October 7, 2020
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Jinlu Holds!
Allied/Government forces are shown here in light blue, PLF holdings in red.
Despite determined attacks by anti-government forces, the strategic metallurgical city remains in Imperial hands. After several tense of months of intense street-to-street fighting, insurrectionists have been pushed back and out of the city limits entirely, where government and SANE allied forces can now engage without the threat of civilian casualties.
Around sixty-five servicemen and women have lost their lives in the course of duty taking the city, while a further two hundred and twenty-five are wounded in action. The Imperial Armed Forces has stated that most of these casualties are the result of IEDs, of which encountered have ranged from simple phone or radio-activated munition bundles to refurbished Civil War-era roadside mines. Measures are being taken to increase the ability to detect and disarm these hazards, but analysts have highlighted the military's overall overreliance on older defensive doctrines and moved too quickly during the offensive.
It is suspected that the SANE and government forces will next move to assist the forces defending Heisen-Dumingjia, though an unexpected major assault by both National Guard and Nationalist Army, assisted by the Special Response Groups of the Deep Interior and allied armored SANE forces has pushed through insurrectionist forces in Wangdu-Essen Provinz, severing western DLF forces in half. The success is reportedly already causing chaos amongst insurrectionist ranks, but these are yet to be confirmed.
Public opinion of the new government and current civil conflict remains divided, but a recent poll conducted by the University of Eltenbacht has shown that over 65% of the nation current reign, 17% divided, and the rest choosing not to answer. It is unknown just how many government-sympathizers to insurrectionists ratio in the occupied zones.
National Forums Formed By Imperial Decree
During an Imperial Palace press conference today, it was revealed that the Imperial Archives, Libraries, and Universities had been reformed into several new organizations or absorbed into existing branches of the government. These include the National Forums, a public debate organization for use by primarily students and academics alike to discuss the state and solutions of the administration. It is hoped that through the implementation of this institution that education and understanding of the national situation is more more widespread and complete through cooperative discussion.
The Forums will consist of three levels of debate: constructive, educational, and argumentative. Constructive debates will suit to seek a resolution for the chosen issue, educational will be to inform and educate attendees over a certain topic of discussion through collected information by the attendees and separate truth from fact, or if not possible, areas of known or possible certainties. Argumentative debates will discuss the complete knowledge of a controversial topic and attendees will each pick or create their own side and defend it constructively. The Forums themselveswill consist of rooms to house up to a dozen or more debaters in more major disputes, but "casual" debates between smaller groups can be done as well.
Consisting of both physical structures with construction slated to begin in November for each province and now-complete digital discussion boards, it is expected that the political discussion system will soon find its way into the education system, most likely those in preliminary-college schools. A national debate is also scheduled soon over the topic of slavery in Mundus, notably for Tamora and related discourse of international response on the matter. The debate will be available on Imperial Public Broadcasting Station 4 and live on television.
Reenactors In Nanjing
A group of reenactors from the historic 113th Division pose with their equipment
Recently a coalition of veterans memorial groups and their youth successors (including the Veterans of the Sixteenth White Sun Offensive, Sons of the Venerable Imperial Grand Army Veterans, Old Moon Offensive Association, Honorable Broken Sun Warriors Organization and Bloody Rivers Offensive Memorial Association) have engaged a weeklong reenactment from October 4 to October 10 in remembrance of the Thirty-first Grand Fall Offensive in 1938. Around three hundred attendees are participating outside Nanjing in the historic Battlefield Erchang National Park Memorial Site, many recording the event on GoPro commercial mountable sport action cameras.
"It's a way for us to remember the war and those who died in it," Corporal Han Yujing told us as he leaned on a trench shovel by a freshly-dug foxhole. "Some things you can't learn by just reading the books and listening to grandfather about. You have to get out here in the sun and feel the kind of emotions the soldiers felt ninety, eighty-so years ago. Sure, our cardboard blanks for our rifles and cannons don't do justice to what actually happened, but I should think that's enough detail when we spend the day performing suicide charge after suicide charge. The sounds is what really gets to people." He's dressed in the Imperial Engineers' fall garb, with a thick cloak in alpine camoflauge with his sleeves rolled up. A light submachine hangs from his shoulder, which he says is remarkably realistic for number of times it's already jammed. The participants 'respawn' if they die via a sort of honor system, something that the reenactor says has been adhered to very fervently during the event.
When asked about his own family's service, the young man mentioned his father. "He was an assault trooper in the Eighteenth Infantry Division and came home at the end of the war without several fingers and a good part of his hearing. Won a bunch of medals for it. Even though he passed away a couple years ago, he'd always sit me on his lap and tell me about the war and all the times he'd sit in the freezing snow for solid months at a time waiting for the attack order, but also the good memories, like when they'd celebrate the lunar new year with the rare mooncake."
The event will last the rest of the week, with equipment supplied by both the National Museum and veterans organizations, with spectators watching from the various sources on both social media and reporters covering the action live.
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