Turkestan War
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| Video | TBA | |||
| Date | 193 CE - 195 CE | |||
| Location | Asia | |||
| Outcome | Futurist Victory | |||
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Yetia decided to begin pursuing the expansion of its own diplomatic influence into other nations by exploiting tense regions. The first region to prove to be unstable enough to inspire tension was Sizzlean-occupied 'Sichzel', which was slowly unravelling despite previously being ruled by 'Sizzlephiles'. Exploiting the increasing tensions in this region, Yetia incited a civil war as it sponsored the 'Turkestan Revisionary Society' to rise up against its Sizzlean overlords. The Sizzlean occupation forces were caught off guard and overwhelmed as the TRS forces spread out across the entire region, prompting Sizzle to intervene under the assumption that Luxuria was responsible. Angered by the Sizzlean intervention, revolts along the southern border and Caspiolcita occurred as the two groups merged into the 'Turkmen Liberation Council', prompting the people in the north of Turkestan to proclaim the 'Second Kazakh People's Republic', with both factions opposing both the TRS and Sizzle.
With Turkestan in complete chaos, Sizzle largely withdrew to prepare for a counterattack as it recruited Anakistan to its side. Now with more help, Sizzle launched its second offensive into Turkestan, first focusing on the KPR due to its smaller numbers. Taking advantage of Sizzle's offensive, Turkestan managed to assert itself as the sole Anti-Sizzlean faction as the KPR and TLC fell. Now unified, Turkestan launched an offensive towards Anakistan's capital of Almaty which prompted Sizzle to come too their aid. Turkestan contacted Anakistan and called them a puppet of Sizzle, questioning why they still listened to Sizzle's orders despite having broken away from them. Anakistan explained it was an alliance, but Turkestan refuted that Anakistan always did everything Sizzle said and they never asked Sizzle to do anything they wanted. Turkestan explained that in their eyes, Anakistan was not an equal ally, but rather a tool to keep Central Asia under Sizzle's control, successfully convincing Anakistan to switch sides to liberate their brothers. Sizzle reacted quickly, attacking into Anakistan while Turkestan itself continued advancing until Sizzle's larger numbers proved to be a threat too strong to easily defeat, prompting Turkestan and Anakistan to begin mass conscription. Turkestan funnelled its armies into Anakistan and pushed eastwards at the cost of falling back in its own territory, quickly encircling New Sizzle and forcing it to be evacuated into Tritonia as enemy forces rushed in from all sides, during which Turkestan proposed an eventual Turkestani-Anakistani union. With so many Sizzlean forces destroyed, the Turkestanis and Anakistanis moved east, securing the entire 'New Sizzle Province'.
With Sizzle still not conceding despite its defeats, Turkestan and Anakistan kept pushing eastwards as the federalization process began in New Sizzle while the traditionally sinitic lands of Sizzle under Turkestani-Anakistan occupation were organized under the 'Sizzlean Panfuturistic Collective'. This was Sizzle's breaking point, prompting them to declare that this conflict was threatening the Anti-Luxuria Coalition's mission to contain the Second Luxurian Empire, calling in the Coalition's members into the war. Turkestan assured its allies that they would hold off the enemy despite Anakistan's concerns regarding Luxuria (as Turkestan even saw their intervention as a favourable possibility as it would distract the Coalition). As Utsong launched offensives against the Futurists, Turkestan directed its allies to launch a desperate offensive to make Sizzle seem weak in order to inspire other forces to attack out of opportunism which would then cause Sizzle to make peace. Turkestan focused on pushing to Xining alongside the Sizzlean PFC while Anakistan pushed towards Lhasa, concluding in a major success as Turkestan and the SPFC occupied Sizzle's second largest city of Xining. Despite this, Luxuria did not intervene, prompting the Futurists to focus on capturing Utsong's capital of Lhasa instead as they fell back from Xining, allowing the Mongolian Liberation Army to revolt in the region.
The Futurists kept pursuing their advance onto Lhasa, sending in all the reinforcements they could to secure a victory as the MLA fell. Despite Lhasa falling, Luxuria still did not intervene, prompting the Futurists to launch an all out offensive on all fronts to try to make it happen, which finally inspired Luxuria to join due to its resource difficulties. Luxuria began attacking into Sizzle while the Turks fell back and began pursuing peace negotiations with the ALC, which ended in a success as Turkestan and Anakistan were allowed to leave the war while the Sizzlean PFC kept up the fight, with Turkestan and Anakistan unifying into the 'Turkestan Federal Revisionary Society'. With the Turks gone, Luxuria lost much of its desire to keep fighting, but regardless decided to launch an offensive into Synora to try to gain something out of the war, forcing Synora to set up defences along the Indus river as the SPFC spread throughout Sizzle as it no longer relied on foreign backing. Synora's defences gradually weakened, prompting the ALC to offer a peace deal in which they would hand over Delhi in return for peace, which Luxuria accepted. The insurgency war against the SPFC continued as it attacked into Shenguo and Yakamotian Yanhei. The SPFC used the peace treaty as a rallying call for why it believed the Sizzlean government had become weak and decadent, spreading rapidly across southern Sizzle as people revolted, quickly overrunning Shenguo and Yanhei. Yakamoto proposed that peace may be the best solution, which Sizzle was doubtful of as they were unsure what the SPFC would even accept as they had secured the south and were now attacking Xining. The Mongolian Liberation Army resurfaced alongside the Sizzlean Communist Revolt of 195 as Sizzle began falling into disarray, prompting Yakamoto to organize the ALC to all focus on destroying the SPFC before the others, bombing out their ports so Yetia wouldn't be able to supply them. Sizzle kept fracturing despite this as the Sizzlean Warlord Revolt of 195 began, prompting Yakamoto to try to intensify its efforts by reclaiming Taiwan which had fallen to the SPFC, only for Taiwan to rise up and declare its own independence under the Fifth Republic of Taiwan.
Only holding onto Beijing, Sizzle organized its own armies and those of its allies to launch a desperate counteroffensive against the enemy while Utsong attacked from the behind, overwhelming the communists and warlords as the war returned back into being a conflict solely between the Kingdom and the Collective. Sizzle and its allies coordinated one final attack into Xining, successfully retaking the city. With the war having seemingly been going nowhere for years at this point, the SPFC offered an armistice in return for being granted half of Xining, which Sizzle begrudgingly accepted as Shenguo and Yanhei were absorbed into the Sizzlean Panfuturistic Collective (Now unofficially known as 'South Sizzle').
