Operation Surrogate

Operation Surrogate Kurosawa's March to the North
Part of the Third Joyonghean-Quenminese War of the Second Europan War
Rubrumian infantry near Musan, December 1944
Date 15 October 1944 - 28 May 1945 Location Eastern Joyonghea and Churongchandat Result Allied Victory; At least 6 Imperial Army groups surrounded, border with Ruzhite closed
Belligerents
Rubrum United Kingdom Zanarkand New Akiba Jutland-Gimli Joyonghea	Quen Minh Churuongchandat Ruzhite Empire Archadia-Archedes
Commanders and leaders
Harry Kurosawa Murasame Susaya Sagaru Yamada Tasaku Mitsuru Okita Hanamura Albert Crocker Allone Grønkjær Katerose Ulrika von Kahlenberg Jon Berg Edward Samegawa Roy Peterson Hikaru Komaki Simmon Denzel Crocker S. H. Furokawa Chae Hwa-young Rang Seong-hun	Hồ Danh Sĩ Quốc Ông Thao Pin Ky Manh Hung Phang Duc Nguyen Fusuhu Nemgiyen Tebengri Yabuqa Chakhurkhan Boroldaiuyalbi Olav Timasheff Hans Greppenberg Hugo Cavallero Alessandro Berdoli Arturo Amadeo
Strength
Initial: 950,000 By May 1945: 1,924,500	Initial: 1,750,000 By May 1945: 750,000
Casualties and losses
165,978 casualties 37,757 killed 1,249 tanks 490 aircraft	397,978 casualties 79,757 killed 2,549 tanks 782 aircraft

Operation Surrogate, or famously known as "Kurosawa's March to the North" was a campaign that spanned for 7 months which involved nearly 2 million Allied troops throughout the campaign. It was to be the biggest campaign ever fought during the Third Joyonghean-Quenminese War. The grand strategy came largely from Rubrumian General Harry Kurosawa, who realised that if the Allies could not reach the Quenminese colony of Churuongchandat by 1945, the war would last for 5 more years. And with Grand General Cheon Sang-ji dealing with the Imperial forces in Western Joyonghea, Kurosawa sought to use the Eastern region of Joyonghea as a route to hasten the Allied advance to the north. From here, he would be able to cross the border just before 1945.

His forces followed a scorched earth policy, destroying military and industrial complex, disrupting supply and transportation routes between Quenmin-occupied Joyonghea and Churuongchandat. The operation greatly costed the Imperials the capability to fight the war longer and helped lead to its eventual defeat during the Hyesong Gap. Kurosawa's strategies and decision to operate further into enemy lines through the use of quick movement manoeuvres is regarded by many historians as the basis for a large-scale asymmetric and modern warfare.

The advance subsequently ended during the middle stages of the Battle of the Hyesong Gap, which saw nearly 750,000 Imperial troops, almost 6 Imperial army groups to be surrounded on all sides. This was to be the largest encirclement in military history.

