This is my next update. It covers the world from the start of the Second World War in 1939 to the end of the fighting between the Reich and China in 1944 so that means one update to go. I do have a question though. In Chapter 405: Hope and Self-Reliance you said that Korea became independent under Syngman Rhee and I was just wondering what happened to Kim Il-sung and the Workers' Party of Korea in TTL?
The World on Fire
The Chinese would end up supporting the Imperium but stopped short of actually joining the war.
At the Royal Palace in Vilnius Lithuania on 9 May 1939 at 4:00 PM a note was given to the Lithuanian King Mindaugas saying that if it does not hand over a group of Lithuanuan soldiers that killed a group of Soviet soldiers, along with allowing a new government to be formed and allow Soviet troops in Lithuania, or else they would invade.
At 6:00 PM, the Red Army invaded, by 10:00 the reds reached the capital and by midnight they took the Royal Palace. Both the Kingdom of Lithuania and Baltic State were forced to surrender and become parts of the Soviet Commune.
In South Eimerica the Tawantinsuyuans were attacking the Roman forces there. Meanwhile the Inranian Army would advance from the east causing the Romans to lose their influence over the Persian Gulf and paving the way for Iran to strike Baghdad.
The war in Central Asia was not doing much better Iranian and Indian troops linked up and Imperium forces were conquering the Caucasus.The war in Central Asia was not doing much better.
Iranian and Indian troops linked up and Imperium forces were conquering the Caucasus. By early June parts of western Neurhomania and parts of Provincia Mittelafrika had fallen.
By June 29, 1939 Abyssinian troops reached the Medditeranian Sea and were besieging Alexandria.
By June 29, 1939 Abyssinian troops reached the Medditeranian Sea and were besieging Alexandria. On the 1st of July, 1939, thirteen Soviets were attacked near the Soviet-Finish border. The Attack left four dead and nine injured on the Soviet side.
This would lead to the Soviet Commune to declare war on Finland. More recent historians have come to the conclusion that the Soviets did it themselves to have a reason to invade.
On July 6th the Suez Canal was taken by Abyssinia cutting the Roman government in Constantinople from its African territories.
On July 21, 1939 Indian forces had arrived at the gates of Samarkand. But due to it having been so difficult to reach the city Gandhi didn't listen when his commanders complained that their soldiers were attacking civilians.
On the 27th of July Indian troops reached Baghdad. By the first of August the three thousand men that were supposed to be defending the city deserted their posts. By the next day the city had fallen.
On August 3, the Finish government surrendered to the Soviets. Grand Duke Toghoril II, was able to escape to Tsarist Russia. However despite this victory Molotov agreed to peace with both Tsarist Russia and Noregr.
On the 10th, the Chinese despite sending supplies to the Angeloi Chancellor Wang Jingwei, sent numerous requests for the Reich to join the Tianxia Alliance. Not knowing what the Chinese angle was the Romans refused each time.
A Chinese witness wrote during the bombing of Vinea "By every test and measure I am able to apply, these people are staunch to the bone and won't quit ... the Daqin are stronger and in a better position than they were at its beginning". People referred to raids as if they were weather, stating that a day was "very blitzy".
By May 24, 1940 the Romans looked like they were coming back from the brink of destruction. The Imperium had taken all of the provinces of Germania, Gallia, Britannia, Caledonia, Hibernia, Taurica-Alania/Caucasia, Italia, Macedonia, and Borneo. Most of Carpathia-Dacia, Illyricum, Bulgaria, Greece, Illyricum, Mittelafrika, the Middle East and Neu Rhomania. Parts of Hispania, Ostafrika, and Sudafrika.
The only territories that were loyal to the Reich and Kaiser Otto were the Peloponnese, Anatolia, Indochina, Mittagsland, and the Pacific Semiautonomous Territory. The gates to Constantinopal were open and some expected the city to fall within a few weeks.
In June 19, 1940 The UPM would join the Tianxia Alliance,in the hopes of getting help against the Equintern. However the UPM was not doing so well which led to China not intervening in the Mayan Civil War. China’s statement was that since a Democratic government was not in Panama City meant that China was not obligated to help out. The UPM would hold out despite the odds.
On the 27th of August, the last of the Imperial Indian Army was destroyed outside Dar es Salaam, causing the Indian government in exile to retreat to Madagascar. However not before Samrat Chakravartin Purandaradasa was executed by the Ethiopians. Ending the Indian monarchy.
In Rome's blackest hour on January 1, 1941 Kaiser Otto gave a speech to try and reinvigorate his people. This was his speech,
“On Friday evening last I decided to form a new Administration. It was the evident wish and will of God and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties, both those who supported the prewar government and also the parties of the Opposition, to pool all available talent together to provide the best leadership moving forward.
To form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many points in Thrace and Morea and Dardanella, that we have to be prepared in the Aegean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be forgiven if I do not address the Diet again at any length today.
