Year of Righteous Effort Under Heaven

Year of Righteous Effort Under Heaven
Part of The Korukkan Civil War
Clockwise from top left: Soldiers of Zhang Xieren's 'Drachen-trained' First Fist, Pahadan soldiers during The Long March, an armoured landship division of the Protectorate Armies, artillery emplacements of Hezi, cavalry of the Reconnaissance Division, Protectorate forces enter Unmeikyo
Date 3 July 1948 - 24 May 1949 (10 Months and 22 days) Location Tiantian, Pahada, briefly Partha and Mizran Result Imperialist Victory The Five Star Committee executes its plan in creating a nationalistic republic and constitutional monarchy. Collapse of the Clockwork Empire and the creation of the Imperial Federation Dissolution of the West Pahadan Railway Company and the formation of the West Pahadan Republic Independence of the Tungnir Confederacy and short lived independence of the Yellow Star Republic Formation of the Internationalist Ember League
Participants
Korukkan Imperialists The Union of Patriots for the Preservation of the Korukkan State West Pahadan Rail Korukkan loyalists, holdouts and armies	Nationalist Movements Yellow Star Republic and others.

The Year of Righteous Effort Under Heaven (Onghiri: Tiāngōngyián), also known as the Grand Commandant's Gambit and the Second War of Unification, was an almost year long military campaign conducted by Zhang Xieren in the wake of the coup d'etat against the Protectorship. The war saw loyalists of the Clockwork Empire face off against military officer turned warlords, nationalistic uprisings in the constituent states of the empire and a broadening cross-ethnic anti-absolutist view.

The set-up for the war began in the aftermath of the Clockwork Empire's victory in the Western War against Pavlostani, a ten year conflict that saw over 20 million Korukkan casualties alone. The destruction and news from the front sapped at the war-effort at home which was exemplified by the tax-rates. As the front was being pushed further and further against Pavlostani, the government of the empire collapsed on itself due to infighting, corruption and wartime burdens. Fearing a cease-fire instead of capitulating on their increasing chance of victory, several military officers stationed at home conducted 'The Longest Day', a coup d'etat that replaced the government with a military clique. This event set off a chain of events concurrent with Pavlostani surrender to Zhang Xieren, in which numerous provinces of the empire seceded in nationalistic uprisings and others fell to banditry and warlord run cliques.

The would-be heroes in the generals and soldiers returning from the decade long conflict instead were met with news of a collapsing state. Fearing the worst, but also one of great opportunity, Zhang Xieren issued a proclamation for a call to arms to 'all those still loyal to the empire.' Millions of soldiers who had served under Zhang heard his call and rallied to the command of he and his associates in the Five Star Committee. Zhang's coalition of allies would grow to include socialists, Korukkan nationalists, absolute monarchists, constitutional monarchists and republicans.

Fighting began on the 3rd of July, when the navy and airforce of WPR conducted an invasion of --MISH GIVE ME A COASTAL CITY-- and intensified after that. A difficult logistical and transportation scenario arose when the Tungnir Confederacy was proclaimed, but a negotiation was reached in which their independence would be recognised if they permitted and assisted in the transferring of forces to the home front.

Successive campaigns saw imperialists unite much of the former empire, excluding that of the Yellow Star Republic, before the war ended with the capitulation and execution of the perpetrators of the Longest Day. In the aftermath of the conflict, the absolutist Clockwork Empire was reformed by the ideological beliefs of the Five Star Committee, the Imperial Federation. Whilst the monarchy was retained, its power was neutered to largely ceremonial as the executive authority was transferred to that of an elected Chancellor of the Federation and legislative to an incredibly progressive parliamentary body. Due to his popularity and success, Zhang Xieren was the first elected Chancellor and gained the epithet 'Father of the Nation.'