The Japanese army during World War II was known for its tenacity, cruelty and fearlessness to death, from the icy northeast of China to the sweltering and humid jungles of Southeast Asia, showing strong morale and vitality in various harsh environments.
So, is it really because of the brainwashing of militarism that this demonic division was created?
Objectively speaking, the strict superior-subordinate relationship, harsh training and the inheritance of the so-called Bushido spirit of the Japanese army can indeed enhance the Japanese army's will to fight.
However, these alone did not enable the Japanese army to break through the general physical limit and moral bottom line. In fact, the top brass of the Japanese army by any means has long been prepared to improve their combat effectiveness.
In 1936, the German medical scientist Meier pointed out that taking methamphetamine can reduce rest time and improve work efficiency.
Many countries, including Germany, immediately set their sights on the drug and listed it as a military drug.
And this drug has a more vivid name today, that is, methamphetamine.
Facts have proved that Japan may always be late in its evil deeds, but it will never be absent. Japan has long put the manufacture of methamphetamine on the agenda, and even in Places like North Korea, factories have been built to ensure adequate wartime supplies.
At that time, the Japanese army called such drugs "assault ingots", "air strike ingots" or "cat eye ingots".
From the name, you may know that after taking such drugs, it can make soldiers forget fatigue and pain, and make them mentally excited, even gradually crazy, and can also enhance the soldiers' vision at night.
In the tragic "Battle of Okinawa", the infamous "kamikaze" members took this drug before they died, so that they flew fighters into the US fleet like crazy fighters.
In fact, who is not afraid of death, especially many "kamikaze" pilots, or young people, it is the age of full of yearning for the future, and several people will voluntarily die for a few empty slogans. However, under the role of "assault ingots", they became cannon fodder for militarism.
Methamphetamine is a drug, also known as methamphetamine. Although it can greatly improve combat effectiveness, it also has strong side effects.
In addition to being able to produce mental disorders, that is, people's behavior is not controlled by thinking, it can also make people hallucinate and make many crazy moves, such as suicide, and long-term use can also damage people's brains.
The most terrifying thing is that it has a very strong addiction, and it is difficult to quit after addiction, that is,
Soldiers who take such drugs, even if they are lucky enough to survive the "rain of bullets", will suffer from side effects and drug addiction for the rest of their lives.
But these are ignored by the fanatical militarist top brass.
"Assault ingots" are just like hormones in the hands of farmers, as long as the army can have super combat effectiveness, they will not care about the death or death of cannon fodder.
After the end of World War II, Japan became a ruin, and the defeated Japanese people, under the pressure of the hard work of rebuilding their homeland, re-extended their hands to the "assault ingots", and the damage of the "assault ingots" continued.
Original author: Ji Shengjie