I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the Diet, as I said to those who have joined the government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalog of human crime.
That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the Roman Reich, no survival for all that the Roman Reich has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal.
But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'
Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many tyrants, both within and without us.
Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a search, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of sea and land power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised.
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of my government – every man of them. That is the will of God, the Roman people, and the nation. The Roman Reich will defend to the death its native soil, its citizens aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Eurasia and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gurapu and the Black Tagmata and all the odious apparatus of Rasa and Angeloi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Greece, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Reich, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this city or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Imperial Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the dominions, with their power and might and zeal and hope, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of their motherland.
God save the Empire! Long live the Reich!"
By noon on the 3rd of March it looked like even Constantinople would fall and fall like it did at 2:00 PM. However this did not mean the end for Kaiser Otto and many Reich loyalists went underground and started a resistance movement against the Imperium.
By the 25th of March, the region of Thrace was liberated. Pretty soon it appeared that Bulgaria and Greece were being liberated as well.
By April 2 a failed loyalist counter attack failed to retake Constantinople and the loyalists ofessive in the Balkans was stalking. The Imperium was beginning another counteroffensive to potentially end the loyalist cause for good.
However the loyalist struck back on 9 April 1941, at 11:00 AM. the loyalist struck with everything they had. On the 25th of April, 1941, loyalist troops marched through Constantinople. The Queen of Cities was liberated. But Kaiser Otto knew that they still had a long way to go before they reached Berlin.
But the Angeloi were falling back and most of Western Anatolia and northern Greece was expected to be liberated over the next few days.
On the 17th the Soviet government announced that Leon Trotsky was killed. The Soviets claimed the assassin was an Angeloi agent. The Angeloi denied the charges and demanded an apology. The Soviets refused and so by June 22, 1941 the Imperium and the Axis declared war on the Soviet Commune.
This proved to be a great help to the loyalist war effort. By October 1941 Greece, Anatolia, Crete, Cyprus, the Levant and parts of Mesopotamia and Aegyptus were under loyalist control.
On the early morning of December 7, 1941 in the Gulf of Siam an aircraft carrier strike group lead by the carriers Sun Tzu, Cao Cao, Guanyu, Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei, and Yongle launched aircraft from their decks on a mission that would change history.
Singapura, the capital of Provincia Indochina would be attacked by 353 Chinese aircraft in one of the most famous battles in the Second World War. the Romans put up fierce resistance but many of their planes were shot out of the sky. In total, 2,403 Romans died and 1,178 were wounded. Eighteen ships were sunk or run aground, including five battleships.
Whereas on the Chinese side Fifty-five Chinese airmen and nine submariners were killed in the attack, and one was captured. Of China's 414 available planes, 29 were lost during the battle (nine in the first attack wave, 20 in the second), with another 74 damaged by antiaircraft fire from the ground.
Despite many generals wanting Hong to launch a third attack he refused due to the stiffening Roman resistance. The Chinese Empire’s formal declaration of war on the Reich would take place at 6:00 PM.
After the attack Chinese forces began attacking other Roman possessions through the Asian Pacific region.
The attack caused severe outrage in the Reich and an immediate declaration of war by the Reich on China. This meant that for the second time in thirty years, two of the world biggest superpowers were at war.
A new year of 1942 dawned, China continued its advance in Asia. Taking Ayutthaya and following that taking Prachinburi and parts of Indonesia. But many Loyalist Roman legions were preparing to attack Chinese Aetearoa.
At Prachuap Khiri Khan, thirteen thousand Roman loyalists held off a Chinese attack. It was one of the only victories that the loyalists were able to achieve in Indochina. However the loyalists were still driven back on the 6th of February. But this ended up giving the loyalists time to regroupe.
Again this would be for not due to the Chinese being able to take Kuala Lumpur on April 4th with no losses. Malacca would fall on the 8th of April.
Singapura fell on April 12th and with it capital of the Reich in Asia had fallen. What followed was Chinese troops massacred many of the surrendering Romans.
On the 14th of April Iran would fall. Leading to a major blow to the Axis war effort.
In late April the Romans began their invasion of the South Island of Mittagsland by landing five legions. However the island was relatively undefended.
On the 3rd of March the Chinese completed their conquest of Singapura. A harsh Sinicization program began with many European settlers being sent to laogais in Siberia and any non-European being “reeducated”.
On the 13th of May in order to counter the Chinese dominance in the Indian Ocean. Kaiser Otto ordered unrestricted submarine warfare.
Roman General Markos Doukas started the assault on Penglai on June 19th by attacking Blenheim. By the 26th the Chinese garrison surrendered. Five days later the Chinese attacked Kaitaia, north of Haizhou. They were then able to take Banda Aceh in Indonesia. This meant that the last territory in the Asia-Pacific Region that the Romans had was Mittagsland and a few Pacific Islands.
