re: #259 Dante41

I am going to have to disagree. Even Mao would not give up such a good defense position like that mountain range. The Reds would know that Chiang would be coming through there, and would not budge from it. A good feint only works if your enemy doesn’t know that is how you operate.

One other thing to consider is that a strong mountain range is a great fortress provided you can stay well supplied. Red supply lines were always weak; wait them out if need be. And again, Chiang was a guerrilla fighter of some experience; he knew when and where to strike.

If you’re freezing to death on a mountain while your enemy continues his preparations down below, at some point, you have to come down to fight him, or be destroyed when operations are complete. If anything, he’d either lure them down, or, alternately, encourage them to build their defenses there and land a force elsewhere on the mainland.