What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In fact, as far as the mobilized troops are concerned, the proportion of German mobilized troops in the population is much higher than that of Japan, and normally it should be Germany that is overstretched, but in actual conditions, it is Japan that is overstretched.
For example, on the East Asian battlefield, we see that there are two important manifestations of the insufficient strength of the Japanese army, one is that the soldiers are getting older and older, and the other is that the soldiers are wearing glasses more and more.
When we look at American blockbusters, we will find that the American soldiers who are recruited to the front line are basically relatively young, and few are thirty years old, but Japanese soldiers are often veterans, and the main reason is that Japan lacks troops.
In fact, before the outbreak of World War II, there were extremely strict standards for joining the army in Japan, first of all, the age of this piece, the age is certainly not OK, even if you join the army, you have to retire at the age of 40.
On the other hand, it is the quality of this piece of pinched to death, before World War II, Japan divided the young people of the right age into five levels, that is, five kinds of A, B, D, B
If the vision affects the shooting, it may be class C, and the remaining ones such as poor intelligence and less than one meter four or five in height are drawn to D, etc. If it is completely unsuitable for military service and cannot go to the battlefield at all, it is class E.
Those of class A and B may participate in military service, class C is national military service, and those below class D are exempt from military service.
Therefore, in the early period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the soldiers in the Japanese army's first division were all elite soldiers who had undergone strict training, and their combat ability was quite strong.
However, in the later stages of World War II, the consumption of soldiers in the war increased, and in order to let more soldiers go to the front, Japan had to lower the standard of conscription, such as the upper age limit for military service to 45 years old; physical fitness was adjusted to "even if there are diseases and physical or mental abnormalities in the strong, if they are regarded as no obstacle to joining the army, they must strive to make them qualified." "Simply put, if you can carry a gun, you can join the army."
Myopic or presbyopia can only wear glasses, so we see that the Japanese army as a whole is older in World War II, and likes to wear glasses, which is completely insufficient, garbage to make up!
In contrast, Germany's explosive power was really frightening, before the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when the populations of Germany and Japan were almost at the same level, both about 70 million, but Germany had mobilized more than 10 million troops.
When the Soviet-German War broke out in 1941, the German regular army reached more than seven million, the army was 5 million, the air force was 1.68 million, the navy was 400,000, and the SS 15th army.
Basically, it has reached the point where men who can carry guns have carried guns to the battlefield, basically to the point of full load, but why do we feel that the German army is still very sufficient?
The main reason was that Hitler had drawn in many vassal states and fought with him in concert, so that the strength of the Greater German Reich could be maximized, and the army of the vassal states, although it could not fight a hard battle, was still able to stabilize the rear to a great extent.
At the beginning of World War II, Germany did not open up many battlefields, so the troops were very sufficient, and in 1941, it dared to launch the Soviet-German War, challenge the behemoths of the East, and directly develop more than five million troops.
But Hitler soon suffered the consequences of himself, and in the face of tens of millions of explosive troops, and in the face of the Soviet army that lost millions and quickly replenished millions, Hitler was even shocked to lose his jaw, and he could not afford to provoke, he really could not afford to provoke.
This led to a tense situation in the German forces, but the overall time was not long, especially before the Normandy landings in June 1944, Germany could withstand it, but after the Normandy landings, nearly three million Allied troops appeared on the Western Front, enough for the Germans to drink a pot, at this time it was the old, weak, sick and disabled on the battlefield.
Therefore, from the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the end of 1945, the real tension in German forces was only in 1944, that is, the end of the war.
Why did Japan obviously not mobilize so many German troops, and still seem so stretched? Even at the time of Japan's surrender, no general mobilization order had been issued, although the relevant data showed that at the peak of World War II millions of troops were mobilized, but not all of them were regular troops, including a large number of militia troops, although at the time of the final surrender, there were 7.2 million troops, but in fact it could not be counted as a regular army, and finally it was disarmed without firing a shot.
The main reason is that Japan's economic base and level of industrial development do not allow Japan to mobilize a large number of people like Western countries.
It should be said that Japan has long wanted to launch a war of aggression against China, and has made a lot of preparations and has been strengthening its armaments, but Japan's size determines that it cannot maintain a large standing army.
For example, before the outbreak of Japan's war of aggression against China, Japan prepared standing divisions and reserve divisions, and 17 standing divisions and regiments that could go to the front at any time were About 250,000 troops, which were the core armed forces of Japan's early war of aggression against China, and there were more than 500,000 reserve divisions.
Combining the resident divisions and reserve divisions, Japan was able to mobilize about 750,000 troops.
Because the Japanese top brass has not been able to make up their minds to launch an all-out war of aggression against China, they have been unable to make all-round deployment for aggression against China until after the Lugou Bridge incident, and only then did they begin large-scale conscription.
After the outbreak of the all-out war of aggression against China, Japan's military strength had not yet been raised, its ambitions had swelled, and before the Nomonkan Incident in 1939, it also wanted to go north to launch an attack on the Soviet Union, and after the Battle of Nomonkan, Japan and the Soviet Union reached an agreement.
Later, the Japanese army began to go south, that is, to invade Southeast Asia, which was the sphere of influence of the United States at that time, and Japan also knew that going south would inevitably provoke a War between Japan and the United States, and since Japan and the United States would fight a war sooner or later, it was better to preemptively attack, so there was japan's carefully planned Pearl Harbor incident, and the Pacific War broke out.
It can be said that although Japan is small, it is very ambitious, and it constantly starts bigger wars, without the slightest concern about whether it can eat itself. The industrial base is not strong, and the front line is too long, which leads to the feeling that Japan always gives people the feeling that there are not enough troops.
On the other hand, it is also possible to mobilize more people in a short period of time, but Japan's war of aggression against China actually began at the time of the September 18 Incident in 1931, and until 1945, it fought for 14 consecutive years, which was also an important reason why Japan could not support it.
Of course, the most fundamental reason is that China's depth is too long, which has contained the Japanese army in large quantities and greatly consumed the energy of the Japanese army!