[Airborne Rifles]

Here's the next one (although this battle takes place a few hours before the Amurzet battle). Here's the mission briefing:

"The Amur River Bridge Project near the city of Leninskoye is the only bridge spanning the Amur river between Khabarovsk and the Mongolian border. The P455 highway runs through Leninskoye and from there straight north to Birobidzhan. This makes the bridge a key and predictable target of any Chinese invasion of Siberia. Realizing this, the Chinese execute a surprise crossing of the Amur River bridge on the night of 8-9 October with forces in place, achieving strategic surprise in their invasion. Heavy reinforcements are en route by rail to continue the offensive. The Russian forces in the area, however, have been training for just this situation. As dawn breaks and the fog clears in the marshy Siberian countryside, the sounds of engines and rumble of artillery predict that battle is about to be joined.

Tovarich Colonel, last night the Chinese crossed the Amur without warning over the bridge project and established a perimeter around Nizhneleniskoye. Our border guard forces did well, withdrawing from their outpost and into Leninskoye proper as we had planned, reporting on enemy movements. They've established defenses in the town and report signs that the Chinese may try to take it. Make no mistake however, the Chinese are going to mount a strong attack northwest from the bridge to try to advance rapidly on Birobidzhan. They can have no other strategy. As we've anticipated, this puts our own base at risk, and we've already maintained our HQ there for too long. Displace your HQ and logistical elements as soon as possible to a safer location before they draw attention.

Colonel, our Brigade has trained for this fight long and hard. You know your mission. Your combat troops have already deployed away from our base. Hold the Chinese as best you can at our base complex and in Leninskoye, and counterattack the Chinese at a weak point in their perimeter. It is essential that we gain a position of over watch on the bridge to prevent Chinese reinforcements from crossing the river. As we’ve discussed, the best position for this is the Chinese cliffs south of Nizhneleninskoye. Our signal intercepts reveal strong Chinese forces are de-training right not at their rail terminal across the river, so you must hurry. I’ve given you our brigade’s tank destroyer sub-units for this task. Once you've established enfilade on the bridge, do your best to get into Nizhneleninskoye and wreck the Chinese logistics. We won’t be able to hold here for long, but if we can upset the enemy timetable we can buy time for our own reinforcements to arrive at Birobidzhan from European Russia. Your attack, unfortunately, will be weaker than we had hoped because I was forced to dispatch a column to Amurzet during the night as it appears the Chinese may attempt a crossing there as well.

You have your orders Colonel. We’ve been training for just this situation and if we handle our men right, the Chinese will never know what hit them."

As always, feedback is greatly appreciated. I spent a lot of time testing to get the Chinese AI forces to act how I wanted. I think I was pretty successful.