At the end of the war, Japan knew that there were not many days, but they also clearly understood their advantages - Japan was an island country, with a narrow and long territory, complex terrain, and was also affected by the marine monsoon climate.
Moreover, under the influence of Ushijima Man and other generals, the Japanese army also changed its strategic thinking, from the previous "defending the territory and resisting the enemy" to the strategy of indirectly blocking the enemy's aggression by means of annihilating the enemy's living forces.
In short, it is not ready to guard a bunch of isolated islands to play nail tactics with the Allies, but to learn from the Eighth Route Army, with weakness against the strong, small victories for big victories, and annihilation numbers to hurt the other side.
In this way, there was the arrangement of Ushijima man in Okinawa, and they turned the entire island into layers of hills and fortresses everywhere, setting up fire traps like the tunnel warfare of The Eight Roads, and releasing the US troops to death.
For example, Hacksaw Ridge (Maeda Highland) is a model of this kind of killing, the Japanese army is not to live or win, only to resist to the end, and then kill enough to deter the American army with bloody casualty figures.
In the Battle of Okinawa, although Udo and its officers and men were all destroyed, it also confirmed the rationality of this method of warfare, and the huge casualties did hurt the US troops, and they had to stop licking their wounds to come up with better countermeasures or make greater determination.
And there was another problem with the U.S. military at that time -- Roosevelt died.
On April 12, 1945, shortly after the Battle of Okinawa began, Roosevelt collapsed due to cerebral hemorrhage, and Vice President Truman took over, although it did not slow down any of the battles, but it was impossible to say that there was no impact.
Unlike Roosevelt, who advocated aiding the Soviet Union and aiding the world, Truman was more concerned about his own vote base and the interests of the United States in the "post-war era".
In short, he needed to coax the American military and civilians, shock the European pig teammates, and compete with the Soviet Union for interests.
Truman believed that the end of the war had entered a state of countdown, especially after the settlement of Nazi Germany in early May, and that Japan's surrender was only a matter of time, and more importantly, the interests of the United States after the war. (He was the Truman Doctrine of dividing camps during the Cold War.)
However, the Battle of Okinawa, which ended on June 21, surprised the U.S. government, and although the U.S. military had carried out a series of large-scale incendiary bombings (Lee Mei Fire Attack) against Japan since March and May 1945, burning nearly 100 Japanese cities and killing millions of casualties, Japan still did not surrender.
At this time, Japan was constantly dispatching troops from overseas, filling some inferior units into the shells of elite troops, and then sending the transferred elites back to China to improve the combat capabilities of the mainland.
Coupled with the 1st and 2nd General Armies, the 5th Front, the Aviation Corps, the Navy, and the frenzied expansion of the new infantry that had remained in Japan, Japan had assembled a regular army of 3.7 million people and 28 million "Jade Fragments Standing Up".
Of course, at that time, the neon of the thin western mountains could not hold back any serious troops, they took a large number of children, middle-aged and elderly people to count, some people were not 1 meter 5 tall, and some even bowed their backs.
Even fools, lunatics, disabled people and women did not let go, once read a record, at that time, there was a division in the Shikoku region of Japan to expand the army, and there were actually women wearing corsets to join the army, and it was only discovered when changing military uniforms.
The militia of the "standing up team" does not have as many rules as the regular army, as long as it is a person, it will be stuffed in, but the qualified men are basically pulled away by the regular army, so the remaining women do not take any "thousand needle belts", whether you are a big mother or a little daughter-in-law, a sister-in-law, a student, a lost girl, all sent to practice swords.
There are also differences, the big mothers and the bridesmaids are all "women's clubs", the little daughters-in-law and sister-in-law are the "wives of the military country", and the young girls are the "military girls".
The Japanese like to use flowers to name them, what Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum cherry lilies and the like are used rotten, the Japanese army also intimidated them, saying that the US military are Western ghost animals, see women on the drooling, and finally all pinch bar pinch bar play dead eat.
