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Chapter 5: Invading Mexico
"They say communism can only work in two places. Heaven, where they don't need it, and Hell, where they already have it." - Unknown
The orders that were given to the CSA ground commanders were clear. They were to brutally crush this communist uprising. The goal in crushing this rebellion was two-fold. One was known to the world. It was to assist an ally and secure a border. The second, known only amongst the CSA generals, was to use this as proving ground for equipment and tactics. To the CSA, the end result of this war was never in doubt, but the knowledge that could be gained from fighting was invaluable.
0:00 Hours April 26 1936 -
Major General George S. Patton was to take Freedom Volunteer division west to secure Nogales from possible communist attack and from there to launch the invasion of Culiacan. Mj. Gen. Maximillian was to drive his 2nd Freedom Volunteer division into Mexico and attack south into the communist capital and stronghold of Durango. His attack was to be supported by the three division of cavalry under command of Lt. General Sanguily.
Mj. Gen. Breidster and Mj. Gen. Hutchinson were to take the 1st Confederate Mountain Division and 21st Discontents division respectively and secure the coastal province of Tampico, via Monterrey.
1:00 Hours April 26 1936 -
Mj. Gen. Maximillian and Lt. Gen. Sanguily forces located and engage the two communist militia division dug in between Durango and Chihuahua. The fighting quickly heats up and by noon had reached its full brutality. The communists fought with perverse savagery but were spared no mercy by Gen. Maximillian, who later stated in his after action report that his men advanced so fast that they didn't have time to see prisoners surrendering. Later reports of Maximillian's men executing surrendering communists were determined to be just rumors fabricated by communist sympathizing Northern newspapers. However, Gen. Sanguily's forces did manage to capture some 3,000 communists before he broke off his attack to swing south into Monterrey.
Mj. Gens. Breidster and Hutchinson combine their forces and move into Monterrey. They quickly encounter the hastily assembled communist militia force, who barely gives fight before fleeing to Tampico.
20:00 Hours April 26th 1936
The fighting for Durango was effectively over. Mj. Gen. Maximillians troops had completely destroyed the combat effectiveness of the communist defenders, who were heading south and west in anything that had fuzzy dice and spinners. CSA casualties were reported to be light while accurate reports of communist dead are hard to obtain. It is estimated to be nearly 25% of their effective strength. The CSA airforce begins to bomb the retreating communist forces. While the air force reports these first bombing missions as slightly ineffective, reports from the ground indicate that no wounded were among the causalties found by Mj. Gen. Maximillian's men. The CSA continues its non-stop bombardment of retreating red Mexican soldiers.
21:00 Hours April 26th 1936
Effective resistance had finally collapsed in Monterrey, and Breidster and Hutchinson begin securing the province. Combat reporters begin to file reports of CSA troops finding whole towns brutally massacred by the retreating communists, women and children shot execution style in the streets. Pictures of these gruesome scenes are front page stories in most CSA newspapers, but are dismissed by the socialist propaganda rags in the North as lies. Breidster and Hutchinson take new urgency in their mission to liberate Monterrey and speed their men towards Tampico.
11:00 Hours April 29 1936 -
Mj. Gen. Patton's men arrive in Nogales and immediately take up position to invade Culiacan.
09:00 Hours April 30 1936 -
Mj. Gen. Patton pushes south out of Nogales and encounters fierce enemy resistance. Patton radios to Maximillian that he is fighting at least 4 division of communist forces, one of which consists of former Mexican army soldiers that defected at the outset of rebellion.
03:00 Hours May 1 1936 -
After fierce fighting and mounting casualties on both sides, Patton orders his men to disengage and hold their position. Even though the enemy was more numerous, Paton had manage to push over 50 miles into Mexican territory. Unfortunately, the supplies had not kept pace with his advance, as most were still moving from Maximillian's assault on Durango, and his troops were running dangerously low on ammunition.
09:00 Hours May 3 1936 -
The mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, Don Sleighman, reports that communist militia men have laid seige to his town and threaten to burn it down unless it surrendered immediately. Feathestone orders the mayor to surrender the town, knowing that CSA forces would soon be in position to reclaim it. There was no need for CSA civilians to suffer needless loss of life and property for mere pride. However, the communist militias occupying CSA territory had no intention of keeping their promise. As soon as Sleighman orders the local security forces to stand down, the communist militias enter the town guns blazing. Over the next three hours, all of the local law enforcement and government officials were executed, and many parts of the city were set ablaze. Civilian casualties in Corpus Christi were later determined to be over 2,000, many of them women and children.
First Blood Spilt on CSA Ground Since 1918:
Last reports from Corpus Christi indicate that the communist militia was heading towards Houston.
Else Where in Mexico and the World:
The loyalist forces were being slowly pushed out of the province of Guadalajara, and the loyalist capital, Mexico City, had fallen to the communists.
Loyalist Mexican forces were on the verge of collapse, and only the well timed arrival of CSA troops kept the whole of Mexico from falling to the communists.
