The Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Chapter 881: Sanfuranshisuko
Chapter 881: Sanfuranshisuko
San Fransisco, or Sanfuranshisuko as it’s Japanese and other Asian Citizens called it had seen some turmoil during the Second Great War. During the War in the Pacific it was the biggest port of embarkation and mainland supply point, but also the place of some of the oldest and biggest Japanese, Korean, Chinese and overall Asian enclaves outside of Asia.With the Executive Order 9066 the local Asian settled areas near North Point at the Bay of San Francisco were cut off from the rest of the City and formed into what would later be called Asia Town. Any Asians and those of Asian Descent from within San Francisco were deported into this Ghetto by force of the US Army, as a provisional solution. When things got to crowded, the city-owned Sharp Park in Pacifica became an internment camp as well. Ironically even many who had fled the Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces and ideology found themselves in Asia Town and Sharp Park, while many of their former homes all across the city remained vacant for some time, as Newspapers spread fear about booby-traps, poison and other means of attacking the homefront by those Asians living among them. But while Whites remained fearful, many African Americans either not as fearful of News Propaganda, or simply having no option then the lower, or sometimes no existing rent because of their overall work and living situations settled into some of the Asian abandoned neighborhoods, forming what many later called Africa Town, around the Fillmore District and near the Bayview-Hunters Point shipyard, were many thousands of them coming from the more and more radicalized Racist South during the Great Migration during wartime's found industrial and dry-dock jobs, giving immense aid to the War Effort in the Pacific with their labor. Some of these Docks later saw many more Asian Immigrants coming, fleeing from the War in Asia, or the Post-War Reality of the Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Victories there. Many came over Australia and New Zealand to the United States and with growing internal political tensions inside the USA, many Pacificers, no matter if White, Black or Yellow as the Newspaper Propaganda had classified them especially during the War found themselves to be one thing only: Pacifican States Citizens.
Disillusioned by Washington, fearful of overall racism elsewhere like the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the South and other such groups, or simply racial discrimianted against by Law, many quickly welcomed even more Asian immigrants and the growing trade connections to the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Asian Markets, which helped them rebuild much more then any promised aid from washingten. Tensions rose further when Pro-Orientalist and Anti-Orientalist Parties and Faction split the political landscape and when the Southern States and later New England and Deseret separated themselves from the United States the San Fransisco/ Sanfuranshisuko Deceleration and Treaty saw California (Kariforunia) and parts of Western Nevada join the Co Prosperity Sphere as part of the Pacific States of America (Pashifikkua). Soon after Cascadian (Kasukadia) Nationalists in Oregon and Washington did the same with the Portland Deceleration and Treaty, before being followed by Alaska (Arasuka) and later also joined by Mexico, Peru and others. None of these places however, neither sparsely settled Alaska, nor Cascadia, Mexico, or Peru, saw the same overall increase migration from Asia, that Karifornia and other nearby regions of Pashifikkua would see. Around one third of California in total would later be made up by Asians overall, including East Asians, South Asians and Pacific Islanders, who would dominate the economy and politics to a large percentage, while Whites and Hispanics/ Latinos made up roughly another third each, leaving African Americans at roughly eight, or ten percent in some areas, especially after the Breakaway of the Southern Untied States/ Dixieland and the Great Migration from there to the West Coast. Interestingly enough the Pacific States and Californian Military, from the Army, Navy and Air Force overall was rather divided, as many Pacific War Veterans settled in the Pacific Coast Cities after the War and they, or their children continued a military family tradition, often clashing with the Issei, Nisei, or Sansei, First, Second, or Thrid Generation Japanese and Asians living within California and the Pacific States that had later taken over the economy, politics and even high ranking officer and commander positions within the Military, resulting in some rather questionable loyalties and infighting.
San Fransisco, or Sanfuranshisuko as it’s Japanese and other Asian Citizens called it had seen some turmoil during the Second Great War. During the War in the Pacific it was the biggest port of embarkation and mainland supply point, but also the place of some of the oldest and biggest Japanese, Korean, Chinese and overall Asian enclaves outside of Asia.With the Executive Order 9066 the local Asian settled areas near North Point at the Bay of San Francisco were cut off from the rest of the City and formed into what would later be called Asia Town. Any Asians and those of Asian Descent from within San Francisco were deported into this Ghetto by force of the US Army, as a provisional solution. When things got to crowded, the city-owned Sharp Park in Pacifica became an internment camp as well. Ironically even many who had fled the Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces and ideology found themselves in Asia Town and Sharp Park, while many of their former homes all across the city remained vacant for some time, as Newspapers spread fear about booby-traps, poison and other means of attacking the homefront by those Asians living among them. But while Whites remained fearful, many African Americans either not as fearful of News Propaganda, or simply having no option then the lower, or sometimes no existing rent because of their overall work and living situations settled into some of the Asian abandoned neighborhoods, forming what many later called Africa Town, around the Fillmore District and near the Bayview-Hunters Point shipyard, were many thousands of them coming from the more and more radicalized Racist South during the Great Migration during wartime's found industrial and dry-dock jobs, giving immense aid to the War Effort in the Pacific with their labor. Some of these Docks later saw many more Asian Immigrants coming, fleeing from the War in Asia, or the Post-War Reality of the Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Victories there. Many came over Australia and New Zealand to the United States and with growing internal political tensions inside the USA, many Pacificers, no matter if White, Black or Yellow as the Newspaper Propaganda had classified them especially during the War found themselves to be one thing only: Pacifican States Citizens.
Disillusioned by Washington, fearful of overall racism elsewhere like the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the South and other such groups, or simply racial discrimianted against by Law, many quickly welcomed even more Asian immigrants and the growing trade connections to the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Asian Markets, which helped them rebuild much more then any promised aid from washingten. Tensions rose further when Pro-Orientalist and Anti-Orientalist Parties and Faction split the political landscape and when the Southern States and later New England and Deseret separated themselves from the United States the San Fransisco/ Sanfuranshisuko Deceleration and Treaty saw California (Kariforunia) and parts of Western Nevada join the Co Prosperity Sphere as part of the Pacific States of America (Pashifikkua). Soon after Cascadian (Kasukadia) Nationalists in Oregon and Washington did the same with the Portland Deceleration and Treaty, before being followed by Alaska (Arasuka) and later also joined by Mexico, Peru and others. None of these places however, neither sparsely settled Alaska, nor Cascadia, Mexico, or Peru, saw the same overall increase migration from Asia, that Karifornia and other nearby regions of Pashifikkua would see. Around one third of California in total would later be made up by Asians overall, including East Asians, South Asians and Pacific Islanders, who would dominate the economy and politics to a large percentage, while Whites and Hispanics/ Latinos made up roughly another third each, leaving African Americans at roughly eight, or ten percent in some areas, especially after the Breakaway of the Southern Untied States/ Dixieland and the Great Migration from there to the West Coast. Interestingly enough the Pacific States and Californian Military, from the Army, Navy and Air Force overall was rather divided, as many Pacific War Veterans settled in the Pacific Coast Cities after the War and they, or their children continued a military family tradition, often clashing with the Issei, Nisei, or Sansei, First, Second, or Thrid Generation Japanese and Asians living within California and the Pacific States that had later taken over the economy, politics and even high ranking officer and commander positions within the Military, resulting in some rather questionable loyalties and infighting.
