Genghis Khan IV PC OST - Japanese Strategy
The last chapter had the Kamakura Shogunate fighting the Chagatai Khanate while enduring multiple attacks from the Mamluk Sultanate. In the end, the Chagatai Khanate is close to defeat while timely reinforcements have finally arrived and beaten back the Mamluk offensive at Tabriz.
Upon the conquest of Samarkand, the Shogunate forces in Central Asia simultaneously go their way to attack the last remaining cities of the collapsing Chagatai Khanate, while in the Caucasus Mountains, one of the Hojo princes leads an army to occupy a Mamluk city while the rest of the forces in Tabriz fight off the Mamluks.
Next turn, the Hojo prince frees the last Il-Khante city from the Mamluks, and thus they are no longer able to recruit Mongolian cavalry anymore which greatly weakens the military might of the Mamluks.
The King of Japan orders all officers in Central Asia not currently attacking the Chagatai khanate to move to Nishapur for the invasion of the Mamluk city of Baghdad. The city of Urgench falls while the Cannon Unit Corps slowly arrives at the city of Balkh to destroy the last Mongol presence in Central Asia.
The siege begins.
Just like the previous khan, the current ruler has high war and intelligence and a good unit aptitude all-around, but he lacks battle skills, and the city has no horse resources, so he stuck with using light bowmen instead of Mongolian cavalry. The cannon units easily break the gates while providing covering fire for the samurai as they charge into the citadel. Even with light bowmen, the arrows pack a punch alongside the catapult shots.
But once Masashige's samurai were in range to let loose fire arrows upon the CO unit, the outcome was inevitable. The Chagatai Khanate falls to the Kamakura Shogunate, and a cultural item has been acquired. The research to create precious metals would be valuable to the Shogunate.
In the city of Tabriz, the Shogunate forces begin their assault on the city of Baghdad, and that's not even getting to the military buildup at Nishapur to begin the conquest of the Middle East.
Meanwhile in the West, the war between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kipchak Khanate over the poor Kingdom of Hungary continues on with no clear winner while another Eastern Roman offensive against the Mamluk city of Tarsus fails.
Genghis Khan IV PC OST - Army Attack
The Mamluk Sultanate is completely exhausted as the Shogunate forces easily set up their siege of the city of Baghdad and destroy one army attempting a feeble defense. The loss of the Il-Khanate cities is clear, as the Baghdad garrison consists up only light bowmen and catapults, with their CO unit being a camel cavalry, although the Sultan has high stats but no battle skills.
The outcome is predictable. The city of Baghdad is liberated by the Shogunate as the Mamluk Sultan is put to death. The Japanese Samurai and their allies begin conquest of the Middle East.
Back at the Kamakura capital of Dadu, three new Hojo princes have come of age, one Arab, an Indian, and a Tibetan, and all of them quite skilled and gifted. They'll be sent to the west, as they'll be able to utilize Indian and Islamic units to their full strengths.
The shogunate forces swarm the Middle East as the Mamluks remain completely inept in the face of the Samurai onslaught.
Masashige conquers Tarsus while a Hojo prince takes two Mamluk cities to the south of Baghdad. Next turn, Takauji and Nitta conquer the Mamluk city of Damascus and acquire a culture item in the process, a
Herbal Medicine Book. Seeing the massive threat so close to their capital, the Mamluks finally raise their armies in defense of their homelands.
While busy resupplying the armies and refortifying the newly conquered cities, Ashikaga Takauji and Masanari are accepted as son-in-laws to the Hojo by marrying the young daughters of the clan, which allows them to command 800-man armies instead of 600.
The next turn has Masanari and Takauji attack the Mamluk capital of Cairo, while Nitta heads south to finish off the remaining Mamluk cities in the Arab peninsula. With the nearest city having no cavalry besides camelry, they have to make do with using Monk infantry and cannons. Meanwhile, a Hojo prince protects the eastern Arab cities from the approaching Mamluk forces while the remaining officers at Nishapur are relocated to the Chagatai city nearest to the Kipchak khanate for the potential invasion of Russia.
Masanari approaches Cairo and begins the siege. The new Mamluk sultan is fairly strong and has the Rapidfire skill, but both Masanari and the Mongolian general are just too strong and swiftly overwhelm the garrison. The Mamluk capital falls, and loads of cultural items are acquired.
Masashige is astonished by the wealth and knowledge of Cairo, as he sees
fire that burns even on water,
wonderful Islamic architecture,
a medical book of written by a famous Jewish physician of Saladin and world maps that showcases how small Japan is in comparison to the continents of the West.
The rest of the Mamluk cities are conquered in swift fashion until only one city in Asia Minor is left.
While the Shogunate armies in the Middle East reorganize to both eliminate the last Mamluk resistance in Asia Minor and to prepare for the invasion of Europe and North Africa, the Kingdom of Sicily finally conquers the Kingdom of Hungary while the Eastern Roman Empire decides to preemptively attack their new Japanese neighbor. A big mistake but a welcome excuse.
Also, the acquisition of Cairo's cultural artifacts leads to the development of new cultural items for war. The first strengthens the power of flamethrowers but the use of
gunpowder-fueled fire arrows will undoubtedly increase the power of the Shogunate Samurai.
It's all coming together now for the final stage.
Eurasia as of 1332