The USA issued an official condemnation of the CSA invasion of Mexico, saying these army units violated the Great War Treaty. The CSA denied that it had expanded its army or invaded Mexico. When pressed about picture of CSA troops inside the capital city of Monterrey, the CSA said that it had allowed several regiments of soldiers in existing divisions to volunteer for service in Mexico under Mexican leadership. When asked about these treaty violations the official statement from the CSA government said "While we deplore the developments in the sovereign country of Mexico and sincerely hope that the forces loyal to the duly elected Mexican government prevail, we in the CSA government cannot and will not stop passionate and motivated citizens of the CSA who wish to voluntarily enlist under Mexican leadership to fight in this war. Likewise, we cannot stop owners of private air vehicles from flying to Mexico to volunteer their life and equiment for the Mexican government." Privately, the President of the CSA, Jake Featherstone, was rumored to have said that "Al Smith (president of the USA) can take the Great War Treaty and shove it straight up his ass."
Next Update: Remember Corpus Christi!!!
"They say communism can only work in two places. Heaven, where they don't need it, and Hell, where they already have it." - Unknown
The orders that were given to the CSA ground commanders were clear. They were to brutally crush this communist uprising. The goal in crushing this rebellion was two-fold. One was known to the world. It was to assist an ally and secure a border. The second, known only amongst the CSA generals, was to use this as proving ground for equipment and tactics. To the CSA, the end result of this war was never in doubt, but the knowledge that could be gained from fighting was invaluable.
0:00 Hours April 26 1936 -
Major General George S. Patton was to take Freedom Volunteer division west to secure Nogales from possible communist attack and from there to launch the invasion of Culiacan. Mj. Gen. Maximillian was to drive his 2nd Freedom Volunteer division into Mexico and attack south into the communist capital and stronghold of Durango. His attack was to be supported by the three division of cavalry under command of Lt. General Sanguily.
Mj. Gen. Breidster and Mj. Gen. Hutchinson were to take the 1st Confederate Mountain Division and 21st Discontents division respectively and secure the coastal province of Tampico, via Monterrey.
1:00 Hours April 26 1936 -
Mj. Gen. Maximillian and Lt. Gen. Sanguily forces located and engage the two communist militia division dug in between Durango and Chihuahua. The fighting quickly heats up and by noon had reached its full brutality. The communists fought with perverse savagery but were spared no mercy by Gen. Maximillian, who later stated in his after action report that his men advanced so fast that they didn't have time to see prisoners surrendering. Later reports of Maximillian's men executing surrendering communists were determined to be just rumors fabricated by communist sympathizing Northern newspapers. However, Gen. Sanguily's forces did manage to capture some 3,000 communists before he broke off his attack to swing south into Monterrey.
Mj. Gens. Breidster and Hutchinson combine their forces and move into Monterrey. They quickly encounter the hastily assembled communist militia force, who barely gives fight before fleeing to Tampico.
20:00 Hours April 26th 1936
The fighting for Durango was effectively over. Mj. Gen. Maximillians troops had completely destroyed the combat effectiveness of the communist defenders, who were heading south and west in anything that had fuzzy dice and spinners. CSA casualties were reported to be light while accurate reports of communist dead are hard to obtain. It is estimated to be nearly 25% of their effective strength. The CSA airforce begins to bomb the retreating communist forces. While the air force reports these first bombing missions as slightly ineffective, reports from the ground indicate that no wounded were among the causalties found by Mj. Gen. Maximillian's men. The CSA continues its non-stop bombardment of retreating red Mexican soldiers.
21:00 Hours April 26th 1936
Effective resistance had finally collapsed in Monterrey, and Breidster and Hutchinson begin securing the province. Combat reporters begin to file reports of CSA troops finding whole towns brutally massacred by the retreating communists, women and children shot execution style in the streets. Pictures of these gruesome scenes are front page stories in most CSA newspapers, but are dismissed by the socialist propaganda rags in the North as lies. Breidster and Hutchinson take new urgency in their mission to liberate Monterrey and speed their men towards Tampico.
11:00 Hours April 29 1936 -
Mj. Gen. Patton's men arrive in Nogales and immediately take up position to invade Culiacan.
09:00 Hours April 30 1936 -
Mj. Gen. Patton pushes south out of Nogales and encounters fierce enemy resistance. Patton radios to Maximillian that he is fighting at least 4 division of communist forces, one of which consists of former Mexican army soldiers that defected at the outset of rebellion.
03:00 Hours May 1 1936 -
After fierce fighting and mounting casualties on both sides, Patton orders his men to disengage and hold their position. Even though the enemy was more numerous, Paton had manage to push over 50 miles into Mexican territory. Unfortunately, the supplies had not kept pace with his advance, as most were still moving from Maximillian's assault on Durango, and his troops were running dangerously low on ammunition.
09:00 Hours May 3 1936 -
The mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, Don Sleighman, reports that communist militia men have laid seige to his town and threaten to burn it down unless it surrendered immediately. Feathestone orders the mayor to surrender the town, knowing that CSA forces would soon be in position to reclaim it. There was no need for CSA civilians to suffer needless loss of life and property for mere pride. However, the communist militias occupying CSA territory had no intention of keeping their promise. As soon as Sleighman orders the local security forces to stand down, the communist militias enter the town guns blazing. Over the next three hours, all of the local law enforcement and government officials were executed, and many parts of the city were set ablaze. Civilian casualties in Corpus Christi were later determined to be over 2,000, many of them women and children.
