The eldest of the Yan family in the Siheyuan

Chapter 471 Japanese Surrender
After all, it is now July 37, [-] days before the surrender of the Japanese army.

Before that, no one thought that the Japanese army would surrender so quickly. Although the two big bombs played some roles, the most important thing was the destruction of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

1945年8月8日，苏联对日宣战。8月9日，苏联红军出兵中国东北，仅用一周时间即打垮了日军实力最强的70万关东军。

This brought a great shock to the little devil, and losing control of the Northeast, the Japanese army had no room to struggle.

We know that a short-term war is mainly determined by the combat power of both sides, while a long-term war is a struggle between the two sides' war resources.

Japan has a small territory, lack of resources, and very limited war resources, but many people don't know that Japan's main war resources in the late World War II did not come from the country, but from the Northeast China it occupied.

In fact, the Northeast was already a very powerful military industrial base before 1945.For example, in 1944, the smelted pig iron here was 250 million tons (only 270 million tons in Japan), and 130 million tons of steel ingots (only 290 million tons in Japanese enterprises).55% of Japan's technical equipment for producing synthetic fuels is located in the Northeast.

This concept is that the military industries in Northeast China and North Korea can fully guarantee the supply of weapons, equipment, ammunition and technical weapons for an army of one million, only bombers and heavy artillery cannot be produced.

When the old American bombers began to carry out concentrated attacks on the Japanese home islands and their industries, military centers, naval bases and other life-and-death targets.

The role of the Northeast as a huge rear base and military warehouse is even more obvious.Because Northeast China is still outside the activity radius of the old American "flying fortress".

Therefore, many factories and enterprises, together with their equipment, were completely relocated there from the Japanese mainland.There are countless barracks in the northeast, enough to accommodate 55 to 60 infantry divisions, and the air station and airfield can park more than 6000 aircraft at the same time.

The Japanese military command could calmly train and replenish troops for the front, form new troops and reorganize old troops, and take other necessary military measures without any interference.

日军最强大的关东军就驻扎在东北，它下辖东满第1方面军——第3和第5军、西满第3方面军——第30和第44军两个方面军，以及北满独立第4军和独立第34军，第17方面军第58军，总兵力在70万人以上。

In addition, the Puppet Manchukuo Army, the Inner Mongolian Japanese Puppet Army, and the Zhangsui Army were also under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army Command.This powerful group of more than one million troops is also supported by two air armies-the 2nd and 5th air armies.The two air armies have approximately 2000 aircraft.

The strategic defense scenario determined by the Japanese General Staff Headquarters at the end of World War II theoretically increased the Kwantung Army's hope of victory in the upcoming war against the Soviet Union, even if it was a limited hope.

The reason is that, according to its natural conditions, the Northeast is more suitable for defense than offense.The surrounding mountains and primeval forests have become natural obstacles for the attacker, eliminating the possibility of extensive rapid maneuvering by tanks, making it difficult for troops equipped with heavy technical weapons to pass through, and the artificial obstacles built by the enemy make it difficult to overcome natural dangers multiplied.

In the spring of 1945, after defeating fascist Germany, the Far East General Command headed by Soviet Marshal Vasilevsky was established. Under its deployment, many military trains departed from the western region and traveled across the entire Soviet Union to the Far East.

The troops of the 39th Army were first transferred from East Prussia.Then, the 5th Army also moved from East Prussia, and the 6th Guards Tank Army and the 53rd Army changed their deployment from Czechoslovakia to the coastal area.

There are also many independent units and regiments of armored, artillery, aviation, engineering and signal corps, as well as logistical units and agencies, which have also been transferred to the Far East from other fronts.

截至到出兵东北前，苏军在远东的部队从原来的32个师，增加到59个师。此外，这里还集结有4个坦克军和机械化军、6个步兵旅、40个坦克旅和机械化旅。总兵力达150万人。

The Soviet army sent troops to the northeast, and the offensive war lasted only 10 days and nights.On land, fighting operations in the Northeast, Inner Mongolia, and North Korea have swept nearly a million square kilometers of land.

