Soviet tanks and mechanized infantry plunge into central China. Their goal is to reach the coastal city of Guangzhou, to cut China in half.
As soviet troops pour into asia, the Japanese army falls back in the middle east. With this weakening of Japanese defenses, the allies finally attack. British troops drive up the nile river, Liberating Egypt and even making a bridgehead across the Suez canal, finally reopening the eastern Mediterranean sea to allied (and soviet) shipping. Meanwhile, Italian and French armies march east from Libya, cutting off many dozens of Japanese troops in central Libya.
The Japanese army is definitely brave. Soviet troops are shocked to see their infantry actually launching banzai charges against heavy soviet T-34-85 battle tanks!
The frontlines in asia by the beginning of 1947. All of northern and central China, along with Korea is under Soviet control. However, Japanese troops continue to hold out on the Yantai peninsula.
Soviet technological progress by 1947.
The Japanese airforce throws everything it has left in suicidal Kamikaze attacks on Soviet aircraft patrolling over the ocean.
Japanese resistance is growing the closer the Red Army gets to the coast. Here, it takes the intervention of Marshal Tukachevsky's army to break a force of 50,000 Japanese troops.
Meanwhile, soviet scientists at the Omsk secret weapons design bureau report that it is now possible to make powerful long range ballistic missiles, that could even reach around the entire globe. These new weapons have the ability to make bombers obsolete.
The Omsk nuclear reactor also continues to grow.
The Japanese army is reinforcing its Garrison in Yantai. Now there are 130,000 Japanese troops there, including some of the most elite formations of the Japanese army.