That should surprise me about California (and the rest of the former America's Pacific States) to separate from a dying nation and because the US only cared the East Coast than the West, I honestly believe they would still immigrate to the other lands as it's good for it's fertile land and (once the drought comes) water. Honestly there will always be infighting when it comes to being run the way it is.
Chapter 882: Modern Turkish Forces
Chapter 882: Modern Turkish Forces
Being allied to the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers, the Neo-Ottoman Empire, also known as the New Ottoman Empire or Second Ottoman Empire benefited from German Military Advisers, German Military Equipment sold and send to them and even German blueprints, so the Turkish Forces could build them for themselves, or come up with own designs from them, fitting for the War in the Caucasus and the Middle East. With own losses growing during these campaigns, the Ottoman Turkish Forces revived a concept not seen since the days of the old Ottoman Empire. The old Sultan’s personal armies, the fighters of Allah the Almighty, the Janissary were reactivated, as a prestige warrior class, similar to the reborn European Knightly Orders, or the Japanese modern Samurai, that were made up by non-Turkish volunteers and forced recruits that were made up by non-Turkish and non-Turkic/ Turkmen ethnic and non-Muslim religious minorities pressed into service of the New Ottoman Empire. While often these Janissary were not as well trained, and often only armed with older equipment, many of them were conditioned trough propaganda and brainwashing to not only fight for their own autonomy and independence from the Soviet Union, the British and French with feverish enthusiasm, but actually were conditioned to become loyal subjects of the Ottomans ones again, to support the Turkish dreams of creating Protectorates out of their autonomy and independence seeking Nation States. A similar elite force of the Neo-Ottoman Empire, similar to how the resurrected Knightly Orders of the Central European Axis Central Powers worked. Similarly to them, the Janissary themselves wished to become the Elite Force they had once been again, with great ambitions to become the most elite spearhead fighting force of the New Ottoman Empire once more. that would harbor much more military and political power then many others, or so at least the plan of the Janissary themselves for their own and the future of the New Ottoman Empire. With their goals clear, some members of the Janissary themselves realized that maybe they needed not to be cornered so much about the Turkish Nation and People, but the Germans who supplied them with advisers and modern weaponry.
The Neo-Ottoman Empire revived however not only the Janissary themselves, but also another force, known as the Hashashin, or Assassin Order, made up at first mainly by the Ottoman Penal battalions made up of convicted criminals, who were promised a reduced sentence, or even outright freedom again, if they would serve a certain amount of years during the Second Great War, as manpower shortages were a cornea by many nation states of the conflict. The idea was then not so outlandish to use the “natural” skills these peoples already possessed, as mostly criminals with a brutal record of already harming others were used for this “volunteer” battalions, but to further foster and increase these tendencies as well. These criminals were therefore given special forces training and the ambitious plan was to task them with targeting and killing enemy officers, commanders, Admirals and even Generals, as well as political leaders at, or even behind the frontlines. The clearly states Neo-Ottoman Goal was to annihilate enough enemy leaders during the fighting, that they would interrupt the enemy command structure, that the Ottoman Forces would be capable of initiating new pushes down into Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Persia, Central Asia and India. Such ambitions however were mainly that, dreams of a few pan-Turnkic Nationalist enthusiasts of a grand Eurasian-African Empire once more, like in the dreams of old. In reality few of these Assassins had true success, often only those made up of Prisoners of War, who then were brainwashed and returned as Spies, Saboteurs and Killers into the former ranks of their Colonial Masters or Soviet Rulers that they hated much more then the Ottoman Turks, or the Axis Central Powers. Outside of thise however these penal battalions often only made headlines as brutish, barbaric forces, often indiscriminately fighting local civilians and prisoners of war as harshly and full of hatred then they did the enemy armed forces and leading to not only depopulated areas in their operation zones, but a contingently growing anti-Ottoman, anti-Turkish and anti-Axis Central Powers resistance and guerrilla force, especially among local Arabs, Persians, Georgians, Armenians and Russians along the Turkish Frontlines and Neo-Ottoman occupied regions.
Being allied to the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers, the Neo-Ottoman Empire, also known as the New Ottoman Empire or Second Ottoman Empire benefited from German Military Advisers, German Military Equipment sold and send to them and even German blueprints, so the Turkish Forces could build them for themselves, or come up with own designs from them, fitting for the War in the Caucasus and the Middle East. With own losses growing during these campaigns, the Ottoman Turkish Forces revived a concept not seen since the days of the old Ottoman Empire. The old Sultan’s personal armies, the fighters of Allah the Almighty, the Janissary were reactivated, as a prestige warrior class, similar to the reborn European Knightly Orders, or the Japanese modern Samurai, that were made up by non-Turkish volunteers and forced recruits that were made up by non-Turkish and non-Turkic/ Turkmen ethnic and non-Muslim religious minorities pressed into service of the New Ottoman Empire. While often these Janissary were not as well trained, and often only armed with older equipment, many of them were conditioned trough propaganda and brainwashing to not only fight for their own autonomy and independence from the Soviet Union, the British and French with feverish enthusiasm, but actually were conditioned to become loyal subjects of the Ottomans ones again, to support the Turkish dreams of creating Protectorates out of their autonomy and independence seeking Nation States. A similar elite force of the Neo-Ottoman Empire, similar to how the resurrected Knightly Orders of the Central European Axis Central Powers worked. Similarly to them, the Janissary themselves wished to become the Elite Force they had once been again, with great ambitions to become the most elite spearhead fighting force of the New Ottoman Empire once more. that would harbor much more military and political power then many others, or so at least the plan of the Janissary themselves for their own and the future of the New Ottoman Empire. With their goals clear, some members of the Janissary themselves realized that maybe they needed not to be cornered so much about the Turkish Nation and People, but the Germans who supplied them with advisers and modern weaponry.
The Neo-Ottoman Empire revived however not only the Janissary themselves, but also another force, known as the Hashashin, or Assassin Order, made up at first mainly by the Ottoman Penal battalions made up of convicted criminals, who were promised a reduced sentence, or even outright freedom again, if they would serve a certain amount of years during the Second Great War, as manpower shortages were a cornea by many nation states of the conflict. The idea was then not so outlandish to use the “natural” skills these peoples already possessed, as mostly criminals with a brutal record of already harming others were used for this “volunteer” battalions, but to further foster and increase these tendencies as well. These criminals were therefore given special forces training and the ambitious plan was to task them with targeting and killing enemy officers, commanders, Admirals and even Generals, as well as political leaders at, or even behind the frontlines. The clearly states Neo-Ottoman Goal was to annihilate enough enemy leaders during the fighting, that they would interrupt the enemy command structure, that the Ottoman Forces would be capable of initiating new pushes down into Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Persia, Central Asia and India. Such ambitions however were mainly that, dreams of a few pan-Turnkic Nationalist enthusiasts of a grand Eurasian-African Empire once more, like in the dreams of old. In reality few of these Assassins had true success, often only those made up of Prisoners of War, who then were brainwashed and returned as Spies, Saboteurs and Killers into the former ranks of their Colonial Masters or Soviet Rulers that they hated much more then the Ottoman Turks, or the Axis Central Powers. Outside of thise however these penal battalions often only made headlines as brutish, barbaric forces, often indiscriminately fighting local civilians and prisoners of war as harshly and full of hatred then they did the enemy armed forces and leading to not only depopulated areas in their operation zones, but a contingently growing anti-Ottoman, anti-Turkish and anti-Axis Central Powers resistance and guerrilla force, especially among local Arabs, Persians, Georgians, Armenians and Russians along the Turkish Frontlines and Neo-Ottoman occupied regions.
