The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an extremely arduous war. From the northeast to the south of China, every battle has to pay several times the price of the enemy. We must know how difficult the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was, and see how strong the combat effectiveness of a division of the Japanese army was. There are more technical classes such as "grenadiers" and "tank soldiers" than regular soldiers, and each one is a "sniper".
When it comes to the Japanese army's first division, it refers to the standing division of the Japanese army before the start of the war. That is, the "Guards Division" of the Japanese Army and sixteen standing divisions. These divisions are well-equipped, all of them veterans of combat experience and have a fine tradition. These divisions are not like the anti-Japanese dramas, where a hero can annihilate a group of Japanese soldiers. It is often the case that a Japanese division can annihilate a bunch of elite divisions of the Nationalist Army. If we look at how elite these first-class divisions really are, we will know how great our War of Resistance Against Japan really is.
The first is the strong individual combat ability. In the Chinese battlefield, the conventional infantry combat weapon of the Japanese army is the "Three-Eight Big Cover" rifle. The supply of bullets for the Japanese army was relatively scarce, so the accuracy of shooting was quite high. Of course, our supply of ammunition here is much higher than that of industrial powers such as the United States and Europe, and of course, compared with countries with extremely fragile industrial capacities such as China. How accurate are the Japanese shooting? At that time, the shooting standard of the First Division regiment was: "The ambush target at a distance of 300 meters must have five shots and five shots, and the impact point must be distributed in an area large as a fist." "This is basically the standard of a sharpshooter. Therefore, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a large number of officers of our army were snipeed by the Japanese army.
Such individual combat capabilities surprised Chinese officers. At that time, Li Zongren commented: "The strength of the training's elite combat strength is rare in the world." "In addition to the combat ability, the will to fight is also very strong. This is also the reason why japan was rarely able to capture Japanese soldiers in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan. In the Battle of Nomonkan before the all-out War of Resistance Against Japan, the soviet union's powerful firepower crushed the Japanese army. However, the Japanese Seventh Division stubbornly resisted, and the Soviet army suffered heavy losses. Called by the Soviets, "We are literally fighting the dead." This is also the reason why the Japanese army, which obviously lost the battle, still claimed to be victorious.
The Japanese army's first division not only has strong individual capabilities, but its weapons and equipment are also much higher than those of the national army. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a Japanese army division had four infantry companies, an engineer company, a heavy artillery company, and a heavy artillery company. A division had 650 machine guns, 108 guns, 24 tanks, 20 tanks, and a large number of vehicles for transportation. Each company under the Division had six machine guns and grenadiers. Such equipment is simply invincible in front of the national army.
The most exaggerated of these is the "Itagaki Division" of the Japanese Army. There are a total of 22,000 people in this division, and there are less than 1/4 of the regular soldiers, most of whom are technical units such as "machine gunners", "armored soldiers" and "grenadiers". This is also the reason why this division is called the "Flower of the Imperial Army". In the face of such a strong opponent, we won very hard. At that time, Li Zongren said: "The number of deaths per hour is thousands, and the heroic sacrifice is rarely unprecedented in the history of the Chinese nation's defense against foreign humiliation." "If it were not for the death of our anti-Japanese martyrs, the top brass of the Kuomintang and the Communists would have strengthened their will to resist the war, just like the Qing government, and would have lost the War of Resistance long ago.