There have always been many opinions on the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and some have even quoted the evaluation of a Certain Japanese Army - among the soldiers of various countries he has contested, including China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and many small countries in Southeast Asia, the combat effectiveness of Chinese soldiers ranks second.
This evaluation has made many people proud. But in fact, even if this example is true, it is only the personal judgment of this Japanese soldier, and it is impossible to measure the overall level of the Chinese army.
Putting aside all the positive or negative stereotypes, the following few figures may show how effective the Chinese army was at that time.
In the 1943 Defense of Changde, the Chinese army consumed more than 17 million bullets. How many Japanese casualties were inflicted? Our army announced about 30,000, the Japanese army announced about 10,000, taking an average of twenty thousand, that is, every shot of a Japanese army (note that it is not killed), need to fire 850 bullets. Basically equal to wave shooting.
If one battle is a bit one-sided, then look at the entire eight-year War of Resistance.
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese army consumed about 1.82 billion bullets of all kinds. How many Japanese casualties were inflicted? He Yingqin released the figures as follows: 2418528 Japanese Army casualties (including 483708 deaths), 340,000 Japanese logistics troop casualties, and 4,280 Japanese Air Force casualties.
For the sake of anti-war propaganda, this number must have a lot of moisture, and a large part of the casualties of the Japanese army were also killed by disease. However, even according to the figures released by He Yingqin, the Chinese army needs to consume 660 bullets for each Japanese army hit, and as for killing the Japanese army, it will increase by another 5 times.
In the face of these figures, do you still think that Chinese soldiers are very capable of fighting? You know, during World War II, the level of shooting represented the most important ability of a soldier, as to whether you would be able to hack several people to death with a martial art or a large knife, it was all secondary and only played the icing on the cake.
So, what about the shooting level of our opponent, the Japanese soldiers?
The author did not find the number of Japanese troops consuming bullets, but it can be seen from their training level. The famous Japanese writer Gomikawa Junpei was once a soldier in the Kwantung Army, in the autobiographical novel "Imaginary Dayi", Gomikawa Junpei recorded the shooting training of the Japanese army: an ambush target with a range of 300 meters, not only 5 bullets to be hit, but also at least 3 rounds to hit an area large in a fist; after reaching this point, the next is the limited second rapid fire, initially limited to 4 seconds to hit the target 300 meters away, followed by a limit of 2 seconds; after reaching this requirement, Put on a gas mask and run 300 meters before entering the limited second shooting.
Please note that this kind of shooting training is something that every Japanese soldier has to achieve, otherwise it will not get you on the battlefield. (Of course, this was in the early days of the war, and by the later stages, Japan's young adults were seriously lacking, and the training standards had declined.)
This is the real gap between Chinese soldiers and Japanese soldiers. This common level of the Japanese army undoubtedly belongs to the "sharpshooter" in the Chinese army, and it is remarkable that there can be one or two in a platoon or a company.
In fact, not to mention the general soldiers in China, that is, the officer level, the level of training is also seriously insufficient. For example, the Whampoa Military Academy, which was Chinese infinitely elevated, the first and fourth phases of training the most famous generals, only had a short period of 7 months from the beginning of the school to the graduation, which basically belonged to the crash course, and there was still a lot of time for political classes, and the time for real military training was very small.
Officers trained in this way are naturally incompetent for modern warfare. According to the statistics of the Military and Political Department of the Nationalist Government, when the War of Resistance Broke Out, there were 134,000 middle- and lower-ranking officers (colonels and at least lieutenants) in the Nationalist Army, and the losses on the battlefield were extremely rapid, and 45,000 middle- and lower-level officers needed to be replenished every year.
Finally, let's take a look at the evaluation of the Japanese army by li zongren and Chen Cheng, who are famous generals.
Regarding the combat quality of the Japanese army, Li Zongren commented:
"The japanese army's training excellence and combat effectiveness can be said to be rare in the world." When marching with troops, from the generals to the soldiers, they all fought according to the principle of tactical combat, without any chaos, so that the enemy could not easily take advantage of the gap. Although there are few outstanding strategists among Japan's senior generals, there are few major mistakes in basic principles. Japanese generals are generally short in stature and do not look proud, but they can do things down-to-earth, meticulously, and fearfully. ”
Chen Cheng commented on the Chinese and Japanese armies:
"We have mobilized several times more troops than the enemy in any battle. That is, in the Battle of Wuhan, the troops commanded by the Ninth Theater alone had more than seventy divisions at most; and the enemy used troops, according to the numbers discovered successively, totaled only seven divisions. The reason why they can hit the crowd with less, in addition to the equipment relationship, is because of the superiority of quality. Looking at ourselves on the other hand, although there are many troops, the superiority of quantity is offset by the qualitative disadvantage, and it is in vain to pay the bribes and not to make up for the defeat - the reason why this 'soldier is fine but not more' is also the most reasonable saying. ”