This is equivalent to the land area of ​​three Frances, and the Kwantung Army is also the largest and best-equipped regiment in the Japanese armed forces, with permanent defense facilities.

But all of this fell apart within 10 days of the Soviet Red Army's offensive campaign. Isn't this amazing enough? Compared with the battle between the US military and the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater, this speed, scale and effect are also incomparable. extraordinary.

After all, for some archipelagos and isolated islands, the Americans and the Japanese fought fiercely for almost 4 years.

For weeks, sometimes months, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, backed by powerful fleets and bomber aviation, stormed an island held by a Japanese garrison.

By the spring of 1945, the Americans had finally captured some key positions and advanced to the far and near ground leading to the Japanese archipelago, but the eventual victory was not easy for the Confederate allies, and it was very problematic.

According to the published materials, the U.S. Command estimates that it will be 1946 at the earliest to completely defeat the Japanese resistance, and some people think that even this date is too optimistic, and it may be as late as 1947 or even 1948 .

After all, the Japanese army still maintained a strong combat effectiveness at this time. They also had a huge rear base that stored a large amount of food, weapons, ammunition, and a powerful Kwantung Army in Northeast China and the Korean mainland.

On the whole, as of August 1945, the Japanese Army, including the air force, had a total of 8 million people.The navy has 550 major warships of various types, and the air force has nearly 109 aircraft.

Because of this, the U.S. and British command considered that the final phase of landing operations on the Japanese archipelago mainland would be long-term and very difficult.As British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later said, the battle against the Japanese mainland "required an unprecedented force in this war. No one can tell how many British and American soldiers' lives will be sacrificed and how much money will be spent on this battle."

Therefore, the impression left by the Soviet army on the allies at that time in the Northeast offensive.Yes, these 10 days in August not only shocked the Japanese military headquarters and Japan, but also surprised the Americans.The Soviet Army, which played a major role in smashing Hitler's Germany, showed the same heroism in the struggle against Japan.

In the arguments of Western historians of later generations, the atomic bombs dropped by the US military on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 8 and 6 played an important role in the surrender of the Japanese army.

It was the atomic bombing, they asserted, that proved to all people in Japan, including their military leaders, that continued resistance was futile.

However, this is not the case. After the defeat of the Kwantung Army, Borodov personally interrogated the commander of the Japanese 5th Army and many other generals.

Questions about the morale of the Japanese troops were frequently involved in the interrogations, and none of the generals mentioned the atomic bomb.

However, all the captives talked about the Japanese soldiers' spiritual shock caused by the Soviet army's capture of Berlin and the possible participation in the war against Japan, as well as the final launch of the Northeast strategic offensive campaign.

Whether it was generals, officers, or soldiers, they all said with certainty that the shock caused by these facts was so strong that the idea of ​​"the Russians attacking Northeast China" and the imminent defeat of Japan lingered in their minds all the time.

The first few days of the Soviet Army's strategic offensive in Northeast China proved to Japan that fears of a rapid collapse were not exaggerated, or even quite the opposite.

Not even any pessimist in Japan expected that on the second or third day of the Soviet attack, the Japanese front and army-level headquarters lost control of their subordinate troops.

By the end of the first week of the campaign, catastrophe and complete annihilation had become a foregone conclusion, and the entire Kwantung Army had been reduced to ragtag groups scattered over a wide area.

They abandoned the last batch of artillery and luggage, and waited for capture, or fled into virgin forests, mountains and swamps, dreaming of taking shelter there for a while, waiting for the day to come.

One can imagine what it was like in the Tokyo Military Headquarters and other military institutions at this time.

They could not fail to understand that the rapid defeat of the Kwantung Army, one-fifth of the entire Japanese Army, and the advance of Soviet tanks to South Manchuria and onwards to Peiping would put the other Japanese fronts in North and Central China at risk.

They could not fail to understand that the combat concepts they had taken for granted in the past, as well as the practical experience gained by the Japanese army in China, Burma, the Pacific Ocean and other regions over the years, were completely ineffective in the initial battle with the Soviet army.

