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hasskugel said:
why to spoil such a nice game with entering Axis?
zhōngguó should go on its own! gan bei! 
You need to liberate Asia, fight the allies and the commies but don't ally the Nazis.
Li Jishen smiled as he thought back on the year, it had been quite successful. On the first of January, Chinese armies sat opposite considerable Japanese forces in Manchuria. By the end of April, the Japanese army had been shattered as a coherent force in the north, the great majority of its entire strength simply gone. By the end of July, Chinese forces swam off the coast of southern Korea. November saw the final fall of the final two truly independent warlords—Tibet and Sinkiang—and the recovery of Taiwan. It was in December that the first steps were taken on the soil of Japan’s Home Islands. It was important now to make sure everything was in order with China itself and to do this, he requested reports from every minister.
He picked up the report from Wang JingWei, his foreign minister, first.
Firstly, to address the Yunnanese question. Long Yun has finally agreed to integrate Yunnan into China peacefully, but only once Tokyo has fallen. As for the other states with interests in the area that we should care about—the United Kingdom, France, the United States and the Soviet Union—their reactions to China’s sudden reunification are mixed. The United States will mostly likely leave us alone, as we are taking care of their Japanese problem for them. The British and French are nervous, but not overly so—and they have other problems to worry about, namely Germany. War has broken out in Europe again. The Soviet Union, however, is quite suspicious. Zhang Xueliang will be able to confirm when I say that they have quite a force stationed all along the Sino-Soviet borders. They obviously fear Chinese ambitions to reclaim Mongolia. I do not, however, believe that they will try to attack, they are also much focused on events in Europe even if they play no part.
Li Jishen grunted. Tokyo would be a difficult city to capture, as the Japanese were sure to rush any reinforcements they had directly to their capital. It would be a bloodbath, but Tokyo would have to fall anyway—Yunnan was just extra incentive. Li Jishen began reading the next report, from Chen Gongbo, the Chinese minister of armaments.
China currently has one hundred thirty five functioning factories, working at the efficiency of one hundred seventy eight. Of these ‘effective factories,’ one hundred are dedicated to our production lists—transports for soldiers as well as convoy ships to bring supplies to Japan and resources back to the major ports of China. We have thirteen dedicated to supplies, when the armed forces demand twenty-nine. However, we can afford this as a fair stockpile of supplies had been established earlier. The rest are divided between reinforcing our army and navy whenever needed, as well as investing into consumer goods to placate the people, who are still slightly unhappy about our use of force against Sinkiang and Tibet. However, we can still call up four million three hundred and thirty thousand men for the factories and the armed forces should we need to, and more are joining this pool every day, at a rate of just over two thousand. We are, however, not self-sufficient. Our factories use more rare materials than we have, though we make up for most of this through trade, and similarly with energy, though once we begin exploiting the power plants of Japan we should self-sufficient in energy. Admittedly, from our conquests we do have fair stockpiles of all these resources. We are, however, self-sufficient in metal—or will be, once we have Yunnan, as they are currently making up for our current daily metal shortage.
Li Jishen sighed. He didn’t like resource shortages, even if there were cushions of stockpiles and trade deals to soften those shortages. Next, it was Dai Li’s report, from the ministry of security.
I assume Chen Gongbo mentioned that the minor dissent over Sinkiang and Tibet are being handled. I expect that, once the transports finish, I can request that more industry focus on consumer goods so that the dissent falls quicker. Otherwise, there is little to report. The army will cover the external threats, and there is little in the way of internal threats, except perhaps in Korea. I suggest setting up a puppet government, though it would most likely not self-sufficient. However, this question requires greater examination.
Li Jishen smiled, it was a bit short but to the point. True, as well. On the whole, there were very few internal threats. Next, it was Zhang Xueliang’s report.
