Operation Trap door

[Spain]

Baleric Islands

Twenty-Six large ships were gathering around a large buoy with a big strobe light flashing ontop. The lead ship was the Heavy Cruiser Emperor Carlos V. The admiral incharge of the fleet was Rear Admiral Gonzi. Field Marshal De lopez Halzie was in command of the ground Forces. The fleet was carrying 120,000 Royal Spanish troops with Royal Cavalry and Artillery. There was a batallion of sharpshooters in one of the destroyers too.

At about 0200 the fleet started moving. The Emperor Carlos was in the lead followed closely by her sister ship, the Villa de Madrid.

The fleet would reach its destination in about 10 RL hours.

Spanish Morrocco

The Spanish Field Marshal Montiglio was busying himself. The first and second reserve armies were forming along the Algerian border. Armored car crews were cleaning the barrels of the guns on the cars and fixing any problems with their vehicals. Artillery crews were also cleaning their large barrels and doing a run down of their plan. Operation trap door was just about to begin.

The Artillery shellings began at around 0300. The heavy guns of the Spanish artillery opened up all over on the FRENCH border. There was about 10,000 Artillery peices firing in the direction of Algeria. The artillery was anywhere from SKODA cannons to Italian cannons to howitzers. Even some Prussian cannons from the Franco-Prussian war. The artillery shelling would keep up until the Morrocoan troops got word of the Spanish landings on the coast.

[France]

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Things for the most part had been peacefull in Africa even though back home in Europe the world was falling apart. There was a total of 102,000 French regulars manning her African possesions plus 83,000 colonial troops give or take a few hundred. There also were a few small destroyers and gunboats but nothing special, a major war in Africa never was expected that why when early in the morning thousands of shells started crossing the border everyone was caught off gaurd. Every single fort within 39 miles of the border was pounded into submission by the shear amount of fire the Spaniards were throwing at them and many towns and villages were wiped out. Any form of major resistance along the border was destroyed but groups of arab and berber militia were gathered in the desert to make life hell for any Spanish advance that would come. Second in command of Algeria, Voltiere happened to have the bad luck of inspecting a border garrison at the moment and is believed dead as no word has ben recieved from him in almost a full day.

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Marseille being a major naval port for the 1st Armée Navale was usually full of ships and sailors but this morning the harbour was empty other than the normal civilian trafic and the odd naval ship. Most people just put it off as naval manuevers even though it was a little odd that no word had come out. The navy was the only thing missing fom Marseille, the 43rd division was gone but no one would notic that, its not like people were given free acces to the camps and bases outside the city.

[Spain]

Algeris

The defenders of Algeris (If there are any) suddenly noticed a white boat with a proud Spanish flag flying. It ran aground and about twenty Spanish soldiers jumped out with their Mauser rifles pointed at the defenders. One of them was holding a voice projecting device. He spoke in very bad french. "You are being given a chanze to surrendire. Take thiz chance or be defeatned." About ten other boats had beached themselves and more boats were arriving. The boats that had already dropped off their soldiers were pushed back into the water and floated back to the ships where they were loaded up with the 10,000 troops that would participate in the invasion then repeat what they just did. The troops on the beach waited for a response from the french.

French Morrocco/Algerian Border

The Artillery shells suddenly stopped. It was quiet on the African front for atleast twenty minutes until the border was once again disrupted by more noise. But this was not the noise of cannon fire. It was the noise of trucks and armored cars starting up their engines. The main invasion would take place on the San lo Pierre road. (Yet again I'm so unorigional.) Spanish armored cars could hardly run off road so they had to stick close to a road. The infantry, however, just invaded everywhere along the border. Within minutes they had reached the location of the town of Tlemcan, but they could not find it. It was because every single building in the small town had been destroyed. There was hardly even any rubble. They had secured the....piles of rubble and started to advance again when they encountered a group of defenders.

[France]

Algeris
Scattered reports had reached the city of a Spanish attack from Morrocco but no one expected the Spaniards to attack the city itself. The site of a ship flying Spanish colors was at first not given much attention, what could one ship do. But when it got closer it was relized there were armed men aboard and soldiers on garrisson and gaurd duty in the harbour opened fire with their Lebels. A lone machine gun meant to keep the Arabs under control turned aound and started spraying the elad boat with fire but even that couldn't stop it and the boat was able to land, albeit that mos of the occupants were probaly dead. The first Spaniard out seemed to be an officer or at least a solier with high standing, he puffed out his chest and yelled out for a surrender. A few soldiers close to hi actually put their guns down and started to surrender so stunned by the forcfullness of his words and his bravery but then the machine gun turned on him and sprayed him with bullets before turning on any survivors from his boat. A wave of boats followed the first one fire was redirected to them. 16 French 75's and a few older cannons were positioned in the harbour and opened up on the Spanish ships and and Spaniards that had landed. On land the men were almost overwelmed as only a little over 200 men were in the area but men from in the city were quickly moving up.

In the harbour a gunboat lay at anchor but half its crew was missing as they were on shore leave. They put up a flanking fire into the Spaniard boats and the men that had landed. They had to pull men from there stoardoard batteries so they could put a full broadside into the Spaniards but that meant if the need arose they could only fire half there starboard guns.

Spanish Border
A small wiry arab man rode along on his camel. It had once been his fathers but it now was his and he was proud of it. It had expeirenced war before but even if had been frightened by the massive barrage that had just ended. In the distance a cloud of sand was rising and strange noses were coming. The closest thing he could think of was a train but this was different. He got closer and what he saw made him jump. Steel monsters moving by themselves without tracks flying Spanish colors. He noticed the multiple guns sticking out of them, they really were monsters. Then he saw the trucks filled with men and supplies behind them. He had seen enough, after geting a quick count he turned around and pushed his ride as fast as it would go.

A few hours later dozens of Arab and Berber men lay in wait in the sand and the dunes along the road. They had brought dynamite and other explosive for the "steel mosnters from hell" but they planned to use there speed and manuevarability to defeat those beasts. They even had obtained somme mortors and machine guns from desroyed French forsts. The main goal was the soft meat of the trucks and the men they held inside, they were to kill as many Spanish infidel bastards as they could in revenge for the massacre of thousnads of their peole this very morning. . As one 193 rifles and 4 Maxim machine guns opened up on the Spanish column. A few "borrowed" French morotrs also threw in there own wait spraying the column with HE and shrapnel rounds. The 50 camel and horse mounted men from each side charged this stretch of the column while the others covered them. They were to get in close and blow up the armored cars then just move down the line and cause chaos.

Tlemcan
The few survivors fled if they could at the site of the Spanish infantry but the men and boys stayed. As the Spaniards entered the town and started sifting thru the rubble the men waited. They were a motly band of men many armed with muskets and breechloaders with only a total of 6 rifles among the group of 63. They wouldn't be able to stop the Spniards but they'd make them bleed a little bit and get some revenge for their homes and families. When the Spaniards were 50 yards away they opened up into them and started a yell.