AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/26/43
While Bankok gets pounded every day by hundreds of 4Es that are transforming my HI into a piece of burnt dust, today the Japanese Armies have conquered another piece of China.
IChang fell at the first attempt. After 1 year since the last great battle of IChang, when my troops had been repulsed by a stiff chinese defence, finally the city has been conquered. We've ordered to behead every single citizen, male,female,childs. None escaped the japanese fury ( and frustration[:D]).
It's been bloody. almost 30,000 japanese died during the first assault, but at the end of the day 133,000 yellow rebels were dead.
Next step: Lanchow!
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Ground combat at Ichang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 553642 troops, 6275 guns, 195 vehicles
Defending force 97411 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 5
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 5)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Ichang base !!!
Japanese ground losses:
26758 casualties reported
Guns lost 565
Vehicles lost 8
Allied ground losses:
133949 casualties reported
*in the picture you can see Japanese 1st Army marching through the ruins of Ichang*
