Battle of Mordan

Battle of Mordan
Part of the Middle East Campaign of the Second Europan War
A Quenminese and Archadian Officer directing movements
Date 10 January 1938 - 20 March 1938 Location Mordan, 23 miles from Sania Result Inconclusive Commonwealth Forces Delay Quenminese Advance
Belligerents
United Kingdom Nihhon-koku Gallia-Bruhl Zanarkand New Akiba Kingdom of Oshmar	Empire of Quenmin Trungdong Archadia-Archedes Rumania Midgar Federation
Commanders and leaders
Toushi Hasegawa Keith Horrens Friedrich O'Connelly Blaine Sanderson Kotamarou Furakawa Leslie Oliver James Tozawa Prince Hashur	Thạch Hung Sõn Chiến Kiều Dũng Quang Victor Sazabio Giovanni Filiberto Guiseppe Gavallero Enrico Ancelotti Vincenzo Casa Alberto Ricci Henri Darlan Giorgio Ansale
Strength
114,852 troops 755 tanks 459 armoured cars 575 guns 1,978 aircraft	224,879 troops 1,744 tanks 499 armoured cars 696 guns 2,122 aircraft
Casualties and losses
10,223 troops 147 tanks 122 guns 75 aircraft	17,785 troops 572 tanks 199 guns 105 aircraft

The Battle of Mordan was a battle of the Second Europan War that took place in Mordan, a small town which is a few miles away from Sania, which served as the Imperial objective. The battle halted the Imperial advance towards Sania, which was aimed by Marshal Thạch Hung Sõn Chiến to capture by the first of March. However, Lucian General Toushi Hasegawa resisted the incoming advance and established a strong defensive line around Mordan in order to evacuate the town and as well as delay the imperial advance long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

The battle would serve was a crucial moment in the Middle East Campaign and saved the Lucis Commonwealth and its Allies for some time to regroup and organize a defensive line on the Egypian Border and as well as in Sania, which would later prove to be the climactic Battle of Sania.

The Lucis Commonwealth became the only military power that stood before the victorious Imperial forces. Determined not to yield a single yard, Hasegawa organized long range artillery defences distant enough from Mordan and inflicting heavy casualties on the advancing Imperials, which caused them to fail to press on towards Mordan, which stalled the advance and forcing the Imperials to retreat by some 5 miles. By March 20, Hasegawa withdrew from Mordan to Sania in order to turn over control to Lucian Major General Archibald Sugiyama, who would later be the man responsible for finally defeating the Imperial advance for good.