Battle of Heimdallr (NW)
The Battle of Heimdallr (12 October 2035 - 25 December 2035) was a battle that took place around the Heimdallr Capital Territory. The battle became one of the bloodiest that took place during the Neocon War, which saw a large number of Neocon troops and equipment attempt to overwhelm the Heimdallr defenders at the capital of the Heimdallr Council. For the Neocons, the capture of the council's most important city was to be of great importance and many had hoped that its capture would spell the end for the council and force the Heimdallr Council members to due for peace on Neocon terms.
Codenamed Operation Typhoon, the battle began with use of the Chronodontic Tablet during the eve of the Erebonian Winter, which was deemed by many Neocon planners as Erebonia's only barrier for defence. In a speech prior to the start of the battle, Quenminese President Quyền Phương Anh decreed that:
"We only have to kick the door once, and it will all be the end of it"
Neocon planners have been preparing for the operation that after the Erebonian Winter's effect have been reversed, a massive armoured thrust across the outskirts would penetrate the defenses and ram the gates of Varflame Palace. Infantry would overwhelm the defenders from all sides and those who resisted would be immediately shot. Persons of interest would be captured and executed after questioning. By the start of the battle, the Neocon leaders and planners of the operation were confident that Heimdallr would fall in a matter of days.
But when the tablet was activated, the spell seemed to have worsen the weather. The Deseleni descendants tried again but to no avail. The tablet had worsened the winter for the Neocons, an event which many referred to as the 2035 Scandinavian Frost, in which the weather in Erebonia got worse as temperatures began to plummet as low as −30 °C by December. The Neocons insisted on pushing through with the operation, hoping that the blizzard would help cripple the Allies. This was proven false when Heimdallr troops commenced ambush positions and consistently encircled regiment-sized columns by means of Motti tactics, which were utilised by Balamb during the Balambian War in 1932 and many Heimdallr commanders were surprised that even in modern warfare, such a tactic was pulled with success.
Despite a few successes, the defenders were subsequently forced back further to the capital. The Neocons were less than 15kms from the capital city's limits, in which an army group of Trabians and East Europan Republicans commenced a move further west of the capital, hoping to take Leeves and an army group of Joyongheans and Bethausians moved east to take Trista. The responsibility of taking the capital itself fell to the Quenminese, Concordians, and Selucids. The Heimdallr forces had constructed defensive belts around the three important cities, in a bid to buy time to send in more reinforcements from the North and West. The Neocon offensive was finally halted by 12 December 1935. In a bid to take the capital itself, Ziyaad took personal command and pulled out troops and equipment from the east and west to focus on taking the capital itself. He ordered a mix of Quenminese and Selucid Divisions aimed to take the capital to push further and focus all resources to pushing into the capital, refusing to heed any order of a retreat.
By 18 December, the Neocons were only less than 5kms from the capital itself. In a last bid attempt, General Erwin Neithardt sent in all 5 regiments of the Royal Erebonian Jägers to halt this attack. Although the skirmish around the city limits was ferocious, the Erebonian Jägers carried out their doctrine of getting close to the enemy and destroying it. With conventional Motti tactics of cutting down every Neocon column, the outnumbered Jägers overcame the numerically superior Neocon troops, forcing them to retreat. The retreat of this column enabled Field Marshal Kiriya Kitagawa to finally throw all the units of the LCAE to commence a counteroffensive in 20 December starting in Leeves all the way to the south of the capital city. The ERUAC forces in Trista commenced a counteroffensive to the capital city by 21 December. Subsequent counteroffensives by the Heimdallr forces forced the Neocons to retreat from the capital territory by 25 December.
The loss of the ability to capture the most important Heimdallr Council capital was a major setback for the Neocons, ending in their belief of a swift victory over the Heimdallr Council. More importantly, the victory at Heimdallr was a momentous and important event in the Neocon War; it ended the Neocons belief of defeating the Heimdallr Council, the start of many strategic Heimdallr counteroffensives and the beginning of the end of the Neocons.