The Silver Knight, a Lithuania Timeline
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Gregor Sansa didn't need to turn into a disgusting monstrous cockroach ITTL. He already is one for destroying my beloved Visegrad.
I'm more concerned about that lunatic Nagai Takisha and his insane cult around himself (claiming descent from the Southern Court is the tip of the iceberg)
So, how much of the Visegrad military is loyal to the government and how much have joined the rebels?
About 50-50, with a slight numerical superiority to Samsa and his crew
The Dragon's Claws
The Dragon's Claws: The Miilitary of Shun China
The military of the Empire of the Great Shun was one of the largest in the world owing to the large population, second only to India, that were under the control of the Shun Dynasty. However, the Shun military's equipment and tactics was largely outdated compared to the militaries of Europe and the Vespuccias and this was exposed during the Great European War, both in the Southeast Asian campaign, where numerically inferior European troops held out quite well against the Shun armies, and in Europe, where the future Jiaqing Emperor observed the outdated nature of the Shun military and how advanced the European militaries were as an observer to the front. When the Jiaqing Emperor came to the Dragon Throne, he aimed to recitify the outdated nature of the Shun Military via a program of reorganizing the Shun military, creating a strong Chinese arms industry, and adopting modern tactics for the Shun military. This military reorganization picked up pace after the Japanese Revolution due to the Nagai regime's highly militaristic nature with the Shun military moving to adopt new tactics and weapons as well.
The Jiaqing Emperor's reorganization of the military of Shun China involved reforming the Chinese military to be more of a professional fighting force as the Chinese military was full of corruption and bureaucratic oversight. Under the Jiaqing Emperor's Military Reformation Edict of 1923, bureaucratic oversight was diminished and steps were taken to reduce corruption in the Chinese Army. In addition, new military academies were established, with the Guangzhou Military Academy being the most famous of China's military academies. Said military academies helped professionalize the Chinese officer corps and help disseminate the new tactics that the Shun military was developing as well. Unfortunately, the Dongxi military academy in Xi'an was a hotbed for extremist ideological thought and was disbanded as a result of many Dongxi "alumni" being part of the failed 7/7 coup. However, the military academies did their role in modernizing the Chinese military as the officers trained in the new military academies would distinguish themselves in the future. A General Staff system independent of bureaucratic oversight was also established as well. China's military was also being influenced by three major thinkers as well, Sun Xinyi, Jia Ping, and Wang Guanyu.
Sun Xinyi had commanded one of the first landship formations the Shun Army had, consisting of 24 of a new series of revolutionary landships developed by South Germania towards the end of the Great European War and purchased by the Chinese shortly afterwards. Said landships were among the first in the world to have a fully rotating turret instead of sponsons and would set the pattern for future landship design. As a commander of the 3rd Landship Battalion, Sun Xinyi saw the potential for future development of landships and tactics on how to operate the landships of the Shun Army in conjunction with mechanized infantry, self-propelled artilery, and aircraft and eventually championed the mechanization of the Shun military into a modern, mechanized, and professional force able to face European forces head to head and win. He put his ideas on the operation of landships and mechanization of the Chinese military in the book "The Army of the Future" (1930), where he argued that a tactic of "combined arms", where mechanized infantry, landships, mobile artilery, and aircraft would work together to ensure victory on the battlefield and penetrate deep into the battlefield. While facing opposition from "old guard" officers like General Zhong Yating, his ideas quickly won over the Jiaqing Emperor and Chief of Staff Lian Guanyu. Military exercises held over a few months in 1931-32 in the steppes of Mongolia helped Sun Xinyi refine his ideas for the modernization of the Shun army's weaponry and tactics. During this time, the Shun army also purchased a prototype for an innovative landship designed by the briliant Visegradian tank designer Viktor Opustil with a unique suspension which enabled said tank to go at high speeds and had sloping armor but was rejected by the Visegradian army owing to Visegrad's poor financial condition. However, the Shun military saw a use for the tank and so started mass production on the landship, which was named the L-4 Khan, which would be the main landship utilized by the Shun Army's landship divisions while the L-3, also based on a foreign landship, was used as the main infantry support landship during this time. The Shun Army was one of the most mechanized in the world during this time with the Shun Army having 20 landship divisions and 36 mobile infantry divisions. During the late 1930s, two new landships were being designed during this time, the L-5 Battlemaster, which would be the backbone of the Shun Army's landship divisions, and the L-6 Overlord, which would be the Shun's main heavy landship. In addition, the Shun government executed a program of liquifying China's coal to make synthetic oil as China's main oilfields at Daqing and Changqin were just being found and the Shun war machine needed lots of fuel.