The Soviet Union has dedicated a good portion of their army to guarding our mutual border. It is impossible to get hard information on their units as we have no decryption technology as of yet, but there are at least forty-two divisions near our Sinkiang and Manchuria provinces and probably more along the lines of double that figure. Japan, however, has little army strength beyond their concentration in Hainan—probably no more than twenty divisions, mostly fortress divisions, in all the Home and Pacific Islands. Their navy is, however, nearly completely intact and their air force is still potent. As for the colonial powers, Britain and France, their combined military presence on our borders amounts to two divisions.
Li Jishen frowned, the Soviet certainly did seem somewhat worried about China’s ambitions northward. However, what Wang JingWei had written was also true, they were probably focused on European affairs and would not act rashly in the east. The last report was a from the combined Chinese chiefs of staffs: Jiang Baili, chief of staff; Gu Zhutong, chief of army; Bai Chongxi, chief of navy; Wang Shuming, chief of air force.
The army consists of one hundred five divisions, of which three are cavalry and the rest infantry. The cavalry is very obsolete, being only at the Great War standard, but the infantry is fairly modern, all of the divisions being at the 1939 standard. Yunnan has seventeen divisions, of which two are Great War era militia and the rest are infantry divided between Great War and 1936 standards. The navy consists of forty six Great War era destroyer squadrons and twelve transport squadrons. The air force consists of one Great War era interceptor squadron. Naval and aerial construction capabilities are awful—Great War destroyers, Great War heavy cruisers and transports, and Great War interceptors, respectively. China’s bombing capabilities are extremely limited, but perhaps we could steal both naval and aerial technology from the Japanese once they’ve been beaten. Our main goal at the moment is to distract the Japanese navy long enough to build up an appreciable strength on the Japanese Home Islands and win that campaign. After that, it is a matter of securing those far away islands in the Pacific and Japan shall be conclusively beaten.
Li Jishen leaned back in his chair. Those were the reports from his ministers. He sighed, he supposed everything was going as well as could be expected, all things considered.
He picked up the report from Wang JingWei, his foreign minister, first.
Firstly, to address the Yunnanese question. Long Yun has finally agreed to integrate Yunnan into China peacefully, but only once Tokyo has fallen. As for the other states with interests in the area that we should care about—the United Kingdom, France, the United States and the Soviet Union—their reactions to China’s sudden reunification are mixed. The United States will mostly likely leave us alone, as we are taking care of their Japanese problem for them. The British and French are nervous, but not overly so—and they have other problems to worry about, namely Germany. War has broken out in Europe again. The Soviet Union, however, is quite suspicious. Zhang Xueliang will be able to confirm when I say that they have quite a force stationed all along the Sino-Soviet borders. They obviously fear Chinese ambitions to reclaim Mongolia. I do not, however, believe that they will try to attack, they are also much focused on events in Europe even if they play no part.
Li Jishen grunted. Tokyo would be a difficult city to capture, as the Japanese were sure to rush any reinforcements they had directly to their capital. It would be a bloodbath, but Tokyo would have to fall anyway—Yunnan was just extra incentive. Li Jishen began reading the next report, from Chen Gongbo, the Chinese minister of armaments.
China currently has one hundred thirty five functioning factories, working at the efficiency of one hundred seventy eight. Of these ‘effective factories,’ one hundred are dedicated to our production lists—transports for soldiers as well as convoy ships to bring supplies to Japan and resources back to the major ports of China. We have thirteen dedicated to supplies, when the armed forces demand twenty-nine. However, we can afford this as a fair stockpile of supplies had been established earlier. The rest are divided between reinforcing our army and navy whenever needed, as well as investing into consumer goods to placate the people, who are still slightly unhappy about our use of force against Sinkiang and Tibet. However, we can still call up four million three hundred and thirty thousand men for the factories and the armed forces should we need to, and more are joining this pool every day, at a rate of just over two thousand. We are, however, not self-sufficient. Our factories use more rare materials than we have, though we make up for most of this through trade, and similarly with energy, though once we begin exploiting the power plants of Japan we should self-sufficient in energy. Admittedly, from our conquests we do have fair stockpiles of all these resources. We are, however, self-sufficient in metal—or will be, once we have Yunnan, as they are currently making up for our current daily metal shortage.
