In August 1945, two American B-29s appeared over Hiroshima, Japan, and the Japanese people present still believed that the country was holding an air defense exercise, so they did not take it seriously. As the B-29 roared by, a "parachute" slowly fell from above, and then hiroshima was devastated, and that landing was the newly developed weapon "atomic bomb" developed by the United States, and the atomic bomb exploded instantly engulfed the entire city of Hiroshima.
Since then, Japan can no longer sit still, and has pinned all its hopes on soviet mediation so that Japan can end the war with dignity, while the Soviet Union in turn declared war on Japan, eliminating 700,000 Japanese Kwantung Army in only 7 days. How did the Soviet Union cause the rapid disintegration of the 700,000 Japanese Kwantung Army? Interested partners, you can like, pay attention to and collect.
Japanese Kwantung Army
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "August Storm Plan"</h1>
In August 1945, after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, Japan was already very aware that its defeat was decided and the outcome was irreversible, so it asked the Soviet Union for reconciliation, hoping that it could mediate and let it end this war with dignity.
This wave of operations directly blinded the ambassador to Japan, Sato Naotake was paralyzed as soon as he heard it, and in order to prevent him from reporting intelligence to Tokyo, the Soviet Union cut off all telephone lines and controlled all the relevant ambassadors to Japan on the spot, so all this Japan did not know and was still waiting for the Soviet Union to respond.
Naotake Sato
On August 8, the Soviet Red Army and the Mongol Army crossed the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian borders and began to carry out operation "August Storm" against the Japanese Kwantung Army. The Large-scale Mobilization of the Soviet Union, the Japanese Army is still in the dark, the Japanese Army has always believed that the Soviet Union did not sneak attack behind its back when it was at war with Germany, it was a blessing to the Soviet Union, and also believed that the Soviet Union would definitely come forward to Japan, but Japan could not imagine that things had happened to such a point.
Just after 0:00 on August 9, thousands of Soviet planes roared into the air, and with the order of Vasilevsky, Soviet warplanes flew into Jilin, Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang and other places in Our country, taking advantage of the night to carry out large-scale air raids on the Japanese troops stationed here, and the Pacific Fleet attacked the Japanese warships, and for a time the Soviet Union grasped absolute air supremacy.
Vasilevsky
After fully grasping the air supremacy, the three-way army on the ground of the Soviet Union marched towards the territory of our country. The First Far Eastern Army on the Eastern Front waded through dense primeval forests, waded through muddy forest trails, and quickly crossed the Ussuri River into the camp where the Japanese Kwantung Army was stationed.
The Japanese Kwantung Army only thought that these air raids were only temporary, and the main army of the Soviet Union was definitely still in the European battlefield, so it did not care, and what it did not expect was that the "nightmare" of the Kwantung Army was actually close at hand. The First Army of the Far East had absolute fire suppression on land, and the Japanese army also experienced the power of Katyusha artillery for the first time.
Katyusha artillery
Under the fierce attack of the Soviet army, the Japanese army was like a headless fly, and it was chaotic in an instant. They could only fight back hastily in the fortification of the position, the Japanese army was soon more than half busy, and the Japanese army, which had been passively beaten, had already wanted to go crazy to the Soviet army, but all this did not help, although such a suicidal stormtrooper Soviet army also caused certain casualties, but it was impossible to stop the Soviet army's advance.
At the same time, the Soviet Far East Second Front, with the coordination of the fleet in the Amur River area, had forcibly crossed the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, and immediately launched a surprise attack on the Songhua River area. On 11 August, the 16th Army and the Pacific Fleet attacked southern Sakhalin, and by the next day, the Pacific Fleet had captured ports in northern Korea.
Pacific Fleet
The Japanese Kwantung Army saw the situation and immediately began to withdraw its troops to the hinterland, and the Japanese army saw the mighty Soviet army and had been frightened and dared not to fight with it. At the same time as retreating, it also blew up all the bridges along the road, hoping to stop the Soviet pursuit, and the Kwantung Army collectively moved closer to the hinterland, shrinking its strength and preparing for a decisive battle.
The Transbaikal Front on the Western Front received the order to fight and quickly crossed the Daxing'an Mountains. On the third day of the Soviet-Japanese exchange of fire, the vanguard of the Soviet army rushed to the front of the Japanese army overnight and engaged in a fierce mountain battle, and some of the Mongol cavalry of the Soviet army greatly exerted their advantages in the jungle, they brandished large knives and constantly launched attacks on the Japanese army, and the Japanese army fought and fled, and soon withdrew from the battlefield.
Transbaikal Front
On August 15 of the same year, the Emperor of Japan accepted the Potsdam Proclamation and announced his unconditional surrender. However, the Japanese Kwantung Army did not receive the notice of the Japanese Army Command at the first time, so it was still in a struggle with the Soviet Army. The Speed of the Soviet Advance was so fast that the Japanese army had no time to do an effective defense.
