After Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, a war still broke out with China, but few people know about it
As World War II drew to a close and Japan suffered a crushing defeat in the Pacific Theater, in order to end this human catastrophe as soon as possible, China, the United States, britain, and other countries jointly issued the Potsdam Proclamation to advise Japan to lay down its weapons as soon as possible and end the war at an early date. However, the Japanese military leadership always ignored this kind advice of the Allies, and unilaterally formulated a terrifying plan of "one hundred million jade fragments", intending to gamble the lives of all Japanese people and be loyal to the so-called "glory of the empire".
Before the final battle broke out, U.S. military experts made casualty estimates of the attack on the Japanese main island, and if the U.S. military wanted to completely defeat Japan, it would have to pay at least 150,000 U.S. casualties. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, and to avoid the Soviet Union preemptively occupying Japan, the United States finally decided to project atomic bombs on the japanese main island on August 6 and 9, 1945.
In the end, with two loud noises, Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki were instantly reduced to ashes, and Japan finally had to declare unconditional surrender under nuclear deterrence, although the japanese country had passed the resolution of surrender, but the Japanese commander Ninji Okamura, who was far away in China, still refused to surrender, in his words: This surrender was only part of the entire war, and it did not have a substantial effect. In order to force the Chinese military and civilians to lay down their weapons, they decided to continue the next offensive against them.
The war lasted until September 1945, when he learned that the Japanese troops on Chinese territory had surrendered one after another, and Okamura Ninji reluctantly accepted the surrender order. Therefore, normally, the end of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression should be September 9, 1945, but the reality is that after Japan's formal and unconditional surrender, a war still broke out with China, and this war is very close to the date of Japan's surrender, which can be completely summarized in the course of the War of Resistance.
The war that followed the end of the struggle was the Battle of Gaoyou on December 19, 1945, which had been more than 4 months since Japan's full surrender, and more than 3 months after The victory of the Chinese War of Resistance, but those Invading Japanese troops who occupied the Gaoyou area continued to encroach on and manage the area as "occupiers".
The area is located in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, to the north can hold the Two Huai area, to the south is relying on Yangzhou City, in the history of gaoyou area has been enshrined as ''The door lock of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal'', is a very important traffic artery, its regional strategic value is extremely high, and the Gaoyou area is surrounded by rivers, and the city structure is extremely strong, is an easy to defend and difficult to attack strategic stronghold.
When the Chinese surrendered troops arrived in the area, the Japanese puppet army occupying Gaoyou City not only refused to surrender, but also secretly built fortifications in an attempt to prevent the Chinese army from taking over the area, and in order to solve the Japanese army's continued occupation of our country, a famous Gaoyou Campaign was launched.
At this time, the Japanese puppet army entrenched in Gaoyou consisted of two battalions of the 96th Brigade of the Japanese Mixed Brigade, as well as the strength of the 7 regiments of the 42nd Division of the Puppet Army, and these Japanese puppet troops who refused to surrender, relying on the natural advantages of the city pool, made this battle very difficult to fight, and this was also the last war of aggression on the land of China. In addition to actively preparing for war, the Chinese army also secretly sent people to contact the defenders and carry out ideological work on them, and if they could take Gaoyou City without spending a single soldier, it would be the best result.
However, when the Chinese army persuaded it to surrender, the Japanese army took the lead in attacking, and then the siege battle officially began, immediately 7 hours of hard fighting, the Battle of Gaoyou finally killed 5100 Japanese puppet troops, won the last victory since the War of Resistance Against Japan, and completely uprooted the invading forces that Japan finally occupied on Chinese soil.
Four months after Japan's defeat, the Japanese army still refused to surrender, and a war broke out with China.