After Emperor Hirohito of Japan issued an edict announcing Japan's unconditional surrender, the Japanese army in China at that time was mainly divided into two parts: 1283237 Japanese troops in Guannei; and 750,000 Japanese troops outside Guanxi.
Newspapers at the time of Japan's surrender
The Japanese army, which totaled more than 2 million and nearly 70 divisions and regiments, should honestly and wait in situ for the transfer of defense zones and weapons to the Chinese army according to the regulations, and the Japanese army also assured the Chinese side.
But if you believe the Japanese completely, you're dead wrong. In order to create difficulties for the Chinese army to receive weapons, the Japanese army played a lot of tricks.
First, the Japanese army in the northeast first hid some of its weapons and "discarded them."
Under the attack of the Red Army, the Japanese army, which had no strength to fight back, in order to save their lives, the first thing they thought about was to flee to Kannai or the sea as soon as possible. So they "discarded" all or part of their weapons and ammunition, or hid them as much as possible.
He Changgong, who was later in charge of military industry work in the Northeast Liberated Areas, said: "The Japanese imperialists built many underground warehouses in the northeast, which stored a large number of weapons, ammunition and military materials, and the stored ammunition and materials did not stick to the wall and did not stick to the ground, and the preservation was very good. Unfortunately, the Japanese did not tell us the location of these secret underground warehouses. ”
After our army was ordered to leave the customs, it learned of these situations at that time, and soon organized personnel to carry out two large-scale activities: "picking up foreign fishing" and "digging cellars."
Treasure digging unit of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army
The so-called picking up foreign fishing refers to sending troops to the ice and snow to search for all kinds of weapons that the Japanese army "discarded" and "buried" after the rout.
In the future, the Japanese Type 96 150 mm heavy howitzers in the northeast were planed out by the Dongye artillery unit from the frozen Daxing'anling Mountains and other places, and they finally mastered the heavy artillery left by the Kwantung Army, and by the time of the Liaoshen Campaign, the 150 mm heavy howitzers of the Eastern Field could easily destroy the towering city wall on which the Nationalist army was stubbornly resisting.
The "digging cellar", as the name suggests, refers to the search for underground military warehouses left behind by the Japanese army, and through "digging the cellar", the Democratic Coalition Army has also solved the problem of many weapons supply.
Dig out a large number of weapons
The Japanese did not report underground warehouses, first, they did not want to Chinese use; second, they thought they would fight back soon.
The Nationalist army in Guannei received nearly 700,000 rifles and 300,000 machine guns, but not many were available and intact.
The Japanese army in Shanghai also hid a large number of excellent weapons.
In 1945, Hua Kezhi, the ace intelligence officer of the South China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, instigated Major General Okada of the Shanghai Special Marine Corps of the Japanese Navy to secretly hand over okada's 194 machine guns secretly stored by Okada to the New Fourth Army, after which the weapons were buried under the living room of Okada's residence.
For vicious purposes, most of the heavy weapons and technical weapons handed over by the Japanese army were damaged in some way and had to be overhauled and replaced with a large number of key components before they could be reused.
Weapons received by the Kuomintang army at the Shanghai Racecourse
According to Japanese researchers in the 1970s, when Japan surrendered in 1945, the Nationalist army received more than 1,000 aircraft and a large number of parts, and the vast majority of these aircraft and parts were completely scrapped in just over a year.
The U.S. Army and the Red Army both joined the large army of weapons demolition mainly by the Japanese army, and together they dismantled a large number of weapons.
Except for the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, which handed over its weapons to Yan Xishan, the weapons of the Japanese army in North China were protected by the Japanese army and not handed over to the Eighth Route Army. However, most of these weapons did not reach the hands of the Kuomintang army.
Some of the weapons yan xishan received
Since the Nationalist army was far in the southwest and could not be surrendered to North China, the US Marine Corps led the landing in Qingdao, Tianjin, and Qinhuangdao, and directly disarmed the Japanese army in North China.
1. The Americans basically demolished the Japanese tanks, tanks, and large-caliber artillery, including the Japanese third division of tanks, which was demolished by the Americans.
2. After the surrender of the Japanese army, it systematically destroyed and dismantled weapons and equipment, and demolished more than 900 cars in Pingjin and Tianjin alone. When the Japanese surrendered in Shijiazhuang, 70,000 rifles had no bolts; all the artillery had no sights; 218 Japanese land aviation aircraft in North China were accepted, but less than 60 were intact, and only 17 could fly.
3. The Soviet Union received about 700,000 Japanese weapons and guns in the northeast, but less than 100,000 were handed over to the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and the large weapons were basically not handed over, and some of the weapons were taken away by the Soviets, and a considerable part of the weapons were demolished by the Soviets.
Finally, the Nationalists' own statistics, including the Japanese weapons it received in North Vietnam and northern Burma, were only less than half of the rifles that were repaired and available, totaling less than half of the 520,000. Other weapons are also largely unusable.
Fourth, many Japanese troops joined the Kuomintang troops, including Yan Xishan, and continued to fight against the People's Liberation Army.
This part of the population was mainly the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi.
More than 6,000 Japanese troops directly participated in Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army
In addition, a large number of war criminals, including Okamura Ningji, constantly gave advice to Chiang Kai-shek's civil war, and all of them became Chiang Kai-shek's guests, and they were treated with great courtesy, which made people feel that there was a sense of time and space confusion and so unreal.
Can you trust the Japanese?
Conclusion: In short, on the occasion of the anniversary of Japan's all-out war of aggression against China, my purpose in writing this article is to tell you that the Japanese in history are completely untrustworthy. Of course, Japan is not credible now, on the one hand, it is doing business with China to make Chinese money, and on the other hand, it spares no effort to participate in the Western alliance dominated by the United States to encircle and suppress China.