunder the shores. The tsar has the same idea and had tried to claim the island of novicheik to use as a Naval base. Sultan emperor mohammad closed the imperial embassy in the tsardom capital and the other cities and ordered troops to begin manoeuvres in preparation for naval invasion. The imperial 3rd fleet prepared to attack the tsar white sea fleet.
Deployment
in [the principlaty of ravabsk an army of 25000 was standing spread out in the country.
The Engagement
opening moves-When spring rolled around 297YBCW. Emperor mohammad would lead the invasion himself with his uncle prince john as his second in command. The 3rd fleet attack all of the ravabsk coast ports and landed a forces numbering around 10000 at 3 of them. By the time the tsar got word of the invasion the entire coast from the twin sultanates border to the mineral rich black marsh was under the sultanates command. The ravabaski capital was placed under threat. a army of 35000 was preparing to march across the western boarder but a simultaneous bigrianne rebellion prevented any invasion from the west so all offensive operations were focused in the coastal region. Prince John was given command while his nephew the sultan emperor went back to mohammabad to rule his empire and build up more troops. only a few small battles where fought with none having any real value.
creation of a new empire
for you uncle a land to call your own an empire way from your brother sultan emperor Mohammad 13thAs spring turned to summer john ordered his army north to cross the ravabski border and take control off the mountains around the black marsh to secure the mineral resources and then ship them off to the empire. he ordered a make shift port to be built so that trade ships could take the oar to the empire. The red prince sent an army of 34000 men to the port of moria to remove the enemy threat. However prince john had preared for this inevitably and had far more men and at the battle of cerroev The red army was destroyed and sent running. By the turn of the season the war had slowed down and in his provisional capital moria he was given a letter from his nephew declaring him emperor of the client miorian empire and proclaimed him emperor john. Over winter his army of 170000 men grew with mercenary's and fresh troops from the empire and the troops from his family Provence in the verainberg empire. When the year 296YBCW began john with over 230000 troops marched north during winter. He personally led his mainly Janissary and veriaberguer force toward the ravabaski capital only to find that the 23 year old tsar Paul 2nd had sent his best general ,general alexei moravleski to defend the principality. Moravleski was a veteran of the war in the badlands. His army of 70000 men along with 20000 men of the red army drew emperor john into a battle. It resulted in both sides losing thousands of men not just to battle but the freezing cold of the ravabski winter. Tsar paul was wounded in the battle leading a unit of Cossack guards. With this indecisive battle john decided to leave bayan pasha a abrian man born in the desert in command of a holding force in a freezing country. He would prove a great commander in the winter. John then decided it would be better to march east to solidify his hold in the black marsh. Meanwhile in the white sea the island of novicheik which housed a small garrison of 2000 men held against dozens of landing attempts and provided both a trading post for the black market traders and as a base for the resting white sea fleet. John wrote to his nephew requesting the 1st grand fleet attack the island. On the mainland johns forces kept moving east recruiting and establishing his own regiments from his new dominion. The tsars armies in the east were far weaker and john found it easier to advance and after three successive victories the entire area was under his command. When John and the dowager sultan empresses brother, the verianberg emperor joseph 2rd realized what was happening he ordered his army to be mobilized into the states border and he had both his younger brother and sister disinherited and excommunicated from the faith of the one. But he couldn't have war with the sultanates despite his overuse manpower shortages the sultan could still call on a massive amount of resources and with the experience of the second asiri war he could easily defeat the verianberg forces in a battle. So nothing happened apart from heightened fighting on the frontier. Tsar paul was outraged despite being only 23 he had expected help from his nation closest ally however the empires wars with frank where taking up much of there time. As mid spring reached its climax the roads were churned to rivers and movement was stopped entirely. John sent word to his nephew, saying that he could start sending resources back to the empire immediately knowing all of his fronts were covered. So the rest of spring saw little movement apart from small skirmishes. The