The Sky Cannot Have Two Suns - A Kuomintang/Republic of China AAR

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“We write our own destiny; we become what we do''

[video=youtube;bl4Sw5qJBgE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl4Sw5qJBgE[/video]







The War against the Japanese invaders and their Jingwei Hanjian looks set to enter its eighth year, for eight years the Republic of China has been tormented by foreign invasion and barbarity. However the war has decidedly turned against the Japanese, the western powers land many hammer blows against the invaders in the pacific, their armies in China and their running dogs in the Nanjing usurper camp wither on the vines as the Japanese economy collapses and its war machine in China reaches breaking point as it is cannibalised to feed other fronts.
To the North the communists out of Yannun under Mao Zedong appear to keep the invaders at bay, but they grow stronger everyday and they remain a threat to the true Republic of Sun Yat Sen.
The war is ending and it must be the Kuomingtang that reigns over China.

''There can be no Imperialists, there can be no communist bandits, there can be no Japanese, there can be no brigands ruling like princes. There can only be one. The Sky cannot have two suns'' -Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek

 

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Good luck! Having been to China, it really is a beautiful country (minus the smog in Beijing!) :glare:

I wish you have better luck than Chiang did. Having talked with many Chinese professors, they seem to have embraced a more sympathetic view of him and the Kuomintang, giving credit where credit is due, although they stop short of a full endorsement of him for very obvious reasons. (Spent the summer of 2013 in China doing research). I would highly recommend going there if that's of an interest.

Cheers!

 

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Nationalist China? I wish you the best of luck, Generalissimo. Subscribed!

 

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Extremely excited to see where you take this, subscribed.

 

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There can only be one.

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Chiang's an immortal? Man, heads are gonna roll.

EDIT: Not sure why the quote looks like that.

 

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Chinese AARs are always brilliant! Looking forward to the generalissimo's grand design to become the sole stellar object in the sky.

 

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Subscribe! Chiang is love. Chiang is life.

 

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The Setting of a Rising Sun, the Rise of a White Sun

“Stomp the grass to scare the snake''

The strategic position in China, December 1944

December of 1944, the Japanese empire is in retreat across the Pacific and Asia. In China their army is strung out across the Eastern seaboard provinces in thin strips of land connecting the great cities of South and Eastern China under the occupation of the Jingwei regime. The countryside and mountainous regions are the domain of either the cut off units of the National Revolutionary army, Kuomintang partisans or the widespread influence of the communist insurgents under the direction of Mao and the standing armies of the Communist party based out of Yan'an.

To ensue it is the rightful nationalist government that is power broker in a post war China, it must make significant gains at the expense of Japan and its puppet regimes that straddle Eastern and Northern China. Chiang Kai Shek maintains a very strong relationship with the Western allies and especially the United States which has heavily supported the Kuomintang war effort in material, political and monetary support, however the persistent and blatant corruption of the nationalist regime has undercut much of the Allied assistance to China. The crippling and brutal actions of the early years of the war has relegated the Nationalist war effort to holding actions, harassment and tying down as much of the Japanese war effort as is possible in the Chinese theatre as well as keeping the vital Burma road open to the British. However the stringing out of Japanese forces and growing competency of the army armed with allied small arms and growing number of armour such as Stuarts or Sherman tanks, Chiang Kai-Shek is preparing to begin the triumphant liberation of China.

A Chinese Sherman, the first of many

Starting in late December the NRA went on the offensive in South China to link up the pockets of nationalist resistance. The Japanese troops reeled back from the shock as they retreated to the North or South across the frontiers into the occupied French IndoChina, by middle February Guangzhou, Wuzhou, Qingyuan and Maoming had been liberated. The British began making great advances in Burma as the shocked Japanese redeployed divisions to Tonkin to prevent the KMT from overrunning all of IndoChina. The East front had stalled by the end of February with Hong Kong besieged by the nationalists, many coastal areas liberated and a steady advance along the coast to the North by the KMT.

The Liberation of all Eastern China is at hand

To the North the Communists are making gains in the North China plain and Mengjiang, in Shanxi and in the peasant lands that have been liberated there has been numerous clashes and skirmishes between National Revolutionary Army soldiers and communist insurgents and prove to be an omen of things to come. Chiang Kai-Shek has been setting about preparing for the eventual purge of the communist infection of China, however with much of China still occupied by the Japanese the nationalists will maintain the United Front with Mao to rid China of its current plague.

