In recent years, due to the vigorous broadcast of the anti-japanese drama, people's impression of the Japanese army has caused a big gap between the real Japanese army. This is a group of real faces that reflect the Japanese army invading China, and they are completely different from the anti-war dramas. One thing is the consensus of everyone, that is, the Japanese army is generally short.
If you have read the memoirs of the veterans of the War of Resistance, they will have an impression about the Japanese army, "Accurate marksmanship, small body but incomparably strong." Obviously, the Japanese army has these characteristics as a result of training. Taking shooting as an example, in the early stages of World War II, the Japanese army had to introduce strict shooting training during the battlefield, and consumed a large number of bullets to greatly improve the accuracy of the Japanese army's shooting.
[Japanese troops captured in the Battle of Changde] There is a small detail in this photo, that is, one of the captured Japanese soldiers is still fierce, full of disbelief, and arrogant to the extreme. This was also the most common expression of the captured Japanese troops at that time, they simply looked down on the Chinese soldiers, in their own words, "The Chinese soldiers are brave and abnormal, but the equipment and tactics are very backward, and they are not our opponents at all." ”
In 1927, Japan promulgated the Showa II Military Service Law, which imposed strict requirements on conscription. The Military Service Law divides young people of appropriate age into five levels: 1. Young people with heights of more than 150 centimeters and excellent physical indicators belong to "class A military service personnel"; 2, young people with a height of more than 150 centimeters and most of the good physical indicators belong to "class B military service personnel"; 3, young people with heights of more than 145 centimeters belong to "type C"; 4, those with mental abnormalities or height less than 145 centimeters belong to "type D"; 5, personnel who are completely unfit for military service are classified as "type E".
After the Japanese recruits joined the army, they immediately began nearly two months of intensive training, including shooting, weight-bearing hiking, field training, tactical drills, etc. Japan is a resource-poor island country, and the Japanese army is sitting overseas, so the Japanese army attaches great importance to the smallest cost to get the maximum results, so the new recruits in the early stages of the war must undergo rigorous military training.
[The Japanese Army is catching fish] "Feeding the war with war" is one of the tactics of the Japanese army invading China. As mentioned earlier, the island country of Japan lacks resources and cannot support the Japanese army in long-term combat, so it is extremely important to "feed the war with war". After the "918" incident in 1931, a consensus was formed within the Japanese army that every time a place was occupied, first of all, it was to plunder the valuables here, followed by various supplies.
On December 24, 1937, the Japanese Cabinet meeting officially issued the "Outline for Handling the Incident in China". The "Outline" stipulates that "all the official organs and land, buildings, etc. of the old China shall be taken over by our side and appropriately used to achieve the purpose of feeding the war with war." In this way, the Japanese army completely made the "war to feed the war" completely open, and the Japanese army plundered the materials even more unscrupulously.
[Captured Japanese Troops] Everyone knows that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China's policy toward Japanese prisoners was mainly lenient, but the Japanese army did not think so. In 1904, Japan successively formulated and adopted the "Rules for the Management of Prisoners", "Rules for the Management of Prisoners", "Rules for the Postal Service of Prisoners", "Rules for the Administration of Prisoners", "Rules for The Labor of Prisoners", "Regulations on Prisoners' Shelters", "Punishment for Prisoners", "Rules for The Free Walking of Prisoners and The Residence of Civilians", etc., but the Japanese army has never seriously implemented these rules.
[The strong body of the Japanese army] This photo truly shows the strong body of the Japanese army, when the Chinese military and civilians were facing such a strong Japanese army, and the difficulty of the War of Resistance is not difficult to imagine. According to the data, after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan sent a large number of spies to China to collect intelligence. The Japanese military believes that the infrastructure level in most parts of China is too backward to carry out road or rail mobility, so it places special emphasis on training the Japanese army's ability to march on foot.
【Flag-raising Ceremony of the Japanese Army】In August 1939, Japan formally established a "military distribution combination" mainly controlled by the military by the three parties of the Japanese military, government and finance stationed in Central China, controlling the materials and circulation in central China, and its branches spread throughout more than ten cities in central China, involving cotton, cotton yarn, cotton, rayon, wool and wool products, industrial drugs, dyes, paper, grain fertilizer, sugar and many other fields, to plunder China's resources to the greatest extent, and then achieve the purpose of long-term combat.