Some of the first Battlemaster Tanks to enter service in 1939
General Sun Xinyi
Jia Ping was a naval officer who had served on the Zheng He, the Chinese navy's second Magenta, which was built in 1912 during the Great European War. However, it was as a naval attache to Visegrad in the mid-1920s that he would develop his ideas on the future of naval warfare as he learned about Captain Karol Balinsky's ideas on the future of naval warfare where the "capital ship" of the future would not be the Magenta but a new type of warship which would carry aeroplanes. Returning home to China in 1928, he started championing the concept of the "aircraft carrier" as the capital ship of the future. In addition, after the Japanese Revolution, he proposed the "Python Operation" in case of a war with the Union of Japan, which involved blockading the Union of Japan with a large submarine fleet until the Union of Japan was strangled into surrendering to China via being denied much-needed supplies and resources due to Japan being a resource-poor country which relied heavily on resources from it's Unitarian allies in the Unified Indian State and The Union. As war with Japan grew more likely with Nagai Takashi's insane cult of personality and his force-draft industrialization of Japan, Jia Ping continued to refine the "Python Operation" and champion the concept of the "aircraft carrier". Eventually, Jia Ping's superiors started listening to his ideas on the future of naval warfare with three Zhou Yu-class carriers being laid down in 1934-35. Two Liu Bei-class carriers were also laid down in 1938 as well, although they were still incomplete during the start of the War of the Danube as well.
Image of Admiral Jia Ping
The Zhou Yu after it's completion in 1938.
Wang Guanyu, the third of the series of forward-minded officers which helped with Shun China's military modernization, had been one of the Chinese Aeroforce's best pilots during it's initial formation. Unlike many other aerial thinkers, who proposed bombing cities as the best strategy for employing aerocraft in war, he argued that the aeroforce should coordinate with the army's advance by destroying infrastructure and performing ground attack runs against enemy forces was the best usage of combat aerocraft. In this, he was in agreement with General Sun Xinyi on the role of aerocraft in combat. Wang Guanyu rose to become head of the Chinese aeroforce after 7/7 as the old Aeroforce commander had been part of the "Empire Renewal Movement" and paid for his membership in said movement with his head. As commander of the Chinese Imperial Aeroforce, Wang Guanyu was now in a position to reform the Chinese aeroforce along the envisioned lines of ground assault with a new ground attack plane, the Zhu Que, being introduced in 1938, which would among the iconic weapons of the Chinese military in the next few years and would help achieve Wang Guanyu's doctrine of the aeroforce working in conjunction with the army to degrade the enemy's capacity to move troops around.
Wang Guanyu, Commander of the Chinese Imperial Airforce, as a young pilot
The Zhu Que ground attack plane in exercises held in Mongolia in early 1939.
After the infamous 7/7 coup, purges in the military removed many disloyal officers who supported the "Empire Renewal Movement" but the three forward-minded officers remained in favor in the Shun military and even got promoted in the aftermath as they showed their loyalty to the Jiaqing Emperor during the coup. In the meantime, Sun Xinyi refined his doctrine to include airborne troops, which would land behind enemy lines and seize important points behind enemy lines, sowing chaos among the enemy in the process. In accordance with Sun Xinyi's revisions to his doctrine, the Chinese military set up two "Air Infantry" Divisions in early 1939. Said "Air Infantry" divisions fell under the control of the Jinyiwei, which in addition to controlling the internal security forces, controlled some elite military units including the "Air Infantry" divisions and special forces units in the Shun Empire as well. With tensions at a high, Shun China's new war machine would soon be tested in the field of battle, but who would Shun China's enemy be?
