Reclaimation of Kunming.... and whole of Yunnan!!
Jan 18th, 1939
As the battle at Yangtze crossing was fought, back in Ulan Bator…
Lhumbe (Armaments): I proudly announce breakthrough in our industry technology with the discovery of Basic Machine Tools!
Luvsanshara (Head of Gov): Good job.. Hey wait a minute. Did you say ‘Basic’?? At this age?! I thought the industrial revolution occured a century ago!
Lhumbe (Armaments): Well, err… nevermind that, but I mean BASICally we improve output by 5%. We are now going into Improved Machine Tools!
Luvsanshara (Head of Gov): OK, that sounds better!
Jan 25th, 1939
Chimid (Chief of Staff): We’re all geared now for an attack towards Kunming!
Choybalsan (Intel): Precisely! A city made prosperous by Mongols belongs to Mongols! Had it not for us, Kunming is nothing more than a tribal village!
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): We made Kunming the provincial capital for Yunnan back in the days of Kublai Khan but in the year of 1300, the Chinese rebelled and threw us off. They even walled the city to keep us out!
Choybalsan (Intel): But walls have never kept us out!
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): The citizen of Kunming should repent when we arrive or else….
Jan 28th, 1939
Chimid (Chief of Staff): The province of Qujing stands between us and Kunming! Forward, men!
Choybalsan (Intel): Be warned! Four mountain divisions to crack!
Battle in the mountains of Yunnan ensued!
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): Battle doesn’t look good! We’re taking horrible losses!
Chimid (Chief of Staff): Halt attack! We gotta find another way! They are dug-in…deep!
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): We took a terrible loss of almost 5000 men! That is a lost of a half a division! Kunming shall pay for this!
Feb 7th, 1939
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): We some deception to draw out the Qujing defenders!
Choybalsan (Intel): Yes, that is what Genghis would have done.
The Anshun province to the east was attacked by Mongols and taken by a light militia force by Feb 23rd.
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): Haha! Just as we suspect, the Qujing defenders raced out of their foxhole to claim back Anshun! The time is ripe for counterattack!!
ATTACK!!!
Feb 24rd, 1939
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): Qujing attackers broke off their attack of Anshun but their defense have been compromised! Finish ‘em off!!
Chimid (Chief of Staff): You guys are briliant, the Mongolian warrior instinct!
By March 13th, Qujing is captured by the weary but victorious army of Khan!
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): The path to Kunming is clear! After exactly 639 years, it is payback time!
Mar 15th, 1939
Luvsanshara (Head of Gov): That guy in Germany is doing his thing again with his mighty pen. With some meetings and treaties, he chopped a country into two and get to keep on half of it. But with the other half a puppet state, he practically owns them all! How he do it??!! He’s way ahead in foreign policy skill!
Mar 22nd, 1939
Battle for Kunming...
Chimid (Chief of Staff): Three enemy divisions stands before us and Kunming! Assault the last defenders, they cannot stop us from reaching the city!
Kunming outer perimeter garrison didn’t stand a chance against the revenge of the Mongols! The path to the city gates is cleared!
Dagva (Minister of Security/Chief of Army): I see a big pool of potential recruits from this city! I am sure there are Mongolian blood in some of the citizens, just waiting to be freed!
Chimid (Chief of Staff): By cutting south to Wenshan, Yunnan will be totally cut off from the rest of China. Isolated and out of supply, the rest of Yunnan will be some bloody mop up operations.
Choybalsan (Intel): Correct, Nine Chiang’s division including the three from Kunming who fled west will be finished off.
