View source for XXIII Corps (The Zjandarian Guards)

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|'''Active:'''||  21 Nomeziooqu 1637&ndash;
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|'''Motto'''|| ''Leading the Charge''
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|'''In use by:'''|| [[Army of the Southern League]]
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Elwynn]] ([[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]])
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|'''Type:''' || Mechanised Corps
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|'''Size:''' || 
*Pre-war Strength: 57,600
**Guardsmen: 23,729
**N&H Militia: 33,993 (assigned to other corps)
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|'''Nicknames:''' || The Redoubtables
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|'''Commander:'''|| ''"Gobryas"'' (Code name)
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|'''Deployments'''||
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]] 
*[[Year of the Four Kaisers]]
*[[Benacian Reconquest]]
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]
**[[Operation Gorgon]]
**[[Operation Cask]]
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Formed in 1637 from the loyalist Behsazi militia groups that operated in [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]] during the [[The River War|River War]], the 10th Division of the Territorial Defence Corps, known as the '''Zjandarian Guards''' (derived from the historic [[Babkhi]] name of ''Lesser Zjandaria'' formerly applied to the [[Deep South]]), was the first division strength formation to be deployed into the [[Vale of Angularis]] in 1639 to combat a widespread [[The Anarchy of Angularis|insurgency]]. The deployment exposed weaknesses in [[Union Defence Force|UDF's]] logistical supply chain which were subsequently addressed by the [[Union Defence Force#Tulloch Reforms|Tulloch Reforms]] implemented by the Zjandarian Guard's newly appointed Generalmajor, Petro Tulloch, and subsequently rolled out across the entire UDF.

Following the [[Auspicious Occasion]], the Zjandarian Guards became a training cadre for the Elwynnese [[Republican Guard (Elwynn)|Republican Guards]] which replaced the disbanded [[UDF]].

With the renewal of hostilities against Jingdao, on a far larger scale than previously in the [[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]], the Republican Guard was hurriedly expanded to become a reserve army for the overstretched [[Imperial Forces]]. The 10th Division was formally disestablished and it's traditions along with the surviving ex-UDF personnel passed onto '''{{PAGENAME}}'''.

As part of Operation Gorgon, the under-strength Corps was relocated to Vijayanagara to assist in the training of new recruits and the establishment of coastal defences around the strategically important arctic port city. 

The Corps had been hastily mobilised and dispatched to Keltia for the ill-fated expedition of [[Waldemar Zinkgraven]] against Nova England. This campaign, which ended with internal dissension in the Warring Isles, resulted in a significant hit to the morale of the Corps, when it returned to Vijayanagara in 1657.

Driven out of Vijayanagara by followers of the [[Holy Church of the Divine Icebear]] in the early stages of the [[Elwynnese Civil War]], the Corps, and the 8th Army became the rallying point for [[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]] fighters in [[Agnesia]].

==Commanding Officers==
*1637&ndash;1638: Generalmajor Kaveh Parvin
*1638&ndash;1639: Generalmajor Farbtafeln (arrested for murdering a civilian management consultant during the [[The Anarchy of Angularis|Anarchy of Angularis]])
*1639&ndash;1644: Generalmajor Petro Tulloch
*1644&ndash;1654: Generalmajor [[Daniyal Dravot|Daniyal Sikander Dravot]]
*1654&ndash;1660: Dux Flavius Magnus†
*1660&ndash;''the present'': "Gobryas"

==Deployments==

*1639: [[Vale of Angularis]], [[The Anarchy of Angularis#The Hjalmar Offensive Operation|Counter-Insurgency Operations]]
*1644: [[Vale of Angularis]], [[Angularis Offensive Operation]]
*1651: [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]], [[Auspicious Occasion]]
*1654&ndash;1656: [[Agnesia]], [[Operation Gorgon]] ([http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=War_of_Lost_Brothers War of Lost Brothers])
*1656: Keltia, [[Operation Cask]] ([http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=War_of_Lost_Brothers War of Lost Brothers])
*1660: [[Elwynnese Civil War]]

[[Category:Rebel Groups]]