Chapter Twenty-Two: The War Reaches Its End
Chapter XXII: The War Reaches Its End
Throughout most of the Red War it had always been the communists who were perceived as the future victors. Thanks to their superior technology not even the mighty Austro-Italian Empire had stood a chance against the red menace. However, in the May of 1851 the Kingdom of Spain entered the Red War on the side of the Holy Roman Empire after the Papal States were invaded by the UIPR and with Spain came its dominion India which had one of the largest populations on Earth. Shortly On May 15th, 1851 Mexican Empire, a close ally of the Spanish, declared war on the Union of Workers’ Republics and just a few days later Mexican soldiers were arriving in Catalonia alongside their Spanish comrades to prepare to push into France. The United States of America had been in a constant state of debate ever since the Red War had began on what position should be taken on the events in Europe. King Charles I, who had been born in Prussia, became a strong advocate for war on the communists, as did the Centrist Party, however, the US president Zachary Taylor and his fellow Unionists in the senate and congress preferred to stay out of the deadly European conflict for an array of reasons. “We are the Kingdom of Liberty,” President Taylor argued. “We defend the rights of all men, regardless of their ethnicity. We give our people the right to represent themselves in the government. Why should we help one group of authoritarian regimes fight another group of authoritarian regimes?” As Taylor continued to be stubborn on the issue of joining the Red War a hand full of Unionist politicians would switch over to the Centrists and the Democrats while others would align with a new party called the Liberalists formed by the ex-Unionist Johnson Lincoln.
Johnson Lincoln, the founder of the Liberalist Party.
Senator Lincoln thought that the United States was one day destined to become a global superpower whose ideals would be valued by the globe and saw the Red War as the perfect moment for the American eagle to spread out her wings and carry democracy and equality across the Atlantic Ocean over to Europe. The Liberalists were at first no more than a small party, however, after the war hero former vice president William Henry Harrison joined the party in quickly began to grow. Eventually the Unionist Party would come to make a compromise with the rest of the US government that the United States would support the HRE and her allies through supplies, funding, and volunteer forces, however, America would not officially go to war with France, Germany, and Italy. While many Centrists would have preferred going to war and the radical Liberalists were certainly not happy with the compromise made it was enough to satisfy most people in the government even if President Taylor’s popularity experienced a significant decrease. The Spanish and their allies on the western front would start their first push into France in the middle of May 1851 and soldiers would arrive at Perpignan on May 21st. The Battle of Perpignan was large and bloody, however, unlike the German minor states that had been wiped out by France there was a far smaller concentration of French soldiers in the city which also meant that there weren’t many MacMahon guns. The Spanish navy would sail around the city and land extra soldiers in the north of Perpignan resulting with the city being surrounded by the Spanish. Meanwhile Spanish and Mexican brownships would fly in the undefended sky above Perpignan and deploy bombs onto the French regiments below. Perpignan would be a battleground throughout the night of May 21st, 1851 and the city would remain a battleground until the French surrendered early the next day. With the fall of Perpignan the Spanish got their hands on a few MacMahon guns just as some soldiers occasionally had earlier in the war if they were ever lucky enough to defeat a regiment of communists armed with a MacMahon gun. The HRE had decided to not use the MacMahon for a number of reasons, ranging from overconfidence with their larger militaries and powerful air fleets to the belief that the MacMahons were too inhumane and that only a filthy commie would use such a device. However, the nonexistent amount of MacMahon guns in the ranks of the HRE and her allies (the group became known as the Allied Powers) would finally come to an end when General Juan de Zavala, who had commanded the Spanish in the Battle of Perpignan, suggested to Queen Isabella II of Spain that MacMahon guns be introduced to the Spanish military. The wonders the MacMahons did for the communists and the fear that the French would once again conquer Spain like they did in the Franco-German War would convince the queen to approve of constructing MacMahon guns. The first MacMahons would arrive in the hands of Spanish soldiers in early June 1851 and would be used for the first time in the Battle of Toulouse. As opposed to the battles closer to the Franco-Spanish border Toulouse had a far higher concentration of French soldiers and even a few brownships that were all commanded by Officer Maximilien Bazaine. The Battle of Toulouse would end with a Spanish victory and Bazaine had even been killed, however, casualties were extremely high on both sides thanks to the usage of MacMahon guns and by the end of the battle much of Toulouse was no more than a pile of rubble. The horrors of modern warfare had finally been revealed to the world. Out in the east Tsar Nicholas I of the Russian Empire would tour the city of Kaunas on July 6th, 1851 and was assassinated by a Polish nationalist. Two days after the shocking death of Nicholas I his son would be crowned Tsar Alexander II who would immediately take a negative stance on the Polish Confederacy, which he saw as the inspiration for the murder of his father.