The Two Suns of China, for the moment sharing the same sky

In early March Chiang had moved to further centralise the power of KMT and especially that of the army. While nominally the warlords had effectively become Nationalist provincial governors and county bosses, in reality they still maintained large influence over their areas that they often controlled like personal fiefdoms and while the war with the Japanese had seen most of their standing troops become subordinated to the NRA National Military Council, they did maintain sizeable numbers of militia known as Difangjun to quell local insurrection and root out the communist leaning peasants, they where completely ineffective against any determined and organised opposition they were still keen on maintaining the power base of the warlords and were more of thuggish bands. However Generalissimo Kai-Shek sought to end the practice by the end of the war in a sweeping reform of the system by integrating them into the Army as a number of divisions of light infantry to assist the NRA campaign. In March the remaining Difangjun units where centralised in their respective provinces into six divisions of light infantry and trained in elementary combat and drill, they would support the coming push into the North China plain. The dragging away of those remaining military assets in the hands of the warlords strengthened Chiang's hold over the KMT, however the communistic infection began to manifest itself much more easily.

Another blow to Warlordism, another win for China

On March 6th Chiang personally led the commencement of the ''100 days campaign'', Chiang envisioned that by the middle to the end of June that the nationalists should be able to triumphantly enter the national capital in Nanjing and Shanghai in the following weeks and secure immense prestige and credibility for Chiang in the post war settlements that are sure to follow when the end finally comes. The popular and skilled generalSun Li-jen will lead his New 1st army which has just been redeployed from Burma to support Chiang Kai-Shek's 33rd Army group's advance on Nanjing. The left flank would Chiang would be supported by his confidants He Yingqin's New 3rd Army, together these three mainspear heads would lead a general advance through the valleys of South Eastern China and then cross the Yangtze eventually setting a new frontline ranging from Shanghai in the East to Wuhan in the West. This should cripple the effective fighting capacity of the Japanese in the North China plain and result in the collapse of the Jingwei puppet regime.

Crack Nationalist troops of the ''German divisions''

The offensive fell upon the demoralised and fatigued Japanese forces like hammerblows. The smouldering remains of Changsha was liberated in the first week, Wuhan fell by the end of March, by mid May Jinhau had fallen to the NRA, in the North the Communists were making ground, pushing hard into Inner Mongolia and Beiping. With the success of the advance, the American General and liason between the Generalissimo and the United States insisted that Chiang now direct a nationalist effort to oust the Japanese from IndoChina with tentative suggestions that it would become a Chinese protectorate rather than French after the conflict. Chiang Kai-Shek was adamant that IndoChina was of no concern to China while Japan still threatens Chinese interests and the communists threaten the Republic. With the British having taken Rangoon and poised to take Bangkok, the Japanese would soon enough be forced from IndoChina. With clear supply lines now secure to Burma and India, American and allied material and support began to filter through in greater numbers, Thompson sub machine guns, M1 Garand and Lee Enfield Rifles, Stuart and Sherman tanks proved to make the already potent crack Nationalist divisions even more lethal to the Japanese who had little to muster to counter the growing armour of the Nationalist vanguard troops.

The Powerful ''China Lobby'' in the United States has bankrolled the Nationalist war effort, however prolific corruption siphons off many millions of dollars

By June 2nd lead elements of the nationalist army had reached Nanjing, the defence of the city rapidly collapsed by June 5th Nanjing had been liberated. The Wang Jingwai government had relocated to the safer city of Qingdao, rumours abound that Jingwai himself has fled to the laps of his pay masters in Japan. Shanghai falls on June 20th after heavy fighting from fanatical Japanese resistence. Over the coming days Nantong and Yangzhou are liberated as the nationalist push finally halts to rest, regroup and replenish. However the Kuomintang receive less than an enthusiastic response from the liberated people of Western China, the brutal tactics of scorched Earth employed years earlier against the advancing Japanese has left the lands largely barren, its people in famine and disillusioned in their government. The rebuilding will be hard, but a united and strong China will emerge from the ashes.

