1.Continue the reform of the NRA, and its expansion. Use anti-Japanese rethoric to gain more volunteers for the Army and militias, including encouraging soldiers from the Kunming-KMT to switch sides, in the case they don't attack Japan. The reform will continue as before, (use Borodin to reform and reorganize these divisions, as well as being an advisor for military equipment. The reform must emphazise loyalty to the Nation, president Sun, and the Three Principles of the people) while stopping the purge, but: volunteer women will be allowed to join the army as nurses, a reform of communications methods will be done, an attempt of creating a support regiment of armored trains will be started, new cavalry divisions will be trained, a special batallion of experienced and trained men shall be used to train the rest of the army (like the German army does), already deployed divisions will have further training to ensure they are up to standards, all divisions (starting with the best and cotinuing with the rest) will have a support battalion armed with Howell rifles, and a Bureau of Logistics and Supply, charged with ensuring that the army is always well supplied, with a close relationship with the Bureau of Infrastructure, and being under the indirect command of Liao Zhongkai, will be created. Borodin will also to reform the army hierarchy, streamlinig it and making sure there is multiple redundancy.
2.Continue expanding the military industry, beginning standarization, and have the new factories and foundries built outside of the range of Japanese guns. Focus on augmenting production and reliability of artillery and the Howell rifle. (For Liao Zhongkai)
3.Create the ROCAF. Planes will be gained through the following methods:
-Asking the Soviets for planes, flyers, trainers, and engineers with experience in the area. Pay if necessary.
-Offering to buy any plane from wherever possible (any corporation, any government), accepting extreme prices (but not uneven trade deals with states). Try to bribe members of the corporations/ officials in the government so they will accept. Particularly, gain them (both legally and unofficially) through and from the British Raj and French Indochina, as they can go through land.
-Loyal, but little known members of the KMT with experience in business will create separate shell corporations in Shanghai, Macao, Hong Kong, Tsingtao, Beijan and Tianjin, with the purpose of buying airplanes, and smuggling them to the Canton-KMT. The NBIS will aid in this matter.
-Expropriating any plane in the Canton-KMT, with the person being paid and acceptable price, and if they have experience, being offered a job as a trainer/flyer.
-Trying to create domestic airplane factories.
-Calling upon Chinese expats to send what knowledge they have of airforces (engineering, doctrines, public perception, popular culture...)
Once a small airforce is created, they will be tested against the Japanese: defending the coast from the IJN, and supporting the offensive into Fujian.
4. Fortify the areas controlled by the Left-KMT around the watchtowers built and coastal areas likely to be invaded, with militias and army divisions serving as garrisons. Concentrate particularly in Fujian and Guangdong, in the Japanese frontier (not a static defense, an elastic defense-in-depth).
5. Offer to negotiate with all powers in China for a temporary alliance/non-agression pact against Japan, with military aid included (be it secretly or openly). (For Tang Shaoyi)
-As long as the alliance against Japan is valid, if the Soviets accept, Qing China will allow Soviet officers and aid to pass to the Canton-KMT, in exchange for a third of all supplies sent to be given to the Qing, and that the Soviets do not use the opportunity to smuggle communists into Qing China.
6. Fight against Japan- use the militias, the promise of land reform, and the necessity of defense against Japan to create and partisan groups in Japanese-occupied China, to attack their supply lines, and carry out surgical strikes against infrastructure and docks; begin a full offensive (together with the Qing, and, if possible, the Kunming-KMT) against Japanese-held Fujian, and, if it is taken and the military deems it viable, continuing on to Shanghai to retake it. The attacks will stop if casualties are too high, and enough reserves will be held back to be able to stop or hinder a Japanese counterattack.
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