Second Stonish War of Unification

Second Stonish War of Unification
Depiction of the Stonish Army landing in the Northern Bīgōzōsī.
Date 1233-1235 Location Flatstone Result Stonish Victory Annexation of the Ou Clan
Belligerents
Flatstone	Ou Clan
Commanders and leaders
Bjarn Von Stone Harald Jensen Gert Koch Stefan Daugaard Sophus Kvist	Kristen Ou
Strength
14,000	Just over 1,000
Casualties and losses
250	800+

The Second Stonish War of Unification was a follow-up war to the First Stonish War of Unification that had concluded just a few months prior. Bjarn Von Stone, the first king of Flatstone, was well aware of his rapidly declining health, and so he took it upon himself to finish the process of unification throughout the Stonish archipelago himself so that his heir, Eirik Von Stone would not have to. This decision went against the wishes of the Ou who had signed a treaty of non-aggression with the newly formed Kingdom of Flatstone in 1232 following the end of the first war of unification.

Stonish Naval Preparations in Īnbā

The Kingdom of Flatstone had little time for economic recovery and political reintegration of the archipelago that it did control. The young nation was thrown into war once again almost immediately, this time with an enemy that was much more navally capable that it's predecessors. Despite this, the Kingdom of Flatstone held a number of advantages over the measly Ou Clan, one of which being Stonish control over the northern Bīgōzōsī islands, which had served as the foundation for Ou naval and trade dominance in the south of the Stonish archipelago. However, due to the fact that the northern Bīgōzōsī islands were surrendered to the Kingdom of Flatstone, subsequently resulting in an influx of Ou immigrants fleeing the islands to avoid execution, imprisonment, or the harsh taxes into the southern Bīgōzōsī islands, where the Ou capital was located. This caused confusion within the Ou navy, forcing it to remain in port for three months after the date that it had been expected to depart on, as well as slowing the mobilization of an Ou army, that had been disbanded after the end of the first war of unification. This gave the armies and navies of Flatstone time, valuable time that it needed to prepare.

The Fire at Port Kūmōnlān

In November of 1232, the Stonish Fleet arrived at Port Kūmōnlān, situated on the coastal outskirts of the Ou capital in Kūmōnlān. There, the Stonish made a crucial realization, this realization being that the Ou were not as prepared for war as Stonish nobles had expected them to be. When the Stonish fleet arrived in Kūmōnlān, they found Port Kūmōnlān to be a mess of merchant ships struggling to maintain the flow of traffic throughout and around the port as hundreds of locals attempted to navigate through the mess of scattered, foreign vessels that littered the ports' waters like discarded plastic. In response, the Stonish admirals did what any ambitious officer would do when given an opportunity such as this one; Fire. The decision was made to set fire to the hundreds of merchant ships clogging the port, looting, pillaging, and murdering their owners as the Stonish navy went from ship-to-ship, setting fire to anything that was thought to catch fire. The Stonish Navy lost a small amount of their own vessels in this process. However, in doing so, the largest portion of the Ou fleet was trapped in-port. This turned the battle at Port Kūmōnlān from a naval engagement into a ground battle, with the Szŧōnɉōnzī arriving shortly after. At this point, the Ou military garrison at Port Kūmōnlān hadn't even caught on to the arrival of the Stonish navy at the port, as they had been so busy attempting to manage the influx of Ou immigrants from the northern Bīgōzōsī and controlling the fire that they had assumed was caused by the immigrants. This lack of miscommunication caught them off guard, as they were slowly picked off one-by-one by the Szŧōnɉōnzī, who were now pouring into the city, taking the heads of Ou officers, magistrates and anybody who resisted. The Ou fleet fell into the hands of the Szŧōnɉōnzī after it's crew had failed to resist the Szŧōnɉōnzī horde, resorting to suicide in order to avoid capture or execution. Bjarn Von Stone would arrive in the city to oversee it's capture shortly after this, and the remainder of the city would fall into the hands of the Kingdom of Flatstone.