On the 24th of July, 1942, the Empire of Mali surrendered unconditionally to the Romans. This was a huge morale boost to the loyalist cause.
On October 1, 1942 the loyalist forces would launch an operation to invade Italia code named “Operation Husky”. It was the largest amphibious operation in the war so far. This was soon supplanted by an even more ambitious amphibious operation named Operation Overlord in which the loyalists invaded Hispania on October 15th. This would allow loyalist forces to relieve some pressure from the Balkan Front.
On June 7th, 1943, a skirmish between Chinese and India took place near the Kwai bridge, on the Chindwin River. This led to China and the Tianxia Alliance to declare war on India and the Axis powers.
In early July 1943 the Chinese started engaging Angeloi ships in the Far East. The most noticeable so far was the KMS Friedrich the Glorious.
By July 31st more than half of Mittagsland had fallen to Chinese forces. By August 16th the Chinese had taken the island. This meant that the loyalist control of the Pacific Ocean and most of the oachian east of Madagascar was lost.
The Indian front grew even more complicated in late August with the Chinese arriving in full force. Chinese troops, having overrun most of the former Turkestan already, quickly pushed the loyalists out of Bukhara and Samarkand and pushed westwards, easily crushing what remained of the Indians and Iranians in Khiva. Eduard von Habsburg, commander of the troops in Central Asia, ordered them to retreat to Afghanistan and northern Persia, which were much better defended.
On September 1st the loyalist naval intelligence claimed that the Angeloi were moving transport ships to Taiwan and the Qiandao Islands. Many in the Chinese high command dismissed these reports claiming them to be fake.
By the third Angeloi troops did land on Chinese territory. Landings took place on Qiandao, Borneo, other Indonesian islands, Vietnam, mainland China, and even southern Japan. The Angeloi Operation "Dragonslayer" surprised everyone.
Chinese Chancellor Wang Jingwei was running for reelection but asked that the Emperor suspend the election until the crisis was averted. The Emperor agreed andMartial Law was declared and most of the Mingzhi Constitution suspended. This completed China's move towards dictatorship.
In Vietnam calls for an independent Vietnam free of both the Angeloi and Chinese started to grow. In Qiandao due to the people resisting so much the Angeloi used barbaric methods to maintain control, sometimes massicareing entire villages. This made the people of Qiandao fight harder.
Within two weeks Taiwan fell. In Indonesia many Sulawesi natives hardly resisted but in return the Angeloi put many into ether camps, enslavement, or execution. In Japan Emperor Hirohito denounced the invasion and Shogun Shiba Iesato sent his samurai to try and stop the invaders but they were ineffective.
On the 9th, Angeloi troops started siegeing Ningbo and Huangyan. Huzhou would fall the next day. On the 11th Shanghai was under siege. The defending general Chiang Kai-Shek knew that if Shanghai fell then nothing would stop the Angeloi from reaching Nanjing and execute the Emperor.
There was even an Angeloi invasion of southwestern Penglai but strong resistance prevented the invaders from moving inland.
The loyalists saw this in a good way. The Angeloi invasion meant that many Chinese troops in Central Asia would have to be sent back to defend the homeland. Despite this several armies remained in the region.
The Chinese were able to retake Fukuoka, Saigon, Vietnam and Guangdong. The Chinese army started attacking both loyalists and Angeloi as revenge for the invasion of their country.
Pretty soon, most Angeloi footholds were eliminated leaving only the Yangtze Delta, Sulawesi,
Yangtze Delta, most of Sulawesi, and all of Taiwan and Qiandao in Angeloi hands. In response Angeloi bombers in Taiwan and Qiandao started firebombing Chinese coastal cities.
In early november loyalists troops were advancing into India taking most of the west coast of the country.
The Angeloi invasion force was being pushed back on all fronts. The loyalists would win a battle in Central Asia only for more Chinese reinforcements to arrive.
By the later half of November the only Roman provinces in Angeloi hands were Carpathia, Gallia, Britannia, Caledonia, Hibernia, and Germania.
At noon on December 12, 1943 Indian leader Gandhi ordered his troops to lay down their arms and unconditionally surrender to Roman and Chinese forces.
Despite India surrendering to Roman and Chinese forces the war was still going on. The loyalists were launching another invasion this time in Hibernia as well as pushing in on the Hispanian, Italian, and Balcan fronts.
Chinese forces would soon continue their advance and by December 20th Chinese forces had reached the Persian Gulf. This meant that all of the legions in eastern Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia were surrounded.
On Christmas Eve 1943 the Romans launched Operation "Sanktniklaus" which was the plan to retake Neurhomaina.
In late December off the coast of Sanktludwig in the Atlantic Ocean three Chinese submarines were spotted trailing the Roman transport ships startling the Roman High Command for they thought China could not reach that far from the Indian Ocean.
