In 1894, China and Japan broke out in the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government was defeated, forced to sign the "Maguan Treaty", at this time Japan at that time in East Asia already had an absolute advantage, Japan in the face of the Qing Empire this piece of fat meat has opened its blood basin mouth, although the surrounding countries are all looking at the Qing Dynasty, but at that time, other countries in East Asia have been unable to confront Japan, except for one country, this country is - Russia.
Russia had been spying on the northeastern territory of the Qing Empire for a long time, but at this time, Japan suddenly jumped out to compete with Russia, and Russia was naturally unwilling. Before the signing of the Treaty of Maguan, Russia had warned Japan not to invade the northeastern territories of the Qing Empire, but Japan scoffed at this and listed the terms of ceding the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan. Russia was furious about this, invading and occupying other places I don't care, but this place I saw that you can't want, and then Russia drew Germany and France to cheer for help, but the meat has entered the wolf's mouth, how can Japan give up, although it tries to keep this clause, but thanks to the huge pressure of the Russian-German-French trilateral alliance, Japan finally returned the Liaodong Peninsula, but still proposed three thousand taels of silver as compensation.
After the return of the Liaodong Peninsula, Japan felt that it had suffered great shame and humiliation, obviously robbing other people's territory without success, but it was as if it had lost its territory. After this incident, Japan was full of hatred and vigilance towards Russia, and regarded Russia as its number one imaginary enemy, a war has been inevitable, but Japan also knows that the gap between Japan and Russia at this time is too large, this is not the time to go to war, the seeds of war have been sown, and the rest is through time, let it develop and eventually bloom.
In the next 10 years, thanks to the large amount of real money and silver plundered by Japan in China, Japan's education, military, and science and technology developed rapidly, and by 1904, Japan understood that the time was ripe for action against this number one hypothetical enemy, and on February 5, Japan broke diplomatic relations with Russia, and at the same time, the combined fleet with Togo Heihachiro as the commander of the fleet began a voyage against Russia.
Since then, the navies and armies of the two countries have engaged in an all-out combat confrontation, winning and losing each other, and the real decision of the russo-Japanese war was the Battle of Tsushima, in which Japan almost completely annihilated the Russian fleet at the small cost of losing 3 torpedo boats, and the Russian fleet has since collapsed, while Japan has laid the groundwork for the conclusion of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty three months later.
How could Japan almost completely annihilate the Russian fleet in the forefront of the world at that time at such a small cost, although in this war, Japan seemed to have been favored by the goddess of luck, and several accidents were developed in the direction of Japan, but when we excluded the objective element of luck and went to the archives of history to look for the answer, we would find that the result of the answer was so consistent, and the result of the answer was actually a mutiny on a Russian warship, and we gave us a hint that Russia was bound to fail.
The Russian First Fleet was crippled by the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the Russian Second Pacific Fleet led by Russian Admiral Roger Stevinsky in the Baltic Sea could not cut a short path through the Suez Canal due to the large tonnage of the battleships, and there was no way but to cross the Indian Ocean through the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and finally through the Pacific Ocean into the Tsushima Strait to fight with the Japanese Combined Fleet, the whole process was nearly 30,000 nautical miles, and more importantly, Japan maintained neutrality through diplomatic means to the old colonial countries such as Britain and France. Coupled with the fact that Russia did not have overseas ports at that time, this created a terrible reality, the Russian Second Pacific Fleet faced the embarrassing situation of no supplies along the way, and the ships at that time as long as the fuel was still huge, the combustion effect of coal, and finally forced by the helpless Roger Stevinsky to pile coal on all the ships of the fleet, in order to ensure that it would not be moored on the sea halfway due to fuel exhaustion, the deck, the cabin, and even the place where the captain's office could put things were all piled with coal. Not only that, the fleet even brought a lot of live cattle to facilitate the provision of fresh food during long voyages, and various measures caused the living environment of the crew to be extremely harsh, and the harsh living environment, coupled with the long-term suppressed and tense mental atmosphere, prompted the situation of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet to occur frequently. On average, there was an incident of a crew member committing suicide every three days, and although the news was tightly sealed, it was already a well-known secret, and the cruiser "Malaya", which was used to detain prisoners, was already overcrowded, but still a large number of undisciplined soldiers were detained here every day, and everyone understood that at this time, whether it was soldiers or officers or the entire fleet was on the verge of collapse, and the outbreak was only a matter of events.
On April 26, when the soldiers of the Russian fleet finally broke out, this time the group incident almost turned into a mutiny of the soldiers, and the reason was only because on The day of Easter, the cook of the battleship "Eagle" slaughtered a sick cow to give the sailors beef to eat for Easter, and the suppressed emotions of the soldiers were completely detonated because of such a small event, and the captain of the battleship "Eagle" could not calm the anger of the Russian sailors, and had to slaughter a strong cow again, but the Russian soldiers still refused to give up, and had no choice but to give up. The captain could only report the incident to fleet commander Roger Stevinsky. In order to quell the effects of the incident as soon as possible, Roger Stevinsky personally came to the battleship "Eagle" to deal with the troublesome sailors, and under his majesty and strong measures, he put an end to the incident that almost turned into a mutiny of soldiers.
In such a low mental condition of the soldiers, the officers and men of the Russian fleet had almost no morale to speak of, coupled with the long journey, lack of training, the soldiers suffered a double blow of physical and psychological, and the combat effectiveness of the Russian fleet fell to almost the lowest level. They were faced with a combined Japanese fleet with high morale and well-trained ability to maximize combat effectiveness, and the outcome of the war could be imagined.
The victory of the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese War gave Japan unprecedented confidence, and at the same time these two wars brought great benefits to Japan, with the huge wealth obtained in the war, Japan's military developed rapidly, and it was this confidence that prompted Japan to sneak attack Pearl Harbor, Japan's behavior instantly detonated the Pacific War between the United States and Japan, if the Russo-Japanese War Japan won by luck, the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle Japan won by strength, This time, neither luck nor strength seems to be on Japan's side.
Although Japan's rapid development in the early years of World War II made Japan have a very deep foundation and strength in the military field, especially the navy and air force, and even gained the upper hand in the early stage of World War II and even in the Pacific War, Japan is after all a country with scarce resources, a small land area and a large population, which dooms Japan to rely on the input of foreign resources to develop or survive. With the awakening of the american war potential, the huge industrial production machine was all launched, the United States and Japan gradually opened the gap, by the end of World War II Japan has been unable to confront the United States, and the American General Li Mei's fire attack coupled with the strong blockade of the Allied forces at sea, making the survival of the Japanese domestic people at that time extremely difficult, but Japan still refused to surrender, and began to train the militia to try to lead the entire people to implement the crazy policy of "one hundred million jade fragments", and the landing troops of the Allied army resisted to the end. If Japan is truly realized, it will inevitably reach the point of annihilation of the country, but the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Nagasaki on Hiroshima will completely awaken Japan, and Japan understands that the United States has developed such a large-scale weapon of destruction, and resistance is only to hit the stone with pebbles, which is meaningless, so it announced unconditional surrender and avoided the extinction of the country.