Time back to 80 years ago, China's beacon years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in fact, for us are not unfamiliar, although we have not experienced such an era, but it is also very clear that with China's industrial level and strength at that time, compared with Japan, the difference is still too far, so we had to hold rudimentary weapons, fight with the Japanese army armed to the teeth, after 14 years of unremitting efforts, finally we completely defeated the enemy and won the war.
However, putting aside all objective factors, the defeat of the Japanese army actually has many factors, in addition to the stubborn resistance of the Chinese, the constant changes in the form of anti-fascism in the world are also one of the main factors, Japan's domestic resources are not enough to support them to continue this war, in 1945 the Soviet Union sent troops to northeast China, 600,000 Kwantung Army was annihilated, the United States also dropped two atomic bombs, and finally forced Japan to surrender unconditionally.
We have always learned this knowledge in the textbook, and therefore we are convinced, but when we really understand history, we will find that whether it is the Soviet Union's invasion of Northeast China or the atomic bomb, these are objective factors, the reasons for Japan's unconditional surrender are very complicated, we will not dwell on it here, focusing on august 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, after sending troops to northeast China, by the 15th, Japan has actually surrendered unconditionally. In just seven days, the 600,000 Kwantung Army actually collapsed.
To know that the Kwantung Army has always been known as Japan's elite troops, the name of the Imperial Army Flower is not false, most of these troops are veteran units that participated in the Russo-Japanese War, it should be said that the combat effectiveness is still there, why it will collapse in just a few days, and there are various fortresses built by the Japanese army in the northeast to prevent the Soviet Union from attacking, no matter how calculated, they should not collapse so quickly.
But if you really look for some objective information, you will find that at this point in time in 1945, the Japanese Kwantung Army in the northeast has long been an empty shell, because from 1943, the Japanese army began to gradually draw the main force of the Kwantung Army from the northeast to the Pacific Theater, and the Japanese army actually used the main force of the Kwantung Army in the place of resistance, but with the severity of the Pacific war, it is no secret that the Japanese army has drawn the main force from the Chinese battlefield.
By the end of World War II, the Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield were more B and C troops, and the Kwantung Army was not even as good as the B and C troops on the main battlefield in China, from 1943 to April 1945, the Japanese army drew more than 20 divisions and regiments of the elite Kwantung Army from the northeast, including some elite mechanized troops, half of which were used to defend the Japanese mainland to prevent the Allied landing operations.
From the beginning of May 1945, in order to make up for the lack of its own strength, in addition to recruiting 250,000 retired Japanese soldiers to re-enlist, unexpectedly, it also began to launch some Japanese expatriates from puppet Manchukuo into the army, most of these people were not on the battlefield, and finally re-cobbled together 700,000 Kwantung Army, but because Of japan's domestic withdrawal of a large number of resources, some people did not even have guns, only such a unit, how is the opponent of the Soviet Red Army that has been baptized in the blood of World War II!