First Blood Spilt on CSA Ground Since 1918:
Last reports from Corpus Christi indicate that the communist militia was heading towards Houston.
Else Where in Mexico and the World:
The loyalist forces were being slowly pushed out of the province of Guadalajara, and the loyalist capital, Mexico City, had fallen to the communists.
Loyalist Mexican forces were on the verge of collapse, and only the well timed arrival of CSA troops kept the whole of Mexico from falling to the communists.
The USA issued an official condemnation of the CSA invasion of Mexico, saying these army units violated the Great War Treaty. The CSA denied that it had expanded its army or invaded Mexico. When pressed about picture of CSA troops inside the capital city of Monterrey, the CSA said that it had allowed several regiments of soldiers in existing divisions to volunteer for service in Mexico under Mexican leadership. When asked about these treaty violations the official statement from the CSA government said "While we deplore the developments in the sovereign country of Mexico and sincerely hope that the forces loyal to the duly elected Mexican government prevail, we in the CSA government cannot and will not stop passionate and motivated citizens of the CSA who wish to voluntarily enlist under Mexican leadership to fight in this war. Likewise, we cannot stop owners of private air vehicles from flying to Mexico to volunteer their life and equiment for the Mexican government." Privately, the President of the CSA, Jake Featherstone, was rumored to have said that "Al Smith (president of the USA) can take the Great War Treaty and shove it straight up his ass."
Next Update: Remember Corpus Christi!!!
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Stnylan - Vengence is mine saith Jake Featherston.
General Jac - I respect the other CSA AAR writers, but I think most of them spend too much time apologizing and tip toeing around the slavery issue. One of my goals in writing this AAR was to write from a southern perspective. This AAR will have a very pro-South slant to it. I am not going to interject any personal feelings on issues (aside from my obvious hatred of communism/socialism). Wars and issues will be viewed from and interpretated from a CSA perspective. Rather than a character study or a moral analogy, this AAR will be written from a more historical perspective that one might get from reading a military history magazine, published ex post facto.
Akaki - Most of these screen shots were taken days ago, so I will try and use the political map more in the future (I think I did on the SCW) but bear with me until they catch up.
RossN - Thanks for the kind words. I am digging your AAR as well, although I hope our styles are different enough that you don't feel I am competing with you.
General Jac - I respect the other CSA AAR writers, but I think most of them spend too much time apologizing and tip toeing around the slavery issue. One of my goals in writing this AAR was to write from a southern perspective. This AAR will have a very pro-South slant to it. I am not going to interject any personal feelings on issues (aside from my obvious hatred of communism/socialism). Wars and issues will be viewed from and interpretated from a CSA perspective. Rather than a character study or a moral analogy, this AAR will be written from a more historical perspective that one might get from reading a military history magazine, published ex post facto.
Akaki - Most of these screen shots were taken days ago, so I will try and use the political map more in the future (I think I did on the SCW) but bear with me until they catch up.
RossN - Thanks for the kind words. I am digging your AAR as well, although I hope our styles are different enough that you don't feel I am competing with you.
Readers -
I don't do character studies often, and don't intend to very much on this AAR. But I work during week and at work I don't have reference to my screen shots, so I think I will every now and then write a few back stories on some of the characters. HMS has put a few seemingly fictional characters in his mod, and I intend to use this to my advantage. One of them, Mj. Gen. Maximillian, you have already met. I am going to try and work some backstory up on him tonight and post a little mini-bio on him tomorrow (hopefully). I intend to use these fictional characters to role play some, as I will try and keep the ones that exist in OTL more or less close to their historical personas, to the extent I know what those are.
I would appreciate some feedback on my first character study to see if y'all believe it adds something to the AAR or whether it doesn't flow. So don't hold back.
Thanks for reading!
I don't do character studies often, and don't intend to very much on this AAR. But I work during week and at work I don't have reference to my screen shots, so I think I will every now and then write a few back stories on some of the characters. HMS has put a few seemingly fictional characters in his mod, and I intend to use this to my advantage. One of them, Mj. Gen. Maximillian, you have already met. I am going to try and work some backstory up on him tonight and post a little mini-bio on him tomorrow (hopefully). I intend to use these fictional characters to role play some, as I will try and keep the ones that exist in OTL more or less close to their historical personas, to the extent I know what those are.
I would appreciate some feedback on my first character study to see if y'all believe it adds something to the AAR or whether it doesn't flow. So don't hold back.
Thanks for reading!
Ugly Guy, RossN is not the God of the Confederacy, nor is he anywhere near the first person to do a CSA AAR, there is no need to ask permission from him. Your AAR is a great read on its own. Keep up the good work.
Burke said:
Er I certainly didn't mean to suggest anything like that!
I was just playfully teasing... sorry if it came across as anything different.
RossN said:Er I certainly didn't mean to suggest anything like that!