Chapter 883: Operation U-Go
Chapter 883: Operation U-Go
After the Ceylon and East India raids by the Imperial Japanese Navy things had gotten quit on the Indian Front, as both sides amassed new forces in the region. The fact that the Allies supplied the Japanese enemies in China around Chunking with an air bridge from Dinja, Dibrugarh, Ledo, Golaghat, Dimapur and Lumding so close behind the contested border across the Chindwin River, as the railways from Calcutta and the river ways along the Brahmapuira connected so well to the area had been the reason for an earlier attack by the Tibetan Kingdom from the North across the Himalyas, that had however, because of a lack of overall manpower been halted in the End and only archived some success in Bhutan and Nepal, as well as Kashmir in Northwest India. As a result of that a faint attack directly into the Area towards Kohima and Impal was considered by the Japanese Fifteenth Army under General Renya Mutaguchi in Burma, made up by a few distraction Division and one true, real Pushing Force that comprised of 4 Motorized, Mechanized and one Tank Division, who for this purpose had partly been redirected from China and Russia in places were the frontliens had become an overall stalemate, as well as from some safer Garrisons in Southeast Asia, like Borneo and the Philippines.
While also Indian Forces of the Free Indian Legion and Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) were part of the Operation, their main purpose was clearly to use the 1943 Great Bengal Famine and refugee masses to not only sprea chaos in Assam and Bengal, but trick the Allies into committing more Forces, so they then could be surrounded in the region, cut of from the rest of India and an overall anti-British Imperial, anti-Raj Colonial Uprising would wash across all of India with Japanese Propaganda aid. On the side of the British were even some forces of the United Chinese Front, who had fought with the British to keep the Burma Road open, an initial plan that had failed with the Japanese Liberation of Burma. Since Assam and Bengal were also the most Europeans and Christian Regions in British India overall, as well as the old administration center of British Raj itself, the Imperial Japanese High Command anticipated clearly that the local resistance would be massive, but that if the enemy could be tricked, much of India would be ripe for the picking afterwards without much resistance, especially not when the Indians joined the Japanese in an Uprising.
Millions had died in the Bengal Famine and Riots and Uprisings, while uncoordinated had broken out across India, underestimating the local Indian Auxiliary Garrison and Army Forces supporting the Allies, as well as their potential Azad Hind Supporter Numbers to drive out the British, even the additional arriving Taikoku, Yunnan, Indian and Burmese Division could not tip this imbalance of power. Still anti-British sentiment in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Bangladesh promised Co-Prosperity Spies an easy victory as it gave a overall false intelligence view of all of India. Not only did the Northeast Indian Air Fields supply the Chinese United Front, the Allied Bombers there had also targeted the Burmese Oil Fields and in return the Japanese had bombed the Allied Oil Field in Digboi Northeast India, that produced close to 7,000 barrels per day (1,100 m3/d) of crude oil. This was the most regrettable decision of the Japanese Imperial Army Air Wing, as when they attached a year later, distracting the British Defenders and Allied Indian Border Armies along Kohima and Impal, while in reality pushing over the West Coast supported by a securing force of the Imperial Japanese Navy along Chittagong over Agarfala to Silchar and the Brahmaputra River in 1943. Pushing deep into Assam, the Japanese followed the enemy rail lines and cut off the Northern and Eastern part of Bengal and Assam completely, threatening the eight mainly Indian Allied Divisions caught there. While some Allied Forces had marched West and Escaped, when the Co-Prosperity Forces had been stopped along the Brahmapuira River and Pandu for some time, they ultimately had managed to push trough. By now however the Japanese and their Allies had overall 30,000 losses, the British and their Allies 21,000 that would later rise to 237,500 for the Co-Prosperity Sphere and 216,000 for the Allies when the Japanese decided to push onto Calcutta and at the same time eliminate the encircled Allied Forces in Assam as well.
After the Ceylon and East India raids by the Imperial Japanese Navy things had gotten quit on the Indian Front, as both sides amassed new forces in the region. The fact that the Allies supplied the Japanese enemies in China around Chunking with an air bridge from Dinja, Dibrugarh, Ledo, Golaghat, Dimapur and Lumding so close behind the contested border across the Chindwin River, as the railways from Calcutta and the river ways along the Brahmapuira connected so well to the area had been the reason for an earlier attack by the Tibetan Kingdom from the North across the Himalyas, that had however, because of a lack of overall manpower been halted in the End and only archived some success in Bhutan and Nepal, as well as Kashmir in Northwest India. As a result of that a faint attack directly into the Area towards Kohima and Impal was considered by the Japanese Fifteenth Army under General Renya Mutaguchi in Burma, made up by a few distraction Division and one true, real Pushing Force that comprised of 4 Motorized, Mechanized and one Tank Division, who for this purpose had partly been redirected from China and Russia in places were the frontliens had become an overall stalemate, as well as from some safer Garrisons in Southeast Asia, like Borneo and the Philippines.
While also Indian Forces of the Free Indian Legion and Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) were part of the Operation, their main purpose was clearly to use the 1943 Great Bengal Famine and refugee masses to not only sprea chaos in Assam and Bengal, but trick the Allies into committing more Forces, so they then could be surrounded in the region, cut of from the rest of India and an overall anti-British Imperial, anti-Raj Colonial Uprising would wash across all of India with Japanese Propaganda aid. On the side of the British were even some forces of the United Chinese Front, who had fought with the British to keep the Burma Road open, an initial plan that had failed with the Japanese Liberation of Burma. Since Assam and Bengal were also the most Europeans and Christian Regions in British India overall, as well as the old administration center of British Raj itself, the Imperial Japanese High Command anticipated clearly that the local resistance would be massive, but that if the enemy could be tricked, much of India would be ripe for the picking afterwards without much resistance, especially not when the Indians joined the Japanese in an Uprising.
Millions had died in the Bengal Famine and Riots and Uprisings, while uncoordinated had broken out across India, underestimating the local Indian Auxiliary Garrison and Army Forces supporting the Allies, as well as their potential Azad Hind Supporter Numbers to drive out the British, even the additional arriving Taikoku, Yunnan, Indian and Burmese Division could not tip this imbalance of power. Still anti-British sentiment in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Bangladesh promised Co-Prosperity Spies an easy victory as it gave a overall false intelligence view of all of India. Not only did the Northeast Indian Air Fields supply the Chinese United Front, the Allied Bombers there had also targeted the Burmese Oil Fields and in return the Japanese had bombed the Allied Oil Field in Digboi Northeast India, that produced close to 7,000 barrels per day (1,100 m3/d) of crude oil. This was the most regrettable decision of the Japanese Imperial Army Air Wing, as when they attached a year later, distracting the British Defenders and Allied Indian Border Armies along Kohima and Impal, while in reality pushing over the West Coast supported by a securing force of the Imperial Japanese Navy along Chittagong over Agarfala to Silchar and the Brahmaputra River in 1943. Pushing deep into Assam, the Japanese followed the enemy rail lines and cut off the Northern and Eastern part of Bengal and Assam completely, threatening the eight mainly Indian Allied Divisions caught there. While some Allied Forces had marched West and Escaped, when the Co-Prosperity Forces had been stopped along the Brahmapuira River and Pandu for some time, they ultimately had managed to push trough. By now however the Japanese and their Allies had overall 30,000 losses, the British and their Allies 21,000 that would later rise to 237,500 for the Co-Prosperity Sphere and 216,000 for the Allies when the Japanese decided to push onto Calcutta and at the same time eliminate the encircled Allied Forces in Assam as well.
