Battle of Aleppa

Battle of Aleppa
Part of the Middle East Campaign of the Second Europan War
Erebonian and Rubrumian troops marching in Aleppa.
Date 1 November - 18 November 1939 Location Aleppa, Middle East Result Erebonian-Rubrumian victory
Belligerents
Erebonian Empire Rubrum	Empire of Quenmin Trungdong
Commanders and leaders
Brian Regnitz Magnus Craig Frederick Vander Elliot Testarossa Owen Ouellet Peter Ardur Rashia	Thạch Hung Sõn Chiến Dữu Phi Hoàng Chung Phước Nhân
Units involved
Elements of the 2nd ERUIF The Trista Fusiliers 2nd Erebonian Division 3rd Rubrumian Division	Middle East Expeditionary Front 3rd Imperial Guard Division 91st Infantry Division 112th Infantry Division
Strength
25,000 troops 70 tanks 50 armoured cars 40 guns 15 rocket artillery	31,500 troops 100 tanks 120 armoured cars 50 guns
Casualties and losses
2,124 wounded or killed 31 tanks 21 armoured cars 11 guns	3,795 wounded or killed 55 tanks 39 armoured cars 21 guns

The Battle of Aleppa (1 November 1939 - 18 November 1939) is a battle that took place in the town of Aleppa. It was fought primarily between the elite elements of the Middle East Expeditionary Front under Marshal Count Thạch Hung Sõn Chiến against the 2nd ERUIF under General Brian Regnitz and Major General Elliot Testarossa.

The ERUAC forces successfully landed a month prior to the battle at Halfid Beach as part of Operation Alderhall, the Allied plan to reinforce Sugiyama's forces in the south coming in from Ardur via the Mediterranean Sea. After the landings, Marshal Chiến interpreted that the landings were an allied plan to force the Imperials into fighting the Allies on multiple directions. Determined to push the Erebonian and Rubrumian Forces back into Halfid Beach and destroy the ERUAC Beachheads, Chiến established defences at the town of Aleppa, which was 37 kms from the Allied Landings and push the Allied forces when the lines were weak enough. Meanwhile, General Regnitz correctly predicted that the Quenminese would, at anytime, prevent them from moving inland. Testarossa suggested that his forces would fight the Imperials in the town while Regnitz forces engaged with the Imperials on the outskirts.

The battle was to become one of the fiercest battles in the Middle East Campaign as the Erebonian-Rubrumian Forces engaged with the most elite formations of the Quenminese Army. Despite the odds, the Erebonian-Rubrumian forces gained the upper hand by 10 November with Regnitz's forces engaging the Quenminese forces from the outskirts of the town, preventing them from sending reinforcements while Testarossa's Rubrumian troops engaged in a bitter house-to-house and street-by-street combat in Aleppa.

The failure of the Quenminese Army to stop the Erebonian and Rubrumian Forces enabled Sugiyama's Lucis 11th Army Group to link up with Regnitz and Testarossa's 2nd ERUIF in time for the Middle East Winter Offensive of 1939, the first Allied Offensive since 1935.