Operation Agrianes

Operation Agrianes
Part of the Central and Southern Africanna Campaign of the Seleucid Uprising
RBEEC troops marching towards Magnolia
Date 3 Phases: Phase One: 31 January – 30 March 1949 Phase Two: 15 April – 15 May 1949 Phase Three: 30 May – 1 July 1949 Location Northern and Central Rhodeia Result Decisive Allied Victory; Selucid forces in Rhodeia split and dispersed Selucid reinforcements diverted to the URA Allied forces regain momentum; Continue waging guerilla warfare
Belligerents
United Kingdom Quenmin Gallia-Bruhl Zanarkand New Akiba Basel-Ebel Rhodeia Nihhon-koku Archadian Federation	Deseleni Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance Mikrasianasel Aftokatasel Aigypsel Livykosel Social Republic of Arithea
Commanders and leaders
Archibald Sugiyama Daidoji Kitagawa Yukio Kushineda Jr. Kiều Hữu Dương Kiều Dũng Quang Friedrich O'Connelly Blaine Sanderson Frank Holden Kurt Frediericks Jengo Le Rouwx Ian Andrews Vincent Rusere Giovanni Messi Victor Sazabio Giovanni Filiberto	Alexandros Chondrolis Pannikos Demetrioulis Grigoris Stamopoulos Simon Brenner Hermann Siegel Zainuddeen el-Vaziri Musaaid al-Aman Yaghmurasen Shaikh Foughal Kalil Yenkatabuwe Bangtèkè Roméo Mabwang Ehenkouen ag Mohammed Amastame ag Ahu Mukuta Kasamba Midjibu Kasukupa Badiambila Ndala Shadmehr Qajar
Strength
579,778 troops 418 tanks 414 armoured cars 515 guns 1,478 aircraft	742,114 troops 624 tanks 557 armoured cars 745 guns 2,122 aircraft
Casualties and losses
By July 1949: 17,975 killed or wounded 79 tanks 56 guns 210 aircraft	By July 1949: 45,000 killed or wounded 15,000 captured 21,479 died of disease 242 tanks 312 guns 547 aircraft

Operation Agrianes, also known as the Africanna Lunar New Year Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest and most important battles during the Seleucid Uprising. The battle took place in different parts of South Africanna, notably in the regions around the Magnolia Administrative Capital Region. It was launched on 30 January 1949 by the Allied forces led by the United Kingdom and Quenmin against the Deseleni Empire and its satellite and puppet governments. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against the Imperial military command and control centers in the Transvaal region. The purpose for such a grandiose operation was to trigger Anti-Selucid fervour amongst natives residing in Selucid-occupied regions.

The offensive was launched in the early hours of 31 January. The attack took Selucid forces by surprise. The fighting spread throughout several cities in Northern and Central Rhodeia, including the capital, Magnolia. By 3am, the main operation began with the offensive reaching out to the borders of Rhodeia in the United Republic of Africanna and in Archadian Arithea. Around 80,000 irregulars and special forces units raided and attacked more than 100 towns and cities, including 72 provincial capitals, 16 autonomous cities, 241 districts, and the Rhodeian Capital.

Although the Selucids were able to regroup, the intensified attacks and raids on Selucid battlegroups and bases proved to be a huge setback, something which Lucian Field Marshal Archibald Sugiyama and Quenminese Marshal Kiều Hữu Dương intended on doing. The multiple raids caused General Alexandros Chordolis to split his forces in an attempt to quell the attacks. The split became large enough for Sugiyama to launch the 2nd Phase of the operation, which was the main Allied thrust towards Chordolis' lines. This alone was enough for Sugiyama to encircle Magnolia and besiege it. While Sugiyama focused on preventing Chordolis' forces from reinforcing Magnolia, Marshal Duong intensified raids to bog down Chordolis' forces in the URA, Southern Arithea, and Northern Rhodeia.

The operation became a strategic and political victory for the Allies. Historians and analysts have concluded that the combination of Sugiyama's new aggressive defensive strategy and Duong's waging of an aggressive continuous war of attrition managed to bog down the Selucid War Machine in Africanna, something which the Selucids were unable to recover from. Both men also capitalised on the racial persecution conducted by the Deseleni's towards the Africanna populace regardless of ethnicity. The Allied victory over the Deseleni forces spread anti-Selucid and rebellious fervour throughout Africanna.