Jack of Harts

One of the secrets to China’s expansion during the Second Great Depression was that they did so slowly. Lightning attacks breached defenses at need, but they advanced slowly with overwhelming force and numbers. They killed those too stupid to run, and allowed the smarter ones to flee their advance. They slowed their advances to allow refugees and even soldiers to get onto evacuation ships. China did not want to capture the idiots and the free thinkers. They wanted the land and those willing to serve whoever owned it. They allowed the patriots to run with the hope of returning one day to liberate their conquered homelands. And then China made certain that was a forlorn hope by taking hold of their conquered lands with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove.