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In August , 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs in Nagasaki Hiroshima. The Japanese, who had been yelling about "100 million jade breaks", slid light speed in front of nuclear weapon , and soon chose to surrender.
Hiroshima suffered a scene after the atomic bomb explosion
However, few people know that the two atomic bombs detonated by Hiroshima Nagasaki only caused a total of about 200,000 casualties, far less than the Tokyo bombing carried out by the US military in the same year!
In 1945, the US military carried out two large-scale bombings on 98 cities including Tokyo, Daban, Nagoya, etc. in March and May of that year. Even the palace of the Japanese Emperor " Meiji Shrine " was not spared and turned into ashes during the bombing.
Not only was the urban buildings razed to the ground, but nearly 600,000 Japanese were killed or injured in the two bombings, and countless displaced people!
Tokyo bombing
Some people say that the reason why the US military carried out such a horrifying military operation was to avenge Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
However, strangely, Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was 1941 , but the US military carried out the Tokyo bombing in 1945.
If it is really for revenge, why would the US military choose to take action four years later?
What will Japan react in the face of the US military's crazy revenge?
" Economic Crisis " in the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle
1931 , September 18th Incident fired the first shot of the Japanese war of aggression against China.
918 Monument
Under the organization of the "Manchurian Five Gang" led by Tojo Hideki , Kishi Nobusuke and others, the Japanese who occupied the Northeast were frantically sucking the economy and manpower of the three northeastern provinces.
attempts to build the puppet Manchukuo into a special economic zone in Japan, thereby achieving the strategic goal of "sustaining war with war".
The "fighting war" mentioned by this group of Class A war criminals is essentially transporting materials and minerals from China back to Japan, then reprocessing them into weapons and ammunition, and finally hitting them again on the Chinese.
is a good "original soup and original food". The Japanese's ghost tricks are really vicious!
Japanese army
Just like this, relying on the method of "fighting to fight", the strength of the Japanese army has continued to grow, and the ambitions of the top Japanese army are also expanding.
After tasting the sweetness of aggression here in China, the Japanese are no longer satisfied with this, and they look at the entire Southeast Asia.
But this group of hateful Japanese militarism gave this plan a nice name - the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle Plan!
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle
Good guy, who can name the activity of breaking into someone's door and killing the whole family "Co-prosperity". Only the Japanese devils can do such dirty things in this world.
Of course, aside from the ambitions of the top Japanese military leaders, there is another important reason why Japan attempts to get involved in Southeast Asia, that is, the economy!
Wars cost money.
Chairman Mao’s famous " on the protracted war " mentioned the comparison of national strength between China and Japan. At that time, China was big but weak, Japan was small but strong, but Japan was still a small island after all, and it was inherently insufficient in terms of resources.
Mao Zedong's "On Protracted War"
Even though the Japanese army occupied a lot of our country's territory, when the manpower and material resources were exhausted, they still could not withstand a long war.
As Chairman Mao said, in order to win the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army not only mobilized the whole country to invest in military production, but also contacted the United States and spent a lot of money to buy oil, steel, weapons and ammunition from the United States.
According to statistics, between 1932 and 1939, 18% of aluminum, 45% of lead, 90% of copper, and 70% of scrap steel imported by Japan came from the United States.
In addition, the United States also sold many war materials such as machine tools, explosives technology, and petroleum raw materials to Japan.
Japanese
It is no exaggeration to say that more than half of the bullets shot at the Chinese came from American production workshops.
But the price of doing so is that Japan's economic reserves are consumed at an astonishing speed. Around , , the Japanese economy was already in a deficit.
And the Chinese battlefield used to "fight with war" has now become a quagmire, endlessly devouring Japan's war potential.
1938 , Japan openly issued a statement on "New East Asian Order", claiming that it would ban the old order established by Britain and the United States and build a new order centered on Japan.
Great East Asia Co-prosperity Circle Schematic diagram
At this moment, Americans realized that they had made a big mistake. The Americans personally built a monster in Asia that was out of his control, that is Japan.
Americans who are raising tigers are also aware that if they want to ensure their interests in Asia (mainly Philippines ), they must suppress Japan.
At the same time, many criticisms of Japan and Americans who transport weapons and materials to Japan have also been heard in the international community.
Under the dual pressure of domestic and international public opinion, the United States eventually had to stop arms trade with Japan.
This made the Japanese very anxious. The Americans couldn't even defeat China even if they sell my weapons. Now if you don't sell it, how can I continue the war of aggression against China?
The oil, steel, weapons and ammunition in the hands of Americans is no different from opium to the Japanese. Use it and it will become thinner, but once you lose it, you will immediately have a drug addiction attack.
Under the influence of the "economic crisis", Japan is about to take a measure that he will regret in the future.
