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{{Infobox Military Conflict
| conflict   = Battle of Tanjavi
|conflict = Belfro-Mutulese War of 1928
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| image      = Schleswig_Holstein_firing_Gdynia_13.09.1939.jpg
| image      = A_sunrise_over_Vaigai_River_in_Madurai_Tamil_Nadu_India.jpg
| caption    =  
| image_size  = 220px
|date = 12 May 1928 - 08 January 1932
| alt        =
|place = [[Belfras]]<br>[[Mutul]]<br>Kayamuca Sea
| caption    = The Paviratan Delta where the battle took place
|result = Undecisive
| date       = 1652
* Signature of the [[Ayeli|Hicayayi Treaty]]
| place       = Tanjavi, [[Pavirata]]
* Creation of the [[Kayamucan Reserved Areas]], precursors of the {{wp|Exclusive economic zone|EEZ}}
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|combatant1 = {{flag|Mutul}}  
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|combatant2 = {{flag|Belfras}}
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|combatant3 = {{flag|Ayeli}}
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|commander3 =
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|strength1 = {{flagicon|Mutul}} TBD
| territory  =
|strength2 = {{flagicon|Belfras}} TBD
| result      = '''[[Empire of Azcapotzalco|Azcapotzalco]] victory:'''
|strength3 = {{flagicon|Ayeli}} TBD
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|casualties1 = TBD
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|casualties2 = TBD
| combatant1  = {{flagicon image|Azcapotzalco_ZP.svg|22px}}[[Empire of Azcapotzalco|Azcapotzalco]]
|casualties3 = TBD
| combatant2  = {{flag|Pavirata}}
| combatant3  =
| commander1  = {{flagicon image|Azcapotzalco_ZP.svg|22px}} {{wp|Pipiltin|Tlahtohcapilli}} Capotzilic
| commander2  = {{flagicon|Pavirata}} TBD
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| units1      =  
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| strength1   = {{flagicon image|Azcapotzalco_ZP.svg|22px}} 12,000-20,000
| strength2   = {{flagicon|Pavirata}} 35,000-50,000
| strength3   =
| casualties1 = {{flagicon image|Azcapotzalco_ZP.svg|22px}} 300-500 killed
| casualties2 = {{flagicon|Pavirata}} 1,000-2,000 killed, many captured and sacrificed after the battle
| casualties3 =  
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The '''Belfro-Mutulese war of 1928''', also known as the '''Kayamucan War''', '''Second Belfro-Mutulese War''', or the '''King Mackerel War''', was the second major conflict between the [[Belfras|Belfrasian Federation]] and the [[Mutul|Divine Kingdom]]. It started over both countries attempts to control maritime affairs in the [[Ajax|Kayamuca Sea]] beyond the territorial limits traditionaly recognized. It notably saw fightings over the exact location of the [[Kayamuca International Waterway]] and {{wp|fishing}} sectors.
The '''Battle of Tanjavi''' took place during the dry season of 1652, in southern [[Pavirata]] between a coalition of [[Nurab|Nurabi principalities]] against a [[Empire of Azcapotzalco|Tepanec army]] led by Prince (''{{wp|Pipiltin|Tlahtohcapilli}}'') Capotzilic. The [[Pavirata|Paviratan]] attacked the {{wp|Tepanec}}s while they were traversing the Paviratan Delta, on their way back from a raid they had accomplished deeper inland. Poor coordination and distrust among the members of the coalition led to a Tepanec Victory and the disbanding of the Coalition, puting an end to all pretense of Nurabi unity and kickstarting a period of chaotic inter-principalities wars.


The war started after an incident where a Belfrasian fishing vessel was intercepted and sank by the Mutuleses, who claimed it had been a Belfrasian spying unit. The four years long conflict saw not only the participation of the two major Kayamucan powers, but also of other countries such as [[Ayeli]]. It ended with the signature of the Hicayayi Treaty, which created "Reserved Areas" for economic purposes, while the Kayamuca International Waterway was slightly redifned to accomodate these new Maritime Borders. It's not until the creation of the [[Forum of Nations]] that the Reserved Areas would be replaced by the modern {{wp|Exclusive economic zone|EEZ}}.
The Tepanecs had landed at the start of the dry season and burnt a path of destruction through some of the richest lands in [[Pavirata]], taking advantage of the rivers and streams to go deeper inland, sacking many towns on the way. They had retreated back south, their boats and baggages full of loots. While they had outdistanced the Coalition's troops united against them, the Tepanecs were forced to stopped because the Paviratan Delta's waterways had shifted since they last came and they had to naviguate the dense swamps to find an actual passage to the sea. This slow-down allowed the Paviratans to catch-up. Capotzilic had his army prepare a defensive position on a hillside near [[Pavirata|Tanjavi]], surrounded by swamps and canals.


