Since it seemed impossible to launch a direct attack into Chinese territory, I redirected all my efforts towards what was left of Mongolia, after they lost their war against the Russian in 1500 AD (umh, seemed again like I was the one guilty for the sad Mongolian development, because I inflicted this war long ago on behalf of my ancient truthsayers
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So what was left of the Mongolian empire contained only of 5 cities, with their strongest city encircled via Chinese territory (seemed they also got beaten long before Christ by the Chinese in the settling race and here I want to pronounce: Im NOT guilty for this development, no one ever dare blame me, you understand!?!).
But back to my genious plan:
My basic plan was that by taking the remaining Mongolian cities, I would be able to split the Chinese lands into two isolated areas:
- Ancient China, which covered South Asia from India up to Eastern Russia
- New China, which was settled later and covered more or less most of Siberia and the Northern Part of Eastern Russia
To do so, we had to take all Mongolian cities within direct reach and then advance through New China towards the remaining Mongolian city encircled by China. Furthermore, we had to take 2 Chinese cities, one Northwest and one Northeast of the encircled Mongolian city to disconnect New China from Ancient China.
Then we would move in for New China and try to wrestle them down city by city. Cut off from their main territory, we should be able to do so, because the overall productivity in New China was quite low due to the rough landscape (mainly tundra) in this area of the world. After the loss of New China, we should finally be able to strike for Ancient China without to much risk .
Seemed like a good plan to me (and I even managed to convince most of my ministers to support me)
The first part of the plan was easy, as you can see in the picture above. Within 2 years, Mongolia was brought down to the city encircled via Chinese territory with our remaining modern armors (after the bulk of our army already had died in the first attemt to invade China directly, see previous storypost). We even left behind all artillery during the raids in Mongolian territory, to advance faster. But I was quite sure that we would need all artillery later, when we tried to enter Chinese territory again (what we did soon after ).
But again, we werent able to push our advance deep enough into Chinese territory
After we had taken the Chinese city northwest of the Mongolian enclave (with extremely heavy losses: all artillery and 6 modern armors went down), we prepared to advance into the remaining Mongolian enclave we never reached it what remained of our army was slain by Chinese reinforcements, before we even could reach the outskirts of the last Mongolian city. The Chinese city captured was also lost soon after we should have razed it well, now I now better.
It seemed like China brought every unit they could spare to this front, so we had to face the facts:
We would never be able to reach the last Mongolian city. The hills and the rough landscape in this part of the world favoured the Chinese defenders too much and modern armors simply werent strong enough to take out a moderate defending force of mechanized infantry when fortified on a hill or in a city, even when we were advancing with superior numbers
But one thing, I really was strong in, was my flexibility in changing plans (wow, this really sounds much better then I made tons of mistakes I had to correct later )
...
So I changed my plans (again) after China had moved that much troops towards New China and Mongolia (ONE city Mongolia ) and ordered a new assault on Xian, the borderland city of Ancient China towards India (remember, this was exactly the place, were our main army was massacred in the last attemt to invade Ancient China... ...part of my plan was that the Chinese would never expect me to be stupid enough to try this suicide ride again).
So I mustered every unit I could and in the end, I was able to send 9 battalions of modern armors, 6 battalions of infantry and 7 battalions of artillery within the next 2 years towards Xian this may seem like a quite small army, compared to the losses we had in the previous attemt to take this city (11 battalions of modern armors and 4 battalions of artillery) but I thought that time was more essential then numbers this time:
I speculated highly on the surprising aspect of this attack. Therefore I wanted to strike out quick, while the bulk of the Chinese army was still far away, securing New China (= killing our army there and never expecting me to order another attack on Xian again, after they killed our roops there already in the past...). And Xian was also the Chinese city the farthest away from New China.
So the basic plan was, to take the city in a quick raid with the artilleries and modern armors and to secure it with the infantries contained in this army.
We couldnt beat the Chinese army on the open field (umh, for this fact, we had now several proves ), but maybe we would be able to do some serious damage to them in another way, while they would try to retake one of their cities. This time, WE would try to use the territory and the city to OUR advantage. If they would recapture the city in the end, it would at least slow down their space ship production and reduce their overall production capacity ( IF we would be able to take the city at all ).
