Japan first embarked on the capitalist road in the mid-to-late 19th century, then developed into militarism, with its ideological fanaticism, foreign wars, and even plans to conquer the world. On the evening of September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army, after careful planning, framed our troops for blowing up the South Manchuria Railway Line near Wicker Lake in Shenyang, creating the "918 Incident".
In February 1932, due to the policy of non-resistance, the northeast region of our country fell. Then on the night of July 7, 1937, the Japanese army launched one "July 7 Incident" after another. At the end of July, Peiping and Tianjin fell one after another; in August, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai; in September, the Battle of Taiyuan broke out...
The Battle of Wuhan in 1938 was the largest battle in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; after the Battle of Wuhan, the military operations center was moved to Chongqing, Guangzhou and Wuhan were lost, and the national War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a stage of strategic stalemate; in 1939, the Japanese army concentrated more than 20,000 troops to carry out a winter "sweep" of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, but the military and civilians in the border area rose up to resist, and Abe Norihide, who was a "flower of famous generals" in the Japanese army, was killed.
In the other three battles of Changsha, the Japanese army was severely damaged, and the Hundred Regiments War launched by the Eighth Route Army smashed the "captivity policy" of the Japanese army. In December 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and changed the strategic focus, but apart from the Japanese army, China's country is still not peaceful.
In 1944, the Japanese army mobilized twelve divisions and 41 million people to launch the Battle of Yuxianggui in our country in an attempt to reverse the situation of successive defeats and retreats; in May 1944, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered, declaring the end of the European battlefield of World War II; on August 15 of the same year, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and World War II ended.
Looking back at the 14-year history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, taking the northeast as the starting point, and then launching an attack to the south, capturing most of China, but 8 provinces have never fallen, is it your hometown?
The 8 provinces are Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Xikang, the first time in the third year of Xuanun (1911) to establish Xikang Province, the origin of the name "Xikang" is because it is both Kangdi and located in the west, so it is named.
However, Xikang Province was only established in 1939, with the provincial capital Kangding as the provincial capital and Liu Wenhui as the governor, and it is worth mentioning that the province is the main road for the interior to enter Tibet. During the Liberation War, the last mainland stronghold of the Kuomintang army was in Xichang, and Hu Zongnan was defeated for the last time and fled in a hurry.
In 1955, Xikang Province was abolished, and the east of the Jinsha River was merged into Sichuan Province, and the west of the Jinsha River was merged into Tibet.
Many people may ask, Shaanxi, the famous capital city, why doesn't Japan want to attack? During World War II, Japan had planned to attack Shaanxi, after the fall of Taiyuan, the Japanese army stormed Tongguan, to know that Tongguan is the eastern gate of Guanzhong, known as the "first pass", the Japanese army was dumbfounded as soon as it reached the east bank of the Yellow River, how could this rolling Yellow River water be so easy to pass?
Tan Sitong, one of the six gentlemen of WuShu, once wrote a poem: "The river enters the Tongguan hesitantly, and the mountain enters the Tongguan and does not solve the peace."
Since it was impossible to cross Shaanxi, why didn't the Japanese army attack Gansu and Ningxia from Inner Mongolia? Part of the reason is that it is related to the vast territory of our country, and when we came out of Japan, the Japanese army knew how big China was and how wide the world was, and some things could only be thought of, and it was really difficult to implement them.