After the Opium War, China fell into a rather difficult stage of survival, and there were constant attempts by imperial powers to plunder China's land. The ambitious Japan launched an all-out war of aggression against China and attempted to take China within three months. However, Japan underestimated China's determination to resist the aggressors, and eventually exhausted its resources and manpower in the protracted war, and had to choose to surrender.
Throughout world war II, there was a very dangerous Japanese, Ishihara Guan'er, and if his plan came true, the history of World War II would be completely rewritten.
Ishihara's plan
Ishihara grew up under the influence of the spirit of Bushido and graduated from the Japanese Army University. In 1920, Ishihara Guan'er went to various parts of China to investigate, collected a lot of military and economic intelligence about China, and formed a strategic idea of invading China in his mind. In 1931, Ishihara participated in the planning of the September 18 Incident, and northeast China was occupied by the Japanese army. Ishihara was thus promoted and joined the Japanese General Staff to direct the battle plan. In Ishihara's plan, he did not advocate a full-scale occupation of China by force, but believed that China should be occupied gradually.
Because China is rich in resources and resources, and Japan is scarce in resources, if it is not dominant in comprehensively occupying China by force, it will only turn the war into a protracted war, and the most consumed in a protracted war is the combat effectiveness and materials of the soldiers.
At the same time, Ishihara Also believed that in order to achieve a lasting victory, it was necessary to actively expand armaments and strengthen weapons, and formulated various plans for the development of the munitions industry to serve the war.
Therefore, after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Ishihara Guan'er did not advocate a comprehensive invasion of China, because the plan for developing and expanding armaments he proposed was still in the initial stage of development, and at this time it was not yet time to launch an all-out war of aggression. If, under the condition of insufficient armaments, we rush to launch a plan to invade China in an all-round way, there will be many variables in the middle.
In Ishihara's perception, China's situation is not as bad as imagined, and there is not much gap with Japan's strength, and it should not be rushed.
Plans are shattered
However, Ishihara's strategic idea of aggression did not go smoothly, and Ishihara was later dismissed because of sharp contradictions with Hideki Tojo. The Army's enlargement faction, which was the complete opposite of Ishihara's aggressive ideology, believed that more soldiers should be invested in China and occupied all of China as soon as possible.
However, their ideas were too naïve, and after launching an all-out war of aggression against China, they did not realize their ambition to occupy China in three months, but fell into the quagmire of war. In order to obtain more resources to invest in the Chinese battlefield, Japan planned to use war to feed the war and launched the Pacific War.
As a result, the losses in the Pacific War were heavy, and the purpose of feeding the war was completely broken. The increasing number of battlefields opened by Japan, the increasing exhaustion of the Japanese army, and the gradual reduction of combat morale, resulting in the Japanese finally having to bow their heads and retreat. Throughout World War II, Japan became arrogant and arrogant after occupying northeast China, and began to underestimate China's military strength and national cohesion.
As everyone knows, China is a nation that can never be defeated, and Japan's ambition to invade and occupy China has also been crushed.
If Japan had not fully launched an armed invasion of China according to Ishihara's plan, the history of World War II might have really been rewritten. But Ishihara's plans were shattered in Japan's complex and fierce factional struggles, allowing the war to move in a direction beyond his control, and all sorts of whimsical plans were destroyed. After Japan's defeat, Ishihara was not punished because he returned home after being dismissed, thus escaping a court-martial.
Looking at China's performance in the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, no matter what kind of way the invaders plundered and injured, our fighters would unite to break through the obstacles to regain their own territory, and even the most powerful aggressive plan would collapse in the face of strong national cohesion.