...
see you soon,
Snaaty
So what was left of the Mongolian empire contained only of 5 cities, with their strongest city encircled via Chinese territory (seemed they also got beaten long before Christ by the Chinese in the settling race and here I want to pronounce: Im NOT guilty for this development, no one ever dare blame me, you understand!?!).
But back to my genious plan:
My basic plan was that by taking the remaining Mongolian cities, I would be able to split the Chinese lands into two isolated areas:
- Ancient China, which covered South Asia from India up to Eastern Russia
- New China, which was settled later and covered more or less most of Siberia and the Northern Part of Eastern Russia
To do so, we had to take all Mongolian cities within direct reach and then advance through New China towards the remaining Mongolian city encircled by China. Furthermore, we had to take 2 Chinese cities, one Northwest and one Northeast of the encircled Mongolian city to disconnect New China from Ancient China.
Then we would move in for New China and try to wrestle them down city by city. Cut off from their main territory, we should be able to do so, because the overall productivity in New China was quite low due to the rough landscape (mainly tundra) in this area of the world. After the loss of New China, we should finally be able to strike for Ancient China without to much risk .
Seemed like a good plan to me (and I even managed to convince most of my ministers to support me)
The first part of the plan was easy, as you can see in the picture above. Within 2 years, Mongolia was brought down to the city encircled via Chinese territory with our remaining modern armors (after the bulk of our army already had died in the first attemt to invade China directly, see previous storypost). We even left behind all artillery during the raids in Mongolian territory, to advance faster. But I was quite sure that we would need all artillery later, when we tried to enter Chinese territory again (what we did soon after ).
But again, we werent able to push our advance deep enough into Chinese territory
After we had taken the Chinese city northwest of the Mongolian enclave (with extremely heavy losses: all artillery and 6 modern armors went down), we prepared to advance into the remaining Mongolian enclave we never reached it what remained of our army was slain by Chinese reinforcements, before we even could reach the outskirts of the last Mongolian city. The Chinese city captured was also lost soon after we should have razed it well, now I now better.
It seemed like China brought every unit they could spare to this front, so we had to face the facts:
We would never be able to reach the last Mongolian city. The hills and the rough landscape in this part of the world favoured the Chinese defenders too much and modern armors simply werent strong enough to take out a moderate defending force of mechanized infantry when fortified on a hill or in a city, even when we were advancing with superior numbers
But one thing, I really was strong in, was my flexibility in changing plans (wow, this really sounds much better then I made tons of mistakes I had to correct later )
...
So I changed my plans (again) after China had moved that much troops towards New China and Mongolia (ONE city Mongolia ) and ordered a new assault on Xian, the borderland city of Ancient China towards India (remember, this was exactly the place, were our main army was massacred in the last attemt to invade Ancient China... ...part of my plan was that the Chinese would never expect me to be stupid enough to try this suicide ride again).
So I mustered every unit I could and in the end, I was able to send 9 battalions of modern armors, 6 battalions of infantry and 7 battalions of artillery within the next 2 years towards Xian this may seem like a quite small army, compared to the losses we had in the previous attemt to take this city (11 battalions of modern armors and 4 battalions of artillery) but I thought that time was more essential then numbers this time:
I speculated highly on the surprising aspect of this attack. Therefore I wanted to strike out quick, while the bulk of the Chinese army was still far away, securing New China (= killing our army there and never expecting me to order another attack on Xian again, after they killed our roops there already in the past...). And Xian was also the Chinese city the farthest away from New China.
So the basic plan was, to take the city in a quick raid with the artilleries and modern armors and to secure it with the infantries contained in this army.
We couldnt beat the Chinese army on the open field (umh, for this fact, we had now several proves ), but maybe we would be able to do some serious damage to them in another way, while they would try to retake one of their cities. This time, WE would try to use the territory and the city to OUR advantage. If they would recapture the city in the end, it would at least slow down their space ship production and reduce their overall production capacity ( IF we would be able to take the city at all ).
...
see you soon,
Snaaty
) i felt compelled to register and post.