That is a two-line operation, attacking Southeast Asia with one hand, and attacking Pearl Harbor with the other hand with the other!
bloodshed Southeast Asia
After losing the oil supply from the Americans, the Japanese army dug three feet of the land in northeastern region , hoping to scrape off all the land just to find oil fields.
Pearl Harbor incident
But to their disappointment, even if they dug three feet into the ground, they could not find a decent oil field from China's land. On the contrary, the expansion of the front caused oil consumption to further intensify.
In order to find new oil extraction points, Japan has turned its attention to Southeast Asia.
However, at this time Asia was a colony of British and French powers. If you want to invade Southeast Asia, you must first compete with Britain, France and the Netherlands.
However, although the Western powers are strong, they are not without weaknesses.
At this time, Europe was also in war, with Britain, France and other countries fighting fiercely on the battlefield and having no time to care about Asian colonies.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle
And Japan has also targeted this gap and directly sent troops to Southeast Asia in an attempt to achieve the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle".
In addition to targeting the gap between Britain and France, Japan also attracted Thailand to be its own ally.
Although Thailand is peaceful and Buddhist today, everyone who sees you say " Sawadika ", but those who truly understand Thai history know that Thailand is a country with extremely unstable political situation and bloody coups are emerging one after another.
The Thai leader at that time was a cruel man who fought from the uninterrupted bloody army. He was Luan Piwen Songkan !
Luan Piwen Songkan
Piwen This man is a veteran in politics who is good at everything. When he saw the Japanese army coming, he skated and knelt down at the speed of light, decisively bowed to the Japanese and signed an agreement on allies.
However, the reason why the Japanese are called Japanese is because they do not do human affairs! The beastly nature of the Japanese cannot be curbed by a single agreement of allies.
Luan Piwen obviously also knew this very well, so he planned to lead the Japanese army to find trouble for Britain and France.
Speaking of this, some historically weak viewers may ask, Japan is fighting in Southeast Asia, what is the matter with Britain and France?
British and French colonies
In fact, Britain and France had already colonized Asia before World War II . Myanmar to the west of Thailand was ruled by Britain, while Vietnam, Laos , and Cambodia to the east were under the rule of the French.
Not only that, Britain and France also had the intention of colonizing Thailand. Fortunately, the Thai king at that time was also a long-lasting figure.
He took the initiative to lobby Britain and France, trying to build Thailand into a buffer zone between Britain and France in Asia.
He really succeeded. Out of fear of each other, Britain and France did not invade Thailand in full, but instead used it as a buffer zone between British Burma and French Indochina.
Thailand geographical location
But Western colonists are not good at all. Britain and France eventually forced Thailand to sign an unequal treaty and cut off a lot of Thailand's land.
At this time, Luan Piwen Seeing that the Japanese army had excellent weapons and numerous people, they began to think of driving the wolf and swallowing the tiger.
He wanted to use the power of the Japanese to drive away the British and French colonists on both sides, and the Japanese also planned to use Thailand as a fulcrum to deploy their own plan to invade Southeast Asia.
A man is good at a beautiful woman, and a jackal is good at a tiger and a leopard.
Luan Piwen , a guy who was later labeled as Class A war criminal , eventually got together with the Japanese, and Thailand became an ally of the fascism.
To put it bluntly, although Thailand had cooperated with Japan during World War II, the government was overthrown by the domestic " Free Thai Movement " in 1944.
Japanese Army
This newly-entered Liberal Party not only opposed the war, but also strongly opposed fascism, advocated drawing a clear line with Japan, and broke it out from then on.
After the end of World War II, since Thailand was led by the Liberal Party that overthrew Luan Piwen , it was also divided into the camp of the victorious country. Therefore, the Thai people were nicknamed "Asian Little Italy".
book returned to the main story. After obtaining the ally of Thailand, Japan not only was able to defeat Britain and France, but also ravaged most countries in Southeast Asia except Thailand.
Among these Southeast Asian countries, Indonesians are the most miserable.
Indonesian history is the colonial history of Westerners!
Japanese army
After the Japanese army landed in Indonesia in 1942, the Indonesians looked at the Japanese army with an Asian face like themselves, and thought that the other party was here to rescue them. Many Indonesians even took the initiative to serve as guides to the Japanese army.
But who would have thought that after the Japanese army drove away the local Dutch colonists, they turned around and showed their cruel side. They not only plundered and massacred local people, but also arrested many Indonesian women into comfort women camps.
At this time, the Indonesian people who were crying and shouting were able to react. Compared with the Japanese devils, the Dutch colonists seemed so amiable.
sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor incident
Before Japan invaded Southeast Asia, there was another problem that needed to be faced, that is, the Philippines in Southeast Asia has always been the private place for Americans.
Once you want to attack Southeast Asia, it will inevitably annoy the United States. The US naval fleet is not easy to provoke.
Fortunately, the Japanese senior executives opened up their minds and came up with a shocking plan with a slap in their heads!