Li Jishen sighed. He didn’t like resource shortages, even if there were cushions of stockpiles and trade deals to soften those shortages. Next, it was Dai Li’s report, from the ministry of security.
I assume Chen Gongbo mentioned that the minor dissent over Sinkiang and Tibet are being handled. I expect that, once the transports finish, I can request that more industry focus on consumer goods so that the dissent falls quicker. Otherwise, there is little to report. The army will cover the external threats, and there is little in the way of internal threats, except perhaps in Korea. I suggest setting up a puppet government, though it would most likely not self-sufficient. However, this question requires greater examination.
Li Jishen smiled, it was a bit short but to the point. True, as well. On the whole, there were very few internal threats. Next, it was Zhang Xueliang’s report.
The Soviet Union has dedicated a good portion of their army to guarding our mutual border. It is impossible to get hard information on their units as we have no decryption technology as of yet, but there are at least forty-two divisions near our Sinkiang and Manchuria provinces and probably more along the lines of double that figure. Japan, however, has little army strength beyond their concentration in Hainan—probably no more than twenty divisions, mostly fortress divisions, in all the Home and Pacific Islands. Their navy is, however, nearly completely intact and their air force is still potent. As for the colonial powers, Britain and France, their combined military presence on our borders amounts to two divisions.
Li Jishen frowned, the Soviet certainly did seem somewhat worried about China’s ambitions northward. However, what Wang JingWei had written was also true, they were probably focused on European affairs and would not act rashly in the east. The last report was a from the combined Chinese chiefs of staffs: Jiang Baili, chief of staff; Gu Zhutong, chief of army; Bai Chongxi, chief of navy; Wang Shuming, chief of air force.
The army consists of one hundred five divisions, of which three are cavalry and the rest infantry. The cavalry is very obsolete, being only at the Great War standard, but the infantry is fairly modern, all of the divisions being at the 1939 standard. Yunnan has seventeen divisions, of which two are Great War era militia and the rest are infantry divided between Great War and 1936 standards. The navy consists of forty six Great War era destroyer squadrons and twelve transport squadrons. The air force consists of one Great War era interceptor squadron. Naval and aerial construction capabilities are awful—Great War destroyers, Great War heavy cruisers and transports, and Great War interceptors, respectively. China’s bombing capabilities are extremely limited, but perhaps we could steal both naval and aerial technology from the Japanese once they’ve been beaten. Our main goal at the moment is to distract the Japanese navy long enough to build up an appreciable strength on the Japanese Home Islands and win that campaign. After that, it is a matter of securing those far away islands in the Pacific and Japan shall be conclusively beaten.
Li Jishen leaned back in his chair. Those were the reports from his ministers. He sighed, he supposed everything was going as well as could be expected, all things considered.
都外国人知道，
中国比日本好！
It feels strange to be posting in a Myth AAR and not have to add the [OOC] tags, as I'm not one of the contributors
But yes, I'm here for the time being. Read up, and am pleased to announce that I fully endorse this AAR, so long as its' commander leans towards slightly more leftist policies, or actually, completely leftist policies, as they are greatly superior to any other policy, for he is actually left-handed in real life.
I'll be home around late January and so we will continue our Italian AAR, while I will probably be making few contributions to this one, except suggesting roleplaying ideas. It has been proven time and time again that working together, our creative geniuses are infinitely superior to the simple sum of the two. Meanwhile, we are also tossing around 2 ideas for another joint venture AAR. One will depend on the game's capability to support said idea. The other, well, on how well we nail the story down before we start, and if Myth wants to take a break from the orient for a while.
Anyway, /hijack. I'll be popping in a little more often now, reading and posting myself. The Myth is love.
中国比日本好！
It feels strange to be posting in a Myth AAR and not have to add the [OOC] tags, as I'm not one of the contributors
But yes, I'm here for the time being. Read up, and am pleased to announce that I fully endorse this AAR, so long as its' commander leans towards slightly more leftist policies, or actually, completely leftist policies, as they are greatly superior to any other policy, for he is actually left-handed in real life.
