RM Vol 4: War – Chapter 17: Case Yellow (Day 4 – 24 hours)

RM Vol 4: War – Chapter 17: Case Yellow (Day 4 – 24 hours)

Day 4 in Case Yellow.

With Forward Operating Base Warehouse secured, we have thus been able to station most of our logistical capabilities and air assets in a secure location on the frontline. This has turned F.O.B Warehouse into a vital hub of operations, giving us the leeway and a safety net to have most of Army Group A going on an aggressive maneuver.

Army Group A, being the most active Army Group out of all three, is twice the size of a usual Army Group. This means that Army Group A has not two but four subordinate Armies attached to it, and by extension, I have direct command over all of them. In other words, I am and will be siccing more than a million men and women on the Loyalist positions. That's a lot of soldiers alongside their accompanying modern firepower. Pretty cool, right?

Unfortunately, it's not like all one million of them can fight at the same time. It's just plain physically impossible. Currently, Army Group A has fourteen Corps in combat around Central Maginot. They're split into three main task groups: Attack, Defend, and QRF. As of today, I will be directing the Attack Corps, while personally taking charge of some vanguard units of my own. Namely, they're the 404th, 1st, 2nd, 6th, 8th, and 10th, amounting up to 150000 soldiers. The 10th Panzer Division will be in charge of holding Sedan while the 404th's 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team is undergoing some R&R at Warehouse. The 6th and 8th, however, are attacking the Northern portion of the Meuse where the river forks into the rivers Sambre and Maas. Thus far, these two Divisions have been playing it safe against the well-trained and equipped Loyalist Ninth Army that is heavily entrenched around Monthermé and Dinant. Monthermé even sports a bigger fortress than that of Bellevue in Sedan. The whole city is pretty much the fortress itself, hosting the 102nd Fortress Division with enough artillery and infantry to hold the city for days against a contemporary military force. To liberate the 6th and 8th of their duties, I am leading the rest of the 404th alongside the 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions to undercut the Ninth Army's position.

However, I do wonder, with how swiftly we advance, how will the rest of the world see us? Rather, do they even know that our little skirmish has resumed? Everything is conducted suddenly and violently with near total information blackout on imparted on the Allies. I am the sole person able to conduct anything meaningful on this chessboard of a war, really.

Hell, the war can end in one day if I wish for it. The only reason why I don't decide on it is because of potential insurgencies. What I am doing right now is bleeding the Loyalists and Eruseans of their military units. By the time they capitulate, they won't even have anything left to perform guerilla tactics. This is my long-term plan.

So yeah, 24 hours to encircle an Army is actually Belka going at it the slow way. This war could have ended in mere minutes by virtue of assassinations or straight-up wiping their capitals off the map.