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Chapter 1567: Faith in Bushido shaken

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    Following the order of Lieutenant General Okazaki, the remaining thousands of Japanese soldiers voluntarily laid down their weapons and surrendered to the national army. The battles in the direction of Musubei Ridge and Shili North Ridge were finally over!

    Such a large-scale Japanese surrender is extremely rare in the entire history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War.

    You must know that the Japanese army is extremely powerful in terms of combat effectiveness and fighting will. Especially since the September 18th Incident, the Japanese army generally has a great sense of superiority when facing the Chinese army, so few national army generals can  The Japanese army was forced to surrender.

    In addition, the Japanese army¡¯s fighting will can be said to be very impressive throughout the early and middle stages of World War II, at least ranking among the top three among all participating countries.

    This is not an exaggeration, but it is worth learning from the Chinese military.  You must know that the Japanese army has been adopting the route of elite soldiers since 1931. The backbone sergeants of many units are veterans who have served for more than 10 years. Ordinary soldiers only enter the army after 1-2 years of training and have relatively strong combat effectiveness.

    This is especially true for the navy and army aviation. The elimination rate of pilot training is very high, and only one tenth of them eventually enter the army.  The navy is even more of a strength. Since 1927, 40-50% of annual military expenditures have been invested in the navy, and the training level of soldiers is very high.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out out out out were the?Japanese Army¡¯s Soldier Code of Conduct, which strictly stipulates the rules for soldiers in the military, which particularly emphasizes the relationship between superiors and subordinates, as well as the bushido spirit of loyalty to the emperor.

    All soldiers who join the army need to undergo strict training first. New recruits will receive cruel and torturous training in the training camp. Veterans can beat and scold new recruits at will. The orders of non-commissioned officers must be carried out. Disobedience to superiors is never allowed, otherwise the consequences will be serious.  .

    If you violate the orders of your superiors, in addition to physical punishment, you will be put in solitary confinement. In serious cases, you may even be forced to retire from the army, and it will be in the name of a deserter. You will never be able to hold your head high in the eyes of the people around you, and you will be despised by your neighbors.

    This is something no recruit wants to see, so Japanese soldiers develop strict habits and the bushido mentality of being loyal to the emperor during training.

    In wars between Japan and other countries, surrender is generally not allowed, and soldiers can only die in battle to serve the emperor.

    Therefore, the Japanese army inflicted heavy losses on the Western armies in the initial battles. In the later period, they also developed life-threatening attack methods that everyone knows, such as the Kamikaze commandos of the naval aviation force and the suicide torpedo submarines. They could only do one  Humans are suicide submarines that can only move forward but cannot retreat. This fighting will has caused Western armies to suffer a lot.

    Of course, this is only limited to the fighting will of the Japanese army. When it comes to the overall quality and combat effectiveness, it is not so good.

    Especially the overall quality of Japanese soldiers is completely incomparable with other countries.

    Why do you say that?

    It's very simple. The soldiers trained by the Japanese army are combatants who only know how to obey orders. They rarely have personal thoughts or other opinions. This is true from ordinary soldiers to non-commissioned officers and even some officers. They only know how to rigidly execute orders or follow regulations.  Manual operations rarely allow for modifications.

    And the battlefield is always changing at any time. If you don't change the situation and still do it rigidly, you can only fail.

    For example, during World War II, there was such a battle. The US military attacked an island with an airport. The Japanese army on the island had about three regiments of defenders.

    As soon as the U.S. military landed, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army. After a hard battle, they finally succeeded in landing, occupied the airport on the island, and set up defensive positions around the airport.  The Japanese army was unwilling to accept the occupation of the airport, so they organized a night attack at night and were eventually defeated.  Later, there were many battles during the day, and they were eventually repelled by the US military.

    The US military commander discovered a strange place. There were not many US troops landing at the beginning. They could only deploy a certain number of defense troops on the front line of defense. There were very few people behind the side. The US military commander was afraid that the Japanese army would discover this situation. From the side  If you attack in a roundabout way, it will be over and you will definitely fail.

