In World War II, the Japanese army was invincible on the Asian battlefield, in addition to its own well-equipped weapons, its individual quality is also first-class, not only the gun is accurate, but also the white-knife warfare (that is, hand-to-hand combat) is also very heroic, which has a great connection with Japan's traditional culture, the Japanese have a special love for cold weapons, guns, arrows and axes, the wind of learning martial arts spread throughout the country, the spirit of Bushido is deeply rooted, so that Japan's enthusiasm for fighting in modern warfare has been high.
Let's talk about white-knife warfare, white-knife warfare is an ancient way of military struggle, which is the mainstream way of playing in the era of cold weapons, but after the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century, cold weapons were gradually replaced by firearms, and white-knife warfare did not withdraw from the stage of history.
First, because the equipment cost of firearms is much higher than that of cold weapons such as swords, countries that are relatively backward in the short term cannot fully popularize firearms, but use cold weapons as a supplement to firearms warfare. Second, under the influence of traditional religious culture, cold weapon duels are a symbol of samurai glory, so white-knife warfare has been unanimously recognized by soldiers of many countries.
During World War II, the occurrence of white-knife warfare was largely due to the fact that the military equipment of the own side was inferior to that of the opponent, and the white-knife warfare was forced to be launched.
For example, when Japan invaded China in World War II, the Chinese army was not equipped with enough japanese troops, and often engaged in hand-to-hand combat after running out of ammunition and food, but because the Japanese army had advantages in equipment and skills, the Chinese army always had to pay a painful price of killing 10,000 enemies and losing 20,000 self-inflicted wounds, trying to exhaust the japanese army's living strength. However, despite this, the Japanese side was still unwilling to engage the Chinese army with a short army when it had the advantage of white-knife warfare, so the Japanese command also strongly advocated avoiding a white-knife war with the Chinese army.
In the same way, when the Japanese army launched a military war with the Soviet army, the Soviet army had an absolute advantage in firearms, and naturally did not want to carry out a barbaric and boring white-knife war with the Japanese army, and the Soviet army did not have a certain advantage in the white-knife war, but as far as possible to play the advantage of heavy weapon firepower, eliminate more Japanese troops, and minimize their own casualties.
What the Japanese feared was not to engage the Soviets with short troops, but to worry that there was no chance of fighting with the Soviet army's white-knife, and they would be destroyed by the Soviets' heavy weapons with long range and high lethality, so even if the Japanese army's white-knife warfare was trained to a first-class level, it had to be instigated by the Soviet Union, which could use firepower to strike and never use hand-to-hand combat.