Maybe you're in the wrong AU/TL then friend, because this ones post-war maps and outcome as well as POD and were it's heading have been the very same since 2017, this ain't Our Kaiserreich Japan old friend ;D
Even this Post-War US Map after the Second US Civil War has been postet nearly two years ago now, so nothing is new in any of those chapters reguarding what is happening, nor the upcoming Post-War World for the Four Powers Cold War Coming up.
While I do confess some of it is slightly ASB, mainly because of readers ideas and implementation goign into it over the last years, who are even way more fascinating and crazy then some of the stuff I have come up with over time. I mean the basic premise is still Co-Prosperity Sphere is mroe honest and works and the Central Powers return in form of the Axis Powers for Round Two, so ... the whole Concept is slightly ASB from the very beginning and the POD therefore is clearly in the 1910s and 1920s before things go down like OTL.
All that said I'm open to criticism and ideas on hiw to improve this AU/TL without straying away from the desired outcome it has in mind at any given time.
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Chapter 884: Hitler's former Cabinet – A tale of Robert Ley
Chapter 884: Hitler's former Cabinet – A tale of Robert Ley
The German German politician, labour-union leader, as well as head of the German Labour Front from 193, Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter among many other high positions in the German Nazi Party Robert Ley had been born in Niederbreidenbach in the Rhine Province, the seventh of 11 children of farmer, Friedrich Ley, and his wife Emilie. A Student of chemistry at the universities of Jena, Bonn, and Münster, he had volunteered like so many for the army at the Outbreak of the Great War in 1914 and spent two years as part of the 10th Foot Artillery Regiment on the Eastern Front and Western Front alike. By 1916 he was Lieutenant and a trained artillery spotter for the Artillery Flier Detachment 202, before in July 1917 his Aircraft was shot down in France and he became a prisoner of war. He also most likely received head injuries during the crash, as ever since he spoke with a stammer and suffered bouts of erratic behaviour, aggravated by heavy drinking. His services earned him the Iron Cross, 2nd class and the Wound Badge, in silver. Being a Prisoner of War until 1920 Ley returned studying food chemistry and worked in the field for the giant IG Farben company in Leverkusen, Ruhr were thanks to the French occupation in 1924 he joined the ultra-nationalist Nazi Party in which he would prove loyal without a doubt. His own upbringing and part of being in the larges working-class party made hum sympathetic to the socialist and workers elements of the Party and the Voters alike, but in any question he would ultimately always side with Hitler. In this role he also survived internal rivalries, like the one with the party treasurer, Franz Xaver Schwarz and became Deputy Gauleiter of the Rhineland in 1925. That same year he would become a member of the National Socialist Working Association, a short-lived group of northern and western German Gauleiters, organized and led by Gregor Strasser who formed the Party-internal socialist wing, but would fail to gain control and Lay later objected Strasser’s new draft program, before the Bamberg Conference dissolved the group. By 1928 Lay would be made editor and publisher of the immensely anti-Semitic Nazi newspaper, the Westdeutscher Beobachter (West German Observer) in Cologne and elected to the Prussian Landtag, as part of the Rhenish provincial legislature for Cologne-Aachen and again held the position in 1930, before in 1931 his Gau was divided and the position given to two new Gauleiter.
Ley himself in compensation was made Ley was styled Reichsorganisationsinspekteur and conducted inspection visits to the various Gaue and after some reorganizing by Strasser, he became one of the two Reichsinspecteurs with oversight of approximately half of all Gaue, as well as Acting Landesinspekteur for Bavaria with direct responsibility for the six Bavarian Gaue in an attempt to further centralize the Gaue of Germany. As the Gauleiters opposed this Strasser fell from power and resigned after breaking with Hitler over the Future of the Party. Hitler then in his own position as Reichsorganisationsleiter made Ley Stabschef (Chief of Staff), abolished the Reichsinspecteur and Landesinspekteur and when taking over Germany in 1933 Lay became Reichsleiter, the second highest political rank in the Nazi Party, where he became a member of the reconstituted Prussian State Council by Prussian Minister-President Hermann Goring and soon was promoted to the position of Reichsorganisationsleiter. When Hitler made the decision to have the Nazi’s take over the Trade Union Movement Ley was put in charge of the enwly established German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), which forced the Trade Unions under it’s own National Socialist Factory Cell Organisation (Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation, NSBO) as the main Trade Union Federation. As Ley lacjed administration abilities, a member of the socialist wing of the Nazi Party Reinhold Muchow soon led the NSBO instead and began purging former ex-Social Democrats and ex-Communists and placing his own militants instead, agitating the factories on issues of wages and conditions, annoying the employers, which soon angered Hitler and the Nazi Leadershi, who soon assumed the DAF was as bad as the Communists before. Oppsoing such Syndicalist Tendencies a new Law for the Ordering of National Labour by Hitler was meant to bring the NSBO back in line, suppressing any suppressed independent working-class factory organizations, put the questions of wages and conditions in the hands of the Trustees of Labour (Treuhänder der Arbeit) and purged Muchow, so that Ley’s control was reassured.
With the NSBO suppressed and the DAF being another arm of the Nazi Party, labor deployment and discipline now served the regime, especially during the massive arms industry expansion. Heading this Labor Front, Ley invited Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, to conduct a tour of Germany in 1937, months after Edward had abdicated the British throne. Ley reinstalled as DAF head, Reichsorganisationsleiter, and Reichstag deputy and with large profits from his Westdeutscher Beobachter, freely embezzled DAF funds for his personal use so that by 1938 he owned a luxurious estate near Cologne, a string of villas in other cities, a fleet of cars, a private railway carriage and a large art collection and used his funds for womanizing and heavy drinking, both of which often led to embarrassing scenes in public. One of his drunken brawls would in 1942 lead to his Inge Ursula née Spilcker shooting herself and the DAF became one of the most corrupt institutions in all of Nazi Germany, in large parts thanks to Ley. As control of the trade unions, the prevention of wage increases by the Trustees of Labour system and the relentless demands for increased productivity to hasten German rearmament grew the discontent of the Working Class, the DAF was tasked with established Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF), to provide a range of benefits and amenities to the German working class and their families, like subsidizing holiday resorts and cruise-liners, like the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Robert Ley, which offered Mediterranean cruises, operas, concerts, some even within the factories, free physical education and gymnastics training and coaching in sports such as football, tennis and sailing were paid for by the DAF with 29 million Reichsmark a year in 1937, reconciling the working class to the regime by 1939. Other ambitious DAF programs, like the Volkswagen (People’s Car) and the party took over the industries, thanks to the short-sightedness, malevolence, profiteering and stupidity of the business clas. While a payment plan worked fine, the outbreak of the war in reality meant none of the 340,000 workers who paid for a car ever received one until after the War, as military vehicles were now build instead. The war saw the importance and influence of Ley decline, the militarized workforce saw more and more resources go into the war effort and the role of the DAF was reduced to a auxillery workforce for military means. Ley himself felt this too, as his drunkenness and erratic behavior were no longer tolerated in war times and instead Armaments Minister Fritz Todt with his Organisation Todt (OT) and Albert Speer would succeed him as the leader of the German Workforce.
