China has a long history and has always had a high status in the history of the world. In ancient times, China has always been the superior state of neighboring countries, and many countries have come to worship or pay tribute, but this phenomenon changed in the late Qing Dynasty, And China was invaded by the powers of the world, and once became a semi-colony, which can be said to be very humiliating.
Among these aggressors, there is even one of our neighbors, and that is Japan. Speaking of Japan, there have been several battles with our country since ancient times, but each time they have been taught by the Central Plains Dynasty, so that Japan began to adopt a learning attitude, the most famous of which is the Tang Dynasty, Japan sent many people to China to study in order to learn the advanced system of the Tang Dynasty. Japan can now see the influence of the Tang Dynasty in many ways.
By the time of the Qing Dynasty, although China's strength had gradually declined because of its isolation from the country, but it had thousands of years of heritage, why did a small country in Japan dare to take the opportunity to invade China? In fact, in modern times, Japan has completed the industrial revolution, and its strength has been greatly improved, because of the thirst for resources, coupled with the lack of its own national resources, so it is urgent to plunder resources from other countries.
It is precisely for this reason that Japan set its goal at the Qing Dynasty at that time, because in the history of the Japanese, China has always been a country rich in materials, so it is best for them to use China as a resource, but at that time they were still very hesitant to attack China, worried that they could not eat this big cake, and finally even made up their minds with the idea of fighting with national strength.
As we all know, the Japanese nation is very ambitious, so they made sufficient preparations for attacking China, for example, in order to find out the terrain and deployment of Chinese cities, they left some Japanese soldiers in China as early as the period of the Eight-Power Alliance, and the tasks carried out by these soldiers did not use swords and guns, but to figure out the maps of China's important cities and the location of various important military facilities.
It can be said that Japan has made preparations for this for many years, as we all know, Japan first began the invasion from the northeast, and the above map is the map of Dalian drawn by the Japanese army, in the map, the important streets are marked in detail, and even in some maps, the streets where the manhole covers are marked, and it is precisely because of these preparations made by Japan in advance that it can make its attack at the beginning of the war, coupled with the wrong estimation of the Chinese army at that time, so that the three eastern provinces quickly fell into the hands of the Japanese army. I have to say that although I can not be too suspicious, but the sense of prevention still has to be there, especially for an ambitious neighbor like Japan, we must be more careful.