- Summary
- China’s military might is on display.
- Protect China’s military display.
- Eliminate any threat in Beijing area.
The player starts with a standard base with a large amount of Chinese soldiers and three dragon tanks. Car bombs will attack your base and destroy the two bunkers at your base's opening. To save the Red Guards inside, have them abandon their bunkers as the cars will only attack them. If you are fast enough, you can send your Dragon Tanks to stop the car bombs before they are in range. However, simply holding your units back will make the car bombs hesitate in attacking. This gives you time to upgrade your bunkers with mines. Once they are set, move forward and watch as the suicide bombers' attack spectacularly fails!
Hit the three-star button on the right-top side of the control panel to choose your General's Power of Red Guard Training. All Red Guard will be built as veterans.
Head toward the east, destroying any GLA encountered.
Before you advance, take a few units and locate a destroyed red building with a massive courtyard (that would be Tienanmen square). When you find it you get two Overlord Tanks! Upgrade them anyway you want (recommended: one with a Gattling gun for use against infantry and the other with a Speaker Tower to heal both it and nearby units) and have them destroy the Tunnel Network protecting the bridge. After you destroy the Network, a number of surviving Battlemaster tanks will appear and join your forces (or possibly before; it's difficult to determine when they show up).
Have a tank go south-west and enter the Forbidden City area (it's a large complex of red buildings that haven't been touched by the GLA attack). Locate it and enter. Once you enter you'll find additional survivors in the form of two Battlemasters and two Dragon Tanks! If you follow this strategy, you can actually win the mission without even producing any units! Just find the survivors and you can easily destroy the GLA while rescuing your fellow countrymen for the glory of China.
As you make your way across the bridge after dispatching the GLA forces in the city, your assistant will inform you that a battalion of GLA vehicles and infantry are approaching from the GLA's position. You needn't worry, as a nearby squadron of MIG fighters will dispatch them for you with their napalm missiles.
After crossing the bridge, turn east with your forces to make your way to the GLA position. If needed, build a reasonable amount of reinforcements at your base and use the waypoint command to have them join your advancing troops. You will encounter an assortment of GLA infantry and a few vehicles, though the latter is usually positioned around the Nuclear Bunker.
Advance and destroy all forces encountered until you reach the nuclear facility to the north. Destroy this structure to win this mission.
Secret: After crossing the bridge, head west instead of east. There are rocky mountains that your soldiers and tanks can climb over. Then the nuclear facility is ahead with nothing protecting it from the rear.
Alternative "quick & easy" method
This mission can be entirely accomplished by the two Overlords (once the initial attack is dealt with). Deal with the car-bomb attack as described above, or set the flame tanks in formation and have them attack-move forward, gradually advancing to deal with threats. In brutal mode, beware of suicide-bombers.
Send an infantry to locate the Overlords; upgrade one with the propaganda tower and the other with Gatling guns. Send them up immediately to the tunnel at the bridge; they will be upgraded before they get there. Once the Overlords are fully engaged, the flame tanks can assist.
Send the Overlords across the bridge and up the road, one at a time, having them skirt behind the building just past the bridge. This will avoid triggering the air-strike cut-scene. Continue north-west up the road a bit and through a pass in the hills, and up behind the toxin facility.
The toxin facility can be destroyed immediately, but it is more interesting to have the Overlords automatically take out the entire site with a single order. Set the Overlords in formation with the Gatling tank in front and the propaganda tank flanking to one side and slightly behind. Have them attack-move to a point a bit forward of the facility. They will encounter resistance, and deal with it promptly. Without additional orders, they will continue downhill eliminating threats, even those otherwise dealt with by the air-strike. They will then return to the location that you originally sent them, awaiting orders to destroy the facility. Do so, and the mission is accomplished!