After Germany launched the Barbarossa Project against the Soviet Union in 1941, the war between the Soviet Union and Germany terrified the world. This great war, regardless of steel, regardless of manpower and regardless of the cost, has deeply impressed the countries of the world. While other countries were still carefully calculating the amount of ammunition used for each battle, the Soviets and Germans were firing their maximum firepower. Also because the consumption was too fast and the demand was too high, a German infantry division of tens of thousands of people had less than 4300 combat infantry, and the rest were logistics, communications and auxiliary combat units. In contrast, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army's "National Defense Division" has a total of more than 15,000 people, and the 14,500 people who exceed the establishment requirements are all combat units.
After the outbreak of the fierce Soviet-German Battle, the Soviet Union continued to dispatch troops from the Far East and built the Far East into a large rear area of the battle. Many people may ask why Japan, which had suffered great losses in the war against Germany and coveted the Siberian region of the Soviet Union for a long time, did not order the most elite Kwantung Army to unite with the German forces in Europe, attack the Soviet Union from the east and sneak into the Soviet rear. In this regard, it can only be said that the Soviet Union also defended the Kwantung Army at the beginning, forcing the Kwantung Army to never dare to attack north. At the end of 1943, the Japanese intelligence services combined with the information given by Soviet spies to determine that the Soviet Union still deployed more than 700,000 troops in the Far East at this time, with more than 1,000 tanks and more than 1,000 aircraft. At this time, the total number of Kwantung Army was only more than 700,000, and the strength of the two sides was similar.
With similar strengths, it is necessary to compare the advantages and disadvantages of commanders and military equipment on both sides. Since no direct fighting broke out, the level of commanders on both sides was difficult to judge for a while. But when it comes to military equipment, the Soviet Union is much stronger. As early as 1942, the Soviet Union left more than a million troops in the Far East to prevent a possible Japanese attack. According to the data of July 1943, there were 1156961 soldiers, 13843 guns of various calibers, 2367 self-propelled guns, and 3949 fighters of various types. Although during the same period, the Soviet Union transferred 35,000 troops and 557 artillery of various types from the Far East due to the needs of the European battlefield, this was the last large-scale deployment of troops from the Far East by the Soviet Union. By 1944, the Soviets still had 1162991 in the Far East, 16,827 guns of various kinds, 4,006 warplanes, and 2,069 tanks.
For the Japanese army, the numbers on the paper of the Soviet army were all frightening to them. Because in 1944, the strength of the Kwantung Army was further reduced to the level of 550,000 to 630,000 people, and the Soviet army stationed in the Far East never fell below the level of 1 million, even in the most brutal stage of the Soviet-German Battle, the Soviet army did not reduce its deployment here. The reason is simple, this is the rear of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union is not as short of troops as we think. The Soviet Union lacked professional soldiers, not a source of soldiers. In March 1944, the Soviet army's combat readiness reached 8.56 million, and 727,000 people lay in the hospital, and if you add troops of other natures, the actual strength is more than ten million.
In addition to having the advantage in terms of the size of the troops, the Soviet army was not badly equipped. The Chinese army's helpless Japanese light and medium tanks could be easily penetrated by the direct-fire guns of the Soviet infantry battalion. The Chinese army's coveted Japanese grenadiers and infantry guns were also toys in the eyes of the Soviets. At that time, the soviet artillery battalion had 4 76 mm cannons and 7 120 mm mortars. 27 82 mm mortars and 12 45 mm anti-tank guns. If you count the division's artillery regiment, there are 12 122 mm howitzers and 24 76 mm cannons. Such firepower fell more fiercely than a division of the Japanese army. More critically, the proportion of Soviet submachine guns increased at that time, with 650 submachine guns and 207 light machine guns in an infantry regiment of 2,474 men. That is to say, nearly 1 and a half of the whole regiment was armed with automatic firepower, and the Japanese army's "man sea pig burst" was a joke in the eyes of the Soviet army at this time.