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I've just realized that I've been working on this TL for almost 10 years so I definitely need to finish it before it gets to that point.

1 May 1943

After receiving reliable intelligence that Chiang was being held in a hilly outpost near the Mongolian Border at the Altay Prefecture, the joint BIS-German task force planned an attack. They decided to do it on May 1 where the Mongolian troops near the border would be on lower alert and drunk. Their intelligence indicated that Chiang was being guarded by 50 Chinese troops with a squadron of Mongolian cavalry on special alert in Mongolia along with an unknown detachment of NKVD motorized troops.

Against them they had two companies of elite troops. Around 80 specially trained Fallschirmjäger troops and 20 SS troops made up the German presence and 100 Bureau troops made up the Chinese presence. The small outpost was constantly on high alert and had 3 light AA guns and 6 machine guns providing overarching archs of fire. With it's back to the mountain, the outpost made a formidable defensive station.

Their plan of attack was for the German troops and half of the Chinese troops to stage a diversionary attack on the front of the outpost and for a smaller contingent of 20 commandos led by Col Weikuo to execute a glider attack from the mountain right into the outpost roof where they would set off charges in the roof and then go through and rescue Kaishek who was believed to be held inside. Once the building was secure and the AA guns were neutralized an airship would arrive and extract the soldiers and Kaishek.

At 2230 hours the attack began. With the garrison distracted by Skorzeny's diversionary attack, Col Weikuo's attack went off without a hitch and they broke into the roof, right into the surprised commandant's office. The commandant - Col Yi was actually part of Col Weikuo's graduating class and after being informed of who the masked prisoner they were guarding was, he commanded the troops to stand down.

But their troubles were not over. The NKVD motorized battalion had arrived with the Mongolian cavalry squadron and the Sino-German forces only numbered 200 and had to hold off 1,200 Mongolian-Soviet troops (with 5 T-34 tanks) until the airship arrived.

A fierce battle ensued and almost all of the German-Sino soldiers were slaughtered to a man. Only 30 managed to evacuate with Skorzeny and Colonel Yi dying and Colonel Weikuo being severely wounded. After the airship rendevouzed with Dai Li's men Kaishek emerged a broken man who only had one thought in mind: revenge.