Battle of Bloody Gulch

Battle of Bloody Gulch
Part of 10 Days War
A machine gun crew of the Verteidigungsstaffel fires their MG-12 at entrenched Porantan soldiers during the battle
Date 20 January 1913 Location Auerbach, Hundermeschen Result Decisive Rotgeheiman victory
Belligerents
Rotgeheim	Porant
Commanders and leaders
Viktor Falkenberg Walter Karl Ulrich	Unknown
Units involved
1st VS-Panzer Division Kaiser Florian von Horn 5th VS-Panzer Division Wiking	Infantry Regiment
Strength
38,181 soldiers 200 tanks	2,500 soldiers 20 tanks
Casualties and losses
Dead: 23 Wounded: 72 Missing: None Captured: None	Dead: Over 900 Wounded: Over 1,200 Missing: 200 Captured: 1,400

The Battle of Bloody Gulch was an engagement between military forces of Porant and Rotgeheim that took place on 20 January, 1913, in the small town of Auerbach, Hundermenschen. This engagement was the first contact between Porant and Rotgeheim in the 10 Days War and resulted out of a surprise confrontation between the opposing forces. It lasted from 8:14 a.m. to roughly 4:00 p.m., when the 5th VS-Panzer Division under the command of Lieutenant General-VS Walter Karl Ulrich took control of the town.

Background

This battle was the first in a series of engagements between the militaries of Rotgeheim and Porant. Rotgeheim arrived in Hundermenschen with the 1st VS-Panzer Army of the Verteidigungsstaffel (which was not the formal military, rather, it was a paramilitary quick-reaction force) in response to the Poratan invasion of the country. Rotgeheim sent roughly 300,000 troops of the Verteidigungsstaffel to counter the threat that Porant posed. The II VS-Panzerkorps - comprised of the 1st VS-Panzer Division Kaiser Florian von Horn, 5th VS-Panzer Division Wiking, 11th VS-Panzergrenadier Division Selbstständigkeit, and 16th VS-Panzer Division Sturm - was the first Rotgeheiman formation to land and head off toward its ultimate goal of eliminating the Porantan invaders. It was expected that the Porantan military would have a defensive perimeter about 20 km around the beachhead, but in reality the perimeter stretched 50 km around. Auerbach was just inside this 50 km-long defensive line.