[BATTLE] The Invasion of Hungary: The Battle of Nyíregyháza and the End of the War

Nyíregyháza had become the seat of power for Loyalist Hungary in the months following the Budapest Spring. Completely unstable, the city was essentially a reinforced bulwark meant to buy certain officials time to find ways to leave the country while taking their fortunes with them. Loyalist Hungary was constantly beleaguered by Romani partisans from communities that had been clumped up in eastern regions. One might suspect that ethnic cleansing would begin on a large scale, but Loyalist Hungarian Forces simply didn't have the resources to spare on such a conflict - the impending NATO invasion occupied their entire capacity.

Without aircraft or air defense, without geographical or numerical advantage, constantly threatened by morale issues and Romani rebels, Loyalist Hungary never had a chance to stand up against the NATO combined force of nearly 150,000. The best they could hope for was a final stand to buy time for the vanguards of the ideology they were loyal to. That final stand would take place at Nyíregyháza. As NATO forces swept into Eastern regions, the only resistance took the form of minor barricades and Loyalist outposts in major cities, which served to briefly stall soldiers as forward scouts carried word of the coalition advance to the capital of Loyalist Hungary.

Major air warfare campaigns in the days leading up to the Battle of Nyíregyháza relegated the conflict to urban warfare: most pilots were unable to successfully target enemy troops hidden in the city without essentially carpet bombing the entire thing, which would have resulted in an astonishing number of civilian casualties. The street-to-street conflict was lengthy and bloody, but coalition forces maintained an important technological and numerical advantage that allowed different groups to push in from different directions. With artillery, aircraft, and tank columns essentially blockading the city, Loyalist Hungarian Forces were slowly constricted until the remaining core was forced to surrender, and with it the ringleaders of the Hungarian regime.

Loyalist Hungary had fallen, and Hungary was whole once more.

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##Casualties

Type|Amount
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Romanian Infantry|5,489
Free Hungarian Infantry|870
Dutch Infantry|255
Greek Infantry|1,003
T-55|78
TR-85|20
TR-24|15
Boxer|189
TAB-71|34
MLi-84|21
IAR-330|4