Victorious Nationalists Parade in Nanjing infront of the Presidential Palace

For the rest of the Summer the NRA made modest gains, the communists overrun Inner Mongolia. However August 5th seen the Soviet Union declare war on Japan and invade Manchuria, rapidly sweeping aside the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo army fared even worse. On August 9th the United States dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, followed seven days later with another such bombing of Nagasaki. By August 20th Manchuria had fallen in its entirety to the Soviet Union and the Communists of Mao. On September 2nd 1945 Japan signalled its complete and unconditional surrender to the allied powers. The Sino-Japanese war had finally come to an end with China triumphant.

General Cheng celebrates with his men the surrender of Japan
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are you playing NWO? in my campaigns as China the US never drops any bomb on Japan, instead the war just drags on forever, and also there's no fading sun event either...

 

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whatguts said:

are you playing NWO? in my campaigns as China the US never drops any bomb on Japan, instead the war just drags on forever, and also there's no fading sun event either...

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I made sure in my game that this does happen and I am using NWO

 

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Nice job against the Japanese. Time for a KMT-CPC showdown

 

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The Path to Renewed Fratricide

''rotten; in a wretched state''

[video=youtube;QpKai-UHQ7A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKai-UHQ7A[/video]
Generalissmo Chiang Kai-Shek's Victory Speech to the Nation, September 1945

The war was over, China was victorious but in a horrific state. China was defacto being carved in two by the Soviets as they handed effective control of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia to Mao Zedong and greatly increasing his standing and power. In Nationalist China, the economy was utterly devastated. Her fields and industries either ravaged by war or destroyed in the scorched Earth policies to deny the Japanese anything from their conquests, entire swathes of Anhui, Jiangshu and Henan where utterly left barren by the pinnacle of the policy, the blowing up of the Yellow River dikes in 1938 to deny the Japanese the conquest of Zhengzhou. The flood killed hundreds of thousands, rendered thousands of miles of agricultural land barren and water logged, washed away the infrastructure, settlements and industry, actions of self destruction such as these completely alienated the peasants and lower rungs of society. China's entire economy and rebuilding was now financed by American loans, she was on the brink of and in some cases was already suffering famine, her people were displaced, the rebuilding will be hard for the Chinese, but they may have one more war yet to fight.

Refugees moving across China

The pressing issue was the Japanese garrisons and their surrender to the Chinese in Manchuria. While the Soviets occupied the territory, it required the formal handing over of the territory to the Chinese de jure administration while the Soviet occupation wound down. Even more key was the securing of the sizeable resources, industry and now discarded stocks of ammunitions and armaments of the dissolved Kwantung army. The beckoning prize was made all the more succulent by the fact that the entire regions and its assets were captured almost completely in tacked as the Japanese melted away in the face of overwhelming Soviet force.

The surrender of Japanese forces to the Soviet Army

The outside powers once again took great interest in China's internal affairs. The Americans had curried great favour and influence with the KMT, the communists took their directions from Moscow, China would become a battle ground in the rapidly developing Cold War. The Communists were in a much better position to snap up the prize of Manchuria, the Soviets opened the roads to them, gave them trucks and use of the railroads to transport communist troops into the heart of Manchuria and to occupy the cities and industries, the nationalists had the problems of occupying the North China plain, securing and solidifying central government rule in the newly liberated regions and an obstructive USSR. However the United States provided many transport aircraft to lift Nationalists soldiers into Manchuria, however they were only able to secure effective control in Harbin, Mukden and Tongliao. Everywhere else the Communists had already secured or skirmishes between the two pushed the nationalists out, Mao had remarked that Chiang ''wanted to harvest the peaches that he (Mao) had planted''. The Japanese forces largely surrendered to the Communists and as a consequence turned their weapons over to them. Else where in China, the Americans had instructed the Japanese garrisons to remain in post and act as a garrison until the NRA could arrive and officially take over and then disarm the Japanese. Had the Japanese simply downed arms and marched to the coast, the entire Eastern seaboard would likely have also fallen to the communist insurgents.

