Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

TFs with BBs and with CVs accepted orders to steam up the river a few hexes to Tungchow, so I think it'll work. If not those, hopefully at least my amphibious TFs (APAs would be the largest vessels) and escorting DDs could make the journey.

If worst came to worse - if my ignore and the evil vagaries of the game again showed me I was in error - then the default primary target is Chefoo. For that target I have a large army fully prepped. The enemy garrison is small.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

That's right. I get a "Task Force Cannot Move Inland" error message when I try.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Thanks, Jeff. I suspected that was true, as my big boy TFs were accepting orders to go that far.

Apparently, Taichow isn't even on the river! I cant even get APDs to accept orders to land there. I learned this about 45 days ago. I had an Amphib Force HQ 100% prepped for the base (so that's the one I switched over to Samah). I left many of the troops prepped for Taichow alone, figuring that Erik might make a stand there.

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from wiki :Japanese takeover

On January 28, 1932, the Japanese attacked the Chinese nationalists around Shanghai. Around midnight, Japanese carrier aircraft bombed the city in the first major aircraft carrier action in the Far East. Three thousand Japanese troops proceeded to attack various targets, such as train stations, around the city. From 1931 to 1933, the cruiser Tenryū was assigned to patrol the Yangtze River and was thus in combat during the January 28 Incident at Shanghai in 1932. The Battle of Shanghai of 1937 was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army, Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war. On August 13, 1937, the Japanese and Chinese exchanged fire in Shanghai in the ongoing war. The Chinese 88th Division retaliated with mortar attacks. Sporadic shooting continued through the day until 4pm, when the Japanese headquarters ordered the naval ships of the Third Fleet, stationed in the Yangtze and the Huangpu River to open fire on Chinese positions in the city. In the late night of August 13, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zhang Zhizhong to begin the Chinese offensive the next day. On August 22, the Japanese 3rd, 8th, and 11th Divisions made an amphibious assault under cover from naval bombardments and proceeded to land in Chuanshakou (川沙口), Shizilin (獅子林), and Baoshan (寶山), towns on the northeast coast some fifty kilometers away from downtown Shanghai. Japanese landings in northeast Shanghai suburban areas meant that many Chinese troops, who were deployed in Shanghai's urban center, had to be redeployed to coastal regions to counter the landings.


HMS Moth as captured IJN Suma in 1942
The Japanese navy shelled Shanghai from its warships. It used ships to support the Army in Shanghai and Nanking. A task force of over 100 ships was used to move forces upriver and take Hankow (now Wuhan) in the summer of 1938. Japanese aircraft sank two Chinese naval cruisers guarding the river during these actions.

With the Japanese advance into the east coast of China in 1937, enterprises and numerous people withdrew from Wuhan to the west and Sichuan. The Kuomintang navy undertook the responsibility of defending the Yangtze River and covering the withdrawal. On 24 October, while patrolling the waters of the Yangtze River near the town of Jinkou, in Wuchang (Jiangxia, Wuhan), the Zhongshan was bombed by six Japanese aircraft . The aircraft dived, strafed and bombed the Zhongshan. Despite shooting down two of the aircraft, the Zhongshan eventually sank due to the serious damage she had sustained. Twenty-five Chinese officers and soldiers were killed in the battle

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ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

The Amethist under heavy shelling

https://youtu.be/hc9tOWtmjf4

Nice MOVIE!