Why did the Soviet army only take ten days to beat the invincible Japanese Kwantung Army into a falling flower?
Japan is an island nation with limited resources to support an overly large war.
In the early days, Japan invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces to have enough strength to launch an all-out war, and as the war progressed, the operations on the various fronts of Japan were unfavorable, which required the Japanese army to have fewer and fewer resources, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army gradually declined. The Soviet Union was one of the largest countries in the world, rich in resources, strong in national strength, and had soldiers who were not afraid of life and death, which required them to have enough self-confidence to resist the German army, Stalin did not expect that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union, resulting in the Soviet Union being undefended and losing one after another in the early stages of the war.
After the Soviet Union activated the war machine, a powerful industrial system, not afraid of life and death soldiers, to make them stronger and stronger in the war, the strength of the Soviet Union is incomparable to Japan. Before the end of World War II, the Soviet Union swept through the Kwantung Army in an overwhelming manner. Although the Japanese army had 700,000 Kwantung Army, the elite had long been mobilized to various battlefields, and only the army formed by the old, weak and disabled soldiers remaining in the northeast could not resist the Soviet attack at all. The Japanese army is divided into four levels, namely A, B, B
Although the Soviet Union won a great victory in this battle, due to the counterattack of the Japanese Army A Japanese army, the Soviet army still paid the price of more than 9,000 deaths, and the Japanese army only lost more than 8,000 people. Surrounded by a Soviet army of 1.5 million troops, the Japanese army had 24 divisions and nine mixed brigades in the northeast of almost 700,000 people.
The reason why the Japanese army hit the Kwantung Army is two very important reasons, the first is the lack of weapons, the second is that the remaining troops are not trained enough, the combat effectiveness is not as good as the Grade A division, I made three analyses: First, most of them are new soldiers, but also the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the training is still seriously insufficient. Second, Japan has limited resources, and after a long period of fighting, its weapons have long been insufficient. Third, the remaining troops were not trained in Bushido, which made them extremely susceptible to situations such as surrender. This is why the Soviet army quickly defeated the IW Kwantung Army in just over 10 days.