===Prelude===
While vastly outnumbered, the Tepanecs were all experimented soldiers, were better organized than their opponents, and enjoyed an excellent defensive position greatly reinforced by their engineers. After a brief artillery battle, the {{wp|Mysorean rockets|Paviratan rocketeers}} were routed by the Tepanecs cannons, entranched on their hill. The Paviratans then launched a series of desorganized charges, which were broken up by the lack of coordination between the different forces making up the army, by the swamps and water ways channeling them through obvious and muddy paths, by having to charge uphill, and by the pits and trenches dug by the Tepanecs. The Paviratans were then victims of the {{wp|Jaguar warrior|Cuāuhocēlōmeh}} counter-charge and, once they had started to flee, were pursued by the rest of the Tepanec army. Attempts by the Paviratans to regroup and counter-attack were nipped by the Cuauhocelomeh shock troops, allowing for the Tepanecs to continue pursuing and capturing enemies for the next few hours without risk.


Long before the war, and since at least the Arm Race of the 1890s and 1900s, both [[Belfras]] and the [[Mutul]] pursued aggressive policies when it came to the Kayamuca Sea and the NorOxi Strait. But it's only in 1917, a year after the [[Belfro-Mutulese War of 1911|First Belfro-Mutulese War]], that each made unilateral declaration doubling the size of their national water. In 1920, both once again made parallel plans of establishing large "Controlled Waters" areas far removed from any emmerged territory they held. International pressure stopped in its track an attempt by both government to divide equally the NorOxi Strait, but the two countries nonetheless made their claims known : most of the northern Kayamuca Sea in the case of [[Belfras]], the Southern Kayamuca Sea up to the an eastern line made of [[Tikal]], [[Ayeli]] and TBD national waters.
Defeated, the Coalition disbanded almost immediately, each Prince returning with his remaining forces on his own to his state. Informed of this, Capotzillic decided to, rather than return immediately to the [[Empire of Azcapotzalco]], lay siege to the city-fortress of Titukuddi, which controlled the access to the Delta and thus to the Paviratan inland. Titukuddi fell the following year and would became an important launch pad for further raids and expeditions in Irathava.
 
While neither recognized the other's claim, an unwritten rule was established where neither did any move to contest the other's control as these "new" demarcations followed more-or-less the areas where they were already de-facto economically dominant.
 
Nonetheless, tensions rose up dramatically when the migrating pattern of the {{wp|King Mackerel}} changed abruptly during the year 1926. Unknown in origin, this change had the unfortunate consequence of putting both Belfrasians and Mutuleses fishermen in competition, and violent skirmishes between vessels that were after the same body of fishes became more and more common. Because of the damages and injuries provoked by these altercations, the Federation and the Divine Kingdom started deploying military patrols to escrot the fishing fleets, further increasing the tensions. It's at this point that the [[Ayeli|Imperial State of Ayeli]] published a new denonciation of Belfras and the Mutul's unilateral claims on international waters.
 
The powderkeg exploded when, in 1928, the Mutuleses attempted to stop and search a Belfrasian vessel. In unclear circumstances, neither countries having disclosed their files on the incidents, the ship ended up being sunk and its crew killed. Mutuleses claimed it was a Belfrasian spying vessel that opened fire on the patrol, while the Belfrasian denounced the murder of nine fishermen. On the 12th of May 1928, the Belfrasian Federation declared war to the Mutul.
 
===The War===
Contrary to the [[Belfro-Mutulese War of 1911|War of 1911]], the 1928-1932 period saw the majority of the fighting done at sea rather than on land. But for the first time in their history, both [[Belfras]] and the [[Mutul]] used {{wp|military aircraft}}s on reconaissance missions mostly at the start of the war, but then in early attempts at bombardments and logistic disprution using the [[Kalinagos Archipelago]] and [[Eunos]] as forward bases, before introducing a new innovation of the war : {{wp|aircraft carrier}}s.
 
The first turning point of the war took place in 1930 when [[Ayeli]] answered to what it considered as a violation of its territorial waters from the [[Mutul|Divine Kingdom]] by opening fire on the culpable vessels. The Mutulses reacted with a millitary assault on [[North Ayelmi|Uyatlaudali]], which prompted [[Belfras]] to react and land in Ayeli as well, driving the Mutuleses back but then being forced out of the island themselves because of their precarious situation logistically. This event seemingly drove the war to new heights, with naval and amphibian assaults being carried out by both sides against each others continental bases, with varied degrees of successes.
 