Those who were extremely obsessed with "Japanese militarism" and the spirit of "Bushido" that were extolled made the Japanese army still stubbornly resist. The Japanese formed wave after wave of death squads and launched a brainless charge against the Soviets. Under the absolute superiority of the Soviet Union, Japan was eventually defeated.
Potsdam Proclamation
On August 18, the Japanese Kwantung Army ended all battles in accordance with the emperor's instructions, most of the Japanese Kwantung Army surrendered, and on the 19th, the Soviet Union marched northeast and swept away the remaining Japanese troops in Qiqihar, Shenyang, Harbin, Changchun, Lushun and other cities.
The Soviet army died 32,000 people during the battle, lost more than 500 tanks, more than 600 artillery, although the losses are not small, but after the war, the Soviet Union only captured Japanese weapons, there are more than 700 tanks, more than 4300 guns of various calibers, plus more than 850 aircraft and 2,000 cars, and 12,000 light machine guns, it can be said that it is a lot of money.
Soviet army
During the Soviet War against Japan, the Eighth Route Army actively resisted the Japanese army in north China and prevented its reinforcements from reinforcing the northeast, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the northeast region actively cooperated with the Soviet Red Army to attack the Japanese Kwantung Army, making great contributions to the Rapid defeat of the Kwantung Army by the Soviet Red Army.
The Japanese lost about 677,000 men in the war, of whom 83,000 were killed in the battle, and the rest were captured by the Soviets. The results of the Soviet Union's "August Storm" program accelerated the disintegration of Japanese imperialism and played an important role in the final victory of the Chinese War of Resistance.
Eighth route army
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 14 years of arduous resistance, Chinese soldiers are no worse than the Soviet army! </h1>
In September 1931, the Japanese army attacked Shenyang, the "918 Incident" broke out, Japan began to carry out a full-scale war of aggression against our country, due to the early "non-resistance policy" of the Kuomintang, the three northeastern provinces were soon occupied by Japan. After the Japanese army occupied the northeast region of our country, it plundered a large number of resources, Japan's shortcomings were made up, and the national strength rose to a higher level.
At that time, China had just ended the feudal imperial system of two thousand years, and everything in the country was still slowly groping, whether it was economic strength or military strength was not strong enough, coupled with Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorial ambitions, promulgated the wrong policy of "foreign countries must first be at home", making China's anti-war cause particularly difficult.
The "9/18 Incident" broke out
During the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the cumulative casualties of Chinese soldiers and civilians exceeded 35 million, and in the face of the cruel Japanese army, the Chinese people have never given up resistance for 14 years, stubbornly fought with the Japanese army, successfully drove them out of our territory, and won a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
During this period, although the Chinese army only eliminated 450,000 Japanese troops, but these 450,000 Japanese troops can be said to be the most elite troops, since the outbreak of the Pacific War, most of the soldiers of the Japanese Kwantung Army have also been transferred to the Pacific Theater, the rapid consumption of Japan's troops around the world, but also made the domestic immature soldiers into the battlefield prematurely.
Chiang Kai-shek
By the end of World War II in 1945, Japan's strength was much worse than before. After the end of the European battlefield, the Japanese Kwantung Army has changed from the previous offensive posture to strategic defense, and the defense is the Soviet Union, which has shined in the European battlefield, so Japan has no choice but to recruit a large number of students, businessmen and peasants from the country to join the army, and only barely gathered 700,000.
There are not many veterans of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the battlefield, although there are 700,000, but many of them are useless, and most of the troops are new recruits who have not been on the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness is extremely low. Moreover, when the Soviet Union launched an attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army, it directly mobilized 1.5 million troops, which was more than twice as large as the Japanese army.
Coupled with the fact that most of the Soviet Union is still veterans who have experienced the baptism of World War II, the battlefield experience and combat effectiveness are generally stronger than the Japanese army, if the Soviet Union comprehensively crushes Japan in terms of numbers, equipment, and army quality, and cannot easily win, this is the most outrageous, in 1945 Japan defeated the Soviet Union, in fact, it is an inevitable trend.
The reason why the Soviet Union was able to win in such a short period of time can probably be summed up in the following points:
The first is the gap in the strength of the two sides, the Japanese Kwantung Army cobbled together to recruit 700,000 troops, while the Soviet Union was 1.5 million troops, pressed into the northeast of our country. Secondly, the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment were also advanced with the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the Soviet Union had ended the European battlefield, so it could unscrupulously use the best weapons against the Japanese army.
Pacific War
Then there was the "suddenness", when the Soviet Union launched an attack on the Japanese army, it was sudden, and all the Japanese high-level people did not expect that the Soviet Union would insert a foot at this time, and cut off the contact between the Soviet ambassador to Japan and Japan, and Japan could not make strategic arrangements at the first time.
Finally, there is the problem of morale, in the Pacific War, the Japanese army's successive defeats have been decided, most of the Japanese at the end of World War II have given up resistance, but "militarism" from it, coupled with the threat of atomic bombs, all Japanese have been, unwilling to continue the war, in the face of soviet attacks, most of the Japanese army have chosen to fight and retreat, there is no room for a war.