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The New Order:Light From Lake Baikal

Welcome to The Light from Baikal v0.25 - United Against the Invaders.

In the largest update in the mod’s history, we will for the first time attempt to advance the game to endgame content.

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In one worldline, resistance in the southwestern corner reignited the nation's passion against Japan. When the charge sounded, even scarred and battered, the Chinese Communist Party in the northwest could no longer stand idly by. This was an unprecedented opportunity in thirty years. Facing a global superpower, the long-suffering Chinese people could only unite. Through unyielding will, they might grasp the faint hope of national liberation!


● Settle Scores with the "Mad Dog": With Japan's early-war contraction, Imperial Japanese Army forces in the northwest were forced eastward. Muster soldiers and feed horses—every second counts. We will ensure Masanobu Tsuji repays blood debts in blood!

● Aid Comrades in Mongolia: As war reignites on the Mongolian Plateau, provide assistance to the Mongolian People's Army. They will stand with us when the time comes, joining the righteous war against Japanese imperialism!

● Reclaim the Revolutionary Homeland: Embers still glow in northern Shaanxi. With Japanese troops withdrawing east of the Yellow River, sparks burst into flames! Let them gather, let them blaze, let them rage!

● Raise the Banner of United Resistance Nationwide: Coordinate with the National Protection Army. From west to east, in total war, drive the Japanese invaders from our land with blood and bayonets!

● Nanjing Negotiations: Blood stains every inch of our mountains and rivers. Yet luckily, though stumbling, China strides toward its own future...
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The mountains and waters of his homeland buried themselves deep within Mao Anying's heart as the ship's whistle blew. In his days abroad, he rarely recalled them—yet whenever midnight dreams returned, the salty wind of departure would rush into his mind, whispering of his rightful home.

But he could not return. Not merely by his father's wish, but by cruel reality. Landing in Marseille, traversing to the Ivanovo International Children's Home, he once imagined the war would end swiftly—and end it did, with the Soviet Union's collapse under Bukharin. As the Red Army crumbled, he fled with the institute to Kostroma.

With teaching tools lost, the school became unsustainable. Mao Anying graduated as scheduled and chose to continue studies in Komi. Despite the USSR's catastrophic defeat, Yagoda's NKVD salvaged relics—among them, the Lenin Military-Political Academy, relocated to Komi and now administered by the newly formed West Russian Revolutionary Front.

His studies amidst chaos were arduous. Mao Anying persevered through will and resolve, graduating in 1947. Then came devastating news: Japanese incendiary bombs shattered Chongqing's last stand. His father disappeared. Japan claimed to have found and displayed his corpse on Chongqing's walls but banned all photographs, shrouding the incident in doubt. Only one truth remained: his homeland was lost.

He was homeless.

"Wanderer, yearn not for home"—his father's final words, relayed by an old Red Army cadre drifting across Russia.

With return impossible, Mao Anying enlisted in the West Russian Revolutionary Front. As a junior officer, he fought countless low-intensity security conflicts. By the 1954 Suvorov Offensive, he commanded the 88th Rifle Brigade. His unit's valor on the northern front earned them the "Guards" title. Yet a single brigade's bravery proved futile. The Front collapsed in defeat. Disillusioned by internal power struggles, Mao Anying sought departure. With Marshal Yegorov's approval, he led a small contingent of the 88th Guards Rifle Brigade eastward under diplomatic cover to find passage home.

Guarded by irregulars through Bandit lands, traversing Zlatoust, then via Tyumen and Tomsk, they reached Lake Baikal territory held by the Supreme Soviet. Yagoda cared little for the young Chinese commander but saw opportunity to claim the Front's remnants. He warmly received Mao Anying, restored the brigade's honor designation, and replenished its ranks—mostly non-Russians: former Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army fighters, remnants of the Eighth Route Army, alongside Mongol, Kazakh, and Buryat warriors.

Knowing Yagoda used him to control this diverse force, Mao Anying silently governed the brigade under NKVD surveillance, awaiting opportunity. Rage against tyranny smoldered daily within him. He could not foresee that a younger, braver voice would soon cry out first to cleanse the gloom.
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A complete journey home for the Chinese Brigade: starting from Buryatia. Through sequential events and combat interactions, experience their arduous path—from the West Russian Revolutionary Front through Buryatia back to Xinjiang. After the warlord regime’s collapse, engage in an immersive Land Reform GUI.

a new GUI enables players to command veteran cadres. Risk everything to resolve Qinghai's chaos swiftly, establish a People's Government, and repel Japanese invasion.

experience the resurgence of nationwide resistance. Rebuild the United Front and drown Japanese invaders in the ocean of people's war! Upon ruins, explore China’s arduous path forward...

endure the revolution's nadir. With southwestern resistance extinguished and chains tightening around China’s neck—how shall those still yearning for freedom and liberation find their path?