Preparations

Allied Forces

• 1st Zanarkian-Joyonghean Army Group
  • Ulsan Amalgamated Army
    • 3rd Joyonghean Guards Regiment
      • 3rd Battalion, Guard Fusiliers
      • 3rd Battalion, Jejunom Guards
      • 3rd Battalion, Jurchen Guards
    • Fifteenth Joyonghean Army
      • 17th Area Division
      • 8th Reserve Area Division
      • 2nd Zanarkian-Joyonghean Infantry Division
      • Zanarkian-Joyonghean Sapper Division
    • Sixteenth Joyonghean Army
      • 21st Area Division
      • 10th Reserve Area Division
      • 1st Zanarkian-Joyonghean Infantry Division
      • 3rd Zanarkian-Joyonghean Infantry Division
    • Eigteenth Joyonghean Army
      • 120th Reserve Area Division
      • 1st Zanarkian-Joyonghean Armored Brigade
      • 2nd Zanarkian-Joyonghean Armored Brigade
    • 1st Teulabian Supplementary Brigade
      • 1st Teulabian Infantry Regiment
      • 2nd Teulabian Infantry Regiment
      • 1st Teulabian Battery
  • Fifth Zanarkian Imperial Force
    • XX Zanarkian Corps
      • Royal Zanarkian Guards
      • Royal Zanarkian Regiment
      • 2/2nd Sapper Division
      • Royal Rifles of Melbourne
      • 4th Armored Brigade
      • 9th Zanarkian Division
    • VIII Zanarkian Corps
      • 6th Zanarkian Division
      • 7th Zanarkian Division
      • Royal Al Bhed Armored Division
      • 2/14th Zanarkian Division
      • 1st Armored Division
    • X Zanarkian Corps
      • 1/11th Zanarkian Division
      • 2nd Sapper Brigade
      • 4th Armored Division
      • 1st Besaid Division
      • 5th Besaid Sapper Division
    • New Akiba Joyonghea Expeditionary Corps
      • 3rd New Akibander Yeomanry
      • 2nd New Akiba Division
      • 8th New Akiba Division
      • Princess Caroline's Own New Akibander Light Infantry
      • Waikato Highlanders
    • Bikanel Force
      • 1st Motor Division
      • 1st Al Bhed Hussars
      • 2nd Al Bhed Hussars
      • 3rd Al Bhed Hussars
      • 79th Al Bhed Sappers
• Third Rubrumian Army
  • General Headquarters
    • IV Rubrumian Corps
      • 2nd Rubrumian Armored Division
      • 3rd Rubrumian Infantry Division
      • 4th Rubrumian Armored Division
      • 3rd Rubrumian Armored Brigade
    • V Rubrumian Corps
      • 5th Gallian Armored Division
      • Princess Mary's Own Gallian Legion
      • Newfoundland Highlander Division
      • 5th Nihhonese-Rubrumian Division
      • King's Own Calgary Highlander Scouts
      • Royal Winnipeg Rifles
    • VIII Nihhonese Corps (Artillery & other Support Services)
      • 12 Light Ambulance (RRUMC)
      • 13 Light Ambulance (RRUMC)
      • 3rd Rubrumian Engineer Division
      • 4th Rubrumian Engineer Division
      • Princess Shiyori's Own Artillery
      • Rubrumian Highlander Artillery Division
      • Newfoundland Artillery Regiment
    • IX Jutland-Gimlian Corps
      • Princess Raphaella's Own Gimlian Guards
      • Queen Caroline's Jutlandish Highlanders
      • 9th Jutlander Division
      • 9th Gimlian Armored Division
      • 4th Royal Jutlander Armoured Regiment
      • Princess Sophia's Royal Jutland-Gimlian Guards
      • Princess Raphtalia's Jutlandish Light Infantry
• Lucis 11th Army
  • General Headquarters
    • XXX Corps
      • 79th Armoured Division
      • 51st (Wessex) Division
      • 95th (Belfast) Division
      • 48th Armoured Division
      • 6th Guards Armoured Brigade
      • 8th Armoured Brigade
    • II Lucis Airborne Corps
      • 1st Airborne Division
      • 6th Airborne Division
      • 52nd (Highland) Division
      • 8th (Gallian) Sappers Brigade
      • 59th Tenebraean Division
    • The King's Nibelheimian Corps
      • 17th Landing Brigade
      • 95th Nibelheimian Hussars
      • 82nd Glider Division
      • 11th Armoured Division
      • 4th Infantry Division
    • Royal Artillery Expeditionary Corps
      • 59th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery
      • 82nd Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery
      • 17th Field Regiment
      • 5th Nihhonese Regiment, Royal Artillery
      • 12th Nihhonese Regiment, Royal Artillery
      • 2nd Rocket Brigade
      • 5th Rocket Brigade
      • 91st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Brigade (Mobile)
      • 55th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Brigade (Mobile)
      • 19th Heavy Ambulance Regiment
      • 21st Heavy Ambulance Regiment