With more German Workers being conscripted as soldiers however more and more guest workers and forced labor, including Prisoners of War from Poland Ukraine and other places of Europe had to fill their role, thanks to Ley, Plenipotentiary for the Distribution of Labour (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) since March 1942. Ley himself msitreeted foreign slave workers and after the German Military Coup he alongside Paul Plieger head of the giant Hermann Göring Works industrial combine and leaders of the German coal industry. Because he had lacked any civility and compassion, not compassion, and his comments of Russian Pics led to a unfavorable situation for Ley during his trials. Seen as a part of Hitler’s Inner Circle like Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels, even his more prominent role as the Reich Commissioner for Social Housing Construction (Reichskommissar für den sozialen Wohnungsbau), later shortened to Reich Housing Commissioner (Reichswohnungskommissar) which prepared for the German Housing crisis in anticipation of Allied Bombings by 1940 now turned against him ever since the bombing of German cities from 1941 onward. His dehousing of the German Worker, misuse of forced slave labor and other programs like the misuse of concentration camp political, ideological, racial and religious prisoners as forced labor, as well as his meeting with Speer, Bormann and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel regarding the Jewish Question, because he accused the Jewish People of plotting the extermination of Germans with aid of the Allies. With the German Military oup and arrest of the Nazi Party Ley still remained loyal to Hitler, stating "You can torture or beat me or impale me on a stake. But I will never doubt the greater deeds of Hitler." Trialed for conspiring to wage aggressive war in violation of international law or treaties, bringing a once more unified and rising Germany inoo a global conflicts, War Crimes, including among other things mistreatment of prisoners of war or civilian populations, Crimes Against German Citizens and Humanity in general, including murder, extermination, enslavement of civilian populations; persecution on the basis of racial, religious or political grounds. Reviewed by a psychiatrist and psychologist for apparently mental instability and insanity, he was found healthy enough to understand what he did and receive his prison Shortly before the trial began however, Ley had been tearing a towel into strips, fastened to the toilet pipe in his cell to a noose and strangled himself to death in his prison cell.
The German German politician, labour-union leader, as well as head of the German Labour Front from 193, Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter among many other high positions in the German Nazi Party Robert Ley had been born in Niederbreidenbach in the Rhine Province, the seventh of 11 children of farmer, Friedrich Ley, and his wife Emilie. A Student of chemistry at the universities of Jena, Bonn, and Münster, he had volunteered like so many for the army at the Outbreak of the Great War in 1914 and spent two years as part of the 10th Foot Artillery Regiment on the Eastern Front and Western Front alike. By 1916 he was Lieutenant and a trained artillery spotter for the Artillery Flier Detachment 202, before in July 1917 his Aircraft was shot down in France and he became a prisoner of war. He also most likely received head injuries during the crash, as ever since he spoke with a stammer and suffered bouts of erratic behaviour, aggravated by heavy drinking. His services earned him the Iron Cross, 2nd class and the Wound Badge, in silver. Being a Prisoner of War until 1920 Ley returned studying food chemistry and worked in the field for the giant IG Farben company in Leverkusen, Ruhr were thanks to the French occupation in 1924 he joined the ultra-nationalist Nazi Party in which he would prove loyal without a doubt. His own upbringing and part of being in the larges working-class party made hum sympathetic to the socialist and workers elements of the Party and the Voters alike, but in any question he would ultimately always side with Hitler. In this role he also survived internal rivalries, like the one with the party treasurer, Franz Xaver Schwarz and became Deputy Gauleiter of the Rhineland in 1925. That same year he would become a member of the National Socialist Working Association, a short-lived group of northern and western German Gauleiters, organized and led by Gregor Strasser who formed the Party-internal socialist wing, but would fail to gain control and Lay later objected Strasser’s new draft program, before the Bamberg Conference dissolved the group. By 1928 Lay would be made editor and publisher of the immensely anti-Semitic Nazi newspaper, the Westdeutscher Beobachter (West German Observer) in Cologne and elected to the Prussian Landtag, as part of the Rhenish provincial legislature for Cologne-Aachen and again held the position in 1930, before in 1931 his Gau was divided and the position given to two new Gauleiter.
Ley himself in compensation was made Ley was styled Reichsorganisationsinspekteur and conducted inspection visits to the various Gaue and after some reorganizing by Strasser, he became one of the two Reichsinspecteurs with oversight of approximately half of all Gaue, as well as Acting Landesinspekteur for Bavaria with direct responsibility for the six Bavarian Gaue in an attempt to further centralize the Gaue of Germany. As the Gauleiters opposed this Strasser fell from power and resigned after breaking with Hitler over the Future of the Party. Hitler then in his own position as Reichsorganisationsleiter made Ley Stabschef (Chief of Staff), abolished the Reichsinspecteur and Landesinspekteur and when taking over Germany in 1933 Lay became Reichsleiter, the second highest political rank in the Nazi Party, where he became a member of the reconstituted Prussian State Council by Prussian Minister-President Hermann Goring and soon was promoted to the position of Reichsorganisationsleiter. When Hitler made the decision to have the Nazi’s take over the Trade Union Movement Ley was put in charge of the enwly established German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), which forced the Trade Unions under it’s own National Socialist Factory Cell Organisation (Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation, NSBO) as the main Trade Union Federation. As Ley lacjed administration abilities, a member of the socialist wing of the Nazi Party Reinhold Muchow soon led the NSBO instead and began purging former ex-Social Democrats and ex-Communists and placing his own militants instead, agitating the factories on issues of wages and conditions, annoying the employers, which soon angered Hitler and the Nazi Leadershi, who soon assumed the DAF was as bad as the Communists before. Oppsoing such Syndicalist Tendencies a new Law for the Ordering of National Labour by Hitler was meant to bring the NSBO back in line, suppressing any suppressed independent working-class factory organizations, put the questions of wages and conditions in the hands of the Trustees of Labour (Treuhänder der Arbeit) and purged Muchow, so that Ley’s control was reassured.
With the NSBO suppressed and the DAF being another arm of the Nazi Party, labor deployment and discipline now served the regime, especially during the massive arms industry expansion. Heading this Labor Front, Ley invited Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, to conduct a tour of Germany in 1937, months after Edward had abdicated the British throne. Ley reinstalled as DAF head, Reichsorganisationsleiter, and Reichstag deputy and with large profits from his Westdeutscher Beobachter, freely embezzled DAF funds for his personal use so that by 1938 he owned a luxurious estate near Cologne, a string of villas in other cities, a fleet of cars, a private railway carriage and a large art collection and used his funds for womanizing and heavy drinking, both of which often led to embarrassing scenes in public. One of his drunken brawls would in 1942 lead to his Inge Ursula née Spilcker shooting herself and the DAF became one of the most corrupt institutions in all of Nazi Germany, in large parts thanks to Ley. As control of the trade unions, the prevention of wage increases by the Trustees of Labour system and the relentless demands for increased productivity to hasten German rearmament grew the discontent of the Working Class, the DAF was tasked with established Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF), to provide a range of benefits and amenities to the German working class and their families, like subsidizing holiday resorts and cruise-liners, like the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Robert Ley, which offered Mediterranean cruises, operas, concerts, some even within the factories, free physical education and gymnastics training and coaching in sports such as football, tennis and sailing were paid for by the DAF with 29 million Reichsmark a year in 1937, reconciling the working class to the regime by 1939. Other ambitious DAF programs, like the Volkswagen (People’s Car) and the party took over the industries, thanks to the short-sightedness, malevolence, profiteering and stupidity of the business clas. While a payment plan worked fine, the outbreak of the war in reality meant none of the 340,000 workers who paid for a car ever received one until after the War, as military vehicles were now build instead. The war saw the importance and influence of Ley decline, the militarized workforce saw more and more resources go into the war effort and the role of the DAF was reduced to a auxillery workforce for military means. Ley himself felt this too, as his drunkenness and erratic behavior were no longer tolerated in war times and instead Armaments Minister Fritz Todt with his Organisation Todt (OT) and Albert Speer would succeed him as the leader of the German Workforce.
