Chapter 37 7. Today is sunny and tomorrow is raining

When the Pacific War broke out in 1941, the United States participated in the anti-fascist war, and China, the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain formed four major allies.There is a huge disparity in national strength between Japan and the United States, and Japan's fight against the United States is actually a bet on the country's fortune. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the steel output of the two countries was 1:9, and the oil output was 1:25. During World War II, the United States produced 297,000 military aircraft and 101 aircraft carriers. Japan's strong industrial strength is hard to match.The United States adopted a strategy of first Europe and then Asia, and the main force was invested in Europe to attack Germany.The U.S. military planted a ring of sea mines along Japan and surrounded it, trapping little Japan to death, and the ship hit the mine as soon as it went out to sea. If it was lucky that it didn't hit the mine, there would be American submarines all over the Taiwan Strait in the middle of the ocean.Before the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier entered service, the largest aircraft carrier in the world was Japan's Shinano, which made its maiden voyage. The 60,000-ton large aircraft carrier was sunk by the United States within 15 hours.The maritime connection between Japan and the Nanyang Islands was cut off by the United States, and the 800,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers would fend for themselves on the Nanyang Islands. Japan was eager to open a land line of communication from Harbin, China to Vietnam, to aid the isolated Nanyang army. [Note 5-86]

Japan launched the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, with a total of 510,000 troops participating in the battle, and a total of 2 million Chinese troops participating in the battle.The Kuomintang resisted the Japanese passively, held the belief that Japan would be defeated, and did not expect the Japanese army to return to the light before its death. This battle lost ground, lost thousands of miles, lost hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory, and tens of millions of compatriots became subjugated slaves . At that time, China's elite troops were in a very insignificant secondary battlefield-Myanmar.General Stilwell of the United States asked China to send troops to India, strengthen the troops stationed in India, and counterattack Burma from India, so as to break the severance of international communication lines.Jiang Jingguo issued a call from the rear, "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand troops."More than 100,000 intellectuals joined the army and formed the most elite youth army of the Kuomintang, and most of them were sent to India.The domestic troops are strong men, the straw sandals army, one row of towels, and one row of pink eyes.In this way, the battlefield of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi was defeated.However, Japan is at the end of its strength, and the war of resistance is about to win.

In 1945, the CCP convened the "Seventh National Congress" to consolidate the achievements of the Yan'an rectification movement. Mao Zedong published a report "On the Coalition Government", advocating the establishment of a coalition government with the Kuomintang.The Congress established Mao Zedong Thought as the guiding ideology of the party. The situation on the international battlefield has undergone tremendous changes. As early as July, the three major allies of China, the United States and Britain issued the "Potsdam Proclamation", urging Japan to surrender unconditionally.The Prime Minister of Japan categorically refused and did not consider it.Of course, the Japanese Minister of War publicly clamored for the "jade broken" of 100 million citizens.Japan wants to fight to the end, all the people mobilize, housewives, monks, and sumo wrestlers hold bows and arrows, bamboo spears, and ancestral swords against American tanks, battleships, and B-29 heavy bombers.The United States sees a mental hospital of 375,000 square kilometers in the mainland of Japan, where 75 million lunatics are locked up. It is not worthwhile to attack this place with one million casualties.So let Japan taste the latest achievements of the third technological revolution, dropping two atomic bombs. [Note 5-87]

In the spring of 1945, Japan was seeking a way to end the war quickly when its defeat was certain. In order to further open up the southern section of the Guangdong-Khan Railway, Japan launched an attack in the border area of ​​Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi.Neiji Okamura also deployed the North China Front Army to attack air bases in Laohekou and other places.On April 1 of the same year, the U.S. military began to land in Okinawa, and the Japanese army was in a bad situation.The Chinese front army made deployments to counterattack Guilin and Liuzhou and regain Guangxi. At 9:00 p.m. on August 7, 1945, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov urgently summoned Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato and informed him that he was going to declare war on Japan.After listening to Sato, not only his left side hurts, but his whole body hurts.Three hours later, the Soviet Red Army dispatched troops to Northeast China. A week later, the Kwantung Army was wiped out, and the Japanese dream of immigrating to Northeast China was shattered.

On August 15, the Emperor of Japan could no longer persist and issued an edict to end the war.For the first time in more than a hundred years, the Japanese people heard the voice of His Majesty the Emperor on the radio. On September 2, the instrument of surrender was signed on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. On September 9, the surrender ceremony of the Chinese theater was held in Nanjing.During the eight-year war of resistance, the Chinese army won the final victory. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the first complete victory in the anti-imperialist struggle that China had won in more than a century, which greatly inspired the national self-esteem and self-confidence.China not only recovered the territory occupied by Japan after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, but also recovered the Taiwan and Penghu Islands ceded to Japan after the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, which was a shameful act of national humiliation.

China's Anti-Japanese War made its own unique contribution to the final victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.The son of President Roosevelt of the United States asked, why should we aid China?President Roosevelt told his son, think about it, what would happen if China collapsed?Dozens of divisions of Japanese soldiers were drawn from the battlefields in China, and they easily armed 5 million Chinese who are also of yellow race to attack us. They can occupy Southeast Asia, occupy Australia, and join forces with the Germans again. If it happens, it will be the end of Christian civilization.China has made considerable contributions to safeguarding the democratic and civilized world.The allies are of great help to us, but it is even more difficult for us to get through this by ourselves.

The victory of China's Anti-Japanese War fundamentally changed the relationship between China and Japan.Since the Opium War, the Chinese nation, which has suffered so much humiliation, can finally breathe a sigh of relief.China's international status has been greatly improved. Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, China has been one of the five permanent members of the Security Council.