At the beginning of January 1944 the Chinese were making huge gains in India reaching as far as Raipur and Lucknow. In Persia the loyalists were still unable to dislodge the Chinese from the Persian Gulf and were barely stopping them from taking the rest of Persia and Mesopotamia.
Despite the Angeloi only controlling the Qiandao Islands, Taiwan and most of Sulawesi three puppet governments were established. The first one was the Republic of China on Taiwan led by Christian general Feng Yuxiang. The second was the Republic of Qiandao led by Mangalus Taruc who proclaimed a ethnic Qiandao state. The third one was the Sulawesi Republic under Angeloi military rule.
There was even a pro-Reich uprising in northern Sumatra by Indonesian nationalists who wanted a country free of the Romans and Chinese.
The Chinese continued to make gains in Persia creating a pocket of loyalist forces near the island of Hormuz.
Despite the Indonesian’s liberating the northern part of Sumatra by January 12th the Chinese were sending troops to the area with the rebels being crushed on the 17th. But this only speared more protest across the island that was met with harsh reprisals by the Chinese.
By February 1, 1944 the Chinese were within artillery range of Delhi and on the 5th the Chinese would take Isfahan and Tehran. These cities would be retaken by the loyalists on March 11th.
With the Chinese offensive in the west staled many soldiers dug in to defend what they had. On March 26th the Chinese flagship the Guangzhou was sunk by the Angeloi despite them losing the war in Europe.
On the 28th of March the loyalist retook Paris which was one of the largest cities in the Reich from the Angeloi.
April 1st would see the Chinese would defeat loyalist armored divisions in Hyderabad. Even if the Romans sent in reinforcements it would only save the city by a few more weeks.
In mid April the Chinese would launch a surprise invasion of Tawantinsuyu. They were quickly able to capture most of a suyu as well as the capital Cusco. But the Sapa Inca and his government retreated to a bunker in the Andes refusing to surrender.
The world would change forever on July 19, 1944. For it is during this day that the cities of Warsaw, Konigsberg, and Dresden were distri=oide in a flash of light that killed almost everyone in those cities and leaving behind a giant mushroom cloud. The atomic age has begun.
End of WWII took place on July 19, 1944. At the end of the war the Reich got its old borders in Europe along wirth western Germania, Csalidonia, anand Hibernia. The Soviets took the Reichs eastern provinces of eastern Germania, Bohemia, Taurica, Transcaucasia, Dacia, Carpathia, and Polonia. However the world was still not at peace. The Reich was still at war with the Chinese and the Soviets began a massive espionage campaign against the Reich.
With the war in Europe over the Reich turned its attention to Asia. However even as newly freed legions made it to Persia and India the Reich continued to fall back under relentless Chinese advance. This led to protest through the free territories of the Reich demanding that they end the war so more men are not killed.
There were similar protest in China but they were brushed aside by the Chinese military. This lead to Chinese leader Wang to call on his Tianxia allies to help win the war. Pueblo and Nepal answered immediately The UPM and Mayapan were more reluctant but did so anyway not wanting to incur the wrath of the Chinese military. The Tawantinsuyu government refused but its military attacked anyway.
Despite the Reich sending reinforcements to the area they were unable to take Busehr, a city on the Persian Gulf from the Chinese. This made both sides in Persia and India dig in from the human wave assaults that the other side would conduct. This would cause a lot of casualties with hundred thousand men being killed on the Chinese side alone. With the Reich’s casualties as bad as those from Grodno and Vilnius decades ago. Over time China again gained the upper hand and started to push toward Delhi again.
Over the following months both sides would continue to lose men at an astounding rate. The Roman reinforcements were tired after fighting in Europe and the Chinese were losing more men than they expected. This led to Wang being forced to send seven more armies from areas like mainland China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. However this would embolden pro-Democracy advocates at home. This made Wang realise that if he doesn't get a victory soon then he could be removed from power.
Wang believed that this victory would come in South Eimerica. The Romans were exhausted but the Tawantinsuyuan soldiers were still committed to winning the war. Wang would order a general offensive across the Andes and into the Amazon basin. This caught the Romans completely by surprise. However the offensive stalled due to resistance by the Quechua people on the outskirts of Rome's South Eimerica territories.
In the beginning of the war the Quechua people tried to reach out to the Tawantinsuyu but due to their cultural ties the Tawantinsuyu viewed them as traitors leading many Quechua to side with the Reich. In the end Wang's decisive victory was a complete disaster.
The Chinese offensive did unite the Quechua people and the German settlers in the region. This led to a growing sense of Neurhomanian national identity with many Neurhomanian nationalists and over time some Neurhomanian’s to lobby the Reich for Neurhomanian Independence.
Wang realised that his chances of winning a quick war were over. The Xuantong Emperor, normally out of politics, told Wang that he had to surrender or the Romans and the Chinese would be too weak to resist the Soviets. Even his second in command Wang agreed. And so on October 27, 1944 at 5:00 PM a peace treaty was signed dubbed "Second Gentleman's Peace" with the signing of this treaty the Second World War was officially over.
