In the 1930s, Japanese imperialism launched a war of aggression against China in an attempt to occupy China and dominate Asia. After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, due to the non-resistance policy adopted by the authorities, the Japanese army quickly controlled the northeast region of our country, which further increased the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors.
After the Japanese occupied the northeast, they began to invade our city of Shanghai with confidence, and china and Japan fought head-on in Shanghai for the first time, and it was not until after the Lugou Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937 that China began to fight a full-scale war of resistance. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our army was relatively poorly equipped, while the Japanese army was well-equipped, and our army suffered a lot in the War of Resistance.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, many large and small battles were fought, among which the "Battle of Taierzhuang" had a very special significance. The Battle of Taierzhuang began on March 16, 1938, lasted one month, and finally our army won the victory at the cost of tragic sacrifices. The victory in this campaign boosted the confidence of the whole nation in the War of Resistance and dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors.
Our army fought very fiercely in the Battle of Taierzhuang, with our army investing a total of 290,000 troops, while the Japanese army only invested 50,000 troops. In terms of the number of troops, our army is almost 6 times the strength of the Japanese army, and victory should be a breeze. However, the reality is not as simple as imagined.
With its strong military industrial strength, Japan equipped the Japanese army with sophisticated equipment and sufficient ammunition. However, due to the weakness of our army at that time, it was much behind Japan in terms of military strength, and many of the soldiers of our army who participated in the war did not receive weapons and ammunition, and could only attack the Japanese positions with the tactics of the sea of people. So the number of casualties in our army is very tragic.
In this battle, the number of casualties of our army's 290,000 soldiers exceeded 50,000, and the proportion of casualties was very high. So how many of the 50,000 soldiers of the Japanese army were killed or wounded? You may not believe this number when it is said. The Japanese suffered less than 20,000 casualties, and the number of casualties in our army was more than 2.5 times that of the Japanese army.
This is equivalent to killing one Japanese soldier for every 2.5 people sacrificed by our army, and the casualty ratio is very high. The Japanese have been spying on our country for a long time, and they have long been prepared for war before they invaded our country, and the Japanese soldiers are strictly trained. Coupled with sophisticated weapons, their combat capabilities are naturally much stronger than those of our country. It will not be easy for our country to win in the end.