You loudmouthed Leprechaun
Back Story: Major General Maximillian
Not much is known about the early life of Mj. General James Maximillian. Accurate records of births and deaths during the early 20th century were few and far between outside of the major metropolitan areas. It is widely believed that he was born Hopkinsville, Ky, a small town of about 10,000 residents at the time of his birth in the year 1903. Right before the start of the Great War, his family migrated to Mississippi, where they bought a small two room shanty on the outskirts of Jackson. Life was hard on this family, part of the caste of southern society that was looked down upon by both whites and blacks. Poor white trash, they were often called. Life was hard for James, his father often drunk and jobless. You could have called his mother a whore, but a whore actually gets paid for her services.
In May of 1915, the draft man cometh to the Maximillian household, and poor James never saw his father again. It is believed that he died in the fighting later that year around, of all places, the town of his birth. After his father left, James was pretty much on his own. His mother was hardly ever around, and James soon dropped out of school and began a life of petty crime. Fate found himself locked in jail, when the red uprisings began across the south. When the red masses began their assault upon Jackson, the local law enforcement emptied the jails of all abled bodied white males and pressed them into some sort of makeshift militia. James found himself, 14 and armed, close to his home taking pot shots at advancing communist negro insurgents. The militia, poorly disciplined and less than highly motivated, quickly fell back under the intense red assault. Once his militia/prisoner mates began to wilt away, James made his way through woods to his house. He broke out of the woods just in time to see a band of roughly twenty insurgents enter his house. He knew it would be suicide to try and drive them off so he waited. He listened for over an hour as his mother screamed (or were they moans?) before the reds set fire to the house and ran out. He noticed the blood on one of the reds' knives, gleaming in the moon light. He knew his mother was dead or dying, but he felt, comfortably numb. He took off through the woods again, running back towards Jackson. He was once again, caught by the local law enforcement and pressed back into action, this time with a brigade sized group of CSA soldiers, assembled by troops home on leave. James fought with this group of men over the course of the next two years, hunting and chasing communist guerillas from one side of Mississippi to the other side of Alabama.
For the first time in James' life, he felt as if he had a family. These soldiers, many 10 years or more older than he, treated him as an equal and trusted him with their lives, the same as he trusted them with his. James was still rooting out red insurgents when the war came to an end. With his unit forced to lay down their weapons and disband, James was once again, lost in the world. He had no family that he knew of, and his parents had made sure the family name was worthless in Jackson. Lost and without direction, James Maximillian ran.
No one really knows what happened to him during the next ten years. Many believe he moved west, others believe he went to Mexico. But later on, pictures began to circulate that should a young man, looking an aweful lot like a 20 something Maximillian, riding with the a group of Russian Cossacks, as they hunted down communist Russians during the many post Great War revolts in Russia. One picture pruported to show a man that looked like smiling James holding the head of a dead Russian communist, with the words "The only good communist is a dead one" written in Russian, in blood, in the pure white snow. Many said these pictures were fabrications, and that this was not the legendary James Maximillian, the simply truth is that no one really knows what happened to him.
The next confirmed instance of James appearing in the CSA was in 1930, in Texas. He bought a large ranch outside of Houston, and quickly became a wealthy land baron. He invested much money in the Confederate Citrus Company, and quickly became a power player in local whig politics. This enormous wealth enabled him to secure a commision as a colonel in the Texas National Guard. He quickly showed his military prowess, turning the TNG into, not only a first class domestic security force, but something that resembled a professional army unit.
While technically a Whig, Maximillian's true interest lied with the Freedom Party. So when the Texas National Guard was called upon to stop the Freedom Party's march on Austin protesting the crooked elections of 1933, James Maximillian made his play and told his men to stand down at the critical moment. This shrewd recognization of the inevitable, enable him to furth enhance his status among the new CSA power structure. He was rewarded by the new CSA president-elect Jake Featherstone with a Major General's commission in the CSA army. When Featherstone approved the recruitment and formation of four new divisions to go into Mexico, it could only be fate that James Maximillian would be found leading the charge.
Not much is known about the early life of Mj. General James Maximillian. Accurate records of births and deaths during the early 20th century were few and far between outside of the major metropolitan areas. It is widely believed that he was born Hopkinsville, Ky, a small town of about 10,000 residents at the time of his birth in the year 1903. Right before the start of the Great War, his family migrated to Mississippi, where they bought a small two room shanty on the outskirts of Jackson. Life was hard on this family, part of the caste of southern society that was looked down upon by both whites and blacks. Poor white trash, they were often called. Life was hard for James, his father often drunk and jobless. You could have called his mother a whore, but a whore actually gets paid for her services.
In May of 1915, the draft man cometh to the Maximillian household, and poor James never saw his father again. It is believed that he died in the fighting later that year around, of all places, the town of his birth. After his father left, James was pretty much on his own. His mother was hardly ever around, and James soon dropped out of school and began a life of petty crime. Fate found himself locked in jail, when the red uprisings began across the south. When the red masses began their assault upon Jackson, the local law enforcement emptied the jails of all abled bodied white males and pressed them into some sort of makeshift militia. James found himself, 14 and armed, close to his home taking pot shots at advancing communist negro insurgents. The militia, poorly disciplined and less than highly motivated, quickly fell back under the intense red assault. Once his militia/prisoner mates began to wilt away, James made his way through woods to his house. He broke out of the woods just in time to see a band of roughly twenty insurgents enter his house. He knew it would be suicide to try and drive them off so he waited. He listened for over an hour as his mother screamed (or were they moans?) before the reds set fire to the house and ran out. He noticed the blood on one of the reds' knives, gleaming in the moon light. He knew his mother was dead or dying, but he felt, comfortably numb. He took off through the woods again, running back towards Jackson. He was once again, caught by the local law enforcement and pressed back into action, this time with a brigade sized group of CSA soldiers, assembled by troops home on leave. James fought with this group of men over the course of the next two years, hunting and chasing communist guerillas from one side of Mississippi to the other side of Alabama.
