China's modern history is a history of national humiliation and battle full of blood and tears, during which countless Western powers are eyeing the vast and vast Land of China, squeezing and seizing the living space of the Chinese nation with countless unequal land-cutting indemnity treaties.
With the advent of the Second World War, the fascist countries led by Germany, Japan, and Italy, in order to alleviate and divert domestic contradictions, launched a frenzied plunder of other countries and launched countless large-scale wars. Among them, China, as one of the main battlefields of World War II, became the target of aggression of the Japanese fascists in the eastern neighboring island nation.
Fascism in World War II
Beginning with the September 18 Incident in 1931, the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full swing. Under the frenzied plunder and cruel acts of the Japanese army, the Chinese nation, which was already in the depths of the waters, once embarked on a critical moment of national survival, but the sons and daughters of China never accepted defeat, and after fourteen years of arduous years of resisting the war of resistance and defending the country, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally won victory.
During this period, many heroic and enthusiastic patriots emerged, vividly explaining to us the spirit of the War of Resistance and patriotic enthusiasm. At the same time, we should not forget our enemies, the Japanese army, which brutally killed our compatriots. Therefore, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many compatriots called these murderous Japanese soldiers "Japanese devils", which shows people's hatred and anger toward the Japanese army.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Naturally, in the film and television works with the theme of historical war, the history of blood and tears of the War of Resistance Against Japan, which has made the Chinese nation unforgettable, is often one of the popular themes that attract creators. However, these film and television works often have exaggerated artistic processing components, many times they are divorced from historical facts and realistic logic, and the famous scene of "tearing the devils by hand" also makes these anti-Japanese film and television dramas called "anti-Japanese dramas".
In these anti-Japanese dramas, the Japanese army is often portrayed as comical and very mentally retarded, in order to show the heroic wisdom of the protagonist group and the Chinese army. In the classic "devils entering the village" section, the Japanese army entering the village is often tricked by the protagonist group, or even swept away. But is that really the case? In fact, the real "devils into the village" in history is not like this, don't be deceived by TV dramas anymore.
Anti-Japanese drama tears the devil
World War II Japanese Army - Militarist Enslavement
First of all, let's first understand what the real level of the Japanese army was during the Sino-Japanese War in World War II.
During World War II, Japan, which belonged to the fascist camp, was also deeply influenced by fascism, and the ideology of the generalist state was poisoned throughout the country. So, what is militarism? Militarism is an extreme ideology that carries out expansion and aggression against the outside world and advocates military force.
The rise of Japanese militarism is actually inseparable from the "Bushido spirit" advocated by Japan. Japan's "Bushido spirit" has a long history, with feudal moral norms and codes of conduct such as loyalty to the king, advocating martial arts, and absolute obedience to regulate people's self-consciousness and advocacy. Therefore, in Japan, the image of "samurai", who is absolutely loyal and skilled in martial arts, is regarded as the supreme and noble honor, which has had a great influence on both Japanese culture and history.
Japanese Bushido Spirit
At the same time, this bushido spirit could also become a tool for the feudal rulers to consolidate their rule, stimulate morale, and imprison their ideas; but with the incomplete development of capitalism in Japan, this bushido spirit still survived, and even merged with the attributes of capital expansion into military feudal imperialism.
Until the second world war, affected by the capitalist economic crisis, the economic situation in Japan was also very depressed, but in order to divert domestic contradictions and consolidate its rule, Japan also turned the main body of contradictions to other weak and small neighbors, and began to carry out crazy expansionary aggression against them, filling the vacancies of the domestic economic depression by plundering resources and land.
Japanese militarism
At the same time, due to the influence of fascism during World War II, Japan's militarism with the spirit of Bushido as the core burned to an unprecedented fanatical height, and crazy Japan has produced a strong sense of national superiority, and in order to expand its territory, they have set up an arrogant ideal of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in an attempt to incorporate the entire East Asian region into their territory.
In order to achieve this goal, Japan began to instill the extreme ideology of militaryism and the deformed development of the spirit of Bushido into the thinking of the whole people. They even did not hesitate to include militarism in the content of education, so that the people received military training and military education from an early age, emphasizing the absolute loyalty of the strong and advocating martial arts. Moreover, this militarism denies the importance of peace, justifies and sanctifies acts of aggression and expansion, and seriously poisons and controls the minds of the people.
