As we all know, China's modern history is a living history of humiliation, and the Western powers have opened the "gate" of China with strong ships and cannons, thus allowing the Chinese people to spend a hundred years in the depths of the waters, and Japan has brought the most profound harm to China. In the fourteen-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although China has been at a disadvantage for most of the time, there was a war that the Chinese people could not let go of, that is, the Battle of Songhu, the 800,000 troops of the Nationalist army were defeated by the Japanese army, and the whole country was shocked, and three of the reasons were painful.
Although the number is large, the weapons are backward
The Battle of Songhu, also known as the Oriental Meat Grinder, is the battle in which china and Japan have invested the most troops, this battle the national army has invested a total of 800,000 troops, including many ace troops of the national army, the Japanese side is also a rare mechanical ace division that has invested more than 200,000 yuan, although the disparity in strength between the two sides, but in the end it ended in the disastrous defeat of the national army, it is obvious that the Chinese side has the numerical superiority in this battle, but unfortunately, the operation of the large corps, if it is not combined with the advantages of the terrain, especially in modern warfare, it is extremely passive.
In terms of weapons, although after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist army also vigorously introduced German equipment, compared with the Beiyang warlord period has been greatly improved, but compared with the Japanese side, the equipment rate of our troops is still greatly inferior, in addition to the Central Army, the weapons of many local troops are still very backward, and even in the use of equipment from the end of the Qing Dynasty, and according to statistics, the Japanese army at that time, the firepower of a division and regiment was twice that of the Central Army, and it is conceivable that the local troops have no advantage at all.
Misjudgment, improper command
A movie released last year, "Eight Hundred," which was released last year, can be seen by friends who have seen it, and in the early stages of the Battle of Songhu, Chiang Kai-shek hoped to win the sympathy of the Western powers by adopting an ostrich policy, so as to obtain international intervention. The Chinese side also delayed the fighters because they did not attack in time, so that the Japanese reinforcements arrived, and eventually collapsed, which was Chiang Kai-shek's error in judgment.
Although in the end Chiang Kai-shek also woke up, but after all, the general trend has gone, and in the end can only retreat through passive defense, originally Jinshan Wei was an important place on the Songhu venue, occupying here, the Nationalist army can advance and retreat, the sad thing is that Zhang Fakui, the general of the Nationalist army who was guarding the town at that time, mistakenly thought that this generation of wind and waves were strong, the waterways were long, and the Japanese army's big ships were not easy to approach, that is, they transferred troops to Pudong to support, and as a result, when the Japanese army began to land, it entered no man's land, easily broke through, and finally formed a siege and annihilation trend for the nationalist army, so it could only be forced to retreat However, such a large-scale and unfavorable command of the retreat will inevitably lead to panic, the scene was once extremely chaotic, and the number of deaths caused by mutual trampling was even more numerous, which was improper command.
Three. Air superiority was lost, death bombing
In modern warfare, especially land warfare, once air supremacy is lost, it means that it can only be passively beaten. Since the "9.18" incident, China has also anticipated the role of warplanes on the modern battlefield, so it raised 30 billion yuan to purchase aircraft. Unfortunately, not all of this money was used to buy aircraft, and if all of it was used to buy, then China had at least 1,000 aircraft that could fight after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. In fact, even after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China only had 603 aircraft, of which only 305 could be fought, while our enemy, Japan, had 2,700 that could fight, which did not include the subsequent sustainable production.
The Japanese side also relies on this advantage, combined with the ship gunboats, the artillery is densely covered by the Chinese army, and on the Songhu battlefield, there is no terrain advantage that can be used for cover, the army is used as a living target, and ground weapons are difficult to cause major damage to the aircraft, the air force available is limited, although there are also talents such as Gao Zhihang, but after all, it is difficult to support alone, because the proportion of excellent pilots in the Japanese army is higher.
Why did the 800,000-strong army of the Nationalist army defeat the 250,000 Japanese troops? Speaking of this, I think everyone has already understood that the Battle of Songhu has become inevitable due to these three reasons, but the heroic spirit of our army is worth learning from our descendants.