The World on Fire
The Chinese would end up supporting the Imperium but stopped short of actually joining the war.
At the Royal Palace in Vilnius Lithuania on 9 May 1939 at 4:00 PM a note was given to the Lithuanian King Mindaugas saying that if it does not hand over a group of Lithuanuan soldiers that killed a group of Soviet soldiers, along with allowing a new government to be formed and allow Soviet troops in Lithuania, or else they would invade.
At 6:00 PM, the Red Army invaded, by 10:00 the reds reached the capital and by midnight they took the Royal Palace. Both the Kingdom of Lithuania and Baltic State were forced to surrender and become parts of the Soviet Commune.
In South Eimerica the Tawantinsuyuans were attacking the Roman forces there. Meanwhile the Inranian Army would advance from the east causing the Romans to lose their influence over the Persian Gulf and paving the way for Iran to strike Baghdad.
The war in Central Asia was not doing much better Iranian and Indian troops linked up and Imperium forces were conquering the Caucasus.The war in Central Asia was not doing much better.
Iranian and Indian troops linked up and Imperium forces were conquering the Caucasus. By early June parts of western Neurhomania and parts of Provincia Mittelafrika had fallen.
By June 29, 1939 Abyssinian troops reached the Medditeranian Sea and were besieging Alexandria.
By June 29, 1939 Abyssinian troops reached the Medditeranian Sea and were besieging Alexandria. On the 1st of July, 1939, thirteen Soviets were attacked near the Soviet-Finish border. The Attack left four dead and nine injured on the Soviet side.
This would lead to the Soviet Commune to declare war on Finland. More recent historians have come to the conclusion that the Soviets did it themselves to have a reason to invade.
On July 6th the Suez Canal was taken by Abyssinia cutting the Roman government in Constantinople from its African territories.
On July 21, 1939 Indian forces had arrived at the gates of Samarkand. But due to it having been so difficult to reach the city Gandhi didn't listen when his commanders complained that their soldiers were attacking civilians.
On the 27th of July Indian troops reached Baghdad. By the first of August the three thousand men that were supposed to be defending the city deserted their posts. By the next day the city had fallen.
On August 3, the Finish government surrendered to the Soviets. Grand Duke Toghoril II, was able to escape to Tsarist Russia. However despite this victory Molotov agreed to peace with both Tsarist Russia and Noregr.
On the 10th, the Chinese despite sending supplies to the Angeloi Chancellor Wang Jingwei, sent numerous requests for the Reich to join the Tianxia Alliance. Not knowing what the Chinese angle was the Romans refused each time.
A Chinese witness wrote during the bombing of Vinea "By every test and measure I am able to apply, these people are staunch to the bone and won't quit ... the Daqin are stronger and in a better position than they were at its beginning". People referred to raids as if they were weather, stating that a day was "very blitzy".
By May 24, 1940 the Romans looked like they were coming back from the brink of destruction. The Imperium had taken all of the provinces of Germania, Gallia, Britannia, Caledonia, Hibernia, Taurica-Alania/Caucasia, Italia, Macedonia, and Borneo. Most of Carpathia-Dacia, Illyricum, Bulgaria, Greece, Illyricum, Mittelafrika, the Middle East and Neu Rhomania. Parts of Hispania, Ostafrika, and Sudafrika.
The only territories that were loyal to the Reich and Kaiser Otto were the Peloponnese, Anatolia, Indochina, Mittagsland, and the Pacific Semiautonomous Territory. The gates to Constantinopal were open and some expected the city to fall within a few weeks.
In June 19, 1940 The UPM would join the Tianxia Alliance,in the hopes of getting help against the Equintern. However the UPM was not doing so well which led to China not intervening in the Mayan Civil War. China’s statement was that since a Democratic government was not in Panama City meant that China was not obligated to help out. The UPM would hold out despite the odds.
On the 27th of August, the last of the Imperial Indian Army was destroyed outside Dar es Salaam, causing the Indian government in exile to retreat to Madagascar. However not before Samrat Chakravartin Purandaradasa was executed by the Ethiopians. Ending the Indian monarchy.
In Rome's blackest hour on January 1, 1941 Kaiser Otto gave a speech to try and reinvigorate his people. This was his speech,
“On Friday evening last I decided to form a new Administration. It was the evident wish and will of God and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties, both those who supported the prewar government and also the parties of the Opposition, to pool all available talent together to provide the best leadership moving forward.
To form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many points in Thrace and Morea and Dardanella, that we have to be prepared in the Aegean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be forgiven if I do not address the Diet again at any length today.
I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the Diet, as I said to those who have joined the government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalog of human crime.
That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the Roman Reich, no survival for all that the Roman Reich has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal.