Tsar Alexander II of the Russian Empire.
Alexander II concluded that if the Confederacy were to survive then it would only cause more problems for Russia. Shortly after ascending to the throne Alexander II would declare war on the Polish Confederacy on July 17th, 1851. The Confederacy would quickly fall to the might of Russia and in early September Poland would collapse from disagreements amongst the numerous factions that made up the Confederacy. One faction in the city of Gdynia would convert to communism and called itself the Commune of Poland, which quickly became a close ally of Germany and the other communist states. The Commune would join the UWR in late September and began to invade the other Polish factions with help from Germany. On November 7th, 1851 the Polish Commune began to clash with the Russians which made Russia an official member of the Allied Powers. Shortly after Russia began to fight the communists their long-time ally Byzantium would join the Allied Powers as well and would send soldiers to Sicily and the frontline in northeastern Italy. After seeing the success of the Spanish Austria-Italy would start building its own MacMahon guns at would begin to use them in early December 1851. With its large airfleet the Austro-Italians would take off for Venice and with the MacMahons they reached the capital of the UIPR on December 19th, 1851. A bomb deployed by an Austro-Italian airship in the Battle of Venice would kill much of Italy’s government, including Giorgia Manin. Without a government, or at least one that cooperated, the UIPR began to descend into chaos and the Austro-Italians were easily capable of fighting through North Italy. Meanwhile the Russians would begin to build their own MacMahon guns and were successfully pushing through Poland. On January 3rd, 1852 the Russians would capture Gdynia and with the fall of their capital city the Commune of Poland surrendered. Armed with MacMahon guns the Austro-Italians and Russians would begin to push into Germany as they fought for Berlin. City after city would be destroyed in a battle that would leave the streets of Germany red. Without being at an advantage anymore the Germans would begin to lose and morale would decrease across the DPR. In western Germany several militias would rise up against their communist occupiers in the name of the Holy Roman Empire and the forces of Germany were split in two. Some German regiments would even become deserters and left what they saw as a doomed nation. In early March 1852 the Austro-Italians had conquered Halbe and were quickly approaching Berlin. Just a few days later the brownships of Austria-Italy could be spotted scouting the air above Berlin and the occasional bomb would even be deployed. Fearing for his life Robert Marx would evacuate Berlin on March 12th and found his way to Schwerin. Shortly after Marx had fled away from the approaching beast of war the Austro-Italian Empire would arrive at the gates of Berlin on March 28th, 1851. The fight for Berlin would quickly become trench warfare in the outskirts of the city and MacMahon guns were equipped to shoot to the other side of No Man’s Land. The Battle of Berlin would last for several days and thousands of lives were lost on both sides, however, after waiting long enough the Russians, who had been pushing for Berlin as well, finally reached the northeastern side of Berlin and began to push their way into the city. With most German soldiers fighting in the southern trenches against Austria-Italy the Russians had no trouble with infiltrating the center of Berlin. On April 3rd, 1852 the Russian Empire had captured Berlin, the heart of the German Populist Federal Republic, and the flag of Russia was raised over the buildings of Berlin. South of Germany the UIPR was continuing to suffer heavy losses against the Austro-Italian military and the Spanish had begun to use Corsica to attack both Sardinia and the western half of mainland Italy. After Genoa was captured by Spain on May 2nd, 1852 the demoralized and unstable remnants of the Italian government agreed that the effort to fight the Allied Powers was futile and decided to surrender to the Allies on May 5th. Without the need to fight in Italy more reinforcements were sent to fight in Germany and day after day the once-mighty German Populist Federal Republic lost its cities and with it thousands of men fighting against the invading Austro-Italians and Russians. On July 23rd, 1852 Schwerin fell to the combined forces of the Allied Powers and just prior to the occupation Robert Marx would flee into Denmark-Norway and became one of the most wanted men on Earth. Marx would spend the rest of his life constantly fleeing the world’s governments and the countless bounty hunters and mercenaries hired to find him and would eventually die peacefully in 1883 in Sunset City under the alias Charles O’Riley. With Marx out of the picture the demoralized and disintegrating German Populist Federal Republic would surrender to the Allied powers on August 3rd, 1852. The collapse of Germany signaled the end of the Union of Workers’ Republics remaining as the sole communist nation on the face of Earth. Despite the stubbornness of President Lamartine to surrender it would not be long until the French Socialist Republic would fall to the combined might of almost every great power in Europe and on November 25th, 1852 Paris finally fell to the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and with the capitulation of the French government which had been straining its forces fighting on two fronts for months finally surrendered. The Red War had finally ended and a violent chapter in the history of the world had come to a close. However, when the belligerents met in Vaduz the stage was sent for the next chapter to begin.