The Communists Secure Manchurian Urban Centres

Chiang Kai-Shek was enraged by the land-grab of Mao of all of Northern China and was preparing to renew the dormant civil war. However the United States was adamant that the state of peace between the Nationalists and Communists be maintained. General George C Marshall was sent by the United States to mediate the affair and threatened that should Chiang Kai-Shek wage open war on Mao and the communists, the Americans would completely cut off the KMT and end all military aid. With the entire Nationalist state effectively underwritten by Washington, Chiang relented and entered into a ceasefire and negotiation with the Communists.

Peace Reigns in China for the time being

Mediated by Marshall, Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong entered into talks in Chongqing for a United coalition to govern China and rebuild the nation. Chiang and Mao met for the first time in 20 years since their time under the wing of Sun Yat-Sen in Canton, at a celebratory dinner reception in honour of Chinese victory over Japan, Chiang toasted Mao as ''Elder Brother'' to which Mao repaid with ''Long Live Chiang Kai-Shek''. However the talks looked bleak, the communists radical land reform in the countryside they controlled and the brutal suppression of the wealthier peasants and landowners was one of the bigger stumbling blocks as well as the clash of egos in the ability to find a lasting and binding agreement.

The Two Suns Share the same Room

With the spectre of renewed fighting immediately dissipated, the nationalist government had to turn to the desperate situation in the country. On October 25th Formosa was finally returned to the administration of China after fifty years of occupation by the Japanese. In the final days of the war 200,000 Nationalist troops crossed the Tonkin frontier and took over the administration of Northern Annam and Tonkin, Chiang was able to successfully hand these areas back to nominal French jurisdiction in exchange for the ending of French extra territorial rights in China and the reverting of all French concessions to Chinese administration. While these successes came early, the situation in the countryside was dire, the North was ravaged by famine, the South was inundated by flood, inflation was out of control and corruption deeply damaged the credibility of the Kuomintang government and through it siphoned off millions of dollars in development aid and with it, economic development. Chiang and the KMT would need to seek some immediate measures and policies in 1946 to stabilise the country and maintain the good will of the people.

The Retrocession of Formosa​

 

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“Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.''

“You maintain an army for a thousand days, for its use in one''

Chiang Kai-Shek deliberates the situation with his military advisers

With the formal end of warfare in China the militia based and poorly trained and motivated divisions of the National Revolutionary Army suffered massive desertions and edged on the brink of mutiny. Being subjected to impressment to fight a war of national survival was one thing, being kept in an army were you were expected to die by the hundreds for objectives with little worth, almost no armaments and no training in peace time with no pay was another. Mostly farmers peeled from their lands, they demanded to be released from service and return to their farms and try to pick up the parts of theirs lives, while communist sympathies ran through them, if they were forcefully kept under arms, a communist mutiny in the Kuomingtang ranks would be devastating. As such numerous divisions of the NRA were disbanded and their members returned to their often devastated farms. In terms of strategic positions, the Nationalist army was hit hard as many areas along the demarcation line with the Maoists were now left completely undefended.

The return to the tradition of countless centuries

The nationalist government to make up somewhat for the loss of these divisions was the recruitment of nine armoured divisions in three batches over 4 years, another three infantry regiments in four batches was placed on order as well, the KMT also placed an order with the British for 250 units of their newest Centurion tanks to augment their armoured capabilities. The NRA was seeking to upgrade all its substandard divisions into the standing army with a regulated uniform, training, equipment and leadership under the control of the KMT, breaking down the final military influence the warlords had. Only provincial police and paramilitary forces raised by themselves remained under their influence.

NRA soldiers being transported for training via American aircraft

The Chinese industry and civilian economy was entirely devoted to righting itself after the war. The first American post war loans of September 1945 was used effectively to pay the pittance wages to China's vast reserves of unskilled and extremely cheap labour, to employ them in massive scheme of rebuilding basic infrastructure and public works. Where the machinery was lacking, China employed the one thing she had in abundance, her people. By their millions, refugees and locals were employed in their local areas to rebuild the roads with their bare hands and simple tools, they relaid the ruined railtrack, With the sweat off their own backs they cleared the vast fields of rubble, tilled the earth laid barren by war to make it fertile for next years planting of the crop. They came in their hundreds of thousands to help plug the damage in the dikes of the Yellow River and drain the land. In the case of the Yellow River reconstruction, the area had become a rallying point for communist sympathies due to the perceived abandonment and carelessness that the Nationalists had taken when destroying the dikes and flooding the region, such was the feeling that communist bandits took to raiding and attacking the workers. A National Army division had to be deployed the quell the raiding and protect the effort, it was successfully exploited by the Kuomintang in propaganda to discredit the communists and their ''efforts to hold back China''. Even more beneficial was the perception that the KMT was getting to grips with the country and getting its people into work and a normal order developing, while funded via American loans, the small payments that wern't pilfered via corruption injected funds into the local economies, and in a famine torn land, the food rations used as payment as well were greatly received by the workers and their families.