For the first time in James' life, he felt as if he had a family. These soldiers, many 10 years or more older than he, treated him as an equal and trusted him with their lives, the same as he trusted them with his. James was still rooting out red insurgents when the war came to an end. With his unit forced to lay down their weapons and disband, James was once again, lost in the world. He had no family that he knew of, and his parents had made sure the family name was worthless in Jackson. Lost and without direction, James Maximillian ran.
No one really knows what happened to him during the next ten years. Many believe he moved west, others believe he went to Mexico. But later on, pictures began to circulate that should a young man, looking an aweful lot like a 20 something Maximillian, riding with the a group of Russian Cossacks, as they hunted down communist Russians during the many post Great War revolts in Russia. One picture pruported to show a man that looked like smiling James holding the head of a dead Russian communist, with the words "The only good communist is a dead one" written in Russian, in blood, in the pure white snow. Many said these pictures were fabrications, and that this was not the legendary James Maximillian, the simply truth is that no one really knows what happened to him.
The next confirmed instance of James appearing in the CSA was in 1930, in Texas. He bought a large ranch outside of Houston, and quickly became a wealthy land baron. He invested much money in the Confederate Citrus Company, and quickly became a power player in local whig politics. This enormous wealth enabled him to secure a commision as a colonel in the Texas National Guard. He quickly showed his military prowess, turning the TNG into, not only a first class domestic security force, but something that resembled a professional army unit.
While technically a Whig, Maximillian's true interest lied with the Freedom Party. So when the Texas National Guard was called upon to stop the Freedom Party's march on Austin protesting the crooked elections of 1933, James Maximillian made his play and told his men to stand down at the critical moment. This shrewd recognization of the inevitable, enable him to furth enhance his status among the new CSA power structure. He was rewarded by the new CSA president-elect Jake Featherstone with a Major General's commission in the CSA army. When Featherstone approved the recruitment and formation of four new divisions to go into Mexico, it could only be fate that James Maximillian would be found leading the charge.
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Very interesting little biography. I take it he will be an important character along the way?
Oh - and it looks like your color tag at the start has a problem
Oh - and it looks like your color tag at the start has a problem
HMS Enterprize said:@ Ugly
I see you have given Gen. Maximillian a first name... I like it.
I just saw Maximillian for the first time in game right before I started this AAR. With his leader traits, he looked fictional enough. I just took a creative license with the backstory.
Hopefully I can get another chapter in tonight!
Chapter 6: Remember Corpus Christi and Durango Burning
01:00 Hours May 4 1936
Mj. Gen Breidster's scouting forces, hot in pursuit of the communist rabble heading towards Houston, catch up to the rear guard and immediately engage. The battle heats up as the day wears on, much like the hot Texan sun, as each side brings more troops to the fight. By 17:00 hours, it was a full blown firefight, with Breidster driving his troops with conviction against the fanatical militia men. But it soon became apparent that the rage of Beidster's soldiers, many of them shouting "Remember Corpus Christi", would prevail and by 23:00 the Mexican forces were shattered. Many of Breidster's enlisted men,with their officers turning a blind eye, began to put captured Mexican soldiers to the sword. As word of this creeped up the chain of command, Breidster took action. In a move that almost ended his distinguished military career, he ordered the arrest of some of the worst perpetrators of these killings and the subsequent court martial of them and their commanding officers. While privately he expressed no sympathy for the Mexican soldiers killed, he said that maintaining proper discipline and respecting the rules of warfare were two moral imperatives that he allowed no room for flexing. Soldiers under his command, he said, would conduct themselves with the utmost respect of life, including the lives of those who showed no such respect.
The outrage in the South was immediate and unyielding. Many in the Confederate Congress called for Breidster's head on a platter, while less reactive ones pressed NBF3 to force him to resign. Even Jake Featherstone said publically that "God Himself would have approved of killing those communists." However, Nathan Bedford Forrest III knew that a man of Breidster's caliber could not be so easily replaced, and publically backed his man, and even went so far as to say that he would quit before he did anything but congratulate Breidster on his handling of the affair. However, this would not be necessary, as once the immediate furor of the "Texas Massacre" died down and cooler heads in Congress prevailed, that many went down publically as saying that Breidster was to be commended for the moral courage he exerted for showing the restraint in the face of intense emotional actions.
