Fighting a war is a very comprehensive thing, in addition to the frontal soldiers to take weapons to duel, there are some other areas of neural warfare is also very important, intelligence we will not say, in fact, there is a kind of propaganda warfare, also called psychological warfare, do not look at the real knife and gun, but sometimes the effect is very outstanding, and today we want to say that in the Sino-Japanese War, Japan also used such tactics.
During the Sino-Japanese War, Japan once wrote an essay called "Letter to the Eighteen Provinces and Haojie Book" and distributed it to China. In one sense, it calls on all Chinese heroes, including the common people, to unite with them to eliminate the Qing Dynasty. What the? What the hell is this? They invaded China and wanted Chinese their own infighting, didn't they? It sounds incredible, but considering how much the Japanese could think of this move shows how much they knew about China at that time.
This article was written by a Japanese naval intelligence officer, which described the Manchu Qing as barbarians, who took advantage of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty and used violent robbery to gain the world. In addition, at this time, they remembered that they had learned from the Tang Dynasty before, so they described Japan and Han people as the same kind of same culture and same ethics, and now they just want to help the Han people take back the world before, so they hope that all the Han people can revolt and fight with them.
Of course, this article can not cause infighting in Chinese, after all, when foreign enemies come, we still have a clear distinction, but you have to admit that there were indeed some contradictions between the upper and lower levels in China at that time, although the rule of the Qing Dynasty was slowly stabilizing, but it was also based on the situation that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, it is obvious that in the late Qing Dynasty, the people's life was not good, so the enmity between these races will slowly come out.
Although the Japanese letter did not reach the point of revolting the whole people, it had an impact in China, that is, the Qing Dynasty did not dare to overly mobilize the whole people to resist. We all know that after the Manchus entered the customs, the whole region was still dominated by Han Chinese, so in order to stabilize people's hearts, they initially had to worship the Ming monarchs, nevertheless, the Han people at most no longer wanted to rebel against the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but it was still difficult to say that they were united in their hearts, so when the Qing Dynasty went to war, it was impossible to mobilize people at first, and once the national sentiment of the Han people was stimulated, the Qing government could not guarantee that their spearhead would be aimed at whom first.
In fact, this article is really written to fool people, but the most false point is that they only helped the Han people to restore their rule, if this is the case, then after the success of the revolution, why did not they see them withdraw from Chinese territory?