I'll be home around late January and so we will continue our Italian AAR, while I will probably be making few contributions to this one, except suggesting roleplaying ideas. It has been proven time and time again that working together, our creative geniuses are infinitely superior to the simple sum of the two. Meanwhile, we are also tossing around 2 ideas for another joint venture AAR. One will depend on the game's capability to support said idea. The other, well, on how well we nail the story down before we start, and if Myth wants to take a break from the orient for a while.
Anyway, /hijack. I'll be popping in a little more often now, reading and posting myself. The Myth is love.
Haha, I just made that up on the spot because it rhymed and is obviously true, at least, as far as this game goes.
Discomb said:Haha, I just made that up on the spot because it rhymed and is obviously true, at least, as far as this game goes.
of course, in this game, Myth has proven, that 中國 is that one, who will beat 日本国
fingers up for Myth and lotta luck conquering the Japanese Home Islands!
I entirely concur. The man is up to somethingAkaki said:Li Jishen is smiling too much
@Gaarq/Discomb: Guys, let's remember that this is an English-language forum please.
Nippon's air force did nothing against your convoys? Lucky man, hey! I would love to have same luck. And thanks for global futur perspectives: a great clear work, I could easely see your present situation, not so bad.
Li Jishen was once again doing what he wanted to do—he was watching his troops advancing. He wasn’t in China any more, though. He was advancing into central Honshu, the largest of the Japanese Home Islands. On the whole, the campaign against the Japanese had been going faster and easier that he could have hoped, on the whole. However, he was sure it couldn’t last—eventually the Chinese would run into the sort of resistance Li Zongren hit on Shikoku.
Early on in January, the Japanese fell for the bait in Busan port and struck with two carriers. Due to the sheer wealth of targets, they inflicted almost no damage and opened themselves up for the Chinese counterattack, which held the Japanese where they were—in Tsushima Strait.
The Japanese strike Busan, only to be caught in Tsushima Strait, defenseless and unable or unwilling to break off.
With the Japanese fallen into Bai Chongxi’s trap again, much as off Hainan, where indeed they were still caught, two Chinese corps were shipped northward, guarded by the entirety of the remaining destroyers in Busan. Two landings were effected, Li Jishen assaulted near Sapparo and Bai Chongxi at Akita.
Twin landings to begin the main campaign against the Japanese.
From Sapparo, Li Jishen quickly exploited northward toward Asahikawa, eager to be off to his next target before landing on Honshu as well.
Hokkaido would soon completely fall to Chinese troops.
With Li Jishen marching on Asahikawa, Bai Chongxi took advantage of the undefended nature of northern Honshu by marching on Fukishima via the town of Sendai.
Bai Chongxi marched southward, toward Fukushima and Tokyo beyond it.
Eager to continue his portion of the campaign, Li Zongren embarked from Kagoshima and sailed into the Inland Sea, protected by destroyers. His target was Shikoku. Unfortunately, a minor Japanese fleet, with one aircraft carrier, caught them and forced them back into the minor harbor at Kagoshima.
Li Zongren’s eagerness was temporarily blunted.
Soon, Li Jishen was again aboard transports and his troops were assaulting the undefended beaches of Toyohara, another strategic location that had to fall before the Japanese would surrender.
Toyohara was one of Japan’s most symbolic possessions, proving that it had won against the Russians in 1904-05.
As he refused to allow his enthusiasm for conquering Japan to be blunted, Li Zongren again sailed out into the Inland Sea and was this time unmolested, he attacked Shikoku. Unfortunately for him, though he did not know it until after the battle, he was opposed by the defensive genius Kuribayashi, who used all the advantages he had to pin Li Zongren’s first wave to the beach and virtually annihilated them. Due to heavy Japanese defensive fire, Li Zongren could not evacuate his men and had to withdraw toward Kagoshima, having suffered incredibly heavy casualties. The brigade strength 34. Xin Bubing Shi in particular took heavy casualties—it was almost entirely wiped out.