Feelings amongst his compatriots were mixed however. He was publically backed by the commanding general in Mexico, Lt. Gen. Sanguily, but the fiery Mj. Gen. Maximillian reportedly said "let me know if he ever finds his balls again." In the meantime, in response to Breidster's leniency with the Mexican troops, Gen. Maximillian ordered his soldiers to give no quarter to surrendering Mexican soldiers. However, word of this quickly spread, and he was quickly ordered to rescind the directive and fully obey the rules of the Geneva Convention. Maximillian swore that he would avenge the deaths of his fellow Texans.
17:00 Hours May 10 1936
CSA forces in Monterrey and Corpus Christi coordinate a combined assault upon the communist defense in Tampico. In one of the quickest victories of the war, CSA forces crushed all Mexican opposition in Tampico within five hours. It seemed that the test of new military tactics in this war was finally showing some results.
06:00 Hours May 12 1936
Lt. Gen Sanguily's two cavalry and one camelry division engage the communist troops dug into the mountains in the Leon province. Again, the fighting was fierce and casualties heavy, especially amongst the Confederate troops. A battalion sized force of communist guerrillas had managed to ambush the 1st Confederate Camelry and inflict over two thousand causlaties. It was to be the CSA's deadliest battle since the Great War. Despite this set back, by 15:00 hours effective Mexican resistance had been destroyed.
On May 16th, the Mexican government formally put the remaining loyalist Mexican divisions under CSA control. Mj. Gen. Patton immediately ordered some of his top aids to join up with the Mexican forces and provide leadership support to the local Mexican commanders. It is also speculated that this was done so that the CSA would be in position to remove the command structure of the divisions in the case that the unit commanders wanted to defect to the communists.
16:00 Hours May 16 1936
The Mexican garrison, under CSA advisors, stationed at Guadalajara came under attack by communist forces based out of Mexico City.
19:00 Hours May 16 1936
Patton launches an all out offensive into Culiacán's communist defenders, and by 22:00 they had been decisively defeated and were in full retreat to Leon.
0:00 Hours May 17 1936
Patton encounters a communist division that had been sent to reinforce the garrison at Culiacán. After another fierce fourteen hour firefight, this one involving a frontal assault against entrenched Mexican defenders reportedly lead by Patton himself, the CSA soldiers force the communist into retreating again.
07:00 Hours May 17 1936
Communist forces launch an assault upon the temporary loyalist capital of Acapulco.
23:00 Hours May 17 1936
Loyalist Mexican forces were crushed by the communist onslaught and forced to take flight southwards to avoid capture. Confederate Air Force units repeatedly strafe the advancing communists to give the government time to destroy secret documents and evacuate to Puebla.
21:00 Hours May 28 1936
CSA forces occupy the communist city of Durango. Upon hearing of their arrival there, Lt. Gen. Sanguily sends new orders to Maximillian, telling him to initiate the assault upon the communist stronghold in Mexico city. When the runner gives him the message, Maximillian as the runner to tell him what it says. After hearing it Maximillian reportedly told the runner "That is just what you think it says. I think it was garbled in transmission. Ask Gen. Sanguily to resend and take your time about it." It would be almost a week before Mj. Gen. Maximillian moved his forces south to initiate the assault upon Mexico City. Coincidentally, the night CSA forces left Durango a mysterious fire broke out that by the time it was extenguished four days later, had consumed nearly 3/4 of the town. Durango would never recover. Communists claimed that Maximillian had fired the town in response to the Coprus Christi affair and to cover up the execution of more than three thousand communist sympathizers by CSA forces. Gen. Maximillian claimed, later supported by the ironically synonymous accounts of the imbedded CSA journalists, that communist sympathizers had set the fire to drive the Confederates out of Durango.
At this point the communist forces only held control of the central province of Mexico City. After threats of court martial had finally driven Maximillian out of Durango and into attacking position did the Confederates begin their assault upon Mexico City. No one expected this fight to be easy, and all in all seven CSA divisions supported by three loyalist Mexican divisions participated in the battle.
CSA positions just before the fight for Mexico City:
The fight for Mexico City was intense. The communist forces resisted with fanatical zeal, knowing that their backs were up against the wall. The loyalist Mexican troops proved to be less than reliable, but the tired and exhausted CSA troops fought on, spilling blood over every inch of city suburbs. Meanwhile, the CSA Air Force provided and intense bombing campaign of the communists lines of supply and communication, helping to breakdown the cohesion of the defending troops. This combined arms assault and the blistering artillery barrage provided by the artillery detachments helped the CSA grunts to advance into the city. The fighting for Mexico City lasted more than three days, but in the end, the CSA troops were victorious. News of this victory spread like wildfire. Although the war would drag on for another few weeks with scattered pockets of resistance, the main communists armies were either killed or captured. The Mexican government declared the rebellion crushed, and initiated martial law in the formerly communist provinces.
Now Jake Featherstone had to determine how he would avoid the North from finidng out just how directly the CSA was in this fight. Bringing back into the CSA four new divisions would just invite scrutiny and new sanctions from the big northern Bohemoth. So he struck a bargain with the Mexican government. He would arrange to leave two of the CSA divisions behind in Mexico, on a temporary basis, to help with internal security. The other two divisions, he would tell Al Smith, had been formed in response to the calamity to the south and to provide security to the inhabitants of the CSA's border regions, especially after the Communist forces invaded his sovereign nation. The North did not buy this argument, but under intense anti-communist pressure from all of the conservative countries in Europe, including the Monarchies of Germany and Austro-Hungary, did the North relent to this treay violation and allow the existance of two additional CSA army divisions.
