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In recent history, the powerful and greedy neighbor of the North has been one of the two countries that have caused the greatest harm to us, and the other is, needless to say, the Wokou. The last time this greedy northern neighbor hurt us on a large scale was to take advantage of the Yalta Conference held on February 4, 1945, to separate Outer Mongolia from the territory of the motherland, which was undoubtedly a major tragedy of the nation. In fact, if the Nationalist army had not suffered that great defeat in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it would have been entirely possible to avoid this tragedy.
The early days of the Nationalist government's stubborn resistance
The time definition in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is generally from the Qiqi Lugou Bridge Incident to the fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan in October 1938, a total of 1 year and 3 months. During this period, the Nationalist army faced the elite Japanese and Kosovars who were full of self-confidence and arrogance, but the resistance of the Nationalist army was also very heroic and tenacious, and successively organized large-scale battles such as Songhu, Wuhan, and Changsha, which greatly injured and consumed the enemy.
During this period, although the Nationalist army lost North China, as well as most of East China, and the Central china and South China branches in a very short period of time, the vast number of officers and men bravely resisted with the same enemy, completely destroying the Japanese army's arrogant plan to destroy China in three months, and the heroic spirit displayed won widespread sympathy and support from all over the world! More importantly, China also won respect, and during this period, the Western powers represented by the United States and Britain gave up many of their privileges in China.
The Kuomintang army in the late period of the War of Resistance was a great disappointment
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the pressure on the Kuomintang army to resist the war was greatly reduced, and the Nationalist government also received more and more military assistance from the United States and the Soviet Union, and the strength of the army was greatly improved, at least on the surface. On the other hand, under the blows of the Allied forces, the Japanese Kou began to retreat one after another, especially after the Battle of Midway, the morale of the Japanese Kou was greatly damaged, and the combat effectiveness was much worse than before, and it can be said that it had shown obvious signs of defeat.
Unfortunately, the apparent strength of the Kuomintang army seems to have greatly improved, but this is not the case. In just a few years, the politics of the Nationalist government have become more corrupt, the economy has soared in economic recession and prices, and the military discipline has been scattered. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once said that the weakness of China in the late Qing Dynasty was due to the fact that China was scattered and scattered, but in fact, in the later period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nationalist Government became a state of scattered sand, and most of the generals regarded the troops as their own private property of "settling down and establishing their lives", and they used the army to seek private interests.
This situation eventually brought a humiliating defeat to the Nationalist army, and also brought a huge disaster to the country, that is, the fiasco of the Battle of Yuxianggui.
Fast forward to 1944, when the Japanese were almost a foregone conclusion due to successive defeats in the Pacific Theater. However, the Japanese Kou still wanted to die and struggle, and in order to consolidate the Chinese battlefield, they planned to open a large passage from Henan to Guangxi, and eventually connect the vast occupied areas from Korea in the north to Vietnam in the south. This idea of the Japanese Kou sounds like a fool's dream, knowing that at that time it had become a moribund autumn grasshopper, and its morale and combat effectiveness were far inferior to those at the beginning of the War of Resistance.
A total of 410,000 troops were dispatched before and after the Japanese invasion of the Pinghan Railway in April 1944, opening the prelude to the Battle of Yuxianggui. In total, the Nationalist government mobilized more than 1.3 million troops to resist the Japanese attack.
However, the results were so surprising that by December of the same year, in just 8 months, Riko had actually achieved its crazy goal. In this battle, the Nationalist army lost nearly 600,000 troops, lost 146 cities, and 60 million people fell under the enemy's iron heel. What was the loss of the Japanese? Only 25,000 people died, and more than half of them died of illness due to water and soil, that is to say, only more than 10,000 people died in the Japanese war.
In battle, the Nationalist army was almost vulnerable or collapsed at the touch of a button. For example, Chiang Kai-shek's beloved general Tang Enbo was like this, his hundreds of thousands of troops fled as soon as they had a little contact with the Japanese army, and as the commander-in-chief, he escaped faster than anyone. As a result, this fleeing army was disarmed by the angry people along the way, and asked if there was any army in the world that was more vulnerable than this?
The consequences of Yu Xianggui's rout were severe
The great rout in the Battle of Yuxianggui shocked and disappointed US President Roosevelt, who had no idea that the Kuomintang army would be so unbearable, so he no longer trusted the Nationalist government and began to consider making compromises with the Soviet Union, so as to ask the Soviet Union to send troops to attack the Japanese army. Obviously, the root cause of Roosevelt's compromise with the Soviet Union was his unwillingness to make the United States pay greater sacrifices in the war against Japan.
So, if in the Battle of Yuxianggui, the Nationalist army severely damaged or annihilated this Japanese army, what would be the result? There are bound to be three positive consequences: First, it will not only eliminate the effective forces of the Japanese army, but also further shake the will of the Japanese army to resist; second, the United States will firmly adhere to China, it will believe that by increasing the intensity of aid, China will be able to defeat Japan, and even let the United States make some bearable sacrifices, and it may also be willing to deal with Japan with China; third, China's international status will be greatly enhanced.
It is safe to say that the original intention of the Americans was extremely reluctant to let the Soviet forces invade China. In the Battle of Yuxianggui, if China defeated the Japanese army, there would really be nothing for the Soviets, and the Soviet Union had to take into account the attitude of the United States. Moreover, as long as the Outer Mongolia issue is not written into the Yalta Agreement and does not become a "legal" provision, then we will solve it later, and there will be countless possibilities for choice!
The fact is that the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Yalta Agreement behind the backs of the Chinese government on the condition of peace, and from that moment on we have actually lost Outer Mongolia. Of course, the Chinese government knew nothing about all this beforehand, and they all believed that the loser had no say!
epilogue
This result is very regrettable, but no one in China wants to see this happen, including chiang kai-shek, the leader of the Nationalist government, which was not his intention, and later in the Sino-Soviet negotiations he also tried his best to change, but because China was a weak country at that time, it was ultimately powerless to change the shameful result inflicted on us by the bandits. To recall those glorious years is to inspire ourselves: the Chinese nation will never sink again! Do you have any comment on that?