The disastrous assault on Shikoku.
Bai Chongxi, meanwhile, had a sharp fight with the Japanese for Sendai but pushed them out of it before turning toward Fukushima. Li Jishen had by this time arrived in Akita, and he supported the attack—Bai Chongxi’s own troops were somewhat tired from the battle for Sendai. Nonetheless, the Japanese were defeated in front of Fukushima and withdrew back toward Tokyo.
The attack toward Fukushima.
The previous day, by which time Li Jishen had already changed his axis of advance to march toward Niigata, the Japanese again approached Wang JingWei with a peace offer. This time, they offered to cede all of Korea in addition to the Chinese territories. Wang JingWei brushed it aside—it was far too little, far too late. The Japanese were finally beginning to realize they could not win.
Another ridiculous peace offer.
Early on in January, the Japanese fell for the bait in Busan port and struck with two carriers. Due to the sheer wealth of targets, they inflicted almost no damage and opened themselves up for the Chinese counterattack, which held the Japanese where they were—in Tsushima Strait.
The Japanese strike Busan, only to be caught in Tsushima Strait, defenseless and unable or unwilling to break off.
With the Japanese fallen into Bai Chongxi’s trap again, much as off Hainan, where indeed they were still caught, two Chinese corps were shipped northward, guarded by the entirety of the remaining destroyers in Busan. Two landings were effected, Li Jishen assaulted near Sapparo and Bai Chongxi at Akita.
Twin landings to begin the main campaign against the Japanese.
From Sapparo, Li Jishen quickly exploited northward toward Asahikawa, eager to be off to his next target before landing on Honshu as well.
Hokkaido would soon completely fall to Chinese troops.
With Li Jishen marching on Asahikawa, Bai Chongxi took advantage of the undefended nature of northern Honshu by marching on Fukishima via the town of Sendai.
Bai Chongxi marched southward, toward Fukushima and Tokyo beyond it.
Eager to continue his portion of the campaign, Li Zongren embarked from Kagoshima and sailed into the Inland Sea, protected by destroyers. His target was Shikoku. Unfortunately, a minor Japanese fleet, with one aircraft carrier, caught them and forced them back into the minor harbor at Kagoshima.
Li Zongren’s eagerness was temporarily blunted.
Soon, Li Jishen was again aboard transports and his troops were assaulting the undefended beaches of Toyohara, another strategic location that had to fall before the Japanese would surrender.
Toyohara was one of Japan’s most symbolic possessions, proving that it had won against the Russians in 1904-05.
As he refused to allow his enthusiasm for conquering Japan to be blunted, Li Zongren again sailed out into the Inland Sea and was this time unmolested, he attacked Shikoku. Unfortunately for him, though he did not know it until after the battle, he was opposed by the defensive genius Kuribayashi, who used all the advantages he had to pin Li Zongren’s first wave to the beach and virtually annihilated them. Due to heavy Japanese defensive fire, Li Zongren could not evacuate his men and had to withdraw toward Kagoshima, having suffered incredibly heavy casualties. The brigade strength 34. Xin Bubing Shi in particular took heavy casualties—it was almost entirely wiped out.
The disastrous assault on Shikoku.
Bai Chongxi, meanwhile, had a sharp fight with the Japanese for Sendai but pushed them out of it before turning toward Fukushima. Li Jishen had by this time arrived in Akita, and he supported the attack—Bai Chongxi’s own troops were somewhat tired from the battle for Sendai. Nonetheless, the Japanese were defeated in front of Fukushima and withdrew back toward Tokyo.
The attack toward Fukushima.
The previous day, by which time Li Jishen had already changed his axis of advance to march toward Niigata, the Japanese again approached Wang JingWei with a peace offer. This time, they offered to cede all of Korea in addition to the Chinese territories. Wang JingWei brushed it aside—it was far too little, far too late. The Japanese were finally beginning to realize they could not win.
Another ridiculous peace offer.