red prince orlev as soon as the floods and rains had passed ordered a counter attack. Pushing the sultans forces back only to find when they reach the last bridge over the blood river before the sea they found a much larger army and bayan pasha had caught the red army in a trapped and destroyed it once again. With their prince in chains the red principality was ordered to become a tributary to the sultan. And was made a dependent territory of the miorian empire. Territory was succeeded to the twin sultanates and john was made protector of the red principality. Emperor paul was so shocked when he heard the news he was silent for the next 7 day listening to the advice of his generals and politicians. Bayan pasha was given the title pasha of the empire. the campaign of 296YBCW-295YBCW-As summer turns to autumn 296YBCW paul decided he would try and fund rebels loyal to him in the principality and he would raise the largest army the tsardom had ever seen. And by the end of winter 296 and into 295YBCW tsar paul was at the head of an army of 800000 men. He had 800 cannons and 190 scrat war beast. He had conscripted mercenaries from across the known world. He had men from the verianberg empire, frank even 10000 men from san antiona. When John was told that a new army was crossing his border he took the new with calm he even went ahead with his wedding to the red prince's sister. But when rebellion began staring up in ravabsk john began to panic. His army was only 300000 men of which 150000 were occupying ravabsk. He sent word to his nephew requesting forces. Mohammd decided in against the request of bayan pasha to first destroy the fortress island of novicheik. A bloody battle issued and resulted in the destruction of the tsar white sea fleet. Unfortunately however the help that would arrive in moria it was too late to throw the invasion back and the force was only 120000 men including 15000 scimitari. John was shocked but his lead general and commander of the morian imperial army view this with icy calm. He ordered that the red prince's son the 12 year old michael emprision and ordered his father to rally his army and join the imperial army to stop the invasion. Without much other choice the red prince orlov rallied 20000 men to join with the full imperial forces at the town of navisora. Despite the 150000 men garrisoning ravabski bayan pasha had 200000 men from the twin sultanates including 20000 cavalry of which 3000 were briganne. 15000 were scimitar and 20000 were of the Janissary guard. 40000 men were of the miorian army and 20000 were from the red prince. Bayan and john split there force in four hoping to trap the two main invasion forces in a pincer attacks. At the battle of iron filed (named because of the amount of ammunition used) saw the routing of paul's new army. However it turned south destroying the garrison force at the fort town of zuma. Forcing the forces bayan personally lead south. The second invading force was halted by john only for it to be forced south because of the lack of supply. John knew however he had to defend the resources of the black march and so sent 70000 men of the imperial army to defend it ordering his engineers to build a port to keep them supplied.with most of his army marching east john order bayan to make a defensive line. Paul continued destroy garrison after garrison and recruiting men from the revolts. John and bayan devised a plan for the coming winter. So while pauls army camped in winter john and bayan launched a surprise winter offensive. Soon pauls army was forced back from most of its gains. Pauls army lost over 100000 men in the campaign. He decided that he would wait. Gather his strength. But he sent his Cossacks and Cossack guard to raid the land route to the twin sultanates preventing supplies and fresh troops from getting there. This forced all help to be sent by ship. This starved the troops of food and ammunition meaning that john and bayans forces were losing a grip on there power and ravabski troops and people were attacked the imperial troops of the twin sultanates and mioria. the political situation was getting worse. John was beginning to feel that he was being undervalued. While the land he was governing was getting poorer. The resources from ravabsk and the black marsh meant that the empire was out of bankruptcy. John also felt that he was failing the people in his realm even if they hated him. His personal army was becoming more and more his own personal hit squad. Bayan pasha was also become more and more politically active and practice ran the principality of ravabsk. John so were also angry with him because he had remarried. Paul planed to starve the enemy worked and 291YBCW the tsardoms army was almost 1 million while john's army was at 300000 not including the garrisons. However the red army soon revolted succeeding from the empire. but the prince was killed and his army destroyed. His son was able to escape and with a band