Nor did they fail to understand that for them, even the time, space, and force that would have limited or delayed the Soviet offensive had disappeared.

Therefore, there is only one way out, and that is to admit Japan's total defeat and surrender.

Li Yunlong thought about what would happen in the future, so he didn't make full preparations for the next month or so. He dispersed most of the 12 troops in the army and sent them out, in order to be able to take the first place after the surrender of the Japanese army. Time to accept weaponry.

The distribution of Japanese troops, except for the Kwantung Army in the Northeast, the most is in the Guannei.

North China is the largest rear area of ​​the Japanese army, so there are not many troops deployed, and the peak is only 30 people. Up to now, there are only about 20 Japanese troops left in North China. In addition, there are also a large number of puppet troops.

And Li Yunlong's eyes were fixed on the Japanese and puppet troops in North China. After all, compared with other regions, North China had an advantage in distance.

So Li Yunlong sent a large number of troops to the North China region, and only kept seven regiments of more than 3 infantry in the defense zone. The main task of this force was to go to Taiyuan when the Japanese army surrendered on August 8. Accept the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army.

Although in history, in order to organize the Eighth Route Army to obtain Japanese weapons and equipment, Jiang Guangtou secretly reached an agreement with the little devils, only allowing the Japanese troops in the pass to hand over their weapons and equipment to the national army.

But this is not difficult for Li Yunlong. He has already made plans. When he helped Chu Yunfei clean up Qian Bojun before, he seized the weapons and equipment of Chu Yunfei's regiment, and took the equipment of this regiment together with the military uniform. It was also confiscated, just for the arrival of this day.

Under Li Yunlong's expectation, the time soon came to August 8, 15.

At noon that day, Li Yunlong called Zhao Gang, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie to the command room for the first time, and then turned on the radio.

"Old Li, tell me what's the matter with you kid, I still have a lot of things waiting for me to deal with." Zhao Gang frowned and sat down to Li Yunlong who was beside him dissatisfied.

After all, as the political commissar of the first column in North China, Zhao Gang is indeed responsible for a lot of things. With the expansion of the defense zone, most of the things have to be handled by him, so he is busy every day without touching the ground, so it is unprecedented for Li Yunlong to call them. There are some dimension words in meaning.

"That's right, Lao Li, what's going on with you today? What's so important that you have to call the three of us over?" Kong Jie also said aside.

Since the military academy was built in the army, part of his and Ding Weiwei's attention has been focused on the school. After all, there has been no war in the army for several months. If they don't find something to do, they will die.

Hearing what the two said, Ding Wei on the side looked at Li Yunlong, and he was also a little curious. Li Yunlong must have important things to say when he called the three of them together today, otherwise Li Yunlong would not do this according to his personality.

"What's the rush? Just sit down and wait. You'll know what's going on in a while." Li Yunlong gave them an annoyed look and then said.

At this moment, a sound came from the radio, and Li Yunlong quickly told the three of them to shut up, and then pointed to the radio.

After the three people were stunned to hear what was coming from the radio, Li Yunlong turned off the radio, then put it aside and looked at the three of them with a smile.

"Old Li, the Japanese surrendered?" Kong Jie asked Li Yunlong in disbelief.

After all, more than ten years have passed since the little devil invaded China in 1931. Although they speculated that the surrender of the Japanese army would be sooner or later, they did not expect it to happen so soon.

Hearing Kong Jie's words, Li Yunlong smiled and said, "Haha, haven't you heard everything?"

"Old Li, pinch me too. I'm not dreaming. I can't believe that the little devil is surrendering." Kong Jie said, pulling Li Yunlong with his eyes wide open.

Ding Wei on the side tremblingly took a sip of water with his hand, then stared at Li Yunlong in disbelief and said: "Old Li, did you guess that the devil was about to surrender, why didn't you follow me before I told you?" We discussed it and sent the troops out."

Hearing Ding Wei's words, Zhao Gang and Kong Jie also turned their heads to look at Li Yunlong. Although he didn't believe that Li Yunlong could predict the future, the fact is here.

(End of this chapter)