Day 12 - 14 : The double conquest
First, here is the size of the total Dominican army at the start of day 12 :
19 units in total :
Pacific force : 8
- 2 battleships
- 2 destroyers
- 3 commandos
- 1 Motorized infantry
Venezuelan force : 10
- 3 battleships
- 1 destroyer
- 3 motorized divisions
- 2 self-propelled artillery
- 1 militia (defending Medellin)
Other : 1
- A submarine in Panama
The conquest of Venezuela had been stalled for a while, with the destruction of the only Dominican destroyer : the powerful battleships were not willing to adventure themselves in unpatrolled waters where submarine could arrive. The arrival of a new destroyer at the beginning of day 12 allowed to resume the offensive :
The Battleships opened the way, for ONE motorize infantry regiment to take over all the populous area of Venezuela. Meanwhile, reinforcement was arriving to wipe out the enemy strongpoints in the interior and break counter-attacks :
The gates of Caracas was reached at the end of day 1, but the motorized force decide to wait for the following day before attacking :
Meanwhile, the Dominican expedition force arrived first on the shores of Japan :
It was a small force of 4 land units and 4 naval units but Christ willing, it would certainly be enough to conquer the whole of Japan ! The Savior was confident of this thanks to the Dutch : they had met and destroyed the main Japanese fleet at the end of day 11, there should be not strong enemy navy in the area.
The landing went unopposed, and a defenceless Tokyo (except for a few airmen) was seized !
Suddenly, the Dominican Republic was extremely rich, even more than when it was a market-trading nation :
The market was absolutely looted immediately :
Looking backward, the wealth should have been shared with the other coalition members, especially since they could probably have a better usage of the resource (they were presumably less embargoed for instance), but oh well. They were not the RIGHT kind of Christians anyway.
A Japanese limited counter-attack forced Japan to stall the landing of its commando while the battleship cleared the ground :
It only took a few hours. The motorized infantry was sent to conquer, while the commando fortified TOkyo, where Christian militias started to be built ! Down with Shinto !
Osaka fell, offering more motorized infantry to the Christian Republic :
[strangely, the motorized in construction would become "level 3" and the timer would move to 11 hours when the new day arrived]
The final push to Hiroshima was interrupted by a Japanese fleet, which badly mauled the motorized infantry.
This was problematic. Australia had a powerful fleet nearby. Maybe he could do something ?
Nice.
On day 13, Australia had delivered :
Due to the Canadian landing, and because the Savior wanted a firm control on the whole main island (=Honshu) for religious reasons and morale networking management, the commandos had to go on the offensive :
Sadly, it all went so fast that there is little documentation of the final days. There were minor skirmishes but well,Honshu was fully under Dominican control, except that small Canadian center. Shikoku was Dominican as well, Kyushu was Australian and Hokkaido still had to be fully occupied, but its urban area was Dominican.
To conquer Japan, the Dominican Republic had lost one motorized infantry. Of course, most of the blood spent had been Dutch or Australian.
The Dutch and Australian were now liberating China, but this will be explained better tomorrow in our "diplomatic" update.
Speaking of China, there was one last thing to do regarding Japan :
FINALLY rolling back to Venezuela, there had been various counter-attack during the night :
One SP-gun was surprised and destroyed immediately after landing in Maracaibo.
This mattered not, the plan was finished without modification :
The Dominican was lucky, a light tank brigade in formation in Bogota accepted to join the Dominican, even though the Dominican did not know how to make tanks !
By mid-day, the Savior decided to move his capitole to Panama ! It was time to leave the insular nature of Hispagnolia ! A Capitol in Panama would be symbolic of a new regime stretching Westward and Eastward, North and South !
By the end of the 13th day, all the interesting parts of Venezuela, and a buffer, were in Dominican hands :
There would not be much movement by the morning of the 14th - after all no more units could be built by the Venezuelians :
To conquer Venezuela, the Christian Republic had lost one destroyer and one self-propelled gun.
Ecuador was to be the next target. Sadly, their main (and only) city could not be reached by the battleship, but the battleships would support the self-propelled guns, and the self-propelled guns could reach the city :
Of course, those strategic bomberrs were a bit of a surprise, and they were being irritating as they started attacking Medellin !
By the end of day 14, all of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador would be controlled by the Christian Republic, except a thin layer of worthless territories which would be between Brazil and the Christian Republic, and would serve as an useful buffer zone.
Tomorrow, we will talk more deeply about the diplomatic situation.
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