Chapter five
The road to victory
1 july -24 August
The north front
Our forces finally managed to take the flanks and the entire line is on the move. After securing yantai japanese forces attack the chinese at jinan even though the chinese put up a valiant fight they are forced to withdraw.
Our advance in the major chinese city area is going extremely well clearly the chinese didnt anticipate a move like this nanjing is attacked and on the 6th of july the single division there is annihilated by our much larger and more modern forces.
Spotting a major opertunity to destroy around 20 divisions. Our forces from the shanghai/nanjing area attack and attempt to link up with the main thrust from the north. And effectively push the chinese in a pocket near the swamps to the north of nanjing.
Though initially succesful a major chinese counterattack manages to open a corridor through which 10divisions manage to escape. However this corridor is quikly closed trapping an estimated 10 divisions in the area
The south front
progress in the south is slow the forces of guangxie clique are putting up some major resistance even succesfully stopping some of our attacks. Trying to relieve some of the pressure on this front are 5 divisions lead by general higashikuni attack bose. And 18th of august manage to destroy 5division in Qinzhou which where traped in the encircelment following the capture of Bose.
Following the succes of this operation our forces commence the
advance on guilin and gangzhou.
The following picture shows the complete situation of the front in china.
Diplomatics
In order to get rid of some no-ic-no-resources-what-so-ever kind of land
we get the inner mongolia event which creates mengkukuo.
After the capture of nanjijng we get the anticipated Nanjing massacare event which in hsr actually gives a division :wacko: something i really dont understand.
And we get a event which involves some of the more sensible thinking chinese or with other words collaborateurs. Gaining two new militia divisions.