The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an extremely arduous anti-aggression war in Chinese history, and although the Chinese army fought very fiercely in this war, the Chinese army did not capture many Japanese prisoners in this war. It should be known that the more enemy prisoners are captured in the war, the greater the psychological deterrence caused to the other side, but in the War of Resistance, capturing prisoners has become a headache for the armies of both the Kuomintang and the Communists.
The PingshiGuan Victory was the first battle of the Eighth Route Army against the Japanese Kou, and this battle was launched by the 115th Division, which was the best equipped and the highest quality of soldiers in the Eighth Route Army, all officers and men were veterans who had participated in the 25,000-mile Long March and had countless actual combat experiences, and the division commander Lin Biao was even more known as the contemporary Han Xin and had deep military attainments. Before the battle, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army asked the 115th Division to capture dozens of Japanese prisoners and send them to Yan'an, boosting the morale of the people of the whole country, and assigned tasks to all regiments, but what they did not expect was that the 115th Division annihilated more than 1,000 enemy soldiers, but did not capture a single prisoner.
After the Battle of Pingxingguan, the officers and men of the 115th Division, in order to find prisoners, turned over the bodies of Japanese officers and soldiers on the battlefield one by one to see if there was any panting. A battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army found a Japanese wounded man, and he was kind enough to carry this wounded man for treatment, but his ear was almost bitten off by the Japanese wounded, and the Japanese wounded man did not come back to life. A medic tried to treat wounded Japanese soldiers hiding under the car, but was stabbed.
Not only was it difficult for the Eighth Route Army to capture prisoners, but during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang and the Japanese Army fought 22 large-scale battles, and did not capture many prisoners, and most of the prisoners captured were Japanese baby soldiers at the end of World War II. In the three Battles of Changsha, the Nationalist army invested hundreds of thousands of troops each time, and all of them were elite troops, and the 74th Army of the Tiger Army, the Tenth Army of the Taishan Army, and other directly subordinate units of the Central Military Commission that shocked the enemy were also all in the Ninth Theater, but what made Chiang Kai-shek angry was that he did not capture several Japanese prisoners.
In fact, not only was the resistance of the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield very tenacious, but in the Pacific theater, the US army had to pay a huge price if it wanted to capture Japanese prisoners. At the Battle of Iwo Jima, 23,000 Japanese troops were put into battle, of which 22,000 were killed by the Americans and only more than 1,000 Japanese were captured. At the Battle of Tarawa, only 12 of the 4,500 Japanese survived. At the end of World War II, when the German army had already been defeated, Japan also clearly put forward the slogan of 100 million jade fragments, which showed the crazy state of Japanese militarism at that time.
The reason why the Japanese resistance was so tenacious was mainly because Japanese militarism was prevalent at that time, and the Japanese had to accept the idea of loyalty to the emperor from an early age. The spirit of traditional Bushido in Japan also requires them not to be welfare, or even to tolerate failure. The punishment for rebellion in Japan's military regulations is also very harsh, and even family members are implicated. Another reason why Japan was reluctant to surrender was that the Japanese soldiers knew that what they were doing in the invading country was too extreme, and they were afraid of falling into the hands of the enemy army and would be tortured and killed.