Throughout most of the Red War it had always been the communists who were perceived as the future victors. Thanks to their superior technology not even the mighty Austro-Italian Empire had stood a chance against the red menace. However, in the May of 1851 the Kingdom of Spain entered the Red War on the side of the Holy Roman Empire after the Papal States were invaded by the UIPR and with Spain came its dominion India which had one of the largest populations on Earth. Shortly On May 15th, 1851 Mexican Empire, a close ally of the Spanish, declared war on the Union of Workers’ Republics and just a few days later Mexican soldiers were arriving in Catalonia alongside their Spanish comrades to prepare to push into France. The United States of America had been in a constant state of debate ever since the Red War had began on what position should be taken on the events in Europe. King Charles I, who had been born in Prussia, became a strong advocate for war on the communists, as did the Centrist Party, however, the US president Zachary Taylor and his fellow Unionists in the senate and congress preferred to stay out of the deadly European conflict for an array of reasons. “We are the Kingdom of Liberty,” President Taylor argued. “We defend the rights of all men, regardless of their ethnicity. We give our people the right to represent themselves in the government. Why should we help one group of authoritarian regimes fight another group of authoritarian regimes?” As Taylor continued to be stubborn on the issue of joining the Red War a hand full of Unionist politicians would switch over to the Centrists and the Democrats while others would align with a new party called the Liberalists formed by the ex-Unionist Johnson Lincoln.
Johnson Lincoln, the founder of the Liberalist Party.
Senator Lincoln thought that the United States was one day destined to become a global superpower whose ideals would be valued by the globe and saw the Red War as the perfect moment for the American eagle to spread out her wings and carry democracy and equality across the Atlantic Ocean over to Europe. The Liberalists were at first no more than a small party, however, after the war hero former vice president William Henry Harrison joined the party in quickly began to grow. Eventually the Unionist Party would come to make a compromise with the rest of the US government that the United States would support the HRE and her allies through supplies, funding, and volunteer forces, however, America would not officially go to war with France, Germany, and Italy. While many Centrists would have preferred going to war and the radical Liberalists were certainly not happy with the compromise made it was enough to satisfy most people in the government even if President Taylor’s popularity experienced a significant decrease. The Spanish and their allies on the western front would start their first push into France in the middle of May 1851 and soldiers would arrive at Perpignan on May 21st. The Battle of Perpignan was large and bloody, however, unlike the German minor states that had been wiped out by France there was a far smaller concentration of French soldiers in the city which also meant that there weren’t many MacMahon guns. The Spanish navy would sail around the city and land extra soldiers in the north of Perpignan resulting with the city being surrounded by the Spanish. Meanwhile Spanish and Mexican brownships would fly in the undefended sky above Perpignan and deploy bombs onto the French regiments below. Perpignan would be a battleground throughout the night of May 21st, 1851 and the city would remain a battleground until the French surrendered early the next day. With the fall of Perpignan the Spanish got their hands on a few MacMahon guns just as some soldiers occasionally had earlier in the war if they were ever lucky enough to defeat a regiment of communists armed with a MacMahon gun. The HRE had decided to not use the MacMahon for a number of reasons, ranging from overconfidence with their larger militaries and powerful air fleets to the belief that the MacMahons were too inhumane and that only a filthy commie would use such a device. However, the nonexistent amount of MacMahon guns in the ranks of the HRE and her allies (the group became known as the Allied Powers) would finally come to an end when General Juan de Zavala, who had commanded the Spanish in the Battle of Perpignan, suggested to Queen Isabella II of Spain that MacMahon guns be introduced to the Spanish military. The wonders the MacMahons did for the communists and the fear that the French would once again conquer Spain like they did in the Franco-German War would convince the queen to approve of constructing MacMahon guns. The first MacMahons would arrive in the hands of Spanish soldiers in early June 1851 and would be used for the first time in the Battle of Toulouse. As opposed to the battles closer to the Franco-Spanish border Toulouse had a far higher concentration of French soldiers and even a few brownships that were all commanded by Officer Maximilien Bazaine. The Battle of Toulouse would end with a Spanish victory and Bazaine had even been killed, however, casualties were extremely high on both sides thanks to the usage of MacMahon guns and by the end of the battle much of Toulouse was no more than a pile of rubble. The horrors of modern warfare had finally been revealed to the world. Out in the east Tsar Nicholas I of the Russian Empire would tour the city of Kaunas on July 6th, 1851 and was assassinated by a Polish nationalist. Two days after the shocking death of Nicholas I his son would be crowned Tsar Alexander II who would immediately take a negative stance on the Polish Confederacy, which he saw as the inspiration for the murder of his father.