The Deal:
Elsewhere in the world:
The Newport News Shipping company completed its designs for the new Escort class mini-carrier.
Sweden had a new "Summer" government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower finished his project into integrating field hospital units with regular army units.
Mj. Gen. Clarence Potter continues his spying efforts, enhancing his domestic counter-spying program and continuing his insertion of spies into the USA, Germany, and Japan.
Spain degenerates into a Civil War not unlike the one that just plagued Mexico, with the evil communists on one side and conservative loyalists on the other. Jake Featherstone publically wishes the self-styled Nationalists victory.
The US Congress votes to expand the size of its army by two divisions to match the increase in the CSA army size. Tensions between the two nations are at an all time high, with many in the North calling for an immediate invasion of its southern neighbor. Only the careful and skillful diplomatic efforts of Saul Goodman via Austro-Hungarian diplomats averts war. Privately, Jake Featherstone admits that he had pushed this two far and realizes he needed to back down for alittle while.
The North may have disurpted his schedule, but the train is still on the tracks.
Next Update: Spanish Civil War and the Quiet Times
01:00 Hours May 4 1936
Mj. Gen Breidster's scouting forces, hot in pursuit of the communist rabble heading towards Houston, catch up to the rear guard and immediately engage. The battle heats up as the day wears on, much like the hot Texan sun, as each side brings more troops to the fight. By 17:00 hours, it was a full blown firefight, with Breidster driving his troops with conviction against the fanatical militia men. But it soon became apparent that the rage of Beidster's soldiers, many of them shouting "Remember Corpus Christi", would prevail and by 23:00 the Mexican forces were shattered. Many of Breidster's enlisted men,with their officers turning a blind eye, began to put captured Mexican soldiers to the sword. As word of this creeped up the chain of command, Breidster took action. In a move that almost ended his distinguished military career, he ordered the arrest of some of the worst perpetrators of these killings and the subsequent court martial of them and their commanding officers. While privately he expressed no sympathy for the Mexican soldiers killed, he said that maintaining proper discipline and respecting the rules of warfare were two moral imperatives that he allowed no room for flexing. Soldiers under his command, he said, would conduct themselves with the utmost respect of life, including the lives of those who showed no such respect.
The outrage in the South was immediate and unyielding. Many in the Confederate Congress called for Breidster's head on a platter, while less reactive ones pressed NBF3 to force him to resign. Even Jake Featherstone said publically that "God Himself would have approved of killing those communists." However, Nathan Bedford Forrest III knew that a man of Breidster's caliber could not be so easily replaced, and publically backed his man, and even went so far as to say that he would quit before he did anything but congratulate Breidster on his handling of the affair. However, this would not be necessary, as once the immediate furor of the "Texas Massacre" died down and cooler heads in Congress prevailed, that many went down publically as saying that Breidster was to be commended for the moral courage he exerted for showing the restraint in the face of intense emotional actions.
Feelings amongst his compatriots were mixed however. He was publically backed by the commanding general in Mexico, Lt. Gen. Sanguily, but the fiery Mj. Gen. Maximillian reportedly said "let me know if he ever finds his balls again." In the meantime, in response to Breidster's leniency with the Mexican troops, Gen. Maximillian ordered his soldiers to give no quarter to surrendering Mexican soldiers. However, word of this quickly spread, and he was quickly ordered to rescind the directive and fully obey the rules of the Geneva Convention. Maximillian swore that he would avenge the deaths of his fellow Texans.
17:00 Hours May 10 1936
CSA forces in Monterrey and Corpus Christi coordinate a combined assault upon the communist defense in Tampico. In one of the quickest victories of the war, CSA forces crushed all Mexican opposition in Tampico within five hours. It seemed that the test of new military tactics in this war was finally showing some results.
06:00 Hours May 12 1936
Lt. Gen Sanguily's two cavalry and one camelry division engage the communist troops dug into the mountains in the Leon province. Again, the fighting was fierce and casualties heavy, especially amongst the Confederate troops. A battalion sized force of communist guerrillas had managed to ambush the 1st Confederate Camelry and inflict over two thousand causlaties. It was to be the CSA's deadliest battle since the Great War. Despite this set back, by 15:00 hours effective Mexican resistance had been destroyed.
On May 16th, the Mexican government formally put the remaining loyalist Mexican divisions under CSA control. Mj. Gen. Patton immediately ordered some of his top aids to join up with the Mexican forces and provide leadership support to the local Mexican commanders. It is also speculated that this was done so that the CSA would be in position to remove the command structure of the divisions in the case that the unit commanders wanted to defect to the communists.
16:00 Hours May 16 1936
The Mexican garrison, under CSA advisors, stationed at Guadalajara came under attack by communist forces based out of Mexico City.
19:00 Hours May 16 1936
Patton launches an all out offensive into Culiacán's communist defenders, and by 22:00 they had been decisively defeated and were in full retreat to Leon.