At that time, many people lacked weapons, and the Japanese army frantically produced all kinds of improvised equipment, such as explosive canisters made of bamboo, mines with pulling wires, bamboo spears, indigenous firearms, bamboo pole anti-aircraft rockets, trebuchet-type explosive projectiles, and explosive arrows shot out of crossbows.
There are also all kinds of bombs, including pottery, bamboo, wood, porcelain, stone and many other varieties, which are loaded with gravel as fragments, which may be more powerful than the iron knots in the border area of the Eighth Route Army.
The most produced are spears, sabers, bayonets, daggers, the Japanese army sent special personnel to teach the "local decisive battle の Aoyi", from "sword art" to "fist sword art" to "saber art", all kinds of emphasis on "one blow must kill, and even "rice ghost must kill sword".
Really, the name of the second middle is not made up by me, there is really a "rice ghost must kill sword", the full name is "slashing knife method - rice ghost must kill sword", is the "National Volunteer Fighting Team" kendo master Sasamori Shunzao designed, specializing in killing Americans sword method.
In short, the Japanese government really mobilized the masses at that time, and wanted to engage in "100 million jade fragments." From the fascist officers to the emperor, they all understood that if the American army killed them, they would die no matter what, and it would be better to fight to the end.
The U.S. military also organized a crazy landing plan called "Operation Fall", which contained several sub-operations that could fight from Hainan Island to Kyushu Island, first cutting down Kyushu Island for the Allies to land, and then the army rushed up to kill the devils.
If it were to be executed, it could be a far more frantic battle than the Soviets fought in Berlin, and Japan would truly become a scorched earth.
But Truman always had some concern about the decline, which was too huge, and like the bottomless pit of spending money, there were definitely more dead people than Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
And the PIG teammates of the US army are also not in unison, signing up to rob the naked hum, really want to go to the front of the US army.
Not to mention the Soviet Union, which, according to the Roosevelt-era agreement, the U.S. military was to cede Hokkaido to the Soviet Occupation.
Truman did not want Hokkaido to give to the Soviet Union, nor did he want allied pig teammates to assist in defense, nor did he want to spend more money on more dead people, and his vote had not yet landed.
So, when several leaders of the Manhattan Project came to stir up a call, Truman made up his mind to use the atomic bomb, and the United States soon detonated the first atomic bomb in the ToliniTian Desert.
At the Potsdam Conference in 1945, Truman received news of the success of the atomic bomb test, but only told Churchill to a limited extent, and he implicitly proposed to Stalin at the meeting that the United States had a very powerful bomb, and Stalin did not know, so he only calmly said: "I hope to use them to fight Japan well."
Truman later called the Manhattan engineering department to demand that the deployment of the atomic bomb be completed as soon as possible and that the work be "accelerated immediately." He added: "Hopefully this will make the Soviets better communicative."
In this way, a wave of reckless "decline operations" on a super-large scale became the final plan, and the US military was ready to wait for the atomic bomb to run out before landing in Japan.
It just so happened that the Response given by the Japanese side to the Potsdam Announcement was an inexplicable "silent killing .jpg", so the atomic bomb "Little Boy" smashed Hiroshima.
The Soviet Union received intelligence and understood that Japan might not be able to hold on, so the Japanese ambassador Sato, who would ask for help for "mediation" in the future, flickered into the middle of the night and launched a large army that Vasilevsky and others had already prepared at 0 o'clock that night, grabbed the Kwantung Army and stomped to death.
The U.S. military then dispatched another group of bombers that morning, dropped the atomic bomb "Fat Man", and razed Nagasaki to the ground.
As soon as the Japanese government saw that it could not hold on, and it received the intention of the United States to retain the emperor's system, it went down the donkey and sold the soldiers to surrender.
This also led to a dangerous mutiny, but it was unsuccessful, and the Japanese Land Minister Anan, who had served as the commander of the Battle of Changsha afterwards, committed suicide in anger and did not even want to make a mistake.
Therefore, after the American troops came ashore, they were greeted by a deferential Japanese, no jade crush charge, no crazy person carrying an explosive package, no woman with a "rice ghost must kill sword", only a horse killing chicken and three warm, and a gentle "special female practitioner" in the comfort station of the Metropolitan Police Department. ”