With a bang, the tracks of the Shenyang South Manchuria Railway were destroyed, and Japan used it to create and launch a war of aggression against China.
On this day, all the Chinese will not forget that the Japanese Kwantung Army, which was entrenched in the northeast, blew up the North Camp of the Northeast Army, first invaded Shenyang, and then occupied the three northeastern provinces.
At this time, the Kuomintang and the Northeast Army were indifferent and watched the fall of the three northeastern provinces, and at this point, the three northeastern provinces began a 14-year colonial career.
30 million compatriots are angrily denouncing the Northeast Army and insulting the Kuomintang's inaction.
Why not resist, why not fight?
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
From 1931 to 1941, for a full decade, people of all classes and patriots resisted the Japanese invasion with their lives.
But why did the Kuomintang, which was supposed to be the main force of the anti-Japanese resistance, delay in declaring war on Japan?
Today, let Lao Yan take you to understand why the Kuomintang refused to declare war on Japan in the past ten years, and why did it declare war in the end?
In China, which was in internal and external trouble, Chiang Kai-shek refused to resist Japan
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese ambassador to the United States immediately sent the declaration of war to the U.S. Department of State.
A few days after the U.S. State Department received the declaration of war, it declared war on the fascist countries in World War II!
Strangely, the Japanese army never formally declared war on China after the July 7 Incident!
Chiang Kai-shek did not receive the declaration of war, he also turned a blind eye, and even had a glimmer of hope for Japan!
On the third day of the Lugou Bridge incident, Chiang Kai-shek sent the foreign minister to the Japanese Embassy in China to demand negotiations with Japan in the hope of a peaceful settlement of the war, which was quickly rejected by the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was arrogant and rude: "Now that the saber has been drawn, how can it be sheathed without seeing blood?" ”
At this time, domestic sentiment was high, and the call for "resisting Japan and defending the country" was even more intense after the fall of the three northeastern provinces.
Chiang Kai-shek (third from left)
Some armed organizations in the northeast took the initiative to resist Japan, and among these anti-Japanese volunteers were students, workers, intellectuals, and officers and men of the Northeast Army.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, as a representative of the Kuomintang, was still saying that "if you want to be outside, you must first be at home," which was spurned by the Chinese people.
In Chiang Kai-shek's mind, what he was more afraid of than the foreign invaders was not the Japanese army, but the communist faction that had developed rapidly!
Chiang Kai-shek believes that there is still a day when the city loses the Japanese army, and there is still a day to retake it; the city loses the communist army, but there is no possibility of turning over!
But Chiang Kai-shek never considered the misfortune of becoming a colonizer and facing one tragic case after another created by the Japanese army on the land of China!
At this time, the United Nations, which was mainly the United States and the Soviet Union, was extremely perfunctory about the fact of the Japanese invasion of China, and even said with great disdain that if the Japanese army really intended to invade China, they would send troops to support it!
Chiang Kai-shek pinned all his hopes on the United Nations, repeatedly stressing that Everything in China is at the mercy of the League of Nations.
The result disappointed him, from the july 7 incident, Mo said that it was five or six months, that is, waiting for five or six years, Britain and the United States did not intervene in this unfair war!
Finally, because the Japanese army was not satisfied with the three northeastern provinces, it gradually extended its claws to major cities such as Beiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Guangzhou.
In June 1937, Chiang Kai-shek said in a conversation at Lushan: "Our attitude is only to respond to the war, not to seek war."
Japan also never recognized the invasion of China as a "war" and called it a "China Incident."
But after Chiang Kai-shek verbally declared war, the Japanese army successively occupied Peiping and Shanghai!
Why did the Japanese army do blatant acts of aggression but did not admit it?
Why didn't Chiang Kai-shek dare to go to war with the Japanese army?
The gap in strength between "China" and Japan is huge, and China does not dare to "declare war"
Japan's war of aggression against China is actually an illegal war!
Not only because the Japanese army violated the bottom line of war morality, but also because of an international regulation!
As early as 1907, the Convention on the Commencement of War contained a well-established international provision that a country waging war must acquire "war" status by declaring war or an ultimatum.
There are two main reasons why Japan did not declare war:
First, they want to invade the whole of China, and there is only one "government" in China: the Communist Party of Yan'an, the Kuomintang of Chongqing, the puppet government of Wang in Nanjing, and the puyi government of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
One of the most powerful militarily is the Kuomintang government! The problem is that the Japanese army cannot declare war on its own puppets, nor can it declare war on other governments, so doesn't that indirectly recognize the status of the Kuomintang government?
Second, as a small island country, the Japanese army is extremely scarce in resources, and some important materials, such as cotton, rubber, industrial raw materials and kerosene, are dependent on foreign imports, Japan hastily declared war, and some countries are likely not to sell goods to Japan.
If Japan does not dare to declare war because of its resources, then there are many reasons why China does not dare to go to war!
Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government had just pre-ordered a batch of German ordnance through German advisers.
Japan and Germany, as countries of the same camp, are actively seeking cooperation, and if Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan, these German weapons will certainly not be able to get their hands!
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Although some of these German-armed Kuomintang troops were killed at the Battle of Songhu, most of them were used against the Communists.
In addition to the differences in weapons, the political and production differences between China and Japan are also very large.
Although Japan was small, it was an industrial powerhouse, and China was in a semi-colonial state at the time.
In terms of economy, politics and production, China lags too far behind.
According to the data, in 1937, the production of pig iron in Japan was 2.53 million tons, and china only had 140,000 tons! Japan produces 5.08 million tons of steel, while China has only 40,000 tons.
Even the gap in the industrial base is so large, and the production volume of equipment between China and Japan is also far from the same.
Still compared with the data of 1937, the Japanese army has 2700 combat aircraft, China has only 200, Japan has 285 ships, and China has only 66 ships. What makes people feel even saddest is that China does not have the industrial capacity to create military power!
Even in terms of organization, China is not as united as Japan because of too many warlords.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek originally did not have any sacrificial spirit to defend his family and defend the country! At this time, I dare not go to war!
If China and Japan officially declare war, the Japanese army can act as a belligerent and impose a total blockade on China, prohibiting other countries from providing military support to China!
Once China's maritime transport lines are cut off, China will be completely isolated!
Of course, there is also part of the reason that many Chinese in the early days went to Japan to study, and declaring war was equivalent to determining the position, and these Chinese who remained in Japan were in danger.
With so many restrictions, why did China declare war with Japan in 1941?
China declared war, but Japan still did not recognize the war of aggression against China
The Xi'an Incident broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek had only two ways, either to remain under house arrest or to sign the Kuomintang-Communist Anti-Japanese Agreement.
Whether Chiang Kai-shek is willing or not is not important, what is important is that if the Japanese army is allowed to continue to invade, China, which has a five-thousand-year-old historical civilization, will be lost in the hands of their generation.
Even the Communist Party, which has always advocated democracy, must "make a decision" once and work with Zhang Xueliang to force Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan.
For those who cherish power and cherish their lives, chiang kai-shek must choose the former.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was a small-minded man, and on the one hand he was afraid of going to war with the Japanese army and affecting his international status, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the power of the Communist Party would exceed him.
Therefore, after Chiang Kai-shek half pushed and half agreed to resist Japan, he put forward a condition: the Communist army was under the command of the National Revolution.
In order to save China and combine forces to resist Japan, the Red Army became the 8th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as the Eighth Route Army!
In 1941, Japan's ambitions gradually expanded, and while fighting with China, in December, it planned a surprise attack!
This is: "Attack on Pearl Harbor"
In order to blow up the U.S. military force in Pearl Harbor, the Bomb dropped by japan killed more than 2,400 innocent people.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, the president of the United States delivered a famous "national shame" speech, which resolutely set off the Pacific War, and the last end of World War II was ignited, and the United States directly went to war with the Japanese army.
The Declaration of War on Japan by the United States is the best opportunity for China, and the United States, as the leader of many countries, is equivalent to a world weather vane.
The United States said that even countries that have no contradictions with Japan have raised the anti-Japanese banner in order to keep up with the pace of the United States.
As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and China no longer has to be afraid of the blockade of itself by the Zhou Kingdom.
Letting go of his hand and striding forward, the U.S. government declared war on Japan on The 8th, and the government of the Republic of China immediately issued the "Proclamation of the Government of the Republic of China on Japan" on December 9, 1941.
This time, it was a formal declaration of war, and China's declaration of war was not only facing the international community, but also sent to the hands of the Japanese side.
It was also this declaration of war that the Treaty of Maguan was annulled, and the Chinese territory occupied by Japan must be recovered here!
However, after receiving the "declaration of war" issued by the Kuomintang government, the Japanese army issued a speech that "it is not an opponent of the Nationalist government."
The implication is that the Japanese army did not recognize Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government as representing China, but instead established so-called Sino-Japanese "diplomatic" relations with the Wang puppet government supported by the Japanese army itself.
Therefore, even if China declared war, the Japanese army did not respond to the war, and evaded the fact of invading China with a hypocritical posture!
At this time, 10 years had passed since the "July 7 Incident" in 1931, and the war between China and Japan had been fought for 10 years.
During this period, the fighting intensified and the front continued to expand, and finally developed into a long-term all-out War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937.
Tens of thousands of sons and daughters of China sacrificed one after another, and finally drove away the enemy in 1945, perhaps because of the inadvertent blessing of the US military.
It is Chinese who can take the earthen gun and the big knife and fight with the Japanese for 14 years, and we ourselves guard the land and sovereignty, so that the foreign invaders realize that the sleeping lion will eventually wake up.
Our country and the nation of our five thousand years of history will never perish at the hands of a mere three thousand slaves!