Conquest of China

The Conquest of China were a series of interconnected wars fought between Bovido Has, the Libirachi Empire, the Persian Republic and Obadiah Has from 1st April 2020. Most of the war can be attributed to the machinations of the Hǔnluàn, who engineered escalating tensions between the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has with the Assassination of Hazael Buller on 29th March 2020. As peace talks broke down and both sides blamed each other, the schism between the two nations widened and the Libirachi Empire declared war on Bovido Has at 09:30 AM on the 1st April 2020, and Bovido Has responded at 10:10 AM the same day. Following the Assassination of Archbishop and Emperor Hazael Buller the Rightful in March 2020 at the hands of the Hǔnluàn terrorist group, Bovido Has was placed into dissaray, and was crippled by the defection of The Lords Grand Army into the nation of Obadiah Has. At 10:10 on the 7th April 2020, Bovido Has declared war on the rival Has, and in a fiery speech to his new nation, Justus Obadiah declared war on its parent nation. While the newly appointed Emperor Damal Clod attempted to keep the Has provinces under his control Bovido Has began to collapse under the pressure of the Has Wars, struggling to fight off 3 nations and recapture fallen territory, all without a standing army. On the, 10th April, Obadiah Has began its Pacific conquest and saw its first conflict against The Libirachi Empire in the Battle for Burma Has, lasting between the 10th of April and the 22nd May, and was swiftly followed by the Fall of Viet Has on the 22nd April. Concluding on May 15th, the Fall of Viet Has and the neighbouring Fall of Central Has forced Bovido Has out of mainland southern Asia, save for a small strip of fortresses on the cost of the South Libirachi Sea.

Following the defection of the Lord's Grand Army into the nation of Obadiah Has on March 30, Bovido Has was left without an army to defend itself with. As such, former Marshal Omar Jude, descendant of Mattathias Jude, was tasked with re-building the remnants of the LGA into a new fighting army. Created on April 3, the Lord's Holy Army was an amalgamation of leftover forces and weaponry staffed and controlled largely by veterans and conscripts. With the May 26th defection of Nathaniel Eli and his 2nd Obadiah Mainland Army, the LHA started to reestablish itself as a serious fighting force and was placed under the command of Jude after the passing of Gabriel Stomas (the former leader) on May 28. With the re-emergence of Bovido Has as a serious combatant in the Has Wars, the Libirachi Empire began to seek an end to the LHA's effectiveness and ordered the assassination of Omar Jude on June 20th. With the death of Omar Jude on June 24, the Emperor of Bovido Has sought vengeance upon the Libirachi Empire for ordering the death of the leader of their military and began collecting plans for an invasion of the Libirachi Empire. On July 4, the 1st Bovido Mainland Army Core, under the command of Nicholas Eli, launched a flotilla of ships, coming into combat against the Imperial Naval Legion's 7th Fleet under the control of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Acknowledging defeat, General Eli ordered Admiral Fui to begin a retreat around the Libirachi Seas and was swiftly followed by the 7th Fleet who perused Eli's forces relentlessly for the next 5 weeks as they made their way towards Japan Has. Upon arriving at Fukuoka, the Bovido fleet was bombarded by Thrawn's fleet, inflicting severe damage upon the fleet, killing hundreds of soldiers who were infected by a disease making its way around the 14th Holy Navy Pacific Division. As such, the Eli's division merged with the 4th Bovido Pacific Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Adamar Koon, and together they pushed Thrawn's 7th Fleet back to Dongying, where the Bovido fleet continued to assault them, whilst a landing party overran the city of Tianjin, destroying the local militia. Having marched through Tianjin, the Bovido forces marched onwards, approaching the Beijing suburbs by August 25, in which a series of large scale battles would see the Bovido forces temporarily seize control of the outskirts of Beijing and even hold the President of the Libirachi Empire hostage for a week. Despite this, the Libirachi Empire forced the Bovido landing force out of the mainland and retrieved their President, alongside the destruction of the Bovido fleet. In retaliation to the Bovido Hassian assault on its capital, the Libirachi Imperial Army had begun preparing for an invasion of the Bovido capital island and launched its forces on September 24th, in a snide nod to the date Omar Jude was assassinated. The invasion fleet made quick work of the Bovido Holy Navy at Port Tuing and managed to push forwards to the Bovido capital, seizing it and executing the Emperor by May 20th 2021. Refusing to align with the Emperor and his surrendering forces, Archbishop Syli Dean regathered the remainder of the Hassian New Army and fled to Japan, setting up Tokyo as their new capital. Obadiah Has continued to claw away Has provinces into its midst, and the Libirachi Empire began its invasion of the Northern Has, which was the only remaining territory controlled by the Tokyo Bovido in the Pacific.

As the Libirachi Empire made a final push into the Bovido capital of Makassar, Hǔnluàn representatives lead by Persian Prime Minister Karen Sanders (under the employ of Ashton Morre) arrived in the Obadiah Has capital of Templar (a codename given to the city which the Obadiah Supreme Leader resides in at any given time, at this point Bangkok) to attempt to coax the Obadiah leader Justus Obadiah into joining an alliance with the terrorist leader. Although initially appearing promising, the negotiations began to falter by January 1, leading to a forced takeover and the house-arrest of Obadiah, with Sanders taking command of the nation's running. In a misguided attempt at showing superiority over its Asian neighbour, the Hǔnluàn launched an attack on the Libirachi High Command, succeeding in killing Grand Moff Alan Wieker, but most others were spared by the coincidence of the meeting being a virtual one. Outraged by the blatant attack on the Empire, the President of the Libirachi Empire, Xi Jimping, declared war on the Persian Republic and began formulating an attack. Withdrawing the 5th and 8th Occupation armies from southern Asia, the new attack force made its way towards the middle-eastern boarder overland. Meanwhile, Morre sought further support from Director Fox, who betrayed the terrorist's location to the ISB and withdrew assistance to the fallen Marshal. Arriving at the furthest edges of the Empire on March 1, the two Occupation Armies joined with the 12th Imperial Special Forces Division and crossed the Persian boarder on March 5th 2021, beginning open warfare between the two nations. By November 14th that year, the Persian Republic under new President Almac Docu surrendered to the Libirachi Empire, who

As the Battle for Persia began to escalate in the Middle East, Bovido Hassian Archbishop and Emperor Syli Dean began to re-assert his leadership in Bovido Has and the Pacific after the disastrous Invasion of Belitung capitulated much of the High Command and left former Emperor Damal Clod dead at the hands of the Libirachi Empire. Returning from their captured capital, the various remaining forces of Bovido Has re-established themselves in Tokyo whilst various provincial sectors of the Christian empire declared their independence, whilst others pledged loyalty to Archbishop Syli Dean. Bringing together the last major holdouts of the crumbling empire to rebuild from the damage inflicted upon them, Dean also began a structural reshuffle of the Lord's Grand Army, placing High Admiral Etsushi Toyo as the Chairman of the Bovido Has Grand Council, having dismissed Gabriel Toomes after his failed defence of the Bovido capital.