History will always remember this day. On August 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally. On this day, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ended with the victory of the China people and the defeat of the Japanese fascists.
The footsteps of the years have hurried through 65 years. The smoke of the Yellow River has been in blowing in the wind, and history seems to have gone. However, from Lugou Bridge Head
The lessons left by the rolled-up war are unforgettable. For the Chinese nation, it is an eternal national mourning, an eternal struggle and an eternal memory.
"History is a mirror reflecting reality and the most philosophical textbook." As a young critic pointed out: "Only understanding history as disaster and anger, without looking for its internal logic and understanding its complexity, will also make the efforts of those generations who have suffered disasters fail." That period of history left us not only grief, endless blood and tears, heroism and magnificent epic, but also the desire to pursue peace, the expectation of never fighting again, the determination to strengthen the country and enrich the people, and the desire of good neighborliness and friendship.
One of the revelations: you will be beaten if you fall behind.
Bloody dusk: the inevitability behind the accident
Seventy-three years ago, on an unforgettable day for the people of China-1July 7, 937, the gunfire shook the Lugou Bridge. On the pretext of missing soldiers, the Japanese army tried to forcibly enter the ancient city of Wanping for a search. After being rejected, they added guns and launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. The unyielding Chinese nation also began an eight-year national war of resistance. The "July 7th Incident" was only the general outbreak of Japanese aggression against China in modern times. Before that, the Japanese had long coveted this fertile land of China. As early as the Meiji Restoration, while establishing the modern Mikado system, Japan formulated the so-called "mainland policy" centered on the annexation of China. In the following 70 years, the Japanese launched 14 wars of aggression, many of which were aimed at China. 1894 deliberately provoked the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894, forcing the defeated Qing government to sign the treaty of shimonoseki and cede Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan Province Province and Penghu Islands; 10 years later, the Russo-Japanese War started on the land in the northeast of China, forcing the Manchu government to recognize Japan's sphere of influence in the northeast of China. The dream of "entering the mainland" and its inflated ambition have made this country, which has benefited the most from China's traditional culture, become the country that has done the most harm to China in modern times.
1927 From June 27th to July 7th, then Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka held the "Oriental Conference" in Tokyo, throwing out the grand strategy of invading China: If you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria; If you want to conquer the world, you must conquer China first. The arrogant Japanese have been unable to conceal their ambition to completely enslave China.
In the early 1930s, the severe economic crisis accelerated the pace of Japanese aggression: 193 1 year, which created the "September 18th Incident", occupied the northeast of China, provoked the prelude to the invasion of China, and then aimed the guns at Inner Mongolia and North China, advancing step by step; 1932, provoking the "1.28 incident" in Shanghai; 1933, occupied Jehol province.
Looking back on the history of Sino-Japanese relations in modern times, Yan Xu, a professor at National Defense University, thinks that China's resistance to Japanese aggression in a certain place may be accidental, but it is inevitable to wage a life-and-death war with Japan to determine the fate of the nation!
Why did China and Japan go to war? Where is the root behind this? Why can an island country gradually devour a big country with a land area dozens of times its size? Historians' comments hit the nail on the head: Japan's war of aggression against China was the result of the expansion of its militaristic ambitions.
War is a confrontation between the strength of the two countries.
War is a spiritual contest as well as a material confrontation. After the July 7th Incident, the Chinese nation rose up against Japan. However, the weak national strength, the fact that the country was unprepared and the morale of the people who were not prepared for the war surprised western observers with the tenacious fighting will of the people of China, but it also indicated that the prospects of the people of China in this battle with great disparity in strength were bleak.
Let's take a look at the comparison of national strength and military strength between China and Japan during the war.