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1937, the boring half
The year starts with good news. The Emperor has decided to raise the budget for the armed forces. I can now spend 57 out of 169 IC.
I order the training of
-2*7 engineers
-5 MP brigades
-3*5 artillery
-2 infantry
The only events of importance in the first two months are the completed training of 1 marine and 3 mountaineer units.
March the upgrading of my interceptors is nearly done, the IC freed by this is used to construct one infantry unit. It will be ready before the Marco Polo Bridge event fires. A few weeks later the upgrading is finished and I can order the training of 3 extra infantry units. They will not be ready for the early days of the war against China.
Nearly at the same time 2 infantry units finish their training. I order a new CL to be build and the left over IC is used to build supplies.
The last few days of april are rather eventful. 3 mountaineer units finish their training. I also get reports of large uprisings in India against the Brittish.
Lovely, every Englishman killed by them is one less that can fight against our troops.
Only noteworthy event in may is the finished training of the 5MP brigades. Two are added to my cavalry units and three go to the garrisons. I order two new brigades for the remaining two garrison.
June turns out to be a busy month. I start shipping my army to China and reorganising my fleet.
5 Fleets are created
Fleet 1, rear Admiral Yamamoto, 6 ships
2 '36 BB and my '41CVL +escorts
Fleet 2 , Admiral Nagano, 18 ships
4BB, 4BC, 1CA +escorts
Fleet 3, rear admiral Ozawa, 6ships
2CV,1CA+ escorts
Fleet 4, rear admiral Tyre
6submarines
I also sell my level 1 coastal submarines to the Germans. I can't use them, maybe they'll have a use for them.
Fleet 1,3 and for will hunt for the small Chinese fleet. Fleet 2 will be used for shorebombardement.
The army will be organised in groups of 3 divisions. Most will have 3 infantry units (2art+1eng). They are commanded by an Lt. General.
2 groups will exist of 2infantry + 1 HQ. These are command by a fieldmarshal and a general. A few groups of infantry without brigades are comanded by some Lt. General and mj. Generals. My mountaineers are commanded by a single LT. General and my 5 commando mj. Generals. They'll have to stay near a HQ to fight effectively.
The only troops left on the Home Islands are 6 garrison, two cavalry and 2 marine divisions.
Ready for battle!
Erenhot: 6 puppet militatia, 1 puppet cavalry and 3 Japanese infantry
Kalgan: 6 mountaineers, 1HQ, 5 infantry
Changde: 3 infantry
Tangshan: 17 infantry, 1 HQ