Chapter 11: The New Order of Things in East Asia
April 28th,1941 - December 29th,1941
With Japan ceasing to exist as a independent and sovereign nation, China became the sole major power in East Asia, however there was a huge power vacuum now that the Japanese military has been removed from the equation. Fortunately the British were too preoccupied with Germany and Italy to try and mess with us again, in fact they were trying to get us to join the Allies persistently, certainly with the army China has at her disposal the scales would tip heavily in the Allies favor...
...but China has no intention of joining hands with her oppressors, be they the Entente Cordiale, the Rome-Berlin Axis, the Third International or even the United States of America.
After we conquered Japan we gained access to a considerable stockpile of oil they imported from the Americans,we start converting this stockpile into fuel for our planes and ships, we also start converting our large energy reserves into oil, we are almost completely energy-independent save for the few small shipments coming in from the Soviet Union to promote friendly relations, despite this many countries solicit China for oil/fuel offers which we can safely ignore, eventually we'll terminate energy shipments from the Soviets once Bai Chongxi is back from occupation duty.
China doesn't need Baku,the Middle East,the Dutch East Indies,Ploesti or even Texas! They think they can fool us with these deals, they just want more of our wealth for themselves!
The Kuomintang cabinet was changed again a few weeks after Downfall,Chen Lifu returns as Head of Intelligence to support like-minded parties in Soviet Mongolia and the Philippine Commonwealth to hopefully break those countries away from their puppeteers in Moscow and Washington and bring them under our sphere of influence. Zhang Xueliang has been appointed Chief of the Army to help reduce our supply over-consumption and make our troops fight just as good with fewer supplies. Lin Wei takes over as Foreign Minister after Wang Jingwei loses favor with Chiang and he decides that we need as much Intel as we can get before the beginning of the East Asia Wars...
State of the Kuomintang,May 7th 1941.
In a lavish ceremony on the 27th of May with all of the surface fleet in attendance, it has been decided to rename our most successful battleship, the Ying Ching in honor of the founder of modern China, Sun Yat Sen and designate it Pride of the Fleet.
May she sail in triumph.
Meanwhile,in superior Japanese shipyards and with the help of collaborationist shipbuilders, we lay down the keels of 3 more aircraft carriers with slightly better armor and engines than the first keel laid down which was nearing the halfway point in completion, for reasons unknown our second-generation heavy warships in service or under construction are all designated the Ying Ching class. Chiang is annoyed at the stupidity of such a naming convention but just assumes that his naval officers are doing it to fool foreign spies.
Clever propaganda or OCD?
Due to the need of forces to occupy andpolice protect Japan and Korea proper, we are slow in deploying garrisons to our Central Pacific Islands which had changed hands 3 times in the past 3 decades, we weren't about to let it happen a 4th time, not by some crazy Japanese holdouts of all people, now led by a charismatic young officer known as Hiroo Onoda.
They don't know when to give up.
In early August the blueprints for the world's most powerful naval guns are completed, the exact specifications of which are to be classified, we also develop newer armor plating and engines, two new battleships are laid down in addition to 15 light cruisers which are ordered in 3 batches of 5, despite the inefficiency of this process our shipbuilders are so experienced with cruiser building at this point that they can have one launched and commissioned within half a year so we expect only 1-2 units of Industrial Capacity wasted because of it, if even that.
The Chinese Naval Arms Race is gaining steam, so much that we're not building as many convoys as one may think or as we should be.
On September 1st,1941, our ambassadors inform the Siamese and Portuguese that they are now at war with China, our objective for Portugal being the restoration of Macau and the seizure of East Timor to be used as a base to project power in the region once we're at war with the West. While Siam is to be subjugated and turned into a Satellite state and a base with which to conduct operations in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, certainly there are a lot of Siamese who want Revenge against the British and French for their trespasses aswell...
We must move quickly before Siam can align with the British.
Zhang Xueliang's Southern Army is the main force used in the operation, we don't even need all of these forces for Siam, so one of the Mountain Corps are earmarked for East Timor and start construction of a Air & Naval base. The invasion screening force consists of Chen Ce's 1st Fleet, a potentially brilliant Admiral who was stuck on shore duty during the war with Japan now has a chance to make a name for himself, he draws first blood against Siam when he sinks 2 Siamese merchant vessels sailing to the United States, however despite his far superior force, the Siamese Navy isn't destroyed until their captain's scuttle their ships until after their government captiulates.
The first and last naval battle of the Sino-Siamese War.
Shortly afterwards, landings are made first at Nakhon SI Thammarat and later at Phet Buri, the Siamese defense crumbles easily against our might, but we try not to inflict too much damage on their army since they will be our allies in the future war. Portuguese East Timor is seized when news of Siam's captiulation comes in on the 21st.
Due to Portugal's refusal to give up East Timor to China, the war continues.
The rest of the year is generally quiet save for improvements in our naval doctrines finally putting our level of organization,morale and battle positioning on par with the Royal Navy and United States Navy for our capital ships and cruisers. Carriers are a completely different story however, it will likely be at least several months of training and drilling before our carrier fleet can be considered combat-ready.
Despite all this, the British laugh at us, we will show them.
In spite of, or perhaps because of the loss of the Regia Marina. Italy has jumped the Suez Canal and is approaching the outskirts of Baghdad, having already seized Damascus in French Syria. We decide to revoke our debt with the British Empire, but as the Bank of France was seized and plundered by the Nazi's, we cannot do the same with the French until we declare war, we continue to allow it from the Americans for now, they will hold to their precious neutrality.
Strangely enough, neither the Germans or the Soviets have revoked their non-aggression pact, our spies report substantial forces on the German border
The Cold War.
