Jizhouese Civil War

=Background=

Factionalism
Emperor Tianzehn

Winter Annals
=First War=

Revolution
The earliest fighting in Jizhou broke out in a series of violent porgroms against minorities of foreign merchants in the costal trading cities in May 1933. This culminated in a mass slaughter and fire in the Eastern districts of Jinan. In the midst of the violence, the Emperor Tianzhen died of old age in Jinan on December 9th, 1933. The Liberal faction attempted and Conservative factions attempted to have Jixing and Tianzhu installed respectively. A Liberal assasination attempt against Tianzhu led to the coronation being delayed long enough for Jixing to be coronated. The Conservatives fled to Jibei and crowned Tianzhu who appointed Liu Qing as his Chancellor. The Jizhouese army split roughly equally between the two factions. The Conservatives turned their military assets northwards to attempt to capture Jinan in Operation Malestrum. This ended in disaster when the Conservative forces were devastated by a massive artillery bombardment. At the same time peasents in Northern Jizhou rose up in the Beihai revolt. The Beihai revolutionaries mostly consisted of Winterists and created the Winterist Liberation Front(WLF). The WLF opened with a southward offensive on the region East of the Jitian Mountains. This assault was immensely successful as most of the poor peasents supported the WLF. WLF forces fought against Conservatives at the same time they were launching Operation Malestrum catching them by surprise. This allowed them to quickly sweep South quickly on a revolutionary wave. By 1935 however, the Winterists themselves had split into the Traditionalist Winterist and Springist factions. This split did not hamper the Winterist efforts in the South as they crushed the Conservative forces in the East. The Conservative forces decided to retreat to the shielded Southern Valleys of Nan'an.

Eastern Front
The Eastern Front of the war was primarily between the Winterists and Springists. The Winterists held power over the Southern regions of East Jizhou. The Winterist forces had more weapons at first, however the Springists had more direct excercise to resources in the North.

Siege of Na'an
=Second War=

Fall of Jinan
=Third War=

Statelmate
=Aftermath=

=Impact=