But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'
Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many tyrants, both within and without us.
Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a search, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of sea and land power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised.
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of my government – every man of them. That is the will of God, the Roman people, and the nation. The Roman Reich will defend to the death its native soil, its citizens aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Eurasia and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gurapu and the Black Tagmata and all the odious apparatus of Rasa and Angeloi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Greece, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Reich, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this city or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Imperial Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the dominions, with their power and might and zeal and hope, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of their motherland.
God save the Empire! Long live the Reich!"
By noon on the 3rd of March it looked like even Constantinople would fall and fall like it did at 2:00 PM. However this did not mean the end for Kaiser Otto and many Reich loyalists went underground and started a resistance movement against the Imperium.
By the 25th of March, the region of Thrace was liberated. Pretty soon it appeared that Bulgaria and Greece were being liberated as well.
By April 2 a failed loyalist counter attack failed to retake Constantinople and the loyalists ofessive in the Balkans was stalking. The Imperium was beginning another counteroffensive to potentially end the loyalist cause for good.
However the loyalist struck back on 9 April 1941, at 11:00 AM. the loyalist struck with everything they had. On the 25th of April, 1941, loyalist troops marched through Constantinople. The Queen of Cities was liberated. But Kaiser Otto knew that they still had a long way to go before they reached Berlin.
But the Angeloi were falling back and most of Western Anatolia and northern Greece was expected to be liberated over the next few days.
On the 17th the Soviet government announced that Leon Trotsky was killed. The Soviets claimed the assassin was an Angeloi agent. The Angeloi denied the charges and demanded an apology. The Soviets refused and so by June 22, 1941 the Imperium and the Axis declared war on the Soviet Commune.
This proved to be a great help to the loyalist war effort. By October 1941 Greece, Anatolia, Crete, Cyprus, the Levant and parts of Mesopotamia and Aegyptus were under loyalist control.
On the early morning of December 7, 1941 in the Gulf of Siam an aircraft carrier strike group lead by the carriers Sun Tzu, Cao Cao, Guanyu, Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei, and Yongle launched aircraft from their decks on a mission that would change history.
Singapura, the capital of Provincia Indochina would be attacked by 353 Chinese aircraft in one of the most famous battles in the Second World War. the Romans put up fierce resistance but many of their planes were shot out of the sky. In total, 2,403 Romans died and 1,178 were wounded. Eighteen ships were sunk or run aground, including five battleships.
Whereas on the Chinese side Fifty-five Chinese airmen and nine submariners were killed in the attack, and one was captured. Of China's 414 available planes, 29 were lost during the battle (nine in the first attack wave, 20 in the second), with another 74 damaged by antiaircraft fire from the ground.
Despite many generals wanting Hong to launch a third attack he refused due to the stiffening Roman resistance. The Chinese Empire’s formal declaration of war on the Reich would take place at 6:00 PM.
After the attack Chinese forces began attacking other Roman possessions through the Asian Pacific region.
The attack caused severe outrage in the Reich and an immediate declaration of war by the Reich on China. This meant that for the second time in thirty years, two of the world biggest superpowers were at war.
A new year of 1942 dawned, China continued its advance in Asia. Taking Ayutthaya and following that taking Prachinburi and parts of Indonesia. But many Loyalist Roman legions were preparing to attack Chinese Aetearoa.
At Prachuap Khiri Khan, thirteen thousand Roman loyalists held off a Chinese attack. It was one of the only victories that the loyalists were able to achieve in Indochina. However the loyalists were still driven back on the 6th of February. But this ended up giving the loyalists time to regroupe.
Again this would be for not due to the Chinese being able to take Kuala Lumpur on April 4th with no losses. Malacca would fall on the 8th of April.
Singapura fell on April 12th and with it capital of the Reich in Asia had fallen. What followed was Chinese troops massacred many of the surrendering Romans.
On the 14th of April Iran would fall. Leading to a major blow to the Axis war effort.
In late April the Romans began their invasion of the South Island of Mittagsland by landing five legions. However the island was relatively undefended.
On the 3rd of March the Chinese completed their conquest of Singapura. A harsh Sinicization program began with many European settlers being sent to laogais in Siberia and any non-European being “reeducated”.
On the 13th of May in order to counter the Chinese dominance in the Indian Ocean. Kaiser Otto ordered unrestricted submarine warfare.
Roman General Markos Doukas started the assault on Penglai on June 19th by attacking Blenheim. By the 26th the Chinese garrison surrendered. Five days later the Chinese attacked Kaitaia, north of Haizhou. They were then able to take Banda Aceh in Indonesia. This meant that the last territory in the Asia-Pacific Region that the Romans had was Mittagsland and a few Pacific Islands.
On the 24th of July, 1942, the Empire of Mali surrendered unconditionally to the Romans. This was a huge morale boost to the loyalist cause.