One of the last campaign of the war was the [[Yajawil of Hamik|Battle of Hamik]] in the Makrian Ocean, in 1932.
 
===Consequences===
What merely started as a conflict over territorial waters and fishing rights took a turn for the bloodiest that surprised many political commentators of the time and still is the center of many debates among historians and geopoliticans. The war led to many innovations in term of strategy, naval tactics, and military equipments with the apparition of the {{wp|military aircraft|aviation}} on the battlefield and the quick development of new models of airplanes to answer the quickly rising number of missions assigned to these early air forces. The apparition of the {{wp|aircraft carrier}}s in 1929 was first relatively un-noticed, but turned out to be a revolution in the conduction of maritime warfare. Similarly, the {{wp|submarine}} that were first used during the War of 1911 were greatly improved on both in design and in technology, such as with the addition of the {{wp|sonar}}. The Mutuleses proved to be especially efficient at submarine warfare, forcing the Belfrasians to develop always more methods to seek and destroy submerged threats.
 
The war ended with the signature of the '''Hicayayi Treaty''' by both participants. Separate peace agreements were signed with [[Ayeli]]. The Treaty resulted in the creation and the recognition of the "Kayamucan Reserved Areas". These Areas were maintained as they were until all signatories had joined the [[Forum of Nations]] and that the concept was expanded to all of the Forum's members, under the name of {{wp|Exclusive Economic Zone}}s.

Revision as of 23:31, 7 March 2020

Battle of Tanjavi
A sunrise over Vaigai River in Madurai Tamil Nadu India.jpg
The Paviratan Delta where the battle took place
Date1652
Location
Tanjavi, Pavirata
Result Azcapotzalco victory:
Belligerents
File:Azcapotzalco ZP.svgAzcapotzalco  Pavirata
Commanders and leaders
File:Azcapotzalco ZP.svg Tlahtohcapilli Capotzilic Pavirata TBD
Strength
File:Azcapotzalco ZP.svg 12,000-20,000 Pavirata 35,000-50,000
Casualties and losses
File:Azcapotzalco ZP.svg 300-500 killed Pavirata 1,000-2,000 killed, many captured and sacrificed after the battle

The Battle of Tanjavi took place during the dry season of 1652, in southern Pavirata between a coalition of Nurabi principalities against a Tepanec army led by Prince (Tlahtohcapilli) Capotzilic. The Paviratan attacked the Tepanecs while they were traversing the Paviratan Delta, on their way back from a raid they had accomplished deeper inland. Poor coordination and distrust among the members of the coalition led to a Tepanec Victory and the disbanding of the Coalition, puting an end to all pretense of Nurabi unity and kickstarting a period of chaotic inter-principalities wars.

The Tepanecs had landed at the start of the dry season and burnt a path of destruction through some of the richest lands in Pavirata, taking advantage of the rivers and streams to go deeper inland, sacking many towns on the way. They had retreated back south, their boats and baggages full of loots. While they had outdistanced the Coalition's troops united against them, the Tepanecs were forced to stopped because the Paviratan Delta's waterways had shifted since they last came and they had to naviguate the dense swamps to find an actual passage to the sea. This slow-down allowed the Paviratans to catch-up. Capotzilic had his army prepare a defensive position on a hillside near Tanjavi, surrounded by swamps and canals.

While vastly outnumbered, the Tepanecs were all experimented soldiers, were better organized than their opponents, and enjoyed an excellent defensive position greatly reinforced by their engineers. After a brief artillery battle, the Paviratan rocketeers were routed by the Tepanecs cannons, entranched on their hill. The Paviratans then launched a series of desorganized charges, which were broken up by the lack of coordination between the different forces making up the army, by the swamps and water ways channeling them through obvious and muddy paths, by having to charge uphill, and by the pits and trenches dug by the Tepanecs. The Paviratans were then victims of the Cuāuhocēlōmeh counter-charge and, once they had started to flee, were pursued by the rest of the Tepanec army. Attempts by the Paviratans to regroup and counter-attack were nipped by the Cuauhocelomeh shock troops, allowing for the Tepanecs to continue pursuing and capturing enemies for the next few hours without risk.

Defeated, the Coalition disbanded almost immediately, each Prince returning with his remaining forces on his own to his state. Informed of this, Capotzillic decided to, rather than return immediately to the Empire of Azcapotzalco, lay siege to the city-fortress of Titukuddi, which controlled the access to the Delta and thus to the Paviratan inland. Titukuddi fell the following year and would became an important launch pad for further raids and expeditions in Irathava.

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