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Japan¡¯s successive military defeats in the Far East have surprised countless observers. The one-sided victory that everyone thought was not going to Japan, but to China, which has always been treated as the "sick man of East Asia." This made countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, which claimed to have major interests in China, very uneasy.
Britain is already hostile to China, and this awareness has become even stronger since the arrogant British Empire was slapped hard in the May 30th Incident. However, China under the leadership of the People's Party | has been rejuvenated. Its huge army, solid internal fortresses, support from the Chinese people, and super economic strength have allowed them to stop and withdraw their troops hastily.
At the beginning of the Kanto State and Korean War, Britain very much expected Japan to deal a fatal blow to China. In this way, we can avenge the original killing without using any weapons. Why not? If China is defeated, the British government will not hesitate to train new agents to take over the mess left by the Fengtian defeat. How beautiful!
Even the United States, which is relatively friendly to China, believes that China's rapid modernization under the leadership of the People's Party is not in the interests of the United States: a China that is forced to interrupt the process of national construction, a country that has part of its territory dismembered and merged A China that is always under threat is in the best interest of the United States.
Similarly, the best way to ease the pressure on the U.S. Navy and Army in the Western Pacific is to plunge Japan, which is constantly threatening U.S. interests in Asia, into a destined to be endless war with China.
A U.S. State Department official asserted that the resolution of the Sino-Japanese dispute may be harmful to U.S. interests and that it would be better to let Japan fall into an indecisive struggle in a region where the United States has no major interests; allowing "the principles of our Far East policy and peace ideal¡± and ¡°suffering further minor damage¡±.
Therefore, the United States has long adopted "killing with a borrowed knife" as the guiding ideology of its Far East policy. On the one hand, it encouraged Japan to become enemies of the Soviet Union and China, suppressed the big and small Bolsheviks in the Far East, and on the other hand, avoided conflicts between Japan and the United States. This destined the United States to only make empty moral condemnations of Japan's invasion of China, and it was impossible to actually intervene.
In official history, Britain and the United States made even more compromises with Japan. Even when the Northern Expeditionary Army was about to cross the river to resolve the Zhili Army's unification of the whole of China on December 12, 1928, the Japanese invaders created an extremely provocative and deliberate incident: an attack on the Nanjing River. After sinking an American ship, resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen Americans, the United States still showed amazing "endurance" and dealt with it calmly. It continued to provide loans and sell strategic materials to Japan.
Its purpose is to prevent the reunification of China. The United States and the United Kingdom have already exchanged interests with Japan. On the one hand, they hope to protect their own interests in China, and on the other hand, they hope that Japan will attack the Soviet Union.
Now, Britain and the United States still support Japan.
The United States and the United Kingdom even announced their support for Japan's actions: In October 1928, U.S. President Hoover made a public speech in support of Japan's interests in Kanto State and Korea: "To protect the lives and property of Japanese nationals, Japan's invasion of Manchuria and Korea is a Inevitable¡±, ¡°¡we cannot raise objections.¡±
He also believes that "it is China's unilateral actions to change the status quo that have led to the deterioration of the situation in the Far East, which is disturbing"
British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin also said: "My sympathies are entirely with Japan." A few months ago, their representatives in the League of Nations were hypocritically asking China to "restrain." Now, they themselves have come to the forefront.
Therefore, after hearing that Ciano had brought the news that Japan hoped to cease war with the Chinese army in Korea, the British, American and other governments sent a large number of diplomatic missions. One set off to Dalian, China, and the other went directly to Japan. Their mission is to try to destroy this possibility.
What situation is beneficial to them? Of course, China, a rising political star, fell, and Japan, a traditional power, was crippled. It is always easier to strike at a potential opponent when it has not yet grown up and has fledgling wings than when it has grown into a towering tree; and as long as China and Japan fight against each other, with the strong bull of China, they will always be able to attack them when they are about to die. Tired up the Japanese wolf.
The best result for the United States is: China can drag Japan into the water. In their hearts, China is bound to lose. However, this kind of defeat would be best if it hurts Japan. In this way, Japan will not be able to covet the power of the United States in the Pacific after the war, and it may be able to maintain it for a longer period of time. balance of power.
However, the reality was exactly the opposite of what they expected. In this way, they have to face up to the fact: Will China, carrying the residual power of victory, threaten their interests in China?
After all, when dealing with a powerful government, some tough tactics can no longer be used. What if the Chinese government wants to terminate the unequal treaty with them? The tough marshal Zhang Hanqing had already done this a few years ago, and under his pressure, more than 80% of the concessions were forced to be returned to China.
We need to start preventing this process.Doesn¡¯t Japan have a weak army? we support!
Since Japan¡¯s industrial capabilities are really not enough to support a high-intensity all-out war, the United States kindly sent good things to calm the Japanese: artillery and cars.
The United States formed 62 infantry divisions during World War I. Each division had two artillery battalions with 24 75mm guns and one 155mm artillery battalion with the same organization. After the war, the United States quickly downsized its army to only 10 infantry divisions due to the war-weariness of the government and the opposition.
