SYE-Utsong War
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| Video | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU_8wPZX9Jw | ||
| Date | 78 CE | ||
| Location | Utsong | ||
| Outcome | The SYE achieved a pyrrhic victory, gaining a protectorate in eastern Utsong. | ||
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Founding of Utsong
Around the same time as the Linelandic-Sizzlean War came to a close the Theocracy of Utsong was established, soon contacting the rest of the world once it had set up communications equipment. The first nation to notice their emergence was the Sizzlean-Yetian Empire, which Utsong greeted warmly yet hesitantly, warning that they would fiercely defend themselves due to the SYE's status as an 'empire' seeking to protect their 'rightful lands'. With Utsong already distrusting the SYE, Yetia suggested that they should invade Utsong due to it likely being still weak due to its recent formation.
Invasion of Utsong
After making the difficult journey into the Tibetan Plateau and setting up camp, the SYE launched an invasion into Utsong, with Utsongan forces quickly moving to respond. While the Utsongan army did use quite old and outdated equipment, their tactics were largely superior by making making use of their mountainous terrain, dropping boulders onto climbing SYE soldiers and making use of various traps to slow their advance, which the SYE responded to by utilising Bat Bombs to blow away resistance where they could. Utsong made good use of its comparatively much smaller military, launching several counteroffensives to reclaim portions of their land which the SYE responded to by utilising gas attacks. Despite Utsong's successes, the SYE would soon capture their capital city of Lhasa after a short battle, with Utsong retreating into its less populated regions to hold out, soon pushing the SYE out of the west of the country. The SYE began a massive bombing campaign to destroy as many settlements as they could, pulling back their army out of Lhasa to avoid being caught in the ensuing rock slides.
As the conflict in Utsong continued the international community was quick to notice the ongoing violence, with Sipedro condemning the invasion. News was soon leaked by the Kingdom of Anglia in exile that the SYE had been committing genocidal acts against its opponents, leading to Utsong founding the "Anti Sizzle-Yetia Coalition" alongside Anglia, Éire, Choros, Yorica, and Sipedro whom all agreed to support Utsong's war effort. Abard, which was still under a union with the SYE's monarchy, was made to publicly oppose this coalition, though they regardless began supporting Utsong in secret. The SYE contacted the NLE in search of allies, with the NLE hesitantly agreeing to consider its options, only to decide against an alliance several months later.
Out of its many supporters, Abard became the most proactive as they deployed soldiers into Utsong to help protect them in return for Utsong training Abardean forces in its own territory, with said tactics soon being used to launch covert attacks against the SYE. As Utsong gained the upper hand Abard began to make increasingly 'drastic' requests such as demanding Utsongan forces be sent into Abard to help them, though Utsong disregarded them. Abard had began telling Utsong's tactics to the SYE in secret, allowing them to begin adapting as the two armies clashed, with Utsongan forces relying on ambushes and quick cavalry attacks and SYE forces relying mainly on explosive force, which they had begun largely focusing on as the Utsongan counteroffensive continued to the point of completely pushing out all enemy forces. Now free of occupiers, Utsong launched an offensive of its own into the SYE which quickly advanced to the outskirts of the major city of Xining. The Utsongan army would soon attempt to seize control over Xining, yet their unfamiliarity with urban warfare and now lacking geographic advantage and compromised tactical advantage soon caught up with them as the SYE's now fully mobilized military moved to launch a counterattack which encircled and destroyed the Utsongan army. With the Utsongan army heavily damaged by its defeat, the SYE launched a massive counteroffensive in order to force Utsong into signing a peace agreement favouring the SYE, quickly punching into Utsong's eastern territories. Seeing a prolonged conflict as unfavourable, the Sizzle-Yetian Empire offered terms of conditional peace to Utsong that would see its eastern territories separated as the Kham Protectorate under SYE suzerainty.