The military of the Empire of the Great Shun was one of the largest in the world owing to the large population, second only to India, that were under the control of the Shun Dynasty. However, the Shun military's equipment and tactics was largely outdated compared to the militaries of Europe and the Vespuccias and this was exposed during the Great European War, both in the Southeast Asian campaign, where numerically inferior European troops held out quite well against the Shun armies, and in Europe, where the future Jiaqing Emperor observed the outdated nature of the Shun military and how advanced the European militaries were as an observer to the front. When the Jiaqing Emperor came to the Dragon Throne, he aimed to recitify the outdated nature of the Shun Military via a program of reorganizing the Shun military, creating a strong Chinese arms industry, and adopting modern tactics for the Shun military. This military reorganization picked up pace after the Japanese Revolution due to the Nagai regime's highly militaristic nature with the Shun military moving to adopt new tactics and weapons as well.
The Jiaqing Emperor's reorganization of the military of Shun China involved reforming the Chinese military to be more of a professional fighting force as the Chinese military was full of corruption and bureaucratic oversight. Under the Jiaqing Emperor's Military Reformation Edict of 1923, bureaucratic oversight was diminished and steps were taken to reduce corruption in the Chinese Army. In addition, new military academies were established, with the Guangzhou Military Academy being the most famous of China's military academies. Said military academies helped professionalize the Chinese officer corps and help disseminate the new tactics that the Shun military was developing as well. Unfortunately, the Dongxi military academy in Xi'an was a hotbed for extremist ideological thought and was disbanded as a result of many Dongxi "alumni" being part of the failed 7/7 coup. However, the military academies did their role in modernizing the Chinese military as the officers trained in the new military academies would distinguish themselves in the future. A General Staff system independent of bureaucratic oversight was also established as well. China's military was also being influenced by three major thinkers as well, Sun Xinyi, Jia Ping, and Wang Guanyu.
Sun Xinyi had commanded one of the first landship formations the Shun Army had, consisting of 24 of a new series of revolutionary landships developed by South Germania towards the end of the Great European War and purchased by the Chinese shortly afterwards. Said landships were among the first in the world to have a fully rotating turret instead of sponsons and would set the pattern for future landship design. As a commander of the 3rd Landship Battalion, Sun Xinyi saw the potential for future development of landships and tactics on how to operate the landships of the Shun Army in conjunction with mechanized infantry, self-propelled artilery, and aircraft and eventually championed the mechanization of the Shun military into a modern, mechanized, and professional force able to face European forces head to head and win. He put his ideas on the operation of landships and mechanization of the Chinese military in the book "The Army of the Future" (1930), where he argued that a tactic of "combined arms", where mechanized infantry, landships, mobile artilery, and aircraft would work together to ensure victory on the battlefield and penetrate deep into the battlefield. While facing opposition from "old guard" officers like General Zhong Yating, his ideas quickly won over the Jiaqing Emperor and Chief of Staff Lian Guanyu. Military exercises held over a few months in 1931-32 in the steppes of Mongolia helped Sun Xinyi refine his ideas for the modernization of the Shun army's weaponry and tactics. During this time, the Shun army also purchased a prototype for an innovative landship designed by the briliant Visegradian tank designer Viktor Opustil with a unique suspension which enabled said tank to go at high speeds and had sloping armor but was rejected by the Visegradian army owing to Visegrad's poor financial condition. However, the Shun military saw a use for the tank and so started mass production on the landship, which was named the L-4 Khan, which would be the main landship utilized by the Shun Army's landship divisions while the L-3, also based on a foreign landship, was used as the main infantry support landship during this time. The Shun Army was one of the most mechanized in the world during this time with the Shun Army having 20 landship divisions and 36 mobile infantry divisions. During the late 1930s, two new landships were being designed during this time, the L-5 Battlemaster, which would be the backbone of the Shun Army's landship divisions, and the L-6 Overlord, which would be the Shun's main heavy landship. In addition, the Shun government executed a program of liquifying China's coal to make synthetic oil as China's main oilfields at Daqing and Changqin were just being found and the Shun war machine needed lots of fuel.
