The League of Five Cities is brought to its knees in the battle of Changsa, where countless League soldiers are mercilessly massacred by Kuominchun soldiers.
Nankang offered little resistance to the veteran soldiers of the Shaanxi Province, battle tested against the lesser warlords of Hubei and Henan Provinces.
The first real resistance was met at Chuchow, but with overwhelming force the foul League soldiers were driven out and slaughtered by the brave Kuominchun.
Tsitsihar captured. Linching under siege. The Fangtien Faction has no territorial ambitions west of Taiyuan and south of Anyang / Tsinan. We have enough to do with the siege of Peiping and watching the Japanese! We consider Tsingtao, Weihaiwei and Chefoo to be in our sphere of influence and we look forward to the day all Japanese forces are expelled from China.
I have to admit that I have been utterly crushed and defeated.
I underestimated the size of the Kuominchun army and was too aggressive when I should have been defensive, and now my gamble has cost me everything I had.
I can still stick around and try to harass you both, but at this point you can let the AI take over the League to speed things up, specially since I'll be away for three days.
Well played, Ingvar.
The fallen litter the streets of every city, but revenge for the humiliation in Nanking is still not achieved.
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I find it fair to explain my strategy.
I decided to completely neglect science, so I sold all my libraries.
This gave me a considerable amount of gold to rush build units.
I also sold off coastal fortresses in the inland cities that border the great river(Yellow River?)
In retrospect it's a bit cheap strategy, but as far as I know there's no rule against it.
The reason your cities fall so easily now is that many of my Mortars are Veterans. Warlord Infantry are little defense against them.
Then there are the little things, always to use badly wounded units to take cities, to heal them. All in all this has been a very successful blitz.