2nd Belgian French War

Overview
The 2nd Belgian-French war was the more important one out of the 2. After the first Belgian-French war, Belgium had annexed the Calais region of France. Following many internal conflicts, France launched a full scale assault on the annexed land and threatened to push towards greater Belgium.

Northern Conflict
In June of 2029, France launched 445,000 troops towards the Calais region. Surprised and outnumbered, Greater Belgium had to react quickly, scrambling around 90,000 troops to combat the attacking French. Soon enough, Germany marched 600,000 troops to the aid of Belgium, England then landed 100,000 troops to Normandy creating the 2nd D-Day in July. In September Portugal then Massed around 250000 troops to land on the North of Bordeaux. At this point, it had broken into a stalemate. The Belgian-German advance was halted by elite French forces and rebels. The Normandy landings worked but they had to dig down as French coordinated airstrikes were taking them out. Portugal had made some decent progress and took the city of Bordeaux but was also halted by waves of French Nationalists.

Southern Conflict
In October of 2029, France surprised attacked the city of Wako Texas in then what was called the Northern State Empire. Obviously, the act of aggression did promote the NSE into the Belgian French War. The leader Jestin L.B North Pole sent a task force of 60,000 troops to land at Marseille, and then another 400,000 troops to launch the Main southern advance, an additional 340,000 troops were also sent to help the encirclement of Lyon. Portugal also aided 100,000 troops to assist their southern advance while also attacking from the west. The French also sent their main retaliation force of 950,000 troops but failed to halt the every growing numbers of the NSE. Even though the French had more numbers, they were undertrained and under equipped with many of them surviving on 1-2 meals per day. Although the French fought hard at Toulouse and Lyon, over 200,000 French soldiers deserted or surrendered without firing a shot.

After Lyon and Toulouse were captured, the advance moved up towards Paris where the IPF and NSE were able to break the stalemate in the north. The French were on the front foot of the war all the way up until the IPF and NSE invasions of the south.

Aftermath
After the war had finished, a treaty would divide some parts of the land including Normandy and Nice. The French army would be disbanded but still had a QRF. The Lotharingian Empire would be formed. November 9th will be remembered in the Empire as it would be the victory day for years to come.