0:00 Hours May 17 1936
Patton encounters a communist division that had been sent to reinforce the garrison at Culiacán. After another fierce fourteen hour firefight, this one involving a frontal assault against entrenched Mexican defenders reportedly lead by Patton himself, the CSA soldiers force the communist into retreating again.
07:00 Hours May 17 1936
Communist forces launch an assault upon the temporary loyalist capital of Acapulco.
23:00 Hours May 17 1936
Loyalist Mexican forces were crushed by the communist onslaught and forced to take flight southwards to avoid capture. Confederate Air Force units repeatedly strafe the advancing communists to give the government time to destroy secret documents and evacuate to Puebla.
21:00 Hours May 28 1936
CSA forces occupy the communist city of Durango. Upon hearing of their arrival there, Lt. Gen. Sanguily sends new orders to Maximillian, telling him to initiate the assault upon the communist stronghold in Mexico city. When the runner gives him the message, Maximillian as the runner to tell him what it says. After hearing it Maximillian reportedly told the runner "That is just what you think it says. I think it was garbled in transmission. Ask Gen. Sanguily to resend and take your time about it." It would be almost a week before Mj. Gen. Maximillian moved his forces south to initiate the assault upon Mexico City. Coincidentally, the night CSA forces left Durango a mysterious fire broke out that by the time it was extenguished four days later, had consumed nearly 3/4 of the town. Durango would never recover. Communists claimed that Maximillian had fired the town in response to the Coprus Christi affair and to cover up the execution of more than three thousand communist sympathizers by CSA forces. Gen. Maximillian claimed, later supported by the ironically synonymous accounts of the imbedded CSA journalists, that communist sympathizers had set the fire to drive the Confederates out of Durango.
At this point the communist forces only held control of the central province of Mexico City. After threats of court martial had finally driven Maximillian out of Durango and into attacking position did the Confederates begin their assault upon Mexico City. No one expected this fight to be easy, and all in all seven CSA divisions supported by three loyalist Mexican divisions participated in the battle.
CSA positions just before the fight for Mexico City:
The fight for Mexico City was intense. The communist forces resisted with fanatical zeal, knowing that their backs were up against the wall. The loyalist Mexican troops proved to be less than reliable, but the tired and exhausted CSA troops fought on, spilling blood over every inch of city suburbs. Meanwhile, the CSA Air Force provided and intense bombing campaign of the communists lines of supply and communication, helping to breakdown the cohesion of the defending troops. This combined arms assault and the blistering artillery barrage provided by the artillery detachments helped the CSA grunts to advance into the city. The fighting for Mexico City lasted more than three days, but in the end, the CSA troops were victorious. News of this victory spread like wildfire. Although the war would drag on for another few weeks with scattered pockets of resistance, the main communists armies were either killed or captured. The Mexican government declared the rebellion crushed, and initiated martial law in the formerly communist provinces.
Now Jake Featherstone had to determine how he would avoid the North from finidng out just how directly the CSA was in this fight. Bringing back into the CSA four new divisions would just invite scrutiny and new sanctions from the big northern Bohemoth. So he struck a bargain with the Mexican government. He would arrange to leave two of the CSA divisions behind in Mexico, on a temporary basis, to help with internal security. The other two divisions, he would tell Al Smith, had been formed in response to the calamity to the south and to provide security to the inhabitants of the CSA's border regions, especially after the Communist forces invaded his sovereign nation. The North did not buy this argument, but under intense anti-communist pressure from all of the conservative countries in Europe, including the Monarchies of Germany and Austro-Hungary, did the North relent to this treay violation and allow the existance of two additional CSA army divisions.
The Deal:
Elsewhere in the world:
The Newport News Shipping company completed its designs for the new Escort class mini-carrier.
Sweden had a new "Summer" government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower finished his project into integrating field hospital units with regular army units.
Mj. Gen. Clarence Potter continues his spying efforts, enhancing his domestic counter-spying program and continuing his insertion of spies into the USA, Germany, and Japan.
Spain degenerates into a Civil War not unlike the one that just plagued Mexico, with the evil communists on one side and conservative loyalists on the other. Jake Featherstone publically wishes the self-styled Nationalists victory.
The US Congress votes to expand the size of its army by two divisions to match the increase in the CSA army size. Tensions between the two nations are at an all time high, with many in the North calling for an immediate invasion of its southern neighbor. Only the careful and skillful diplomatic efforts of Saul Goodman via Austro-Hungarian diplomats averts war. Privately, Jake Featherstone admits that he had pushed this two far and realizes he needed to back down for alittle while.
The North may have disurpted his schedule, but the train is still on the tracks.
Next Update: Spanish Civil War and the Quiet Times
So there is now an indebted neighbour to to the south, securing one flank. Now the CSA can concentrate on shifting the rest of the Treaty.
stnylan said:
Yes, it`s time for Dixie to build up and then attack!
Im looking forward to seeing the second civil war taking a different turn
Patience, fellas. Featherston can't flaunt that treaty yet. He is alittle worried since his recent meddling in Mexico didn't seem to be a big hit up North. I am thinking he is going to have to lay low for awhile. New update tomorrow night.