On October 1, 1942 the loyalist forces would launch an operation to invade Italia code named “Operation Husky”. It was the largest amphibious operation in the war so far. This was soon supplanted by an even more ambitious amphibious operation named Operation Overlord in which the loyalists invaded Hispania on October 15th. This would allow loyalist forces to relieve some pressure from the Balkan Front.
On June 7th, 1943, a skirmish between Chinese and India took place near the Kwai bridge, on the Chindwin River. This led to China and the Tianxia Alliance to declare war on India and the Axis powers.
In early July 1943 the Chinese started engaging Angeloi ships in the Far East. The most noticeable so far was the KMS Friedrich the Glorious.
By July 31st more than half of Mittagsland had fallen to Chinese forces. By August 16th the Chinese had taken the island. This meant that the loyalist control of the Pacific Ocean and most of the oachian east of Madagascar was lost.
The Indian front grew even more complicated in late August with the Chinese arriving in full force. Chinese troops, having overrun most of the former Turkestan already, quickly pushed the loyalists out of Bukhara and Samarkand and pushed westwards, easily crushing what remained of the Indians and Iranians in Khiva. Eduard von Habsburg, commander of the troops in Central Asia, ordered them to retreat to Afghanistan and northern Persia, which were much better defended.
On September 1st the loyalist naval intelligence claimed that the Angeloi were moving transport ships to Taiwan and the Qiandao Islands. Many in the Chinese high command dismissed these reports claiming them to be fake.
By the third Angeloi troops did land on Chinese territory. Landings took place on Qiandao, Borneo, other Indonesian islands, Vietnam, mainland China, and even southern Japan. The Angeloi Operation "Dragonslayer" surprised everyone.
Chinese Chancellor Wang Jingwei was running for reelection but asked that the Emperor suspend the election until the crisis was averted. The Emperor agreed andMartial Law was declared and most of the Mingzhi Constitution suspended. This completed China's move towards dictatorship.
In Vietnam calls for an independent Vietnam free of both the Angeloi and Chinese started to grow. In Qiandao due to the people resisting so much the Angeloi used barbaric methods to maintain control, sometimes massicareing entire villages. This made the people of Qiandao fight harder.
Within two weeks Taiwan fell. In Indonesia many Sulawesi natives hardly resisted but in return the Angeloi put many into ether camps, enslavement, or execution. In Japan Emperor Hirohito denounced the invasion and Shogun Shiba Iesato sent his samurai to try and stop the invaders but they were ineffective.
On the 9th, Angeloi troops started siegeing Ningbo and Huangyan. Huzhou would fall the next day. On the 11th Shanghai was under siege. The defending general Chiang Kai-Shek knew that if Shanghai fell then nothing would stop the Angeloi from reaching Nanjing and execute the Emperor.
There was even an Angeloi invasion of southwestern Penglai but strong resistance prevented the invaders from moving inland.
The loyalists saw this in a good way. The Angeloi invasion meant that many Chinese troops in Central Asia would have to be sent back to defend the homeland. Despite this several armies remained in the region.
The Chinese were able to retake Fukuoka, Saigon, Vietnam and Guangdong. The Chinese army started attacking both loyalists and Angeloi as revenge for the invasion of their country.
Pretty soon, most Angeloi footholds were eliminated leaving only the Yangtze Delta, Sulawesi,
Yangtze Delta, most of Sulawesi, and all of Taiwan and Qiandao in Angeloi hands. In response Angeloi bombers in Taiwan and Qiandao started firebombing Chinese coastal cities.
In early november loyalists troops were advancing into India taking most of the west coast of the country.
The Angeloi invasion force was being pushed back on all fronts. The loyalists would win a battle in Central Asia only for more Chinese reinforcements to arrive.
By the later half of November the only Roman provinces in Angeloi hands were Carpathia, Gallia, Britannia, Caledonia, Hibernia, and Germania.
At noon on December 12, 1943 Indian leader Gandhi ordered his troops to lay down their arms and unconditionally surrender to Roman and Chinese forces.
Despite India surrendering to Roman and Chinese forces the war was still going on. The loyalists were launching another invasion this time in Hibernia as well as pushing in on the Hispanian, Italian, and Balcan fronts.
Chinese forces would soon continue their advance and by December 20th Chinese forces had reached the Persian Gulf. This meant that all of the legions in eastern Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia were surrounded.
On Christmas Eve 1943 the Romans launched Operation "Sanktniklaus" which was the plan to retake Neurhomaina.
In late December off the coast of Sanktludwig in the Atlantic Ocean three Chinese submarines were spotted trailing the Roman transport ships startling the Roman High Command for they thought China could not reach that far from the Indian Ocean.
At the beginning of January 1944 the Chinese were making huge gains in India reaching as far as Raipur and Lucknow. In Persia the loyalists were still unable to dislodge the Chinese from the Persian Gulf and were barely stopping them from taking the rest of Persia and Mesopotamia.
