Christmas Rebellion
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| Video | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRr4kPwwxEQ | ||
| Date | 78 CE | ||
| Location | East Asia | ||
| Outcome | Uprisings crushed, Utsong became a protectorate of the SYE | ||
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The Taiwan Province of the Sizzlean-Yetian Empire, which had previously held a referendum to join Sizzle, requested an independence referendum as they saw the current government of the SYE as unjust. The SYE accepted as long as they got to see the results first, which Taiwan agreed to.
| In Favour: | 68% |
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| Against: | 23% |
| Didn't Vote: | 9% |
With the results tallied, Taiwan handed over the results to the SYE government prior to publication, with the SYE promptly reviewing them and publishing the results, which claimed that 68% had voted against independence and 23% had voted in favour. The Taiwanese Provincial Government noticed this and became angry, calling the SYE a liar and publishing the real results, leading to mass Anti-SYE protests popping up across Taiwan, with SYE offering them independence if they paid 10 Trillion Yuan, which Taiwan refused and declared its independence anyway.
Christmas Rebellion
Taiwan quickly seized control over its own claimed territories, allowing its main focus to be sinking any SYE ships that approached its waters. Taking advantage of this situation, a group of Anti-SYE insurgents calling themselves the Kham Free Army rose up in the recently established Kham Protectorate, quickly overwhelming the Protectorate's own defence forces, necessitating forces to be withdrawn from the Taiwan campaign to put down the rebellion. Utsong threatened involvement, which the SYE disregarded. While the SYE had mixed results against the KFA, a SYE army managed to land in Taiwan, quickly overwhelming its defences and wiping out the uprising as the Second Republic of Taiwan capitulated. Seeing its opportunity to reclaim its territories as under threat, Utsong directly involved itself by sending its army to assist the KFA, successfully occupying the Kham Protectorate.
SYE forces swiftly moved to invade Utsong once more, blowing through their border wall and avoiding their traps. The SYE demanded Utsong's surrender or else they would suffer a grave loss of life, but Utswong stayed defiant. The SYE had greatly adapted since the SYE-Utsong War, now beginning to use the mountainous terrain of the Tibetan Plateau to their own advantage as they struck down incoming Utsongan armies and deflected Utsong's largely rudimentary missiles, firing their own that were powerful enough to collapse an entire mountain, temporarily shutting down Utsong's communication systems and causing vast infrastructure damages. Utsong's morale began to fall despite its bombing campaigns into Sizzle, prompting the SYE to launch a new offensive deep into Utsong that soon forced them to surrender, leading to Kham being returned to Utsong at the cost of Utsong as a whole becoming a protectorate of the SYE.
Aftermath
Sipedro took notice of the fall of Utsong, and accused SYE's reasons of invasion to be invalid and their bombing campaign to be immoral, which SYE tried to refute until Anglia told Sipedro of the SYE's genocidal campaign during the Seventh England War. While the SYE did call these claims a hgoax, it did not Stop Sipedro from exploding into a accusatory rage directed towards the SYE, feeling disappointment that the previously noble nations of Sizzle and Yetia had become such an oppressive force. The SYE tried to justify its actions as righteous conquest, yet it kept being countered by Sipedro's accusations of genocide and angry rants especially once Taiwanese and Utsongan refugees began arriving in the country.
