Battle for Khabarovsk (Mink's World)

The Battle For Khabarovsk was the first battle in the Russo-Far East War and ended in a Far East Victory. This was the only battle in witch the Far East Wins. Tentions has been rising for a while between Russia and The Far East Federation and on May 17th 1703 the Russians Invade with the might of 15,000 and expecting to crush the tiny nation by the end of the year.

Prelude
Before the main battle started on the early hours of May 10th 1703 Russia starts plans for operation yellow the operation to invade the Far East Federation by scouting out Far East positions. Russia was expecting for The Far East to deny the offer to unify that is why Russia had 15,000 Troops prepared and more than 70,000 on the way.

Russian Planning
Russia started planning years before in 1698 on how to invade The Far East. The original plans were plans of Chadov Josef Valeryevich was to navy invade Vladivostok and hope for a surrender. That was thought to be too hard to do. Boris came up with other plans to invade traditionally.

Far East Preparation
The Far East Prepared by digging in to the town and conscripting townsfolk to dig and make defenses. Vasils Tactics were just to hold out long enough until reinforcements could arrive. The thing was is The Far East Federation could not supply enough troops to cover the whole border. Where ever the Russians would strike first Vasil would send most of the other border troops to that location.