Great Asian War

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Great Asian War
Part of The Cold War
Great Asian War Superevent (High Legitimacy)
Abilities	Equipment, Advisors
Date	September 3, 1965 - 1966 (First Phase), 1966 - Late 1960s (Second Phase)
Place	Southern China (First Phase), East Asia (Second Phase)
Result	See outcomes below
Belligerents
First Phase (Western Insurrection): Chinese League Republic of China Guangxi Province (potentially) Jinshaan Administrative Office (potentially) NRA 24th Army (potentially) Second Phase (Co-Prosperity Sphere Intervention) Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Japan North China Political Council Manchuria Mengjiang Guangdong Northwestern Area Army Vietnam Laos Kampuchea Thailand Burma The Philippines (potentially) Shonan-to/Johor/Malaya (potentially) North Borneo Military Administration Indonesia (potentially) Free India Autonomous Province of Bhutan National Liberation Front National Protection Army NRA 24th Army (potentially) Guangxi Province (potentially) Jinshaan Administrative Office (potentially) NRA 40th Army Group (potentially) Xinjiang Border Defense Administration (potentially)
Leaders
First Phase: Gao Zongwu Zhou Fohai Second Phase: Ikeda Masanosuke/Takagi Sōkichi/Kaya Okinori Wang Yintai Aisin Gioro Puyi Dugursulong Tsuji Masanobu Morita Akio/Matsushita Masaharu/Ibuka Masaru/Komai Kenichirō Long Yun Song Xilian Li Mi Zhang Chong Sun Li Jen
Outcomes
Western Insurrection (Nanjing Victory) - Fate of Long Yun unknown (presumably dead) - National Protection Army disbanded - The continuing of economic development in China Territorial changes: - Creation of the Xinan Reconstruction Authority under Zhou Longxiang - Xinan Reconstruction Authority is later directly annexed by the Nanjing government - NRA 24th Army informally joins the RoC as Xikang Province (if Xikang sided with the RoC) Great Asian War (CPS Victory) - Fate of Long Yun unknown (presumably dead) - National Protection Army disbanded Territorial changes: - Partition of the Republic of China into several political councils - NRA 24th Army informally joins the RoC as Xikang Province (if Xikang sided with the RoC) High legitimacy territorial changes: -NRA 24th Army partitioned between Sichuan Pacification Zone and Tibet - NRA 40th Army Group annexed by Seihoku Homengun - Xinjiang Province established as a province of the defunct Nanjing Government Western Insurrection (NPA Victory) - Nanjing Government collapses after suicide of Gao Zongwu - Beginning of the Great Asian War Territorial changes: - NPA annexation of all former core RoC lands south of the Yangtze River - Establishment of the North China Political Council Great Asian War (NPA High Legitimacy Full Victory) - Reestablishment of pre-Second Sino-Japanese War Republic of China and birth of democracy in China - Death of Long Yun and inauguration of Sun Fo as President of the Republic of China - End of the Yokusankai and beginning of the Mutō dictatorship (potentially) - National Protection Army disbanded Territorial changes: - Annexation of Manchuria, Mengjiang, Guangdong and all Chinese warlords on the side of the National Liberation Front Great Asian War (NPA Low Legitimacy Full Victory) - Death of Long Yun and establishment of the NPA Military Council, beginning a period of military dictatorship in China Territorial changes: - Annexation of Manchuria, Mengjiang, Guangdong and all Chinese warlords regardless of allegiance to NLF or CPS

The Great Asian War is a conflict that erupts between the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the National Liberation Front sometime after the Fall of Nanjing to the National Protection Army, though some may argue that the Great Asian War started in the beginning of the Western Insurrection between the Republic of China and NPA.

While governor of Xinan, Lu Han was away from his office on vacation, his cousin and former governor of Yunnan, Long Yun launched a coup against him and gathered the men needed to do so, taking control of the province and leading the NPA. The rapid military buildup to liberate China from what Long Yun saw as Japanese puppets caused significant concern to the Republican government in Nanjing, who sent the NPA an ultimatum, demanding that the province stand down or there will be war.