Tsar Alexander II of the Russian Empire.
Alexander II concluded that if the Confederacy were to survive then it would only cause more problems for Russia. Shortly after ascending to the throne Alexander II would declare war on the Polish Confederacy on July 17th, 1851. The Confederacy would quickly fall to the might of Russia and in early September Poland would collapse from disagreements amongst the numerous factions that made up the Confederacy. One faction in the city of Gdynia would convert to communism and called itself the Commune of Poland, which quickly became a close ally of Germany and the other communist states. The Commune would join the UWR in late September and began to invade the other Polish factions with help from Germany. On November 7th, 1851 the Polish Commune began to clash with the Russians which made Russia an official member of the Allied Powers. Shortly after Russia began to fight the communists their long-time ally Byzantium would join the Allied Powers as well and would send soldiers to Sicily and the frontline in northeastern Italy. After seeing the success of the Spanish Austria-Italy would start building its own MacMahon guns at would begin to use them in early December 1851. With its large airfleet the Austro-Italians would take off for Venice and with the MacMahons they reached the capital of the UIPR on December 19th, 1851. A bomb deployed by an Austro-Italian airship in the Battle of Venice would kill much of Italy’s government, including Giorgia Manin. Without a government, or at least one that cooperated, the UIPR began to descend into chaos and the Austro-Italians were easily capable of fighting through North Italy. Meanwhile the Russians would begin to build their own MacMahon guns and were successfully pushing through Poland. On January 3rd, 1852 the Russians would capture Gdynia and with the fall of their capital city the Commune of Poland surrendered. Armed with MacMahon guns the Austro-Italians and Russians would begin to push into Germany as they fought for Berlin. City after city would be destroyed in a battle that would leave the streets of Germany red. Without being at an advantage anymore the Germans would begin to lose and morale would decrease across the DPR. In western Germany several militias would rise up against their communist occupiers in the name of the Holy Roman Empire and the forces of Germany were split in two. Some German regiments would even become deserters and left what they saw as a doomed nation. In early March 1852 the Austro-Italians had conquered Halbe and were quickly approaching Berlin. Just a few days later the brownships of Austria-Italy could be spotted scouting the air above Berlin and the occasional bomb would even be deployed. Fearing for his life Robert Marx would evacuate Berlin on March 12th and found his way to Schwerin. Shortly after Marx had fled away from the approaching beast of war the Austro-Italian Empire would arrive at the gates of Berlin on March 28th, 1851. The fight for Berlin would quickly become trench warfare in the outskirts of the city and MacMahon guns were equipped to shoot to the other side of No Man’s Land. The Battle of Berlin would last for several days and thousands of lives were lost on both sides, however, after waiting long enough the Russians, who had been pushing for Berlin as well, finally reached the northeastern side of Berlin and began to push their way into the city. With most German soldiers fighting in the southern trenches against Austria-Italy the Russians had no trouble with infiltrating the center of Berlin. On April 3rd, 1852 the Russian Empire had captured Berlin, the heart of the German Populist Federal Republic, and the flag of Russia was raised over the buildings of Berlin. South of Germany the UIPR was continuing to suffer heavy losses against the Austro-Italian military and the Spanish had begun to use Corsica to attack both Sardinia and the western half of mainland Italy. After Genoa was captured by Spain on May 2nd, 1852 the demoralized and unstable remnants of the Italian government agreed that the effort to fight the Allied Powers was futile and decided to surrender to the Allies on May 5th. Without the need to fight in Italy more reinforcements were sent to fight in Germany and day after day the once-mighty German Populist Federal Republic lost its cities and with it thousands of men fighting against the invading Austro-Italians and Russians. On July 23rd, 1852 Schwerin fell to the combined forces of the Allied Powers and just prior to the occupation Robert Marx would flee into Denmark-Norway and became one of the most wanted men on Earth. Marx would spend the rest of his life constantly fleeing the world’s governments and the countless bounty hunters and mercenaries hired to find him and would eventually die peacefully in 1883 in Sunset City under the alias Charles O’Riley. With Marx out of the picture the demoralized and disintegrating German Populist Federal Republic would surrender to the Allied powers on August 3rd, 1852. The collapse of Germany signaled the end of the Union of Workers’ Republics remaining as the sole communist nation on the face of Earth. Despite the stubbornness of President Lamartine to surrender it would not be long until the French Socialist Republic would fall to the combined might of almost every great power in Europe and on November 25th, 1852 Paris finally fell to the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and with the capitulation of the French government which had been straining its forces fighting on two fronts for months finally surrendered. The Red War had finally ended and a violent chapter in the history of the world had come to a close. However, when the belligerents met in Vaduz the stage was sent for the next chapter to begin.
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