With more German Workers being conscripted as soldiers however more and more guest workers and forced labor, including Prisoners of War from Poland Ukraine and other places of Europe had to fill their role, thanks to Ley, Plenipotentiary for the Distribution of Labour (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) since March 1942. Ley himself msitreeted foreign slave workers and after the German Military Coup he alongside Paul Plieger head of the giant Hermann Göring Works industrial combine and leaders of the German coal industry. Because he had lacked any civility and compassion, not compassion, and his comments of Russian Pics led to a unfavorable situation for Ley during his trials. Seen as a part of Hitler’s Inner Circle like Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels, even his more prominent role as the Reich Commissioner for Social Housing Construction (Reichskommissar für den sozialen Wohnungsbau), later shortened to Reich Housing Commissioner (Reichswohnungskommissar) which prepared for the German Housing crisis in anticipation of Allied Bombings by 1940 now turned against him ever since the bombing of German cities from 1941 onward. His dehousing of the German Worker, misuse of forced slave labor and other programs like the misuse of concentration camp political, ideological, racial and religious prisoners as forced labor, as well as his meeting with Speer, Bormann and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel regarding the Jewish Question, because he accused the Jewish People of plotting the extermination of Germans with aid of the Allies. With the German Military oup and arrest of the Nazi Party Ley still remained loyal to Hitler, stating "You can torture or beat me or impale me on a stake. But I will never doubt the greater deeds of Hitler." Trialed for conspiring to wage aggressive war in violation of international law or treaties, bringing a once more unified and rising Germany inoo a global conflicts, War Crimes, including among other things mistreatment of prisoners of war or civilian populations, Crimes Against German Citizens and Humanity in general, including murder, extermination, enslavement of civilian populations; persecution on the basis of racial, religious or political grounds. Reviewed by a psychiatrist and psychologist for apparently mental instability and insanity, he was found healthy enough to understand what he did and receive his prison Shortly before the trial began however, Ley had been tearing a towel into strips, fastened to the toilet pipe in his cell to a noose and strangled himself to death in his prison cell.
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Ah ok it's literally a year since I was here and forgot about it so...
Respect, I literally forget stuff every week, let alone longer then that, so I know to well how that is, why do you think my readers have to remind me of stuff I forgot half the time
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. A little belayed this year, but yesterday was a rather packed and full day (don't get me wrong today will be too, but not as much) also updates coming in for TTL before New Year, as beside the Genii Stargate and Russian Siberia Stargate one it is the only TL still on my curreent update to do list not done yet ;D
Chapture coming, uniform picture is taking some time, need something better then paint :'O
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Chapter 885: Imperial Mengjiang Army
Chapter 885: Imperial Mengjiang Army
The Imperial Mengjiang Army (IMA) of the Mengjiang Khanate, a member state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere was mainly crewed with the dominating Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian population, but also with Japanese, often ones who had before been served in the Imperial Japanese Army and now held officer positions beside the Manchurian/ Manchu themselves. When the Kahnate of Inner Mongolia/ Mengjiang gained independence formed the Co-Prosperity Sphere together with Japan (Nippon), Manchuria and Korea, Prince Demchugdongrub the lather Khan sided with other Inner Mongolian Nobles not only to gain independence from China, but to also reunite all Mongolian clans, tribes and lands in Asia once more. At the beginning of the war in Asia, Mengjiang only was made up by 2,000,000 people, who rose to 4,000,000 during the Suiyuan Campaign. The original Mengjiang Army was made up of eleven divisions, formed from Prince De Wang personal Guard and the Mongolian Banner alongside Li Shouxin, Jodbajab, Altanochir and Wang Ying into an army of 200,000 who would operate in the Suiyuan Campaign, Operation Cahar and the Liberation/ Invasion of Outer Mongolia (the Mongolian People’s Republic). While some Japanese and Han Chinese lived in Mengjiang, most members of the new army were Inner Mongolians and was made up of all cavalry, with little heavy equipment at first.
Therefore no Han Chinese Banners existed and no Han Chinese were in the Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian forces and even regular Han Chinese civilians were expelled south to the Reorganized Chinese Nanjing Government and state. Throughout the War the Mengjiang Army would rise to 400,000 and later to 800,000 and ultimately 1,200,000 soldiers the same way the Mongolian Mengjiang population had risen from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000, then 8,000,000 and ultimately 12,000,000. Most battles they saw alongside other forces of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and Yen-Block alongside Manchurian/ Manchu and Japanese ones were against the Xiangjing/ East Turkestand/ the Ma Clique, the Chinese Republic, the Chinese Communists, as well as later the Mongolian People’s Republic and the Soviet Union. Thanks to it’s position in northern Central Asia, northern East Asia and Siberia, the Khanate of Mengjiang would become a later major part of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and Yen-Block for the European-Asian trade alongside the New Silk Road Road and Railway network build later on. Mainly consisting of Cavalry and later motorized and mechanized infantry, the Mengjiang Army mostly used outdated older Japanese equipment, but since their independence, they also started to supply their own forces, either by building some originally Japanese designs, or their own take on some of these.
The Uniforms of the IMA were directly modeled after the Imperial Japanese Ones, but the color scheme of their elements was more in the blue color scheme of the Imperial Mengjiang Flag, which itself was modeled after the Blue that stood for the Mongolians on the Chinese Republic Flag, as well as the blue banner of the Mongol Empire. Since these colors were easy to spot, some camouflage uniforms besides these parade uniforms, depending on where they were stationed in operations existed, most in a brownish or gray tone of the Mongolian Steppes and the Gobi Desert. Because of the mostly offensive role of the IMA, many of it's Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian Commanders and Generals while being skilled in Offensive Doctrines, Blitzkrieg, Mobile Offensives, but also thanks to Banditry were skilled in fighting against Partisan and Guerrilla forces, Grassland, Steppe, Hill and Mountain Warfare, as well as being aware of their Mongolian homeland in was the best, when it came to offensive tactics and strategies, or invasions across Eurasia. For the Hokushin-Ron, the Northern Strategy/ Northern Assault on the Soviet Union, they thereby played a main major role, where they accompanied the Imperial Japanese Army, the Imperial Chosen Army and the Imperial Manchurian Army and helped during this initial phase to push not into Russia and the Soviet Union itself, but it’s Mongolian people’s Republic ally.
