29年 4月 23日
The loss of forces on the mainland made any invasion of the continent impossible. The Japanese would go back to trying to retake Taiwan.
They would begin the attack with five divisions.
29年 4月 25日
Unfortunately for the them, the Chinese defenders had learned from the last attack and were able to easily repulse the attack.
29年 5月 2日
In a move long forecast by Chinese spies, the Germans declared war on the Low Countries.
29年 5月 9日
The first to fall was little Luxembourg. Belgium and the Netherlands did not look like they would survive for very long either. This was regretted at the Republic of China had built a very favorable trading relationship with the Netherlands.
29年 6月 1日
The ROCAF had made an operational decision to use American designed aircraft with the lastest being the successful introduction of the P-51/A. The first prototype had been built only 117 days after the order had been placed and the first operational planes would be produced on Chinese soil. With a rapidly escalating European war, the U.S. Army Air Corp had become much more willing to allow the sale of advanced aircraft technology to China. A Chinese victory in the Third Sino Japanese War would assure the safety of U.S. Pacific holdings. To that end, Roosevelt had even sent Joseph Stillwell to serve as an adviser to help the Republic of China Army with organization and logistics.* Unfortunately, the new P-51 lacked the high altitude performance due to the inferior supercharger available for the Allison V-1710 engine. Still it was an exceptional fighter and was almost 30mh faster than the P-40 even though both planes used the same powerplant.
ROCAF wanted a new escort fighter based on American designs as the production of Bf 110's had slowed due to the unavailability of spare parts and machine tools from Germany. America also had the benefit of guaranteed neutrality along with an antipathy towards Japan and the Soviet Union that was shared by the Chinese. The fighter chosen had been designed under the same contest that had led to the P-40. The YP-38 used twin turbo supercharged Alison engines that actually functioned well at high altitude as long as it was warm. The aircraft was currently under production in the United States, but the war would hamper direct assistance.
Chinese researchers had finished building the new equipment for the next generation of Chinese motorized divisions. They were rumored by some observers to be the most advanced in the world. They still lacked the hitting power of a true armored formation and a stop gap division would be created using more heavily armored troop carriers as well as a few light tanks. The new divisions would be as fast as the regular truck mounted divisions but they would be able to function like an armored division against regular infantry. Against enemy tanks, they were equipped with newly developed anti tank rockets that could be used by regular infantry.
The Chinese had also successfully started producing the new Boeing B-25's, this was critical as most of the existing bomber fleet had been shot down by Japan.
The doctrine research was an outstanding success. Though the Chinese navy lacked the true fleet carriers of other navies, they realized that basing task forces around the scout carriers was still a very effective tactic and would try to refine it.
29年 6月 14日
German troops had broken through Allied lines and were now threatening Paris itself. The speed of the German advance was surprising and it left the Chinese worrying about the future of their southern border.
29年 6月 24日
Latvia had bravely refused Russian demands for annexation. The Soviets would showcase their ill intent once again and declared war on the plucky republic.
29年 6月 27日
The French and British had created an impromptu defensive line on the banks of the Seine and even launched a succesful attack to regain the eastern banks of the river. The Germans may have been blocked at Paris but they were continuing almost unopposed in the north and the south.
29年 7月 1日
The last of the Maginot forts had fallen. The only bright spot for the Allies was in the South where allied soldiers had advanced into Italy. Hungary would see the German success and throw it's lot in with the Axis.
29年 7月 2日
Once the Chinese knew what they were looking for, they had sent a request to the Koreans for everything they could find about Japanese carrier operations. A month later, Korea sent back over 1,000 translated Japanese documents about carrier warfare.
The ROCN had aso been steadily increasing. Ships were dashing across the Taiwan Strait under cover of darkness and the fleet was growing. The Japanese would continue to launch air strikes against but the ROCAF had moved the entirety of its interceptor forces to Kaohsiung to protect the fleet. Very few Japanese bombers would be able launch a clean attack before being jumped by the defending P-40's.
29年 7月 8日
Two small republics would fall quickly to the advancing totalitarian states. Norway would fall as the Allies had diverted forces from there to defend France and Latvia's small army was manhandled by the Soviets.
Not that the forces diverted form Norway did any good. The French army and British expeditionary forces had lost over 100,000 men, four times the losses of the Wehrmacht and the French Government signaled that it wanted an armistice. The armistice terms imposed on France were far harsher than those France had imposed on Germany in 1918. They provided for German occupation of three-fifths of France north and west of a line through Geneva, Tours and the Spanish border so as to give the German Navy access to all French Channel and Atlantic ports. All persons who had been granted political asylum had to be surrendered and all occupation costs had to be borne by France, to the tune of 400 million French francs a day. A minimal French Army would be permitted. As one of Hitler's few concessions, the French Navy was to be disarmed but not surrendered, for Hitler realized that pushing France too far could result in France fighting on from French North Africa.
The Chinese were worried about the fate of French Indochina. Vichy France was in no position to protect it from a Japanese invasion, which Chinese spies had warned was imminent. The embassy in Germany would hear a Chinese proposal to transfer the territory from France to China. The Germans were surprisingly receptive as they knew the French could not defend the territory from either a Japanese or British attack. China was firmly neutral, but it was also the only friend Germany had in the area.
There was some debate as what the status of the newly acquired territory would be. Several people advocated creating a Vietnamese republic along the lines of Korea. Others would demand full annexation including most of the PPC delegates. They weren't against the idea of a republic but they argued that nation building should wait until the world had settled down some.
29年 7月 9日
Several Indigenous independence parties would put their soldiers under Chinese command in exchange for being part of any post war government. A large contingent of coastal defense forces had been mobilized to defend acquired Japanese territory. Over a quarter of a million of these troops would be sent to garrison Indochina instead.
29年 7月 25日
Chinese spies were proved right when the Japanese launched two large scale assaults against the territory. Luckily, the coastal defense had arrived just in time but the speed of the Japanese assault confirmed that they had been planning this ever since France started losing in Europe.
The defenders would use the jungles to great effect against the Japanese. Forcing them to endure devastating bursts of fire on the open beaches from troops hidden in the trees.
*This happened a few months ago but the event text was totally wrong (it had Chiang Kai Shek needing help with the ground forces), so I didn't show it.
China takes the offensive! Next time on AARight to be Hostile!