Chinese workers rebuilding a small provincial road

While inflation was still a major issue in its unpredictable increases, the advent of Marshall aid had secured a substantial increase in credit to flow from the government controlled banks. Small and medium Chinese business men and industrialists were able to effectively utilise this new asset and invest in expanding their operations, employing more Chinese or modernising their concerns. The result was a small decrease in national ill feeling and slight increase in industrial production.

Its all about the Yaun

Geopolitically the new China looked surrounded by hostile powers. To the North and West there was the Maoists holding half the country, behind that was the USSR who was supporting them, the Soviet Union also maintains the Mongolian puppet state which rightfully belongs to the Republic of China, they also have annexed the territory of Tuva into their nation which is another region that should be under the administration of China. To the west the Soviets have also carved out an Islamic puppet state in Xianjiang which must be recovered, also to the South West is the Tibetans. Since the fall of the Qing and even before that, Tibet has been defacto independent, with British influence they have resisted attempts to bring them under the Chinese domain. To the South, European influence rapidly drains, Britain seems ready to leave India with Burma already independent, France flounders at attempts to reassert its control in IndoChina. In Annam and Tonkin a leftist nationalist regime has taken hold and wages war against the colonial regime to great effect. To the East, Japan is now a neutralised threat, but we have island claims they have yet to renounce, and then there is Korea. Half is under soviet occupation and half under American, a future source of contention no doubt. However our relations with the Americans are the bed rock of our foreign policy, growing relations with the British are also of mutual benefit to all concerned inregards to harmonious border relations and economic ties in Hong Kong.

The Extent of Chinese Dejure claims

The negotiations to build a coalition between the communists and nationalists were proving fruitless, land reform, foreign relations, the levels of tax, the status of Kuomintang, the influence of the communist party, elections, standing armies of the Communists, the leadership of the NRA, the corruptness of the KMT leadership, all these things the two sides quarrelled over and found impasses on. Marshall tried his best to mediate the dispute, however it was for not. Chiang was adamant that he should have been allowed to crush the communists as soon as the war against Japan ended, reports indicated trains crossing the Heilongjiang frontier daily, carrying arms to the Communists and soldiers back into the USSR for training. Communist pilots had been trained to fly the multitude of Japanese aircraft leftover, peasant soldiers trained to use tanks and heavy weapons. The time was running out and both sides knew it. On July 5th 1946, the communists walked out of the talks and Marshall left China unable to bring about an agreement. Patrick Hurley, the US ambassador to the Republic of China resigned when the talks broke down citing underlying obstructions from conflicting American interests in China.

Ambassador Hurley with Chiang and Mao

With in a week the cease fire had effectively ended as skirmishes between nationalists and communists erupted along the demarcation line. China was rapidly falling back into war.

A fleeting peace, a return to normality
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Exciting!

 

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Your picture, "Marshall with Chiang and Mao" is actually a picture of Ambassador Hurley

 

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• Jul 20, 2014

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Repaxan said:

Your picture, "Marshall with Chiang and Mao" is actually a picture of Ambassador Hurley

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Opps, fixed that

 

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Your China is doing far better than the real one, mainly because some of the US aid is actually reaching its intended targets. Read up on TV Soong and his sisters - if there was a Nobel prize for corruption, they would deserve it!

 

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GulMacet said:

Your China is doing far better than the real one, mainly because some of the US aid is actually reaching its intended targets. Read up on TV Soong and his sisters - if there was a Nobel prize for corruption, they would deserve it!

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Depending on the war goes, I'll be fleshing out the corruptness of the state and party in future updates

 

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Good updates, keep'em coming !