Whenever the War of Resistance Against Japan is mentioned, this is a heavy topic, and the blood and sacrifice of the martyrs have bought us a peaceful and stable life, but for this period of history, we must not forget that this war is a huge blow to China, but it is also this war that has completely awakened us.
In World War II, the equipment of the Japanese army was very backward compared with European countries, but it was already quite advanced in Asia, especially in China, as the main battlefield, which was far from the Japanese army, and they were very cruel to the people and prisoners of war while invading, and even caused many massacres.
Although the anti-Japanese soldiers fought desperately, our equipment was really too poor, and we often had to pay several times the price to achieve victory, of course, it did not mean that the Japanese army's strength would not be reduced, and World War II also consumed a large amount of the Japanese army's living strength.
Let's take a look at how many troops the Japanese army sent to China after the September 18 Incident, since the outbreak of the War of Resistance, the Japanese army has successively drawn 58 divisions from the Kwantung Army, and constantly replenished, plus the remaining about 120 divisions on the Chinese battlefield, the number of people has been 4.2 million, the Japanese army can recruit 27.8 million troops at that time, including those young people can also be called into the army, and China at that time was actually only conscripted 12 million troops.
This is undoubtedly a huge test for our war of resistance, these are almost all the most elite units of the Japanese army, so in the early days of the war of resistance caused us a lot of casualties, many soldiers or even a dozen fighters can replace a ghost, what a heavy blow to us.
However, this kind of battle lasted for 14 years, but fortunately, the participation of the US army in the war later reduced our great burden, and the elite troops of the Japanese army were gradually transferred to the Pacific theater, although they were replenished from other places, but the combat effectiveness of these Japanese troops was much worse than before, especially in the late period of World War II.
The Japanese army suffered setbacks in the Pacific Theater, many of the new combatants had little combat experience, the combat effectiveness was reduced a lot, and finally with the help of the Allies, the Japanese army chose to surrender, after the Japanese surrender, how were these prisoners of war handled?
At that time, the Soviet army crushed the Kwantung Army in one fell swoop, and after the surrender of the Kwantung Army, it was directly transported to Siberia for coolies, these people thought that the Soviet army would send them back, but they did not expect that the first thing they saw was the ice and snow, before that, there were many prisoners of war who were unwilling to surrender to China and wanted to surrender to the Soviet Union.
After all, over the years, they themselves have known how great a crime they have committed against China, but what they did not expect was that instead of torturing them, we were kind enough to send all these prisoners of war back, which received international praise.