There is a scene in the Japanese movie "Two Hundred and Three Highlands", when the two sides suspended the truce, the Japanese army tied a rope to the wine bottle to the Russian army to drink, and the Russian army tied an iron can box on the rope for the Japanese army to pull up. Once the war began, soldiers on both sides fought bravely for their masters.
Reading books about the Russo-Japanese War, the book always goes out of its way to introduce how the Japanese army "heroically" attacked and how the Russian army "tenaciously" defended. There is little information about the performance of soldiers from both countries at the moment of the armistice, and the following passage is worth reading.
Japanese and Russian soldiers took a group photo
Generally speaking, an armistice requires a certain procedure, that is, the two sides issue an armistice order to their respective combat units after negotiations in Kaesong, the marine battalion. Surprisingly, the troops of both sides had already entered a state of armistice. They celebrated surrender like crazy. The Russians ran out of their positions, hugged each other, and congratulated each other. On some fronts, there were also scenes of Japanese troops and Russian troops walking out of their positions greeting each other, and even hugging and cheering each other. Some Japanese soldiers climbed up the Russian fortress and drank wine there. After getting drunk, the Japanese and Russian soldiers hooked up and ran to the bars in the city to continue drinking. The "friendship" that the Japanese and Russian soldiers quickly realized because of alcohol, and then stopped the carnival-like celebration of the war, had no military discipline to speak of, and the officers of both sides tried their best to suppress it to no avail. All this shows that soldiers who are driven to the battlefield by the state apparatus are very war-averse.
The soldiers celebrated the armistice and rejoiced in their own amusement, glad they were not killed. Officials are also drinking and having fun, and the picture below is the scene of Nogi Andhin and his staff drinking in the wilderness to celebrate their victory. Nogi Yoshinori (the white-bearded man) held a wine glass, without any joy of victory, and drank a cup of bitter wine that had suffered more than 60,000 casualties in the fortress of Lushun.
Nogi and his staff drink celebratory wine