introduction
There is a cloud in the "Four Years of Zuo Chuan Xuangong": "The wolf's ambition; is it a wolf; its animal can be animalized?" "During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army with wolf ambitions tried to occupy our country in one fell swoop, and once occupied many provinces of our country, but what is strange is that the Japanese army has never attacked the Shaanxi region. Later, after careful analysis, some experts found that it was not that the Japanese army did not want to attack, but did not have that skill!
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Perhaps many people will think that the reason why the Japanese army did not attack Shaanxi Province during the War of Resistance Against Japan was because Shaanxi was neither a major grain-producing province nor an industrial base, nor was it a transportation hub city that "soldiers must fight for", so this did not conform to the Japanese army's strategy of "feeding the war with war", and naturally it would not take the lead in attacking. In fact, Shaanxi should be one of the provinces that the Japanese army most wants to occupy besides Chongqing.
▲Stills of the Japanese army invading China
As everyone knows, Shaanxi not only has Yan'an, the revolutionary base of our party, which is the military stronghold of the Eighth Route Army, but also a large number of military academies, including the Anti-Japanese Red Army University and the Hanzhong Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, which are constantly supplying talents for the anti-Japanese front. However, it seems that the reason why the Japanese army did not attack Shaanxi is obvious, not that they do not want to fight, but they cannot fight.
▲Photos of Whampoa Military Academy
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First of all, the attack on Shaanxi is indeed not in line with the Japanese army's strategy of "feeding war with war", although Japan's comprehensive national strength at that time was far stronger than that of China, but no matter how Small Japan's land area was too small, the domestic population was simply not enough to support the large-scale military operations of the Japanese army, so the Japanese army was forced to "feed the war with war". After the Japanese army captured Korea, he wanted to take the opportunity to attack our country, but he found that his own strength was not caught, so he had to repair the place for a long time before slowly infiltrating the northeast of China, and Rao did not dare to attack and occupy the entire northeast after the design killed Zhang Zuolin.
▲Shaanxi old photos
Subsequently, the Japanese army digested in northeast China for a full 5 years, relying on the military industry left by Zhang Zuolin, established a relatively perfect military production system, and supported the puppet state of Manchukuo and a large number of puppet troops before daring to launch an all-out war of aggression against China. Although in 1937, the well-prepared Japanese army clamored for the "annihilation of China in three months", and it went very smoothly in the early stages, but soon after encountering strong resistance, there was still a shortage of troops, and the main military forces could only be concentrated in the relatively developed cities in the eastern and southern parts of China. In addition, Shaanxi also has a defensive advantage that cannot be compared with most parts of China.
▲Old photos of the Japanese army invading China
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First, Shaanxi is close to Shanxi, and if you want to enter Shaanxi, you must occupy Shanxi, but although the Japanese army successfully occupied Shanxi, it encountered the joint harassment of the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army in Yan Xishan, and the Japanese army's repeated suppression of the people of Shanxi, as well as the sweeping inspired their strong determination to resist the war, which made it difficult for the Japanese army not only to move almost in Shanxi, but even suffered defeats such as the Battle of Pingxingguan and the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, so there was no room for further attack on Shaanxi.
▲Hundred Regiments War Monument
Second, because of its topography, Shaanxi has been An easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times, and the fact that the Qin State was able to unify the world more than two thousand years ago had a lot to do with their occupation of Shaanxi to attack and retreat. Even though the Japanese were relatively highly mechanized at the time, it was still impossible to ignore the impact of the terrain on the war situation. According to the "New China Daily" once reported, the Japanese planes carried out large-scale continuous bombardment of Yan'an for several days, and Yan'an's "treatment" was probably second only to the Nationalist government's capital Chongqing, but the Japanese army was thankless and had little effect.
▲Recent photos of Shaanxi
Third, Shaanxi, as the great rear of our party, is not only strong and strong, but also has very rich strategic material reserves, which cannot be captured by the Japanese army in a moment and a half. If the Japanese army attacked Shaanxi, once it fell into the quagmire of war, it would definitely lead to the frantic counterattack of the anti-war forces in other occupied areas, and perhaps the situation of the entire war would be reversed. All in all, in any way, the Japanese army dreamed of capturing Shaanxi, and even tried several times, but without exception all ended in failure, and finally had to dispel this idea. In this regard, experts also said that there is a thief's heart but not that skill.
epilogue
In the Analects of the Constitution, it is recorded that the zilu stayed at the stone gate. Morning Gate: "Xi Zi? Zi Lu said: "From Kong's." "Is it the one who knows what cannot be done?" From this dialogue, it can be seen that people at that time admired Confucius's spirit of "knowing that he could not do it", but perhaps he needed perseverance when he was a man, but in a war where either you died or I died, it was absolutely impossible to know what not to do, if the Japanese army wanted to attack Shaanxi at that time, perhaps the time of China's war of resistance would be advanced.
Resources:
"Zuo Chuan Xuan Gong Four Years" New China Daily, "Analects and Constitutional Questions"