Although nearly 100 years have passed since the "18 September" incident of the Japanese invasion of China, the Chinese people still have fresh memories of the war that plunged the people into fire, water, and blood. No matter how much some scum in foreign countries or domestic countries whitewash, this cannot be changed.
During the 14-year Japanese invasion of China, the total number of Chinese military and civilian deaths exceeded 50 million, and the direct and indirect property losses reached $600 billion at the exchange rate at the time. At that time, China was deeply in the midst of suffering and war, and under the iron heel of the Japanese army, almost half of China fell into the clutches of the Japanese invaders.
The coastal areas on the eastern side of the country have all fallen and become bunkers for the Japanese troops stationed there, and they have set up a defensive line on the southeast line to defend against the strategic assistance of other allies to our country.
It can be said that many provinces in China had become temporary colonies of Japan at that timeHowever, due to the size of China, there are still 8 provinces that have not been occupied by the Japanese army, and one of them has now changed its name. What about these 8 provinces?
01 fired the first shot of the invasion in the Northeast.
September 18, 1931 was a day that every Chinese should not forget, on this day the Japanese army after sufficient preparations, with a reason that could not resist scrutiny, brazenly launched an attack on the squadron stationed in the northeast. Compared with the Japanese army's long-term planning, the Chinese side initially thought that this was just a daily friction caused by a misunderstanding.
After all, the relationship between the two countries was delicate at that time, and we mistakenly thought that this was just a trick by the Japanese side to claim compensation, so we paid a certain amount of attention to it. Who knew that the goal of the Japanese army was not as simple as paying reparations, what they wanted was the entire three eastern provinces, and the weakness of the Kuomintang led to the rapid occupation of the three eastern provinces by the Japanese army with one-tenth of the number of troops.
The easy victory of the battle in Northeast China further inflated Japan's domestic ambitions, and they also began to use the one-to-ten calculation method to measure the strength of China and Japan. However, the enemy's desires were never satisfied, and from Hebei to Shandong, from Shanghai in East China, to Liangguang and Guangzhou, they were all occupied by the Japanese army.
As World War II deepened, Japanese imperialism began to fall into madness in order to cooperate with the expansion of the European Axis powers. They feel that China is already in the bag, and the occupation depends on what they want to hit. And the attrition of the war also forced them to loot resources and wealth in China, which is what the Japanese army called "war to feed the war".
When the Japanese army attacked important cities, it was still resisted by the squadron, such as Shanghai and Nanjing and other large cities because of heavy guards, so that the Japanese army suffered a lot. However, due to the backwardness of equipment, technology and tactics, and the lack of firmness in the idea of fighting to the death between the Kuomintang and the Japanese invaders at that time, important cities fell one after another.
Whenever the Japanese army encountered resistance, they would launch a frenzied retaliation after the occupation, such as Pingdingshan** and Nanjing**. Their evil deeds of killing eventually turned into the anger of the Chinese people, which indirectly contributed to the KMT's helpless joint resistance against Japan.
The arduous process of the War of Resistance in 028.
Although China often describes this period of history as the "Eight-Year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", in fact, since 1931, countless heroic sons and daughters have emerged in the northeast of China to resist the Japanese invadersAt that time, the famous "Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance" was the biggest nightmare of the Japanese army.
Although they were not like the regular army, which could deal heavy blows to the enemy, their representative figures, such as Yang Jingyu, made contributions to the anti-Japanese war, and even the Japanese army as the enemy should be respected. But for the Kuomintang, it was not until the Japanese army hit the outside of their house that it was a real threat to their vital interests.
Since the "Lugou Bridge Incident" occurred, the first major battle in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out soon after, the Battle of Songhu, which was of great significance. Before the war, the Japanese army put down its wild words: occupy Shanghai within a month, destroy China within three months, and invest 300,000 people in troops, and a large number of aircraft, ** and chariots marched into Shanghai from land, sea and air.
The squadron responded to the arrogance of the Japanese army with a battle to the death, which lasted more than three months of fightingAt the cost of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, our army dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army and also crushed their plan to break the will of the Chinese.
Since then, the Chinese have embarked on an all-out anti-Japanese journey, and under the condition that the Kuomintang has been losing and retreating, the Communist Party has relied on a solid mass foundation and held a simple **** to establish a base in the enemy's rear, and began an anti-Japanese struggle with the Japanese army with guerrilla warfare as the mainstay, supplemented by frontal large-scale group battles.
In 1940, our party launched the famous "Battle of 100 Regiments", which cut off the Zhengtai railway transportation line built by the Japanese army, broke the Japanese army's plan to blockade North China with railways and highways as a chain, and also opened up space for our army's anti-Japanese base areas and activities behind enemy lines.
In the autumn of the same year, our army took advantage of this opportunity to carry out another large-scale anti-Japanese war operationThe success of the "Battle of 100 Regiments" also marks the maturity of our army and the enhancement of its combat effectiveness.
03 Eight provinces were protected from the poison of the Japanese army.
As the hero of the success of the large-scale anti-Japanese war operation, the person in charge of our party in northern Shaanxi made great contributions, and northern Shaanxi also became one of the few provinces in China at that time that did not fall into the invasion of Japanese invaders. In addition to Shaanxi Province, there are seven provinces that are not affected by the Japanese army, mainly because of geographical reasons.
Sichuan Province is the new capital of the Kuomintang, and the capital is Chongqing, which shows that the Kuomintang is still relatively confident in Sichuan's geographical location. After all, since ancient times, Sichuan has been known as the land of abundance, not to mention the abundance of products, the road into Sichuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is precisely because of this that it is difficult for the Japanese invaders who want to get rid of the Kuomintang as soon as possible.
In addition to Shaanxi and Sichuan, the six provinces of Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and Xikang were also not invaded by the Japanese army because of their unique geographical environment. Xikang is a province established in China since the Qing Dynasty, located at the junction of Sichuan and **, in 1955 this name was cancelled, the west of the Jinsha River was divided into ** jurisdiction, and the east was divided into Sichuan.
As a matter of fact, we can also see from the trajectory of the Japanese invasion that they are eager to control most of the areas that are connected to the outside world of our country, and they are not eager to invade the inland areas. Perhaps they think that by controlling the passage of reinforcements from our country, they can slowly encroach on China behind closed doors.
But they underestimated the resilience of the Chinese, 8 years of war had exhausted all Japan's resources, and the great changes in the world situation also doomed fascism to perdition.
04 Epilogue. In view of the current trend of rising militarism in Japan, as a Chinese, we should not forget the national shame, and the opportunity for revenge against the hostile forces that covet China's great rivers and mountains may come soon, which is nearly a hundred years late.