Operation Spring Awakening

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Operation Spring Awakening
Date 10.I.1751 AN Location Central Benacia (Kalgachia, Unified Governorates) Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Kalgachia	Benacian Union
Commanders and leaders
Ryabin Royevich Kamnem	Justin Hunka†  Konstantin Jeckeln
Units involved
Kalgachi Grouping of Forces Church Partisans	Benacian Union Defence Force Central Banner Group 35th Army Western Banner Group 11th Army

Operation Spring Awakening, commenced on 10.I.1751 AN, was an Kalgachi offensive, backed by a general uprising, aimed at overturning the unfavorable terms of the protectorate previously imposed by the Benacian Union, now grievously weakened by the long-term consequences of defeat in the Shiro-Benacian War.

Course of events

With the Garden of Kalgachia and the Benacian Union being notoriously secretive societies, both having a near absolute prohibition upon freedom of the press, it was nearly impossible to obtain information in regards to what had happened within or rather beneath the Kalgachi city of Oktavyan, but the rumours that reached diplomatic sources in the Raspur Pact spoke of a coordinated partisan rising, timed to coincide with mutinies and defections throughout the Kalgachi Grouping of Forces, during the early hours of 10.I.1751 AN. The Benacian garrison in the protectorate, where not caught off-guard and massacred outright, were believed to be under siege by partisans, mutineers, and in many cases by the enraged citizenry of the country.

On the morning of 11.I.1751 AN, Benacia Command made a limited acknowledgement of the deteriorating situation after issuing a bulletin stating it had carried out air and ground operations after rebel forces killed at least one BUDF soldier and wounded eight others in the Upland Confederation.

Albrecht Kern, the Benacian spokesperson, said that allied forces has only targeted military sites and gave “highest priority” to civilian safety.

“The airstrikes were highly precise and focused only on military targets near the frontline,” he said, adding that action was taken to suppress Kalgachi forces only after BUDF forward bases came under fire.

“It did not impact the civilians.”

Over 35,000 persons of importance to the Union-State were reportedly evacuated to temporary shelters after the commencement of the rising.

A brief Kalgachi video, denouncing "Benacian terror bombing" whilst promising "effective retribution", was briefly appeared on the Benacian Data Network before all trace was erased by censors.