They would follow the main roads to Urga (later Ulaanbaatar, or Ulan Bator; Red Hero), the capital of the Mongolian People’s Republic following the caravan and motor route north to the Trans-Siberian Railway, liberating/ conquering/ annexing all lands of the Mongols in Mongolia, Tunna Tuva and the Soviet Union. In the Area the Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian Army forces made up the bulk of the Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces, with two, later three, then four armies, Othe targets were Uliassutai, Kyzyl (Red or Crimson, the Tuvan capital, formerly Belotsarsk, the White Tsar’s Town), Chita, Lake Baikal and Irkutsk until the Amur River, were Manchurian/ Manchu/ Manchukuo Imperial territory began. Cutting off the Russian/ Soviet Red Army Forces in East Asia by blocking the Trans-Siberian Railway, as well as following the Inner Mongolian and Xinkiang/ Sinkiang Caravan and Motor Route along Ansi, Urumchi to Sergiopol in Central Asia. Efforts to make this mobile warfare faster and less cavalry and horse dependent often clashed with the simply reality of poor or non existing road and railway infrastructure to supply any motorized and mechanized infantry and divisions that could be used instead, which was why only two, later four overall such divisions served in the Inner Mongolian/ Mengjiang Army throughout the Second Great War. The same was however true for the Mongolian People’s Republic, the Soviet Union and their forces as well and so both sides had to build new roads and railways across Central Asia, Siberia and East Asia to keep the frontline there mobile and also oppose the growing banditry, gangs, rebellions and uprisings of ethnic and religious minority groups in these areas throughout the Second Great War.
The Imperial Mengjiang Army (IMA) of the Mengjiang Khanate, a member state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere was mainly crewed with the dominating Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian population, but also with Japanese, often ones who had before been served in the Imperial Japanese Army and now held officer positions beside the Manchurian/ Manchu themselves. When the Kahnate of Inner Mongolia/ Mengjiang gained independence formed the Co-Prosperity Sphere together with Japan (Nippon), Manchuria and Korea, Prince Demchugdongrub the lather Khan sided with other Inner Mongolian Nobles not only to gain independence from China, but to also reunite all Mongolian clans, tribes and lands in Asia once more. At the beginning of the war in Asia, Mengjiang only was made up by 2,000,000 people, who rose to 4,000,000 during the Suiyuan Campaign. The original Mengjiang Army was made up of eleven divisions, formed from Prince De Wang personal Guard and the Mongolian Banner alongside Li Shouxin, Jodbajab, Altanochir and Wang Ying into an army of 200,000 who would operate in the Suiyuan Campaign, Operation Cahar and the Liberation/ Invasion of Outer Mongolia (the Mongolian People’s Republic). While some Japanese and Han Chinese lived in Mengjiang, most members of the new army were Inner Mongolians and was made up of all cavalry, with little heavy equipment at first.
Therefore no Han Chinese Banners existed and no Han Chinese were in the Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian forces and even regular Han Chinese civilians were expelled south to the Reorganized Chinese Nanjing Government and state. Throughout the War the Mengjiang Army would rise to 400,000 and later to 800,000 and ultimately 1,200,000 soldiers the same way the Mongolian Mengjiang population had risen from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000, then 8,000,000 and ultimately 12,000,000. Most battles they saw alongside other forces of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and Yen-Block alongside Manchurian/ Manchu and Japanese ones were against the Xiangjing/ East Turkestand/ the Ma Clique, the Chinese Republic, the Chinese Communists, as well as later the Mongolian People’s Republic and the Soviet Union. Thanks to it’s position in northern Central Asia, northern East Asia and Siberia, the Khanate of Mengjiang would become a later major part of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and Yen-Block for the European-Asian trade alongside the New Silk Road Road and Railway network build later on. Mainly consisting of Cavalry and later motorized and mechanized infantry, the Mengjiang Army mostly used outdated older Japanese equipment, but since their independence, they also started to supply their own forces, either by building some originally Japanese designs, or their own take on some of these.
The Uniforms of the IMA were directly modeled after the Imperial Japanese Ones, but the color scheme of their elements was more in the blue color scheme of the Imperial Mengjiang Flag, which itself was modeled after the Blue that stood for the Mongolians on the Chinese Republic Flag, as well as the blue banner of the Mongol Empire. Since these colors were easy to spot, some camouflage uniforms besides these parade uniforms, depending on where they were stationed in operations existed, most in a brownish or gray tone of the Mongolian Steppes and the Gobi Desert. Because of the mostly offensive role of the IMA, many of it's Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian Commanders and Generals while being skilled in Offensive Doctrines, Blitzkrieg, Mobile Offensives, but also thanks to Banditry were skilled in fighting against Partisan and Guerrilla forces, Grassland, Steppe, Hill and Mountain Warfare, as well as being aware of their Mongolian homeland in was the best, when it came to offensive tactics and strategies, or invasions across Eurasia. For the Hokushin-Ron, the Northern Strategy/ Northern Assault on the Soviet Union, they thereby played a main major role, where they accompanied the Imperial Japanese Army, the Imperial Chosen Army and the Imperial Manchurian Army and helped during this initial phase to push not into Russia and the Soviet Union itself, but it’s Mongolian people’s Republic ally.
They would follow the main roads to Urga (later Ulaanbaatar, or Ulan Bator; Red Hero), the capital of the Mongolian People’s Republic following the caravan and motor route north to the Trans-Siberian Railway, liberating/ conquering/ annexing all lands of the Mongols in Mongolia, Tunna Tuva and the Soviet Union. In the Area the Mengjiang/ Inner Mongolian Army forces made up the bulk of the Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces, with two, later three, then four armies, Othe targets were Uliassutai, Kyzyl (Red or Crimson, the Tuvan capital, formerly Belotsarsk, the White Tsar’s Town), Chita, Lake Baikal and Irkutsk until the Amur River, were Manchurian/ Manchu/ Manchukuo Imperial territory began. Cutting off the Russian/ Soviet Red Army Forces in East Asia by blocking the Trans-Siberian Railway, as well as following the Inner Mongolian and Xinkiang/ Sinkiang Caravan and Motor Route along Ansi, Urumchi to Sergiopol in Central Asia. Efforts to make this mobile warfare faster and less cavalry and horse dependent often clashed with the simply reality of poor or non existing road and railway infrastructure to supply any motorized and mechanized infantry and divisions that could be used instead, which was why only two, later four overall such divisions served in the Inner Mongolian/ Mengjiang Army throughout the Second Great War. The same was however true for the Mongolian People’s Republic, the Soviet Union and their forces as well and so both sides had to build new roads and railways across Central Asia, Siberia and East Asia to keep the frontline there mobile and also oppose the growing banditry, gangs, rebellions and uprisings of ethnic and religious minority groups in these areas throughout the Second Great War.
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Uniforms, Ranks, Tactics and Strategy of the Imperial Chosen Army
Uniforms, Ranks, Tactics and Strategy of the Imperial Chosen Army:
The Imperial Chosen Army (ICA) of the Empire of Chosen, a member state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere was mainly crewed with Koreans, often ones who had before been served in the Imperial Japanese Army. When the Empire of Chosen gained independence formed the Co-Prosperity Sphere together with Japan (Nippon) and Manchukuo in April 1935. Married with the Japanese Princess Masako of Nashimoto since 1920, the Chosen Hwangje (Emperor) Ri Gin (also known as Uimin or Euimin) commanded them from Gyeongbokgung Chosen Palace alongside Japanese advisers. Because of increasing Japanese settlers, that soon made up 2,000,000 of the 24,000,000 citizens in Chosen, many Japanese served in the Imperial Chosen Army and equally many Chosen, who had before independence served in the Imperial Japanese Army. Together they formed the core of the officer and command corps of the Imperial Chosen Army, that during the heights of the Second Great War numbered around 2,000,00 to 2,500,000 soldiers, or roughtly about 10% of the overall Chosen Population. They would see battles all around the Co-Prosperity Sphere and while parts of it's forces stayed in Korea and Manchuria, fighting the Soviet Union, many of them also saw the battles in Southeast Asia and the Pacific alongside their Asian brothers, defending the the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Yen-Block, while inside of both the Empire of Chosen became a powerful and important national member state. They were often outdated with older Jpanese equipment, but since their independence, they also started to supply their own forces, either by building some originally Japanese designs, or their own take on some of these.
