When it comes to the War of Resistance Against Japan, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, the Chinese people still have a hard time forgetting. In this war, we paid an extremely heavy price and finally drove the Japanese aggressors out of Chinese territory. However, regarding the time of China's formal resistance against Japan, many people have always believed that it was officially started after the Battle of Songhu. In fact, long before the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Red Army was already ready for the Eastern Crusade against Japan. When Chiang Kai-shek was still clamoring for the policy idea that "foreign countries must first be safe inside," the soldiers of the Red Army had already formed a vanguard army to march east and equip themselves with American and German submachine guns to show the nations of the world the determination of the Chinese people to resist Japan.
The ambitions of Japanese imperialism are enormous
People who know China's modern history know that after many cowardly and incompetent land-cutting indemnities policies of the late Qing government, China's national strength has weakened to the point of no return. Under such circumstances, warlords from all over China are fighting each other, which has once again seriously affected China's development. At the same time, Japan, which is across the sea from China, tried to seize the opportunity to launch an attack on China and completely occupy China. Especially after the September 18 Incident, Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance made the Japanese see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After all, after successively invading and occupying Taiwan, Korea, and the three northeastern provinces, Japan has already formed a strategic attack on the Chinese mainland.
For the Japanese, as long as Chiang Kai-shek persisted in the stupid policy of internal friction, the Japanese army had a great chance of winning the war.
Not only that, when Germany, Italy, and Japan formed a fascist alliance, Japan and Germany were even arrogant enough to imagine the scene of an Arab meeting. From this point of view alone, it is enough to imagine how great the ambitions of Japanese imperialism were at that time.
China's efforts
Fortunately, at a time of national crisis, benevolent people are emerging in an endless stream, and they feel the crisis that China is about to face, and they make every effort to call on the people of china to unite with the outside world and guard against the upcoming war launched by the Japanese. Represented by General Zhang Xueliang, on December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident was launched to force Chiang Kai-shek to change the so-called national policy and unanimously resist the war against foreign countries. At this point, the decade-long Chinese civil war finally ended, and the anti-Japanese national united front also took shape.
Faced with such a situation, the Japanese finally could not wait any longer, and they clearly understood that only a few years of development time was needed for China, and Japan would no longer have any possibility of winning victory in the war of aggression against China. Yet crazy Japanese imperialism would never have imagined that the chinese soldiers' will to resist was far more powerful than they thought. How could an ancient civilization of thousands of years be defeated at the hands of a small country with a projectile?
The Chinese Red Army resisted Japan
The trajectory of historical development is like this, so when did the Chinese Red Army's resistance to Japan begin? In fact, when Chiang Kai-shek was still thinking about how to unify China and realize his ambitions, the Chinese Red Army had already begun to resist the Japanese invading army with practical actions. On March 1, 1936, the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Vanguard Army issued a proclamation, declaring to the world: The Chinese Red Army will do its utmost to overthrow Japanese imperialism! Strive for a free, equal and territorially complete new China. Many people may wonder whether the fact that the development of the Red Army at that time was somewhat exaggerated by the fact that the submachine guns equipped with American-made German-made submachine guns were somewhat exaggerated. The answer is not so, which precisely proves the determination of the Red Army's anti-Japanese vanguard.
In order to resist the Japanese invaders, the vanguard of the Red Army at that time made great efforts to upgrade the equipment of the vanguard army as much as possible. Only in this way can we have a greater chance of victory in the face of the Japanese aggressors. If Chiang Kai-shek is stubborn, our army will also resolutely resist the aggression of the Japanese. In the face of major national events, only by concentrating the strongest forces can we win a glimmer of life. Fortunately, the final result did not disappoint, and Chiang Kai-shek finally made the right choice on the issue of anti-Japanese resistance.