Introduction: In 1932, in the northeast of China, the Japanese invading army began to invade the northeast. From this time on, Japan's ambitions to invade and occupy China were already clear. From this moment on, the Chinese nation had already begun a war against the Japanese aggressors.
In 1937, Japan created the Lugou Bridge Incident, but what about China at this time? At this time, all of Northeast China had been lost, and the puppet state of Manchukuo, which was supported by the Japanese invaders, had been established in the northeast for many years.
The Lugou Bridge Incident also meant that Japan began a full-scale invasion of China, and it was also the beginning of the Japanese army's occupation of North China. Overnight, the greatest crisis of the Chinese nation began to fall on the heads of every Chinese.
On the eve of Japan's decision to invade China in its entirety, a highly classified cabinet meeting was held in Japan in July 1933. The meeting was attended by the Emperor of Japan, the Prime Minister of Japan, the Japanese Military Ministry, and the Tachibana Research Institute of Japan at that time.
This institute seems to be a research institute, but aside from this disguise, we will know that the so-called institute is the big boss behind Japan's secret service agencies and spy organizations in East and Southeast Asian countries, and it is a spy intelligence research institute serving the military.
The core topic of this Japanese cabinet meeting is to study the overall strategy for invading China. At that time, there were different opinions in Japan on whether to invade China in an all-out way. Everyone has their own opinion. Some people suggest that after occupying northeast China and Taiwan, the task of invading China will be completed, and some officials believe that invading China is a risky thing.
Against this backdrop, the Emperor convened the meeting to report on the results of all spy investigations against China since 1882. According to the results of the study by the Tachibana Research Institute, the Japanese military is full of confidence.
At that time, one of the three major marshals of Japan even shouted at that time, under such circumstances, our Japanese army could destroy China in 3 months. Of course, this righteous voice will not be adopted, and the emperor and the prime minister gave a rational answer after studying and destroying China in 6 months.
It was in this context that the all-out invasion of China began, so nearly 5 million Japanese troops entered China one after another, so they fought for 8 years, so they surrendered. In fact, Japan knew as early as 1941 that it could not win.
Why? If Japan knew in 1941 that it could not win, why did Japan persist? Why did Japan make the arrogant plan to destroy China in 6 months?
In fact, it is not impossible for Japan to say that Japan will destroy China in 6 months if we only look at the national strength data. At that time, China's warlords were divided, and the country was weak and the people were poor.
From the military data point of view, the only thing that China could match Japan at that time was the number of troops, but China's army was in the hands of warlords large and small, and the central army directly under the Nationalist government at that time was less than 2 million, which also posed no threat to Japan.
And what about the rest? China and Japan are at an absolute disadvantage in the comparison of military forces in terms of weapons, equipment, aircraft, mechanization, artillery, and so on, and this disadvantage is overwhelming and almost completely unable to pose a threat to Japan.
Moreover, at that time, China's political structure was chaotic, the warlords were divided, and the people were numb and ignorant, so how could such a country be a rival to Japan? But the Japanese have forgotten that the Chinese nation is the most resilient nation in the world, not one of them!
It was this tenacity that defeated Japan, and by 1941 Japan's military capabilities could no longer support Japan's all-out offensive in China. And the large Number of Chinese Expeditionary Forces is dragging down Japan's economy and food supply.
In China, the Japanese Expeditionary Force was faced with a counterattack by all Chinese troops, which could not even be said to be armies, armed with earthen guns, artillery, large knives, harpoons, but they were also able to kill the Japanese.
In this way, since 1941, Japan has been under the trembling defense and has been caught in the whirlpool of China's war, and it is unable to extricate itself a little bit. By 1943, the Japanese-Chinese invading army was on the verge of being unsustainable.
Under this serious circumstance, the Japanese began to frantically launch the so-called mainland communication line campaign in an attempt to regain control of China's communication lines, thus reversing the desperate defeat, but they still failed, and in 1945 Japan finally announced its surrender under the resistance of the Chinese military and civilians.
Summary: During World War II, Japan's wars in Asia and the Pacific were studied by Western military scientists, and there were two mainstream views. One of them is that Japan should not be fighting in Asia at the same time as fighting a war in the Pacific.
The second view is that Japan's biggest mistake in World War II was that it thought it could fully occupy China, and that if it had only occupied Northeast China and Taiwan, there might have been a chance of success. In fact, this is wrong, as long as Japan invades the Chinese nation, we will resist until the final victory.
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