Ultimately, this ultimatum would be rejected, kickstarting the Western Insurrection. Due to the extreme manpower inequality between the two belligerents, an AI-controlled NPA would usually capitulate within a few months, with neither side garnering enough support to gain any allies. However, a player controlling either the Republic or NPA could change that, either forcing a quicker victory if playing Nanjing, or prompting a Co-Prosperity Sphere Intervention if playing Long Yun and pushing all the way into Nanjing, capitulating the republic.

In the end, the consequences of victory from either side can vary in scale, but with this high-intensity extreme drawn out conflict leading to casualties never seen since the likes of the Second World War, the landscape of the Chinese political situation, the borders of East Asia, the superpower status of the Japanese Empire and ultimately the geopolitical landscape of the world itself in the midst of the Cold War can all be turned on its head.

Background

The complete destruction of the pre-war Republic of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, coupled with the deaths of both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in the Battle of Chongqing, led to the surrender of most Chinese resistance by 1945, ending World War Two in East Asia.

Despite Japanese victory above China, however, many in China continued to feel resentment against Tokyo, refusing to accept the outcome of the war and even relocating westwards, most notably including the NRA 24th and 40th Armies, who refuse to surrender despite the establishment of a new Republic of China based in Nanjing.

One of the many warlords who surrendered to the Japanese in hopes of protecting their people was Long Yun, who was forced to give up his position of Governor of Yunnan to his cousin, Lu Han, though he continued to remain influential within the government in Kunming.

Formation and operations of the National Protection Army

Sometime between TNO's starting date and the end of World War Two, some members of the NRA felt that the NRA was simply not enough for them, as they retreated and continued to resist in the mountains. Instead, members left to form the closely associated National Protection Army, an ultranationalist group with largely the same goals as the NRA, to liberate China from Japanese influence, albeit operating under much more covert circumstances in Yunnan due to their distance away from their NRA counterparts in Xikang and Burma.

Together with other NRA divisions, bandits that happened to be in the area and remnant CCP militias, the NPA continued sabotage operations across southwestern China, causing problems in administration and development in the region, which made the organisation feared through the spreading of urban legends.

Originally, the elements of the National Protection Army, National Revolutionary Army, Chinese Communist Party and bandits were countered by governor Lu Han's plans to develop and modernise Yunnan, employing militia and guards to counter their influences and effects on the state.

However, in his attempt to make Yunnan richer, Lu Han had alienated almost everyone around him. Upon his departure on holiday, the National Protection Army decided to strike.

The National Protection Army had already been planning for a Western Insurrection. However, without a leader, the plan remained idle and untouched for decades. With Long Yun accepting the role of the leader of the NPA in 1965, they could begin the planning of how to attack the traitors.

Long Yun's NPA began to garner the extensive support from the remnants of the NRA led by Sun-Li Jen and Li Mi, and the CCP who had sought refuge with the Viet Minh since the defeat at Chongqing.

Led by the motivation of reuniting China against the Japanese imperialists, Long Yun will lead them to recover China, in the 2nd Northern Expedition, or die in their attempt.

Announcing the breakaway from the Sphere and vowing to restart the war against the Japanese via a radio broadcast, the citizens of Yunnan prepared themselves, as the NPA began gearing up the war against the collaborationists.

The War Begins

Following an announcement by the Republic of China to stand down his forces, and rejoin the Sphere, Long Yun decided it was time, and began the invasion.

Mechanic

Prior to the war's declaration against the Republic of China, the NPA has to play a mechanic for the fate of Chongqing. Chongqing, is a major city, whose mayor and de-factor administrative leader has NPA sympathies. The player must ensure that Influence and support is high enough for the scales to tip in their favour, ensuring more Production Units and a higher surrender limit at the start of the war.

Additionally, as part of the Mechanic for the Great Asian War, Legitimacy and Morale is important for either side to push, bringing in allies from the various Chinese warlords during both phases during the conflict.

Additionally, managing the liberated lands for the NPA is essential to recruit, recover Production Units, and increase morale and legitimacy.

Trivia

Should the NPA defeat all the Japanese puppets and reject the Japanese terms of surrender by invading Korea, nuclear missiles will be launched, leading to Thermonuclear War and World War 3.