Beijing, 1926
A small group of soldiers advance through the early morning, carrying German rifles. They advance on the Forbidden City stealthily, the sleeping inhabitants unaware of their impending doom.
With ease they scale the walls of the former imperial palace using grappling hooks. One guard notices them, but it is too late, as another commando ambushes him from behind and strangles him.
Now nothing can stop the soldiers from reaching their main target--dictator and "president" Yuan Shi-Kai of the Chinese Republic.
Behind them, reinforcements arrive. The soldiers open the Tiananmen Gates and let in a small light tank. The noise from this machine is large enough to fully wake up the inhabitants, and chaos breaks out.
As the guards scramble to their senses, the commandos shoot them down with silenced rounds and run toward the living quarters, where they find the dictator still in his bed, guarded by four Mongol bodyguards. The soldiers immediately shoot down the Mongols and aim their weapons at Yuan, who puts up his hands in defeat. Surprisingly, the soldiers don't shoot him down on the spot. Instead, they make way for another man, a younger man with a moustache. Yuan recognizes him on the spot by his uniform.
"General Chiang Kai-Shek
," says Yuan, "I didn't expect you to show up at a time like this.
"
"Give up, Yuan,
" Chiang replied, "It's all over. The facade of a republic no longer needs to be maintained.
"
"What are you going to do, proclaim yourself president? As if you were as skilled a politician as I was!
" Yuan laughed.
Chiang struck him with the butt of his rifle. "Oh, I'm not going to install a true democracy, at least not me...
"
He leaned towards Yuan, who was by now trembling in his bed.
"The Celestial Emperor and the Kaiser would like to have a word with you.
"
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(Pardon the bad description, it's a custom event.)
This is my first AAR, playing as the Republic of China, which I began a couple months ago. I used some console commands as I was not expecting to make this an AAR, so please bear with me. I'm using the Kaiserreich mod, which like the Darkest Hour mod has the Central Powers win the First World War.