The Uniforms of the ICA were directly modelled after the Imperial Japanese Ones, but the color sheme of their elements was more in the red color sheme of the Imperial Chosen Flag (the Yang), but also used camouflage uniforms besides these parade uniforms, depending on where they were stationed in operations. In the new Chosen Empire, this Yang part of the flag and the Yi (Fire) and Kun (Heaven) sign it pointed up to represented the new Imperial Chosen Army, as well as the Chosen/ Korean peninsula and it's skies as a new “independent” member State of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, that they defended. Because of the mostly defensice role of the ICA, many of it's Chosen Commanders and Generals while being skilled in Defensive Doctrines, Skirmishes, Ambushes, Camouflage, Guerillia Fighting, Hill and Mountain Warfare, as well as well aware of their homeland in the Chosen/ Korean Peninsula were not the best, when it came to offensice tactics and strategies, or invasions. For the Hokushin-Ron, the Northern Strategy/ Northern Assault on the Soviet Union, they thereby only played a secondary role, where they accompanied the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Chosen Army helped during this initial phase to push onto Wladiwostok (later annexed by Manchukuo and renamed Haishenwai again). The majority of the Imperial Chosen Army however was part of two groups, the Imperial Chosen Border Army, at the Northenr border to Manchuria along the Yalu River and the Tuman River, that also had a secondary defense line along the Taedong River and a third one along the Imjin River, all of them supported with trenches, bunkers, fortifications, artillery, anti-tank, anti-aircraft and mortar positions. The second major group of the Imperial Chosen Army was the Imperial Chosen Peninsula Army, tasked with defending the coastlines of the Chosen/ Korean Peninsula form any form of Allied or Soviet invasion. This also meant that they cooperated with the overall Imperial Chosen Police, the local Imperial Chosen Militia to protect local peace and security, engage against bandits and anti-government Bandit Gangs and Rebels (like Socialist and Communist uprising Peasent rebellions) and even the Chosen Imperial Guard, who secured the Hwangje Ri Gin, the Imperial Chosen Family and all their palaces, holdings and direct possessions.
The Imperial Chosen Army (ICA) of the Empire of Chosen, a member state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere was mainly crewed with Koreans, often ones who had before been served in the Imperial Japanese Army. When the Empire of Chosen gained independence formed the Co-Prosperity Sphere together with Japan (Nippon) and Manchukuo in April 1935. Married with the Japanese Princess Masako of Nashimoto since 1920, the Chosen Hwangje (Emperor) Ri Gin (also known as Uimin or Euimin) commanded them from Gyeongbokgung Chosen Palace alongside Japanese advisers. Because of increasing Japanese settlers, that soon made up 2,000,000 of the 24,000,000 citizens in Chosen, many Japanese served in the Imperial Chosen Army and equally many Chosen, who had before independence served in the Imperial Japanese Army. Together they formed the core of the officer and command corps of the Imperial Chosen Army, that during the heights of the Second Great War numbered around 2,000,00 to 2,500,000 soldiers, or roughtly about 10% of the overall Chosen Population. They would see battles all around the Co-Prosperity Sphere and while parts of it's forces stayed in Korea and Manchuria, fighting the Soviet Union, many of them also saw the battles in Southeast Asia and the Pacific alongside their Asian brothers, defending the the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Yen-Block, while inside of both the Empire of Chosen became a powerful and important national member state. They were often outdated with older Jpanese equipment, but since their independence, they also started to supply their own forces, either by building some originally Japanese designs, or their own take on some of these.
The Uniforms of the ICA were directly modelled after the Imperial Japanese Ones, but the color sheme of their elements was more in the red color sheme of the Imperial Chosen Flag (the Yang), but also used camouflage uniforms besides these parade uniforms, depending on where they were stationed in operations. In the new Chosen Empire, this Yang part of the flag and the Yi (Fire) and Kun (Heaven) sign it pointed up to represented the new Imperial Chosen Army, as well as the Chosen/ Korean peninsula and it's skies as a new “independent” member State of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, that they defended. Because of the mostly defensice role of the ICA, many of it's Chosen Commanders and Generals while being skilled in Defensive Doctrines, Skirmishes, Ambushes, Camouflage, Guerillia Fighting, Hill and Mountain Warfare, as well as well aware of their homeland in the Chosen/ Korean Peninsula were not the best, when it came to offensice tactics and strategies, or invasions. For the Hokushin-Ron, the Northern Strategy/ Northern Assault on the Soviet Union, they thereby only played a secondary role, where they accompanied the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Chosen Army helped during this initial phase to push onto Wladiwostok (later annexed by Manchukuo and renamed Haishenwai again). The majority of the Imperial Chosen Army however was part of two groups, the Imperial Chosen Border Army, at the Northenr border to Manchuria along the Yalu River and the Tuman River, that also had a secondary defense line along the Taedong River and a third one along the Imjin River, all of them supported with trenches, bunkers, fortifications, artillery, anti-tank, anti-aircraft and mortar positions. The second major group of the Imperial Chosen Army was the Imperial Chosen Peninsula Army, tasked with defending the coastlines of the Chosen/ Korean Peninsula form any form of Allied or Soviet invasion. This also meant that they cooperated with the overall Imperial Chosen Police, the local Imperial Chosen Militia to protect local peace and security, engage against bandits and anti-government Bandit Gangs and Rebels (like Socialist and Communist uprising Peasent rebellions) and even the Chosen Imperial Guard, who secured the Hwangje Ri Gin, the Imperial Chosen Family and all their palaces, holdings and direct possessions.
unsure if we allready had the last chapter, but since it was withotu chapter number I reuploaded it just to make sure we had it in here ^^
I know this will sound silly, but a chapter about the Mengjiang Navy is coming up, now I know what many might thing, why would a landlocked nation like Mongolia have a navy?
Same reason as OTL, it's a historical tradition and pride reminding of times of the Great Mongol Empire and it's massive fleets (like during the Invasion of Japan), so while these Mengjiang/ Mongol ships will be limited to rivers and lakes with very small numbers they will be a national pride and propaganda project. Therefore the chapter will include the overall navy and SNLF (with both uniform versions and not be two seperate chapters about them). ;D
Same reason as OTL, it's a historical tradition and pride reminding of times of the Great Mongol Empire and it's massive fleets (like during the Invasion of Japan), so while these Mengjiang/ Mongol ships will be limited to rivers and lakes with very small numbers they will be a national pride and propaganda project. Therefore the chapter will include the overall navy and SNLF (with both uniform versions and not be two seperate chapters about them). ;D
History does show that pride, or lack of it, is something of relevance in statecraft.