Looking back at the many ideas of the Japanese army's invasion of China in those years, there is one that makes people feel most afraid, that is, the Fifth Battle Plan of the Japanese Army. With the North China garrison as the main force, the Fifth Front Army was formed, then attacked Shaanxi, then attacked northern Sichuan with Hanzhong as a base, and then occupied Chongqing with the Japanese Central China Front.
If the Japanese army really implements this battle plan, it will be enough for us to eat a pot. The Japanese army that formulated this plan must have been a Chinese general, and the battle plans of the Yuan dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were almost the same as the arrangements of the Japanese army. The terrain of Sichuan is the only one that has the best chance of being occupied, and the Japanese army has attacked Shaanxi three times, but in the end it has failed, and with the defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific, the Japanese army has to shrink its strength and transfer the Japanese army to the Pacific battlefield to die. It was only this evil plan that we saw that did not come true.
The key reason for the Japanese to abandon this plan was the rout in the Pacific Theater. In the summer of 1942, the Battle of Midway broke out, and the main force of the Japanese aircraft carrier was lost. Immediately after the Battle of Guadalcanal and the Battle of New Guinea, the Japanese army was gradually defeated, which made the Japanese headquarters panic. If even Japan's headquarters could not be saved, then Japan's aggression would be meaningless, which caused the Japanese army to shrink its strength and suspend its combat plan in the Far East.
The blind expansion of the war by the Japanese army has brought the entire national economy to the brink of collapse, material shortages, prices have begun to soar, and the survival of the Japanese has become a problem, which has turned Japan's large-scale offensive into an empty talk. The Japanese military's operational arrangement at that time was to completely defeat the American army in the Pacific Ocean and then start the Chinese operation.
But it turned out that the Japanese had chosen the wrong opponent from the beginning. What do you think?