The 500 death squads of the Japanese army, after eating zui, attacked one meal at a time. Not a single shot was fired, two shots were fired, two shots were fired, and the war was over. When they got to this fort, there was no one in the entire fort in Dalian Bay. In this place, the Japanese captured more than 100 brand-new cannons, 2.46 million shells, and more than 600 new rifles, many of which had not yet been fired. The bullets were 33,810,000 rounds, enough to wipe out all the Japanese. Japan has a population of less than 40 million, and 33.8 million rounds of ammunition were left for Japan. Japan used the artillery of the Qing army, the rifles of the Qing army, and the bullets of the Qing army to defeat Lushun and Liaodong, and then attacked Shandong from this place. All the things of the Qing Dynasty, the grain of the Qing Dynasty, the Huang gold of the Qing Dynasty, the cannons of the Qing Dynasty, and this rifle of the Qing Dynasty won the Qing Dynasty.
This is General Dai Xu's speech report.
Why did the Qing Dynasty have so many **, but it couldn't win, and its strength was far inferior to its own Japan in all aspects?
1. Comparison of the strength of China and Japan before and after the First Sino-Japanese War.
1. Economic strength. China was one of the largest economies in the world at that time, accounting for 12% of the world's GDP9%, which is 5 times that of Japan.
China has abundant resources and a huge population, and handicrafts, agriculture, and commerce are all developed, compared to Japan's Meiji Restoration, industrialization has just begun, and it is mainly based on exports** and textiles.
2. Population. At that time, China had a population of more than 400 million and Japan 40 million. The Chinese population is 10 times that of Japan.
3. Military aspects. China's annual military expenditure is about 70 million taels of silver, and Japan's is 17 million taels of silver. China is 4 times larger than Japan.
The total number of Zhongguo troops is 800,000, the Japanese army is about 230,000, and China is 35 times.
In terms of strength alone, Japan has no chance of winning.
In the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, Japan's victory was purely accidental.
It is not only economic and military strength that determines the outcome of a war, but also the human factor.
Otherwise, how can you explain that our heroic Chinese People's Volunteer Army, in the absence of clothing and food, and the ** serious backwardness, defeated the United Guo Army?
Second, let's take a look at the comparison between the morale of China and Japan before and after the First Sino-Japanese War.
China: 1. Before the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Empress Dowager Cixi embezzled 6 million taels of naval military funds to make her birthday.
2. When the Beiyang Navy Division purchased artillery shells, some of the shells purchased from the middle were doped with sand.
3. Foreign arms dealers sold arms to the Qing Dynasty and bribed Li Hongzhang's subordinates.
4. The discipline management of the army is lax, the soldiers lack training, the morale is low, the general pumping is y**, the army is drying clothes on the barrels, and the soldiers are seriously fleeing.
On the other hand, on the Japanese side:
1. Militarism. After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, a militaristic system was established, and soldiers were indoctrinated with militaristic ideas, believing that war was an honor and duty, and morale was high.
2. Well-trained. A modern army was created, the Western military system was adopted, and the soldiers were well trained.
3. Well-equipped. Pay attention to the development of armaments, and the soldiers are equipped with advanced equipment.
III. Conclusion. 1) Japan, whose morale was high at that time, defeated the corrupt Qing government, which was far superior to itself by several times, and the result was not surprising.
Even if Qing Zhengfu won the First Sino-Japanese War, it would only delay the result of defeat and could not recover the fate of extinction.
Today, two years later, the strength of China and Japan is comparable.
1. China's annual GDP is 181 trillion dollars, 423 trillion dollars. China is Japan's 42 times.
2. The number of people in China is 141.2 billion, 12.6 billion. China is Japan's 112 times.
In the middle of the year, the military strength of guo was the third in the world, and Japan ranked eighth. Its military strength far surpassed that of Japan.
Having experienced the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Pearl Harbor incident, Japanese militarism, which was good at defeating the strong with the weak and extremely speculative, was never afraid of the difference in strength.
In front of the Harbin 731 Memorial Hall, there is a long queue that cannot be seen at a glance, and our strong national cohesion really makes them frightened and unable to sleep.