Russo-Corean War
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The Russo-Corean war (Corean: Leosia jeonjaeng, Dutch: De Orientale oorlog, Chinese: Tǒngyī zhànzhēng or War of Unification), was a military conflict fought between 1932–1935. It was primarily waged between the Republic of Canton, Corea, Russia, and up until 1934 the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The war takes place in the aftermath of the Russian civil war that has weakened Russia, seeing that and wanting to expand its influence in the region, Corea on the 8th of February 1932 invades the Qing remnant. While initially, Corea hoped that Russia was weakened enough that it would not honor its old treaty, to its surprise it did and Russia declared war on Corea, being joined by their ally Japan. In turn, Corea calls upon the Netherlands with who it has an alliance. Thus through a patchwork of alliances that would later see the Huaxia Republic join in, the so-called Russo-Corean war starts. It was a war marked by its high numbers of casualties, use of new technologies & the application of new doctrines, and their impact on modern warfare. Many historians nowadays call this conflict the first “modern” war.
It is often said that the war truly starts during the so-called siege of Peking, it was in the capital of the Qing remnant that some hardline loyalist made a last stand, that in turn proved to last long enough to just halt the invasion of Corea. However overwhelming firepower and air power by the Coreans are enough and within 3 months the Qing remnant forces are largely defeated. However at the end of those 3 months the Russians declare war on Corea, their first strike did not go into Manchuria as Corea suspected, rather it came from the air, a fleet of 95 bombers on the 9th of may conduct the first successful strategic bombing mission. The city of Sjinjang was raised to the ground by a firebombing campaign and many of the city's houses made out of wood were burned to the ground, setting the stage for the kind of war the conflict would become.