    ¡°However, the Japanese army has always attacked from the main frontal defense circle, where a large amount of firepower and soldiers are deployed. Naturally, the Japanese army¡¯s weapons, equipment and numbers cannot break through the frontal defense.

    The Japanese attack was unsuccessful once, but they carried out several consecutive attacks at the same location. They never encountered Japanese attacks from the side or behind. As you can imagine, the result was that the aircraft was not captured until all the Japanese troops on the island were killed.  field.

    This puzzled the U.S. military commanders. It is clear that attacking from the side can break through the U.S. defense line, but they have to attack from the front with the strongest defense, and the tactics have never changed.

    It can be seen that the combat literacy of the Japanese army is rigid, and the gap between it and the German army is too big.

    And with the Japanese army in TaipeiThe successive defeats on the Pacific battlefield, a large number of elite troops were annihilated, and more than seven years of attrition on the Chinese battlefield have exhausted the elite troops that were first formed.

    Under such circumstances, the Japanese had to carry out a national mobilization order and form new troops.

    Due to the lack of strict training of these newly formed troops, and the fact that some of the soldiers were local soldiers who had been withdrawn from the battlefield, they had just spent a few days of stable life at home, and now they were about to go to the battlefield again, which made them feel uneasy.  There is conflict, so the will to fight is generally not high.

    More importantly, due to the lack of labor, the Japanese army now has to send a large number of minors to the battlefield, such as the 108th Division commanded by Okazaki, so at least one-third of the 15,000 people are sixteen or seventeen years old  Baby soldiers.

    In addition, Japanese people are generally smaller, and they all look thin, similar to Chinese children of fourteen or fifteen years old.

    "These children appeared on the battlefield without receiving too much training. Their combat effectiveness can be imagined. They can hardly fight against the wind. Once they are surrounded or ambushed, the consequences will be obvious.

    It is precisely because most of the surviving soldiers under his command are such child soldiers that even hard-blooded soldiers like Lieutenant General Okazaki relented and decided to surrender.

    Okazaki has been fighting with the Chinese army for more than ten years. It can be said that he knows the Chinese very well. He knows that the Chinese have a civilization inheritance in their bones. Their common people and soldiers have "morality" in their hearts. Even if  It was the Japanese soldiers who burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of crimes in China, but they most likely would not torture/kill these young child soldiers.

    As for Okazaki himself, he was already desperate. His fate was doomed the moment he laid down his weapons. Even if the Chinese military department executed him, Japan would not let him go.

    Not only himself, but also his family may not be able to escape the punishment of the base camp and the government.

    But compared to these three to four thousand underage children, Okazaki felt that what he did was right. After all, as a commander, he brought them to the battlefield and had the obligation to bring them back alive.

    Okazaki was also a little surprised by his own thoughts. He would never have had such thoughts before. If others said this to him, he would inevitably be scolded by himself, and even slapped in front of his face would be a high probability.

    But there seems to be nothing unacceptable at the moment. This change shocked Okazaki and also made him a little confused.

    In fact, it¡¯s normal not to understand. Like officers like Okazaki, the so-called Bushido spirit of most Japanese soldiers is actually based on Japan¡¯s strong national power and the repeated victories of its troops.

    For example, the previous Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and the September 18th Incident, it was during these foreign wars that the Japanese army built up its confidence, and then strengthened the so-called Bushido into the army.

    "If we push forward a few hundred years, Japan also has an army, but they don't talk about bushido, let alone dedicating themselves to the emperor.

    But the current war is not going well. The Japanese army is being defeated from the Pacific battlefield to the Chinese battlefield. The confidence built up over decades has cracks. Under such circumstances, Bushido is naturally not as firm as before, and wavering is inevitable.  .

    And this is just the tilt of the balance of war victory. By next year, this phenomenon will be more obvious. By then, people like Okazaki will no longer be so confused, but will become accustomed to it.  !  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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