Japanese children who have been instilled in a sense of militarism since childhood
Under the poison of this trend of thought, the Japanese people set off a wave of participation in the war, and "allegiance" to the emperor and "loyalty to the country" became their only will and mission to survive. Therefore, in the battle of foreign aggression and expansion, these Japanese soldiers often lose their humanity, look down on life and death, charge bravely, regard victory as pride, and defeat as shame. ”
Under the influence of this kind of thinking, the Japanese army has even twisted and perverted to the point of taking people's lives and killing people for pleasure, and the tragic Nanjing Massacre is a tragedy produced in the process of militarism's poisoning and expansion. Therefore, the Japanese soldiers in the War of Resistance Against Japan were actually under the rule of the extreme ideas of militarism and became the enslavement and killing machines of war.
Evil Japanese Army
Therefore, the Japanese army in the War of Resistance Against Japan is actually not as funny, stupid and weak as in the anti-Japanese drama. On the contrary, the militaristic and dehumanizing Japanese army is often an evil, powerful and cruel opponent that cannot be taken lightly.
The war of aggression against China
In the history of Japan's aggression in its external expansion and development, the war of aggression against China was the largest and most costly war of aggression. So why did Japan during World War II set its sights on the vast land of China?
In fact, the enmity between China and Japan has a long history, in the ancient and powerful Tang and Han Dynasties, Japan, as the East Island Uighur Kingdom, is actually full of admiration for the ancient civilization of Yangyang Huaxia, they continue to exchange and learn from China, and are deeply influenced by Chinese culture. However, with the continuous aggression and division of China by the Western powers in modern times, the image of China's powerful empire collapsed overnight. Japan began to learn from the Western powers capitalism and tried to expand and invade the outside world, while militarism quietly spread and grew.
Paintings of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War
Faced with an eastern empire that was no longer powerful, the rapidly rising Japan was no longer satisfied with the small territory between the islands, but wanted to annex China, a former great power: in 1894, Japan launched the Sino-Japanese War against China for the first time, and successfully plundered a large amount of silver and resources from China. The sweetness of this war undoubtedly made Japan's ambitions stronger, and soon Japan included China in its aggressive territory as an important area in the planning of the "East Asian Co-Prosperity Nation".
Later, Japan successively won the Russo-Japanese War and the Japanese-German Battle for Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong. While further watering Japan's militarism in the stage, the victories in these wars also laid the ideological foundation for Japan's all-round invasion of China. With the rapid development of the Chinese National Revolution, Japan began to plot a puppet Manchu-Mongolian regime in northeast China, and under the pretext of supporting Manchu-Mongolian independence, it manipulated and occupied northeast China and the Manchurian-Mongolian region, and on this basis gradually established an expansionist policy of all-round invasion of China.
In the middle of the Japanese Prime Minister's recital of the Emperor at that time, it was clearly stated:
"If you want to conquer Indochina, you must first conquer Manchuria, and if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China."
Under the planning of the blueprint for invading China, Japan soon launched the September 18 Incident, invaded and occupied northeast China, and launched a comprehensive war of aggression against China. "Devils entering the village" officially kicked off.
The real "devils enter the village"
So, why did the "devil" enter the village? - In modern China, the level of economic development in most areas is still extremely backward, the proportion of cities and towns is not high, most of the people mainly rely on villages established by traditional farming, and the infrastructure such as transportation roads and houses is generally poor, which also brings certain difficulties and obstacles to the logistics and supply of the Japanese army invading China. Therefore, under the increasingly tense problem of food shortage in the Japanese army, they had to adopt the method of civilian looting, sweeping the villages that were mainly farming, plundering the grain and resources in the villages, and committing all kinds of evil acts of burning and looting.
The Japanese army slaughtered Chinese people
Of course, these Japanese troops did not casually and blatantly enter the village to sweep. They who have received military training and military education since childhood will also be very cautious in the process of sweeping, and will make strategic arrangements before entering the village, first dispatch a small team to find out the distribution of the number of people and resources in the village, clearly understand the distribution of arms and potential enemies in the village, and then determine that it is very safe and there is no threat, and then enter the village to sweep up in a dignified manner.
The Japanese forced the people to kneel
In addition, in order to protect the grain they have saved all year round, the villagers will also "wrestle with the Japanese army", and the transfer of grain in advance is their last resistance; most of the time, innocent villagers will be brutally "purged" by the Japanese army under the brainwashing of militarism, and end up with the tragic end of "slaughtering the village".
As for the exaggerated bridge sections in the film and television drama that single-handedly annihilated the village devils, although they seem to be very hateful, they cannot happen in reality. And we must also bear in mind that "if we are backward, we will be beaten" and we will never forgive or forget the cruel crimes committed by the Japanese army on Chinese territory.