of 100 men escaped to the tsardom. John gave the title of red prince to his second 18 year old son who proclaimed he was changing faith to the ravabski branch of the faith of the one and declared himself the red king. This did at least confuse the ravanski people and he was able to raise his own red army of 7000 mainly cavalry. Paul launched an invasion in early spring. And he was able to cut off the black marsh from the rest of the empire and soon the area fell.john order bayan the military genius to take it and if possible destroy the attackers.but even after victory after victory bayan original army of 100000 was cut to only 30000 men. Johns forces were able to prevent paul from taking his second son capital but lost 20000 and precious supplies and ammunition. Paul 2nd didn't relent and launched a second assault forcing the red king and John from the capital placing the prince Michael back on his seat. A civil war then broke out in the principality supporters of the red king joining the ranks of johns second son (who had changed his name from joseph to kiril) and other joining the tsar paul and prince michael's armys. Mohammand 13th seeing the situation his uncle was in send his bastard son hussan (his bastard son by his mother) to mioria with fresh supplies and ammunition along with 30000 troops. The sultan emperor also ordered bayan pasha home to be the lead pasha on the imperial council. John's health was deteriorating and when he died at the start of 290YBCW at the age of 54 his oldest son the 20 year old otto became emperor of mioria. He inherited a destroyed empire ravaged by famine and war but his army was holding. The civil war in the red principality (or kingdom depending who you asked) saw countless atrocities and devastating battles. Paul moved south and tried to take mioria which was stopped by a force of only 30000 miorian imperial troops. The sultans bastard husan was made commander in chief of all forces. An attempted invasion of the sultanate through the western border was met with blood and when the sultan retaliated paul's cousin and the duke of estel stopped the invasion. Emperor ottos met with his estranged cousin to ask if an offensive was possible. Despite his young age hussein was a brilliant commander have served as a local commander in the southern continent, he said that it was impossible to try and help kiril. There only hope was to hold out. the end of the mioran empire and the red kingdom-Kirilis army of only 15000 men was forced into an open battle with a force led by tsar paul. Kiril had been able to destroy and rout some of paul's massive army of 100000. But by the third day of battle the red king was dead and is army was utterly destroyed ending the clint states of the red kingdom to the twin sultanates. When otto found out that his brother was dead he was inconsolable with grief. Lucky for him the local floods came early and it saved his army. Word soon came from mohammobad from the sultan emperor. Otto was to extract what wealth he could from the area and with draw. Hussan was ordered to make sure all cities towns bridges farms were destroyed. Otto however countermanded the orders and said he would stay. He ordered his sons back to the empire . withdrawal-hussan gradually withdrew his shattered army. Pauls army massive re took the black marsh 289YBCW but it until 283YBCW forced all of the sultan's army out of ravabsk. they had holed to hold on twp there gain but the tsar paul at the star of the war was not the same man as he was know. he was 37 and a hardened soldier. the descendants of king kiril have claimed the seat of the red kingdom. In the resulting peace treaty tsar paul was given only a small amount of money and was limited to only 30 ships in the white sea. The war of the white sea was one of the largest wars the continent has ever seen and prove that the sultan's power was eminence and he could if he wanted to just invade again but after the war pauls weak son signed a treaty with the sultan and even wed his sister to the prince of setercha. The war saw the amazing if one of the largest armies in the known world for the time.
Conflict Type
War
Start Date
297YBCW
Ending Date
283YBCW
Conflict Result
Tsardom victory
Belligerents
Twin sultanates
Led by
Strength
Half a million men of the twin sultanate imperial army
Unknown number of mercerise
unknown miorian troops loyal to the house hallsberg-miorian
around 15000 troops of the red army loyal to the red king kiril
The total amassed strength of the tsarist forces was around 1 million with old race and human mercenaries
Casualties
Unknown but most of the miorian and red army’s were destroyed.
King kiril
The bulk of the loyalist red army was destroyed in the first few years along with the red prince
The tsarist army suffered massively as well
Objectives
Hold and control the the coast of ravabsk
hold the red kingdom
Retake land lost to the sultan
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