From Victory to Victory
The Empire of Japan is very pleased to report its successes in the ongoing campaign in China.
On the 6th of June Japan decided that an independant China just seemed to be getting in the way, so declared war on it and its various warlord factions. The Assualt began with an attacking across the entire border - bar beijing, with Field Marschall Tojo commanding the main attacking force (some 30 divisions) along the coast of the Yellow Sea. Tojo's main objective for his 12 division army was to cross the Yellow River and secure the Jinan airfields. Others were ordered to move inland as he made progress in order to begin encircling Chinese divisions.
The assualt surpassed most Japanese leaders' expectations as the Yellow river was crossed with ease, and some 17 divisions were trapped in Baoding, south of Beijing. As the armies used in the Boading pocket became available for use they were ordered to continue the push southward to achieve the main objective for the Imperial High Command, to control the Northern bank of the Yangtze River by winter. The Chinese although having vastly superior numbers were unable to use it to their advantage, and despite many probing/diversionary attacks (so many fricking pop ups) they were only able to inflict 3 defeats on Japanese troops.
The IJN meanwhile spent the time looking for Chinese ships and bombing them, and has had moderate success (as the Chinese Navy probably still exists somewhere...). While the Japanese airforce is bombing random places (would they 10 division comchina stack, noooo they'd rather bomb the single 1918 division in Baoji).
However, all in all the Imperial Japanese army has proved to succeed in every objective given to it, and soon China will come under the control of the Empire of the Rising Sun.
