well tbh I had what should be considered an adequate defense for the time period he just had a lot bigger army than expected, I thought those divs would hold at hohot long enough for the peace event to fire from taking those 3 provs in the north. he surrounded it faster than expected and subsequentually won. don't remember how many divs he used but there was 10 jap garrisons 7 mengukuo divs and 18 1918 inf and milita from yunan
I should have spread out and that would have prevented losing the yunnan divisions, but honestly it was more important to me to keep mengukuo from being annexed than keeping the divs for the sole fact they research land docs ;p. if I could do it over again I would have put more japanese divisions in the south and tried to form a stalemate around all my puppet vps.
After the Chinese insult at marco polo on july 2 the japanese declared war upon the chinese. A short 6 months later on feb 12 japan succeeded in taking the capital cities of china with all major industry and a relative surrender was accepted on terms of shanghai and guangzhou become japan national provinces.
Very soon after a war kicked off between the allied bolshevik menace of SU and Com China vs China. Japan sat rather unpatiently waiting for china to ask for help but the offer did not come. After Comintern took their provs from china, japan declared war on the soviet union to avenege these defeats in their now friendly neighbor of china. Victory was won in the north but japanese puppet state mengukuko was lost to the mongolian empire. Ribbentrop was sent to broker peace. Japan now sits very industrialized after the bitter early years and is now very prosperous with over double the IC as the United States. Peaceful Japan can only wonder though how long the resources will be flowing in from USA since they seem to be leaning towards the belligerant soviet union and its policies.
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