Our history is an invaluable legacy to be proud of. ——Wu Han
The period of Japan's invasion of China can be described as the most chaotic era in China, the Japanese almost occupied many important areas of our country during that period, from the perspective of the front at that time, the Japanese still mainly attacked the coastal cities, after all, Japan's naval strength at that time can be described as very strong, plus the coastal cities are generally very good in terms of natural resources and terrain, so the Japanese are more fond of attacking coastal cities, but Japan dares to fight Shanghai and Nanjing, but why does it dare not hit this place first? The reason is very simple, the Japanese are not stupid, it is the closest city to Japan, but it is not the place where Japan first attacked, it is Qingdao.
In fact, Qingdao's economic strength at that time was not bad, and at that time Chiang Kai-shek was much less defensive than Shanghai, if at this time Japan hit Qingdao is very easy, after all, the Military Forces of the Kuomintang at that time were all concentrated in Shanghai, of course, Chiang Kai-shek did this in order to transfer resources, anyway, in a word, Qingdao at that time was very weak both from a military and political point of view, if you want to fight, it is a matter of minutes. However, the Japanese still prefer to go around with Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai than be the first to fight Qingdao, in fact, as for why the Japanese did not fight Qingdao first? There's a reason for that.
First of all, when Japan attacked China, it had let go of the bold words to completely invade China in a few months, but everyone knew that China had many mountains, and these mountains were not so broken, so the Japanese could only choose some plains to attack a few places with strong economic strength, although Qingdao at that time was said to be an industrial zone, but the resources were still very small, and Qingdao was not a big city, and it was meaningless to attack it, after all, the Japanese at that time wanted to take psychological tactics. Shake the military's heart and win the victory, followed by the fact that no matter how powerful the Japanese are, they are only a small country, and there are not many people who can go to the battlefield, and they have to go through the ocean, many people will be very tired from the sea and need time to adjust, and Japan needs to attack several cities at that time, the distance is a bit far, in order to defeat China's military heart must be attacked as soon as possible, plus there were also contradictions within the Japanese army at that time, Qingdao belonged to the Japanese Navy, plus Qingdao was actually nominally returned to Japan at that time. Since the departure of Germany, Qingdao has been controlled by Japan.
In addition to the above reasons, there is also one of the most important reasons is the geographical location of Qingdao, Qingdao is located in Shandong, there are two mountains to escort it, and Qingdao is a peninsula, anyway, it is not a place where troops can be tuned, plus the Yellow Sea at that time was full of obstacles, it is difficult to get close to Qingdao, so it is not an easy thing to attack Qingdao.
As for why the Japanese still occupied Qingdao later, as I said before, Qingdao was not a very important pass for the war at that time, so it was not so much that Qingdao was occupied by Japan as it was for the sake of the future war that our country was temporarily handed over to Japan.