Greetings Comrades in Japan

Silence before?

Let the whole world go to war,

so long as the Polish village is peaceful,

so long as the Polish village is peaceful. - Excerpt from Stanisław Wyspiański's Wesele (The Wedding).

The Empire of Parpaldia
Meeting hall of the Imperial Palace
5 December 1639 C.C.Y./ 1974 P.C

News of the defeat reached Parpaldia quickly, only a day after the first day of battle. As the Parpaldian Army was bleeding out on the second line of fortifications, the rulers thought the sailors' stories were the tales of mentally ill people. Unfortunately for them, they were only partly right, because the sailors were mentally ill after what they saw, but what they saw was the truth.

What finally convinced them that the survivors were telling the truth was the bombing raid by Polish bombers which hit the capital and a few other coastal cities like Duro, in addition to that they bombed a few other places like land dragon breeding grounds.

The Polish air force hit their fleets hard, sinking half of the Third Fleet in the harbor and a quarter of the First and Second Fleets. The Fourth Fleet had already been massacred in the failed invasion of Altaras.

After that it only got worse, their planes were completely out of range of their air force, only once and with a lot of luck did their wiverns manage to get into the air. Unfortunately, they ran into Polish Lim6-bis which mercilessly shot them down in the air. The anti-aircraft defense of their country was useless, the cannons had too little firepower and too little speed to hit even the Polish IL-28s.

The destruction left by the bombers was a painful blow to the robbery-based economy of Parpaldia. Duro was hit especially hard and was bombed with napalm by the Polish Air Force. Everything wooden in the city was burned, even though the Poles concentrated exclusively on the factories and shipyards of the city, avoiding the bombing of civilians, who were to be "liberated".

Polish air command was unpleasantly surprised by the low efficiency of the Duro fire department. Japan sent a note of protest to Poland for the use of napalm, of course the communist state diplomatically replied that Japan could shove its complaints up its ass. They politely informed that it was aimed only at military facilities and that the People's Republic of Poland had not signed any agreement on the use of napalm, given that it had been moved before it came into being.

Of course there were anti-militarist and pacifist protests in front of the Polish Embassy in Japan, but Poland didn't care. In the Japanese media there was a government order not to publicize the issue too much. Of course nobody knew about it in communist Poland. The only thing the nation got was information about effective strike of Polish bombers on military targets.

Of course, this strike achieved its side goal which was to sow fear in the hearts of the government of Parpaldia. In turn on terrains conquered by Parpaldia, the scale of destruction incurred by it caused euphoria on streets, forces of order in these areas unsuccessfully tried to bring there order. In some places, there were even all-day battles between residents and soldiers.

Of course, this strike accomplished its side goal which was to sow fear in hearts of the government of Parpaldia. In turn on terrains conquered by Parpaldia the scale of destruction that it inflicted caused euphoria on streets, forces of order in these areas tried unsuccessfully to bring there order. There were even days-long battles between residents and soldiers in some places.

The emperor hearing what was happening ordered a quick war council in the council hall. The look of those gathered in the hall said one thing, everyone experienced a strong mental shake, and one of the ministers experienced a heart attack upon hearing what had happened. Each of them could not believe the scale of the devastation that followed the raid.