Despite the Angeloi only controlling the Qiandao Islands, Taiwan and most of Sulawesi three puppet governments were established. The first one was the Republic of China on Taiwan led by Christian general Feng Yuxiang. The second was the Republic of Qiandao led by Mangalus Taruc who proclaimed a ethnic Qiandao state. The third one was the Sulawesi Republic under Angeloi military rule.
There was even a pro-Reich uprising in northern Sumatra by Indonesian nationalists who wanted a country free of the Romans and Chinese.
The Chinese continued to make gains in Persia creating a pocket of loyalist forces near the island of Hormuz.
Despite the Indonesian’s liberating the northern part of Sumatra by January 12th the Chinese were sending troops to the area with the rebels being crushed on the 17th. But this only speared more protest across the island that was met with harsh reprisals by the Chinese.
By February 1, 1944 the Chinese were within artillery range of Delhi and on the 5th the Chinese would take Isfahan and Tehran. These cities would be retaken by the loyalists on March 11th.
With the Chinese offensive in the west staled many soldiers dug in to defend what they had. On March 26th the Chinese flagship the Guangzhou was sunk by the Angeloi despite them losing the war in Europe.
On the 28th of March the loyalist retook Paris which was one of the largest cities in the Reich from the Angeloi.
April 1st would see the Chinese would defeat loyalist armored divisions in Hyderabad. Even if the Romans sent in reinforcements it would only save the city by a few more weeks.
In mid April the Chinese would launch a surprise invasion of Tawantinsuyu. They were quickly able to capture most of a suyu as well as the capital Cusco. But the Sapa Inca and his government retreated to a bunker in the Andes refusing to surrender.
The world would change forever on July 19, 1944. For it is during this day that the cities of Warsaw, Konigsberg, and Dresden were distri=oide in a flash of light that killed almost everyone in those cities and leaving behind a giant mushroom cloud. The atomic age has begun.
End of WWII took place on July 19, 1944. At the end of the war the Reich got its old borders in Europe along wirth western Germania, Csalidonia, anand Hibernia. The Soviets took the Reichs eastern provinces of eastern Germania, Bohemia, Taurica, Transcaucasia, Dacia, Carpathia, and Polonia. However the world was still not at peace. The Reich was still at war with the Chinese and the Soviets began a massive espionage campaign against the Reich.
With the war in Europe over the Reich turned its attention to Asia. However even as newly freed legions made it to Persia and India the Reich continued to fall back under relentless Chinese advance. This led to protest through the free territories of the Reich demanding that they end the war so more men are not killed.
There were similar protest in China but they were brushed aside by the Chinese military. This lead to Chinese leader Wang to call on his Tianxia allies to help win the war. Pueblo and Nepal answered immediately The UPM and Mayapan were more reluctant but did so anyway not wanting to incur the wrath of the Chinese military. The Tawantinsuyu government refused but its military attacked anyway.
Despite the Reich sending reinforcements to the area they were unable to take Busehr, a city on the Persian Gulf from the Chinese. This made both sides in Persia and India dig in from the human wave assaults that the other side would conduct. This would cause a lot of casualties with hundred thousand men being killed on the Chinese side alone. With the Reich’s casualties as bad as those from Grodno and Vilnius decades ago. Over time China again gained the upper hand and started to push toward Delhi again.
Over the following months both sides would continue to lose men at an astounding rate. The Roman reinforcements were tired after fighting in Europe and the Chinese were losing more men than they expected. This led to Wang being forced to send seven more armies from areas like mainland China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. However this would embolden pro-Democracy advocates at home. This made Wang realise that if he doesn't get a victory soon then he could be removed from power.
Wang believed that this victory would come in South Eimerica. The Romans were exhausted but the Tawantinsuyuan soldiers were still committed to winning the war. Wang would order a general offensive across the Andes and into the Amazon basin. This caught the Romans completely by surprise. However the offensive stalled due to resistance by the Quechua people on the outskirts of Rome's South Eimerica territories.
In the beginning of the war the Quechua people tried to reach out to the Tawantinsuyu but due to their cultural ties the Tawantinsuyu viewed them as traitors leading many Quechua to side with the Reich. In the end Wang's decisive victory was a complete disaster.
The Chinese offensive did unite the Quechua people and the German settlers in the region. This led to a growing sense of Neurhomanian national identity with many Neurhomanian nationalists and over time some Neurhomanian’s to lobby the Reich for Neurhomanian Independence.
Wang realised that his chances of winning a quick war were over. The Xuantong Emperor, normally out of politics, told Wang that he had to surrender or the Romans and the Chinese would be too weak to resist the Soviets. Even his second in command Wang agreed. And so on October 27, 1944 at 5:00 PM a peace treaty was signed dubbed "Second Gentleman's Peace" with the signing of this treaty the Second World War was officially over.