The US Navy is not easy to mess with, so I will attack quietly and just kill the navy and just do it?
In the Japanese plan, Americans are the lambs in the sheepfold. As long as you tap them gently, Americans will shrank and be scared.
Japanese army
By then, not only can they successfully occupy the Philippines, but they can also use the war to force the United States to continue trade with it, killing two birds with one stone.
However, there is still a small loophole in the Japanese plan, that is, they did not consider what to do if the Americans fought back after attacking the US Navy.
If God wants to destroy people, he must first make them crazy.
At this time, Japan is already in a difficult situation, and it no longer cares about so much!
So on December 7, 1941, more than 300 Japanese planes drove over Pearl Harbor in the United States in a mighty manner.
Pearl Harbor incident
In a short while, countless bombs fell from the sky like rain. Four of the eight main warships docked in Pearl Harbor were sunk on the spot, and nearly 200 aircraft were lost. As for the casualties and wounded soldiers and damaged buildings, there were countless.
According to post-event statistics, Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor directly caused more than 3,000 casualties to the US military, and the economic losses are difficult to estimate.
But at this time, Japan still doesn’t know what scale of revenge the US military is brewing!
Tokyo bombing
Faced with Japan's shameless behavior of "come cheating, sneak attack", the old American comrade who shouted "I'm careless and didn't flash" was angry.
At this moment, the United States no longer wants to persuade Japan to take care of itself, it just wants to beat Japan into "mouse tail juice".
Japan Mount Fuji
1941 , the United States sent 16 B-25 bombers to attack the oil depots, factories and military facilities of Tokyo, Yokohama , Nagoya and Kobe in Japan.
However, this bombing was only a point, and the substantial blow to Japan was better than nothing.
However, this is just a prelude to the United States' attack on Japan. In 1942, the United States successfully tested the B-29 Super Aerial Fortress bomber.
B-29 bomber has a higher flight altitude, faster flight speed and higher bomb load, and even the performance of the German fighter jets at that time was inferior to it.
B-29 Bomber
It is no exaggeration to say that the B-29 was born to revenge on Japan!
After creating B-29, Americans began to plan a revenge strike against the Japanese.
Since the US military did not capture maritime military bases such as Iwo Jima before 1945, it was impossible to deploy B-29 bombers.
Even if there are sporadic batches of bombers taken off from Chengdu, my country, they finally had to reduce the amount of bombs and increase fuel due to the long flight distance, which eventually led to failure to carry out an effective strike against Japan.
After 1945, the US military discovered that Japan's industrial system was different from the German Nazis. The German military-industrial enterprise was concentrated in the industrial zone, so it was destroyed by just targeted bombing.
However, Japan's military industry is mainly small workshops, which are scattered in residential areas, and fixed-point blasting will undoubtedly not have any effect.
Japanese
Americans smiled slightly in response to this.
What? Is the Japanese industrial system mixed and widely distributed?
is simple, can I just blow it to death with ordinary civilians?
Therefore, the large-scale night fire attack plan for Tokyo, Japan kicked off.
on the night of March 9, 1945, 334 B-29s set off from Guam in the Mariana Islands and headed straight to Tokyo.
Under the leadership of Major General Curtis Limei Major General 6, a group of American bombers dropped over tens of millions of tons of incendiary bombs over Tokyo, Japan, and Tokyo instantly turned into a sea of fire.
Since Japan is in the earthquake zone, houses mostly use wooden seismic structures, but at this moment, the wooden house that should have saved lives has turned into a Japanese hell cage.
The scorching air wave caused by the bombing formed a strong convective wind with the cold air. An orange flame whirlwind soared into the sky, and the unimaginable high temperature came in an instant.
Even in Tokyo where there is no flame, fire begins to catch fire. All combustible objects in sight are on fire, and the Japanese are undoubtedly combustible.
The blazing fire was lit until dawn, and the flames were mixed with the charred corpses of the Japanese under high temperatures and the ruins. The Japanese government was unable to clean up the burnt human body until twenty days later.
The dead Japanese
Two months later, the bombing formation came to Tokyo again. In the endless fire, with Tokyo City as the center, all the people and things within a radius of 56 kilometers were turned into ashes.
At this point, Tokyo has completely become a dead city!
Conclusion
Many Japanese people say that the Tokyo bombing of Li Mei was too inhumane and accidentally injured many civilians.
But these people must not know that Japan has also committed the crimes of Chongqing bombing and and Chengdu bombing in China.
Today's Japanese
The Japanese have a poor ability to withstand. Americans just copied what the Japanese did in China in Japan, and the Japanese began to shout and pretend to be pitiful.
Until today, Japan has not reflected on its crimes against humanity, and even militarism has shown signs of revival.
As the sons and daughters of China, we should not forget the national humiliation and always be self-reliant!
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