Nanking Generals

So it looks like the cut off for 4 skills is around 1600 medals+.

Nanking or Nanjing was the capital of Nationalist China.It was the scene of some horrible war crimes committed when the Japaneese imperial army invaded it in 1937.
It took decades for the city to recover,it is still to this day an indirect diplomatic sore point between China and Japan.

Well, obviously, not like that's much news.

To be fair, China (both Nat. and Com.) did have a lot of military leaders- consider the sheer size of the country and the Second Sino-Japanese War. There's also the fact that the Second Sino-Japanese War is also relatively unknown to the West compared to the Pacific War and the events in Europe. That being said, the quality of said generals is way off the mark; those numbers are clearly *Auto Corrected*.

Well, what can we do but bow down to our Chinese overlords, eh?

Communist China did have good generals. Take peng for an example. He fought the Americans in Korea with almost no tanks and few aircraft.

The Nationalist and the Communist Parties were trying to build up their own forces for the subsequent civil war which was bound to ensue after the end of WWII. The two leaders were only focusing on the "long term" development of their own parties, therefore leaving the Americans and Britons to do the main fighting in Pacific Ocean and South-eastern Asia. So, it somehow makes sense that China has quite a lot of generals with whom we are not familiar, because they just did very little in WWII - and their contributions, not surprisingly, didn't shine.

It is however still true that the Chinese armies paid a great deal in holding off millions of Japanese soldiers in China. I would say most of the Chinese generals did not want to fight the Japanese, and so they simply reacted to the Japanese offensive plans... the Chinese generals were only willing to fight offensively occasionally...

The Japanese could've maybe been stopped in China earlier if the Chinese and the League of Nations reacted to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and subsequent invasion of Inner Mongolia. The reasons the Chinese didn't react were due to the Chinese Civil War occurring at the time between the Nationalists, led by authoritarian Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Communists, led by the even more authoritarian Mao Zedong. They only stopped the infighting once the Japanese took the City of Peking in 1937 and they both decided to resist the Japanese...but then they ended up with most of their coast and important cities taken over. They were actually really important in my opinion, as they provided pivotal air bases used to bomb Japan later in the war once the US joined, and were a royal pain for the Japanese due to the communist guerrillas. But, it is true that the Nationalists didn't really want to fight the Japanese.

Really? Because from what I've heard, the Communists were far better at fighting the Japanese than the Nationalists. Some Nationalist troops put on civilian clothing during the Battle (And later Rape) of Nanking so they could flee the city. When your troops outright flee from the capital of your country, you know they're not exactly the best. The communist guerrillas were the main entity tying down the Japanese, all though I may have to look into this more. I'm far better with the politically situation of this time than the military history.