Author: Chuan chuan dian dian
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
In the Spring Festival of 2020, although pork is a little more expensive than in previous years, it is good to eat; although the world is not peaceful, at least the missiles will not fall on their heads. But 80 years ago
1940
During the Spring Festival, the land of China, which was ravaged by the Japanese army, was either worried about the sweeping of the Japanese army or worried about the bombing of Japanese aircraft, and life preservation was put first, and eating and wearing warm food were the second pursuit. How dare the people at that time expect a peaceful and peaceful Spring Festival!
【In the old Spring Festival temple fair, the people prayed for incense】
From 1940 until Japan announced its surrender, the mountains and rivers were destroyed, the capital was moved, and the Japanese and Pseudo-Japanese were in charge, but the Japanese army never launched a large-scale operation that played a decisive role in the Sino-Japanese War.
As a matter of fact
For many reasons, the Japanese have lost the ability to continue to attack.
One is "China is too big!" ”
In the face of the vast territory of China, the more the Japanese army occupies, the greater the number of troops, energy and resources consumed. After the capture of Nanning, Guangxi, the Japanese army strength has been stretched, and every important city must be heavily guarded, and it is also necessary to free up troops to control important transportation routes and ensure the logistical supply of troops in the front. By March 1940, the Japanese army had captured almost half of China on the map. Such a territory is no longer known how many times that of the Japanese mainland, and the snake swallows the elephant after all.
[Map of the war situation during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, from the right picture you can see the area occupied by Japan at that time]
At that time, the total strength of the Japanese army (excluding the Kwantung Army) invading China was about 850,000, and the Japanese Army Province's plan in 1940 required that the strength of the army be reduced to 500,000, that is, about 350,000.
The main reason is that there is no money, because the people in the Headquarters of the Japanese Army have calculated that one less person can save 2,000 yen, reduce 350,000 people, and save a lot of military expenses at once. But the Japanese troops on the front line will certainly not do it: the existing troops are difficult to maintain, and if they do not increase their troops, they will actually lay off their staff?
In the end, through bargaining, the Japanese army invading China was still cut
10
10,000 people.
At one point, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters even wanted the Army to withdraw from wuhan, which had already occupied Wuhan, causing the Japanese Army Deputy Commander Anan to shout:
“
Do you want to retreat from the place where the Imperial Army has shed blood?
”
Second, Japan is getting poorer.
In the war against China for several consecutive years, although the Japanese army plundered countless rare treasures and countless resources in our country, for a protracted war, those plunders can be described as a drop in the bucket, and the Japanese have neither money nor food.
A harder and more real problem than no money is hunger.
Due to the prolonged state of war, most of the young adults in the Japanese mainland were conscripted into the army, and there was not enough labor to grow enough food for the front troops. Although Japan produces rice, the output is far from enough, and the rice before the war is not enough to eat, and it still needs to be imported; although China has a large land, the people are either burned or fled wherever the Japanese army goes, and the Japanese army occupies the territory and no one gives them land; in addition, the Japanese army's control over China's rural areas is weak, and it is difficult to collect enough grain. Not only that, the Japanese in North China not only did not "offer", but also in turn reached out to ask Japan "shang" for grain, on the grounds that there was a famine, and the people could not effectively maintain law and order without enough to eat, so the Japanese spent about 500 million yen of foreign exchange in a short period of time and purchased 19 million bags of flour to alleviate the crisis in North China.
【Air Defense Exercises in Japan】
What is even more irritating is the contradiction between resource plunder and grain, which requires the requisition of labor to extract other countries' coal and other resources, but the labor force cannot extract resources without eating, resulting in a reduction of 10 million stones of rice shipped from the Northeast Asian peninsula to Japan from 1940, because it is still necessary to leave some grain for the coolies to eat.
Japanese Minister Shunroku Hata said at the time:
The external strength of the middle cadre is the portrayal of our country (Japan) today, and it cannot be maintained for a long time.
[Japanese Land Minister Shunroku Hata described Japan at that time as a "strong foreign country"]
Third, Japan's appetite has not become smaller at all.
Even though the difficulties were numerous, the Japanese still had good teeth, and they always wanted to alleviate the domestic difficulties by conquest and plunder. At a time when the Sino-Japanese war was still scorching, they actually coveted the resources of Southeast Asian countries. At that time, the Southeast Asian countries were mainly British and French colonies, when Hitler swept through Europe, France had fallen, and the British mainland was bombed every day, and Japan naturally wanted to seize the Opportunity to seize the British and French colonies in order to obtain the abundant war materials such as rice, oil, and rubber. To fight a war, of course, soldiers and weapons are needed, so we can only consider drawing troops from the Chinese battlefield.
[The Japanese army can't wait to attack Southeast Asia, intending to seize the resources of the British and French colonies]
The Chinese, on the other hand, were also exhausted at the time and did not have the strength to launch a large-scale counteroffensive.
First, we have seen the trend of the war.
As early as 1938, there was a famous exposition of "On Protracted War", and the trend of the later war also confirmed the correctness of the treatise, and China already had a theoretical and psychological basis for protracted war. At the forefront of the Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese army has begun to implement the tactic of "fighting out and then retreating", and the battlefield situation is clearly visible. Coupled with various difficulties in Japan, the Chinese side is not deaf, so it has long judged the trend of the war:
Even if it no longer takes the initiative to attack, Japan will collapse on its own.
【Cover of "On Protracted War"】
Second, the will to resist the war is resolute, but the strength to fight back is still insufficient.
The Japanese themselves were well aware that they had not been able to destroy the will to resist of the Chinese military and civilians, as they had expected when they started the war. When Okamura Ningji left China to take up his post, he said: "The only regret is that he failed to destroy the enemy's attempt to resist the war, but left many officers and men on the battlefield, which is a feeling of 'the war has not ended, and the body has returned alone.'" The Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians have suffered countless deaths and injuries since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although they lost the ancient capital of Beijing and the capital Nanjing was brutally slaughtered, they never yielded, the Chinese army still confronted the Japanese army on the front line, and the anti-Japanese guerrilla fighters went deep behind the enemy to break the Japanese army's transportation and key points. The world rises and falls, and the sense of responsibility of the Chinese people makes the sons and daughters of China unite as one, and they must overcome many difficulties and fight the enemy to the end!
【Guerrillas active behind enemy lines】
Will is the driving force that supports the Chinese military and people to persevere, but war not only needs spiritual pillars, but also high-quality soldiers and advanced weapons and equipment. China, which has lost most of the rivers and mountains, has huge loss of troops and extreme shortage of materials, and in the face of the Japanese army, it often needs several times more than the enemy to barely resist, and it is not easy to fight a good defensive war, and it is really not the strength to organize a campaign-level counter-offensive operation.
Therefore, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression after 1940, China and Japan were like two people who fought until they were exhausted. Japan occasionally clenched its teeth and swung its weak fist twice, and China no longer had the strength to pounce on it and fight again, but it protected its head with both hands to protect its head from heavy damage, and at the same time responded with ingenuity, waiting for the dying enemy in front of it to fall.