In today's anti-Japanese dramas, the portrayal of the Japanese army invading China is indeed "the big sa is like a dog, and the little sa is full of people", which greatly distorts the military system and rank system of the Japanese army in World War II, which is very unserious. At that time, an Army Daisaku's monthly salary was as high as 350 to 370 yen (old currency), while the allowance of an ordinary second-class soldier was only 6 yuan per month, a difference of almost 60 times, in other words, the cost of feeding a Japanese Daisaku could provide a whole infantry squad and be rich.
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In the Republic of China army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were five levels of generals: special general, first-class general, second-level general, lieutenant general, and major general; there was no Western-style "brigadier general" and today's "colonel" titles. However, the Japanese Army only has three generals of major general, lieutenant general and general (the special general of the grand marshal category, the marshal is only an honorary title), so the generals of the Japanese army are relatively "valuable".
Because of this, it also causes the rank of Daisa, which is actually higher in rank, which is equivalent to one foot has stepped into the threshold of a general (about equal to a brigadier general or a colonel), and it is nothing more than the need to mix enough to stop the year, so the "gold content" of the rank of Daisaku in the Japanese army is generally higher than that of the "colonel" of the Republic of China army. In terms of professional military system, the Army Daisaku belongs to the "first-class officer", the upper age of service is 55 years old, and the promotion to "suspension year" is two years.
The appropriate posts of the Army Commander are infantry wing commander, brigade and division commander chief of staff, deputy chief of staff of the army headquarters, senior staff officer, intelligence chief staff officer, chief of operations staff officer of the command at or above the army level, and some important posts in the secret service organs and gendarmerie corps. For example, in 1944, the large-scale offensive campaign "Operation No. 1" in which the Japanese invaded China returned to the light, used a total of more than 500,000 troops, which was the largest combat operation of the Japanese Army after the Russo-Japanese War, and the Chinese war history called the "Battle of Yuxianggui".
The instigators and specifically responsible for the implementation of this battle plan were actually two Daisaku officers, Hattori Shoshiro and Takeji Shimakan. Hattori Shoshiro, then chief of the Operations Division of the Operations Department of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, with the rank of Daisa, and Takeji Shimasai, successively served as a senior staff officer of the 11th Army, a senior combat staff officer of the North China Front and the Kwantung Army, a chief staff officer of the "China Dispatch Army", and a rank of Daisa. The two cargoes met in Tokyo and decided that they must open up a line of communication across the Chinese mainland, otherwise the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater, which had lost the ability to transport by sea, would have to finish playing.
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Therefore, the two Daisa and a group of Nakasa and Shōsa, including the combat squad leader, drew up the battle plan and submitted it, signed by the Chief of Operations (Major General), signed by the Deputy Chief of Staff (Lieutenant General) and the Commander-in-Chief (General), and then formally notified the Japanese army invading China to implement it, which was the operational decision-making system of the Japanese army during World War II. Pretty funny isn't it? This is actually the tremendous energy of the staff officers of the Daizo level, and the commander-in-chief of the "Chinese Dispatch Army", Hata Toshiroku, only complied.
It was also this Shimakan Takeji Daisa, who served as a senior staff officer of the 11th Army twice before the battle began, and openly resisted the orders of Hata Shunroku and Okamura Ninji (commander of the Sixth Front) at the Battle of Katsuragi, and supported Yokoyama's unauthorized action. Similarly, in the early years of the "918 Incident", the mastermind was also several military officers of the ranks such as Itagaki and Ishihara, and the senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, Itagaki Seishiro Daisaku, even issued an order in the name of the commander of the Kwantung Army, and afterwards was also posthumously recognized by Lieutenant General Honjo. It was also Wing Commander Mutaguchi Ryoya Daisa, who decided to do it.
At that time, all officers of the Japanese Army graduated from the "Army Non-Commissioned Officer School", which became a special case of World War II, because Japan was such a standard army officer training school, but the officers who graduated here were generally promoted to Nakasa, and it was very difficult to rise again. How can you successfully advance to the ranks of Daisa and thus enter the ranks of generals? It is necessary to enter the "Army University" for further study, as long as a lieutenant officer enters the door of the University of Lu University, he can basically be promoted to Daisaku within ten years.
Lu Dasheng mostly enrolled as a second lieutenant or lieutenant, and after the expiration of the three-year period, he generally graduated with the rank of lieutenant, and his privilege was that he would definitely be promoted after the minimum suspension year, and officers without Lu University education would have to stay up for at least fifteen years before they had the opportunity to be promoted to Dazuo. At the same time, the promotion of general officers is a big obstacle, even if the achievements and performance are the same, Lu Dasheng is also a priority promotion to general officers (as long as they do not make mistakes and do not retire in advance), while ordinary officers are very difficult to promote generals, so the enrollment competition of Lu University is very fierce, and there are only 3485 graduates in the 64 years of existence.
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