1684 Jingdaoese-Alriggian border incidents

1684 Jingdaoese-Alriggian border incident
Part of Jingdaoese-Alriggian War
Date 1684 Location Jingdaoese / Alriggian border Result Start of hostilities between Jingdao and Alrig
Belligerents
Alriggian Republic	Jingdao
Strength
Western Circle Militia 20 infantrymen	IX Alrig Corps 50 infantrymen
Casualties and losses
5	12

The 1684 Jingdaoese-Alriggian border incident was a military skirmish between the Jingdaoese Empire and the Alriggian Republic, up until that moment close allies. It is seen as the ouverture of the Jingdaoese-Alriggian War. The incident followed the chase of an Alriggian car on the Jingdaoese part of Imperial Autobahn 1 by Jingdaoese police officers. The car was headed towards the border and Jingdaoese police dispatch called on its Alriggian counterparts to stop the car at the border. Alrig refused to stop the car as the Jingdaoese did not wish to disclose what the suspected Alriggian national was suspected of. As the car passed the border, Jingdaoese infantrymen belonging to the IX Alrig Corps fired shots at it, with some of the shots hitting an Alriggian border post, killing several soldiers belonging to the Western Circle Militia. The Alriggians returned fire and a heavy machine gun on top the border post managed to wipe out 12 Jingdaoese soldiers. No more shots were fired after these first salvos, but after the incident both sides blamed each other and refused to work together on an investigation into the incident.