After the war, military technology has developed greatly. For the United States, a large number of 75mm guns have long been eliminated, and its 155mm guns are also quite outdated. In this case, it might be a good idea to sell these overstocks to Japan. As we all know, due to the backwardness of Japan's mechanical industry, its army artillery has always been stuck at the stage of using horses to tow, and the caliber has also been stuck at the 75mm stage.
No need to wonder why Japan can build sixteen-inch (406.4mm) naval guns, but cannot build land guns exceeding 75mm. The reasons for this are, first, the determination to compete with naval powers such as Britain and the United States in the Pacific, and second, the lack of inconvenient and backward transportation restrictions at sea.
In Japan, in the former Northeast China, and in North Korea, road transportation is not good, large-caliber artillery transportation is inconvenient, and the key is that there is no strong opponent.
The People's Army under the leadership of Zhang Hanqing also had a solid foundation. By relying on the industrial foundation it had laid, by introducing production lines from the Soviet Union and artillery technicians from Germany, they suddenly switched from shotguns to cannons, which really caught Japan off guard.
For the Chinese people who have been bullied many times, trains and ships were once an innovative direction to build a strong body. Now, the obsession with modern artillery has quickly made the young People's Army Army stronger.
The precipitation of industry is a process. Although Japan also consciously developed large-caliber artillery due to the strength of the Chinese Army, because the post-war international atmosphere was not suitable for war, it only equipped a limited number of domestic main forces, even The original Second Division of Kanto Prefecture has not yet been updated.
Even a regiment that is mixed with so-called "large-caliber" artillery is mainly composed of 75mm mountain guns or field guns, supplemented by 105mm light howitzers, which is far inferior to the Chinese Army's 105mm or 125mm mainly, supplemented by 155mm or 75mm. situation.
This also led to the disadvantage that its firepower was not as good as that of the Chinese army, and even its number was several times lower. Facing the well-prepared Chinese army, it is not surprising that the battle ended like this.
During the Korean War, Japan urgently armed nearly twenty reserve divisions. Although the inventory was used, the number of artillery was still insufficient.
At this time, the American messenger came to help. 1,000 light howitzers can equip 20 divisions, as well as 155mm heavy artillery that can equip 10 divisions. It not only makes up for the artillery shortage of the reserve army, but also can replace all the ineffective artillery regiments on the Korean front.
This big American country, which used giant ships and cannons to open the door of Japan's isolation, gave Japan a great insight into what the ever-changing industrial revolution is, and also gave Japan a new look. Putting aside factors of national sentiment, the United States can be said to be the benefactor of modern Japan, and after World War II, it became the benefactor of modern Japan.
Now this benefactor has brought another thing that Japan is in urgent need of: cars. Otherwise, with Japan's industrial capabilities, the 155mm heavy artillery can only be a decoration until a heavy-duty truck is developed. And when it researches and mass-produces cars that can tow artillery, perhaps the Korean War is over!
A total of 3,000 trucks is three times the annual production of all domestic automobiles in Japan, but only a fraction of the 4.5 million produced annually in the United States. This kind of industrial capability is beyond the reach of any country on earth today. Although these trucks are not many, they have solved a big problem for Japan.
The 155mm heavy gun is good, but its transportation pressure is also amazing. Based on the carrying capacity of 6 horses for a 75mm mountain gun and the logistics of another 6 horses, an artillery regiment alone requires 728 horses. If you switch to 155mm, the demand will be at least three times as much! In this way, it would be a headache for a Japanese artillery regiment to just chew horses. Now the problem is initially solved.
Respectable Americans!
Terrible Americans!
With the heavy artillery, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters can arrange their troops with ease, and they are particularly disapproving of the conciliatory noise of a small group of people in the government. What a joke! If the Imperial Army, which has suffered heavy losses, cannot recover its losses, the world will laugh at them! As a result, it not only ruined the political situation that had been finally recognized by the Western powers since the Meiji Restoration, but also indirectly recognized the rise of China.
With thousands of years of in-depth study of this ancient eastern neighbor, once it regains its spirit, what a terrifying opponent it will be!
Because neither China nor Japan declared war on each other, this gave them an opportunity to take advantage of it. Because international law stipulates that if a third country provides military, including material, assistance to a party declaring war, it is essentially a signal to join the war. But when the two sides are only at war rather than declaring war, trade with Japan, including the import of military supplies, becomes legal.
But it¡¯s unreasonable.
But no one will reason with you. As a Russian proverb goes: "The iron rods are criss-crossed and irresistible; if you want to resist, make the iron rod thicker." The great powers that have the right to speak will not reason with you. This world is a big bully. When I was young in the jungle, the only thing that could speak for myself was the gun in my hand.
This is why Zhang Hanqing worked so hard to arm the People's Army to the teeth. ?(Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)Opportunity. Because international law stipulates that if a third country provides military, including material, assistance to a party declaring war, it is essentially a signal to join the war. But when the two sides are only at war rather than declaring war, trade with Japan, including the import of military supplies, becomes legal.
But it¡¯s unreasonable.
But no one will reason with you. As a Russian proverb goes: "The iron rods are criss-crossed and irresistible; if you want to resist, make the iron rod thicker." The great powers that have the right to speak will not reason with you. This world is a big bully. When I was young in the jungle, the only thing that could speak for myself was the gun in my hand.
This is why Zhang Hanqing worked so hard to arm the People's Army to the teeth. ?(Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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