Some of the first Battlemaster Tanks to enter service in 1939
General Sun Xinyi
Jia Ping was a naval officer who had served on the Zheng He, the Chinese navy's second Magenta, which was built in 1912 during the Great European War. However, it was as a naval attache to Visegrad in the mid-1920s that he would develop his ideas on the future of naval warfare as he learned about Captain Karol Balinsky's ideas on the future of naval warfare where the "capital ship" of the future would not be the Magenta but a new type of warship which would carry aeroplanes. Returning home to China in 1928, he started championing the concept of the "aircraft carrier" as the capital ship of the future. In addition, after the Japanese Revolution, he proposed the "Python Operation" in case of a war with the Union of Japan, which involved blockading the Union of Japan with a large submarine fleet until the Union of Japan was strangled into surrendering to China via being denied much-needed supplies and resources due to Japan being a resource-poor country which relied heavily on resources from it's Unitarian allies in the Unified Indian State and The Union. As war with Japan grew more likely with Nagai Takashi's insane cult of personality and his force-draft industrialization of Japan, Jia Ping continued to refine the "Python Operation" and champion the concept of the "aircraft carrier". Eventually, Jia Ping's superiors started listening to his ideas on the future of naval warfare with three Zhou Yu-class carriers being laid down in 1934-35. Two Liu Bei-class carriers were also laid down in 1938 as well, although they were still incomplete during the start of the War of the Danube as well.
Image of Admiral Jia Ping
The Zhou Yu after it's completion in 1938.
Wang Guanyu, the third of the series of forward-minded officers which helped with Shun China's military modernization, had been one of the Chinese Aeroforce's best pilots during it's initial formation. Unlike many other aerial thinkers, who proposed bombing cities as the best strategy for employing aerocraft in war, he argued that the aeroforce should coordinate with the army's advance by destroying infrastructure and performing ground attack runs against enemy forces was the best usage of combat aerocraft. In this, he was in agreement with General Sun Xinyi on the role of aerocraft in combat. Wang Guanyu rose to become head of the Chinese aeroforce after 7/7 as the old Aeroforce commander had been part of the "Empire Renewal Movement" and paid for his membership in said movement with his head. As commander of the Chinese Imperial Aeroforce, Wang Guanyu was now in a position to reform the Chinese aeroforce along the envisioned lines of ground assault with a new ground attack plane, the Zhu Que, being introduced in 1938, which would among the iconic weapons of the Chinese military in the next few years and would help achieve Wang Guanyu's doctrine of the aeroforce working in conjunction with the army to degrade the enemy's capacity to move troops around.
Wang Guanyu, Commander of the Chinese Imperial Airforce, as a young pilot
The Zhu Que ground attack plane in exercises held in Mongolia in early 1939.
After the infamous 7/7 coup, purges in the military removed many disloyal officers who supported the "Empire Renewal Movement" but the three forward-minded officers remained in favor in the Shun military and even got promoted in the aftermath as they showed their loyalty to the Jiaqing Emperor during the coup. In the meantime, Sun Xinyi refined his doctrine to include airborne troops, which would land behind enemy lines and seize important points behind enemy lines, sowing chaos among the enemy in the process. In accordance with Sun Xinyi's revisions to his doctrine, the Chinese military set up two "Air Infantry" Divisions in early 1939. Said "Air Infantry" divisions fell under the control of the Jinyiwei, which in addition to controlling the internal security forces, controlled some elite military units including the "Air Infantry" divisions and special forces units in the Shun Empire as well. With tensions at a high, Shun China's new war machine would soon be tested in the field of battle, but who would Shun China's enemy be?
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I wouldnt put it past the leadership of Lithuania to get involved to retake Volga Russia and prop up a Independent Lithuania.
After 7/7, the military has been thoroughly depoliticized to avoid anything like 7/7 from occuring ever again.
Well, stuff like this happens when you try to overthrow the Emperor.