Avalonian backed Arconian forces begin the fight to retake PNP controlled parts of Port de l'Quest following several months of softening the area by disruption and demoralization tactics. Avalonian and CA Arconian naval forces aid in the attack by bombarding PNP controlled vessels, coastal defenses, and hard targets. Avalonian regular forces, for the most part, remain away from the city to prevent the arrival of reinforcements, and the fighting in the streets is mainly carried out by well led, equipped, and trained guerrillas.
One Gespensten, Konrad Brahm, having distinguished himself both in the liberation of Regnee and the siege of Port de l'Quest is awarded a medal for honor after releasing over a score of prisoners he was unable to adequately feed, an act which inspired a watching platoon of PNP soldiers to defect to the CA along with a number of the prisoners, so awed were they at his humaneness. These defectors are placed under his command, and form the beginning of the Avalonian Foreign Legion, a group of soldiers under Avalonian command made up entirely of foreigners (except for Brahm), which the ANA has approved the expansion of in future.
Avalonia begins to work on a real exit strategy from the Arconian Civil War, one that will both reestablish the legitimate regime of Arcon and satisfy members of the PNP, following its overthrow, that they won't again attempt to violently overthrow the government. The current rough draft calls for the limitation of direct political power of inherited titles (limitation, not dissolution) in favor of a more representative system, and for Arconian nobles to improve their public image by using their wealth and power for the betterment of the lower classes, along the lines of how things are in Avalonia. Although the specifics of the plan won't be made public until the rough edges are worked out, the general ideas aren't kept secret.
Avalonia's strong writing/reporting and printing fields keep the people informed of what that Avalonian government is doing in Arcon, and its motivations for doing so (not in a way that would compromise military operations), and the Avalonian government also commissions the printing of propaganda leaflets which are dropped in PNP controlled areas by airship (the improvement of which is continuing) in an attempt to persuade and pacify the population. These operations are conducted at night, with navigation aided by good maps and navigators and signals from the ground by those sympathetic to the CA. Due to the limited number and power of the airships, however, not too many leaflets are able to be dropped, and most of those dropped are not dropped far from the front. A temporary military base in Arcon equipped to handle airships is constructed to extend the range of airship operations.
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