Lunar New Year Offensive (Imperial Crisis)

Lunar New Year Offensive
Part of the imperial Crisis
Date Phase 1: 14 January – 15 March 2017 Phase 2: 30 April – 9 May 2017 Location Quenmin, Bethausia, Nanja Republic Result Allied strategic victory
Belligerents
Quenmin Bethausia Joyonghea United Kingdom Gallia-Bruhl Rubrum Zanarkand New Akiba Basel-Ebel Erebonian Empire	United Front for a Cooperative and Prosperous Quenmin NRPQ ARPAGHARCON National Democratic Movement of Bethausia UFPSB TPDC (Taungyi Peaceful and Development Council) Kayin Freedom League Naypyidaw State Council United Workers' Front of Lashio BDAA Nanja Republic	Separatists ACRMRA Magwe Command Rakhaing Command Ayeyarwady Command KSA File:United Wa State Party flag2.png KaySA MSA Northern Army Eastern Army Southern Army Sagaing National Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Lanh Chinh Thanh Xuong, Crown Prince of Quenmin Ngô Sáng Hiếu Phùng Minh Thiệu Quách Nguyên Cuòng Lê Đức Phong Hùng Hồng Yên, Marchioness of Quyến Vĩnh Jonathan Vo William Edwardius III George Frederick Sulzbach-Caelum Yarzar Thant Khaing Phyo Ag Htet Aung Zeyar Thawda Jaakoppi Mäkelä	Mạc Đinh Kinh Trần Thanh Xuân Ngo Nhung Đức Văn Tuân An Jason Bui Nguyen Tuân Vy Le Thanh Thinh Bui Phuoc Tat Kieu Xuan Bao Zeyar Phyoe Thant Thawda Kaung U Htet Thura Thiha Myo Thet Aeindra Inzali Thida Thinza U Maung Khaing Zeya Ko	Hein Aung Arkar Thawda Thant Yaza Pyay Zin Wunna Thant Bo Yarzar Wunna Thiha Tun Wunna Ye Thiha File:United Wa State Party flag2.png Mg Wunna Nyan Thurein Min Thiha Ye Yarzar

Initial Attacks

• 1:46 AM: 64 ARPAGHARCON commandos siege the Commonwealth and Joyonghean embassies in Quang Chiem.
• 1:48 AM: Bến Tre Airbase is suddenly hit by Trieuist mortar and artillery.
• 1:51 AM: BDAA initiates three-pronged offensive on the Allied forces in the Chin and Sagain States.
• 1:53 AM: ARPAGHARCON forces storm the city of Hải Dương in Uoc Vuong Province.
• 1:57 AM: UFPSB executes sporadic attacks on 30 villages and 6 towns in Sinpo Province.
• 2:00 AM: Nanjan squadrons bomb Joyonghea positions in the Southern lands.
• 2:02 AM: Ganwingyi Airbase is suddenly hit by ACMRA and UFPSB mortar and artillery.
• 2:09 AM: 800 troops from ACMRA's Magwe Command attacks the Allied-occupied Minbu Base.
• 2:10 AM: A brigade of ARPAGHARCON initiates an all-out attack on the city of Buôn Ma Hóa.
• 2:15 AM: KSA lays siege on the Karchin State capital of Myitkyina.
• 2:21 AM: UFPSB massacres hundreds of villagers in Hpasaklat Province.
• 2:27 AM: Trieuist forces storm the Allied headquarters in Dien Bien Phu.
• 2:39 AM: 8,000 UFPSB troops storm the city of Kungkhaung in the Mandalaw State.
• 2:44 AM: 7,000 Trieuist troops launch an attack on Bich Nguyet, executing civilians in residences and homes.
• 3:00 AM: Troops from ACRMA's Rakhaing Command lay siege on the Allied base in Hmawsal.
• 3:10 AM: 500 ARPAGHARCON fighters launch raid on an Allied airbase in Uông Ranh, sabotaging several army aircraft and fighters.
• 3:23 AM: ACRMA's Ayeyarwady Command launches an offensive on the cities of Htankareik and Pauphyu, including an Allied base in the northwest.
• 3:38 AM: KaySA and the Sagaing Liberation Army initiates offensive on the Allied-occupied town of Mungtaya.
• 3:40 AM: Several thousand troops from ACRMA's Ayeyarwady Command occupy the port town of Senyangon.