We are their biggest threat slightly ahead of Germany, but if their response to Siam and Portugal is anything to go by, we will have a fairly large window to defeat the Allies.
April 28th,1941 - December 29th,1941
With Japan ceasing to exist as a independent and sovereign nation, China became the sole major power in East Asia, however there was a huge power vacuum now that the Japanese military has been removed from the equation. Fortunately the British were too preoccupied with Germany and Italy to try and mess with us again, in fact they were trying to get us to join the Allies persistently, certainly with the army China has at her disposal the scales would tip heavily in the Allies favor...
...but China has no intention of joining hands with her oppressors, be they the Entente Cordiale, the Rome-Berlin Axis, the Third International or even the United States of America.
After we conquered Japan we gained access to a considerable stockpile of oil they imported from the Americans,we start converting this stockpile into fuel for our planes and ships, we also start converting our large energy reserves into oil, we are almost completely energy-independent save for the few small shipments coming in from the Soviet Union to promote friendly relations, despite this many countries solicit China for oil/fuel offers which we can safely ignore, eventually we'll terminate energy shipments from the Soviets once Bai Chongxi is back from occupation duty.
China doesn't need Baku,the Middle East,the Dutch East Indies,Ploesti or even Texas! They think they can fool us with these deals, they just want more of our wealth for themselves!
The Kuomintang cabinet was changed again a few weeks after Downfall,Chen Lifu returns as Head of Intelligence to support like-minded parties in Soviet Mongolia and the Philippine Commonwealth to hopefully break those countries away from their puppeteers in Moscow and Washington and bring them under our sphere of influence. Zhang Xueliang has been appointed Chief of the Army to help reduce our supply over-consumption and make our troops fight just as good with fewer supplies. Lin Wei takes over as Foreign Minister after Wang Jingwei loses favor with Chiang and he decides that we need as much Intel as we can get before the beginning of the East Asia Wars...
State of the Kuomintang,May 7th 1941.
In a lavish ceremony on the 27th of May with all of the surface fleet in attendance, it has been decided to rename our most successful battleship, the Ying Ching in honor of the founder of modern China, Sun Yat Sen and designate it Pride of the Fleet.
May she sail in triumph.
Meanwhile,in superior Japanese shipyards and with the help of collaborationist shipbuilders, we lay down the keels of 3 more aircraft carriers with slightly better armor and engines than the first keel laid down which was nearing the halfway point in completion, for reasons unknown our second-generation heavy warships in service or under construction are all designated the Ying Ching class. Chiang is annoyed at the stupidity of such a naming convention but just assumes that his naval officers are doing it to fool foreign spies.
Clever propaganda or OCD?
Due to the need of forces to occupy and
They don't know when to give up.
In early August the blueprints for the world's most powerful naval guns are completed, the exact specifications of which are to be classified, we also develop newer armor plating and engines, two new battleships are laid down in addition to 15 light cruisers which are ordered in 3 batches of 5, despite the inefficiency of this process our shipbuilders are so experienced with cruiser building at this point that they can have one launched and commissioned within half a year so we expect only 1-2 units of Industrial Capacity wasted because of it, if even that.
The Chinese Naval Arms Race is gaining steam, so much that we're not building as many convoys as one may think or as we should be.
On September 1st,1941, our ambassadors inform the Siamese and Portuguese that they are now at war with China, our objective for Portugal being the restoration of Macau and the seizure of East Timor to be used as a base to project power in the region once we're at war with the West. While Siam is to be subjugated and turned into a Satellite state and a base with which to conduct operations in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, certainly there are a lot of Siamese who want Revenge against the British and French for their trespasses aswell...
We must move quickly before Siam can align with the British.
Zhang Xueliang's Southern Army is the main force used in the operation, we don't even need all of these forces for Siam, so one of the Mountain Corps are earmarked for East Timor and start construction of a Air & Naval base. The invasion screening force consists of Chen Ce's 1st Fleet, a potentially brilliant Admiral who was stuck on shore duty during the war with Japan now has a chance to make a name for himself, he draws first blood against Siam when he sinks 2 Siamese merchant vessels sailing to the United States, however despite his far superior force, the Siamese Navy isn't destroyed until their captain's scuttle their ships until after their government captiulates.
The first and last naval battle of the Sino-Siamese War.
Shortly afterwards, landings are made first at Nakhon SI Thammarat and later at Phet Buri, the Siamese defense crumbles easily against our might, but we try not to inflict too much damage on their army since they will be our allies in the future war. Portuguese East Timor is seized when news of Siam's captiulation comes in on the 21st.
Due to Portugal's refusal to give up East Timor to China, the war continues.
The rest of the year is generally quiet save for improvements in our naval doctrines finally putting our level of organization,morale and battle positioning on par with the Royal Navy and United States Navy for our capital ships and cruisers. Carriers are a completely different story however, it will likely be at least several months of training and drilling before our carrier fleet can be considered combat-ready.
Despite all this, the British laugh at us, we will show them.
In spite of, or perhaps because of the loss of the Regia Marina. Italy has jumped the Suez Canal and is approaching the outskirts of Baghdad, having already seized Damascus in French Syria. We decide to revoke our debt with the British Empire, but as the Bank of France was seized and plundered by the Nazi's, we cannot do the same with the French until we declare war, we continue to allow it from the Americans for now, they will hold to their precious neutrality.
Strangely enough, neither the Germans or the Soviets have revoked their non-aggression pact, our spies report substantial forces on the German border
The Cold War.
We are their biggest threat slightly ahead of Germany, but if their response to Siam and Portugal is anything to go by, we will have a fairly large window to defeat the Allies.
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So hopefully i can get those ironed out eventually
